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The Titan
Chapter 1
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Two more wings opened beneath the first on the stranger's back, his golden hair flying around him in the emptiness of space. All four wings pointed down towards the planet below, and a small bead of light formed at the tip of each feather. A small beam shot out from each bead, all of them converging on a single point ahead of him, forming a ball of white light about the size of a baseball. With a single thought, and a smirk, the ball was launched at the planet, burrowed through the outer crust all the way to the core, destroying it.
The planet itself was about the size of Mercury, not very big at all, but the core had only been roughly fifty miles below the surface. So with that gone, the planets crust began to break apart and implode upon itself. What the ball of light did was formed a micro quantum singularity (a small black hole) that was now drawing the entire planet, and soon the rest of this solar system into it. He just looked around him at all of the stars, and wondered which to go to next.
*****
Terra sat outside he small cave, looking up at the stars, wondering why he had betrayed her. She started to wonder if Slade was right, if all of them really couldn't be trusted. Then why had they been so nice to her, they had even offered her a home, as opposed to this place. It wasn't like she hadn't considered their offer, it was just too dangerous. If her power got out of control then she, quite possibly, could have destroyed their home.
It was about that time she saw what looked like a shooting star, but it was much too large.
"What is that?" she wondered standing up and climbing to the top of the ridge for a better look.
Whatever it was it was heading straight for the city, and even though she didn't want to got there, she still felt the need to protect it. So, with that thought now square in her mind, she summoned a boulder, got on, and headed for the city. It was strange, though, the whole time she was trying to pull it off course, but it didn't work, and that meant only one thing, it wasn't made of stone.
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"Hey, we got something headin' for the city," Cyborg said from his position at the RADAR.
"What is it?" Robin asked looking over his shoulder.
"Don't know, it's movin' too fast to tell."
"Well, it might be just a meteor, but a meteor that size could still level a large part of the city."
"Then why don't we stop it?" Beast Boy asked looking somewhat confused.
"Right, Titans GO!" Robin yelled and ran out the door with the others right behind him.
*****
Needless to say the six teens all arrived at the same spot, at the same time. The Titans all eyed Terra, wondering exactly what she was doing there, since she had expressed a somewhat obvious lack of wanting to join. Beast Boy, on the other hand, looked somewhat hopeful at seeing her, and could tell by her face that she was happy to see him, a tiny bit, but it was there.
But now was not a time for talking, now was a time to try and stop what was heading straight for them. So, Terra stepped up and laid her hands on the ground, instantly a massive boulder, almost thirty feet across lifted up through the loose dirt. She held it high over head and then threw it at the object. Apparently, whatever it was that she thought would happen, didn't happen. The boulder struck the object, and, rather than destroying it, knocked it off course from the city, sending it straight down towards them.
"Titans, move!" Robin yelled and they all jumped out of the way.
The ball of flame slammed into the ground, and the resulting explosion was stopped by Raven, casting a shield over the crater. The darkness vanished, leaving just a smoldering crater at least fifty feet in diameter. Golden lightening danced across the brim of the hole, arcing high above it. The lightening slowly receded back into the crater, centering around the form half-buried in the ground.
"Who's that?" Beast Boy asked as he looked over the edge of the crater.
Long golden hair was askew, most of it covering the person's face, leaving his back exposed. From what they could see, he was wearing a black tank top (like Future Trunks from BDZ) except there was no back to it. Four feathered wings flapped once before dispersing into just individual feathers and tiny points of light. This left four long scars running down the person's back, two just above his shoulder blades, and two right on his shoulder blades.
A black aura surrounded his body and it was lifted from the ground, and from the crater as well. The aura disappeared, and he was revealed to be wearing white baggy pants, that had several rips in them, and boots (picture the pants and boots that Super Buu wore in DBZ). On his arms were two forearm guards (again, like Buu's). He was still face down, though, so Robin stepped forward and flipped him over, Starfire gasped and everyone looked at her.
"Th-that's Sunfire (I was at a loss for a name)," she said fearfully, pointing at him.
"Who?" Robin asked.
"He's one of the most wanted criminals in the galaxy. We should restrain him immediately and notify the authorities."
Everyone's attention was drawn to the body as a groan escaped it. His arms began to move to pick himself up, pushing his upper body up into a sitting position. One hand held him up; the other rested on his forehead, holding the large bump that had formed.
"Ah, what happened, where am I?" he looked around at the people are him. "Who are you? Who am I?"
"He must be acting," Starfire whispered to Robin, but Raven also heard.
"He's not acting Starfire, he really doesn't know," the cloaked Titan said in her usual monotone. "That rock to the head must have given him amnesia."
"Sunfire? Is that my name?" he asked as he stood up shakily.
When he was about to fall, Raven held out her hand. Sunfire grasped Raven hand, and a rush of information flooded his head. Everything that there was to know about the one called Raven was now racing into his mind. Her past, her personality, her experiences, and a vague look at her future, but this was too distorted to see. The alien released the Titans' hand and stepped back, holding his head again. He stumbled towards Starfire, who instinctively moved to catch him, but Raven stopped his fall.
"Don't touch him, Star," she said as the black aura disappeared from his body. "He absorbs information through a person's skin. If he knew what you knew, he would be very dangerous."
"Yes, thank you Raven," Starfire said happily.
"So, this is Earth, you're the Teen Titans, and I'm of the same race as this one?" he pointed to Starfire. "You are Robin, Beast Boy, Raven, Starfire, Cyborg and...Terra?"
"Uh, yeah," Terra said from a slight distance.
The Tamaran looked around him, he couldn't help but feel that something was missing, something he needed. His hand went to his hip, but what he was expecting to find wasn't there.
"My sword," he looked behind him at the crater, trying to spot his blade. "Where is it?"
He jumped into the hole and slid down the edge, landing in a cloud of dust. When the dust settled, he could be seen to be rooting in the dirt. But there was no digging involved, his hands simply passed right through the soil. Soon his whole body was engulfed by the ground, and all he left behind was a ripple in the earth. The earth began to churn and bubble, as if it had been turned to liquid.
"Starfire, while he's in there, tell us more about him," Robin said. "What is he?"
"He was an experimental weapon created by the Tamarans to combat their enemies," Raven said before Starfire could even open her mouth. "But they didn't want him to be a slave so they give him free will."
"Raven, how do you know this?"
"When he touched me, all that he knew was transferred to me, and everything about me was transferred to him."
"Oh, so what can we expect of him?"
"I'm really sure at the moment, his memories are still a little jumbled. It's safe to say, though, that he has the same powers as Starfire, and quite a bit more," she said slightly downcast. "But as long as he doesn't figure out who he really is, we should be okay."
"I guess Terra just saved the world, whether she realizes it or not," Beast Boy said and turned to look at Terra, but she was gone. "Hey, where is she?"
"Guess she still doesn't trust us," Cyborg said.
There was an explosion of dirt behind them, and Sunfire emerged, holding his Phoenix blade over his head. The red sword gleamed in the dying sunlight, it's shine betraying the fact that it had been almost 100 feet underground. The small, green stones that made up the eyes in the pommel seemed to come alive during the sunset. He sheathed it at his hip and walked over to them.
"So, what now?" he asked looking at each of them in turn.
"Why not join up, we could use someone like you," Robin suggested.
Sunfire looked at him, pale green eyes staring at the white expanses that were Robin's mask. He had realized what had happened when he touched Raven's bare skin, it had cause a memory download. But something was blocking his access to the innermost levels of those memories. He didn't know what, and he really didn't care, if he couldn't look at them, fine, they weren't his memories anyway, not that he had any to go on. So he just held out his hand, figuring that Robin's gloves would protect him.
"Sure," he said as Robin glanced at his hand, then at Raven, who nodded ever so slightly. "Might be...fun."
"Glad to hear it," Robin said as he took hold of Sunfire's hand.
*****
Light years away, on a planet in the Centari system, Blackfire sat in her cell, the large bracelets on her wrists constantly regulating her powers, keeping her from summoning both starbolts and her strength. A sound caught her attention, and only her attention, since she was in a part of the prison kept far from other prisoners; the Centarians knew that she was capable of organizing a rebellion. The sound got louder, and louder, sounding like boots on the metal floor. She stepped up to the door, and looked through the small window. Eyes that were completely black met hers, and she jumped to the side of the door, which was blown to pieces by a black mass of energy that greatly resembled a starbolt.
"It's you," she said from the bed.
"Good to see you Komand'r," the figure said.
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"How long has he been in there?" Beast Boy asked with his ear to the bathroom door.
"Almost an hour," Cyborg said looking at the clock in his arm.
Both of them were outside the door, behind which the sound of running water could be heard.
"Maybe he just has a lot of hair to wash," Beast Boy suggested.
"Man, Terra didn't this long and she was filthy," the half robot retorted.
"You're right."
The sound of water stopped, and there was a brief pause before the door opened and Sunfire, with a towel wrapped around his waist, stepped out. He looked between the two of them, and then continued on his way to the laundry room, to pick up his clothes. Beast Boy looked inside the bathroom and saw that it was sparkling clean, he looked over at the heavily scarred back of the Tamaranean.
"Did you think I wouldn't clean up after myself?" he asked, absentmindedly reading the young changelings surface thoughts.
"Well...uh..." the green Titan was at a loss for words.
Sunfire simply smiled a little and stepped into the door to the laundry room, where his clothes had finished washing. When he took them out, they were wet, but in his hands they dried instantly, and he got dressed. His hair, which had been weighed down by the water, was almost completely dry as he pulled it through the hole in the tank top. It spiked itself in the back while a few of those spikes fell forward over his face. He couldn't see it, but somehow he knew that the scars on his back were pulsing.
There was a noise behind him, and he turned in time to see Starfire's head duck out of sight. He had felt that she didn't trust him from the moment he had first laid eyes on her. He shrugged and walked towards the door, looking this way and that down the hall, but she was nowhere to be seen. It was a shame, he wanted to ask her where the roof access was.
"Guess I'll just have to find it myself," he said and started walking.
It wasn't long before he found a door labeled "STAIRS" with a large arrow pointing up. He opened the door and proceeded up the long flight of stairs, keeping his hand on the handrail. The door at the top of the stairs was slightly ajar, so he pushed it all the way open and saw the one called Raven, floating a few feet off the ground. Her cape was blowing in a nonexistent wind, and her hands held aloft, fingers twisted into an odd shape. He couldn't remember much, but he knew he had seen someone like that before, canting those same words.
"Azarath," he said quietly, but not quietly enough to not alert the meditating Titan.
"What?" she asked turning to face him.
"Azarath, I've been there," he said, "a long time ago."
"How can you remember that?"
"I don't know, I heard you chanting and I just remembered hearing it somewhere," he shrugged and looked up at the stars, away from her questioning eyes. "I guess this amnesia thing wears off faster for me."
"Maybe," she said while thinking, 'That can't be good.'
The door behind him opened and Starfire stood there, looking somewhat out of breath. She had one hand on her thigh, the other resting on the door, panting. Her eyes were closed until she caught her breath and looked up, and seemed somewhat surprised.
"Oh...Raven, it is time for the evening meal," Starfire said trying to hide the fact that she had come to make sure the other Titan was safe.
"Thank you Starfire, care to join us?" the cloaked female asked.
"No thanks," he said and was immediately followed by a loud rumbling from his abdomen. "On second thought."
*****
The next day started much like any other, with Beast Boy attempting to sneak tofu into everyone's breakfast. He carefully hid the tofu eggs underneath the real eggs, and the bacon underneath the real bacon, while his plate was piled high with both. Acting completely natural he placed the fixed plates in front of each person, and surprise, surprise, Cyborg dug in first. Quickly followed by everyone else. All of a sudden there was a gagging sound, but it wasn't the metal man, Sunfire was on the floor, clutching his throat, a mound of half-chewed tofu in front of him. Everyone stopped eating and watched him.
"What is that dropna?" he asked between gasps for air. Upon hearing that, only Starfire seemed revolted at what he said. "Well?"
"What, it's tofu," Beast Boy said completely unaware that he had just told everyone that he had hidden tofu in all their food. "It's good for you."
"I can't handle anything other than meat," Sunfire said as he slowly stood up, leaning against the wall.
"He is right, Tamaraneans only eat foods other than meat when there is no meat to be found," Starfire nodded in agreement.
"Beast Boy, did you hide tofu in everyone's food?" Cyborg asked, sliding right up beside Beast Boy.
"Um...no."
"That's it, get over here!" Cyborg jumped at the changeling, who turned into a bird and flew off, with the mechanical Titan hot on his heels.
"Are they always like this?" Sunfire asked as he finally regained his sense of balance, being able to stand without his hand on the wall.
"Most days," Raven droned.
They sat and listened to the shouting match that erupted in the living room, something about Cyborg needing his protein, and Beast Boy just trying to improve the overall health of the team.
"You know, I wouldn't have it any other way," Robin said leaning back in his chair.
Sunfire looked over at Raven, as if seeking some sort of explanation, but she just shrugged, so he turned to Starfire, whose brain seemed to be out at the moment, and Robin was finishing his breakfast. He sighed and sat back down, picking up the fork and poking at the fake eggs and bacon. It disgusted him to have been fooled so easily into eaten such filth.
"When does training start?" he asked after a few minutes, he was getting bored.
"After breakfast," Robin replied taking his time eating.
The golden haired alien stood up and walked into the living room, heading for the door. In his way were Beast Boy and Cyborg, still arguing, till he put his hand one each of their shoulders and forced them apart, throwing them to opposite ends of the room. He reached the door and opened it, stepping outside into the fresh air and sunshine. Everyone looked at him, at the scars that were glowing on his back.
"Such a strange planet, do they wait till after breakfast for everything?" He said walking down the path to the beach, his arms spread wide to catch to the sun.
He reached the shore and sat down, his feet stretched out in front of him, just short of the water lapping at the sand. His hands shoved into the sand behind him, digging deep furrows in the otherwise unmarred beach. His head thrown back and eyes closed, he began to soak in the solar energy to replenish his depleted resources; interplanetary travel and an interrupted atmospheric entry can do that do you. It was more than ten minutes before the sound of footsteps entered his ears.
"Sunfire, it's time," he heard Robin's voice behind him.
"Finally," he breathed as he got up.
"Now, today we'll be running the new obstacle course, it's been redesigned after Terra destroyed it," Robin said from behind a large console. "Cyborg, are you ready?"
"I was born ready," he replied stepping up to the finish line.
It was a standard obstacle course; lasers, a minefield, large spikes that shot out of the ground, the rocks that opened and fired exploding discs, particle cannons, and a series of droids (that look like Zeta) that self destruct when they get close enough. Cyborg ran the race flawlessly, ending with a somersault and a gymnasts stance just for the hell of it. His time was 2:36, a little longer than before because the added features.
"Sunfire, you're next."
"Alright," he stepped up to the white line, and crouched into a starting position.
Two seconds, and several explosions later, he appeared next to Cyborg, a cloud of dust immediately following him. Taking a look at the course, the droids were all destroyed and in pieces, all of the rocks had been blown apart at ground level, the spikes had been bent in half, large craters littered the former minefield, the lasers and particle cannons had been forced downward, firing upon themselves. The scars on his back glowed a dull red, and small jolts of golden electricity jumped from one to the other. He looked back at Cyborg's face; it was priceless, as with everyone else's.
"Looks like we need to rebuild the obstacle course," Robin said.
"Again," Raven finished.
Sunfire stood up from his crouched position and turned back to the ruined course. Materials began to move and shift, rebuilding themselves. Spikes shook and straightened, returning to their place beneath the ground. The wiring of the lasers and particle cannons reconnected, the platforms themselves twisting and reshaping to perfection. The droids rebuilt themselves and walked back into a small alcove in the rocks that housed them. The earth thrown into the air from the craters was dragged over the ground, or brought through the air back to the craters, and filled them. The rocks concealing the disc launchers were rebuilt along with the launchers, and were soon good as new.
"There, reconstruction is finished," he said as the aura faded from his scars, "and the ammunition has been resupplied."
'The transformation of objects at the atomic, possibly subatomic, level, this is impossible,' Raven thought looking at the altered Tamaranean. 'Even Azar couldn't do that.'
"Raven, do you know anything about this?" Robin asked seeing her look of deep contemplation.
"He can alter the matter around him, even the air, to create any sort of object he wants," she gave him the brief explanation of what happened.
"Oh."
Sunfire heard what Raven said, but didn't let it show, he wasn't going to do anything that might get him kicked out. He had remembered something during the night, something he wish he hadn't. He had remembered a time of searing, blinding pain. It hadn't been something he was happy to know, but that was a long time ago, longer than he cared to know. He looked from the ground to Starfire, who, like always, was watching him intently; he wished to know why she didn't trust him. Unlike Raven's memories, which were still swimming through his mind, the others had mental barriers that were keeping him out. Nothing less than direct contact was going to allow him access to their minds.
'This is frustrating,' he thought as he looked around, there was a sound he couldn't quite place, but the source was getting closer. The sound waves were reverberating off the rocks and tower, confusing his sensitive ears. "Where is it?"
"Where's what?" Cyborg asked. "Proximity sensors haven't detected anything."
"Then they need to be upgraded," Sunfire snapped as he continued to turn his head this way and that. "It's small, maybe a foot long, definitely mechanical, and underwater. But which way is it coming from."
"I'm still not seeing anything," Cyborg said looking at the screen in his arm. "Hey Robin, anything on the sonar?"
"No, why?"
"There it is," Sunfire pointed his open palmed hand and shot a golden starbolt at the cylinder that erupted from the surface of the water about ten feet offshore.
The front of the cylinder had remained intact, landing at Robin's feet. He picked it up and looked at it, turning it over to see the back. There was a screen inside that displayed Slade's logo, which was promptly crushed by the Titans' leader.
"Slade," he hissed.
TBC
There, the first chapter is finally done. Who is the person who busted Blackfire out of prison, you'll all find out later. Sorry for any OOCness, this is my first Titans' fic. Well, that's all from me, the next chapter is probably going to take as long, if not longer, than this one. I've got so much fuckin' stuff to do, stories to continue, and school. I can't do this much longer.
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The Titan
Chapter 1
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Two more wings opened beneath the first on the stranger's back, his golden hair flying around him in the emptiness of space. All four wings pointed down towards the planet below, and a small bead of light formed at the tip of each feather. A small beam shot out from each bead, all of them converging on a single point ahead of him, forming a ball of white light about the size of a baseball. With a single thought, and a smirk, the ball was launched at the planet, burrowed through the outer crust all the way to the core, destroying it.
The planet itself was about the size of Mercury, not very big at all, but the core had only been roughly fifty miles below the surface. So with that gone, the planets crust began to break apart and implode upon itself. What the ball of light did was formed a micro quantum singularity (a small black hole) that was now drawing the entire planet, and soon the rest of this solar system into it. He just looked around him at all of the stars, and wondered which to go to next.
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Terra sat outside he small cave, looking up at the stars, wondering why he had betrayed her. She started to wonder if Slade was right, if all of them really couldn't be trusted. Then why had they been so nice to her, they had even offered her a home, as opposed to this place. It wasn't like she hadn't considered their offer, it was just too dangerous. If her power got out of control then she, quite possibly, could have destroyed their home.
It was about that time she saw what looked like a shooting star, but it was much too large.
"What is that?" she wondered standing up and climbing to the top of the ridge for a better look.
Whatever it was it was heading straight for the city, and even though she didn't want to got there, she still felt the need to protect it. So, with that thought now square in her mind, she summoned a boulder, got on, and headed for the city. It was strange, though, the whole time she was trying to pull it off course, but it didn't work, and that meant only one thing, it wasn't made of stone.
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"Hey, we got something headin' for the city," Cyborg said from his position at the RADAR.
"What is it?" Robin asked looking over his shoulder.
"Don't know, it's movin' too fast to tell."
"Well, it might be just a meteor, but a meteor that size could still level a large part of the city."
"Then why don't we stop it?" Beast Boy asked looking somewhat confused.
"Right, Titans GO!" Robin yelled and ran out the door with the others right behind him.
*****
Needless to say the six teens all arrived at the same spot, at the same time. The Titans all eyed Terra, wondering exactly what she was doing there, since she had expressed a somewhat obvious lack of wanting to join. Beast Boy, on the other hand, looked somewhat hopeful at seeing her, and could tell by her face that she was happy to see him, a tiny bit, but it was there.
But now was not a time for talking, now was a time to try and stop what was heading straight for them. So, Terra stepped up and laid her hands on the ground, instantly a massive boulder, almost thirty feet across lifted up through the loose dirt. She held it high over head and then threw it at the object. Apparently, whatever it was that she thought would happen, didn't happen. The boulder struck the object, and, rather than destroying it, knocked it off course from the city, sending it straight down towards them.
"Titans, move!" Robin yelled and they all jumped out of the way.
The ball of flame slammed into the ground, and the resulting explosion was stopped by Raven, casting a shield over the crater. The darkness vanished, leaving just a smoldering crater at least fifty feet in diameter. Golden lightening danced across the brim of the hole, arcing high above it. The lightening slowly receded back into the crater, centering around the form half-buried in the ground.
"Who's that?" Beast Boy asked as he looked over the edge of the crater.
Long golden hair was askew, most of it covering the person's face, leaving his back exposed. From what they could see, he was wearing a black tank top (like Future Trunks from BDZ) except there was no back to it. Four feathered wings flapped once before dispersing into just individual feathers and tiny points of light. This left four long scars running down the person's back, two just above his shoulder blades, and two right on his shoulder blades.
A black aura surrounded his body and it was lifted from the ground, and from the crater as well. The aura disappeared, and he was revealed to be wearing white baggy pants, that had several rips in them, and boots (picture the pants and boots that Super Buu wore in DBZ). On his arms were two forearm guards (again, like Buu's). He was still face down, though, so Robin stepped forward and flipped him over, Starfire gasped and everyone looked at her.
"Th-that's Sunfire (I was at a loss for a name)," she said fearfully, pointing at him.
"Who?" Robin asked.
"He's one of the most wanted criminals in the galaxy. We should restrain him immediately and notify the authorities."
Everyone's attention was drawn to the body as a groan escaped it. His arms began to move to pick himself up, pushing his upper body up into a sitting position. One hand held him up; the other rested on his forehead, holding the large bump that had formed.
"Ah, what happened, where am I?" he looked around at the people are him. "Who are you? Who am I?"
"He must be acting," Starfire whispered to Robin, but Raven also heard.
"He's not acting Starfire, he really doesn't know," the cloaked Titan said in her usual monotone. "That rock to the head must have given him amnesia."
"Sunfire? Is that my name?" he asked as he stood up shakily.
When he was about to fall, Raven held out her hand. Sunfire grasped Raven hand, and a rush of information flooded his head. Everything that there was to know about the one called Raven was now racing into his mind. Her past, her personality, her experiences, and a vague look at her future, but this was too distorted to see. The alien released the Titans' hand and stepped back, holding his head again. He stumbled towards Starfire, who instinctively moved to catch him, but Raven stopped his fall.
"Don't touch him, Star," she said as the black aura disappeared from his body. "He absorbs information through a person's skin. If he knew what you knew, he would be very dangerous."
"Yes, thank you Raven," Starfire said happily.
"So, this is Earth, you're the Teen Titans, and I'm of the same race as this one?" he pointed to Starfire. "You are Robin, Beast Boy, Raven, Starfire, Cyborg and...Terra?"
"Uh, yeah," Terra said from a slight distance.
The Tamaran looked around him, he couldn't help but feel that something was missing, something he needed. His hand went to his hip, but what he was expecting to find wasn't there.
"My sword," he looked behind him at the crater, trying to spot his blade. "Where is it?"
He jumped into the hole and slid down the edge, landing in a cloud of dust. When the dust settled, he could be seen to be rooting in the dirt. But there was no digging involved, his hands simply passed right through the soil. Soon his whole body was engulfed by the ground, and all he left behind was a ripple in the earth. The earth began to churn and bubble, as if it had been turned to liquid.
"Starfire, while he's in there, tell us more about him," Robin said. "What is he?"
"He was an experimental weapon created by the Tamarans to combat their enemies," Raven said before Starfire could even open her mouth. "But they didn't want him to be a slave so they give him free will."
"Raven, how do you know this?"
"When he touched me, all that he knew was transferred to me, and everything about me was transferred to him."
"Oh, so what can we expect of him?"
"I'm really sure at the moment, his memories are still a little jumbled. It's safe to say, though, that he has the same powers as Starfire, and quite a bit more," she said slightly downcast. "But as long as he doesn't figure out who he really is, we should be okay."
"I guess Terra just saved the world, whether she realizes it or not," Beast Boy said and turned to look at Terra, but she was gone. "Hey, where is she?"
"Guess she still doesn't trust us," Cyborg said.
There was an explosion of dirt behind them, and Sunfire emerged, holding his Phoenix blade over his head. The red sword gleamed in the dying sunlight, it's shine betraying the fact that it had been almost 100 feet underground. The small, green stones that made up the eyes in the pommel seemed to come alive during the sunset. He sheathed it at his hip and walked over to them.
"So, what now?" he asked looking at each of them in turn.
"Why not join up, we could use someone like you," Robin suggested.
Sunfire looked at him, pale green eyes staring at the white expanses that were Robin's mask. He had realized what had happened when he touched Raven's bare skin, it had cause a memory download. But something was blocking his access to the innermost levels of those memories. He didn't know what, and he really didn't care, if he couldn't look at them, fine, they weren't his memories anyway, not that he had any to go on. So he just held out his hand, figuring that Robin's gloves would protect him.
"Sure," he said as Robin glanced at his hand, then at Raven, who nodded ever so slightly. "Might be...fun."
"Glad to hear it," Robin said as he took hold of Sunfire's hand.
*****
Light years away, on a planet in the Centari system, Blackfire sat in her cell, the large bracelets on her wrists constantly regulating her powers, keeping her from summoning both starbolts and her strength. A sound caught her attention, and only her attention, since she was in a part of the prison kept far from other prisoners; the Centarians knew that she was capable of organizing a rebellion. The sound got louder, and louder, sounding like boots on the metal floor. She stepped up to the door, and looked through the small window. Eyes that were completely black met hers, and she jumped to the side of the door, which was blown to pieces by a black mass of energy that greatly resembled a starbolt.
"It's you," she said from the bed.
"Good to see you Komand'r," the figure said.
*****
"How long has he been in there?" Beast Boy asked with his ear to the bathroom door.
"Almost an hour," Cyborg said looking at the clock in his arm.
Both of them were outside the door, behind which the sound of running water could be heard.
"Maybe he just has a lot of hair to wash," Beast Boy suggested.
"Man, Terra didn't this long and she was filthy," the half robot retorted.
"You're right."
The sound of water stopped, and there was a brief pause before the door opened and Sunfire, with a towel wrapped around his waist, stepped out. He looked between the two of them, and then continued on his way to the laundry room, to pick up his clothes. Beast Boy looked inside the bathroom and saw that it was sparkling clean, he looked over at the heavily scarred back of the Tamaranean.
"Did you think I wouldn't clean up after myself?" he asked, absentmindedly reading the young changelings surface thoughts.
"Well...uh..." the green Titan was at a loss for words.
Sunfire simply smiled a little and stepped into the door to the laundry room, where his clothes had finished washing. When he took them out, they were wet, but in his hands they dried instantly, and he got dressed. His hair, which had been weighed down by the water, was almost completely dry as he pulled it through the hole in the tank top. It spiked itself in the back while a few of those spikes fell forward over his face. He couldn't see it, but somehow he knew that the scars on his back were pulsing.
There was a noise behind him, and he turned in time to see Starfire's head duck out of sight. He had felt that she didn't trust him from the moment he had first laid eyes on her. He shrugged and walked towards the door, looking this way and that down the hall, but she was nowhere to be seen. It was a shame, he wanted to ask her where the roof access was.
"Guess I'll just have to find it myself," he said and started walking.
It wasn't long before he found a door labeled "STAIRS" with a large arrow pointing up. He opened the door and proceeded up the long flight of stairs, keeping his hand on the handrail. The door at the top of the stairs was slightly ajar, so he pushed it all the way open and saw the one called Raven, floating a few feet off the ground. Her cape was blowing in a nonexistent wind, and her hands held aloft, fingers twisted into an odd shape. He couldn't remember much, but he knew he had seen someone like that before, canting those same words.
"Azarath," he said quietly, but not quietly enough to not alert the meditating Titan.
"What?" she asked turning to face him.
"Azarath, I've been there," he said, "a long time ago."
"How can you remember that?"
"I don't know, I heard you chanting and I just remembered hearing it somewhere," he shrugged and looked up at the stars, away from her questioning eyes. "I guess this amnesia thing wears off faster for me."
"Maybe," she said while thinking, 'That can't be good.'
The door behind him opened and Starfire stood there, looking somewhat out of breath. She had one hand on her thigh, the other resting on the door, panting. Her eyes were closed until she caught her breath and looked up, and seemed somewhat surprised.
"Oh...Raven, it is time for the evening meal," Starfire said trying to hide the fact that she had come to make sure the other Titan was safe.
"Thank you Starfire, care to join us?" the cloaked female asked.
"No thanks," he said and was immediately followed by a loud rumbling from his abdomen. "On second thought."
*****
The next day started much like any other, with Beast Boy attempting to sneak tofu into everyone's breakfast. He carefully hid the tofu eggs underneath the real eggs, and the bacon underneath the real bacon, while his plate was piled high with both. Acting completely natural he placed the fixed plates in front of each person, and surprise, surprise, Cyborg dug in first. Quickly followed by everyone else. All of a sudden there was a gagging sound, but it wasn't the metal man, Sunfire was on the floor, clutching his throat, a mound of half-chewed tofu in front of him. Everyone stopped eating and watched him.
"What is that dropna?" he asked between gasps for air. Upon hearing that, only Starfire seemed revolted at what he said. "Well?"
"What, it's tofu," Beast Boy said completely unaware that he had just told everyone that he had hidden tofu in all their food. "It's good for you."
"I can't handle anything other than meat," Sunfire said as he slowly stood up, leaning against the wall.
"He is right, Tamaraneans only eat foods other than meat when there is no meat to be found," Starfire nodded in agreement.
"Beast Boy, did you hide tofu in everyone's food?" Cyborg asked, sliding right up beside Beast Boy.
"Um...no."
"That's it, get over here!" Cyborg jumped at the changeling, who turned into a bird and flew off, with the mechanical Titan hot on his heels.
"Are they always like this?" Sunfire asked as he finally regained his sense of balance, being able to stand without his hand on the wall.
"Most days," Raven droned.
They sat and listened to the shouting match that erupted in the living room, something about Cyborg needing his protein, and Beast Boy just trying to improve the overall health of the team.
"You know, I wouldn't have it any other way," Robin said leaning back in his chair.
Sunfire looked over at Raven, as if seeking some sort of explanation, but she just shrugged, so he turned to Starfire, whose brain seemed to be out at the moment, and Robin was finishing his breakfast. He sighed and sat back down, picking up the fork and poking at the fake eggs and bacon. It disgusted him to have been fooled so easily into eaten such filth.
"When does training start?" he asked after a few minutes, he was getting bored.
"After breakfast," Robin replied taking his time eating.
The golden haired alien stood up and walked into the living room, heading for the door. In his way were Beast Boy and Cyborg, still arguing, till he put his hand one each of their shoulders and forced them apart, throwing them to opposite ends of the room. He reached the door and opened it, stepping outside into the fresh air and sunshine. Everyone looked at him, at the scars that were glowing on his back.
"Such a strange planet, do they wait till after breakfast for everything?" He said walking down the path to the beach, his arms spread wide to catch to the sun.
He reached the shore and sat down, his feet stretched out in front of him, just short of the water lapping at the sand. His hands shoved into the sand behind him, digging deep furrows in the otherwise unmarred beach. His head thrown back and eyes closed, he began to soak in the solar energy to replenish his depleted resources; interplanetary travel and an interrupted atmospheric entry can do that do you. It was more than ten minutes before the sound of footsteps entered his ears.
"Sunfire, it's time," he heard Robin's voice behind him.
"Finally," he breathed as he got up.
"Now, today we'll be running the new obstacle course, it's been redesigned after Terra destroyed it," Robin said from behind a large console. "Cyborg, are you ready?"
"I was born ready," he replied stepping up to the finish line.
It was a standard obstacle course; lasers, a minefield, large spikes that shot out of the ground, the rocks that opened and fired exploding discs, particle cannons, and a series of droids (that look like Zeta) that self destruct when they get close enough. Cyborg ran the race flawlessly, ending with a somersault and a gymnasts stance just for the hell of it. His time was 2:36, a little longer than before because the added features.
"Sunfire, you're next."
"Alright," he stepped up to the white line, and crouched into a starting position.
Two seconds, and several explosions later, he appeared next to Cyborg, a cloud of dust immediately following him. Taking a look at the course, the droids were all destroyed and in pieces, all of the rocks had been blown apart at ground level, the spikes had been bent in half, large craters littered the former minefield, the lasers and particle cannons had been forced downward, firing upon themselves. The scars on his back glowed a dull red, and small jolts of golden electricity jumped from one to the other. He looked back at Cyborg's face; it was priceless, as with everyone else's.
"Looks like we need to rebuild the obstacle course," Robin said.
"Again," Raven finished.
Sunfire stood up from his crouched position and turned back to the ruined course. Materials began to move and shift, rebuilding themselves. Spikes shook and straightened, returning to their place beneath the ground. The wiring of the lasers and particle cannons reconnected, the platforms themselves twisting and reshaping to perfection. The droids rebuilt themselves and walked back into a small alcove in the rocks that housed them. The earth thrown into the air from the craters was dragged over the ground, or brought through the air back to the craters, and filled them. The rocks concealing the disc launchers were rebuilt along with the launchers, and were soon good as new.
"There, reconstruction is finished," he said as the aura faded from his scars, "and the ammunition has been resupplied."
'The transformation of objects at the atomic, possibly subatomic, level, this is impossible,' Raven thought looking at the altered Tamaranean. 'Even Azar couldn't do that.'
"Raven, do you know anything about this?" Robin asked seeing her look of deep contemplation.
"He can alter the matter around him, even the air, to create any sort of object he wants," she gave him the brief explanation of what happened.
"Oh."
Sunfire heard what Raven said, but didn't let it show, he wasn't going to do anything that might get him kicked out. He had remembered something during the night, something he wish he hadn't. He had remembered a time of searing, blinding pain. It hadn't been something he was happy to know, but that was a long time ago, longer than he cared to know. He looked from the ground to Starfire, who, like always, was watching him intently; he wished to know why she didn't trust him. Unlike Raven's memories, which were still swimming through his mind, the others had mental barriers that were keeping him out. Nothing less than direct contact was going to allow him access to their minds.
'This is frustrating,' he thought as he looked around, there was a sound he couldn't quite place, but the source was getting closer. The sound waves were reverberating off the rocks and tower, confusing his sensitive ears. "Where is it?"
"Where's what?" Cyborg asked. "Proximity sensors haven't detected anything."
"Then they need to be upgraded," Sunfire snapped as he continued to turn his head this way and that. "It's small, maybe a foot long, definitely mechanical, and underwater. But which way is it coming from."
"I'm still not seeing anything," Cyborg said looking at the screen in his arm. "Hey Robin, anything on the sonar?"
"No, why?"
"There it is," Sunfire pointed his open palmed hand and shot a golden starbolt at the cylinder that erupted from the surface of the water about ten feet offshore.
The front of the cylinder had remained intact, landing at Robin's feet. He picked it up and looked at it, turning it over to see the back. There was a screen inside that displayed Slade's logo, which was promptly crushed by the Titans' leader.
"Slade," he hissed.
TBC
There, the first chapter is finally done. Who is the person who busted Blackfire out of prison, you'll all find out later. Sorry for any OOCness, this is my first Titans' fic. Well, that's all from me, the next chapter is probably going to take as long, if not longer, than this one. I've got so much fuckin' stuff to do, stories to continue, and school. I can't do this much longer.