I am so sorry this took so long, but I had summer vacation and now GCSEs, so I am completely swamped. Anyway, latest update for you. Please review.
Raven lifted Kori to her feet, her wiry fingers gripping Kori's strong upper arms.
"Is Richard alright?"
"He's fine. He's breathing"
Raven wrapped the jacket she'd been holding around Robin's grey frame. She noticed the skin around his fingers smoothing out, as if eroding. She beckoned to her friends, and the three timeless associates lifted the Boy Wonder to his feet.
"K... Kory? Rachel? Victor? What's happening?"
His voice rasped and was quiet with misuse.
"Robin! You are alright!"
Kori almost through her arms around him, could've kissed his face, but that would've been stupid. What if he didn't know her as she was, but as someone else? Someone he didn't like? Instead, she gripped his arms and looked into his eyes, his clear blue eyes.
"Robin? My name is Richard"
"And mine is Raven. I promise Kori will explain everything"
"I don't know if you know me, as in really me, but I'm really glad you're OK, man. So, Rae, where are we?"
Kori, still supporting Robin, swallowed in her surroundings.
"Is this Dish... Jake's house?"
"Yes, I think it is. It was the first place I thought of when I was panicking. I'll go find him"
"I don't know who this guy is, but I'll go with you, just in case"
Raven and Victor slipped upstairs out of the garage into the main house, leaving Richard and Kori alone.
"So, you are trained in various styles of fighting, and worked as one of Bruce Wayne's private bodyguards. You believe I am from Europe, and am also a bodyguard and a colleague of yours, and Raven and Victor... Rachel and Victor work in computing and engineering and BB-Logan worked as a vet and zoologist working on anti-toxins and biological weapons"
"And you are an impulsive, scantily dressed alien princess from Tamaran, with a murderous sister, and are a member of a group of teenage superheroes, of which I am a member. Rach... Raven is a half-demon, half-human creature person thing that can do things you can't describe, and is very distant and smart but 'nice'. Vic is a cyborg called Cyborg, who does, and I can quote, "Cyborg things", and is fun and energetic? Yeah, and Gar is human, but has a disease that gives him the ability to turn into any male animal of his choice"
"Yes"
"I gotta tell you, my timeline is a lot more... plausible than yours"
"But far more exciting"
"Yes, I guess. Although Bruce Wayne is really cool. We got to keep the gadgets after they became obsolete. Their definition of obsolete is not mine. But I guess since it wasn't real it was all obsolete"
"Mmm... who do you think sponsored you?"
"I don't know. Same person who might sponsor you?"
"No. We are very different. Our stories were created for purposes remember. Who do you think we were before we were kidnapped by the Grey Men? How long did we live?"
"I'm not sure. I was 28 in my world. Heh. I think I'm about 17 now. It's a bit of a blow to my ego. I worked for Bruce Wayne for 2 and a bit years before you rescued me, so maybe 2 and a bit years?"
"Mmm. Quiet, someone's coming"
The two slipped around behind the stairs. Kori took a harder look at Richard, now wearing discarded clothes he had found in a cardboard box in the corner, and realised he wasn't weak and skinny after all. His muscles had been used, for the were certainly strong and owned a wiry strength much like her own. Perhaps that's what they did on the gurneys. Rehabilitate.
A pair of greying, broken trainers descended the stairs. Then blue multi-purpose boots.
"Kori? Where are you?"
Could not make a more fascinating inquiry if you tried...
Richard pulled Kori out from behind the stairs and held out his hand to Jake.
"Richard. You?"
Jake limply took Richard's hand and let it flail.
"Jake. You can all stay here for the night, in my basement"
Really, it's your basement? We had no idea... OK stop it that is just mean.
The four watched him ascend bake up the stairs, and lock the door behind him...
Ooh, suspicious. Review please.