Metal, rubber, and blood littered one loop of the racetrack. Raven and Beast Boy were already removing the parts of the car, desperately trying to get to the mangled mess that was Cyborg. Robin and Starfire joined them shortly, tears dripping down the Tamaranian's face. No one spoke. A small crowd gathered, alarmed and curious to what could have happened. An ambulance was already stationed nearby and Robin didn't even think of how illogical that was.

Finally they found his hand. Starfire reached for it then flinched away as if she had been burned. "It is so…lifeless," she sobbed closing her eyes as fresh tears streamed down her face.

"Come on Cyborg," Beast Boy encouraged, his voice shaking. "Please."

Robin stared at the hand for a brief moment. "Well come on," he said angrily, "we have to dig the rest of him out."

They worked for the next ten minutes, carefully removing the mess that used to be considered a car. The more they removed, however, the more blood they came upon. Robin narrowed his eyes through the whole process, refusing to believe what he was seeing. It couldn't be. Cyborg couldn't leave them like this. It was just another trick that Mad Mod was using.

Once they were finished, they stared down in shock at the thing that used to be their friend.

His skin was torn in various places, although that was only the beginning. His body was reduced to a bloody pulp and his appendages were twisted in ways that weren't normal for a human being. His eyes were open staring desperately at the sky, and from what they could tell-around all the blood-one was missing.

Starfire looked away, placing a hand to her mouth in horror. Beast Boy gagged and also looked away. Raven stared past his body, her eyes not really appearing to see what was there. Although tears began to pool in her eyes. Robin's eyes were still narrowed. He waited for some sign of breathing, or even a moan perhaps if they were lucky. But no….there was nothing.

"Raven," his voice cracked. "Can you heal him?"

Raven didn't answer at first. She cleared the remaining metal around with her powers to get a better view. She raised her hands which were glowing with energy. Her eyes glowed in concentration, and her breathing was slow and steady. After about a minute she grunted and relented. She shook her head ever so slightly, confirming Robin's fears.

Robin stood up quickly, his fists clenched. "Arrgh!" He grunted as he kicked the metal away from his former friend. He walked several paces away and collapsed to his knees, his hands buried in his hands.

Starfire walked up to him slowly and knelt down beside him. He fell into her, burying his face in her hair. It was strange. It was almost as if he was too depressed to cry. Starfire wasn't. Her tears pooled in his collarbone. Robin looked up slightly to find Raven and Beast Boy in a similar position. There was a tremendous, horrible, beautiful, dreadful, moment of silence. Then everything changed.

Paramedics whipped out of the ambulance in a timely fashion. They pulled out with them, an enormous stretcher. They avoided the grieving Titans and made right for the mess, moving any excess metal that might get in their way. One by one the Titans looked up. What were they doing? Couldn't they see it was absolutely hopeless? It took Robin to remember that he was the one who was supposed to remind everyone that it wasn't.

He looked away, refusing to look out the tangled, bloody mess of his friend. He heard several light thumps and clicks before the ambulance door was shut, and it was speeding down the hallway. He sprang up immediately with renewed strength.

"Titans, we have to follow that ambulance! Before it gets away!"

They rose instantly at his command, a look of hope in their eyes. Together they sprinted down the labyrinth of hallways, following the obnoxious beeping of the ambulance.

"Where are they taking him?" Raven asked.

Robin shook his head in answer. "I don't know. Maybe there's some sort of hospital wing we overlooked."

They followed the noise until it got closer and closer. Finally they whipped around a corner and skidded to a stop almost crashing into the stationary truck. The lights were still blinking and after a moment the noise halted as well. The doors were already open making Robin believe that they had already taken Cyborg into the school's hospital. They walked right up to the door, preparing to barge in when two paramedics stopped them.

"No one is to come beyond this point on account of a severe emergency," one told them.

"But we're his friends," BB protested angrily. "You can't make us stay out here."

"We can and we will. You can visit your friend after the emergency lights over are head stop glowing."

It had just suddenly occurred to them that there was a giant white sign with blinking red letters that spelled out emergency on them. Robin sighed.

"We'll just have to wait team, it's for the best."

Beast Boy, and Starfire fell asleep after a while. Their soft snores were audible. Raven resumed the lotus position and tried to return to her circus, but it was impossible. She grunted in frustration.

Robin raised his head from his hands at the annoyed noise. "How are you holding up over there?" he asked her softly.

Raven shrugged. "I'm meditating aren't I? It's the main way I can channel how I feel." She looked into her hands. "Right now, I just want everything to be the way it was."

Robin nodded in thought. "I still don't understand."

She cocked her head to the side. "What's that?"

"How could you forget everything in the first place? I thought your powers would have gotten in the way of Mod's."

Raven sighed. "There are places in my mind that no one can reach. That no one is supposed to reach. Mad Mod must have used my powers against me somehow. That doesn't mean I didn't give him a challenge…but he still one." Her eyebrows furrowed. Robin could understand her frustration. Her thoughts and emotions were supposed to be kept only to herself.

"Is that why you've had trouble keeping in your feelings?" he asked seriously.

She froze for a second, caught off guard, and then returned to normal. "How so?"

Robin nodded his head over to the green changeling, happily snoring away. His head was dangerously close to Raven's knee. For a second Raven didn't know what why was happening, or why her hand shuffled through his grassy colored hair but she flinched back once she realized what she was doing. She glanced at Robin then looked away, her face reddening.

"You're one to talk," she muttered.

Robin glanced at Starfire then. She was surprisingly far away from him. Did she do that on purpose? Usually in her time of need she would want to seek his comfort, but now that he rejected her for what…the third time? He couldn't say he blamed her.

~0~0~0~

Robin woke after a while, rubbing his masked eyes. He noticed that Raven had begun to meditate again, although by her annoyed expression, he could tell she wasn't concentrating. Beast Boy and Starfire were talking quietly to each other, but both of their eyes were lifeless. Robin glanced up at the emergency sign and realized it was still blinking. He grunted.

His team looked at him curiously as he stood up, a hard look on his face. "We're going in," he muttered angrily, so only they could here. They smiled at him without a doubt in their minds.

First off, because Robin had a perfect reputation…well almost, he asked the paramedics at the door if they could go in again. When he was denied, he raised a fist but Starfire beat him to it. She punched them hard in the mouth, making him shudder when he heard a crack. She smiled at him innocently when she was done and held a hand out as if to say "you may proceed."

They entered the room silently where Cyborg lay on the operation table. He had several wires hooked up to him but that wasn't what surprised them. Cyborg…was actually a cyborg again! He was in a deep sleep but his mechanical parts faintly glowed blue as he recharged himself.

"Cyborg!" Beast Boy exclaimed happily, then was slapped by Raven for being so loud.

There was a brief silence followed by Starfire's, "We should stay with him, yes?"

As much as it pained Robin, he knew what he had to do. He shook his head. "No, we shouldn't be in here. Cyborg will be back to normal in a while. We should go." They all reluctantly turned to leave but a booming voice stopped them.

"Hey y'all, what did I miss?" cried a familiar voice.

"CYBORG!" they ran over to him and then a group hug was in order.

"You're okay!" Robin exclaimed.

"And you remember us!" Starfire cheered.

Cyborg shrugged. "Guess I just needed a little sense knocked into me." He raised his mechanical arms in confusion. "Now can someone please tell me where the heck we are?"