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Chapter 9- Searching

"Whose turn is it to make breakfast?" asked a half asleep Beast Boy.

It was morning time at the Tower and all the Titans were feeling the after affects of staying up late.

"Songbird's," said Raven checking the calendar.

"What?" Songbird raised her head from the counter table. "What do you need?"

"Maybe (yawn) we should have Cyborg make breakfast. He shouldn't be as tired as the rest of us (giant yawn)," suggested Robin.

"Okay Robin," mumbled Starfire.

"I'll get him," volunteered Songbird.

She rose and floated out the door. Beast Boy, Robin and Starfire went to the couch and promptly dozed off. Raven went to the giant windows and started to meditate.

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Songbird flew on autopilot to Cyborg's room. She stopped at the door and knocked. Cyborg didn't answer.

"Cyborg, come on its time to get up. We're switching breakfast days," Songbird yelled through the door.

No answer. Songbird, who was now awake, started to worry.

"CYBORG WAKE UP NOW!!" She shouted, using her powers to amplify the sound. Making sure that if he was in there he would hear her and wake up.

Still no answer. Songbird was now terrified that something was wrong.

"TITANS GET UP HERE NOW!!"

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Raven was deep in meditation when she sensed that something was wrong. She came out of her meditation and looked around the room.

"Nothing wrong here. Beast Boy and the others are in a daze on the couch. What's wrong with that? Funny, Songbird and Cyborg should be back by now..."

"TITANS GET UP HERE NOW!!" Songbird's voice came booming from everywhere. Everyone jumped as high as the ceiling.

"What the hell was that?" shouted Beast Boy from under Robin.

Robin picked himself up and helped Starfire off of Raven. "Songbird. Something's wrong with Cyborg. Titans! Go!"

They all ran to Cyborg's floor. Raven took the short cut and teleported to the front of Cyborg's door. Where she found, to her great distress, Songbird was about to throw a potted plant at the door.

Raven encased it with her energy and set it down the hall.

"What the hell did you do that for? I was going to break the door down," Songbird shouted to her.

"Because if you would have done that then Cyborg's defense mechanisms would have kicked in and we wouldn't be able to get anywhere in the Tower. Now what's wrong?" Raven asked calmly.

The other Titans came flying around the corner.

"What's wrong?" asked Robin panting.

"I can't get into Cyborg's room. He won't answer. I tried to Listen to see if he was in there, but I can't hear anything. And he's not opening the door. And I can't get the fucking door open. It won't fucking OPEN!" Songbird said.

She kicked the door. She only managed to hurt her toe and make herself madder.

"Robin open the door with the master code," Raven told him.

Robin walked up and punched in a few keys at the key panel. The doors opened.

Songbird zipped in. Her eyes were wide with terror. The other Titans came in after her. There was a collective gasp as everyone looked around Cyborg's room.

His bed was knocked over on its side. His computer station had been smashed to bits. Various objects were strewn around the room, while others were broken beyond repair. A picture of all of the Titans, including Songbird, was smashed in the ground. All in all his room was a disaster area, and there was no Cyborg in sight.

"Robin, where is Cyborg?" Starfire asked breathlessly.

"I don't know Starfire," Robin said.

"Wha- what happened here?" Beast Boy asked. His voice was riddled with his shock.

"Simple. Someone broke into the Tower and kidnapped Cyborg."

Raven's normal monotone voice cracked at the statement. Some of the glass that wasn't already smashed shattered.

Beast Boy walked over to her and laid a hand on her shoulder.

Emerald tears fell down Starfire's cheeks. "We must go to the place where he has been taken and find him. We must go now!!"

She turned and started to leave.

"Everyone be quiet," barked Songbird.

While everyone was talking she had moved to the center of the room and started to meditate.

Everyone turned and watched her. She started to glow red. She sat there breathing in and out. Everyone watched as a red bubble formed around her and started to grow. Everyone backed away as the bubbled came closer to them.

"Shhhhhh. Don't move," Songbird whispered.

They stopped moving. The bubble encompassed them and passed on. The brief seconds that they touched the bubble they heard everything that Songbird heard. Which was a lot, considering what she was trying to do.

Raven looked at Songbird. What she saw wasn't pleasing to her. Songbird's brow was dripping with sweat and she was breathing hard. Pain was etched on her face at the immense amount of effort and energy that she was using.

Raven reached out with her senses and found that Songbird was draining her of her life's energy, and she was almost out.

"Songbird stop! You're running out of energy. If you don't stop you'll die!" Raven shouted to her.

"No," Songbird shouted back.

"How are you going to help find him if your dead!"

Songbird wasn't listening.

"I have to stop her before she kills herself. But how?"

Raven looked frantically around the room, searching for an idea. Inspiration struck.

Raven lifted up a baseball and threw it, hard, into Songbird's chest.

Songbird wheezed and was knocked back. The red bubble flew back into her, causing her to be pushed down onto the ground.

Songbird groaned and sat back up.

"What the hell were you thinking!!" she shouted to Raven. "I could have found him!"

"You were dieing. You were putting your life force into Listening for him. What good would you have been in helping to find him if you were dead?" Raven snapped.

Songbird was about to come back with a reply, but Robin interrupted her.

"She's right. If you would have killed yourself Listening for him, then what use would you be. We need to figure out who took him and why. Lets go to the main room."

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In the main room, Robin had hooked up on of the computers to the TV screen and was looking threw their database on criminals that they have fought in the past.

Kitten, Killer Moth, Mad Mood, Fixit, Mumbo Jumbo, Trident, Fang-

"Robin go back to Fixit," Raven said.

Robin typed a few keys and Fixit's profile came up.

"But Raven it could not be him. He decided that Cyborg was fine the way he was and released him," Starfire stated.

"She's right," Robin agreed.

"Just because a criminal says they're going to do something, doesn't mean they are going to," Beast Boy said.

Raven nodded. "He's right. We have no way of knowing if Fixit has stayed true to his word. Right now he's our best lead. He is the only one who would be able to get into the Tower and he's the only one that knows Cyborg's circuits enough to subdue him."

"Right so where's this guys hide out?" Songbird asked, determination was written on her face.

"We don't know," Raven said.

"What do you mean you don't know?"

Robin cleared his throat. "A couple of weeks ago, we checked out his hide out and found nothing there."

"Okay then we need to go and find it," Songbird turned and started to leave.

"Songbird slow down. We need to form a search pattern and work as a team. Now Raven, Beast Boy you two take the T-car and search from the ground. Start at Fixit's old place and see if you can find any clues. Starfire Songbird you guys search from the air. Scour the city. Start at the tracks and work your way in from there. I'll take the R-cycle and search the docks."

There was a collective nod of heads.

"Okay. Titans! Go!"

Starfire and Songbird ran to the window and flew out. The others went down to the garage and sped off.

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Cyborg opened his eye and looked around. He tried to sit up, but found that some sort of force field was holding him down.

"Hello. Anybody there," he called.

"You are broken and need fixing," came a voice from the shadows. Fixit stepped out from the shadows and blinked his cold blue eyes. "I will fix you and make you better."

Cyborg's face paled. "Oh shit. Listen, man, I already told you before I am fine the way I am."

"Your thinking is broken because you are broken. I will fix you."

Cyborg started to struggle on his restraints.

"It is useless to struggle." Fixit gestured with his hand. A robot wheeled some tools out from the shadows. "You will be fixed soon. Do not worry."

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Songbird flew over the park. Looking down she saw the first place she met the Titans. She bit her lip and kept flying.

Starfire was flying behind Songbird and saw the tear fall down her cheek and drop below. She flew faster and tried to put her hand on Songbird's shoulder. Songbird flew out of Starfire's reach. Starfire took the hint and flew behind her again.

Songbird landed at the tracks and looked around. She turned her hearing 'up' making them extra sensitive to sounds. Hoping to hear something.

Starfire timidly walked around the tracks, looking apprehensively everywhere.

"Songbird I have an bad feeling about-"

Starfire was cut off when Songbird zoomed from behind her and shot a sound bomb at a pile of beams.

"Starfire ambush, some sort of machines."

Starfire immediately went into battle mood. Charging up starbolts, reading herself for the first wave of attackers. Songbird moved to her back and together the watched an innumerable amount of machines walk up to them. The circled the girls and powered up their weapons.

"I think we're going to need back up."

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Raven walked around the abandon building. Slowly picking her way threw the discarded parts. Beast Boy was sniffing around in bloodhound form. Hoping that his keen noise would pick up some sent.

Raven walked to Fixit's "office" and shifted threw the papers. All she found was blue prints of various machines. She sighed and looked up. Beast Boy was making another circle around the room.

"Beast Boy you aren't going to find anything the second time round," she called to the sniffing dog.

"What would you know," Beast Boy snapped back.

"Excuse me," Raven growled.

Beast Boy snorted. "Ohhh its nothing Miss. pity me because I can't feel anything. You could at least care. Just because you can't feel doesn't mean the rest of us can't."

Raven's temper snapped. Using her telekinetic energy she grabbed him and shoved him against the wall. Holding him several feet above the ground.

"Don't you dare mock me!" she boomed. "I can feel just the same as you. I just can't express it. And I do NOT want your pity."

Raven's eyes were glowing red; her blue cloak was billowing out around her.

Their communicators went off.

"Titans!" came Songbird's voice. "Ambush at the rail road tracks! Need back up!" There was crackling and then silence.

Songbird's voice seemed to jolt Raven back. Slowly she lowered Beast Boy down to the ground.

"Come on. It'll be faster if we teleport," Raven said closing her eyes. Beast Boy didn't move. "I want to save as much energy as I can. Come closer to me. I won't bite."

Beast Boy hesitantly walked over and stood next to her. Raven rolled her eyes.

"Get behind me and wrap your arms around my waist," she said. "Come on we don't have all day."

Blushing furiously Beast Boy did as he was told. Taking a deep breath Raven opened a black hole under them and down they went.

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Raven and Beast Boy appeared out of nowhere. So sudden and silent was their arrival that Starfire fly straight into them.

"Ufff. Friends! I am glad that you came. EEPP!"

A mechanical tentacle came from the side, grabbing Starfire around the waist. Black energy encased it and it shattered. Freeing the struggling Starfire.

"Hey I'm glad to see you too," called Songbird from there left. They all turned and to see her upper cut a human looking robot. "But do you mind helping?"

Starfire shot into the air and hurled her starbolts with deadly accuracy. Raven, chanted and her energy grabbed a large robot; she used it as a bat and was clobbering others. Beast Boy was blurring into so many different animals that you couldn't tell what he was.

The fighting was very fierce.

"We need more help," shouted Songbird in frustration.

"Yes," called Starfire from above. She was floating about twenty feet in the air. Many times her starbolts had taken out a robot that was trying to sneak up behind her friends. "We need Robin."

Songbird turned to her distracted friend. She gasped. "Starfire behind you!"

Everything seemed to slow down as Starfire turned around to she a giant robot barreling down on her. She seemed to stunned to do anything and just floated there. The robot was two feet away.

"AHHHHHH!" she screamed, bracing for the impact.

VROOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

Robin came soaring in on his R-cycle. He smashed full into the robot's side. His momentum pushing the much larger robot to the ground. They landed. Robin whipped out his staff and smashed it into the robots head. Sparks danced around and then the red eyes of the robot went out. Time went back to normal.

Robin jumped into the fray; smashing robots and flinging birdrangs. Everyone went back to the fight filled with new fervor. Somehow their leaders presence gave them an extra boost of energy.

About an hour and about a thousand robots later Starfire flung her last starbolt; blowing the head off of the last robot. They all stood there panting, gazing at the thousands of robot parts.

Robin was using his staff as a crutch. Tiredly he looked at the others.

"We can't keep searching today. We don't have the energy. We need to go back to the Tower and rest. Tomorrow we'll start again. This time though we will stay together."

Songbird was going to protest but she found that it hurt to speak. Looking inside of herself, she found that she had barely any of her power. She sighed dejectedly and flew to the tower.

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Quietly Songbird walked to the halls to Starfire's room. When she got there she found that Starfire had already changed and was sitting on her bed waiting for her.

Songbird crossed the room and rummaged around in her backpack. She found her pajamas and changed. Starfire was watching her with sympathy in her green eyes.

"What's the matter Starfire?" Songbird asked tiredly.

"Are you feeling all right?"

"Mentally or physically? Because I'm not sure on either of them," she said.

The last comment made Starfire giggle. When Starfire smiled, so did Songbird. No one could be depressed in the young aliens company.

"Neither," said Starfire going back to her previous sympathetic tone. "How are you feeling emotionally?"

Songbird paused in rummaging threw her backpack. Taking a deep breath she pulled out and old photo album. Starfire raised her eyebrows, many times she saw Songbird pull it out and look at it, but Songbird had always put it hastily away before she could get a look at the pictures.

Songbird crossed the room and sat next to Starfire. Slowly she opened the first page of her photo album.

There was a family picture on the first page along with other photos.

"This was my family. My mom, dad, little sister, and my baby brother," she told Starfire.

She pointed to a picture of a boy holding a slightly younger Songbird around the waist.

"That was my boyfriend, Daxton. We started dating when we were thirteen. It was young, yeah but we had known each other for years before hand."

Together Songbird and Starfire traveled threw her photo album. Songbird telling her stories about each of the pictures and her old friends. At the end of the photo album there was a picture of an enormous group of people.

"Songbird, I am confused about something," Starfire said. "Why do you always say was and not is? Surely you are still friends with these people."

Songbird turned to Starfire with a tear streaming down her eye.

"Because most of these people are dead Starfire," Songbird said bluntly.

Starfire gasped.

"That is most awful Songbird," Starfire said pulling her friend into a gentle hug.

Songbird was glad that Starfire didn't ask how most of them had died. She couldn't tell anyone. She wouldn't tell anyone about that fateful day when she lost everyone dear to her heart.

Starfire just held her friend. Not wanting her to suffer any more than she had already suffered threw. She couldn't image how it must have felt to lose all of her family.