I hope no one finds this story drawn out or anything. I just like to keep it going for as long as possible. Though at some point I suppose it has to end.

Any way about my season that I mentioned, if I do post it I think it'll be after I'm done with this story. You know its actually kinda hard thinking up thirteen episodes. Maybe we should cut CN some slack…..NAAAAAAAAAA. THEY CANNED TEEN TITANS! Come on if some nobody author like me can think up another set of episodes surely they can. No excuse. You know what I'm so put out right now I think I'll just stop ranting and let out read the chapter. Enjoy…..I'm so angry. x(

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Chapter Sixteen

Hard Partnerships

Starfire hugged him tighter and closed her eyes just as the door to their cell was opened. They quickly stood up and two guards entered and took Myand'r by each arm.

"Father? Where are you taking him!" They did not answer, though Myand'r managed to pull away to look back at her.

"Koriand'r, please please make peace with your sister." One the verge of tears again Starfire could do nothing in her human state.

"I-I will." With that they pushed him on out and the door closed behind them. She ran up to the small window and watched them take him away. As he was being lead away he turned his head back to her and smiled.

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Elsewhere on Anubis' mother ship Raven, or Arameth, silkily walked into what appeared to be a small laboratory. Strapped to an inclined table was none other than Bumble Bee. She struggled and tugged against her restraints but calmed at the sight of Raven.

"Wow Raven, I don't know how you got here but am I glad to see you. Aqualad went nuts, he kept attacking us and before he got me he somehow beamed away Mas, Menos, and Speedy. You wouldn't believe what's happened." She quit speed talking and Raven only smirked. She walked closer and Bumble Bee knew something was wrong.

"Try me." Arameth's weird voice escaped her, making the other teen heroine gasp.

"You're not Raven, are you?" Arameth walked behind Bumble Bee's slanted metal bed and began adjusting some equipment.

"You are the quick wit aren't you?"

"W-What are you going to do?" Arameth refaced her.

"Anubis needs his forces to be stronger and unopposed in every way. I am afraid you and a number of other gifted young people fit into that category." Bumble Bee raised her head confidently.

"You can do what you want with me, but don't kill the others. Please." Arameth smirked and stuck two padded wires to each of her temples.

"It's not my job to kill you; it is my job to teach you." He activated it by means of his hand device and Bumble Bee scrunched her eyes shut. "Try as you might, you can only resist up to a certain point. When you break and break you shall, I will be here waiting to send you on your new path."

BACK ON EARTH……………..

Blackfire moved a light aside as she slaved over her work. She took a pair of wire cutters and snipped a yellow colored wire. After checking a diagram she had drawn earlier she crossed that cut wire with a bluish green one. She paused and looked back at Cyborg, who sat humming to himself and working on his own project. She watched him in a bemused way then threw a small bolt at him. It nicked him in the head and he turned back irritably. He clicked his robotic ear, turning off his music.

"What?"

"You're supposed to be calibrating the time dilation module, a rather critical component I might add. Now are you doing that or are you practicing for some concert?"

"Will you take three hundred chill pills; I'm doing both if you must know."

"I'm serious Cyborg, if you're calculations are off in the slightest…"

"Yeah I know, I know. It will blow up and we'll all die."

"You and your city."

"Well since when do you care?" spat Cyborg. Blackfire said nothing more but went back to work. Cyborg did the same and the room became uncomfortably silent.

In the common room Beast Boy and Taka walked up to Robin, who sat at one of the computer terminals performing scans of the city. They paused not knowing if they should disturb him. Since Starfire and Raven had left Robin was hard at work performing city wide searches, hoping maybe they came back somehow. Taka cleared her throat making Robin turn his head.

"What is it?"
"Beast Boy and I finished our scan of the Andale system."

"What did you find you?" asked Robin in a quietly depressed way.

"Well apart from that three of the seven planets in that system are heavily populated there also seems to be a network of sensor arrays scattered about the solar system."

"Mmm Hmm," replied Robin needing more clarifying.

"Basically dude we need to get on board one of those sensors and make sure it's blind; otherwise Anubis will see us coming a mile away."

"Defenses?"

"They appear to be minimal," reported Taka. "From what we know about Psion technology, most of which is unmanned, then any security onboard the sensor should be automated and easy enough to neutralize." Robin nodded and stood up out of his seat.

"Alright, thanks guys. I'm gonna go check on Cyborg and Blackfire. In the mean time find out what kind of shield strength these sensors have. If the need arises I want to be able to send that thing floating back to Anubis in peaces." Taka and Beast Boy both nodded obediently and Robin walked out.

Robin entered Cyborg's room to find both him and Blackfire working in complete opposite corners. He stopped in the middle and crossed his arms.

"Please tell me you two have some good news." Cyborg and Blackfire both turned around and produced their fruits of their labor. Blackfire set hers on the table and Cyborg inserted his piece inside of it. Blackfire then flicked a small switch off to the side and it lit up with a yellow glow.

"One hyperspace window generator," said Blackfire. "Would you like a side of fries with that?" Robin looked at her for a moment.

"Funny, that's funny. Well Beast Boy and Taka should be through with their job so this means we're ready to go right?"

"Not quite," said Blackfire.

"And why not?" asked Robin in the same tone.

"We have to test it first," reported Cyborg. "Blackfire said that if anything is wrong and we try to open a window we'll do a lot more damage than just blowing ourselves up." Robin sighed and nodded.

"Ok, do what you need." Blackfire gathered up the generator and Cyborg and Robin followed her out. They soon had the generator set up in the common room with various instruments monitoring it. Blackfire sat before it and typed on a laptop hooked up to it. She keyed in a set of commands and turned to Robin.

"The time dilation module is off by .325."

"Its fine Rob," said Cyborg. Blackfire looked over at Cyborg incredulously.

"No it's not Robin, if it's off in the slightest way-"

"Can you or can you not test it?" asked Robin. Blackfire ground her teeth together and swallowed before nodding uneasily. "Then please get on with it." Blackfire turned reluctantly enacted the rest of the commands. She finished.

"We're ready."

"Do it," he said. She turned back and started the program.

"Hyperspace generator is online; power output appears to be normal." Robin looked over at Cyborg and Beast Boy, as they manned their own set of instruments and they nodded in agreement. "Beginning trial run now." She started the next set of commands and a humming sound was born. Beast Boy glanced at his screen and pointed something out to Cyborg.

"Uh Cy, is this good or bad?" Cyborg took one look at it and jumped up.

"Robin! The generator's entered a feedback loop."

"What does that mean?" asked Taka. Blackfire stood up.

"It means just what I said it means," she said while unplugging everything. "It means we have to do something or we're all dead."

"Shut it down," ordered Robin. Cyborg typed nervously at his terminal. He shook his head and pounded his fist on the key board.

"I can't it locked me out!" Blackfire grabbed the device and took flight. Appearing to be in pain she burst through the window and flew straight upwards. Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Taka ran up to the large hole and stared up at the sky. After a few seconds a bright explosion not far from the atmosphere. Not long after they saw something falling from the sky and land in the water. Beast Boy finally pointed down at the sizable wake caused by the splash.

"That's either a Blackfire size moon rock or its Blackfire." They all looked at Beast Boy and he shrugged sheepishly.

"Come on we'd better go help her," said Robin. As they all field down to the T-Ship Cyborg glanced down at the water nervously.

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Robin walked into sickbay to see Blackfire sitting up in one of the beds and Taka doctoring her arm. He strode up to her and after Taka offered to leave he beckoned her to continue.

"How you doing?" Blackfire sighed with slits for eyes.

"Well she's no doctor but I guess I'll live." Taka tried not to look too uncomfortable. "By the way I fell to the earth with a body temperature of about four hundred degrees, so I might need one of those Tylenols things I've heard about."

"I'm sure we can take care of that," said Robin with a slightly amused smile. Blackfire sat off the bed and stood up. "I don't think I'm ever going to get used to seeing Starfire or you just walk away from things like that."

"You sound as though you expect me to stay or something," said Blackfire derisively.

"You never know." Blackfire snickered.

"Why would any of you want me around? I'm Starfire's evil sister, aren't I supposed to cause nothing but trouble?" Robin shrugged.

"Prove me wrong." A silence passed between them and Cyborg and Beast Boy entered. Blackfire immediately locked a deadly gaze with Cyborg. She stalked up to him with her eyes bright purple.

"Glad to see your well, Cyborg."

"Now listen girl."

"NO YOU LISTEN! For once just listen to me! I mean it's a wonder we're all still here."

"Yeah? And what's that supposed to mean?" Inquired Cyborg.

"Well it's obvious none of you had the wits to even think of getting rid of it before it turned you city into a smoldering crater."

"Hey, not many of us can just fly into the vacuum of space," retorted Beast Boy.

"Never the less, if Cyborg hadn't stupendously fouled up we would never be without our only working prototype."

"Whoa, whoa easy there," said Cyborg. "You don't hear me making any comments about your Grand Canyon ego, your snotty attitude, or even the fact that you've tried to kill us at least twice." Blackfire nodded disdainfully.

"Yes, yes that's all cute but you seem to be constantly missing the point which now we have to go back to square one and its-all-your-fault." Cyborg mad no come back but only looked down at the floor. "Now in the interests of doing things right why don't you sit on your hands and let me handle this." She walked past him and Robin soon followed after her with a reproachful face. Taka looked back at Cyborg who continued to stare down at the carpet with a hard look.

"Cyborg?" She lay a hand up on his shoulder.

"She's right," he whispered. Cyborg lurched out of sickbay with a black rain cloud over his head. Taka motioned for Beast Boy to go with him and he obliged. Taka then went to go look for Blackfire.

BACK IN CYBORG'S ROOM………

Blackfire sat back at her desk area and went to work drawing up new plans and a list of items required. She heard the door open behind her and Robin walked around in front of her. She looked up at him as he looked down at her with a piercing frown.

"What?"

"You were hard on him, too hard." Blackfire balled up her old set of notes and pitched it in the trash.

"I seem to remember explaining to Cyborg that the time dilation module had to be calibrated precisely, apparently he must've thought I was speaking in jest or something." Robin crossed his arms. "Then when I saw that it was indeed off I warned you guys but no! We can all assume everything Blackfire says is stupid!" Robin had to admit he hadn't thought about it that way. "I thought that the rather large ball of light in the sky would have convinced you which one of us was right and which one was wrong. Obviously humans are far denser then I thought."

"People make mistakes Blackfire, Cyborg is one of the most brilliant people I know. But making mistakes is human, its how we learn." Blackfire put on a mock smile and neatly folded her hands.

"Very well Robin, what have we learned today?"

"Alright you've made your point, now drop it and let's try to get focused he-" he stopped as Taka abruptly entered and faced down Blackfire with a frown rivaling Robin's. Blackfire only rolled her eyes.

"Oh now what is it?" she asked going back to work. Taka ripped the paper out from under her and tore it to pieces. "Excuse me but do you want me to be able to build this or not?"

"You will apologize to him now!" Spat Taka.

"I think I'll pass," snipped Blackfire.

"This is nonnegotiable, either you do as I say or I will make sure you are left alone to face Anubis."

"Oh no you're really frightening me Taka."

"You fear him just as much as everyone else does, and you hide behind us. You are nothing but a coward. Now leave this room and go apologize to Cyborg." Blackfire slowly stood up.

"No." Taka hissed a Japanese curse.

"Easy big fella," said Robin. Taka and Blackfire continued their staring contest until Taka broke her gaze and swiftly walked past the dark haired Tamaranian. Feeling only slightly interrupted, Blackfire sat back down and began drawing up her plans again. "Aside from the fact that in time you do need to apologize to Cyborg, can you build another one?" Blackfire thought for a moment.

"Assuming we have everything I need left over from the first attempt, it could take a few hours. If not, it will be a few weeks."

"A few weeks." Repeated Robin in disbelief.

"It's a lot easier to come by radio active material on the Gordanian black market."

"Whatever, just get what you need and keep me prized." Robin moved past her and she glanced back at him curiously.

"Keep you what?"

"Prized, keep me informed." Said Robin without looking back.

"Oh, that's strange." Robin chuckled.

"Well you'll get the hang of it Starfi-" He stopped in mid sentence and they both looked at each other as though they had switched bodies. Without saying another word Robin took his leave. 'I've been away from Star for too long.'

ACROSS THE GALAXY………………

Starfire sat by herself in a corner of her cell appearing to be caught up in her sorrow. If the security monitors could look closer they would see Starfire hard at work trying to re-wire one of the green orbs on her hand guards. She bit her lip trying not damage the tiny circuitry. Starfire moved a pin switch and began speaking into the orb.

"Hello? Can anyone hear me?" Receiving nothing but static she adjusted the frequency and tried again. "Is there no one there?" Back on earth Robin could be found in the training room punishing the punching bag. He finished his work out and retrieved a sweat towel. He uncovered his communicator and before he could wipe his forehead he heard the last thing he expected to hear.

"This is Starfire, can anyone hear me?" Robin's eyes became wide as tires and snatched up his comm. link.

"Yes! Yes I hear you Starfire. It's me!" In her cell Starfire broke into a large smile.

"Robin! Oh I am so glad it is you."

"Star please tell me you found a way out."

"Truthfully Robin I have not, I have only reversed the usual purpose of a transmitter from one of my hand guards. I am also unsure as to how long I can maintain this." Robin nodded although she could not see him.

"A-Are you alright? You're not hurt are you? What's going on?" Starfire smiled dreamily as Robin spouted off question after question.

"I am fine, for the moment. My father is alive as well."

"He is, really?" Starfire's face fell.

"Well, at least I believe he is. What is happening on Earth?"

"Arameth took our only means to come follow you so Blackfire is helping us build another one."

"Robin you do realize what you may have included yourself into?"

"Yes Star and it doesn't really matter to us, we just want you and Raven back home. But listen can you tell me anything else, anything at all that might help." Starfire thought and thought but came up with very little.

"Forgive me my husband but I cannot. I regained consciousness in my cell and have seen very little. I wish I could help you more."

"Don't worry Star you already have, we're coming to get you just hang in there." Starfire nodded at an imaginary Robin. She began to hear static building up. "Starfire?" She moved her ear to the orb.

"Robin? Robin do not go!" she said frantically. She heard more garbled sounds from Robin then the signal died all together.

Alright, time to end another chapter. I would really like to keep typing and let the chapter continue another six or so pages, but Stargate is about to come on. Next to Teen Titans it's my favorite show. Thanks for reading and reviewing. I will see you next update!