Hey y'all, this story is getting quite good I think. More action now than there ever was. I hope you all are enjoying it. On with the next chater, Chapter Eight: The Return Home.

"Warhead!" The voice from the darkness called. "Warhead, come here. There is something I need to ask you." The voice was impatient, and wanted him there that instant.

"Yes Mr. Smith?" Warhead said as he emerged from the doorway.

"I want to know," Smith continued. "What happened to you exactly before, when you were fighting the Titans. Why did you come back such a beating. You were designed to be unstoppable. This is not acceptable." Smith said, stroking his beard as he asked the question.

"Master, forgive me. There was one Titan, named Shade. He is one of the Canucks." Warhead said.

"Yes, yes I know that! I'm not stupid." Smith said angrily.

"Well, he unleashed some sort of…power, I guess you could call it. And when he got extremely angry this power was unleashed. It was immense power. I have never seen anything like it before."

"I see. It looks like we will have to pay Shade a little visit." Smith said, turning and laughing.

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"He's awake you can go in and see him now." The doctor said, as he entered the waiting room. He turned after he had said it and left to do some other business.

Finally, the moment the Titans, all of them, had been waiting for, had finally arrived. After almost a week, Dark had come out of his coma and could now be visited by his friends and teammates.

The teams entered the room to see Dark lying on the bed attached to many different machines monitoring his heart rate, blood pressure and so on. When they entered the room Dark sat up a bit, he grunted in pain as he did so, and smiled at them as they entered.

"Oh thank God!" Phoenix said as she rushed over and hugged Dark tightly.

"Phoenix….Phoenix. You're hurting me." Dark managed to get out.

"Oh, I am so sorry." Phoenix said as she backed away a bit, blushing a little bit as she did so.

"Let me see what they did to me here." Dark said as he lifted his gown a bit to see the incisions that the doctors had made. He looked down at his chest and saw the incisions that they had made. The line went from his the middle of his chest all the way up, almost to his neck. "Holy shit.." Dark murmured under his breath, and took a look at his arm as well. He saw the exact same thing; the incision was all the way down from his wrist to his shoulder. He then looked up into the eyes of his teammates and friends. "What in God's name happened to me?" He asked.

Phoenix started to cry a bit and turned away so that her love could not see her in this condition.

Shade finally stood forward and told Dark what had happened. "Remember when Warhead threw you on the ground and started to hit you?" Shade began.

Dark nodded.

"Well he didn't stop until you were brutally beaten and almost dead. He gave you that huge gash on your side too."

Dark went over on one side and looked at his side and saw it there.

"He also broke all your ribs and one arm until there was so few pieces of large bone, they had to remove it and replace it will steel. Your ribs there, are steel frame ribs, 10 times stronger than bone and are virtually indestructible, same with your arm. The downside is that you have limited movement, you will not be able to bend as much as you could before."

Dark just looked at Shade in amazement. "Are you serious." He said awestruck.

Shade nodded 'yes'.

"Oh man. That's not too good now is it?" Dark said gloomily, as Phoenix and the team came over to console him. The good thing was they were all a team once again.

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"What do you plan to do Mr. Smith?" Warhead grunted from behind his master. 'If I attack him right now I could break his twig for a neck.' Warhead thought as he looked at his master. 'Bastard.'

"Well Warhead, for starters if you ever think that again, I will break your neck. Do you understand me? I can as easily kill you as I brought you in."

Warhead looked in astonishment at his master as he said this.

"You're wondering how I knew that." Smith said turning around, revealing his face. He was an older man, in about his early forties, already there was white hair coming out from his head. He had sort of a crooked nose, and a rather large scar on his left side that extended from his temple down to his jaw. "There are a lot of things you don't know about me, many things I have not told you. So if I were you, I'd be careful." Smith said, grinning. "As for Shade, we are going to have a little talk is all."

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"Finally! Home sweet home!" Dark said as Phoenix and Robin helped him into the tower.

"Yea, really. But it is time that you get some rest." Phoenix said as she got a hold of him and exited from the room and brought him to his bedroom.

"So what do you think? He looks pretty banged up." Cyborg said as they exited the room.

"Dude, really. Poor gut looks bad, I hope he's ok." Beast Boy said concerned.

"The doctor said he was, so he must be." Raven said. "Or else they would not have released him from the hospital. He still is, remember, out of commission for a few months, so even though he is home, he won't be coming out with us."

"Yes, that is true. But, I am tired, so I am going to head of to bed." Starfire said, stretching as she spoke.

"Yea, I'm heading out too. See y'all in the morning." Cyborg said as he exited with Starfire.

"Same here." Beast Boy said.

They all left for bed as they left the room and turned out the lights.

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Shade was struggling to sleep, and when he did, he had reoccurring nightmares of what had happened only a week ago. He awoke in a cold sweat and sat upright. 'What the hell is wrong with me?' He thought to himself. 'I need to go for a walk, clear my head.' He thought as he got out of his bed, put some clothes on and exited his room.

He walked down the hallway, trying to be as quiet as possible, but no matter how quiet he was, Raven knew that he was leaving. She saw him and wondered what he was doing, so she followed him.

Shade had undone the security and opened the door of the tower and left down the road. It was late and it was pitch black outside.

He walked a little for a little bit when he heard a noise from behind him. He turned rapidly to see what it was, but it was nothing but darkness. 'Only a mouse.' He thought as he turned to walk again.

Raven followed closely and tried not to give away her position as she hid from Shade in the darkness.

Shade walked for a little bit more, when he heard another noise behind him. He turned to see nothingness again. "Who the hell is that? Show yourself!" Shade shouted into darkness.

A slow chuckled was heard as a man stepped out from the darkness right in front of Shade. "Why hello Shade, so nice to meet you."