Okay everybody here is another Chapter. Pretty soon we are going to deviate away from the TV show for a while so please hang in there while I set everything up

Disclaimer: 1st chapter


CH 14 The Ticking Clock

It was a bright sunny day, a few weeks after Slade and Zero had gotten their butts handed to them, and the "all-you-can-eat free-form breakfast explosion" afterwards. Things had begun to settle down. It was at that very morning that Starfire had been long waiting, the day of-

"HAPPY BLORTHOG!" Star cheered coming into the door, an armload of varying objects of alien origin jingling in her arms. "Huh?" she asked in surprise. Raven was off to the side reading, Robin had a boom box blaring in his ears, Beast Boy and Cyborg were having a game of tug-and-war over a game controller, and Blitz was at the computer with his headphones on. Even from that angle she could tell he was scowling a big vein popping on his head which was continue to grow. He was using the headphones to drown out the others or trying to at least.

"Come on Beast Boy, gimme that thing!" Cy growled gripping the controller.

"Dude! I'm in the middle of a game, Cyborg!"

"Yeah, my game, 'cause it's my turn!"

"Gimme that controller!"

"No! Let go!"

"It's my turn!"

"Friends! We must frolic and leap in glorious celebration, for today is Blorthog- The Tamaranian festival of friendship!" Star cheered exuberantly, roses blooming around her. That moment however was cut short at the sound of a car wreck, realizing that no one was paying attention. Disgruntled, she dropped the items she had carried in, except for a few strands of jingling bells that hung on her wrists. "Joyous greeting, friend! I, Starfire, give you this tinnabula as a symbol of-" she said trying to put the tinnabula on Cy's neck, only for him to be yanked away by Octopus-Beast Boy.

"You're gonna pay for that you little grass stain!" he growled as he and the changeling fought once more, only for BB to hop away as a bullfrog with the 360 controller in his mouth.

"Many blessings, friend. May your ears be filled with sugar candies and-"

"BEAST BOY!" Cy roared out interrupting her.

"Look! I'll give you back the controller as soon as Raven gives me back my nail clippers!"

"Not gonna happen," Raven said holding the said clippers in the air with her powers as she read. "How else am I supposed to keep your toenails off the coffee table?"

"Happiness and delight, friend. On this wondrous day I wish you sunshine and bunny-" Star began saying, only for Raven to give off the subtle hint that she wanted to be left alone.

"Robin, could the music be a little louder? I can still hear myself think," Raven grumbled.

"I only turned the music up to DROWN OUT ALL THE YELLING!" Robin growled out, his shouting blowing Star's head back. Star standing before a red backdrop holding her bells, Robin's throbbing head at the upper left while Raven's was on the opposite, "chibi" BB running by with the controller while "chibi" Cy followed.

A few moments later however, when the tinnabula in Star's hands broke...

"STTTTTOOOOOPPPPP!" she roared causing everyone to stop. "Friends must never behave this way- and especially not on Blorthog! Do you wish to invite the Rekmas?"

"Gesundheit?" BB asked.

"The word roughly translates to "the Drifting"," Blitz said removing his headphones walking towards the group, remembering the Tamaranean lessons he been receiving from Star, "It's the point where close friends begin to drift apart, and their friendship... dies," he said.

"Aw come on, Starfire," Cy said waving his hands.

"We are so not Rek-whatever-ing," BB stated, though his previous actions didn't really help that argument.

"We're getting on each other's nerves a little. Big deal," Raven stated.

"Yeah. This is just typical roommate stuff. We're not going to drift apart, Star. I promise. We'll all be friends forever," Robin stated.

"Forever?" Star asked worriedly, though with a hint of hope in it only for the T-Comm. to go off in his hands.

"Titans! Trouble!" Robin said leading the others off, Star and Blitz remaining where they stood before the prior flew off after as few seconds. Looking to the pile of stuff on the ground, Blitzkrieg saw one of the tinnabula, this one still intact. He reached down before putting it on the counter.

'No I won't let us drift apart no matter the cost. I finally have people to call friends even family. I am not going to let it be torn away from me,' Blitz grunted tightening the straps on his boots with determination as he ran off after the others.


The team quickly arrived at a museum that was located in Jump. In some of the displays were ticking clocks from different historical periods. Arriving, the Titans found museum security frozen solid in their own blocks of ice, a man in black armor with gold reinforcement on his wrists, ankles, chest, and head having done the deed.

"The Clock of Eternity," he said after having put the two on ice. "Valuable in the past, priceless in the future," he said as he reached for it, only for his hand to be knocked away by one of Robin's throwing discs.

"But for the present, you'll be keeping your filthy hands off of it," Robin said as he and the others came down.

"The Teen Titans. This is a treat," he said as a laser shooter folded out of each shoulder. "I've read all about you in the historical archives. And now you're all history," he said as he opened fire.

"Titans! Go!" Robin called out as the group bolted in a heartbeat. With a shout, Warp began firing on Robin who was parrying the salvo with his fighting staff, doing so with ease until the last one broke his weapon in half. Star quickly flew in to take his place in the fight followed by Lion-BB, the Tamaranean firing a pair of beams that carved long double groves across the floor, only for Warp to deflect them causing one to ricochet at her and knock her out of the sky. Lion-BB then rushed him from the side, the gold-armored criminal raising his right hand, an hourglass-shaped blaster folding out and electrocuting BB in the air.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven intoned as she sent two grandfather clocks at him, only for a blue force field to rise up and push them back, a blue psi-beam flying from the lens on his forehead and knocking him out of the air. From the side, Cy fired his sonic cannon at the same time Blitz fired a Lightbolt, nailing the guy dead on, raising a cloud of dust.

"Boo-yah!... Huh?" he asked as he saw the smoke clear, the time-traveling thief protected by a force field that absorbed the damage, leaving him unharmed. The next moment he threw a kitchen timer-like disc through the air, nailing Cy on the chest right before the pointer hit the 12 o'clock position, sparks flying across every part of his bionic body. "Draining... my... power cell!" he cried as he fell to his knees.

"You cannot defeat Warp. I am from the future," he said as though he were some absolute authority, raising a throwing disc. Across the gallery, Robin threw a handful of his own, only for Warp's weapon to smash cleanly through his, exploding when it hit the far wall. "And you relics are one hundred years out-of-date," he stated as he reached into the glass case, his hand passing through it before-

"I guess it time for a blast, from the past" Blitz growled as he electric powered drop kick the guy, when Wrap recovered he put his middle and index fingers to his temples, the white lens on his forehead shot a ball of water dousing Blitz. "I'm not out yet!" he cried as he speeds towards Warp only to hit with a taser, Blitz was shot through the air and tumbled across the ground. The electro-kinetic groaned, while Warp once more reaching through the glass and plucking the Clock of Eternity from its confines.

"Ta-ta, Titans. I have enjoyed our time together, but I've got a very bright future ahead of me," he said kicking the downed Blitz while he walks towards his black temporal portal. As he was walking in however, Star roared in fury before flying straight at him while he had one foot out of the door. "What?" he gaped before she plowed into him, the portal winking out once they were through, Robin just barely missing it.

"Starfire!" Robin called out.


"Let go!" Warp cried as he and Star tumbled through a monochrome realm filled with ticking clocks, the two struggling with Warp losing.

"You have endangered my friends and ruined Blorthog!" she growled with eyes glowing green.

"Stop! If you damage the suit before we reach my future- No!" Warp cried as Star ripped the central disc off his chest armor, banishing him to the darkness before a bright flash of light dropped her out of the sky.

Landing in something cold and white, she looked up to see that it was nighttime, bitter cold whistling over the landscape. "Huh? What happened?" Star asked looking around. "Why is it cold? And where are my... friends?" she gaped as she looked up, a ruined Titans Tower with the windows broken and the lights off looming over her, the entire thing in an advanced state of disrepair.

"Friends? Hello? Friends? Hello!" Star called out as she ascended the Tower heights, a hole smashed through the ceiling of the living room allowing snow to accumulate in the darkened room. Looking out the window, she saw that all of Jump was covered in dark clouds, the world now cold and dark, not something she was comfortable with. As these thoughts echoed through her head, she looked down and saw one of the tinnabula sitting on the counter. Picking it up, the thing crumpled in her palm. "What has happened?" she asked as a wayward wind sent the metal dust flying out of her hand. Looking off to the side, she then spotted a red light glowing in the darkness as the whirring of machinery was heard. "Cyborg!" she gasped as she raised a glowing hand to shed some light. "Oh, Cyborg, thank goodness you are-" she said before a mechanical spider-like thing with Cy's "body style" came into view. "Eek!" she cried as she launched a starbolt at it, the energy attack blasting through it before several more came at her, all of which were blasted.

"Yo!" a familiar yet-older voice called out, a familiar silhouette with a pipe in hand stepping out of the light. "Who's up here blasting my... Star?" he asked completely dumbfounded, the bludgeon sliding from his fingers and clattering to the floor, the aged cyborg looking her over head to toe. "Starfire. I don't believe it. You... You haven't aged a day."

"Cyborg, what happened? Why are... you..." Star asked, seeing his right leg had been replaced with random components, while his organic ones had aged greatly.

"Old?" he smiled gently as he crossed the operations center. "Well, that's what happens to folks when you go away for twenty years."

"Twenty years?" she gaped.

"You disappeared Star," he said sliding some junk aside. "That battle with Warp. That was a long time ago. You fell through a wormhole and..." he said as he looked out the cracked window and looked across the frozen bay, the skyline of Jump City huddled under both a blanket of snow and cruel sky. "Welcome to the future," he sighed, disappointed in the sight that greeted him.

"The future? But..." she said removing the lens from the belt and holding it up. "... I damaged his technology," she said holding it out, which Cy looked over.

"Warp was planning to jump ahead one hundred years, right? Looks like you stopped him at twenty," he said handing it back to her.

"Still, I am confused. Please, why are you in disrepair?" she asked causing him to look at himself, the cyborg turning away as he went to the counter and opened a drawer.

"Let's just say things... haven't gone so well since you left..." he said.

"But what of the other Titans? Where are our friends?" Star asked.

"The Titans are history, Star. Your friends aren't friends anymore."

"No. You are wrong," Star gaped. "This... Everything is wrong! How could such horrible things..." she said before looking down at the lens in her hand. "Warp! His interference in the past must have changed our future."

"Star, I don't think-"

"He has caused all this badness to happen. He made this technology, and he is the one who can make things right!" she said flying over to him. "We must find Warp. You will help me?"

"I wish I could," he said looking over to the side, something akin to a gasoline-powered electric generator hooked up to it, the wires in his back hooked up to it. "My last power cell burned out years ago. I've tried adapting this new stuff to my old circuits, but... I can't leave the Tower, Star. I'm obsolete," he sighed, seeing how far he had fallen making him only sadder, so far from his prime when he was the most advanced thing out there. Now there were microwaves more advanced than him. "Maybe some of the others can help."

"I can tell you how to find BB and Raven," Cy said.

"And Robin?"

"We lost touch a long time ago. If you're looking for him... you're on your own," Cy answered, Star heading for the door to leave before suddenly stopping.

"Wait. What about Blitzkrieg?" she asked, the Cyborg flinching visibly. "Where is Blitzkrieg? I wish to see if he is alright as well."

"Blitzkrieg... He..." Cyborg said before pausing. "He...he died years ago," he answered, Star gasping loudly at the news with her hands over her mouth.

"What? Died? Who has done this? Who has killed MY BROTHER?" Star demanded, tears falling from her eyes.

"... Slade," he answered with a growl, causing Star to gasp. "Or at least that was what Robin told us. He wouldn't give the full story. I guess it's for the best. If he said what had happen it would probably tear me up inside. Tear all of us up inside."

"I... I see..." Star said, feeling her heart breaking at the thought of losing a friend for good. "I... I will be going now," she said heading out the door fighting the tears.


[Later that Evening]

"Oh Brother Blitzkrieg... I..I…," Star sniffled to herself as she flew towards the city to the two areas that Cy told her about. Before she could fly too far into the city however, her emerald eyes suddenly caught sight of something move on top of a high building. Stopping mid-air, she whirled to spot a Sladebot carrying a small plastic bag, "Slade" Star growled, the thing not giving an answer but running off.

Chasing after, the robot led her on a wild goose chase all across the city. It finally stop at Slade's old HQ, the Sladebot stopped just short of a wall, its hand removing a panel from the wall and tapping a few keys before a section of the wall moved back before parting to the sides, revealing an entrance-way. The Sladebot ran down the hallway only to have its head shot off by Starfire.

"... Slade," Star growled as she lowered her smoking hand she entered the base, ready to dish out some vengeance. She arrived at a rusted door, Starfire moved to open, but before she could, it seemingly opened by its own, Starfire walk in to the room. What she did not expect to see was a rundown base. Papers, can goods, and an assortment of bottles littered the floor. A clicking noise sounded throughout the room

"Threatening Statement: Don't move meatbag."

"Condensing Statement: Or do, it matters not to me."

Starfire looks to see a Sladebot with a rusty red paint job holding a blaster rifle point straight at her.

"Who is it?" a rough voice coughs out.

"Analyzes: Master it seems to be an orange skin alien meatbag, my systems tell me that she is Tamaranian,"

"She?"

Starfire turns around gasping at the sight she saw. There standing in front of her looking like he been though a wood chipper stood Blitz.

"Brother Blitz, you are without harm!" she squealed in joy as she flew at him intent on hugging him, only to be stop by HK holding a gun to her face. "HK stand down she is friendly," Blitz said with a raised hand.

"Acknowledgement: As you wish Master." The droid, HK, said lowering its rifle.

Starfire took this time to study her friend, she gasp at what she saw, for Blitzkrieg was missing his right arm, a scar went across his now white eyes, another scar ran down the side of his cheek. His clothes where ripped and torn everywhere.

"Oh Brother Blitz, what happen to you?" Starfire said sadly, as Blitz walk towards Star to only trip over something, she caught him. When she help him up, he reach out his with is only hand pulling off his glove with his teeth and began stroking Stars face, "My god...Star, you haven't age a day."

"But wait... Robin said you had died..."

"He did as I asked then," said with a chuckle turned cough. "Why? Why did you tell Robin to do that?" Star asked sadly.

"Look at me Star, if the others saw me…." Blitz shook his head, "Better for them to think that I am dead then to see me in this state." he stated. "Come be my eyes really quick, and I'll tell what has happen while you were away," he said, with some help of HK and Starfire he lead them to an outdated computer. "While the Teen Titans fought together for a time after you left, eventually, we split apart." he said.

"But why did the Titans split up?" Starfire asked.

"Starfire, why are you looking for an outside reason for why the group would split up, when you should be looking... at yourself," he then said sitting down moving like an old man who has been on a long walk.

"Me? Why me?" Starfire asked as she stood, noting that Blitz really looked old and tired, his hair was ghostly white. "Me? But I am only...one person." she asked in shock.

"Sometime all it takes is one person," Blitz said finishing a bottle of water, "Think about it onee-chan, you were the reason the Titans got together if wasn't for you the Teen Titans would never have existed. Think Star you were able to bring Robin a sidekick looking to go solo, Beast Boy who wanted to prove his worth, Raven who wanted nothing to do with the world, Cyborg who wanted to hide from the world that would reject him, and me who the world had rejected," Blitz said, throwing his water bottle to the side, it bounces away before coming to rolling stop.

"Time, is one power man should not mess with."

"Time... That's it!" she said pulling what she did not know to be the Vortex Regulator form her belt. "We can use this to send me back! To fix history and prevent this travesty!"

"It is a start, but Starfire. I am sorry, but I cannot help you," Blitz answered resting his chin on his hands.

"What?... But why?"

"Look at me," Blitz growled, "I am blind, and I only have one arm," he gestured to his missing limb, "I'm more than just useless I am powerless. You'll have better luck with the others."

"So you know where they are? Then tell me, how are they now?" she asked.

"I...I don't know, I cut myself off from the outside long ago," Blitz stated falling back on to his chair. "But in order for you to succeed, you will have to get the others together again."

Starfire's gaze fell as she left. "I am sorry Starfire, it seems all I can do is wish you luck," he said, the girl nodding sadly and heading out. "Wait," he then said getting up taking off his coat and giving it to her, "Its cold out there, and don't tell the others about me," he shook his head. "Please... for their own sakes."

"Oh..." Starfire said crestfallen. "Very well. I shall... keep our meeting a secret, but let me tell you this." She said turning around facing Blitz, "The Blitzkrieg that I know would never give up, no matter what," she stated as she ran her fingers along his cheek, fighting back the tears as she left at the thought of leaving her friend behind. Hopefully the only one.


But as it turned out, she did. She ended up leaving two more friends behind. Beast Boy had tried going solo and had gotten his butt kicked, a lot, before selling himself out as a sideshow, hiding in a cage because he was too cowardly to fight for himself anymore. Raven had found a home in a ruined insane asylum, completely devoid of emotions and having cut herself off from the outside world. What stood out though was that neither Beast Boy nor Raven noticed coat that she wore. All and all, she noticed that she live in Jump City was gone. Everything was covered in snow, the cloud covering seemed unending.

At the moment, she was plodding through the snow-covered street, her feet digging trenches in the seemingly-endless ankle-deep snow, the only real comfort she had at the moment being the coat that she wore. Looking around, she saw just how far Jump had fallen, even lower than Gotham, and that was saying something. With four down, she was trying to think of a way to find Robin when a laser blast suddenly knocked her backwards.

"What's the matter, dear? Have I come at a bad time?" Warp said from a ledge above, his face aged past two decades by whatever her actions had done. Not waiting for an answer, he fired a salvo of lasers, the Tamaranean flew past him and over the buildings, returning with her own salvo of shots only for them to be stopped with his force field. Leveling with him and getting ready to nail him with a massive starbolt, the man waved his left hand and encased her in ice. Dropping to the street however, the layer frozen over her shattered, leaving her groaning and twitching in the crater of snow. Stepping down, the time-traveling criminal was placed on the end of an angry glare, only for it to dissolve once Star saw how old he had become.

"You have also become old," she said in bewilderment.

"That's what happens when someone steals my Vortex Regulator," he said motioning to the empty slot on his chest before holding out his chest. "The Regulator, if you please. I really must get back to my future," he requested, Star getting to her feet and removing the lens-like device from her belt.

"If you ever wish to see your future-" she said menacingly as she warmed up a starbolt, "-you will repair the damage you have done to my past!"

"Damage? Silly girl. There's nothing wrong with your past. One cannot change history, because history cannot be changed," he said as he held up the Clock of Eternity. "I went back in time to steal this because history says it disappeared. And history says it disappeared because I went back to steal it. Past, present, future. It's all written in stone, my dear," he explained as the minute hand ticked forward to 12:00. "And nothing you do can ever change it," he said raising his right arm and extended his blaster, and would've fired had a shadowed, long-haired silhouette not flown in and kicked him into a dark alley. The figure then produced a few throwing discs before launching them at Warp, the fireball engulfing the time traveler, the thrower running straight toward the blast zone for a jump. When the flame and smoke cleared, Warp had once again shielded himself in a force field, looking up to see the new figure descending straight towards him. "Another time perhaps," the time-traveling criminal said as he phased down into the ground, the figure landing on the ground and pounding it with his fist. Cautiously moving into the alley, while the figure wasn't recognizable, the voice was.

"It's good to see you again," the shadowed figure said, causing Star's eyes to pop.

"Robin?" she asked in shock.

"I haven't used that name in a long time," he said advancing into the light, revealing a skintight black jumpsuit with a blue bird emblazoned on the chest, a matching eye mask angled to cover his nose, his hair going down past his shoulders. "Call me Nightwing."


A short trip later through the back roads, Robin, or rather Nightwing, had led Starfire to a dark cave on the edge of the city. There was a large bank of computers and control panels on one side of the room, a chair in the front, and two cylindrical storage containers across the room. There were walkways bisecting the area. Looking in one of them, she saw the Robin outfit set up on a store-window dummy for display purposes. Sighing as she pulled herself deeper into the coat to find some warmth in this cold world.

"I heard you've been looking for help," he stated, then noticed the coat. "I... I see that you found Blitzkrieg?" Nightwing then asked, having noticed the addition to her attire. "...Blitz's he...gave it to me," Starfire sighed.

"After our, mine and Blitz, last fight with Slade I thought he had died, sometime later I get a call from Slade" the man growled the last part, "I went to investigate and found him like that," Nightwing shacking his hand his fist clenched.

"It doesn't matter anymore. It's all in the past," he said taking a deep breath pushing away the unpleasant memories, "I kept this around, just in case," he said as a portion of the console folded away, revealing a T-Comm. in pristine condition. "Come on, let's get the team back together."

"But Warp said that nothing can be done. That the past cannot be repaired, the future cannot be altered," Star stated with remorse.

"So it's impossible?" he asked as he took the communicator in hand. "Good. If memory serves, in Blitz's own words, 'we do the impossible on a daily basis,'" he said as he pressed a button, the T flashing red. A few seconds later, her face practically lit up when the black stones on her neck piece and wrist guards began blinking red, similar to an emergency signal.


Elsewhere across the city, Beast Boy's belt buckle began to flash, drawing his attention from bouncing a ball on his nose. At the same time in the white room, Raven still facing the wall, the brooch from her neck began to blink red. She began to clutch it, as a swirl of emotions began to take her. "Blitz,"

Meanwhile at the Tower, Cyborg was sitting in the Ops Center, was working on a spider-bot, when his ocular implant began to flicker red. Getting up to respond to the call, the cables on his back pulled tauntingly to stop him, causing him to look over his shoulder to the power source that anchored him to the place.

"Master," HK said, "Statement: Your belt is flashing red," he stated, pointing at the belt in question.

Blitz absent mindedly brushes his hand against a charm that was wrap around his neck, complements of Madam Xanadu. The charm was supposed to ward off evil, "I wonder if this is what she meant?" Blitz said to himself remembering her words.


"There will come a time when something that was lost will be found, when that time comes you will know what to do with this," the blind seer said handing Blitz a small charm necklace. The necklace was pretty simple; it was the kanji for protect with a nine-tail fox flowing though the openings. What does it do? Blitz asked slipping the charm on.

"Oh a little bit of this and a little bit of that," Madam Xanadu said.

"You're very vague you know that."


"Here master," HK said, poking his master out of his thoughts with a long object wrap in a red silk tied off at the end with white rope, "Are you telling me to go?" Blitz asked feeling the object of which he was being poked with instantly recognizing it. He found this object years ago before he lost his sight.

"...They were your best friends master," HK said poking him again, "And they still are."

'And I be able to meet with Raven again.'

Blitz smirk his white eyes showing life in them for the first time in 20 years as he stood up cracking his neck, shoulders, and knuckles, "Your right HK." He walk over pick up is upgraded quarterstaff and attach it to his belt it pretty much look like his original one except that had a couple of red buttons on it, he also grabbed the object that was in HK's hands and strapped it to his back, "Besides my past self needs to get this." Grabbing the last of his coats on his way out he whirls it on, when he makes it out of the complex he stretches out with his senses. Pulling on his face mask, he shoots out his grappling hook and leaping into the air, with HK giving directions via the communicator in his ear.


Elsewhere at the former museum, now the Metro Art Technologies building, while the two armed guards stood frozen, now among computer equipment, Warp stood at the end, a portable acetylene torch in his hand as he worked to repair his armor. At the moment, he was placing the last seam weld onto the Vortex Regulator to his armor.

"Just a few seconds and I'll finally-" he said almost done, only for a short staff to fly into view and strike the tool out of his hand. Looking up, he saw the short staff return to Nightwing's hand, Star beside him with starbolts ready in both hands.

"The future will have to wait. You just ran out of time," Nightwing said as the staff returned to his hand. With a frustrated growl, Warp raised his two laser cannons, the two heroes diving away from the blasts. Nightwing threw a handful of discs at him while Star launched a powerful starbolt at him, a cloud of dust rising when the two hit the ground only for Warp to have blocked via force field again. Star fired another shot and it was ricocheted, this time dodging it when it was deflected. Nightwing on the other hand rushed through Warp's laser blasts, leaping through the salvo and bringing his staff down into the right one, shattering it. Warp turned around to fire a shot from his remaining laser cannon, only for a starbolt from behind to bowl him over. Quickly firing his remaining cannon at Starfire, she leapt out of the way before turning his attention back to Nightwing, who was jumping in again with an overhead staff strike that just missed. When the time-jumping thief launched another salvo of lasers at him, Nightwing was able to deflect the blasts away from him without his weapon breaking, Warp then being forced to deflect the strikes with his force field, the attacks coming from everywhere at once before a final roundhouse sent him flying. The villain, however, just grinds and adjusts the aim on his working laser to fire at the ceiling above Star, dumping a pile of snow and rubble on top of her. "Star!" Nightwing cried before being blasted away.

Running back to his welding torch, Warp began to repair it once more, only for the concussive force of a blue, white-ringed sonic blast to hit him squarely in the chest and send him flying behind a cabinet. Starfire looking up in confusion as Nightwing helped dig her out was shocked, yet happy to see Cy's body lit up with the same light his body had given off before, blue replacing all the dull gray components of his body.

"Boo-yah," Cy said with a grin as he lowered his arm.

"Cyborg! You are repaired!" Starfire cried as she flew over to him.

"Glad you could make it," Nightwing said, happy to see his old friend.

"Wouldn't have missed it. Now who said y'all could start without me?" he asked.

"So sorry. Perhaps I should finish you first!" he said holding up another timer-like device that he had used to drain Cyborg's power cell back in the day, only for a lion's roar to accompany the massive green feline that bore down on him and raked his claws across the time-jumping criminal's armor, sparks flying across it. Warp raised his blaster at him like before, but Ravens suddenly exerted themselves over his hand, then his body, flinging him into the far wall of the museum. Looking up, the others could only look up in awe as Raven's "soul self" materialized from the floor, the black silhouette swirling as a white Raven came into view.

"Nobody... hurts my friends," she said joining the Titans. At the same time, Beast Boy resumed human form and saw Nightwing's full head of hair, then rubbed his own scalp enviously.

"Dude, that is so unfair," Beast Boy groaned.

"Well y'all. Looks like the team's back together," Cy smiled, only for his shoulders to slump when he saw that they were one short, the absence now evident. "Blitzkrieg...I'm sorry man.," he said as he looked to the side, a transparent image of Blitz smiling and giving them his signature two finger salute, the other Titans taking notice of absence of their comrade as well, their expressions saddening, while Nightwing trying his best not to look guilty.

"It seems my time has come," Warp said as he formed another portal. "While the aging of twenty years is... troublesome, it's nothing I won't be able to afford fixing once I sell this chronological marvel," he said holding the Clock of Eternity up to the partially-reformed Titans tauntingly, the others getting ready to fight before a the glass ceiling shattered, and a figure dropped down with a heavy thud between Warp and his get exit.

"*Cough* I'm *Cough* I'm getting too old for this shit." A black figure said before kicking Warp in the chin, and sending him flying back to the others.

"No….." Cyborg gasped looking at the man, the other Titans except Nightwing and Starfire looked shock.

"Yo" Blitz cried out with a two finger salute.

"Blitz," Rae, BB, and Cy gasped as though they'd just seen a ghost, they gasp again when they saw his missing limb and colorless eyes, while Night remained silent.

"Long time no see..." Blitz stated giving a nervous giggle, having not literally seen the others in years giving a sniff he wave his hand around his nose. "Damn BB when was last time you bathed, dude you reek." Before he could say anything else Raven flew over and pulled Blitz into a crushing hug, his so called death having been one of the major contributing factors to her self-imposed exile. Blitz ran his hand down Raven cheek, "Beautiful as ever Rae," Blitz croaked a crystal tear falling down his face. Tears falling down her face as well, but it was unseen by anybody.

Nightwing yanked the lens off Warp's chest. "Cyborg, your technology should be able to link with this, despite being years out of date. Think you can you do it?" Nightwing asked tossing the device to the cyborg.

"I can..." he stated as he took the device and mounted it on his sonic cannon, several connectors linking to it. "But two have a lot of explaining to do when Star is sent home," he said in an angry tone.

Blitz rubbed the back of his head, "Oh boy, oh Starfire, before I forget," he said pulling out a long object that HK gave to him along with a folded piece of paper, his quarterstaff, and a small charm that was hanging around his neck. "Could you give all this to my younger self for me?" he asked holding it out to her. "I think it'll make a real difference. Don't worry he-I'll know what to do with it," he chuckled.

"Alright, I will make sure that you receive this," Starfire said as she removed the coat giving it to Blitz who in turn wrap around Raven, "You look cold," he said with a smirk. Once Starfire had the objects situated, Cy powering up his sonic cannon and firing its energy through the Vortex Regulator, the beam firing into the wormhole and redirecting it.

"Starfire," Nightwing then said as he handed her the Clock of Eternity. "Good luck," he said, the girl nodding in return as she slid the letter into her belt and took the clock in arm before leaping through the wormhole.

"Good luck my friends. I... wish you all a happy Blorthog," the Tamaranean said with a smile and tears on her face as she stepped through.


Once the portal closed behind her, Raven pulling Blitz into another crushing hug, then looks at him with a deadly glare, he could feel the anger. "Oh boy, Robs looks like me and you are going to be in the doghouse for a while." he said placing around Raven's waist causing the mage to blush something she hasn't done in a long time, the others nodding. "So before we move to the doghouse, how about we meet up at the Tower for some pizza, you know for old-time's sake?" he suggested, the others nodding after a few seconds, heading out.

Blitz held back Raven, "What is it?" she asks worried when Blitz pulled his mask down.

"Oh nothing just doing something I should have done a long time ago," he said pulling her head up to his, crushing his lips into Raven's. Her shock quickly faded as she fell in to the kiss. They eventually broke apart for air; Blitz took a deep breath, "Raven, there is something I have to tell you Raven. I-"

"Hurry up I hungry," Beast Boy whined earning a glare from Blitz, if looks could kill. "*Sigh* well lets go Rae." Blitz said holding out his arm which Raven took.

Something's will never change.

Hopefully these two will have a better future. But the thing is the future is always in motion, always shifting and changing. So no one can be sure what the future could hold, but for now let's get back to the present.


"Ta-ta, Titans. I have enjoyed our time together, but I've got a very bright future ahead of me," he said kicking the downed Blitz and towards his black temporal portal. As he was walking in however, Star roared in fury before flying straight at him while he had one foot out of the door. "What?" he gaped before she plowed into him, the portal winking out once they were through, Robin just barely missing it.

"Starfire!" Robin called out.

"Um, where did she-" Beast Boy stated before a second flash opened up across from the first one, dumping Starfire out in a huddled, kneeling position a long object across her back.

"Whoa!" Cy gaped.

"Star! What happened?" Robin asked as the wormhole closed.

"History said it disappeared," Star said before straightening up, showing the Clock intact. "But history was wrong!"


"Then Nightwing handed me the Clock, and I entered the vortex," Star stated after regaling in the somewhat horrifying alternate future.

"Whoa," Raven gaped this time, looking up at Blitz who was shock. He rubbed his right arm.

"Bald?" BB cried in shock. "You're telling me I'm going to be bald?" he whined as he ripped most of his hair out, that being the only thing he got out of Star's tale.

"Hey, at least you're in one piece," Blitz growled.

"Guess you were right about all that Rekmas stuff," Cy sighed.

"I don't want us to drift apart. Does it all have to happen? Isn't there anything we can-" Robin said addressing the more important issues first.

"Our friendship has already changed Warp's past. I believe it can also change our future," Star said with a smile.

"So..." Raven said as the tinnabulas scattered across the floor were repaired by her magic. "Is it too late to do this festival-of-friendship thing?"

"Oh it's never too late!" Star cheered ecstatically, eyes wide and full of happiness with an ear-to-ear grin threatening to tear her face in two.

"HAPPY BLORTHOG!" Cy cheered in Raven's ear, causing her bells to jingle.

"I thought it was "Blort-hog"," Beast Boy stated.

"Okay, now I feel like a wind chime," Raven stated, a ghost of a smile on her face, if only just that.

"Well, I think you are a very beautiful wind chime," Blitz said pulling her closer to him. Raven blushing she pulls Blitz into a quick hug.

"Don't you go and…die on me got it." she ordered.

"I promise Raven I'll always be there for you, no matter what," Blitz said softly kissing her on the cheek, he went over leaving a shock mage as he took his tinnabula from the counter and slipped it on. "So how do I look?" he said grinning spinning around, causing the string of bells to jingle.

"Like a wind chime," Raven said evenly pulling her hood up, three guess why and the first two don't count.

"So... Nightwing, huh?" Robin asked cocking an eyebrow to Star after she slipped his tinnabula around his neck.


A few hours later after Blorthog, while the majority of the group had stuck together, Raven and Blitz eventually broke away. Blitz being the first to leave, Raven following soon after. While they left at different time, they both ended up on the roof.

They were sitting on the edge of the roof.

"So...What was the stuff that your future self-gave you?" Raven asked, wondering what was on in the parcel that Star handed to him.

"Well the note had techniques and personal notes, also a new improved quarterstaff, and a charm that is supposed to ward off evil, but this thing though," he waves the red bundle, "the note said it was a sword and I would know what to do with it." Blitz said staring at long ruby red wrapping.

Blitz undid the rope and removed the wrapping, Blitz let out a slight gasp. There in his hands a katana, the scabbard was black as night, it has several metallic ornaments on its far end a yellow sageo, the cord used to tie the katana to the waist, the hilt of the sword was wrap in white at the butt end of the sword a dragon was etched, on the disk kanji was printed on it. What it means though he would have to find out later. Blitz recalled what the note said about the sword.

"...…This sword Ryūjin is imbued with tremendous magic, and it is said to be able to cut through anything as it is even sharper than the average katana…...the damage inflicted with Ryūjin range attacks are not fully lethal until the wielder re-sheathes the sword...…use this combined your kyoshin and you will be able to defeat Trigon…..."

Blitz took the sword in his right hand and willed the sword away, which disappeared in a flash of light, causing the mage next to raise an eyebrow. Blitz was impressed and excited he has a way to defeat Trigon and free Raven, this day can't get any better.

"If you don't mind my asking what else did the note say?" Raven asked with a raised eyebrow.

"To watch out for the Brothers of Sin whatever that means, I'll research it later and tell you if I come up with something."

"Okay," she returned, realizing that something in fact was missing from the future Star went to. However, if completely shutting herself off and being labeled as insane would stop a far worse fate... She'd explore other options.

"Hey Rae?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you okay; you seem a little shook up?" Blitz said and Light added, "Well you would too she is supposed to bring the end of the world only to find out that you didn't because you look yourself up in a mad house."

"I know that I am just playing the part of I don't know jack about anything about her."

"Well you would be too if you were told in the future you would be in an insane asylum and had completely shut yourself off from others."

"Hmmm touché."

"What about you though? Aren't you worried about missing an arm and losing your eyesight?"

"What will happen, will happen. There is no point in worrying about something that is always changing" he answered. "... Personally, I don't think that will happen. What do you think." he said turning to her.

"Well, we got the Clock of Eternity back, so it proves history isn't set in stone." Raven said

"True," Blitz said adding, 'I'll hold you to that,' in his head, "Because I don't want you to end up alone, you don't deserve to be alone." he returned with a smile which turned to shock. "Uhh….Raven?" he then asked when she leaned on his shoulder.

"Shut up and enjoy the moment," Raven stated as she closed her eyes, Blitz nodding his head as he stayed as he was. Celebrating inside his head.

'Raven won't end up alone, I won't let the Teen Titans split up, and I won't let Slade or Trigon win,' Blitz told himself as he looked off into the sunset.

'Just who in the hell do you think I am' he said to no in particular.


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