"Anything?" Cyborg asks as Raven appears on the porch with a cup of coffee in hand a quarter of an hour after she left them, where the others have seated themselves around the round garden table, unsurprisingly the Amazons have clumped together at one end, with Diana and Starfire acting as buffer's to the men.
"Nothing, everything is working like it should. Guess she is still sulking?" Raven replies as she drags over a chair and squeezes down between Cyborg and Nightwing, while noting Io's absence.
"Yeah, guess she will be even worse if you say now that you have found the solution to her machine in less than three months." Antiope says. "How exactly did you manage to pry those plans from her?"
"She wasn't going to try and build it anymore, so she handed it to me on the condition she never came to Man's World and found it built here." Raven replies. "And before you ask, only one other than me has actually seen the complete design and I am not sure it works at all."
"Not like they would be able to understand the design anyway." Artemis sighs.
"Sisters, you are being rude." Diana notes. "It does not become you."
"If I know Raven right, she will have handed the parts over to some very smart people. I'd be impressed if they can't read it." Nightwing says. "We have after all put humans in space." He says in fluent Hellenistic Greek right as Raven takes a mouthful, only for her to cough it all out again in surprise. "Easy Rae." He say as he pats her back, getting an angry stare from her while she continues coughing.
"The gift?" She asks between coughs.
"Yup. Didn't notice it before we got back from Washington. So I guess I got two things from last night." He explains while the others look dumbstruck, Cyborg even freezes with his cup halfway between the table and his mouth.
"Dude, you speak Greek?!" Changeling asks. "What is going on here, why do Greek goddesses suddenly single you out?!" He asks as the dam of held back curiosity bursts.
"Sorry, that would be my fault, since Nightwing and I are an item now." Raven says, completely freezing the three other Titans to the degree of Cyborg drops his cup on the ground without noticing it himself. "Whoa!" Raven cries as Cyborg quickly has her thrown over his shoulder and has disappeared with her around one of the building's corners.
"Err… so you and Rae?" Changeling asks Nightwing.
"You didn't tell them?" Artemis asks.
"Nightwing is it true?" Starfire asks.
"Yes it is, and no we didn't, since I didn't ask before yesterday." Nightwing says as he leans down and picks up the pieces of Cyborg shattered cup.
"So aren't you supposed to go after her?" Philipus asks.
"Raven can handle Victor, better than I can." Nightwing says as he peels off his mask. "Besides, he is somewhat protective of her and I know what he is going to talk to her about." He says before thinking of something and continues: "What only Diana knows is that two years ago, I made a very bad decision and almost killed Raven because of it. I… wasn't man enough back then to face her after that, so I ran and stayed away for two years before I worked up the nerve to face up for what I did."
"And when you got back?" Artemis asks after a moment of shocked silence, while an obvious dangerous edge has entered her voice. "What did she do?"
"She knocked me out and dragged me back to the cave. Believe me when I say I expected I would have needed an extended hospital stay when I came back, but nothing happened, everyone was continuing as nothing had happened, except for one kick in the head I got."
"Nightwing, is… is this true? You tried to kill Raven?" Starfire asks.
"Not deliberately. It was that trip we all took to the Pit that had me do it, I thought she was being reckless by sending those… things after all of you all. I don't know, something just made me want to make her eat a few words she used on me down there. I don't know if it was really me or that seed I heard you also had." He says, looking ashamed while motioning at Garfield and Starfire.
"And she accepted you after all of this?" Antiope asks, getting a nod from him. "Why?"
"She was confused why he did it." Diana says, remembering the somber conversation she had with Bruce after she was notified. "As time went on, she began to miss him and the answers to the questions she had. What they had before the incident was a deep bond of friendship and after a period of thawing up has become active again. And Cyborg knew all of this?"
"Raven said he instantly noticed she had lost a lot of weight when she met the rest of you for the Titan selection." Nightwing says to Garfield and Starfire. "But she didn't want anyone to know it had happened, she didn't want people to pity her."
"It is a good thing, Richard Grayson, that we know her as well as we do." Penelope says. "Or we might have suspected you were forcing her to your side, and we will respect her desire to be with you, even if we don't like it." She continues as Starfire whispers something to Garfield who just nods at her.
"Nightwing, a word." Starfire says before taking off with him by the neck of his costume, taking him to the roof of the embassy, leaving Garfield with the Amazons.
"I have the suspicion they did not think him capable of doing such a thing." Philipus says to the other Amazons.
"We didn't." Garfield says. "Rob and Rae had the most mature relationship out of all of us when we all lived under the same roof. And unlike the rest of us, Rob wasn't scared to get in her way if she was angry and she wasn't backing down when he was. The rest of us knew there seemed to be something special between them, even more so after they formed that bond between them. I don't know what he did, but it seems their kind of connection needs much more than that to truly break them apart."
"Hope for her sake she is prepared for the day he won't be there any more then." Antiope says.
"We lead dangerous lives Anitope." Garfield says calmly. "We regularly get in the way of things that could easily kill us, but we never think about it when we have to move." He had once made that speech to Miss Martian and Kid Devil when both were severely injured and had grown considerable doubts about themselves.
"And he is supposed to be the immature one?" Penelope whispers to Artemis.
"We hear Starfire is a warrior herself?" Antiope asks, ignoring Penelope's whisper.
"Yeah, it's part of her people's culture." He replies.
"Apologies for asking, but Raven never mentioned you as one, why has she picked you?" Antiope continues.
"I could say it was because of my handsome good looks." Garfield smirks, reminded of the times he boasted that when he did not have a girlfriend. "But that's not it. Her people are driven by their emotions and I am a pretty emotional guy, most of the time."
"And he can always make me laugh." Starfire says from above as she drifts down from the roof with Nightwing thrown over her shoulder.
"Hey Vic, you think this has ever happened to Superman?" Nightwing asks as he spots Raven and Cyborg appears around the corner of the building with Cyborg slung over Raven's shoulder.
"Wouldn't know Rob, and there ain't no one going to hear about this!" Cyborg shouts back, unable to see Nightwing.
"You carried me over, seems fair I carry you back." Raven replies. "What's this? Has Garfield been alone with you all and you haven't killed him?" Raven asks, sporting a smirk while Garfield puts on a worried expression.
"Should we have?" Artemis asks, knowing Raven is joking.
"No, but we rarely see you out here in Man's World without wanting at least one fight with someone." Raven says as she puts down Cyborg on his feet. "And Philipus has had her fight."
"I was unaware there was a quota we had to meet?" Artemis replies.
"Will wonders never cease?" Raven smirks.
"Actually a sparring match sounds good right now." Starfire adds to the surprise of the Amazons. "That is if there is one amongst you that are up for the challenge?" She asks with a smirk.
"I believe she is talking to you." Antiope says to Artemis.
"Well in that case." The red head says as she gets up and cracks her neck. "You're on." She says before the two walk off to find a suitable place to have their match, while Penelope sighs.
"See what you have done sister, now I have to find someone to keep the tradition going." She says to Raven, but does not sound overly annoyed by it.
"Your arrangement, mind." Raven notes with a smirk as Nightwing, Changeling and Cyborg exchange worried looks as Penelope stands up.
"So then manlings." Penelope continues and claps her hands together. "Do any of you have the spine to face me?" She asks while rubbing her hands together while looking them over as if they were dishes for her to sample, Cyborg and Nightwing share a look of understanding and nods at each other. All the while the other Amazons look on in amusement at them.
"You know Vic, I seem to remember a certain green man once claimed he was easily able to complete whatever training course Raven went through on Themyscira?" Nightwing starts, the mention of it, instantly has all color drain from Garfield's face.
"I think I remember that as well, think I might even still have it on record somewhere?" Cyborg replies.
"Dude!" Garfield exclaims as Penelope's face lights up.
"Ohh… well then green one, now you have to prove your valor or will it prove to be hubris?" Penelope asks as she moves around the table to nearly drag the shorter Garfield with her by the arm while the changeling mouths a curse or a plea for aid from his friends before they disappear around a corner, where the group erupts in laughter and snickers at the two.
"He really claimed that?" Anitope asks after the mirth subsides enough.
"Gar has a big mouth and yes, he did claim that." Cyborg says as he sits down again.
"Do you have it recorded?" Diana asks.
"Not anymore, but he did say it before thumping his chest." Cyborg continues. "Hey Rae, where are you heading?" He asks as he sees Raven walking away.
"Going to see if Io has cooled down enough to rejoin the rest of us."
"Want to talk about it?" Raven asks as she sits down on the bench Io is sitting inside the hedge maze.
"No." Io growls as she sits with her knees under her chin, staring at her feet, while Raven just sits and waits for a few moments for the inevitable crack to happen. "Why am I considered; unworthy?"
"Who knows how they define what is worth?" Raven asks. "They could just be impressed by Richard's, sometimes, obsessive nature or something else."
"You haven't seen me really brick myself in." Io says with a slight smirk.
"This isn't just about the helmet, is it?" Raven asks, getting only silence from Io for a moment, as she wrestles with the thought about talking or not, before she sighs.
"Promise you won't tell the others?" She asks.
"I won't say a word." Raven replies. "Spoken or otherwise."
"Do you know how often Hephaestus has spoken to me directly when I have prayed to him?" Io asks, getting silence from Raven. "Not even once." She sighs. "Sure I've met him a few times and talked to him a few times, but it's always been coincidental that I have met him. Like at Hippolyta's banquet after we pulled you out of Tartarus. For over three thousand years I have I prayed for guidance and blessings from him and he's never bothered replying, leaving me to sort out my projects on my own. I guess the bottom line is that…" She trails off, apparently unsure if she should continue or not.
"Is what?" Raven asks, feeling the emotional turmoil inside the woman.
"I feel… unappreciated." Io manages while Raven can sense something is cracking inside of her, like a shell that has covered her, she coughs before continuing. "I mean look at me, I've made a flying machine that can change shape and is invisible. And what did I get when it was done?! A flight ban." Io sighs while tears run down her cheeks, Raven just stares at her, this is so unlike the Io she thought she knew. Io was probably the most open minded and positive Amazon Raven knew and the most fun loving, nothing ever seemed to bother her outside of her forge. "Maybe she was really trying to shield us or herself?" Raven asks internally. "I mean, back home I get a 'It's nice' or a half-hearted 'impressive' worst is when the 'what is it for' pops up. Back there people don't give a damn as long as the swords are sharp and the armor hard." Io sighs as she looks into the sky over the hedge maze in front of them. "Bet they all laugh at me when I am not around."
Raven is quiet for a moment, thinking about how exactly she should tackle this. "We are a conservative people, Diana once told me that. You however are not conservative, no inventor worth his or her salt could be. You remember the trip to Cyos we took on General Philipus' behalf?"
"I remember the insect bites I got." Io replies.
"I was surprised when I was told you didn't practice jungle warfare at all and how readily you shot down my suggestion of camouflage. I can understand why the others want everything on Themyscira to remain as they are, it's comforting to know everything is all right and will continue to be this way when you go to bed at night and be the same when you get up in the morning. And with time on our hands, we have nothing we need to accomplish before a certain time. But I guess, you have always looked to what tomorrow brings and how to deal with it? The others say that we live a day at a time, taking whatever appears in our strides, but you plan ahead."
"You fail to cheer me up." Io sighs. "You just point out I am not like other Amazons."
"And that's a good thing." Raven continues. "You invent things none of the others could even dream of; I can hardly imagine how you go about it. How you went from spotting a plane in the sky one day, then after twenty years of work, you have your own and still, 60 years after its creation, it's probably the most advanced plane on the planet. It may have failed to impress our people, because they can't see the use for it, but I know a lot of people out here who are dying to know how you did it." Io smiles slightly at the mention.
"Perhaps I have been trying to impress the wrong people?" She says.
"From what I know, our people are impressed by practical, and simple, examples. They understand how fighting techniques and tactics can help them, but since they rarely leave the island and nothing, till recently, ever threatened them from the outside world, they wouldn't need to fly. I am not saying you have been trying to impress the wrong people, I am saying that you have been trying to impress them at the wrong time."
"Come again?" Io asks, failing to grasp the meaning.
"Let me show you something." Raven says before she teleports them both to the library where she immediately begins looking for two books she knows are here. "Here we go." She says as she flips open a soft cover book on current day military machinery. "See this?" She asks as she hands Io the book, flipped open on a page showing a large photo of a desert patterned tank firing it's main gun.
"Yeah, Diana has claimed she has thrown a few of those around?" Io asks.
"She has." Raven agrees. "But that's not the point. The first cannons were static siege devices meant for knocking down castle walls and ripping infantry block apart, problem with them was that they were heavy and difficult to move around quickly if needed. Back then it was by man or horse power that they were moved when needed to. Some 500 years ago, the first documented idea was made to mount the cannon on an armored carriage that would move under its own power; this." Raven says as she has been flipping through the hardback book she was left with, trying to find the page she holds up to Io, displaying a photo of a yellowed page where a conical armored vehicle can be seen moving forwards. "This was one of many ideas a man called Leonardo da Vinci made. Most of which were never built because of the limits of the technology of the times and the war's the city states of Italy were embroiled in, usually he would make sketches on the backs of letters or other drawings in hopes his benefactors would ask him to build it. See where I am going with this?" Raven asks.
"Err…" Io replies as she studies the ancient tanks design, making Raven sigh, feeling Io is confused and flips a few pages back to another page, displaying what has been called the Aerial Screw.
"Look, this is possibly the first ever concept of what is today known as a helicopter. Both tank and helicopter are a vital parts of today's war machines, they can't always carry the day alone, but they are both a factor the enemy cannot afford to ignore. Leonardo thought of the concept in a time where they couldn't be built and his peers and benefactors could not grasp the applications of them. The way I see it, you are in the same position. You make things the others can't see the potential in, but who is to say that there won't come a time when they see their worth? What I am saying is that you are like the greatest inventor of Man's World, you both are ahead of the time of your people, you both mirror-write to safeguard your notes and you both leave small flaws in your designs in case someone stole them." Raven finishes with a smirk.
"I think… this was a man I would have cared to meet." Io says as she looks at the drawing in the old book. "Are there none like him now?" She asks as she looks up at Raven.
"Sadly not, he was one of the rare people who excelled in many fields of science and art surpassing most. Some today could be considered as skilled as him, but not in the field of invention, not on the same scale at least, unless we count you."
"Think I may have to request I have the plans for the Ray returned, I am almost itching to get I made now." Io says, getting another smirk out of Raven.
"I was actually hoping you'd say that." She says as she pulls out the plans from a portal before walking to a table and folds it out. "Forgive me, but when I was without my powers, Nightwing was, as I mentioned, seriously injured and I began looking at this, seeing if I somehow could figure out what was wrong with it. I made some notes after translating them, isolating some of the parts before I sent them off to some very bright people who I asked to check it over for anything. But I really have one question, you said there was a flaw in the design somewhere, but I am asking you respectfully to tell me where it is, because I have a hunch I know what the problem is."
"But you aren't going to tell me what it is before I do." Io says. "I do hope no one has seen this?"
"Only one has, but he could not figure out how the mesh between science and magic was supposed to go, and it's been the same for those I handed the bits." Raven replies, for a second wondering if Io was going to punch her for showing others the plans, Io looks at the paper while internally debating with herself, judging by the look on her face.
"There are several, actually. In the enchantment, the spectrum and power converter, which is written here is all faulty." Io says as she points the lines of text out. "What makes you so sure the people you sent notes to have it right?"
"Can I ask when was the last time you actually read your own notes?" Raven asks quietly while staring at Io who just looks up.
"Erhh… actually I… think I have actually forgotten?" She says as she takes on a sheepish look. "I don't like where you are heading." She says as Raven gradually begins to smile at her.
"I've had the best people I could get to have a look at those notes and everyone one of them came back calling it flawless. Try and read them." Raven says as she nods at the piece of paper, Io slowly does so, seemingly afraid of doing so. Raven keeps staring at her, watching her eyes move as Io reads the notes several times before looking up with a lost expression in them as she turns back to Raven.
"For 300 years I worked on it, struggled with it, memorized every detail before writing it all down in case I forgot. Then you, Sister, come along and see it for less than three months and prove that the answer has been laughing at my face this entire time." She says flatly. "I am not sure if I should laugh, cry or rage?" She continues in the same tone, before she turns back to the plans and folds them together the way Raven had kept them. "Hold this, will you?" She says as she hands Raven the plans in an almost mechanical fashion, before turning back to the table only to slam her head into the desk with enough force to break the table clear in half. Outside there is an immediate reaction as Diana almost tears the door off its hinges to get inside.
"What the… Io?! What's going on here?" Diana asks in confusion as Io looks up from the ruined table with reddening forehead.
"Two things your Highness, a morale boost and an eye-opener. The table is my just rewards for having fooled myself for so long." Io says.
"I do hope you aren't intending to mend Athena the same way?" Diana asks, while Starfire can be heard cursing in her native tongue somewhere.
"As I said, just punishment for my own foolishness." Io replies.
"Your foolishness has broken my table, I will at least have clarity why that is so." Diana asks as she puts her balled fists on her hips, looking like a disapproving mother, obviously she is a bit annoyed at having her things broken.
"Io wrote down the design of the Healing Ray without adding the flaws, but went on and built the machine from memory, with flaws." Raven says quietly.
"You mean to tell me that for the past 300 years you have been swearing and cursing at this thing because you made a mix up?" Diana asks Io with a raised eyebrow.
"Err… yeah." Io says and casts her eyes to her feet as her face heats up in embarrassment, Diana's face just lights up in a broadening smile.
"And how many times have we told you that sitting so late into the night in a room without a window was a bad thing?" Diana asks, but the mirth in her tone is telling she isn't expecting an answer. "But you still owe me a new table." She says as something is heard trumpeting outside.
"And you will have it… what is going on out there?" Io asks, right as they can see Penelope sprint past the windows swiftly followed by a green velociraptor.
"I hope her pride won't be too damaged." Raven sighs, wondering if Penelope would go into a depression if she lost to Changeling. "Sparring matches." She continues as the three head outside again, finding Ferdinand having joined Philipus, Cyborg, and Nightwing at the table. The two men busy talking to the latest arrival. "Have you been left out sister?" Raven asks Philipus, who is seated on one side of the table, while the others crowds the other side.
"I believe it is my own choice, besides I can keep an eye on Penelope from here." Philipus replies as she turns around to see Penelope leap over the wall surrounding the estate with a hawk swiftly following. "And Io?" She says as the others notes the heavy set woman storm across the garden to follow after the pair.
"Seems she's all better now." Artemis says both she and Starfire emerge from around the corner, Artemis with what is obviously a starbolt hit on her arm, while Starfire's stomach has a reddening area telling of a punch landed there.
"NO FAIR!" Changeling cries from the other side of the wall, obviously having noticed Io.
"Well, one on one without his powers he wasn't a match for Penelope." Philipus says. "But she seems to have lifted that ban."
"Right!" Changeling shouts from the other side of the wall before a mammoth begins towering over it and charges along the wall after two yelps can be heard.
"Well, at least he's not a push over." Artemis says with a smirk as they can see him stomp around outside the property, turning to one side, they can see Io using the hair on his flank to climb onto his back before seating herself at his neck.
"WEEEHOO!" She cries from atop.
"IO!" Penelope shouts angrily from below, obviously not happy about being chased around.
"Well that's not something you see every day." Antiope notes as she appears from the house with a fresh cup of coffee in hand.
"You reckon we should go help them?" Artemis asks.
"Why not? Coming Philipus?" Antiope replies after depositing her cup before following after the redhead, Philipus sighs before getting up and following after the two.
"Should we help him?" Cyborg asks Starfire.
"Garfield can handle himself." Starfire replies as she sits down, apparently unconcerned with the outcome. "Oh, I don't believe we have met, I am Starfire." She says and reaches over the table to shake hands with Ferdinand.
"Ferdinand." The big man replies as they shake hands as the mammoth trumpets in surprise at the new arrivals and can be see storming away from them. "You are certain he is able?"
"Oh quite sure." Starfire replies. "If he remembers how that is." She continues as the mammoth changes into a T-Rex that begins stomping about the field outside. "I hope he isn't disturbing someone's crop?" She asks Diana.
"No, I rent it." Wonder Woman replies as she sits down as well. "Got it after I got this place, luckily my neighbor agreed that with me living here, his potential income from the plot would be limited in case something hits this place."
"So now Garfield can go all crazy if he wants to." Cyborg says with a relaxed smirk at his green friend who seems to weave between chasing and fleeing, right as he turns his body around, swinging his long tail around.
"Incoming." Raven says before she forms a dark net in front of her that catches the living projectile that comes flying at them, before gently putting her down on the ground. "Still having fun Artemis?" Raven asks the red head that sits up, looking a little worse for wear and shakes her head.
"Are you kidding? Wish we had these kinds of things back home!" The red head exclaims before getting to her feet again to jog down towards the fight again.
"Well, I hope they know when to stop." Raven says. "Garfield is getting nervous."
"He knows when to say stop." Starfire replies, knowing from the sparring matches they had had.
"Hopefully before they treat him to too many knuckle sandwiches?" Nightwing asks.
"You worry too much Richard, he's expanded his repertoire considerably since we lived together." Starfire continues, while sending a 'keep quiet' look to Cyborg.
"You seem very confident in your friend." Ferdinand notes.
"Oh I am." Starfire replies as a deep roar is heard from the field and the dinosaur falls over sideways, getting a yelp out of Io that had been sitting on its neck the whole time. "Right about now." She says as she turns to watch, at first there is nothing to see, but suddenly a colossal green beast grows into being in front of them, it size easily matching the entire embassy structure and the surrounding grounds . It has four massive tentacle arms sprouting from its shoulders and numerous sprouting from its legless lower body. At the top of the creature is what seems to be a shell, one that pulls back like a segmented plate revealing the head of the beast.
"UNCLE!" Garfield roars at an almost earth shaking volume that has Cyborg and Raven pinch their noses at the blast of air that hits them. They can see he is trying to avoid hitting anything in his current shape, while his arms seem to move slowly, none at the table are in any doubt that getting hit by him as he is now is going to result in a very long and unplanned flight before an extended hospital stay, if one survived it.
"What the heck is that?!" Nightwing asks as the initial shock passes for him.
"That would be the Kraken from the recent remake of Clash of the Titans." Cyborg says as she pats Richard shoulder. "While you were away he learned he could also copy creatures that's never existed." He explains.
"Hold on." Nightwing says before getting out of his seat and runs into the embassy, emerging a few seconds later with the helmet on his head. "Does that seem familiar to you?" Richard asks the long dead hero only he can see being careful not to say the name. "Ah, ok, thanks." He says before taking it off and turns to the others. "Sorry, just asked Perseus if the thing he fought in the legend looked like that."
"Did it?" Diana asks.
"Nope, Perseus said the thing he slew looked more like a big fish with arms, possibly more like a whale I guess?" Nightwing replies as the towering monstrosity outside the wall is leaning down slightly and turning its head, as if he has trouble hearing something. "Hope he doesn't move too much."
"Wouldn't be good for the building." Diana sighs at the thought of more of her embassy getting broken as Changeling shrinks in size and appearance. "I will take that as a good sign."
"Usually he settles with something smaller." Starfire smirks. "There was a time when I got trapped under a blue whale when I failed to listen to him." Thought she could lift the weight of one, the body of a blue whale wasn't solid enough for her to lift or get enough wiggling room for her to take off.
"Well you still haven't enforced the use of breath mints." Raven adds as the mammoth morphs back into being and the others climb onto his back. "If it wasn't for what just happened, I would have bet he is about to walk to the pool with them, before drenching them." She says as they all watch the sight.
"Or us." Starfire adds as they can see them group move along the walls to the main entrance before heading towards them.
"Oh no, I am not water proof." Cyborg says as he can predict the line to the pool and heads inside as Starfire seems to have a similar thought and flies up onto the embassy roof.
"How trusting they are of him." Ferdinand notes.
"He'd do it." Raven says.
"I'd spray you with water?" Garfield asks as they come closer. "Not really, since some of you might kill me."
"That's true." Diana adds as she takes a casual sip of her coffee, practically daring him to do it.
The prankster in Garfield Logan is sorely tempted to actually do it, but his self preservation tells him that Diana could probably beat him even in the Kraken shape.
"He is considering it." Raven notes by the look in his eyes.
"I know." Diana replies calmly. "But he won't."
"As it is a matter of personal health and already having these ladies to deal with, I agree." Garfield says. "Anyways, end of the trip." He says as he stops by the terrace to let the five off.
"It is a pity we don't have your kind back home; that was fun." Artemis says as she jumps down.
"Think you would have driven any to extinction." Diana notes with a smirk.
The rest of the afternoon passes with idle chatter and a few more matches between them, Nightwing having to test his helmet amongst others. Cyborg getting challenged by an almost ecstatic Io, making Raven wonder out loud if she should erase her memory of the plans. By the late afternoon, the Titans begin to feel the need to get going, with Cyborg getting nervous that he would arrive and find Titans Tower a crater in the ground. Io, kindly, requests to borrow the plans for the Ray, as she points out, she had given to Raven. She gets them with on the condition, that she will let the others know if she has any trouble with it again.
Next Chapter: It's back to Gotham.