Chapter 6: "We Are Still Here"
The training room was silent. The punching bags and weight machines stood, motionless and unused. The blood and sweat spilled earlier had been cleaned away and the room was ready to be used again.
Just not in the way it was supposed to.
One of the walls suddenly exploded outward in a loud crashing noise, as chunks of stone and plaster pelted the floor and Savior flew through the hole he had just made, rolling along the floor for about fifteen feet before the Shimmer stopped him. He leapt to his feet.
Chuckling, Mammoth pushed his way through the same hole, making it big enough for him through sheer brute strength.
"Please boy, I'm hungry. Can't you provide more for me then an appetizer?" Mammoth chuckled, and then charged at Savior.
Forty seconds in and he was already on the ropes. The Troika wouldn't let him escape and go hunt for the switch, and Mammoth had spent the last twenty of those seconds tossing him around like a rag doll. The good news was, Savior could use the Shimmer freely (indeed, a Shimmer-formed shield on his back was the only reason he had gone through the wall without killing himself). On the other hand, Mammoth was a lot stronger then Robin.
Well, the bigger they were…
"FEED ME!" Mammoth was yelling as he charged. Savior didn't know if Mammoth was speaking of a metaphorical hunger for battle or if he really just wanted to snack on Savior. And he didn't want to find out, as he snapped out twin Shimmer strands that wrapped around Mammoth's legs.
"Eat floor." Savior said, and yanked Mammoth's legs out from under him, causing the giant to fall violently on his face. "High fibre."
"You asshole! You're gonna pay for that!" Mammoth roared. (Writer's Note: I promise I will not try to overuse the word "roar" like I did in Chapter 3 with the sludge monster).
"I'd rather not." Savior said, and leapt to the side as Mammoth tried to grab him, grabbing a heavy hand weight with the Shimmer. "Have a dumbbell you dumb bell!" he yelled, smashing the heavy weight into the side of Mammoth's head.
Mammoth screamed in pain. But also in anger, and he renewed his charge. He was too close to dodge.
So Savior leapt up and wrapped the Shimmer around Mammoth's thick meaty wrists and shoved his arms down. Keeping them down, Savior pulled himself over, using the Shimmer strands to float above Mammoth, and as the giant looked up Savior began doing his best tapdance on his face.
"Charleston! Charleston! Something something something! Some dance, some-ARRRGGGHHHH!" Savior screamed as a laser blast hit him full in the back, burning a large hole in his jacket.
"Bingo!" Gizmo said as he flew in on a glider jet-pack. Mammoth reached up, using Savior's distraction to grab him.
"You son of a bitch!" the giant roared, and threw Savior at another wall.
He should have gotten the Shimmer off his arms first, as Savior flipped in mid-air and used the Shimmer to throw Mammoth instead. His bellow of rage was cut off as he crashed through the wall, nearly caving the whole thing in.
"Hey! Candygram for Mr. Mongo!" Gizmo said as he snapped a new part on his back-mounted laser cannon and began firing powerful charged shots at Savior.
Savior wove a Shimmer shield in front of him and ran at an angle, dodging whatever shots he could.
"Can't play defense forever!" Gizmo chanted.
"Indeed." Savior replied, and then the shield sprang off his arms via a Shimmer strand and rammed into Gizmo, screwing up his jetpack and sending him flying away cursing.
Jinx was making her way daintily through the hole, not a care in the world, as Savior turned to her. She waved. "Hi!"
Savior lashed a Shimmer-whip at her, Jinx ducked it. He slashed the strand out again and Jinx flipped and cart wheeled away, laughing. Springing up, she laughed and fired a hex blast at Savior, causing the floor to cave him and sending him crashing through to the next floor, rubble burying him.
"Nice one!" Gizmo said as he flew back, his glider fixed. He flew down.
A pile of rubble flew up as Savior pushed the heavy stones off.
"Aren't looking so good now, are you?" Gizmo laughed, and then a blade snapped out of his jetpack. "CHARGE!"
Gizmo blasted at Savior, preparing evasive maneuvers if Savior tried to hit him with the Shimmer.
Savior didn't. Instead he shrugged his ruined, torn up leather jacket off, and when Gizmo was almost on him he threw it over Gizmo's head.
"HEY! I can't see! HEY! CRUD! AHHHH!" Gizmo yelled as Savior wrapped the Shimmer around his jacket-covered form and began spinning him around like a merry go-round.
"Round and round and round you go, where you stop, only I know!" Savior yelled and finally threw Gizmo into a wall.
"Hello insect!" came a booming voice behind Savior. Gah! He stuck up behind me! How can such a big guy move so quietly?
Savior never got to find out as he turned into a crashing punch, barely blocked by the Shimmer. Savior hit the wall a dozen feet away (though he didn't go through it this time), and no sooner had he landed was Mammoth there, bringing up a foot and trying to bring it down on Savior's head. Shimmer strands lashed out and tried to keep the foot away, but Mammoth's immense strength brought great pressure down, and Savior's whole body screamed with effort as he tried to keep his head from being crushed.
"Hey Mammoth…would you like to be a farmer?" Savior grunted.
"What?"
Another Shimmer strand flew out of Savior's shoulder, a small amount of the material twisting into a ball at the end, as he rammed it as hard as he could into Mammoth's testicles.
"OWWWWWWWWWIYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!" Mammoth screamed, forgetting Savior's head as he grabbed his injured manhood.
"There's a few achers." Savior said, as he wrapped the Shimmer around Mammoth's neck, and with one quick thrust pushed him upward. Mammoth's journey continued until the ceiling, where the top of his head rammed into a steel bar. He fell back down, groaning, as Savior got out of the way of his huge form.
And then a steel band wrapped around his arm.
"Quid pro quo, Captain Tentacles." Gizmo quipped from his new spider apparatus, and then sent a giant surge of electricity through the band. Savior screamed as several thousand volts zapped him.
"Gizmo's Offensive 2: Electric Boogaloo." Gizmo quipped.
"You call that a quip? And I thought my lines were bad!" Savior yelled, and then severed the steel line with a Shimmer-blade. Gizmo snarled and opened fire on Savior with several laser cannons on the legs. Savior ran through the wide-arcing shots and grabbed one of Gizmo's spider legs with the Shimmer, pulling him off balance. However, the laser cannons kept working, and Savior got blasted several times before he managed to wrap all the legs up with a Shimmer strand and tear them off.
"CRUD! You snot head!" Gizmo cursed as he got up and pulled out another laser cannon. Where the hell was he keeping all those weapons on his small stature?
"Dance! Dance! HA-UH?" Gizmo laughed, and that cost him dearly, as it kept him from firing the weapon. Savior's Shimmer lashed out and did a quick blur of motion in front of Gizmo.
"What?"
The laser gun fell apart. Savior had Shimmer-bladed it into pieces.
"10-31! 10-31! Hike!" Savior yelled as he suddenly ran at Gizmo. "PUNT!"
And Savior kicked Gizmo like a football, sending him flying across the room, yelling in anger and pain.
Savior stopped, panting. He was exhausted and hurting. He had to find that switch. He turned around.
"Hello." Jinx said as Savior turned around.
Jinx had expected Savior to try something with that white energy he used. He hadn't expected him to rear back and punch her in the face.
Savior, on the other hand, had had enough. Who cared if she was a girl, this was life or death! If you couldn't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen!
And he didn't stop with the punch, as he added another one, and then grabbed Jinx by her pink hair as he formed a Shimmer-band on the bridge of his nose to protect him before he rammed his head into her face.
"Ah! You basblard!" Jinx snarled, as she grabbed Savior's hair in turn and jerked his head down as she brought her knee up, ramming it into his forehead. He reeled back and she slammed him with a roundhouse. "Motherlucber! You broke my nod you gig!"
A hex blast sent Savior flying through yet another wall and into yet another room: the garage, where the gang kept their "personal" cars. Coughing, Savior got up, looking around.
"There's the switch!" he saw, spying a big red box at one end of the room.
Hex blasts flew into the room, blowing up one of Robin's cars (aw man Robin was gonna kill him!). Needing more time, Savior grabbed Cyborg's jeep (sorry Cyborg) and threw it at the hole, clogging it up for the moment. He ran for the switch.
"GRAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Mammoth bellowed as he made his own door, smashing right through the wall. "GONNA KILL YOU YOU…!"
Savior stepped to the side and held out a Shimmer-strand and the raging-mad Mammoth tripped right over it, sending him plowing through Robin's other recreational motorcycles.
Cyborg's jeep exploded out of the hole as Jinx came in, blood dripping down his face and wrecking his impish good looks. She threw another hex blast at Savior but Savior dodged it, running for the switch.
"Looking for this?" Gizmo said as he flew up in front of Savior on another jet-pack. He pressed something and Savior was suddenly stopped dead by thin air, running into a force field.
"Good luck getting through this! Now I believe my friend Mammoth wants to have a word with you." Gizmo said, pointing.
Huge hands clamped onto Savior's shoulders as Mammoth lifted him up and grabbed him in a merciless bear hug, squeezing with all his might. Savior tried to scream, but all that came out of his mouth was a low groan.
"Leave some scraps for me, big guy. This bastard is gonna pay…" Jinx said. Well she seemed to have fixed herself up enough so that her injury didn't affect her speech.
"Gonna crush you into paste little man. Show you what it means to tangle with the Troika!" Mammoth growled as he squeezed again. Savior half-screamed.
And then a Shimmer-strand shot out of his mouth and poked itself into Mammoth's eyes.
"ARGH!" the big man yelled, loosening his grip, and Savior's more conventional Shimmer snapped out of his hands and slammed into Mammoth's ears, throwing off his balance and making him let him go.
"HI-YAH!" Jinx yelled as she leapt in with a slashing air-roundhouse, catching Savior across the face and sending him flying backwards. He bounced a few times and then stopped, trying to get up, pressing one hand against the ground to try and push himself up.
"Oh no you don't! You don't get it, do you? Even IF you could somehow get past Mammoth and I, you will never get around Gizmo's shield! Just surrender! I promise we won't hurt you! Much!" Jinx snapped, as her hands glowed with pink hex energy.
Savior was apparently having a great deal of difficulty getting up, as his hand was still on the ground.
"Just give up Captain Tentacles!" Gizmo laughed from behind his force field.
"My name is SAVIOR. I have studied war strategy most of my life. And I know if you can't breach a defense…you go AROUND IT!"
And then a Shimmer strand burst out of the ground at Gizmo's head. Jinx and Mammoth turned around in shock. He hadn't been trying to get up! He'd put a Shimmer strand into the ground and brought it around and UNDER the shield, his hand pressed to the ground to hide it!
And it was too late to stop it, as it zapped around Gizmo and pulled the switch down.
The alarm went off, a low whooping noise, as Gizmo screamed in frustration and tried to shoot the Shimmer strand. It just flowed back and Gizmo shot the control panel, robbing him of the ability to turn the alarm back off.
"OH YOU ARE SO FUCKING DEAD!" Mammoth roared, as he charged again.
Robin's belt alarm went off, startling him, as the Titans made their way leisurely back to their tower. Similar alarms went off in Cyborg's circuits.
"Titans, base alarm! Someone's breaking in!" Robin said.
"Oh no, Savior! He's all alone back there!" Starfire said.
"He can handle himself! Except I beat him up! Ah, damn! Raven, you can get there quickest, teleport ahead and we'll follow as soon as possible!"
Raven didn't reply, she just vanished into the shadows at her feet. Starfire grabbed up both Robin and Cyborg while Beast Boy turned into a Swift, the fastest bird in the world, and headed for the tower, the weighed-down but frantic Starfire flying after him.
The floor of the Titan's lounge suddenly exploded upward as Savior's body flew up through, bounced off the ceiling, and landed on one of the couches.
Gizmo flew up as Savior, his face a bloody mess, reached out with the Shimmer and began throwing everything he could get his hands on him.
"Phone!" Savior said as he grabbed up the nearest one. "IT'S FOR YOU!" The throw was particularly good, smacking Gizmo in his big head with a satisfying KLONK!
"GRAGH!" Mammoth bellowed as he leapt up through the whole. Savior met him with a Shimmer battering ram, sending him crashing into the kitchen. He got up, limping on his right leg, and tried to find a way out.
"Forget me handsome?" Jinx said as she ran out of a door and clawed Savior across the face with her nails. Savior's response was to deck Jinx again. Jinx screamed in anger and pain and punched back, and for a few seconds the two stood there punching each other in a scene that was either incredibly silly looking or dangerously serious. Jinx won that fistfight by blasting Savior with a point blank hex blast.
Right into Mammoth's powerful punch, as Savior went crashing through another wall and out onto the observation room, which had a glass ceiling as well as windows.
Savior was barely up before a Gizmo-tossed grenade landed in front of him.
"I really don't mean it Spider-Man." He said.
The grenade went off in Savior's face with as much the same effect as it had on Spider-Man in the movie. Savior nearly went crashing through the window before he managed to stop.
Jinx ran in, firing hex blasts, shattering the windows and putting Savior in the middle of a storm of flying glass. He tried to defend himself…
And then a particularly big shard of glass came slashing down, cutting through the Shimmer.
Savior screamed at the top of his lungs. This wasn't a "ow that hurts" scream or a "That was a really bad blow" scream, it was a "Someone is sticking needles into every nerve in my body while simultaneously frying them with a blowtorch" scream, and Jinx knew it. Savior collapsed, shuddering and moaning.
"Heh, guess it's bad for you to have that thing cut, eh?" Jinx said. Mammoth lumbered in, holding a huge chunk of wall he had ripped off.
"May I?" he asked.
"Crush him." Jinx said. Mammoth made a noise of satisfaction.
Coming out of the incredible fog of pain that had enveloped him, the only weakness of the Shimmer Noel had sound, Savior could barely see the huge piece of rubble Mammoth tossed at him, much less stop it…
But he tried away, lifting up the ragged Shimmer strand and trying to deflect it.
But he couldn't quite…get all…the momentum gone…
The chunk bounced off Savior, and as he fell down, it landed on his left arm. Savior would have screamed again, except his vocal cords were too damaged from his previous scream.
"A Farewell to arms!" Jinx said.
"Ohhhh, I HEARD the bones break on that one. That must HURT." Gizmo said as he flew in. He was glad he had brought extra mobile devices, Captain Tentacles kept wrecking them.
Gasping, trying to keep from passing out, Savior managed to twist his other arm and shoot the Shimmer the hunk of rubble. With a gasp of effort, he lifted it off.
"It's over buddy. Just give up." Mammoth said.
Savior started getting up. The Troika's eyes widened.
His left arm badly broken and hanging limp at his side, Savior got up, took a deep breath, and then held up his still working arm in the best combat pose he could muster.
"How are you STILL STANDING? Are you INSANE?" Jinx said in some horror.
"Why don't you surrender you idiot?" Gizmo said.
"When France had been defeated by Nazi Germany and England had been driven back across the channel, Hitler offered Churchill a peace agreement. Churchill refused it, and hence Hitler began the Bombing of Britain. Every night for months the seemingly endless waves of German planes bombed the cities of England, using god knows how many tons of explosives every night to try and blast the English into submission. And every day the English people would come out and write a message on the rubble: We Are Still Here. They stood even in the face of certain defeat, under terrible punishment, and they loudly proclaimed that they would not be beaten!" Savior snapped.
"But you're just one man." Jinx said.
Savior spat.
"WE. ARE. STILL. HERE."
"Not for long!" Gizmo said, as he brought up yet another laser cannon and began to fire at Savior.
Savior's graceful dodges had become stumbling parodies of what he had done earlier, but he tried anyway. At least until Mammoth slammed his hands down on the ground and threw Savior off his feet.
"Finish it Jinx!"
"My pleasure." Jinx said, and fired a hex blast at the overhead windows above Savior. The shards rained down towards Savior.
Savior closed his eyes and waited for…
Nothing. Nothing at all. Savior opened his eyes and saw the shards were now encased in black energy.
"WHAT? AH CRUD! CAPTAIN TENTACLES KEPT US FROM SETTING UP OUR AMBUSH!" Gizmo yelled as Raven walked out of the shadows.
"Here's glass in your eye." Raven said, and threw the shards at the Troika. They scattered to avoid being impaled.
"Oh my god, Savior…" Raven said, horrified at the injuries her new teammate had suffered.
"Save it. Let's take them down."
"We? You can't be…"
"WHY WON'T YOU JUST DIE!" Mammoth roared as he charged at the two.
Savior lashed him across the face with a Shimmer-whip, and then Raven threw some heavy desks into him, knocking him down.
"Oh, the wannabe sorceress strikes again! Maybe you need another lesson!" Jinx said as she fired hex blasts at Raven. Raven flew out of the way and whipped more glass shards at Jinx: the pink haired girl cart wheeled away.
"Eat light Goth girl!" Gizmo said as he flew behind Raven, having pulled a lightsaber-like laser sword from somewhere. He swung it at her back…
The Shimmer wrapped around him.
"Back. OFF." Savior snarled, and slammed Gizmo into the ground as hard as he could.
Raven turned and picked up Gizmo's lightsaber via telekinesis and threw it at Jinx. All she did was singe a ponytail.
"My hair! You hurt my hair, bitch!" Jinx said as she fired more hex blasts. Raven flew backwards…
Mammoth's massive arms closed around her.
"Mmmmm, blackbird pudding!" Mammoth said.
The Shimmer wrapped around his neck, cutting off his air, and more strands flew over his head and hooked into his nose as Savior pulled Mammoth away. He let Raven go as she gasped for air.
"ARRRGGGHHHHHH!" Mammoth roared, grabbing the Shimmer strands and pulling them out of his nose as he turned around. "I'VE HAD IT! NO MORE!"
"Savior look out…!" Raven screamed, but she was too late.
Starfire was almost at the tower when the figure came flying out the window, smashed by one of the strongest punches Mammoth had ever thrown. The body, like a rag doll, flew through the window as it shattered around him. For a moment it was almost pretty, a thousand shards of glittering crystal.
"SAVIOR!" Robin screamed as he fell, but there was nothing he could do as the body plummeted to earth.
CRASH!
"Oh no! OH NO!" Starfire cried as she flew down, letting Robin and Cyborg down as she headed for the landing.
Savior had landed on a car and totally trashed it. Perhaps he had managed to use the Shimmer to provide some protection…but he still looked dead.
"Savior! Oh no…no please…" Starfire cried, tears leaking from her eyes as she looked at the man, little more then a boy, who had given all he had and more.
"…………..AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Starfire screamed as her eyes glowed bright green, and then she shot up into the sky, heading for the broken window. Loud noises were already coming from the floor: Raven sounded pretty mad too.
"Is he dead?" Beast Boy said, tears in his eyes.
"Uhhhhhhhhh…" Savior moaned, his eyes blinking slightly.
"He's alive! Go take care of his attackers and get Raven down here!" Robin ordered.
"Already here." Raven said as she appeared out of the shadows. "Starfire's taking care of our little pest problem. Some backup would be appreciated though…"
Cyborg and Beast Boy were already gone, via a grappling hook and a bird-form respectively.
"Noel…oh you stupid fool…whatever possessed you to do this…?" Raven said. The damage was bad and extensive, he might be dying already…
"We are still here…" Savior whispered. "Still…standing…"
And then the darkness claimed him.
Snatches of voices.
"…best medical attention they have…"
"…Star did you have to blast them so hard? We literally can't find them…!"
"…STAR Labs…too far…"
"…calling in a favor…"
"…lost them…"
"….thank you Wally…"
The darkness claimed Noel Collins again, eager to keep him this time.
Light again, no focus, no idea where he was…
"He's waking up…"
"We're not done, put him back out."
A red-masked face learned into the picture, the visage murky and unclear.
"Sleep now buddy. We'll help you."
Darkness again.
"I had no idea that alien could be so damn vicious." Mammoth groaned, as he picked shards of stone out of his skin.
"I theorized her powers are emotionally-linked. You just had to punch him out the window, didn't you, Mammoth? You made her and that Raven so mad they trashed us before we knew what was happening…!" Gizmo said.
"He deserved it. Bastard broke my nose." Jinx said. There had been no fancy medical technicians for her failure: a "doctor" had just SNAPPED the nose back into position (Writer's Note: Yes they can do that. No I don't know how.). Pain for failure.
"I still say the plan was sound! Maybe…!" Gizmo said.
"Save it. We said we could beat them this time for Slade, and you know how headmistress will react now that we have failed…" Jinx said. She was not looking forward to that call. When her teacher was disappointed, bad things happened.
"I say I should talk to her, explain…" Gizmo said.
"No excuses. We said we would defeat them and we failed. I just…" Jinx was saying when the phone rang.
Mammoth gulped.
"We may as well get it over with." Jinx said, and answered the phone.
"Jinx. Yes headmistress. Miss we are so sorry we…" Jinx trailed off as she listened. "Yes mistress. He did?"
Jinx listened a bit more, and then she suddenly went very pale. Mammoth gulped again.
"Yes mistress. I understand. Thank you. Goodbye." Jinx said, and hung up the phone.
"What's our punishment?" Gizmo said, dreading the answer.
"…………Nothing. We're to report back to the dorms after we've healed and get ready for our next assignment." Jinx said.
"What? That's it? No punishment?"
"No. Apparently Slade knew we were going to fail and hence didn't put much faith in us…but…"
"What?"
"Headmistress said Slade had given the job of dealing with the Titans to someone else."
"Who?"
"…………Killjoy."
Gizmo immediately went as pale as Jinx had. Mammoth stared uncomprehendingly.
"What? Who's Killjoy?" he asked.
"A myth. I hoped he was a myth." Jinx said. "I've heard so many things…done as…"
"Oh snot…" Gizmo said, shuddering. "If it really IS Killjoy…"
"Who is Killjoy?" Mammoth asked again.
"Perhaps more accurately would be WHAT is Killjoy."
"What, is he an alien?"
"No, he's a man…and yet he's…something…so terrible…I don't know if what they say about him is true or exaggerated or outright lies, but if half of what they say about him is true…my pity for the Titans is greater then my hate ever could be." Jinx said.
Over the next hour, Jinx and Gizmo told Mammoth about what they had heard.
And after that hour, he was united with his comrades in opinion.
Light again…clearer this time…lights…and then a dark-masked face…looking into his eyes…
"He's awake. Hello Noel."
"……Bat…man?"
"Yes."
"Bats this really isn't necessary." Came a voice from out of Noel's sight.
"Better to err on the side of caution." Batman replied.
"What…what do you…want…"
"Just a few questions. Your name…Noel Collins?"
Noel nodded slightly.
"Is your father Maxwell Collins?"
Noel's eyes jerked opened violently, and from within he found the strength to speak louder then a whisper.
"NO! NEVER! He will NEVER be my FATHER!" Noel hissed, and began to cough.
"Batman you're upsetting the patient! Stop it!" came another voice.
"Just one more. That was one hell of a battle you fought. Your wounds show it."
Noel was silent.
"Indeed, you fought extremely hard…putting forth efforts that were definitely superhuman…all for a group of people you've known a total of three days. Why?"
"What?"
"Why fight so hard for something so uncertain?"
Noel blinked. He felt himself drifting off again.
"Belong…"
Batman's pupil-less eyes widened slightly.
"Leave him alone Batman, that's enough. Let him sleep."
"Just want to belong…belong…just belong…" Noel whispered as the darkness claimed him once more, but this darkness spoke of peace and rest rather then oblivion.
And the man known as the Dark Knight left the room. He knew enough now.
Robin had made a good choice.
Some time later the light came back, and with it voices.
"He's waking up!"
"Noel, Noel!" came a voice Noel recognized as Starfire's. He blinked as his eyes adjusted.
His bed had been modified so that he was sitting up, and all the Titans were in the room with him.
"Noel! You're ok! I would hug you except that Robin recommended I not." Starfire said.
"Good to see you're too stubborn and stupid to die when your body demanded it." Raven said, though she smiled slightly.
"Where am I?"
"You're on the Watchtower, the headquarters for the JLA. They have the best medical technology that we could access quickly and without question. You've been out about five days." Robin said, and Noel realized he wasn't wearing his mask. It was odd to see Robin with eyes that actually had pupils, as his mask had some kind of screen that hid them.
"My injuries…?"
"You should make a full recovery, thanks to Raven. She kept you alive and got you up here. You should be all fixed up with a week or two."
"That's good….the Troika?"
"They got away. But don't worry Noel, they'll pay for what they did. Trust me." Robin said.
"Huh…sorry guys…I wrecked the tower and smashed up your personal property…"
"Forget that Noel! They were just things! You are far more important!" Starfire said.
"You mean that…?"
"Yes. You proved yourself beyond all doubt now Noel. The Teen Titans are just a name, a title, but you have the heart of a true hero. You've earned our respect…and our trust." Robin said. "You were upset you revealed your real name to us. Time for the reverse. My name is Timothy Drake." Robin said.
"Victor Stone." Said Cyborg.
"You know my name: Gar Logan!" Beast Boy said, grinning.
"On my home planet of Tamaran I was called Princess Koriand'r, but Tim calls me Kory Anders on earth. That is my name." Starfire said, grinning.
"Raven's the only name I ever had." Raven said.
"Heh. Noel Alexander Collins." Savior said. He was starting to drift again.
"He needs his rest guys. We'll keep you posted if anything happens." Said a man in a green outfit Noel hadn't seen before. Green Lantern…?
"Ok. We'll see you Noel. Don't worry about the tower, we'll have it all fixed up by the time you get back. Bye." Robin said as he put his mask back on and left.
"Bye…" Noel said as the Titans left. The peaceful darkness was coming back, before it did, Noel pondered what he had said.
It had been prophetic.
"We are still here…we are still here…"
And then all was dark.
Next: KILLJOY!