"Unmasked"
When Starfire receives a rather "friendly" letter from a mysterious boy, the Titans go on high alert. They soon come to find that this letter, containing a declaration of love for Starfire was sent by none other than Red X. He proclaims that he will never steal again as long as he lives, just as long as he can win the love of Starfire. Soon after, Starfire begins to see good in the mysterious Red X and starts spending time with him, she begins to develop feelings for him in ways she never thought possible. Could this be the end of Starfire and Robin? And just who is this Red X?
Starfire wishes to learn more about her mysterious, new boyfriend. She begs and pleads with him to tell her, but alas, she will just have to live in confusion. Unless... she vows to lose all contact with the Teen Titans. Starfire reluctantly accepts and comes to find that this "Red X" is rather familiar.
"This festival of the valentine is most joyous, Robin." Starfire exclaimed, handing Robin a heart-shaped card. "This tiny shaped paper is from Starfire to Robin!" She smiled, while waiting for Robin's valentine.
"Is it not customary for two people to exchange these delightful little cards on this day?"
Starfire's cheery-looking face suddenly took to a gloomy appearance, when she realized that Robin did not have a card for her.
"I'm sorry, Star; I didn't have enough time to make you a card. I stayed up all night trying to track down Slade."
"Robin may have been an insensitive jerk, but it would appear as though at least someone cares about you." Beast Boy handed Starfire the envelope.
In the secrecy of her room, Starfire opened the envelope to find a rather strange letter. It read:
"To my beloved Starfire, I have watched you, and admired you from afar. I would even go so far as to say that I have made certain advances towards you. You didn't seem to appreciate them, however. I wish to meet you, in private, so please come alone. I'll meet you at the carnival tomorrow at 12 p.m. sharp."
Starfire did not know what to make of the strange letter. Although, she couldn't show the letter to the others or they would follow her and possibly ruin everything.
Just as she was told, Starfire arrived alone, at the carnival. There she waited for all of five minutes for her mysterious admirer. Unexpectedly, a voice called to her.
"Starfire, my dear. I have yearned for this moment for a long time."
Starfire got tense and looked around for the source of the voice, when suddenly; a shadowy figure popped out from behind the rollercoaster and grabbed her.
She could feel his breath caressing her neck as he wrapped an arm around and kissed it.
"Wh-who is there?!" Starfire screamed aloud, attempting unsuccessfully to push him away.
As the two stepped into the light, this mysterious man was revealed to be none other than Red X.
"That's right, babe. It's me, Red X." He said with confidence, leaning in to kiss Starfire.
"Are you surprised? Perhaps a bit disappointed?" He smirked. "Or, perhaps you are exited."
"What do you want with me?" Starfire questioned.
"Why, I want nothing more than to touch you, to feel the warmth of your beautiful body against mine. I want to know what it's truly like to be loved by someone such as you."
"But you are a thief!" Starfire exclaimed.
He looked at Starfire, longingly. "Yes, I have done many horrible things. However, I am willing to change…For you."
"As long as I may have you as my girl, I will never steal another cent as long as I shall live."
"Why would you make such a sacrifice for me?" Starfire questioned as she raised an eyebrow.
X began moving closer to Starfire, removing the lower half of his mask, and kissing her.
She didn't know why, but something about the man was rather endearing, she couldn't bring herself to move away from him.
X wasn't giving up there. He had to test his limits, didn't he? He gently slid his tongue into her mouth and watched as she blushed and started to push him away.
"Was that too much for ya, Princess?" He questioned, sarcastically.
"I do not know who you think you are but…." Starfire's sentence was cut off by yet another kiss, this time, she was forced to the ground as Red X began sliding his hand up her shirt, this time, and he was not going to be denied so easily.
Starfire looked at him. The look on her face was that of a scared, little girl.
"I want to make love to you." He blurted out, as he started slipping her shirt over her head."
X smiled, as he stared at Starfire's bare breasts. He extended his hand to caress them but was unsuccessful. Starfire tossed a single star bolt at his hand.
"You realize I'm not going to give up on you so easily, dear." He leant down and licked her breast, watching her face as she blushed and got more and more flustered.
"I'll let you go for tonight, but this is not the last you will see of me. I want to go all the way."
X smiled, running off into the night.
Starfire couldn't sleep at all, that night.
She awoke for breakfast with a zombie-like appearance. The glow of her face was non-existent.
"Man, Star; did you get ANY sleep last night? You look like a corpse." Beast Boy blurted out.
"I could not slumber last night! I shall go and finish slumbering now!" Starfire yelled, running to her room. She was finally able to fall asleep. Until, Robin called everyone into the lobby to take care of a robbery.
"Titans! Go!" Robin yelled. Starfire lagged slowly behind the rest.
She thought in her mind who the robber was. She thought that Red X broke his promise.
When they reached the jewelry store, they came face to face with what looked to be a giant heart.
Starfire had felt badly for doubting X.
Later that night, Starfire had been sleeping in her bed when she heard a knock on her window.
She got up, quickly to see what the noise was when she noticed Red X outside her window.
"Hey, babe. Ya miss me?" He smirked extending his hand out, hoping she would take hold of it.
"What are you doing here?" Starfire questioned.
"Have you already forgotten what I told you last night?" He frowned, pulling his hand back.
"I said that I wasn't going to give up on you. Which brings me to why I am here. I want you to come with me, now."
"I do not know if I can come with you tonight." Starfire frowned, as she stared to walk away from the window.
X jumped through Starfire's window, wrapping her arms around her.
"I know you can. Perhaps you simply don't want to come with me."
"I wish you had more trust in me, I have made many sacrifices for you, my dear."
X held his hand out once more. "Now, will you please reconsider? " He questioned.
"If you want me to leave, I won't come back and you'll never hear from me again."
Starfire blushed and grabbed hold of his hand.
"I knew you'd see it my way."
"Where do you wish to take me?" Starfire questioned, grabbing hold of his waist."
He did not respond until the two arrived at a rather fancy apartment.
They walked in the door of the apartment and immediately, X dragged her into his bedroom,
"I wish to take you places you've never been before."
He smirked, fondling Starfire's breast through her shirt.
"I am going to seduce you, Starfire. No matter what it takes."
"I do not believe that would be possible." Starfire assured him.
No sooner had she assured him that absolutely nothing could happen between them, he began stripping her of all her clothing. As she stood, naked in front of him, he pushed her onto the bed and began caressing her body.
"Please, do not touch me there." Starfire demanded as his hand slid down in between her legs.
"Don't be so uptight, if we're going to make love, I'm going to need to get used to your body."
X smirked, as he slid a finger inside of her.
"NO!" Starfire screamed, as she attempted to push him away.
"Do you want me to skip the foreplay and go strait to the nasty?"
He smirked, unzipping his suit.
"Please…do not." Starfire panicked.
Red X gazed into Starfire's eyes. "I want to know everything about you. I intend to learn everything I can about that wonderful body of yours before I go inside you.
"So, you are not planning to do the nasty thing with me tonight?" Starfire questioned reluctantly as she blushed.
"I wouldn't say I wasn't planning on a little penetration tonight. I just don't plan on doing it until I've explored your body a bit more."
Starfire couldn't move. It's not like she was being forced down or anything. The overwhelming feeling of lust for X had been running rampant, crawling through her skin and penetrating her veins. All she could think of was this badboy that she had suddenly fallen head over heals for.
This boy could make her a real woman.
"Are you ready?" X questioned Starfire with a misleading smirk on his face.
Starfire stared at him in confusion.
"Are you not going to make love to me?"
"Nah, I figured I'd give you something to fantasize about tonight."
"Hop on my motorcycle and I'll give you a ride back to Titan's Tower."
Once Starfire and Red X had arrived at the tower, it was already morning.
The two had been together all night.
The other Titans had been standing outside of Starfire's door for an hour that morning.
"Starfire, we need to talk to you." Robin held a letter in his hand.
"We know you've been sneaking out a lot at night, and we know you've been with Red X."
"I do not wish to discuss my life outside of titan's tower."
"But we do. You've been seeing someone, who is it?"
Robin shouted, grabbing Starfire's arm.
"Robin, you are hurting me, please let go." Starfire pleaded with Robin while squirming, trying to free herself from his grasp.
"Starfire, I need to talk to you." Robin demanded, dragging Starfire into his room.
"Starfire, I need to know everything that went on with you and that guy the other night."
Starfire bit her lip and refused to answer.
Robin shook Starfire profusely. "Answer me, now Starfire! What the hell happened?!"
"I do not wish to tell you, Robin." Starfire assured, breaking free of his grip and running out the door.
"Starfire!" Robin shouted, as he chased her as far as he could before she flew off.
It had been all but a few hours since Starfire ran away.
Then, suddenly; Cyborg spotted Starfire in a crowd of people. But she was not alone, she was with someone… Red X...
"Yo! Robin, I spotted Starfire, she's not alone though. And you're never gonna guess who she's with!."
"Red X ! " Robin shouted, jumping into the crowd."
"Robin, so nice to see you again. Well, actually… It's not. " Said X, with a cruel tone in his voice.
He wrapped his arms around Starfire, laughing at Robin incessantly.
"Get your hands off her!." Robin shouted, swinging a punch at X, watching him effortlessly dodge each and every blow.
"Robin, stop!" Starfire shouted.
"Starfire…he's a…" She covered his mouth with her hand.
"The Red X has made many terrible mistakes, but he is not a criminal. He has sacrificed much to be with me and I would appreciate it if you would be supportive of my choice."
"Your…decision?" Robin questioned.
"I have decided to go the steady with The Red X."
Starfire smiled, innocently wrapping her arms around him.
"You're going out with him?!" Robin questioned, excitedly.
Red X smirked. "That's right, kid. Ya got a problem with it?"
Robin glared at X and lunged, trying to kick him in the face.
"Hell yeah, I got a problem with it!"
Starfire frowned. "I am sorry, Robin but you do not have a say in who I spend time with."
"Wh-why Starfire? What does this criminal have that I don't?"
"This 'criminal' has the good sense not to talk the trash of others!" Starfire slapped Robin across the face.
"If you cannot accept my feelings, then perhaps you were not meant to befriend me in the first place. And to think just mere months ago, I was planning on marrying you."
Robin blushed. "Y-you were gonna marry me?"
Starfire tossed a Tamaranian engagement ring onto the ground as she walked off with Redx.
Tears could be visible as they dripped out of Robin's mask and onto the floor as he picked the oddly-shaped ring up off the floor.
"Does this mean the wedding's off?" Said Beast Boy, jokingly.
"This isn't the time to be jokin' BB!" Cyborg shouted, punching him on the shoulder.
Alone, Robin sat in his room. Wondering if Starfire would ever return.
He waited for weeks on end. "Time of your life" plays in the background
Meanwhile, Starfire seemed rather happy with Red X.
"Starfire… I'd like to ask you something." He smiled.
Starfire smiled.
"Do you love me?" He questioned.
She blushed profusely, trying to hide it.
"I am not sure of how I am feeling right now." She muttered under her breath.
"Do you still love…him?" He questioned, turning away.
Starfire was speechless; she couldn't possibly tell him that she might still have feelings for Robin.
"I understand if you want to go back to him." He assured.
Starfire started to cry. "You do?"
Suddenly, he grabbed Starfire and pulled her close. "I said I understand, I never said I'd let you go back to him."
"You said once, that if I left the Teen Titans that you would reveal to me who you really are, are you still willing to live up to your promise?"
"If you're willing to do something for me." He smirked, holding up a skin-tight costume.
"I wish to pull of one more heist before I give up my life of crime for good."
Starfire reluctantly changed into this form-fitting red and black dress, with knee-high boots and a black mask.
"You look good enough to eat." He smirked, getting a bag ready for stolen goods.
"I thought that you said you would never steal again." Starfire looked concerned.
"Well Hun, I said a lot of things. And for the most part, I lied." He smirked, putting his arm around her.
"But you promised to stay by my side, no matter what so you really have no say in the matter."
It was then that Starfire realized that she had been tricked.
"So…you have never felt anything for me?" Starfire questioned.
"Of course I felt something for you." He smiled.
"Really?"
"Yep, I felt you were really hot!"
Suddenly, Starfire leapt into the air, tossing numerous star bolts at X.
"You have torn me from my home and I have forgiven you, you have hurt my friends, and I have supported you, and now you lie and betray me, and now I will destroy you!"
With no more than a few mere star bolts, Starfire had managed to send Red X's home into ruins.
With no idea whether Red X was alive or not, Starfire ran to the only place she even knew besides Tamaran…
However, when she arrived, the place didn't look quite as inviting as she had remembered when she left four months ago.
She arrived to an image similar to that of the place she had just left. Titan's tower, her destination had been left in ruins. Oh sure, the building itself was still intact, but upon closer inspection, you could clearly see that something was terribly, horribly wrong.
The windows had been shattered; parts of the tower had been thrown into the harbor nearby, and there appeared to be no one else in sight.
Starfire decided to walk around inside.
"Hello?" Starfire shouted throughout the tower, hoping that someone would hear her and respond.
However, much to her dismay, nobody responded. Titan's tower was completely empty.
She walked throughout the tower, anyway. Each room looked worse than the other. The entire tower had apparently been ransacked. Cyborg's room looked very different, his system recharged appeared to have been stolen. Raven's creepy books and statues were missing. Beastboy's room was completely destroyed, claw marks all over the bedding and curtains.
Starfire came to a stop as she reached Robin's bedroom. She had never been allowed to enter before, so whatever lie behind that door had been a mystery to her up to that point.
She hesitantly pushed the broken door open to reveal Robin's room. Everything seemed to be intact. This was strange since every other room in the tower had been destroyed.
As a curtain blew, Starfire noticed a strange book that had been tucked behind them.
She walked over towards the window and lifted the book. She had never seen anything like it before.
She opened the book to reveal something very shocking, well at least to her.
It appeared to be a journal, with highlights of Robin's entire life.
She turned the pages for awhile until she discovered something, an entry dating back to the first time the Teen Titan kids ever met.
"Today, I met the most incredible girl…" From that point, the page had been torn.
Starfire was curious if Robin had written that about her.
She looked down to find a small piece of paper on the floor.
It appeared to be a card.
"To my dearest Starfire... I don't know quite how to say this, or even if I should but I think now would be a very appropriate time."
Starfire couldn't believe it, this was a valentine's card; Robin had actually cared enough to get a valentine for her. But why didn't he give her the card? Was there something incriminating that he didn't want the other titans to see?
She continued to read the letter written on the card.
"I have tried countless times to tell you exactly how I feel, but every time I try, it comes out wrong. Plus, if word got out to the other titans, the team would have to split up…
Starfire, I love you."
Starfire's eyes widened. All those times Robin had acted so callus, he actually cared about her.
He actually loved her.
Once Starfire realized the terrible mistake she had made, she fell to her knees and started crying.
"I am sorry, Robin. If I had known about this, I never would have betrayed your trust. Oh, Robin; I love you, too!"
"Then why did you do what you did?" A voice called out to her.
Starfire turned to see what appeared to be Robin standing behind her.
"Robin!" Starfire ran to the boy but was disappointed when her body fell right through his.
I'm not Robin, Starfire.
Her eyes widened. "Then who…"
The boy cut her off in the middle of her sentence.
"I am a pseudo Robin, I am everything Robin hates, yet somewhere deep inside wishes he could be."
Starfire looked confused.
"I was able to show Robin's feelings to you, because he was incapable of doing so himself.
He felt this all along, but could never tell you, he was holding back for your sake, he didn't want to end up hurting you."
"Where is Robin?" Starfire Questioned.
"Since you left, the tower as you have probably already noticed was ransacked, Raven and BeastBoy were kidnapped, Cyborg's battery died and Robin bolted."
"And since you weren't there, Robin saw no need to rescue any of the titans."
Starfire frowned.
"Were you the cause of this?"
"No. You were. You left the Titans, allowing Robin's emotions to go haywire, causing him to leave all his endangered friends. Your friends are probably dead right now and it's all your fault!"
He exclaimed.
"I did not wish for any of this to happen!"
Starfire screamed.
"But it did, and you can't reverse the effects."
Starfire fell to her knees.
"I have betrayed all of my friends, and someone I love very dearly. I am no better than a common criminal."
"I will reverse everything I have done and I will get my friends back!"
Starfire screamed. She turned around and realized that the boy was no longer standing behind her. It was as if he had simply vanished.
Starfire was really, truly alone. No friends no loved ones.
And without the titans, she had no way of returning to Tamaran.
Her only hope for surviving on earth alone was to get a job, just like she had heard all earth people do.
Months went by as Starfire began her new life. She worked as a waitress at a local bar.
She was hoping to raise enough money to restore Titan's tower.
Starfire still got lonely from time to time. Although, her new promotion at work was enough to distract her for a little bit.
"Star! I need yer sorry ass over here now!" Her boss demanded.
"Yes, sir!" Starfire arrived promptly.
"I need you to entertain my new client."
She glanced at the boy. He was handsome, had spiky black hair and the most intriguing black eyes that seemed to suck her right in.
He seemed, troubled as he sipped his beer.
She hadn't seen many guys like that before. Most of her clients were balding fat men in undersized sports jerseys.
As she stepped onto the platform to dance for him, he stopped her.
"I don't want to see that trash; I actually came here looking for someone so please get off that table."
She stepped down and sat beside him.
"I lost someone I loved a few months ago, she's kind of naïve so I figured she might get dragged into something like this."
Starfire looked concerned. "What does she look like?"
Realizing he was being distracted by the girl's bare breasts, he took off his coat and covered her with it.
"Well, she actually looked kind of like you."
Starfire's eyes widened.
"I am actually, now that you mention it; looking for someone as well."
"Really?!" The boy looked excited.