I felt myself beginning to wake up from the unnatural sleep. Casting holy had wreaked havoc on my body.

Slowly, My eyes opened and I was greeted by the sight of this beautiful girl with vibrant red hair and green eyes, but not normal green eyes, even the part that was usually white was a light shade of green. Looking at her, something just seemed very foreign.

She was staring across the room at something; I followed her gaze to see that she was staring at my buster sword…good, that meant it had been sealed up with me. I figured that in this day and age, whenever the heck it was, it would be hard to find something like it.

She must have heard me move because she jumped and looked at me, her eyes locked with mine, she blinked a few times, and took on a very shocked expression. Of course, I could hardly blame her, my eyes were light blue, but they shimmered with an unearthly glow, brightly enough that they could even be seen in the light of the room we were in.

I blinked my eyes a few times to finish clearing my vision, and then looked straight at the young girl.

"Well," I said with a gentle smile, "aren't you a sight for sore eyes."

She seemed somewhat confused by the statement, as though she had never heard it before; it looked like she was about to ask me something when she suddenly started, as if she just remembered something.

"Wait here please," she said, "I must go and bring my friends."

Without waiting for an answer, the girl rocketed from the room.

When she returned with her 'friends', they all seemed quite startled by what they saw; they must have expected me to still be rather weak, probably due to the fact that I had been nearly comatose for a day.

However, by the time they all arrived, I had already disconnected and turned off all the machines, and strapped the magnetic clamp for my sword on, and as they stepped into the room I had just picked the six-foot weapon up from the ground, and sat on the bed polishing the blade with a piece of cloth I had found lying around.

Looking at me, could all of their mouths come unhinged, they would have hit the floor.

"Oh," I said setting the sword gently on the ground again and standing up, "Hello"

They all responded with various greetings, with the exception of one of them, who seemed rather preoccupied about something, and looked like she really would have preferred to skip this little meeting.

"I'd like to thank you guys for taking care of me while I was out, that spell takes a lot out of me," I said.

The girl that had initially been in the room with me burst out with a rather…bizarre greeting, "Hello what is your name where are you from what is you favorite food how did you get here and will you be my friend?" she exclaimed.

I almost staggered back from the assault of questions, but another one of them, obviously the leader, stepped in, he was rather short, dressed in a red, green, and gold suit complete with cape and mask, he narrowed down the questions a little bit.

"Easy there Star, This guy's had a long day. But," he said, looking over towards me, "she does have the right idea, what's your name?"

"Commander Chris Morcom, SOLDIER first class" I replied, "but please, just call me Chris."

"Glorious!" exclaimed the red head, "I am Starfire of Tamaran, in meeting you I am most pleased!" I got a better look at her this time, she definitely was foreign to this planet, she looked around 5'10", her skin was had an amber tint to it, and she was dressed in a rather exotic purple uniform.

"Yo man, the name's Cyborg." The name definitely fit, he was a massive mix of human and machine, laced with intricate patterns of blue and black that stood well over six feet tall.

"And I'm Beast Boy," stated another, a shorter one, with strange green skin and hair, and pointed ears; dressed in a tight green and black jumpsuit

I looked at the girl with blue hair, I remembered her, she was the one that had released me, She was dressed in that same black uniform that left her legs completely exposed; I couldn't see the arms of it, they were hidden under a blue cloak. But her most striking feature was a pair of sapphire blue eyes, and violet hair. "Raven," she said coolly.

"And I'm Robin."

"So…where ya from?" asked Beast Boy.

I hesitated, and then finally spoke, "It's kind of a long story."

"Anyone objected to a long story?" asked Robin, when no one said anything, he continued, "Well, then go ahead."

Beast Boy looked around the medical ward, "Ok, but if this is gonna be really long, lets go up to the main room where there is some couches to sit on."

Everyone agreed and they led me out of the medical room.

The team sat on the couches scattered around the Titans main room, Raven sat on one of the many couches in the huge room with a book sitting closed next to her, waiting patiently for my story, Beast Boy and Cyborg walked over from the kitchen area both with bowls in hand, and Robin and Star sat on another couch, leaning forward and anxiously awaiting the beginning of the tail.

"I can't believe you are eating Tofu cubes while this guy is telling his story, I mean at least eat popcorn like a normal person," Cyborg groaned.

"No way dude," Beast Boy snorted, "I love my Tofu."

"Guys," Robin snapped, "Cool it, we're here for this guys story." He looked towards where I stood, patiently waiting, leaning against a wall, "You can go ahead with your story now."

"Alright, but I'll warn you, some of you may not believe me. I was born in a city called Midgar, it was about twice the size of this city, and was run by a company called Shinra. I grew up in the slums, and when I turned 13, I signed up for Shinra's military program. Apparently, someone thought I had a lot of potential, so they pulled me from the regular military training, and placed me into SOLDIER training."

"During training, I excelled, I fed off the challenges that the instructors threw at us, enjoying every moment of what was torture to others. I apparently did well enough that I was to be placed as a SOLDIER first class. Unfortunately, when I went in to be infused with Mako…"

"Hold it," said Beast Boy, "What's that?"

"Oh, sorry, I can't really explain it too well, but all that it applies to in my story is that it is a powerful chemical that when anything is exposed to a very small amount, it enhances everything about them, they become faster, stronger, smarter, and all around, a more effective soldier. Unfortunately being exposed to anything but the smallest amounts of Mako usually results in mutation, poisoning, death, and other exciting things like that."

The entire team blinked in disbelief.

"Anyway, when I went in to be infused with the stuff, the infusion system glitched and pumped me full of a massive amount of Mako. It immediately put me into a coma. The scientists were amazed that I even survived, much less the fact that I didn't mutate, even though I was still in a deep coma. I spent the next 4 months of my life on a life support system. When Shinra decided that I wasn't worth keeping alive, they pulled the plug. But, I scared the crap out of all the doctors and scientists when they unplugged me. I didn't die…instead, I woke up."

"The effects of my Mako overdose were quite impressive. As a small amount of Mako enhances a human the amount I received basically boosted me beyond any human capability. I was instantly reassigned to the field, where I joined ranks in the Wutai war. I worked my way through the ranks quickly, and was soon the commander of an entire battalion, only answering to General Sephiroth himself. I fought many battles during the war, including leading the final charge on the Wutai army that drove them back into their city, where they surrendered.

"After the war ended, SOLDIER was reassigned to far less interesting positions, security detail, guard positions, and monster hunts. Needless to say, I was bored out of my mind. That's why, when I heard about a scientist offering a passage to the far future where the adventure of a lifetime could take place; I jumped at the chance."

"However, I've decided that I acted a little too quickly. When I arrived at the lab, I was drugged, and forcibly strapped to a table, where Hojo, the chief scientist of the Shinra Corporation approached me. He went off into some long story about this amazing scientific discovery, but I'll just skip to the important crap. He had discovered a way to seal someone into some ancient magical book where they would remain asleep until a certain prophesy was fulfilled. The aforementioned prophecy talked of a young sorceress," I looked straight at Raven, "I'll assume that to have been you, who would release a great evil on the world."

"Hojo, then took the liberty of slightly adjusting the story, he changed the words that Rorek said to seal the dragon into the spell that would release whatever he bound into the book. The nature of the spell was that I would be asleep in suspended animation until someone called me out. Even though I was trapped inside the book, I could see everything that happened in the world whenever I wanted to."

"Not long after I was sealed in, General Sephiroth went nuts, and nearly destroyed the entire planet. The catastrophe sent the entire planet back to the Stone Age, where the survivors slowly rediscovered the lost technology, having to repeat the entire development of society, before long, the knowledge of the meteor's true tale was lost all together, and people believe that such a catastrophe wiped out the dinosaurs, when it actually wiped out the world as I knew it."

"Everything else is basic history, society redeveloped into what it now is, then Raven got the book, read it, was tricked by Malchior, and released him, then in her attempt to destroy him, released me."

The Team looked on at me with varying expressions. Robin appeared calm and collected; Beast Boy was still confused; Raven was deep in thought, pondering my words; and Star was watching in wonder; but all of them held some slight look of disbelief.

"I knew that book was old," said Raven, "But I never knew it was THAT old."

"Hold on," said Cyborg, "That ain't possible, you're saying that you are from some civilization from the past, that was destroyed by a meteor, sent back to the stone age, redeveloped, and you only survived because you got locked in a book?"

"Well, yeah, that's about the gist of it," I replied.

"Dude," said Beast Boy, "I'm still stuck back on the whole Makeyo thing."

"I still think you're crazy," said Cyborg, "If there ever was such a civilization, we'd have found ruins or something!"

"Well," I replied, "When Meteor hit, it hit Midgar full on, the shockwave it created leveled the costal city of Junon, a military port. It set the munitions they stored off, reducing the city to a smoking crater, and as for other things…this happened over twenty thousand years ago, so not much survived time itself. Frankly, I can't prove my story, all I have is my word."

"Well," said Cyborg, "you've got a good story at least, but I have an idea to test it. Your SOLDIER was the elites of your time right?

"Yeah,"

"So you should have no trouble with the training stuff we have here, let's go outside, ya feeling up to an obstacle course?"

I smirked, "To be honest…nothing sounds like more fun to me at the moment, I could use a nice exercise."