EPILOGUE

Robin proceeded to restrain Delirium's legs and then dragged his unconscious body up against the side of the tower. "Raven," he ordered, "get to work on finding Roy and Mas and Menos. Cyborg, call the police or S.T.A.R. Labs so we can get Delirium out of here."

"Right," the two Titans agreed.

Starfire walked over to Robin, and gently placed her hand on his shoulder. "I am glad it is over. Are you not as well?"

Robin turned as Starfire embraced him, "Of course I am," he said. "Good job, Kori."

"So..." Collin interjected. "Where did Beast Boy run off to?"

Robin and Starfire looked around. Sure enough, Beast Boy was gone. Robin shrugged it off. He'd been there when Starfire fixed the world; he'd get back eventually. Robin sighed. "Will somebody please explain to me why there are two Collins?"

Starfire and Collin both retold the portions of the story they knew. Unfortunately, Robin only heard the words.

"Where did you get that armor if Delirium took your copy?" he asked.

"Um..." Collin grinned nervously. "I took it from this universe's version of my grandfather's house."

Robin had exactly what he was looking for. "Then you're a—" he started threateningly.

"Then I'm a what," Collin shot back, his temper flaring, "a thief? A common criminal? Is that what you think of me, Boy Wonder?"

"Please, Robin. Ragnarök saved all of our lives and he—" Starfire's pleas went unheard.

"No, Kori," Collin said. "Robin's right. I stole the suit. And I tried to use it to save all our butts from Delirium. If you want to take it away and throw me off the Titans, fine. At least know this: I could have jumped ship run off like a coward again. But I didn't." Collin turned around and began to walk off, although it wasn't much more than a token gesture, considering that they were on the island.

Kori placed a hand on Robin's shoulder. "Please, calm down, Tim. Batman, or perhaps Cyborg's father can surely pay for the artifact." Again, Robin wouldn't hear the reason in Starfire's words.

"That's not the way I heard it!" Robin said walking quickly to catch up with Collin. "The way you told it, Starfire was doing fine until you showed up and attacked Delirium. Then he put the wounds you inflicted on him into Starfire! You almost lost us the battle."

Collin snapped, whirled around and jacked his fist right into Robin's face, knocking him back, more in surprise than pain. Not that it didn't hurt.

"If that's the way you feel, then I'm gone. I don't need to put up with this." A bubble of Dark Catalyst energy began to surround Collin.

"Wait!" Kori yelled, flying over to meet him. "Where are you going?"

"I don't know." Collin shrugged, obviously fighting back conflicting emotions.

"Please... Stay with us."

"No, Kori," Robin said. "Let him go." Then he looked up at Collin. "You were right. You did risk your life, and almost lost it, for us. And I was just looking for something to fault in you. I was wrong."

Collin smiled a bit and acted like he was going to say something. Nothing came out.

"But," Robin cautioned, "you lied to us about where you were from. You hid the truth and because of that, Tamaran is gone. I don't know that we could have saved it, but we could have been prepared if you had just let us know something ahead of time. I know you had your reasons for hiding it from us, but sometimes we have to face our fears. Otherwise monsters like Delirium get their way."

Now Collin's smile was genuine, but sad. "I know. It's something I had to learn the hard way, though."

Robin inhaled. "Come back here in one week. By then, I'll decide whether you can stay with us, OK?"

"That sounds acceptable." Collin said. "I suppose I'll take a week's vacation to Miami while you're deciding." And then he blurred out of existence, the reality waves of the Dark Catalyst displacing him.

"Are you alright Robin?" Starfire asked.

"Yeah. I'll be fine."

0000

Fifteen minutes later, Raven and Cyborg had finished, and the Jump City PD was loading Delirium onto an armored police car.

"Both Roy and the speed twins said that they randomly reappeared in Steel City after Delirium changed the world," Raven told them. "No injuries."

"Good. What about Impulse?" Robin asked.

"Bart is back in Dakota. He left before you even got back to Earth."

"So," Cyborg sighed, "That just leaves one question: Where is Beast Boy?"

As if on cue, Gar's voice blurted. "Hey! Dudes and dudettes! Have I got a surprise for you!"

The Titans looked to the side, to a nearby rock on the Tower Island. "Where you been, B.B.?" Cyborg asked.

"Down at the amusement park. Retrieving someone who I know you all want to see."

Gar stepped to the side. And there stood Tara Markov, wrapped tightly in a leather cloak.

"Terra!" Robin blurted. "How in the...?"

"Collin did it. He touched her with this glowly thingy on his hand, and then white stuff went all over her and she went back to normal."

"Friend Terra!" Starfire blurted, zipping over to give the former traitor a hug. "This is a most marvelous development!"

"That's one way of putting it," Raven monotoned.

The Titans greeted Tara, though some were a bit slower to trust her than others. And Terra was distant.

"Guys, I'm sorry. I," she choked back tears. "I wanted to die. I could never live with what had happened and I just wanted to end it all in a blaze of self sacrifice. And now... Now I'm back. So much for my shot at redemption."

"It's OK, Terra. Slade manipulated you," Beast Boy comforted. "We forgive you."

"Maybe you do," Terra blurted, "but will they?" She pointed out to the city and it's thousands of inhabitants.

"I cannot speak for them," Starfire said. "But we are willing to give you a second chance."

"Speak for yourself," Raven said quietly so that only Cyborg could hear it. He glared at her. Perhaps all of them really had never truly forgiven Terra for what had happened. After all, it was easy to 'forgive' the dead. But to trust the living? Much harder.

"Say," Beast Boy thought aloud. "Where did Collin go, anyway?"

"He went to the 'My Ammie'," Starfire told him.

"Miami?" Gar parroted. "Ah, why does he get all the luck? They're having the Uber-Scifi Convention there right now!" With the exception of Robin and Raven, the Titans shared a laugh.

0000

Three days later, Terra willingly checked in to the S.T.A.R. Lab's Jump City branch, the medical wing. Whether it was in her final rebellion against Slade's corruption or a result of Ragnarök's restoration, her ability to move earth and rock had completely vanished, it seemed.

"Are you sure about this, Tara?" Beast Boy asked her.

She was wearing a simple black T-shirt and beige shorts. "I'm sure. I don't think I can stand living in the tower with you guys until I make peace with what I've done. You can still visit me, you know. We're still friends, Gar."

"I know. We... will be no matter what, right?"

"You didn't keep that promise before." A tear fell from Terra's left eye and her hair fell down an covered her right.

"I will this time," he said. "I mean it."

And Terra hugged him. "Come on, Markov," she said aloud to herself. "Don't give in to all these gushy emotions."

The two teens shared a chuckle.

"You think your powers will ever come back?" Gar asked, changing the subject.

"I don't know," she said. "In a way, I don't really want them to. I'd just like a chance to be... NORMAL for a change."

"Believe me," Gar joked. "Being normal is highly overrated."

0000

A week after Delirium had been carted away, Robin stepped out on to the roof of the Tower to get a breath of fresh air, when a familiar sound echoed behind him: the energy of a Dark Catalyst.

"Hey, Tim," Collin said. Tim saw that Collin was wearing baggy khakis and a long sleeve grey T-shirt, which were both much too warm for the current weather. Well. He had been in Miami, so perhaps Jump City seemed cold by comparison.

"Collin," Tim greeted.

"So. Any word about what happened to Delirium?"

"He was raving like a lunatic. Because his crimes involved another planet and since he's technically not a citizen of this United States, they took the case all the way to the Supreme Court."

"And?"

"They are keeping him at Arkham. In Gotham City."

"Shame. Nothing better than death is suited for him." Collin looked down as he said this.

"You support the death penalty?"

"Only for him," Collin became defensive. The two teens walked over to one of the Tower's AC unites and sat down on adjacent sides, leaning against it.

"You think maybe you say that because, in a way, he is, you."

The look on Collin's face told Robin he'd struck a nerve.

"You know, for the longest time I wrestled with that. He's not me. But he shows what I could become. He shows what my genetics could make me. And that inspires me to be as different as I can from that monster. Still, sometimes I find myself thinking things. Wishing things. And I think I sound just like Delirium."

"I..." Robin tried again. "I'm sorry."

"You are? For what?"

"I judged you unfairly. You saved all of us. Star told me that what you did gave her the courage to do what she had to do. Until you got there, she thought she was fighting you. And she was holding back. You did save the universe, Collin. Just not in the way you meant to."

"Thanks. So... What is your decision? My Dark Catalyst is fully charged. Just say the word and you'll never see me again. If that's what you want."

Robin stood up and sighed. "Despite what I've come to realize in the past seven days, I knew I couldn't make an objective decision. So we voted on it. And Kori cast the deciding vote. You're in. Cyborg's dad has quietly covered the cost of the artifact you took."

"Thanks." Collin stood up, Robin offering him a hand. The two teens shook, and Robin handed Collin a Titan's Communicator.

"Welcome to the team, Ragnarök."

(Music! Ending theme: Holiday by Green Day, but without all the political overtones)

Teen Titans

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LEGACY OF THE TAMARANIAN

Written by Benjamin "Chaltab" English

Characters and Locals Owned and Trademarked to
DC Comics and Warner Brothers Animation

Starring:

Scott Menville as Robin

Greg Cipes as Beast Boy

Tara Strong as Raven

Khary Payton as Cyborg

Hynden Walch as Starfire/Blackfire

Mike Erwin as Speedy/Arsenal

Micheal Rosenbaum as Impulse

Billy West as Trevor

Justin Cook as Ragnarök/Delirium

Ashley Johnson as Terra

Kevin Michael Richardson as Trigon

and

Kevin Cline as The Stranger

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