Chapter 7: Change of Heart
All of the titans had gathered in the main living room when Raven raised the alarm. She had just finished describing her vision to the rest of the team.
"Then Starfire floated up and shot a starbolt at me. After that, I woke up," concluded Raven.
"No. That can't happen. Starfire wouldn't fight us. We're her friends. She wouldn't..." argued a worried Robin.
"You gotta admit, she's been acting a bit, you know, weird lately..." Beast Boy pointed out. "Speaking of her, where is she?" asked Cyborg as he gazed around the room.
"Oh no! She's gone to Mirage! We have to stop her! Titans, GO!" yelled Raven. The Titans turned on their heels and charged out the doors to the old warehouse by the docks.
Inside the abandoned warehouse, Mirage was meditating. "Good. They've figured out that Starfire is gone. Star clone, bring out the hostage and prepare for the transformation," yelled Mirage to the figure lurking in the doorway.
The shadow turned and came back in a few minutes with a bag slung over their shoulder.
As the figure came to the center of the room, she was revealed to be none other than Starfire. She continued walking towards the center of the laboratory that Mirage had set up.
There were two tables laying side by side. Starfire stopped at one of them, and untied the bag. She reached in and brought out... Starfire!
The real Starfire's body was limp, and she appeared to be asleep. The Starfire clone began strapping her immobile body down to one of the tables.
"I'll take it from here, Star clone," said Mirage as she walked up to the machine. The clone walked over to the other table and laid down. Mirage brought out a helmet and fitted it on to Starfire's head. She did the same with the clone.
"Beginning the transformation," announced Mirage as she began pushing buttons on a machine that was wired to the helmets. All of a sudden, a whirring noise began, and the helmets lit up.
Starfire's body was slowly sucked into the helmet. An orange liquid moved from her helmet into the clone's. Once the clone had absorbed the orange liquid, she opened her eyes.
"Now, Starfire, destroy the Teen Titans!" ordered Mirage.
"Yes, master."