Hey, hey! Sorry for the delay, been busy with life and stuff… Please forgive me. I promise it won't happen again. So anyways, here is the latest with more to follow.

Black is everything
-Pull me right out of reality
-The emptiness that's me
-Black is everything
-Put me right out of my misery
-Do what you want to me

Life outside goes on
-The world is crashing inside out
-Gently hacking off the hinges

Erase the space, erase the memory
-Missing time
-What I don't know will never hurt me
-Missing time
-Cannot forget cannot remember
-Missing time
-This information is forever
-Missing time

Black is everything
-Got the answer right in front of me
-It's everything I see

Time ouside moves on
-The world I know is crumbling down
-Bringing to a lost sensation

MDFMK

Chapter 5 "Missing Time"

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BEGIN START UP SEQUENCE

FUSION CELL POWER UP

PRIMARY CELL….92

AUXILIARY CELL….98

CORE TEMPRATURE….NOMINAL

ESTIMATED TIME TO FAILURE….52 CYCLES

BEGIN WARM UP CYCLE

FUSION CELL COOLANT VALVES…. OPEN

CIRCULATORY PUMP….ONLINE

CENTRAL PROCESSING UNIT CORE TEMP….NOMINAL

BIOLOGICAL COMPONENTS TEMP….98.6 F

MAIN SENSOR CHECK

OCULAR SENSORS….ONLINE

AURAL SENSORS….ONLINE

TACTILE SENSORS….ONLINE

OFACTORY SENSORS….ONLINE

TASTE SENSORS….ONLINE

EXTRA SENSORY PERCEPTION SENSOR….NOT INSTALLED

MAIN START UP COMPLETE

CHECKING FOR UPDATES….NONE FOUND

AUXILIARY OPERATING SYSTEM….STANDING BY

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COMENCING CORTICAL STIMULATION

Cyborg yawned and rubbed the sleep out of his right eye. The sensors mounted in the ceiling caught his movements and the lights in the corridor flickered on. The bleak light washed down onto his metallic body and into his eyes. He shielded them for a minute while he adjusted to the brightness that lit the area. Cyborg yawned again and rose to his feet. He checked his readouts, found them to be satisfactory, and decided to find the other members of his team.

"Awww… isn't that cute?"

"Why are they green?"

"Should we wake them up?"

"Can't you entertain yourself for a while?"

"Hey! I'm entertained… but shouldn't we get going?"

"Hmmm… You may have a point."

"It looks like she's waking up…"

Starfire yawned as she snuggled under her makeshift blanket. She had the distinct feeling that someone was watching her and when she opened her eyes it was confirmed. A large toothy grin on a green face just mere inches away from her spoke. "Morning sleepyhead!" said Beast-Boy in a loud voice.

Starfire's startled reply was never heard as a wave of green energy erupted from her body and shook the station. Smoke swirled around the cafeteria as the ventilation system tried to remove the offending cloud. Beast-Boy and Cyborg looked at each other then looked back toward Starfire pointing their fingers at her and started to howl with laughter. Starfire couldn't figure out what was so funny and looked to Raven for help. Raven had a slight smirk on her face and told her to look over a bit. She complied and saw Robin sitting next to her… Only Robin was covered from head to foot in black ash and only his blinking eyes were visible.

"Oh Robin, I'm sorry! I just got scared and forgot that I was keeping you warm! Oh Robin I'm so sorry!" She pleaded. Robin began to speak but only coughed out a cloud of smoke. Upon seeing this, the other two boys fell to the floor and were rolling with laughter. Raven handed him some paper towels so he could clean off his face. After a few moments of wiping down his cheeks he got up and spoke. "Don't worry Star; it was time to get up anyway." He looked down at his blacked clothes and began to chuckle himself. "Now I know what a microwave burrito feels like…" he laughed. Starfire jumped up and hugged him twirling him around "I'm elated to see you are unhurt!"

Cyborg and Beast-Boy wiped the tears of laughter out of their eyes and got to their feet. Robin tried to dust off his clothes, but gave up in short order. It was hopeless to get the soot off with a paper towel and a bottle of water. "I'm going to get a change of clothes out of the T-Sub and take a quick shower. Get some breakfast team, it's going to be a long day." He said as he walked out the door toward the hanger. The other members of the team were way ahead of him. Cyborg and Beast-Boy were digging inside one of the wall mounted freezers and tossing various items onto the counter. Starfire was humming to herself as she perused the selection of fruit juices and wondered why there wasn't any Garlderfek juice in the refrigerator. Raven was waiting patiently as her teabag slowly turned the cup of hot water into her morning drink. One by one the Titans sat down at a table and began to eat their meal of choice. The boys finished their meals and topped it off with a burping contest. Raven merely rolled her eyes and Starfire giggled as the contestants tried to one up the other.

Robin stepped through the door to the bridge still drying his hair with a towel draped around his neck. The other Titans had gathered around the main view screen and were looking at a graphic representation of the solar system. Robin continued to dry his hair as he walked up to the others and asked what they were looking for. "Your friend J'Onn has us looking for something" said Cyborg as he gestured to the screen. "Dude! I think I saw something… No, wait. Never mind." said Beast-Boy as he scratched his head. Robin looked at the screen and said "But what are you looking for?"

"That" Said J'Onn as he rose through the floor and pointed to the upper corner of the screen. The Martian Manhunter's form became solid and he pushed a few buttons on the control panel and the screen zoomed in on the tiny dot. "Here, just past the Ort Cloud outside the orbit of Pluto" He spoke slowly and very controlled as if he rehearsed the line a thousand times.

"That's great J'Onn, but that still doesn't answer my question… What is it?" asked Robin in a slightly irritated tone.

"That's your ride." Said J'Onn

The Titans looked at him and said in unison "Our ride?"

The dot on the screen grew larger and then was joined by several others. The dots moved across the solar system with surprising speed and were now just outside the orbit of Earth. Robin walked over to the window and looked out into the blackness trying to see what exactly was approaching the station. A veritable Armada of ships begins to take shape just past the moon but doesn't come out of the shadow of the natural satellite.

His eyes strain to get a better view but the distance is just too great. Cyborg joins Robin over at the window and peers out into the void. "I can't get a good look at them, can you?" asked Robin. Cyborg flipped open the panel on his forearm and tapped a few commands into it. After a second his eyes went wide and his jaw dropped. "Robin, you're not going to believe this!" He held his arm over so his friend could get a look. On the Screen was a zoomed image of the largest ship in the fleet and emblazoned on the side of it was the flag of the United States. "It's one of ours? But how? We don't have the technology for something like that." Robin stammered to get his thoughts in order when J'Onn spoke "No you don't… at least not yet."