CHAPTER TWO!
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Starfire woke up with a pounding headache.
Her memory was fuzzy, but she vaguely remembered getting thrown through time once again, and landing in an unfamiliar place filled with heroes(with their colorful costumes, what else could they be?), then passing out.
Now as she took in her surroundings, she found that she was in a medical room, with painted white walls as well as the bed sheets and pillows she was laying in now. The air smelled like…Starfire couldn't place it but she had a hunch that it was medical stuff, like in Titans Tower, Robin had tried to explain it, as well as Cyborg, but she still felt confused with all the strange words.
Titans Tower…Starfire felt a pang of longing. She had to get back home, no matter what. She struggled to prop herself up, and suddenly there was a sound of doors swishing, and she turned and saw Nightwing come in.
"Here let me help you," he said, as he helped her sit up. She was grateful for it, as time-travelling had left her drained.
"So, how you feeling?" He started, crossing his arms and gazing at her concerned.
"I…am fine," she answered carefully, as she stretched her arms and tested her powers, but she frowned as the headache came pounding back.
"No you are not," Nightwing said, commanding her to lie down, "What got you went through must've really left you drained. Mind telling me what it was?" he asked, changing into interrogation mode, only, gentler, somehow.
"I was…thrown through time. Twenty years into the future. And while trying to get back, somehow I ended up here."
Nightwing frowned, "Explain."
"My team and I—the Teen Titans," Nightwing nodded wistfully at that name, as if recalling some precious memories, "were chasing down Warp, who was stealing an artifact. While he was trying to escape using a portal he summoned, I tried to stop him, and ended up charging into the portal with him."
"We struggled, and we finally fell out, twenty years into the future. While I fell out Warp had run and I lost him. I—I tried to find my old friends…Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven. But they were all…changed. They were…not like how I remembered," Starfire said, remembering what she saw with a downcast expression, "And finally while I wandered the streets, I saw you," she said, slightly smiling, looking at Nightwing, "Though you looked different, but you told me you were still fighting crime, but you took on a different name. You helped locate Warp, and reunited our friends, and finally we defeated him."
Nightwing, listening intently the whole time, decided to cut in, "But how did you end up here?"
"When we defeated Warp, Cyborg used his sonic blasters to blast open the portal, and did told me this was my way back home, so I went through the hole, and I tumbled out and saw my teammates looking for me."
"But…" Nightwing prompted, though he had a hunch about what was next.
"But I was…sucked back in, and the last thing I remember is the portal shoving me out, and me ending up here, then…nothing." She finished.
"You said I looked different, can you describe it?"
Starfire tilted her head, "Well, the other you had longer hair, and the costume was more…sharp. Your mask was slightly different too and…and…" She closed her eyes trying to recall the details, "I…don't remember much anymore, everything is so…fuzzy."
Nightwing nodded. "You were in a coma, I would say that all this excessive time-travelling was too much for your body to handle. You were out for a day."
"A day? But…You will help me get back to my friends, yes?" she asked, eyes pleading, and Nightwing once again found himself succumbing back into those green eyes, and his memories of the alien girl so long ago.
"Uh, yes, we're trying our best to send you back but for the time being, you need to rest." He replied, coming out of his spell.
Starfire looked dejected, "Oh, but…after I heal, may I be of use to assist? I feel the need to thank you for your hospitality." She said, smiling slightly. She wanted to thank the Team for their help towards a (practically) complete stranger.
Nightwing smiled, and nodded. "Sure, and I'm positive the Team won't mind helping you out."
"Thank you." She said, and soon drifted off to sleep, already feeling better.
"So, how is she?" Megan asked, looking up from the screen from where she was monitoring Starfire.
"You tell me," he said, gestering at the screen. "You're the one monitoring her."
"I think what she means is how was your talk with her," Cassie said, approaching them.
Nightwing shrugged. "Fine, I guess, she seems to be stable enough to not go fainting on every step, and I think I have a clue on where she came from."
"That's great," Cassie said, "But I just have one question…who is she anyway?"
As the former boy wonder considered how to answer her, three more eager faces popped up, also demanding the answer. Gar, Jamie and Bart had questions too about the 'new arrival'.
"Well, she's uh, a younger version of my old teammate, who had time and dimension travelled here."
Beast Boy blinked. "Whoa, wait. Dimension travelled?"
Nightwing nodded, "Remember when she said she knew you?"
Beast Boy nodded, "Yeah…"
"Well apparently in her dimension, you and her were teammates, and according to the time twenty years from her own dimension, I was still Nightwing, which is expected, yes, but apparently I was sporting a MULLET." He finished dramatically, causing his teammates to giggle.
"I mean SERIOUSLY? Can you see THIS," he said, swooping his hand from his head to his toes, "In a MULLET?"
"Okay, okay, we get your point," Karen, who had appeared along with Robin sometime during his 'presentation' giggled.
"So…" Gar started, "She was your 'old teammate', you say," he said, waggling his eyebrows.
Nightwing blushed slightly, which he prayed the Team didn't see, "What's that supposed to mean?"
Gar smirked, "It's just that, oh well she's a little too…HOT, to go unnoticed, right, Nightwing?"
Megan frowned as she smacked lightly. "Gar." She scolded.
Jamie continued from where Beast Boy left off thought, "Si, Nightwing. I mean…did you two really date?" he blurted out, and Nightwing and Gar both face-palmed, Gar because his friend had just let go of the opportunity to tease their surrogate older brother, and Nightwing because he just figured out the head of all these questions.
"Robin told you?"
"Yep." They said together, while Megan, Cassie, and Karen stared confused as Robin was trying to make a getaway.
"Not so fast there buddy," he said, grabbing hold of Robin by his cape, "What exactly did you tell them?"
Robin bit his lips, eyes pleading, 'Help Me' from beneath his mask.
"Well?" Nightwing demanded.
"Umm that you two were really close friends?" he said hopefully.
Jamie snorted, and Robin cast him something really close to a Bat-glare.
"Nice try kiddo, let's see if you'll talk so much when you clean the Bat-mobile."
Robin's eyes widened, "Oh no, but you're supposed to clean it this week!"
"Oh yes, and trust me, I've been with Batman longer than anyone else, and if I explain this situation to him, then I'm sure he won't mind. Oh and tell him about that thing."
Tim's eyes widened even more, "You don't dare."
Dick smiled in satisfaction, "Oh yes."
That thing actually was that one time in the cave when Tim tried to hack into Bruce's private files when he was bored one day, and accidentally saw footage on Bruce and Catwoman making out. He had, in his panic, alarmed Dick while he was destroying the evidence, and Dick has held it over his head ever since.
Tim slumped, knowing that he was defeated, and said, "Fine."
Dick smirked, "You better know it." And left leaving behind his band of very confused teammates.
"What was that about?"
There you have it, some fluff in the end for Anna, my dearest cousin, and this is the end of CHAPTER TWO! YAY!
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