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A/N: REVIEWS! Not as many as the last one, but at least I got some nonetheless. Here are replies to the last chapter (some of them, anyway):

ShiningStarr: I'm glad you like this! ...Dude, you were up pretty late, huh? Lol, anyway, this makes you feel awkward? ...Is it 'coz of the rape thing? Heh, thanks for reviewing!

Yeliak: I'm sorry you got lost! Starfire DIDN'T get raped...well, you see, Raven saw her getting raped in a vision. It wasn't the real thing! I'll explain in this chapter why Star was in Jump City and not in Gotham. Don't worry – I'll make sure I clarify which Raven is which in this chapter. I hope this clarifies everything you got confused on, and thanks for reviewing!

Chapter Thirteen: Time's Running Slim

"She WHAT?" Robin exclaimed.

"Dude...are you serious?" Beast Boy asked.

"Our Star?" Cyborg asked.

"You heard me, yes, and yes," Raven told them.

"RAPED?" Robin yelled. "I...you saw this?"

"Saw and somehow felt," Raven told him.

"So you kinda...saw and felt what she was going through?" Cyborg asked.

Raven nodded. "I mostly saw, though...I only felt anything for a minute."

"Is that why you were screaming?" Beast Boy asked.

Raven nodded. "Believe me; it hurt. Badly."

"We NEED to help her," Robin said. "Did you find out anything else?"

She paused for a moment. "What's the time, and what's the date?"

"September 22, 5:30 PM...why?" Cyborg asked.

She gasped, her eyes slightly enlarging. "We've got exactly six and a half hours to save her."

"Say what?" Beast Boy and Cyborg exclaimed.

"I need you guys to help me," she explained. "Cyborg, go look up anything you can on time travel. I don't know what that will do, but it might help."

Cyborg nodded. "Alright." He walked off.

"Robin, I need you to go to...err, wherever you go to check the security of the tower," she told him.

"Why?"

"Starfire may end up anywhere in the tower when I get her back," she explained.

"...Okay..." Robin muttered before walking off.

She looked at Beast Boy and stared at him for a moment. "You could...I don't know...help Cyborg or keep up with the time or whatever..."

"Gotcha!" he said before walking off.

She sighed and closed her eyes. Crossing her legs and now floating a few feet off the bed, she started to recite, "Azarath...Metrion...Zinthos..."

The hours quickly passed by as so did nothing. Raven couldn't get a connection into the future, Cyborg couldn't find any good information about time travel, Robin got bored from doing nothing and often dozed off for seconds because of the nothingness that was going on, and Beast Boy actually kept quiet and mostly stayed out of people's business.

Raven, after almost two hours chanting, decided to contact her future self (which was easier to accomplish). 'I need your help.'

'Okay.'

'I was thinking...maybe you could help me get her back here.'

'Okay...but how?'

'We can get a steadier connection between ourselves and concentrate our powers to get Starfire back here.'

'We can try. It's a good thing she's only a few feet away from me...'

'She's staying with you?'

'Yep.'

No wonder she was in Jump City in the vision, she thought to herself before (telepathically) saying, 'Good...could you get her to use her powers in some sort?'

'Of course. Can we start now?'

'Sure.' "Aazarath, Metrion, Zinthos..." she started to chant again.

Back in another room, Cyborg continued to search time travel on a computer. "Time turner...back to the future...time can never stop?" He groaned in frustration and titled his head back. "This ain't goin' nowhere!"

"What isn't going anywhere?" Beast Boy asked, appearing in the doorway.

"My research," Cyborg muttered. "All I get is a bunch of crap from movies and fan sites and other boring stuff!"

"I'm sorry to hear that," Beast Boy said, taking a seat, dragging it over next to where Cyborg was, and sitting down in it.

"Well...has Boy Wonder or Raven gotten anywhere yet?" Cyborg asked.

"Uhh...last time I checked, Robin was dozing off and on, and Raven was chanting away," the changeling explained. "I'm guessing they haven't gotten anywhere."

"Great, we're on the road to nowhere. Again."

"Well, it could be worse."

"...Care to explain your reasoning for so, green one?"

Beast Boy ignored Cyborg's statement and said, "What if it wasn't a vision? What if she were ACTUALLY there when it happened, huh? What if she was already raped?"

Cyborg raised his only eyebrow and said, "You're one dumb teenager."

"Excuse me?"

"Well, for one thing, if she were actually there, then why couldn't she touch the wall?" the hybrid asked.

"Well...um..."

"And secondly, the dude in the vision said Midnight on the 24th, and today's the 23rd."

Beast Boy stared at Cyborg. "Alright, never mind. It still could be worse, though."

"I don't wanna know."

"Sure you do."

"If it's anything like your last assumption...no, I don't," Cyborg told him, looking back at the computer and continuing his research.

"Hey, what's that?" Beast Boy asked, pointing to something at the screen.

Cyborg leaned closer to the screen and read, "The great time disappearing act...hmm, sounds like something Mumbo would do, right?"

"Sure does."

"Let's check further into this, shall we?" Cyborg asked as he clicked on the link. Together, they read the page, their faces growing more curious as they read the information.

"Um, so...this trick is pretty hard to accomplish, huh?" the changeling asked after the read the whole page (which was pretty long).

"Yeah...think we should tell Robin?" Cyborg asked.

"Or we could do this," Beast Boy said, pressing the "PRINT" button on the keyboard and watching all five of the pages print out.

"That could work, too," Cyborg said, grabbing the pages. Together, they ran downstairs and found Robin in the main room, watching the screen.

"Having fun, bird boy?" Cyborg teased.

Robin turned around in his swivel chair. "Found anything?"

"Yeah, you might wanna take a look at this," Cyborg said, walking forward and handing the papers to Robin.

Robin read each of the five pages slowly, but he also read them twice. When he was done looking at them, he looked up at the other boy Titans and said, "Think we should tell Raven?"

"Nah," Beast Boy said. "I really don't think we should disturb her...if she comes down, we'll tell her."

"So...all Mumbo had to really do was teach that mighty person some tricks...like, other kinds of tricks, and the person just gives him powers of whatever kind...or in this case, this machine to transport people to the future?" Robin asked, making sure he understood the paper right.

"Sounds about right," Cyborg said.

"I didn't read the part about how to get the person back," Robin dryly said. "I must've missed that."

"I honestly don't think it's on there," Beast Boy told him.

Cyborg shook his head before slapping the green teen upside his head. "You dumbass."

"Hey, what the heck was that for?" Beast Boy asked, rubbing his head and glaring at Cyborg.

"You're a dumbass," Cyborg repeated. "We ALL know it's not on there; he was being sarcastic."

Beast Boy looked at him strangely before saying, "Ooh."

"But, really, I'm glad you guys found this, because now I know what Mumbo used to get Star into the future," Robin told them. "I just wish...this was more helpful, that's all."

"Man, its no trouble," Cyborg assured, giving him the thumbs-up. "I wish it were more helpful, too, but, you know, this ain't a splinter in your thumb kinda situation."

"Maybe we should sit here for a while and wait for something to happen," Beast Boy said, walking over to the couch and sitting on it.

And that's what they did. Minute after minute passed by. Minutes turned into hours, and the minutes soon came closer towards Midnight, where they would either have Starfire back or she'd be in the clutches of some greasy man, forcefully being raped.

After endless hours of waiting, Robin looked at his watch and saw that is was now 10:45. "Raven needs to hurry up," he muttered to himself, trying to keep calm (like that was possible).

"Did ya say something there?" Cyborg asked, looking over at Robin.

He shook his head. "No." He remained silent for a minute before saying, "Do you two know what time it is?"

"Nope," Beast Boy admitted, not taking his stare off the T.V.

Cyborg looked at the clock that was installed on his arm. "It's an hour and fifteen minutes before...anything can happen."

"Exactly," Robin said. "It's been five hours and fifteen minutes, and nothing's happened!"

"Dude," Beast Boy said. "Chill. You're overreacting."

"Me-overreacting?" Robin asked, his anger rising. "You've never loved someone like I love Starfire before! You've never lost someone that you've cared for with all your heart!"

"How do you think I felt when Terra betrayed us? Huh?" Beast Boy asked, angry.

"That's not the same thing," Robin muttered, focusing on the screen in front of him.

"Sure it is," Beast Boy said, calming down. "I used to love Terra...not anymore, anyway, but I once did. But when I found out she had sided with Slade and pretended to be on our side, that...it just broke my heart. That's all I could think about for a long time, even after she came back and sacrificed her own life for ours." He paused for a moment. "Well, I got over her when she tried killing all of us...but I do think it's the same thing."

Robin groaned in frustration before a whirling noise could be heard.

"What's that?" Cyborg asked, looking around.

They all remained quiet for a moment. They all looked around, trying to find the source of the sound. Right then, a black hole appeared in the ceiling.

"That's what I think it is, isn't it?" Cyborg asked.

"I think so," Beast Boy answered.

Right then, a large, black, hand appeared in it. It then went down, carrying something. It opened its hand up (it was closed up, carrying something), dropping what it was holding.

"Starfire?" Robin asked.

Indeed, it was Starfire. She looked over at them. Her face was tear-stained, she looked frightened beyond belief, and she was only wearing her bra and underwear.

"Robin!" she cried, getting up and running over to him. She wrapped her arms around his neck, crying into his shoulder. "Oh, Robin, I have missed you so much..."

"I've missed you, too, Star," Robin whispered, kissing the top of her head. He wrapped his arms around her waist, holding her, breathing in her scent. He gave her a tight squeeze, a small smile forming on his face. She's back.

A/N: SHE'S BACK! (Does a dance.) And this took...six chapters. I made ya'll wait six chapters until I decided to get her back. But, think of it as a good thing – I was originally going to wait longer...and she wasn't going to get raped in the earlier stages of writing this.

PLEASE REVIEW! Only two chapters left...yeah, I should say that now before I forget. BUT, there will be a sequel, as I have already mentioned. You can see the title and what the main themes are gonna be about in my profile. (NOTE: It isn't based on the Ashlee Simpson song...I just needed a title, and I thought that was a good one.)