Hey guys just to let you know I had to edit this chapter. I was looking it over the other night and realized a little bit was missing. Sorry about that Dx
Disclaimer: I don't own the teen titans franchise.
Once they reached the island they stepped in front of the security gate and Beast Boy typed in his password. Robin caught his breath and led the way in. The lasers and assaults were stalled for a moment as the boys approached the main doors on the T-Tower.
Robin pulled back his mask just enough to put his eye up to the scanner. It traced over his eye and confirmed his identity with a quiet beep then asked for a password. Robin typed in his password and it failed.
"What the-" Robin tried again and again to put in the password.
"Dude why don't I try?" Beast Boy suggested pulling back Robin's fiery anger away from the doors.
Beast Boy scanned his eye and typed onto the keypad. The confirmation sounded twice and the doors unlocked. They looked at each other and BB shrugged, " Maybe you changed yours and forgot what you changed it to?"
"Hmpt" Robin grumbled still frustrated. They walked into the tower. It was the same as usual mostly, a few of the colours seemed off and there was a strange air around them, but the boys kept walking.
They walked up and got to the main common room. This time they both noticed changes. The couch was different and the kitchen had been slightly updated. Some of the computers and systems looked off and the dinning table had changed too.
"Uhh did the Justice League give us new gear?" Beast Boy questioned examining the new couch and computers.
"I don't know but they should've contacted me." Robin stomped to the computer and tried to get online. Once again his password failed. " What the hell!" He spouted.
"Hey dude, relax! Check you room maybe you wrote down your new password somewhere?"
"I don't remember changing it though!"
"Maybe Cyborg's pranking you again? Either way I'm gonna go crash call me if you need me I'm beat tired!"
Robin nodded and walked to his room. The motion sensors went off and the door slid open. Among other strange sights the most surprising was a tall red haired girl undressing beside the bed.
"Starfire?" Robin stuttered, his eyes budging from his face.
The girl in her undergarments and shorts turned around with a squeak of shock.
"Robin?" She almost yelled catching herself before she got very loud. Robin stared frightened and awkwardly while she looked him up and down. "Whatever are you doing here?"
"I-I could ask you the same." He stammered. His eyes were captured by Starfire's new form, she looked much older, taller and more curves had shaped her into a slender well-filled young woman. In an attempt to release his stare he looked at the room, thankfully for him it took his attention.
It looked like much like his does but there was a vase of flowers and a dresser with girly things and Starfire's usual alien knick-knacks everywhere. Her other clothes which she must've been wearing earlier were scattered on the floor along with a uniform he had never seen before. The room itself seemed much bigger even though the bed was bigger and another door was attached to it. The closet was open, it too was much bigger, it expanded across the wall, much further then it was in Robin's normal time. The closet was one of the few untidy parts of the room and even it wasn't very messy. The clothes were evidentially half Star's and half someone else. Someone with great style Robin thought bitterly as he starred at the black and blue uniforms hanging nicely beside suits and dress shirts lining one side of the closet.
Starfire watched as Robin scanned the room then cleared her throat quietly recapturing his attention. "I live here Robin, this is my home remember? The Titan tower?"
"Of course I remember you live in the tower, but why are you in my room! Well my old room I guess." He was shocked by the usual warmth of her voice creeping back under his skin the way he loved but wish he didn't.
"Uhm Robin-"
"Can you please put some clothes on?" He said awkwardly once again catching his eyes before they could travel across her new form.
"Oh!" She quickly grabbed the shirt she dropped when Robin walked in. After throwing it on Star looked over to the door that wasn't in the room in Robin's time. She looked between them a few times before she said, "I think there's someone who will know how to do the explaining of this situation much better then I can, if you will please excuse me for a moment."
"You look..older." He said slowly as she turned around.
"Because I am." She laughed and before Robin could reply she pranced over to the door and knocked lightly, "Uhm Richard?" She said. Robin twitched.
"Yes Star?" A deep voice called from inside the room.
"Can you come out? There is someone here who must meet with you." She called back.
The sound of a shower cut off and shuffling could be heard inside the room. Suddenly the door flew up and a tall masked man came out with nothing but a pristine white towel wrapped around his waist, his black hair-dripping wet.
His eyes widened and his mouth dropped, as did Robin's. Starfire burst into quiet giggles refusing to ruin the moment of shock as Nightwing looked at his past self.
"You! You- you're me? " Robin and Nightwing burst simultaneously, gapping at each other.
"I suppose you two will wish to talk alone with each." She giggled to Nightwing. She walked over to him giving him a kiss on the cheek whispering, just loud enough for Robin to overhear, "I'll be with the others Richard." Turning toward Robin once again she walked over and held his shoulder. "It was nice to see you once again young friend Robin."
"Did you just call him Richard?" Robin said, clearly trying to place what he had just seen and get over the shock of it all.
Starfire's face changed from gleeful to fearful, her eyes widened and her breathing stopped. She flushed and turned to Nightwing.
"Star it's fine! I'll explain." Nightwing said calmly as he walked over to them, he had taken advantage of the eyes off him and had put on his boxers and a pair of black sweats. "We told her our name; in my past and your future. Someday you will and you'll never regret it. " He laughed lightly rubbing Star's back as she recovered from her scare. Robin watched awkwardly from where he stood halfway between each door and only two feet from him future self and future Starfire.
Nightwing had obviously sensed Robin's confusion. "We are together in case you haven't clued in. We did some renovations on the tower too and put Star and my bedrooms together, as well as Garfield and Raven's. Cyborg's actually became the biggest somehow." He laughed, looking away from his younger self.
Robin's stare was most unbearable as he tried to collect all the new information that clouded him. Just as he was about to open his mouth to speak Starfire's tan hand reach out to feel his cheek, "He is very warm do you think him sickly Richard?" She said worriedly. Robin flushed a deep red and sunk away from Future Star and his future self's gaze.
"I'm fine! But who are the others? Beast Boy is here with me! We came looking for a way to go back home we thought we teleported at first, but from what I know now we've gone to the future. Which means we need to somehow get back to your past; my present." Robin spoke up trying to erase his blush with meaningful progress. "I have to find Beast Boy!"
Robin 180'd and dashed towards the door only to be held back by
Starfire's easy strength. " You must calm down young Robin." She said worriedly, "Please I will find Beast Boy and you shall discuss with Rich-Nightwing ways of your return to your time, yes?" She yanked Robin into one of the rolling chairs sitting at the desk closer to the far wall. "I will be back shortly, excuse me."
Both Nightwing and Robin starred after Starfire as she left the room then looked to each other. After a few extremely awkward moments they coughed in unison. "So I like your style." Robin commented studying the clothes on the ground. The suit was completely black with a dark blue robin like bird across the entire pectoral area. The boots sitting not far from him were steel-toed but he saw no cape.
"Thanks Bruce helped us make it, you'll have better style in a few years don't worry." He replied quickly going to grab the stray clothes.
"So I see the mask and hair are slightly different. How come they didn't make our new look?"
Nightwing laughed, "They didn't really match, but the mask was a present from Batman. He made from the same stuff his is made of, and the hair is even shorter but so much easier to deal with. I had tried it long but it proved to be really annoying." Robin nodded in agreement. Recalling what his Starfire had told him about the future she had been to. It was already obviously much different then this one.
"So what happened?" Nightwing asked said taking a seat in the chair next to Robin's. Robin's face immediately perked up from his thoughts. He explained the situation and how they managed to throw Warp back out of the portal before it closed.
"I have a solution for your problem." Nightwing said with confidence.
"What?" Robin replied eagerly.
"When the technology came into the hands of Batman, he recalled when it happened to Starfire and gave it to me just in case our past selves came back again. Lucky for us he did that or else I wouldn't be sure how to help you."
"How did Batman get it?"
"The Riddler was hard at work and was trying to set up another trap to find out Batman's identity. He failed faster then usual thanks to Catwoman helping out. Riddler's back in Arkham."
"Is it safe to use?"
"Of course! Bruce modified it himself with some help from Lucius." He looked like he was vaguely offended.
Robin nodded to Nightwing. "So when do we leave?"
Suddenly the door burst open and Beast Boy ran in as a rhino then transformed into himself again. His face, clearly overbeat with shock, matched its beet red colour and the dizzy movements he displayed. He took one look at Nightwing and fell over. He had fainted. Starfire ran back in followed by an older Cyborg, who looked more impressive then ever with his mechanical body clearly recently buffed and updated with the latest stuff and his human part looking pretty impressive too, they were followed by a tall bulky strong green man with spiky green hair and slight sideburns.
"Dude what the hell is going on?" He exclaimed with a deep strong voice that matched his stature.
"BEAST BOY?" Robin cried in shock jumping up and starring at the green man.
"Holy shit its Robin." He said back with equal shock in his face.
"I tried to calm young Beast Boy when he saw me, but he was doing the freaking outwards after seeing Garfield and Cyborg," Starfire began to explain, "my presence only made him do the freaking more." She said using vast amounts of arm gestures. Robin and Nightwing shared glances then as only they could do and became in sync to their choice of actions. Robin picked up Beast boy and laid him on Nightwing's bed checking to make sure he was ok. Nightwing walked up to the three worried and shocked faces and began to explain the situation and what to do next.
"After Beast boy wakes up we'll be able to send them back and everything will be fine." He concluded. The group nodded and Cyborg immediately went off to retrieve the Riddler's modified device. The group moved to check on the unconscious Beast Boy. Robin listened as he heard Cyborg's deep voice talking to someone outside the room. ' Who else could be here other than maybe Raven?' He thought to himself.
His question was answered as a cloaked woman walked in. She to was taller then the Raven he knew but not by much, however she did look much older and more beautiful and did I mention much older. She walked through the door then paused and removed her point hood revealing shorter hair, much like a pixie cut, and her usual leotard was replaced with a unitard, completely black still. Her skin was no longer grey, it had taken much more sun it seemed and she was now a pasty peachy grey skin tone, which matched her much better. She stood at the door starring at Robin with her sharp violet eyes.
"R-raven?" He coughed trying to recognise if it really was the same girl he knew as he starred.
"Shocker isn't it?" Raven repented roughly her voice as icy as ever.
"Aw common Rae don't be so cold your gonna freeze over the young me and young Robin!" Future Beast Boy or Garfield as Nightwing had addressed him earlier said, patting the bed where the younger version of him was laying. Raven glared slightly before walking towards Garfield and taking a seat on the floor between him and Robin.
Robin's head spun further, 'She is LETTING him call her RAE? What is going on? And only a glare for that comment? Beast Boy would be locked in the basement without food for that in my time.' Then as if just to throw Robin over the edge Garfield kissed the top of Raven's head before turning back to look at his younger self. That had done it Robin dropped his head into his hands as it spun like a top. 'Beast Boy and Raven? Me and Star? Whoa this is unreal.' He laughed inwardly nervously.
Suddenly the alarm went off and Starfire got up to check it out. When she re-entered the room, she just yelled, "Control Freak!" and jumped into the bathroom. Nightwing jumped up from beside the bed, grabbed a suit from the closet and went outside to talk to Cyborg quickly.
When Starfire returned she was wearing her uniform. It was much like the one Robin's Starfire wore yet it was altered a lot. The skirt was now a pair of skin tight pants, which were held by a silver belt, her usual top was only slightly smaller looking and a bit flashier. As well as her arm gear and boots seemed like they had been updated recently. Her boots reached past her knees as usual but instead of fabric, she wore boots made of some sort of steel or metal protection. Along with the length of her hair and the obvious growth of certain curves (If you know what I mean), a long and wide scar, almost shaped like a swirl, crested across Starfire's exposed stomach.
"Hey Starfire?" Robin asked starring at her stomach and she adjusted her arm gear.
"Not now friend," Starfire answered following his gaze to her scar, "Perhaps later. Please stay here with friend Beast Boy. We must go kick the butt. We will be back shortly." Raven and Garfield stood up and followed as Starfire rushed out.
Raven's black magic was seen and in a flash the to boys from the past were alone in the tower. Robin looked at Beast Boy and checked him again. 'Just passed out, good.' He thought to himself. Robin stood up and decided to explore but before he got far Beast boy cried out. Robin ran back to the bed. "What's wrong?!" He yelled getting in a fighting stance.
I hope you enjoyed! So I'm not sure if this confuses anyone but Starfire's scar is totally made up by MOI! And the last chapter that I'm almost finished writing is going to explain it. It's nothing really significant just something I felt like adding. It should be up soon!
Thanks for reading! 3
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