Ash jerked his head up from the seat of his spaceship he was lying in. He didn't fall to sleep, but he hadn't been awake. He just dosed off for what he hoped was just a few hours. Ash looked up at the clock and breathed a sigh of relief, he had just dosed off for about an hour. How he even managed to even dose off was beyond his guess, but wished he hadn't. He had a dream that he usually had, the dream coming once and a while whenever he dreamed at all. It was because he had dreamed about her again.
"It's been two years," Ash thought to himself, "and I still can't froget her."
The reason that Ash was depressed was that her dream was about her ex-girlfriend, in his opinion, one of the most beautiful girls that he has ever met. He dreamed of the day that she left him two years ago, entirley out of his life. That day, Ash just stood there speachless after she told him that she wanted to break up with him. She said that it just wouldn't work out between the two of them, they were too close of friends before they started dating. Ash knew the second that he heard that it was a lie. She was just trying to cover up the real reason, one that she would hide from him to this day. He begged her to stay, but she wouldn't listen. She said she had to break up with him, but never told him the real reason why. Ash thought he knew the reason that she wanted to break up with him.
"I was so upsessed with the badges," Ash thought to himself and clenched his fists, "always about the badges."
It was true, he had always been upsessed with getting every badge that there was. That was his dream back then, to be the best. To be the master of pokemon. He still thought of pokemon from time to time, but not much. It seemed though time, it just wore away from his mind. He sometimes thought of going back to the planet Kanto, to see his friends Brock, May, Tracy, Max, Pikachu. He would stop by to see his stepmother, Delha. Althought she was his stepmother, he always thought of her as his mother. He had thought that because he had never knew his real mother or father. They were killed when his home planet, Vegeta, blew up. The only thing that change his mind every time was the thought of his ex-girlfriend being there.
"Misty." Ash said softly to himself
Ash wanted to froget Misty, but he couldn't. He loved her, and still does. But he couldn't see her now, not after leaving him. He was afraid of what she might do, or what he himself might do. What he might do if he saw her with someone else, he wouldn't be able to watch. Ash got up walked over to the big window in the main room of the ship. He knelted down in front of it where there was an indent with plenty of space and pulled out a box. The box was extremly dusty since it had not been opened for quite a while. He slowly opened the box and took out a picture. He closed the box, pushed the box back into the indent below the window, and walked to where he was sitting and sat down, all the while not taking his eyes off the picture. The picture showed him and Misty kissing. The picture was about three years ago, when he was thirteen. That had been his first date ever, and it was still his faverite date he had ever been on.
Ash held the picture steadly in between two of his fingers.That had also been Ash's first kiss. He remembered the night, Misty had her hair loose down to her back and was wearing a bright red dress as it showed in the picture. She was so beautiful that night, under the moonlight. He remembered that he was nervous that whole night. Ash closed his eyes, as thought trying to remember the moment. Ash's hand grew tension as he got angry. He opened his eyes and the picture bursted into flames, with Ash holding the ashes of the picture in his hand. Ash blew the ashes that were in his hand onto the floor.
"Bitch." Ash said with his eyes still red and anger in his tone and expression
Ash was not mad that she broke up with him, but what she did after she broke up with him. She did something that he would stay mad at her for the rest of his life, that he would never forgive her for. They had traveled back to Palet, to go see his stepmother. Misty was still traveling with him, Brock, and Pikachu and even though Ash and Misty had broke up, they had decided to remain friends. Misty had told him and Brock that she wanted to stop by Cerulean City and Palet town, but didn't tell them why. At the time, he didn't think much of it. On the way there, Misty wanted stopped by Professor Oak's lab. Although Ash wanted to stop by his house first, Misty talked him into going with her. When they stepped through the automatic doors of Professor Oak's lab, they saw two people standing by a large machine, talking quietly to one another. One of them was Professor Oak and the other one was Gary Oak, Professor Oak's grandson.
Gary and Ash have never been on really steddy grounds to begin with, particulary because he had got everything before Ash. He got his first pokemon, his first badge, his first everything before him. When Ash, Misty, Pikachu, and Brock first got there, they started to talk and walk around the lab. Ash had noticed the whole time there, Misty stayed away from him, Brock, Pikachu, and Professor Oak and spent all of her time there talking to Gary. When it was time to leave, Misty had said that she wanted to stay with Professor Oak and Gary for the rest of the day at the lab and return later that night. Ash, having been so naive at the time, didn't think anything of it and him, Brock, and Pikachu left to stay the rest of the day at his stepmother's house.
Ash spent the rest of the day training Pikachu and didn't notice that there was a problem untill the next morning. When he got up at about eight from sleep from the only bed in his room, he noticed that Misty was not in her room. In fact, Ash searched the whole house but to no avail. She was not even in the house. She woke up Brock and Pikachu to go look around town for her. They all asked every person in the town where she was, but none had a clue. They looked in every house and didn't find a thing. It wasn't untill they went to professor Oak's lab untill they found something out. They...
"Ash," a low voice from in the hallway said as as the shadow of Starfire came into view
Ash quickly snapped out of the thoughts that he was having and looked up at the clock. It was already 6:30. He should have woke up Starfire thirty minutes ago. He had been wrapped up in his thoughts so much that he didn't even realise that the ship was about to go through Earth's atmosphere. They should be araiving on Earth in less than ten minutes. Ash shifted his sights to Starfire, who must have woke up earlier because she was already dressed in a identical pair of Tamerain clothing that she was wearing the day before, but he could tell that they were not the same pair.
"Good morning." Ash said to her as she walked up to him
She gave him a hug, which he had gotten acustomed to since she had gave him several hugs already since they had meet. Ash smiled, he had to admit, Starfire's hair smelled nice. Her hair was also damp, he guessed that she just took a shower.
"Oh, it is a glorious morning." Starfire said rather softly as she still was embracing Ash
Starfire let go of Ash and he sat back down.
"We shold be on Earth in about five minutes." Ash said to her, "You ready?"
"Yes." Starfire said as she started to levitate off the ground, "I shall go and gather my belongings."
Starfire hovered into her room and came out with a backpack on his back. Ash was suprised, he could have swore that she got into the ship last night with more than a backpack full of cloths and other items. Starfire and Ash watched through the large window as they slowly decended towards the ground. When they had got through the atmosphere and the clouds, they could clearly see the big T-shaped tower on a little island. They kept decending towards the ground untill the bottom of the ship was touching the patch of Earth that the Titan's tower was on. Starfire could already see Robin and Raven looking through the main window of the Titan's tower, probley worndering what in the hell a ship was doing landing right by the Titan's Tower.
"Welcome to Earth." said a cool female voice comming from the ship
Ash walked up to the place that the esculator came up to the day before.
"Open." Ash said in a clear voice so that the ship could interpret the words.
Withen seconds, the square foot of ship that Ash was standing on started to shake semi-vilently. After a few moments, the shaking suddenly stopped and Ash stepped back. The part of the ship that Ash was just standing on opened up, but Starfire saw no esculator comming down.
"We can both fly," Ash said, "don't see why we would need it."
Starfire first jumped down the square hole and levitated about fifty feet towards the ground. On the way down, Starfire could clearly see Robin, Beastboy, Raven, and Cyborg. They were all standing combat ready, so they must have not known that she rode on the ship to Earth. She standed tense, not knowing wether or not the team would attack before seeing her. To her relief when Starfire finialy reached the ground, the titans got out of combat form. Starfire ran over to her group of friends.
"FRIENDS!" Starfire yelled as she ran to the team and decided to hug Raven first, "Oh I have missed you all so!"
Starfire was squezing Raven so hard that she was turning deeper purple than usual. She never meant to hug Raven that hard, she just couldn't control her strenght when she was filled with emotion. When Starfire saw that Raven was almost sufficating, she let go and ran towards Robin to hug him.
"Nice to see you too." Robin gasped out as Starfire embraced him and then let go, "What took you so long?"
"You were suposed to be here yesterday." Beastboy said with arms hanging down to his stomach because he didn't recieve a hug
"Yes," Starfire said and then thought for a second for an excuse, "I was just running late."
She decided not to tell them about how she was really running late. She thought that it might cause to much concerversy among the group. Her father was just killed, so mabye they would think that someone was looking at her as a target. She looked at the group and they were staring at the huge spaceship in front of them, the team's eyes wide.
"Whose's is that?" Cryborg asked with a amazed look on his face
"The ship belongs to my friend." Starfire said as she turned around to where she thought he was, "Ash."
"Where is he?" Robin asked
Starfire looked beside her, just noticing that Ash was not beside her.
"He...must still be up at the ship" Starfire said as she started levitating off the ground, "I shall go get him."
When Starfire went up to the ship, the team gave worried looks at each other. Robin, looking the most worried, turned around to the other titans. Cyborg looked as worried has he was, but Raven and Beastboy didn't seem to have to much concern that Starfire had found a new friend.
"A new friend?" Robin asked not the team, but himself, "Do you think right now would be the best time to have a new member."
"I know what you saying Robin," Raven said, knowing that a argument was about to start "but don't you think we should at least see him first before trying to judge."
"Yea Robin, just chill." Beastboy told him
"But who knows who he might be!" Robin said trying to talk some sense into the rest of the team, "Remember, Starfire's parents just died!"
"You don't even know who he is." Raven said camly but showing some signs of irritation, "This Ash person might be able to help the person that killed Starfire's parents."
"Or he might be the killer." Cyborg said, backing up Robin
"Not you to!" Raven said to Cyborg
"Look, it's not that I think that this new face killed Starfire's parents" Cyborg explained and then continued, "I just don't think that we should rule out the probobility of him being the killer."
"You two are being rediculous." Raven said, now showing quite a bit of anger in her voice, "If he was the killer, why would he be here on Earth?"
Robin and Cyborg thought for just a second trying to think up an answer, since they didn't want to lose this newly started argument.
"Mabye he's here to kill Starfire?" Robin said after a few moments
"If he was the killer, don't you think that this person would have killed her when he brought her here? " Raven now asked Robin, "They had plenty of time alone."
Robin stood speachless for a few moments and then continued on.
"Mabye he had a reason." Cyborg said as though he put some thought into it, "Mabye he wants to kill us to."
Now it was Raven's turn to have silence fall upon her.
"Look, I sorta know where your comming from," Robin said trying to calm Raven down, "but I just don't think that we sould just let just anyone in that we find on the streets."
"Robin, this isn't just your choice." Raven said as her temper boiled and her powers starting to activate, "Just because you don't want him here does not mean that the team dosn't want him here."
"Fine then." Robin said, mad that Raven had talked to him like that, "We will just have a team vote."
"Anyone that thinks that we souldn't admit this new person, raise your hand." Robin said, now seeing his and Cyborg hand's raised
"Anyone that thinks that we should admit this new person, raise your hand." Raven said, only seeing her hand raised
"I'm sure that Starfire would want to admit him." Raven said with a grin on her lavender face, a rare thing to see, "So her vote counts for me, which would make it two to two."
Raven, Robin and Cyborg now turned to poor Beastboy, who was now shaking with nervousness since he was now the tiebreaker.
"Beastboy, we can't trust this person." Robin said trying to talk sense into his green partner
Raven just looked at Beastboy with eyes not begging him to side with her, more like telling him.
"Robin, I have to side with Raven on this one." Beastboy said
Robin turned away with his hand on his head towards the ship, disapointed in how the vote turned out. When he turned back around, Robin had a quick glance and noticed that Starfire was comming down from the ship. When her feet touched the ground, he saw a boy levitating down to Earth. Robin looked at him with a stare all the way untill Ash got to the ground. Ash had nice clothes on since he didn't want to look bad in front of new people. His mid-long hair was still damp with water from a shower that he took while he was getting ready to meet the Titans.
"This is my new friend Ash!" Starfire said with enthusism as Ash held his hand out to Robin
"Nice to meet you." Ash said trying to act calm considering that he did not think that Starfire would have this many friends living with her
Robin grimiced and shook his hand.
"Nice to meet you to." Robin managed to mutter out while shaking his hand
"These are my friends." Starfire told Ash and then finished, "Robin, Cyborg, Beastboy, and Raven.
"So, this is where the five of you live?" Ash asked as he stared at the T-shaped tower
"Yep, the Titan's Tower." Cyborg said and then gloated, "I designed the whole thing."
The Titans and Ash had a few moments of sclience.
"I shouldn't stay here long." Ash said, "I've got places to go."
Robin had a short sign of victory on his face as Ash walked away, just waiting for someone to try to stop him.
"Where shall you stay?" Starfire asked while she grabbed his arm
"In the ship, the only thing I have." Ash answered her
"I shall not permit this!" Starfire told Ash, "You must stay here with us."
"No, I don't want to take up room." Ash said to her, "Don't worry, I'll be fine."
"No problem." Cyborg said to Ash, "We have plenty of room here in the Tower."
Ash turned around to Cyborg, it was what Ash wanted to hear.
"Are you sure?" Ash asked
"Positive." Cyborg answered him
"You will stay, yes?" Starfire asked Ash with puppy-dog eyes
Ash thought for a few seconds, althought he already knew the answer that he was going to say.
"Sure, I'll stay." Ash said
Starfire had a bright, cheerful expression on her face while Robin continued to stare at Ash.
"Come into the tower," Cyborg said with his upbeat attitude, "We'll show you around."
Cyborg, Robin, Raven, Beastboy, Starfire, and Ash started to walk to the door of the Titan's Tower while Ash strayed behind them, staring at the tower. This is the tower that he was going to stay in for the next few months. He would stay here untill his mission was complete, untill Starfire was dead. In the next few months, this would be his new home.
So what do you think of it so far. I think the story is going along good. I do want to try something. When you review, if you want to, I would like to know what you want as the pairings. So when you put a review, put a couple that you think should be together. I think that if I hear what the fans want, it will be easier for me to think of the couples.
