A/N: Eris, you're a genius. Your ideas are fantastic. I'm going to get to them right now. Thank you. Warning: Rated T for things I won't spoil. If you're younger than 13, read at your own peril. Story plot is inspired by Superman/Batman issues #53-56, but with a few twists of my own.

The titans returned home from an easy battle against the Hive Five, beating them with no sweat at all. Well... except for one. Shaking things up a bit, Robin faced off against Mammoth, and was pooped from prolonged exertion against the behemoth. Groaning, the titan leader said as he crawled into the living room,

"Great job titans. I bet you're all as exhausted as I am."

"Not particularly." Raven replied.

"All I did was stare in my enemies' general direction." Starfire added before heading into the kitchen.

"Love the attitude." Climbing onto the couch, Robin continued. "But I know every muscle in your body is screaming in excruciating pain."

"Nope, don't have muscles." Cyborg pointed out as he read a book.

"And mine are all like 'it's all good, dude.' Peace and LOVE."

"So basically, thanks to your superpowers, taking down one of the deadliest threats in Jump City is no big deal?" All the other titans in the room agreed in their own way. "Oh. That's cool." Detecting the sadness in his voice, Raven asked her leader,

"Problem, Robin?"

"Well, it's just that I do as much as work as you all, but because you have super powers, everything comes super easy to you all."

"Robin, having powers makes things easy, but most of the time, it's a curse." Raven rebutted his claim.

"No, being a superhero can feel like a curse because of people not liking you, the government being on your case if you don't work under them, or other stuff, but not having superpowers by themselves." Robin pointed out.

"Robin, look at us. Who wants to be friends of a spawn from an intergalactic demon?"

"She's right Robin." Beast Boy agreed as he changed into a naked mole rat. "All my life before being a titan, everybody looked at me as a freak. I mean, what do you think when you picture someone with green skin and pointy ears?"

"Yeah, and remember when you first met me?" Cyborg asked. "I hid in clothing because people were afraid of a tall bulking cyborg. Like I was a horror movie monster. And remember the times shortly after that I was still conflicted about who and what I was?"

"What about you Star? You got any problems with your powers?" Beast Boy called out to the alien teen. She came out while mixing meat in a bowl.

"Not particularly. I do admit that transformation sequence I went through was scary, but I got my eye beams out of it." Then she frowned. "But what is wrong is how people think that because I am an alien, I should not be here and that looking humanoid and being a hero is not enough."

"Alright, so maybe having powers have negatively affected all of you, but what about just mundane stuff? Magic could make impossible things possible, flight would mean there's no height you can't reach, shapeshifting into any animal is a very versatile ability, and being tougher than steel can make taking any damage negligible and much safer."

"Even mundane things comes at a cost. You think I wanted to be in constant control of my powers or else they'd go rouge whenever I get too happy or sad or frustrated about something?" Raven further objected.

"Yeah, and while turning into animals is useful, it depends on how many animals you know, and even then, how many variations of each animal you know. I may watch cartoons all the time, but I make sure to research about the best animals to turn into." Beast Boy added.

"And you think being a cyborg is just something mundane? Try worrying about your battery dying, or something gets broken and you've run out of spares for that particular thing. And don't get me started on short circuits! Those do not tickle!" Cyborg complained.

"I do not really have anything to complain about aside from knowing how much effort to put in when you are strong." Starfire said before going back into the kitchen.

"And think of the heroes that have worse weaknesses than we do. Aquaman is useless if he's too far away from water, Firestorm's weakness is organic matter, Martian Manhunter is weak to fire, or rather Martians in general, Static is weak to water, even Shazam is weak to his own name." Raven listed. "I especially pity those that have power that only work in pitch black darkness or rely on their clothes. You may be powerless, but really the only weakness you have is natural human limitations."

"I'm just saying that even if I had nothing but simple super strength, fighting crime would be easier." The Boy Wonder explained.

"Look, how about this? I can use my magic to give you a dream while you sleep to see what it would be like if you had all of Superman's powers from that point onward. If it's a life that you think is worth it, then I'll give you simple super strength since that should be enough. Deal?" The half-demon sorceress asked. Robin dropped to his knees with his hands clasped together.

"Thank you thank you thank you!"

At night when everyone is going to sleep, Raven was with Robin while he was going to sleep.

"Now remember Robin, you're going to experience a whole life in one dream in one night. One where you are like Superman. Last chance."

"No way. The safety bars are already lowered and I'm ready to ride." Robin told her as he gripped his blanket and closed his eyes.

"Alright." Placing a hand on her leader's forehead, she whispered her signature spell. "Azarath Metrione Zinthos."

Waking up from such a great nap, Robin opened his eyes to see... the sky aside from a few pieces of metal hovering in the air? He blinked his eyes rapidly and the sky went through multiple floor levels before returning to his ceiling.

"Huh. Weird." Robin shrugged as got off his bed, only to yell as he fell forward and flipped through the air, floating like a balloon. "Whoa!" After several seconds, The Boy Wonder figured out a way in which he's upright, and landed safely on his feet. "Wait, seeing through stuff and defying gravity. "Then it dawned on him. "It worked! I have superpowers! I got to go see the others!" What he didn't count on was super speed and invulnerability when he ran right into his door before it could slide open and right through a few walls before stopping. Looking back at the destruction he cause, he sweated a bit at his recklessness. "Whoops. Maybe I should learn to walk before running." Walking very safely to the living room and into the kitchen, he greeted the titans. "Hey titans, how are-" He stopped and rubbed his eyes because it was causing him to see through things again. He could see Raven and Beast Boy's muscle structure, Cyborg's inner workings, and Starfire... he'd soon rather forget how bizarre it looked. Rubbing his eyes, the X-Ray vision soon went away.

"Morning Robin. How are things going with your new powers?" Raven asked with a slightly smug face.

"A little wonky. I'm having to get used to my powers."

"I know, right?" Beast Boy joined in. "When I started out, I was randomly turning into animals based on emotions and instincts. I had to learn how to control my ability to change whenever I wanted."

"Yeah, it's going to take a bit to-" Robin stopped when he heard something bothersome. Something far away deep into the city.

"With these weapons, we can take down the Teen Titans for good."

"Uh, excuse me." The leader excused himself before flying through the window, something that caused him to trip through the air a few seconds before righting himself. Needing to remind himself that his powers were still new, he needed to take things slow. Flying about as fast as typical running speed, he practiced flying by going up and down, left and right, and going faster and slower at intervals to get used to the aspects of flying. By the time he made it to the building with the suspicious voices, he had enough flying skill to weave between buildings comfortably. He was also practicing X-Ray so that he could use it more faithfully. Looking in he saw regular criminals dealing with some weapons that they shouldn't have. Crashing through a window, he kicked one of the men down.

"It's Robin! Get him!" Raising their guns at him, they shoot many rounds at him, but the bullets ricochet off his body and head. "What?! He doesn't have any superpowers!"

"I do now." Using his super speed, he took all of their guns and held them in his arms. Dropping them down onto the ground, he stomped on all of them in quick succession. One of them took a rocket launcher out of a case and aimed it at the empowered Boy Wonder. He fired, but Robin simply caught the missile and threw it at the ceiling. By the time the missile exploded, Robin has already tied up the bad guys with a steel girder, and flew off for the police to find. Zooming through the air, he screamed, "I love powers!"

Later in the day, Robin has spent the entire afternoon training with his new powers in the training facility. Heat vision melted the robots down, freeze breath caused all the flying attack drones to drop, and just a simple breath was strong enough to anything away into pieces. Once he was done, he asked his teammates supervising him,

"Time." Cyborg answered,

"Less than 10 minutes. That's less than a third of your best time on the hardest difficulty."

"You were amazing, Robin!" Starfire cheered for him.

"Yeah, boy! You could give Superman a run for his money!" Beast Boy added.

"He is basically Superman. The only thing he lacks compared to him is experience in years." Raven pointed out.

"True, but I've been trained by the one and only Batman, so its no problem for me. I just feel so... wow!" Robin remarked. Cyborg asked the enhanced leader,

"Are you still feeling any negative side effects?"

"Well, my senses are still a little sensitive to over-stimulation, but that's why I meditated before this training exercise. That ways sounds and such don't overwhelm me." The alarm went off, and they checked their communicators.

"There's a shooting down at the bank. We need to go." Raven recommended, but the Boy Wonder stopped them.

"No need. Take the day off. I'll clean up every street in Jump City before dinner. Don't wait up on me." With that said, he used his super speed to run to Jump City Bank, and started catching all the bullets of the criminals firing at the cops there in a blink of an eye. It was never this easy before for Robin. Bullets felt like crumpled paper thrown at him. Speeding cars were like snails now. Heat vision made barriers and armor useless. Before the villains literally knew what hit them, they were trapped in very tight rope inside jail. Brain, Brother Blood, Dr. Light, Killer Moth, Mad Mod, every villain that were not currently in prison suddenly checked in against their will. Eventually, there was just one person left.

Watching all the evil suddenly vanish in the blink of an eye one by one, he continued his surveillance until the ceiling behind him crashed down, with a smug looking Boy Wonder doing a three point landing.

"Nowhere to run now... Slade."

"Robin. How... unexpected. You only find me when I allow you to."

"Well that ends today. You're finally going down for good." And with a quick burst of speed, he swiftly turned the chair only to find a Slade bot in his place... with a timer of one second. The robot exploded, but the wavering dust showed no damage on Robin's person.

"You forget. I single handedly took down most of the Justice League's founding members. It'll take more than one move to king me." Feeling bullets ricochet off his back, he turned to see two turrets from the ceiling. One filled with lead bullets and one filled with kryptonite bullets."

"Nice try, Slade, but unlike Superman, I don't have the weakness of a Kryptonian." Firing his heat vision, he melted the turrets off their hinges, letting them fall to the ground. However, he somehow failed to notice the assassin as he was hit in the jaw by Slade's staff. It didn't hurt, but the blow did somewhat stun him. "Hmm, might as well indulge you." Slade was masterful with his form and movements, but he was struggling to keep up with the Boy Wonder's exceptional reflexes and supernatural movement. Even with a successful energy blast to the stomach with his staff that blew Robin back, all it did was make a hole in the titan leader's costume. "Try again." Seeing that the staff was useless, and figuring that swords likely won't pierce him if bullets didn't, Slade threw away his staff to settle for good old martial skill.

"There's something about you. You didn't just evolve. Your demeanor." Not listening, Robin went on the attack, dragging themselves through multiple walls of the assassin's secret lair. Even with a punch to the face, cracking his helmet, Slade pinched a nerve in the Boy Wonder's neck, inflicting great pain as crashed out of the building they were in, rolling down a steep slope until they came to a stop at the bottom. "I can see it. You want to really finish me. If that is how it'll go, so be it." Jumping up to deliver a jump kick, but Robin was able to effortlessly catch the leg and counter with a punch to his chin, creating a sickening crack from his neck. A noise Robin was too familiar with.

"No." Watching the body fall to the ground, limp and most certainly lifeless, he gaped in horror at what he had accidentally done. "I... I killed Slade." He crossed the line Batman hammered into his head. "No. No." Unable to carry the new weight of this crime on his shoulders, he flew off into orbit, far away from Jump City.

"Man, where Robin at? It's past dinner time and we already finished." Beast Boy complained as he was channel surfing on the tv.

"Indeed." Starfire agreed, worried about her friend and leader. "And he will not answer his communicator."

"You think something happened to him, Rave?" Cyborg asked the sorceress.

"Maybe not to him. Remember, he's basically Superman now with none of the weaknesses." Raven reminded them. "It's maybe more like he did something to cause him to be late." On the tv, a news announcement appeared.

"Hello, I'm Carol Smith and here is the latest breaking news. After reports of famous Teen Titan leader Robin has been recorded with inexplicable human powers, has spent the past afternoon rounding up every villain from purse snatchers to Brother Blood, cleaning up our fair city. However, we soon discovered the dead body of the Deathstroke, otherwise known as Slade Wilson, whom suffered a fatal blow to the throat and chin. Was this a capture gone wrong, or an act of cold blooded murder? This has put the whole city under stress of what to think of their so called protective leader."

"That's definitely not good." Cyborg remarked, his face evident with shock.

"No. There is no way Robin has killed Slade. It cannot be!" Starfire protested. Raven shook her head.

"Whether he is guilty or not, we're going to have to find him, so that he can answer for what he's done." The news continued.

"Oh, really? We're just now getting a report that shortly after the death of Slade, there has been a breakneck pace of crimes being prevented all over the globe by an invisible speedy force. Could this be Robin trying to make up for this possible mistake? Find out soon at 11 sharp."

"Dude's trying to cover up his mistake." Beast Boy realized.

"He's hoping that stopping all crime on Earth would outweigh an accidental murder." Raven deduced.

"Would it?" Starfire asked.

"Not for Batman. And if Batman wouldn't forgive himself for it..." Raven looked out of the window into the night sky. "...Then he wouldn't either."

("Bane, Black Mask, Black Manta, Blockbuster, Captain Boomerang, Catwoman, Captain Cold, Cheetah, Cheshire, Clayface, Clock King, Copperhead, Deadshot, Firefly, Giganta, Gentleman Ghost, Gorilla Grodd, Hugo Strange, Joker and Harley Quinn, Killer Croc, Killer Frost, King Shark, Lady Shiva, Livewire, Mad Hatter, Metallo, Mister Freeze, Ocean Master, Parasite, Penguin, Poison Ivy, Professor Pyg, Ra's al Ghul and his entire league, Riddler, Scarecrow, Sportsmaster, Solomon Grundy, Terror Twins, Toyman, Two Face, Vandal Savage, Victor Zsasz, Weather Wizard... That's 44 supervillains locked up. That's not good enough. Who else is there?") Robin thought to himself as he zoomed around the world multiple times, catching anyone that his supers peed could outpace. Aside from catching supervillains who weren't in jail, he also stopped a cult in Tokyo, a crime ring in Serbia, all rampages in Sudan, and a bombing in Paris. So he's also saved many lives, but this still wasn't enough. He needed to fix everything to right his one wrong. Flying through the Australian Outback in the middle of the day, something struck him in the back while he was too busy thinking, he and the attachment bounded off the ground like a rubber ball until they stopped while making a deep trench in the ground. Recovering his senses, the titan leader could finally see who latched onto him, and it was a crying Starfire, clinging to his chest with tears going down here eyes.

"Robin, you have done enough. Please, come back home to us. We can help you."

"Starfire. I can't go back yet. I need to stop all criminal activity on Earth. A superhero doesn't kill."

"I know Robin, I know. But people are not going to forget what you did. The Justice League will not, your friends will not, there are some things you just cannot avoid by solving everything else. Please come back Robin. We will make sure to give you the best case possible."

"Star, I can't. If I stop now, my powers will be removed, and there's a possibility I'll be locked up, even with all the good I did after. I need to make sure forgiveness is absolute."

"We forgive you Robin. And I am sure the world will too."

"Get off Star."

"No." She refused.

"Get off." Robin repeated with a stronger tone.

"No!" The Tamaranian objected.

"Get off me!" Taking her arms around him off, he placed a foot against her stomach and pushed as hard as he could, sending her into orbit within a second. Seeing the opportunity, he flew a few dozen feet before a pair of hands grappled his ankles.

"I cannot let you go Robin!"

"Don't make me hurt you, Star!" He warned before blowing hurricane winds at her, managing to blow her back as she yelled before flying out of the way.

"Raven told me I cannot let you go! I do not wish to fight you, but if I have to bring you in as you are the kicking and screaming, I will. Because I am your friend." She explained.

"Then you leave me no choice." Robin growled as he took an offensive stance in the air. Starfire flew forward and tried to grab at him, but he disappeared in an after image. She yelped in pain as she was kicked in the back by the Boy Wonder. He tried to follow up with a punch but was countered by a right hook to the face by the superheroine. Starfire tried to continue with a kick to the ribs but Robin was able to catch her leg and throw her aside. Flying from where he was to in front of her flight path, he slammed both his fists down onto her. The two clash at each other at high speeds, but despite Starfire's superior reach, Robin was able to better block her attacks and land more blows. Starfire charged a starbolt and launched it at her friend, but he dodged it. Nonetheless, thanks to their on par durability and speed, their repeated punches and kicks were either parried or negligible in damage. "I don't have time for this." Flying circles around her, Starfire was confused on what he was doing until he grabbed at the end of her long hair. Swinging her back and forth like a chain, he slammed his teammate into the ground around him several times before flinging her at a cliff, smashing through it. Starfire soon reappeared, quite visibly angered.

"That was not very nice, Robin. That really hurt."

"Neither is keeping me from imprisoning all the evil in the world." He growled back. Both shot their respective eye beams at each other, which caused an explosion in between them. Descending to the ground, Starfire gripped her hands into the hard Earth and pulled with all her might to pull up a giant chunk of rock. From the looks of it, Robin deduced it weighed over 150 tons. Lifting it over her head like the greek titan Atlas, she threw the gargantuan piece of stone at the empowered titan leader. Amping up his heat vision, he gave a full powered blast at the giant rock careening at him, but was unprepared for Starfire to flew through the destroyed stone and punch him square in the face. Before he could go far though, she grabbed his cape and spun him around, managing to choke him before swinging him into the ground before firing her eyebolts at him, creating a powerful explosion as a result. In the crater, Robin tried to get up, but was stomped in the chest, forcing all the air out of his lungs.

"Robin, surrender now. If you do, I will forget about this transgression."

"You should've... gone for the head." Robin wheezed as he punched her knee with his left fist, causing her to lose her balance and yell in pain. Grabbing her throat once she came within reach. Flying up, he let go only to punch his fellow titan in the face, sending her away past the horizon. Needing to get away, he flew as fast as possible, managing to escape Australia and was now over Africa in a matter of seconds before he was bear hugged by Starfire, her cheek sporting a brown bruise contrasting with her orange skin.

"Robin! Think about what you are doing! Even if either of us won, even if you did lock up every criminal on Earth, the other titans would not forgive you! You would be kicked out. Every superhero would hunt you down. You would no longer be a hero in the eyes of other heroes." As she spoke, Robin struggled less and less. "You would be all alone, with no friends or family for you. Is that the life you want?" Her question was left unanswered until she heard crying trying to be held in.

"I didn't... want this. I just wanted... to help... everybody. I wanted... to make up..."

"I know you did." She said sympathetically. Feeling he was no longer a threat, she let her leader go, turned him around, and they embraced, crying from all the hurt that transpired. Once he was sure that all his tears were shed, the Boy Wonder said,

"I'm sorry. Let's go home." The two then went back to Jump City. From then on, Raven removed his powers, he had a court session, and thanks to the titan's good words, he could return to being a hero after two years in prison after accidental manslaughter and resisting arrest. Once Robin was placed in the city jail, made sure to be kept away from the villains, he sighed as he laid down on his filthy one person bed, he sighed as it would be a long two years, but it would be worth it.

Robin woke up from his dream, finding himself back in his room with Raven beside him.

"Wha-Raven?"

"I see that you decided that powers were too much for you." The female titan remarked. Looking at his alarm clock, it was only an hour and forty minutes after he went to sleep.

"Why did I wake up so early?" He asked her.

"This was my first check up through the night. Needed to see how long it would take for you to see the downsides of superpowers. I'm surprised it was less than 12 hours in there."

"I think it was simply a matter of having too much power. Being basically Superman had a lot of pros... but I accidentally killed Slade. Or... maybe he let himself be killed... so that I would feel guilty and try to fix everything. It drove me mad."

"That does sound like him." Raven agreed.

"I see what you mean now. Perhaps being just a regular human is better than I gave it credit for." The Boy Wonder concluded. Raven smiled, though not a restrained small one, but a regular genuine smile.

"Good to hear it. Have a good night's sleep after all that." She said before getting up to leave his room.

"Goodnight."

A/N: Now that is a proper chapter. Thank you for waiting if you've seen the incomplete version before I got rid of that for this. Anyway, pretty great right? I wasn't expecting to write it this way myself, surprisingly enough. So, what do you think? Leave reviews down below.