"It's because he was already human."

A stunned look from Beast Boy greeted Ravens stoic expression. "What?" He said, looking confused.

While Cyborg looked like he was putting two and two together, Robin was nodding. Starfire was stood a little behind him, watching the back of his head, occasionally glancing away to eye her teammates.

"So, effectively, we're suddenly at our weakest," continued Robin. "We need to find out who did this and how, so we can reverse the process. But I'm guessing it won't be hard."

"If they think they've taken away our defences…" began Cyborg, "…as well as our weapons…" Beast Boy continued;

"…Then they'll be out causing trouble in the city," finished Raven, "and they won't care who sees them, because they'll assume that there's no one there who can stop them."

"Right," said Robin. "They shouldn't be too hard to find," he finished, grimly.

"But I still don't get it!" Said Beast Boy suddenly. "Why doesn't Robin have no powers?"

"Because I was already human," Robin repeated Ravens previous words. Beast Boy stared at him.

"So?"

"How can you turn someone human when that is what they were already?" Asked Star, rhetorically, meaning it as an explanation.

Beast Boys eyes widened as his mind reluctantly clicked, and he took a subconscious step backwards. "Are you saying," he said, looking at the rest of the group sideways from under the thick, brown, messed up hair, that Raven still found a little unnerving, "that we haven't… just lost our powers and changed appearances?"

"Somebody somehow has managed to turn us all into regular human teenagers," said Cyborg. He stared at the youngest Titan. "Why does being human matter so much to you anyway?"

The recipient of the question seemed to shrink back for a second, in Ravens perception. Then he seemed to relax, and he automatically moved his foot back forwards again. His body language lost most of its tension, though she eyed him a little longer anyway.

"It's just weird, I guess," he said, laughing slightly. He raised an eyebrow at Robin. "You were really all human?" he asked.

"Still am," replied the boy wonder.

Beast Boy frowned. "How come you're so bendy and indestructible?"

Robin shrugged. "I train," he said. A though seemed to strike him then. But Starfire spoke first.

"We must alert the policing forces," she said. "They should know of our… position, before they call on us and realise that we are four Titan's unhelpful."

Robin nodded. "Good idea," he said. "I'll do that. The rest of you may as well go back to bed," he added, eyeing the computer clock. "Human bodies function more effectively when they get better sleep." He moved over to the computer, and began tapping various keys.

Cyborg chuckled. "Right," he said, grinning at the Boy Wonders back. "See y'all in the real morning then. I've gotta get me some sheets," he muttered to himself, as he exited the room in his vanilla suit.

Raven watched him go, and then left silently, followed closely by Starfire. Beast Boy lingered behind them.

Upon reaching her room, Raven didn't speak to her two companions as she slid open the door, and hit the close button behind her. Once the door was shut, she blinked a couple of times, and looked around her room.

She now realised that being fully human meant quite a change in environmental perception for her. The 'wrong' feeling about her room and the tower had simply been a lack of half a demon in her DNA making her world seem strange. There were fewer colours… but more colours. Bookshelves seemed to look different, but were at the same time the same. Everything was less animated, but held more… substance. Or something. She shook her head, still unused to the perception, but fast adapting to it.

She looked at her bed, and knew that she wouldn't be able to get to sleep, human body or no. She'd been half human up until now, she could handle a night of missed dreams. Eyeing the meditation mirror on the small desk near the end of her bed, she decided to explore her new… position, as Starfire had put it, more fully.

Her mind was just the same, she found, as she landed on the cold stone rock. She walked, crossing through the stone archway, noting the lack of blackbirds. It didn't worry her so much, as feel a little… odd there, without them.

Through the archway, she found the 'happy' land. Strangely, there was no spectrum self anywhere to be seen. The trees seemed a little different… nothing huge had changed here though. She continued through to the maze of her timid colour's territory. There was no spectrum of herself here, either. She didn't call upon her personality aspects, preferring to work through the maze on foot until she reached the archway of 'brave'. The brave lands were barren, but solid, and strong looking. Being here made her feel strong, but at the same time, made her feel weak with a kind recklessness and desire to fight. She moved on quickly, and came to the archway she was the most curious about.

Anger. Crossing over the threshold to the barren wasteland, blackened skies, gullies, cracks and sharp rocks, she passed a couple of wilted things lying at the gate side. Things from her imagination. Things anger would create. They were everywhere in here, though the space that bound this spectrum of her personality was the smallest her trained mind would allow. She walked forwards, and called, slightly apprehensively, to her anger.

A deep red cape appeared in front of her, covering a form she recognized as her own. Raven stood back, and the figure turned around. The hood was removed, and Raven ground her teeth as she recognized her face as what she must look like to the other Titans in her human form. No four red eyes. No raging black aura.

…No powers.

Anger was still anger, but human. Staring at her, she saw the form of herself, showing her what anger really was when it didn't have demon power to destroy its counter personalities, to break from it's imaginary prison and take her over inside out.

Raven took a step backwards, shut her eyes, and found herself back on her bedroom floor. She'd gone as far as she wanted to. She'd seen her anger. She'd seen issues she wasn't ready to deal with in it's eyes, face, body language… she knew what made it so powerful with her powers, but she wasn't ready to go there. Not today.

She took a good number of deep breaths to calm herself, and felt oddly at ease. Standing up, she placed the mirror carefully back on the table, and moved to open the curtains.

The run was rising. She estimated the time to be around six ten, given the time of year, and decided that it was time enough to have some herbal tea.

"So, we got a plan?" Asked Cyborg, in the same vanilla suit, over his eggs, bacon and sausage breakfast.

Beast Boy scowled at Cyborgs plate, but said nothing as he chewed his tofu.

"I've alerted the mayor and the head of police to our situation," said Robin, over a bowl of something that looked like orange oatmeal. He picked up a spoonful, and let it drip down to his bowl, eyeing it. "What did you call this again Star?" He asked, stirring it.

"On my planet, we call it the 'Morning feast for the Active.' The ingredients are such prepared that it should encourage strength and agility in your activities today." Said Star, stirring up the last bit of her own identical bowl of mush. "Except we had no glorthnorgs, or mornags, or a morthball-cutler, so I used 'oatmeal' and milk and…" She looked in thought for a second, then a lightbulb brightened over her head. "Carrots!" She finished beaming, and swallowed the last bit in her bowl.

Robin frowned curiously at the cereal, then shrugged. "It's pretty good," he said, grinning, and devouring more.

Starfire beamed. Beast Boy and Cyborg blinked. Raven, who was sat at the end of the table, sipped more of her tea.

"So…" she said, "do we have a plan?"

Robin finished his orange oatmeal, and set the bowl and spoon down. "Actually, yes…" he said.

Dododododododododo! The bleeped on his wrist watch suddenly tuned. He flipped it open, and looked at the message.

"…But I'll have to fill you in later," he finished, snapping the watch shut as he jumped up. He opened his mouth, and then stopped. "I'll be back soon," he said instead, leaping over the table, and grabbing his retracted bo staff as he swept out of the room.

"Ehh…" said Cyborg, staring after him. "We could've gone too."

"Robin wouldn't have gone like that unless he was certain he could deal with it alone," said Starfire, and began stacking the bowls. She took Cyborgs plate, and then Beast Boys, and piled them next to the sink.

"Whatever," mumbled Cyborg. Then he brightened. "Hey, non mechanics don't stay in shape on their own," he said. "I'm gonna go test this thing out in the gym," he said, stretching out his arms, and getting up. "Anyone coming, or are y'all gonna sit around and get weedy?" He beamed at Beast Boy, who opened his mouth in protest.

"I am not weedy!" He exclaimed, holding out a jump suited arm and poking at it. Sinewy muscles were visible through the fabric.

"Yeah, but now you're human, you soon will be if you don't get in the gym every once in a while," said Cyborg seriously. "We gotta keep in shape man, we don't have mechanical and animal metabolism advantages."

Beast Boy blinked at him. "But… I never had to work out before!" He said.

"No, you just ran around in animal forms all day," explained Cyborg. "Whoever made us all human did it to make us weak. Prove 'em wrong!"

"I'm going to the gym," announced Raven, on a sudden whim. "I want to test this bodies abilities, find its strengths. And weaknesses."

She looked at her hands, and then got up and started walking out of the room, when she paused.

"Erm…" she said, looking back at Cyborg. "We do have stuff I can wear in there?"

Starfire stepped forwards. "I believe Ravens idea is good," she said, "I shall test my new limits also. Robin keeps training clothes in open lockers outside the gymnasium," she informed Raven. "I will show you."

She walked forwards, and pulled Raven by the arm, and they left the kitchen swiftly, walking towards the elevator. Once inside, she hit the button to take them to one of the uppermost floors of the tower, where the huge gymnasium was situated.

"I understand why we would need to change our clothes to train now," said Starfire. Raven stared at her skin. It wasn't as pale as she'd first thought, in the elevator light; a couple of freckles were visible. Her hair had changed colour slightly too – instead of a shocking pink-red, it was now gingerier. Unusual, but definitely human. "But I have something I wish to ask you."

Raven looked at her expectantly.

Starfire blinked and continued. "May we go shopping?"

Raven thought about it. "Why and when?" She asked.

"To celebrate our human bodies," said Starfire, beaming, "and may we go after this noon?"

Raven thought some more, and shrugged. Why not.

"Why not," she said.

The elevator doors slid open, and the girls walked out to find themselves in a small corridor with only one door. The door was open.

"Over here," said Starfire, walking over to a row of shelving. She reached up, and tugged on something on the top shelf, then frowned and tugged a little harder.

A huge pile of blue sweat pants fell on top of her, and Starfire squeaked from under the pile. Raven cracked a smirk despite herself. It wasn't, she realised, like finding something amusing, was risking killing the lighting anymore.

Star made a couple of muffled struggling noises under the pile, and Raven remembered that without her alien strength, she was probably finding it a little uncomfortable. She pulled a number of items away from where she supposed star was. A red headed annoyed looking face jumped up through a gap.

Star ground her teeth and growled, then ground her teeth some more, then her fece relaxed and she smiled. "I have found us clothing," she announced, grinning up at the other girl.

"... Yeah," said Raven. She picked up a pair of pants cautiously, and discovered they were, in fact, shorts. "Are these all Robins?" She asked, for a second horribly reminded of her gym session in Mad Mods horror house.

Starfire shrugged. "I think they are for every one. But we have never needed to use them." She struggled out of the pile. When she was free, she flexed her arms experimentally, and eyes her forearms. "I see humans are fairly weak," she said, a little sadly. "But it will be interesting to learn how their strength increases with training," she added, rotating her elbows and noting the effects of the experience.

Raven didn't say anything, as she picked up a tee. It was going to be odd, 'training', and wearing something other than her uniform. These clothes were standard Titan issue though, so it wasn't too peculiar. She looked around for somewhere to change. Starfire seemed to be thinking about the same thing, when she spoke.

"Where do we change our clothing?" She wondered aloud.

Raven shrugged, and looked around the corner. "I guess…" she found another door, and pushed it open. It was a shower room. "In here?" She asked, and walked in without waiting for a reply.

Starfire came through the door behind her, with her own shorts and tee, and looked around, sat down on a counter, and began pulling off her boots.

Raven realised that she'd not only never worn anything other than her uniform in front of the other Titans before, but she'd also never had to get changed. She glanced at Star, who was had one boot off and was fumbling with the other. It was just like… high school locker rooms, she decided. Her and Star were both girls anyway, so it shouldn't… didn't… matter.

She started undoing the clasp on her cloak.

"And these are the little weights," said Cyborg. "Try the four kilo weights first. You don't know what that body is capable of, yet."

Beast Boy picked up a couple of four-kilo hand weights, after studying the chart on the wall. He knew about muscle training, but he'd never really had to do it himself before, and he also knew the importance of doing such things properly.

Cyborg, having finished his BB-tour of the gym, went to the bench, adjusted the weights, and started pressing sets. Starfire watched him curiously from the treadmill she was sat at the side of.

The girls had come out of the changing rooms to realise that they were going to need trainers to wear. They'd gone on a gym-wide hunt that had led them to a closet full of old training shoes, and by the time they'd managed to find some that fitted, Beast Boy and Cyborg were already in the gym, warming up with some basketball down at the hoops.

Cy had explained to Star and Raven the importance of a cardio warm up, and so the girls had gone to inspect the treadmills. Starfire was more enthusiastic, and wished to see how far and fast she could travel on foot before she because weary, but Raven had stood and helped her work the controls. Cyborg had then decided that Raven was going to play basketball, and twenty minutes later, Starfire had stopped running, was covered in sweat, and trying not to drink all of the water she'd found at the side of the court. Raven was also fairly sweaty and out of breath. She could feel the endorphins from the exercise coursing around her body though, and realised why some humans enjoyed the sport so much. Cyborg and Beast Boy were a little sweaty, but Beast Boy had wanted to try out some of the weights, to test his strength after a warming game. Cyborg had given him a tour of the resistance equipment, and Beast boy had ended up deciding to start on the least complicated and breakable, the hand weights.

It was quarter of an hour until ten o'clock, and Starfire decided that she wanted to test her strength next.

She walked up to one of the benches. Raven noticed, and followed her. Starfire counted the weights on the sides of the bar. They added up to nearly sixty kilos. She took twenty off, and decided to start there. Raven hastily stopped her as she lay down and got a grip on the bar.

"Maybe you should start a little lower," she guessed, and re adjusted the weights to something more like sixteen kilos. Starfire lifted the bar, and cried out in surprise. She gritted her teeth as she raised it back up, and Raven helped her set it back onto the bar.

"Owwww…" Starfire pulled a face and circled her arms. "This body has some odd limitations."

"Maybe we should call it a day," suggested Raven, "and come back and do some more tomorrow."

Starfire nodded. "I must wash," she commented, wrinkling her nose up. She looked at Raven. "And so must you," she observed.

"Yep," said Raven, waiting while the other girl got off the bench.

"Heh, Raven's smelly," called Beast Boy. He grinned at her teasingly.

Raven raised her eyebrows, then stopped. She'd been about to use her powers to smack him around the head with the weight he was using… then she remembered. She had no powers.

"As are we all," said Starfire, standing up and stretching out. She leaned her head over to look at Cyborg, who was finishing his last set. "Cyborg, I fully enjoyed 'working out'. We shall repeat tomorrow?"

The not-robot grunted as he lifted the bar, and set it back on its holder. He sat up, exhaled, and picked up a towel and a drinks bottle at the end of the bench.

"Sure we will Star," he said, grinning. "Hey BB, you wanna warm down with some more basketball?"

"Ah, sure," said the no-longer-green-dude. He finished his own set, and stretched out his arms. "See you later," he waved at the departing girls.

Raven pushed open the shower room door, and walked straight into one of the cubicles.

End of chapter two!!! I still want reviews. Now. Please. =)