Outside of the tower at the training field, Cyborg finished setting up the obstacle course.

"Alright," he said, "the idea is to get from where you are now, to the far side, where you see Robin and Starfire, as quickly as possible. Oh yeah, and don't get killed."

I smirked, far to easy. "Sounds like fun,"

I crouched on the starting line, waiting for his cue to go, every muscle tensed, every ounce of my SOLDIER training ready and at hand. I was prepared for anything.

"Ready…GO!" yelled Cyborg.

I sprinted forward into the course, to be greeted by well over a dozen robotic tentacles. I drew the sword from my back and swung it gracefully cleaving through three tentacles in one swipe. I then used the momentum of the sword as a pole vault, and launched myself into the air.

I came down towards the central hub that all the cables connected to and struck with the sword. The hub fell into two sparking pieces. Not even breaking stride I charged forward to face the next obstacle.

Six rocks rose out of the ground to reveal launchers that propelled countless explosive disks at him. I dodged most of them, and hit the rest with my sword, and then quickly focused on the energy deep inside me, concentrated on the launchers, then released, all six launchers burst into flames, setting off all of the discs inside them, and reducing all of them to small craters.

As I sprinted past the smoldering holes, I saw a massive steel door dropping down to bar my path; I sprinted towards it, and dove underneath, just barely making the hole.

I looked up to see at least a dozen more of these doors closing in front of me, deciding to go through the doors rather than trying to race them all, and drove my hands straight through the steel face of the door that had closed behind me, ripped it loose from its mounts, and hurled it into the rest of the doors with such force, that it knocked every one of them down, as well as causing one of them to fall across the deep hole in the ground that was immediately following the multiple barriers.

I continued to run towards the final challenge: a small army of Slade's robots that the Titans had captured, repaired, and reprogrammed.

I charged them at a full sprint, and lifted my sword for combat. Ten feet from the first robot warrior, my eyes flickered.

With a surge of crimson light that flared around me, I more than doubled in speed. With a flash of metal the first machine was in two pieces; but nearly a dozen more rose to take its place.

Stopping on the other side of the small army of killer machines, I readied myself for a final charge, brought my sword down to my left side and took a single deep breath.

From the Titan's view, they saw this warrior standing alone against an army of robots, with the finish line on the far side of them. He drew his sword back and vanished, only to reappear on the other side of the robots, and gently resheathe his sword.

The five heroes looked on in confusion, until the robots began to turn around, and every one of them fell into two separate pieces, cut cleanly in half.

"So," I said, "How'd I do?"

The Titans, looking at the computer readout were speechless, until Cyborg finally spoke up. "Fifty-seven seconds, that's definitely a new course record."

"Dude, a new record?" Beast said, "I think we need a new obstacle course."

The Titans looked out at their destroyed training course, and nodded in agreement.

"Do you believe me now Cyborg?" I asked, turning my glowing gaze to the tall android.

"Still not so sure about the story," Cyborg replied, "But I have to believe what you said about your training. That run was awesome!"

"You're welcome to stay here for a while," said Robin, "We've got a spare room open that you could use. Beast Boy, it's right next to yours, would you show him the way?"

The changeling nodded in agreement, and led me back into the tower.

As soon as I had left, Robin looked at the other Titans, "As soon as Chris is settled down in his room, and Beast Boy gets back, we need to talk."

Starfire looked at Robin curiously, "What is this thing we need to talk about?"

"Chris, we need to decide whether or not we should ask him join the Titans."