*Starfire's pov*
During the fight...

An elderly voice popped up on the comms as I was flying civilians away from Grundy. "Princess Koriand'r, do you happen to have eyes on Master Grayson? It appears his heart quite abruptly flat lined and I'm praying that it's simply a technical issue."

"Nani?!" (Japanese)

"Pardon?"

"I mean, what?" I tried to keep a cool composure after almost dropping the person I was flying with, "No he's been radio silent since he told me he was preoccupied."

"Alright, are you busy at the moment?"

"I'm flying people away from this horrid Solomon Grundy! I was asking for backup and everyone but Robin are on their way!"

"Oh dear, busy indeed. Well Master Bruce is already on his way, I'll let him know about your predicament. Stay safe Princess Koriand'r. I will also update with information on this Grundy, be back in a jiff'."

I returned to the fight and noted that the two men had disappeared. Just then, Raven, Jericho and Donna flew in behind me, Donna carrying Jericho before she landed. Raven let out a fit of wracking coughs, croaking out, "Where are they? I can feel that they're nearby."

"I don't know, have you seen Robin?"

"No," Donna sighed, "we overheard on the COMMS. We woke Cassandra and Hosun to provide additional tech support-"

Now was the moment where that boy who didn't know Spanish got kicked out onto the street. Grundy came bounding towards him, picking up the stranger and no words were needed as Donna and I landed at his flanks. Raven caught Jericho in a construct of darkness and helped him down the building before Jericho raised a hand to the beast. The muscles in his hands and body tensed as Grundy's eyes took on a far away look.

Once the giant dropped the stranger I was positive that Jericho was in control. I breathed a sigh of relief, I didn't know how we were going to stop him with all these civilians around. I glanced at the stranger, who was breathing heavily and an eerie chill came over me from that close call with the twirling chainsaw earlier.

That could have ended very badly.

"Princess Koriand'r? Do tell, you aren't engaging Grundy right now are you?"

"Jericho, has him under control."

"Thank heavens, Master Bruce felt the need to call for one of his associates to come help you. This Grundy character has been a thorn in the side for Bruce and Superman here of late. Ah, speaking of, he should be in range now."

A rough voice, one that sounded like a man gargling marbles barked orders authoritatively, "Cyborg, Beast Boy and Starfire, on me. Bring the T-Car and boomboxes Stone. Wonder Girl and Jericho, watch Grundy."

Raven radioed, "What about me?"

"Aren't you sick? Stay with Jericho and Wonder Girl. Batman out."

"Noted." I overheard Raven murmur to herself.

I glanced at Donna and she shooed me away with a knowing smirk.

"Go get your boy, I think we have it handled here."

Without another word I flew back down the subway that the stranger came out of. Thankfully, the pedestrians had cleared out save one smelly hobo but I don't think he'll cause to much trouble. Lights filtered past me until I saw fire glimmering orange off of a black tank-no, no it was the Batmobile. As I got closer I could see the outline of the one and only Batman, his black cowl nearly camouflaging him in the dimly lit subway tunnel.

I gasped when I saw Robin, motionless like a dead man and suspended up in an ice formation.

"He's alive, and I already hacked into the subway systems and redirected any trains coming our way. Scanning."

I hovered in the air, anxiously waiting for Batman to tell me when I can just wrap Robin up and-

"Mister Freeze." Batman spat with disdain.

"Mister Freeze?" Curiosity perked up my voice. How was he connected to this?

"There's traces of oxidized liquid nitrogen crystals."

"Are you sure those aren't related to Robin's cryo bombs?"

"Yes, I don't know the science behind it but I do know that nitrogen would cause asphyxiation if spilled in an enclosed space. Mister Freeze developed a method where he won't suffocate in his suit by creating an entirely new lab-made element involving the crystals he uses as fuel but if it were him, a lot more of it would be here."

"Close friend or associate?" I suggested and asked, "Can I please-?"

"Yes, you may."

I zipped over, took a moment to position my strike and punched the ice just hard enough for it to shatter. Robin collapsed into my arms and Batman added, "His ribs and hand are broken Starfire."

I held him tightly in an embrace, resting my head on his and rocked back and forth. Silly boy, has enough heart and resolve to fuel us all. Even if it is tough love at times.

Kevin Grant's pov
Back at the battlefield a few minutes later...

I woke to the sound of sirens and sat up with a start. The lights and sounds surrounded me and as it all blurred I felt sick to my stomach and set my head back down. God my head hurt.

"He lives," a woman droned before coughing into her elbow, "you just had to wake us up and rub sleep in our faces didn't you?"

"Something tells me," I managed, a knowing tint in my eyes, "you weren't sleeping anyways."

She narrowed her eyes in response. Before we could talk further two green skinned persons, one shorter than the other landed from the sky Superman-style. I slowly glanced at Raven, murmuring, "Raven, what have I been smoking?"

A tuft of her hair shot up when her eye twitched. "How do you know my name?"

"Internet? News? Duh..." I decided against finishing the sentence with Rachel. "Stay. Out." She's in my head.

"You're easier to read than others, I'm not even trying... you could be developing telepathy because I can hear your thoughts like that scary whispering in movies."

Before anyone could say anything the green-skinned redhead waved enthusiastically, "Hey Raven!"

"Oh no." Raven said just before the ginger clobbered Raven into an embrace. "Weirdo," Raven said during the hug, "this is Miss Martian. Miss Martian, this is weirdo." She added and stressed, "My patient."

Weirdo?!

"You hadn't even-"

"Aww cool!" Miss Martian said and the added, her mouth not opening, <Are you a telepath by chance?>

"Aahhh!" I shrieked, pointing at her like the devil, "You just spoke without moving your mouth!"

She just sighed and said, "Yeah, I get that a lot." The other green guy glanced at her and I assumed they had a telepathic convo before she bade farewell, "Well it was nice meeting you Kevin! You two have fun, Martian Manhunter needs me!"

She frolicked off and I was like, I didn't tell her my name...

Once she, and Manhunter flew away with Grundy in tow Raven watched her friend sail away. The sun glistened on her black hair. Speaking of, the sun had just peaked up in the sky, causing the firmament to be mix of yellows and pinks. Some of that color reflected off of the water left over on this wrecked Gotham street but did little to fix the damage done.

Raven constantly held her cloak close to herself. My eyes were really starting to focus on I noticed a little bit of white at Raven's ankles.

"Pajamas?"

She merely turned to glare at me. Then there was a commotion at the subway tunnel as Starfire emerged with a broken and beat up Robin. Raven's eyes widened and she left without a word. I continued to observe my surroundings as an ambulance pulled away behind me. The boy in white that was mentally wrestling with Grundy was sitting on the pavement, exhausted and another woman in a galaxy-like costume joined the others around Robin. Unbeknownst to me, a man walked up behind me and stood there for a long second.

"You the one who started that fire alarm?"

I turned to him uttering, "Uh, not intentionally-"

A big meaty fist popped me in the mouth and I spilled onto the pavement from my ambulance bed. The man shoved the bed out of his bath and then tried to rain down haymakers, breaking my nose. Seconds later, EMT's, police, Starfire and galaxy-clad girl dragged him off of me. He tried to spit on me in his blinding rage, threatening me and turning red in the face as they dragged him away into the street.

The galaxy girl turned to me asked, "Hey I'm Wonder Girl, are you okay?" She held up two fingers but they looked like forty-eight, "How many fingers am I holding up?"

"Enough?" I spat the blood from my nosebleed off my lips, "I'll be fine, I just need rest for my healing factor to return."

"Do you know who that man was?"

*End of Arc 0, Introduction*