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Dudes and dudettes although dudettes should just be dudes also... anyways! Thank yall for reviewing! it means a lot to me. And to answer some of your questions... Yes I do watch Smallville. As much as it is corny, Clark Kent is pretty! lol sorry.
And now... The long anticipated appearance of Robin and the Teen Titans! The super long flashback ends! What of to Starfire and Kal El? And Robin? Find out... Now!
Chapter 5
End and Beginning
"AHHH!" A giant metal arm came from behind and grasped Kal El. The arm quickly slithered away like an anaconda.
"Teacher!" Starfire sped to Kal El but found her way blocked by hundreds of metal arms. "AHH," she screamed as three arms grabbed her at the same time and squeezed her violently. Starfire had never felt so much pain in her life.
Unhh! AHHHHH!
Suddenly, her eyes turned bright neon green, and the same green energy silhouetted her whole body.
BOOM!
All three metal arms exploded into a hundred pieces. Starfire looked around, her eyes still green with her pain and rage.
Teacher? Where is Teacher Kal El?
Starfire was panicking. She had to find him. She had to save him. He was weakened from their sparring... He was in danger!
Just then, a voice came from above her.
"Well, well, well. I have to admit it was truly fun watching you train with this teacher Kal El everyday. Learning new things. Getting these special powers. I bet you feel very special now."
Starfire gasped. Her eyes turned emerald green once again.
What? What is going on?
"Surprised to see me Starfire? Why, I thought you would be more warm and welcoming. After all... I am your DEAR SISTER!"
With those last two words, four metal arms came at Starfire from all directions and grasped her painfully.
"AHHH! UHH AHHH!" Starfire was in so much pain. The taste of her own blood sickened her. Her ribs were broken in several places.
"Stop!" The robotic arms eased the grip on Star. "I can't kill her. They want her alive... For their experiments."
Starfire looked up when the pain became bearable. "Sister... Sister... What are you doing?"
Starfire knew what her sister was doing. She was betraying her. Betraying her to some aliens who wanted to perform some freakish experiments on her. She knew exactly what Blackfire was doing. Yet, she just couldn't bring herself to believe in the truth.
My dear sister... She would never betray me... She was always there for me... With me... We were going to travel to the Sun to watch the sunset... I love her... She... She loves... me...
"Dear little sister... I am capturing you and giving you to these aliens. They are quite interested in your powers. They would like to learn more..." Blackfire said with a wicked look that made Starfire want to vomit. "I cannot have you on Tamaran, Starfire. I cannot stand watching you getting special treatment while I am shunned!I cannot stand you being the center of attention on this whole planet. I CAN STAND YOUR HAPPINESS NO LONGER!
I WAS MEANT TO RULE TAMARAN. NOT YOU!
I AM HEIR TO THE THRONE! YOUR OLDER SISTER!
I HATE YOU... OH, I HATE YOU SO MUCH LITTLE SISTER..."
Starfire grimaced in pain. Something inside her was being ripped to shreds. Her heart. She felt cold all over, yet she was sweating profusely.
No... No. NO NO NO!
Starfire began glowing neon green. She was in a rage once more.
"YOU! You are my older sister! You are supposed to look after me! Be there for me! Like I have for you!" She was crying. She was in pain... Pain that was tenfolds greater than the grip of those cold metal arms.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
Star destroyed everything around her, drunk in her own pain and blood, fueled by anger and confusion. She was about to blast a particularly big piece of metal, when she heard someone familiar.
"Princess! STOP!" Kal El was yelling from inside the grip of the robot. Star could see that this robot's arm was covered in kryptonite. It was sucking his strength from him. Kal El was dying.
"TEACHER! I'll save you!" Starfire flew as fast as she could, blowing up every robot in sight.
"NOT so fast, little sister!" Blackfire was perched on a robot's arm, right next to Kal El. She was holding a green dagger. A kryptonite dagger. "If you move at all, your dear teacher will be dead. I've watched you two for a while... Young love. HA HA HA. A wonderful thing, I must say. You don't want that to end, do you, Sister?"
"YOU WILL LET HIM GO AT ONCE, BLACKFIRE!" Starfire was beginning to form a huge energy ball when she saw Blackfire make a thin, long cut along Kal El's neck.
Kal El screamed in pain.
Star stopped immediately.
She stopped glowing.
She slowly dropped to the ground.
"Please, sister. Let him go. I will do whatever you wish." Starfire was having a hard time speaking. Her cut cheek stung as tears streamed down it, tears mixing with blood.
"Princess... No... Don't..." But Kal El couldn't talk. He was weak and his throat was swollen from the cut made by the kryptonite dagger.
Damn. DAMN, DAMN, DAMN! I'm keeping her from killing these bastards!
Star managed to muster a weak smile at Kal El, but it only made him want to cry.
"Do not worry so, Teacher. You said I was strong. Nothing can hurt me." Star tried her best to keep smiling. She didn't want him to see that she was just about to die in pain. The pain she felt all over her body. The pain of betrayal... The pain of... love.
Kal El... I... I love you. I cannot believe I did not realize until now. Until it is too late... What a fool I am. But this... I will do one thing right. I will save you. I will surrender myself. For you...
Star was about to tell Kal El how she loved him, when she felt a sharp pain in her neck. Someone had stuck a needle in her while she was looking at Kal El. Everything began to go blurry. Her legs felt weak.
Kal... El...
She did her best to keep her gaze on Kal El. She was a fool. If she went out like this, she wouldn't even find out if he made it out alive!
Good bye, Kal El... Good bye...
Thunk.
Starfire fell face first to the ground.
"STARFIRE!" Kal El screamed even though it made him gag in his own hot blood, "NO!"
"Well, a deal's a deal. I do not plan to dishonor my sister," Blackfire said with a wicked laugh. "Let him go."
The robots dropped him hard onto the ground.
He had to get to her. Kal El began crawling towards Starfire.
Starfire... I never got to tell you... How much I really love you...
From behind him, something hit him hard on the back of his head.
How beautiful...
That was Kal El's last thought as everything blackened. He never let go of Starfire's hand.
She was back in the torture chamber. They were still zapping her chest with the painful bolts. She realized that she did not feel any pain anymore. She was already broken inside. Broken in every possible way. Her heart was empty. No. She didn't even have a heart.
I am going to die here. I will never see Kal El again. Hah. Does it even matter anymore? Even if I did see him again, I would still be cold and empty inside. I would still be... dead.
BZZZZZ!
Another zap.
Ah!
It was as if another Starfire had awoken inside. The hopeful one. The one who wanted to see Kal El again. The one who wouldn't give up.
NO!
I AM NOT GOING TO DIE!
I WILL NOT LET MYSELF!
I MUST ESCAPE!
I MUST FIND KAL EL!
BOOM!
She was in her power rage. Her eyes lit up the whole chamber and blasted at the ceiling.
I did not have the power to shoot energy with my eyes before... Did this experiment do this to me?
She had no time to think. She destroyed everything and anything in sight. She spotted a room with windows. Windows that looked into the lab. The room where they watched her torture.
Hate burned inside of her. She would kill these bastards who have caused her such agonizing pain. She gathered both hands together and created one gigantic ball of green light. She raised her arms high above her head. She looked into the fearful eyes of the so-called "scientists." Something struck her mind.
I cannot.
She lowered her arms rapidly and the scientists screamed in horror. They waited for excruciating pain, but it never came.
Starfire had blasted the five feet thick titanium wall that was encasing her instead. The metal around the gigantic hole was glowing red.
The scientists gasped in awestruck horror.
What power... She could blow up this whole planet!
Starfire looked back at the scientists one last time. They looked back at her with fright and awe. She stared back at them blankly.
I have gained even more power from their experiments. This experience will haunt me forever, yet I have gained the strength to carry on from it. A curse... And a blessing.
Star flew out of the gigantic hole she made and suddenly felt a sharp pain in her back.
"Titans, GO!" It was a boy judging from his voice. She couldn't see anything because of the smoke from the explosion she had caused. Starfire was tired. She did not want to fight. Especially when she didn't know why they were attacking her.
The Titans looked at the figure strangely. There was so much smoke from that sudden explosion that they hadn't been able to see what came out. Robin had attacked, because it could have been Slade coming out, and he didn't want to miss a chance to kick Slade's ass. As the smoke cleared up, he could see more clearly.
A girl?
"Way to go Robin! You hit a girl! You hit that-whoah-PRETTY girl!" The green boy was shocked to see such a beautiful girl coming out from one of Slade's labs.
"Be more careful next time, man," said a half robotic looking man.
"No. We should still be careful. For all we know, this girl is Slade in disguise." The speaker was a dark hooded girl with a slightly raspy, monotone voice.
Starfire looked around at the strange beings. They seemed to be about her age. She wondered if she should speak.
"Greetings, I am Star-"
WHACK!
"Slade!" yelled Robin.
Slade had come up from behind and hit Starfire on the back of her head. She was lying on the ground again, not moving.
"Titans, GO!"
End of Chapter 5
What did you think of that? Too long? Too short? Ehhh? I hope I did ok portraying the characters. Ah.. now this is the tricky part.. What to write about next!