Konichiwa minna! For all of you who are currently reading 'Baby Can I Hold You Tonight'… What are you waiting for! I've updated the story and only a few people have reviewed! Anywayz, standard disclaimer…
Alias…
On the other side of the door, Tim and Kori's eyes were wide open… waiting for the worst…
A faint click could be heard…
A bead of nervous sweat slipped down Tim's face onto Star's forehead. She looked at him nervously. Unsure of what to do next, but he mouthed to her that it would be alright. Starfire looked closely at the position that they were in. She was lying down on her back with her left leg bent upwards making a triangle with the bed. Tim's torso was mostly over hers but left enough room for her to turn; he also had his arms around her slender and exposed waist. Star could only pray that Robin would not be the one to see her like this. Their glances both moved back towards the door as it creaked open a little bit more, then strangely paused. Starfire squeezed her eyes tightly as the door fully opened to reveal a dark figure. It mouth seemed to curl up into a smile and did a friendly hand gesture towards them. Tim soon left Starfire on the bed up and greeted the figure with a swipe handshake and a half hug pat on the back.
"Hey girl! How's it been?" He asked.
"Do you really expect me to answer that?" The figure replied. The figure turned out to be a four-teen year old Afro-Caribbean American girl with thickly black-rimmed hazel eyes. She had waist length jet black hair with deep blue highlights. She was wearing deep red butterfly sleeve top with black Reebok™ tracksuit bottoms and black Reebok™ Classics. Around her waist she wore a sliver chain and around her arms and wrists she wore black jelly bands with skull and cross bracelets. Finally around her neck, she wore three pendants, the first was a yellow gold heart shaped locket, the second was a white gold cross and the third was an apocalyptic sign in rose gold.
"I mean, I'm chased by villains all over the world and you let me alone with Babs. The biggest preppiest slut in the world!" she whispered harshly. Starfire watched as Tim chuckled lightly which earned him a slap from the girl. Out of curiosity she leapt away from her bed and made her way towards Tim.
"Tim, who is this girl and why does she enter my chamber of sleeping without knocking?" she timidly asked. He was about to answer until,
"'Cos this is part of my domain sweetie, whether you enjoy it here or not. And you," she turned towards Tim, "Playa! You hooking up to our guest, getting all fresh like that so that you can get your freak on, you freak?" The only male present in the room held up his hands defensively and argued,
"Hey now! Lari, you know that was cold! And I don't mean ice."
"Lari?" Starfire asked, "Are you a miniature version of my best friend Robin?" Tim and 'Lari' looked at her as if she was crazy. 'Lari' clicked her fingers and stated,
"Girl… If I didn't know that you were from a differently planet and that I hadn't introduced myself yet… you would be close enough to dead right now." Her sudden words struck fear into Starfire's innocent eyes. 'Lari' stuck out her hand and greeted with a forced smile on her face,
"Hi, my name's Larissa and I am the daughter of Bruce as you already know. I am also the younger sister of Timothy here and R-Robin. Welcome to Wayne Manor and to my section!" Starfire's face immediately lit up at these words and pulled her into her 'special' hugs.
"Hello Timothy's sister!" she shouted with joy, "My name is Starfire and I am part of the Teen Titans! Please, where do you come from, what is your favourite colour and would you like to be my friend?"
Larissa, who was surprising comfortable with the force of Star's hug, replied, "If you will let me breathe again I'll be glad to answer all your questions… Starfire." Realised the grip she had one her, Star let her down a whispered a quick apology. "Anyway, I come from Jamaica, my favourite colours are black, blue and red, I can't choose between the three and… I guess… I could be your friend."
Starfire squealed in delight and was about to wrap her in another hug until Larissa stopped her. "Around these parts we hug like this, you put your right arm gently around the other person's neck and whisper in their ear 'konichiwa' or 'hola' or 'salut' or just any other greeting you can think up of," she instructed. Starfire caught on quickly and squealed in delight. "Anyways, I'll see you guys at breakfast. Star, you might want to get ready."
Starfire nodded, "Alright Larissa, I shall see you at the meal of fast break!" she cried as she dashed into the bathroom. Larissa glanced at Tim would was occupied with Starfire's hips.
"When the Playa is through gawping at my new friend ass, I'll be glad to slap him around the face," she warned. Tim stood still staring. SLAP He yelped out in pain and whimpered, 'Why the hell did you do that for?' Larissa just rolled her eyes, dragged him out of Star's bedroom and closed the door behind them.
In Batgirl's Section…
A red-headed girl with green eyes knocked merrily on a robin's door. No really, the door had a craving of a robin bird on it. There was no reply or response what-so-ever. The girl decided to use her wits and opened the door after performing a knocking trick which she had learnt forma certain ex-boyfriend who was now the bane of her household enemy's existence. She steeped cautiously inside the dimly lit room, which was rebelling the sun to come in. A sneaky grin became prominent on her features as she ventured deeper into the room. Her glance soon came upon the slumbering male body in between the sheets. She mentally slapped herself for having such thoughts, but soon started to think of them again. Finally, she had reached her destination… the curtains. Slowly grasping the opening string in her lightly tanned hands she pulled on it roughly, making the boy in the bed stir, moving out of the way of the natural light. The girl silently giggled and made her way towards the boy's bed, invading his space. She placed the mouth just over his ear and shrieked, "RISE AND SHINE WONDER BOY!"
Robin awoke with a jolt and took off like a regular robin would when it had been scared out of its life… even thought they were more likely to faint in shock… that's is, if bird's faint from shock instead of… dying. Within moments he regained composure in front of his ex-girlfriend who was now laughing so hard that she was on the floor.
"Babs! What the hell were you thinking, scaring a poor guy like that!" Robin said harshly, trying hard not to wake the others. Her fits of laughter ceased… even if only for a few moments.
"Well, first of all Robin, you can't entirely say that you are poor when you're the ward of a multi-billionaire. Second of all, didn't you say that you never get scared?" Robin raised an eyebrow at this and Batgirl mimicked his actions. He soon relaxed and started to make his bed.
"What are you doing here anyway?"
"I came back here with Larissa, you know, your sweet little sister, who now, might I add hates me, to wait for my friends so that we could go to that cheerleading camp!" she explained excitedly.
"Somehow I don't think Larissa is the cheerleading type."
"She can cheer real good; only that she doesn't seem to be down with the whole cheerleading look and persona!" she defended.
Robin rolled his eyes, "I'm not surprised." An awkward silence passed.
"Anyhoo, I guess I should leave you to get dressed while you get ready for breakfast."
"Yeah, that would be a good idea now, wouldn't it?" he answered sarcastically. Batgirl, not surprisingly, didn't catch on and left the room, not before asking.
"By the way, do you know who the person is that is in the other side of my bedroom wall; I can hear chanting and it doesn't sound… safe. If that's the word."
"Her name is Raven and yes, her chanting, which is called meditating is 'safe'." Robin replied, but in his head he was thinking, Yep, her meditating is keeping you safe from her or is it the other way around?
"Goodbye Robin," she said seductively.
"Yeah, Bye!" Robin called from within the bathroom. He couldn't believe his luck. Would Starfire get jealous knowing that that he had had a relationship with another girl who had roughly the same features as her? His first thoughts naturally were, NAH! But then he remembered the so called 'Date with Destiny' prom he had been forced to go with a typical blonde called Kitten. I mean come on… who in their right mind would call their daughter 'Kitten'? And how could that massive moth have human children anyway? He shook his head to get the pestering thoughts out of his mind. After he had had a shower, combed and gelled his jet black hair, donned himself with a red t-shirt, baggy, blue jeans, white trainers and a pair of very dark sunglasses, he walked out of his bedroom and knocked on Beast boy's and Cyborg's door. From within he could hear deep and light snores coming from the mouths of the sleepers. Becoming impatient he marched into their room without warning and tripped over an empty two litre bottle of coke. He landed on the floor with a loud thud that awoke the large sleeping machine… no pun intended.
"Yo Dawg! Are you okay man?" he asked as Robin picked himself off the ground, grumbling about messy teenage kids.
"I'm fine! Just peachy," he grimaced at the mess the room was already in. Alfred's gonna have one hell of a day! He thought negatively.
"Good. You know what happens when you wake this brother early in the morning!"
"Cyborg, it's ten o'clock. Almost everybody's up… I think."
"Well, that's what you think dawg! It's not easy being a super hero but since this is a vaca-… Actually, scratch that!" Cyborg mumbled the last part angrily.
"Why?" Robin asked almost innocently.
"Well, if I didn't know that we would have to train and up our game as well as relax, I could call this a proper vacation." He sizzled. Robin shook his head and smiled.
"You know me better than that Cy. You knew me better." Cy nodded in agreement as they both looked at Beast boy, who was currently talking to his sock.
"Please, Ladies, one at a time. You all will get a chance to kiss the B-Man!" he then kissed his sock lovingly. Robin and Cyborg looked at each other knowingly and Cyborg stepped forward, sucked on his index finger and made it really wet. Then, in one quick fluid motion he plunged his finger into BB's ear and bellowed,
"WAKE UP! ALL THE LADIES ARE GETTING AWAY!" Beast boy woke up with a shock and screamed,
"WHERE DA LADIES AT!" He soon perked down after he heard the low laughter coming from his male team mates. He put his hands on his hips, with the sock still in his hand, and murmured, "Haw de haw haw!" But soon enough he started to laugh at his own mistake. Suddenly, the door started to glow black and then flew open. A rather pissed off cloaked figure stood in the doorway fuming.
"Would you idiots stop shouting the damn house down! I'm trying to meditate!" Raven growled. A chorus of sorry could be heard as she turned around. "By the way, Alfred said that breakfast has been ready for two hours now." After those words were spoken, she left to have some food.
"FOOD! Oh man! I wanna eat!" Cyborg yelled as he dashed into the bathroom, quickly brushed his teeth and sprinted out of the room in search of food. Beast boy soon mimicked his actions and raced out after him. Robin was left alone standing in the room. "What just happened?" he asked out to no one. After a few moments of standing on the spot fidgeting, he decided to look for Starfire, since he hadn't seen her all morning. He walked out of the room and across the hallway and towards the opening of 'Larissa's' section. He was about to cross the threshold when he bounced off violently after walking blindly into an electrical force field. Growling in embarrassment he stalked up to the opening and reached out to touch it with his bare hand. The electricity danced statically in his palm. In aggravation he punched it, which in turn caused his arm to jerk backwards, away from the force. He mumbled something about a stupid barrier and backed away quickly. After a few paces he turned around and THUD
After realising that he was on the ground, he stood up, shook his head and glared at his blocker. "Are you okay Robin?" he heard Bruce's strong voice ask.
"Just peachy!" he spurted with sarcasm. He kept glaring at Bruce, and then asked, "Did you know that Batgirl and… that other girl were coming here today?" Bruce's head shot up in a slight alarm.
"They're here?" he whispered. Robin nodded, "Good Lord, they didn't tell me… didn't even give me time to-"
"BRUCE!" A high-pitched preppy voice screamed throughout the walls and halls of the Manor. Robin covered his ears and opened his mouth to say something, but Bruce cut him to it. "Don't ask," he warned as he strode down the stairway with Robin in tow.
Dining Hall…
The Titans – sans Robin – and Tim sitting around the table, eating away in their usual eating patterns… some more pleasant than others. To Robin's dismay, Starfire was talking with the smile on her face that she had always seemed to reserve for him; and him only. To his further dismay, his ex-girlfriend, Batgirl, was calling out Bruce's name for the entire world to hear. Couldn't that prep keep her damn mouth shut? …Obviously not… Her eyes seemed to light up when she saw Bruce enter the room and rushed over to him and Robin. Once over there, she enveloped them both in a tight hug, a tight hug which a certain alien noticed. Tim mouthed to her, 'ignore them', but all she could do was stare; long, cold and hard.
"Bruce, is it okay if some of my friends come over and stay for a while?" Batgirl pleaded with puppy dog eyes. Bruce shrugged and took a glance at Robin.
"I guess they could stay…" he murmured before Batgirl squealed out with delight.
"Da Batgirl – 1. Da Larissa – 0!" she danced before she took a seat next to Cyborg. After that, Robin and Bruce sat down at their respective seats and started to munch on their breakfast. After ten minutes, Alfred stepped out of the kitchen and bowed slightly in respect of his guests and Master.
"Master Bruce, I believe that we are low on stock; I think that I should take a shopping trip to get us up to standard, since Miss Barbara and her contemporaries will be guests among us as well."
"And your point is, Alfred?" Bruce asked suspiciously.
"My point is that I will not be here to calm Miss Larissa down if she gets into another fight with Miss Barbara. I have told her to be on her best behaviour, but a good thing with her can't last more than a month… and she is long overdue," he clarified.
"When do you plan on leaving?"
"In ten minutes Sir. Larissa has been helping me tidy up the kitchen."
"Has she now?"
"Don't sound so surprised, Master Bruce. Miss Larissa is a difficult child to control, but delicate as a petal if you are permanently on her good side. It would also help if you didn't compare her to a certain someone everyday, then maybe she wouldn't have turned out this way."
"I think I get the picture Alfred. But thank you all the same." Alfred bowed and headed towards the door. Bruce soon settled back into breakfast until Starfire raised her hand. Bruce acknowledged her and nodded.
"Whom, may I ask, is the certain someone that you keep comparing Larissa to?" she asked sweetly. Bruce took his glance from her eyes to his plate then looked up. He opened his mouth to answer, but a sudden voice beat him to it.
"To Robin. Who else?" the voice spoke up. Everyone's head turned towards the kitchen. A tall, slender, Caribbean at heart girl leant on the doorway, with her hair partially covering her face.
"Larissa. Why don't you join us?" Bruce asked, trying to bring her into the conversation without offending her.
"Already ate." Came her swift reply. Robin's jaw was wide open; it had been for sometime now. 'You can close your mouth anytime now and say something productive.' Raven whispered into his mind. Robin followed her orders.
"You compared her, to me?" he asked in disbelief. Larissa rolled her eyes unimpressed.
"Yo Teen Wonder!" Tim's head perked up as everyone else looked bewildered. "You gonna spar with me or are you scare that I'm gonna kick your ass like I did Two-Face's?" Tim stood up and puffed out his chest.
"Hey, no powers and I'll be happy to spar with you!"
"Yea, yea, no powers. It's not like I can use them anyway," she mumbled while holding up her left arm and shooting an evil glare at Bruce. Tim was about to go with her until he saw Bruce raise one of his arms and call out wait. He slowly sat back down in his seat and Larissa took a seat beside Beast boy.
"I have some vital information for you all. You will all need aliases." Bruce announced.
"What is an alias?" Starfire asked nervously.
Raven answered her question by saying, "It's when you have another name than the one that you have now. For example, you know me as Raven but in my alias I would become Ravii Sabel." Starfire nodded and responded,
"So you know me as Starfire, but my alias would be," she pondered on this for a few moments, "Kori Anders!"
Raven clapped unenthusiastically and said a meek well done.
"Dude! That is so cool that we now have code names! My name shall be… Garfield Logan. All the ladies with faint at a sexy name like that!" Beast boy piped in, pulling his body into different poses. Larissa rolled her eyes, but silently smiled all the same.
"Yo man, my alias would be Victor, or Vic Stone!" Cyborg yelled.
"What would alias be Robin, since Batgirl's is apparently 'Barbara'?" Raven asked.
"Richard Grayson…" he muttered.
"…And I have the perfect nickname for you…" Larissa chimed.
"And what would that be?" Robin requested from his little sister.
"'Dickhead'… what else you dick?" Robin looked offended by her answer, but felt even worse when Tim, Beast boy, Cyborg and Batgirl started to laugh at him. Raven couldn't be bothered with the whole scenario and Starfire was clueless at the joke.
"Please Larissa, why do you call Robin a… 'Dick'?"
"I'll explain it to ya later Star."
DING DONG "Saved by the bell," Bruce muttered as he went to answer the door bell. He was soon hounded by a mob of teenage girls in high heels, skimpy skits and even skimpier tops, with their hair bouncing around and off their shoulders. Or maybe not Bruce thought as screams echoed through the Manor as the swamp of head strong girls made their way to Batgirl. She greeted them with open arms. You could hear Larissa murmur and word that sounded like 'preps'. The Titans all had a bewildered look on their face until one of the cheerleader walked over to the end of the table and asked; "My name is Libby, who are all of you guys?"
"Kori."
"Gar."
"Vic."
"Ravii."
"Richard." The cheerleader with blonde hair and black highlights squealed with Robin said his name.
"OMG! I totally can't believe it's you! Babs and I didn't think you were ever coming back to do us a favour!" Libby screeched.
"What favour would that be?"
"To get your baby sister, who totally reminds me of you, in our cheer squad. She's like, wanted in every team around, but the coach keeps saying that we have to get permission from you since you are a total legend!" Another cheerleader with brown hair called out. Meanwhile, Larissa was seething in her seat so much that she had to stand up and walk behind Robin's chair and squeezed his shoulder blade firmly. She whispered in his ear a death warning then walked away.
Robin, still sore from not being allowed in her so-called section, decided to ignore her and simply offered, "Of course you can have her on your team, I wouldn't want her on anybody else's." He had a silly smile on his face as all the cheerleader leapt on him in a big group hug and smothered him with kisses.
Starfire's mouth dropped open, along with Tim's, Larissa's and Bruce's. Cyborg and Beast boy were laughing out so loud that it almost drowned out the …preps…
Starfire looked down hearted until she felt a soft hand grip her shoulder. She looked up and saw Larissa with an evil smirk on her face, her eyes looking coldly at the cheerleaders. Larissa murmured a few words and a black and blue aura filled the room. When all the wisps of light cleared, they all gasped to realise that Robin, Batgirl and the cheerleaders had disappeared. Cyborg and Beast boy looked at Raven, Bruce and Tim looked at Larissa and Starfire just looked at the empty space.
"What?" Raven and Larissa asked simultaneously.
"Larissa-"
BEEPBEEPBEEP Cyborg, Beast boy and Starfire jumped at the unfamiliar and familiar sound. Raven seemed to remain calm and Bruce left the table, signalling them to follow. They all caught on and went down through an Old Grandfather Clock, down a dark stairway into an unknown cave, from the Titans perspective anyway. They all looked up at the computer screen which was glowing a deep shade of red. A bright yellow trail of dots appeared on the screen, moving in a north-easterly direction.
"Looks like we have a mission to go on," Tim stated.
"Nope, you and the Titans have a mission to go on… Teen Wonder," Bruce corrected. The Titans – except Robin who was sent into an alternate dimension with a load of preps by his charming little sister – gawked at Tim. He looked at them and shrugged his shoulder as if it was no big deal.
"So you're a second Robin?" Raven enquired. Tim nodded and left to put on his suit. Starfire, Beast boy, Raven and Cyborg already ha their uniforms on, all Cyborg had to do was turn off his holographic inducer.
"But, who will out leader be if Robin is not present?" Starfire asked innocently.
"Larissa will bring him back, in his rightful uniform." Bruce commanded and Larissa got the message. She sighed and mumbled a faint 'fine', repeated her words and Robin came falling out of the ceiling, falling on top of Tim/Teen Wonder.
"Ouch!" they groaned simultaneously. They both stood up and looked at each other strangely, as did the Titans.
"Dude! It's like we have two 'Robin's' ordering us about," Beast boy moaned.
"Just what we need, to spiky-headed, ego massive jerks telling us what to do," Cyborg complained quietly.
"So how are we gonna tackle this bad guy if the dots have split up into three parts," Raven asked, still focused on the mission.
"You will split up into three groups. Robin X, you'll go with Starfire. Robin, you'll go with Raven and Cyborg, you'll go with Beast boy." Bruce directed.
"Hey Star, wanna rest you powers and ride on my R-Cycle?" Robin asked.
"Okay, T- I mean Robin!" she agreed happily. Robin seethed with jealous and was about to ask Raven the same thing but she glared at him and whispered, "Don't even think about it." Robin shook his head and said 'suit yourself' while mounting on his red R-Cycle and left with Raven. Beast boy tuned into a Pterodactyl and grabbed Cyborg by the shoulders and left.
"What about Larissa?" Starfire asked after she mounted Robin's black R-Cycle.
"Don't worry, she'll get some of the action… or at least a good laugh!" Robin chuckled as he revved up his bike, "Hang on tight!" he yelled to her and she responded.
"So, Robin X, huh?"
"Yeah, I like things with an X-factor in them."
The Bat Cave…
Batman stepped out of hiding and walked up to Larissa.
"Follow them," he commanded. She nodded and disappeared.
Another chapter complete! (Dances) Anywayz, Thanxz for all the reviews, you guys ROCK! And I have dedicated a story to all of you! It's just that… NONE of you have reviewed it! Anyway, please check my profile after you review this chapter!
solodancer: Yea, I updated quickly didn't I. Like I've said to someone else. I need Larissa in the story so that the sequel can work. X's and O's!
HermioneRon4ever: I've updated this one, I hope you enjoy this chapter as well as the last one. I think that in the sequel Robin and Starfire will get together… eventually… Very eventually. Thanxz again!
Blonde Shadowcat: Yeah, I know Tim is such a dick but then again, so is Robin. (giggle) Note the little fight that Larissa and Robin have. Actually, I kinda need to bring Larissa in the story if the sequel is going to work… funny how you're always the first person who I tell if there is going to be a sequel to a story. Thanxz!
LuckyLadyStar: Nope… not in the slightest. Thanxz. A third is called a Chakra… Thanxz all the same though!
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Rose: You won't die, you'll probably outlive me so there. The thing is that I updated baby Can I Hold You Tonight, four days ago and you haven't reviewed yet. Are you okay child? Anyway, I'm gonna send an anonymous review to one of your stories and tell you something about this plot that you might like… a lot. I think my best story is either this one or the one that I've just started that's dedicated to all of you. I love freaking myself out, but when people try to do it to me, I have to be sarcastic so that they won't notice. Thanxz for your support, couldn't have done it without you!
xxPerfectionistxx: You'll be happy that there is no cliffie on this chapter then. Don't worry, it wasn't Robin… as you already know. Thanxz!
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Jessica: How does Batgirl getting sent into an alternate dimension sound? Heh, Thanxz!
GenericX: Ah! There's no cliff-hanger on this chapter! Damn it! Doesn't matter, I've been so busy that I hardly updated Baby Can I Hold You Tonight, but now that I have and started other stories… I think I'll slow down for a bit. Please update your story, I really like it. Thanxz!
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Starfire832: You like the Kori/Tim pairing… I have a believer! I've updated this one, hope you're happy.
Critic: Tough luck, I brought them in, it was kind of inevitable,
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SocialKween: Thanxz! I really like that idea. I think I might use it so that one of them knows since Batgirl is currently in an alternate dimension. I have updated Baby Can I Hold You Tonight, it's been updated for four days! You're welcome for the reviews!
Please read my new story: Lies: Past, Present and Future.
After all it is dedicated to all of you, but no one has read it, except for Starfire832!
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