Just so you know, this is going to be longer than Captive was, but not that long. It'll probably be about twenty-five chapters or so. I need at least five to ten chapters for the captive part, and then five or so after the capture. You know, one for the death of Slade, one for the death of Philip, one for the death of Stonefire, one for Robin and Starfire, one for Beastboy and Raven, and one for Cyborg and Lana. And one at the end as an epilogue. So it'll be about twenty-five chapters, I'm guessing.

I don't know if that's a lot or a little to some of you. To me it's about average, because a lot of fics are only like nine to fifteen chapters (or one-shots are just one), but I've also read a lot that were about thirty or forty chapters… so I guess this is about average… but still, it doesn't really matter much in the end, because I'm still going to have about twenty-five chapters no matter what it means… oh, whatever, let's get on with it. Oh, by the way, this is a bunch of Star-Rob fighting, but this is still going to be a complete and utter Starfire-Robin fic, all the way! I would never break them up, never ever!

Dedication: To warprince2000, because you actually said something else! Not to be rude here, but you usually type the same old boring thing, but this time you typed something a little different, which is so cool! Your response is at the end. Oh, yeah, and to Savi, because she got the dedication thingy right!

Disclaimer: IDOTT. I know I usually write a bunch of stuff about the fact that I don't own Teen Titans, but I'm out of ideas for now, so I'll leave it at that.

Chapter Twelve: Girls VS Boys

Tamaran:

Blazefire and Starfire didn't regain their consciousness until their father's spacecraft landed on Tamaran. Starfire was closing her eyes in fright, but Blazefire was almost laughing at how nervous Slade was at being on a different planet.

"Flamey, look," she whispered with a grin. "Slade almost looks scared."

"No whispering, girls!" Stonefire ordered in a strict voice. "If you two had just come home like I asked you to, you would be able to stay in the palace and have a marvelous time. But since you disrespected me by fighting me, it was agreed that we should take you to the dungeons of our palace instead of the wonderful top floors."

Starfire shuddered. "Please, Father, I did not wish to hurt you, but Earth is my home now. I only wished to stay there with my friends. Can you not understand?"

"Earth is not your home, and it never will be. You were never born there, and you will never fit in there. You have family here."

"What family?" Blazefire asked with a snort. "I could hardly call you family, considering you tried to kill us, and now you're locking us in a dungeon. Mother didn't even care. Or if she did, she didn't even try to stop you. Blackfire obviously isn't family – she tried to take over this planet, and to set the police after her sister."

Before Stonefire had a chance to respond, Starfire asked with interest, "Where might sister Blackfire be?"

"That disrespectful girl is also in the dungeons," Stonefire replied. "Things got out of hand while I was gone, and I needed a chance to explain that to her."

"Is this how you want to live your life?" Blazefire demanded as some of her father's guards handcuffed her. She was too weak to stop them, since the earlier fight had taken a toll on her. "Just hauling your daughters off to jail and joining up with criminals from a different planet?" She glared at him. "Eventually your people will hear about it. And when they do, I swear to you that you will be overthrown."

He laughed. "No one is going to even try to disobey their king."

"We have," Starfire said hatefully.

"Look where you ended up."

Blazefire rolled her eyes. "You think you're so high and mighty," she said with a shake of her head. "But the ways of Earth won't stay on Earth. There were revolutions there, and there will be revolutions here. It isn't over with us, and it isn't over with the Titans. We're all going to get you, and convince Tamaran that they need a new government."

He laughed. "For a girl who has nothing better to do than impress a childhood friend by wearing revealing clothes, you almost pose a threat."

Starfire laughed at that. "She has beaten you numerous times, Father. Perhaps that wording would be understandable in some cases, but not in this one. You know your daughter has posed a threat for some time now, and that foolish talk is for…" Starfire wasn't good at insults, so she turned to Blazefire for help.

"For bastards like you!" Blazefire finished angrily, hurling a throat-buster-bolt at her father. Although she was weak, there was enough hatred and energy in her for it to cause sever damage, so it blew up hard in his gut, causing him to fall unconscious. Slade then ordered the guards to take Starfire and Blazefire to the enclosed dungeon area.

As Starfire and Blazefire walked inside, they both gasped slightly. Inside was not the high-and-mighty Blackfire they knew. She was pouting on the floor, her violet eyes glaring at the ground. But her body had no life to it – it was shivering, weak, and tired. Her clothes were in shreds, and her hair was unkempt and streaked with dirt and weeds.

The Blackfire they knew was a goddess who got what she wanted.

The Blackfire they saw looked nearly dead.

"Sister!" Starfire shrieked as soon as she saw her sister. "Please, what could have possibly happened to put you in this condition? Surely your jail time alone has not caused you to appear so…"

"Pathetically revolting?" Blazefire suggested with a snort.

"And you are?" Blackfire asked curiously. "I suppose you're the latest addition to the Titans," she added after looking at Blazefire with raised eyebrows. "And since you didn't have a uniform, Star gave you a suggestion?"

Blazefire snorted again. "Honestly, I would expect you to at least remember that you had another sister, but since Flamey didn't, I guess it's obvious that you wouldn't."

"Blazefire?" Blackfire choked out, coughing up a storm. "I thought you were dead, or something. And what happened to you, anyway? The last time I saw you, you had short, shaggy blonde hair and scratchy skin."

"Earth has good beaches, good lotion, and good fashion advice," Blazefire explained. "Besides, my looks aren't a big deal. Your hair and Flamey's hair… they're the same length as my hair, your eyes are the same, we're the same height, the same weight… God, it sucks to have sisters!"

"Blazefire, you know I totally hate you, right?" Blackfire asked with a sneer.

"I don't think you hate me. I think you fear me."

Blackfire smirked at her sister. "Actually, I used to fear you, when you were a threat. Now I could beat you easily. As "Flamey" knows, I'm a very good fighter now."

Blazefire laughed. She was the queen of comebacks. "I'm sure that's why you've landed yourself in your father's prison," she said sarcastically.

"If not for me, you two would be hosed!" Blackfire said angrily. "This idiot was here, waiting to kill Starfire. If I hadn't fought him, he'd be fighting you right now."

"So that answers my earlier question!" Starfire said, apparently delighted for finally getting an answer. "You are thanked for eliminating our enemy, for he was most despised by me especially."

"He had the hots for you, I could tell," Blackfire said. "Apparently the whole team has had some new female hotties, actually – you and this Melanie I'm hearing so much about. He called you, Lana, though. Why?"

"That's what Rhustin and Cyborg call me. It's my Earth name."

"I understand Rhustin, but why would Cyborg care?"

"I believe Cyborg has what you call "the hots" for Blazefire," Starfire explained, excited to be in a conversation with her reunited sisters.

"Rhustin!" Blackfire said suddenly. "I mean, I noticed, but I just now realized him… you were in love with him, I remember that. How's it going with that guy?"

"Perhaps this Rhustin could get us out of here," Starfire suggested. "That is, if he really is in love with you."

"They're going out?" Blackfire asked with raised eyebrows.

"No," Blazefire said quickly. "And we should contact the Titans before we contact Rhustin, obviously." As she said this, she took out her communicator. It picked up after the first ring.

"Where are you?" Robin demanded. "We've been calling for hours!"

Blazefire blushed. "Um, they must have gotten turned off."

"Why didn't you call sooner?"

"We were having a reunion," Blackfire explained, her face showing next to Blazefire's in Robin's communicator.

"What is she doing over there?"

"Um, helping us out, cool it," Blazefire said easily. "Anyway, we're in Tamaran, at the castle you went to before. But first you have to apologize to Flamey."

Robin grimaced. "I didn't do anything wrong."

"You're so stupid!" she nearly shouted. "You idiot! You're acting like you don't even care about her! Just apologize! She didn't do anything wrong!"

"Sister!" Starfire whispered into her sister's ear. "What are you doing?"

Blazefire sighed. "You better apologize," she said, handing the communicator to Starfire.

Starfire protested, but she ended up holding it and looking away from the screen, blushing. Robin, on the other hand, was sighing, taking in her beauty and hurt – especially her hurt – and feeling incredibly guilty. But he couldn't just apologize! He could never apologize. It just wasn't something he did.

After a few minutes, Blazefire snatched the communicator. She let out a stream of curses, then said, "You idiot, apologize to her right now! She is your girlfriend, or was. You can't just do something like that without consequence!"

"Maybe you should let us sort our problems out on our own!"

Blazefire glared at him. "You know what, Robin? I don't want you coming. The other Titans can come, but don't come, okay? Just… don't come. You hate Blackfire, you hate Starfire, and I'm guessing you hate me. So stay at home. You'll have more fun."

"You're part of the team. It's my duty to come!"

Starfire snatched the communicator away from her sister. "Is that all we are to you?" she demanded in a very un-Starfire-like way. "Part of the team? I don't want to be just part of the team to you! Neither does Blazefire! If you're going to act like this, then why don't you just leave the Titans? I promise you, you won't be missed!"

"But, Starfire-"

"Shut up!" she shouted. "You bastard, you keep trying to be a romantic when you can't even apologize! Red X is right! You can't apologize, and you can't treat me right! Why would I want to be with you?" she spat.

Blazefire and Blackfire were nodding, urging her on.

"Starfire, I don't understand. What did I do that was so wrong?"

"Stop playing dumb with me, Boy Blunder! I am so sick of you! You acted like you didn't care what I had to say, like all you cared about me was…" She shrugged. "I don't know what you like about me. Is it the way I look, Robin? Because obviously you don't care about anything I have to say, or how I feel!"

"Starfire, I don't like you just for the way you look! But don't you think you're being a little paranoid? I mean, this isn't you."

"SHUT UP!" she screamed. "You have no idea what I am like! You don't pay attention to anything I have to say! How on Earth could you possibly know what's me and what isn't? This is the 'me' that's been in me for a while, dying to get out! And here it is!"

"Starfire, I know you fine. You were my best friend, and then my girlfriend-"

"I wish I never was your girlfriend!" she said, fuming. "I should have known when we weren't even going out that you were a coldhearted liar!"

"I'm not coldhearted!" he said, starting to get angry.

"What about that time you grabbed her arm and twisted it? Even when she told you she was hurting, you didn't stop, just because of some freak of an enemy! You never apologized for that! You should have heard how sad she was to the other Titans! They told me everything!" Blazefire chimed in, helping Starfire out.

"That was a long time ago!" Robin said angrily. "You want me to apologize for that? Fine, I'm sorry!" he said angrily, not sounding at all sincere.

"You idiot, that was the worst apology I have ever heard! And that wasn't it, either! There were endless times when you slammed the door in her face or turned down her offers for roof hangouts just over stupid Slade!" Blazefire screeched.

"Robin," Starfire said simply, "I want you to leave the Teen Titans. And do not come back." Her regular voice was back now, but her voice was hollow and cold as ice.

Robin just looked at them for a moment, then started to close his communicator.

"Wait!" Blazefire said quickly. "You might be a loser, but we still need to talk to Mel and Rae and BB."

"What about Cyborg?" Blackfire asked her.

Blazefire shrugged, trying to act casual although she didn't want to talk to him at all. "Sure, whatever, him too."

Soon enough, the others came into view. "Dude!" Beastboy said immediately. "Star, what did you say to him? He was so pissed, and he was like-"

"Mad," Raven finished for him, not wanting Starfire to hear anything she shouldn't. Beastboy looked mad, but then again, he was always mad at Raven now. "Look, did you tell Robin to quit the Titans?"

The others blushed slightly, but Starfire said boldly, "I did."

"You can't just tell him to leave, Star," Cyborg said quietly.

Blazefire glared at him. How could she love him and hate him so much at the same time? "She can do what she wants, and she had every right to tell him to leave."

"You're not the one who makes the decisions around here," Raven said in her monotone voice. "Whether you like it or not, Cyborg is the leader, and you can't dismiss Robin without even consulting him. Neither of you can."

Blazefire glared at Raven. "Having a leader is pointless. Look at what happened to Tamaran with a leader! The same thing will happen to the Titans!"

"The Titans have always had a leader!" Cyborg said defensively.

"So have many countries, and it sucked for them," Beastboy reminded them. "But I'm not taking sides."

"A country without a leader would be worse," Raven argued, taking Cyborg's side.

"She's right. Where would America be without a leader?"

"Well, America was a bad example, because about half the country hates their leader, but where would plenty of countries be without their leader?" Blackfire asked with a grin. "I mean, I get what you're saying, but I've heard about American times," she said with a laugh.

(I'm just stating the truth – don't hate me if you're Republican, but a little less than half of America does hate Bush, so it was true… but whatever, just don't hate me and keep reading.)

"This isn't about having a leader!" Melanie said loudly. "This isn't even really about Robin leaving. It's about Starfire and Robin, and it's personal! We need to leave it alone! If Robin leaves, that's his decision. If he doesn't, then we'll deal with it!"

This aroused a lot of fighting. Soon Raven, Cyborg, and Blackfire were screaming at Starfire, Blazefire, and Beastboy while Melanie was trying to simmer things down.

"You know what?" Blazefire asked. She didn't speak at all loudly, but she said it in such a way that all talking ceased and all eyes turned to her. "Blackfire, Starfire and I are stuck in a prison, planets and planets away from Earth, and you all are sitting here yelling at us. So fine, okay? We'll find our own way home, and you all can sit on stupid Earth and fight your stupid bad guys. But once we escape, don't expect us to come back."

Starfire nodded solemnly, and Blackfire didn't deserve a say, so they hung up.

The Tower:

"Robin!" Beastboy said, knocking on his door and walking in. Robin was sitting on his bed, looking at an old photo album. Beastboy knew he shouldn't interfere with Robin's pictures, so he said, "Do you want the good news or the bad news first?"

"You decide," Robin said simply, barely looking up.

"Well, the good news is that you can stay here with us."

Robin turned his entire face up now. "Really? Starfire said it's okay?"

"Well, that's where the bad news comes in. The Fires said they're not coming back. That means you can stay, but they aren't going to."

"You can't just let them go!" Robin said immediately. "I mean, just because Starfire's mad at me doesn't mean-"

Beastboy glared at Robin. "You think this is my fault?" he demanded. "This is your fault, okay? You're the one who did whatever you did – I haven't heard it all, but I heard about spying and not caring and being jealous – and didn't apologize. Maybe if you apologized for any of the stupid things you did to her, she'd want to stay!"

Cyborg had approached the door and walked in after hearing voices. "We can't just let them go," he said simply. It was his decision as of now, and he had the say in the matter.

Just then, Melanie walked into the room. "You guys, what I said earlier was true," she said with a sigh, "because they are our friends, no matter what. Listen to me, and listen clear: love is a battlefield. Fight for those who you love, and fight to win their love."

"What if you don't love them?" Cyborg demanded.

"You'll know if you don't love them. But in war, do you stop helping an ally because of personal interference?"

Cyborg sighed.

Robin sighed.

Beastboy sighed.

"Let's get our girls back," they said at once.

Robin smiled. "It sounds like a plan," he said simply. "But first, I think I really have to take a rest. This is stressing me out."

"We could all use some sleep," Melanie agreed.

They all went to their individual rooms, and Robin fell asleep within seconds. He then dreamt about five years ago… when he met Starfire.

Four Years Ago Robin's POV:

It was another ordinary day – Raven, Cyborg, and I were all hanging out in the main room. Cy was fighting the computer on his latest game station game, Raven was reading her latest horror novel, and I was making lunch for all of us. We were all pretty young – I was eleven, Raven was twelve, and Cyborg was twelve. Still, we've learned how to keep ourselves going without parents around – because we don't have any parents.

In fact, we weren't only keeping ourselves going, we're keeping our whole city going.

We were the Teen Titans…

…Just not teenagers yet. Almost, remember. Just not quite.

Anyway, we'd be teenagers soon, and then maybe the town would take us seriously. Still, I can understand why they don't. I mean, two boys and one girl, first of all. I'm surprised the police haven't taken us to jail yet, considering she's sort of like our roommate, Raven is. And Cy are so clueless that no one can take him seriously.

I guess the city trusts me, since I used to work for Batman. I'm the Titans Leader, so I'm glad they trust me. Still, they must think I'm pretty crazy, giving up life with Batman for this new guild, or whatever.

But hey, Batman's with the Justice League now. I'm with the Titans.

Back to the story.

I walked into main room with lunch – for Cyborg, an entire ham nicely cooked with a side of carrots (he wants his good eye to get almost as good as his computer eye), for Raven, an herbal tea and some weird Gothic crackers I found in the pantry (which she looked pleased with), and for myself, a slice of leftover pizza and some potato chips.

It was then that the doorbell rang.

Most people don't ring our doorbell, you see, because the T Tower is very hard to get to. People either call or trigger our alarms. That's why there was slight interest in our faces. I quickly offered to answer it.

So I did.

She was beautiful.

She was my age, but she looked so much more mature, so much more caring, and so much more wise than any of the people I knew that were my age. She had a look to her that clearly stated intelligence.

She had flowing red hair that was brushed nicely into place, and went down to her elbows in loose waves. She had stunning emerald eyes that shone with hope when they looked at me. Her soft, smooth skin was tinted with a slight orange, and she was slim and tall for her age.

She was clothed in a strange outfit, a purple miniskirt and long, long purple boots. She had a matching top and many strange things that I could only imagine were native to her home country… or planet…

"Greetings, friend," she said in a sweet, pure voice.

"Um," I said, pretty much dumbfounded. "Hi."

"I came to the people of your city, and they suggested that I should come here and ask Robin if I could stay at his… tower."

"Not to be rude," I said, blushing, "but we're sort of superheroes, and we only get this place because we fight off the bad guys. We can't really have a hotel service." I couldn't believe how rude I was being, but it was my duty as a leader.

"Then you are Robin?"

"Yeah," I said blushing. "Look, they have some hotels here. Maybe they could help you out. But we need superpowers or really good fighting skills here."

"What are these 'superpowers' of which you speak?" the girl asked me curiously. "For I do believe I have fighting skills of plenty."

As gorgeous as she was, this girl was a riot. She thought that she could be a Titan. She was beautiful, but in a damsel-in-distress way, not a fighter way. "Superpowers," I responded with a sigh. "As in shooting things out of your eyes or hands or flying or running really fast or telepathic abilities or something."

She looked excited. "I can shoot things out of my hands! I can fly, as well!"

I raised my eyebrows at this, but before I could protest, she grabbed my wrist and pulled me into the sky.

I know I'm cautious, and I know I can give orders easily. But I couldn't bring myself to tell her to stop, or not to trust her. All I knew was that that moment was perfect, no doubt in my mind.

Now that I think about it, it was pretty unbelievable. Mostly the fact that she could fly, but also the fact that she could carry me. Now I know that it's because of her strength superpowers, but back then I thought it was a miracle.

Just like her.

Once we landed, she showed me her other powers, her "starbolts" – green beams that she could shoot out of her hands. Then I agreed to let her stay as a guest of the Titans until it was agreed between us that she was trustworthy and could stay.

It could take time to convince Cyborg and Raven that she was trustworthy.

I knew from the start that she was.

The next few weeks with the girl – she told me her name was Koriand'r, but to call her Starfire – made me feel like I was living in a dream world. I guess Cyborg and Raven noticed it too, but they said nothing about it besides teasing me once in a while when Starfire wasn't around me.

We all knew that she was trustworthy after the first day, but we clearly announced her being the newest Titan four weeks later, in front of the entire city. They were pleased to have someone who looked normal (although, coming from the planet Tamaran, she was not), and that was about when the Titans' popularity with the city rose.

Starfire didn't change once she became a Titan. The others were hoping she would gain a little more responsibility (as smart and clever as she was, she was also naïve and confused a lot of the time), but I didn't want her to. I wanted her to stay exactly how she was.

And she did, for the most part. She gained her eyebolts later and of course she grew, but today Starfire is still as naïve and cutely confused as she always was.

And I still love her for it.

Robin's Room:

Robin awoke with a start. He couldn't believe he ever could have forgotten how Starfire came, and how wonderful she was. But there was one thing about her that had changed that he hadn't thought of in his dream, and that he felt partly responsible for. He wasn't sure if this was good or bad, but he had actually made Starfire less oblivious.

Normally this was good.

Now, however, he knew it might be bad.

Starfire wasn't so polite any more. After being with her sisters and being angry with him, she had discovered true anger.

And she had let it out.

Robin smiled as he thought of his conversation with Beastboy (who wasn't there yet in his dream) and Cyborg. They were right. He saw love as a battlefield now, and the girls were against the boys.

But the girls wanted the boys to leave them.

And the boys wanted the girls to forgive them.

Me:

How do you like it? Now the guys want the girls to forgive them without their having to apologize, and the girls want nothing to do with them? Isn't my story so jolly and happy?

Things get better, I promise.

SNEAK PEAK FOR NEXT CHAPTER:

It will be called "Divide and Conquer." Robin and Red X and Cyborg are going to go after the girls, BB is going after Philip, and Raven and Melanie are going after Slade. Stonefire will be left alone until the girls are freed, then dealt with in the worst way.

Sound cool?

REVIEW RESPONSES:

TeEn TitAn 14: Aw, you're back! Anyway, Red X isn't going to end up with Bumblebee, but it was a good guess! You'll find out who it was pretty soon, I think. Thanks about the whole I-should-have-a-million-reviews thing, but really, it's okay. I'm just glad I have the reviewers that stick – like you, Pookey, solodancer789, warprince2000, and Savi. As long as you guys review, I don't care that much about anyone else, because you're the ones that keep me happy with my stories! Anyway, thanks for your suggestion, but you're right, I do have a plot. Still, it was a good idea. And it's okay that you haven't reviewed in a while, I'm just glad that you're doing it again! Wow, that was long, or at least on my laptop… anyway, thanks!

Savi: You were right! You can't not update until summer! Are you kidding me? That's like four or five months away from now! And I like your story! You need to update at least before March! And sorry I didn't update before February, but I've been kind of swamped with homework and extracurriculars and our variety show and stuff like that. Still, I'll keep remembering to update as much as I can!

Warprince2000: Aw, I can't believe you wrote something different! I'm used to you writing the same thing all the time, but this time it was different! Thanks so much! You'll probably just write the usual again now, but if you want to, maybe you could tell me… hmm, your favorite character? If you do, then awesome! Oh, and I meant to learn not to type the same thing over and over again, but you did that, so never mind! Thanks!

Pookey: You hate Terra, too? That's so cool, I know! Go us is right! –does a really weird cheer- I'm not exactly a cheerleader… hmm… but aren't you the one who's bio said you were a cheerleader? Maybe you can teach me! No, just kidding, lol. Cheerleading sounds like fun, but I'm really busy right now, which is why I haven't been reviewing Slipped Pieces. I'm really sorry about that, but I can't catch up on anyone's stories – it's not just you. Thanks!

Almost eight pages this time! I'm so close! If I can just get to eight pages, then I'll have a new record! I'll aim for it in the next chapter!

Lovin' Ya,

Kweenie