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5 hours before

Arsenal took another bite of his hot dog. He was sitting in the Leagues cafeteria with several of the other Titans: Donna, Terra, K (formerly known as Bumble Bee), Jinx, Garth, and Raven. Also with them was Kor'I, Wally and a couple of the other Leaguers: Supergirl and Fire. Normally Wally West would be in his habit. But Fire was here and he could barely form sentences. Jinx looked livid.

Donna was about as happy at this as Jinx was and had to keep nudging Roy. She wasn't his girlfriend or anything but she'd been in charge of "watching" Roy since she'd met him. So since junior high school. She was used to keeping him in check and hadn't bothered to wait for an order from Nightwing or his cousin to watch the flirt.

Donna's League com link went off in her ear. "J'onn what's up?" she muttered hoping no one would hear her.

Troia, Slade's security has gone off. I need you to take several of the other Titans and at least one full member of the League to investigate.

"Alright" the young Amazon replied. "Anyone in particular who I should bring?"

Anyone who is with you right now. This is a priority 1.

"That's cool. I'm with a couple of people right now so I'll bring them with me". J'onn gave the okay and left Troia's mind. "Hey Titans listen up" she called down the table. "The security system to Slade's cavern just went off. It might be nothing but it might be something." She leapt up into the space above the Titans' heads and floated.

"Let's move Titans" she called speeding to the League's control station. The Titans sat there with open mouths. Or at least some of them did. Raven didn't seem to really care about this she just kept eating as she stared down the table at her teammates. Kor'I wasn't shocked or scared. She had a hungry look in her eyes.

"You heard the wo-man Titans" she replied to this with a steely glint. The Tamaranean ran after her friend. The others, being made up of mainly followers, ran after her. Raven stared after her team.

"This is not going to end well" the demon-human hybrid muttered as she floated off to her room.


The Titans led by Kor'I, Donna, K and Roy entered the watchtower bay and teleported to Jump City. Raven stared at Kor'I for a moment to see the former Starfire's reaction. No one had thought to what she might think of being back here. She could remember something important.

Kor'I looked around at the city. Funny enough it did look vaguely . . . familiar. Like she had lived here once. Then she reminded herself that she had lived here once and she was stupid for not remembering all that had happened in the past few weeks. She turned to the team. "Any of you know how to get where we're going?" she asked.

"Yes" most of the Titans responded. They grinned at each other.

"Are. You. Insane?" Kor'I demanded.

"Uh . . .no?" Roy told her as if it were a question.

"We are going to investigate the lair of one of the most dangerous criminals of all time and you think it's time for giggles?!" Kor'I yelled. "It's like you have no idea what he's capable of! You guys have been affected by him more then anyone. You act like he hasn't killed and captured you in the past!" She looked at the Titans disappointedly. "I thought the League was about the fight. I thought the Titans were supposed to be a family. I guess I was wrong".

And with that depressing statement she charged up her flight and burned green through to Slade's cavern. "I thought you were supposed to be heping us!" Arsenal hollered after her. He turned to Troia. "She's never going to be Starfire again is she?"

Troia gave a small smile (like how Juliet smiles on LOST) and shook her head. "No" the Amazon responded.

"What if she isn't Star, Donna?" Green Arrow's former protege asked her sounding absolutely crushed.

"Roy" the other Themysciran Princess giggled. "You have to realize that she is Star. You two have been spending a lot of time together but it's like you haven't actually been watching her. The big picture is she looks differently, her voice sounds a little different, she fights crime in a different way, she doesn't appear as joyful and she's got more powers. Take a step back and look at the small things. The way she acts around all of us. It's a subconscious thing but she doesn't respond to any of us any differently then she did before. The little personality quirks. The way that a small smile tugs at her face, how she laugghs, the way she gives Wing a heart attack whenever she does somethin a little craz-" Donna looked terrified.

"What's up?" Arsenal asked casually.

"First off Roy- everyone's gone. Second we forgot Wing, BB and Cy!" Donna moaned. "Dick' will kill us. This is Slade. His purpose in life since he was fifteen! He doesn't want to be left behind! Haven't you heard the stories from before we joined the team! Slade could only be defeated by the five original Titans!-"

"But there's more of us then there are of him! Plus we've got Kor'I-"

"We have no idea where she is! This isn't about sheer numbers! Slade plays by strategy!-"

"You're an Amazon!" Roy bellowed in her face.

"Yes" she replied with an icy tone in her face. She advanced towards him. "And don't you dare forget how most Amazons feel towards men. You may be my friend and I might seem perfectly adjusted but I can be just as much a men hater as my sisters. I know how you treat women Roy Harper".

The cold fire in Donna's eyes disappeared as she groaned. "Sorry 'bout that Roy. Sometimes I lose myself, some of my best friends are boys but sometimes when a boy talks to me like that . . . I just snap y'know?"

The archer nodded. "Apology accepted but we gotta go help our friends !" The duo quickly took off down the cavern.


What I'm gonna try to do from now on is shorter but faster updates. I keep writing these long things trhat take a while to get out and (I'm guessing) that people get annoyed.