Author's notes: Tayk: -miffed because review responses were taken off-

Naomi: Aw, Tayk, it ain't the end of the world!

Elizabeth: Isn't.

Naomi: What'd I say?

Elizabeth: Ain't.

Naomi: Whatever. Aw, Tayk, it isn't the end of the world!

Tayk: -still miffed- Yeah… but now I can't comment to all my lufferly reviewers and they don't know how much I appreciate their reviews!

Due to popular demand, I've come up with a reason why Jay looked guilty a couple chapters ago. The truth is… there isn't a reason. I just wanted to build up a bit of drama and mystery around the girls. –shrugs- Sorry about the confusion.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Teen Titans. Or Mimi. Or Erica (now spelled Erika). THIS DISCLAIMER REFFERS TO THE WHOLE STORY so don't come suing me... Please.

Chapter Five: The return

"Bye!" Jay called as they all stepped into the rift.

They landed in the middle of a traffic jam. And lucky they did. It wasn't moving, giving them the perfect chance to scamper out of the street. No moving cars were around to hit them.

"This CAN'T be our time!" Erika exclaimed, noticing something suddenly.

"How so?"

"Look! Cars!"

"We've got cars in our time."

"Good point. Well, there's no hoverboards! Look at the sidewalks!" Mimi and Jay looked. A few kids skated down a slope, on skateboards and in-lines.

"Skates!"

"My point exactly."

"I'm getting to the bottom of this," Jay grumbled, stalking into the nearest store. Erika and Mimi stood near the door. Jay walked up to the girl at the counter, where a pretty brunette, pale with freckles sprinkled across her face, sat chattering into her cell phone. She looked up as Jay slammed a hand on the counter, having been waiting unknown for three minutes.

"What time period is it?" The girl rolled her eyes and told the person on the other end of the phone that she'd have to call them back. Then she glanced at her watch, which seemed to be made of pink.

"2:15 in the afternoon."

"I don't mean time-time! What YEAR is it?"

"You mean you don't know?"

"No, I don't know!"

"It's 2005."

"While you're at it, tell me what city this is."

"You new in town?"

"You could say that."

"Jump City, hun. Now. You gonna buy sommat, or not?"

"Not. Thanks." She left, to report to Erika and Mimi. "It's 2005, and we're in Jump City."

"2005!" Erika groaned. "That's when we left!"

"But where's Jump City?" asked Mimi.

"You don't know?" Jay said, repeating the shop-tender's words.

"No."

"Jump City is the headquarters of the Teen Titans."

"Oh no! Raven's spell didn't work!" exclaimed Mimi.

"Technically… it wasn't a spell. She just opened a rift…"

"Spell, rift, whatever! It didn't work!"

"Yeah, Mimi, we noticed."

"Jay?"

"Mm?"

"Shut up." Jay scowled, but followed Erika silently. Erika had started walking towards the water that surrounded Titans' Tower.

"Can anyone here fly?" she asked. Mimi and Jay shook their heads. Erika sighed. "Didn't think so."

Erika started looking around for a boat, while Mimi stared at the Tower and Jay prepared a leaf-boat. The latter set a small twig carefully onto the leaf and gently blew on it, allowing it to push off the shore and out to sea. Mimi glanced at her.

"What are you doing?" she asked as Jay began waving to it.

"Waving goodbye to the leaf."

"Why?"

"Because it's going away."

"That's obvious!"

"So why did you ask?" Exasperated, Mimi rolled her eyes and gave up.

"Too perfect!" Erika's voice came towards them, along with Erika herself. "Guys, I found an old rowboat. With oars. It still works, I tried it out."

"Great. We row to Titans' Tower." Mimi looked across the harbor, to the big blue-and-silver T. "Only five hundred meters or so."

"Don't be so negative!" Jay said. "At least we get back."

"This time, Mimi… I agree with Jay." Jay looked smug. Mimi looked miffed. Erika led them to the old boat. They took their positions and started rowing. Down. Back. Up. Forwards. Down. Back. Up. Forwards.

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"Cyborg, aren't you done yet?" Raven sighed, exasperated. It'd been almost half an hour, with Cyborg busily sewing two sheets together. He was using a sewing machine, hence Raven's impatience.

"Almost!"

"How soon will you be done?"

"Five minutes, max."

"Fine." Raven leaned back and closed her violet eyes, focusing her mind to travel through space and time. She saw only blackness. Widening her focus to cover the world over, five hundred years in the future all the way back to tomorrow, Raven still saw nothing. She moved back and used today until five hundred years ago, and sat up straight. There! She honed in on the three girls. First, she saw just them. They seemed to be rowing. Then she saw their boat. Then the water. Then –

"Done!" Cyborg's voice shattered her focus.

"Good. Put it up over the window and call the Titans." Cyborg used a curtain rod to hand the sheets over the bay window. Then he yelled for the Titans. Raven stood and sat in front of the screen, and started preparing her mind to project what she saw. She heard the Titans gathering behind her, and expanded her metaphysical self so that what she saw was projected onto the sewn-together sheets. She found the girls again. They had stopped rowing and were walking, now. She didn't see their surroundings, not yet. Then she saw a hallway. It looked familiar, but she couldn't place it. They looked worried. Raven saw them opening a door, walking through it.

"Did we miss the start of the meeting?"

Author's Notes: I'm sorry, it's not the best chapter... I hope you like it, anyways, and please realize that it's Halloween and I'm a bit distracted... I'm going to start on that next chapter, now, and hope that I get reviews... and don't get killed by angry people hankering me to update faster... -cowers-

Ok, something weird just happened. I've had this uploaded for weeks, but everytime I try to post it, something comes up and I have to leave right that minute. So I still think I posted and then I get discouraged becasue people don't review. THIS TIME, I'm really gonna post!