Something Borrowed

Chapter Two: The First Jump

Skye sighed and opened the door to their tower reluctantly. She didn't want to be the one to deliver the bad news, but it was her duty as the leader of the Teen Titans in San Jueva city. (This city was located about an hour from Jump City.) Starburst was having a hard time accepting it herself, so it was up to Skye to give the other teens the news, and propose a new course of action. She didn't always like it, but it had to be done. There was a city to save, there wasn't time for doubt or poor leadership.

The climb to the top of the tower was a quiet one. Neither Skye nor Starburst spoke a word and the silence was tense with unanswered questions and fears that neither wanted to voice.

The sliding door opened to reveal a large living room area similar to the Titan's original tower layout. However the Couch was much larger and was made in light blue suede. The carpets were black and the walks were semitransparent glass with a lot of the circuitry showing through, blinking here and there. One of the teen titans, Paige, was on the couch using her graphical interface which literally floated in midair. She touched the screen, pausing whatever she was watching, to look at the two titans when they stepped in. Immediately, she knew.

"CARDINAL!" ANDREW! She screeched. "GET DOWN HERE NOW!" Two sets of doors came slamming and two males screeched to a halt in the hall. The first was around thirteen years old, with flaming red hair. He wore a mask over his eyes and a red suit with black steel toed boots, a belt with seemingly endless gadgets attached to his hips. The second was another thirteen year old, with a shock of green hair and green eyes to match. His skin was fair and he had a tooth sticking out of the left side of his mouth. He was wearing a suit similar to the Beast Boy fanfare but in black and green.

"A mission? Is someone attacking?" Were the first words out of Cardinal's mouth. Starburst deadpanned at her brother's obvious love of fighting. Paige rolled her eyes and closed her virtual computer.

"No Cardinal." She said shaking her head. "Your sister and Leader girl are back." Skye facepalmed. She hated being called Leader girl. It had been her nickname since the Titans had dubbed the little misfits the 'Teen Titans' and Resumed working in Jump city. She much preferred being called Skye. That was, after all, her given name.

"Guys, listen up." Skye said, her face impassive. "We have a situation. The Titans…" She paused for a moment, feeling herself choking on her words. "…Have gone missing." There was a collective gasp amoung the room and all the mini titans looked at one another in shock.

"You know for sure?" Andrew asked, putting a hand on his sister's shoulder. "All of them?"

"Star and I scouted the tower." Skye affirmed. "It was all clear. The top half of the tower is all sorts of messed up, looked like there was a struggle."

"Well I hope they put up a struggle!" Paige said, her eyes wide. "Our parents aren't superhero's for nothing!" Skye nodded and quickly went over to the main panel and began to type in a series of code. A map and a bunch of sensors appeared for a few moments before the screen went black and the sensors disappeared.

"Just as I thought." Skye said crossing her arms. "They've disappeared off the map. They haven't left the area per say, by the trackers dad said to keep locked on at all times have been disabled."

"So that narrows down places they could be." Cardinal pointed out. "Somewhere with an intense electromagnetic field or nuclear radiowaves could deactivate those signals easily."

"The real question," Starburst said, "Is not necessarily where they are, but who took them?" The teenaged titans stood silent for a moment, unsure of what to think or do. Then, Skye looked up.

"We need to go back to Titan's tower and look for clues." She said turning to face her fellow heros. "We need to scout it out. And then, we need to start trying to figure out where they are. Then, we'll work on rescuing our parents."

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Raven woke up more naturally in the morning, a very small sliver of light filtering into her room. She glanced at the clock and realized it was eight in the morning. She sat up and stretched, quickly getting out of bed and getting her uniform on.

Once everything was in place, she headed straight to the kitchen to make her morning brew of tea. It was something of a habit for her, a habit she didn't see herself getting out of. She loved the soothing feel of the tea on her throat, and the way its taste sent her senses into total bliss. She heard some rummaging around in the kitchen and looked to see Starfire, clad in only a very baggy shirt and short shorts, sifting through the refrigerator and pulling out random foods.

"Morning Star, what are you doing?" Starfire jumped and squealed, turning around rapidly at the sound of her friends greeting. Said friend raised her eyebrow questioningly at the alien girl, who blushed and pressed her index fingers together.

"Good morning friend Raven! I was just retrieving the ingredients necessary to make the glorious pancakes and waffles of Earth!" Raven laughed and went to the cupboards, pulling out pancake mix and a couple bowls.

"The only thing you need out of the fridge is eggs Starfire." Raven said.

"Not if you plan on making a real good breakfast." Cyborg said walking into the kitchen. He ruffled Raven's hair and placed a hand on Starfire's shoulder, peering into the freezer. "We'll need all the fixin's!" As he was pulling out all of the other ingredients to make food Beast Boy came waltzing in, rubbing his eyes tiredly and yawning.

"Whazzup?" He said, plopping down in a chair and resting his head on this arms on the table. "What's for breakfast?"

"Waffles and pancakes and eggs and bacon and sausage." Starfire listed off proudly. Beast boy grimaced momentarily.

"Make mine veggie friendly and I won't complain.

"You, not complain?" Cyborg said smirking. "I'd like to see that." Beast Boy pouted but stopped and instead began to look around the room.

"Hey, where's Robin?" He asked. The other teens looked around. It was rather unusual that everyone was up before the boy wonder, who made it a point to be on time for everything, and was generally awake scouting in the early hours of the morning. Starfire blushed and shifted her feet around a little, immediately catching the others' attention. They all looked at her and her blush became more evident.

"Robin and I…" She said. "We spent the night together in his room. We were awake longer than we should have been. He is likely still sleeping." Cyborg blinked a few times, and then erupted in very boisterous laughter.

"Spent the night together eh Star?" He asked nudging her shoulder. "Why that devil him! I think we should pay him a morning wake up call, don't you BB?" Cyborg said, turning mischievously to the little green man. However as the two went to creep off and heckle the young leader, Raven grabbed them with her powers and turned to Starfire, ignoring their protests.

"You may want to go wake up your boyfriend before I let them go." She said. Starfire's eyes widened and she bowed appreciatively before darting off to Robin's room. Raven raised an eyebrow at the two mutinous expressions now directed at her.

"Hey," She defended. "I had to give them a chance to save face. It's only fair."

Hello Faithful readers! Here is another chapter for you all! I know I've been slacking on my fanifiction as of late, to be honest all I've been really working on is my art (which btw you can find on deviantart, the username is Mizuno-Suzuka ;D) So I apologize to those of you who have been looking forward to my updates that I have been lax on. ANYWAY. Hope you enjoyed this chapter, more to come soon.