Edge of Yesterday

I don't own Teen Titans, and I never will. And that sucks.

A/N: ::Cough, cough, grumble:: Some people don't read the author's notes. Or the summary. It's the same day over and over, hence the "Day 1" repeated. And the number of times the day has occured coincides with the second number. The reason Starfire seems so hysterical is because she IS hysterical. Wouldn't you be?

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Day 1: The Seventh Day

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Starfire woke up with a scream. Instincts kicked in before her mind was fully awake, and rather than bolting out of bed, she fell out of it, falling to the ground tangled in bed sheets.

And for one moment, she simply laid there, eyes wide, glowing green with terror, rage, and confusion, her chest heaving as she gasped in air lost to her in her dreams. It took Starfire a few minutes to completely realize where she was… back in the Titan's Tower. It was in one piece, her friends were alive…

No! Something was wrong. Something about this was too familiar. Déjà vu swarmed in like hordes of locusts, feasting on her brain. She leapt to her feet, and in rage tore off the bed sheets that tried to trip her up. She raced downstairs.

The food fight had begun. Scrambled eggs, tofu-bacon, and orange juice went flying in every direction- Raven and Robin dove for cover, and Starfire ducked as a plate of toast whizzed past her head. "Stop the fighting of food immediately!" Starfire wailed. Her voice was just hysterical enough to make Beast Boy and Cyborg stop in their tracks.

Of course, by now, everything was already covered in food- including Robin and Raven. They stood up. "What's wrong, Starfire?" Robin asked, concern in his voice.

"There is… something terrible is going to happen!" Starfire wailed.

"Something terrible already happened. This green kid right here came into the picture," Cyborg snapped, gesturing wildly in Beast Boy's direction.

"Me?" Beast Boy shouted. "What did I do that's so terrible?"


Cyborg gestured wildly. "Look at this mess you made!"

"ME?" Beast Boy yelped. "You started the entire thing! It's YOUR mess!"

"I did not!" Cyborg shouted.

"You did so!"

"Did not!"

"Did so!"

Raven rolled her eyes. "Let he who cast the first egg be blamed," she grumbled.

All four of her teammates wheeled towards her, eyes wide. "Dude… was that a JOKE, Raven?" Beast Boy demanded, utterly shocked.

"No, no, this is wrong, so wrong!" Starfire wailed.

Raven raised one eyebrow at Starfire, but otherwise, her expression didn't change. Robin, Beast Boy, and Cyborg all turned towards Starfire in shock as well. "I agree- we shouldn't fight," Robin announced, after a long silence.

"Well, as profound of a statement as that was," Raven grumbled and, seemingly deciding that she had waited around long enough, the mysterious half-demon slid back upstairs, her exit made only slightly less ominous by the piece of tofu bacon hanging on the back of her cloak…

This isn't right!

"No, Raven!" Starfire wailed, grabbing Raven by her cape and yanking her backwards- a little too hard. She yanked Raven off balance, and the telekinetic tumbled to a sitting position with a half-choked cry of shock as her cape nearly strangled her.

Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Robin were all too stunned to speak. Raven rubbed at her throat, and leapt to her feet, eyes glowing with rage and all of that rage centered on Starfire. "What was that for?" She snarled, her voice somewhat raspy.

"I…I… I…" Starfire stuttered. She was so confused, but she knew she had done the right thing… it… she couldn't have let Raven go upstairs…

"Well?" Raven hissed.

Suddenly, the entire tower shook, rocked by a massive impact. The floors above them suddenly disappeared- their ceiling turned to sky as a massive, rocky hand wiped out the upper floors of the tower. Everyone looked up, pure shock written in their faces. The monster lurked overhead- a beast made out of rock and stone, concrete and iron. "Titans, go!" Robin shouted, after getting over his initial moment of shock.

The monster's massive fist came down, directly in the center of the tower, crumbling what was left of it into itself. The Titans scattered… to avoid being hit- but Starfire took to the skies, rocketing straight at the monster.

This is so familiar…

I know this has happened before! But how?

Starfire threw both hands forward, and her entire body was swallowed by green energy, before she released all of the energy she could spare at the monster. It roared- and its voice was terrible… like claws on a chalk board, except a thousand times louder. It deafened Starfire, and she was driven backwards- the monster swiped out, grabbing her in its enormous fist. And began to squeeze.

Starfire screamed in pain… but suddenly, the monster had released her. Beast Boy was gliding up along the length of the monster, Cyborg in his talons. The half-robots sonic cannon was firing rapidly, blasting smoking holes in the monster. Starfire rocketed out of the monster's range. It's screaming was gone in her head, but a new voice had begun… Beast Boy dropped Cyborg onto the monster's back, and with a shout of delight, Cyborg fired another blast of energy down into the monster's body. He made a move to punch it.

"NO!" Starfire screamed, rocketing forward, snatching Cyborg off of the monster's shoulder.

"What? Starfire, what're you doing? I HAD him!" Cyborg shouted in annoyance.

Beast Boy dove towards the monster- at the last second, he turned into a rhino- and hit the monster head on. His momentum and the sheer size of the beast knocked the monster off balance- and seconds later the green rhino had become a green crow, which rocketed away.

An entire building began to glow black- and with slow and steady inevitability, it collapsed- directly on top of the monster. It wailed, and the shriek reached even Cyborg and Starfire- and then it was silent.

"Hey- I think Raven finished it!" Cyborg exclaimed cheerfully.

Beast Boy fluttered up alongside them, green wings spread wide. Cyborg gave his friend a thumb's up…

…and sudden Beast Boy was gone. The monster had taken advantage of their distraction, and hurled a boulder sized rock at Starfire- and had missed, hitting Beast Boy, who was less able to take the damage, instead. "No!" Cyborg shouted.

The monster suddenly loomed up in front of them, massive hands swinging together. Only with great difficulty was Starfire able to dodge. Cyborg's sonic cannon fired wildly at the creature, blowing huge chunks out of its hide- but it wasn't enough. It seemed to ignore them altogether, instead pursuing Robin. His explosives were not effective, and he could not hurt a beast made out of concrete- so he was forced to flee before it, and though the monster was slow, it's immense size more than made up for it.

It picked up a car and threw it at Robin- but the car stopped in mid-flight, caught by Raven's telekinesis, and was hurled straight back at him. The car exploded on its chest- minor fires leapt up, licking at the stone before dying away as the gasoline and oil was consumed. The monster screeched in pain, and turned, ripping down the nearest building, pulling it down on top of Raven and Robin.

A black shield held most of the rubble back; Starfire could see its dead glow through the rubble. The monster roared, and put one foot on it, stomping as hard as it could. The black shield exploded into white light, and was gone.

"Star! Dive in there! Let's finish this guy once and for all!" Cyborg shouted, rage palpable in his voice.

Starfire did. In a kamikaze dive, the two Titans fired all they had left at the monster. It roared, pushed backwards, and stumbled towards the river, collapsing into the water, throwing up massive tidal waves all around it. The monster thrashed in the water- but could not seem to rouse itself.

"Look at that… poor baby is a turtle on its back in the water," Cyborg growled.

One more starbolt finished it off. Starfire slowly lowered herself and Cyborg to the ground on the island alongside their demolished tower. She fell to her hands and knees- panting for breath, alternating between sobbing and gasping. Cyborg began to pace, kicking at rocks, shouting to the sky and to anyone that would listen.

"We… we killed it," Starfire moaned, and sat down, wrapping her arms around her ribs. She felt sick. "But Robin… Raven… Beast Boy! They are dead!" She wailed.

Cyborg sat down alongside her, laying one arm across her shaking shoulders. One tear welled up in his human eye and slowly dripped down his cheek. "Yes, but… but we avenged them, didn't we? I mean…"

Starfire slowly turned her head to stare behind her at the ruined tower. She couldn't push this feeling out of her mind, couldn't get rid of this feeling of déjà vu… "Cyborg, I… I knew this was going to occur!" She said quietly.

Cyborg drew back, a look of shock on his face. "You what? How could you know it was going to happen, Star? No one could have seen this coming," he said, gesturing out towards the destruction with his metal hand.

Starfire nodded glumly. But the horrible feeling remained.

Her friends were dead… all of them except for Cyborg. And she had known the monster was going to attack. But she still… she still hadn't been able to save the rest of the Titans… she gave a shuddering sigh, and stared up into the clouds, letting tears fall freely.

They stayed that way until the sun had dropped well below the horizon, and night and darkness had swallowed the world…

This isn't right… this has happened before…