15Hello all! So this is my first Teen Titans fanfic. Pretty excited about that. I was inspired to write this after I read 'It ends tonight', which is a pretty good fanfic, read it sometime ^^
You guys don't have to worry about me quitting this story, because I won't.
She wanted out. No, she needed out. She didn't know how much longer she would last.
She cried out in anger, but the Gordonians only seemed to find amusement at that. Oh, she would give them something to laugh at.
She started banging on the doors with her handcuffed arms. They only seemed to find more amusement in that. She pounded harder and harder, until she finally felt the door fold in a little. One more hit and the door was thrown off its hinges. She smirked in amusement. The Gordonians were weak enough that she could just hit then into unconsciousness. She was finally free.
Jump City was….quieter than Gotham City. Robin was using quiet to describe the comparison of crime in Gotham and Jump. When it came to noise, Jump was louder than Gotham by a long shot. But the silence in Gotham was due to the fear from the many criminals and wackos roaming the streets.
It was near dawn when Robin saw his first criminal. It was nothing more than a mere bank robber.
It'll be easy, Robin thought as he swooped down onto the streets below his perch on top of the three-story building.
"I'm afraid that you're not going to get away with that." Robin said in his best Batman impression.
"W…who are you?" The robber said in a voice that was slightly fearful.
Instead of answering Robin stepped into the dim streetlight's path.
"Bu…but you're not supposed to be here. You're supposed to be in Gotham." The man was obviously filled with fear now.
"Not anymore." Robin growled.
Just when Robin had gotten ahold of the robber, a green light zoomed across the sky then exploded a few blocks away from Robin. He was torn, he needed to take care of the robber, but he also needed to check this explosion.
He did what he had to, strung the robber upside down and took off towards the explosion.
Raven did not like cities. With cities came people and with people came emotions. Emotions were a liberty that Raven unfortunately could not worry about. She knew what her emotions were capable of doing, she'd seen it first-hand.
Fortunately, Jump City was not as big as a city as the one she previously lived. She would be able to practice controlling her emotions around crowds without worrying about being overwhelmed by the emotions of others.
As she walked the streets, she felt all the normal emotions. Happiness. Sadness. Grief. Anger. Hatred. But as she expanded her range, she felt amusement. It wasn't normal amusement either; it was a malicious amusement. But when she tried to find the one in pain, she couldn't. It surprised her because that had never happened before.
The amused creatures (for they were most definitely not human) changed from amusement to surprise with just a tint of fear. They were close, almost as if they were directly on top of her, but when she looked up, nothing was there.
The next thing Raven knew, a girl was falling out of the sky, then when she reached about 100 feet in the air, she began flying, leaving a green streak behind.
Raven followed the streak until it ended in an explosion of green.
The creatures were now filled with anger. Raven decided that she should perhaps check this out.
He was free. Free from being a lapdog. Free from the Doom Patrol. He smiled a little at that. It was awesome to be free.
He walked through the city, Jump City he thought, with a huge smile on his face. He could get used to this city. Not too many people, and they didn't really look at him with an odd expression, here he was just another body in the crowd.
He continued walking carefree until he heard an explosion about ten blocks away.
Yes, a chance to be a hero, he thought rather happily.
He ducked into an alleyway and transformed into a cheetah, a green cheetah. He ran through the streets, hearing the cries of terror, but paying them no mind, that part he could understand.
About a minute later, he was close to where the explosion had happened. What he saw surprised him. It was a girl with cherry red hair, and glowing green eyes. She didn't seem too harmful, until she started hitting a pillar that held a restaurant above it with what looked like handcuffs. But the pillar was collapsing, with people above it.
He needed to act fast, or else those people would be hurt. But before he could do anything, something flew out and hit the girl's handcuffs, breaking them, only to reveal a second layer of cuffs.
This girl must've been really strong.
He was not happy. He was having a perfectly fine day chillin' at home, playin' some video games just mindin' his own business when he heard an earthshaking explosion. Okay that was pretty normal; he lived in a neighborhood where everyone played video games. The noises could get pretty loud.
But then he heard the shouts and shrieks. He put on a joggin' suit and made sure that the hood would not come off. He just had to check it out.
What he saw shocked him. A girl was destroying' a building, and she didn't seem too friendly.
Definitely not from around here, he thought.
Next thing he knew, what appeared to be her handcuffs were slightly off and she was throwing green bolts of energy around!
Definitely not from around here.
The green cheetah and Robin tried attacking this thing. But nothing seemed to faze her. In fact she picked up a bus with her feet and flung it at them, which the person wearing the track suit seemed to easily catch. But in the process, his jogging suit came off, revealing him to be part human part machine. Nobody seemed to either not care or not notice.
Raven could be seen standing in an alley, with a look of extreme concentration on her face. She was finally able to break through to this girl's emotions and what she managed to feel she didn't like. Sadness. Fear. Wanting. This girl needed help.
She looked over to the boys. They needed to know.
"Man how're we supposed to beat this chick if she doesn't have a weakness?" That was the jogging suit.
She approached them. "Maybe fighting isn't the answer."
Robin and jogging suit didn't seem surprised that she was there. But the cheetah, which was now a human, jumped a little.
Robin told them to stay back, which metal man seemed to protest until he got a hard look from Robin, which quieted him.
Robin started approaching the girl who had since stopped trying to kill them. He pulled a pin from his utility belt and held it up to show his intentions, which seemed to cause the girl to relax a little.
After Robin had undone the handcuffs, the girl rubbed her wrists. She then kissed him. This surprised everybody. Jogging suit and the green thing were staring with mouths wide open. Raven was merely standing with a raised eyebrow.
When the girl released Robin, she said to them, "Please remove yourselves from here if you do not wish to be harmed." She then took off into the sky.
"Well, that was interesting." The green one said. "I'm Beast Boy." He said while smiling at everyone.
"We need to go after her. We have to make sure she doesn't destroy the rest of the city." Robin ground out.
"She's still within the city. It's hard not to notice her on my sonic tracker." He then pointed to something in his forearm. "Name's Cyborg."
Raven tried to sense the girl, with much difficulty she did. Speaking up she said, "She's nearby. Follow me." At their looks of surprises she replied, "I…can sense things...Raven"
They then started walking following Raven.
"That's cool! I can change form, but you probably saw that." Beast Boy said in a sheepish tone. After a block of walking, they saw the girl eating food in an abandoned movie theater. They walked in. Cyborg crushed a box beneath his feet. The girl turned around with her hands glowing. When she saw it was them she lowered her hands. Before anyone could say anything, aliens flooded into the building. They all tried to fight them.
The girl looked around, she was surrounded by Gordonians, with the others too busy to notice that she was trapped she prepared to fight them. But before she could even hit one, she was struck by one of their tridents. She was already in a lot of pain, the electricity in the trident was just too much for her to bear, she collapsed and a Gordonian caught her. The last thing she heard was its mocking laughter. No, was her last thought before everything went black.
The Gordonian signaled to the others to leave as it boarded the ship.
When Raven saw what was happening, she yelled out it outrage and began throwing anything she could pick up with her dark energy. But it had no success in stopping them.
Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Raven looked at each other in defeat. They couldn't save her.
"At least now she won't destroy the city." Robin said. The others turned to look at him in both shock and anger.
"Do you know what you're saying?!" Raven said in anger. A few buckets of popcorn exploded in response to her anger.
"It wasn't a human or anyone of importance was it?! So we shouldn't worry about her!" Robin yelled back.
"How can you say that like that? She needed our help! She's probably being beat as we speak!" At this Robin looked away. "And you're being a jerk about it?!"Raven went to jump at him. But Cyborg and Beast Boy held her back. While they were distracted, Robin made his escape.
She was back in a cell. This one had better doors. She could tell because there were fewer guards. There was no way she could escape this time. She pulled her legs up to her chest and cried for the first time since she had been captured.
Robin punched the wall. Since when had he become so desensitized that he didn't recognize when anyone needed help? When had he started caring about the city more than the welfare of someone that actually needed it? When had he started looking at things for face value only?
She had been scared. He saw it when he unlocked those handcuffs. The fear had clearly been there, but he refused to recognize it. Then after the…..kiss…. she had pleaded for them to get away, not threatened them, like his original thoughts. She had feared for their safety, not her own.
He leaned his head against the wall and groaned; he was becoming too much like Batman, thinking everything alien was a threat at first.
Three Years Later
Robin… no, Nightwing now roamed the streets. He had given up the Robin name a year ago. Batman said he was no longer his apprentice, therefore no longer needed to go by Robin. He couldn't agree more, after his realization three years ago, he tried hard not to become like Batman.
It paid off; he now was part of a team, the Teen Titans. Which consisted of Raven (they had put aside their differences), Beast Boy, and Cyborg. They were a pretty mismatched team, most of the time it didn't even feel like a team, they just fought together. But he-and the others too- could tell something was missing.
He heard a commotion below and when he saw a robber and realized just where he was a memory came to surface of his mind.
Just like three years ago, he thought.
"Slave!" The Gordonian master yelled. "Where is my food?!"
"R…right here master," said the same girl from three years ago. Now she was about 17 and extremely undernourished.
The master took the bowl. "You are dismissed."
The girl went back to her chambers. It was just her and the Gordonian master, but she was far too weak to even think about trying to escape. She curled up in a ball and cried praying for an escape.
"Hey…Raven. How do you think that girl is doing?" Beast Boy asked in a serious manner, which meant he was serious about this matter.
Raven looked at him over her book, "I hope… no pray that she's okay. But I doubt that Beast Boy."
Cyborg chose that moment to walk in. "Guys we have a case. It's aliens." He seemed both excited and sad.
Raven and Beast Boy looked at him with very little interest. "And?" Raven motioned for him to go on.
"Guys… it's about Gordonians…and slaves." He replied.
Raven instantly recognized the name. Maybe. Oh please, let her be there. She stood up, "Tell Nightwing. We're going on ahead." She waited for the okay from Cyborg before she transported them to the ship.
Nightwing's communicator beeped. He pulled it out and looked at the screen.
Location: Jump City
Perpetrators: Gordonians
Crime: Slaves
Nightwing, trust me you need to come.
He looked at the communicator at first in confusion. Then his eyes widened in recognition. He took off for the coordinates he had been given.
"You! You did this! You alerted them to our presence!" The Gordonian master shook the girl. "Answer me girl!"
"No! It wasn't me! I swear!" The girl cried out in pain and weakness.
The Titans met each other at the spaceship. They walked in, careful to be silent.
"Uh…guys I think it's deserted." Beast Boy spoke.
"Yeah. BB's right. There's no one here." Cyborg said looking at his sensor.
They were about to leave when they heard a soul shattering scream. They all ran towards the sound, but Nightwing was by far outrunning them.
What they saw shocked them to their cores. The Gordonian was beating a girl. One they couldn't see too well.
Cyborg hit it with his sonic cannon and it turned around. Who they saw caused them both happiness and sadness. They could finally free her, but it came later than they had wanted.
The Gordonian threw the girl to the ground. She tried to stand but didn't have the strength to. But before she could hit the ground, Nightwing caught her. He sat on the ground with her so that she may rest.
"I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry." He hugged her to him. He buried his head into her neck and she wrapped her arms around him.
The others worked at destroying the Gordonian. They gave everything they could, and one last blow from Cyborg's sonic cannon was the last blow they needed to push the alien in unconsciousness.
Raven was the first to approach them. "It's time to go home." She looked at the girl, "All of us." She said with a slight smile.
The girl seemed to lean into Nightwing a little before closing her eyes. A small smile appeared on her face. "Starfire, my name is Starfire." And with a yawn she fell into a sleep that she much needed.
Wow, okay. That was intense. So I play to make this focus more on the repair of Starfire, so there won't be villains like Slade, or the Brotherhood of Evil. I plan to throw in a few of my favorite episodes though. ^^
So yeah review please?