Brooklyn, New York
6:43PM

"So... You guys think that Roy went off the deep end?" Tigress asks the pair of heroes as they stake out their archer friend's apartment. "Again?"

"Your Roy did drugs, too?" Nightwing inquired as he used a small pair of binoculars to look in through the windows.

"Yeah. But he got clean for his daughter," Tigress added as she inspected her collapible now. "That and my sister can be very..."

"Convincing?" Flash smirking.

"Yeah," she chuckled back.

"Still can't believe that Cheshire is your sister over there," 'Wing shook his head.

"Then you better not push me, Birdie," Tigress smirked, polishing her sword. "Cause, us cats have claws."

"No doubt," the bird smiled, then scoffed. "Ughhh!! I can't see anything. The windows are all blocked."

"Why not just knock on the door?" Tigris suggested, standing up and readying a zipline arrow. "He's your friend, right?"

She fired, and prepped to zip down the line.

"So, why not just go and say hello?"

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Roy groaned as he crawled out of bed. There was some woman pounding on his door, and shouting about some trash bags he left in the stairwell.

"For the last time! Those aren't mine!" He growls back just as angrily.

He finally opens the door, ready for the heated argument that usually comes with confronting his short-tempered neighbors.

Instead, he is taken aback by the blonde woman in form-fitting black and orange. But, he still recognizes her outfit from Oliver's files.

"Tigress," Roy grits.

Jumping back, he unintentionally gave her an opening to enter the apartment.

"My... Aren't you a jumpy one?" The blonde teases as she enters.

Roy jumps over the couch and returns with a volley of arrows from his crossbow, which Tigress dodged effortlessly.

She ducks behind the counter, and exclaims, "Jeez, Roy!! Calm down!"

"Why should I listen to you!?!" Roy shouted back. "You're an assassin! Jade sent you! Didn't she!?!"

The redhead grunted as he reached for his quiver to reload.
"Guess she's to much of a coward to kill me herself."

"No!! She didn't send me! I'm not even from this world!! I came here on my own, because your friends are too stupid to just use the front door to talk to their friend!" Tigress grunted. She stood up and took off her mask. Then, removed her bow quiver and sword; laying them all on the counter. "Look!! They said that you needed help. Either with a possible relapse, or this conspiracy you've uncovered."

Roy looked up and saw the blonde backing away from her weapons; her hands raised above her head.

After a beat of them just staring at each other, Roy asked, "What friends?"

"Flash and Nightwing," she answered, slowly lowering her hands and taking a step closer to him. "They're on the roof across the street. And, right now, the way you are acting is not helping you, Red. Whomever is behind this conspiracy... You're playing right into their hands, by being so paranoid and closing yourself off when others don't agree with you."

"You actually believe him?" Nightwing asks skeptically, as Flash helps him in through the window. "No offense, but the League checked. Their equipment said that it's a dead end."

"Since when are the Watchtower's sensors ever a hundred percent accurate?" Tigress bit back. "Plus, what's the harm in the four of us doing some recon?"

"The fact that the League disavowed our team," Flash sighed, defeatedly.

Tigress took a step back, both physically and metaphorically. Realizing just how different these people were from the versions she knew. And how they were hurting.

She saw the way Roy was no more than a couple of feet away from the edge of despair.

How Dick wasn't the confident and trusting leader she knew, and could always be sure of.

And, worst of all, the lack of hope in the speedster's eyes. It hurt to see the redhead be so lost.

Tigress pinched the bridge of her nose, and sighed angrily.

"No offense, but screw the Justice League!" Tigress growled. "For all we know, they could be being controlled or their systems are compromised."

"You seriously think that this could be true?" Nightwing bit back, still being highly speculative.

Tigress rolled her eyes, "Dick, my first year on The Team, a mole infiltrated the JL and implanted them with mind control chips, and we ended up having to fight them in order to cure them."

"We??" Roy asked, puzzled.

"A group of teens was able to subdue the Justice League!?!" Flash exclaimed, both surprised and impressed.

Tigress gritted her teeth, "Look! I'm not saying that that's what's happening, but that whomever is, wants no one to notice nothing wrong."

"So, they're producing a counter-signal to mask their presence," Nightwing suggests, as he starts to type on his wrist computer.

The bird hacks into a WayneTech satellite and accesses the core control system for the sensor array.

"You're right!" He exclaims. "There's an unauthorized subroutine that is displaying everything as being completely normal, when it's not!"

He hijacks the TV and shows them an overlayed map of downtown Manhattan.

"There are large pulses of psionic and cosmic energy emanating from the center of the city," he adds.

Him and Flash look over at Arsenal apologetically.

"We gotta send this to the League," Arsenal orders.

Nightwing tries, but he can't get throw. All JL comms are being jammed, and his computer says that the Watchtower is unresponsive.

"Looks like we're gonna have to do this ourselves," Tigress says, as she makes sure that all of her weapons have been re-secured.

She walks to the window confidently. Turning back only to check if everyone is following her.

They don't, which leaves her dumbstruck, but mostly angry.

"What is wrong with you guys!?!" She scolds. "The world is ending, and you're just going to sit here and hope that the League saves it!?!"

"Tigress.... The Titans disbanded," Nightwing sighs defeatedly. "We were too reckless and acted rashly. If we go out now, the League will arrest us."

Tigress stormed up to them and declared, "You know what.... Screw the Justice League!!"

The three boys looked at her in shock and disbelief.

"Everytime you guys talk about your outings as The Titans, all you do is compare yourselves to your mentor's," she rattled on. "Well, newsflash, Dick!! You're not Batman! You're not Bruce! So stop trying to be him!"

She stomps around the room and kicks over a table.

"You guys are never going to be able to do anything, if you don't step out from the League's shadow," she grunted. She glared at the three of them. "My team... My Family, they understood that from the beginning. They understood that they won't always be the best at being covert or sightly with our actions. And, the League didn't care, because we got the job done."

She paces back to the window as the wind outside started to pick up greatly.

"When this is over, I will gladly chew out the Big Bad Bat, himself," Tigress promises. "Until, then, I have a planet full of people to save. So, you guys can either get on board or get out of the way."

With that said, Tigress leapt out of the window and climbed her way to the roof. Jumping from ledge to ledge in the pouring rain.

Roy was the first to break the tense silence that followed her exit. His face full of confusion, he inquired, "Who the heck is she?"

Nightwing smirked, "Wally's widow from an alternate universe."

"Literally," Flash sighed, but it sounded more like a groan. "Fell out of the sky and right into my arms."

Roy just chuckled at his friend's distress as he heads out into the rain; following the woman from another dimension.

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A/N:

Hey guys!

So sorry for the lack of updates. My life has been crazy ever since I graduated college, and I nearly lost my inspiration for writing. But, I shall persevere!!

I promised myself nearly four years ago that every fan-fic I start, I shall finish. And, this book will be coming to an end. There are about four chapters left at the least.

I hope that everyone is having a happy and prosperous New Year!!

Signed, Karma_WarHawx

P.S.: Happy Valentine's Day!!