Yay! Sandwiches to everyone who reviewed! (You all can imagine your favorites at this point!) Let's see…who DID review? Oh right: Lintilla (yes! You will LOVE the movie!), DarkWindingRose (fwee…hehehe), Cherry Jade, hafewolfdeamon, and to all on the TT IMDb, I thank you now from the bottom of my heart.
evilsangle: yeah, a Rob/Rae lemon WOULD be entertaining, but there's not one in this story…sorry, though you should like what I did anyway! (and besides, IF I were to write a Rob/Rae lemon, it would be part two of 'Passion's Intensity', though I still like that one shot the way it is…)
Reggie Tuesday: hey! Thanks for popping up! And also thanks for supporting my view that Robin should so think "Raven", but I really do like to keep them in character for the most part, so that's why I figure Robin would at least TRY thinking "Starfire" before going all out. And BTW, BB and Cy are this chapter, so I hope I've satisfied your curiosity.
Savvy: Hehe, yay! I'm turning Savvy? (well, you know me…I'm a touch evil…, but like I've said before, I'm an equal-opportunity shipper, thus my absolute love of 'Stranded' as well…). Glad you liked the "mask" thing as well. I figured that it would work pretty well, especially since they ARE alone and she HAS basically seen everything he has to hide. And yay again! I'm helping you through your withdrawl? Awww…I feel so flattered!
Disclaimer: If I owned 'Harry Potter', he would have so just kicked Malfoy's ass by now…oh, wait…wrong category…oops. Well, y'all know I don't own anything anyway. -As you can see, I barely own my brain.
So, what have Cy and BB been up to? Well, now you are just in time to find out…
Reunion?
"Starfire what are you talking about?" Cyborg looked at her with wide eyes, "We're your friends. Remember?" he pointed to himself, "Cyborg?" he motioned to the side, "Beast Boy? And why aren't you speaking your 'oddly descriptive' English like you usually do?"
Starfire stared at him blankly, "I've always talked like this, and you are not Cyborg. And I don't know of any 'Beast Boy.'"
Beast Boy took a brave step toward her, "Star, come on…you don't remember me? BB?" he shifted into his "cuddly little kitten" form, blinked his big eyes, and mewed. He became Beast Boy once more and asked almost pleadingly, "You gotta remember the face…don't you?"
Starfire finally relaxed her body, but looked at him as though she were contemplating between voicing caustic laughter or showing sarcastic confusion, "Okay first of all, what the hell was that? Secondly I really don't know of any 'Beast Boy'. The only person I know that can do that is Beast Girl."
Beast Boy's jaw unhinged, "WHAT?"
Cyborg looked just as surprised, "You mean there's another shape shifter? And it's a GIRL?"
Starfire shook her head in disgust, "Of course! You mean you've never heard of her before?"
"Uh, NO!" Beast Boy blurted.
Cyborg rolled his fingers through the air as if he were twirling a rubber band over and over while thinking. "So, since you know Beast 'Girl', does that mean that there is like a 'Cy-girl' too!" he asked almost hopefully.
"No. I know a 'Cyborg', I just don't know why you are using that name," she stuck her hand on her hip, "Except for your metal armor and computer parts, you don't look or act like him."
Cyborg tipped his head to the side and lowered his right eyebrow, "Girl, what are you talkin' about?"
She paced in a circle around him, examining him with her eyes, "Well first of all, myCyborg is white."
Cyborg did a double take, "WHAT?" He didn't move a muscle for a minute and a half. Then he finally expressed his thoughts, "Aw HELL no!"
"And he has a very specific drawl to his voice," she said stepping back.
"Like, he's southern or something too! Aw HELL no!" Cyborg rubbed his temples, then tipped his head back, causing him to stare up at the still ruddy sky.
"You should meet him yourself and find out," Starfire said picking the "wraith" up off of the ground and hauling him on her back, away from them and down the alley.
After a long pause Beast Boy stepped forward, crossing his hands back and forth, "Whoa whoa whoa…wait a minute!" he formed his hands into a "T", "Time out. I repeat the initial question, 'What the HELL is going on here!' First, Star's all foxy and savvy about the English language…then, she says Cy's not Cy and that I'm supposed to be a…GIRL!" he gasped and made WAY too big a fuss at the last thing.
"Maybe you should be asking, 'Where the hell are we?' B," Cyborg concluded, "I mean, I don't think we're in Kansas any more Toto."
"What are you talking about?" Beast Boy wailed.
Cy picked him up and started after Starfire, "B, we're not on our Earth. That black orb thingy that we got sucked into…the one that should have killed us? Well, I think it sent us here. There has to be some reason -something we can do about it, but right now I think we should follow Star and find out more about this world." Since Beast Boy didn't have much of a choice at this point he just gave up struggling and conceded.
To her surprise, they aided Starfire in capturing the other three wraiths. When they had finally imprisoned the final errant wraith, Starfire asked, well, basically told them to come with her to the tower, so they informed her of their story on the way.
"Well boys," Star said bending over with straight legs to dust off her boots –which made both boys stare, but quickly look away when she straightened, "even though I don't quite believe you yet, I welcome you to our humble home."
And humble it was. In this dimension, even Titans Tower was in disrepair. Many windows, if they weren't completely missing, showed blatantly shoddy repairs. The front door was bent inward, and when they walked inside, they noticed that the carpet had never been replaced even though it showed obvious signs of ware. Cyborg hadn't even needed Starfire to carry him across the moat because it had dried to a mere puddle that was hardly even any trouble to even step over.
"So, where is this Beast 'Girl' I've been hearing so much about?" Beast Boy asked, trying as hard as he could to look both sickened and disinterested at once.
Starfire motioned them down the hall, "She was monitoring the wraiths locations when I left. She must be in the control room." They stood behind her as she opened the door, but they all noticed at once that the room was completely empty. "Hey, Beast Girl! Where you at?" Starfire yelled. The only thing that produced was the sound of her voice echoing throughout the room.
A search at that point was pointless, so they turned to leave. All of a sudden, something dropped from the ceiling and swung back and forth in front of them. It was a little green furry monkey hanging upside down from a pipe by its tail and cautiously looking them over. It dropped to the floor before transforming into a pigtailed, bright-eyed version of Beast Boy, "Hey guys!" it said cheerfully, "What are we looking for?"
"Actually we were looking for you BG," Starfire said to her. Then she turned to the guys and motioned back and forth during the introduction, "Guys, this is Beast Girl. Beast Girl this is Beast Boy and um, Cyborg."
"Hi!" she said perkily, sticking out both of her hands, one to each of them. After a minute of introductory conversation, the realization finally hit her, "Wait a minute! You can't be Cyborg! And why do you look like me?" she pointed her right hand at Cyborg and her left at Beast Boy while she asked that question.
They both let out huge sighs as they began to explain everything to her, but Starfire stopped them, "Maybe…you should wait until you see everyone before you explain. I'm not that keen on the idea of having to hear the same story several times." They nodded in agreement. "Good. Then, shall we?" She motioned them onward.
They paraded down the hall to the garage. Star opened the door and walked right in, "Yo Cy! You in here?"
She flipped the light switch up, which flooded the place in a harsh white light. Cyborg let his eyes travel around the room, 'Well at least this place is in good shape.' Then they rested on this dimension's T-Car. "My BABY!" he cried, bolting forward and hugging it, "Aw, no no no! What did they DO to you?"
"Oh, ya like it?" The other Cyborg asked, stepping from the shadows and wiping his hands with a rag, "I made 'er from scratch. Ever little piece, handcrafted into this magnificently sleek, perfection on wheels," he slid his hands along the shiny chrome, "Oh, this baby's got a twin turbo charged turbine fission engine. It's only putting out about four thousand horsepower right now, but I was thinking of changing my intercooler to liquid because of the air charge temperature problem. Ought to add 'nother three hundred ponies! And I added my own special touches, just to make 'er my own," he finished, slapping the side of the car for emphasis.
At the mention of the "special touches" Cyborg's eye twitched violently and he had to brace his arms on the car itself to not fall over. The "special touches" that the other Cyborg had mentioned started with a huge set of bull-horns sticking up over the grill. It was also jacked up with monster super-swamper tires on top of an eight-inch lift, but the frame stretched far enough to allow for a small hot tub in the back. Cyborg put his hands over his face to keep from crying, 'I can't believe he did this to my baby!'
The other Cyborg pointed to the horns, "Yeah, these puppies came from my old man's shop –God rest his soul, and the hot tub? Well, that's for them pretty ladies that I come across ever now and again."
Cyborg forgot his shock for the moment and his eyes widened cheerfully, "Oh, yeah! The hunnies sure would go for that." He slapped Cy on the back, then grabbed him around the shoulder, "Maybe I should do that with mine…say what did you do about the transfer problem with the…" his voice trailed off as they wandered around to the other side of the car.
Beast Boy stuck a finger up in the air and started after them, "Uh, Cy and…uh, Cy. Dudes? Hey! What about me?" After a few short introductions and a quick realization by both Cyborgs that they really did look alike, Starfire stepped in and mentioned that they needed to go look for someone else.
Beast Boy broke in again, "Wait, before we go, what are we gonna call you? One Cyborg is enough, but since there are two now…do we call you Vic, or Cyborg version 2.0, or what?"
The other Cyborg looked at Cyborg and grinned, "I doubt either of us would like to stick a 2 behind their name. I kinda like bein' number one myself."
Cyborg nodded, "So do I."
"Just call me Cy. That should work," he finished.
Starfire stepped between them, "Okay…now that we know who's who, let's get a move on."
One floor up, they stopped before a door at which Starfire knocked, "Raven, Rae…" she whispered, "There are a couple of people out here that I really think you need to see."
Beast Boy elbowed Cyborg in his ribs and spoke behind his raised hand, "Geez, I wonder what this Raven's gonna be like?"
"Probably wears pink and is perky as hell," he whispered back with his mouth to the side.
After a moment, the door slid open a few inches and half of a cloaked face peered out at them, "What Starfire? You know I don't like to be disturbed when I'm meditating."
"Rae, this is 'Cyborg'," (this time she actually said it with air quotes), "and Beast Boy. They have come to us from another Jump City and have a very interesting story to tell -the details of which I have already asked them to explain later."
Raven opened the door farther and asked in complete monotone, "Do you mean that they came from another planet? Or they came from another plane of existence?"
"The second one," Cyborg chimed in.
She nodded and turned away, wrapping the cloak around her tighter, "Alright, after you explain everything. I'll look through my books and see if there are any useful spells to get you back to your home."
Beast Boy spoke to Cyborg behind his hand once again, "What the heck is so different about her? She seems like the same old Raven to me."
Starfire stopped the door from closing, "Raven, I know you need to meditate and there will be ample time later, but right now, I need you to come with us to the main room."
"Fine," Raven turned around. The door to her room closed, and as she levitated to follow Starfire, she pulled down her hood revealing a head of dark pink hair.
"Ohhhhhhhhhhh!" Beast Boy and Cyborg said in unison with their mouths dropped open. "See! I told you she'd be wearing pink!" Cyborg declared matter of factly, before following.
(Once upon a time, back in the tower, he remembered -when Starfire had first arrived, she had somehow talked Raven into coloring her hair. "Just a few blue streaks Starfire," he'd heard Raven say as courteously as she could, but of course Star's English wasn't quite proficient enough to allow her to read the directions correctly and Raven's "blue streaks" became a white ones. He and BB had laughed for hours about that one, but of course he would never even dream of telling this Raven that. He had caught enough hell about it from his Raven; he didn't want to think about what this one would do to him over it as well).
They came to the main room and all plopped down on the couch, all but Starfire who leaned casually over the back of it. She addressed them all with an air of authority, "Okay guys. Why don't you regale us with your story once more."
Cyborg stood and began pacing to better tell the story. But before he could get a word of it out, he stopped himself, "Hey, where's Robin?"
"Who?" all the Titans asked in unison.
"You know, Robin -the uptight one with the black spiky hair?" Beast Boy interjected, "…Always wears a mask?"
They just stared at him with questioning looks on their faces, so Cyborg tried once more, "You know, the fifth member of your team."
Starfire gained a look of recognition, "Oh! You mean Ted."
Now it was Beast Boy and Cyborg's turn to speak in unison, "What!"
"Ted. He's our fifth team member," she pointed to the corner of the room, "Ted's right over there." She saw the looks of confusion on their faces and walked over to the corner and began apparently speaking to the air, "Ted, come on. You can stop being scared, these are good guys, they're our friends." Out of nowhere -like magic, a skinny, scraggly black haired boy with thick glasses and wearing a uniform that actually looked fairly similar to Robin's appeared. "Please come sit with us."
As he sat, Raven spoke to the boys on Ted's behalf, "Ted gets scared easily and when he does, he becomes invisible."
Beast Girl chimed in, "We just keep him around cause he knows stuff. He's not much use in battle."
Beast Boy shook his head violently and turned to Cyborg, "Dude this is too weird."
"No comment."
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