"How are you holding up?" Wally asked Artemis when she was finally awake and sitting up carefully on the hospital wing´s bed. Her shirt was replaced and rolled up, revealing her bandaging.
"I´ve had better days." She answered. "Can you tell me how this happened? I can´t remember a thing."
"We wish we knew." Superboy answered for Wally. "It all happened in seconds."
"There was probably a sniper hiding somewhere around the area. Slade and Red X weren´t armed, and none of them opened fire if they were." Red Arrow commented looking out the window, to the beautiful view of the bay.
"And we got here how?" Artemis asked.
"Raven brought us back." M´gann answered. She sat still on her own bed, with her bandaged arm. Superboy sat beside her.
"M´gann, what happened to your arm?" She asked with wide eyes.
"Oh, Star snapped the bone back in place." She showed her bandaged with her now-normal looking arm. "No biggie, heh."
"Damn… these guys are definitely not playing around." Artemis said.
"My biggest worry is the fact that the League hasn´t heard from us in a week. We have forgotten that we need to send them a message, somehow if we want to stay a bit longer." Kaldur thought to himself out loud. He paused for a moment and looked at his wounded friend. "That is, IF you want to stay a little longer."
"We can´t leave them alone, not now." Artemis said. "They need our help."
"The Teen Titans are global. They can ask somebody else for help." Wally said from his seat beside her bed. "You almost died on us out there. I don´t think we should take that risk with anybody else again."
"Wally´s right." Robin spoke up. Aqualad turned to look at him. "But we are here right now, and if we can help them we will. At least I will. No matter how big the risk is."
"That´s not your duty Robin." Red Arrow said.
"Well, it will be in the future" Robin said. "We are all shaken about what happened but it shouldn´t stop us from helping the Titans. They need all the help they can get."
Aqualad thought for a moment about this.
"You should have a talk with yourself, Robin. See what he thinks. After all, he took us in all this time and helped us out." He said.
Robin nodded. "I will."
A few moments later the medical wing´s doors opened and the group of soaking wet titans walked inside. Cyborg walked in last carrying Star on his arms and placed her on a bed opposite to Artemis´. She laid down, complaining in low voice about the pain.
"Where were you guys? What happened?" Robin asked his older self.
"Slade happened, again." He answered coldly. He walked up to Star and started treating the wounds on her face.
"What´s up with him?" Wally mouthed to Cyborg.
"We´re on our last nerve with this guy, but that´s not what matters." Cyborg approached a computer nearby and a few pinpoints fell over the city map that was displayed.
"There, there and there." He said. "Slade is using a weapon that´s similar to a bomb if I´m correct. According to my investigations, once it detonates they can cause mass destruction up to a 10-mile radius."
Robin´s eyes widened at this. The younger hero walked up to Cyborg, looking at the screen for himself.
"Jump City Central?" He asked about the location of the weapons.
"It's the center of the city. Where the mayor resides, and the main hospital, offices, parks and buildings are. A lot of people are there, every day, at every moment." Raven stated. "You may say it´s our ´Times Square'."
"So what´s the plan?" Robin asked his older self. Who just stared at the screen as well.
"The plan is…" He paused for a moment. "We gear up and we leave. Guys, you should stay."
Robin protested. "What? You guys are going to get killed out there! You must evacuate everybody and then try to minimize the weapon´s power so that nobody in a 10-mile radius can be hit. If you get hit you are done for."
"I know." Robin said as he walked closer to him calmly. "It´s a risk we´re going to have to take."
His younger side thought for a moment. "Well, it´s a risk I am going to take as well."
The Titan Leader felt all eyes on him. "I know myself and I know that I won´t be able to stop you. I just need you to think about the consequences. If something happens to any of you, your whole timeline can be messed up the future could be completely different."
"That won´t happen." Robin said, reassuringly.
His older self-pinched the bridge of his nose, praying for patience. "Jesus Christ now I know how Bruce felt." He thought to himself.
"Your team needs you, Robin." He said, keeping his eyes closed.
"And so does yours. And you won´t be of any help by lying lifeless on the ground will you?" Robin stated coldly.
His older self opened his eyes and looked at him. Sighing deeply, somebody broke the silence in the room.
"We're coming with you, Robin." Aqualad said, making his decision.
"Alright then, gear up and I´ll meet you in the common room in 5. We don´t have much time." The titan leader said, patting Kaldur on his back reassuringly on the way out.
He motioned to Star to come with him to his room, and each titan followed suit, and so did the rest of the teams.
Superboy and Wally stayed with the injured girls, before they could say anything M´gann spoke.
"Go with them." She said. "We´ll be fine, I´ll look out for her."
Artemis squeezed Wally´s hand reassuringly. "It´ll be fine."
The guys looked at each other.
"If anything happens, just call." Superboy said.
"Will do." M´gann said.
Wally and Superboy said their goodbyes and left the room. The girls sighed and looked back at the screen.
"It´s going to be a long night." Artemis said.
