Teen Titans
Characters:
Original: (Good) Aqualad, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Robin, Raven, and Speedy.
(Bad) Slade
New: (Good) Toshi
(Bad) Chanlah (AKA, Death)
Authors note: Every line that starts out with the person's name is a thought by that person.
Disclaimer: I do not own any thing from the Teen Titans. The only thing I own from this story are the characters I personally made up.
The Path to Redemption
Chapter 2
Plan of action
ROBIN: I can't believe it. It's too good to be true. Star, Raven knows a person who can bring you back. We can be together, just like I promised you. I'll still repay Slade, but I have to go with Raven first. Then we'll find Toshi and he'll bring you back. I'm so happy for us. I love you Star, sweetheart.
"So I need all of your help to reach him," Raven told the four Teen Titans. "He is held captive by Death. I don't know how powerful Death is, I don't even know what he looks like, but I know that he is strong."
"Ooookay," Cyborg said. "You want to tell us how you even met this Toshi guy?"
"I didn't," she said. "I heard of him through one of the old Massi books we found last month. He is said to be the African god of life, and he submitted himself to Death in order to save all of the Massi tribes from a great plague. The books didn't say what either of them looked like. It had said though, that they were guys. It also told where they were…the under levels of the Azarath."
"Hold the phone," Beast Boy cried out. He started pacing. "You-" he pointed at Raven, "-expect us to just go with you to your homeland that we have never been in, to help you rescue a guy that no one here has seen, so that we can find out if some Mari myth is real or not?"
"First, it's Massi, not Mari, and second yes, I was. After all, if you truly are Starfire's friend, you'd try anything to bring her back."
"And you're going along with it?" he asked Robin.
"Why not?" Robin replied. "I love Starfire, and if there is anyway to bring her back, I am going to try it. I thought you were her friends as well," Robin said with a threatening edge to his voice.
"We are, we are," Cyborg said defensively. "Don't go on treatin' us like we're the bad guys. What BB was sayin' was that we don't even know if the Toshi guy exists. I mean, I personally don't want to waste my…our time…chasing something that may all just be a big folktale. I love Star too, but if we go and Slade takes over while we're gone and this Toshi doesn't exist, then not only will we have wasted valuable time, but the world will be doomed. I'm not willing to take that risk right now especially not with Slade at his strongest."
"WE HAVE TO BRING STARFIRE BACK CYBORG!" Robin shouted at him.
"I KNOW THAT! But you need to think about other people besides yourself."
"Starfire is not myself."
"WON'T YOU LISTEN? Starfire may not be able to come back, no matter what we do. I know how much you hate Slade. Now think Robin, what if he decides to take over New York while we're chasing down some possibly fictional character?"
"As much as I hate to admit it Robin, Cyborg's right," Raven said.
"Fine, then you can stay behind with Beast Boy to defend New York," Robin said to Cyborg. "I'll call for Aqualad to help you and Speedy to help Raven and me." Robin turned to Beast Boy. "You ARE still friends with him, right?"
"He is," Raven said. "He hasn't gone around the tower screaming about how he and Aqualad aren't friends any more and that he hates him."
"What!" Beast Boy said. "I so don't do that!"
"Maybe not anymore," Cyborg cut in. "But you sure use to."
"What is this, pick on Beast Boy day?"
"Nope, that's Tuesday-" Cyborg pulled down a calendar and pointed to the picture of Beast Boy's head on the following Tuesday. "-right after make Beast Boy eat meat day." Then he pointed to a picture of a chicken on the following Monday. Beast Boy just glared at him.
"Dude," he said. "There is no way I am ever, EVER going to eat ANY type of meat. I am a complete and full vegetarian, and nothing is going to change that." He crossed his arms and turned his back to them.
"What about that time after you got covered in chemicals and ate my breakfast," Robin said.
"It might have been cer—"
"Which was HAM and EGGS." Beast Boy looks sheepish.
"Well that didn't count. I wasn't myself, remember."
"Sure you were," Robin said sarcastically.
"Listen," Raven said. "We don't have time right now for you to be goofing off."
"Raven's right," he said. "I'll go ahead and call Speedy and Aqualad. Meanwhile-" he looks at Cyborg. "-you go and fix my bike. If you recall, it was torn up in the last battle with Slade." As he said that name, he felt a new surge of anger towards him. "Raven, you start finding a way to get us into Azarath. Let's get to work."
CYBORG: To see the anger on Robin's face then, I could tell that he hated Slade now more than ever. I'm sorry I had to say what I did to Robin, but it's true. I know that he was in love with Starfire. Oh yes, he thought he was hiding it, but we all knew he loved her more than as a friend. I want to help him, but he won't let anyone touch Slade, he never was much for doing that. Something from his past, as well as what happened last week, it made him want to personally take down Slade, and I think that is his weakness. I'm his friend, but Robin needs to learn why his friends are there.
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