Chapter 11: Literally Worlds Apart
Danny and Frostbite arrive at the T-portal.
"Let us send them home, Great One."
Frostbite tosses Blackfire carelessly into the T.
Danny flies up to the portal and more gently puts her through the portal.
"Well, that's that." Danny says, sounding a bit down.
"Are you alright, Great One?" Frostbite asks concerned.
"Yeah… I guess so." Danny says, though he's clearly lying.
A week has passed.
In her world, Starfire awoke in the ocean. There, Raven, who arrived when she sensed her friend's return, came for her. When they noticed Blackfire, they were able to subdue her.
The rest of the Teen Titans returned, though Starfire hasn't told them everything. Namely, the boy she had grown fond of so quickly.
Although her life went back to normal, Starfire would still look out at sea to where she was found. She recognizes it as the same spot where Phantom disappeared, but could never figure out how he did so. She wanted to ask Raven to open the portal again, but knew it was a terrible idea.
During this time, they kept her sister contained in a special cell designed for her. They managed to make contact with the Centauri, the race that held her captive for her crimes against the galaxy. Now that the week passed, the Centauri arrived. They handed Blackfire, who swore revenge as always.
It's now the day after and Starfire, though her usual self, still has a sense of longing for the boy she met. Not only was he cute, he stood up for her against Blackfire in spite of her superior strength. Not to mention, they saved people in France together. It was the afternoon and Starfire stood atop Titans' Tower, watching the sunset.
"What are you doing here?" She heard a familiar voice. Turning around, she saw Robin. The leader of the Teen Titans and someone she's always been secretly fond of.
"Robin." She answers with a smile. "I am… admiring the sunset."
"So, are you okay?" He asks as he walks next to her.
"I am… alright." She says.
"Raven mentioned you met another Tamaranean? Someone called Phantom?"
"Yes, a new… friend." Starfire worded what she said carefully. She's not sure if she should mention how she felt about him yet, especially around Robin. "How was the visit with your friend?" She asked, realizing she never asked Robin.
"Barbara's fine, I was just giving her a hand with something."
"Barbara?" She asks.
"Let's just say… she's the daughter of a family friend."
"So, she is like family?" She asks, trying not to sound hopeful.
"Yeah… I think she sort of sees me as a little brother…" Robin says, looking a bit annoyed.
Starfire smiles. She thinks that maybe there is hope for her and Robin after all.
A week has passed and life returned to normal for Danny.
He finally returned his dad's device to the laboratory. He gave a brief explanation of his adventures with the alien girl from the other universe with his friends and his sister. He left out how he kissed her and started to stop being scared of her.
Tucker, of course, thought the idea of an alien girlfriend was awesome. Jazz was curious about studying how alien and human/ghost relationships would be fascinating. Sam, however, felt like Starfire was a threat in some way.
Danny would sometimes look at the Fenton Portal, thinking about going to the T-portal. He would walk away, realizing it was a bad idea.
It was the night of that very week since, Danny got out of bed and decided to fly in the Ghost Zone, heading to the portal. After some time, Danny arrived. He looked at the portal and thought of entering just to see how she's doing.
"I wouldn't do that, if I were you." The voice of Clockwork called out behind him.
Danny turned around and saw the ghost of time.
"I just want to check on her!" Danny says defensively.
"Sure you do…." Clockwork says sarcastically. "You're 14."
"I don't like her like that!" Danny shouted. He then looks away. "What do you know?"
"I know everything!" Clockwork answered with a smirk. "You will see her again, very soon."
"What?" Danny asked.
"Again, I know everything. Now head home, it's almost midnight."
Danny tries to say something, but he doesn't. Instead, he nods and flies away.
Upon returning home and to his bed, Danny got in his bed and looked up at his ceiling.
"I'll be seeing her again?" He whispers to himself. He then shook his head. "Why do I even care?"
He gets to his side and tries to fall asleep. Instead, the charming alien girl filled his head.
Morning, Starfire woke up and, after saving the city with her friends from Johnny Rancid and Control Freak, she requested some time to herself as she flies over the ocean. She spent an hour before giving up and flying away to the same rocky island she once left Silkie on when he grew too big. She sat there for some time.
"Perhaps I should go to Paris, where we last saw each other?" She thinks out loud. She shakes her head. "No, it may have been just the luck that allowed our second of the date."
She looks out at the sea. It's beautiful, but it wasn't enough to get her mind off him.
He came for me in the forest, so maybe he will find me?
"Where are you, Phantom?" She questioned. Suddenly, a burst of wind blows behind her. Looking back, she recognized what it was. A spaceship, though not just any spaceship. One that caused her to become furious. "Gordanians!"
The front of the ship opened up and something fires at her. It hits her arm. Looking quickly, Starfire sees some kind of device that wraps around her arm. It shocks her unconsciously.
Once she hit the ground, two Gordanians come out and carry her in.
"We have the other one!" One said. "Let's head back to the mothership."
The ship heads into orbit. Behind the moon was their mothership. Inside, they take the unconscious Starfire to a cell, one that was barred with lasers.
In his world, Danny returned home from school. He rejected the notion of patrol with his friends, as he wasn't feeling well. He wasn't sick, he just felt depressed. He didn't want to admit it, but he was thinking of Starfire. Why, he wasn't sure. She was pretty and he started to see aspects of her that were admirable, but he couldn't get why she commanded his thoughts so much. It's almost like she had an effect on him with her powers that drew him in.
Since that incident last night, he wondered when he's seeing her again.
"It's time." Clockwork called out.
Danny is startled and looks to Clockwork in his bedroom.
"W-What?"
"It's time, because she needs your help."
Starfire woke up a few minutes ago. She realized what has happened and is being taken back to the Gordanian homeworld. She couldn't believe it. She leaned on the wall to figure out what do when she remembered she still had her communicator.
She pulls it out. "Robin? Cyborg? Fellow Titans, I am in need!" No answers. She realizes she's too far away from Earth.
"Troqie?" A familiar voice calls out. Starfire listens in on the wall she leans on.
"That voice… Val-Yor?"
This was a space hero she and her friends once considered a friend, at least until it turned out he was extremely bigoted towards Tamaraneans and considered them beneath him despite Starfire saving his life.
"Tro-I mean, Starfire?" He asked. "What are you doing here?"
"I was captured by Gordanians on Earth. Why are you present here?" She asked, sounding annoyed. She did not want to be around this man even with a wall between them.
"I was dealing with some beasties when I got captured."
"Where are they taking us?"
"My guess? Their homeworld for experimenting or gladiator games. And your Troq-loving friends?"
"We are too far away for a signal." She slides down and enters a fetal position. "They do not know where I am…"
Danny enters the T-portal. Once Clockwork told him Starfire was kidnapped and her friends didn't know about it, he knew what he had to do. On the way, he borrowed the Infi-Map as his way to her and to get home. This time, he knew his father's device was nowhere around.
Danny took out the map. "Take me to Starfire."
The map activates and it does what he asked for. Within a second, Danny finds himself inside the Gordanian mothership.
It took a moment for the large lizards to notice and stare at him.
"What?" One asked.
"Is that a male Tamaranean?" Another asked.
"Where's Starfire?!" Danny demanded.
They aimed their weapons and fired. Danny flew out of the way and started firing blasts that knock his opponents down. One of them dropped their weapons and raised his fists.
"Face me in hand-to-hand!"
Danny lands and puts his hands up.
The two then begin throwing punches. Each one hit each other, knuckles hitting knuckles. Eventually, Danny instead grabbed a first and flipped the Gordanian on the floor.
"I wasn't asking! Where is she?!" Danny demanded.
"Are you her mate?" The weakened alien asks.
Danny's response is to slam a foot into its chest.
"Where is she?!"
Danny feels something wrap around his arm. It shocks him unconscious.
Once waking up, Danny sees the Gordanians are dragging him by his arms.
While moving his head around, he notices something is on him, around his arm from earlier.
Before he can do anything, he is thrown into a cell.
"Once we return home…" A Gordanian says. "You will be among the first to take part in the games." Danny runs up to throw a punch, but the laser bars come up, knocking him back. The Gordanians chuckle. "You can try to fight back… but that strap we gave you isn't just for decoration. It's designed to sap your power." Danny looks to the device. He looks up as the Gordanians walk away.
Danny looks around and sees someone on the floor. It's a sleeping Starfire. Danny steps back, but looks closer and realizes she's not aware of his presence. Danny sighs and tries to turn human to relax, but finds he can't. Danny glares at the arm device.
"I'm guessing this thing is messing with my powers like that scale creep said…" Danny says. He gets on his bottom and sits cross-legged. "Now what? Some rescue attempt this was."
As he sits fuming, a quiet yawn is heard behind him.
Starfire gets up and walks to her right, stretching her arms. As she looks away, she sees him.
"Phantom?" Danny looks to where he heard her. Her mouth cracks into a smile. "Phantom!" Danny barely has time to react as Starfire runs to him and picks him up with a hug. "My Phantom! You are here"!
She then kisses him on the side of his face a few times before nuzzling his cheek.
Danny tries to break out, but stops when he notices how happy she is and only smiles.
Danny doesn't want to admit he may be into her.
To answer a question, that part of Starfire and Blackfire's backstory isn't present in the cartoon, so that's probably not a thing in this universe. For all we know, that's not exclusive to them.
So, I'm not including the gadget here. There's going to be another device that suppresses his powers.
But now Val-Yor is here and I got plans for him.