Well it seems my muse wanted me to keep writing this, so here I am.

wheathermangohanssj4: 1) its a crossover with the show, 2) I have Robin as Dick Grayson because in the timetravel ep he becomes Nightwing.

Thunderstorm101: this chapter should answer the first part, as for the second part, I'll have to go with the timeless limbo.

Also thanks to Lord Edric, Coppa-Cola, Nobody Famous, Shiva the Sarcastic, sarapottercullen, Artgirl4, Soului, and Hordak's Pupil for their reviews.

Note: I refer to the Teen Titans Episode Go! In this chapter, if you haven't seen that ep, you probably won't know what's going on.

Apparitions
Chapter 2: By Any Other Name

Jump city. It was beautiful. If you could ignore the slums and the crooks.

Which he couldn't. It was one of the abilities he had lost when he became... whatever it was he is now. He couldn't choose to ignore anything, and his emotions seemed to be diluted somehow. He suspected that it had something to do with the fact that he was dead, emotions required internal organs and hormones, which he didn't have any more. His current body faked it rather well, but it just wasn't the same.

Some of the other abilities he had lost were his senses of smell, of taste and touch. He missed them dearly. Though he did find some new ones. He found that because he was outside the time-stream of the world he was 'observing' (the word 'inhabiting' just didn't feel right), he was able to detect moments and objects of extreme chronological importance.

He also found that he could turn invisible and intangible at will. But because of his current predicament of eternal invisibility and intangibility, the abilities were rather redundant. Whats the point of turning invisible twice? It doesn't make him anymore see through than he already was.

But he was getting off track. Something VERY important was going to happen in jump city soon, he'd never seen the time-stream of any world act like it was now. Almost a thousand different threads all coming together into a single Convergence Point. He'd never seen one bigger than five threads. He was rather excited.

He noticed another presence nearby; a quick glance confirmed the identity of Richard Antony Grayson, aka Robin. A fourteen year old 'superhero'. Superheroes were an interesting part of this reality, and he often found himself observing them. The last he'd heard of Robin, there was a falling out between him and his mentor Bruce Wayne, aka Batman. Apparently the younger chose to relocate to Jump City. Perhaps he was part of the Convergence? Superheroes tend to do that. Another quick check confirmed that suspicion, even if it was a relatively minor part.

The island in the bay that they were both observing also seemed to play a part, though it was quite bare...

"I wonder why no one ever built anything there?" Talking to himself was merely one of the habits he'd picked up over the millennia, it wasn't like anyone could hear him anyway.

"Who are you?!" His eyes snapped open in surprise, he sensed no one else around, who could Robin be talking to? It was only the... two... of them...

He slowly turned around, surprise evident on every feature, "You can see me?"

"Of course I can, you're glowing! Now who are you?!"

Courtesy dictated that he should introduce himself, even if he was shocked. But for that he needed to give his name. That was a problem.

"You know? By your calendar it's been over eight thousand years since anyone has asked me that question. Or any question in fact. I'm afraid that I cannot remember my name."

"What? You expect me to buy that?" disbelief evident in every word.

"You don't have to if you don't want to. But know that you are the first to be able to see or hear me in several thousand years. I have had nothing to do but observe this world, or any of the others I have visited. Do not concern yourself, I could not harm you, nor any other inhabitant of this world, even if I wanted to." To demonstrate his point he waved a hand through an AC unit, it gave no resistance as always.

Robin seemed to settle down a bit after realising that there was no threat. "Can anyone else see you? I've heard of witches and the like who can communicate with ghosts and other spirits, can they see you?"

"Heh, no. Not even the 'ghosts' here can see me. The question of why you can does intrigue me. So you can count on seeing me quite a bit." He faltered as he felt a spike in the time-stream, a large Convergence, eighteen threads, he needed to let Robin go do his job, "But I think that should take priority for now." He finished pointing towards the city centre.

Robin turned to see what he was pointing at, and not a second later what looked like a meteorite crashed down in the middle of the city, smoke and screams filled the air.

"How did you know...?" his question died mid sentence as he viewed the empty rooftop, and with a frustrated sigh he sped off towards the crash site.

A few moments later the white haired, millennia old teen shimmered back into view, "So invisibility has its uses after all..."

Later that afternoon:

"I thought we might want to keep in touch. So Cyborg and I designed these." Robin spoke as he handed out the communicators.

"Made 'em out of my own circuits."

"When there's trouble, you know who to call."

The newly formed team said their goodbyes, the girls flew off together, Starfire chatting incessantly, and Beast Boy shifted into a pterodactyl to carry Cyborg back to dry land.

"So you made some new friends and stopped an alien invasion, all in the one day. Impressive."

Robin turned to see his new... friend, he supposed, shimmer into view. "Yeah. And Starfire kissed me." His cheeks burning a little at the memory.

The spectral teen just looked at him for a moment. Then burst out laughing. "It's not that funny."

"Hehe, sorry." The look on his face evidence to the contrary, "She's a Tamaranean, of course she kissed you. How do you think the learned English so quickly?"

"She can learn a language by kissing someone?" –nod- "oh..."

"Heh, so who were the others? I recognise Beast Boy from the Doom Patrol, but what about the metal guy and the girl with the cloak?"

"weren't you watching?"

"No, not really, I kept my distance as not to distract you, so I couldn't hear anything."

"What about that invisible thing? You did it earlier."

"Yeah, for about two minutes."

"Oh, fair enough then. Well the 'metal guy' is called Cyborg. If it has wires he can fix it, upgrade it, or turn it into a weapon. Though I think he needs a little help in the waterproofing department."

"and the girl?"

"Her name's Raven, she's rather shy, but a powerful sorceress."

"Raven? I thought I recognised her. So this is where she disappeared to."

"You know her?"

"Not really, I spent some time on Azarath a few centuries ago, that was her home world. She disappeared about four months before I was able to leave. I always wondered where she vanished to. And judging by her actions she hasn't been here very long, a week at the most."

"Wait! That makes no sense? How could that have been a few centuries ago for you, but a week for her?"

"Time is not a fixed construct. When I travel through the void between worlds I also become unchained from time. It can get rather confusing at times."

"I'll bet. You remember your name yet? It'll get annoying referring to you as the Weird White-haired guy."

"'Weird'? no... still can't remember. It'll come to me in time, things usually do."

"We'll figure something out..."

They both just stood there staring over the bay for a few minutes.

"So... how you going to get back?"

End Chapter 2

eh. not quite as good as i'd like it to be, but i honestly cant think of anything to make this chapter any better.

Next chapter will be set after the first season actually begins.

Phantom will be like Robin's advisor/confidante. who likes to mock him all the time.

see you all next time.

-DS