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Over Time: Chapter 8: Unpleasant Newcomer

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"Starfire!" Robin went as fast as he could to the kitchen where Starfire was doing the dishes. But because of Robin's wheelchair, the rest of the Titans got there first.

"Star! What's wrong- woah!" Beast Boy slipped on the water from the sink, which was now flooding the floor. Everything was a mess. The dishes were all in pieces and scattered everywhere on the floor. But that wasn't even half of it. The kitchen floor was flooded, the sink pipe was broken, and there were drops of blood.

'Blood?' Robin was looking around the kitchen desperately. 'Why is there blood? Where's Starfire?'

"Star, where are you?" Cyborg asked.

"I am here." The voice came from the other side of the counter.

"You alright?"

"I am undamaged." She said shakily. The four Titans went to the other side of the counter and saw Starfire sitting on the wet, tile floor.

'At least Slade didn't take her.' Robin was relieved.

"Starfire, what happened?" Robin wondered. Starfire took a deep breath.

"Well Robin.. I was doing the daily routine of dish washing, and the window flew open and tiny little darts flew right threw. It knocked over everything and I believe that it cut open the sink pope." Her voice gave them a suspicious hint that she was scared.

"Starfire, something's wrong." Raven said, sensing her discomfort.

"No.. no, absolutely nothing." The red head was trying to hide something.

"Starfire-"

"You guys, look." Cyborg interrupted Robin. Cyborg held up a small weapon that resembled Robin's bird-a-rangs, then he turned it over. It showed that hated sign of Slade. They were everywhere.

"Slade must've raided this place." The hybrid observed.

"No doubt." Robin said. He was already furious.

"You think this is the present that he was talking about?" Beast Boy asked.

"NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!" Robin yelled furiously.

"Well, SORRY, just pointing it out!" Beast Boy yelled back.

"Well thanks CAPTAIN OBVIOUS!" Robin shot back.

"Robin! Stop!" Starfire pounded the floor with her fists and winced in pain. Robin's expressions softened. Something was seriously wrong with Starfire, and he didn't like it.

"She's right, just stop fighting, we have to get this cleaned up." Raven tried to swerve off the arguing. Cyborg walked over to the window and closed it.

"Can't keep this open." Cyborg said, locking it. He went to walk over to the sink, but tripped over a fallen chair and landed right behind Starfire.

"UGH! This place is a mess!" Cyborg exclaimed. The half-robot spotted something on Starfire's leg.

"Yo, Star, what's up with your leg?"

"Nothing!" Starfire quickly shifted into another sitting position, hiding her left leg under her right. She winced a second time. Robin's eyes widened. He saw a small puddle of blood where Starfire's leg used to be.

"Star, what happened to your leg?" Robin moved his wheelchair closer to her, crushing the already crushed glass into smaller pieces. Starfire sighed. She knew there was no way to argue with Robin. Starfire extended her left leg and exposed a long gash. It was a good 7-inches long and still bleeding. There was another cut on her right arm. It wasn't as big, but it was bleeding more.

"Oh man, c'mon Star, I'll help you fix that." Cyborg lifted Starfire up and headed to her room. Beast Boy followed. Robin took one look at her face and she seemed to be crying, then the three Titan's disappeared into the darkness of the tower. Robin's head hung down, and clenched his fists again. He looked up and noticed that Raven was still there, cleaning up.

"Raven, why don't you use your powers?" Robin asked. Raven looked at him.

"I guess I forgot. I was kind of drifting off. Slade just wont stop will he?" Raven finally decided to use her powers to sweep up the broken glass into the trashcan. The sink pipe was still spitting up water.

"He won't stop until he gets me, and destroys the Titans." Robin picked up one of Slade's weapons and crushed it in his palm. The sharp edges of the small offending object cut into his skin and his palm started to bleed. He didn't care about the pain that came with that, his anger was greater than that.

"Don't do that." Raven said in her monotone voice. Robin didn't respond. He simply threw the small item into the trashcan.

"If Slade wants me, then why does he hurt the ones who matter to me most?"

"Like you said, Slade also wants to destroy the rest of us. I don't think he'll stop at anything."

"Well, he's not gonna get me. Unless.." Robin started to ponder.

"Unless..?"

"Unless he threatens to hurt you guys again." Robin remembered the last time Slade did that. Those probes nearly killed them. He was crushed when Starfire suffered.

"Robin, he did that once. We can manage." Raven said. Cyborg walked into the kitchen and started to work on that water pipe.

"Where's Star?" Robin asked.

"She's in her room. I wrapped up her wounds. It's pretty deep. Beast Boy's in there now. She was really quiet." Cyborg said. He wasn't very happy either. "What is UP with Slade?! If I could get my hands on him, I'd smash him like I did to Beast Boy this morning." There was no humor in the half- robot voice.

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Starfire was sitting in her bed, the right way. Her back was against three pillows so that she would sit up straight. Her right arm and left thigh was wrapped in white bandages. She didn't look up, nor did she look happy.

"You ok Sta-"

"Fine." Starfire interrupted the worried green teen. He was sitting on the floor of her room, legs crossed.

"Mmmk." He mumbled. He noticed that her cheeks were tear-stained. "Star, why were you crying?" Starfire looked into Beast Boy's eyes.

"I hate to get Robin worried. It puts too much stress on him."

"But Star, he would push anything aside for you."

"Not Slade." Starfire pointed out. Beast Boy nodded, "I'm sure he tries to spend time with you."

"Perhaps he does try." Starfire sighed, "I should not think so negatively about him."

"Starfire, people do that. It's human nature." Beast Boy said, actually sounding like he knew what he was saying.

"I am not human. I am an alien." Starfire said softly looking down again.

"You get my point.. I'm gonna go help the others clean up." Beast Boy got up and left through the door. Robin was just two feet in front of the door. He was probably listening. Beast Boy didn't say a word to Robin. The smaller teen looked at Robin, shook his head, and left.

"You were listening." Starfire said with no sense of happiness in her voice.

"Sorry Star, I couldn't help." Robin admitted. "How's your arm and leg?"

"It does not sting as much as it did before." Starfire just kept looking down.

"Starfire, I'm sorry."

"What for Robin?"

"For the Slade thing. I shouldn't be all worked up about him."

"You have already apologized Robin. Please, do not waste your breath on repeating yourself."

"And you shouldn't stress about me." Robin said softly.

"What?" Starfire looked up.

"You said that you hate it when you get me worried. Don't. I get worried for reasons, and you shouldn't feel bad about it." Robin said, wheeling closer to her bed. Starfire was feeling uncomfortable talking to Robin in that moment. She tried to change the subject.

"Robin, let us go help our friends." Robin knew she wasn't feeling right, neither was he.

"Can you get up?"

"Yes." Starfire proved it to Robin, standing up. She was leaning on her right leg to keep the pressure off her left. She walked past Robin and left through the door. Robin did the same. When they got to the kitchen, everything was already cleaned up and everyone was on the couch.

"You guys cleaned up already?" Robin asked.

"Yeah, just don't turn on the sink all the way. The pipe it still a little damaged, it could cause more leakage." Cyborg pointed out. He looked at Starfire. "How's your leg?"

"Better." Starfire put on a happy smile all of a sudden. "Friends, shall we go out and enjoy this wondrous day?"

Robin stared at Starfire. "Better if you let that wound on your leg heal. And the one on your arm."

Starfire frowned and plopped down on the couch. She knew today was going to be boring, but she would try anything to let the Titans enjoy the beautiful day that was just starting. They had eaten breakfast early and it was now only 7:00am. Beast Boy looked through some of the video games and picked out Cinderblock Bash (A/N: I would like to thank VanillaSuga for letting me use her game ^_^).

"Yo, Cy wanna try some-"

"I'm too tired."

"TIRED?! How can you be tired?" Beast Boy said waving his arms around.

"Gee.. I don't know. Maybe because you woke me up at TWO in the morning!" Cyborg ended with a yawn. He turned his head to look at the calendar. February 7, a week before Valentine's Day. Even though Cyborg didn't have a valentine of his own, he enjoyed seeing his friends make a fool of themselves trying to get their own valentine. He looked at Robin who was trying to cheer Starfire up and put a small grin on his face.

'Heh. Robin and Starfire are bound to get together someday.' The half-robot looked over at Beast Boy who was persuading Raven to play Cinderblock Bash with him and put on an even bigger grin. 'And BB is gonna kill himself trying to woo Raven.' Cyborg's mouth now proceeded to an ear-to-ear grin. 'I'd like to see that.'

"C'mon Raye! Just one game! I'll give you a chance!!" Beast Boy was on his knees and Raven snickered.

"BB, shut up. I'll play already." Cyborg picked up the controller and the two started another pointless game of virtual pleasure.

The game didn't last long.

"Game Over. Cyborg wins."

"BOO YAH! I'm back on my winning streak!" Beast Boy grumbled and threw his controller down.

"Not fair!"

"You just can't handle the fact that I'm a winner." Cyborg put on a wide grin.

"NO! I just can't handle the fact that YOU are the biggest cheater in the whole entire world!" Beast Boy whined, ripping his hair out.

"Cheater? No dear friend, your pee wee brain is making you see hallucinations." Cyborg replied coolly. "I clearly won fair and square so you can't do anything about it.."

"Oh yeah?" Beast Boy turned into a goat, getting ready to ram into Cyborg. Cyborg just gave him an evil grin.

"Yeah."

Beast Boy charged at Cyborg at full speed and the half robot ran towards the goat as well. Instead of running into each other, they both ran into a black wall. Beast Boy turned back to his normal form and fell to the ground. Cyborg just rubbed his head. Starfire started to giggle and Robin smiled.

"WHAT was that?" Cyborg turned to see Raven. Her hand was raised up and her eyes were glowing white.

"Raven?" Beast Boy was surprised and got up.

"What? I just decided to have a little fun with you." Raven returned to reading her book.

"Friends, are we not supposed to inform the doctor about Robin's awakening?" Starfire asked.

"Oh yeah, I better call him now." Cyborg got up and lifted the phone off the receiver. He dialed the number and could do nothing but wait for the doctor to answer.

"Hello, this is Dr. Murray." Cyborg put it on speakerphone.

"Hey doc, it's me Cyborg."

"Cyborg! Hello, how is Robin doing?"

"Great. He's awake now and he's on a wheel chair." Cyborg added. Robin groaned. He hated being off his feet.

"That's good, no signs of crankiness or anything?"

"Who's he calling cranky?!" Robin exclaimed.

"Umm.. he is a bit cranky. Is that bad?" Cyborg said, glaring at Robin.

"No, that's perfectly normal. After being asleep for twelve days, that's all you can expect." Robin's vein popped.

"Uh, yeah I see. Is there any PRECAUTIONS we should take around Robin?" Cyborg said. He loved to make fun of Robin.

"No no, not at all. Do you think you can run Robin down to my office so we can run some tests?" The doctor requested.

"We'll be down there in a matter of minutes."

"Perfect. Goodbye."

"Later." They both hung up.

"Well, you heard the man. Let's go into the T-Car." They all went down to the garage, Robin was the last. Beast Boy turned around and saw Robin being left behind.

"Hey Robin, let me help." Beast Boy trotted towards Robin.

"Thanks Beast Boyyy!!!" Beast Boy had pushed Robin's wheelchair and now was going faster than the speed of light. He zoomed right past Starfire, Raven, and Cyborg.

"BEAST BOY!" Cyborg yelled. "What did you do?!"

"I uh.. figured he needed help?" Beast Boy shrugged. Starfire flew after Robin and stopped his wheelchair right before he hit the door. Robin let out a sigh of relief.

"Whew. Thanks Star."

"It was no trouble at all." In a few minutes they were all in the T-Car getting ready to leave. The T-Car went through the underwater tunnel that led them to the Jump City. (A/N: Just act like there's a tunnel ok? Think of the Aqualad episode.)

On the Titan tower roof there was a figure no one had seen before. She was crouched down, and she appeared to be spying on the Titans.

She had pale purple skin and her lips shined the color of forest green. Her hair was down to her waist and had the color of maroon and had a neon green streak on the right side. Her bangs covered her left eye. Her eye color was purple but shined red in the sun. Around her neck was a green choker with an opal on it. Her nails were long, sharp, and green. Her clothes fit her body well so you could see every curve. She had a neon tank top on with a tight purple leather jacket. Her pants were a dark purple with green stripes on the side. (A/N: Purple and green put together make someone look evil. That's why I choose those two colors.) Her boots were the only things that weren't purple or green. It was black and had metal rims, like Robin's.

She was squatting with one hand on the ground. She pulled a communicator out of her pocket and turned it on.

"They just left. Now what do you want me to do?" The girl asked impatiently.

"Just watch them." An eerie voice came out o the communicator.

"I'm getting paid for this right, Slab?" She asked.

"Of course. But I probably should lower the pay for saying my name wrong." The voice paused. "It's Slade."

"Yeah yeah, ok whatever." The girl stood up and she exposed her wings. It was purple and transparent. "Should I follow them, sir?" She asked sarcastically.

"Yes. But don't let them see you. I won't let them foil my plans again." Slade responded.

"Puh-leez! I wouldn't let a bunch of teenagers spot me before I kill them." She scoffed.

"Good spirit Ar- What was your name again?" The villain mastermind asked.

"Aroree. Ah.. roh.. ree!" She said slowly, pronouncing her name.

"I'm sure it is." Slade said. Aroree's vein popped. 'Jeez! What an ignorant man!'

"I'm out." Aroree shut off her communicator and flew off.

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A/N: Now there's a new villain in town. I mean it's only Slade's nature to hire someone to do his work. Well, Aroree is somehow linked to another villain in another story. But I gotta discuss that with the owner of that other villain. I had serious writers block here. Much Love, Seventy 5ive.

*Special thanks to..

VANILLASUGA

Thanks for helping me with my serious writers block ^_^. It's really fun talking to you and I love your story! I dedicate this story to you and..

YUKI-GA-FUTTE-IMASU

Thanks for everything! Thanks for your help too I really hope you decide to continue your story!

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