A/N: Just in case some parts of this get confusing, they already have at least a crush on each other, they just think it's unrequited.. I wonder why all my updates come at 3 in the morning...
A hawk flies above the city, and it passes over a manhole cover. Shortly afterwards, the cover is blown in the air by a burst of dark energy. It comes back down to the ground, making a loud crashing noise, and begins rolling around in place, until a pale-gray hand reaches out of the hole and stops it. Then the hand is used to pull the rest of the body out.
After Starfire pulled herself up, she started taking a closer look at the body she was trapped in.
'Oh Raven,' Starfire gushed, 'this is awful! Terribly, horribly awful!'
During Starfire's tirade, Raven had also managed to pull herself up out of the manhole.
'Tell me about it,' Raven responded, after dragging Starfire with her down the sidewalk.
[How did I get myself into this mess?] Raven wondered. [It's one thing to be stuck in another body, but, of all the bodies in the world, why did it have to be -this one?]
'Very well,' Starfire said, taking Raven literally. 'Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy have been trapped in tiny wood bodies,' and as she said this, growing more and more agitated, the powers of Raven's body were getting out of control, destroying things as Starfire walked, 'while a nasty creature known as the Puppet King has taken control of their -real bodies, which he is using to hunt -us down, and you and I are in the -wrong bodies, and-'
'Starfire,' Raven commanded, as she put her hand on Starfire's shoulder, 'you -have to calm down. My powers are driven by emotion,' Raven explained. 'The more -you -feel, the more energy you unleash.'
'But what if they find us? What if our friends are -doomed? What if I am stuck -looking like this -forever?' Starfire let out anxiously, as her hands smacked her head, and it began turning around, as if on an axle.
'We'll fix it,' Raven comforted her friend. 'I don't know how, but we -will rescue the boys, and we will get our bodies back.' Then Raven realized something about what Starfire said. [There's something wrong with the way I look?] 'What's -wrong with the way I look?'
'Nothing!' Starfire responded, throwing her hands up. As she did so, the indicator for the crosswalk(the sign with the 'Walk'/'Don't walk') nearby blew up. 'I will try to calm down,' Starfire sighed out. [Do not think about Raven. Do not think about the fact that since you are stuck in her body, you are touching every single part of her.] 'Peace, quiet, tranquil-'
Starfire was cut off by the car that exploded next to her.
'We are so doomed,' was Raven's only comment, looking at the totaled car.
Suddenly, there came the cry of a hawk, from above.
'Beast Boy!' called Starfire as she pointed at the bird of prey in the sky, hovering around.
'You mean zombie-Beast Boy,' Raven said, as the bird began to dive. 'Run!'
Raven and Starfire took off down a nearby alleyway. Raven was jumping in the air, grunting and waving her arms as she ran.
'Fly, fly!' she begged the foreign body she was stuck in.
The two girls stepped in a side alley, safe for the moment, and began walking down it.
'We cannot fight them again,' Starfire pleaded. 'I do not -wish to, and in our present condition, we would surely be defeated!'
'Okay,' Raven decided. 'How do you fly this thing?' She gestured to Starfire's body.
'You must -feel flight,' Starfire replied.
'What?' Raven said with a 'come again?' kind of tone.
'When you feel the unbridled joy of flight, you will fly!'
'Unbridled joy? Not really my thing.'
'Look!' Starfire gasped, a burst of energy knocking Raven to the ground. She was pointing at zombie-Beast Boy in tiger form.
'What do I have to feel to use starbolts?' Raven asked.
'Righteous fury!' came Starfire's reply.
'Your alien strength?'
'Boundless confidence!'
'Nevermind,' Raven gave up and she turned and ran. Starfire gave a tiny scream as Raven pulled her along. They ran into another side alley, hoping to lose zombie-Beast Boy. Unfortunately, they were met with zombie-Robin. His green eyes glowed in the darkness as he advanced on them. They were surrounded; Robin was on one side, Beast Boy on the other. Robin pulled out his extending pole, and jumped at the two. Meanwhile, Beast Boy also started running. Anyone who's seen a Saturday morning cartoon can tell you what happened next. Raven and Starfire stepped out of the way and Robin and Beast Boy collided with each other, giving them a chance to run away.
Raven stepped into yet another side alley, but Starfire hadn't noticed, and kept running. Raven quickly grabbed hold of Starfire's cloak and pulled her back into the alley. They remained silent as Robin and Beast Boy ran past. They both gave each other a look of relief. It was short-lived, however, as Cyborg broke through an alley wall. Raven was shot in the air by Starfire's out-of-control emotions, and was halfway down the alley.
'Wait for me, please!' Starfire called out as she chased after her friend.
They ran around a corner, only to realize that it was a dead end. They turned around to see Cyborg blocking the way back. He was joined by Robin and Beast Boy. The two girls were backed up to the wall, when Raven turned to Starfire and put her hands on her shoulders.
'If -I can't fly, -you have to levitate. You know those words I always-'
'Yes!' she was cut off by Starfire, as she took a deep breath and exhaled, determined.
'Wait, you have to focus!' Raven warned, as the zombie-Titans closed in on them.
'Azarath Metrion Zinthos!' Starfire yelled, pointing her arms as the sky.
She started shooting up into the air, and she grabbed Raven's arm, making sure not to leave her behind. They both let out a scream as they were propelled upwards, and came to a stop at the edge of the rooftops. Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy just looked up, their eyes following. Suddenly, the girls shot off, traveling at great speeds, out of the alleyway, and up to above the buildings in the area.
'I wish to stop,' Starfire begged to Raven. 'Please tell me the way to stop.'
'Look at the ground, and imagine—Wait!' But it was too late. Starfire had already looked down, and they fell towards a pile of garbage bags in – you guessed it – another alleyway. They smashed into the bags with a thud, and a dust cloud appeared over them.
'Ugh,' Starfire groaned as she and Raven moved bags of garbage off themselves. 'I smell like the breath of a Snerbian Flort Worm. Raven, what are you-'
'Shh!' Raven cut off, putting her finger on Starfire's lips.
She had built a wall with the bags, so they could hide. She threw a bag at Starfire, knocking her over, just in time, as Robin and Cyborg appeared, looking for them. They saw nothing, and continued walking past the area. Starfire's hand began to glow with energy, but with a look from Raven, she was able to control herself. She put her hands over her head, so her arms looked like a parallelogram with her head in it, her hands palm to palm, and she began chanting quietly.
'Peace, quiet, tranquility. Peace, quiet, tranquility.'
'It's alright,' Raven sighed, smiling at Starfire. 'they're going.'
They looked through a gap in the bags to see the two zombies walking away down the alley. Then, zombie-Beast Boy appeared as a rat, eliciting a scream from Starfire. Luckily enough, Raven put her hand over the Tameranean's mouth, muffling the scream. Beast Boy began sniffing the air, searching for signs of them. They sat side by side, Raven's hand still over Starfire's mouth, completely silent. Sweat began dripping down their faces, fearing they might be found out.
'Enough,' came the voice of the Puppet King, causing Beast Boy to stop his searching and join the other two in normal form. 'We will catch the other two after the ceremony is complete.'
'Ceremony?' puppet-Robin asked.
'What ceremony?' puppet-Cyborg followed up.
'Just a little spell,' the Puppet King answered evilly, 'that will destroy you three, and make your bodies mine forever. Come my puppets.'
The Puppet King walked away, the zombie-Titans close in tow.
As soon as the group left the alley, some trash bags were thrown out into the empty space. Raven and Starfire emerged from the bags of garbage to stand alone in the alleyway.
'How can you stand having this much hair?' Raven asked as she ran her hands down it.
'Quickly, Raven,' Starfire pleaded. 'Our friends are in danger! We must follow and-'
'And what?' Raven interrupted. 'Save them with my unusable powers while your unbridled emotions blow us to bits? Nice flying by the way.'
A black fire burned around Starfire.
'At least I am –able to fly,' she countered back. 'On my planet even a –newborn can unleash the joy of flight! But you are too busy being grumpy and rude to feel -anything at -all!'
'Maybe you haven't noticed,' Raven pointed out, 'but my emotions are dangerous. I can't afford to feel anything. [Especially not what I feel for you.] You may have my body, but you know –nothing about me.'
[She's right,] Starfire realized. 'Perhaps, you are right, and if you and I are to overcome this ordeal, we must know everything about each other. So, begin sharing. [Please do this, Raven.]
'Alright,' Raven said, as both she and Starfire sat on the ground.
[Yes!] Starfire yelled in her head. [Success!]
'I was born in a place called Azarath,' Raven started.
As both the young girls began telling each other of their lives, they couldn't help but notice that with each other, it seemed like the most perfect place either of them could be.
Fade to black
A hawk flies above the city, and it passes over a manhole cover. Shortly afterwards, the cover is blown in the air by a burst of dark energy. It comes back down to the ground, making a loud crashing noise, and begins rolling around in place, until a pale-gray hand reaches out of the hole and stops it. Then the hand is used to pull the rest of the body out.
After Starfire pulled herself up, she started taking a closer look at the body she was trapped in.
'Oh Raven,' Starfire gushed, 'this is awful! Terribly, horribly awful!'
During Starfire's tirade, Raven had also managed to pull herself up out of the manhole.
'Tell me about it,' Raven responded, after dragging Starfire with her down the sidewalk.
[How did I get myself into this mess?] Raven wondered. [It's one thing to be stuck in another body, but, of all the bodies in the world, why did it have to be -this one?]
'Very well,' Starfire said, taking Raven literally. 'Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy have been trapped in tiny wood bodies,' and as she said this, growing more and more agitated, the powers of Raven's body were getting out of control, destroying things as Starfire walked, 'while a nasty creature known as the Puppet King has taken control of their -real bodies, which he is using to hunt -us down, and you and I are in the -wrong bodies, and-'
'Starfire,' Raven commanded, as she put her hand on Starfire's shoulder, 'you -have to calm down. My powers are driven by emotion,' Raven explained. 'The more -you -feel, the more energy you unleash.'
'But what if they find us? What if our friends are -doomed? What if I am stuck -looking like this -forever?' Starfire let out anxiously, as her hands smacked her head, and it began turning around, as if on an axle.
'We'll fix it,' Raven comforted her friend. 'I don't know how, but we -will rescue the boys, and we will get our bodies back.' Then Raven realized something about what Starfire said. [There's something wrong with the way I look?] 'What's -wrong with the way I look?'
'Nothing!' Starfire responded, throwing her hands up. As she did so, the indicator for the crosswalk(the sign with the 'Walk'/'Don't walk') nearby blew up. 'I will try to calm down,' Starfire sighed out. [Do not think about Raven. Do not think about the fact that since you are stuck in her body, you are touching every single part of her.] 'Peace, quiet, tranquil-'
Starfire was cut off by the car that exploded next to her.
'We are so doomed,' was Raven's only comment, looking at the totaled car.
Suddenly, there came the cry of a hawk, from above.
'Beast Boy!' called Starfire as she pointed at the bird of prey in the sky, hovering around.
'You mean zombie-Beast Boy,' Raven said, as the bird began to dive. 'Run!'
Raven and Starfire took off down a nearby alleyway. Raven was jumping in the air, grunting and waving her arms as she ran.
'Fly, fly!' she begged the foreign body she was stuck in.
The two girls stepped in a side alley, safe for the moment, and began walking down it.
'We cannot fight them again,' Starfire pleaded. 'I do not -wish to, and in our present condition, we would surely be defeated!'
'Okay,' Raven decided. 'How do you fly this thing?' She gestured to Starfire's body.
'You must -feel flight,' Starfire replied.
'What?' Raven said with a 'come again?' kind of tone.
'When you feel the unbridled joy of flight, you will fly!'
'Unbridled joy? Not really my thing.'
'Look!' Starfire gasped, a burst of energy knocking Raven to the ground. She was pointing at zombie-Beast Boy in tiger form.
'What do I have to feel to use starbolts?' Raven asked.
'Righteous fury!' came Starfire's reply.
'Your alien strength?'
'Boundless confidence!'
'Nevermind,' Raven gave up and she turned and ran. Starfire gave a tiny scream as Raven pulled her along. They ran into another side alley, hoping to lose zombie-Beast Boy. Unfortunately, they were met with zombie-Robin. His green eyes glowed in the darkness as he advanced on them. They were surrounded; Robin was on one side, Beast Boy on the other. Robin pulled out his extending pole, and jumped at the two. Meanwhile, Beast Boy also started running. Anyone who's seen a Saturday morning cartoon can tell you what happened next. Raven and Starfire stepped out of the way and Robin and Beast Boy collided with each other, giving them a chance to run away.
Raven stepped into yet another side alley, but Starfire hadn't noticed, and kept running. Raven quickly grabbed hold of Starfire's cloak and pulled her back into the alley. They remained silent as Robin and Beast Boy ran past. They both gave each other a look of relief. It was short-lived, however, as Cyborg broke through an alley wall. Raven was shot in the air by Starfire's out-of-control emotions, and was halfway down the alley.
'Wait for me, please!' Starfire called out as she chased after her friend.
They ran around a corner, only to realize that it was a dead end. They turned around to see Cyborg blocking the way back. He was joined by Robin and Beast Boy. The two girls were backed up to the wall, when Raven turned to Starfire and put her hands on her shoulders.
'If -I can't fly, -you have to levitate. You know those words I always-'
'Yes!' she was cut off by Starfire, as she took a deep breath and exhaled, determined.
'Wait, you have to focus!' Raven warned, as the zombie-Titans closed in on them.
'Azarath Metrion Zinthos!' Starfire yelled, pointing her arms as the sky.
She started shooting up into the air, and she grabbed Raven's arm, making sure not to leave her behind. They both let out a scream as they were propelled upwards, and came to a stop at the edge of the rooftops. Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy just looked up, their eyes following. Suddenly, the girls shot off, traveling at great speeds, out of the alleyway, and up to above the buildings in the area.
'I wish to stop,' Starfire begged to Raven. 'Please tell me the way to stop.'
'Look at the ground, and imagine—Wait!' But it was too late. Starfire had already looked down, and they fell towards a pile of garbage bags in – you guessed it – another alleyway. They smashed into the bags with a thud, and a dust cloud appeared over them.
'Ugh,' Starfire groaned as she and Raven moved bags of garbage off themselves. 'I smell like the breath of a Snerbian Flort Worm. Raven, what are you-'
'Shh!' Raven cut off, putting her finger on Starfire's lips.
She had built a wall with the bags, so they could hide. She threw a bag at Starfire, knocking her over, just in time, as Robin and Cyborg appeared, looking for them. They saw nothing, and continued walking past the area. Starfire's hand began to glow with energy, but with a look from Raven, she was able to control herself. She put her hands over her head, so her arms looked like a parallelogram with her head in it, her hands palm to palm, and she began chanting quietly.
'Peace, quiet, tranquility. Peace, quiet, tranquility.'
'It's alright,' Raven sighed, smiling at Starfire. 'they're going.'
They looked through a gap in the bags to see the two zombies walking away down the alley. Then, zombie-Beast Boy appeared as a rat, eliciting a scream from Starfire. Luckily enough, Raven put her hand over the Tameranean's mouth, muffling the scream. Beast Boy began sniffing the air, searching for signs of them. They sat side by side, Raven's hand still over Starfire's mouth, completely silent. Sweat began dripping down their faces, fearing they might be found out.
'Enough,' came the voice of the Puppet King, causing Beast Boy to stop his searching and join the other two in normal form. 'We will catch the other two after the ceremony is complete.'
'Ceremony?' puppet-Robin asked.
'What ceremony?' puppet-Cyborg followed up.
'Just a little spell,' the Puppet King answered evilly, 'that will destroy you three, and make your bodies mine forever. Come my puppets.'
The Puppet King walked away, the zombie-Titans close in tow.
As soon as the group left the alley, some trash bags were thrown out into the empty space. Raven and Starfire emerged from the bags of garbage to stand alone in the alleyway.
'How can you stand having this much hair?' Raven asked as she ran her hands down it.
'Quickly, Raven,' Starfire pleaded. 'Our friends are in danger! We must follow and-'
'And what?' Raven interrupted. 'Save them with my unusable powers while your unbridled emotions blow us to bits? Nice flying by the way.'
A black fire burned around Starfire.
'At least I am –able to fly,' she countered back. 'On my planet even a –newborn can unleash the joy of flight! But you are too busy being grumpy and rude to feel -anything at -all!'
'Maybe you haven't noticed,' Raven pointed out, 'but my emotions are dangerous. I can't afford to feel anything. [Especially not what I feel for you.] You may have my body, but you know –nothing about me.'
[She's right,] Starfire realized. 'Perhaps, you are right, and if you and I are to overcome this ordeal, we must know everything about each other. So, begin sharing. [Please do this, Raven.]
'Alright,' Raven said, as both she and Starfire sat on the ground.
[Yes!] Starfire yelled in her head. [Success!]
'I was born in a place called Azarath,' Raven started.
As both the young girls began telling each other of their lives, they couldn't help but notice that with each other, it seemed like the most perfect place either of them could be.
Fade to black