Here's the actual beginning to the story.
Chapter II: A Little Bungorf
Robin zipped over to Starfire's coordinates as fast as he could; she sounded urgent.
He found her crouched behind a dumpster in an ally. He feared that someone had hurt her. He jumped off of his bike and blindly ran to her.
"Starfire! What's – wrong?" She turned in the middle of his sentence to reveal a small child clutched in dirty, blue blankets. He was dumbfounded. "Uhh… is there something you forgot to tell me?"
"Robin," she sad innocently, "I found this Bungorf abandoned behind this Ster of Dumps. Who would do such a terrible thing!" There were tears brimming her eyes.
"Maybe someone couldn't take care of him?" said Robin, logically. He kneeled down beside her.
"But why would they just leave him hear? It was as if they were – throwing him away!"
Robin could see how much this was paining her. And, really, it hurt him, too. He could remember what happened when his parents were gone. At least he had known them. This child would have to go through life knowing that his parents left him behind a trash can. He couldn't imagine that.
"Come on," he said, "let's go back to the tower."
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"Dude!" said Beastboy, clutching his pointed ears, "what's wrong with it!"
As soon as Robin and Starfire had taken the infant home, he cried, non-stop. Starfire was at loss for what to do.
"Raven," she said desperately, "you have done the 'baby-sitting' before! What must I do?"
"Forget it," she said. "I've dealt with kids once before, I'm not doing it again."
"Well, perhaps he has 'the gas,'?" She took out a rolling pin as Robin stopped her.
"Uh, Starfire, maybe he's hungry." She put the rolling pin down.
"But, I do not know what Earth Infants eat," she said, sadly.
"Uh, hang on," said Robin. Then he started searching through the cabinets. "We might have something… here!" He took out a bottle of baby formula and held the screaming child in his arms. "Um, open up!" the baby kept on screaming. "Uh, here comes the train?" He only yelled louder. Then, Robin noticed his head was drooping backwards. He delicately pushed it up with his forearm and inserted the bottle in his mouth. He immediately stopped crying and started to eat. Robin breathed a sigh of relief.
"Um," said Raven, "why do we have a bottle of baby formula in our cupboard?"
"Aw, man!" said Cyborg. "I was going to use that to prank Beastboy!" Beastboy and Raven gave him glares. "Uh, I mean, uh… I don't know…" and he slumped out of sight.
"There," said Robin, when the milky content was finished. "All done."
"Oh!" praised Starfire. "You did that magnificently!"
But no sooner had she spoken, when the child started to cry again.
"Why does he still weep?" she said, frantically.
Robin smelled something. He winced and held him at arms length.
"I know why," he choked.
He set the baby down on the counter and grabbed a thick roll of paper towels and tape. Then, he plugged his nose and set to work.
"Here," he gagged, handing Starfire the soiled diaper. "Throw this out."
She turned green as she took it by the tips of her fingers and threw it in the trash.
When it was all said and done, Robin lifted him back up at arms length.
"There!" he said. "No more crying now, right?"
Suddenly, the kid's cheeks filled up like a chipmunk's.
"Oh, no…" Then, Robin's scarlet red tunic was splattered with creamy-white baby-barf. And, as if that wasn't enough, the baby started crying – again!
"Aw, man!" said Robin as he gave Starfire the kid and desperately tried to get the stain off.
Star looked at the wailing child in her arms and remembered something her mother used to do when she was alive and Star was younger.
She gently pressed the weeping infant close to her heart and began to hum a Tameranian lullaby.
The baby started to calm and his eyes started to droop. Soon, he began breathing heavily and was completely still. Star smiled as the baby seemed to melt into her arms.
But the infant was not the only one hypnotized. During Starfire's humming, Robin had completely forgotten about his currant situation and was mesmerized by her.
"Starfire," he said, at loss for words.
"Dude!" said Beastboy, a bit too loudly, "that was awesome!"
Suddenly, the baby's eyes popped out and he started wailing once more.
Starfire glared at him and his ears drooped. "Uh, sorry…?"
"Robin," she said, turning to the Boy Wonder, "I wish to raise this child as my own and – I wish for you to help."
"What? Me? But – why?" Then, she positioned his arms just right and placed the baby in them. He ceased to cry and smiled at the masked boy.
"Because he is happy in you're arms," she said.
He looked down at the child thought.
Him? Raise a kid? Well… why not? After all, look who's gonna play "mommy"…
"Sure," he said. "What could go wrong?"
Ah, the famous last words. Well, tell me what you think of it so far!
T.