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"Whoa...." Beast Boy said, still awed by the sight of the Watchtower. "This is way more cooler then the Tower."

"Tell me about it." Cyborg said, looking around the room at some of the computers and such. "Half of this tech looks more advanced than anything I've ever seen."

"The whole things a mix deign from different alien races." Supergirl stated. "Has a little bit of everything in it."

"How does something like this not get detected by other satellites or radar?" Robin asked.

"Cloaking technology." Wonder Girl said. "It's similar to that of what we use on my island home."

"If there's an island with girls as nice as her," Speedy whispered to Aqualad "no wonder they need to hide away."

"Come on." Batgirl said, already starting to walk for the door. "We need to go to the Monitoring Room. It's where everyone is."

The others followed, with Batgirl and the other girls taking the lead, as they went through the door and found themselves going down a main hallway. On each side of the hallway was a display case showing off different objects with small labels on them. The Titans had to individually stop now-and-then to get a closer look at some of the objects. Robin was taking a closer look at something called the Spear Of Destiny, Kid Flash was taking a close look at a golden mask referred to as the Medusa Mask, and Raven was most surprise when she found herself looking at an ancient looking book with its pages open.

"The Eternity Book!"  she said, almost in shock. "Every magic user in the world knows about this. It's said to give the user vast amounts of power."

"Neato." Beast Boy said. "Kinda like a power boost, only you can't eat it."

"From what I heard," Batgirl began, standing close to them as they looked "the League had to swipe it off Mordu the Merciless. Tried to remake the world into his own dark utopia."

"Bet I know someone he'd get along with." Raven said to herself before rejoining the others.

They continued on until they came to the door leading to the Communication Room. Just as they reached it, the door opened and a figure was standing there. He wore a dark blue costume that covered almost all of his body with the exception of his head and hands. On his chest were two red straps that came to look like a X. They in turn seemed to connect to a red belt around his waist. They attached to a long dark blue cape that hung from his back. When they looked at his face, a few of the Titans gave a slight gasp of him. His skin was green, a bit more darker of a green than BB, he had no hair so it exposed his bald scalp, and his eyes were an intense, yet calming red. He seemed human and yet had a hint of alien physic to him.

"Ah," he said, seeing them all "good to see you've arrived. I was just about to make my way to the transport hub to greet you."

"Sorry, J'onn." Supergirl said. "Kinda beat you to it."

"I see." He said, looking at the others. "I see you brought more than we were expecting."

"Uh...yeah, sorry about that." Robin said. "It was kinda my idea. Um...and you are?"

"Oh, duh." Batgirl said, smacking her forehead "I forgot to introduce. Titans, I'd like you to meet the Martian Manhunter."

"My true name is J'onn J'onzz." The Manhunter said. "But please, call me J'onn."

"Wait, wait." Speedy began. " 'Martian' Manhunter? As in from Mars Martian?"

"There are not many other places a Martian can come from." J'onn said. "I am sad to tell you though, that I am the last of my kind. I've come here to Earth as a refuge."

"It is a pleasure to meet you, J'onn J'onzz of Mars." Starfire said, making her way up to meet him. "I am  Princess Starfire of Tamaran."

"An honor to meet you, your highness." He said, seeing her clearly now and give a slight bow. " It is interesting to see one of your kind so far from your home."

"I, like you, have been living among Earthlings in order to better understand their ways."  She said.

"I seems that Earth has become more of a refuge for otherworldly visitors than we believed." J'onn said with a smile.

"Cool." BB said, looking at J'onn from nearly every angle. "So do you have an freaky Martian powers?"

"We Martians are blessed with a number of natural gifts." He began. "One of which being shape shifting. The form you see is merely one more comfortable to human eyes."

"What about your real form?" Aqualad asked

"I prefer to keep it hidden. It would be....unsettling ...to most. Another of my gifts it telepathy."

"Oh really?" BB said, with a suddenly smirk growing over his face.

"Yes. And before you ask, the number you're thinking of is 26."

Beast boy gave suddenly grumble of defeating, seeing that he didn't get a chance to really try and test out J'onn's abilities, while some like Wonder Girl and Starfire giggled at this.

J'onn looked to all of them and said "Come, the others are waiting."

The Titans followed him into the Monitoring Room, and once they were inside they were just as supposed by what they saw then when they first entered the Watchtower. The room was much large and had and equally large glass covering, showing more of the Earth than the other did. It was large and circled in shape and the walls were lined with more advanced looking computers and machines, which Cyborg would later point out were defiantly real this time. In the center was a large table-like structure that had a source of light coming from the center of it. J'onn would later explain it was a holographic interface used to show information and prepare for missions.

Further away, on the other side of the room, a group of multicolored costumed heroes were standing around what seemed like someone sitting in a chair looking over one of the computers, most likely the main one given its size, and discussing something. They all stopped and looked over at the Titans who now entered the room.

One of the heroes, who the teens recognized the instant he started walking over, came to greet them. He was tall with a blue suit. He had a red cape and boots to match. Around his waist was a shiny yellow belt. And on his chest was the same styled red and yellow S that his cousin had.

"Great to finally meet you, Teen Titans." Superman said.

"Wow." Speedy said, looking at him and talking to Aqualad "It's....It's really him."

Suddenly Beast Boy zipped past the others and started shaking his hand, saying in a fast pace"Superman.Sonicetofinallymetyouinperson.I'mBeastBoy.Bigfan.I'vereadallyourinterviewpapersfromthePlanet.Iknowyouprobablygetthisalotbutcanhaveyourautograph?" he finished by pulling out a little black book and pen while taking deep breathes  after talking so fast.

Superman gave a chuckle while saying "Nice to meet you, Beast Boy, And all of you." He said looking to the other Titans. "Although there's a few more than what we were expecting."

"I brought the others, sir." Robin said, stepping forward. "Couldn't leave my team behind with such an important matter."

"I understand." Superman said. "Robin, right?" he started shaking his hand while saying "Heard a lot about you."

"Same to you, sir." He said, while giving a confident smile. "Hope we can help in anyway."

"Wouldn't have called you if we didn't think so." He said, patting him on the back. "Come on. I'll introduce you to the rest of the team."

"Is that my trouble-making nephew I see?" someone from League's group asked.

They looked to see a man dressed in a full-bodied red suit that even covered the top of his head and eyes, leaving his mouth exposed.  On the side of his head were two yellow lightning bolt prongs that stuck out. They seemed to match with the yellow boots he wore, as well as the yellow electric-styled circles that went around his fore arms and waist. On the center of his chest was a white circle with a lightning bolt in the center of it.

"Uncle!" Kid flash suddenly exclaimed after seeing him.

He zipped over and embraced the Flash, while his uncle said "How you doing Kid?" he rubbed his exposed red hair while saying. "Looking good."

"Same to you." KF said, stopping from hugging him and looking up. "How's grandpa Jay doing?"

"Fine enough." Flash bean. "A bit slow in his age, but still as quick as a bullet."

As the others saw this, Raven said to herself "Just when you thought one wasn't enough..."

Speedy was the next to see someone very familiar to him coming to meet the group. He seemed around the same age as Superman, with blonde hair and a matching goatee. He wore a mask similar to Speedy and Robin's around his eyes.  He was dressed almost similar o Speedy himself. He wore a green hoody jacket-like costume that exposed his arms, which had green bands on his fore arms that matched with his fingerless gloves. The pants he wore were a brighter green than the jacket and bands, which also matched the darker green of his boots he wore. On his waist was a green belt with a dark green G buckle. Around his chest was a strap that harnessed a green quiver with green arrows, and strung on his left arm and shoulder was a green bow.

Speedy walked to him with a growing smile and said "You're looking good, old man."

"Same to you, son." The green wearing man said, walking over and finally meeting his protégé.

Once they met, the two shook hands before bringing themselves in for a hug.

"Glad you could make it, Speedy." He said, after they finished hugging.

"Wouldn't miss this for the world." Speedy said. "How's Dinah doing?"

"She's great. Visiting with Ted for now. Recently went into retirement."

After that, Speedy lead the man over to the Titans and said "Guys, I'd like you to meet my mentor: Green Arrow."

"Hi there." Green Arrow said, with a salute with his fingers.

"Wait," BB began "if your Green Arrow," he indicated him "then how do you" he looked to Speedy "end up with a name like Speedy?"

"Well 'Yellow Arrow' doesn't exactly have that nice of a ring to it." Speedy said, as he pulled out one of his own arrows to indicate.

"Plus the little tyke here was prone to do things a little faster than most." Green Arrow added. "Told you red would be a better color to go with."

"I'll think about it." Speedy finished.

As a few other League members started to come closer, Aqualad nearly jumped and sprang from the group as he made his way over to one in particular. He was another tall man with blonde hair and a beard. His costume was orange with dark green pants that seemed to cover his feet too. The way they looked, the parts of the costume looked like they were made from scales of fish. On the back of his legs were two fin-like extensions that pointed down, as part of the costume. And around his waist was a gold belt with a styled A for a buckle.

Aqualad ran up to him and gave a deep bow, saying "My king. It's good to see you again."

"And to you, my old friend." The man said, reached down to straighten him up from his bowing. "I'm glad to see that while you've been away from Atlantis, you've managed to join quite the impressive team."

"Thank you, my king." Aqualad said. "How is the queen and prince Arthur?"

"They're both well. He's learning his way around adventuring with his old man. Seems to have the same spark that I saw in another young lad I swam around the seas with." He said with a smile.

As Aqualad smiled back, the other Titans looked with a slight amazement at the change in his attitude from this person.

"That is the Aquaman, yes?" Starfire asked.

"Looks like it." Cyborg answered.

"And he is the King of Atlantis?" he asked again

"That's right." Superman answered this time. "Although he tends to do more time under the seas, Aquaman's still one of our most prominent members. In fact he's one of the original seven who founded the group."

Starfire nodded while smiling as she was learning more and more about the people she was meeting today. Superman started to lead the reaming Titans along with Speedy, including Martian Manhunter and Green Arrow, over to meet with the others who had assembled. For the most part the Titans knew who they were meeting, but there were some members they weren't as familiar with who they were eventually introduced to.

One, which Wonder Girl was more than happy to see, was a woman with long dark hair, that hung down instead of being in a ponytail like her. She had similar bracelets on her wrists and a golden lasso on her yellow belt like Wonder Girl, but her uniform was much more different. She wore a golden tiara on her head with a red star in the center of it. On her body was a red top with an gold eagle formed on the top. She wore a blue bottom that exposed her legs, which had long red boots on them. The bottom was decorated with stars and her belt, a bit different from Wonder Girl's, seemed to arch around into the actual shape of a W instead of it being a belt buckle.

Wonder Woman greeted Wonder Girl with open arms as she said "Good to see you back sister."

"And to you." Wonder Girl said.

"Wow." Cyborg said seeing the this. "The real Wonder Wo...wait a sec, sister?"

"She's YOUR sister?" BB asked, just as shocked by the major age difference.

"Adopted sister." Wonder Woman corrected. "But then all of us on Paradise Island are sisters at heart."

"Paradise Island, huh?" BB said, ponder on this. "Full ladies just as gorgeous as that, I'm looking into the next flight there.

Raven rolled her eyes at this while Superman said "I guess I should properly introduce you to Princess Diana of the Amazon's then." He indicated Wonder Woman.

"Princess?" Cyborg and BB said surprised.

"Oh it is such a delight to meet others of royalty from Earth." Starfire said with glee.

"Sheesh." BB began "Between you two being princesses," he indicated Wonder Woman and Starfire "and him being a King," he indicated Aquaman, "this is starting to turn into a royal's fest."

"True." Cy said. "Who knows, you might make a good court jester."

BB gave a low grumble before Superman said "Come on, I'll introduce you to the rest of the team."

The first member they met was a man with light brown hair. His costume was mainly black but a large portion was green, going from the neck, exposing the arms and stopping at the waist. His boots were the same green color as well, with a pair of arm bands on his wrist being green as well. On his face was a green mask that covered his eyes and made them appear white underneath. On his chest was the symbol of a green lantern behind a white background, matching the ring on his finger.

"Hal Jordan, Green Lantern." He said, introducing himself to the Titans.

Starfire gave a gasp before walking up, and saying "A real Green Lantern! Oh it is such a delight to meet one of your Corp!" She finished with a slight bow.

"Thanks." He said. "You're a Tameranean , right? I've visited your home planet a few times. Very nice bunch...when they're not trying to arm wrestle you every other conversation."

"Don't we know it." Robin said to the other Titans, referring to their trip they took to Tameran.

"Lot of green on this team, isn't there?" Raven said, indicating Green Arrow, Lantern, The Manhunter and even Beast Boy.

"What can you say?" BB said, slicking his hair back for a moment "Green goes with everything."

"Whatever." She said back

"A Tameranean, here?" a voice from behind Lantern said. "Not something I would expect."

The speaker came to view for them to see. It was another woman, who wore a gold and black hawk helmet that covered her eyes but made them seemed like bird eyes given the design. She wore a green and yellow top that stopped at her naval. Her bottom was green and yellow as well, with red boots too. What made her stand out the most was that she had two large wings one her back, and a large silver mace in her hands and a strap from it around her wrist.

"Everyone," Superman began "this is Hawkgirl from Thanagar."

She simple gave a nod to them, while she looked more closely at Starfire.

"And you're the princes as well?" she said to her. "Couldn't handle the throne so you passed it on to someone else?"

Starfire merely cast her head down, while some of the others gave concerned looks.

"Alright, Shayera." Superman said. "That's enough."

She simply gave a "humpf" before walking off to talk with Aquaman and Aqualad.

"Uh...did I miss something?" BB asked, scratching his head.

"The Thanagarians and Tameraneans do not see eye-to-eye." J'onn stated. Starfire looked at him, a bit surprised he knew this, before he looked to her and said "I read it from your mind."

Seeing her down casted look, Lantern walked up to her and said "Hey don't let it get you down, Kid. She's just like that with a lot of new comers. You get used to it."

"Or she tries to take that mace to you." Someone approaching them said. "Either way it lets you know how she feels."

The person who spoke was a man dressed in a fully body orange-yellow suit with black boots and gloves. He had blonde hair and his eyes were covered by the rest of the suit and a pair of goggles over that. On the chest of his costume was a blue A that went nearly all the way down to his legs. Over his costume he wore a simple looking leather jacket.

There was another with him, a woman who as dressed as a stage magician. She had long dark hair, similar to Wonder Woman's, and wore a top hat. She had a white button shirt and jacket, a yellow waist band, white gloves on her hands,  black shorts, grey stockings and black boots. In her hand she held a simple looking wand.

Next to her was one other hero. He was African American, with glowing yellow eyes. His costume was a full body suit of red with yellow around the chest. He had yellow gloves and bots as well. But what stood out the most was his head of fire that seemed to not bother him.

Superman stood in front  and said "Allow me to introduce..."

"Animal Man." The one in yellow said, cutting superman off. He walked over and started shaking hands with Robin, saying "Able to gain the powers of any animal on the planet."

"Looks like someone's got competition." Raven said to BB, making him grumble.

"This here is Zatanna." He indicated the magician girl "mistress of magic."

"You were saying?" BB coyly said back to Raven, making her give slight groan.

"And Firestorm." He continued. "The nuclear man."

"Nuclear man?" Cy asked, a bit surprised by this.

"Oh don't worry." Firestorm said. "My abilities keep any radiation from leaking or spreading. You're all perfectly fine."

"Cool." Cy said, walking up to him now. "So what kinda powers do you have?"

"Energy blasts and transmutation." He said. "I can rearrange the structure of things on a  sub-atomic level."

"Sweet." CY said. "So how do you...?"

As the two of them began to talk, Raven walked up to Zatanna, who started shaking her hand.

"Zatanna." She said.

"Raven." She said back.

"So given by the look of your clothes and that gem stone, you must be from Azarath. Right?"

"You...know about Azarath?"

"Of course. I did a lot of studying into inter-dimensional powers and alchemy. Even took some time in Nabu's realm just to get down transfiguration spells. "

"Really?" Raven said, with a small smile starting to grow on her face.

While that was going on, Beast Boy looked to Animal Man and said "So you 'gain the abilities' of animals?"

"That's right." He said. "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Heck, even durability of a cockroach and the stink of a skunk."

"Yeah, well what about actually being the skunk?" he retorted in a coy tone.

"That's sounds like a challenge, little man." Animal said, in an enthusiastic yet also coy tone. "Think you got what it takes to handle the likes of me?"

"You're on, A-Man." BB declared.

The two seemed eager enough for their friendly little romp. Robin, standing with Superman, Starfire, Martian Manhunter, Batgirl, Speedy and Green Arrow, looked over to see someone sitting on the chair facing the computer screen. Even though he couldn't see who, he had a pretty good idea who was there. Seeing this, Batgirl was the one to rush over to the person sitting in the chair and talk with him. It took a moment before he finally turned rose form the chair.

He wore a grey costume that went with his dark cape and cowl, similar to Batgirls but more pointed ears. His gloves and boots were black as well. Around his waist, a utility belt similar to Batgirl's and Robins, only less yellow in color. And on his chest was the black symbol of a bat.

Batman walked over, his cape now covering his front more, as he looked over the group. Batgirl had followed behind and gave a concerned glace to him and Robin, who was just looking at him with a slight glare.

"And this is Batman." Superman said to the others. "But I'm sure you all knew that, given Robin's history with him." He finished with a more awkward tone now.

"It is quite the honor to meet you, sir." Starfire said, floating in front to greet him. "I have heard many great things about you."

"Thanks." He bluntly said before walking over to stand right in front of Robin.

Both of them looked at each other, giving the same slight glare to the other. The others nearby gave concerned glances to one another, not sure of what to do or say.

"Well..." Batgirl began, walking up and holding each one by the shoulder. "...this is nice, right? It's been so long. You both haven't talked in a while. I'm sure you have a lot of things to talk about, right?" she finished with an awkward smile.

"You're looking well." Batman finally said to him.

"Same to you." Robin retorted.

With that both of them walked away, to engage in other conversations.

Batgirl gave a deep sigh of relief before saying "Well that went better than I thought."

"Tell me about it." Superman said. "I was half expecting one to throw a batarang at the other."

"Do not let that fool you." J'onn said. "Their mouths may not have said much, but in their minds they were saying much more."

"Like?" batgirl asked.

"I'd rather not say."

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For the next hour the Titans and League conversed amongst one another. Starfire spoke with Martian Manhunter and Supergirl about adjusting to life on Earth. Raven, Wonder Girl and Zatanna spoke about magical properties with certain matters. Beast Boy, Aqualad, Aquaman and Animal Man talked about involvement with animals and dealing with other animals given their different powers. Cyborg talked with Green Lantern, Hawkgirl and Firestorm over technology used for the Watchtower. Robin and Batgirl talked with Flash and Kid Flash about some of the attacks that took place. And Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman talked amongst themselves after gathering some information from the Titans about the attacks.

There was a point where Robin glanced over from his conversation to look at Batman, who was still talking with the others, before casting his head down and sighing. Batgirl put her hand on his shoulder and gave him a reassuring look, which he smiled at. Starfire saw this while talking with J'onn, and gave a sigh to herself, still unsure of what to make of this.

"Everyone!" Superman finally said, gaining all attention. "If you'll please, it's time we disused the matter at hand."

"If you'll all take a seat," Batman said, indicating the large table in the room, "we can begin."

With that everyone made their way over. For the most part, there were enough chairs for plenty to sit, with the exception of a few who stood. Batman and Superman stood at the "head" of the table, where the controls to the holo-interface in the middle were. Going clockwise, it was Robin, Batgirl, Starfire, Aqualad with Aquaman standing behind him, Raven, Wonder Girl, Zatanna, Kid Flash with Flash standing behind him, Hawkgirl, Speedy, Green Arrow, Firestorm, Cyborg , Animal Man, Beast Boy, Supergirl with Martian Manhunter behind her, Green Lantern and finally Wonder Woman.

Batman punched in a few commands on the interface before saying "As you've all been made aware, within the last 56 hours many of us have come under attack by wanted super criminals. Each attacking on our own turf." As he spoke, the information he talked about appeared on the interface. "Criminal names from our files include enemies such as The Parasite, Captain Boomerang, Killer Frost, Abra Kadabra, Scarecrow and Cheetah."

"And man does that kitty have claws." Batgirl said. "Got me right on the arm when she attacked." She finished by ribbing her right arm.

Robin stood next and said "And from what we've learned about which of our enemies were involved," he began to type in codes "names include Cinderblock, Cheshire, Billy Numerous, Trident, Doctor Light and Mammoth."

"Whoa." Bb said. "That's a lot of bad guys."

"And there may be more we're not aware of." Batman added.

"Any ideas why they started this?" Firestorm asked.

"From what else we were able to gather," Superman began "is seems this new assemblage is calling itself the Injustice league."

"Not very creative in the name department, are they?" Flash noted.

"Seriously." Kid Flash added.

"The name's not important." Batman continued. "What is important is that this new group seems a reflection of the original super villain team, the Secret Society. Lead by Gorilla Grodd at the time."

"So could it be this Grodd guy then?" Cyborg asked

"Not likely." Batman answered. "Last we checked, he's still being held in the Gorilla City custody."

"Gorilla City?" BB asked.

"Long story." Flash stated. "Not important right now."

"But this is also similar to our own villain team we faced." Robin began. "The Brotherhood of Evil. Lead by the Brain. And when I looked into it, reports said he escaped with some of his old crew."

"So then it could be them again, right?" Speedy asked

"Not sure." Robin continued. "Given some of these other names, other possibilities include Brother Blood, who's also escaped from Steel City prison. And given the way this was planned out, my own personal thoughts point to Slade, who's been missing for some time now."

"Bet you five bucks is probably IS him." BB said.

"Slade?" Superman asked. "You're sure about that name?"

"Defiantly." Robin answered. "Why?"

"Some years ago," Batman began "we'd been tracking the works of a metahuman mercenary who called himself Deathstroke the terminator. We eventually lost his trail after his apparent death in Santa Prisca. But we found out his true name was Slade Wilson."

"Whoa." Raven said.

"A meahuman mercenary?" BB asked. "So why change his name?"

"Everybody thinks you're dead." Cyborg began "What better way at a new start then changing name and location."

"So it just might be him." Supergirl said.

"Or it could be someone new, calling the shots." Wonder Woman noted.

"Or even someone old using new tricks." Green Lantern added.

"We can't be sure unless we fully investigate." Batman said. "So here's the plan: there are three main locations that were pervious bases of operations for the teams. The Brotherhood's base in France, The underwater  H.I.V.E. academy, and the Secret Society's old headquarters in the Florida Everglades."

"We'll send teams to each location to see if we can find anything." Superman said. "Evidence of any kind or any possible leads." He looked to Robin and said "Do you think your team's up for this?"

"I know they are, sir." Robin said with a prideful smile.

"Then we'll start prepping now." Batman said. "Will all meet in the hanger once we've decided. This meeting is adjourned."

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In the hidden base of the Injustice League, Slade, Black Manta, and the Brian were talking with the mysterious leader.

"Our inside source revealed the Titans and the League are planning to send reconnaissance teams for a mission." Slade said to the leader.

[And they will be looking into some of our old bases of operation.] the Brain added. [Clever, but not exactly the best first move.]

"It doesn't matter." The leader said. "Let them look, because all they'll find is a little welcoming committee."

"Indeed." Black Manta said. "I will lead the force to the deal with the team at the Academy."

[And I shall have my own party waiting for the one in France.] Brain said.

"Good." The leader said.

"Do you wish me to meet the one in the Everglades?" Slade asked.

"No, no. I think it's time we introduce our ace for this game." The Leader turned to the others and smiled as someone else walked out from the darkness of the room and into the light. "The League and the Titans we'll be looking for valuable information, and instead all they'll find...is an X."

As he finished this, the figure fully stepped into the light to reveal Red X.