The future that await us
10 years before, present days. Dinner time.
"Man, I'm so glad we ordered pizza today! I wanted so badly to eat it!" Cyborg asked getting a huge slice of pizza.
"We eat it almost every night…" Raven said not really caring about it, but grabbing a slice of pizza and eating
"But Rae, don't you agree pizza is good?" Her green boyfriend asked
"I never said it wasn't good"
"Robin, could you pass the mustard, please?" Starfire asked him, since he was next it.
"Sure" He said and grabbed the recipient and handed it to her.
"Thank you"
The minute she stopped talking, a black vortex opened in the middle of the living room, all of them suddenly stopped to look at it, preparing to attack if needed, but stopped when notice it was just a little girl, maybe about 3 years old, in a verge of cry in fear.
"Is she…" BB began but couldn't finish
"Mari?!" Everyone else asked at the same time.
The little girl looked up, when she heard her name, her deep green wet eyes just like Star's ones and her black hair just centimeters below her shoulders, she was standing on her feet, the black vortex already disappeared into the air, she looked at them approaching and her fears slowly vanished. They had known her, just months before, when she was 13. It was kinda crazy for all of them to see her. She pointed at Cyborg.
"Uncle Cy!" And then pointed to Beast Boy "Uncle BB!" she was getting happy to recognize them "Aunty Rae!" Raven rolled her eyes "Daddy!" she pointed at Robin, she have never seen him as Robin, since he turned to Nightwing when she was born, but she knew it was him because of some pictures, she pointed to the last one, Starfire, her eyes got wet again and she hurried flying to hug her, yelling "Mommy!"
"There, there" Star said hugging her back "You shall not fear any longer, I am here"
"Mommy, I missed you so much!" Mari said sniffing, she looked around the room and asked "Mommy, where is aunty Koma?"
"Aunty who?" BB asked, not understanding, Starfire seemed surprised, and then she asked her future daughter, a bit confused.
"What do you mean aunty Koma? Is she with us? Is she good?"
"Yes, mommy, aunty Koma wants to be good and she is living with us! She is not here?"
"No my daughter, aunty Koma is… traveling" Starfire said, not wanting to tell the little 3 year old girl that Komand'r was once so mean that made horrible things to them, specially Kori.
"Really? She will come back soon?"
"I don't know…"
"Hey, mind explaining us who is 'aunty Koma'?" BB asked confused.
"Komand'r, my sister"
"Oh…" he let out, the room went silent till he spoke again "But if Mari is here, at this age… what happened to the future? I thought we fixed it…" BB said a little sad
"I don't know, I think we'll have to ask Mari what happens…" Cy answered BB
"Mari…" Robin began approaching
"Daddy! Why are you using these clothes? You never use it… and why you look smaller?"
"Well, you're in the past" He tried to explain her
"Past? It means the war did not start yet?"
"War?" Raven asked also approaching, but still behind Robin, with Cy and BB next her
"Yes, against the bad Gordanians" She answered still on Starfire's arms
"I thought we stopped the war…"
"No, uncle Cy tried to explain it to me, I did not understand very well… He said because of an explosion with a Gordanian ship next mommy's planet, they got mad and started a war against Earth, because the group that destroyed it was humans, there were also Tamaranians like me, but the majority was human…"
Cyborg widened his eyes when realized the group were them, when they destroyed the Gordanian's ship from the future, when they tried to kill the future king of Tamaran and Starfire's little brother. Raven and Robin also noticed it at first; he looked worried at Starfire, who gave him the same look.
"Dude, who did it?" BB asked, he was really slow. His girlfriend slapped him on the head from behind "Ouch! What was that for?"
"BB, we did it, remember?" She answered.
"But now it's too late to fix it, it is already done…" Star said, her daughter embraced her again
"I don't want it to happen!"
"Don't worry, will find a way to stop it" Robin said placing a hand on her little shoulder, the girl looked back at him. "Now why don't you go and play with Silky and your mommy?" He asked giving Star a look to get her out of there to forget about it, she understood and nodded getting the little girl on her arms to her room.
"Dude, what we gonna do? We're doomed! The war still is going to happen!"
"Beast Boy, we're not doomed, we just have to find a way around it!" The leader said
"But how?" Raven asked Robin
"I don't know…"
"Look Robin, little Mari probably is shocked and needs help, why don't you and Star try to calm her till she sleeps, then we can all try to figure it out together"
"You're right, after all, Star is the one who knows more about them, we'll need her to talk about it…" He said "I'll go to her room" And so he turned around and walked off the living room, his 3 remaining friends looked at each other, thinking what they could do now to stop the war that is coming.
In Star's room, she played Mari with her own marionette doll she won when changed buddies with Raven. The little girl and Silky were watching the doll move amazed. They heard a knock on the door and then it slid open, reveling Robin.
"Daddy, look, that doll moves and it is just like mommy!" She said point at it
"Well, it is the only toy I have here…" Star said, indeed she was trying to distract Mari. He smiled and set on her bed, by Starfire's side.
"So, Mari, are you liking the doll?"
"Yes, it is fun to see it moving like that!"
"Yeah, it is… Hey, I got a brilliant idea, wait here" He ran out of his room and moments ago he was back with his own doll just like him that he won on the same time as Star won hers. He played moving with it calling her attention
"Oh, Robin, you look wonderful today!" Starfire said as it was her doll speaking with his.
"Thank you Star, you also look beautiful" Mari laughed, it was working.
"Oh, look Robin, there's a pillow monster attacking town!" She said grabbing a pillow and moving it pretending it was a monster
"Let's go!" He said running to make his doll attack the pillow monster, Mari was watching carefully every move. Starfire did the same and pretend attack it also. "We have done it, we defeated the monster!" He said making his doll walk closer to hers, she did the same and the 2 dolls got their support wires stuck and tie both dolls together in front of each other, almost like they were kissing. Both got red, even if they were dating, it was still kind of embarrassing. It was even more embarrassing when suddenly Cy and BB's doll appeared next their dolls
"Dude, we can't leave them alone for one second and they start making out…"
"Watch out, we have a young little 3 year old girl in here" Cyborg's doll pointed at Mari, laughing nonstop and clapping her hands
"I think you all need to think up on a better monster for us to attack" Raven doll appeared out of nowhere
"Raven?"
"No, stupid, I'm the phantom of the last Christmas. Of course it is me, BB"
"But, you're playing with your doll!"
"I know, so what? I'm dating you, after that you shouldn't be surprised with anything from me"
"Hey, sweetie! Don't be that mean to me!" He said moving his green doll in front of her doll. She moved her doll in the direction of his like a pretending a quick kiss
"Is that better for you?"
"Yeah, it is" He said laughing
"How did you enter here?" Robin asked trying to untie his doll and Star's one
"You forgot the door open" Cy said, making his doll point at the opened door
In the end it wasn't that bad, they all started playing like a small marionette theater for Mari and Silky; using her powers, Raven started moving object to pretend they were monsters and they were attacking. When they noticed, Mari and Silky were already sleeping, and they were actually having fun with it, even Raven enjoyed it, though she'd never admit.
Starfire placed Mari on her bed with Silky and covered her with the blankets. They all went out of her room to the living room to talk about what they were going to do now.
I hope you all liked it! Please review so I can post the next chap soon!
I know last chap was a bit confusing, so I'll explain here: Mari is currently 3 years old. I know it's a bit confusing, but everything will be explained in later chaps, so please just wait and enjoy. Lance was 'adopted' by the Titans when Mari is 4 and he is only 3 (yep, he is a little younger than her), the twins were born a bit before Lance appear for the Titans for the first time. I'm planning to make a chap telling the things that happens in the future.
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