A/N: Okay so in this chapter a mission from Young Justice takes place. I tried to make it mostly similar to what happens but some dialogue is different and things may happen slightly differently, so don't get too mad if things are different. Thanks!

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Chapter: 36

"Why are we on the rooftop across from Lex's building again?" Liam asked, glancing warily over the side of the rooftop he and Tim were standing on. It was windy, and chilly and his black sweater did nothing to keep him warm…he was also panicking slightly…he was not ready for this and yet he felt he was. It was very off-putting and confusing because he was terrified and excited and sick to his stomach all at the same time,

"Because we can't just waltz into the building. We need to wait for Grant's signal before entering the building and to do that, without being seen, we need to zip-line across to the roof," Tim sounded annoyed and he couldn't blame him. Liam sighed, he knew the answer. He only asked because he wasn't sure he could even be any help in this situation at all,

"You're sure he's down there?"

"Hopefully. Otherwise we have to find a whole new location owned by Lex that could contain the machine he made Adam use to create the portal thing to that alternate earth,"

"So this is a fifty-fifty shot?"

"Give or take yeah,"

"Greeeaat,"

"Shut up," Tim said, pressing a button on his gauntlet opening up a holo-screen to check the time, "He should be out any minute." A few seconds later a flashing light appeared on the rooftop right across from the one where they stood and then the whole building went dark,

"That's our cue," Liam said grimly taking hold of the zip-line thing. He didn't actually have a harness, so he had to hold on and pray to God he didn't let go,

"You'll be fine. Just jump out and hold on tight. You might bounce a bit but…you know what, just hold on, you'll be fine. Once you get close pull up your feet to your chest, let go and roll,"

"Wait…roll? I've never rolled—,"

"—Go!" Tim hissed, giving Liam a push forward, "I'll be right behind you on my wings," Liam sent him a glare before gulping and leaping off the rooftop and into thin air. Liam wasn't that heavy. He was actually quite light for a six foot two guy. He was the only tall person in his family. Max wasn't that tall and Maud was only five one. Ali was around that height and Tori had Jack's height bringing her to five four. Liam soared through the air and he held on so tightly that he almost forgot to let go. When he did he fell heavily to the cement rooftop and rolled five times not on his own stopping eagle splayed on the cold pavement. Tim landed lightly on his feet thanks to his nice, safe and useful wings,

"I don't see why I couldn't have used the wings," Liam grumbled, getting to his feet, "You zip-lined around Gotham far longer than you flew with them,"

"I'd need to calibrate them for your height and weight and we didn't have time for that," Tim replied quietly, taking out his GPS device, "Adam's on the fifth floor which means we have a lot of air ducts to get through. Inside's probably chaos right now. Grant, how long until they get the lights back up and running,"

"About twenty minutes, maybe longer because I stole a piece from the fuse box. Depends on how long it takes them to realize it's missing and how long it takes for them to get a replacement as well as what the piece was because I have absolutely no clue," Liam had almost forgotten Grant was there. Seeing him was…odd. He looked strange to Liam. He still had his dark hair and topaz eyes. He was still four inches shorter than him. But he wore armor and held a machine gun, a taser and two different daggers. It was strange seeing his brother dressed for war…to see him ready to take on an army even if was just to defend one man who was blackmailing him into behaving. He wasn't sure how he felt about seeing him in person either. He'd ditched them right after their parents died. Sure, he had been in college…but clearly he dropped out or something and became…whatever he was now, which probably didn't require a college education. In fact…how did Grant even become who he was now…where had he gone and how did he get stuck under Lex's wing of all places? He'd have to ask Grant later because Liam wasn't sure he could even talk to him without hitting him. He completely disregarded Liam and their siblings in their moment of need and a betrayal like that ran deep,

"The door over there will lead to a hallway on the tenth floor. A vent will be about two feet to your right. The lights are out but the emergency lights are on…don't ask how…I don't know what I tugged out or what works and doesn't work so steer clear of security cameras if you can," Grant said. Tim nodded and moved to type something into his holo computer while Grant and Liam regarded each other warily. After a moment of silence Grant finally spoke to him,

"Are you going to punch me?" he asked, Liam blinked. Tim was typing fast and clearly trying to ignore the brothers,

"What?"

"You look angry enough to punch me," Grant said, moving to open the door leading into the building. They could hear pounding footsteps as people inside panicked and went about trying to fix whatever had been broken,

"I really really want to," Liam said, as Tim rose and started down the steps, "I didn't realize how badly I wanted to until now. How could you just abandon us? Right after mom and Max died…how could you just do that? And not only that but work for the guy who funded Mac's insane experiments…do you even know what he did to Tori? Do you even ca—," Liam was interrupted by a hand grabbing the back of his shirt and tugging him inside the stairwell,

"You can argue after this is done," Tim hissed. Liam glared at Tim as he stumbled slightly by the uneven placement of his feet on the stairs. The light, gleaming red above them flickered sisterly before steadying again, "Come on, let's go…and calm down. I know your angry and worried, but you really do need to calm down," he said as he started down the stairs. Liam sighed, but followed him,

"How are you so calm?" Liam asked as they neared the door that will lead to the hallway, "I don't under—,"

"Shh," Tim said, holding up his hand, halting Liam. They listened silently as footsteps pounded by the door, none of them stopping to check the roof. Tim gestured for Liam to stay there as he opened the door and turned right down the hallway. A second later he motioned Liam to follow him. The grate to the air ducts was leaned up against the wall and Tim was already crawling inside it. Liam nearly groaned out loud at the tight squeeze, but clamored in as quietly as he could, replacing the grate as he did so.

Once inside Tim pulled up whatever he'd hacked into on his holo-computer before turning to his right and heading down that duct's path,

"What is that?" Liam asked, his voice sounded tinny as it echoed off the vent's walls,

"The blueprints of the venting system," Tim replied, "and to answer your question from before. I've done this for a while. It tends to just be normal occurrence after your first year as a vigilante,"

"Yeah…I haven't even graduated to a week of vigilantism yet…and here I am," Liam muttered, crawling a few feet behind Tim,

"Well now you're clocking in some hours," Tim replied, turning left, Liam didn't say anything, he just tried to focus on his breathing…it felt like the walls were closing in on him. He wasn't claustrophobic, not the least…at least he didn't think he was. It was as if the vents reminded him of something but he couldn't quite place his finger on it. Liam took another deep breath. He could feel is shirt stick to him, static…he always hated when that happened. But he ignored it, it wasn't like it was doing any harm,

"Liam. Relax. You're interfering with the GPS," Tim said,

"Sorry I—wait…what?" Liam exclaimed, probably much too loud since Tim stopped…but that didn't seem to be the case. Tim glanced back a Liam a frown on his face,

"I thought you knew and just didn't want people to know," he said,

"Knew what…what are you talking about," Liam asked, he could feel his heart race in panic…what was Tim talking about. Before he spoke, Tim's frown turned sympathetic,

"Liam…you're bionic."

"So the fleet of aliens experimenting on humans is under the ocean…who also kidnapped the King of the oceans' own protege…and Aquaman, the freaking before mentioned king of the ocean, didn't know about it?" Tori mused from where she and Robin stood on stacked shipping crates over a cage of scared kids waiting to be shipped onto a Reach—the name of the aliens trying to invade the earth as Nightwing finally told them—ship for who knew what. Tori felt antsy, she had sort of been in these kids' shoes before. She'd been taken and experimented on…and they were halfway to what she'd been through. She was glad they were going to get them out before anything horrible would be done to them—too bad there were still kids on board the ship who hadn't been spared though. Tim shot her a glare,

"It's a big ocean," he stated,

"Yeah, and he can control like…all the fish in the sea…and not one of them thought to mention 'oh Mr. King, there's a bunch of alien-like ships over by blah blah blah reef' or something?" Tori stated,

"I'm with Talon on this one," BumbleBee said from where she was fluttering by Tori's shoulder,

"Thank you Bee," she said, holding up her finger for a high-five,

"Ugh, focus…and I don't think he can actually talk to them, just enthrall them into helping him. He's not Percy Jackson,"

"Oh you read those books too?" Tori asked, grinning as he flushed slightly before rolling his eyes at her. BumbleBee snickered herself before Nightwing told them to get in position. Tori and Tim leapt down into the cage with the others. The kids looked shocked that someone would actually leap into the cage with them. A blond girl stared at them dubiously standing up front while the other kids shrank back towards the other end of the cage,

"What are you—," Tim interrupted her by shushing her,

"We're here to help," he whispered,

"Ookay," she muttered, uncertainly as BumbleBee flew past her and into Tim's pocket. Tori looked at the blond girl. She looked very familiar…and dressed in a lot of purple,

"Is your name Stephanie?" Tori asked. The girl looked at her suspiciously and backed up slightly,

"What's it to you?" she demanded. Tori opened her mouth to explain when the guards patrolling the docks started ordering them out and into coffin like capsules.

'Oh I don't like this,' Tori thought, thinking momentarily of the capsule tubes Mac used to wipe her memory,

'What's wrong?' came Nightwing's voice. Tori jerked back in shock, thunking the side of her capsule,

'What the—'

'Oh sorry! I linked us up telepathically' came M'gahn's voice. Tori freaked out momentarily, 'I'm so used to doing it that I didn't think to tell you or the others from the alternate world!'

'So you can hear our most deprived thoughts?' came Jason's growl,

'Not unless you want us to,' Nightwing replied,

'This is messed up' Jason muttered,

'What don't you like?' Dick asked,

'Ummm…nothing,' Tori replied as they were submerged under the sea by the ship they were placed onto, 'But I can see why Jason was not picked for this part of the infiltration mission...oh and I found Stephanie!'

'Grrreeeat,' Jason said, 'Another kid Batman is going to put into danger,'

'Jason shush!' Dick warned, a few moments of mental silence before they docked up to the bigger ship where all the rest of the abductees and their missing teammates were,

'Okay. We're inside. A lot of aliens about…and Aqualad's goons,' Batgirl reported dutifully. Tori scanned the room they were in, it was…weird to say the least. It looked like the inside of a submarine but with a weird green outline and a material not exactly like the kind of metal they had on Earth,

'Uh-oh,' Batgirl said, 'I see Kaldur. If he makes us—,'

'He won't,' Tori said, 'Think positive,' she added before anyone could ask her how she knew Kaldur wouldn't see them. They were wheeled down a bunch of hallways and into a wide open and circular room,

'Don't do anything until you see Gar, La'gahn, Bart and Jaime,' Nightwing stated,

'I see them,' Tori stated, 'We're in a room with them,'

'and the other abductees,' Batgirl said, 'Where's Blue though…and Shimmer? Really?' Tori guessed this Shimmer person was not a good guy.

'Okay. Get everyone out. Go get our boys!' Nightwing said. Tori grinned in anticipation and brought her fist back as far as it would go before punching the glass into shattered shards. She then kicked out with her foot to heave the door of her pod from its hinges. Tori then moved to Stephanie's pod and used her dagger to hack the hinges off the door,

"See, here to help," Tori stated. Stephanie rolled her eyes before grouping with the others. Alarms had started blaring and they really needed to get back to the docking area. That was where Nightwing and the rest would be with the bioship—M'gahn's own mini spaceship,

"C'mon! Follow us!" Batgirl called, ushering the kids out into the hallway. Tori followed only to see that they turned right into a group of alien guards…with giant pointy staffs,

"Great directions!" Tori called, pulling out her short sword and dagger. She felt naked without her Talon suit, but she had to look civilian for this mission which meant fighting in regular clothes. Not something she's used to but she'll manage. Tori leapt in front of the kids as well as Robin and Batgirl slicing one of the alien's staffs in half before throwing a kick at his…or her…head. Tori sliced, swept and dodged their staffs and punches, slicing off the tips when she could. Robin and Batgirl were helping, but the kids were still there and they needed to get them out,

"Guys, go. I got this," Tori called to them,

"Are you sure?" Barbara demanded,

"Yes. Go!" Tori said, slashing at another alien just as something shot by her ear. Spinning around she saw reinforcements rushing down the hall, apparently the staffs can shoot projectiles. Flipping over some of the shots she leapt and kicked at one of the aliens to her right. Robin appeared to have stayed despite her telling him to go and was being surrounded by a few of them. Tori started whipping her sword through the defenses of the aliens faster so she could get to Tim. Unfortunately one of the beams of light coming from the staffs hit her in the side…and it burned. Tori stumbled, shocked by the burst of pain the projectile caused…what was it? She wasn't supposed to feel pain. Her stumbled cost her, and ruined her momentum and another Reach alien slashed her across the face with her staff. Blinking blood out of her eyes she glared at the aliens, all sense leaving her until she just saw red.

With a snarl she started moving faster, not thinking about what she was doing, just falling back on what she was taught. She moved with dangerous speed from one alien to the next, disregarding everything she had worked on and learned from Bruce over the past few years. This kind of fighting hadn't happened in a while, not since November. She had been good until then but this time she snapped again. Eventually she started using killing blows. Oblivious to whether Tim was still there, watching or fighting or either of those things, she didn't care. All she cared about was her anger and the fact that these aliens were attempting to invade an earth and experiment on children. All she cared about was killing those who did wrong.

Suddenly someone's shoulder rammed into her from the side and she was slammed into the metal wall of the ship. Tori let out a growl that was a little less than human and moved to hurtle herself at that person only to be slammed back into the wall. It was Dick, and he looked furious and concerned at the same time, but that didn't stop Tori from trying to launch herself into the nonexistent fray. There were no alien's left. They were either unconscious, severely injured…dead or dying. Dick grabbed her wrists and twisted them until they were on the verge of snapping and her hands reacted enough to force her to drop the swords she still held. Her chest was heaving and there was a rushing pounding in her ears as she tried to run down the halls to find the rest of the bastards on the ship only to be slammed back again,

"Tori! Stop it!" Dick yelled at her, "You are out of control. Calm yourself down. Say it!" Tori only glared and tried once more to get out of his reach only to be slammed back into the wall. Dick pressed his forearm into her throat a glare and frown in place,"Say it," he growled dangerously,

"Justice…not vengeance," she muttered though she still moved forward. Dick pushed her back against the ship's wall, digging his arm in harder. He should know it wouldn't do anything, she couldn't feel it…though her air was starting to be cut off by the pressure,

"Again," he demanded, "You're still not yourself,"

"Justice not vengeance…justice not vengeance," Tori said, closing her eyes and taking deep breaths,

"Talon?" Dick asked, slowly letting his elbow drop, "Are you…calmer?"

"Justice not vengeance…justice not vengeance, justice not vengeance," she muttered a few more times before letting out a breath and sinking to her knees,

"How many?" she asked,

"Tori…,"

"—How many?" she demanded. Tori needed to know how many she killed,

"Ten maybe fifteen," Dick said finally, "What triggered it?" The 'it' Dick meant was the blood lust. The need to do what her instinct told her to do…to kill. The Court crafted that instinct so it was the first thing she fell back on, the only thing she could do for a mission or when attacked…and that instinct was something she still had trouble controlling. Tori sighed, standing again to look at the carnage. Bodies and unconscious forms littered the hallway. Green blood…strange but logical seeing their light green skin color…puddling on the floor,

"One of them got me with those laser projectiles…it actually hurt and threw me…then another one got me in the face with the sharp end and I went off," Dick opened his mouth to say something when another voice beat him to it,

"What the hell was that?" It was Tim…he'd been there the whole time. Tori felt a flash of panic and fear. He would judge her, he would tell Nightwing and then everyone would know what kind of monster she was, "How could you kill those aliens!"

"Tim. I know you don't understand—," Dick started,

"—don't understand? The only thing I understand is that she killed people…well aliens invading the earth…but that's beside the point! I thought Batman trained her! I thought she was one of us! You even said so! She acted like an anim—,"

"—Robin enough!" Dick snapped. Tori flinched at both his tone and Robin's unfinished allegation. He was saying she acted like an animal…and that cut her deeper than she thought an alternate version of her brother could. Robin had cut himself off, Dick had put enough of a Batman growl in his voice to quiet him, but what he said still rang in her head animal, animal, animal. Robin opened his mouth to say something else just as a loud crash sounded through the ship,

"That came from the docking area," Tori said mutely, "We need to go…now," with that they all sprinted down the hallways of the large submarine like ship,

"We are not done with this discussion!" Tim growled at them as they ran.

Upon arriving they found Superboy unconscious on the ground and the rest of the team battling a giant…,

"Beetle?" Tori stated confused, "A giant Black Beetle?"

"Like Jaime…only…bigger and well, evil," Dick said, activating the electricity component of his eskirma stick, "Well you know how it is, the bigger they are the harder they fall," with that he launched himself into the fray. Tori right behind him and Robin a second later. They flipped and jumped and used their surrounds as much as possible. When dealing with a large and dangerous opponent, you need to be fast and versatile. Land your blows hard and fast, then get the hell out of the way. But this guy seemed to have eyes on the back of his head. The only thing that could do any real damage were Tori's swords,

"Use them more. They slow him down," Dick huffed to her as he twisted midair to avoid a blast from his morphed hand gun,

"Not much," Tori muttered frowning as she leapt up off the wall attempting to stab him in the chest. An obvious move, but she wanted to see how fast his reaction time really was. The gigantic Beetle threw up his hand and smacked her out of the air like a volleyball and into the wall leaving a small dent, "Okay, reaction time: very, very fast," Tori wheezed due to her rib puncturing her lung. Good thing she healed fast though otherwise she wouldn't have had time to roll away from his next blast,

"This isn't working!" Tori called to Dick, Babs and Tim. Cassie was out, as was Superboy and no one was anywhere in sight since the doors were closed. She missed when that had happened, "Let's try something different," Tori muttered to herself. She sheathed her swords and sprinted at the Beetle, leaping as he tried to swipe at her and grabbing the horn like spikes poking out of his back where the scarab was attached and throwing herself over him using her momentum to heave him off his feet and into the wall. She knew she was showing off inhuman strength, but Tim had already seen something of what she was hiding. There was no point in hiding anymore, not when lives were in danger because of some evil Beetle. He flew through the air and into another wall. The clang loud and brilliant, the dent even more so. He stumbled to his feet growling in anger, his hand morphing into a sword. Tori grinned,

"Oh, you like swords do you?" she asked, "As you've seen, so do I," with that she pulled out her short sword and launched into a single sword battle with the goon,

"You fight well for a human," he stated a few minutes in as he swiped for her head only to find that it wasn't there to be cut off,

"I know, though I'm hardly human," she stated quietly. He appeared to have heard her though,

"I can tell…there's something…off-putting about you," he mused, thrusting for her heart. Tori flipped away, landing lightly on her feet to block his next attack,

"I get that a lot,"

"My scientists will have so much fun picking you apart when I'm done dealing with you and your team," he snarled with a dark smirk. Tori almost lost it again, the mention of being picked apart…that had already happened once…she wouldn't let that happen again in one fight. Even so, she was calmer than before and she remembered what she had done and what she didn't want to do again. Even if this goon was an evil little dick,

"I wonder how well you'll deal with us…" Tori started, her voice full of loathing and scratching with a growl, as she ran forward and leapt up onto his swiping hand and from there and used it as a springboard to launch herself into the air, "Without you hand!" she crowed as she swiped down with her short sword as she fell towards the ground. His screeching cry was almost musical to her ears as she rolled away to stand near Batgirl and Robin, she could feel the smirk on her face,

"Sharpest metal in the world," she stated proudly as she stood. Jason whistled from where he stood trying in vain to hack the doors back open to the bioship. Sadly he was not as gifted with hacking as Tori, Robin or Babs were. Though he was decent at it,

"That was hot!" he called and Tori grinned,

"Thanks babe!" though her grin faded as the Black Beetle rose, a glower on his face as a hand grew back where the stump used to be,

"Okay…well that's just cheating," she whined slightly as she prepared to duck and roll away form whatever it was he was going to do. Thankfully he was distracted by Cassie and Dick both delivering a blow from behind him and he turned around, allowing for Robin and Barbara to try and taser him. It didn't work and he calmly turned to shot at them…with staples! Giant metal staples. The same material as his Beetle suit,

"Look out!" Tori called, tackling Robin out of the way just as the staple meant for Robin slammed into her own stomach. She was thrown through the air and into the wall for the billionth time that day and from the uncomfortable pinching sensation it was punched through her stomach. Tori glanced down, oblivious to the fighting going on to check where the staple had landed. She groaned, it had gone through her stomach and right into the wall. Blood was pooling around it and she could feel everything straining and trying to heal itself but couldn't due to the object interfering with the process,

"Okay, okay. I can get out of this," she muttered to herself as she placed the palms of her hands on the wall and pushed against it. The staple wouldn't budge and it only made the strange sensation she was feeling stronger, "What is in the metal on this ship?" Tori demanded. It was affecting the Electrum in her system slightly. Not stopping her healing factor, just the no pain factor...and the healing factor a little bit,

"I am literally pinned to the wall like a bug," she muttered, just as Robin was slammed into the wall as well, "Robin…Robin?…Robin!" Tori cried, shifting as much as she could to see that he was unconscious. She shifted even more to try and see if it impaled him too. Thankfully it only trapped him in place, not injured him. Letting out a sight of relief Tori looked out at the fighting to see that Jason had given up on the doors and was now fighting alongside Babs and Dick. Superboy and Cassie were down again and M'gahn was somehow stuck in the door…which was weird…but that didn't matter. Jason couldn't shoot his guns in the ship. The pressure if he missed and hit a window would crush them and with the armor Black Beetle was wearing would rebound any bullet shot his way…Jason was practically naked out there,

"Hood!" she called, he glanced her way, flipped over a punch and darted over to her. He moved to pull her free only to stop as she frantically shook her head,

"I tried. Take my swords. You need them more than I do," Jason snagged them from the ground and leapt back into the fight. Dick was down and it seemed to be only Jason and Babs against him, the odds were not in their favor. Suddenly the door opened and out stepped Jaime…and he looked pissed. The two Beetles regarded each other before simultaneously launching themselves at each other. Jason and Barbara took that as time to leave. Jason ushered the kids down the hallway through the now opened door to the bioship. La'gahn, who had been fighting the whole time, he was just out of Tori's sight for most of the fighting, which was mostly a blur of motion and attacks, moved to grab Dick and head there as well. It seemed they were trying to evacuate. Superboy was up and carried Cassie down and that left BeastBoy, as a gorilla, to help Tori and Robin who were stuck to the wall. As he neared and reached for her Tori shook her head,

"No. Get him first," she said,

"Are you sure?" he growled,

"Do it!" she snapped slightly, moving her hand to cover the puncture point. Garfield nodded and quickly carried Tim away. Water had somehow started to fill the ship and it was creeping towards her feet…Tori knew it would be cold and she was not ready to go into a forced Snow White coma again so she tucked her feet to her chest. The fight going on was epic and loud and slightly terrifying…they would destroy the ship and everyone on it if they kept it up. Garfield finally returned and moved to take the staple out,

"Wait…uh…can't you just pull me out with it?" Tori asked,

"And break something?" Gar asked skeptically, "I don't know how deep the staple is…and we need to leave ASAP," Tori sighed and removed her hand. Garfield's eyes widened when he saw the staple had gone through her,

"Gar, just do it," Tori said,

"But…"

"Do it! I won't feel a thing," Tori assured him, I hope, she added in her head. BeastBoy nodded and with a grimace yanked the staple out. Tori gasped as a flare of pain rippled through her and she fell of the wall. Garfield caught her before she could hit the water and hurried off down the hall,

"I'll tell Nightwing—,"

"—no! You'll say nothing. Promise me you'll say nothing!" Tori growled at the boy. Garfield looked at her confused but saw the glaring threat in her eyes,

"Fine," he muttered dejectedly. As they neared the bioship Tori could hear Jason arguing with Nightwing,

"We are not closing the God damned doors until Tori and the kid are back inside here!" Nightwing's reply was lost as Garfield leapt through the doorway and deposited Tori onto the floor…which caused her to toppled over as soon as her feet hit the water filled floor. It was freezing. Jason caught her and lifted her up off the ground. The doors closed and the water disappeared as the bioship moved away from the sinking submarine. Jason put Tori down and handed her back her swords, which she took gratefully,

"Are you hurt?" she asked, eyeing him. Jason was a little scratched up, a deeper wound on his arm and a burn on his collar bone, but other than that he seemed fine. Dick was holding his wrist and grimacing, and leaning more heavily on his left foot rather than his right, but they didn't seem to be broken…at least the foot didn't. His hand was looking swollen. Tori could see Garfield staring at her from across the ship and feel Robin's glare as well so she moved so that Jason was in front of her,

"What's wrong?" Jason asked, putting his hands gently on her arms,

"Take a look at my puncture wound," she murmured quietly, very aware of Superboy sitting nearby, "The metals on that ship…and the projectiles interfered with my no pain factor, but I don't know if the healing factor has been hindered badly. Is it still bleeding?" Jason glanced down, moving the fabric slightly out of the way,
"No," he whispered, "You're fine," Tori sighed with relief before wrapping her arms around him in a hug. They stood like that for the duration of the time it took to return to the surface.

A/N: I didn't know if I was going to go with the Liam being Bionic angle, but I ended up going with it. I'd like to hear your thoughts and opinions on that.

Additionally, I don't know if BeastBoy can specifically speak when he's in an animal form. I think in some adaptions he can and in others he can't...so for this he can. Also, I had forgotten to put La'gahn in the fight seen before when I had originally wrote this chapter...lol...so I put him in at the end. Sorry any La'gahn fans, but I hadn't really included him in this story that much to begin with.

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