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Speaking of Titans, someone was trying to get in a little practice with their stealth combat.

Mia jumped from around a corner, swinging her sheathed sword at Jaime's skull.

Bonk.

"Ow!"

Jaime staggered to the ground, starting to armor up, his arm turning into a somewhat frighting thing that was glowy and looked like it made things go 'boom' but as he saw who it was, he stopped, and called the armor off.

"What is your problem?!"

Mia shook her head and extended her hand to help him up, tapping the sheath against her shoulder. "Mostly? I get bored easily. But I could just have easily been that spider-y thing that caused that other incident. The ship itself may not be trying to kill us, but we still need to stay alert."

She helped him to his feet. "Call it a training exercise." Her expression softened. "Sorry if I hit you too hard... I thought your bug-thing would block it."

Crazy girls! All the Teen Titans girls were crazy girls! He was now convinced of this. Wonder Girl was...crazy. Ravager was borderline psychotic, and now he'd found Speedy was crazy, abushey too.

The only normal one was the Martian!

"I don't have my sensors right now! I'm not used to being blind yet." He prodded at his noggin. "I'm getting a bump and everything..."

Mia sighed and rolled her eyes. "Oh for pity's sake... c'mere..." She grabbed him by both sides of his head and pulled him down so she could look. "Not even bleeding." She gave the bump a gentle, doting kiss. "There, all better. I'm sorry I beat you up."

She let him go and gave him a once-over. "I mean... it's not as if you're in THAT bad shape. I figured you could have at least raised your arms in the way or something."

That was kinda cute. And made a little shiver go down his back...

Wait!

Rule seven! Rule seven!

It was weird, because he barely knew her, but they were already falling into patter like he and his friends talked. He could tell already they'd be good friends, just like he'd known within the first five minutes of talking to Paco and Brenda.

"I'm kinda crappy at fighting. I'm more a thinky kinda superhero," he said. "Back home, Robin's been training me like crazy to get me better at fighting. And usually the scarab's sensors could let me see your heart beating from around the corner--actually, it's just like in Predalien. I never had to worry much about someone sneaking up on me, but Stacy messes up Khaji's sensors so we had to shut them down. I got so used to them, to being able to see things like that, that now it's like I'm half-blind."

"Yeah well... sight is just ONE sense. You've got others. Listening. Feeling the thump in the floor as someone approaches. Air shifting once they're REALLY close." Mia told him, doing her very best to come across educating without condescending, just like Dinah.

"I know. I know. Robin's been tying to drill that into my head." A pause. "Appaaarently, not very succesfully."

Oh oh! Duh!

"Oh! I was looking for you anyway. See, uh, there's a big problem. a big, BIG problem."

"Well, it takes time." She rattled the sword on her shoulder. "I'll help."

She cocked an eyebrow. "What's up, bug?"

"Robin's here. In that most recent podpop. I asked Stacy and we're all from the same world. He's from before the Crisis."

A deep breath. "Superboy and Impulse are here too. That's bad. That's very bad."

Mia looked at him, curling up her face in contemplation. "But... doesn't that mean we could, y'know, warn them?"

"Now follow along what happens after. We warn Superboy what happens to him, he doesn't go to that big battle with the crazy Superboy, doesn't blow up that big machine that was, y'know, destroying the world, then me and you don't even exist to warn him in the first place...and then we have a grandfather paradox. Um, and our world dies. This is why I'm having something of a moral dilemma here, and we need to figure out how to handle it."

"Well... your bug is supposed to be really smart and stuff, right?" Mia pointed at his back. "Can't it work out all the what's and why's we need to go through. Give Boy of Steel a more detailed chain-of-events warning? I'm not really big on the whole 'accepting fate' thing."