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[says_the_booyah]

Cy is trying really, really hard to concentrate on his physics homework.  It's quantum physics, meaning concentration is crucial.  Too bad his mind keeps drifting to the Big Titans Reorg (as Kid Flash snarkily called it).  Maybe conversation will be more effective than studying today.  So feel free to interrupt.

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[fairy_fixit]

Fairy Fixit is still working on a strategy for safely bring all the portals in Prifddinas online safely, so she may be looking for a distraction when she flies by Cy's table.

That nearly two-foot long bug winged blonde woman hovering over the quantum physics homework would be her. "Ooh, that is some interesting looking mathematics; what is it?"

[says_the_booyah]

"Er, quantum physics." A two long foot flying woman isn't that weird to Cy. Bumblebee shrinks smaller.

[fairy_fixit]

"Oh! Where have I heard that term before?" She pauses to think. "Doped crystal electrical semiconductors I think. It's how they work?"

[says_the_booyah]

"It's a key part of understanding how they work, yeah. You tinker with such things?" Would maybe be easier for someone that small that it is for him. (He really needs smaller fingers.)

[fairy_fixit]

"Well, I use a different kind of technology, using a friendly sort of energy. Well, not friendly but something more understood on Zanaris. But I have occasionally had to build interfaces to electronic semiconductor technology from worlds that have figured out teleportation and wanted to join our network."

"Fairy Fixit," she says while bowing in the air, "teleportation network engineer for the Zanaris division of the Abyssal Services Department."

[says_the_booyah]

"Cyborg, member of the Titans superhero team." Going to take a lot of getting used to calling it that and not the Teen Titans. "So you merge magic and science?"

[fairy_fixit]

"Magic and science? They are kind of the same thing, aren't they? Well, no, you use science to study magic. Well, not magic like demon magic. That has more with looking up documentation in a pile of documents for spells written by programmers that have way too much love for their own names and language structures and odd sounding phonemes and end user contracts - demons are such language nerds - but if the documentation is too dense or unreadable or is missing then I guess you could blackbox it and use scientific methods to figure out how to use it without all that language bloat. Fortunately demons haven't made any request to join or use our network, they like doing things on their own so I haven't had to integrate any of their teleportation technology. Hmmm... I think that some of our customers would be very opposed to demons accessing the network."

Uuuhhh... "Yes," is her short answer.

[says_the_booyah]

"Ummmmm.

"Should I have been taking notes? Is there going to be a test?" He feels like he was in one of his less inspiring classes.

[fairy_fixit]

"Oh, sorry, no. My mouth tends to get away from me sometimes." Eep

"So, Cyborg, what is the difference between super hero and hero on your world?" Maybe a better topic than hacking together magic based and physics based tech.

[daringyoungman]

Well.

Well, didn't Dinah say that she saw his name on the tabs list?

It takes a few seconds, safe in the darkness of the rafters, for Dick to work up the courage to approach him. When he does, he puts a grin on it and just goes for it.

He announces his presence by dropping down, hanging from a rafter by his knees, and reading over Vic's shoulder.

"Physics, man. Just the way to suck all the joy out of life."

[says_the_booyah]

Cy almost jumps out of his seat. Twice. First at the sudden question. And then at a Nightwing. Too old to be the one he left at home. And the voice isn't quite the same. But is it a possible future version of his friend? Who knows?

"Hey, you really shouldn't do that whole 'Batman in the shadows' thing here."

[daringyoungman]

"And I wouldn't, if only I knew how to turn the damn thing off."

Dick grins at him, and drops down, using a back of a chair to flip himself to a seated position.

"Hi, Cy. Fancy meeting you here."

Please don't be dead.
Please please don't be evil Cyborg from the future.

[says_the_booyah]

"Yeah, considering I never met you here before. So I gotta ask...any idea how to figure out if we're from the same timeline." He has some thoughts on the matter.

[daringyoungman]

"I dunno." Because Cyborg's too young to know if Dick's just died or not. He leans back so his chair rocks on the back feet and waves at a waitrat. "Can I get some cereal?"

Back to Cyborg: "I mean, with the mini-me's it was easy. How many Robins have you got in your world, if any?"

[says_the_booyah]

"Right now? Unless Batman's holding back on us, none. You just became Nightwing yesterday.

"You from the world where Jason Todd was a Robin?" Or at least a world with that.

[daringyoungman]

"No, just me and one other."

Who that is apparently doesn't matter. Dick will protect Damian's reputation from this bar with his after-life.

"Which doesn't help really, dopes it? He may not have made his appearance for you guys yet. And you didn't make a costume comment so I'm going to assume I wear blue in your world too."

Not helpful, really.

"Alright, how'd we meet? You and me."

[says_the_booyah]

"You came to Jump City when you needed a break from Batman." A diplomatic way of putting it. "Starfire was fleeing from her captors, and we met when we were trying to help her. Was the first time I realized I could be a super-hero."

[runningred]

"You alright, Cy?" Jay asks, seeing Cy's hundred mile stare. "You look like you've got the weight of the world on your shoulders."

[says_the_booyah]

"Hey, Jay.

"Can you tell me something about the hiatory of the Titans on your world?" Can't hurt to ask.

[runningred]

"Sure mate. What do you want to know? Can't promise it'll all ring true for your world. I'm learning pretty quick this week that even between people from the same kinds of world there can be big fucking differences."

[says_the_booyah]

"Just the general history. Founding, expansions, reorganizations, breakaways, and so on." And later, he might ask about Jay's latest rantlet.

[runningred]

Jay takes a seat and thinks for a long moment. "When the first Robin got out from under the Bat's shadow, he hooked up with a bunch of other teens. Some of them were sidekicks, some young metas. Starfire, Arsenal, Tempest, Speedster. It was his way of reinventing himself as Nightwing."

"Lasted around four years before things... went wrong in Gotham and he left to go back. They pretty much disbanded after that. I hear the new Red Robin's reforming it with a new team."

[says_the_booyah]

"So not much like mine. I mean, it sort of started the same way ours did. Only Robbie just became Nightwing now. And I don't know who some of those people are. And I wasn't one of them." So really nothing like his.

[runningred]

"Ah, so the reshuffle wasn't a group decision. Sounds like your Nightwing's taking after Daddy-bat more than he should. You okay, you don't sound too happy about it."

[says_the_booyah]

"He didn't consult with the other founding members. So, no, not entirely happy.

"Not that his ideas for shifts and schedules and duty rosters is a bad one," Cy adds. "But he just called for a team meeting. And it happened."