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Chapter 6

When Starfire opened her eyes, she was shocked to find that she was in the infirmary with three people, her friends around her. She blinked, sitting up and grimacing at a few bruises. "What happened?" she found herself asking in slight confusion. They all seemed to snap out of their reveries and blink at her.

Then she remembered.

Her eyes grew almost comically wide and she lurched forward dangerously. "Where's Robin? Did you find him? What happened-"

"Star, he's fine." Beast Boy stated, grin on his devilish, green face. Faintly, Starfire realized that his leg was in a cast. She bit her lip, preventing her from saying anything. After all, he knew where Robin was. "He showed up about halfway through the fight, took out, like, two of them, and then two more attacked him, and he got them to surrender! It was epic and all, but kinda scary."

Starfire blinked. "Where is he now?"

Cyborg glanced at her, but she found that his eyes were glazed over with confusion and curiosity. Her breath hitched slightly. "He said that he needed to gather the rest before he told us."

"The rest? Who are the rest?" Starfire spoke, her voice laced with wonder.

Raven glanced at her, dark eyes piercing Starfire's soul. "We don't know."

It seemed like the silence afterward stretched on forever. The silence held by the four of them spoke in a booming voice, seeming to foreshadow a nightmare about to be unleashed. It seemed like when Robin's voice came from the shadows in the open doorway, everyone jumped.

"Come on. They're here."

. . .

His eyebrows furrowed as he sat there, deep in thought. After his leg had been set right and his teammates had left him alone, it felt like some sort of darkness had crept into his mind, intent on giving him the worst migraine of his life. Wally didn't like migraines. He knew everyone on the team had migraines, but they hurt.

It was only when he buried his face in his hands that he sensed another presence at his side. He didn't look up when she sat beside him or when her hand found itself on his knee.

Instinctively, Wally's hand found the blond's. He let his legs dangle from the side of the rooftop and sighed, ignoring the pain he wanted so desperately to eradicate.

"Is it getting worse?" Her quiet voice was soothing and Wally found himself warm despite the chilly night air. His hand tightened around hers.

"Yes." His own voice was raspy and he wished he could say that it was from pain. The truth was, though, that it wasn't from pain, but from much more. He was emotionally unstable. Pained. Horrified.

"Ours too." She informed, leaning over so she could rest her tired head on his shoulder. Automatically, Wally found himself pulled up, arms around her and her in his lap. She curled up against his chest and they continued staring across the sea of lights. "But they'll get better once our family is back together, once our minds are joined. The pain will stop and our little brother will be where he belongs."

"With us." Speed Master murmured, nuzzling her neck.

She sighed, eyes wandering past the lit up city, across the shore, and to the bright T that stood as a beacon of hope for Jump. Soon, though, it would be a distant memory.

Because neither team could do without their family.

. . .

The Titans blinked as they walked out and recognized their fellow superheroes. Aqualad, Speedy, Kid Flash, and Jinx all populated their main room. Kid Flash was sharing a lollipop with Jinx, which disturbed most of the Titans to an extreme, Garth was staring out their window, and Speedy was glaring at Garth as if they had just finished an argument. The senior Titans were thankful that they had missed it.

Kid Flash blinked, suddenly realizing that they had walked in. Shamelessly, he looked at Robin slightly puzzled. "You gonna explain why we're here now? 'Cause at first I thought we were needed for an epic, super-secret mission, but now I'm kinda getting a vibe that-"

Jinx cut him off by putting the lollipop in his mouth. She smiled pleasantly. "Titans."

In the time that that exchange took place, both Speedy and Aqualad had walked up to the Titans, eyes showing confusion. However, by the look on the boy wonder's face, they kept quiet. They waited for him to speak, which wasn't long.

"Speedy. Aqualad. Kid Flash. Jinx. Thanks for coming." His voice was professional, which threw off the Titans as they stared at their leader. Their eyebrows furrowed. "You might as well take a seat. This is going to take a very long time."

Aqualad blinked. "How long? Because my friend-"

"Your friend is going to have to wait." Robin stated, a grim edge to his voice. "Another one of your friends needs you."

Aqualad frowned, eyebrows furrowing in confusion as he nodded and made his way to the couch. The others followed him until everyone was sitting except Robin, who stood before them, a frown on his face as if he were trying to figure out the best course of action.

"As you may know, the original sidekicks came in an order." Robin began slowly, eyes a dark blue behind the mask. "I was the first. Then it was Speedy. Then came Kid Flash. Then Aqualad. We were the original four sidekicks to the League members Batman, Green Arrow, the Flash, and Aquaman."

"We know the history. Go on." Speedy stated impatiently, frown on his face as if he were struggling to understand why he was getting a history lesson. He grew silent when Robin glared at him.

"You may remember, but the League didn't tell you what happened to us, did they?" His voice was quiet and seemed to make the dark room even more filled with shadows. "I didn't think so."

The group shifted uncomfortably, the darkness seeming to fill their minds. Raven was the only one who didn't shift, her eyes trained on the gathering storm outside the window. Her mind was distant. The one time she had been in his mind, she saw it. She saw everything. Felt everything. And it hurt.

"Speedy was angry at the League for how they treated us, angry enough that he walked away. He became Red Arrow. However, we three didn't. I hacked into the League computers and we found out about a fire at a place called Cadmus. There, we discovered an underground operation and found Superman's clone. After escaping and setting Cadmus up with the Justice League again, the four of us made up a special covert operations group. Soon, we were joined by Miss Martian, Artemis, and Zatanna. Eventually, Red Arrow joined as well."

"Yes, Kaldur'ahm was my best friend." Garth recalled. Robin's steel gaze lingered on him. Seeing everyone else confused, the Atlantean specified. "He was the first Aqualad."

"Wally was my uncle." Admitted the current Kid Flash, his hand weaving itself with Jinx's. "I don't remember him very much. I almost never saw him."

"Ollie calls me Roy sometimes." Murmured Speedy. "Roy. Roy Harper. That was his name right?"

Robin nodded, almost as if he were dead, void of emotion. "When we began getting more missions and being in our own cities less, many of us were given doubles. Kid Flash, Aqualad, and the current Robin in Gotham city were those doubles. While we worked on the team, you did the rounds on the cities."

Beast Boy frowned when Robin stopped talking, as if lost in his own world. From what he knew, that world was not a pretty one. He leaned forward. "So what happened to make them . . . ."

Robin's gaze snapped to him, a sober expression on his face. "A nightmare, that's what." The biting tone in his voice startled them into silence. When Robin began again, it was silent. "It all began with a mission to Quebec, Canada."

The boy wonder's voice began to drone, the telling of the nightmare pulling the other, unprepared superheroes into a world of hurt and pain, a world that no living thing should ever have to experience.

. . .

FudoTwin17: Okay! Done! I was gonna give you the whole story, but it was more fun this way. :D

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