In the T-Car flying above the harbor water-
"Do you think it's alright, Robin?", Cyborg said from the driver's seat. Starfire sat sideways, looking back at Robin for his answer. Robin drummed his fingers on a steel briefcase with his symbol on it.
"I mean, leaving Raven and Jinx alone in the tower with only Terra.", he continued.
Before Robin answered an explosion shook the building. Titans' Tower lost a chunk from under its crossbar. It bled a black goo that seemed to fall too quickly. The miniscule pink dot that fell with it didn't seem to do anything to slow this icky, evil manifestation. When it struck the ground it still fell. The mass still fell, ground be damned.
"Starfire, go.", Robin commanded. Instantly, Starfire through open her door and stepped out of the moving rocket-car.
Robin stuck his head out of a back window. "And Star...", he started. Before she took off, the alien girl hovered next to the car. "I love you.", her lover told her.
She smiled. She kissed him. And in a burning green streak, she blasted toward the disaster.
"We'll be there seconds behind her, Rob.", Cyborg stated.
"No, we won't.", Robin told him. "Circle the island at a distance."
"WHAT!", Cyborg asked.
"After the Titans East, you pointed out that I'm the leader.", Robin said. "In that, I need you to trust me. I have a plan."
"Trust you. You got a plan.", Cyborg repeated. "Got it. Circling the island."
Robin opened his briefcase.
"Estamos aquí!", Menos alerted over an open communicator.
"Bueno.", Robin replied. "Espere ayi."
"Él habla como el gringo, no?", Más said in the background.
"Watchtower, are you there?", Robin asked while ignoring the comment.
The Batman answered. "Are you positive you do not need immediate assistance?"
"Is that the Batman!", Cyborg asked.
"Do you trust me when I say I have it handled?", Robin retorted.
The Batman glared at him.
"Maybe we should send some people down there anyway.", Superman stated.
"If Robin says that he has it covered, then he does.", the Batman replied. "He didn't join up with a team after leaving my stewardship because he won't ask for help if he needs it."
In Hell-
Underneath Titans' Tower is a vast cavern. There was a crushed computer that Slade had used to control his attempt to sink the tower into this very cavern. An elevator shaft made out of interlocked I-beams remained on a side of the cavern. Tunnels were borred into it from a few directions. It had still been well lit as the fuel cells giving electricity to the lamps had remained strong.
That was up until a moment ago. The lamps still glew with the same intensity. The vicious, hungry darkness didn't care for their light and stopped it. Even the sunlight from the hole in the ground newly punched into the cavern was weaker than starlight. The glow of thousands of infernal red eyes gave the most help to sight. The pink glow they were focused on barely helped.
A monster blossomed and bubbled and raged. Its form was as confusing as it was powerful: a dangerous cross between evil and revenge, a murderous marriage between demon and hate and previously untapped power. But it seemed to have an intent.
The girl with pink hair, pink eyes and a pink aura lifted into the air and darted down one of the tunnels. The cursed beast she had brought forth chased after her.
Once it was down the tunnel, Jinx reappeared in the cavern. "Light refacts. And when you change the probability of the angles it hits the atoms in the air, you might look like you flew down a tunnel when you just stood here. Dumbass."
The thousands of shadow bodied ravens, beleagured summoned rats and creatures to vile to repeat growled at her. She raised an eyebrow at them. They fell upon her.
