Hey, everyone! This is my first Teen Titans story, so I hope you like it.

In this story, each chapter is going to focus on a different episode from the original TV series. Some chapters are going to follow more closely to an episode than others.

(The chapter titles are going to correspond with the titles of the episodes I'm referring to)

I don't own Teen Titans

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Chapter 1: Go!

My head was throbbing and my body ached from where it had skidded against the hard, rocky surface. With immense difficulty, I slowly pushed myself up onto my knees, and discovered that a sea of flames surrounded me.

I took a couple deep breaths to calm myself before turning my head to look back at my demonic father. His four bright red eyes stared back at me menacingly.

"There is no stopping it. It is going to happen, and you are going to help me," his voice boomed through the fiery landscape. The ground shook violently as his huge feet drew closer. "This is the reason you were born."

"No," I denied, turning away from him. "That's not what I want. I'm not going to help you."

I had been fed the same story ever since I was born. The reason I was here, the only reason why my father cared about me at all, was because I had been chosen to help him with his future scheme. He wanted to take over the world . . . and I was supposed to help him do it.

"I am the one with all the power! I am the one who decides your destiny! You do not have a choice!"

He was becoming infuriated at my continuing denial, but I couldn't help it. That couldn't be the only reason I was here. I didn't want to hurt anybody. I didn't want to control others and have them fear me. There had to be another reason for me to be alive.

"Dear daughter, you cannot deny the evil that is within you," he said, pausing to stare down at me. His eyes flickered for a moment, as if he were debating something, but then his beady little eyes shot through me like a laser beams. "You will bring destruction to everything and to everyone."

My eyes began to glow white with anger, and I pushed myself back to my feet before turning around to face him. Black orbs of energy engulfed my clenched fists at my sides.

"I will never help you! You can't make me!"

Without waiting for him to reply, I transformed into a black raven and flew off into the distance, desperate to finally get away from my father.

After teleporting to Earth, I hid myself in a dark alley before returning to my normal form and moved to place the hood of my cloak over my head.

"I should be safe here," I said to myself. "At least . . . until it's time."

Using the shadows to stay hidden, I poked my head around the corner of the building to get my first look at the planet.

The sky was dark, but lights were on everywhere in the streets. Most of the stores still appeared to be open in town as people were out roaming the sidewalks.

Moving further back into the alley, I stood with my back pressed against one of the brick walls, trying to decide what my next move was.

My father was probably furious with me. I had never stood up to him like that before now. At this realization, my body started to shake with a mixture of fear and frustration. If I couldn't pull myself together from this, how was I going to stop my destiny from happening?

I could already feel my powers starting to build inside me as my emotions began to take over. Taking a deep breath to start my calming process, I floated up into my meditating position.

It only took a few seconds for the sound of sirens wailing in the distance to break my concentration. Groaning in annoyance, I opened my eyes in time to see a bright green streak slicing through the night sky . . . heading directly for the street on my right! I dove for cover just seconds before it crashed into the road.

I waited until the ringing in my ears died down before getting back to my feet. Heading back to the side the building, I looked out at the street in front of me. Smashed into the pavement was a very large crater that was emitting thick clouds of glowing green smoke. Several curious onlookers had stopped their cars to get a better look as well. It took a minute for the smoke to clear, and a young teenage girl with long red hair and orange skin appeared in the hole.

"She's dead . . ."

Just as the thought entered my mind, the girl's eyes snapped open to reveal two glowering green eyes.

"Slopforn ivortmat!" she yelled, as she got to her feet and started to advance towards the gathering crowd. "Slopforn! Ond gudshik zerrole!"

Before I could register what was happening, the girl was suddenly charging at the nearest vehicle, pounding her cuffed hands down on the hood hard enough to leave a huge dent in the metal. Her destruction around the street continued for a while, but as I watched her, I noticed that for the most part she seemed to be ignoring the humans that were cowering in fear. Instead, she kept most of her attention focused on the inanimate objects that were present.

"What is she doing?" I whispered to myself, as I continued to watch the destruction from my hiding place.

An idea seemed to come to the woman, and she turned to make her way towards the pizza joint that was across the street from me. A pillar was stationed on the sidewalk that was meant to support the balcony above it. Hurling herself at it, she proceeded to hit the column hard enough for it to begin to buckle and crack, causing the people on the balcony to scream in terror at the resulting vibrations.

My eyes widened as it suddenly occurred to me what she was trying to do. "The cuffs . . . She's trying to free herself."

Her destruction on the pillar finally stopped when a boomerang came whizzing by, hitting her squarely on the side of her head. The impact was so great that it knocked her off balance.

"Nice shot," I thought, as the girl turned to glare back in the direction that the attack had come from.

Turning to follow her line of sight, I saw another teenager standing on the roof of a parked car. The young man had dark, spiky hair and a cape was draped down his back. A mask was plastered to his face, covering his eyes.

I rolled my eyes at the kid. Honestly, the whole get-up appeared silly. What did he think he was doing? Did he really believe he stood a chance against this alien girl?!

Before I could decide what to do, the girl got back on her feet and leaped at the boy in attack. A mixture of bobbing and weaving maneuvers from the boy followed this as he did his best to avoid the attacks. Eventually, he reached into his belt and pulled out a grenade.

"Okay, maybe he can take care of himself . . ." I noted, as I allowed a small smile to appear on my face.

The fight between the boy and the alien proceeded until the girl finally got the upper hand. I was about to step out of my hiding place to go and help the boy, when a green horned sheep bounded into view and rammed into the alien at full speed.

My eyes widened in surprise at the appearance of the unnaturally colored creature, but before I could work out what I was seeing, the animal transformed back into a human form . . . a green human with pointy ears.

"Ex-Doom Patrol member, Beast Boy, sir!" I heard the strange green kid introduce himself to the boy that was standing in front of him. "Wowzers! You're Robin, aren't you, sir?"

"Robin?" I mouthed the name before focusing back on the green kid.

Beast Boy had his hand up against his forehead, saluting the Boy Wonder.

"The green kid, he's . . . kind of cute." The thought passed through my mind before I could stop it, and my eyes widened in horror. I quickly turned away from the scene and scooted down the wall a couple feet. I can't like him! I'm supposed to destroy the world!

The sound of metal grinding against the pavement brought my attention back to what was happening. Poking my head around the building again, my eyes landed on a newcomer to the battle. This one was dressed in baggy sweat pants and a huge gray hoodie. His hood was pulled up to cover his face, but I was able to make out a glowing red eye from the shadow.

"Yo!" his voice rang out in anger. "Who's here messing up my neighborhood?"

"She started it!" defended the green kid, pointing a finger towards the alien girl behind him.

With that, the fighting started up again, the three boys against the orange alien.

"This is stupid," I sighed. By now, they were clearly doing more harm than good. I had to do something.

Stepping out from the alley, I slowly made my way over to stand behind them, and put up a barrier with my magic to pause the fight.

"Maybe fighting isn't the answer," I heard myself say, and suddenly, all three boys were staring at me with looks of disapproval.

Slightly embarrassed about my interruption during their battle, I glanced off to one side to avoid eye contact with the Boy Wonder.

I was trying to break up a fight . . . What would my father do if he knew about this? What would he do if he knew I was exposing myself like this? By now, at least a hundred people had seen me . . . Father would surely find out and then I'd be done for . . .

"Stand down," Robin ordered, his voice slicing through the air like a boomerang. Did he really just take my advice?

Robin started forward, approaching the girl at a walk. When he was within a few feet of her, she hauled herself up and swiftly moved towards him with her fists out in front of her.

"Gokta!" she screamed at him.

"Easy," he said, holding one hand up in surrender as his other hand eased into his utility belt. "My name is Robin, and I don't want to hurt you. I just want to help."

I watched as he held something up for the girl to see, before taking another step towards her. The girl seemed to relax some as Robin used the screwdriver to pry off the cuffs. It didn't take long for the restraints to fall to the ground, finally freeing the girl.

"There. Now maybe we can – " Robin started, but was interrupted by a sudden unexpected move on the alien's part.

The orange girl had reached out to drag the Boy Wonder closer to her and planted a long kiss on his lips.

Seeing what was happening right in front of me, my eyebrows raised in surprise. After everything I had just witnessed, that was probably the last thing that I expected to happen between the pair, but what occurred next surprised me even more.

When the alien was done with her kiss, she pulled back and shoved Robin hard enough to drop him onto his back . . . and then she started speaking in English!

"If you wish not to be destroyed, you will leave me alone!" she growled before flying off into the night sky.

"Looks like we're done here," Robin noted once he got his composure back. "I appreciate the help." With that, he started to walk away.

I had just met this Robin kid a couple minutes ago, but something told me he wasn't the type of person to simply walk away from an attack.

"You're going to track down the alien?" I ventured a guess.

"I have to find out if she's a threat," he replied, not bothering to turn back.

"More like find out if she will give him another kiss," I heard the big one mumble behind me, and small smile crossed my face at his sarcasm.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the green kid run after Robin. I couldn't hear what he said to him, but it wasn't long before he turned back.

"Hey, you guys wanna get a pizza?" he asked, waving his arms in excitement.

The guy in the hoodie walked away without a response, leaving the green kid alone with me.

"I'm Beast Boy," he introduced himself, holding his hand out to me.

Ignoring his hand, I looked the kid in the eyes and was surprised to feel my face grow hot under my hood. "Raven," I said before turning to walk away, but the kid couldn't take the hint.

"So, what do you say?" he asked, easily catching up to my slow, monotonous pace. "Do you want to get something to eat?"

I paused in my departure and turned to look at the ground.

He wanted to hang out with me? After everything I had to face in my life so far . . . After having to put up with my demonic father for all those years, it would be nice to have a friend . . . but I couldn't. It would be too difficult in the end.

A familiar feeling of loneliness swept through me as I shook my head. "I really shouldn't," I muttered, and then walked away without another word.

I was only a few feet away from returning to the alley I had been hiding in when a long shadow started to crawl across the ground in front me. Glancing up, I stared in shock at the huge craft that was passing by low to the ground. Following the ship's progress with my eyes, I turned back around and watched as it came to a stop, hovering over the water, before dropping a big metal object onto a little island just a few miles from the shore. By the time a hologram projector of a new alien creature appeared above the dropped object, our ragtag group had gathered together again to hear what they had to say.

"People of Earth," the ugly space creature began in a deep, raspy voice. "We come to your planet hunting an escaped prisoner, a very dangerous prisoner. Do not interfere and we will leave your city with only minimal damage. But if you attempt to assist her, your destruction will be absolute."

As the hologram image disappeared, the big one turned towards Robin. "You're still going after her, aren't you?"

Not waiting for a response, Beast Boy jumped in with, "Can we come too?"

The Boy Wonder sent us a smile before nodding his head. "I suppose I could team up, just this once." And with that, the boys started to walk away.

I wanted to go with them. I wanted to prove to my father . . . and to myself, that I wasn't just born to destroy. I wanted to be good, but whatever I did now wouldn't change what I had to do later. There was no point.

I started to turn away again, to go back into hiding, but Robin's voice pulled me back.

"You coming?"

"I'm not the hero type," I started slowly. "Trust me, if you knew what I really am, you wouldn't want me around."

That's when it happened. Robin walked up to me and he placed his hand on my shoulder. I know, it doesn't sound like much . . . but that gentle, comforting touch . . . I rarely got that growing up. This simple action told me that he cared about me. He didn't care what I was. He already accepted me.

"I know enough," he said with a smile.

Looking over his shoulder at Beast Boy and the man in the hoodie, I watched as they both nodded and sent smiles in my direction.

This simple act of kindness caused a warm feeling to grow inside me. It made me feel, for the first time, like I didn't have to be alone. I loved that feeling . . . and I didn't want it to ever go away.

I knew that it would be a bad idea to get too attached to any of the earthlings in this dimension, but I couldn't help it. My whole life I had wanted nothing more than to be accepted by someone who didn't just want to use me for their own personal gain, and this ragtag group seemed to be the perfect fit.

As the three of them turned to head down the street, I found myself falling into step behind them.

"Fools!" the leader of the Gordanians shrieked through his hologram projector for the second time today. "The Earth scum were warned. Your insolence will be punished. Your city shall be destroyed."

"So, after trashing a pizza place and a perfectly good video store, now we've managed to make a humongous space gecko mad enough to vaporize our entire town?" Beast Boy gushed, as we watched the approach of the space ship. It appeared to be preparing itself to fire its weapons upon Jump City.

"All the fault is yours!" I heard someone snap, and I turned my head slightly to find the alien girl getting right into Robin's face. "I commanded you leave me alone, but you insisted upon the 'being nice'!"

"My fault?!" Robin yelled back at her. "You blast me, you kiss me, but you never stop to mention that they have a gigantic particle weapon?"

Seeing the orange girl and the Boy Wonder starting to lose it caused a fight to break out between Beast Boy and the man that I had learned to be Cyborg.

What were they doing? A giant space ship filled with 'humongous space geckos' was quickly descending upon us, and instead of trying to come up with a plan to save everyone they were arguing with each other. This wasn't going to solve the problem.

"Quiet!" I screamed.

This, thankfully, had the resulting effect that I was hoping for. The group instantly shut up, and four pairs of eyes turned to glare at me.

"Arguing is going to get us nowhere," I informed them. "These creatures want to destroy us. We have to figure out how to stop them."

"She's right," Robin admitted, turning towards the others. "We have to get into that ship. The only way to stop them is to make it to the control room."

"Sure, sounds good," Beast Boy said, nodding his head in agreement. "Just one problem: the ship is up there," he noted, pointing towards the sky. "How are we supposed to get inside it?"

Using my black energy to form a bubble around the five of us, I managed to float us up and under the bottom surface of the spaceship. By the time I allowed the bubble to disappear, we were standing in a nook along one wall that gave us some cover from any alien creatures that happened to walk by.

Out of the corner of my eye, I caught Beast Boy shiver next to me.

"That dark energy stuff gives me the-" he started to explain, but I sent him an annoyed glare. "Uh . . . I mean, it's cool!"

Ignoring the comment, Robin poked his head around the corner to make sure the coast was clear.

"We have to get to the firing controls. There isn't much time," he said, as he started to head down the hallway.

While the others obediently followed behind Robin, I stopped in the hallway to consider what Beast Boy had said.

He was right. I was different than them. I shouldn't be here. I didn't belong. I'm not even a hero!

"Mind telling me why you're always by yourself?" someone asked, bringing me out of my thoughts. Looking up, I saw Cyborg staring back at me.

"You heard the kid," I admitted with a shrug. "I don't exactly fit in."

Just like Robin had done not too long ago, Cyborg placed one of his big hands on my shoulder. The same, simple touch rekindled the warmth inside me, making me feel accepted.

"He's green, half of me is metal, and she's from space," he rattled off in one breath. "Trust me, you fit in just fine."

If it was possible, his words made me feel even better than his caring touch.

Blasting our way into the control room, Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, the alien, and I split up to take down the group of Gordanians that were present.

I stood back for a moment in amazement as Cyborg slammed both of his fists on the floor, causing vibrations to blast the creatures off of their feet.

A second later, Beast Boy transformed himself into a kangaroo and kicked a couple of the Gordanians away with his feet before going back to human form.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw one of the aliens heading towards Beast Boy. I tried to make my way over to him, but before I could, the creature smashed both of his arms down against the deck close enough to the shape-shifter that the vibrations sent him flying backwards with a yell.

Stepping in front of Beast Boy, I threw up a small shield with my powers. One punch after another whumped into my shield as I attempted to back up slowly towards the wall. My knees buckled underneath me, causing me to lose my focus to form the shield, and he prepared to flatten us both with his fists.

Before he could, Robin leapt onto his shoulders, surprising the Gordanian and he stumbled backwards. While the rest of the group continued with their attack, I moved over closer to Beast Boy.

"Are you okay?" I asked him.

"Everything is spinning," he moaned, placing his hands on either side of his head, attempting to force everything to be still. "Otherwise, I'm fine."

Wrapping an arm around him, I helped him get back to his feet.

This felt right. For once, I was doing something that I knew was good. This ragtag group of heroes didn't care in the slightest about my past, or where I came from. Here, with them, I was free to be whomever I wanted.

Happiness swam in my veins, but as I glanced up at the battle that was growing around me, I felt sick. The Gordanians were fighting back with everything they had and as I watched, my newfound safe heaven seemed to be teetering on the brink of collapsing.

"Get away from my friends!" I cried out in menace. "Azarath! Metrion! Zinthos!"

"That's quite a view," I noted, as I stood with my new friends on the little island that was located a few miles from the mainland.

"Somebody oughta build a house out here," Cyborg nodded in agreement.

"Yeah," Beast Boy added with a smile as he nudged me with his elbow. "If you like sunshine and the beach."

After everything that had happened to me today, I was feeling happier than I could ever remember feeling. With Beast Boy looking at me with those big green eyes and bright smile, I couldn't help but let out a smile giggle at his little comment.

"You know, you're kind of funny."

His ears perked up at this. "You think I'm funny? Dude! I know some jokes!"

"I still don't know your name," Robin suddenly spoke up, turning towards the orange-skinned alien.

"In your language, it would be 'Star Fire'," she replied with a genuine smile. "I thank you all for your bravery and help, and I wish to ask permission . . . to remain here. Where the people are most strange . . . but also, most kind."

Secretly feeling the same, I said, "You don't need our permission."

"But if you want our friendship, you've got it," Robin added with a smile.

"Guess we could all use some new friends," Cyborg noted, looking around at the group.

He didn't know how true this was for me. I needed this. Just last night, I was on the brink of despair, and now . . .

"I thought we might want to keep in touch," Robin said, as he dug in his utility belt for something. "So, Cyborg and I designed these," he explained. In his hands were three round yellow devices that were to be used similar to walkie-talkies.

"When there's trouble, you know who to call."