Well, after my last chapter, the reviews keep pilling in. They all want me get started with the second part and wants me to get on it right away. Well, I kept my promise and here's your chapter. Nightfire is going to tell the truth and the Titans get a lead on Johnny Rancid.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans.

Chapter 9: The Unquestionable Truth

Starfire was quite speechless when Robin answered her question as her eyes were wide and her mouth dropped opened. The entire living area was quiet until Starfire broke the silence.

Starfire: "Wha… What?"

Robin: "You heard me Star, Nightfire's parents are us."

Starfire: "I… I do not understand."

Robin: "Listen Starfire, right now it seems little hard to swallow right now. But this is the truth and we can't run away from it."

Starfire: "But this… This is not right! How can Nightfire be our daughter? She is our friend! Look at us Robin, we're too young to get married and have a family! This doesn't make any sense!"

Robin: "Oh really? Well then take a look at this."

He then held out his hand showing Nightfire's locket. Nightfire, in her mind, was completely shocked when she saw her locket in Robin's hands.

Nightfire: "My locket! How did he get it?"

Starfire looked at the locket and then took it from Robin's hands. She then took a closer look at it and then looked at Robin.

Starfire: "What is this?"

Robin: "It's Nightfire's locket, LM and Cyborg found it in her room. But as the old saying goes, "It's not the outside that's important, it's the inside"."

Starfire slowly opened the locket and saw the three pictures and heard the Tamaranean lullaby.

Starfire: "This song, it's a lullaby on Tamaran where mothers soothed their babies to a deep sleep."

Robin: "It's not the song I'm worried about Star, it's the pictures."

Starfire inspected the picture and was real confusing for her. The middle picture showed Nightfire smiling with a futuristic city with a bridge and river in the background and on the left side was a picture of Robin. But the picture on the right showed a Tamranean woman in her late thirties. Her face was beautiful, her hair was shiny red and the style looks like its on fire, and her eyes were glittering like green emeralds. Starfire looked at the picture closely then looked at Robin again.

Starfire: "I can tell that you and Nightfire are in this locket, but I can't tell who the woman in one of the pictures. In fact, she almost looks strangely familiar."

Robin: "That's because she's you."

Star's face went completely white when she heard that and was stuttering, trying to get some words out of her mouth.

Starfire: "I- I can't- This is- I don't be-"

Robin: "Don't talk Starfire, I'll explain everything. Nightfire had kept a secret from us the whole time and she didn't tell us because she was afraid. I knew something was up with her before you guys realized it from the start. So I investigated on who her parents were, with a little help."

Starfire then looked at LM and Cyborg sitting at the table area.

LM: "He's right Starfire; we were involved in his search and did all we could to find some clues on her family connections. I was gathering and examining samples from Nightfire's blood all the way down to her sweat and the results were quite unique. Her DNA strands are both human and Tamaranean and judging by the way she acts, she's more adapted to Earth then Tamaran. She has the strength and power as you, but has the fighting style and determination as Robin."

Cyborg: "While we're on the subject, I was recording Night's fighting technique on my spy camera. I've recorded the fights between you two and Nightfire in the combat arena, something Robin set up to see how tough she is, the obstacle course, and a couple of fights against some villains. What I can put together is that her combat style matches the two of yours. Possible that she was taught by the same teachers from both planets, but I could be half wrong."

Starfire then turned her head to see Robin's face for the final conclusion.

Robin: "Once all the pieces had been collected Cyborg and LM went into Nightfire's room to find any evidence that match their clues. That's when they found this locket. Nightfire must've kept it in her room away from the others. One of the pictures does show me, but the other picture showed and older version of yourself, your future self to be exact. So you see Starfire, the answer on whose Nightfire's parents are was right in front of us the whole time. You are the mother and I am the father that's going to be murdered by Johnny Rancid."

Starfire let all the information seep into her mind as she dropped the locket from her hands and letting it hit the floor. She slowly walked away from Robin as tears formed on her eyes. She then turned around and saw Nightfire with her head down now that she's found out. Starfire quickly grabbed Night by the shoulders and shook her furiously.

Starfire: "Please tell me that this is the joke of sickness! Please tell me that it's all a lie friend Nightfire! Please!"

Night just lowered her head and her eyes were closed, knowing that it was too late to cover it all up.

Nightfire: "I'm sorry Star, but it's the truth. I am you daughter."

Starfire then let go of Nightfire as her fear started to kick in. As she was slowly backing away from Nightfire, her knees started to feel weak and vision was getting blurry. And just like that, she passed out behind Robin. Robin grabbed her before she fell on the floor and then looked up at Nightfire and then saw his friends looking at them in shock and confusion.

Raven: "Didn't see that coming."

Five minutes later, some of the Titans were sitting around the curved sofa with Nightfire sitting on the round table. Cyborg took Starfire to the infirmary for immediate checkups. After a few tests, Cyborg head back to his teammates for the news. Robin was the first to see him and stood up to talk to him.

Robin: "Well Cyborg, is she all right?"

Cyborg: "She'll be fine. The poor girl just passed out after hearing the news. She'll be up soon, I hope."

Robin: "Good."

He then sits down and looked at his future daughter with icy cold daggers in his eyes.

Robin: "Nightfire, you have a lot of explaining to do."

Nightfire: "I'm sorry Robin, but I had to keep this a secret from all of you until I leave. I didn't know that I would be found out soon."

LM: "When it comes to Robin, he won't rest until he gets what he needs."

Beast Boy: "So why won't you tell us the truth."

Nightfire: "Like Robin said, I would be afraid. If you knew more about me, you would treat me differently. So I had to make sure that my secret's safe."

Raven: "That could explain why you're blocking my telepathy. Who taught you that technique?"

Nightfire: "Isn't it obvious, you taught me."

Raven's face went to a clueless state and wasn't expecting that.

Raven: "I did?"

Nightfire: "Yes. When I was twelve, you decided to teach me a few special abilities to block any weak telechanises powers."

Raven: "Weak?"

Nightfire: "Please understand Rae, your powers were quite impressive but at your age you are not quite powerful enough. But when you grow older, your powers will grow stronger. You have to train and meditate long and hard, then you'll reach the peak of your power."

Raven was speechless when Night said that she'll be more powerful in the future.

Robin: "Those are some words of wisdom, but I think we have to talk about you now and we want to know everything. For instance, you told me once that your grandfather trained you to fight. Is your grandfather-"

Nightfire: "Batman? That's him. You are a pretty smart for a soon to be father. And I bet you're wondering who taught me how to fly and shoot star bolts. You see my mother, Starfire, taught me those abilities at a young age. I learned to fly at the age of five, aerial combat at seven, and firing star bolts at nine. I know I was too young to learn those abilities, but my mom said that in order for me to survive the outside world, I have to be like my family and be strong for myself."

Beast Boy: "Hang on Night. You said that you know us in the history books, but Starfire taught you to fly and shoot star bolts, Batman showed you how to fight, and Raven gave you abilities to block any mind probing. That means that you know the team personally. Are you a part of the new Teen Titans, if there is one?"

Nightfire: "Well just to let you know, the Teen Titans exist on my time. And to answer your question, I'm not a member, I'm the leader."

The entire place went silent when that answer was heard. The place was too quiet until Terra was the first to say something.

Terra: "Wow, when you said you wanted to follow in the family's footsteps, you ain't kidding. That seems like a tough job for you."

Nightfire: "Yeah well, being a leader isn't easy. But once your teammates follow your orders and you bring full teamwork to succeed, you get use to it."

Robin: "O.K., O.K., enough of all this shit. What I really want to know is why you didn't tell us the truth in the first place? Why didn't you tell me I'm your father or say that Starfire is your mother?"

Nightfire: "Robin, if I did tell you the truth, you would consider me a different person. I didn't really mean to close it under lock and key but I made a promise to my mother that I won't tell any of you about my secret."

Cyborg: "Sounds like a heavy burden for you."

Nightfire: "It is. All my life I had everything I ever wanted. A loving mother, great friends, becoming a leader of my own team. But there's one thing I never had that everyone else had, a father. That's why I headed to this time, to protect you Robin. Since you're my father, I have to protect you from any danger. That's the reason why I kind of got aggressive on Adonis, because I was afraid that he might hurt you. But now, I'm afraid I have one option left."

Nightfire jumped off the table and walked past the team. Everyone stood up and saw Nightfire heading to the sliding doors leading out.

Robin: "Nightfire, where you going?"

She looked at the team and was showing signs of tears coming out of her eyes.

Nightfire: "Since you guys know about my secret, I guess I'm not needed here anymore. I'll see if I can find Johnny on my own. I'm so sorry guys; I wish you would understand about my life."

Nightfire shed a tear and was about to leave until Raven appeared through the floor near the exit. Nightfire stopped when she saw Raven staring with her deep purple eyes. Nightfire slowly backed away not wanting to talk to anyone and decided to leave through the window since she could fly. But when she turned around to start flying, she saw Robin face to face with her.

Robin: "Nightfire, I understand that you did a terrible thing keeping secrets from us and you might think that we're mad at you. But the thing is, we respect you."

Nightfire: "You are?"

Robin: "Yes. You see, you're not the only one with secrets around here. Most of us have secrets that even we can't tell. It's what makes us what we are. And when you told us the truth, you were brave."

Nightfire: "You mean that you're not mad at me, after what I said? You don't think of me as a different person?"

Robin: "As far as I know, you are still our honorary Titan for toady, tomorrow, and in the far future."

Nightfire looked around and noticed the rest of the team smiling at her. She then looked back at Robin and he was smiling at her too.

Nightfire: "But what about my mission?"

Robin: "We'll still help you track down Johnny and put him behind bars."

Nightfire: "Thanks Robin, you're a real lifesaver. But there's one more thing I should know."

Robin: "Yeah, and what is it?"

Nightfire: "Since you know a lot about me, you mind if I can call you daddy?"

Robin's face turned completely red as his team looked at him with pure embarrassment. He quickly shook it off.

Robin: "Uh… Let's not go too far on that. I'm still a teenager, remember?"

Nightfire: "I know that, I was just joking. Can't you take a joke?"

Just then, someone cell phone starts ringing and the team to look at LM. He took out his Samsung cell phone in his jacket pocket and looked at the screen on the phone.

LM: "Hang on guys; I got a call to make."

He picks it up and places it on his ear.

LM: "Hello?"

LM continued talking as Beast Boy wanted to know one more thing.

Beast Boy: "So Nightfire, since you're Robin's and Starfire's daughter, I was wondering. Are we going to have children in the future?"

BB looks at Terra with those gleaming green eyes while Terra looked at Beast Boy and smiled lovingly.

Nightfire: "Now that's something you guys will have to wait and find out for yourself."

LM: "What?" … "You're kidding!" … "Perfect, I'll talk to the team about this! Peace out."

LM hangs up the phone and looked at his teammates.

LM: "Guess what guys? We got ourselves a lead on Johnny Rancid."

Teen Titans: "What?"

A few minutes later, everyone was sitting on the wrap around couch looking the TV/Window with LM next to it.

LM: "I got a call from the operator of the Zealots and he said that the team spotted some unusual activities going on in their sector. They sent one of their members as a spy to see what was going on. That's when they found these people."

He typed a few key sequences on one of the computer council and the screen showed criminal records of people wearing hoods and pantyhose over their heads.

LM: "They call themselves the Hoodz. They're a bunch of low lives doing whatever they can to survive in the dark streets. Their reports seem the usual, bank heists, damaging property, grand theft auto, the works."

Beast Boy: "So, what's this has to do with Johnny?"

LM: "I'm getting to that BB. Rumor has that the Hoodz have acquired military weapons and a leader that can lead into the middle of chaos. Thanks to the Zealot's undercover operative, they ID their leader."

LM punched a few more keys and the screen showed a picture of a gang of Hoodz standing facing their new leader that stood tall on a few crates. The computer zoomed in on the leader and once it enhanced, the team couldn't believe what they were seeing. Even Nightfire had to stand up at what she saw on the monitor. The leader was a big muscular man that has dark gray skin, spiky black hair, light blue eyes, and black lightning bolt tattoos around his arms. It was obvious that the new leader of the Hoodz was none other then…

Nightfire: "Johnny Rancid!"

LM: "Yeah, it's him all right. According to the police files, he got out of jail three months ago for "good behavior". I say he got himself a sleazy lawyer, and probation money."

Robin: "Do they know where Johnny's hiding?"

LM: "Sadly, they don't know. However they were able to raid the Hoodz old hideout since Johnny came to them and moved out of it. They then found maps and that will lead them to Jump City with a couple of spots to hang out. I can print out a map and mark the places they go to."

Robin: "Great work LM. Once you get the places down, we'll go search the areas and take them out."

Nightfire: "And once we take care of them, we'll question them on where Johnny's hiding."

Robin: "You definitely sound a lot like me Night. We should split up and search the city for the Hoodz once LM gives us places. Raven and Cyborg, you'll search downtown. LM and Beast Boy, investigate the docks. Nightfire and I will go to the suburbs."

Cyborg: "Um, what about Starfire? She still sleeping after the ordeal she experienced."

Robin: "Terra will take care of Starfire until she wakes up. I'll call her if we have any new leads on Johnny. We have put a stop to this once and for all."

Everyone nodded and they went to their rooms getting ready for their mission.

Well, there's chapter nine. I don't know if it's a little confusing because I was starting to ran out of ideas, but at least I did my best. The next chapter's going action packed, so stay tuned. Please Review.