"Oh...damn," Kon said, looking worried. "I'm ahead of you guys. A liiittle ahead of you, Tim, but big stuff is happening. Big...bad stuff. I nearly bit it, we've--some of the former Titans are dead. I was going off with Nightwing, and Cass to try to stop it. It's...we're talking WWIII, there's ten things happening at once. Brother Eye, the tower, the other Earths in the sky--"

His expression was dead serious.

"The world's--it's like the world's ending. I knew, the Luthor thing or not, I had to--I had to go back out there."