Hello everyone! I hope you're all ready, because here is the official first chapter of my personal Teen Titans Season 6 premiere. In this chapter, with the titans having now returned safely home from Tokyo, they are given a warm welcome back by the team polite enough to take care of things while they were away, Titans East. Here's to hoping you read, enjoy, and especially review!

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Chapter 1:

Welcome Home

At exactly 12:00 pm the very next day, the T-Ship arrived home at Titans Tower in Jump City, California. Upon sight of the familiar silhouette of their home, Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg smiled happily, glad to finally be back home once more. Raven, meanwhile, let no emotion show on her typically blank face, but felt a slight sense of happiness deep inside underneath her blank façade. As for Beast Boy, he was currently still snoring away from the nap he'd ended up taking halfway through the journey home.

A few minutes later, Cyborg himself remembered this detail as he conveniently started hearing Beast Boy snoring once again. "Robin," he said into his com-link.

"Yes," said Robin.

"Should we wake up BB?"

Robin thought to himself. "Might as well," he then responded. "Go ahead."

Upon hearing this, Cyborg accessed Beast Boy's com-link, took a deep breath, and then promptly bellowed, "Yo BB! Wake up man!"

Beast Boy promptly awoke, letting out his trademark emasculating shriek. For a few precious minutes, he wildly looked from side to side, babbling incomprehensibly about danger and wondering what was going on. When he finally came to his senses, he happened to look in the direction of the Tower, and let his trademark toothy grin come on his face as he recognized the very obvious shape of the Titans' home base. "Well what do you know," he then said. "We've made it home."

"That we have Beast Boy," said Robin. "But don't get too excited, we'll probably still need to make a few minor repairs before we can relax."

At the sound of this comment, Beast Boy pouted inside his compartment. "You take the fun out of everything," he grumbled to himself. Cyborg simply nodded his head up and down nonchalantly with his human eye closed as if to say 'what will be, will be.' Raven, as usual, showed no emotion about this news at all. Starfire, meanwhile, looked as if she could care less about any work that would need to be done, as long as she got to spend some valuable quality time with Robin afterward.

But as it turned out, no repair work, or work period, would be necessary. A few minutes later, as the T-Ship came close enough to actually see the Tower itself as opposed to its dark silhouette on the horizon, Robin's eyes widened under his mask, and then he said, "Ok, looks like I might have spoken too soon."

The other titans followed their leader's gaze, and their eyes widened as they also noticed how the tower appeared to have been completely repaired over the course of the week they'd spent in Tokyo. Cyborg whistled after a few seconds. "Dang," he said. "I didn't think Bee had it in her."

Before they'd left to go to Tokyo, the Titans had made sure to have Titans East fill in for them while they were absent. Admittedly, they'd expected for their team's ancillary sister division from Steel City to do some repair work on the tower that was needed in the aftermath of Saico Tekk's attack on it, but they had not expected for them to completely repair the tower back to more or less the way it had been before Saico Tekk's attack.

Robin found himself directing a look of respect towards the tower. "I'll definitely give her and the rest of Titans East credit for knowing how to get the job done."

Starfire smiled ecstatically as she looked at the now very much repaired home base of her and her friends. "Oh how glorious!" she said. "Our home is no longer damaged!"

"It certainly doesn't look damaged anymore, that's for sure," Raven stated in her usual seemingly disinterested tone. "But they better not have gone into my room," she then added seemingly as an afterthought.

Beast Boy chuckled, his toothy grin back on his face, and said, "I say we really ought to thank Titans East for their help."

"Well that shouldn't be too hard," Robin stated seconds later after noticing five figures standing outside the tower right nearby the coast that was facing the oncoming T-Ship. "They're standing outside the tower right now to welcome us back."

And indeed they were. Standing right at the head of the relatively diamond-shaped formation on the coast was a tall African American girl who looked about the same age as Cyborg with two globe-shaped 'braids' in her hair, a pair of insect-like wings sprouting from her back, and dressed in a black and yellow striped outfit. Her hands were clenched into fists that she'd placed on her hips, and within her clenched fists she held two slightly harp or recurve bow shaped objects that appeared to have crackling beams of electricity in the places where the strings would have been located. The Titans needed only look at this girl and make note of these visual details plus the confident and determined look on her face to recognize her as Bumblebee, former student of the H.I.V.E. Academy turned honorary titan and leader of Titans East.

Standing behind Bumblebee to her left was a tall athletic ginger-haired boy wearing a reddish orange jumpsuit with yellow outlining around the edges. He had his arms folded across his chest, and a relaxed laidback look on his face that not even his domino mask that covered his eyes could hide. And of course, strapped to his back, was a large golden yellow longbow and a quiver full of mechanical arrows. Even without the presence of the bow and arrows, it would have been easy enough for the titans, particularly Robin, to recognize this boy as the honorary titan Speedy.

Another teenage boy stood to Speedy's right. Like Speedy, he had his arms folded across his chest. But aside from this positioning and his similar athletic, light skin tone, and lean bodily build, he looked very different from the ginger-haired archer. The outfit he wore was a dark blue unitard complete with black rubber gloves and boots. Also unlike Speedy, he had no mask, and allowed his obsidian colored eyes to be freely viewed by anyone who looked at him. And his hair, in stark contrast to Speedy's almost militaristically close cropped ginger hair, was pitch black and went all the way down to his shoulders. Upon sight, this boy was instantly recognizable as Aqualad.

Finally, standing close together directly behind the three teenagers were two small ginger-haired boys who looked as if they couldn't have been more than 10 or so years old dressed in white hooded tracksuits complete with yellow gloves and boots, streaks of red in various areas of their costumes. The two boys were obviously identical twins as they looked so much alike that one of the few ways anyone could tell them apart lay in how one of the boys had a bright yellow plus sign emblazoned on his shirt and the sides of his helmet while his brother had an equally bright yellow minus sign emblazoned in the same areas. Smiling giddily, they both joyously yelled in a mega-fast pace at the same time towards the approaching flying vehicle, "Bienvenido a casa amigos!"

Robin chuckled to himself upon hearing this. "Yep, Mas and Menos certainly haven't changed a bit," he said to himself. No sooner had he said this, when he found himself smirking privately to himself as he thought guiltily of how they would likely react to how he would respond in the hypothetical situation of Bumblebee or any of the two teenage boys in her team were to ask him if any news they'd heard of him and Starfire's now official status as boyfriend and girlfriend.

At the same time Robin was thinking about this, Beast Boy, Raven, and Cyborg were also thinking about this topic. "Those two twins had better have the sense not to try to go after Starfire anymore if they know what's good for them," the three titans thought to themselves in unison. And of course, Starfire had a joyous smile on her face as she thought of how very happy she would be to personally inform her Titans East friends of the truth behind any rumors they might have heard about her and Robin becoming a couple if they asked about it.

Meanwhile, on the island, Bumblebee smiled upon hearing the two Spanish speaking twins joyously shouting a welcome home greeting to the five core titans. "You've got that right boys," she said. "Our friends certainly deserve a nice happy welcome home from us." Aqualad and Speedy chuckled in agreement upon hearing this.

"You got that right," said Speedy.

"Yep," said Aqualad. "They're just awesome that way."

Five minutes later, the T-Ship landed a meter to the left of the assembled ancillary division of the Titans, and the five core titans proceeded to disembark. The five members of Titans East promptly walked up closer to their five friends.

Bumblebee had a smile on her dark face as she looked at the five familiar teen heroes of Jump City. "Good to see you're back home," she said.

"Thanks Bumblebee," said Robin. "I trust you and the others were able to take care of things smoothly in our absence?"

Bumblebee made a dismissive gesture and said, "Piece of cake. Aside from the occasional common criminal and the odd minor villain every now and then, things were pretty quiet around here. Not that I'm complaining."

"Damn right we're not complaining," said Speedy. "After all, I certainly enjoyed having all that time to relax, not to mention be guaranteed to have the tower all fixed up by the time you guys returned home."

Cyborg chuckled, and then said, "I can definitely agree with you there; I must say, I didn't think you had it in you Bee."

Bumblebee chuckled, and responded, "You know me; I get the job done. Heck, my team and I were even able to do it without interruptions from one of Speedy and Aqualad's constant arguments."

"Oh come on," Aqualad complained. "We do not argue that often!"

"Actually," said Speedy. "We kind of do."

"Do not!" the Atlantean teen yelled indignantly.

"Do to!" the archer shouted back.

"Do not!"

"Do to!"

"Do not!"

"Do to!"

"Do not!"

"Do to!"

"Do not!"

"Do to!"

And just like that, the two teenage boys ended up arguing once again in their seemingly endless cycle of arguing and chumming. As this happened, Bumblebee, Mas and Menos, and the five founding members of the Teen Titans stared blankly at the tableau. Bumblebee rolled her eyes. The two Spanish twins said, "Aquí vamos de nuevo," in unison. Robin had a very similar annoyed look as the one that Bumblebee had on her face while Starfire seemed confused as to just what she should do. As for the other three members of the core titans, they just stared at the two arguing boys while shaking their heads from side to side.

Beast Boy then stared at Raven out of the corner of his eyes and said, "And they say I'm the idiot in this equation."

"Of all the things they could do," Raven said in agreement. "Here they are arguing over how often they argue."

"Geez, can those two get any stupider?" Cyborg asked in agreement.

Eventually, Bumblebee gave both of the arguing boys an epic slap to the face at the same time, Aqualad with her left hand and Speedy with her right hand. "Enough with this!" she yelled the instant the two boys were no longer dazed. "Could you perhaps allow your meaningless eternity of arguing to be put on hold long enough for you to properly welcome your friends home?!"

Aqualad and Speedy gulped, looking very much chastened, and they proceeded to walk over to the five core titans, shoulders and heads slumped with embarrassment. At the sight of the two humiliated teenage boys, Mas and Menos started laughing uncontrollably.

"Teehee," said Mas. "Quemar caliente!"

"Te han machacado," said Menos.

Speedy turned his head to face the two twins, a look of just barely restrained rage on his face. "You are so lucky I still don't understand a word you say you little . . ."

Aqualad smacked him upside the head. "Dude," he shouted. "Keep it PG! We have ten year olds present!"

Right as Speedy turned his head to direct his glare at the Atlantean, Bumblebee raised her finger and said, "Ah yes, speaking of those two." She turned her head to look at the 10 year old twin speedsters. With a facial expression that looked half guilty grimace and half conniving smirk, she said, "You two little fellas might want to sit down."

The two 'little fellas' raised their eyebrows in confusion. "Que quieres decir?" they asked in unison. At the sight of the smug grins that appeared on the faces of their Atlantean and archer compatriots, the two Spanish-speaking twin speedsters found themselves having an eerie feeling that whatever their fearless leader was about to do would somehow not end well for them.

But even as they had that feeling, they didn't realize just how drastically they'd be effected until they heard Bumblebee say, "So Robin, forgive me if I sound like I'm intruding, but current word on the street here in Jump City freshly delivered somehow from Tokyo is that . . . well . . . how should I put this?"

The two twins promptly found themselves developing very worried looks on their faces. They had a mega-bad feeling now about just what Bumblebee was talking about. Aqualad and Speedy sniggered at the sight, clearly fighting to keep themselves from laughing. Meanwhile, Cyborg and Beast Boy were directing smug looks at their fearless leader that screamed 'do tell, do tell," while Raven looked at nothing in particular with her usual blank scowl on her face. Starfire, in stark contrast to everyone else, found herself blushing immensely as she felt the urge to proudly confirm in words that the news she had a feeling Bumblebee was referring to was indeed true.

And seconds later, Robin, with a surprisingly calm look on his face considering how he'd often reacted in the past to any situations regarding his painfully obvious romantic feelings towards Starfire being called to attention, grabbed onto Starfire's hands, let a small smile cross his face, and said, "If this news you are referring to goes anywhere along the lines of me and Star now being officially a romantic couple, then yes it's true."

At the sight of the shell-shocked and horrified looks that came on the faces of Mas and Menos upon hearing Robin say this, it took all of Speedy and Aqualad's willpower not to burst out laughing. Beast Boy and Cyborg, meanwhile, let proud smiles come on their faces as they saw how confidant their fearless leader now was in openly talking about his relationship with Starfire.

Bumblebee also smiled, and then looked at Starfire before saying, "What do you have to say about the rumors we've all been hearing recently about your relationship status?"

Robin raised his eyebrow with a suspicion filled glare on his face.

"Oh I trust you Robin," said Bumblebee upon noticing the look on his face. "But I'd like to hear the news from my fellow girl." Upon hearing this legitimate explanation, Robin calmed down slightly, but still looked relatively ticked off.

Bumblebee looked back at Starfire and said, "So? They true?"

Mas and Menos looked intently towards Starfire and Robin, looking as if the fate of their world depended on Starfire's answer. Seconds later, Starfire let out a joyous giggle, her eyes closed tight with joy, and leaped up on Robin from behind, wrapping her arms around his neck and shoulders in a loving embrace and said, "Oh indeed they are! My life couldn't be more joyous now that we are officially the boyfriend and girlfriend!" Upon hearing all this coming from the chipper Tamaranean beauty, Robin smiled warmly, not even bothering to complain this time about how her hug was as tight as be darn near suffocating as ever.

Upon seeing and hearing Starfire's reaction, Mas and Menos fainted, both falling flat on their backs and passing out in unison. At the sight of this, Aqualad and Speedy exploded into laughter. They didn't stop until they eventually awkwardly noticed how Bumblebee and the five native titans of Jump City were now staring at them with their eyebrows raised. The two now twice embarrassed teenage boys chuckled nervously and rubbed their hands across the backs of their heads.

Bumblebee rolled her eyes, looked back at the core titans and said, "I hope you don't have to live with this kind of thing every day Robin."

Robin chuckled, and responded, "The part that we just put a stop to for the moment, no. But the arguing, I can definitely relate to dealing with." As he said the last bit, he directed a meaningful look towards Beast Boy and Raven out of the corner of his eye.

At the sight of this, the two chromatically challenged titans in question directed a glare right back at their leader. "Why are you looking at me?!" Beast Boy's glare seemed to yell. Raven's glare, meanwhile, would have turned Robin dead as a dodo if looks could kill.

Fortunately, right at the same time this was happening, the sound of ten Titans communicators going off at the same time was heard. In a flash, Robin dutifully drew out his communicator, opened it up, and looked intently at the words on the screen before saying, "Trouble." All of two seconds passed after Robin said this before the sound of what appeared to be an explosion was heard from within Jump City, followed by what sounded like an ominous bestial roar.

At the sound of all this, the three conscious members of Titans East groaned. "Great just great," Bumblebee grumbled in annoyance. "You five just arrived home, and we get a call of trouble again."

Cyborg reached over Robin's shoulder and placed his hand on Bumblebee's shoulder. "Don't you worry," said the cybernetic teenager. "We've got this covered. Don't we guys?" Robin, Starfire, and Beast Boy smiled in agreement. Even Raven let a small smirk cross her face as she silently agreed with Cyborg.

Bumblebee stepped back with her hands raised in mock surrender. "Well goodness me, we'd better not stand in your way then."

Robin chuckled, and said, "Indeed you'd better not." He then turned to face his four team mates. "You ready guys?" The other four titans answered in the affirmative.

Bumblebee chuckled, folded her arms across her chest, and then said, "So I guess this is goodbye?"

"Until the next time Bee," said Cyborg. "But now it's time for the Teen Titans to kick some butt!"

Robin gave a small wave to Bumblebee and the four Titans East boys, and then said, "See you again sometime guys. And thanks again for the tower and sticking around to fill in for us while we were gone. But now, we're ready to get back to work. And on that note." He turned his head to face the city and yelled, "Titans go!"

The instant he shouted this, Robin lifted up his hands in the air, just in time for Starfire, who'd taken to the air the instant Robin had shouted the iconic battle cry of the Teen Titans, to grab onto his hands and soar off towards the city with her fearless leader and boyfriend in tow. Immediately after Starfire started flying off with Robin, Raven spread her arms out to her sides and then took off as she proceeded to levitate close behind. And right as Raven took to the air, Beast Boy jumped up in a backwards flip, turned into a pteranodon while in mid-air directly over Cyborg, and then lowered himself just enough to grab Cyborg by the shoulders with his talons before flying off after his team mates with Cyborg in his talons, screeching out a furious pterosaur battle cry. And as the titans made their way over to the scene of the current commotion in Jump City, they all had the same thought on their minds. Whoever was causing trouble in Jump City now was going to be in big trouble now. The Teen Titans were now home, and they were ready to get right back to work.

And there you have it people! I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, and leave a nice large bunch of reviews (and remember, a minimum of 5 reviews is needed to unlock access to the next chapter once its complete and gone through Montydragon, and this time I won't be so lenient as to count reviews such as the rather meaningless ones left by some guest dude named anon that I ended up deleting). On another note, for those of you who had trouble understanding Mas and Menos, feel free to look up what they said on the internet for translations. On another note, I also hope you find yourselves looking extra forward to the battle that is sure to occur in the next chapter ^_^. Anyways, like I said, I hope you enjoyed reading this, and that you leave a nice good bunch of reviews (but no flames are allowed).

Coming up next: The Teen Titans formally get back in business in Jump City with a battle against Jump City's favorite biker, Johnny Rancid!