"Raven? Hey, Raven. Wake up."

Raven opened her eyes to the emotionless mask of Red X. He held up a hand, and she took it, the world still swirling. Blood dripped from her cut lip. She wiped it with the back of her hand. "Where are we?"

His eyes narrowed in obvious alertness. "Kinda hoped you could tell us that."

She saw her surroundings for the first time, a grey sky tinged with red, moon encircled by a shroud of mist. The rock formations pointed with swirls indented into them.

"Whoah.."
"I pretty much ruled out Jump City.."

"That's a given."

"Sorry sweetheart, I really don't go around falling into portals that lead to other worlds much."

Raven turned her attention to the sky, trying to decipher why it felt so familiar.

"We need to get back to Earth."

She whipped around. "You're here too?"
Slade narrowed his eye, not bothering to get up from where he had leaned against a rock. A few feet away, Malchior hissed from his crouching position, in the middle of wiping off excess blood from something broken under his scarf. She walked over, noticing the blatant hostility coming from the dragon-wizard and the air of nonchalance mixed with a certain tenseness from Slade. Red X walked behind her, possibly to negate any chance of a fight. She stopped by Malchior. "You need to be healed."
"I am not the only one." He replied with difficulty. X motioned towards her lip, now bleeding profusely again, a bit of dirt having irritated it.

She sighed. "I'll heal you if you heal me."

Malchior reached for her extended hand, still wary. He wavered, and she caught him, ignoring the blood leaking onto her cloak.

"What can I do to you besides heal?"

He made no reply, silently admitting to the logic of this.

"Now, what's broken?"

"I think...it's my nose."
Raven stifled a laugh. The great dragon Malchior laid low by a broken nose. She brushed aside the scarf, hovering her hand over his nose as he reached to touch fingertips to her lip. The light shimmered and faded. They withdrew at the same time, watching each other warily.

Raven relented first. "Truce, for now?"

Malchior nodded.

We made a truce then, to apply all of our powers to get back home, aiding each other. None of us knew who would be a help or a hindrance, so it was just another obstacle to breach.