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"Let's go."

Tim tightened his fingers around his staff as they approached the weird invisible elevator again, ready to extend it to full length if he needed to. He wasn't sure what to expect in this place, but he didn't want to appear threatening until he had to. Like when they got to a point where they could demand to be sent home. Bart and Kon both had to save the world, and as for him... well... he was in Gotham for a few days helping Batman, and Batman never reacted well to MIA Robins.

They started going up again and Tim looked out over... a city. What the hell kind of crazy city was this? It wasn't like anything he'd ever seen on Earth, which meant they were probably a long way away from home.

Hn. Well, they'd just have to find a way to get back.

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Ax really, really hated the transport system aboard this ship. He had to travel the tubes to get between levels and the tubes were cramped, even for his human morph.

He leaned against the wall and took a couple of deep breaths to center himself.

Bart looked over the city and beamed- it was something new to explore, and large enough that he could stretch his legs with a good run, he wagered. Upon the elevator's reaching it's destination he stepped onto the flooring, darting forward to the nearest edge, peering out at the city, also taking note of the guy leaning against the wall who he waved to.

"Ya think they have game station arcade here?" Bart asked his peers behind him.

Tim made a skeptical noise. "I don't think so, Bart," he said, frowning. "They might have something like that, but..."

He caught sight of the guy standing near the invisible lift and tilted his head to the side in curiosity. He was wearing a jumpsuit similar to theirs--another abductee? "Hey," he said in greeting.

"So...who are you, what's the deal here, where are the aliens, and how many butts do we gotta kick?" Kon asked the stranger.

Ax was still blinking at Bart's display super-speed when Kon started asking questions.

"My name is Phillip, we are not entirely certain, which aliens are you looking for, and we do not know," he answered. "Did your companion just teleport? Comp, companion. Ion."

"Super speed." Bart replied as he darted back to his companions, then hearing the breaking of the english language. "Huh? What about Ions?." He looked to Tim, then, after a breakthrough of logic.. "Oh! that's the aliens, right? Ions?"

Tim shook his head. "He's just talking, Imp." At least--that's what Tim assumed. He turned to Phillip again. "So... do you know anything about this place?"

"Like where the aliens that grabbed us are. That's the important part. So we can go hit them."

"Ahh, those aliens," Ax said. "If you can find them, please tell the rest of us. You are not alone in wanting to hit them." He turned back to the other dark-haired boy, who seemed to be in charge of the trio. "We do not know much about this place. Most of the crew thinks that the aliens who kidnapped us intend to use us as some sort of army. Oh, and we are all from different universes and time periods -- sometimes from entirely different planets. Frent. Fffren-tuh."

Tim raised an eyebrow. That was... interesting. Time travel and people from all over the multiverse, huh? "Does... that mean we should be looking out for doubles here?" He knew there were alternates of many members of the Justice League,and assumed it was probably the same for the Titans as well. That didn't mean he wanted to meet another version of himself.

And... Tim shook his head. "All set with that army thing. I'm already part of someone's crusade--I don't need a war, too."

Kon's eyes narrowed instinctively.

Conscripted for war? No freaking way. I mean, they'd done that when they were doing that Paradocs thing (and look where THAT went) but mainly he just hated having people think they could yank around his chain.

He hadn't been Cadmus's--or Luthor's--very own Superman. He wasn't going to be some aliens' toady.

"So this crew--everybody here's like us? Abducted?"

"I have yet to see any doubles, but there have been incidences of people recognizing each other and yet still being from separate universes," Ax said. "Dub dub doubles. Buls. And yes, everyone has been abducted. We do not know who the aliens are. They have not attempted to contact us yet, only Stacy and a handful of other artificial intelligences have done so."

Ax tilted his head to the side and inspected the other boys. "Who are you all?"

So Stacy had been some kind of alien AI--okay, that made a weird kind of sense, actually. And there were more like her? Huh. He nodded slowly, processing the new information before realizing that they'd been asked a question.

"Oh. Robin, Superboy, Impulse," he said, indicating them each on turn. "We're, uh, heroes where we come from."

"The super kind." Especially in Kon's case.

"He's weird." Bart observed under his breath, taking serious note to the extra buls and tuhs. "I could find em." he said.

Tim raised his eyebrows and grinned over at his friend. "Oh yeah?"

Bart bolted into action, the energy from the speed force trailing behind him. He was gone for a second or two before returning to the exact place he had left..

"Maybe they're invisible."

"So we're on a spaceship, we got abductees, but we got no aliens," Kon said in a 'this does not bode well' sort of voice.

This was suddenly a lot harder to deal with to get everyone home when there were no bad guys you could knock around (or beat at a game of baseball) to do it.

He looked to Robin.

What should they do now?

Tim frowned deeply. He'd been banking on the idea of having someone to threaten into returning them to their own times and places. The news that there was no one like that... He didn't like it.

He looked back at Kon, his expression a little bleak. He was out of his depth here. Without anyone present to return them... they were going to have to tough it out here until they found a way to get home.

"Ahh, super heroes," Ax said, nodding. "Several other people on board are also super heroes." Like the crazy parasite kid. Who was crazy, possibly due to said parasite.

He frowned thoughtfully at the other three boys before pointing to Robin. "I think I have heard of you. But not your friends."

Cue the gaping.

"How have you not heard of me?" I mean, okay, so he'd SUCKED as a hero lately, with the mind control thing, but how did someone know Robin and not him.

"Wait, maybe this'll help."

He turned around, showing the S insignia on the jacket, pointing to it with his thumb, before turned back around. "If you know Rob, you have to be able to recognize that."

Tim grinned wickedly at Kon. "Hey, he can't help it if he only knows the cool Titans."

Ax shrugged. "I only heard a 'Robin' mentioned in reference to a 'Batman'. But then we passed a McDonald's and I stopped paying attention. Tention. Shun. Shun-nuh."

Technically, they had passed over a McDonald's dumpster, in seagull morph. And if there was one thing more distracted by food than Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill in human morph, it was Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill in seagull morph.

And the french fries had been delicious.

Terry had once thought that the caverns under Wayne Manor were huge. He'd thought the tubes at that pizza/arcade that Matt loved were huge. He'd thought Gotham was huge. But this ship put them all to shame.

He'd been meandering around, trying not to get lost, but still trying to see as much of the ship as he could. If things got bad, it would be good to know his way around. Not to mention it was a good way to find the other people on the ship.

Like the guy standing next to the tubes. "Hey," Terry called out.

Tim turned at the sound of the greeting to see a dark haired young man--maybe a year or two older than him--looking back.

Must be meet and greet time. He was glad that Kon had helped him get all the goo off before they'd started to meet new people. He lifted his own hand in a greeting. "Hey."

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