Well, I'm back again. OH NO! Lol. This time, Brave has escaped from Raven's mind! What on Earth will happen?


Starfire was on 'Raven Duty' today, and she was hoping that Raven was an emotion that would go shopping with her. She floated over to the door and knocked tentatively. "Friend Raven? Are you awakened?" she asked quietly. "You are not the Rage?"

"I'm fine! I've been up since six am, doing push-ups!" Raven called from the inside.

Starfire opened the door to get greeted with a fist pound from a green-clad Raven. "Hey, Star! 'Sup?" She called, smiling brightly.

"Hello, Raven! Shall we journey to the kitchen for the breaking of the fast?" Starfire asked in return, grinning. "Sounds great! Let's go!" Together, the two girls flew to the elevator.


"Wait, wait, wait and wait!" Raven said, sitting on a space-rock. "If my powers are gone, how come I can still levitate?" She asked her Sub-Conscience.

"Oh, THAT! Well, your powers are heavily influenced by your emotions, right? Seeing as I'm like the boss of your emotions, I can control them and your powers. But sometimes they go so crazy that I can only salvage snippets of your powers. Like now, I have managed to get you your flight. Your welcome!"

Raven was getting rather annoyed with her Sub-Conscience. It acted very high and mighty sometimes, while others it acted like a little kid. "You remind me of Beast Boy." She thought out loud. Her Sub-Conscience chuckled. "I should. I'm your Sub-conscience, which is the same as a soul. And Beast Boy is your soul-ma-"

"DON'T SAY THAT!" Raven yelled, blocking her ears. Her Sub-Conscience laughed.

"Raven, why do you deny yourself happiness?"


Starfire floated into the main-room, a few minutes after Raven. "Greetings, friends!" She called out, grinning. She received absolutely no reply. She opened her eyes and looked around. The boys were sitting on the couch, staring at Raven. They were in total shock, yesterday, they were Richard, Victor and Garfield. Today, they were Dudes.

Raven had just single-handedly defeated Robin and Beast Boy at X-Treme Speed 5000 2, and was currently working on Cyborg. "You can NOT defeat me, Rae. I'm the Jump City champion at this track!" He yelled, practically breaking the joy-stick as he rounded a virtual corner. Raven's tongue was hanging out the side of her mouth as she concentrated fiercely.

"Yes! I stole your nitro-boosters!" She shouted, punching the air. Cyborg's mouth fell open as Raven raced over the finish line. "Wha-Wha-What..?" Cyborg was in total shock. No-one in Jump city had ever defeated him, and now, someone who had never even played before had beaten him.

"Where did you learn to play like that?" Beast Boy asked in absolute wonder. Raven grinned.

"You played so many times that I couldn't help but pick up some tricks." The boys grinned and started a long discussion about video-games with Raven.

Starfire however felt rather left out. She'd tried joining in, but found the conversation far to confusing to follow. She was not used to being left out of a conversation, especially not in favour of Raven. It certainly did not make her feel very nice. "Perhaps I should join in on one of the games of the video." She said to herself.

She floated over to her friends rather nervously and asked quietly, "Excuse me friends, but may I have a race with you?" Raven and Cyborg were in the middle of a very intense rematch so only Robin and Beast Boy noticed her. And Beast Boy was too enthralled with Raven's new-found skill to bother replying.

"Sure, Star. We'll have a tournament next!" Robin told Starfire, nudging Beast Boy.

"Wha- Oh! Um, yeah Star, a tournament sounds good. We coul- WOAH! THAT WAS SO AWESOME!" Beat Boy yelled as Raven pressed several buttons at once and managed to make the track explode.


Soon the tournament was organised. It would be Beast Boy vs. Cyborg and Robin vs. Starfire. The two winners would then play off for a place against Raven. Since she was now officially the best player in the country, it was only fair that she should be the ultimate challenge.

Starfire won her race against Robin, although it was painfully obvious to everyone that he let her win. In an amazing feat of perseverance (and cheats) Beast Boy managed to win against Cyborg for the first time. Beast Boy practically destroyed Starfire in the semi-finals, and he had Silkie to thank for that.

You see, Silkie hadn't been fed yet, and was getting rather hungry. So the little larva worm sat on Starfire's lap and ate her gloves. Since Starfire was wearing her gloves and she was holding onto something, this was quite difficult for Silkie, but he managed it. Naturally, this distracted Starfire greatly and she spent most of the race trying to get her pet off her hand.

After that little fiasco had been sorted out, it was time for the grand final between Raven and Beast Boy. They were both concentrating as the green car with purple stripes raced against the purple car with navy stripes. The other Titan's heads were spinning as Raven and Beast Boy shouted things like, "Yes, missiles!", "You forgot about my plasma shields…" and "Hotdog mode time!"

It was that last one that astounded Robin and Cyborg, as they knew most of the cheats but this was a new one to them. Starfire was just excited at the sudden appearance of mustard. Soon the navy hotdog with the purple bun shot out missiles at the green hotdog with the purple sauce. But somehow, Beast Boy managed to zoom out of no-where and win the race.

There was a lot of high-fiving and cheering (Raven even hugged him, which made him turn bright red). Then Starfire shouted out, "A traditional celebration on my home-planet is the feast of a thousand glorbs! I shall prepare the glorbs immediately!" The Titans stared at her for a moment, trying to think of a way to tell her that glorbs sound disgusting without hurting her feelings.

Then Raven had an epiphany. "Starfire, can you even get glorbs here?" She asked. Starfire's face fell. "Oh, no. And I cannot ask for a shipment from Tamaran, as shipments that big are not allowed to travel this far from Tamaran. I am terribly sorry, friends. There will be no glorbs feast." The Titans feigned sadness, while on the inside thanking Raven.


It was later in the day when Cyborg, Robin and Beast Boy were trying to beat Raven's record when Starfire started a conversation with her. "Robin and I shall be going on the date in two day's time. We have decided to go on the Bonding-Hike, a traditional Tamaranian first date. We shall hike from dawn to dusk, as per tradition and then Robin says he will take me on a traditional Earth date which I believe involves the movie and-"

Starfire was suddenly interrupted by Raven who shouted, "NO WAY! The Z Cube 2000 is on special for $100!" She had been flicking through the catalogue of Gamez Rok (the local game store) the whole time Starfire had been speaking and had hardly taken a word in.

The boys stopped racing and ran over to look at the catalogue. They started a long discussion about whether or not they should dump their Z Cube 900 and buy the Z Cube 2000. Starfire started chatting along with her friends but realised that she was only saying, "I agree!" over and over. She sighed and left her friends talking about something she would never understand.

She sat down on her bed and blinked away tiny tears that were appearing. She looked up and saw her laptop on her desk and had an idea. "I may not know what they are saying now, but it is not too late to learn." She thought out loud and walked over to the laptop. She opened it and started surfing the web.

She had only been on the net for a few minutes when someone knocked on her door. "One moment, please!" She called out, closing her laptop. She had almost reached the door when it burst open. "Hey, Star!" Raven called, stepping into the alien girl's room.

"Raven! What purpose do you have in my room?" She asked, jumping at Raven's sudden appearance.

"Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to intrude. I'll… just go now." Raven said sadly, walking back to the door. Starfire grabbed her arm. "Do not go, Friend Raven. I was simply surprised, I like having you here! Perhaps we could talk about the Cube of the Z?" Starfire asked, smiling. Raven grinned.

"I've had enough of that today. Let's talk about something else… maybe your date with Robin?" Starfire face practically shone.


Around 8:00, Robin knocked on Starfire's door. "Uh, girls? The pizzas we ordered are here." He called through the door. The door opened to reveal a grinning pair of girls. "You two look happy." Robin commented, slightly taken aback by Raven's huge grin. "C'mon, let's go eat." Raven said, pulling her friends along by their wrists.

After a lot of eating and tug-of-war over slices (mainly the boys vs. Silkie, but once all six of them at once) the teen superheroes decided to watch TV. Halfway through "Can You Name That Pie?" Raven started to shudder. Her eyes glowed red and another two appeared. She screamed in rage and terror, "HELP! It's the Rage!"

Her friends wasted no time in finding some chains to bind her with. They then carried her down to the secure room, a difficult job considering the amount of screaming and thrashing. After they had managed to get her inside, the team agreed to take turns to watch her through the night. Beast Boy looked at his friend howling, struggling against the chains and sighed. Tomorrow would be tough.


So I think that emphasised the friendship between Starfire and Raven enough! Poor Raven, I feel so sorry for her, being locked up like that. I guess it was a necessary precaution, though. REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!