To Aurora Maryte: Thank you for reviewing! I'm glad you're cool with Terra coming back, I know that some fans don't like her at all but she and Beast Boy-CUTE! Thanks for the helpful remarks; more will be happening and I'll add some detail to the chapters!
Anyways...
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Oh what a beautiful view
If you were never aware of what was around you
-Death Cab for Cutie "marching bands of manhattan"
Chapter 3
Robin grabbed his helmet off the shelf by the door and was buckling it onto his head when Starfire asked, "What shall we do with friend Terra?"
Cyborg was running to the garage with Raven to the T-car. "She can come," he yelled, "It's only amnesia. She's not physically hurt." Terra, who was standing with Starfire, paled a bit. Beast Boy noticed and quietly asked her what was wrong.
"I, um, don't know if I can control my powers. And this outfit..." she trailed off. Beast Boy noticed that she was still wearing the grey suit from when she was on Slade's side, and wondred why he hadn't seen it before.
"Dude," he said," the outside doesn't matter as long as you're doing good on the inside." He poked her on the arm. "You'll be fine. Now do your whole 'I fly on a rock' thing."
"O-okay," She replied. Terra concentrated, and her hands began to glow yellow. A piece of rock came up to the door of the Tower, and she jumped onto it." Yes!" she yelled. Then she looked back at Beast Boy. "Are you coming? You'll get tired if you have to fly the whole time."
...Wanna go out?...
Terra blinked at the quick memory flash and shook her head slightly. Beast Boy had finally succeeded in climbing onto the rock after a few failures, and the last two Titans left, quickly catching up to Starfire.
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The Tower was ruined. He had come and left, and they all had never seen him coming. Speedy opened his eyes painfully and groaned. Robin and the others were coming, but there wouldn't be anything for them to help with except maybe the wounded. Where was everyone? He looked to his left. Aqualad was still out, and a heavy beam was on his ankle. That would hurt a bit. Mas y Menos...he couldn't see them. Speedy took a deep breath and sat up.
"Ah!" he said, grabbing his side. A broken rib. Wonderful.
"Speedy!"
Bumblbee dashed over to him. "Are you alright?" she asked. Her wing was torn, but otherwise Bumblbee has escaped unscathed. Speedy nodded. "Just my rib," he replied. "Where are the twins?"
Bumblebee turned away. "Oh," Speedy said softly. "They didn't...?" His eyes burned.
"We have to help out Aqualad," he said finally.
The two walked over to the beam and tried to lift it, but it wouldn't budge. Aqualad, however, stirred.
"What happened?" the young man asked groggily. He blinked and sat up, looking around. "Hey...the Titans!"
The three survivors turned to look and heard the sputtering of Robin's motorcycle. Starfire landed and ran over to help. "Please," she said," Do not move." She carefully lifted the beam from Aqualad's leg. The black haired teen grabbed his ankle and groaned,"I think it's broken."
Robin looked at all the destruction around him. What could have possibly caused this? He started giving out orders as any leader would do.
"Cyborg, see if you can find anything in the security system that can possibly tell us who did this. Starfire, help me look for any traces in the ruins, and Raven, Beast Boy, and Terra- you guys take care of Aqualad and Speedy."
Bumblebee walked over to Robin. "Anything that I can do?" she asked. Robin nodded.
"Tell me what happened."
Bumblebee shook her head. "We were all watching a movie in the dark, and then the alarm went off...but he was so fast," she said shakily. "It was almost as though he knew what we would do next and stopped it. He knocked Speedy and Aqualad out cold, and the twins..." She paused for a moment.
"He who?" Robin asked. Bumblebee shrugged.
"I don't know, but, Robin, he killed them," she said, and then blew up the tower before I even knew he had done anything, and I was over trying to stop him but he just grabbed my wing and tore it and threw me on the ground and then the tower collapsed and he left through that window over there and we have to stop him!" Bumblebee was shaking now and pointing to a window on her left.
Robin felt himself getting furious and put a hand on the young girl's shoulder. "We'll stop him," he growled. " You three will stay with us at Titans Tower," he said. "Of course, we'll rebuild your Tower, but for now we need to work together and stop whoever did this."
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Beast Boy went over to Speedy, with Terra following cautiously behind. She was relieved she didn't need to remember how to fight, but,she thought as she looked around at the mangled peices of metal, she wouldn't have minded socking the guy. "Dude, we'll fix you right up," the changeling next to her said cheerfully. Beast Boy found that in situations like this he needed to smile. Terra liked that. She knelt down beside Speedy and asked, " Where's a med kit?" Beast Boy jumped up.
"Robin's got one in the R-cycle, and there's probably some in Cy's car too," he said, and scampered off to retreive the supplies.
Raven walked over to Aqualad and remembered the last time she had seen him. Her palms got slightly sweaty and Raven frowned at that. Who cared if he was handsome? She reached her arm out and a black bird came out of her hand, flying past Beast Boy and grabbing the med kit from the motorcycle. "Dude!" Beast Boy yelped. "That thing is scary, Rae!"
Aqualad laughed softly at his green friend and then gave a wondering look towards the girl helping him. The first thing he noticed was that she smelled like lavender, which was an odd thing to notice when his home was rubble and his ankle was broken. He watched silently as she pulled over a peice of rock with her powers. "Sit on this," she said.
Aqualad replied," I dunno if I can get up by myself." Raven nodded, and wondered if she should use her powers or just help him up. She should have known he wouldn't be able to walk.
" Here," she replied, and concentrated on him. Aqualad was surrounded by black, and floated up onto the rock. His eyes were wide.
"That's cool!" he said to her. "You can do that with anything!" Raven felt her cheeks go warm.
"Yeah," she replied.
"I wish that was what I could do," Aqualad said enthusiastically. "I'm useless if there isn't water around. I mean, I can fistfight some, but..."
Raven gave a small smile and thought back on the events of that past summer. "You don't want my powers," she said. "And there's water everywhere."
"Not in the African desert."
"When are you going to the African desert?"
"You can never be too sure."
Raven bit back a laugh as she wrapped his ankle, because she knew something would explode if she laughed too hard when something so depressing was taking place at the same time. "Power over water doesn't backfire if you get too emotional."
Aqualad was quiet, and looked around what used to be the tower. "I'd probably be drowning everything right now if it did," he murmured.
"I'm sorry we weren't there sooner," Raven replied. She ripped the end of the tape around Aqualad's leg and rolled it up neatly. "That will do for now until we get a cast," she said. He nodded in thanks, and Raven helped him hobble towards the rest of the group. He smelled like the ocean.
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The more that Starfire saw of the ruins, the more upset she became. There was no trace of anything left behind yet, and Robin was still talking to Bumblebee. She turned a corner and found Cyborg, squatting down beside a crushed disco ball and looking at a small piece of machinery. "Have you found anything?" she asked.
Cyborg didn't look up from his work. "Watch out for the glass, Star," he said. The Tamaranian came up beside him, peering over his shoulder.
"What is that?" she asked. "And how come we do not own a ball of glass as they did?"
Cyborg gave a small chuckle. "It's a disco ball," he said. "I installed it when this whole place was built. Robin woudn't allow a disco ball. Maybe if YOU asked him, he'd get one."
Starfire gave her wide smile, then asked again, "Anything?"
Cyborg stood up. "The computers are totally smashed here, but I did find this." He held up a metallic green disc. "This is the file to the video cameras, and it somehow survived this whole ordeal." He examined it closer. "Matter of fact, it doesn't even look scratched." Starfire examined the disc as well with wide green eyes.
"How odd!" she exclaimed. Then she continued searching for other hints.
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"You three can probably take Speedy, Aqualad, and Bumblebee home," Robin said. "You can ride on Terra's rock or Raven will make a disc. there's no enemy here, so you guys can move on. I'll wait for Cyborg and Starfire."
Beast Boy and Terra helped Speedy over to Robin.
"Titans East will owe you one," Speedy said to Robin. Robin just shook his head.
" We're allies and friends," Robin said. "No payback." Then he turned to Raven, who was already floating, Aqualad trailing behind her on a disc. "raven, would you take the R-Cycle too? There's no point in me taking it if the car's here." Beast Boy flailed his arm.
"Dude, can I drive it? Pleeeeeeeze? You know I'm responsible, Robin- I totally saved the world on my own once!"
"From evil tofu?" Raven added with sarcasm. Robins shook his head.
"Let's not waste the gas, B," he said. Beast Boy grumbled and sat down on the edge of the rock.
"Which is exactly why you rode it over here," he mumbled with annoyance. "Lame excuse..."Robin sighed.
"If Raven gets tired of carrying it, you may drive it," he finally said. Beast Boy pumped a fist in the air, and Terra, Raven, and Bumblebee took off.
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The Tower must have been something. Starfire was now in the main hall, gaping at the pool in the center. It was completely different from home. She was saddened by the metal beams that crashed in the pool, and the wires sparking all around. This place would be rebuilt, she would make sure of that. A stray peice of metal did not catch Starfire's eye, and she tripped, falling into the pool. A burst of pain went through her skull, and she blacked out, floating towards the bottom of the pool...
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dun dun dunnnnn...cliffhanger! Don't worry, the next chapter will be up- probably tomorrow? (no guarantees, though) Latah, dudes. Oh but first- stupid question: Is Aqualad a merman? Because I tried not to describe him as one in case he wsn't, but he probably is...?
-Silver Miracles