A girl stood in the alleyway talking to her mother on her new phone, the last thing her boyfriend gave to her before he died on the top floor of his collapsing apartment building. As she finished her conversation, a dark figure emerged. "Long time no see, miss. What brings you back to my neck of the woods?"
The girl looked down "mm-mm My boyfriend's ... dead."
"Oh, my sympathy" the man said. "But I don't think that's what you came here for."
The girl nodded "do you have it in stock?"
"Sure, one hit of Snowflame for… actually, you're going through a lot. This one's on me." The dealer tossed her the needle.
As she took the drug her entire body began to shake the skin around the eyes turned pitch black then the blackness ran down her cheeks. She stood up straight again with terror in her eyes and glee on her lips
"This vessel is not worthy of the next level. Get it into containers" the girl said in a monster's voice.
The dealer took out some equipment from his truck, he spoke to himself "it's not too bad, she'll meet him again soon. It's not too bad she'll be with him soon. It's not too bad…
The first day of training went pretty rough. It was surprising how many "basics" that were needed in order to just get to defense, breathing, standing, the vast majority of his reflexes seemed to work against him, but the knock-around-and-heal method seemed to accelerate the process. Superpowers cover more weaknesses than they create.
However, he also discovered his own weakness, he can't control who heals. His powers bring whoever he touches, whether he intends to or not, back into fighting shape, thus if it came to a close fistfight, his own powers will heal the opponent faster than Robe can dish out damage. The lightning attack would really come in handy there, by the end of the day, he was proficient at blocking, whether or not this would be serviceable, no one knew. No one had ever heard of a superhero medic before.
The next day there was rapid progress. By noon Robe was the equal of a mid-level henchman. He was theoretically capable of defending himself until one of the other Titans comes to assist him if he got into trouble.
Beast Boy felt like this was a good stopping point and decided to challenge the Cyborg Robin and Red Robe to a free-for-all match in Call of Honor: Modern Weapons. About five minutes in the team noticed that someone never fired his weapon. A couple of seconds later, Red Robe spoke up. "Hey! There are buttons up on this side of the controller!"
Red Robe went on a killing spree for the rest of the match, mostly because the other three players were stuck in facepalm. After the match was over Robe explained that his mother thought that all games were like Carjack Simulator 5, thus he was never allowed to touch a game console before he was thrown out.
"Why were you thrown out?" Beast Boy asked.
"I got my powers when a street preacher prayed over me and I got baptised by fire. my Mom, who was a christian but strongly opposed to organized religion, misunderstood that to mean that I was claimed by Satan. She and my Dad argued over what should be done about me and compromised on throwing me out of the house."
"How long ago was that?"
"Three years ago."
"And you're fifteen!?"
"Yep. Afterwards I went to Jump City First Baptist Church the big one across from the Wayne Enterprises building, plenty of resources. Was my home Church until I joined up with you guys, by the way I keep meaning to ask, I can't take this costume off, gotta be ready at any time, but the people at my church will know who I am, what exactly am I going to do on Sunday?"
"I picked out a new church for you, 74th Street Pentecostal. The most pro-meta church in town, Starfire will escort you in case a villain decides that would be a good place to strike." Robin said
"Awesome, thanks!"
Red Robe was working on the goggles again, this time determined to figure out who this girl is. All he could tell is that she is in a cognitive, but immobile state where she cannot move her arms. He walked out of the Tower with the goggles under his mask, listening to her complaints. If she was in a hospital, wouldn't they take care of the centipedes? The signal took him underground. It sounded like the voice was attempting to speak to Beast Boy. Almost like he was talking to her. This voice probably belonged to Terra
A couple of steps further and he started to hear Beast Boy's voice.
"Oh and then we met this new guy, calls himself Red Robe, he was kinda put on the spot to think of a name. He's got some wicked cool powers, but he's kinda unskilled, so he going to be our medic. With any luck, he could be used to bring you back."
Is he that dude behind you?
At that Robe realized that he was sneaking in and not doing a good job of it. A near slip altered Beast Boy to his presence.
"Dude, what are you doing here?"
"Long story, I think I'm hearing that petrified girl behind you"
Red Robe had a tough time getting Beast Boy and Terra to take turns talking, somrob ultimately decided to put the goggles on Beast Boy, touching the rim in order to make it work. After a conversation that Robe only heard one half of, Beast Boy asked Robe if he could revive Terra.
"Worth a shot" the medic replied.
Red Robe tested his medi-beams on a stalagmite, the sound echoed through the chamber, the lights went off on the end of his cuffs, but nothing happened he then turned his attention to the statue of Terra. A golden light enveloped her.
I think this is working; keep going!
Terra looked at her boyfriend and the new titan. It looked like Red Robe was shining a flashlight at her and Beast Boy had his fingers crossed, then he crossed his fingers on the other hand, then turned into a monkey and crossed his toes. The process seemed to take hours with little change, but eventually a weird flash eminated from Red Robe's cuffs, Terra was filled with a surge of energy she instantly became aware of her ability to move. She killed the bugs on her legs with one hand and scratched her nose with the other. She then looked at the two guys responsible for her restoration. When the glow faded from her and the medic's cuff, their elation was replaced with surprise and apprehension. She looked at her hand, she was able to move it like flesh but it still looked like stone. Beast Boy and Robe apologised for the mistake. After a moment's pondering she stepped off her pedistal and gave Beast Boy an awkward, but passionate kiss.
