Ugh, sewers. What was it with slime-ball monsters and the sewers? Robin wondered to himself as he tried to avoid stepping in puddles. He was at the front of the group; behind him was the Atlantean whose name he still didn't know, while 'Red Arrow' made up the rear. They didn't say a word to each other. Not that they had too, the green chick- Miss Martian, had hooked them all up telepathically, something which Robin wasn't too comfortable with. But he'd messed things up enough as it was so he just went with it. With his luck it was probably actually some computer downloading his memories and he'd just given it direct access. But he didn't want any more of the NPCs to turn against him… he'd seen Inception; it was bad when the dream people noticed you. Really bad. The telepathic link itself was, if anything, just plain annoying. He really didn't need to hear Zatanna and M'gann ranting about him in a semi-private conversation or that awful 'Call Me Maybe' song that was apparently stuck in KF's head. Kid Flash had already apologized about a thousand times for HEY THIS IS CRAZY popping up every twenty seconds in everyone's heads, the worst thing was he only seemed to remember the chorus, so that just repeated on loop. Over and over again. Robin was really having trouble seeing the benefits of telepathic communication, and tried to imagine what chaos it would be if the Titans used it. 5 minutes of hearing Raven's thoughts would probably be enough for them to give up on the idea forever.

The Atlantean sent a wide-berth thought out to all of them, "Team- check in. Any sign of Clayface? Because thus far we have found nothing"

Miss Martian was the first to respond, "Nope, nothing here. Although we did find a whole coupon book, everything from buy one get one free tacos to cookie dough"

"Well that's useless. What, we'll just feed Clayface cookie dough until he explodes?" Superboy thought in snidely, "And we have nothing here."

The trio walked on for a little ways more. Where's the fourth group? Robin wondered. They should have checked in… and come to think of it, 'Call Me Maybe' has finally stopped… The Atlantean must have heard his thoughts because he then called out to the main group again,

"Kid Flash? Rocket? What about you? What is your situation?" For a moment there was nothing, just silence.

"Kid Flash?" Robin called out now, heart stopped in his chest. Had something happened? KF and Rocket were supposed to be in the least likely region for Clayface to attack, had they run into trouble anyways? Suddenly a familiar tune entered their minds: HEY I JUST MET YOU, AND THIS IS CRAZY.

"Robin…? Is that you? Your brain sounds like it has a cold…" Kid Flash said weakly from his end.

"Wally! Are you all right? What happened? We totally lost you there" Artemis asked, her mind clearly filled with concern.

BUT HERES MY NUMBER…. "Yea, ugh. We got attacked" …SO CALL ME MAYBE… "We're kinda in a sticky situation right now" HEY...I ….JUST….. The dumb song seemed to going in slow motion.

"He's blacking out!" Red Arrow now, speaking up for the first time since they headed out.

"Kid Flash! Wake up now! Focus!" Robin ordered, and as soon as he finished that thought, Call Me Maybe picked up in speed again.

"Sorry guys…we're kinda hanging from the ceiling right now- bloods all rushed to my head…Rocket doesn't look so good, I think she might be hurt"

"How are you hanging from the ceiling?" Zatanna wondered aloud.

"Clayface…mud…sticky. Ew." THIS IS CRAZY.

"Where are you?" Robin demanded, sending a concerned glance to the Atlantean and Speedy- Red Arrow.

"I dunno… I think he moved us…. Don't feel so good…" CALL ME MAYBE.

"Think! He cannot have taken you far!" The Atlantean directed.

"Yea- are there any landmarks? Maybe colors on the wall? Anything?" Robin added, earning a frown from the Atlantean. Stupid fish-boy.

"Uh, there's a swirling vortex of water under us…like a giant toilet bowl or something… and Rob, hey, your voice sounds funny- ha, ha ha…."

"Oh! Poor Wally!" Miss Martian gasped, "I hope he's all right!"

"At least that dumb songs finally stopped" Superboy grumbled. "Now where's a giant bowl at?

Robin thought back to the map on the computer screen… "They're back at the center of all this- right between all of us!"

"Are you certain?" The Atlantean inquired, staring at him intensely with eyes so light that they were almost colorless.

"Positive!" He replied, watching the Atlantean with growing suspicion. What was with this guy? He's been on me since we started this mission…

"I have only been on you because of your improper conduct earlier, Robin" The Atlantean said frowning, "Really, you must be more careful of what you think over the telepathic link."

Ugh! Conceited little… The Atlantean looked down on him with those creepy fish eyes again, before giving orders to the rest of the team.

"We must all re-group back at the center and then Kid Flash and Rocket require our assistance and it is more than likely that Clayface is with them. We must hurry or we may be too late. Team- go!"

The dash down the sewer tunnels was not what Robin would call fun, he could feel their NPC minds all over his, and he didn't like it. And it was getting harder to hide his thoughts from them, he was only thankful that he wasn't Beastboy, who would probably have spoiled everything by now with his big mouth. The team was relaying just how far from the center of the system they were over the telepathic link, so that now instead of Call Me Maybe constantly being heard- it was strains of numbers.

"450 meters!"

"300 Meters!"

"100 Meters!"

Robin, Speedy- no, Red Arrow, and the Atlantean were the first to reach the center. It was a circular room with exactly four tunnel off shoots. There was no visible floor, just water that spiraled wildly and Robin had a feeling that falling in would result in surefire death. Unless of course the Atlantean could handle whirlpools.

"Where's KF?" Red Arrow asked out loud, being the last one in.

"There" The Atlantean said pointing gravely at the ceiling. Suspended from the ceiling were the Kid Flash and Rocket, upside down and very much unconscious. A great glob of extra sticky mud was all that was keeping them up there.

"Well how are we going to get them down from there?" Red Arrow gawked, looking at the eerie living stalactites.

"Never mind that- where's Clayface?" Robin pointed out. Other than the ghastly ceiling ornaments, there was no sign of Clayface. Unless…

"He's headed down one of the other tunnels!" Robin said suddenly, "He's going after the rest of the team!"

"And how can you be sure?" The Atlantean asked him, arms crossed.

"Because there's nowhere else for him to have gone- we'd have seen him if he went our way, the others are in trouble!" What was with this fish-boy? Did he want his friends to get hurt?

"And how are we to know which of the other two tunnels he took? Or that he didn't escape out of Kid Flash and Rocket's assigned tunnel?"

"We don't- so we'll have to split up! There's three of us, one for each tunnel! I'll take the one Kid Flash-"

"Oh, of course you want to take that tunnel!" The Atlantean finally lost it. "And I suppose you would be content to leave your other teammates behind while you go and play hero as well?"

"What are you talking about? I don't want anyone to get hurt- especially not under my watch!" Robin roared back.

"Hey, uh, guys, not to interrupt or anything but should we cut Kid Flash and Rocket down?" Red Arrow asked timidly from the sidelines.

"No!" Both Robin and the Atlantean shouted at him.

"What do you mean 'under your watch' anyways? I am the leader of this mission- not you!" The Atlantean shot back at Robin infuriated.

"Well you're not doing a very good job of it! If we'd listened to me in the first place then maybe we'd have caught Clayface by now!"

"Um- I think Kid Flash is slipping- should we go and help him…?" Red Arrow asked quietly, watching on awkwardly.

"No!" The two leaders roared again.

The Atlantean picked up right from where he left off, "Robin! Honestly I was going to attribute your recent change in behavior to what you surface dwelling humans call 'hormones' but clearly I was mistaken!"

"'Surface dwelling humans'? You're really going to spin it that way? Even Aqualad wouldn't go that far-" Robin was cut off by the Atlantean,

"I AM AQUALAD! AND I DID GO THAT FAR!"

"Guys- I'm just gonna go get KF and Rocket down ok?" Red Arrow said, awkwardly sliding away from the two, entirely unnoticed.

"Wait." Robin said, stopping. "You're Aqualad? You're not Aqualad! He's- he's- he wears blue! Not red!"

"Yes I am! And Robin I think that this proves it-"

"Proves what?" Miss Martian stood with Zatanna by her side, arms crossed. Crud. How long have they been standing there? Reality clicked back into place. Red Arrow was checking KF and Rocket's pulses off to the side, Artemis seated at Wally's side, wiping muck out of his face while Superboy stood listening at each tunnels mouth. Super hearing… of course… he'd heard the whole thing. They all had, he realized as he remembered the telepathic link. And he'd completely forgotten about KF and Rocket in his desperate attempt to be a better leader than….Aqualad?

"This proves that the Batman's fears were correct. Robin is not Robin. He is a second mole" Aqualad said simply, arms crossed.

"A second what?" Robin asked, suddenly fearful. They think I'm a mole? They're on to me… the NPCs realized I'm not one of them? Is that it? But then, who was the first mole? Have the other titans gone through this same thing? Horrible images entered his head, one of Cyborg's arm being crushed by the Superboy with his Kryptonian strength, another of Raven being out magiced by Zatanna, a third of Beastboy flying for his life only to be shot down by Rocket and Miss Martian. And the last one, of Starfire, cornered by Aqualad and Red Arrow, only to be defeated.

"A second mole- when we freed Superboy Cadmus obtained samples of not only mine but Robin and Kid's DNA, and while we thought that it was destroyed… clearly we were mistaken" Aqualad explained.

"That doesn't mean he's part me does it? Cause I'm willing to bet that with all the explosions that blood got intermingled, and well, ew. I am not ready to be a clone daddy." Kid Flash asked having woken up shortly before from his escapade as a chandelier. "No offense SB, Arrow"

"Wait- you mean you think he's like me?" Red Arrow asked seriously, serving only to confuse Robin. Was Red Arrow the first mole? But if so, what was he doing here now? And what, did they think he was some sort of a clone? Did that mean that the Titans were never here?

"Now that I think about it, while his mind seems similar to our Robin, it's still completely different from our Robin" Miss M said glancing from hero to hero.

"Explains the voice thing" Superboy added gruffly, "Kid Flash wasn't the only one who thought his thoughts sounded weird"

"And if it was his old DNA and memories, well, of course he wouldn't have been dating me" Zatanna said softly.

Robin took a step back. What would they do with him? And how had all this happened in the first place? Another part of him, at the very back of his mind wondered; was it really all some mad fantasy? Or was he the one who was broken…?

"What are you going to do with me?" He asked them, asked all of them. "Throw me in some prison? Kill me?"

"We do not wish to harm you," Aqualad said, "However- you have infiltrated our Team and clearly intended to cause harm to us all, and for that, clone, expect the worst" He drew his water-bearers as he said this, tattoos beginning to glow.

"Well, you'll have to try pretty hard, cause they don't call me the 'Boy Wonder' for nothing," Robin said gravely before taking off running down the sewer tunnel.

"After him!" He heard Aqualad cry as he ran. So stupid, so stupid! How did he slip up? How did he wind up in this mess? And what if... what if they were right? But they couldn't be, the Titans, they were so real… but then, everything else was wrong. Wayne Manor alone was constructed in his mind as if someone had used a blurry old photograph… so why not everything else? But the Titans…. Starfire. Focus Robin, he told himself, focus and get out of this. You're clever, you'll figure this out. For now though, survive. He ducked into an alcove as the Kid Flash flew past him at over a hundred miles an hour. I need to get out of here. And then, looking up, he saw his exit.

"We are not hacking the city main frame!" Cyborg exploded, making Robin cringe. "I don't know how it's like back on Tamaran or in your universe- but we're the good guys! We don't hack the city main frame! That's what bad guys do to spy on good guys like us!" Clearly, Robin had hit a sore point, despite befriending Starfire.

"Well back in MY universe we can hack it because the Justice League is allowed access to everything! We're allowed access to whatever we need so long as we stop the bad guys!" Robin shot back.

"Well this isn't your world! It's ours. We have to use our own tech back at Titan Tower to do any of that sort of thing!" Cyborg irritably in response.

"Well you're never going to catch Plasmus if we have to walk all the way back to Titan Tower!" Robin returned, "He'll be long gone by the time we even make it back there!"

"And whose' fault is that? Not mine! Besides- what would you use to hack the mainframe? Cause unless you've got a magic computer stashed somewhere on you, you're not hacking anything" Cyborg crossed his arms and grinned, clearly he thought he'd won.

"The computer in my glove of course! See-" Robin moved to activate the holographic computer, only to remember that this Robin didn't have it. All he had was useless green fabric.

"You have a computer in your glove…? Dude." Beastboy exclaimed, about to zoom over to see for himself when Raven caught him by the arm. "Don't" She said darkly.

"I did have a computer in my glove- clearly your Robin is completely inept at technology!" Robin stated exasperated.

"Oh so now your bashing our Robin!" Cyborg replied angered even further.

"No, I'm just saying that I'm more ept at technology than he is"

"Oh more ept eh? Cause last I checked it's your 'eptness' with technology didn't exactly help us when we were fighting Plasmus now did it?"

"Well maybe if you'd come up with a better plan" Retorted Robin.

"Well maybe if you'd stuck around long enough to hear it! You went and disappeared right as soon as we got there! What kinda teamwork is that?"

"Friends! Let us not argue like this! Perhaps we can work out a…compromise! Yes! And maybe I can provide us with some of the unhealthy junk foods when we return to Titan Tower yes?"

"Star, stay out of this." Cyborg said shaking his head, "We can't half-hack the mainframe or half return to Titan Tower"

"Well one of us is going to have to give in because the way we're arguing, he's probably long gone by now!" Robin returned, having lost all sense of the inner calm Batman tried so hard to keep him to return to.

"No thanks to you! If you had just stuck with us then maybe he wouldn't have gotten way yea? Maybe if you'd been just a little more like our Robin then we wouldn't be in this mess!"

"Well I'm not your Robin! And you need to accept that- we're two completely different people!"

"And I'm starting to wonder just how completely different you are," Cyborg said darkly, crossing his arms.

"What are you talking about?" How different I am? Sure I'm younger… and still work with Batman, but really? Seriously? What was he on about now?

"We know you're from another universe- we just don't know what sort of universe that is," Cyborg explained.

"What would make you think it's any different form your universe? I mean think about it, we both have teams, we both have Robins, we both fight bad guys, seems pretty much the same to me" Robin growled. Really now, what was he talking about? Surprisingly, it was Beastboy who stepped up with the answer.

"Warp Trek." He said simply.

"Warp …what?" Robin asked confused, raising a brow.

"Warp Trek, in season 2 episode 4 in the episode 'Mirror, Mirror' Captain Kerr is in a teleporter accident that accidently send him to another universe. It's basically the same as the real universe in that everyone's the same, But!" He paused for dramatic effect.

"Let me guess, everyone's evil?" Robin interrupted before he could continue.

"Yeeeaa! Like say for instance, Mr. Mork had an evil beard! And evil eyebrows! And did evil things like try to take over the world and get Kerr to trust him and, and-" Beastboy explained rapidly.

"I'm getting the picture. You think I'm Robin, but from an evil universe." Robin's heart sank. How could they think that? They'd been getting on so well… and he'd honestly thought he'd made friends with all of them, Starfire especially, but even she looked thoughtful at Beastboy's suggestion. Was their liking of him really just superficial? Was really just because he looked like their Robin? But why would they go so far as to assume he's evil…?

"It isn't impossible" Raven said from under her hood. "There are thousands of alternate universes out there- and some of them are pretty scary."

"But Robin- other Robin is our friend! Right?" Starfire protested, hands clenched together.

"I don't know Starfire. He isn't our Robin. And he did plant bombs on us almost right after he got here." Cyborg said grimly.

"And when we were fighting Plasmus I totally got nailed by one of his boomerang things!" Beastboy added. "I bet you didn't even want us to catch him did you? How do we know you aren't the one who let him out? I mean- Plasmus did escape from prison. Today. After you arrived."

"But I didn't- I wouldn't! I'm not that sort of person- I want to try and catch Plasmus, remember?" Robin said looking back and forth from Titan to Titan. How could they turn on him like this? His team would never do that, just look at Red Arrow, he was literally made to destroy us and we trust him…

"Do you?" Cyborg asked, looking down on the much shorter boy, "Cause that's not how it looks from here,"

"Friends! Why don't we return to the tower and do the talk this out? Or the leave each other alone? Clearly we are all very tired and when I am tired I tend to get angry and-"

"Starfire. Stop it; clearly they don't want me here. And I don't think I want to be here either" Robin said lifting a hand.

"But-"

"I'm leaving."

"And where exactly are you going now hmm?" Cyborg demanded, arms still crossed as Robin turned around to go.

"Home. Gotham. It may be one messed up city, but it can't be as bad as here. Even with your messed up Robin's disaster of a homelife" Robin replied, giving Cyborg one last glance before firing his grappling hook up a building and ascending.

"Well how are you gonna get there? Gothams on the other side of the country!" Cyborg shouted at him.

"I'll walk!" Robin called back before fully disappearing from view.

"Look what you've done!" Raven moaned. "With him gone we'll never be able to get our Robin back. Ever. Have you ever heard of anyone with magic in Gotham? Because I haven't."

"Look, if the kid wants to go blow off some steam let him- Robin has to do that sometimes you know that," Cyborg said, not looking her in the eyes.

"Yea! Our Robin- we don't know how this one thinks!" Beastboy replied, arms held in the air to emphasize the chaos that was going on.

"Well we're just going to have to hope that he is like our Robin ok? For now we have Plasmus to worry about. Besides, he left his communicator behind, see?" Cyborg grumbled, before straightening up and beginning to walk towards the tower again. Starfire stooped down and picked up the little yellow communicator, "Oh Robin…" She said softly, watching at the others began to follow the great bulk that was Cyborg. "Could this be any worse than it already is..?" She wondered aloud. Almost instantly, it began raining, as if to answer that question.

Robin pounced from rooftop to rooftop, not really thinking about where he was going. He tried to control his emotions as he ran, tried to keep himself from crying, acting like a kid. It was terrible being the youngest hero. And it always had been because the others would always expect him to be just as mature as they were, and with Batman and Aqualad to live up to, it was hard. Really hard, sometimes he just wanted to be a kid… but he couldn't. His vision blurred as he ran, the pounding rainwater didn't help either. Don't cry… come on Robin! Get ahold of yourself… be calm, be cool. Get back to the aster, be whelmed… he leapt. Missed, hit a puddle and skidded along a gravel and tar roof before finally sliding to a stop. Argh! How stupid all this was! How could they think that I'm evil? And to think, somewhere out there in his body was their team leader. Oh wouldn't he be proud of them if he could see just them, turning away from the door someone who may as well be him, save for a few minor details. I bet that my team didn't turn him away… they never would. We helped Superboy and Red Arrow, we accepted the fact that M'gann is a white Martian and that Artemis has the craziest pedigree in the whole wide superhero filled world. So why wouldn't they accept him? And what was he going to do now? He couldn't go back to the Tower like this, and he sure as heck would never make it to Gotham… I have to show them; he thought to himself, I have to prove that I am good. That I am just as good as their Robin, and I know just how to do it. Getting to his feet he breathed deeply, head clearing up and inner sense of aster returning.

He felt ready to take on the whole freaking world, and show it that he was Robin, and he was whelmed.

End chapt. 8.

HOLY DISTRUST BATMAN.

What could YJ Robin possibly be up to?

What will become of TT Robin?

Will the abominable Clayface and Plasmus ever be captured?

TUNE IN NEXT TIME, SAME BATSITE, SAME BATAUTHOR.