Chapter 1
She sat there; not knowing that what was about to happen was going to change her life. The dark eyed, blond hair girl was baby-sitting her little brother and every time she babysat him, he HAD to watch Teen Titans. Aria could stand the show but would rather watch something with real action, not some cartoon. All that cartoons were to her were a few lines on paper.
"When there's trouble you know who to call," sang Aria's brother Stuart.
"It's just a cartoon Stuart. Look, it's a commercial now, go get ready for bed and put your PJs on."
"Ok, but I'm gonna wear my Robin PJs! He's my hero!" said Stuart enthusiastically.
"You need a real hero, like Michael Phelps, not some made up cartoon."
"Robin IS real!" yelled Stuart, "And I'm gonna be just like him some day!"
Stuart stormed off to his room and slammed the door. Aria knew he would be out soon to watch the show. She sat back down on the couch just as the show came back on. There was a little green guy that her brother called Beast Boy watching TV and slurping a soda. What's so great about this show! Aria thought The only thing going on is a little green martin man watching a show about a wild fire! How great is that!
"This is BS. Show me something real," said Aria out loud.
She had the remote in her hand and was getting ready to change the channel when a mist began to spiral out of the TV. Aria was curious and got a little closer. The misty spiral began to get bigger and soon it was the size of the whole TV! Aria was always one for adventure and got a little closer. Then it got VERY windy in the room and the mist wrapped around her. It began to suck her toward the TV! Aria grabbed onto the couch but the pull was too strong and broke her free. She got a good grip on a nearby counter and held on. She looked at the TV and noticed something very strange, her legs were inside the TV and she had become a cartoon! She shook her head in disbelief and blamed it on some bad pizza. The wind in the room picked up and she lost her grip. Her body was sucked into the TV, but she grabbed hold of the TV before her head went in too. Now she was panicking and screamed for her brother, but before the words could escape her mouth, she was sucked fully into the TV.
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"Aria? Aria, where are you?" A scared little boy looked for his sister. The room was a mess and things were flipped over. The couch had claw marks in it and a counter had been broken. Papers, books and movies lied everywhere, but there was no sign of his sister.
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"AHHHHHHHH!" yelled Aria as she fell out of the TV and landed on the floor. She lay there for a few, long seconds, scared to open her eyes, frightened of what she might see. She finally found the courage to open her eyes and peaked one eye open. It was true! She had been transported into a cartoon! She looked at her hands and noticed that she too had been turned into a cartoon! As she stared at her hands, a piece of her hair fell down into her face. It was no longer blond! It was now a dark blackish, purple color! She grabbed her hair and messaged it in shock. She looked at her reflection in the huge, expansive windows. At least my eyes are still brown and everything else is the same…sorta. As she looked at herself in the mirror, she noticed someone else in the background. She turned around with a start and saw the green boy named Beast Boy starring at her with a blank face. He had dropped his soda and him and Aria were frozen there, staring at each other.
"Uhhhh…who are you?" asked Beast Boy finally.
"Um, I'm Aria. I'm sorry I'm in your house. I'll leave."
"And go where! Dude, you just fell out of the TV!"
"Yeah…I don't know how to go back in either," said Aria.
Just then, the door opened and a boy in green tights and a cape came walking in.
"Beat Boy, we need you for prac…tice. Um, who's that?"
"Listen to this! I was watching the Discovery channel. Well, I was gonna watch Captain Commando but the show got switched to a later time, so I tried to find something else but all that's on TV are Presidential debates. So I flipped channels for what seemed like a year when I came across THIS! It's all about fire and I thought it might give me some cool ideas to try jumping through fire hoops on your motorcy…I mean on a moped. Then she fell out of the TV!" Beast Boy said in a way so fast that not even Mas Y Menos could follow what he had said.
"I asked for her name, not your life story Beast Boy," the dark haired kid turned to Aria and said, "Hi, I'm Robin, and you are?"
"Aria." She answered timidly.
"You don't need to be afraid, we won't hurt you," coaxed Robin.
"I'm not afraid, it's just…" Aria searched for the right words, "that back home you are all…not real. You're cartoons where I'm from and you're a show that my little brother watches. I have no idea how I got here and no idea on how I'm gonna get home."
"Sooo…your from another dimension then?" asked Robin
"I guess…"
The door opened and three more people came in. There was a guy who was half man, half robot, a girl in a purple cloak and a beautiful girl with long orange hair. Aria would've been intimidated by the girl's beauty, but had seen the show enough to know that Starfire wasn't all-together. Beauty but a lack of brains. Aria also knew not to fear Raven and that Cyborg would be fun to hang out with. The trio was all laughing as they walked in, but as soon as they saw Aria, they froze and starred.
"I was about to call a team meeting but looks like we're all here," said Robin, "we're going to need to decide some important…" The alarm went off and an image popped up on the Titan's screen.
"Hello Titans," it was Mad Mod. "I've come to reclaim America. You can meet me on the underground train."
Something on the screen looked familiar to Aria. The cane! She remembered seeing previews for this week's episode. In the episode there was a cane, which turns Robin into an elderly, frail, old man.
"Titan's, GO!" yelled Robin. They began to fly off and Aria caught hold of Robin's sleeve.
"Robin, don't touch the cane! Destroy it as soon as you can. It'll make you old!"
"What? How do you know this?" he asked.
"You're the TV show I watch, remember. Just trust me!"
"Ok. You better be right. Stay here, we'll finish this when we get back. I trust you!"
And with that, the Titans were off and Aria was left at the Tower by herself.
