Little One, Little Danger
A/N: Omg! It's been so long you guys! I would like to apologize for the delay and I know at the end of the last chapter I said it wouldn't be that long but…it looks like it took longer. Please forgive me and I hope this chapter makes up for the hatred of the length of the time that you guys built up inside yourselves. We ended on a note of the connection between Sierra Hinta and Kida Rile. Also the whole Bruce Wayne and Kida Rile past continues to build up. I guess I talked and apologized too much so here's the chapter!
Chapter 24: Reunited, and it feels so…
The rain pours down on the streets of Tokyo at 12:00 midnight while the thunder can be heard roaring and the lightning seen flashing. On the side of a hotel building, a woman sits with her back against the stone wall. Her head tilted upwards as her orange hair stuck to the front and sides of her face. She looked up at the dark clouds as the sky cried and she shared it's tears of hurt.
"R…", was all she could mutter.
Lightning flashed again, causing her heart to skip a beat as she tried to replay in her mind what took place a few minutes ago.
{scene jump}
Two figures resided upon the roof of a hotel in Tokyo, rain still pouring down. One laid on his back upon the pavement, not a sense of movement within him. His dark black hair surrounding the back of his head, decorating the pavement of the roof around his crown. His eyes are closed as the rain continuously hits his face along with the black and blue suit his body was engulfed in.
"Ugh…", the other man huffed out as he leaned on the edge of the roof.
The conscious man turned a little to look at the one that was unconscious a few feet away from him. He breathed heavily and turned his attention back to the view of Tokyo from the rooftop. With the last bit of strength he had, he grabbed the edge of the roof and jumped up to where he could stand. One step could send him descending down to his end if he wished it. He brought his right hand up to his face and grabbed the end of his black mask and removed it.
"There's no looking back…", he said as he closed his eyes and bended his knees.
In an instant he jumped off the top of the roof and leaned head first…down he descended.
{scene jump}
The lightning flashes once again as the rain doesn't let up it's rage. A street is dimly lit with energy force of a spherkalite. Seeming like a light bulb that's about to go out, the device flashes little by little. It has grown in size as if to hold something within it, which a dark form can be made out.
*ring ring ring*
A communicator upon the concrete ground goes off along with a vibration. Suddenly a shadow could be seen over both the spherkalite and communicator. The figure reaches over and picks the communicator up, deciding to hit the decline button. The attention rests upon the spherkalite as the form within it resides.
"Thank goodness that worked.", a woman spoke.
She took a small remote out of her pocket and hit on a red button. The round force field upon the device disappeared revealing a woman curled up, floating and unconscious. Her dark lavender hair to her side and her fair milk skin. The other woman walked over and removed the other from the spherkalite. She put her over her right shoulder and hit the red button again. The force field returned but it didn't flicker again for it shined brighter. The woman walked over to a Suzuki bike and threw her victim over the front. After putting on her helmet, she turned her right handle to start the engine and then drove off through the rain.
{scene jump}
It's running steady at one of Tokyo's finest hospitals as a young man with the skin of the color of grass pacing back and forth outside one of the hospital's rooms.
"Mr. Garfield.", a doctor walked up to him.
He turned to answer, "Hey! I mean, yes, doctor? How is she?"
The doctor looked down at his clip board at a few statistics and results upon about five pages; adjusting the specs on his face.
"Well, she's actually fine."
"What?", Beastboy looked through the glass into the room.
"Yes indeed. All the tests we ran came back normal and she's as healthy as the age she is.", he looked up and smiled at him.
Beastboy turned his attention back at him, "Really?"
"Yes, she's probably just a little exhausted. We'll let her rest a bit until she wakes up to sign her release papers."
"Release papers? She can't sign those."
"And why not?", the doctor brought the clipboard to his chest waiting for an answer.
"She's too young. A parent or guardian must do that."
The doctor looked at the young man confused, "Excuse me but, the girl has to be at least nineteen years of age."
"Nineteen! Are you out of your mind?! She's like twelve!"
"Mr. Garfield, if she's twelve, then I must be twenty-one again.", the doctor chuckled as he walked away from Beastboy.
"You gotta be kidding me.", BB said as he made his way to the door and entered the room.
As he made his way closer to the bed he realized that the girl looked the same as she rested underneath the bed's sheets. It wasn't until he made it to where he was looking over her that he noticed something different.
"What the…", he clicked on the bedside lamp.
His eyes widened as he looked at the young girl he brought in a few hours ago.
"It's like looking…at a black-haired…Raven…", he placed his hand on her forehead to brush the hair from upon her face.
"Mm…", came from her closed lips causing him to jerk his hand back.
Suddenly the girl's eyes slowly opened, "Uncle…Beastboy…?"
{scene jump}
"Damn it!", someone yells as they punch the nearest car on an abandoned street.
The car ended up looking like it just got in a bad accident, but there was no car alarm to make any noise or signal of distress. A machine like man walks down the street as the rain poured down on him in Tokyo. He lifted up his right arm and opened up a compartment that held a built in communicator.
"Call Raven.", he commanded.
The communicator dialed the girl's extension and it ringed and ringed.
"Come on Raven, pick up.", he got aggravated as the call automatically ended.
He closed the compartment on his arm and started to run down the street.
{scene change}
A woman sleeps peacefully and quietly within her bed, resting on her right side, facing the left side of her bedroom. Her left arm intertwined with a muscular one as her hand rested upon that of a man's. Two layers of sheets covered her all the way up to her breasts, black in color.
"Mm…", she moved her hand over the hand of the man's.
The very little light of the moon shown through the window of her bedroom, she owned no type of curtains or blinds. Lightning flashed and thunder boomed again causing her to jump out of her sleep. She sat herself up and shook her head as she rubbed her temples and letting the sheets fall to her waist. Her long dark brown wavy hair covered her breast as her eyelids covered those hazel eyes of hers.
"What a storm.", she let her arms fall.
All of a sudden her eyes opened as she felt her left arm rub against an arm not attached to her body.
She looked down, "Who in the…", her eyes widened, "…no."
She quickly turned to the man on the left side of her and as the lightning flashed she was able to make out his face. Her heart raced as her eyes widened at the sight of the naked man beneath her sheets.
"Br-Bruce…?"
{16 Hours Earlier}
A ray of sunlight shines through the curtains of someone's bedroom as they laid upon their back within a queen sized bed. A woman rested until the light hit her face.
*ring ring ring*, the phone on the bedside dresser went off.
She stretched her left hand out to the left of her to answer the phone, "Hello?"
"Doctor Hinta, this is Sade."
"Yeah?", she yawned.
"Doctor, I was told to call you and ask if there was any way you could come in today?"
Sierra slowly sat up in her bed, "What day is it?"
"Um…it's Saturday."
"Sorry, I can't. Today's my day off and I have other things to catch up on."
"Ok, not a problem. Sorry to have bothered you Doctor."
"Oh, it's ok."
After she hung up the phone, she stretched her arms up over her head and sat on the bed for another 5 minutes.
"I guess it's time to start the day.", she smiled as she jumped out and to the right side of the bed.
Sierra pulled back the soft pink curtains from the double windows and looked out at the clear blue sky. Walking back to her bed, she pulled the sheets, cover and comforter to make the bed. Afterwards she walked out of the room and made her way to the kitchen to brew a 4-cup pot of coffee.
"Nothing like a cup of coffee to start the day."
Sierra soon made her way to the bathroom where she brushed her teeth and washed her face over the sink, examining herself in the mirror. She then ran the hot water for her shower as she removed her 2-pc, tank and shorts pajamas of 'Hello Kitty'. When she stepped in the shower she immediately washed her body along with her hair. Without wasting time, it took her about 15 minutes, then she turned off the water and stepped back out onto the tiled bathroom floor.
"Towel…towel…?", she looked around, dripping wet.
*ding ding*, was her doorbell.
"Oh great, someone's at the door and I can't find a towel."
*ding ding*
She ran out of the bathroom back and through the kitchen because her washer and dryer was located right behind it.
*ding ding*
"Coming!", she yelled as she opened the dryer, grabbing a large towel to wrap around her body.
*knock knock knock*
"I'm coming, I'm coming!", she slid across her wooden floors making her way to the front door.
"Yes?", she opened the door.
"Sierra."
"Doctor Hinta."
Sierra became surprised, "Victor? Ms. Roth? What bring you two here?"
Cyborg smiled, "Just getting out of the shower?"
"Yes, why don't you both come on in.", Sierra moved to the left so they could enter the house.
"Thank you.", Raven said.
"Have a seat and make yourselves at home. I just made some coffee, would you care for some?"
"I'd take a cup.", Cy sat on the cream colored loveseat.
"No thank you, I'm not a coffee drinker.", Raven replied.
Sierra went to the kitchen, "I suppose you prefer tea only."
"Practically. How do you know that?"
"Well, you have your coffee drinkers and you have your tea drinkers."
Raven shrugged her shoulders, "I suppose."
Sierra came back out with 2 mugs, handing one to Cyborg and the other to Raven.
"This is coffee.", Raven looked into the mug.
"Yes it is.", she went back into the kitchen for her mug.
"I don't drink coffee."
"Have you tried it before?", Sierra came back with her mug and sat next to Cy on the loveseat.
"Yes, and I hated it."
"I bet you haven't had it this way.", she sipped.
"Are you serious?", Raven's right eye started to twitch as she got aggravated.
Cy started to get nervous, "It's really good Rae, just try it."
Raven rolled her eyes, "Fine."
Sierra smiled, "Go for it."
Raven smelled the contents in the mug, "It does have a nice aroma."
"You see."
She then took a quick gulp and became pale.
Cyborg looked at her concerned, "R-Raven?"
"Ow, that was hot…", she sighed.
"That's because you're supposed to sip not…", Sierra thought to herself, "…wow, dejavu…"
"But, it's not that bad.", Raven smirked.
"So how's little Raiden?", Sierra asked.
"Fine.", replied Raven.
"So…you're here for?"
"Well…", Cy started.
"I know why you're here.", she winked at him cutting his sentence off.
Cyborg blushed, "Well uh…you know…"
Raven rolled her eyes, "As the Titans, we've come to ask you some questions."
"Questions? About what?"
"These.", Raven pulled out some pictures and placed them on the coffee table in front of Sierra.
She glanced down at them and looked at Raven, "I've seen them on the news before. What about them?"
"We're just wondering why one was linked here, to your house."
"Linked to my house? How do you figure that?", she sipped her coffee.
"Oh, we have our ways in getting the information we need. It's just finding where at in the house that this device is linked."
Sierra slowly put her mug down upon the coffee table, "Well, unless you have a warrant, there's no way you're looking throughout my house."
Raven smirked, "And that answers my question."
Sierra returned the smirk, "And what question would that be?"
"That you're involved."
"Is that right? Does my willingness to abide by the law with implying of a warrant automatically prove that I'm guilty?"
"Not necessarily, but I can read you."
Sierra smiled raising her right eyebrow, "Can you Raven?"
"Oh, you have no idea."
She sat back and crossed her left leg over her right, "Oh but I do. See, the way I figure, your sense of 'reading' individuals is a bit flawed."
"Really now?"
"Well you sure couldn't read your precious Richard, now could you Rachel."
Raven's face suddenly dropped, "Excuse me?"
"Oh you are excused of your ignorance."
"Now ladies.", Cyborg tried to calm things down.
"I-Ignorance?", Raven gritted her teeth.
"Yes, your ignorance."
"You know nothing."
"Oh, but I do. Victor here told me the whole story."
Raven quickly turned to Cyborg shocked, "You did what?"
Sweat dripped down his face as he smiled nervously, "Well um…it was to make conversation. But not once did I call you ignorant Rae, honest."
Raven's white aura started to form around her body, "What kind of brother are you?"
"Just calm down Rae."
"Don't call me that! It's Raven…", her anger blazed as she started to float, eyes glowing white along with her aura getting brighter.
Sierra stared in awe, "That behavior…that aura…it's the same…"
Raven flew out of the living room and out the front door of the house leaving Cyborg and Sierra behind. There was silence as the two stood there looking in the direction Raven flew in.
Cyborg rubbed the back of his head, "So uh…"
"Next time when you want to pay me a visit, come alone."
"I'll keep that in mind.", he said walking to the front door.
"Sorry about getting you in trouble too.", she followed behind him.
"It's ok, she'll forgive me…one day."
"Sooner than you think, believe me."
"Oh and about those…"
She cut him off, "Come back with a search warrant, then I'll see what I can do."
"Right."
After closing the door behind him, Sierra watched Cyborg through the blinds as he got in the T-car and drove off to go find Raven. She ran her right hand through her wet hair and went to go retrieve her cell phone. When she unlocked it, she went to her favorites list and dialed a number.
*ring ring ring*
After a minute the call ended up going to voicemail, "Hey Kida, I don't know where you're at right now but we have a problem. Call me as soon as you get this message if I don't catch you when I call at a different time. Bye."
{10:00 am}
"Oh wow Robin.", Kida laughed as she nudged him.
"I'm serious!", he pouted as they walked down the busy streets of Tokyo, coming from a bistro where they just had breakfast.
"Yeah, I know you are. I just didn't think you'd be man enough to admit it."
"Well I wanted to be honest."
"Well when I asked you what your favorite Disney movie was, I wasn't expecting 'The Little Mermaid'.", she stopped at the stop light.
Robin stopped with her, "Hey, it has some manly features in it."
"Oh yeah, where?", she nearly burst out laughing.
"Anyway, changing subjects. That was a pretty nice bistro."
"Yeah, it's one of my favorites.", she smiled softly as she stared at the crossing signal across the street from where they stood with a small group of people.
"You seem to have a lot a favorite spots here."
The signal for them to cross flashed and they started to move, "Yeah well, when certain places hold such good memories, whether you might enjoy the place itself, the memory makes it more enjoyable."
"Oh? So I'm guessing something special went on there at that place.", he winked.
Kida blushed a little, "What? Don't be ridiculous.", she turned away from him.
Robin laughed, "You're the one that said it."
"I take it back then."
They walked a couple of more feet and could see Robin 's hotel coming into view. Kida sighed as she thought about what she had told Robin about places holding special memories. Why did she have to go there, she was just lost in her thought and didn't realize what she was saying.
Bruce…
(flashback)
Bruce Wayne opened the passenger side door of his black Ferrari and extended his right hand out to the young woman.
She shook her head, "No…I can't go in there."
"And why not Kida?"
"It's…it's not really my scene.", she folded her arms over her chest and pouted.
Bruce grabbed her right forearm and pulled her out of the car.
"Hey!"
He tossed the keys to the valet, "Take care of that will you."
"Yes Sir Mr. Wayne.", the valet got in on the driver's side and drove the car off to go park it.
Kida yanked her forearm from his grip, "What's your problem?"
"What's your problem?", he threw back at her.
"I don't care for restaurants or whatever…things like that."
"It never hurts to try something new. You've been to several back home."
"Yeah, well that's back home. And plus…", she paused.
"Plus what?", he said as he walked pass her to the entrance.
"I only go because…you like to do things…like that and…I feel that if I don't…we might not spend time…you know…together…as much…", she slowly got out as she blushed away from him.
Bruce looked at her a little surprised at first and then softly smiled, "What are you talking about?"
"Well you know…", she stopped as he grabbed her left hand with his right.
"No matter what it is that we do, I enjoy every second of it because it's with you…not that type of activity Ms. Rile.", he reassured her as he led them into the bistro.
She blushed a little and then smiled softly as she tighten her hand around his.
(end of flashback)
"Hey Kida?"
"Yeah?", she shook her head and noticed she was walking alone.
"I'm right here."
She turned around to see a smiling Robin some feet away from her at the entrance of the hotel he was staying in.
"I'm so sorry.", she blushed walking up to him.
"It's alright. You must've been lost in your thoughts.", he smiled.
"Yeah.", she chuckled, a little embarrassed.
"Maybe you should go home and get some rest."
"Sure, that was my first plan. So what are you going to do for the rest of the day?"
Robin hunched his shoulders, "Don't know, probably relax as well."
"How 'bout a movie later?", she asked.
"I'll have to check my schedule.", he winked.
"Ha ha ha Robin.", she playfully punched him in his left shoulder.
"Yeah, so see you later?"
"Yep.", she turned to walk away.
"Be safe!", he shouted after her.
"Always!", she shouted back.
{12:00 pm}
Beastboy yawned as he sat with Raiden on the couch at the Titans Tower. Both of their bellies the size of basketballs as empty cartons of Blue Bell ice-cream surround their feet.
"Mama is going to be upset." Raiden spoke.
"Nah, everything is all good." BB gave her a smile.
"If you say so, but if we get in trouble, I'm using the 'innocent' face and blaming everything on you."
He narrowed his eyes at her, "I think I liked it better when you were a cute little girl."
"Aren't I still?", Raiden looked at him confused.
All Beastboy could do was laugh, "Sure, you can say that. Well, I'm not sure where they ran off too but we do have the place all to ourselves."
"You do realize that I'm still a minor right."
"W-wait what?! I didn't mean anything like that!" he sat himself up to a grinning Raiden.
"You're so cute when you get flustered."
"Hey! I should be telling you that! I'm older than you." he stuck his tongue out at her.
"So what are we supposed to do for the rest of the day?" she ignored his actions.
He looked at her annoyed, "I don't know, I've used up all my best ideas for this morning. Not to mention the eating of ten cartons of vanilla ice-cream."
"Aw! So you're brain isn't working anymore?" Raiden pouted.
"Don't you give me that face, you come up with something." he crossed his arms over his chest.
Raiden thought to herself as she rubbed her overly expanded stomach. Beastboy did the same and belched in the process.
"Got it!"
"Oh yeah? What is it?" BB wasn't convinced.
"Let's do some bungee jumping off the top of the tower! So we can burn off of this ice-cream!" she smiled happily clapping her hands.
"Are you nuts! You know what Robin would do to me! Not to mention…(gulp) Raven." his face went completely white.
"Who's going to tell them?"
"Uh, news flash, this whole place is crawling with cameras."
"So what?"
"You know…you get that attitude from Robin."
"So what do you say?"
"Weren't you just listening to me!"
{2:45 pm}
Starfire just landed in a city near Tokyo, to hide the jet of course. She was going to walk the rest of the way to not cause any kind of disruption. It wouldn't take long, only 10 miles away.
She hopped out of the jet and landed on her feet, "It is time to get to the bottom of this confusion."
{3:00pm}
Aqualad's submarine-jet surfaced in one of Japan's rivers outside of Tokyo. Fortunate for him, no one was around and it looked like the area he surfaced in was deserted.
"Great." he said to himself.
He then drove his jet to the edge of the river and hit a button to open his cod pit and he got out onto the dry land. Tokyo was going to be 5 miles away from where he stood, this should work out perfectly he thought.
"Brace yourself Robin." he said as he broke out into a sprint.
{4:00pm}
*ring*ring*ring*
"Mmm…" Kida rolled over in her bed as her phone went off.
*ring*ring*ring*
She outstretched her hand and grabbed it, "Hello?"
"Kida! Where have you been?! I called you since earlier this morning!"
Kida quickly removed the phone from her ear, "Sierra please don't yell at me."
The woman on the other end of the phone sighed, "Where were you Kida?"
"I went to grab breakfast with someone."
"Till just now?"
"I was taking a nap." Kida yawned.
"Well isn't it that just peachy, didn't you get my voicemail?"
"You left me a voicemail?"
"You are impossible you know that!"
Kida put her right hand on her forehead, "The yelling, please."
"Well sorry to interrupt your nap, but the Titans or on our case now."
Her eyes widened, "Already? Damn, I thought it would take them a little while longer."
"Yeah right, Metal man and Goth girl came knocking on my door this morning asking questions."
"Why you?"
"Well, they traced one of the spherkalites to my address and I think they'll be over there by you in no time."
Kida smirked, "Don't worry about it, I'll be ready. But just to be safe, grab Raven and bring her to the outskirts."
"Really? Are you ready to go through with this?"
"They're the ones that decided to be too smart for their own good."
"Robin?"
"He's in good hands, doesn't know a thing."
"Kida…are you sure about…"
"Just do it Sierra!"
"Don't give me that tone!" she hung up.
"What am I going to do with her." Kida shook her head and sat up in her bed.
{4:30pm}
Raven rode with Cyborg in the T-car as silence was over them. What could one say to the other, so much was going on, mostly within her life. He looked her way as she turned to look out the window. Cyborg couldn't stand seeing her like this, all their friends like this. What was going on?
"Cyborg?"
"Yes?"
"Could you ever love someone like…me?", it was hard for her to let out those words.
"I already love you Raven." he gave her a goofy smile.
She sighed as she turned to look at him, a bit stumble by his smile, "Uh…not like that…I mean…a romantic type of…love."
His smile faded, "Why do you ask? Don't you think you deserve to be loved in such a way?"
That question caused the biggest lump in her throat as her heart skipped a beat, "I…I'm not sure."
"Oh oh, depressed Raven again. Tell me what's wrong?" he joked.
"I'm being serious!" she became aggravated.
"Ok ok! Dang!"
"Sorry for the outburst."
"I'm sure this has something to do with Robin."
Before Raven could deny it Cyborg spoke, "Don't lie."
She closed her mouth and turned her attention back to the window, "Why are things so complicated nowadays?"
"I was thinking the same thing little sis."
{6:00pm}
Robin waved at an approaching Kida outside of a popular movie theater. They planned to catch a 6:20pm feature for a new action film that just came out.
"Took you long enough."
Kida stuck out her tongue to him, "Whatever, it takes a lady to get dolled up you know."
"If you call blue jeans and a T-shirt dolled up, then we're in the same boat." he laughed as they walked into the theater.
"Oh shut up and give me my ticket." she playfully hit him on his shoulder.
"Don't be so aggressive." he rubbed his left shoulder as if the hit really hurt him.
"Are we getting popcorn? Candy? Soda? Or what?" she made her way to the concession stand.
He narrowed his eyes at her, "Aren't you an expensive date."
"Hey! They have combos!"
"She's not even paying me any attention. Reminds me of Starfire." Suddenly it hit Robin that he had been gone from the Titans for awhile.
Kida turned around to him with a smile, "We could get a large popcorn, large soda and two boxes of candy for only fifteen dollars."
Robin couldn't hear her suggestion over his thoughts, "What have I been doing?"
"Robin? Are you ok?", she noticed the distraught look on his face.
He snapped out of it and shook his head, "Yeah! I'm fine! You want extra butter on that popcorn?"
Kida's eyes followed him as he walked past her to the counter. This wasn't good, was he missing the titans?
"Sure." she replied as she followed behind him.
{6:30pm}
"Why aren't we doing anything!" yelled an annoyed Raiden.
Beastboy yawned as he stretched out his arms, "What are you talking about?"
"You just threw my idea out the window!"
"That was hours ago."
"Yeah and we've been napping since then! I'm a kid, I want to do something fun!" she crossed her arms over her chest.
"Ok ok, how about we go to the mall?"
"Are you treating?"
"What? Why do I have to pay for everything?"
"Because you're the adult here." she smirked.
"Uh, correction, young adult. I don't really have a job you know."
"So how do you have for all of your video games?"
He looked at her annoyed, "Why does it matter to you?"
"I saw your secret stash."
"What secret stash!"
"The one uncle Cyborg said you use on SPECIAL occasions, like dates. But he said you don't have a lot of those so you have a lot of money left over."
"What a jerk." BB mumble underneath his breath.
"So are you treating?"
"Ok, let's make a deal."
Raiden rubbed her chin, "Um…I don't know…"
"If we go to the mall, we only spend thirty dollars and when we get back, we'll do your bungee jumping thing."
"Really?" her eyes lit up.
"Yep, but if the others are back by then, it's not my fault."
"Deal!" she quickly got up to go get changed in some clothes for the mall.
Beastboy sighed, "I hope I never have kids in the future."
{7:25pm}
"I can't believe I've been searching this city for four hours and still nothing!" yelled a frustrated Aqualad.
He sat in a café trying hard not to disturb the other customers. He asked people almost everywhere to where Robin was. No one could give him a straight answer or even knew who Robin was. Others never saw him though they were huge fans. Aqualad was starting to wonder if the boy wonder was even in Tokyo to begin with. The bell to the café chimed as the door opened. It was only natural to automatically look in that direction, but he didn't expect to see the individual that he did.
"Starfire?"
The alien princess looked around the café to find a seat until her eyes laid upon Aqualad's, shocked and surprised and excited at the same time. She made her way across through the room and sat in the empty chair that was across from him.
A waitress was right behind her and was at their table, "May I get you something Miss?"
"Oh, anything to your liking is fine with me." she smiled.
The young woman nodded a little confused, "Then a latte it is."
Aqualad leaned forward, "Starfire, what are you doing here?"
"I could be asking the same question to you friend Aqualad." she leaned forward as well almost bumping heads with him.
"Why'd you lean forward too?", he asked a bit stumbled because he leaned back just in time to where her forehead didn't collide with hers.
"Well, you did the leaning forward first did you not?" she asked confused.
"Never mind. Why are you here in Tokyo?"
"I came…to look for Robin."
"Here's your latte Miss." the waitress came back and placed the cup on the table right next to Aqualad's decaf coffee.
"Thank you so much." Starfire replied.
"You're welcome." then the waitress left them again.
"You?" she asked after taking a sip from her cup.
"Robin…" he clenched his teeth.
"Should we look together then?"
"I don't think that will be a good idea, I have a one on one score to settle with him."
"I have a few questioning of my own as well."
"I'm sorry."
She looked at him confused, "For what reason?"
Aqualad sighed as he looked to the right of him out the café's window, "For telling you those things about Robin."
"Oh…for that…"
"I should have never…I mean…my feelings were running every where and…"
"I had a quarreling with friend Raven." Starfire suddenly said.
He quickly turned his attention back to her, "Are you serious?"
All she could do was nod, "It was not pretty, not one bit."
"What happened?"
"I mentioned what you told me to her. But I had offered it up like a ha ha joke. She said something about treating me like an infant no more. One thing led to another…little Raiden caught us…that is when it had halted."
He watched her take another sip of her latte, "I'm so sorry Star."
"No, it is ok. I am so misguided as of now, that is why I need to discuss this all with Robin. I-I know he loves me."
Aqualad saw that she was beginning to tear up, "Hey, if that's the case, it wouldn't be too bad to look for him together now would it."
Suddenly her emerald eyes lit up, "Oh that would be much awesome! I have not had any of the good luck within my search."
"Well that makes both of us." he grinned.
{8:30pm}
Robin and Kida walked out of the theater, both ecstatic from the movie that they just watched.
"Oh wow! The ending was better than what I expected!" Kida yelled excitedly.
"I know right, what a twist." he chuckled.
They walked out onto the street and Kida looked in his direction and blushed a little hoping Robin wouldn't catch it, but he did.
"What's up?"
"Nothing! I just…was wondering…" she lowered her head.
"Wondering what?" he laughed.
"Can I…wrap my arm around yours?" she asked in a childish cutesy voice.
Robin laughed and lifted up his left arm from his waist, "Sure kiddo."
"Oh now you're teasing me!" she said as she took his arm into hers.
"No no, of course not." he laughed.
Not too far away, Starfire and Aqualad were asking an employee at an outside sushi bar if he had seen Robin. An old picture of the teenager was shown to him and they got the usual answer of 'no'. Suddenly Starfire looked across the street and saw a tall dark-haired man with a mask walking.
"Robin!" she said in excitement until her eyes traveled down to what was lingering beside him.
"Where?" replied a figuratively blind Aqualad.
"T-there…I think." Star pointed in the direction where he walked with a woman on his arm.
"With that girl?" Aqualad said, he turned to look at Starfire.
She was clenching her right hand into a fist as her eyes glowed green, "What is going on?"
"Calm down Star. We should've seen this coming, he does get around." Aqualad smirked in disgust at the team leader.
"Let us pursue them with caution and stealth." she said as she started to walk.
"After you Miss." he bowed and let her pass him.
{9:00pm}
"You think we should head to Tokyo?" Cyborg asked Raven as they finished their meal at a Chinese buffet restaurant.
"Why? I thought Bruce was going to handle the situation." she said as she opened her fortune cookie.
"Yeah but…there's something you can do to those things right? You can get information from them. What if they each hold something different?"
Raven sighed, "It'll take too long to get to Tokyo."
"Have no fear, I can get us there within the next hour." he smirked.
"Don't tell me, another invention of yours?"
He pouted, "You make it sound so lame with that tone."
"I guess I have no choice now do I."
{9:30pm}
Beastboy and Raiden made it back to the Titans Tower from the mall, tons of bags in Beastboy's arms.
"I thought I said thirty dollars!"
"But there was so much cute stuff." she pouted.
He put all the bags down on the floor behind the couch, "How does a twelve year old shop so much? Raven doesn't even do all of this."
"Well I'm sorry if I'm not just like my mother." she stuck her tongue out.
"There are some benefits from that."
"So are you ready?"
"Ready for what?"
"Bungee jumping silly." she gave him a sly grin.
"What! No way! The deal was that I had to spend a maximum of thirty dollars at the mall. Not five-hundred and thirty!"
"But uncle BB!"
"Don't uncle BB me." he crossed his arms and turned away from her.
"But…but we're supposed to have fun." she whined.
"Didn't we just do that?"
"When have you become such a party pooper. No wonder you don't have many dates." she pouted.
That struck a nerve, "Party pooper you say…I give you party pooper."
All of a sudden he had changed his original clothes to those of a rock climber's in order to bungee jump, in the blink of an eye.
"Let's do this." he said with a serious facial expression.
"Yay! Uncle BB you're so cool!" Raiden cheered him on.
"Yeah…I know."
{9:45pm}
"How long are they going to be out?" asked a frustrated Aqualad.
They had been following Robin and Kida for the last hour as they went to Japanese food stand and a few gift shops. They were now standing in front of Kida's apartment as Aqualad and Starfire hid around the corner.
"Today was fun." smiled a satisfied Kida.
"Yeah it was wasn't it. It would be nice to enjoy days like these more often.", he looked up at the few stars he could see.
"Did you just propose to me? Robin you sly devil you."
"What? Don't flatter yourself." he laughed.
"I'm just kidding." she hopped on the tips of her toes to give him a peck on his left cheek.
He smiled, "Sure you were."
"See you later ok." she waved as she made her way onto her porch.
"See you later." he waved back and watched her get safely into her apartment before moving on to where he stayed.
"There he goes." Aqualad said.
"Should we go talk to the girl?" Starfire was already at the front door.
"No! You're going to blow it! Our dispute is with Robin remember." he pulled her away from the door so that they could continue their pursuit of the boy wonder.
{10:00pm-chaos starts}
Cyborg pulled the T-car into a parking space on the side of the street. They made it to Tokyo in just the amount of time that he said.
"Amazing right." he was so proud of himself.
"I'm not impressed." replied Raven as she got out of the car.
"A nice 'thank you for getting us here quick Cyborg' would've been nice." he said as he got out of the car.
"Did you say something?"
"Nothing. Anyway, can you sense that sphere machine thing?" he started to input some data into the computer on his right arm.
"No…I can't feel a thing."
"That's nothing new."
"What?"
"Nothing. Think we should split up?"
Raven narrowed her eyes at him, "Sure, if you feel it's the best."
"Ok then, you take the right of the city and I'll take the left." he said as he started to walk.
"Wait a minute."
"Yeah?"
"I thought we knew where this thing was located." she folded her arms over her chest looking at him suspiciously.
"Did we? I don't remember." he whistled as he went on his way.
"You coward." she mumbled under her breath as she walked in the direction given to her.
Even though it was 10:00 at night, the streets were pretty well lit up and with lots of people as well. The late night partiers she made them out to be. After walking for about ten minutes she felt a familiar sense within her. The same she felt with the last device they came into contact with. It was fairly close, so she followed that feeling and it led her down a few abandoned alleyways. The next corner she turned, the feeling got stronger as she squinted her eyes. Right at the end of the abandoned street, something glowed brightly.
"There." she said as she made her way over to it.
Raven was drawn to it's aura like a bug to a bright light. It was intoxicating her and she let it pull her in. Once she got about an inch length away from it, all she could do was examine it. It was indeed alive, but how, she thought.
She picked up her communicator, "Cyborg, I found it."
"That's great!" her teammate said.
"Yeah, I'm looking at it right now, can you come over."
"Where are you?" he asked.
"I'm…"
As soon as she spoke that word something hit her right hand that held her communicator. She dropped it and it accidentally ended the connection. Raven turned her attention in the direction the attack came from.
"I'm sorry, but I can't allow you two to go any further. Especially you Ms. Roth, or should I say Mrs. Grayson." a figure walked out of the shadows.
Raven smirked, "Doctor Hinta, I should've known that you would try to stop us."
Sierra was dressed in a red and black leather suit, embedded with off the chart technology that Kida had come up with. She stopped about 10 feet from Raven before speaking again.
"You are a smart girl. Though you do look to be much older. How's that going for you by the way?"
Raven's eyes watched the woman as she moved to the left of her, "What does it matter to you?"
"Don't worry," Sierra positioned herself to fight, "all will be answered in due time."
"If you say so." Raven replied as her eyes started to glow white with her rising in the air.
Sierra smirked, "Feels like training all over again."
{scene jump}
Robin sat on the roof of the building he was staying in. He sensed them from the moment he left the theater with Kida. Why haven't they should themselves yet, he thought, what were they waiting for? Suddenly the door leading to the roof flew open causing him to slowly get to his feet. Starfire was the first to walk through the door with Aqualad following behind her.
"Took you two long enough." Robin said.
"We're not here for your smart remarks Grayson." Aqualad spoke up.
"Don't use my name like that." Robin became aggravated.
"Or what?"
"Why are you here?" he ignored the threatening words.
"Robin!" Star flew over to him and gave him a hug in which he pulled her away from him.
"Why are you here Kori?" He asked again.
"I…" Starfire was stunned, she never heard him refer to her by that name before.
"Don't use HER name so freely Dick."
Ignoring Aqualad yet again Robin looked at Starfire, "Why did you come here?"
She held her right hand up to her heart, "So many things I have heard, so many things that I need cleared in my head."
"You're wasting your breath Star." replied a frustrated Aqualad.
"Let her finish." Robin said.
Starfire walked up to him and grabbed his left hand, "Can not you feel it? My heart that yearns for you…"
She placed his hand on her chest where her heart resided. Star closed her eyes as she placed her right hand on his heart, to hear the beating of the two.
"Starfire…" Robin had started to say.
"Listen to them Robin…listen to our hearts."
She then leaned into him and placed her lips upon his, kissing him.
{scene jump}
*knock*knock*knock*
"I'm coming!" yelled Kida as she was drying her hair with a white towel from just washing it.
The woman was making her way through the living room in her underwear as she grabbed her robe of the couch and threw it on. The knocking continued as she closed the robed and tied the straps into a bow to keep the robe closed.
"Coming!"
Who could be at her door at this hour she thought. The only one she really knew in Tokyo was Robin. Hope he was coming over for some type of night-cap or something. Maybe it was the titans finally showing up. If it was them, she'd have something to counteract them with, incase they got a little aggressive. Before getting to the door she reached inside the drawer of a stand and took out a pistol, holding it in her left hand behind her. The knocking had stopped a few seconds ago and she placed her right hand on the door knob and then turned it just to pull the door open towards her.
"Hello?"
"Kida."
Her eyes widened as her heart skipped several beats. Looking at the person that stood in her doorway, all the nerves in her body became shot; skin crawling as she started to sweat, body shaking to a point that she dropped her pistol.
"B-Bruce…" she backed away from him back into her apartment.
He walked forward so as to follow her, closing the door behind him, "Kida."
Kida didn't know what to do, she wasn't ready to deal with him just yet. This wasn't in her plan until the end, what was he doing here.
"W-why…why are you here?" she was still in shock.
As Bruce Wayne walked forward his right foot hit the fallen pistol. It caught his attention and he looked down at it and then decided to bend down and pick it up.
"What were you going to do with this? Who did you think was at the door?"
"Certainly not you." her voice was a little shaky but she started to calm down.
He waved the gun in her face, "I thought I taught you better than this."
"What do you want?!" she yelled unable to resist the urge anymore.
Hurt could be seen in his eyes, "After so many years…you ask that question."
"And why not?"
"Because you left without a trace! You know how worried Alfred and I were!"
"Oh cry me a river Bruce." she folded her arms across her chest.
He was angry now, "With that attitude, you would be praying I didn't teach you a lesson. Aside from that, what are you plotting with these machines planted around the globe?"
"I know nothing about those things."
"Don't lie to me Kida. I know you, you're the only one I know that is capable of this with such power."
"You don't know anything about me."
Bruce quickly made his way over to her and cornered her on the nearest wall, "Is that so Ms. Rile."
Suddenly a sharp pain was in his stomach causing him to slowly look down. Kida's right knee was deep inside of his gut. The force of the hit could be seen, even thought the attack was just that quick.
"You see Bruce," she spoke in his left ear, "I'm not that weak little girl that I used to be."
The force of the hit was then released causing him to fly across the living room and hitting the wall opposite of them. Kida walked away from the walk he had backed her up against and grinned as she waited for the debris to clear. Once it did, she gritted her teeth as all she saw was the outline on the wall of where his body used to be.
"I'm sure you're not Kida." she could hear his voice but couldn't see him.
"Hiding in the dark as always Bruce." she taunted.
"But I'm not the soft-hearted Bruce Wayne that you remember either." he said as he was suddenly behind her.
Kida couldn't turn around fast enough to avoid his grasp of her by both of her forearms. He picked her up and threw her hard across the room to where she ended up in her kitchen on the counter.
She straightened herself up and wiped the blood from her lip, readying herself for a hard fight, "All the more joy of finally taking you down then."
Bruce Wayne positioned himself as well, "Come at me with all that you got."
{scene jump}
"Ugh!" Sierra flew across the street and landed on a gate.
"Give it up Doc." Raven hissed as she flew at the other woman.
"The hell I am!"
Sierra evaded Raven's aerial attack and bounced off the fence to raise herself in the air. She brought her right elbow down hard in the middle of Raven's back causing her to hit the ground with a lot of force. Sierra backed out further in the street as Raven was trying to recuperate herself to standing up.
"You're a pretty good fighter for a doctor." Raven spat blood to the right side of her.
"Let's just say, I've had lots of training with the likes of you."
"Impossible. I'm the only one of my kind here."
Sierra smirked, "You really don't get it do you."
Raven used her dark force to pick up a nearby light post, "Why don't you help me get it then."
As soon as she said that, the light post went flying in Sierra's direction. She jumped over it but she wasn't fast enough to see the other light post come crashing down on the side of her. Sierra flew across the street with the light post around her waist, right into the wall of an abandoned brick building. Was she trapped? It sure looked like it.
"Bitch." she snapped at her.
"That's my line." Raven floated in front of her, "Tell me what you know about these things are I'm really going to have to get ugly."
"You really want to know about the spherkalites?"
Raven became surprised, "Is that what they're called?"
Sierra smirked, "How about taking a closer look then."
She suddenly took out a control from her left pocket with a free hand; she hit a red button in the center. A pressured force started to come from the spherkalite. It had some kind of attraction to the power Raven was seeping out. It attached it's force to it and started to pull her in.
"What…what's going on?"
"Like it? It seems to REALLY like you." smirked Sierra.
"I-I can't move!" she yelled as the spherkalite pulled her closer and closer.
Sierra was finally able to slip out of the grip of the light post and walked over to a fighting Raven.
"Don't fight it Raven. This is your destiny."
"Wait, what's going to happen to me?"
"Not sure, but it can't be that good now can it." Sierra chuckled.
Raven started to lose the feeling in her legs, like her power was being drained. So many thoughts were crossing her mind. Her teammates, her father (god forbid), her mother, Robin and Raiden…Raiden!"
"My daughter! What's going to happen to my daughter?" he screamed.
Sierra's smiled faded, "I'm sorry Raven, but I have no choice."
Sierra hit the red button again and it sped up the process that was taking place. The spherkalite had absorbed the titan and held her inside of itself. Her powers would drain until she had become unconscious, almost to a state of coma.
Sierra sent a text message: "On my way with Goth girl."
{scene jump}
"Ok are you ready for this?" Raiden jumped up and down with excitement.
"Watching you jump to your death…thrilled."
She narrowed her eyes at him, "Oh come on, cheer me on or something you weirdo."
"Hey! You're the weirdo." he stuck his tongue out at her.
"Are you watching?"
"Yes yes, I'm watching." he looked at her as he sat on the roof Indian style.
"Ok. One. Two."
"Robin is so going to kill me."
"Three!" Raiden let herself fall over the side of the roof, bungee rope attached to her of course.
Something happened right after she said 3 though. Within her, something just wasn't right and as she went down she had passed out.
"Whoa!" Beastboy ran to the edge of the roof to watch her.
Raiden made it to the bottom, not hitting the ground, but she didn't bounce back up.
"That was incredible kid!" He waited for the after effect.
Beastboy looked down at her and noticed that she was just dangling there. He couldn't detect any movement from her.
"Raiden! Raiden!" he yelled as he turned himself into a bird and flew down to meet her.
After changing back to himself he lifted the girl's head up and saw that her eyes were closed shut.
"Oh my…" he turned into a dragon to burn the rope so she could rest on the ground.
"Raiden, wake up. Please wake up, be ok and wake up."
He examined her and noticed that her spine looked at bit off track. Beastboy knew he had to act quick and turned into a tiger, putting the girl on his back. He ran to the nearest hospital.
{scene jump}
Starfire backed away from Robin in disbelief, "W-what?"
"Star…I'm sorry but…it can't work between us."
"Why ever not?"
"Star…" Robin was trying to explain.
"Tell me why!" she yelled.
He became angry with her, "Don't you get it!"
She became surprised, "Is…is it that girl you were with tonight?"
Robin rubbed his temples, "No Star, Kida is just a friend."
"Then tell me what is the problem!" she demanded as she walked up to him and grabbed him by his collar.
Robin grabbed her wrist and removed her grip from off of him, "You need to calm the hell down."
"I think you better answer the lady's question." chuckled Aqualad.
"You want an answer Star?"
"Yes!" as she yelled she suddenly felt Robin's right hand smack across her left cheek.
"Then calm down." he demanded.
Starfire turned to look at him with tears in her eyes, "Y-yes."
"Robin sighed, "It won't work between us Starfire because, I'm in love with Rachel, uh Raven…"
"S-so it is true…" the tears ran down her face as she looked at Robin who held seriousness in his eyes.
"Very much true. I'm sorry to have hurt your feelings."
Star lowered her head as she cried. Both Aqualad and Robin looked at her before she made her move to slowly start flying.
"Star?" Aqualad called out to her.
"Leave me alone!" she cried as she flew quickly off the roof away from them.
They both stood looking in the direction she went it, "Nice Robin."
"What did you want me to do, lie to her?"
"Now I have some questions for you."
"Besides the ones I've already answered."
"Oh come off it Robin, we saw you with another woman tonight."
"Yeah you did, but a FRIEND you idiot."
Aqualad chuckled, "I am so going to enjoy this."
"Oh I'm ready for round two water sucker." Robin readied himself for another fight.
{scene jump}
Cyborg was looking down at his communicator, "What the hell happened to the connection just now?"
He checked the computer on his arm and tried to trace where Raven had called from, but it was futile.
"Damnit!"
{scene jump}
"Come on Bruce, I know you don't give up that easily." Kida smirked as she looked at the man lying down on the floor in front of her.
She stood disrobed with bruises and scratches. Bruce Wayne stood up shirtless with a few cuts on the left side of his face and right arm. He cracked his neck to the right and then to the left before charging her. They fell through the door leading to her bedroom right onto the floor again. Kida cupped her hands together and brought them down hard on Bruce's back.
"Ugh." he picked her up as she wrapped her legs around his waist.
He found the nearest wall and rammed her back against get, causing her to lose her grip completely; she slid down the wall as he backed away from her trying to catch his breath.
"I know you have more fight in you than that." he smirked.
Kida became angry as she slowly stood up and something happened that hadn't happen in a long time, her eyes started to glow gold, about in the same effect Raven's does.
Bruce gritted his teeth, "Damn."
She used her powers to pick up the lamp off of her nightstand and threw it at him. Bruce dodge, but more objects were coming his way.
"I have to stop her before she loses control." he said to himself.
He worked his way across the room towards her as he tried to dodge every object thrown his way. He knew if he didn't stop this now, it would end up more uglier for him than it would her. Once he saw an opening, he pounced on her, gripping both of her wrist. The glow stopped as she squirmed and kicked.
"Get off!"
"Stop this!" he tightened his grip on her wrist.
Bruce placed his knees on both of her legs to stop the kicking from happening. Kida still jerked here and there to get out of his grasp. He tightened some more to where she couldn't even move now.
"Get off!" she yelled.
"What is going on with you? Why are you this way?"
"What way!"
"Why so much anger?"
"You made me this way!" she looked into his eyes with so much hurt and anger.
"Do you really believe that?" he returned her look.
"Yes!"
"Why!"
"Because!"
"Because what!"
"I hate you!"
He became surprised, "Really now? Do you truly hate me?"
"Yes!" Kida started to choke on her words now because of her tears.
He loosened her grip on her but she didn't move, "I guess I can understand why but.."
"You lied to me! You gave me false hope, your job as Batman always came first…you never cared about me…you never…" she choked again.
"I never what? Besides all the bullshit that you're already feeding me."
"You never…loved me…"
Bruce let go of the grip he had on her left wrist with his right hand, "Oh baby…you have no idea…", he wiped the tears off of her left cheek.
Kida looked up at the ceiling pass Bruce's face, in a daze, "I-I loved you so much…I couldn't bear the pain anymore…so I ran…"
"Kida…look at me."
She focused her eyes back onto his, "Let me go you bastard."
"Do you really hate me as much as you say you do?"
"You have no id…"
Before she could finish her sentence she felt Bruce Wayne's lips on hers. The feeling that came over her was unexplanitory, sure she kissed other guys before but this…this was different. Kida's eyes watered with tears again as they slowly closed so she could kiss that man back. For so long, that's all she had wanted from him…his love, his affection…to feel his lips against hers. Soon after their lips opened so their tongues can dance together in passion. Her body was melting and melting fast, she knew that that love was still there, why was she trying to convince herself otherwise. But what would happen now, her thoughts, her hate, her plans. Those things didn't really cross her mind as she found herself removing Bruce's belt from upon his slacks and him unclasping her bra.
{scene jump}
12:00 midnight…
A/N: Yay! Another completed chapter! Sorry for the late update. So I'm not going to give anymore false hope of a soon chapter. I will however try to update quicker. This chapter was a bit long and I felt like a kind of rushed through it. I hope all did like it and I hope that I'm not confusing you guys lol. I love to do shockers and cliffhangers haha! Please leave any reviews and feedback, things like that motivate me lol. A lot more to come with these two and everyone else. Until next time, thank you for reading! ^.^