She Fell Down to Earth

She Fell Down to Earth is the second episode in Season One of The Titans. It is the second episode of the series overall.

Summary
Princess Koriand'r has begun to settle with Dick and Donna on Earth, discovering the wonders of mustard and pizza. A villain attack's Donna and this attack convinces her that the Titans are needed once again. Dick sends out calls for Tempest and Arsenal...but will they be ready to return?

Plot
Troia gets up and walks over to Koriand’r. She asks “Why did you blast me with…whatever that green light was?” Koriand’r looks a little guilty and says “I apologize. I thought you were going to attack me so I defended myself. Are you alright?” Troia shrugs and says “I…guess I’ve been hit harder. Just don’t go using that green hand thing all the time.” Nightwing asks about the “green hand thing” right as the police arrive. Koriand’r instinctively gets in front of Nightwing to protect him. Rohrbach and the police walk up and Nightwing steps up, telling Koriand’r that everything is alright. Rohrbach says “Will someone please tell me what the hell just happened here?!” Nightwing explains to Rohrbach everything that happened. Rohrbach asks if they should take in Koriand’r but Nightwing says he doesn’t think that will be necessary. Koriand’r apologizes for crashing in the park and shakes Rohrbach’s hand in a sweet (if silly) way. Rohrbach says that Koriand’r can stay but that her ship will need to be moved. Koriand’r asks them to be gentle with it as it was her father’s. Nightwing, Troia, and Koriand’r go back to the Bunker. Koriand’r marvels at the inside, saying “Wow! It is nice here!” She walks out to the kitchen and picks up a piece of the pizza. She looks at it in confusion. Nightwing says that it’s food and Koriand’r says “It…doesn’t look like any food I have ever seen before.”

She takes a bite of it and thinks it tastes weird. Dick takes off his mask and gets her some mustard, saying that pizza tastes good with mustard. Koriand’r tries the pizza with some mustard and her eyes light up with happiness. “Mmm! The mustard is very good!” She then starts drinking the mustard right out of the bottle, making Dick and Donna grimace. She finishes off the mustard and eats a little more of the pizza. Dick starts asking Kori questions. After he asks a few questions, Kori says with a straight face “These questions are boring. Kiss me again.” Upon hearing that, Donna spits out some water she was drinking in shock. Dick blushes and Kori says, “You didn’t get the relevant information like I did…I’m sorry. Did I embarrass you? Things here are just so different.” Dick shakes his head and says that he’s more shocked than embarrassed.

Dick looks at Kori and then at Donna. He says to Donna “Hey…If we train her then maybe we could-” She cuts him off before he can finish and says, “No…We are not starting another team of Titans. If you and her want to fight crime here, go ahead. But I will not have any part of it! I’m going to bed.” She storms off to her bedroom, leaving a saddened Dick. Kori asks why she’s acting so angry and Dick tells Kori that he’ll tell her tomorrow before getting her a blanket. He lets her sleep on the couch to which she points out all the empty rooms. Dick tells her the rooms already belong to people. She gets comfy and wishes him a good night. Dick smiles and walks to his bedroom. Donna, still feeling a little angry, decides to sneak out through the window to blow off some steam. She walks through the dimly lit streets when something catches her eye. There’s a shimmering figure standing in a dark alleyway.

The figure comes into the light more, revealing it to be a red haired woman. The woman says “Hello, Troia. Little far from Gateway City, aren’t you?” Donna, confused, asks who she is. The woman says “You can call me Shimmer. Now I’m gonna cut to the chase…” She lunges at Donna and holds a knife to her throat, “I was sent here to kill you.” Donna grunts and kicks her away. Shimmer can tell she’s holding back and picks up a fallen newspaper. She transmutates it into a long sheet of sharp metal. Thinking fast, Donna blocks the sheet with her shield. Shimmer growls in frustration “I was told this was an easy gig. I need to be paid more.” Donna asks who hired and Shimmer ignores this, attacking her again. She knocks her upside the head with a punch, displaying a surprising efficiency in hand-to-hand combat. Donna tries to knock her out with a punch but Shimmer dodges her attack, stealing her shield and hitting her in the face with it. Donna spits out some blood and Shimmer taunts “Hehe! Not as fast as you thought you were, huh?”

Shimmer knocks Donna to the ground and sticks her knife in her leg. Donna cries out in pain and Shimmer says “Stay put. I need to deliver this and negotiate a raise.”” Donna’s eyes widen. In an effort to stop her, she pushes Shimmer with her super strength and sends her flying backwards. Donna quickly stands up, falling a little and makes her way back to the Bunker, looking over her shoulder a few times as she walks, still in agony. She gets inside the Bunker and painfully walks over to the kitchen table. Kori gets up from the couch and walks over to her, asking if she’s okay. Donna grunts “I’ll…be fine.. Typical Thursday night.”

Kori inspects the wound and sees that it’s bleeding a lot. Without another word, she summons a small green orb in her hand and uses it to cauterize Donna’s wound. Donna flinches and asks what that green light is. Kori says “Starbolts. Do you want to kiss?” “Uh, no. Just tell me.” “You humans always do things the hard way. We convert ultraviolet energy into, well, I do it into attacks.” Kori finishes cauterizing the wound and Donna thanks her. Kori smiles at her, feeling useful. Dick walks in and sees Donna. He immediately runs over and asks her what happened. Donna bitterly says “Shimmer happened to me.” She explains what happened. Dick suggests O’Jeneus must be behind it but Donna points out Shimmer would have better technology if that were the case.. Dick agrees and suggests they split up to search the city for her and follow.. Donna sighs and reluctantly says “We can’t search the whole city ourselves…Maybe…Maybe the Titans are needed again..”

Dick grins and says that he’ll send out calls for everyone. Donna sighs and Kori says “Yay!! I get to meet more friends!” Dick’s first call goes out to Garth.

We then cut to the ocean where a group of sailors are conducting an illegal whaling operation. The whaling ship starts sailing toward a pod of whales. Two of the whalers put a harpoon into the harpoon launcher and take aim. As they aim for the whales, a shape starts to move through the water and jumps onto the boat. It’s Garth, now grown up and going by Tempest, sporting blue scaled Atlantean armor. He punches one of the whalers away from the launcher before pulling the harpoon out of it, bending it in half. The second whaler tries to run away but Tempest summons a powerful stream of water and shoots it at him. The stream hits the whaler and sends him flying against a wall. Tempest stands over him and picks him up by his shirt. “How many times does it need to be said? These waters are protected!” He angrily shouts. The whaler tries to beg for forgiveness but Tempest is having none of it, knocking the whaler out cold.

A few minutes later the coast guard arrives to take the whalers into custody. They thank Tempest for his help. The symbol on Tempest’s belt buckle starts to blink and Tempest walks away from them. He takes the symbol off of his belt, revealing it to be a kind of Atlantean phone. He asks who this is and the voice on the other end says “It’s me, Garth. It’s Dick.” Tempest smiles for a moment and quietly says “Dick! Damn, man, it's been too long.” Dick agrees that it has and the two make a little small talk. Tempest asks how Jump City is and Dick says that it’s basically the same city. Tempest jokes that some things just never change and Dick chuckles before asking “You’re not…busy, are you?” Tempest “Um, you know what? I’ve been busy ever since I left, I think I earned a few minutes to talk to my bud.”and Dick asks “Have you earned enough time to come visit. I need to ask a favor.” Tempest is a bit hesitant at first before saying that he can probably drop by for a few minutes. Dick thanks him before ending the call.

Tempest puts his symbol phone back onto his belt buckle and looks out at the ocean for a few minutes, asking himself “What could he want? It’s been years. More importantly, what am I going to tell Aquaman and Mera? I’d need my notice ready if he’s getting the team together. It’s been long enough. Surely everyone is over what happened… ” He dives into the water and swims toward the city.

Back at the Bunker, Dick informs Donna that Garth is coming back. He prepares to call Roy but Donna stops him for a moment, telling him that she’s heard “things” about Roy. Dick asks what she means and she says “You really haven’t heard? He didn’t take us splitting up…well. He won’t even go by Speedy anymore, which would be great since it was a stupid name, except…He’s unhinged. I tried talking to him a few years back. They even sent some heroes after him.” Donna says that Roy has changed for the worse and asks Dick if he’s sure about this. Dick says “He’s not a bad person, Donna. He just needs friends to ground him. You’ll see. He’ll be fine.”

“They call him Arsenal…” Donna says. “Well, he was always a little edgy. That doesn’t mean anything.” He sends out the call for Roy but doesn’t get anything back. He tries again and again but nothing happens. Dick walks over to the computer and types in “Arsenal.” He finds multiple different news reports about him, the most recent of which being from Fawcett City. Dick says that he’s going out to Fawcett and Donna says that she should go with him. Dick says no and that she needs to stay and rest. She doesn’t even have her shield. Kori offers to go with him but Dick tells her that it’ll be too dangerous for her. Kori chuckles and says “I am trained in the elite Tamaranean fighting style. Nothing is too dangerous for me. And I can fly you to Fawcett. I’ll have to carry you. That’s not intimate to humans, is it?.”

Hearing this makes Donna giggle. Dick playfully tells her to shut up before telling Kori that he’s willing to do that. Cut to Kori and Nightwing flying over Jump City. Kori asks where Fawcett City is and Nightwing tells her that it’s about a mile and a half away from Jump City. As they fly, the two make small talk. Nightwing asks Kori about her alien world. She explains all of the ways Tamaranean society works and mentions that things like sex are very normal to her people. She says that the Tamaraneans also hold love in a particularly high regard. She then asks him “Have you had anyone in your life that you’ve loved, Nightwing?” Nightwing doesn’t skip a beat when he says “Just one so far. Her name is Barbara Gordon and she’s probably one of the bravest people I know.” Kori smiles at this and asks “Is Barbara Gordon a brilliant warrior?” Nightwing smiles and says “one of the most brilliant.” They make it to Fawcett City and land on the sidewalk. Nightwing looks around and sighs, softly asking “Where are you, Roy?” The two walk around the city for a moment. Nightwing asks if she has any family back home and this makes Kori a little sad. Nightwing sees this and says “Oh…Sorry if that’s too personal.” Kori tries to hide her sadness and says “It’s fine. Back at home, I had…my parents and…my sister.” Before Nightwing can ask about her sister, an arrow is shot down into the ground in front of them followed by Arsenal jumping down from a rooftop.

“Well, well, well. If it isn’t the blue bastard,” Arsenal says. He looks over at Starfire and then at Nightwing, asking him “Who’s creamsicle here?” Kori introduces herself and isn’t sure what a creamsicle is. Arsenal asks Nightwing what he wants and Nightwing says he needs to come back to Jump City with them. Hearing this makes Arsenal incredibly tense and angry. He tells Nightwing that he won’t go back there and when Nightwing tries to talk to him again, Arsenal slowly reaches for an arrow. “What are you gonna do with that, Roy?” Nightwing calmly asks, already knowing the answer. Kori tenses up, ready to defend Nightwing if need be. Arsenal loads his bow and says “I’m giving you five minutes to leave. Don’t make me do something I’m going to regret.”

In one swift move, Nightwing grabs the bow and takes it out of Arsenal’s hands. The two start to fight with Nightwing tossing the bow to Kori who catches it. Arsenal pulls a knife and swings at Nightwing who’s able to dodge the attack. He knocks the knife out of Arsenal’s hand and tries to get him in a headlock. Arsenal is too fast however and, grabbing his neck, knocks Nightwing to the ground. He begins to strangle him. “After things ended, I told you to stay away from me. You should’ve listened.” As Knightwing struggles to break free, Kori knocks Arsenal out with a quick punch, standing defensively in front of Nightwing. “I didn’t kill him, did I?” Nightwing slowly stands up and cautiously checks Arsenal. “No. But you pack quite the punch. Better be careful.” “Says the guy who was nearly killed.” “I was handling it. He just isn’t thinking clearly just now.” She asks what to do with him and Nightwing says that they need to take him back to Jump City. Cut to her flying again with Nightwing tucked under her arm and her holding Arsenal by his shirt collar. At the Bunker, they tie Arsenal up in a chair. Donna sighs as she looks at him.

He slowly wakes up and grumbles, looking at Nightwing. “You’re lucky the walking talking orange was there to save you. Otherwise you’d be dead right now..” He says bitterly. Kori walks over to him and says “If you ever try to hurt him again, I will kill you.” Arsenal chuckles, thinking she’s joking. He tells Dick “Looks like you’ve got your own personal bodyguard, Grayson.” He stops chuckling as soon as he sees Donna. He asks her what she’s doing here and Donna says that the city is possibly in big trouble. Arsenal asks what kind of trouble and Nightwing quickly explains everything. Arsenal asks what’s in it for him if he helps and Nightwing says that if he helps, they’ll leave him alone for good. Arsenal says “Yeah, well…you said that last time and look where we are.” Donna gives him a pleading look and he sighs before agreeing to help. Nightwing slowly unties him and Arsenal stands up slowly. He walks to his old room and is a little shocked that nothing has changed. Even his old action figures of Green Arrow are still there. He sighs and picks one of them up. Dick watches him from the doorway. Arsenal sighs “When I left, I thought I told you to throw these out.” Nightwing says “I didn’t want to throw them out in case you came back.” Arsenal asks why he would want to come back to the Bunker, stating that there are “too many memories” there. Nightwing says that they weren’t all bad memories and Arsenal says “Yeah, maybe not bad to you. But to me, that’s a different story.” Nightwing asks what he means but Arsenal says it’s not important. As day starts to break, Arsenal starts getting out of his costume. Nightwing goes and gets a few of his own clothes for Roy. Roy takes them and says “I’m gonna change then I’m gonna take a nap.” Nightwing says that that’s fine before walking out, closing the door behind him. He, Kori, and Donna all settle down to get some rest too.

We cut to a hidden base in an unknown part of the city. Gizmo and Shimmer are there with Gizmo working on his latest gadget; a sort of power harness. Shimmer asks what it’ll be for and Gizmo says “Once it’s completed, it’ll be used to amplify the power of our employer. His powers have always been a bit unstable since…that day. It’s almost ready. Soon the entire city will know…that Doctor Light has returned.”