Author's Note: The events of this story deviate a bit from the series timeline, so any inconsistencies with the series you see are either creative decisions on my part, or things I did my own way because the series hadn't said one way or another yet. For example, the Titans not knowing that Beast Boy's first name was Garfield. I started this fanfic early this year, months before Homecoming II aired. It was deleted recently, but it's now back, and will be free of any offenses this time. Anyways, I hope you enjoy.
Please note that my original character may seem a bit like a Gary Stu at first, but if you'll read to the end you'll see that there is more to his past than he lets on early on, and that it isn't all flattering or pleasant.
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In the United States, on the coast of California, there is a City called Jump. It is a nice town, mostly, sunny, but with suitably snowy winters. Unfortunately, this nice town was often plagued by metahumans and mad scientists with dark desires, and at the moment, the five teens that defended the city from these things were terribly busy.
Big Sister had returned.
A series of explosions broke pre-rush-hour calm. A feminine figure with jet-black hair streaked through the sky, followed closely by five pursuers. The dark female, the Tamaranian Warrior Blackfire, was intent on only one thing. She had to avenge the humiliation of defeat. Starfire had to die. And when she was gone, and the humiliation avenged, then Komand'r of Tamaran could finally achieve ultimate power.
All she had to do was finish off her sister.
Convinced the chase had sufficiently tired the others, Blackfire reached for her belt. She had to activate the pods containing her surprises: seven Loblaxdon pods strategically placed around the city that would spawn enormous deadly creatures. Creatures the Teen Titans would be forced to fight. Creatures that could kill them.
But not Starfire. Her little sister would be far too busy driving Blackfire off her adopted homeworld to worry about some worms. And then, when Starfire was alone, she would strike. Starfire wouldn't stand a chance this time. A distant speck grew into a figure: starfire was here.
"You shouldn't have come back, big sister," said Star firmly "I will now be forced to do what is called the 'whoop' to your butt."
"Just try me, sister dear," replied Blackfire. "Just try me."
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Starfire, determined to thwart whatever evil plot her sister had planned, launched herself at Blackfire, making contact, fist to face. Blackfire returned with a set of quick jabs and spinning kick. The kick impacted on Starfire's abdomen, sending her off course. She flew back, and charged again, letting loose a flurry of eye-beams. But Blackfire skillfully dodged the projectiles and countered with a pair of deadly starbolts.
Starfire flew low to avoid them and drop-kicked at Blackfire, but hit only air. Suddenly, Blackfire was right next to her, and fired a starbolt at point-blank, knocking Starfire to the ground. Star struggled to her feet, just as Blackfire's fist drove a hole into the ground where she had lain seconds earlier. Blackfire was out for blood.
"Surrender, Sister," insisted Starfire.
Blackfire just scoffed and flew up high, blasting eye-beams at the pursuing Starfire. Starfire skillfully dodged the flurry and countered with her own eye-beams. Blackfire blocked them with her gauntlets, but couldn't defend against her sister's haymaker. The punch sent sharp agonies through Blackfire's face, knocking her back towards the stars.
Suddenly, the ground below the Tamaranians began to rumble.
"I think you underestimate us," Starfire said, expecting the surprise guest to arrive at any minute. But instead, what appeared to be giant worms made of stone burst out of the ground.
Starfire gasped! "Loblaxdonese Vordlaxian Wyrms!"
"Of course, sister," Blackfire screamed. "You think that I would come unprepared for this fight?"
Then the wyrms opened their mouths to reveal Starfire's friends.
Loblaxdon Wyrms were known for two things: a hunger for stone, and the ability to turn organic matter into said stone to be ingested. So when Starfire saw Beast Boy, Raven, Cyborg, and Robin in the mouths of the four leviathans, she panicked!
"RELEASE THEM!" she yelled at her sister.
"Only if you surrender, my dear Koriand'r. You know that only the last of the Tamaranians can enter the sacred temples and retrieve the artifacts!"
"Last?" Normally peppy or angry—or just plain confused—Starfire was shocked to find herself in such abject horror at her sister's words. "What do you mean last, Sister?"
"You don't know?" Komand'r's eyes narrowed and her lips twisted into a disgusted frown.
"What have you done to our planet?" Starfire inquired with a sudden terrible realization.
"I did nothing," Blackfire said. She betrayed no glee or sadness. Just intensity. "Five of this planet's Lunar-cycles ago, a meteor made of pure Zynothium crashed into the planet. Nobody survived."
"I don't believe you!" Starfire lied.
"Like it or not, Sister, it is the truth. And I am claiming the Catalysts for myself!" She charged at Starfire…
Right into a huge wall of rock! No, she wasn't that stupid or uncoordinated; the wall had jutted up from the ground at the last minute, and she couldn't avoid it. But where had it come from? Was Terra not still a statue?
Well, yes. But who said this was Terra we're talking about?
A new figure burst from the ground now, sporting what appeared to be a suit of green body armor. His hair was black, laid back on top but spiked on the back of his head. Over his face he wore what looked like sunglasses, but where really threat-assessment goggles. This guy is called Ragnarök. And obviously, he posesses a similar power to Terra. He moves earth, albeit with less power and more fine control.
Or more accurately, his armor responds to whatever is powering it and reacts accordingly, and since it had an artifact that moved earth in it when its owner found it, it moved earth.
"Acquaintance Ragnarök!" Starfire yelled as she flew down to the guy who had defeated her sister. "Were you successful in your attempts to revive our comrade Terra?"
"Sorry," he sighed. "Whatever she did to herself, I think she's stuck that way."
Kori's face became sad upon hearing that.
"Not so fast!" a voice came from above. Komand'r stood on a nearby knoll, pointing her right arm at the two Titans. "You know you're no match for… me!" Blackfire let loose a flurry of her violet energy blasts, and Starfire and Ragnarök scattered.
Star used her laser vision and sent a twin beam at her evil sister, while Rag used his ability to move earth to launch a chunk of ground at Komand'r. As expected, she dodged the rock into the path of Star's blast, but then suddenly she flipped over it as it came, with speed Starfire didn't think she could match, and lashed out with more red starbolts.
"Sister, cease this assault! I wish to know more about our home world's demise!" Koriand'r pleaded.
"You know enough! HAAH!" a huge magenta ball appeared in Blackfire's hands, and she hurled it at Starfire.
It slammed into Kori's chest, knocking her backwards into a statue of ex-president Luthor. "Ouch."
Ragnarök took his cue and hurled stone fragments at Komand'r, which she dodged or destroyed, But he mixed in a sharp metal shard or two, and those cut the angry Tamaranian, making her even angrier... if that were possible.
"You cut me! Dare you defile the body of the heir to the grand Tamaranian powers?" Blackfire wiped the orange flud from her face... and then she screamed.
As Starfire had driven a starbolt-enhanced fist into her spinal column, and detonated the blast. "I did not want to hurt you, sister. But I will if I must." Kori's right hook caught the older sibling in the face and sent her plummeting towards the ground… right towards Ragnarök!
"Aahh!" screamed the young man, erecting a hastily made barrier of rock and metal. A jagged pipe from below the street, probably a sewer line or drainage pipe, was part of the assembly. As Komand'r crashed into the structure, Ragnarök leapt backwards as to not get crushed…
In the end, the point was just too sharp. Blackfire was impaled on the end of his shield. "Holy crap!" he exclaimed. "I killed her!"
Starfire gasped in horror! "No! Sister! I did not mean it!" She flew down to the dying Tamaranian. "Forgive me Komand'r!"
Oddly, the expression on Blackfire's face wasn't really sad, or angry. More like a resigned expression of one who has accepted her fate. She handed Starfire a small lavender object.
"Take it, little sister. Only a Tamaranian can find it. Only you can open the doors…"
And then Komand'r of Tamaran was gone. And Starfire began to cry. True, her sister was evil and wanted to kill her. But… Starfire had never wanted this…
Her eyes flared green with anger. She flew over to their new potential ally, who was nursing a cut on his leg. She said nothing, but the look in her eyes and face said it all—a terrible, painful mix of fury and sadness. Ragnarök's heart broke for her...
But he couldn't let her see that! Not yet. So he put on an air of defensiveness.
"It was an accident! And besides, I think you need to worry about saving your friends up there." Rag pointed to the giant Wyrms. And the stone Titans who would soon be digested.
Starfire buried her sadness and anger and lifted off. She had friends to rescue.