The 'alert' sirens sounded all around the Titans' Tower. Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Raven all met inside the Ops Room, and discussed it. "It's 4 in the morning!" Beast Boy whined, yawning. "It still doesn't stop people from committing crimes this early." Robin said.
Cyborg spoke up, looking at the monitor. "The distress signal's at an old abandoned Gas Station, downtown."
Robin said, "Ok Titans. Let's go see what the problem is."
They all quickly left the room to go to where the trouble was, and Beast Boy stayed back and yawned, until Raven pulled him forcefully towards the door.
They arrived at the Gas Station in their own ways. Raven levitating. Starfire flying. Robin on his R-Cycle. Cyborg in the T-Car. And Beast Boy as a Pterodactyl.
Robin walked inside first. The door was wide open. A short chubby mid-20's Hillbilly-looking man stood up, who was drinking a beer. "Hey, look, it's the Titans." He said, and sighed in relief as he took another drink. "Want some of this? Best in the city." He said, obviously drunk.
"Why was there a danger alert here?" Cyborg muttered.
"I am uncertain.. There seems to be no cause for distress..." Starfire replied.
Suddenly, a little girl that looked almost like Raven only younger, stood up from behind some cardboard boxes. "I called it in." the little girl said.
Robin asked, "Why? Who are you?"
The little girl pointed to Raven, and said, "I'm her sister."
Raven's eyes bugged out at those two words.
They had taken her back to the tower, to find some things out. Raven was doing most of the questions. "I never had a sister.." Raven said softly, still completely puzzled about this.
"Maybe not when you were actually around." She replied. "So, do we have the same Father?" Raven asked, sounding a bit bitter saying the word 'Father'.
"Yes, at least we did, before you defeated him." The little girl said.
Raven was left speechless for a moment, then spoke again. "I was cursed with being my Father's portal.. he would of cursed every child he had. What did he curse you with?" she asked.
The little girl didn't respond.
Starfire was busy in her room, feeding Silkie, when she heard a knock on the door. "Who is it?" she asked politely, trying to feed Silkie but it being difficult.
"It's me." The little girl said. Starfire looked surprised, and sat down the 'baby' spoon on the high-chair for Silkie. She walked to the door, and pressed the button nearby to open it. The little girl was standing there, alone and looking up at her.
"Can I come in?" the little girl asked. Starfire replied, "Certainly, come in.."
The girl walked in and Starfire shut the door. "I needed someone to talk to.." the girl said.
"Ok.. why me? Should you not be talking to your Sister if you require some one to talk to?" Starfire asked, a bit confused.
"Well, Yeah.. but you just looked so nice, and friendly.. I'd like to talk to you better." The little girl replied, and smiled.
"Ok. What do you wish to talk about?" Starfire replied, smiling too.
"This.. thing. I do have a curse like Raven does.. or did. I'm a portal too, but to an even worse kind of Evil. Worse than Trigon." The little girl muttered. Starfire gasped, but then hesitated to talk realizing it may hurt the little girl's feelings to be fearful over it. "What is the Evil like..?" Starfire asked, in curiosity. They both sat down on her bed to talk.
"It's like a worm.. it's an Evil that controls people and makes them do horrible things, and eats up everything inside them until nothing is left but Evil.. and they can never be anything but Evil.. it happens to people I meet. That's why I didn't want to come here.." the little girl said.
Starfire smiled, and said, "Do not worry. We shall find a solution to the problem. We are friends of Raven, so we are friends of yours."
The little girl smiled too. Starfire held her hand, smiling.
Then, a huge black aura came out of the little girl's soul and flew into Starfire's.
Starfire's eyes flew open in shock, and so did the little girl's. Starfire immediately fell backwards and off the side of the bed, struggling and straining. The little girl looked back at her in shock and total agony, and shouted, "No! Not her!"
"Don't DO IT!!" the little girl screamed, covering her eyes, as Starfire went limp, gasping for air, then motionless.
The little girl whined with worry, as Starfire stood up slowly, and said, "So, you were saying?" as if she was normal. But the little girl looked at her once-green eyes. They were black, and had red circles around them. The girl trembled, and screamed in fright.
Robin woke up in the middle of night. A bad feeling about someone he cared about in trouble was keeping him up almost all night, and the little girl's scream completed it.
He got his staff, that was at his bedside, and rushed towards where he thought he heard it. Starfire's room. He burst in, and the little girl wasn't there. Instead, Starfire was there, feeding Silkie, in the dark. Lightning flashed through the nearby window, rain pouring down.
Robin turned on the room's light, and asked her, "Hey, Star, did you hear that scream?"
Starfire looked at Robin then. Her green eyes were and back to normal now, but barely reddish pink circles were still around her eyes. Robin asked, "What are those circles?"
She looked at him, and replied, "Nothing, Robin." She began feeding Silkie again, but Silkie was crying like crazy, like something was scaring him to death. Robin just stared at Silkie and Starfire in confusion, and backed out of the room. "Ok then. Goodnight." Then said softly. "Happy Shnorvlaks, Robin." She said. Then he went down the hall and back down the stairs to his room.
Then, she had an evil smile, a low deep voice came from her throat. "Finally, my first victim. And one that has so much power and so little weaknesses. My Empire will reign once again."
Silkie began crying like crazy again, and Starfire bent over with the spoon full of berries, looking normal, acting normal, and smiling normal. But the bellowing sadistic evil laugh that was coming out of her throat made it scary. Very scary. "Buahahahahahahaha!!"
All the Titans woke up the next morning, and met in the 'Living Room'. Robin had been sitting around waiting for Starfire to come to the room, like she usually did.
"Hey guys, have you seen Star yet?" Robin asked. Cyborg said calmly, "Nope…"
"For about the 15th time.." he added, muttering.
Raven said, in a tone of carelessness, "Where's my sister?"
Nobody responded, and Raven continued to read her book. Robin told Beast Boy, who was playing a video game on the couch, "Hey, Beast Boy. Can you check Starfire's room to see if she's okay?"
Beast Boy sighed, and replied, "Sure, dude. But after this, no more asking, ok?"
He paused the game, stood up, and walked down the hall, mumbling. He got to the doorway of Starfire's room, and the door was wide open. He looked up, and his eyes bugged out. The outside wall to her room was gone. He waved his arms around, and starting whining nervously, running back down the hall.
He got to the doorway of the 'living room'. He said in a panicked rush, "Guys, we've got an emergency!"
Cyborg asked in surprise, "What?"
Beast Boy replied, "Uh, dude! Her wall's gone!" Cyborg asked, "So? She may be exercising. Robin does it on the punching bag all the time."
Beast Boy then growled in frustration, "Starfire's gone too!" he said.
Everyone eyed him then, especially Robin. Robin then stood up, and grabbed his nearby staff. He then lengthened it, and dashed past Beast Boy toward Starfire's room. Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Raven then followed.
Robin then got to the open doorway, and froze. His eyes bugged out and he gasped at the sight. He dashed into the middle of the room, and said, "Starfire?", looking out the huge gap in the wall. "Star?" he said again, looking under her bed and quickly in the closet. He looked back out at the water in the bay, and yelled loud, "STARFIRE!"
Nothing but his echo. The three others were at the doorway, looking at him. "We should go search for her." Robin said. "Let's go."
They all dashed back out the hallway to get outside.
The little girl was wandering the sidewalks in the city, and walked past some empty Basketball courts that were enclosed by fences. Nobody was playing, but a basketball remained in the middle of the court. She walked in the middle of the court, standing by it, and took out a Communicator. Raven's communicator. She then called up Starfire's communicator for the 7th time. "Come on.. pick up.. pick up.." she said softly. When it still didn't work, she tossed it on the ground and it broke. She then sat down right under the basketball hoop, and sighed. "I'm better off alone.." she muttered, as tears rolled down her cheeks.
Then, over her head, she noticed something. It was Starfire, looking down at her through the hoop. The little girl gasped, and Starfire landed beside her, and held out her hand. "No.." Starfire suddenly whispered, then gagged. "Do...not.. trust...me! Please… Run… now!"
Her posture, and smile, and entire look was suggesting that she was friendly. But her black eyes and her muttering telling the little girl not to trust her said otherwise.
The little girl ran off, her eyes bugging out a bit. She kneeled down to put the communicator back together, and it worked. The flap reconnected to the main part of it. She immediately dialed for Robin, panting. But Starfire was behind her, approaching her, with a devilish smile. Then suddenly, it went away, with a now very scared and unwilling expression. Then she leaned forward, growling, with an evil smile again, and it stayed.
Robin picked up, in surprise seeing the little girl, and she said a huge mouthful. "Starfire's turned evil, like everyone else I meet! It's my curse! Please I'm telling you, don't come looking for me! I don't want anyone else to be-"
Then the transmission cut off, as on the screen, the black-eyed Starfire grabbed her from behind. Robin's eyes bugged out even more, and he began to act short of breath at what he saw.
"Cyborg, where was your Basketball tournament?" Robin said, in a rushed mouthful.
"East Ben Avenue. Downtown. Why?" Cyborg said, confused.
"No time to explain. That's where Starfire is, and she needs our help." Robin jumped on the R-Cycle in a hurry, and said loudly, "Titans, GO!"
The little girl was tied to the basketball goal. Starfire with black eyes was in front of her. Fire truck sirens filled the city atmosphere, and so did police sirens. An elevated highway was above the 2 basketball courts, in the distance, and cars were whooshing by up above.
A tall metal man, with one black eye, was kneeling down to the little girl. Slade.
"You did good, Starfire." Slade said to Starfire, who was nearby, in that same voice he always had. They both laughed, and then Starfire, but really not Starfire at all, replied, "You did too, Slade."
"Now, let's agree to never use these Mortal's names again. It's bothersome." A deep voice within Starfire bellowed. "I agree. It's really senseless to use them. It's almost like they made them up on their own." The deep voice in 'Slade' bellowed back.
"This girl I'm in. She's giving me a lot of resistance. Luckily she knew an evil mortal like the one you control. The good ones always fight." The deep voice in Starfire said.
"But like every Mortal, they always lose it in the end.." the deep voice in Slade muttered.
The little girl had her eyes wide open the whole time, and was shaking in fear. "Why do you do this to me? Why do you harm my friends? Everyone I meet?" the little girl whined.
Suddenly, both 'Starfire' and 'Slade' had their eyes return to their normal look. They both said at the same time, but now in Slade and Starfire's voices, "It's your curse." The red circles around both of their eyes went away, and now, Slade's real voice, but still not him at all said, "The 'Teen Titans' are coming. Act like we're in battle to fool them."
Starfire's voice replied back, "Good plan."
The little girl started trembling again, trying to get her arms loose from the chains.
They both jumped back on opposite sides of the court. Starfire in front of the little girl, acting like 'she' was protecting her, and Slade on the opposite side. The little girl was still straining trying to get out of the binding ropes, but with no luck.
The four Titans landed right in front of the possessed Starfire, not knowing she was actually the enemy now. Robin said out loud, "Slade.."
Slade then laughed, and yelled back louder than he usually did, "It's nice to see you Robin. The girl's coming with me, whether you like it or not!"
Robin then whispered to Starfire, "Star, watch over the girl for us. We'll distract him while you get her to safety."
Then Starfire said loudly, "Don't worry Robin. I've got us covered.", in a tone that sounded more like it belonged to her sister, Blackfire.
Beast Boy then looked back at her, and Cyborg did too, in surprise. "Did you just say Don't?" Beast Boy said.
Cyborg added, "And I've?"
Raven looked confused, but Robin gritted his teeth from a bad feeling of figuring something out. It's the little girl's curse, 'Evil'. And that night, Silkie was acting like it wasn't Starfire that was feeding it, but a total stranger.
But it was too late now. "I'll protect her. Don't worry. You go start butt-kicking him." Starfire said.
Cyborg then turned around, and said, "Yo, Star, what's with your language? You always said 'kick the butt' before, and now you're all human-sound."
Beast Boy then added, "Yeah, and now you sound like you have a European Accent. Not like there's anything wrong with th-"
Robin then turned around, and growled, "That's not her."
Beast Boy said loudly, "What? Robin, the bad guy's over on that side of the court."
"Yeah, she's with us, man." Cyborg added.
Starfire then said loudly too, "Oh… am I?"
They all turned to face her, as Starfire emitted a huge blast that sent all 4 of them tumbling back across the court, in front of Slade's feet, steaming from the impact.
Slade bent down and looked at Robin. Slade's eye turned black, and he said, "Evil always prevails, Robin."
Then, Robin looked up and saw Cinderblock towering over Slade, looking at him. But Cinderblock's stony eyes were black too.
Then, a black aura flew out of Cinderblock, and into Raven. Raven struggled, and Beast Boy saw it, now back to consciousness. He shrieked, and said, "Raven!"
Suddenly, Raven went limp, her eyes turned black, and red circles formed around them. She then stood up, and said in an evil tone, "Let's see the World now."
A black energy surrounded her, and in a flash of darkness, the World was changed. The towering skyscrapers in Jump City were on fire, large holes burning through them. Parts of them missing. The city in near-ruin. Chaos everywhere. Sirens. Deserted Ships, wrecked in the bay.
They looked where they were. In front of a giant Fortress, named "Evils' Reign." A sign nearby said "Leaders: Negato, Seiveka, Vexira"
The pictures of these 'leaders' were beneath the names. It was a picture of Slade, Starfire, and Raven.
The three Titans stared in shock. But, the little girl was still behind them. Now there were two little girls. Raven's 'sister'. And Raven, but a little girl.
Cyborg and Beast Boy were looking at the two little girls in surprise, but Robin's eyes never left that eerie picture of Starfire. Starfire, now some evil organization leader? His heart burned at the thought of it, even SEEING it hurt him badly. A fury built within him, and he yelled, "We're going to attack that fortress."
Cyborg then said loudly, "What? With no plan? Come on, man, we need some kind of plan to even get close to-"
Robin then yelled, interrupting, "DON'T YOU SEE WHAT'S GOING ON HERE? THEY'VE POSSESSED OUR FRIENDS."
He growled, and put his hands to his forehead, frustrated.
Then, Cinderblock approached them from the trail and interrupted the conversation.
"We were expecting you." The stony creature said, in Cinderblock's deep voice. He then smashed the ground in front of them, buckling it, sending them flying back across the pavement.