Star, NOW!" Jay shouted, reminding her of Robin. Robin. It is all Hawk's fault! Star thought angrily, throwing her bolts at Hawk while Cyborga turned her arm into a cannon to shoot lasers.
"Thank you friend Cyborga!" She called. The metal girl nodded in reply. PB turned into a tiger and attacked Hawk, who quickly took to the air. Firebird and Crow circled him in the air, lifting their hands up.
"Azrath Metriont Zinthos!" The chant captured Hawk in a bubble.
"Yes!" Cyborga shouted, putting her cannon down.
"Ah, Titans. Your parents couldn't defeat me, why do you think that you children can?" Hawk taunted from inside the bubble.
"How could you!" Starfire cried. "Your father, my friends!"
"He was holding me back, Lost Titan." He told us cruelly. "And your bubble won't hold little psychic warriors in training." He told the twins as he destroyed his holding cell.
"They may be 'in training', but I'm not!" PB shouted. "Azroz Menthato Zinata!" He shouted and an even bigger and stronger barrier appeared around Hawk. PB saw me looking at him shocked and explained. "My name's Psychic Beast, but that's just to weird so everyone calls me PB." He told me smiling as he kept the barrier tight. Hawk laughed and disappeared.
"What!" Firebird screamed in frustration.
"Where'd he go? How did he get out of my barrier?" PB asked confused. No! Star thought sadly.
"We'll get him next time Titans." Jay told us for the umpteenth time. He said it each time we failed to catch Hawk. They all headed back to the warehouse to soak in disappointment.
"Starfire, what was my mom like when you knew her?" Crow spoke up hesitantly. "Was she happy, sad?"
"Raven? She was gloomly, I believe that is the word? Yes? She did not express a lot of emotion when I knew her, because her power came from emotions. When she was angery, things blew up suddenly." Star laughed.
"That's Firebird all right!" Crow laughed. "Things go boom when he gets mad."
"They do not!" Firebird proested, blushing slightly under his hood.
"What about Dad?" PB asked, joining the conversation.
"You remind me a lot of Beast Boy, PB. He was a shapeshifter like you. He had no psychic powers though, you must have gotten them from Raven. He loved playing on the box that brings happiness."
"What?" Crow asked confused.
"I think she means an xbox." PB told them, Star nodded in recognition of the word.
"He loved jokes and playing pranks with Cyborg."
"Daddy?" Cyborga asked. Starfire nodded again.
"Beast Boy and Cyborg always challenged each other on the 'xbox', and Cyborg loved his car."
"He gave me the "T" car for one of my birthdays. I wouldn't have taken it if I had known how much he loved it." Cyborga whispered.
"He would have wanted you to have it. I believe he loved you deeply, Cyborg wouldn't have given his car to just anyone." Star informed her new friend.
"What about my father? Nightwing, I mean Robin." Jay asked curious.
"Robin was very uptight, is that the right word?" She asked. "For strict?" The titans nodded. "Then yes, he was very uptight. He believed fighting crime came before anything else. Until the end of course. He loved his sons." And me. Star hoped. "That I believe." Star told them about some of her adventures with their parents. Of how they met, to slade, then Terra, about how three little children had melted Raven's heart, and about their adventures in Tokyo.
"Wow, I can't believe all they did." Cyborga said in wonder.
"I know, how can we compete with everything they did?" Firebird added.
"By defeating Hawk." Jay replied. "Let's get some sleep guys. We have to be ready tommorow." He told us and sent everyone to bed. Star's room was a little area off the kitchen filled with books and papers. Corw had told her it used to be an office, well until they had redone the place of course. Starfire stared out the window, looking at the wreck of a city they lived in because of Hawk. Star and her new friends had been battling Hawk for over a month, and they hadn't gotten anywhere. Hawk was better than all of them, and being beat wasn't something Starfire was used to. I miss my friends. Starfire thought sadly. They could help her beat Hawk in an instant. Star opened her window and slipped out into the night. She flew in silence toher old home, something she'd refrained from doing for a long time. The "T" was falling apart, something she'd feared would have happened. Star floated to the ground in front of the front door, which was open for anyone to enter. Star remembered the last time she had come to the future, how the tower had been in disrepair, and so had Cyborg. She flew through the empty hallways toward the old family room. Everything was coated in ust, Starfire realized sadly. She walked toward the old couch, fading away in the gloom, and touched it lightly. It started crumbling away under her touch. Star choked back a sob and left the once happy room. She walked down the hallway that led to her room and paused outside the door. An old plaque was nailed to her door. Starfire brushed the dust away to read what it said.
This room is in rememberance of a beloved friend named Starfire
Star whispered it quietly to herself before opening the door, listening to it creak and groan loudly. Her bed was gone and the room was filled with pictures of her and her friends together.
"My friends." She whispered, touching a picture of a group shot.
"That was a very nice picture, wasn't it Starfire?" Fro asked, coming into existance behind the sad Tamaranian.
"Why did you bring me here Fro? What am I supposed to do?" Starfire asked.
"What are you supposed to do? Why, what kind of question is that? Defeat Hawk of course!"
"I know that, but why? If I didn' disappear none of this would have happened!" Starfire cried.
"You need to stop Hawk from being born. Even with you in the past Robin would have been spelled by Blackfire and Hawk would be born again. I brought you back here to train this group of Titans, and to make new friends. After you left Cyborg hid some equipment in the basement. Jump on the last step three times and you'll find what you need." Fro's voice said and then the red eyed girl disappeared.
"What's down there?" Star asked, but knew Fro was gone. Star flew down to the basement and hesitantly began the descent. Starfire stifled screams as rats scurried over her feet. On the last step Star jumped three times and waited for whatever Cyborg had left her to appear. Suddenly the overhead lights turned on, dim at first but getting continually brighter. Immediately the floor fell away and a huge training area appeared. It looked almost like the training area Robin made us practice on when Terra was a Titan. Star realized smiling. She jumped on the step three more times, and the lights shut off and the floor rose up again, making the training area disappear. "This might work." Starfire grinned.
