Abel opened his eyes slowly, and would have gotten up if his face and chest didn't stop him from doing so. He also refrained from standing because he realized he was surrounded by Slade's mechanized cronies. Not just two or five, but at least fifteen from where he could see.

'There must be a production line, or a website, or something,' He didn't risk turning his head in the slightest, lest it give him away. He waited for his body to ache less. When he heard the tell-tale sound of pistol charging, 'Now or never,' with that he sprung from his face-down position and kicked the gun out of the closest robot's hand. Gun in hand he blasted three of them in the face, catching another gun as it flew passed him, shot the other three surrounding him. As the others advanced on him he took a quick body count.

'Thirty. There has to be a production line. Six down, twenty-four to go; this should be cake,' that's when he heard it. That order that crushed many a villain's devious plans.

"Titans, Go!"

He glanced over his shoulder and saw the five teens making their way down the quarry. Many of the droids turned their attention toward the incoming teens.

'That leaves twelve'

He destroyed eleven of them with his pistols, as he turned to the last one he found them depleted. He threw them aside and punched a hole in the last ones chest, tearing out its circuits as he removed his fist. He turned and saw the Titans still had one each left. Without hesitating he used his inherent powers to finish them off, much to the surprise of the Titans.

TT

"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"

The Titans heard the familiar chant, but the voice was more masculine. The four turned to Raven who shrugged in confusion, then it dawned on them that they had a "civilian" in their midst. As they turned to consider him, they saw he had his hand out. His eyes glowed a faint silver, and his hand was surrounded in a familiar black aura.

"How did you-" but Raven's question was interrupted, as she noticed hundreds of Slade's droids on the high cliffs.

The stranger spoke in a familiar monotonous voice.

"I'm convinced there's a website. I'm-" he never got to finish when the droids flung themselves with reckless abandon from the cliffs. He turned on them, "It's rude to interrupt!" he shouted as he flung an armada of steel beams at them with his powers. The beams hit three or four of the robots, before losing momentum and falling back to earth. The falling beams took out a few more as they fell, cutting their numbers by at least fifty. The Titans stared dumbfounded. When the stranger turned around again he said,

"You guys want to help, or should I do this myself?" without waiting for an answer he turned toward the droids and threw himself at them. The Titans quickly regained their composure and entered the fray. Raven flung boulders and beams at them, all the while pondering how this stranger had powers like hers. Robin took out his retractable Bo and set to work beating the artificial life out of the production-line goons. Cyborg blasted away with his arm cannon, while Beast Boy took the form of a mammoth, and mowed them down and crushed them like so many tin cans. Starfire hurled her bolts with deadly accuracy, occasionally frying them with her recently obtained eye-beams.

When the Titans had finished their opponents, they turned to boy to see him still battling with his. They ran to help when all of the droids pounced on him at the same time. It was a distance of at least one hundred fifty yards, and when they where about forty yards away, they saw his eyes and hands glowing again. His eyes glowed silver, but instead of black, his hands glowed silver as well.

"Stay Back!" he shouted when he saw them, "I've got this!"

Before any one could say any thing he managed to free his hands and brought them together. With a blinding flash the droids that dog piled him were disintegrated, and those still running toward him were thrown back landing in twisted heaps of molten steel. When the Titans could see again, all that was left was a crater twenty feet deep and twenty feet in diameter. When they reached the edge they saw him floating out of the hole, admiring his handy work.

"Never done that before," he stated casually. They all just stared open-mouthed; they seemed to be doing that a lot. An awkward silence followed, trying to break the silence the stranger spoke,

"So… Got any hobbies?"

Either the breaking of the silence or the absurdity of the question brought them all from their stupor. They all looked at the boy curiously. Then Beast Boy spoke.

"Video games," this caught the attention of the other Titans and they all shifted their gaze on Beast Boy, "What?" he said with a shrug. Then the stranger spoke again.

"I'm Abel, by the way. How you guys doing?" he said casually. Raven decided to voice her thoughts.

"We're fine. How did you do that? How did you know that chant? What does Slade want with you?"

Abel took a deep breath and said with that single breath.

"I was born with the ability. My mother taught it to me. He captured me and told me to kill all of you, but when I refused, he brought me out here to be destroyed."

This brought another stare from the Titans. Despite the fact that they were staring at him, they failed to notice the many cuts and bruises on his body. He also had second degree burns from pistol fire. Abel decided to point this out.

"I think I need medical attention"

For the first time they actually looked at his body and saw that he was, indeed in need of medical attention. Robin finally spoke up.

"That looks pretty bad"

"Worse than it feels"

"You can come back to the Tower with us. I'm Robin. That's Raven, Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy. We're the Teen Titans."

"I know who you are"

"Okay, let's get out of here," They made their way out of the quarry, Starfire carried Cyborg, Raven carried Robin, Beast Boy took to the air as a hawk, and Abel flew himself up. When they landed, they made their way to the car, Abel commenting on it. After an hour long drive in silence they arrived back at the Tower. In the garage Beast Boy got out first, reverting back to human form; he had to take that of a cat to fit Abel in. Starfire got out next, Robin scooting out after her. Abel, Cyborg, and Raven got out at the same time, when Abel glanced at Raven he caught her staring at him again. He didn't say anything; he just held the stare, refusing to back down. After a few seconds Raven started to feel awkward and, breaking the stare, she walked to the elevator. Abel followed her with his eyes, and then followed with his feet as he averted his eyes.

In the elevator there was silence, except for the hum of the car moving up the Tower. Starfire decided to break it by starting a conversation.

"This is a most magnificent contraption, how does it work?"

"Pulleys and cables attached to the very top floor of the building it's in, and the car itself. It's programmed to recognize the floor number of the button pressed. When someone presses a button, or buttons, a signal is sent to the computer running it and the elevator moves to the desired floors," Abel answered in his monotonous voice as if bored of saying that over and over again. Starfire glanced at the others, Abel noticed this and shrugged, "Or something like that."

When the elevator reached the floor with the medical wing, the teens all filed out. Once inside a room with good lighting, they noticed that Abel's skin had a familiar orange hue and the whites of his weren't exactly white. At this Starfire gasped.

"You are Tamaranian?" she asked gleefully.

"I guess so"

Raven also noticed he had a jewel much like hers imbedded in his forehead.

"You're half-demon" she observed. That was the familiarity she felt earlier, maybe the same thing with Starfire.

"Yes"

When all of his injuries were dressed, Cyborg took a blood test to check for infection, and found that he was in fact half Tamaranian and half demon when he ran it against samples of Raven and Starfire's blood. He also found something else,

"Raven, uh… you two have identical DNA…" this time everyone stared at Cyborg and the screen behind him. Everyone except Abel, who looked like he had just had an epiphany; which is, in fact the case,

"Oh yeah, I forgot to mention Raven. We're related." he said in that casual monotone of his. Starfire got excited about this. She pulled Raven and Abel into a bone-crushing hug.

"Oh, friend Raven! You have found your long-lost sibling! Is this not glorious?"

"Super"