Chapter 17: Bye Bye Boyfriend
Writer's Note: SR, noted when in actual story.
Noel turned around from the fridge and nearly had a heart attack when he saw Robin standing there.
"TIM! I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! I…!"
"It's ok Noel. I know. It wasn't you. It was Kory." Robin said.
"What? Then what the hell happened?"
Robin told him, as Noel cleaned up the juice he had spilled.
"Oh. I suppose that makes sense. I guess you want me to be your back up so that no one is suspicious of you and Kory sneaking off. I'll do that." Noel said.
"Thanks." Robin mumbled, taking a drink from a Coke he had gotten.
Noel turned back to the fridge, standing there for a few seconds.
"Tim are you a virgin?"
Robin spat his Coke across the entire table, sputtering.
"Look Tim there's really no need to get worked up. Just answer the question. Are you?" Noel said, sitting down.
"Uh, well…um…"
"That would be a yes. Well, no shame in that. Despite what the world might want you to think, having no sexual experience is not something to be ashamed of until you start hitting your mid-thirties. It's certainly not a crime."
"What do YOU care?" Robin sputtered in indignation.
"Well, I am a bit older then you Tim, and I HAVE had some experience with woman…I thought I might…"
"I don't need any advice!"
"I hope you haven't watched any pornography, pretty much anything they show there is a lie in some way…"
"NOEL!"
"Ok well then…"
"NO!"
"You had better wear a condom."
"SHUT UP!" Robin said, putting his fingers in his ears.
"TIM, listen to me. I wouldn't be doing this usually, but we have a slight difference here. You're going to, uh, be intimate with an alien."
"Kory checked that. Our species are compatible."
"Maybe so, but there are other things. What arouses a Tamaran?"
"I can't believe I'm hearing this." Robin said, his face turning red again.
"Really Tim, this is important. The fact that you and Kory can act much like human lovers is a good sign, but parallel evolution does not mean everything will be covered. Even if you were the greatest lover of the human race, if you don't know what to do with Kory it could very well feel like sodomy to her."
Robin blushed again.
"I would think you being Batman's protégée, you would think of these things, but then again, the mindset you are in is not conductive to thinking."
"Noel, please, thank you but I have it covered."
"There are other things Tim. Kory is very strong. And electroencephalograms taken during, uh, intercourse shows that orgasm is rather like a pleasant epileptic attack. As in, you lose control of your muscles. Even IF you can please Kory, she could break all your ribs…"
"NOEL!"
"Or crush your head…"
"NOEL. SHUT. UP." Robin said.
"Ok, I tried. But this is for your own good Tim. I don't want you to get hurt, ok?" Noel said.
"Noel…" Tim pleaded.
"Ok ok. Look, I'll tell the Titans, but only after you come back. I have to go out somewhere tonight. Much like Kory, I have something I have to do and it can't wait." Noel said. He saluted Tim in an off-hand way and left.
And he was right. Tim knew it. But at the moment his mind was still waging the war of what Kory had become.
It wasn't really his fault. Western society had the weird habit of portraying sex as dirty and forbidden, and hence many men tended to go through life thinking that sex was, despite its pleasures (not to mention that practicality of reproduction) bad. And when Tim compared this mindset that he knew was flawed and stupid but still had some sway in his head due to it being hammered into him by a bunch of puritanical morons with the way Kory, so kind and sweet and above all, INNOCENT, was acting, it caused a mental war.
In the end (and in the words of the late(?) Lord of the Night), it came down to practicality. If she didn't have sex with him, she'd be forced to use another man, possibly against his will. And that was a can of worms 100x worse then the concept that sweet, innocent, Kory could actually be sexually aroused and want to be intimate with him.
Plus, Tim was still a boy. A teenage boy. Which made the decision easier in the end.
Tim found the place easy enough. It was a recently closed apartment block. Apparently some tenants hadn't managed to get all their stuff yet. Such as the bed.
Though Tim didn't get to see much of the bed or anything else because as soon as he opened the door Starfire had pulled him into it and pressed him against the wall as she passionately kissed him. Robin's doubts beforehand were quickly obliterated in a flood of testosterone as he returned the kiss.
He hadn't worn his full costume. He'd kept the pants, as those had his equipment, but he'd worn a darker shirt and no cape to avoid attracting attention. He had, though, worn a (now discarded) mask. Starfire slammed the door shut and melted the lock. If anyone wanted into the room, they'd have to come in through the fire escape.
After fooling around for about two minutes, Kory broke the kiss long enough to steal over to a table.
"Here. Drink this." She said, offering Tim a brown liquid.
"What is it?"
"Tamaranian males drink it to heighten their, um, abilities. I checked. If you drink it, it'll, in rough terms, make you think like a male of my species. Which we might need." Kory said.
Tim drank it. It actually tasted fairly good, kind of nutty. He didn't have much time to think of the taste, however, as Kory was immediately all over him. They stumbled around, losing bits of clothing, until they finally ended up on the bed.
"Tim…" Kory whispered into his ear.
Tim was about to respond with his own sweet nothing when it hit him: dizziness. He blinked, but it just got worse.
"I have something to tell you…" Kory whispered again.
Tim tried to reply, but his tongue was thick in his mouth and couldn't form words. His vision began to blur, even as a topless Kory said up and smirked wickedly at him.
"I'm cutting you off at second base." "Starfire" said. Robin's last thought was a realization that he had been poisoned.
"Robin!"
Robin abruptly snapped awake, hearing Starfire's voice. He blinked as his vision swam. He could feel cold metal across his bare back and arms, and as the last of the sedative faded he realized he was manacled by his wrists and ankles to a metal table that had been set upright, so that instead of the ceiling he was looking at a wall.
A wall that was yelling at him.
"Robin! You're awake! Oh god Robin!"
Robin blinked as he looked across him.
It was Starfire. The thought that this may have been some kind of kinky game occurring to Robin had the same odds of someone winning the lottery five times in a row, but any possibility, even as small as that, was utterly dispelled when he saw that Starfire was tied up too, her wrists manacled in thick chains that were attached to the wall. She thrashed and kicked, but she couldn't get away. Perhaps due to the metal band she had around her neck. It looked like some kind of device that would hinder her escape efforts.
"Kory…what's going on…" Robin said, his mind still a bit dull.
"You know, it amazes me…"
And then Starfire walked into Robin's view. Another Starfire. Only the different clothing the second Starfire wore allowed Robin to tell them apart.
"I had heard how easy it was to lead the males of this species around via their genitalia, but I thought for sure it would be harder then this. But no. I just slip the right men a little tongue and they run away in horror, Thinking you'll kill them, and then I show a little skin and you come running like a puppy, so eager to please. Yourself, in any case. You males really should think with the right head. So easy…"
"What…" Robin said. His brain was still clearing itself, though to his credit that was the last confused thought Robin had as his trained body got itself back to full alertness ASAP.
"What? I'll tell you! Starfire here caught herself an Earth virus! You call it the flu, I think. Anyway, it was making her feel weird. Now, I originally had different plans, but when I surprised her, and realized that she was sick with Earth virus that was making her act a bit odd, and her fellows knew it, well, it gave me an idea that was simply too good to resist. I came back and threw myself at the men, claiming that there was some alien genetic curse that made me uncontrollably horny. HA! It sounds like the plot of a bad porn film, and yet you fell for it, hook, line, and sinker! Then again, you males aren't too hard to fool. After all, look what one can do with a wig…"
And Starfire reached up and pulled off her reddish-maroon hair, as dark hair tumbled out from underneath it.
"Some dye…"
The eyebrows turned as dark as the hair.
"Some contacts…"
The green eyes became purple.
"And a special…voice modifier…" "Starfire" said as she reached to the side of her throat and tore something off. "Isn't it?" she finished in a different voice Robin knew all too well.
"Blackfire."
"No DUH." Blackfire said. "Give the man a prize!"
And then she decked Robin, knocking him senseless. Starfire wailed.
"Sister, why are you doing this?" she cried.
"Why? I'll tell you why! Once apon a time, there was a Tamaran girl who liked to have fun! But some old crusty alien men who all had sticks jammed up their asses frowned on the fun, and sent police after the girl! And the police caught her on a planet called Earth, while the girl's sister stood idly by and let her be taken away…"
"But Blackfire, you did commit those crimes…"
"SHUT UP!" Blackfire yelled, slapping Starfire across the face, throwing her backwards.
"Well, the girl may have crossed a few lines, but not the kind that allowed what happened. I was tried and found guilty. But that wasn't good enough. The men wanted me to suffer. So they sent me to the Fythrog Thgrogdar."
Starfire's eyes went wide.
"Oh no…"
"I never really wanted to hurt anyone sister. But they wanted to hurt me. Let me dispel a lie for you sis. There is no such thing as rehabilitation. There is no such thing as learning what you did was wrong. Prison serves one purpose: to make better criminals. The things they did to me…oh god…oh god…" Blackfire said, her eyes tearing up in horror for a moment before they once again filled with rage as she backhanded Starfire.
"AND YOU LET IT HAPPEN! YOU ABANDONED ME! You didn't testify, you didn't do ANYTHING! YOU SENT ME TO HELL, SISTER, HELL!"
"Blackfire…I never meant to…" Starfire cried.
"Shut up. You left me. You would have let me rot in there had I not escaped. You know how I did it sister? They use collars to suppress any kind of special abilities. You're wearing one now, my old one. It's kind of damaged, but it'll serve its purpose. And even if you did have your powers, those are neranium chains. I don't think you have the strength OR the heat generating ability to get out of them. But even with collars blocking any extraordinary abilities, there were enough sick people in there with twisted minds and desires to commit atrocities like you wouldn't believe…I had to survive sister. And the only way to survive hell is to become part of it. So I did. I killed a Kweraq alien with my bare hands and then snuck out of the place hidden inside his dead body. And then I came back here. You have to pay, sister. You left me. You made my life hell. So I'll do the same. But after watching you, I had a better idea then hurting you. No. Why hurt you when I can hurt your little boytoy there?"
"NO! LEAVE HIM ALONE-AH!" Starfire gasped as Blackfire decked her. She walked over to a table and picked up a long rod.
"Recognize this, sister?" she said, pressing a button. The end of the rod sparked. Starfire's eyes went wide again.
"NO SISTER! NOT A MADALYRIAN PAIN STICK!"
"Oh yes. Why do something if you can't do it in style?" Blackfire said, as she grabbed a rag from the table.
It was about that time, as Blackfire stuffed the rag into Starfire's mouth, that the poor girl realized something no sister ever wants to know about their own sibling: that her sister was now completely and utterly insane.
"And what's better the style then song?" Blackfire said, getting a stereo. "Enjoy sis. This is what you earned. Maybe in your next life, you'll know not to be so selfish."
Robin, by now, had come groggily back to life, as Blackfire armed her Madalyrian Pain Stick even as music started playing.
"I figure this song would be the best sendoff. Enjoy sister." Blackfire said, swaying to the music. Starfire mumbled through the rag, trying to form words to beg her sister not to do this.
(Scene removed where Blackfire sings 'Bye Bye Boyfriend' by Fefe Dobson while torturing Tim with the Madalyrian Pain Stick. Starfire, as you might have guessed, gets madder and madder, but Blackfire is oblivious, caught up in her song and dance until the song ends and...)
Starfire ripped the other chain out of the wall even as she swung the other one, letting it wrap around her fist, even as Blackfire, so focused in her torture, finally turned around to see what the noise was.
WHAM! Starfire leveled her with a chain-wrapped fist, sending Blackfire crashing backwards through the nearest wall.
Starfire ripped the chains off from her wrists and went over to Robin as he lay limp, moaning, his bare chest covered with burn marks.
"Oh Robin…I'm so sorry…Oh Tim…" Starfire said, her anger fading as she pulled the manacles off. Robin collapsed into her arms.
"Kory…"
"Tim…"
With a scream, Blackfire flew back into the room, throwing twin purple blasts that were her version of the Starbolts (Blackbolts?).
Starfire dropped Robin, stood up, and jerked her body to the side as they flew past her and blew up the wall behind her. Still screaming, Blackfire lanced at Starfire, throwing a punch.
Starfire blocked it. Blackfire froze. She had put most of her strength and rage into that blow and her sister had blocked it like it had been a feather.
But Blackfire didn't block Starfire's counter punch. The hole Blackfire had made during her first trip out of the room got a twin as she went crashing through the wall again.
Starfire turned to Robin.
"Call the Titans. I'll deal with my sister." Starfire said coldly, and flew out through the hall.
Coughing, his body still wracked with pain, Robin pulled out the transmitter and managed to get it working.
"Titans…emergency…need all of you hear now…"
"Robin this is Cyborg, what happened?"
"It's Blackfire…she's back…kidnapped Starfire, impersonated her…they're fighting…come quickly…" Robin gasped.
Robin didn't want the Titans to get here ASAP due to Blackfire. He wasn't afraid for Starfire's ability to handle her sister.
No.
What had scared Robin was the four words Starfire had whispered to her sister before she had countered Blackfire's blocked punch, four words Robin had never heard Starfire say and had never expected to ever here her say.
"I'm gonna kill you."
Next: Starfire vs Blackfire, in the ultimate SIBLING RIVALRY!
And one last thing. You know the name Blackfire gave the false "aroused" state while she was impersonating Starfire?
Read it backwards.
That's all for now. See you later.