"So that's it then. It was Slade all along." Robin said grimly as Klarion finished recounting his side of the story. Sure, Klarion had started it all when he'd tried to swap the two teams across worlds, catching Robin in the crossfire instead. But it was Slade who had kept the dimensional windows open, Slade who had kept them distracted by releasing Plasmus and Clayface. Slade had taken a hammer to the chip in the universe made by the Robins body switch. And apparently the final smash Slade had needed had been Jinx. Her bad-luck magic was like dropping an anvil on top of the already crippled universal wall. What they were seeing in the sky weren't just cracks in the universe, they were entire shards of the two worlds; broken apart and falling into each other. They were standing on the deck of a sinking ship and the water had started pouring in on all sides only they hadn't noticed, they'd been too busy worrying about which Robin was better and who did this or that. Like a bunch of stupid kids. And now they were knee-deep in it.

"But why? Why would Slade want to destroy the world?" Starfire asked, "It does not make sense. Because surely if he destroys the universe then he too will die."

"You don't get it." Klarion snorted, "He's not destroying the universes. He's merging them."

"Well what good would that do?" Cyborg demanded, temper running on high, "'Cause frankly aren't two worlds better than one?"

"Yea, Cyborg's right!" Beastboy said thoughtfully, "I mean think about it, suppose that instead of being an evil crazy psycho Slade was actually a pie enthusiast. And the suppose that he's in like the best pie store in America, no, in the world and that todays specials are blueberry and cherry. Do you think he's only going to get one of them? Do you? I know I'd take both!"

"But you can only have one." Klarion replied with a smirk on his face, his creepy cat sitting off to the side, looked up and Robin could almost swear that he saw it roll it's eyes. "So rather than settle for one he's made himself a third option."

A third option? By collapsing the universes in on eachother? That one lost Robin. Why do magical being types always have to be so cryptic?

"He's made himself a blueberry-cherry pie! Dude!" Beastboy exclaimed having figured it out. "That way he's got the deliciousness of cherries and the sweet-awesomeness of blueberries all in one pie!"

So by merging them Slade got the benefits of both worlds? Was that it? He apparently missed the part where Batman and the league pretty heavily active in that other world. A thought occurred to him then, if the worlds were merging- what would happen to him and the other Robin? He decided it was best not to dwell on that. From the sounds of it BB and Cyborg had continued the pie analogy while he was thinking.

"But what if those flavors just plain do not go together, like at all!" Cyborg roared.

"But dude, blueberry and cherry are great together!"

"Not if they're cooked by Slade! You said he was a pie lover, not a pie baker!"

"Which is why it's a bad thing that-"

"Ahem." Robin interrupted. The other two boys stopped in mid-yell, glanced at each other for a second and then after a hasty apology were silent. "We need to focus on the problem at hand. Slade is bad news."

"We've got to stop him." Raven agreed.

"But how?" Starfire asked, "I don't think that even all of the duct tape in the world could fix this problem!"

"Robin, uh, what do we do?" Beastboy asked, strangely serious. All of the Titans then turned to look at him, and then he realized just how scared everyone was. This was bigger than anything any of them had ever dealt with. What do we do? Robin wondered to himself. The universes are literally falling in on themselves around us, that Doctor Fate guy is probably still buzzing around hunting Robins, and Robin was liable to switch back into other Robin's body at any time. And that switch would probably be the last nail in the coffin to the end of the world as they knew it. Did the other universe even know what was going on? They could only see the cracks because of that grid thing Raven put up, would Zatanna have thought of it? one of the league? Did Jinx see enough to tell them what was happening before she passed through? He had to face it, this time he didn't have an immediate fix. A quick way to save the day. This time he was stuck. There were too many variables. Too much to worry about. He had to be missing something, but what?

Overhead the cracks in the sky grew more and more. They didn't have much time.

"Klarion," Robin said suddenly, a thought hitting him.

"Hmmm..?" The spiky haired demon boy inquired.

"I'm guessing you're not powerful enough to fix this on your own or else you would have fixed it already right?"

"Obviously." Klarion replied, clearly not seeing where Robin was going with this.

"And only someone of equal power to you would even stand a chance, right?"

"Where are you going with this bird boy?" Klarion questioned, arms crossed.

"What if I knew someone who could help- and who could get here practically immediately?" Robin asked, confident grin forming.

"Well it wouldn't do much good, we'd need someone in the other universe, not this one. Otherwise we'd wind up crushing that one with this one."

"Even better. Klarion, I'm gonna need your help for this one." Yes, the cool was back. They could do this, easy.

"How so?" Klarion asked, squinting his eyes cynically.

"Listen up. Titans, you too, this is going to take everyone."

"Are you sure about this bird-brain?" Klarion asked, arms raised ready to cast the spell.

"Positive." Robin replied with confidence, "Raven, you know what to do?" He asked the shadow-cloaked girl.

"Yes. But I still think it's risky." She replied, looking out from under her hood, "We don't know that they'll listen."

"It's the end of the universe. They'll listen." Robin replied.

"Mew." Teekl interrupted, Robin didn't speak cat but he had a feeling the ugly feline was saying something among the lines of 'hurry it up!'.

"All right Klarion, do it." Robin said, bracing himself, not certain what to expect.

"With pleasure," Klarion cackled, outstretching his hand, red lines flying from around him and crawling along the ground creating a magicians circle all around Robin. As they took shape on the ground around him, Robin took one last look up at his team. Cyborg and Beast Boy were off to the side, and strangely silent; apparently when the occasion calls for it even they could be serious. Raven had her face hidden in her hood, he could only guess what was going on under there but right now it seemed to just be a void of shadows. She turned away as he looked at her. And then Star.. Star's big green eyes were locked on him and she seemed almost frozen in the moment. Klarion's chanting intensified and the lines around Robin flew up like flames all around him, above him the shards of universe drifted out of the way creating a portal for him to pass through. Klarion had said it would be easy as snapping his fingers to get Robin across worlds; but they wanted a big entrance, they had someone's attention to catch after all.

"Robin! Be safe and have good luck!" Starfire shouted over the crackle of magic.

"I will Star I will!" He shouted back, the Titans were fading out as the whooshing of magic grew more and more intense, "And Star- I, I-"

But he was gone before he could finish.

Robin sat next to Jinx's medical bed in the Watchtower infirmary. He was running energy analysis' on her less than normal entry into the Watchtower, trying to make sense of the portal she came through. She was still unconscious from her crazy ordeal so he couldn't exactly ask her what happened. The Atom and some of the other members of the league were also there, getting checked for broken bones and that sort of thing. What was she doing here? Robin wondered to himself, it just didn't make any sense. She was definitely the one from the other universe; he'd checked, there were no Jinxs in this universe, at least, not as far as the league knew. He figured that she'd passed through that crack in the universe, and probably by mistake; but how?

"Ugh man, if I have to move another smashed up chair then I'm sending Batman the bill for my achy back!" KF moaned, zooming into the chair next to Robin. "She still knocked out?"

"She's the same." Robin replied, "But I think that her energy levels are stabilizing. I think."

"No kidding. Who is she anyway?" Wally asked, "She's kinda cute in that goth chick sort of way"

"Don't let Artemis hear you saying that," Robin grinned, thankful for the normalcy, "Jinx is a member of this group called the Hive, and she works for this creep named Brother Blood whos just one bad school pun after another."

"So she's evil? Bummer."

"She dropped like a ton of trash on my head. And then had me nearly hypnotized. Not exactly asterous." Robin said shaking his head.

"Hypnotized? You?" KF gawked.

"Yup. I got out of it though."

"How? Special Batman anti-hypnosis training?" KF guessed.

"You got it." Robin lied, grinning. There was no way he'd be telling him how he actually got out of that fiasco.

"Dude. No fair. All I get is running lessons. You get cool gear and anti-hypnosis lessons." Wally complained dramatically.

The door to the infirmary opened and Zatanna flew in with a flustered look on her face.

"Robin I'm sorry but theres really just no way to switch you back- Klarion's magic is ridiculously powerful, Doctor Fate doesn't even seem to think he can do anything and there's something else-"

"Z!" Robin flew over and caught her in a full hug, "I missed you so much! It's so good to see you and-"

"Robin, what are you talking about? I just told you you're trapped here forever. Why are you so happy?" Zatanna demanded, pushing off of him.

"Because I'm not. I'm your Robin, Zatanna, not the other one. I'm the chalant one." He said grinning ear to ear.

"Rob?" She asked timidly, "Really? But how? That's impossible! There's no way you should be-"

"Well the point is I'm back. I don't know how it happened or anything but, I'm here to stay. Promise."

"Great. Great. Mushy things. You two can catch up later, Z what was that other thing you were gonna say?" Kid Flash asked, looking up from where he was still sitting.

"Oh of course, sorry Robin I'll have to talk to you about everything later, for now you need to see something," She began to move for the door. "Come on, both of you, I don't have all day."

"I forgot how cute she was when she talks." Robin said sheepishly. He'd missed this. All of this. Too bad more things had to be fixed before everything was normal again.

"Dude. You are hopeless. Talking is cute? Sheesh, just wait til she tells you about how she nearly killed you."

"Wait, what?"

"She'll explain later, I'm, sure."

Zatanna had stopped at the large space viewing window just outside of the infirmary. The shield made by the Green Lanterns fancy space-ship was still up and surrounding the Watchtower but outside of the green hue to everything, things looked normal.

"So outside of the fact that you can see the Space Station from here, what are we looking at?" KF huffed, speculatively.

"Just watch." Zatanna said, lifting her hands and chanting "Wohs su lasrevinu sllaw!" With a flash of her eyes the world outside changed. What had just looked like normal green hued space was suddenly cracked and broken up into pieces, some green, some black. As if they were looking at not one, but two spaces. A deep dread filled the pit of Robin's stomach. This is me and the other Robin's fault. Our body switch.. did this.

"How? But-" KF stammered, struggling for words.

"It's me isn't it. Me and the other Robin, Doctor Fate was right. Our body switch broke the world." Robin said grimly, watching as bits of sky moved about and floated along.

"Wrong." A new voice interrupted, turning about Robin was surprised to see Jinx come out of the infirmary, clearly tired, but defiant.

"Jinx what are you-?" Robin began only to be cut off by her.

"You and the Titan brat may be the ones who started this mess but you didn't cause all of this," She said gesturing towards the decaying sky outside.

"Then who did?" Zatanna asked, arms crossed.

Jinx snorted, "Slade. Duh. Who else would think of something like this?"

"Slade?!" Robin exclaimed, he still wasn't really sure who the guy was but he had a feeling he was on that same level as the Joker; ridiculously dangerous.

"What, him again? Seriously. Will no one explain who this guy is?" Wally whined.

"All you need to know is that he's the only person to ever kill a Titan." Jinx replied sharply, "And now he's trying to smash our two worlds together so that he can swoop in and take over during the chaos."

"But how is any of that possible?" Zatanna asked, "The amount of power it would require-"

"He captured a Lord of Chaos. Something I thought was made up, and made him open up portals and keep them open." Jinx replied snarkily.

"Destabilizing the universe?" Robin guessed. Typing rapidly into his computer glove for anything on universal portals.

"You got it." Jinx said.

"Ok well then the universe is just cracked right? So can't we just get some magic super glue and put it all back together?" KF asked, watching as the shards of space floated about.

"We are way beyond a crack now. What your looking at is an all out shatter. It's being held together by practically nothing." Jinx answered.

"I wonder how that happened." Zatanna said critically.

"Ok.. I'm not gonna lie, I messed up." Jinx admitted, hugging herself, "I sensed a huge amount of dark magic and went to check it out. Turns out it was a Lord of Chaos- held captive by Slade...and he was bait for me."

"Are you saying that you're the reason the sky looks like a puzzle box?" Zatanna demanded.

Robin flinched, "Z, no need to be so harsh-"

"So harsh? The universes are collapsing in on each other and if so much as anything passes through them now then we'll be looking at absolute collapse! Boom! Two universes made one!" Zatanna shouted, "And what, just because you can't control your powers?"

"Don't you dare say anything about my powers you little goody-two-shoes!" Jinx roared, eyes flashing lividly with pink energy.

Suddenly the sky flashed with bright red energy.

"What?" Zatanna gawked as they all stared out the window. The shards of sky were moving, forming a tunnel of some sort that was headed right at the watchtower.

"Hit the floor!" Robin yelled, pulling Zatanna down as an explosion could be heard down the hall. What now? Robin wondered as he scrambled back to his feet.

"What was that?" KF wondered out loud.

"Beats me. But it came from down there, come on!" Robin replied, pulling up Zatanna and beginning to race down the hall. It was the conference room again. Come to think of it, it was probably always the conference room. A red magicians circle had burned itself into the floor and forming on top of it was a dark spiky haired figure enveloped in energy. The various members of the league who had been cleaning up the debris from the room were already prepped for action; Batman had batarangs drawn and ready, Plastic man was fully elongated, both Green Lanterns had big glowing green fists at the ready. The energy dispersed from the figure and the circle disappeared from under him revealing.. someone who was definately not Klarion. Or Slade for that matter.

"Sorry if I'm late for my appointment, but I'm ready to see the Doctor now." The other Robin said, spinning a long metal staff about for a moment before brandishing it dramatically in their general direction. Only to discover that whatever he had been planning on fighting wasn't there. He then noticed Robin.

"Oh. Well this is awkward."

"Totally not aster dude."

authors note:

HOLY BAD DOCTOR PUNS BATMAN

Sorry for taking so long to update, I'm taking summer classes which really eat up my time D: My goal is to get this thing finished...very very very soon.

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