"Klarion!" Robin growled with surprise, "Look what you've done!" Robin gestured wildly at the sky, as he did so a greater schizm tore across the sky; and one of the broken segments broke into even more broken segments.
"What have I done? You really don't have a clue do you!" Klarion cackled, "Now you toys just listen-"
"The games up Klarion, it's time to put away your toys." Robin threatened, drawing his staff, "Titans go!"
The Titans jumped right into action, Beastboy, turning tiger, dove right at the witch boy, only to have Klarion step casually out of the way, sending Beastboy flying off the edge of Titan Tower.
"Aaaahh!" The green skinned boy screamed as he turned first into boy and then into eagle. Landing back on the roof of Titan tower he collapsed into human form, "I'm all right!"
Starfire and Cyborg had decided to make a team effort of it; firing their own flavor of energy beams together at the pointy-haired kid.
"You will return the sky to normal!" Starfire ordered as green beams fired out of her eyes.
"Yea, and preferably, with our own Robin on this side!" Cyborg added as his sonic cannon shot pulse after pulse of energy. In response Klarion merely lifted a hand and opened a small vortex that absorbed the energy blasts of both Titans.
"I fully intend to fix the sky, if you would just please listen-" Klarion growled.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven chanted, waving her arms in Klarions general direction; a pile of barrel drums kept on the roof for water storage were sent flying at the Lord of Chaos. Klarion retaliated by sending up a field around him; which the barrels bounced off of, however, the moment he dropped the field, the water kept going. He was now a very wet Lord of Chaos.
"Alright, enough of this you brats!" Klarion roared, literally steaming as balls of flame appeared in either hand. "You will all listen to me! Right this instant!
Robin struggled for ideas, they'd need something big to take out this guy, something that wouldn't end in Robin being body switched again. But what? And then he saw it, like a beacon screaming at him: "D'oh! Robin!". It was that giant spellbook. The one that Raven couldn't even use levitation magic on. If that didn't work, he didn't know what would.
"Titans, pull back! I've got an idea!" Robin shouted, running to the book and attempting to pick it up. Holy entire encyclopedia arcana! This thing was heavy. It didn't help that his entire body was still screaming at him in pain from whatever other Robin did to it. Gee, thanks other Robin, he thought sarcastically to himself.
"Beastboy! Over here- I need your help!" Robin ordered.
"Elephant?" The green boy guessed.
"You got it." Boy was it good to be working with a team he knew! It was like they could all think in sync. Only problem was, it was like they could all think in sync, as it didn't take Raven more than two seconds to figure out what they were doing.
"Robin no!" Raven shouted hurrying over to stop them, as elephant Beast boy prepared to lob the entire weight that was arcane knowledge at Klarion. Beast boy paused as Raven shouted.
"You don't want to do that. Trust me." Raven said, floating down next to Robin.
"Why not?" Robin asked, even Klarion was raising a brow from over where he was casually deflecting incoming attacks from Starfire and Cyborg.
"That book is very old magic. If it comes in contact with Klarion's chaos magic than.."
"Boom?" Robin guessed.
"Exactly."
"How big a boom?" Robin asked for clarification, keeping an eye on Klarion to see his reaction.
"Because, If it isn't too big a boom, we could always build a new tower if we have to, and it would save the universe," Robin added, unnerved as Klarion's grin just grew wider and wider. Come on, take the bait you spiky haired weirdo, see that this is a bad idea..
"Take Hiroshima and multiply it by two." Raven replied, Beast Boy immediately dropped the book and returned to human form.
"Hiroshima times two?! Dude! That's like, thats like the whole city! And the next city over!"
So not a little boom. Robin thought to himself with satisfaction.
"Well wouldn't want to risk that, would we Klarion?" Robin probed, sheer coolness surging through him as he grinned at the Lord of Chaos.
"No, I don't think we would." Klarion agreed plaintively, "But now that you toys have stopped fighting, would you please listen to me already?" Klarion asked, arms crossed irritably.
"So you surrender?" Robin questioned, brandishing his staff threateningly. Starfire and Cyborg stopped firing, but they held their ground and were clearly powering up some mega powerful blasts.
"We were fighting?" Klarion asked bemused, Robin instantly lunged at him, only to have Raven hold him back.
"We can't fight him Robin." Raven warned. I know Raven, Robin tried to tell her with his eyes, just gotta get the guy to cooperate. Raven released him and he coolly walked over to Klrion, staff in hand.
"Start talking Klarion," Robin said coldly.
"Finally! You have no idea how hard it is to get anything clear to you, honestly I hadn't said more than two words before you decided to try and rip my face off, such rotten little toys," Klarion said irritably. Wait. Robin thought, you wanted to tell us something? And here I just wanted to get him to fix the universe. Figures.
"Yea? Well if you're not careful we'll happily rip it off for you now!" Cyborg shouted at him, gun-arm turning back into a hand which he clenched threateningly.
"How are you going to do that if you can't even hit me once?" Klarion asked snidely.
"Grrg!" Cyborg growled. "Robin! How can we listen to anything this guy has to say? He's madder than Mad Mod!"
"We'll listen." Robin said, ignoring Cyborgs protests. "What do you want to tell us?"
"Finally! You know if your big tin man had attacked me I might have just opened a little door and left him in Oz, so much better suiting for him than here," Klarion said grinning sardonically.
"Klarion." Robin threatened.
"Oh fine, fine," Klarion said shrugging, "I'll talk. In case you hadn't noticed. The universe is breaking."
"We'd noticed. What's your point?" Robin asked, not seeing where this was going.
"It needs to be fixed soon or else things are going to get rather unpleasant." Klarion continued. As he said this the sky bled even worse; the cracks eating up the tops of the tallest skyscrapers over on the mainland.
"So you want us to clean up your mess?" Cyborg guessed, arms crossed.
"Its not my mess." Klarion snapped angrily, hands and eyes flashing with wildfire.
"Mew." Klarions butt-ugly cat interrupted.
"I am staying calm teekl." Klarion replied to the cat. His cat talks...? Robin thought in baffled wonder. Why does this surprise me? Whatever.
"Whose mess is it then?" Robin asked with growing agitation.
"In these parts he goes by the name of Slade." Klarion replied, coolly stroking Teekl who had leapt up into his arms.
"Slade!" "Slade?!" "Not that guy!" "You're kidding me!" "Oh great."
Slade? Slade! You gotta be kidding me, he's behind all this? Of course. Robin thought back to Zatanna's mad wild attack against him in the other universe. Slade. She'd said Slade. And Klarion just said Slade. So then, it's true. All of this goes back to Slade somehow. All of it.
"Yes, Slade." Klarion replied, "Allow me to explain."
Robin held his breath as he fired the grappling hook at the ceiling space just above Jinx. The wind, however, caught it and sent it whirling around the room, so that rather than hooking onto the remains of the tacky 70's era light fixture it instead whirled around the room and caught Jinx instead.
"Oops." Robin said as he was pulled head long into the room. "Aaaah!" he shouted as he hurtled into Jinx; Kid Flash and Captain Marvel uselessly trying to catch him.
"Oomph!" He groaned as he crashed into the pink haired girl. They landed on the ground and were sent careening into the furniture debris by the force of the vortex. It took everything Robin had to sit up again.
"KF!" He shouted, but his words were lost over the whirl of the vortex. He couldn't even see his friend anymore, though he assumed he was still at the door. So not whelmed. Robin thought irritably. He turned to the pink haired girl who was sitting up now and shaking her head, apparently immune to the force of vortex swirling around her.
"Are you ok?" He shouted at her, trying to move closer to her. As he reached out to her though, her eyes widened and a burst of pink magic shot out of her, sending him flying into the pile of destroyed plush chairs and that silly U shaped table the Justice League was so fond of. Ugh.
"Sorry!" Jinx called to him, "I'm so sorry!" He realized then that she was crying. Oh great. Was this a classic case of meta-humans losing control of their powers? Not exactly Batfamily material.
"it's ok! Now hold on! I'll try and help you!" Robin shouted back at her. What was she doing here in the first place? He decided it had to be the actual 'her', the one from the other world because she looked exactly the same as before, whereas Robin obviously didn't look all that much like other Robin. Because we're two different people. Something clicked in place for him then. We are two different people. Yes! Why have I been worrying so much about people comparing me to him and how he does things when we are two completely different people? This is totally aster! Like I for one don't plan on ever leaving Batman. I do what I have to to save the day, no matter what a mess I might end up in on the way.. because I'm this worlds Robin. And I'm never changing.
When the arm of a chair whizzed past his ear it occurred to him that now was not the time to have emotional epiphanies. Reaching into his utility belt he pulled out a pair of Batarangs and dug them down into the floor. Here goes Robin, time to prove that you're a hero. Time to save the freaky cat-eyed pink girl. He began his crawl across the floor toward Jinx. As he crawled he spotted the Atom, shrunk and unconscious in with the pile of debris. Carefully, robin reached out and picked up the tiny man, placing him into his utility belt. Good thing your small, Robin thought to himself, pulling himself forward. He was almost up to Jinx now.
"Jinx! Stay calm! I'm gonna try something!" He shouted at her.
"No! Get away! I don't want to hurt you!" Jinx shouted back, curled up into a ball on the floor, magic pulsing from her spiratically.
"Just trust me!" Robin called to her, pulling himself the final stretch. The magic was very strong now; it was hard ot lift his head even. He moved one of his arms in front of him, angling his glove carefully, physics had better be on my side today. With the other hand he pushed on a button and the built-in taser shot out, hitting Jinx and knocking her out cold. For a terrible minute pink magic flew everywhere but then it and the whirling wind, stopped. Assorted pieces of debris dropped from the air and Robin was carefult o shield both Jinx and the Atom from any that might come their way.
"Dude!" he heard KF shout, "What did you do?"
"Just remembered to feel the aster, that's all." Robin replied, "Oh and I found the Atom."
"No kidding." KF replied zooming in. "So what now?"
"Now? Now we find out what she was doing here."
Authors note:
HOLY EPIC SHERLOCKIAN WAIT BATMAN
So yea it took me EONS to update this, it's amazing how much time college eats up
ANYWAYS I FINALLY UPDATED YAY
But remember, THE WORST IS YET TO COME.
Tune in next time same BATSITE and same BATAUTHOR!