While everyone else stared at the massive dust cloud created by the impact, Robin rushed straight towards into it, not minding the dirt saturating his eyes and mouth. When the dust settled, he found himself at the base of the crater, standing over the unconscious body of his beloved wife for less than five minutes. Immediately, he had a flashback to the moment when he realized his parents were dead, murdered by a brutal fall from a cut trapeze wire. He got down on his knees and picked up her body, cradling her and begging her not to suffer the same fate.

But it was no use. Behind her heavenly red hair, he could see her lifeless face no mutilated into the crown trophy of his mentor's greatest adversary. Every action he took – the cradling, the begging the weeping – was only met with another flashback from the first time he had lost his family. He refused to accept this outcome a second time, no matter the obvious truth.

Finally, just before Starfire gave her last heartbeat, her body glowed purple with Raven's friendship spell. A flash of deep violet light later, her body had vanished away, leaving behind only her torn warning dress and her tarnished crown. Robin finally accepted the grim reality of all that had happened, and he screamed skyward in absolute despair.

Directly above him, Blackfire let out a terrifying laughter of triumph, so strong that it sent sonic waves for a full mile around, all the while red lightning blasted from her body, electrifying the still-bound Wildfire. Her laughter ended with a flash of red light from her lantern ring, and she vanished along with it, but not before grabbing an unconscious Raven with a massive chain whip from her ring. Wildfire was left floating in the air, still trying to comprehend the nightmarish cruelty that his own beloved sister had just performed.

Wildfire looked down gasped in further disbelief at his human brother-in-law clutching at Starfire's royal wedding garments, all that had remained of his precious sister. Robin's sobbing was drowned by maniacal laughter, coming from the same monster clown who had just committed the most grievous murder in the history of both present species.

Wildfire's shock turned to rage, and he torpedoed down towards the Joker, blasting starbolts all around him. As other Tamaraneans began to ready their attacks as well, Cyborg rushed towards the Joker, and tossed him towards what was left standing of Titans Tower. Wildfire continued his sloppy attacks, but Cyborg kept grabbing the Joker and tossing him again, ultimately throwing him through a hole that Cyborg himself jumped through. Wildfire fired at the hole, but struck above it instead, causing all that was left of the Tower to crumble down. Wildfire remained floating in the air, his rage unsatisfied.

As the last of the rubble collapsed, Cyborg pulled Joker away from the falling debris, getting both into the lowest part of the Tower's foundation. When all was quiet, Cyborg turned on his flashlight, and Joker broke the silence with more laughter, his mouth being the only part of his body that he could still move.

"Batsy! It's been far too long! I knew you requested pictures, but I never thought you'd get an actual invite!" he exclaimed. Cyborg stood up and stared down at him with a stern look trying to hide the shock.

"Oh, I know it's you!" Joker continued. "Don't have the faintest idea how, but it has to be! Whose else so incorruptibly noble would save someone so reprehensibly vile as myself?"

Cyborg stood in silence for a few seconds, then grabbed Joker by the neck and pinned him against a nearby wall built as part of the foundation. After choking him for a while, the Dark Knight finally asked in defeat:

"Why?"

"Why?! Oh, Batsy, Batsy, Batsy!" snickered Joker back at him. "You cheated! Your whole life is nothing but a joke. Everyone in Gotham wants to be like you, except you! Your sick place in this sick world is a necessary evil; certainly, not the life you'd wish for your son!"

Cyborg's eyes tightened with anger.

"But he wanted to be like you so bad!" Joker continued. "So, you pushed him away, like you pushed away anyone who reached out to you, but you purposefully upset him the hardest. Made him so fed up that he left to get his own act. And in doing so, you made sure he would move to a safe little place where he could have his playtime but finally grow up to have everything that you know you could never have.

"Real friends. Real falling in love. Real family!"

Cyborg's composure didn't change. But Joker knew better, and broadened his smile to crack through the dried larva blood on his face.

"Cheater! Happy endings aren't how we play the game!"

Cyborg let go of the Joker, letting him slouch onto the ground as he giggled. He took five steps back, opened the beam cannon on his right hand, and aimed it at Joker's head.

"Game over!" he growled in despair. "You win!"

Joker smiled wide at the bright blue inescapable death gunning straight for him, and managed to get one final shriek of victory before the Cyborg's cannon blasted his head into nothingness.

Right as the smoke cleared from the execution, the timer in Mr. Holt's skyscraper reached zero. Cyborg immediately powered down. Back at Intergang headquarters, Gamesmaster stepped from the Mirror Dimension into his own room, in complete amazement at what he had just seen through the compact mirror on Joker's jacket. He grabbed a black permanent marker and began writing in huge letters all over the photographs of do-gooders that he had plastered on his wall:

"I DID IT!"

After a minute of silence, Cyborg's lifeless body sprung back into action with his normal consciousness.

"Boo-yah! Now, that's some great alien food right there!" he shouted. Then he realized he was back in his own body, and terribly confused at why his flashlight sowed that he was surrounded by the rubble of the Tower built by his own father. Then he stepped on something, and looked down to see the headless corpse of the Joker, and a hole in the ground near the neck that could only have been made by his arm cannon.

Cyborg shrieked in horror, and quickly looked up all the local newsfeeds. Seconds later, and his human eye was in tears.