I stared at the door handle, blinking until the double-image swam back into a single one. It took a moment to psych myself up. As soon as I opened the door an invisible force slammed into me so hard I landed halfway across the room, missing my puddle of vomit by inches.

"Hello Princess, I heard you needed help getting out of your tower."

Groaning, I looked up to see Kid Flash standing in the doorway, his hands on his hips and a self-satisfied smirk on his face. The bright yellow of his costume sent a spike of pain through my skull and I closed my eyes.

"You think you can manage it without killing me while you're at it. I've got a major concussion here," I mumbled, slumping sideways onto my back. His smirk faded as he got a good look at my face. I must have looked about as bad as I felt. Instantly he was beside me, touching the side of my head. It was amazingly tender, and even though he was being careful the slight brush of his fingers nearly had me gagging again. He jerked his hand away.

"I don't know how you're still coherent. That's pretty nasty."

"Really? It feels like a dream," I said sarcastically. He huffed.

"Glad to see you're holding on to your sense of humor. You'd think you'd be grateful after I came all the way from Mexico to save your sorry butt...again! Where's the rest of your team anyway? I just got an emergency text from Batman and jetted over here as fast as I could."

"On Tamaran. Wally, you think this could wait until after we get out of here?" My voice was fading on me.

"Oh right. Bad guy. Got it. Hang on tight. This ride's about to get bumpy." And completely disregarding my warning about my head, he slung me over his shoulder and took off at top speed. We blazed through the door, and I caught a dizzying glimpse of RyAnd'r walking around the corner before I closed my eyes.

Kid Flash had never been in the Tower before. Maybe if I wasn't so out of it I would have remembered to tell him to turn left instead of right at the end of the hallway. The right took us to the stairs leading back up to the Common Room. Wally skidded to a halt when we reached the landing. Behind us, RyAnd'r roared.

"Guess someone's missing their punching bag. You got any places to hide in this thing?"

"It's a giant 'T', what do you think? Heroes don't hide in their own home. I'm not going to let him get away with this."

"Bro, I hate to tell you this, but you've been benched. You're going to have to leave this one to the real guns."

"They haven't show up yet." My speech was slurring and I was hanging onto consciousness by a thread. Kid Flash glanced over his shoulder at me and cursed under his breath.

"Christ, Dick."

"Just keep going. I'll be fine."

He went noticeably slower. It was still faster than I could move, but I felt each step he took like a jackhammer to my skull.

Just as Kid Flash was reaching the next floor, a bolt of silver shot up from the bottom floor, blowing out the steps Kid Flash and I were standing on. He barely caught himself. RyAnd'r rocketed up, tossing starbolts at us like baseballs. One pinged off my shoulder. The fireproof material of my cape saved me, but it was still hot.

Kid Flash ran. Weakly I fished a smoke bomb from my belt and dropped it behind us. RyAnd'r fired another starbolt. This one hit Kid Flash in the calf. Yelling, we crashed into the Common Room doors. That was it for me. My mind started shutting down. My eyes were half-lidded as Kid Flash limped toward me, picked me up, and tried to speed us out of the way, but RyAnd'r was right on top of us now.

"I got this, Boss." Wally set me down and ran straight for the Tamaranean. A yellow whirlwind formed around him. RyAnd'r growled as his grasping hands landed on thin air. Then he kicked out with one powerful leg. Kid Flash slammed into it with the force of a high-speed train. His legs rose from the ground as he folded around RyAnd'r's outstretched limb.

"Your speed is impressive. Let's see how fast you can run when I do this!" RyAnd'r drove his left heel through Wally's femur. Wally's scream pierced through my delirium. A white dagger of bone jutted up from his leg. RyAnd'r smiled evilly at me as he kicked Kid Flash out of the way. He started toward me and all I could do was sit there and watch him come.

A white starbolt formed in his hand. Death by starbolt, huh? At least it'd be quick. I closed my eyes and let my head flop forward onto my chest.

SCREECH!

"Leave. Them. Alone!"

Raven emerged from her black raven, but it wasn't the Raven I knew. There were white runes sketched up her bare arms. Her red eyes were on fire, her hair seemed longer than before, and her voice had taken on that scary tone as though there were a hundred Ravens speaking at once. RyAnd'r reached for her, but before he could even come close, a green tiger tackled him from behind. A jet of electric blue light hit the alien square in the back.

"Boo-yah!"

A weak laugh escaped me. I don't know how they did it, but they were here. The Titans had come.

"Robin, look at me," Raven commanded. She must have used magic to lift my head for me because I couldn't do it myself, and yet I found myself leaning back to look up at her. There was nothing remotely friendly in her eyes.

"This will hurt," she said in the same flat tone. Right, because it feels just peachy right now... She laid her hand on the top of my head and I felt magic pour into me like water from a fire hose. The runes on her arms blazed white-hot. I struggled, but she dug her nails into my scalp to hold me to her. Hurt was an understatement. It felt like she was microwaving my brain. I came alive like a live wire.

"Raven, stop! I'm all right now. Raven, get off!"

I reached up, grabbed her wrist, and twisted as I shot to my feet. She made a hissing sound like an angry snake as I brought her wrist up between our two faces. Wide-eyed I stared at her. She hissed again and I let her go. What was happening to her? Whatever she'd done she had restored me to full-strength.

"Wha..?"

"You need to get out of here. All of you." She shoved me.

She lifted her hands over her head and RyAnd'r was trapped in a black bubble of power. I ran to where Beast Boy and Cyborg were kneeling beside Kid Flash. His face was white with pain. His leg was a mess of bone and blood. When he saw me his face creased with pain.

"Well hell, if I'd known you had super secret healing powers I'd have stayed on that beach in Mexico."

"Easy," I said, putting a hand on his shoulder. He grimaced. "Thanks for coming to get me."

"Just returning the favor. You guys came a heck of a lot farther to get me."

"This is touching and all, but I think we've got a problem," said Beast Boy, twisting to look at Raven. Her powers were causing the panels of the walls around her to vibrate. She stepped toward RyAnd'r with one outstretched hand. He struggled, but couldn't get free of the bubble that left only his head exposed.

"Raven, we've got him. It's okay."

She ignored me. Behind her on the wall the shadow was changing. Instead of a girl wearing a long cape it showed something...bigger. I saw horns before it grew too big for the hallway.

"Yo, Raven. Ease up. We've got the bad guy."

She brought her arms down in an 'x' across her chest, and suddenly great slashes appeared across RyAnd'r's bare chest. He howled.

"Raven, what are you doing?" Beast Boy shouted. He ran toward her, but a whirlwind was forming around her. The winds were so strong I slid across the tile floor. Cyborg picked up Kid Flash as gently as he could, but Wally still cried out. Beast Boy became a gorilla, flinging up one arm to cover his head as he continued toward her. He grabbed her foot. The moment he touched her the whirlwind died and her head snapped back.

"Beast Boy!" I shouted.

Whipping out my grappling gun, I fired it at the changeling just as Raven's magic detonated. After that I'm not really sure what happened. There was a bang like a bomb exploding. Beast Boy and I were yanked through the air, colliding in a tangle of limbs until he morphed into something too small for me to see. I think we went through some sort of portal, because the next thing I knew we were lying on the grass next to RyAnd'r's ship.

Raven flopped down next to us, but she had changed. Instead of her usual purple and deep navy, her priestess robes were completely white. The markings on her arms had vanished. She moaned as she rolled into her side.

"Ugh, what happened?" she groaned. Beast Boy appeared from wherever he'd been hiding and put his hands in his hips.

"Yea, kinda hoping you'd answer that one," he said. "You haven't gone wicked scary on us like that since..."

She jerked suddenly and sat up.

"No! He can't have!"

"Guys, what's going on? Where's Starfire?" I jumped in. Beast Boy didn't take his eyes off Raven.

"Batman wanted her to stay back until we got you out. It got kinda ugly, but she finally agreed. Superman and Wonder Woman stayed on Tamaran. That Galfore guy was threatening to declare war."

"War? Why?"

"You're like their prince now that you and Star are getting married. They are hardcore about protecting their royalty."

"And you? What's with the new outfit?"

"It wasn't supposed to happen this way. The prophecy... I still had time..."

"Earth to Raven, we can't handle another crisis at the moment. You think you can put this on hold until we get Starfire's brother back to Tamaran?" Beast Boy waved his hand as if her hyperventilating was an overreaction to seeing a spider. Her violet eyes snapped open and she was on her feet in front of him.

"The end of the world is here. It's not something I can put on hold," she growled, grabbing the collar of his black turtleneck on both sides and jerking him to her. His ears drooped.

"Oh."

I pinched the bridge of my nose.

"Guys, a little focus please? Enemies...that way." I pointed both thumbs over my shoulder toward the tower. As if on cue, something massive burst through the roof of the tower. It was an enormous body, but it wasn't entirely all there. I could sort of see through his red skin. He had a pair of huge white horns sticking out of his head, but his four red eyes were very familiar. I looked back at Raven, who winced.

"Guys, meet my father..."

Beast Boy actually gulped.

"That's your father?" He looked from the red monster to Raven cringing next to us and swept his eyes up and down. "Dude, I always thought you were pretty but your mom must be insanely hot if you turned out like that with half your genes coming from him." Raven and I both did a double-take at his unexpected compliment. She actually blushed.

"Okay, so we've got a demon overlord and an insane Tamaranian locked up in the Tower with Cyborg and Kid Flash trapped inside. Any ideas?" I asked to get them back on track. Beast Boy glanced up at the sky and grinned.

A green comet was streaking toward us.

For the first time since I woke up on Earth, I felt my spirits lift. The gang was all here.