9056/Robini Eunt Domus

Robini Eunt Domus
Date of Scene:	03 September 2019
Location:	Living Quarters, Titans Tower
Synopsis:	Damian finally returns to the Tower, only to find that there's a second bunch of Titans running about.
Cast of Characters:	Stardust, Beast Boy, Robin (Wayne), Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Kian t'Kaeh

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Stardust has posed:
    It's early evening, peak time at the tower.  The time when day patrol and night patrol, in their informal and random capacities, tend to bump into each other, except when Raven's scaring everyone away because she hasn't had her morning coffee yet.
    Stardust is doing her part to make the Tower seem busy at this particular early evening.  She's in the living quarters, with the monitor for once not turned to cartoons, but rather showing some over-the-shoulder gopro type footage of what would seem to be a superhero battle.  Which is indeed what it is.  She's jumping the footage forwards and backwards, and swearing liberally at the computer system as she tries to get good captures of the faces of the two villains involved for the Titan's systems to do some analysis on.
    "Damn it!" Stardust yells in frustration.  "Where's a Robin or a Cyborg when you need them?  I'm not the computer person around here.  Or the detective person.  I'm the punching people in the face person.  And apparently the training the newbies person too, which is a REALLY BAD IDEA."

Beast Boy has posed:
    Dressed down, as in casually, as in no costume, but not so casually as to be wearing those 'Monster in the Morning' pajamas (it's not quite late enough for that), Gar makes his way over from the kitchen area with a large bowl of popcorn that might be more butter with a little popcorn added than the other way around, plus a Giant Guzzler soda.
    "What's up, Colette?" he asks, taking his first real notice of what's on the screen, along with all the creative words she's using.  No telling what he's got the snacks for, but it's the living quarters.  There's a big TV.  Do the math.
    Oh yeah—it's a tank top and basketball shorts.

Robin (Wayne) has posed:
    Speak of the devil, and he shall appear.  Robin billows out his cape as it goes rigid, and softens his landing through the open shaft to the living quarters.  His hood was down, and that green mask his his eyes, like usual, turning them a ghostly solid white.
    He doesn't say anything as he makes his way to the monitor, looking up and seeing the frustration on Colette's face.  The attache case in his hand is placed down, and a hand reaches to his left gauntlet, taking control of the monitor.  He freezes on a frame and starts to enhance the frames.  "Run a scan on the clearest part of the face in each frame, then piece together the images to simulate the face as a whole."  He starts the process as he talks, then once the computer does its thing, there is a clear face being shown on the screen.  "They used to do this in 2019, putting celebrity faces on actors in pornography.  'Deepfakes' they called it."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
    Ellie doesn't live here, though she has made noise about taking one of the empty rooms a couple of times.  No she goes to some sort of school in Westchester County and splits her time between being a responsible human, don't laugh, and being an official public superhero with the Titans.
    She is over at the end of a Holiday weekend before classes really begin in earnest at Xaviers though and steps off the elevator to hear Colette's yelling at the computer.  "I'm pretty good with computers and video…" she squints and starts to walk over.  "Also I think you've been doing a fine job helping me acclimate… not sure about the Arachkid."  She wiggles her fingers at BB.
    Her approach slows as a Robin makes an appearance dramatically, like he was lurking waiting for just this moment when his name was called and shakes her head.  "Man deepfakes… I mean they have some programs now that need another program just to prove they are fake… I have a setup I use to make MRA assholes sing disney songs for video postings…."

Kian t'Kaeh has posed:
    Add to the mix Kían in his usual kilt and sandals, wandering indifferently towards the kitchen for water.  That in hand, he goes to the main window, looking out over the bay, apparently without noticing anyone else.
    Sip.
    He blinks a couple times, finally noticing he's not alone.  "Oh.  Sorry.  Lost in thought… kié everyone.  I'm not interrupting a meeting, I hope."

Stardust has posed:
    "This is what's up Gar!" Stardust says with an annoyed hand-gesture vaguely in the direction of the screen.  "Trying to get this stupid system to… to… to do what Robin's getting it to do."  She gives a sigh, but it's more a sigh of relief that frustration now.  Hopping to her feet, she heads over towards the kitchen area.  "Snacks, good plan Beebee."
    Stardust starts rummaging around in the fridge.  "Nah birdy buddy, if there was a meeting you'd be invited.  I was just working on the footage from that weird run-in we had the other day when we were patrolling with Rae and Vorp.  Can I get you a drink?"
    As Damian runs through the footage, it's obvious why Colette was having trouble.  The footage is VERY shaky, and it takes a bit more reference point marking than most.  Most of the video frame is taken up with one person, a blonde woman in a black costume with a domino mask, who is fighting fist-to-fist with the camera-wearer.  Judging by the back and forth motion of the camera, the blonde woman punches HARD.  At some points, another figure is visible much less clearly behind the blonde woman.  Another woman, dressed in a white hooded costume, floating in the air amidst a brilliant white light.  Tendrils of darkness seem to be struggling with the white light.
    "Hey Nega!  You want a soda or something?" Colette calls out.  "Yeah.  Haven't seen not-kid-arachnid-codename-to-be-determined around much.  I need to see if he's serious, I've got a training session booked for you guys that needs scheduling.  How's things?"
    Colette surfaces from the kitchen area with another bowl of popcorn and an armful of assorted drinks.  Finally she addresses the Robin in the room.  "Shortstuff.  Back for another replacement T-Com?  You haven't broken one in weeks.  I can't keep slipping you my spares.  I need to break them myself."

Beast Boy has posed:
    Open mouth.
    Close mouth.
    Point toward Robin with a handful of popcorn that had been en route to Gar-mouth.  "Wait…" he begins, brows scrunching together.
    He alternates between gesturing toward Robin a few times and bringing the popcorn back to munch on, sipping a few times in between.  "Haven't you, like, been gone for a while?  I should know, because I've kinda done the same thing off and on."  And he can remember how much it had Vorpal out of sorts, for good reason.  Eyes take in the presence of Negasonic and Kian as well, also tracking Colette's venture into the kitchen and back, but most of his attention is on Damian right now.

Robin (Wayne) has posed:
    Damian keeps manipulating the footage, despite how shaky it is, he was trained by the best, and he should be able to get at least enough for a decent facial match, even if it isn't perfect.  "Resupply," he says, kicking the attache case that was now at his feet gently.
    "It is a great way to get a facial profile at multiple angles.  Took down multiple people using this method," he comments to Negasonic.  He didn't introduce himself, he didn't need one.
    "Yes Beast Boy, I have been gone for a while.  But am here now, and for the foreseeable future," he comments to Gar, very matter of factly.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
    Nega calls after Colette, "Sure, something with caffeine and… is there more of that popcorn?" and then she walks closer to the screen watching the computer program work on the video.  Her head tilting a bit.  "Decent costumes.  Light based powers and darkness based powers?" fielding a guess.  "I should really clock some hours getting used to the software on this rig… it looks way more advanced than my laptop."  She seems pleased, not daunted.
    "Colette… I'm up for training whenever as long as I don't have class, so evenings and weekends now that fall semester has started I guess."  She looks sour at that.  "As for how's things… when did we last hang out… got a new girlfriend.  She is awesome and has electricity powers and a lot of attitude… got shot at with Atlantean plasma rifles by black ops mercs and blew up a car onto one of them.  He lived for the record.  I almost blew up my school taking apart an Atlantean plasma rifle… oh also fought a guy named The Blob in Mutant town.  Busy August I guess…"
    "You know making the most of summer before school starts right."
    Well, Colette asked.
    Ooo, sodas and stuff, she leaves the screen to go get one from Colette.

Kian t'Kaeh has posed:
    Kían watches the activity on the screen; that incident with the reversed versions of Raven and Stardust.  "Not light," he says to Nega, without looking in her direction.  "Or at least not quite light.  Light-like.  It didn't behave exactly like light.  It was… weird… to try to interfere with.  It didn't follow physics correctly."
    He frowns, wandering closer, just happening to pass near enough to Gar to make a grab for a handful of popcorn.  He's been on Earth long enough to know about popcorn, and that if he ever does find his homeworld, he could just about buy his way into the Imperial family on the estimated profits from importing popcorn from Earth to his world.
    "How can light not behave like light?  I mean, it's kind of part of the fabric of reality.  You can't just opt out of the laws of physics.  Even I can't.  I can tell them what to do, but I can't make them do something non-physical."

Stardust has posed:
    Under Damian's gentle ministrations, the computer is finally making sense of the footage.  Several hundred selected frames are feature mapped at various angles, and two wire-frame 3D models render.  The models are image-mapped in a patchwork as they rotate to follow the positions in the video frames, then multiple rendering passes even out the lighting and smooth the joins.  The models then rotate through the sequence of positions again, detail-enhacing genetic algorithms run over the texture maps and the comparative footage for a dozen seconds.  Finally the two 3D models turn to face forwards and fill the screen, standing side by side.
    It's a bit eerie.  At first glance, it looks like someone has taken a photo of Stardust and Raven and palette-swapped them.  The blonde matches Stardust's general appearance reasonably well, and has a costume that could easily be one of Stardusts, down to the domino mask, except that Stardust almost always wears whites and pale grays, while this one has blacks and purples.  The hooded one might match Raven just as well, but face detail is limited—even with all that processing there's not much you can do about shadows.  A certain amount of black hair is visible.  She's dressed in leggings, a hooded top and combat boots—all in white, unusually.
    "Plenty of popcorn," Stardust replies to Negasonic.  "Share mine if you like.  Got a Red Bull if that'll do you for caffeine.  New girlfriend?  Well I can't say I'm shocked.  But then I haven't met her yet.  Remind me to show you our collection of Apokolyptan plasma rifles, some time."
    "Magic, Birdy Buddy!"  Stardust declares as she drops herself and her popcorn down on the sofa.  "The laws of physics are more like guidelines than actual laws.  They can be broken, just people don't usually do it out of politeness.  Like quantum mechics.  The real reason it doesn't generally happen except on a subatomic scale is it thinks nobody will notice it that way.  Although you could say that magic is just another set of laws of physics I guess."
    Stardust stuffs a handfull of popcorn in her mouth and shuts herself up for a few moments as she eats.  Then, "About time, Robin."

Beast Boy has posed:
    "Well, don't be a stranger, huh?" Beast Boy suggests to Robin, knowing full well that he's been just as guilty of that sort of thing in the past.  Now, he's trying to make some amends by being around more.
    As Kian passes by for some popcorn, the birdy alien will come away with a very greasy, buttery handful.  Gar may have overdone it a little bit.
    He's also more caught up in the video, enough that he only gives Negasonic a glance at the stories she tells.  If he could rub the back of his neck without spilling food or drink, he just might.  Instead, it leaves him standing there with a brow going up before he focuses on what started this whole thing off.
    It leads to a question.  "So what exactly did I miss here?  When was this, and why do they look like someone palette-swapped them?  Am I that out of the loop with the auditions I've been doing?"

Robin (Wayne) has posed:
    "There are many things on this world that seem like light.  The Lanterns, for one.  Then again, many mages use what looks like light in a way, but does not behave as such."
    Damian posits, then turns to the rest as the figures are shown.  "There are your culprits," he says, pointing to the screen behind him with his thumb.  "Yes, Stardust, it was about time.  The situation in Gotham is better now, and… familial matters are taken care of, my mother has taken up residence in father's home."  That should explain a lot, even if he was vague on who he was behind the mask.
    A moment passes before he slams his right fist into his left palm.  "The portals, shit.  FUCK!"  He quickly grabs the attache case and runs to his room.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
    Ellie snags the redbull and follows Stardust with the popcorn to the sofa where she plops down by her.  "She beat me to it but yeah magic."  There is a squint at the screen "And seeing as those kind of look like duplicates of two of our team… definitely magic… maybe alternative dimensions… man I hate mirror universes and time travel."  She sounds like she has some experience there.
    A hand reaches into the popcorn to gather some up and start to munch on it while she pops open her redbull one handed.  "I'd love to bring Surge by and have her meet some of you, I think she is JealousProud even if she wouldn't ever admit it about me being with you all."  Mmm.  "Also I would love to tinker with an Apokolyptan plasma rifle…" which might be a bad idea if she almost blew up the school with the Atlantean one.
    When Damian runs off swearing about portals.  "Are we about to be invaded through some sort of portals…?"

Kian t'Kaeh has posed:
    Overdone?  More like 'just right'.  But then, Kían's dietary choices are, shall we say, not the same as a typical Terran's.  He watches Robin run swearing from the room with a baffled—or more baffled than usual—expression.  "Does he ever relax, or is he in some sort of competition to register the highest recorded blood pressure ever?"
    He shakes his head.  "This planet is weird," he says half under his breath, for the nth time since arriving on Earth, where n is a large but still technically finite integer.  Approaching the screen, he looks at the images.  "It's too bad you don't have mindports.  I remember perfectly well what they looked like, I'd be happy to transfer the images from my mind to the computer."

Stardust has posed:
    "Robin's back.  Aaaaaaand he's gone."  Stardust munches another handful of popcorn.
    "That one," Stardust says, gesturing with a few kernels in the direction of the blonde, "Is called Darkstar.  That one," the popcorn gesture points to the hooded one, "…is called Peregrine.  They were waiting for us, and I want to know what the fuck is going on.  Someone appears to be manufacturing knock-off Titans.  Only, you know, in reverse.  'Cos Peregrine and Darkstar were being buddy-buddy instead of sniping at each other every opportunity."
    "We're always being invaded by portals, Nega," Colette says reassuringly.  "I mean usually it's Vorpal, but not always.  I think we have an infestation, but when I rang up Orkin they said they don't do portals.  There may be another us on the other side of the portals, so that's where Robin is going with this one.  But…" She gives a one-shouldered shrug.  "I don't think it's that, this time.  I think this…" she waves her hand around vaguely, clearly indicating something very specific she can't be bothered to explain, "…is all connected.

Beast Boy has posed:
    Silence from Beast Boy as he watches Damian scram following the short outburst.  Short as in how long it lasted, not… the other kind of short.
    Another round of gesturing with butter-stained fingers follows, then he pops another half-dozen pieces of popcorn into his mouth.  "Looks like everything is normal around here.  That's comforting," he deadpans, though he mouths, 'What portals?' when Colette's eyes pass back over him.  He knows Vorpal's rabbit holes well, but this sounds different.
    "So hang on a second.  Are you saying what's on the screen there is like… reverse images of ourselves, somehow?  Doppelgangers Gone Bad?  Where's TruTV to pick that show up when you really need them?"  Drawing closer to the display, he tilts his head this way and that, adding, "I guess if you ever run into a red version of me, you'll know something's wrong."
    Pause.
    "If we're talking primary colors, that is.  But since green is a secondary color, they could also be orange or purple if we're being technical.  How about we don't find out?"  *SLUUURRRRP* on the drink.  "So you saw them too, Kian?  And why were they waiting for you guys?"

Robin (Wayne) has posed:
    Robin returns, holding a red glowing crystal, and the note he pulled back from the portal that one time.  "The portals are not stable.  Don't let the others know."  The note is signed Damian, with another signature matching it below.  Obviously Damian had confirmed the signature as authentic, and passes it to Colette.
    "It was a feint.  I had it in the back of my head, but I was not going to be responsible for breaking the time-space continuum.  I had enough bullshit with the time-traveling Flash from the future that won't stop interfering on my turf."  Obviously that wasn't an issue at this point.
    Damian's other item would look familiar to Colette: it was the crystals that drive the Apokalyptian technology.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
    The redbull is sipped, the photos are considered.  "I am going to feel bad if there isn't some weird reverse Negasonic at some point if they continue with this line bad news bears.  Though I wonder if they would dress in white and be a conformist hack… like white suit."  She pauses and asks Beast boy "So like Grape Ape?"
    To Colette: "Do you think they are actually manufactured and not just mirror dimension… because I really have to point out again it sounds like reverse dimension mirror stuff… you know portals… and I sadly know about portals though haven't had to cope with one in a while… other than Vorpal's portals…."  She squints at Damian when he comes back.  "What Portals…?"
    Her attention wavers to Kian.  "Mind ports sound really cool… like a hat or something where you think and the computer does it… man if I could just have a little earpiece that did that and I could snark by thinking … shoot I could be on social media while fighting much easier that way."
    Another fistful of popcorn.  "Also what happened to Darkstar and Peregrine when you guys beat them?"

Kian t'Kaeh has posed:
    "Oh, no," Kían says to Ellie, touching his temple.  "Direct mind-to-computer contact.  It's not as close as mind to mind contact, but it's enough to control the house systems, or save an idea to a data file, or produce a three-dimensional image or video from a clear enough memory.  I regret that I don't know how to make one myself… my studies were a lot more theoretical than that."
    He adds, after a moment's reflection, "I hope there's not a negative me.  I don't want to see what I'm like using my rhy'thar without a care who it affects.  I don't like using it even with care."

Stardust has posed:
    "Green is a primary, Gar.  Opposite would have to be magenta," Stardust comments as she takes the note from Robin and reads it.  "And Kian, we have a guy part-time who can do that mind print thing.  Brick.  You've met him."  One eyebrow arches slightly and she returns the note to him.  "What happened to Darkstar and Peregrine," she responds to Negasonic while still looking at Damian, "What happened is that someone opened portals behind them and pulled them away.  Not that kind of portal though, they looked different.  I dunno Robin, I think this might be something else.  There were a couple of things they said…"
    Stardust hops to her feet and plays with the monitor controls a bit, zipping the playback to a couple of bookmarks.  In the first, Peregrine can be heard saying "Oh look, a Titan.  What a surprise.  You're up, Darkstar."  Darkstar responds, "Well, not that much of a surprise.  He does seem to be reliable.  I see a shadow, yours is coming too."  The second clip is shorter.  From the amount of sky in the background, it's a good guess that Stardust was on her back, looking up at Darkstar.  Darkstar's face shows pain and surprise, and she's rubbing her wrist furiously.  "You fucking BURNED me!" Darkstar yells at the camera.  "How did you… that's not on your power list!"
    Stardust returns to the sofa, and the popcorn.  "I think someones making knock-off Titans.  And you know?  I'm not sure we would have beaten them if we didn't have a Kian and a Vorpal on our side.  BeeBee raises a good question.  Are there just the two of them so far, or do we all have duplicates?  The portals at the end bringing them out, maybe they're anti-rabbit-holes."
    Stardusts eyes finally roam back to Robin.  "What they weren't is boom tubes.  I could tell because there was no boom."  She nods her head cautiously towards the crystal in Robin's hand.  "Watcha doing with that?"

Beast Boy has posed:
    With Robin's disappearance short-lived, it leaves Beast Boy to include him in the focus of his attention as they all watch what's getting played back.  "Body camera?  Good idea.  Wouldn't work so well for someone like me, unfortunately.  And some consider green a secondary color, so… you know what?  Not important right now."  He mimes zipping his lips, cradling the oversized drink cup in hand in the process.
    "Grape Ape?  Please."  This heralds a shift into, unsurprisingly enough, a big green gorilla.  "Ain't nobody got nothing on me, and I may be often imitated but never duplicated!" he says, now some eight feet tall or so, with much bigger hands.  He probably hasn't been imitated.  There was also a *SHRRRIIPP* he missed.  It's a lot easier for him to tip the rest of the slop that is the popcorn and butter into his big mouth, popping the top off the disposable cup to wash the rest of it down.  "Now that hits the spot," he says, his voice having altered into something much deeper, more fitting for a Planet of the Green Apes character.
    Rubbing his hands together, he points a bigger simian finger at the screen.  "Whatever this is all about, we'll find them and put a stop to it.  Just be prepared for crazy weirdness."
    At that point, after setting the now-empty food and drink down, Gar returns to his usual form and freezes in place for all of about a second before his hands dart down.  "Oh shiiii—" Someone's realized the ruined tank top and shorts, which, apparently not being made of the same stuff he usually wears, did not survive the initial transformation.  "Hangonsorryberightback!"  They'll all get a brief glimpse of green glutes and more as he takes off like a shot, then goes a step further as a cheetah, en route to his room.

Robin (Wayne) has posed:
    Damian holds that crystal in his hand and holds it out to Colette.  "While I was gone… there was an accident with one of these.  I need to do further experiments."
    The other footage is watched, but he still has his reservations.  "We will have to figure it out for real.  But my money is still on this.  But when the anti-Robin shows up…I fear for you all."  Yes, that was truly what came from his heart.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
    "I still want one of those mind computer interfaces Kian… that sounds fantastic."
    "Anti-rabbit hole portal powers would definitely be a thing…."  She settles in to watch the footage and listens to it.  "They seem to have dossiers on our powers than… thankfully you two had backup if it would have been a close call."  While Stardust is gone she helps herself to more popcorn without competition now.
    Ellie shifts throwing one arm over the back of the couch there and watches Beast Boy do his giant green gorilla impression.  She siiiips her redbull and then looks to the floor and back up.  Somehow she is socially concious enough and pro justice her phone at no point makes it out of her pocket into her hands for this whole show.  "I think the mind computer port thing sounds great Kian."  Okay, she had to make at least some sort of smart ass comment there.

Kian t'Kaeh has posed:
    Kían watches Gar run out, looking baffled again.  "What was that about?  I mean, yes, I know, you Terrans are weird about your bodies even though everybody has one."  He rolls his eyes.  "And it's not like he had anything that wasn't worth showing off.  Put some wings on him and he'd never be alone on my world," he adds, far more innocently than a comment like that should be said.
    *huff*
    "Terrans are weird."
    And then he fixes Robin with a very direct look.  "I would be more worried about an inverted version of myself.  I fear my powers, and don't know the limits of them, and hold back from fear of injuring others.  Imagine a version of me that not only embraces them, but uses them without regard.  You have derided me for being a pacifist; I don't think you've spent a second thinking just how much damage I could do if I weren't."

Stardust has posed:
    Stardust hears the *SHRRRIIPP* behind her and does a very sharp piece of detective work, illustrated by a hand going up next to her head to shield her eyes from anything green and untoward.  However it doesn't occur to her to warn Beast Boy.  Or indeed anyone else.
    Or maybe it did occur to her.
    "Exactly my thought, Nega.  Like they've been studying us… figuring out how to cancel us out, one-against-one.  My guess is these are the people who have been breaking out a bunch of our old enemies lately.  They've been gathering intelligence, guaging our powers.  It makes sense.  They didn't figure with Kian, though.  Anti-Raven manipulates light.  So does Kian.  That may be a tactical error on their part.  By trying to defeat what they know about us, we can beat them with what they don't know.  They didn't know about Kian.  They didn't know I can make my hands hot."
    Stardust takes the crystal from Robin, looking at him with an arched eyebrow as she does so.  With her eyes on him, she doesn't notice the light sprinkling of Kirby krackle that dusts her fingers momentarily when she first touches it.  "If he's the same height as you I'll just put a hand on his forehead," she says "This one of the ones from the heavy cannons?" she asks, studying the crystal.  "Brick warned us not to mess with these.  He thinks they might like… resonate with a partner-crystal on Apokalips, or something.  Like if you drain energy from it, they might boom tube it straight back, along with anybody standing close.  Mess with one of the smaller ones from the blast rifles."  She thinks about her warning, and what Damian had just said.  "Wait a minute.  What accident?"

Beast Boy has posed:
    Might be a good thing Gar was long gone by the time Kian offered up his assessment of what he just saw.  Thanks in part to the speed at which he got out of there, he's back much faster in a new, identical tank top and pair of shorts, the upper piece being tugged into place by the time he comes back into view.  "Memo to self: do not forget what you're wearing this time," he can be heard muttering quietly.  There's a mild brown hue at his cheeks and ears, which is what happens when a red blush mixes with green skin.
    "So, where were we?  Talking about weird Titan doubles and did I just hear something about not knowing stuff about us?  That just means we should be unpredictable and things.  Mix it up.  Change looks."  He takes a moment to make eye contact with each person present.  "That doesn't mean I'm going out dressed like Raven."

Robin (Wayne) has posed:
    "Yes yes, Beast Boy's posterior is also green.  What else is new?" he comments, staring at the chaos crystal in his hand, before it's taken away from him.
    Damian turns his head sharply and comments to Kian.  "Oh, you have powers?  I couldn't tell.  I just thought you consummately stood behind cover."
    Damian looks to Colette and looks uneased.  He unbuckles his tunic and opens the armor plating in his undersuit, showing his now immaculate chest underneath.  He had been scarred, multiple times, she'd seen them before, but now there was nothing, except the definition of his muscles.  "I was hit by an exploding chaos crystal.  And the only thing that brought me back from death, was an infusion of that same omega energy that is stored in those crystals."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
    "I didn't do it."  It sounds absolutely rehearsed so she follows it up with "I really didn't… I haven't messed with the tank or gone through the armory without you Colette."  She took the warning to heart.  Mostly because she doesn't want to be stuck on Apokalypse alone despite her bravado.
    "So if they didn't know about Kian they might not know about me yet… I am both disappointed and excited about being a wild card up the proverbial sleeve on this one then.  I am more than happy to blow up some poser duplicants."
    To Kian, "You do know he could totally get wings if he wanted to right?"
    Then to what BB says "Well chaneg looks or perhaps swap dance partners… purposefully don't fight your doppleganger but one of the other mock-titans you know how to take down perhaps."
    To Damian she eye rolls.  "Be nice to the Birdy, he is still a good medic and healer and air transport even if he won't fight."  Yeah, she is not big on the force people to do things they are morally opposed to.  Though honestly Damian is probably morally opposed to being nice.

Kian t'Kaeh has posed:
    "Yes, well, if you were really as observant as you think you are, you would know why I may not engage directly in fighting, and why I avoid using my other abilities," Kían remarks coldly to Damian.  "And perhaps if you thought about it for a microsecond, you might also realize that no one else on this planet has my blood type, much less any knowledge of my biology.  If I am injured, I die.  And I have no intention of dying any time soon."
    He blinks at Ellie, and offers a much milder correction: "I'm not a medic.  Even training with Imperial Emergency Services, I had no more training than to be able to alert the actual healers as to what injuries a victim might have had.  But thank you."

Stardust has posed:
    "Kian swung the fight in our favor Robin," Stardust says pointedly as she hands the crystal back.  "There's a lot he can do.  If we can't figure out a way he can be useful, that's our failure not his.  Omega energy fucking sucks.  I got a dose of that stuff one time and it was no fun at all.  Well… okay, some bits of it were fun to be fair.  I mean I got to punch a dinosaur AND some Roman soldiers.  Not many people can say they got to punch a dinosaur and a Roman.  But also it fucking sucks.  Have you been unstuck in time at all?  Or any other side effects?  Growing a massive chin and planning to take over the world or anything?"  Sometimes it's not worth the effort of trying to keep up with Colette's explanations.
    "Mix it up, yeah," Stardust replies to Gar.  "But nobody dresses up as Raven, that's likely to be more dangerous than fighting these freaks.  Nega's got it about right with the wild cards.  These guys aren't dopplegangers, just approximations.  My one was quite a bit stronger than me, but also quite a bit easier to hurt.  Trying to take on our dopplegangers might sound like a trap we could fall into, but it could equally be said about them.  Maybe Peregrine would have had a better chance against me.  But it's half right.  Thing is, clearly that's the way they are thinking.  Which means they've missed something really important about the Titans, which is that we're a team.  It's not about who can take down who, it's about how working as a team we can complement each other.  Kian controls light.  He weakened Peregrine's light powers so Raven could beat her.  Vorp is the master of distractions, and he took down Darkstar's guard so I could beat her.  I'm guessing that they don't have an anti-Kian or an anti-Negas… a Posiphotonic Middle-Aged Peacebutt.  You guys are new, and haven't exactly been patrol regulars as yet.  We can use that.  Pretty sure they won't have an anti-Danger, because true AIs are kind of hard to come by."
    Stardust narrows her eyes in thought for a few moments, then gives a shake of her head.  "Nega, Kian, I want you two to keep a low profile in public with the team for now.  Minimal use of powers.  I don't want to tip our hands.  Also I'm going to accelerate…"  She stops herself suddenly, blinks a couple of times, and glances at Robin.  "Well.  Anyway we should think about that."

Beast Boy has posed:
    Beast Boy makes a show of buffing his knuckles after taking the popcorn bowl and cup back to the kitchen, the latter being deposited in the bin for recycling.  Green in all ways, that one.
    "Chill, dude," he says to Robin, squinting briefly as the lack of scars are pointed out.  Maybe he never even knew there were any in the first place.  "Look, I'm not gonna pretend I'm an expert on half of what you guys are talking about with this omega energy stuff, but whoever's behind this, we can take 'em.  We're all here for a reason, and we're all good at different things.  All we have to do is use that to our advantage."
    A hint of pride seeps through what he has to say next.  "And they can make some Beast Boy copy all they want.  Whoever it is, I'll always know how to use my animal forms better.  I have years of experience and studying up in here," as he taps the side of his head, "that they can't possibly duplicate."
    Negasonic is given a nod to the strategy talk, though he gives Kian a curious look.  "What about me and wings?  Did you want to go flying again later?"  Regardless of Colette suggesting a winged person keep a low profile moments before.

Robin (Wayne) has posed:
    Damian's white eyes sneer as Kian retorts.  "Oh, I am observant.  I just think it is a disgraceful excuse for not engaging."  The other reasons don't get much attention, though he does hear them.  Damian slips a scalpel from his medkit and holds it up.  "Then let's learn about alien anatomy."
    It was not serious, as Robin slipped the scalpel back as quickly as he extracted it from his utility belt.  "No time travel, no dinosaurs.  But there were side effects… I was completely healed after the infusion… among other things."  He takes the crystal and places it in an empty compartment on his belt.  "And yes, it was from a cannon, the size was about the same as the one that exploded on me."
    The commands from Colette cause Robin to raise an eyebrow, was that…leadership?  From Colette?  Get the thermometer, somethings wrong!

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
    "Well honestly shouldn't be hard… we haven't really done patrols or missions yet because you said you wanted to focus on training and simulations more first.  So… let's do that and then when these douplechucks pop up again we surprise them and don't let them portal out.  Maybe we take the fight to them even and surprise them."  She seems remarkably chill about it really.  I mean yes she just signed up for more training but it isn't like the X-Men haven't been sidelining her for almost four years to the New Mutants and non-stop danger rooming and you aren't ready to be an X-Men yet.
    At least with the Titan's she has a light at the end of the tunnel right.
    "That weakening the light powers sounds super useful, good job Birb Bro."  And to BB: "I also admit to no knowledge of Omega Energy other than it sounds pretty death metal.  The END Energy…."  She shakes her head.  Then she looks to Kian.  "If you can bend light and weaken anothers powers, maybe you can do other protective or defensive things without causing violence upon someone right?"

Kian t'Kaeh has posed:
    Kían glares down the scalpel, and is suddenly limned in a faint sky-blue glow—that fades the same instant the blade is put away.  All Kían has to say to Robin is, "Barbarian.  As if I care what you think about my reasons."
    He closes his eyes a moment, takes one deep breath, and grows calmer—even though the peak of his anger never really raised above an edge in the voice.  "I… can restrict my flying to the nights, Colette, if that will help.  I cannot just remain inside—although it hardly matters if they see me flying, what's a negative version of me going to do, swim?  And not using my rhy'thar will be easy, I don't like using it in the first place… although you're hoping I will, as a surprise for these negative versions."
    He sighs heavily.  "That said… I need some open air to clear my head.  It's probably late enough I wouldn't be noticed."  He tilts his head towards Gar.  "Care to join me?  No falcons, I can't fly that fast."

Stardust has posed:
    Stardust stares at Robin for a while, her own eyebrow raising to match his.  After a moment she nods to him, very slowly.  "We need to get Raven and Vorp in and have a meeting," she says to him quietly.  "The four of us.  Things to discuss.  To decide."  She holds the gaze for a beat, then turns away.  "Fly as much as you like, Kian.  Just keep your T-Com with you and buzz us immediately if anyone comes after you.  Keep them guessing about the rhy'thar though."  She almost pronounced it correctly that time.  "Nega?  I'd like to evaluate your unpowered combat training."  She jerks her head in the direction of the elevator.  "Got a few minutes?  Nothing too strenuous.  That comes next training session.  I just want to see what you can do when you're not relying on being able to blast things to oblivion.  If you ask nicely, Robin may let you punch him in the face."

Beast Boy has posed:
    Beast Boy beams.  "Bird got a little bite to him!"  He stays out of the exchange between Robin and Kian aside from that much, adding, "Let's all just be smart about things—be quiet—at least until we've got this all worked out."  He had to slip that in when he started up with that suggestion.
    Colette's suggestion that four meet to talk about things, while not including him as part of it, has him tilting his head briefly, but he says nothing.  In fact, he may need to speak with them about his status given the amount of time he'd been away over the last number of months.  Instead, the idea of flight leads to Gar grinning.  "Sure, let's go.  But better we stay around the tower this time."  Best he remember the clothing thing this time around, since he isn't in costume.