Hey! Sorry about having to re-post this. I just edited it a bit and added an author's note (No duh...) shut up... btw, the parenthesis are my sane side talking to my insade side... you know, the one that gets off topic? (they don't care about your schizophrenic problems.) stop! okay, sorry. Please review with constructive criticism or feedback or predictions, or I'll have BB give you "the face" (you can't, you don't own the titans.) *grumble* okay, I'll have Chelsie make "the face" she's my brainchild. She'll do it. (Doesn't really carry the same effect...) Okay! Stop! On with the awesome story!


"Hey guys, we need anything?" Cy asked. "I was just headed downtown for a walk."

"Dude, the fridge is, like, empty!" Beast Boy called from the kitchen.

"It appears that we are out of the papers for the toilet as well." Starfire called from down the hall. The rest of the Titans looked at each other warily.

"Um... I think I'll head out now..." Cyborg said quickly as he ran out the door to the T-car. After a few hours in the city, he piled his groceries in the backseat. "Why is there no dignified way to buy toilet paper?" he asked, stuffing the large package into the backseat. Cyborg had just opened the driver's side door when he felt something on his back. He turned around to find... No one? Cyborg shook his head and stepped into the car. Just then he felt another tap. He looked around and again saw no one near enough to have touched him. Slightly shaken, he scratched the human side of his head and was about to put the key in the ignition when he heard a voice.

"Vic! Vic!" it was calling faintly. It seemed to be coming from right outside the still-open door. He recognized both the name and voice from a long time ago.

"Chelsie?" he asked the direction of the voice, still seeing no one.

"Oh!" Chelsie cried. "You can hear me!" he could feel her arms giving him a hug similar to the ones Starfire gave. "You won't believe what happened to me! I don't even understand it!"

"I'm guessing you turned invisible?" he asked.

"Well, yeah, but I didn't just wake up one morning like this, I mean it was after I woke up but it wasn't in bed or anything I just sorta found myself in the middle of this really weird place and I just..." she stopped to take a breath and configure her thoughts.

"Hey, calm down. Hop in the car, people are lookin' at me weird." Cyborg gestured to a mother quickly walking her children across the sidewalk while eyeing him warily. "Don't you live on the east coast still?" he turned back to Chelsie. "What're you doing in Jump?"

"Well, I found out from Jack about the accident and then Shiela was ranting about some awesome new guy that showed up in California that was half metal and put two and two together and I figured I would find out if it was really you and then we could catch up and I could brag to everyone back home about running in to the amazing Victor Stone!"

Cyborg put his hand over her mouth, or tried since she was still invisible. "Shh! No one knows me by that name around here." he hissed.

"Oh, nobody else can hear me." Chelsie stated matter-of-factly. "Watch." she hopped out of the car and stood by the sidewalk as random people passed. "Hey, would you like to... Have you ever heard of... Lovely weather this time of... Have you ever met..." Every person she attempted to speak with walked by as if she wasn't there. Chelsie returned to the passenger seat of the T-car. "See what I mean?" she asked, "It's like I'm not even there."

"So why did I hear you?" Cyborg asked, confused.

"I don't know, I was trying to find out where you lived but, of course, nobody was listening to me so I was starting to think that I was going crazy or had a sign on the front of my shirt that said 'ignore me' and was about to give up but then I saw you and thought 'worth a shot' and tried to see if you could hear me. Obviously you could, but now I don't know what to do. Can you help me?"

Cyborg smiled at the direction his old friend's voice was coming from. Chelsie had always been there for him when times got hard, this was the least he could do. "Let's head up to my house." he smiled.

The entire ride to Chelsie's hotel for her bags, then back to Titan tower, Chelsie described as much as she could remember. She had been in town for a night, sleeping in her hotel room. The next day she decided to inquire about Vic. "I didn't use your name," she assured a worried Cyborg. "just asked about a half-metal man." The first person she asked immediately tried to figue out what connection she had to Cyborg. Being the person she is, Chelsie decided not to reveal anything to this person. Still he persisted, and followed her down the street. She did her best to ignore this strange man, but soon she was feeling very unsafe. She looked up and realized she was at a dead end, with the man standing behind her. She tried to come up with a plan, but was swiftly knocked over the head. Next thing she knew, she was in the middle of a parking lot with a potato next to her head. Chelsie reached for it and gasped at what she saw, or rather didn't see: her hand. She tried to ask other people for help, but with the same success as earlier. "And that's when I saw you." she concluded as they walked up the stairs in Titan Tower. Cyborg was actually speechless and walked into the main room in a daze. Everything was business as usual with the rest of the team, Beast Boy and Robin were playing Game Station, Starfire was making some pudding, and Raven was on the couch reading a ten inch thick book.

"Hey Cy, wanna play winner?" Beast Boy asked as the doors hissed open.

"Wow, nice place!" Chelsie cried as she entered behind Cyborg. "Are these your friends?" she asked gesturing invisibly to the rest of the team. "Well, duh yeah, they're here, do they live here with you? That is so cool! Wow you have a lot of cool stuff! How'd you guys get this place? Are you the only ones here? Man, I shoulda come a while back!" Chelsie continued talking a mile a minute while Cyborg just smirked.

"Same old Chelsie." he chuckled softly to himself.

"What is it that you said, Cyborg?" asked Starfire.

"Um, nothing Star. Actually, I need to talk to all y'all." Cyborg said, louder. Soon the game was paused, Raven placed the book in her lap, and Starfire flew in from the kitchen. All eyes were on him. Cyborg cleared his throat.

"Well, I was just downtown and I was thinkin' about one of my old friends back before... Well... You know... And I was just getting into the car when I felt someone tap me on the shoulder and I turned around and-"

"And you saw your friend and had ice cream, right? Geez!" Beast Boy cut in. He felt a bop on the back of his head. "Ow! Rae!" he rubbed his head.

"One: don't call me Rae. Two: I didn't do anything." Raven bit her words off.

"Well then who did?" Beast Boy asked, looking around. Chelsie laughed, though it was only audiable to Cyborg. Cyborg smiled.

"That would be Chelsie." he smirked before announcing, "My invisible friend." The rest of the titans looked at him like he had grown two extra heads. Chelsie was still giggling, she always had had a sensetive funny bone. Kind of like Star...

"Uh, Cy?" Robin asked a still smirking Cyborg, "You do know what you just said, right?"

Cyborg just laughed. "Yeah, she's my friend, and as of late she's invisible. I never said imaginary although I KNOW that's what y'all are thinkin'." The team still didn't appear to believe him. Suddenly, Chelsie had an idea. She told Cyborg what she had in mind.

"Ya sure?" he asked. She nodded, then remembered he couldn't see her and said "Yep!" Cyborg walked to the kitchen and found a bag of something. After loading it into his sonic cannon, he carefully aimed it at a point in front of him. The rest of the team was confused. Cyborg braced himself and waited for Chelsie to tell him she was lined up. As soon as she did, he blasted his sonic cannon. There was a large puff of white as the flour rushed forward. Once the air cleared, all of the titans (including Cyborg) gaped at what they saw: a flour covered girl with her arms outstretched and a very big smile. She was wearing a snug t-shirt with a deep v-neck over a tank top. Her pants were also snug and flared at the bottom. They couldn't see much of her hair because the flour didn't stay very well, but it appeared to be clipped up. There was a ring on her left middle finger and a choker around her neck. There was a very strange looking gem on it, not that it was easy to see as the flour did not stick to either. Obviously her eyes were closed, so there was no flour where the eyes would be when she opened them, adding to the mysterious look. Chelsie blew air out of her mouth and nose to clear them, removing the flour from around her mouth. She mused that her entrance must have seemed pretty angelic. Starfire was the first to recover from the shocking arrival and plunged into her greeting questions, "What is your name? Where are you from? What is your favorite color? Will you be my friend?" Chelsie smirked (although no one saw it) and started to reply. But the titans could still not hear her! Cyborg, who still heard her, noticed his friends' confused expressions and relayed the information to Starfire.

"She said Chelsie, Roc City, purple, and yes." Starfire squealed and rushed forward to hug her new friend, covering herself in flour in the process. Chelsie was choking and trying to catch her breath.

"That's what I thought..." Beast Boy said under his breath.

"What was that?" Cyborg asked.

"I said that's what I was expecting her to say."

"How'd ya know?" Cyborg questioned.

"Well, you already said her name was Chelsie, I guess you mentioned living up in New York at some point, I was randomly guessing purple, and everyone always says they'll be Star's friend." Raven was actually very surprised at Beast Boy's burst of brain power, not just because it made sense but because she had come to the exact same conclusion herself. Cyborg smiled, "You knew Roc City was in New York?"

"Yeah, dunno why... You ever said anything about it?"

"I guess so..."

"Well?" Chelsie prodded Cyborg after escaping Starfire's death-grip.

"Well what?" he asked back.

"Aren't you going to introduce your friends?"

"You don't know them?" he asked, shocked.

"No, should I?"

"I guess not..."

Before Cyborg could suggest the idea to his friends, Starfire shouted, "Oh dear, Chelsie, we have not told you our names!" she looked around at her teammates before stepping forward. "I am so sorry, I am Starfire of Tamaran. You may call me Star if you wish." She flew about excitedly, deciding not to give the bone-crushing hug again.

Robin chuckled and followed suit. "I'm Robin of Gotham."

"You mean like Batman and Robin?" Chelsie asked. Cyborg shook his head, sweat-dropping. "You're probabally talking about Batman now, but no. It's just Robin." Robin stated, anger in his face.(I would say eyes but, you know, mask) He moved to stand with Star.

Suddenly, a green kitten jumped onto the couch beside her. Chelsie was shocked that it turned into a certain laughing changeling. "I'm Beast Boy!" He smiled. Chelsie laughed, everyone saw, although no one heard. "Please don't encourage him." Cyborg pleaded. She then turned to Raven. There was something about this girl that intrigued her, it may have been an aura or a certain facial expression but something was drawing her to this last figure. Cyborg realized what she was waiting for and cleared his throat. Raven looked up and sighed.

"I'm Raven." she put simply with a shrug.

"Trust me, she's a lot nicer once she gets to know you... Well maybe not a lot nicer but still, nicer." Beast Boy assured, earning a bop on the back of the head from Raven. Chelsie laughed and it was obvious she was saying how nice it was to meet them all, but there was still no sound.

"Why can't we hear her?" asked Robin, always trying to figure things out.

"I don't know." Cyborg admitted. "She said it's been this way since she woke up in the parking lot but-"

"Woah woah woah, time-out dude!" Beast Boy made a t with his hands. "What are you saying?"

"Yeah, sorry, forgot to explain..." Cyborg said, scratching the back of his neck. He explained what Chelsie had told him earlier with Chelsie correcting him here and there. When he got to the part about getting hit over the head Starfire gasped and clutched the arm of Robin, who she was sitting next to. Chelsie smiled at this, although they still couldn't see her mouth. Eventually the story was finished with "And then we walked into the tower."

"Do you have any idea who this guy was?" Robin asked.

Chelsie shook her head, "He was kinda short and round, but he was wearing a trench coat with the collar turned up and a fedora which was really suspicious now that I think of it." Cyborg spoke for her as usual.

"So... What are you going to do?" All heads turned to Raven.

"I don't really know what to do." Chelsie admitted through Cyborg, "I have no clue what happened, who did it, or when I'll be normal again."

"And you expect us to know?" Raven challenged, arching an eyebrow.

"No, I just needed someone to talk to for moral support and Cyborg suggested I come here. I don't expect you to do anything, but maybe I could just stay here? I don't think I'll be safe anywhere else, and my parents aren't expecting me home for a few weeks and I shouldn't travel because I don't know what could happen to me." There was silence as the titans pondered what Cyborg-I-mean-Chelsie was saying. Robin considered the puzzle this would be, and how intriguing it would be to solve. Starfire worried about losing her new friend so quickly. Beast Boy was already planning some pranks if he could get her on his side. Cyborg was just looking out for Chelsie, his "little sister", because that's what they had always been, a sibling pair that looked out for each other. Raven, however, was thinking of Terra. She thought over all the pain and deception the girl had brought apon the team. Logic was pointing out that Terra had just been some girl they found in the desert, and Chelsie was Cyborg's old friend. Raven looked over at her friend and saw the protective look on his face. Besides, Knowledge pointed out, she had no powers and would therefore not be a threat to their safety. Raven nodded before deciding that she would keep a close eye on whatever happened because of Chelsie. She became vaguely aware of the fact that the rest of the team was looking at her. She sighed. "Fine, you can stay. I think I would have been overruled anyway." Chelsie jumped up with joy to give Raven a hug, then noticed her expression and shrunk back. "Thank you." she said quietly. Cyborg laughed.

"I don't think I have to repeat that." he smiled at his team. Starfire flew into the air. "Oh how joyous! Come Chelsie, I shall show you to your room!" Cyborg smiled as Chelsie was dragged from the room by an overzealous Starfire. He turned around to see mixed emotions on the faces of his teammates. He walked into the kitchen where Raven was making some tea. "What's wrong?" he asked. Raven didn't beat around the bush. "How well do you know her?" Cyborg was surprised at the question. "I've known her since we were little. She was like my little sister, nice family too. Out of all my old friends, she was always the easiest to talk to. If I had a problem, I would call up Chelsie and she could always say the right thing."

"And that's why you wanna help her, right?" Cyborg nodded in agreement. "That's all I wanted to be sure of."

"You know I wouldn't endanger my friends." Cyborg assured her before walking off. Raven had to agree, but still couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. Something felt very wrong. She finished making her tea and walked in to the living room. Beast Boy looked up when she sat down. Cyborg and Robin were playing some monkey game on the Game Station. Beast Boy moved over and asked "You okay?" Raven just nodded distractedly. "You sure?" BB asked. "Because I just heard this really good joke that I could..." he noticed her death glare. "Or you could just sit there..." he sighed, ears drooping dejectedly. Raven was about to say something, but the doors whooshed open and Starfire flew in with a less visible Chelsie behind her.

"Guess the flours not working as well as I had hoped..." she said, holding up half a hand. Cyborg relayed the thought to the rest of the team, then added a thought of his own: "We need to find a way for you to communicate without me!"

"Yeah," agreed Beast Boy, "This is just gonna be confusing!"

"I could write... But only smaller thoughts. Full conversations would be too difficult and slow."

"Yeah, but that would be a lot of paper." Robin pointed out.

"What about a whiteboard?" Cyborg-not-Chelsie asked.

"The smell of those markers gives me headaches." Raven declared in her monotone. Then she remembered something. "I have that laptop from a while ago..."

"The one we all got for your birthday?" BB asked. Raven nodded.

"She-you could type instead of writing, that would be faster and less wasteful. It's one of those notebook thingies, so it's lightweight and small."

"Yeah, BB made sure it was perfect." Cyborg laughed. Beast Boy just glared at him. Chelsie smiled.

"That could work..." she said slowly, "If Raven doesn't have a problem with it..." Cyborg smiled, and turned to Raven.

"You got a problem with her useing it? No? Alright, let's get you set up!" Just then, the alarm rang. (Come on, a titans story with no crime-fighting? Yeah right...) "Titans, trouble!" Robin called. Chelsie just looked was a little slow and hadn't yet figured out the whole team of suerheroes thing. Robin turned, "You just stay here. We'll deal with this clown and be back soon." Chelsie just nodded as the team left in a whirlwind. And then she just sat there. She eventually noticed the mess the flour had made. "Maybe I should clean that up..." she said to herself. Of course, everything she touched became a mess, so after a shower she set to work cleaning up all traces of flour. As soon as the living room was spotless, Chelsie set to the hallways. Since Star had led her to a room and she had showered, there was a trail of flour entering and exiting the main room. Next was the kitchen. Chelsie walked in and gasped. "No." she whispered. "How is this possible?"


Ohh! Evil cliffie! I would tell you what Chelsie finds, but then you can't guess! Anyways, hopefully you will enjoy the second chapter. It's kind of short, but that's just so I could post something quickly. Hopefully I can find time to post more soon. As always, remember to criticize (nicely) and enjoy!