Chapter 2

Starfire stopped outside the Tower. "Friend Raven…Bumblebee…are we to fly to New York?"

Bumblebee cracked up "Nah girl, we're using Speedy's "Teletitan" as he calls it, its based on the Tower Transport System. Raven looked at the small disk dubiously as Bumblebee pulled it out.

"Didn't Speedy's Titan-iam body shields crack when you stretch?"

Starfire piped in- "And didn't his Teen-y villain nets entangle us instead?"

"And remember when his Tit-lite-glow-in-the-dark-pants he didn't tell us about ruined the 4 day stake-out we had by Slade?" Raven finished.

Bumblebee stared at it for a minute, then chucked it in the water. "Damn…you're right. But its' too far to fly there…..maybe we could…" An unholy grin appeared on her face.

"Maybe we could what friend?" Starfire asked, puzzled by her friends sudden change.

"STEAL THE T-CAR FOR A JOYRIDE!" Bumblebee exclaimed in a hushed whisper.

All three girls jumped and gasped, clapping their hands to their mouth to stifle the noise. They giggled madly and kept glancing at each other trying not to burst out laughing.

"I could phase us into the garage from here…and make it look like we ..."teleported". Raven offered, trying not to burst out laughing and cause something to explode.

Within seconds the girls were in the garage. Starfire pressed her ears against the door, her keen alien senses able to detect motion. "All the boys are upstairs….arguing….meat versus tofu. Ugh."

She had to admit, as much as she loved all her friends…sometimes the sameness of the Tower could be boring…and to think she was going adventuring with her best friend Raven and her other good friend to distant parts of planet Earth! She had a feeling though….there might be something in the tower she might miss more than she wanted to dwell on.

Bumblebee jumped in the driver's seat, and Raven sidled in next to her. Starfire threw their bags into the back and settled down with her new hobby-knitting. For the past few weeks all the Titans had been walking around wearing scarves, mittens, and badly-fitting shirts. She even decorated with doilies and mismatched curtains. Raven glanced back to see what she was doing and smirked, remembering the time last Thursday when BB tried to convince Star not to make another Happiness Pudding the day they received the letter. Turning into a kitten in an attempt to melt her heart, he had been unable to resist the kitten-ish impulse of jumping into her yarn basket and getting hopelessly tangled among the Tamaranian's many balls of yarn. Star had flown into a rage and the hallway next to her room had smelled like singed fur for days.

"Do you know how to drive this thing?" Raven asked Bumblebee with a pointed look at the girls utter confusion to find the ignition- the T-car didn't have a key, thanks to the many times BB had accidentally swallowed it, so Cyborg had adapted it to start when a communicator was pressed into it.

"If Sparky can drive this thing, then so can I baby!" she cried out. Eventually, she gave a triumphant cry and pushed her communicator into a small circle in the dashboard. A steering wheel popped up, as well as the gas and brake pedals. She grabbed the wheel and jabbed at a bright red button- at the same time Starfire had looked up, and seeing what she was going to do had shouted out "NOOOOOOOO" remembering a time when she still loved to press buttons and sent the T-car flying straight up into the air- and crashing back down to earth.

Too late- the car with three screaming girls inside of it crashed through the garage and straight into the living room- they got a glimpse of the boy's horrified and shocked faces, before they plummeted back down-

"Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" The car landed in a smooth dive, and Bumblebee accelerated, shooting the car out over the rode. Starfire popped out the sunroof to wave to the boys, hanging dumbly out the window to wave good-bye.

"Good-bye friends! We shall talk soon!

"MY BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" the anguished cry of Cyborg was the last sound the girls heard before Starfire slid back down into the seat and they all burst out laughing. Parking meters to the left and right melted but Raven didn't care. Two weeks with her best friends, away from the boys, and a competition ahead. She might even meet someone else with more of her- inclination- in tastes.

The drive passed by in fun and merriment, they had a few more bloopers with the T-car, once Star spilled mustard all over the map screen and it malfunctioned. They were 3 miles in the wrong direction before they realized it and corrected it. Once, when they discovered "personality chips" Cyborg had stashed in the glove compartment that made the car adjust to whatever Titan's chip was placed, they had used Cyborg's to see if it would make the car go faster. All it did, as they hung on for dear life, was go off-roading on to a farm and chase cows going "MEATbeepMEATbeep". They finally managed to stop it when Bumblebee desperately jammed BB's chip in, which caused them to run from the cows, the car screeching "BE FREE BRETHEREN". They made a few stops along the way to get food and take pictures at the local city's hotspots, but arrived in NY the day before the convention was to meet.

The building was actually a beautiful mansion. It had a long drive-way, well lit and lined with trees. They pulled into the driveway- almost hitting one of the valets- and looked up in awe at the mansion ahead of them, not even noticing their bags being taken out and carried to wherever it was they would sleep. It was cream white, 3 stories tall, with beautiful engravings on panels depicting ancient gods and goddesses from mythology. Two tall mahogany doors opened up into an entrance hall that made Cinderella's staircase entrance look pathetic. Suddenly Star gasped and grabbed Bumblebees head- spinning her around, she hit Raven and began pointing- "Isn't that Wondergirl?" Raven spun them around again- "The SECRET!" Bumblebee yanked them around again-" The Spoiler and Arrowette!" The girls were too stunned to speak. They knew they were considered Superheroes, but these girls were legends! To compete against them….Raven felt dizzy, while Bumblebee was still too shocked to move. Starfire however, was having urges to strangle Arrowette. None of them noticed 4 figures moving closer to them until-

"Well, well…if it isn't the Teen Tricks" purred a voice.

Starfire recognized that voice……all three girls whipped around in attack stance- but were too shocked to do anything.

Facing them, all looking malicious, evil, and damnably confident was-

Blackfire, Jinx, Kitten and Terra.