A/N: Dear readers,
Please continue to vote. You can tell me as many times as you like who should be the new leader, but your vote will only count once. You may only vote for ONE Teen Titan. Also, there is no age requirement, if you are old enough to be reading this, then you may vote. Remember, if you are a leagal resident of the United Staes, and old enough to vote in the real election, you need to get registerd. You're opinion counts!!!
-Sincerely Starfire Raven
Now it's time to open the mailbag:
Riles: I assure you I am no monkey. Also if anyone were to shoot me, who would finish the story? I guess my little sister could, but she would take the entire flavor out of it and make it be slap- stick, trigger- happy humor.
clueless90: Something will happen, something always has to happen.
lyokogrl: Technically, you're right. But hey, I mean you have to have some sort of budget, especially if you order pizza all the time, that can get very expensive.
thSamari: Yeah I like Hobbits too. They can just eat and eat and eat and eat... Even in the gravest danger, they can eat. I wish I could eat six meals a day.
Time to close the mailbag for now. I know you are all waiting to read the actual story. To all my reveiwers that didn't get mentioned, thanks anyway.
PS: Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans, I am simply a fan writing a fic about them.
Matched Chapter 10
Too Much Food?
Starfire's fever broke at about 6:10am, the next day. Robin was exhausted. He had been up all night and all day playing nurse- maid this included the duties of:
Fluffing her pillows when she asked him to.
Checking her temperature once every hour.
Giving her Sudafed and Tylenol when she needed it.
Ordering meals. (Yeah big deal)
Anyway Robin was exhausted. He was angry too. One of the times Starfire woke up she told him about being chained to a wall and how Slade treated her, and how he gave her a shot and how she couldn't remember anything that happened after that.
Robin assumed that Slade had either given Star the shot to make her sick. Another possibility he had considered was that the shot was given, to make her too weak to run off, or fight back, and she was already so weak that she got sick. Or maybe she was already getting sick before he had even given her the shot. Whatever the reason she had been sick, Robin was mad.
Of course he was furious about Slade throwing Starfire against the wall. In Robin's opinion that was one of the lowest things a guy could do. Throwing a girl against a wall, not a good thing to do.
Of course Robin reminded himself: 'Slade is an enemy. I can't expect him to be nice. After all, he was never nice before...' And then he thought: '...But then why am I not dead?'
Robin was sitting in the recliner. Starfire was peacefully sleeping on the bed, so he put up the footrest and went to sleep.
Starfire woke up feeling refreshed. The few times in her childhood she had been sick, with Tamarainian illnesses, she had always recovered quickly. Of course she had never been very sick, the fever was probably one of the worst things she had ever had; other than loneliness, but she wasn't sure if that qualified as an illness.
She looked around the room: Robin was lying down on the big chair, snoring, loudly. Next to the chair there was a coffee table, the top of it was covered with fast food bags and wrappers.
There was a sink with a cabinet above it. There was a shower in the corner, it had a plastic, shiny curtain that had fish on it. In another corner there was another curtained area, Starfire assumed that it covered the toilet area. On each wall there was a lamp, they all gave out a yellowish sort of light, they sort of made a buzzing sound. In the middle of the room there was a table with two chairs.
She got up out of bed. Her knees where shakeing and she felt a bit wobbly but she could stand, and she could fly. So to avoid the possibility of falling down and hitting her head on the floor, she flew over to the table.
Starfire remembered Robin had said it you pressed a button on the table it would give you food, so she sat in the chair and searched for the button. She found it on the underside and pressed it.
Nothing happed. She pressed it again. Still, there was no food in front of her. Robin had said the food came out of the table in a plastic box, out of the table. She pressed the button again, and again, and again...She pressed it about 12 times before she got to frustrated to bother pressing it again. 'Why is it not working? Robin said it would give you food if you pressed the button. Did he lie?'
She thought about this for a few more minutes, finally deciding to wake up Robin and ask him what was going on. So she stood up, then flew over to the recliner where Robin was sleeping. She shook him gently. When that didn't work she whispered into his ear:
"Robin wake up, Robin stop sleeping! It is noon time." When that didn't work she whispered a bit louder:
"Rise and shine! I am well, and though there are no windows here, I believe the sun is shining."
Well that didn't work so she pinched him on the arm, this time Robin stirred in his sleep, but still showed no signs of waking up.
Suddenly, Starfire remembered a trick Raven had taught her for the Easter morning church service, it went something along the lines of:
"If any of those silly guys fall asleep during the sermon, tell them that it's time to eat, If that doesn't work, tell them that Slade's trying to capture someone. I could almost guaranty that it will work..." Starfire decided to try it. She once again whispered into Robin's ear:
"Time to eat!" Immidanently as she said "eat" Robin jumped up onto his feet beside the chair:
"Food! Time to eat!" He exclaimed. Starfire pressed her hand to her mouth to muffle the giggle.
"Yes I was thinking it would be time for lunch now." Robin walked over to the table and pressed the meal button, twice.
"So I guess you are feeling better. Well the food will be here in about twenty minutes or so, so we might as well talk about somthing."
"It takes twenty minutes for the food to come?" Starfire asked worriedly.
"Yeah, twenty minutes." He answerd, after studying Stafire's face for a few moment he asked slowly, his face growing pale:
"You preesed the button before I woke, didn't you?"
"Well...Yes..." She answerd, looking a bit uncomfortable.
"You pressed it more then once, didn't you." A small playfull grin appeard on his face.
"Yes..." She said, her face turning red.
"Okay, how much, telll me, I promise I won't get mad." Robin assured her, cheerfully trying to confort Starfire in her mistake.
"A lot I guess, more than, well...Ten times." As she was saying this, for an instant Robin's smile dissapeared, but then, he burst out laughing!
"More than ten times!!! Hahaahhhaaa... Star, you know what that means?! We each get more than five meals!!!! Man this... this is funny!!!" Robin was in a state of hysteria, he just couldn't stop laughing. Starfire looked down at her feet, embarrassed she said:
"Well, I am glad you found it amuseing. I am hungery, but there will be a lot of food to eat. Must we truly eat it all?" Robin calmed down a bit and they were both quiet for a bit.
Then they both started laughing.
All the food did arrive, and they ate it all, all fourteen Mc Happy's value meals. Of course, they both regreted it, because they had eaten to much, of course they didn't order anything else the entire day. They were sitting at the table, they had been for a few hours, too stuffed full of food to move.
"Star, now that we'rerecoverd from our meal, what are we going to do? Should we just wait to be rescued, or should we try to break out? Are you strong enough to fire a Starbolt, or maybe a Starbeam? Slade took all my weapons."
"I think I can..." With that Starfire stood up, she put her arm out, as to fire a starbolt. Nothing happened. Her hand wasn't even glowing. She shut her eyes and tried to concentrate, but it made no difference. Her face grew pale, her arm started shaking, it she looked as if she were about to pass out, as if all her energy had been sucked from her.
Robin relized that something wasn't right:
"Starfire, are you all okay?" No sooner than Robin had said this, she started to fall backwards. Robin got up and caught her just before her had hit the ground.
'Muphey's law.' He thought, 'If anything bad can happen, it will, but what happened?' He checked her pulse, she was still alive, but Robin relized that she couldn't use her powers.
It could have been the room, maybe there was something weird about it that made Starfire not be able to use her powers, but then, the shot that Slade had given her, it could have been the shot. Whatever had happened, Robin could see that they wern't escapeing anytime soon.
A/N: So how did you like that one? No one can say that it was too short, of course, it doesn't win the prize for being very long either, however, it was full of information, so you can't complain to much.
