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Chapter Seven
"You're Starfire now"
"Long time no see little sister." Starfire's mouth dropped. She had a sister. Whoever she was she had charged forward and she threw Starfire through the window of a warehouse. Groaning from the small amount of pain Starfire got to her feet just as her 'sister' flew in through the broken window.
"Who are you?"
"Awww don't tell me you don't recognize me Koriand'r." There was that name again, the name she heard so often in her dreams. "I am Kornand'r, your sister and we go wayyyyy back."
"I do not remember you."
"It doesn't matter, there's someone who'd like a word with you and this time I'm not going back empty handed." Unsure of what she was talking about Starfire could only take flight and try to get away before she was brought down by a powerful blast. She hit the floor and made out a blurry image of Kornand'r. "Your defeat was inevitable and assured, you and the boy now belong to them." Starfire saw her bend down and take hold of her and everything went black.
BACK AT TITANS TOWER……………………..
"Perfect!" Cyborg slammed his fist down on the counter. "Himora and that other weirdo girl he was with caught us with our pants down and they took Robin and Starfire."
"Yeah, it's too bad they also didn't bother to bring their communicators with em'," said Beast Boy holding the two devices. Raven was currently over at the large screen and she displayed a faint blinking dot.
"We should have no way to track them, but I'm some how getting an erratic signal."
"Really? Where's it headed?" Cyborg stepped up behind her. Raven punched a few more keys and zoomed in on the moving dot.
"Well if it stays on it's current course then it should be leaving our solar system within the hour." Cyborg looked back at Beast Boy.
"Dude, they're in space?"
"It would seem that way."
"Why where they even out of the tower in the first place?"
"I've got a good guess but that's not important right now," said Cyborg pacing back and forth. "We need to catch up with them and get em' back before they get too far away. Prep. The T-Ship, We're going after them." (I know in the series the T-ship didn't come till way later, but how else are they gonna get there? Back to the fic.)
ON A SHIP LEAVING THE SOLAR SYSTEM………………………
"Robin? Robin are you alright?" Robin became vaguely aware of a voice calling his name. He listened around in the dark shroud that seemed to blanket his entire world for the voice. "Robin?" There it was again; the sweetest, most soothing, caring, and angelic voice he had ever had the fortune to hear. He then felt a pair of gentle hands lightly shake him and he blinked his eyes open. He turned his head and Starfire's face came back into focus. He was lying on the floor and she was sitting down next to him. With some lingering fatigue he sat himself up and put a hand to his forehead.
"Wow my head," said Robin rubbing a sore spot. He looked around at their surroundings and saw a door ahead of them. "Let's get out of here." He moved towards the door.
"Robin wait!" Too late; just as he reached the door a powerful field electrocuted him and sent him flying back ten feet. "Oh, I should have said something when you awoke. I believe a fifty kilowatt force field is blocking our way." Robin winced as he got back to a sitting position and he blinked a couple of times.
"What happened, at the docks?"
"We were taken, now we are my sister's captives."
"You have a sister?" Robin looked over his shoulder at her.
"I was as astonished at the news as you are," said Starfire. "However, I can't help but feel my sister is not the one in command of this vessel."
"Who do you think it is?"
"I don't know," she said with a down cast look. "I am sorry Robin."
"For what?"
"Because of me andthe apparently dangerous history I carry with me, you may suffer whatever fate awaits me. For that, I am sorry." Robin scooted over and sat down next to her. "I do not want to know who I am anymore."
"Starfire….."
"I do not care."
"You're Starfire," said Robin wanting to look her in the eyes. She denied him his wish by looking down at the floor. "I don't care who you might have been, you're Starfire now." She looked up at him. "You're the best thing that's happened to us in long time. You make Raven actually smile, sort of. Beast Boy has someone who will listen to his jokes every once in a while. Because you're such a good listener Cyborg has someone he can talk to easily about the tough life of being half machine." He paused to let his words sink in. Unable to stop himself even if he wanted to, Robin reached forward and tucked a loose strand of hair behind her ear. "Since you first came, to the tower and my room, I have know my first week of untroubled sleep in a long while." Starfire wanted to fall into him and burst into tears, but didn't want to seem weak in front of him.
"Thank you Robin." Robin smiled and cocked his head.
"Don't thank me, it's just who you are." Starfire and Robin remained in a state of silence for few moments. They slowly forgot about their plight and their world became each other. They had begun to move closer together when they heard the door open. Kornand'r stood in the doorway, and after pressing a small button on her wrist deactivated the force field.
"You must go with Himora, now."
"To where," asked Starfire.
"To wherever he tells you to, now get moving!" They stood up and began walking out. "Wait, just Koriand'r. Not you," said Blackfire pointing at Robin. Starfire turned back to Robin and held his arm.
"Why must Robin remain behind?"
"Because I was told to get you and just you. Are you going to move along or are you going to try my patience?" Her narrowing eyes glowed purple. Starfire cast a worried look to Robin.
"I'll be alright, don't provoke them. Everything will be alright." Starfire wanted to believe him but the situation looked pretty bad. She finally released him and stepped outside with Himora who lead her down the hall and out of side. Kornand'r closed the door and re-activated the force field. "So what do I call you," asked Robin. She smiled a sly grin and smoothly circled around him.
"You humans seem to have a passion for whimsical names, as is the case with my sister, I like the way Blackfire sounds. It rolls off the tongue very well don't you think?"
"It suits you," replied Robin. "What do you want with Starfire?"
"Me? I wish her pain and suffering, however her fate is not up to me."
"Oh? And who thinks they control her fate?"
"The Psion Magistrate of course. We are on the flagship of his fleet." She ended the subject and looked him over with a mad smile. "You're cute, I'm starting to think I might enjoy this." She took out what looked like a short energy whip and slowly advanced on Robin.
Himora pushed Starfire through a set of double doors and waited outside. She looked around at the room with curiosity. It was nothing like their cell; it had various instruments along the walls, chemicals flowing through various tubes and bottles.
"Greetings Koriand'r." Starfire spun around and saw someone in shadows. He stepped into the light. He was tall, wore a set of black and red robes while a hood shrouded his face allowing only to red eyes to be seen. "Do you know who I am?" Starfire looked at him with a slightly open mouth and growing apprehension. He let out a faint chuckle and stepped forward. "You looked at me in that exact same fashion the first time we met."
"Who are you?" Starfire was getting tired of asking that question.
"To be blunt I am your master. The one who holds your leash."
"I have no master," she said feeling a little more defiant. He stepped up to her and stretched his pale hand out to her face. A strange light emerged from his palm and made contact with her fore head. She instantly gasped out loud and sank to her knees. Becoming almost cross eyed Starfire did her best not to pass out from the pain. He let up on her and shenearly collapsed.
"Does that jog your memory? I am unable to count how many talks we had about discipline." Starfire used the wall for support and brought herself back up. "I now need to ask you; what happened? Why did you not complete the mission?'
"I do not know what you are talking about," said Starfire honestly.
"Silence! I will not be hindered by lies and deceit. You and your sister were sent together to complete a task for me and you failed, now I want to know what happened!"
"I can not tell you what happened because I don't remember!" Starfire felt her temper beginning to rise.
"NONSENSE! No one can just forget past events like yours. You are in fact theone assisted me in synthesizing the virus!" Starfire's eyes widened and she shook her head in disbelief. "The Harvesters." She continued to stare at him. "You and your sister were to take the prototype strain and test it on a randomly selected planet and report it's success or failure." Starfire felt a rising tingling in her head. "You picked the day, you picked the time….." As he spoke Starfire closed her eyes tight shut and put a hand to her head as she began to see flashes of her memories. "You even picked the area on which the weapon would be detonated. You were in Koriand'r, you and your sister were in! Now what happened……."
His voice faded away as Starfire literally watched the events of two weeks earlier flash before her eyes. She saw herself being released from the many instruments and showing little to no emotion in her facial expressions. She was handed a small tube filled with a white substance. Another flash and she saw herself putting a cylindrical device together. She placed the tube inside and armed the weapon. Before she could begin the count down she heard a shuffling noise off to the side. She instantly lit up her fist and pointed it at the noise, ready to strike. Her green fist illuminated a small woman. Starfire frowned at the sight of her but her mouth hung open when she noticed a newborn child in her arms. Her frown melted into a teary face of realization, sorrow, compassion, and pity. Within a heartbeat she clicked off the weapon and after removing the virus tube melted down the casing into a small puddle. Yet another flash and she saw herself nervously typing at a computer screen. She tapped the touch screen and inserted a small crystal. Within moments the computer spat it back out and she quickly pocketed it. At once an array of alarms went off and she made a mad dash out of the ship. With one last flash she saw, from her own eyes, that she was flying towards the first largely populated planet closest to them; Earth. As she drew nearer a purple light caught her in the head. She placed a hand where it had healed. She fell with tremendous speed through the atmosphere and landed in the water off the shores of a slumbering city. Her limp body floated along the surface of the water until it made first contact with dry land and a boy in a black mask found her and took her up to a large T shaped tower. Her visions ended and she looked back up at the Magistrate, a look of grim comprehension on her face.
"No you do remember. Don't you?" Starfire let out a long breath.
"You corrupted me, I was never myself in the making of that terrible device."
"Yet, you contributed to its creation none the less. You attempted to escape no less than forty-nine times while under our control. That night, when your failed your mission, you managed to slip through our fingers for the first time."
"I do not wish to hurt anyone," said Starfire feeling weak at the knees.
"That's not your decision to make. I trained you, I conditioned you, I will decide when the hurting stops." Starfire buried her face in her hands as everything came flooding back to her. She could recall even the farthest of memories; one's so far back that she was not but a small child in the palace halls. "Whether you want to accept it or not Koriand'r; you, like your friend, belong to me." She looked up just in time to thepalm of his hand once more.
BACK WITH ROBIN………………..
He fell to the ground after being whipped by Blackfire once more. She looked up at the ceiling, hardly able to contain her glee. "I really love my job," she said while Robin stood back up again. "See, it's my job to find servants of the Psions who are misbehaving and 'whip' them into shape. Though the Magistrate usually preferred to administer Koriand'r's punishments himself."
"What do you want from me," breathed Robin.
"The Psions have hundreds of slaves to do their bidding, we'll be glad to have you aboard."
"You can kiss my ass," said Robin gripping his stomach. She smirked and propped up his chin with her hand.
"I hardly grow tired of that human spirit, it makes for a much more enjoyable training session. However rules are rules and the rule I so far have neglected is to first offer you the chance to willingly join us." Robin took her hand out from under his chin.
"Is that your face, or is a squirrel stuck in your collar?" Blackfire ground her teeth somewhat. She grabbed him by the throat and threw him up against the wall. He slid to the floor and gasped for breath. She took out a needle and jabbed him in the arm with it. "AARRGH!" The needle seemed to hurt alot more than a normal one of that size should.
"That's right! You fight me, it's more fun that way!" She raised her whip again but was stopped by the door opening behind her. The field was taken down and Starfire was shoved inside. "Another time later perhaps." She left and Starfire crawled over to Robin. She rolled him onto his back and propped his head up.
"I feel terrible," said Robin matter-a-factly. She looked down at him with love and pity and helped him sit up against the wall. "I wish I knew what was going on."
"Would you believe that all of this began with my people's natural ability of flight?" Robin gave her a confused look. She noted his perplexity and cleared her throat. "I am from a planet called Tamaran, and even a new born can unleash his or hear ability to fly. However there are rare occurrences when someone will be born without that ability. My sister, was born without the ability to fly. For this reason alone she was passed over for the crown and I became princess in her stead. Unable to get through her jealously she attacked me and took me away from the palace one night. She gave me over to a sinister race called the Psions, who in their history had been known as both powerful and ingenious. They performed numerous experiments on me, soon I was able to concentrate my body's energy and channel it into my fists." Robin listened intently as Starfire literally told him her life story. "Blackfire allowed herself to be experimented on as well in order to gain unnatural flight and the ability to fire off powerful blasts of her own. Soon they had drugged and conditioned my mind to where they could turn me on and off as if I were an attack droid. On my last mission I was to unleash a deadly virus on an innocent planet and a certain sight broke through their control and I abandoned my orders. Instead I attempted to escape with evidence of the virus and warn any planets that might be in danger. The virus given the name 'Harvesters' becauseit cultivates deadly parasitic cells who in turn deteriorate the victim's body. But I did not get far, my sister found me, and injured me greatly. That is when you discovered me on the shores of Titans Tower." She finished her story and Robin sat with his mouth wide open.
"Starfire, I uh." He was completely lost for words.
"Now you see, I am responsible for bringing this disaster upon you and our friends."
"Starfire…."
"I assisted in the virus' creation."
"Starfire."
"Perhaps it would have been better if Kornand'r had simply killed me for not getting the crown."
"STARFIRE!" She jumped at his shout. Robin calmed down and nodded.
"I would be lying if I told you I know what your feeling right now. But you have to remember that's all in the past. The way I see it loosing your memory was a blessing in disguise." She frowned slightly and shook her head in incomprehension. "It was as if the amnesia wiped away what was left of the influence the Psions had on you. You were given a second chance."
"Then I have made poor use of that chance." He held her face in his hands and with his thumb moved a tear off of her face.
"Now that is where you are wrong, please don't do this Starfire. Don't give up just because of something you had no control over. If anything you should fight back." Starfire remembered their training sessions together and how Robin had told her to never allow herself to be overcome mentally and physically. "They could only be planning to do one thing with that virus, they're going after Earth. You're a Teen Titan now, so that means you, Cyborg, Raven, Beast Boy, and myself all have a responsibility to do whatever we can to stop them." Starfire put her own hands on Robin's, pressing them to her face.
"You are right of course Robin, I just don't want anyone else to get hurt."
"You don't need to worry about it Starfire, they're on their way now." Starfire's eyes focused now completely on Robin.
"How do you know? How is it possible, we left our communicators at Titans Tower." Robin smiled and pulled off his shoe. He tapped the heel and a small compartment slid out revealing a hidden transmitter.
"Pays to be prepared," he said putting it back on.
"Then, they really are coming?"
"I would be surprised it they weren't," said Robin. Starfire smiled for the first time since they had been on the Psions ship and looked around.
"Then we should discover a way out so as to be ready when our friends arrive." She held up her fist and with a large amount of concentration formed a bright green ball of energy.
"Okay that was cool," said Robin nodding."let's get to it." He moved to get up but stopped. He frowned and tried again but still did not rise off the ground.
"Robin? Are you okay?"
"I-I don't know, I can't feel my legs." He said looked up at her and he suddenly felt a wave of nausea come over him. "What's happening to me?" In a flash Starfire knelt down before him and she began checking different parts of his body, a grim possiblilty entering her mind. She lifted up his sleeve and found the puncture wound that Blackfire had dine with the needle. She felt his forehead and went over his different symptoms. Shortly she came to a terrible realization and her lower lip began to tremble.
"Starfire, what is it?" New tears streamed down her cheeks. "What's wrong?" She let out a broken sigh and ran a hand over his arm.
"Oh Robin, you have become infected by the harvesters."
GASP! What will happen! Well I guess we'll just have to find out when I update. Thanks for reading so far and I hope your liking it so far. Laters!
