SO so so sorry for this having been so late. The stupid website wouldn't let me log in for three days! Well enough griping, heres episode three, Enjoy!
Originally entitled 'Dejavu'.
The Day after Tomorrow
Papers as well as empty cartons moved about freely in the wind outside a large building deep in the woods. The medium sized structure sat perched atop a hill overlooking the sleeping Jump City. Robin pushed aside a low branch and held it back for his comrades to pass by. They all gathered behind a thicket of bushes to better observe the outside of the building.
"You sure this is it?" asked Cyborg.
"The alert we very specific," replied Robin. Beast Boy thought about the villain inside and snickered.
"You'd that after just getting de-iced he'd lay low for awhile before going back to being the worst bad guy." Robin smirked.
"You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity." He motioned for them to come closer. "Okay; Cyborg you go in from the back entrance, Starfire and Beast Boy take the roof. Raven, you and me will knock on the front door. Everybody set?" They all nodded. "Alright let's go." They went their separate ways for the moment and awaited Robin's signal to move in.
INSIDE………………
Professor Chang stood amongst his martian-like henchmen as they moved equipment into various corners of the room. He glanced over and saw one nearly topple over a stack onto something covered by a tarp.
"Idiot!" Barked Chang. "Take all that over there instead," he said pointing to an arbitrary corner. Acting on sheer paranoia Chang hastily walked over and looked beneath the tarp. "Lucky you, nothing damaged."
"YO FRAKNENSTEIN!" Chang turned swiftly and saw Cyborg throw down two guards he'd knocked unconscious. Chang's attention was then drawn upward as Starfire and Beast Boy crashed through the glass skylight. He began backing up when Robin and Raven made their entrance through the only other exit.
"Looks like you got back in the game just a little too early Chang," taunted Robin. Chang glanced back at the tarp. "Did we interrupt something?"
"Ha! Do not be so bold to think I haven't expected your arrival," said Chang derisively. He snapped his fingers and an array of lights illuminated a myriad of his men hidden in the dark corners of the large room. The Titans all looked around themselves to gain a better footing. It was at that moment that Chang shouted, "Attack!" On his command they all began moving in on the Titans from all directions. Starfire formed a large ball of energy with both of her hands and blasted a sizable hole in the henchmen's ranks.
"TITANS GO!" Raven covered Robin in a black shield just as one man tried to cover him in the red oozing gloop. She uncovered them both and Robin charged at his attacker with a battle cry. With a lift from pterodactyl Beast Boy Cyborg moved up to a higher platform and began taking aim against Chang's cronies. Raven forced two of them to collide with one another and saw Chang dashing over to his tarp. She sent a mental signal to Robin who looked over at Change immediately.
"Star, Beast Boy! Stop him!" Starfire and Beast Boy flew down on Chang just as pulled the tarp off and revealed a strange device. He hadn't pushed the first button when Starfire grabbed him by the collar and pulled him back. He landed on the floor and Starfire stood over him.
"Surrender, you are defeated."
"Only to you my pretty girl." Chang fired a wrist blaster and Starfire narrowly dodged it with a squeal. Beast Boy quickly morphed into a gorilla and knocked the villain out cold. He resumed human formed and grinned up at Starfire.
"There, nothing to it." They both heard a sparking sound behind and they turned to see Professor Chang's shot had instead of hitting Starfire had actually struck the machine he'd uncovered. It began to issue a charging noise and Starfire looked about the complicated contraption with a note of panic. She finally called out to her leader.
"Robin!" He punched a foe trying to sneak up on him then looked around for the one who called his name. He found her and she pointed to the machine.
"Shut it down!" Robin shouted as more enemies came upon him. She and Beast Boy glanced about looking for help only to see their Titan friends engaged in battle as well. Starfire returned her attention to the machine then looked down at Beast Boy.
"Beast Boy, what do I do?"
"How should I know?" said Beast Boy lacking self-control.
"Are you not a reader of the comic books, surely something like this has come up."
"I'm sorry Star I must've left my 'weird invention owner's manual' at home." The charge grew louder and louder and it began to light up.
"Well we must do something!" She and Beast Boy looked around at it frantically while the other three Titans did their best to fend off the endless moon-men. The growing lights finally came to life. Robin flipped his last attacker to the ground.
"It's too late, get out of here!" Beast Boy and Starfire got up from their kneeling positions and just as they were about to move away they were caught within the confines of a clear blue field which sprang out from the machine. "Starfire! Beast Boy!" Robin saw them trying to fight their way out as the flowing energy wall became more torrential. He finally snapped his head back at Raven. "Raven get them out of there!" She immediately flew above them.
"Azerath…Metrion…Zintho-" Raven never finished as the energy confining Starfire and Beast Boy expanded so quickly they could only see a short and bright flash.
Raven pulled the remote out of Beast Boy's hands as he sat on the couch in front of the TV.
"Are you even listening to me Beast Boy? I mean why did you do this! It is just unbelievable how immature you can get!" Beast Boy looked away from the TV and up to Raven. They were in the tower. He then moved his eyes about the room with an utterly bewildered expression. Raven was indeed bearing down on him with an angry demeanor. "Well?" Beast Boy looked behind him over at Starfire. She sat with Robin at the small bar with the same note of confusion. Beast Boy looked back at Raven and shrugged.
When there's trouble you know who to call
Teen Titans!
From their tower, they can see it all
Teen Titans!
When there's evil on the attack
You can rest knowing they got your back
Cuz when the world needs heroes on patrol
Teen Titans GO!
With their superpowers they unite
Teen Titans!
Never met a villain that they liked
Teen Titans!
They've got the bad guys on the run
They never stop 'till the job gets done
Cuz when the world is losin' all control
Teen Titans GO!
1,2,3,4 GO!
Teen Titans
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"Weren't we just someplace else?" asked Beast Boy.
Cyborg paused his game. "Where?"
"Some building."
"When?"
"Just now." Cyborg moved his eyes about and slowly shook his head.
"No, I'm pretty sure we've been sitting here on our lazy butts for the past two hours.
"But Friend Cyborg," persisted Starfire as she got up from her bar stool.
"What?" he asked her with a semi-annoyed expression. Robin also looked at the both of them with a concerned/curious gawk. Beast Boy stood up and walked up to Starfire.
"Let's go talk," he whispered. He tugged Starfire by the arm and led her out of the room. After they left Raven let the remote fall back to the couch with an irritated huff.
"Anything to escape." Beast Boy led Starfire into his room like the last time he'd pulled her inside locked the myriad of bolts of hinges. Once his breath caught up with him he noticed Starfire peeling an old piece of pizza off a chair. She threw it away with a slightly nauseated look.
"Could we not have spontaneously adjourned to someplace less…messy?" Beast Boy sweat dropped and did his best to clean up for her. "Not that I am directing an insult toward you, your room is very…um…you."
"Thanks Star, but that can wait till wayyy later. I think something totally weird just happened."
"Then I am not alone in my belief, we have indeed been through these events."
"Sure looks that way doesn't it?"
"But how? Why do Friends Robin, Cyborg, or Raven not remember as we do?" Beast Boy began pacing around trying to think of anything, though honestly it wasn't his strong point. He then thought of something, he would've in fact felt a little embarrassed if he hadn't. He stepped closer to Starfire as if afraid someone was listening.
"What about that crazy machine Chang had covered up?" Starfire furrowed her brow at its possible significance. "What if by some insane possibility it was a time machine and because it took a hit the whole thing fowled up and sent us back in time." Starfire considered this with frequent nods of the head. "Does that sound too weird or what?"
"No, it very much makes sense."
"Really?"
"It would account for how we are reliving events that have already taken place, and how our friends have no memory of it. We were the ones encompassed in the time machine's field." Beast Boy ran a hand through his hair.
"Well what are we supposed to do? In just a little while we're gonna get the alert about Chang, we're gonna got to the warehouse, and then all this will just start over again."
"We simply have to make sure the Professor Chang's presence is not discovered," suggested Starfire.
"Wait you mean hide a crime in progress from the others?" Starfire nodded grimly. "I don't know, that just seems a little…..not like what we do around here." Starfire sighed and took his shoulder.
"I understand Beast Boy, I do not wish to do this either. However I believe you are correct in assuming that if we do battle with Chang again we will end up in this scenario once more. The only way to avoid that is to avoid the battle altogether." She had Beast Boy convinced though he was reluctant to show it.
"Well I hope you something about the Titan mainframe that I don't." Starfire smiled and flew over to his wall panel. She fit her slender fingers around the outer edges and carefully pulled the panel off the wall. It hung by a series of wires and revealed an array of chips and brightly colored lights. "Kinda reminds me of DDR." Starfire suppressed a giggle and went to work. Starfire had observed Cyborg work on these particular systems before when he'd asked her to help him with a few minor repairs. Not long after Starfire began she fixed the panel back into place and disabled the alert protocol for a short period of time.
"Done." She said to Beast Boy. "As I remember, we received the alert twenty minuets from now." Beast Boy nodded and they waited for what seemed like an eternity. Finally twenty minuets came and gone. The tower remained silent. Starfire and Beast Boy then exchanged congratulatory glances.
"Sssweet! We'd be on our way by now, but thanks to you Star we're not stopping any bad guys tonight. You played hooky for all of us!" Starfire smiled and waved her hand dismissively.
"But not without your recollection of our battle. Now Beast Boy, we can never speak of this again." Beast Boy put up his hands.
"No argument here." They returned to the common room to find their comrades just as bored as when they left. Robin glanced away from his game at their entry, not knowing Cyborg had rounded the corner and blasted his character into a million pieces.
"Where've you guys been?" He asked a little more authoritatively than curiously. Beast Boy smiled and shrugged.
"Well first we went for some ice cream, then held hands as we walked along the beach, and finally we made our way to the best drive-in-" Starfire's face gradually grew red as did Robin's though his was out of agitation.
"Keep going Beast Boy, please." Robin banged his fists together.
"Just a joke man, jeez, we were uhhh…doing some extra training." He added lamely, thanking the great I Am for that timely excuse. As Beast Boy went to pour himself a soda Cyborg whispered to Robin.
"Extra training? That hardly sounds like BB." But Robin wasn't listening. Though it had only been intended as a joke it seemed to have hit a soft spot on the boy wonder. Beast Boy glanced up at the clock and noticed that by now they would have been well into their battle with Chang. He grinned and pulled out several more sodas.
"Dudes! Who wants some root beer?"
A bright Flash
Raven pulled the remote out of Beast Boy's hands as he sat on the couch in front of the TV.
"Are you even listening to me Beast Boy? I mean why did you do this! It is just unbelievable how immature you can get!" He shot a flabbergasted look up at her. With eyes wide as the island of Titans Tower he looked over at Starfire who sent him back a very worried morose. "Well?" Raven stood over him angry as ever about something. Beast Boy let out a hopeless breath and rested his face in his hands. Robin observed the looks of dread on his friend's faces.
"Guys, what's going on?" Out of options Starfire simply felt resolved to tell him the truth, however absurd it sounded.
"We have experienced this day before," said Starfire. Robin was slightly taken aback.
"What like a second time?"
"We're stuck in a time loop," said Beast Boy from the couch. "Every time we reach a certain point time starts over again and everything that happened before goes away because it hasn't happened yet." They all stared at him as if he'd declared he read all of Shakespeare's works. "What? Am I the only here who watches Warp Trek?"
"Yeah probably," said Raven.
"Hold on back the Warp trolley up for a sec," said Cyborg. "Now what do you mean we're stuck in a 'time loop'," he said making quotes with his fingers. Beast Boy rolled his eyes.
"Just what I said." Robin, Cyborg, and Raven looked at each other cynically. Beast Boy crossed his arms. "What you don't believe us?"
"No it's not that," said Raven. "Its just that we..um….don't really believe you." Beast Boy sent a pleading look over at Starfire.
"Please friends Beast Boy is quite correct." Robin shook his head.
"Hold on a second Star, if we are 'looping' why are you and Beast Boy the only ones who remember it." Starfire opened her mouth to answer though suddenly realized she didn't have one. "Star there's obviously something else going on here." Starfire desperately thought of something to prove their case.
"Beast Boy and I were the only two encased within the machine's field. When the loop begins again you will not have any memory of any past conversations. In a few hours time we will receive a report that the Professor Chang has returned to committing illegal activities. You will give Beast Boy and myself an order to secure a device Chang is currently laboring over. And in the chaos of our battle it will transport us backward in time." Robin felt more than slightly bowled over.
"So Chang builds himself a time loop machine, that seems a bit redundant don't you think?" They all sweat dropped.
"It took a shot and must've been damaged or something," rambled Beast Boy. The three Titans continued to give their friends skeptical looks. "Look we tried to keep it from happening the last time around but that didn't work out so there must be something we're missing."
"You mean you kept a Titan alert from us?" questioned Robin scornfully. Beast Boy slapped a hand to his face.
"You don't have to get so worked up about it I mean we are about to go through this all over again." At that moment they heard the alarm go off and Chang's mug shot was displayed on the large screen.
"Chang!" Spat Robin. Starfire and Beast Boy looked at each other in complete shock. Beast Boy ran up to Starfire.
"It wasn't supposed to happen this early!" He said in a hushed tone. "What happened?" Starfire shrugged her shoulders.
"How can you assume I would know of such things?"
"Well you're the super alien!" Starfire put her hands to her hips.
"Are you not the expert of the Hyper Trek?"
"One; its Warp Trek, two; they've never done anything like that, and three; hello-it's a TV show!" Robin glanced back and saw the two bickering.
"KNOCK IT OFF! We've got work to do!"
A bright Flash
Raven pulled the remote out of Beast Boy's hands as he sat on the couch in front of the TV.
"Are you even listening to me Beast Boy? I mean why did you do this! It is just unbelievable how immature you can get!" Beast Boy looked down at his hand with an open mouth and slouched down in the couch. Raven viewed this as though it was completely within the norm. "Are you gonna try to avoid this all night?" Beast Boy sighed and rubbed his forehead.
"Doesn't look like I'm gonna be able to." Over at the bar Robin was watching Starfire with serious concern as she had her face buried in her hands hopelessly.
LATER THAT DAY……………..
"Guys, I'm kinda worried about Starfire," said Robin over Cyborg's TV show and Raven's book reading.
"Why?" asked Raven.
"Well her and Beast Boy actually, they were acting a little weird." Raven turned a page in her book.
"Beast Boy tried to get out of a much needed scolding, what's so weird about that?"
"Well they sure seemed pretty stressed out about something," commented Cyborg.
"Alright here's the deal." They all turned around and saw Starfire and Beast Boy standing at the door. Beast Boy began again. "We're all stuck in some freaky time loop because Chang's machine fowled up."
"What machine?" asked Raven wit an arched brow.
"The one we haven't seen yet."
"Then how do you know he has…it..whatever it is."
"Because we have already seen it," said Starfire with an obvious tone. Their friend's faces grew, if possible, even more quizzical. "I know this must be difficult for you to accept but unless we find a way to restore the natural flow of time we will repeat this same day forever." Silence passed allowing Starfire's words to sink in.
"You guys do realize how insane this all sounds?" asked Cyborg. They both bobbed their heads. "But..." he said getting up. "Weirder and crazier things have happened to us."
"Like what?" asked Raven.
"Well there was that time Star made a cocoon around herself, the time you became a little kid, that day BB and I went inside your head, that time Robin and Larry broke reality, and then there was-"
"Alright! I get it."
"So you believe us right Cy?" asked Beast Boy hopefully. Cyborg bit his lip and glanced back at Robin who sent him a raised eyebrow.
"It is possible," he said to their leader. Starfire squealed with delight.
"Wonderful! Now we need only to solve this dilemma."
"But how?" asked Raven. "If you're right once we start over again none of us except you two will ever remember having had this conversation. We'll literally be going back to square one every time."
"She's right," said Robin. "Cyborg, Raven, and I can only help you so much but in the end it's going to be up to you two to learn and remember and eventually we'll fix this."
Beast Boy laughed sheepishly. "Ssssooo…no pressure huh?" Robin shrugged as though saying 'I didn't get us into this.' The boy wonder then turned to Cyborg.
"Cyborg see if you can find out what the long term effects of this mess will be." He nodded and went to work. "Starfire, Beast Boy, you need to become experts on your household time machine."
"Awesome," slurred Beast Boy already dreading the amount of reading this was going to take.
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Beast Boy propped his chin on his arm as he sat reading a rather thick book entitled Temporal Theory with drooping eyes. Sitting on his right Starfire was currently using The possible Time Machine as a pillow. Cyborg and Robin silently walked in and saw the both of them lost in bored stupors. Robin casually picked up a book along the same subject of their study, read the cover, and then dropped it to the hard floor. The loud smack shocked them both awake with a start.
"88 miles per hour!" Shouted Beast Boy coming out of a dream. He and Starfire finally focused on Robin and Cyborg and straightened up. "I wasn't sleeping, honest."
"Sure you weren't," said Cyborg.
"You know we're still not really sure what to make of all this," said Robin. Beast Boy and Starfire just glanced at each other with tired expressions. They had looped again not long ago and were forced to explain everything from the very beginning. Raven entered the room and seated herself beside Starfire.
"Any progress?" she asked looking over Starfire's book.
"Some," said the alien girl.
"By 'some' she actually means 'zip and zilch'," said Beast Boy.
"You say you guys have been through this loop at least half a dozen times," said Robin. "Shouldn't you have gotten somewhere by now?"
"Well excuse me Robin but it seems like every big shot scientist in the world say time travel is impossible and nothing but sci-fi. We've been going through this garbage for hours on end and all we get is just….nothing." Robin put up a hand apologetically.
"Beast Boy is correct though," said Starfire despondently. "Thus far we have learned nothing that could help us fix the loop."
"Well we're gonna have to do something soon," said Cyborg. Beast Boy rubbed his eyes in dead beat fashion.
"Please tell me something I wanna hear Cy, please give me some good news." Cyborg scratched his neck sheepishly.
"Sorry BB, just bad and worse." Robin and Starfire glanced at each other. Beast Boy shrugged.
"Well, let's have the bad news."
"Like you said there's no reference to time travel in a practical sense so I've had to rely on simulations based on educated guesses-"
"Just! Get to the good part," said an impatient Beast Boy.
"Time wasn't meant to flow this way, its not flowing at all actually. It's like a damn is blocking time's current." Beast Boy sighed uneasily.
"Doesn't sound…so bad."
"Actually dude it is, its have a degrading effect on the space time continuum. Every time we loop a piece of it get eroded away, and its just going to keep breaking down until it gets so weak that the space time continuum will collapse and the entire universe will be destroyed. That'll probably all take several months a year at most to happen." A stiff silence filled the room. Raven broke it by finally clearing her throat.
"There's worse news?" Cyborg sighed and hung his head.
"I have no idea how to stop it." Starfire looked up at the clock and noticed they were about loop once more. She nudged Beast Boy and jerked her head upward. He looked at it then sagged his head.
"Oyyyy vey."
"What's wrong?" asked Robin.
"Oh nothing it's just…..here we go again.
A bright Flash
Raven pulled the remote out of Beast Boy's hands as he sat on the couch in front of the TV.
"Are you even listening to me Beast Boy? I mean why did you do this! It is just unbelievable how immature you can get!" Beast Boy slumped on the couch then slowly trailed his eyes to the ceiling. Raven looked up but saw nothing. "Earth to Beast Boyyyy…"
"Why?" asked Beast Boy to ceiling. He put his hands together as if praying. "Why do you hate me?" Raven looked between him and ceiling again.
"Are you just trying to avoid answering my question or something?" Beast Boy faintly heard Starfire's muffled cries as she rested her head on Robin's arm. Cyborg looked over at him as he was turning a shade of red and looking quite bewildered.
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After having gone through the whole drill all over again Beast Boy and Starfire once again found themselves studying what material they had. Just to have small amount of change they demanded someone join them and Robin volunteered. He looked behind him and saw BB and Star tossing a tennis ball back and forth.
"Shouldn't you guys be doing some reading?"
"We have decided to retire for the moment," said Starfire throwing it back to Beast Boy. "Seeing how it will all begin again shortly."
"Umm, how many of these loops have we been through?" asked Robin.
"Oh geez I don't know, maybe a billion."
"That's a lot."
"You know but the worst part about all this is every time we loop Raven's griping at me about something…and I wasn't paying attention the first time around."
"That must be frustrating," said Robin looking over some notes.
"Ya think."
"Although if you guys were to really examine this I think you'd find this to be a sort of rare opportunity." Starfire caught the ball and arched a brow.
"Forgive me, but I do not all see how that can be."
"Yeah don't see it," added Beast Boy.
"Well think about it; you know in advance that everything is going to back to the way it was before no matter what. Bearing that in mind…you could do anything…" He grabbed their attention. "…Anything at all, for as long as you want as many times as you want without having to worry about the consequences." Beast Boy had been gradually smiling as Robin spoke. He looked over at Starfire who had an equally mischievous grin. He stood up and gave Robin a pat on the shoulder.
"Excuse me Rob, I gatta go."
"Me as well," said Starfire quickly.
"Wait what!" By the time he turned around they were gone. "Go? What do you mean?" he shouted after them. He finally understood and turned back around in his chair. "Uh oh."
A bright flash
Raven found Beast Boy ducking behind the couch holding an old and tattered book.
"Beast Boy what are you doing with the book of Azar?" He quickly shot up.
"BOOK FIGHT!" He pitched it at her then ran for his life as she chased him with glowing red eyes.
A bright flash
"STAR WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Exclaimed Cyborg as he saw her feeding Silkie all the zorka berries he could eat.
"Would you not agree Cyborg Silkie is even more adorable fifty times his size?" She completely ignored the fact that Silkie was now devouring the table, the refrigerator, and pretty much the rest of the kitchen. Cyborg's eye twitched and he stood with his jaw to floor as the tower was quickly being eaten away. Starfire giggled and patted her pet lovingly. "Good Silkie!"
A bright flash
Robin walked into his room and his mouth flew open. "Beast Boy! Those are my crime files!"
"Yeah well in my opinion they also make good papier-mâché," said Beast Boy as he put the finishing touches on a life-size character from 'Battle of the Planets'.
A bright flash
Beast Boy and Starfire walked out of the elevator now that they reached the garage level. The two walked up to their target and Starfire moved back apprehensively. "Beast Boy, I am still unsure about this. Rare opportunities aside this simply does not seem right."
"Star Star Star, this is exactly why they invented situations like this."
"Ohhh, I sincerely do not know…"
"I'll let you play with the windshield wipers," he said temptingly. She picked her head up as her interest was somewhat peaked.
"Very well."
"Alright! Dude you will so not regret this."
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Cyborg was currently in his room running some routine diagnostics when a beeping alerted him. He wheeled over to his viewer and saw something near and dear to him leave the tower.
"What the-! IS THAT MY CAR!"
"YAAAHHHOOOOOOOOOO!" Shouted Beast Boy. They flew through the air as Beast Boy speed down a hill. Starfire laughed hysterically while her hair blew furiously in the wind.
"Thrilling Beast Boy! This simply glorious!"
"Told ya-whoa keep your arms in the car," he said as Starfire narrowly hit a street sign that they passed. They both glanced downward as Cyborg's infuriated face appeared on the screen.
"YO! YOU TWO AUTO JOCKEYS BETTER BRING MY CAR BACK RIGHT NOW!" Beast Boy shot back a toothy smile.
"What was that Cyborg? I couldn't hear you over the roaring engine." Starfire turned her head away so Cyborg couldn't see her giggle.
"I mean it you little thief! I better find my baby in the garage in five minuets it's gonna be a dark day at Titans Tower!"
"Sorry Cy, but you baby's mine and you'll never get her back! HA ha ha ha ha!" He laughed maniacally and tore up the road all the way until their loop began again.
A bright flash
Starfire hummed her way into the common room and flew up to Robin who sat playing a game with Cyborg. He saw her looking down at him and paused their game.
"What are you doing Starfire I thought you were with Beast Boy?"
"Just giving you this short communication," she said handing him a letter in a pink envelope. "It details everything I have felt and wanted to say for a very long time." Robin eyed the letter with curiosity.
"What for."
"So that I may do this." And before Robin could react she took a gentle hold of his head and pulled his lips to hers. The others all stood in utter shock but Robin's soon faded away and he wrapped his arms around her waste to deepen it.
A bright flash
Robin set aside some unwanted or needed papers, glanced at Starfire, then did a double take. "What are you grinning at?" She rested her head on her arms and stared at him with a content smile.
"Oh…nothing," she said through a dreamy sigh. He slowly nodded peculiarly and tried to go back to work when Cyborg and Beast Boy walked up to them.
"We think we found a way to fix the loop," said Cyborg.
"Really?" posed Raven. "Do tell."
"From what BB and Star described I've been able to draw up a basic sketch of what Chang's machine is, where it got hit, and what needs to be fixed." He gave the floor to Beast Boy.
"What we have to do is let the battle happen just like it did before except this time Starfire and will fix it and everything will go back to normal."
"Seriously?" asked Robin.
"By now Rob I'm nothing but."
"Okay, what are we waiting for?"
"The battle to come up," said Starfire. Robin checked his watch and nodded.
"Oh, right. Well while we're waiting what'd you wanna do?" Beast Boy and Starfire couldn't help but smile.
"I think we've done enough."
AFTER RECEIVING THE ALERT…………
They all gathered behind a thicket of bushes to better observe the outside of the building.
"You sure this is it?" asked Cyborg.
"The alert we very specific," replied Robin. Beast Boy thought about the upcoming event and snickered.
"Guys I'm having the strangest feeling of dejavu." Robin smirked.
"If you say so." He motioned for them to come closer. "Okay; Cyborg you go in from the back entrance, Starfire and Beast Boy take the roof. Raven, you and me will knock on the front door. Remember let the time machine get damaged then keep them off Starfire and Beast Boy. Everybody set?" They all nodded. "Alright let's go." They went their separate ways for the moment and awaited Robin's signal to move in.
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Professor Chang stood amongst his martian-like henchmen as they moved equipment into various corners of the room. He glanced over and saw one nearly topple over a stack onto something covered by a tarp.
"Idiot!" Barked Chang. "Take all that over there instead," he said pointing to an arbitrary corner. Acting on sheer paranoia Chang hastily walked over and looked beneath the tarp. "Lucky you, nothing damaged."
"YO FRAKNENSTEIN!" Chang turned swiftly and saw Cyborg throw down two guards he'd knocked unconscious. Chang's attention was then drawn upward as Starfire and Beast Boy crashed through the glass skylight. He began backing up when Robin and Raven made their entrance through the only other exit.
"Looks like you got back in the game just a little too early Chang," taunted Robin. Chang glanced back at the tarp. "Did we interrupt something?"
"Ha! Do not be so bold to think I haven't expected your arrival," said Chang derisively. He snapped his fingers and an array of lights illuminated a myriad of his men hidden in the dark corners of the large room. The Titans all looked around themselves to gain a better footing. It was at that moment that Chang shouted, "Attack!" On his command they all began moving in on the Titans from all directions. Starfire formed a large ball of energy with both of her hands and blasted a sizable hole in the henchmen's ranks.
"TITANS GO!" Raven covered Robin in a black shield just as one man tried to cover him in the red oozing gloop. She uncovered them both and Robin charged at his attacker with a battle cry. With a lift from pterodactyl Beast Boy Cyborg moved up to a higher platform and began taking aim against Chang's cronies. Raven forced two of them to collide with one another and saw Chang dashing over to his tarp. She sent a mental signal to Robin who looked over at Change immediately.
"Star, Beast Boy! Stop him!" Starfire and Beast Boy flew down on Chang just as pulled the tarp off and revealed a strange device. He hadn't pushed the first button when Starfire grabbed him by the collar and pulled him back. He landed on the floor and Starfire stood over him.
"Surrender, you are defeated."
"Only to you my pretty girl." Chang fired a wrist blaster and Starfire narrowly dodged it with a squeal. Beast Boy quickly morphed into a gorilla and knocked the villain out cold. He resumed human formed and grinned up at Starfire.
"Again, this all looks oddly familiar." They both heard a sparking sound behind and they turned to see Professor Chang's shot had instead of hitting Starfire had actually struck the machine he'd uncovered. "Yup, here we go." He knelt down and Starfire handed him a bundle of parts and tools needed to complete their task. He tore out a fried copper coil and Starfire handed him a new one. Out of the corner of her eye she saw one of Chang's men aiming an electric staff at them. She began to raise her fist when two brid-a-rangs flew from above and knocked the weapon out of his hands. Robin jumped down, kicked him away, and smiled over at Starfire. She returned it with a gratified nod.
"Any time now!" Shouted Cyborg. The charge was beginning to rise to its peak again.
"Almost," muttered Beast Boy. "Just gatta tighten this, rotate that, apply this whoosie wasit-"
"Beast Boy!" Interrupted Raven blocking several attacks at a time.
"Alright! Alright! Nag nag nag…" They saw the field beginning to form just as Beast Boy snapped in a tiny computer chip and pressed what he assumed to be the on/off switch. To everyone's sheer relief the charge died down until it was completely inert. Beast Boy let out a long breath.
"Now that I think about it Star, I did see this in a Warp Trek episode." Soon after their victory the police arrive and carted Chang and his men away. The Titans packed up Chang's time machine for their keeping in the lower level storage. Later that evening Beast Boy and Starfire were found at the dinner table currently absorbed in a chess game.
"Well we're still here Beast Boy I assume this has all been cleared up," said Robin. He nodded positively.
"Are you guys' playing chess?" asked Cyborg quizzically.
"When you have been starting the exact activity at a certain hour for as long as we have, some variety is most welcomed," said Starfire.
"No kidding Star I think if Raven yelled at me just one more time I was gonna loose it."
"By the way," said Raven crossing her arms. "You still haven't answered my question." Beast Boy looked up from his game and shrugged his shoulders.
"What question?"
THE END
Now this is the length that I'm hoping the rest of the episodes will be. If you think it's too long or not long enough just let me know. I don't know about you guys but I frequently laughed while writing this episode. That's probably why it took me so long I kept reading to myself. Anyway hope you liked it as much as I did. Until next episode!