"Donna, this is a very strange place to get pizza," Starfire spoke into her communicator as she stood outside an abandoned Galaxy Communications building.
"Yeah, well, my roommate is in a bit of trouble right now, so it will have to come later," replied Donna. "Now, go ahead and break in through the front. I'll come in the back and meet you in the middle."
Starfire obeyed and easily blasted all the enemy guards she encountered into unconsciousness. Once she came to the middle of the floor, however, she was greeted by Cindrblock, Plasmus, and Overdrive. While she successfully dodged each of their attacks, her starbolts had the usual ineffective effect. She tried tricking them into attacking each other, but that didn't work out either.
Then, suddenly Cinderblock was lassoed from behind and yanked backwards. At the back of the room, Donna Troy aka Wonder Girl, wound up and sucker punched the concrete behemoth right in the face, sending him forward. As Donna allowed herself to be pulled forward with the speed of a race car, she pulled out an Amazonian staff and sliced through Overdrive as she flung passed him.
The sword absorbed all of Overdrive's electricity into its blade and into Donna, leaving only the microchip behind. Glowing with lightning, she blasted all the electricity onto Paslmus, reducing him to a few puddles of non-sentient slime. Then she stabbed the staff into the ground, and when Cinderblock had stretched the lasso out entirely, she swung him upwards and slammed him into the ground, crushing the microchip and the puddles, then she jumped onto Cinderblock and stabbed him through the head, turning off his orange eyes.
"So, these are the guys who gave your team a hard time?" she asked while standing triumphantly and yanking the sword out of Cinderblock's head.
"Did ... did you kill them?" asked a dumbfounded Starfire.
"Of curse. I'm a soldier; it's what I do. And besides, they're just monsters; it's not like they were people!"
"Well, here comes so people now."
The two ladies were then surrounded by an army of heavily armed security guards.
"Don't worry; they're armor is strong enough to withstand a point-blank blast from a tomahawk missile. Oh, and by the way, you weren't by any chance holding back before, were you?"
"I have too. We can never fight at our full strength so we do not risk killing any innocents. Also, our employer can only pay so much for damages."
"Ah, that does make sense. But today, you won't have to worry about killing anyone, and my dad will be paying for any damages."
"Wait, you mean..."
"Yup!"
Both ladies than had no problem fighting the army at their full power, knocking out every adversary and reducing all surroundings to piles of ash.
Eventually, they came to the main room in the basement of the building. There they found Mechanic, once the personal handyman to the robot Atlas, hard at work on some kind of generator.
He immediately put his hands up. "Don't hurt me! I'm only doing this because he threatened my family!"
Suddenly, the last two guards appeared and pointed a laser gun at either side of his head.
"Please don't be giving away the plot, it's very annoying!" From behind the generator walked the long-lost Professor Chang, ever confident as ever. "Well, if it isn't Princess Amazon and Princess Miniskirt! You shall do well for my first two prisoners!"
"Is someone here?" said a female voice from above.
"It's me, Donna," replied Wonder Girl.
"OK then, mission accomplished."
The generator began powering down, and Professor Chang ran to a nearby computer console in desperation, only to be met with a punch to the face.
"That's for threatening a man's family. Now, since I've deleted all files in existence relating to the Atlas force fields, would you mind telling me who this Gamesmaster is?"
"Actually, I would mind!"
Professor Chang pushed a button underneath his coat, setting off a self-destruct countdown.
"Great, I'm so not tired of this cliche" commented Donna and she knocked out the last two guards. "Star, the guards should be safe in their suits. Take Mechanic back to his home; I'll get my roommate and Chang, and meet you back at my place."
/
After dropping off Mechanic and wishing him a happy family life, Starfire flew to Donna's apartment and was promptly introduced to her roommate - a young redhead who would've made a fine gymnast had she not been confined to a wheelchair.
She held out her hand for an introduction. "The name's Barbara Gordon, but you can call me Babs."
Starfire then stopped when she noticed that Barbara had the swollen belly of a woman halfway through her pregnancy. Starfire gasped for joy as pink valentine hearts popped out of her eyes, and gave Barbara a massive bear hug that made her choke in pain.
"Sweet Babs, you are blessed to become a holy K'Norfka, for a precious bumgorf is seeded inside you!"
"Thanks, but can you please let go of me?"
Starfire did so and begin a series of rapid-fire questions with regards to what would be the baby's name, what it would eat, if it would have an interest in Gorga pipes, what type of weaponry the father was planning to teach, and it if could adapt a tolerance to acid rain.
"Easy there, slow down, I don't know any of that."
"But Robin is one who would make sure that his child shall take up for protection in this cruel world."
"Uh, Robin isn't the father."
"But do not love each other with the passion of a thousand rose fields?"
"Uh, Starfire, what exactly has Robin told you about the two of us?"
"Oh, very much! He went into many fast detail after screaming your name while we were making hard love some time ago!"
Both Donna and Barb stared at her in vapid confusion.
"And that didn't make you angry at all?"
"Why would it? I am more than blessed to have grimgorf with enough love for a second grimgorf!"
"I take it 'grimgorf' means boyfriend or girlfriend, right? Well, Robin and I aren't that any more."
"But did you not kiss on the lips and melt your burning bodies to make sweet hard love?"
"Um ... yes, but that doesn't make his lovers. I mean, Robin and Donna also did that, but they're not..."
Starfire eyes popped even wider', and then turned to see a nervous Donna fidgeting with her lasso.
"Hey, first times don't mean anything! My parents had teamed up with Bruce, and Rob and I were sent into a cave to hunt a giant snake, and my mother told me that I could never be an Amazon until I had bonded sexually with my partner, so Robin and I stopped the hunt to screw..."
Donna couldn't complete her story as she was now in pain due to a massive bear hug.
"Praise X'Hal! My grimgorf Robin has enough love to share with three grimgorfs!"
/
The pizza finally came, and all three ladies were sitting down to calmly explain their differing customs of love and sex.
"OK, now look. For the Amazons, sex is a way of forming great emotional bonds with your partner, but it does not necessarily mean being in love or 'grimgorfs'. My mother had sex with most of the other Amazons before she did so with my father, and they quickly fell in love. And while I bonded with Robin, I never loved him, but we have remained close friends ever since. We've kept in touch through e-mail and phone calls throughout high school, and he helped me pick out this apartment. He also convinced me to go after my 'grimgorf', Roy Harper, and now he is my boyfriend. Do you understand, Star?"
"I think so."
"Good," said Barbara. "Well, contrary to the ancient wisdom of the Amazons, my father taught me that sex is something you should only do with the one person in the world who means the world to you. I thought it was Robin, and we were deeply in love. But it turns out, as smart as we both are, we were idiots when it came to being in love, so we aren't grimgorfs any more, and I haven't had one since."
"What about Supergirl?" asked Donna.
"You and Supergirl are grimgorfs?" asked an astonished Starfire.
"No, we were just partners who had sex for fun. Replacing the entire Justice League while they're off aiding the Green Lanterns against Darkseid is no easy task, and sex provides the perfect stress relief."
"So, you shared the joys in each others bodies, but no love?"
"Nope; just friends having fun. And we had the fun with everyone that you know call the Honorary Titans. But now that I've retired early, I think I might finally get to do it for true love."
"I think I see," replied Starfire confused, "but then who is the father of your baby if you have no grimgorf?"
"I'd ... rather not say. Now, your turn Star."
"Well, on Tamaran, what you call 'sex' we consider a declaration of love,we believe very much in the power of love, and we say that there should be no limits on how many you can love!"
Starfire began using a diagram of pizza topping to illustrate her point.
"One Tamranean can have two to four lovers, and each of them may have the same amount yet include different Tamaraneans, and so on until all of Tamaran is covered in a web of grimgorf love!"
"Even the king and queen?" asked Donna.
"Yes. Granted, they may only have children with each other so that Tamaran may be ruled by the finest warriors, yet they are still included in the web of love,connecting them to both the elites and the commoners."
"So, how are other children raised then?"
"Well, each young Tamaranean is raised by a mother and father, the latter of which is selected by the mother from her grimforfs."
"OK, I got it," stated Barbara. "So, you understand now that Robin is yours and yours alone for ... grimgorf love, right?"
"Yes, but I still don't understand. If you came here not to be with Robin, then why com here?"
"Ah, yes," explained Barbara. "You see, last summer I finished an internship at LexCorp."
"LexCorp? Run by that awful, evil slimeball Lex Luthor?"
"The very same. I was actually working undercover for your employer, Star. I quickly worked my way up to becoming the company's chief data manger, accessing ever project file to check on his latest criminal activity. But, to my shock, he's done an awfully good job of cleaning up his act. To make it worse, Luthor actually offered to heal my legs if I continued to work for him. But I turned him down, and now I'm here holding the same position at Cyberwear.
/
The dinner wrapped up nicely, and Starfire bid farewell to her new friends while leaving a special kiss on Barbara's belly for her baby. She arrived back at Titans Tower at around midnight, and was surprised to find that the usually brightly lit living room was instead dark. However, thanks to her alien vision, she found a trail of arrows meant only for her to see leading up to something tall and covered with a blanket.
Starfire pulled off the blanket to find Robin underneath, and then a light shown from the box he was standing atop of. He was no longer wearing his mask, had combed back his hair, and was dressed in business casual clothes.
"How do I look?" he asked. "This is what I'll be wearing for the inductee banquet for incoming junior executives at Cyberwear!"
Starfire replied with a confused glance.
"I got a job, Star, with my old secret identity! I can be normal again now, and we can be normal, and I'd like to celebrate by taking you to the banquet with me. I've already called Aurora, and they said it's fine if you accept."
"Well, this is a great special surprise, grimgorf Robin! I shall be happy to attend your child boss feast as your girlfriend!"
"Oh, actually, this wasn't the surprise. The surprise is that I don't want you to attend as my girlfriend."
Robin then got down on one knee, pulled out a ring box from his suit, and opened it in the palm of his hand.
