I Remember Chapter 4: Kidnapping of Starfire, a teen titans fanfic

Chapter four: Kidnapping of Starfire

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"Cyborg! How far are we from Slade's signal?" Robin shouted into his communicator, while driving his R-cycle with the other hand.

"We're just a few miles away. We'll be there soon," Cyborg shouted, obviously pissed. It was raining, which wasn't that bad, but raining just when they came out to fight crime ― that's bad. Cyborg groaned. He'll have to wash the T-car again. Who knew what the rain could do to his baby?

"Starfire, Raven! See if you can fly to the docks and attack from above!" Robin commanded. He wanted to finish this. Right this instant.

He wasn't one to be patient when it comes to Slade.

Starfire protested, "Robin, but what about you and friend ―"

"We'll be okay, Star! Just GO!" Robin shouted. Wincing, Starfire nodded somberly and flew off, catching up with the Azarethian, who was already on her way.

Did I say it too aggressively? Robin thought to himself, as regret washed all over him. But that'll have to wait. He had more important things to do right now.

"Cinderblock, attack," said Slade coldly into the mouthpiece to Cinderblock, which is underground, waiting to trash a certain high school.

Roaring deafeningly, Cinderblock emerged from the ground, sending bits of the road and rubble everywhere. The citizens screamed and ran away, in hopes to escape the stone giant's grasp. However, Cinderblock took no notice of them. It turned towards the school, and stomped to it. He had other things to do. Something much more important.

"Beast Boy! Cyborg! There's another danger signal in the east side of the town!" Robin exclaimed as the screen of the R-cycle located the exact location of the problem. "Seems like Cinderblock's causing havoc again," Cyborg remarked. He and Beast Boy watched Cinderblock scare the high school students away through the T-car screen.

"Dude, Cinderblock AND Slade, at the same time? I don't like the idea of this," shuddered the changeling. Something's amiss.

"We can't do anything. We'll have to stop Cinderblock! Star and Raven will take care of those Sladebots," Cyborg decided. "It's just the docks, and Cinderblock's attacking in a common area! He could easily kill those kids!"

Robin sighed. He didn't like the plan, but it's the only choice. What if Raven got hurt? Worse, what if STARFIRE got hurt? He couldn't bear the thought of the man he hated the most use those robots to hurt the girl he…Sigh. Steering his cycle to the opposite direction A/N: The dock's in the west side, the school's in the east side, he looked back and silently prayed that Starfire will be alright.

"Friend Raven, look!" Starfire stopped trying to get rain water out of her hair and her finger pointed to the docks, and as expected, they found the Sladebots. There're hundreds of them, all awaiting their arrival. The Sladebots looked up and found the titanettes, and raised their laser guns, in attempt to shoot them down.

"Azareth Metrion Zinthos!" cried Raven, as she made a protective shield for both of them just in time to protect themselves from the laser beams. The Sladebots took no notice and continued to shoot rapidly. Raven gritted her teeth, her jaws clenched. She couldn't hold this any longer, especially when all the robots were shooting stupid lasers onto the shield. "Starfire," she managed to gasp out. "I can't hold this anymore…On the count of three…We fly up!"

Starfire readied her starbolts, and her eyes glowed neon green. "One…Two…Three!" Raven grunted, as she deactivated the shield and flew upwards. Starfire let out a war cry and shot starbolts furiously to the Sladebots.

Raven noticed some crates near her side, and picked them up as black orbs surrounded her palm. She flung them towards the heads of the Sladebots, but no avail.

This was going to be harder than she thought.

"AHH!" Students and teachers screamed, as they all ran, trying to get away from here as fast as possible. A great number of them have already ran back home safe and sound, but some unfortunate ones, they were either too terrified to run, or they couldn't find an exit. Terra was one of them.

She simply stared wide-eyed at Cinderblock. Worse, on his boulder-chest was a symbol. The symbol she had feared for so long ― Slade's symbol. But why? Why attack a school when there's clearly nothing he wanted? Surely he didn't need Biology exercise books.

Cinderblock noticed Terra and grinned. He had found the thing, or person Slade needed. He reached for her.

When Terra finally noticed what was going on, she screamed and ran away from the enormous rock fist that was reaching for her. She ran into another hallway and stopped for breath.

You could've just make a rock wall and protect yourself, a voice in her head scorned. Terra frowned. She hadn't used her powers since she was revived. Her powers were a curse. She didn't even want to have them.

Out of the blue, the wall behind her cracked, and a large hole was made. Curiously, but fearfully, Terra peeked out of the hole. Maybe she could get out of this building through that.

Big mistake.

Cinderblock's hand immediately shot up and grabbed her slender frame. Terra screamed. Great, now you're out the building, but in a giant's hand! Happy now?

Just then, the male titans arrived and noticed Cinderblock. Cyborg and Robin saw him wrecking the school. Beast Boy saw something more: Cinderblock was wrecking the school and holding Terra with one hand, who was struggling in his grasp.

"TERRA!" Beast Boy screamed, and rushed forward, morphing into a T-Rex on the way. He slammed full-speed into Cinderblock, pushing the rock-brained giant against the school wall. Terra groaned and fell, unnoticed by the other two titans. Her head hit something hard, and she knew nothing more.

"Titans GO!" Robin cried, and he and Cyborg rushed forward to defeat Cinderblock.

Robin took out explosive discs from his utility belt and threw them at Cinderblock, while Cyborg shot him head on with his sonic cannon. Beast Boy transformed into a Pterosaur and flew up, landing on Cinderblock as a forest green elephant. Cinderblock cried and fell down face first. When the oversized boulder got up, he was slammed on the head by Robin's Bo staff. Cyborg punched him in the stomach, leaving a small dent. He then caught the elephant by its tusks and slammed Beast Boy to Cyborg. The two of them rolled and slammed against the building on the other side.

Robin kicked Cinderblock in the eye and threw freeze discs to his arms. Now frozen, he was hit once again by Cyborg's sonic cannon, and hit at the back by a bear in rage. In result, Cinderblock fell down, defeated.

Starfire grimaced. Raven and she couldn't hold them any longer. Both of them had cuts and bruises all over, Raven had a pretty deep gash on her arm, and Starfire had a few gashes on her abdomen. She also lost one of her armguards. Gasping out in pain, she clutched her stomach and fell down to her knees as one Sladebot kicked it.

Raven's position was as bad as Starfire was. A sladebot, one limb short, shot her with a laser gun, and Raven screamed. The stinging pain was hard to tolerate, and she barely had strength to talk. Her powers were proven useless now, as she didn't even have the power to stand up.

"Ah…" Raven's eyes rolled back as a Sladebot punched her to the floor. Opening her eyes and struggling to get up, Raven lost all her strength and passed out.

"Friend Raven!" Starfire cried when she noticed Raven pass out on the floor. She stuggled from the robot's grasp, but the robot disobeyed her wishes and took her to a dark warehouse. Starfire, though weak, struggled more violently.

"Let go of me please! I wish to see if Raven is the 'OK'!" Starfire said, although it barely came out as a whisper.

"Oh, she'll be alright," a voice sounded. Starfire's eyes darted left and right, trying to adjust to the darkness, and to locate the person speaking. When she found the figure, all she could do was gasp. That orange and black mask…

"So, Princess of Tamaran, hm?" Slade said, amused. "I could've known sooner if you told me that."

"What do you want?" asked Starfire, not taking notice of his sarcastic comment. Raven needed medical attention, and she was getting more tired every second. Slade turned away, looking out the warehouse window to take a view on the rainstorm. "I want Zandrarz's powers," he replied boldly.

Starfire's green pupils shrunk to merely a dot and her eyes opened wide. Her people haven't said a thing about the legendary dragon for hundreds and hundreds of years. "You must not go and disturb Zandrarz! He is to rest in peace!" Starfire screamed, deeply enraged. "Robin will stop you!"

"On the contrary, Starfire," Slade replied, stepping towards Starfire and put a hand on her cheek. "He wouldn't even know."

Slade injected a needle on Starfire's neck, and the princess fell limp in the robot's arms.

"I called the police," Cyborg said. "They should take care of the rest." Robin sighed as the police dragged away Cinderblock's limp body. However, Beast Boy was frantic, unlike the half robot.

"Guys!" Beast Boy screamed. In his arms he carried Terra's limp body, her eyes shut. "We have to get to the Tower's infirmary!" The other two turned.

"We have to help Starfire and Raven," Robin reminded Beast Boy urgently. "As fast as possible."

"She'll be okay, BB" Cyborg reassured Beast Boy. "She's just knocked out. Not that there's any injuries I can see." Beast Boy nodded grimly and put Terra's body gently on the backseats of the T-car, while he and Cyborg sat at the front.

"We have to get there quick," Robin shouted in the communicator. "Not far, Robin. Not far," Beast Boy replied.

"So, that's Terra?" Cyborg said, driving the T-car at full speed. He saw Beast Boy's worried face. "Sorry man. Didn't notice."

So now she's back into my life, what do I do? Beast Boy thought. Was he to mope again? How he wished Terra would stay with him after recovering. He didn't want her to be alone again, neither to be alone himself. He hoped she wouldn't run away from him, not this time. Beast Boy sighed. What if she was still in her denial?

When they finally arrived to the docks, Beast Boy snapped out of his thoughts and they ran out of their vehicles and saw the tragic battlefield. Broken parts of robots: limbs, heads, laser guns…were everywhere, still crackling with electricity, as if to remind the boys how badly they were damaged. On the floor were small drops, or puddles of blood, mixed with the raindrops. Next to the puddle was a damaged armguard. A Tamaranian armguard.

Robin's heart missed a beat. "STARFIRE!" He shouted. He took off to search the docks for the two missing titans, though one certain redhead worried him deeply.

"Are…Are we too late?" Beast Boy asked, his voice quivering. They had searched most of the ground, but no sign of the two teenage girls. First Terra, now…Raven and Star…He sincerely hoped they were okay. Who would he tell jokes with, and who would he force to play video games with?

"Rob! BB! I found Raven!" Cyborg shouted, his voice dipped in grim. They rushed over to find a badly-injured Raven, still unconscious.

"Ugh…" moaned the gothic sorceress. She opened her orchid eyes and saw the other three titans. "W-where's Starfire?" She managed to choke out, as Cyborg helped her into a sitting position.

Starfire…Starfire…Where was Starfire? Robin began to panic. He saw a warehouse, door unlocked and open, and began to think. Starfire…Sladebots…Slade…Slade!

"No…No, NO!" Robin shouted with realization. He ran into the warehouse, and sure enough, there was a metallic S symbol, Slade's symbol on the ground, the tip still stuck to the floor.

"He's got her," He whispered to the others as they came. Robin punched the warehouse wall angrily. It was his fault. He wasn't there to protect Starfire, they fell into the trap, all because of him…

"Robin, let's go back to the tower first, Terra and Raven needed medical attention," Cyborg suggested. "I'm sure Slade will leave us some clue in the Tower through transmission."

Clues. Clues to find Starfire. Robin nodded, still depressed, yet so angry at what Slade had done, walked out with the others. Cyborg and Beast Boy helped Raven to the backseat of the T-car along with Terra (in which Raven was too weak to question and too tired to think about), got in, and drove off to Titan's Tower, while Robin rode his R-cycle absentmindedly, still blaming himself for the kidnapping of Starfire.

The freaking long chapter! I love this one. Read and Review!