Author's Note: Can you believe we are almost done Season seven? LIKE WOW! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! THANK YOU GUYS FOR YOUR CONTINOUS SUPPORT! IT REALLY MEANS A LOT TO ME! Now, here's the thing. Once I'm completely done with the Titans season arc, I'll be making a Season 3 of Young Justice Invasion. I mean like there are so many unanswered questions so I wanted to explore them and stuff like that. And once that is done, I'll be making yet another season arc for none other than Starfire and it will be ONLY for her. NOW, this Starfire season won't be connected to the rest of my own Titans arc so keep that in mind. Anyways, off we go! Wait, wait. So you guys *hopefully* remember those red eyes from Possession in season six, right? Well, I decided to continue with those "red eyes" and you shall find out whose those belong to! And no, it's not Trigon. He's dead so he STAYS dead. Okay? Okay. WAIT! And this chapter is kind of inspired by one of the Young Justice's episodes…ah I believe it's called Bereft heh. AND SEASON 2 OF THE FLASH IS COMING AT OCTOBOR SIXTH! IT'S SOOO LOONGGG T_T
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Summary: The Team wakes up only to realize they have no idea what they are doing here. It wasn't until Raven remembered what their purpose was and it was only then that the team could move on with their mission.
Chapter 9: Valley of the Fortresses
Sahara Desert, approximately 12:00 AM
A groan came which interrupted the silence that spread over the now cool desert.
Ugh, okay. I'm gonna have the headache for at least a week. Raven muttered.
She then paused as though she felt that something wasn't right.
That's strange…I feel as if there's something blocking my mind…how…how did we end up here?
Raven narrowed her eyes, looking at the sandy path that was ahead of her. Noticing that this wouldn't work, Raven got into her mediating form and spoke her familiar chant.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos…" she recited.
Tons of flashbacks zoomed into her mind, making Raven feel uncomfortable at the sudden burst of speed.
A T-ship flying but then there was a sudden explosion which caused them separated.
A desert much like this one…
A black void that opened like curtains zoomed in only to reveal a man with an Anubis mask then red eyes appeared…
Raven gasped as she opened her eyes, suddenly realizing something.
I need to find the others and fast.
If she had forgotten her memories then chances are that the others have forgotten memories too. But Robin had once lost his memories, he wouldn't lose them again…
Would he?
With that, Raven flew into the air in hope to find the others. However, it wasn't a few steps since something came at her way. Sensing it, Raven turned around but her timing came a bit off. She produced a shield at the wrong moment so she ended up taking the hit since the empath crashed down at the sandy ground.
"Oof," she grunted.
Groaning a bit, Raven pushed herself up and rubbed at the side of her head. Curiously as to who attacked her, she scanned the dark area and slowly but surely a silhouette emerged out of the darkness. However, green glowing hands and eyes stood out in the dark.
Realizing who it was, Raven widened her eyes slightly. "Starfire?"
"She who trespass will pay the price." she said then raised her glowing hand and fired at Raven who gasped.
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Cyborg groaned as though he just got up from bed. He blankly stared into space before shaking himself to be in order.
"Whoo headache." he announced.
He looked into the distance.
"Where am I?"
He honestly didn't know. He doesn't even remember how he got here in the first place. However, something deep within him told him that he had a purpose of being here but he just doesn't know what it is…
:(/\):
"Starfire, it's me!" Raven called out, dodging the starbolt.
But the alien didn't listen. She kept on firing her alien powers at the fellow Titan who doesn't want to hurt her friend. So, Raven tried to find another way on how to talk her out of it.
Raven gave out a sharp gasp since she got hit in the chest and smashed down at the ground, having a rough fall. Seeing that there was simply no other way, Raven told herself that she had to attack her…
Unless…
Yes, that's it!
She would use that plan instead of the one she currently had.
Noticing that Starfire was about to attack, Raven hurriedly got up and armed herself by having her hands glowing black. The two charged at one another and just in time, Raven raised her hand while Starfire did as well at the same time. However, Raven placed her hand at her forehead and then everything went hazy as though they were being taken to another world…
"Starfire…?"
"Raven! How are you—how are we—"
"I used my powers to get us here…well kind of. I didn't expect something like this to happen. I was aiming to reach your mind and well here we are." Raven explained. "But that doesn't matter now. I need to show you some memories…of how we got here…our mission…"
"Mission? Where are our friends?"
"Let me explain." she told her. When Star was silent, Raven took this answer indicating that she could continue. "We all have been separated and we somehow seemed to lose our memories. However, I believe that there was a man…a man who seemed to be responsible for this mishap. So, we need to find our other friends and get back on track."
"Agreed. Let us proceed."
And then the smoky blue smoke swirled around them, making them vanish.
Instead of attacking one another, the two girls fell down with a thud, giving out a grunt.
"Starfire?" Raven said, unsurely.
"It is I, friend Raven. I am back to the way I used to be." Star responded.
Raven breathed out a sigh of relief.
"That's good…that's great, actually!" Raven then pushed herself, climbing off from Starfire.
"Let us now go on the hunt for our friends so we can resume to our mission." she paused. "But uh how do we find them?"
"Hmmm…" Raven then got out her communicator and to her luck, a red dot was flashing on the screen. "I got Cyborg's lock."
"Let us go."
:(/\):
Cyborg raised an eyebrow while he was clicking away on his scanner. As of right now, he had found out that he is at Sahara Desert. But why? Why was he doing at the desert?
"Aw man," he muttered, rubbing his head.
And it looks like that's the only thing he could find out now. He dropped his scanner and stared into the endless sand.
Well, he might as well start walking if he wants answer but he doesn't even know if walking around aimlessly would even give him the answers he needs.
Noticing that this was his only lead, Cyborg started to walk. However, it wasn't even an inch since he thought he heard a noise that sounded like a swoosh.
Being on alert, the half-robot turned around having his sonic cannon ready.
"I know you're out there and I'm warning you that I'm armed." he announced. He narrowed his eyes when he heard no answer. "Don't make me use it."
It was a while until at last, something slowly started to emerge out of the darkness. Cyborg raised an eyebrow as he saw the shadow forming into a shape that looked like a raven.
Another silhouette came out of the form and it appeared to be a girl with red hair.
Raven lowered her arms, letting her cape to once again cover her body.
"Who are you?" he demanded.
The girls seemed unfazed by his strong voice since they knew that was to be expected.
"Cyborg, we are your friends." Star said, coming towards him.
Raven simply placed an arm in front of her to block her path since she saw that Cy was obviously not believing her and readied his weapon even more. The empath walked towards him but not too close.
"What she says is true. You all have lost memories and I can return them to you but you have to trust me." she said.
"How do I know you're telling the truth? How do I know you won't trick me?"
"The only way I can do it is to show you. I need to enter your mind to restore those lost memories. But like I said, I need you to trust me."
There was a long hesitation. No one spoke which made it intense. What it seemed for like hours, Cyborg started to lower his arm since something in his gut told him that she was speaking the truth.
"Do what you must."
Raven nodded, relieved that he was trusting her. She then sat cross-legged in mid-air.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos." she said, eerily and her eyes glow white.
Cyborg gave an uneasy glance at the half-demon but the minute he looked into her white eyes, his own eyes widened slightly and an invisible force started to pull him in.
Flashbacks of his previous battles were shown along with his friends. Everything was shown up to now…to the current state. Cyborg squirmed under the force and at once everything was speeding at the speed of light.
His friends.
Betrayal.
Fighting evil.
Hurt.
Titans East being controlled.
Him being in a horrible accident.
Red eyes…
A man in an Anubis mask.
Just like that, the force which pulled him in finally made him snapped out of the flashbacks. He gave out a gasp, collapsing to his knees being overwhelmed from the many images.
No one spoke. Raven and Starfire was staring at him as though they were waiting for an answer.
"…Cyborg?" Star asked, unsure.
"You would have to be crazy enough to not trust you." Cy responded.
Star giggled while Raven smiled, knowing that their friend was back.
"Welcome back." Raven responded.
"Ugh, now I'm gonna have a headache. You really know how to take a toll on a guy." he muttered.
"Uh sorry."
Cyborg got up only to stare at the two. "So I'm guessing you haven't found the other two?"
They shook their heads.
Cyborg gave out a sigh. "Whoever did this to us, they really did a good job." he muttered.
"We need to find where the others are…and fast." Raven said.
"Yes. I do not wish to think that our friends perhaps might be kidnapped or injured." Star said.
"Don't worry. Everything would be fine. We always come up fine…" the half-robot said, bringing his scanner up.
"If I can just connect to—"
Cyborg didn't even get the chance to finish his sentence since there was something coming. A noise that sounded like a high pitch whistle was coming to them. Cy turned around and had his eyes wide.
"Hit the deck!" he shouted, bringing Starfire down.
Right on time, Raven produced a black shield which made the missile strike it. When the protection was lowered, Cyborg craned his neck slightly to see what had attacked them. He squinted his eyes until eventually several large tanks started to show up making his eyes go wide.
"Uh oh." Raven responded.
"So I am guessing we are doing the kicking of the butt?" Star asked once she got up.
"Teen Titans, go!" Cy commanded.
At once, everyone flew into action. Cyborg kept on using his sonic cannon in hopes to destroy the barrel of the tank. Starfire used her starbolts while Raven used her chanting words to try and break the top of the tank.
She closed her eyes, bringing down her finger. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"
The top of the tank got covered by dark magic and Raven struggled a bit. At last, she managed to destroy the top which was hanging in mid-air. She then turned her head to the side, looking at Cyborg.
"Cyborg, catch!"
Upon hearing his voice, Cyborg looked and caught the flying top that was headed towards him.
"Brace yourself. Things are about to come heavy." he shouted before throwing the object.
He was able to demolish three tanks (the one in front, the one beside and the one behind them) and smoke came out. The battle took quite a while. There were some narrow misses from the projectiles. Starfire (who flew in the air to avoid the blasts) would zig-zag around in order to avoid the three missiles that were launched from the machines.
The alien looked back a bit to see the weaponries still being hot on her tail. However, the minute she looked at the front she gave out an eep sound since three more were flying towards her. She then got an idea and still continued to fly towards the three new missiles. At the right time, Starfire flew into the air, letting the weapons to explode into one another, creating a one huge blast.
"Whew," she gave out a sigh of relief. "Aaah!" she exclaimed when a nearby rocket nearly struck her but flew past by her.
The missile swerved to the side then headed straight to the girl once again.
"Ugh, there's too many." Raven announced, joining Cyborg who was still fighting.
Cyborg stopped what he was doing and narrowed his eyes at the tanks. "We can still beat them. Raven, you tear them apart and give the top parts to me. Starfire,"
"Yes?" Star asked once she landed.
"You distract the missiles."
"Titans, go!"
Raven made her eyes glow white then encased the top parts of the machine. She threw it at Cy who caught it then chucked the turret from the side. The top collided with one after another kind of like dominoes. Meanwhile, Starfire was still flying in the air and struggled a bit too loose sight of the flying weapons.
Occasionally, she would use her starbolts to annihilate them but mainly, the whole flying would be somewhat repetitive. However, she would sometimes use the three flying weapons to smash at the tank.
At last, Cyborg and Raven finally defeated the last few of the armored cars and they were just waiting for Starfire.
Starfire narrowed her eyes at the last vehicle that seemed to be either just appeared or it was still there but the two missed it due to all of the explosions and such.
Grinning, she zoomed towards the armored vehicle and at what she thought it was the right time, Starfire flew into the air and let the missile attack the tank. However, apparently she was still in the range since the shockwave of the explosion still reached her.
"Oof," she grunted, being collided with the shockwave. She flew back but somewhere in the middle, she managed to create a backwards somersault then landed on her own two feet, skidding back a little but it was enough to join the group.
The Titans didn't move but once the smoke was clear, they cheered.
"We are victorious!" Star shouted.
"Alright, team! Nice work!" Cy exclaimed.
Raven, however, turned her head to the side only to squint them. Sure enough, out of the darkness, more tanks came out which made Raven's eyes go wide. Seeing that something wasn't right, Cyborg stopped cheering only to gasp with shock.
"You got to be kidding me." Cy responded. "Well let's get some butt-kicking!"
"Yes, let's!" Star exclaimed.
The two started to charge forward but Raven sensed something else. Curiously, she didn't move and kept on listening to that strange sound.
Where is it coming from?
She looked around until she looked up at the dark sky; it was hard to see. She wasn't sure what it was but she didn't take any chances.
"Wait!" Raven called out, using her powers to summon the two Titans and brought them back. They grunted when they fell to the ground. "Do you hear that?"
"What? The sound of us falling to the ground or the loud tremors coming from the tank?" Cy remarked.
Raven twitched, giving him a slight glare. He laughed sheepishly. "No. That."
At last, the sounds that came from the strange objects started to reveal themselves but they end up being airplanes.
Cyborg had his eyes wide. "This can't be good."
"We are outnumbered. We cannot possibly defeat all of them." Starfire pointed it out.
The three started to back up but suddenly something flew in the air and it latched itself at the side of the tanks. The devices beeped, indicating that it was about to blow; it did just that. Something also flew into the air but yet again it was hard to see. But then, another silhouette form came down from the sky and it smashed several of the deathly machines, creating dust to arise.
Curiously, the Titans turned behind and two shadows were in the view.
"Don't think the party is over."
"Because it's just getting started!"
The three heroes gasped, recognizing the voices.
"Robin!" Star exclaimed, happily flying towards the leader.
"Yo, BB!" Cy shouted. "I thought I would never see you again!" he said, giving him a bone-metal hug.
After the hugs, Raven just simply stood there and gave a narrowed look at the two.
"Um…heh, hey there Rae." Beast Boy said, gulping.
"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW WORRIED I WAS?" she raged. "NO SIGNS OF YOU TWO! YOU COULDN'T HAVE GIVEN US A SIGNAL OR ANYTHING! I HAD TROUBLE SENSING YOU TWO!"
The group had their eyes wide.
"Yeah about that…" Robin said, rubbing his neck. "We had to cut off any form of communications. We found out that we were in a part of our enemy's territory. We luckily took a shelter from them."
"And let me guess…it was your bright idea to do all of that?" Raven peeved, crossing her arms. But the sheepish movement from Robin was all Raven needed to know. "Some leader."
"Hey! You would've done the same thing!"
Raven waved her hand in the air. "I suppose…" she paused. "And you didn't had any trouble giving his lost memories to him?" she motioned to Beast Boy.
"It was…rough. I didn't lose any memories."
Thought so. Raven thought then paused. But wait…how come he didn't lose his memories—despite the fact he lost them in the first place—but we did? Unless…of course. He somehow must've escaped the attack at the last second. That damn bastard. Raven fumed in thought.
"So now since we are all united, how do we stop these things?" Star asked.
"Yeah. We already took out the first bunch of the tanks but apparently more were coming." Cy said.
Robin glanced up at the sky to see the flying airplanes though he made a small gasp after he realized (a moment later) what type of those airplanes were.
"You guys didn't realize what types of those airplanes are, did you?" he asked.
"Uh…I don't know about you, Robin, but some of us don't have Bat eyes." Cy said.
"Well…technically, Beast Boy could've had bat eyes by simply transforming into a Bat himself." Raven pointed it out.
"Oh you know what I mean."
Robin gave a little sneer. "Well…they're Kamikaze airplanes."
The group minus Starfire gasped.
"Please, what is the kaze of the kami?" she quizzed.
"Kamikaze," Robin corrected.
"They're pilots that fly an airplane and crash into enemy ships. Otherwise known as a suicide bomber." Cy answered, walking back a few steps.
"But why? Do they not value their life?" Star questioned.
"It's their jobs, Starfire…" Robin spoke.
"So…anyone got a plan?" Raven announced.
"Well we got two choices here. Attack from above or attack from below." Beast Boy said.
Picking up from Beast Boy, Robin spoke. "Raven and Starfire. You two attack from above. Us three will attack from below."
"Uh shouldn't I attack from above as well?" Beast Boy pointed it out.
Robin shook his head. "No. It's better if you stay below. You will be more useful."
"Yeah and besides, I know you love to smash things." Cy grinned.
"Titans, go!"
And so the battle again.
At the beginning, it went pretty smooth but later, things started to get worse. More tanks would come and go making it harder for the Titans.
Raven grunted when she fell to the ground. Groaning, she got up and quickly saved a flying turret that was about to hit Cyborg. She then used the weapon to chuck it at the machines.
"There's too many. We can't hold them for long." Raven said, joining Cyborg.
"We have to keep trying."
"If we keep on trying, we could die." Raven responded, a bit sternly.
Meanwhile, up in the sky, Starfire was frantically trying to avoid the many airplanes that were coming at her. She would often do zig-zags in order to try to make them collide against each other.
Seeing that she was trap (four airplanes came from each side), Starfire made her hands glow green and with a charging yell, she released it just as the airplanes fired theirs.
Cyborg twitched a bit and looked up to see where those big explosions came.
"STARFIRE!" he yelled.
The group united by having each other's back touching the others and they all looked at the threatening machine contraptions that were coming at them…
:(/\):
"Hmmm these Titans put up a good fight. I'll give them credit for that." a mysterious person spoke in the shadows. The only light that was shown was from the screens.
The character gave a little smirk followed by a sneer after he saw an explosion that caused in the air.
"But how unfortunate that their little friend had an accident, hm? But no matter. This is where the real game begins." he slightly turned his head back and behind him, it seemed that there were bars indicating that there was a prison cell.
But, the light shone at the bottom corner and it was enough to see what it looked like the lower part of a body…
A/N: YAYAYAYAY! I FINALLY FINSIHED! *confetti's, streamers, balloons…* UGH THIS TOOK ME DAYS *SOBS* I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER FINISH IT BUT I DID AND THAT'S ALL IT MATTERS! BUT…BUT! Who's the mysterious uh…person in the cell? Have fun guessing! See you!
