"We are very proud of you, Titans."
Jump City president spoke into the microphone in front of a huge crowd gathered in the town park. Cheers and claps were heard, and the smiles of the five teenage heroes grew wider with every thunder of clap. Robin caught a glimpse of a little boy being carried on his dad's shoulders with an "R" sewed on his shirt.
His smile grew and he softly squeezed Starfire's hand. She turned her gaze to him, questioning. Robin pointed at the little boy with his eyes. Starfire let out a soft laugh. That laugh, it always got him, even at the darkest moments. Beast boy was at Starfire's opposite side waving at the crowd, more importantly, the fan girls. Raven was surprisingly smiling and Cyborg flashed a thumbs up to everyone. The titans wore golden medals over their chests and colorful balloons flew through the air.
The missions, the pain, the training, everything had payed off. After having a tough fight with the brotherhood of evil, and not to mention, Slade, the Titans were finally acknowledged.
Terra, Red X, The Hive kids, Blackfire, Malchior, Trigon, every single villain, even Control Freak came to each titan's mind. They were all happy for their own reasons. Cyborg was proud of himself. After his accident, he pulled of really fast, faster than what he expected. Who would've thought that him meeting Beast boy and the titans would change his life. That night, when he fought side to side with three complete strangers to stop some evil alien war, changed his life completely, and brought him here. When he saw himself in the mirror, before becoming a titan, he felt ashamed. He wasn't even human, but when he met the titans, everything changed. He felt normal, sharing his life with a changeling, half demon, and alien princess, and an acrobat, how wouldn't he?
Raven was full of happiness, but tried to hide it. A couple of balloons popped by black aura surrounding them. She had learn how to control them a lot more after the Brotherhood of Evil knew that even though, any other teenager would be traumatized by watching the end of the world, and having her own dad trying to destroy her friends, but she didn't. It was all different know. After Trigon was finished, she decided to take a turn on her life, of course, she wasn't going to run around the tower singing and making everyone happy like Starfire did. But she put herself on hours of meditation to control her emotions. By the last years, she was able to laugh without having the oven blow up, to cry without making the towers windows break, and to feel fear, without making any computer damage. It sure made the titans happy, and relieved, that Raven was keeping up really good after everything that happened. Not to mention, the huge amount of money they saved with it. Raven was a different person now, she was still half demon, but she wouldn't let that getting in the way of her being a super hero. Starfire was considered the beauty of the team, but Raven, had poise, she was calm, and she knew how to be a total bamf when she had too, not to mention, she was also beautiful and people like Beast boy had started to notice that.
Beast boy was still a lame joke cracker, but he had become more serious through it all. He knew when to keep his cool, and when to loose it. He knew when to take control when Robin wasn't there, he actually found the way to build a better relationship with Raven. Not a boyfriend girlfriend one, but a best friend one. She trusted him and vice versa, no matter what.
Starfire was still herself. Her speech had become better through that lapse of time, and her emotions calmed down a bit. Her happiness still trespassed their boundaries, like when she noticed Raven laughed and nothing surrounding them broke. Raven still had red spots on her body hence the tackle hug of the alien. Starfire was still her pretty self, nothing had really changed on the outside but her hair getting longer and silkier, but on the inside that's a different story. When the gordanians captured the little princess, she was broken apart from her family, her planet, and everything she loved was pulled apart from her. Her sister, Blackfire, decided to go to the dark side, well good for her. Starfire knew better. The downgrades she received from being a tamarenean princess sure broke her at times, but still, she knew deep in her heart that she had a dangerous side. After all, she came from a warrior race, she could kick any villain's butt single handed if she put herself to it. Her real side came out by these last weeks before today. A week ago she had to question some spy that was sent by a criminal back in Gotham. She got the answers out of him, and maybe he ended up bruised, but he deserved it. People had never seen the hero the same again, in a good way.
Robin had definitely changed. Now what had to be described wasn't the physical side, but his personality. It was to expect that him and Starfire were definitely happy together. Bruce reminded him the fact that villains could blackmail him with Starfire. But Robin knew this could never happen. If some other evil powered person lay a finger on her, there were more chances for Robin to kill him than actually feel guilty. Starfire also knew this, and she left clear how she could take care of herself, but that didn't mean she liked to be the damsel in distress. Robin had kept his communication with Bruce open. It was almost like a father to son relationship, and he wouldn't have it any other way. There were times were each other got on their nerves, but any happy family does, doesn't it? Robin made his serious side slightly fade, and he stopped masking his emotions so much. He came to the conclusion that when he did this, there was a common factor in each problem subsiding in him, Slade. His obsession took over. He almost got himself killed, his team almost broke apart. But he took grasp of the situation at the end. After that he knew that things needed to change. The Titans knew what had happened and they weren't surprised. Not long after that, the Justice League held a honorary presentation of Titans central.
Every titan was there. All of them, including the honorary titans, little did they know, they were just part of a memory. Starfire looked at him and theyr'e eyes locked. Cheering became louder within the crowd.
"I'm proud of you." She said softly.
Robin smiled. "I'm proud, of us." He leaned in and as his lips were about to collapse with Starfire's..
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
Robin reached to his alarm and yanked the cable that connected it hard. The annoying sound stopped. Neverthelessthe swift movement of his arm made his body loose balance, making him fall to the floor with the covers wrapped around his bare chest skin. He grunted, as he tried to untangle himself. Funny, he could bring an army of Sladebots in a minute, but couldn't quite figure out how to break himself out of 100% cotton covers.
When he pushed the covers away he opened his eyes. He focused on the ceiling tiles and notice a difference. Hit ceiling tiles weren't white, they were steel. This were white marble, and they were much bigger. He was quite shocked by this. He straightened up on the floor. Right in front of him, sat a wooden closet full of normal clothes and sneakers.
What the hell? He thought
He looked around his room, and caught a glimpse of a wall mirror, he looked at himself. His baby blue eyes widened and he gasped slightly. He didn't have a shirt on, only some black soft pants that reached his knees. Where was his mask? Who's room was this? What was happening?
He found the answer at his nighstand, apparently. A brown picture frame stood there. Robin took it and gasped even louder. There he was, with Bruce and.. Selina?
Wait.. Bruce is married.. with Selina Kyle?
Selina Kyle?
Kyle?
He dropped the frame and felt soft knocks on his door. He turned and picked his covers up and threw them to his messy bed. He moved about the room frantically, looking for a place to hide, that's when the door opened.
"Robin?" A woman stood there, wearing job clothes and high pumps. Her blonde hair was left alone in a low ponytail and she looked around the room looking for Robin.
Robin didn't answer he just stood there. The woman looked at him, she raise and eyebrow.
"Honey, are you okay?" She said, worry on her face.
Honey? He thought.
"Um, yeah, I am." He said.
I am not.
She didn't look convinced, but she just shrugged and kept talking. "Okay then, be sure to get ready for school in time." And with that se closed the door.
Robin stood dumbfounded there. He just stood there. There was someone tricking him. An enemy or something, but who? Or how?
So many unanswered questions reached his head as he inspected the room. Just a normal teenagers room. He decided to take Selina's advice. Perhaps he could find more clues at school, whatever school he went to. He heard a vibrating noise over the bed, tangled in the covers. He caught the ball of covers and shook them over the bed, that's when a phone plopped down on the bed's soft surface. He brought it to his face and read an incoming message.
Garfield:
Dude, Victor me and the guys will pick you up in a sec, don't take the schoolbus.
Garfield? Who's?..
He quickly searched through the phone pictures and there he found it. Pictures of him and Garfield, who looked exactly like Beast boy, except he wasn't green. His hair was brown and he looked buff, even more than how he looked as Beast boy. He kept moving though the files, and he saw a picture of Cyborg, as a human with Starfire.
They looked so different. Cyborg was entirely human, and Starfire was well, human also. Her hair looked the same, except her skin was a darker tone, but it was still her. Guessind that him and "the guys" would mean him and his team, he ran to the shower and changed.
He was going to get to the bottom of this.
I'm BACK!
This idea for a fanfic just buzzed in my mind for atleast a month, and well here it is!
I hope the first chapter isn't THAT bad, because the story, believe me, isn't!
Reviews will make me update faster, until the next one! :D
