2: BE MY YOKO ONO
Act 1: If there's someone you can live without, can you do so?
"Robin?"
Robin looked up to see Bumblebee peeking into his room. The door had been unlocked, and he had expected Terra to come along insisting to play, or Jinx asking for something like a raise, but not Bee. Not at this hour.
"Yeah?"
"Can we talk, just, without fighting?"
"Sure, of course we can!" Robin sat up. "What's up?"
"I'm just, y'know, sorry for the way I treated you earlier," she began, nervously. "I know you didn't deserve it. But I have this, er, temper, and I can't help it. I'm just hoping you can look past it. Maybe?"
"Of course, I owe everything to you, Bee. I really, really appreciate it."
"So, why did you want to become a solo hero?"
"Me?" Robin seemed to think, "I'm not sure. I wanted to be independent I guess. Doesn't everyone?"
"I guess. But, you seem so hopeless at it."
"But I'm not! I really can do it, I know!" Robin looked convinced. Bumblebee decided to let it slide.
"Look, maybe I can help you out a bit. It'll help keep up appearances and just by some miracle you may pass this time. All right? And then you won't really be lying to them anymore." She looked to think, "Look, when we get a free minute, come to my room and we'll study, okay? It'll help both of us."
"Thanks Bumblebee, ma'am," Robin said, saluting.
"Oh, and don't tell anyone. I don't want to imagine what they'll put me through."
"You got it," Robin said. "Not a word."
The morning would bring a surprising change.
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Robin was aware of, as he woke up, the presence of an unfamiliar room. It wasn't as in he had only seen it once or twice, he had honestly never seen a room like this before except in horror movies with alien autopsies. There was a bright light that seemed set on cleansing him, and there were two people leaning over him.
"Aww," one said, "He's awake."
"No matter," said the other, "We'll just have to sedate him!"
"I'll get the mallet!"
"M, mallet? What are you doing? This isn't legal!" Robin yelled, trying to break free from his confines. To his surprise, he wasn't tied up at all. The straps were largely for show.
"Uh," Jinx said, poking him. "Are you okay?" He had fallen forward from the overexertion. She just continued poking. "C'mon, say something."
He hopped up, much to her surprise, and began to take a fighting stance, "Who's there! Come and get it!" Jinx pulled down her mask (used for sanitary purposes) and poked him one more time.
"Hey, wing commander, it's us." She was the one Robin had come to fear most. Bumblebee could hit hard, and Terra had her rocks, but Jinx – when she wanted something – could get almost anything to happen. And she did it with a vapid grin in place the whole time. Something about that just didn't seem right.
"J, Jinx, why am I here? Where is here?"
"Here is the Medical Lab, you know, for coming up with antidotes for evil serums and the like," Jinx said. "It's state of the art, and it's got a nifty little table for experimenting on people."
"You were going to conduct an experiment on me?" he asked, incredulously.
"Yes. For science!" Jinx announced. Somewhere in the back room, Terra could be heard echoing it loudly before squeaking and being covered by the sound of something falling.
"For science!" A moment later, she yelled, "I'm okay! Ow!"
Robin wasn't sure what to make of any of this. He just nodded vaguely and backed towards the door. "Well, since I'm awake, I'd better go get to work with leader things, okay? Yeah, well, see ya!" He made a break for the door.
"Hold up!" Jinx yelled, giving chase.
They clawed for the door, Jinx latching onto Robin's leg, and climbing up. The momentum that he had maintained allowed him to pull open the door and collapse, in a knot with Jinx, in the middle of the hallway.
He looked around. It was too much to ask that this not be construed some way other than it is, especially when Jinx was involved. She'd make it look this way, he knew it, even if it was mainly innocent – on his part at least. "And cue Bumblebee turning down the hall." The cue was off by a second, but she turned around the hall at that moment.
"Wh, what are you doing, Robin?" she demanded.
Before he could protest, Jinx began to sob, "He forced me into this room and kept touching me and, and!"
"You pervert!" Bumblebee screeched. He knew the punch was inevitable, so he stood straight and took it like a man. He fell out the window and landed in the river.
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"Ara ara," Robin was greeted by the familiar voice of Chu Hui. "Again? What did you do this time?"
"Ah, hello," Robin said, with a wide smile. "How are you doing today, ma'am!
She nodded accordingly, "Ah, I have a rheumatism in my leg and it appears that I have gotten my walking cane all wet from hoisting you out of the lake again. How many weeks has it been? Two, three?"
"Not even," Robin replied. "Still, it was better than yesterday when Jinx decided to try and get me to do her chores for her."
The memory of that embrace was certainly nice, but he wouldn't dwell on it.
"And then she got Bumblebee to think I had performed… unseemly acts to her," he continued. The image of that one was much less familiar. In fact, the pain was still present.
"Ah, you're such a push-over," Chu Hui announced. "Perhaps if you showed a bit more spine the girls would be much more receptive to you. A girl needs a man with a little backbone."
Despite his better judgment, he had spoken before he could even think, "Why's that?" He realized the answer before she said it.
"Why, the spine is very important in strong thrusts of the –"
"That's enough of that!" Robin yelled.
"How rude!" he was hit rather soundly over the head, "You're interrupting an old lady while she talks?"
"You're not supposed to say things like that!" he countered. "What if some little kid had been listening?"
"What did you think I was saying? I was just pointing out that ladies enjoy an athletic gentleman. Why, I remember a boy when I was your age. Oh, he's probably a shriveled prune now." She laughed, "And am I one to talk?"
"You don't look shriveled or very prunelike," Robin said, honestly.
"Ah, but you're a horrible flatterer," Chu Hui said. "Come now, you should be heading back. You know how that Bumblebee gets if you're gone too long."
"Oh yes. Tuesday."
He had gone on a walk that day, and came back to a rather furious Bumblebee. While she hadn't hit him, the look she gave him was the worst. "What if there was an emergency?" she posed hypothetically, he shrugged. Then she ran off. Jinx kept her catlike grin on and snuck away. Terra just giggled manically.
It was the strangest day he had that whole week. And that wasn't even counting the events at the cram school. Beast Boy and Cyborg had been interrogating him for some reason. It's not like he mentioned that it was an all-girls team.
He sighed and proceeded to dry off his clothes as best he could and snuck in the "Boys Entrance" that Bumblebee had been so gracious to lend him. On the plus side, it led into the laundry room.
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Terra lay on the couch playing video game half-heartedly. "This is so dull…" she moaned, "When's Raven getting back?"
"I dunno," Bee answered, leaning back, watching her play.
"I hope it's soon! I miss her!"
"Are you sure that's such a good thing?" Bee asked. "I mean, the way you two usually get along."
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Raven meditated on this.
But unfortunately, the narration broke her concentration. With a mighty cry, she tore apart the scene, and sent the story back on course.
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Meanwhile, something else was happening far above the skies.
This wasn't unusual, of course. There were stars and meteors and the like, but this time there were two ships, one black and one white, that had collided with each other. They seemed made out of the darkest materials, not a gleam of light from any distant star shining their surface.
But the collision had left neither vessel in very good state, and they were hurtling far out of their pilots' control. Towards the blue planet, Earth.
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"So," Terra said, "What's your point?"
Bumblebee had just elaborated how Raven had done everything in her power to point out how she could not stand the blonde troublemaker. Everything from ban her from even approaching her room – not that anyone could enter anyway with all the warnings she made – to refusing to bathe at the same time as her, to even saying straight to her face that she did not want anything to do with her.
"Never mind," she responded. "Where is that lazy good-for-nothing Team Leader? Isn't he supposed to assign tasks for the week?"
Terra made kissy sounds as she continued to play her game.
"What?"
"'Where's Team Leader? Where's Robin?'" she mimicked, "That's all you've been doing since he got here. I think someone has a thing for the debonair Robin."
"I, I do not! Forget that stupid, spikey haired, egocentric, perverted, over-testosterone driven male!" She sniffed, "I am an independent woman, girl, and don't you forget it."
"Ohh, that's not what it sounds like!" Terra giggled. "I bet he'd get a kick out of seeing you blush like that."
"I'm not blushing!" she said, but raised her hand to feel her cheeks anyway.
"You checked!" Terra cackled, "You're so gullible! No wonder you fall for the first man who touches you!"
"Quiet you!"
She had just leapt on the smaller girl, when she realized that Robin was watching all of this unfold. If she hadn't been blushing before, it was coming on even stronger. "What are you two doing?" he asked, looking damp from landing in the lake.
"No, nothing!" Bumblebee yelled.
She wound up her fist, only to find Robin blocking it. He smiled nervously, "Uh, Bumblebee, I didn't hear anything. I was just wonder why you're trying to strangle Terra."
"Yay! Robin came to my rescue! My knight!" Terra cheered.
"Stop pretending to be the good guy here!" Bumblebee retorted.
At this point, a spaceship crashed through the roof and dragged Robin with it as it landed off on the other side of the lake.
"Wow, you're good," Terra announced.
"Th, that wasn't me!"
"Weren't you trying to hit him?"
"N, no!" Bumblebee said, "Well, maybe a little. But only because he was being rude…" She sighed, "He just makes me angry, okay?"
"Jealousy!" Terra joked.
"Don't even."
That was when the second spaceship landed on their television. Terra's bloodcurdling scream could be heard for miles.
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Act 2: You can follow me wherever I go…
"Ow, my head," said the girl. She emerged from the dark spaceship that had crashed on the shore of the lake. She looked like she had just gotten out of one of Jinx's mysterious parties, with the omnipresent hangover looming overhead. "Did anyone get the number of that truck?"
"Hello, Jump City General Hospital, I need a medic," muttered the boy she had crashed into on the way. He looked none the worse for wear, besides skimming water and taking the brunt of the impact when she finally stopped.
"Get up!" she ordered. The guy shook himself up and stood at attention quite quickly. "You're a resilient species on this planet, aren't you?" she murmured. Then she remembered, "Oh please help me!"
Latching herself to him, she began to take on the appearance of a damsel in distress. "Help you? Lady, I think that ship of yours is enough help," he said. "What's wrong, anyway?"
"Oh, this horrible, evil, mean, ugly space pirate is chasing after me. I barely escaped when we entered this planet's atmosphere!"
"What?" Robin's senses jumped to light. There was a damsel in distress, and that's just not fair. "I'll do everything I can to protect you." He held her upright. "Now, tell me what happened. Maybe we can hide you out here. Did this pirate follow you? Is he on Earth?"
"Oh, you're so kind." The girl wiped a crocodile tear from her eye. "My name's Blackfire. I was just minding my own business when out of nowhere this Space Pirate comes ramming my ship. And we fight as best as my itty-bitty ship can, but we were no match for the pirate's ship. And then, he rammed us head-on. And we crashed into this planet. I separated from him during re-entry, but," she sighed, "I think he's here!"
"Then we'll have to find you someplace safe. Now, the Tower should be safest –" he looked over at the smoldering remains of a space-ship that had lodged itself into the living room door.
"That's where… the TV was…" was all he managed to choke out.
"I'm going to say that going there would be a bad idea, right?" Blackfire offered, humbly.
"Uh, yes. If only because Terra is going to be going psychotic." He wasn't very happy about that himself, "How much did that thing cost in the first place?" He would not hear the end of this for quite some time.
"Well, Mister," she said, "I think we should probably get moving because she—I mean this pirate is equipped with a Hunter Class mobile armor suit that I think I just saw skimming across the water at us at high speeds!" Blackfire offered.
"Huh?" Robin was confused. Then he saw the lake being kicked up in the wake of something moving at high speeds. It was black, with a humanoid shape, and carried with it many a ton of weaponry. "Oh, so that thing's a Hunter Class mobile armor suit. Let me guess, it comes equipped with beam cannons, automatic tracking systems, and heat seeking missiles?"
"As well as torpedoes for underwater hunting," Blackfire added casually. "Anyway, I think the safest course of action is to –" Robin had already drawn his weapon and stood awaiting the machine's coming. "— Let you kill yourself, yeah. That one'll work."
"C'mon," Robin beckoned. The Hunter Suit looked at him, then at Blackfire, then back at him. It brought its arm up and swiped him forcefully away.
"I think it's time to fly, Boy Wonder," she said. She ran over to him, picking him up, and ran a circle around the suit before running off into the busy streets. "What sort of heroics was that?"
"I am a hero, it's what I do," he said. "Why does my head feel like mush?"
"Tamaranian Steel, strongest in the galaxy," she said. "It's just not a smart thing to do. You're not going to hurt it and even if you do scratch it, it's more mobile than you think. It just can't turn around very fast."
"I'll keep that in mind," he told her.
"So, what's your name, handsome?" she asked.
"Robin."
"Robin, hm? Love the look. Tres chic," she answered. "So, Robin, while we're running, what's with the big T in the lake? Seems a bit excessive, if you ask me. Is this some kind of Decadent Imperial planet or something?"
"No," Robin said, "Nero burned down the last big one. It's more of a look thing. The Teen Titanesses thought it'd look good to have their initial letter for everyone to see."
"And what do you think of it?"
"It's all right," he answered. "I remember when we hung out in a cave and were the Teen Titans. I was like, twelve back then."
"You must have been cute," Blackfire said, suddenly.
"Uh?" Robin coughed.
"When you were twelve," she said. She looked wistfully, "I remember when I was twelve. I hated every minute of it. My spoiled little sister stealing all the glory just because she could – but that's not important."
"Uh," Robin continued, "Perhaps we should find someplace to hide so we can get a bit better acquainted?"
"Ooh, I didn't know you thought like that!" Blackfire teased. "Where to, Fearless Leader!"
"Don't call me that!"
"I'll call you whatever I want, Baby!"
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The robot had jumped out of the ship like a bat out of Hell and rushed across the water. Bumblebee was just too shocked to really say anything. Terra was grieving the loss of the Television.
Jinx came into this scene with her hair in curlers, looking rather annoyed. "Okay, what was that racket? I'm trying to get my 18 hours of beauty sleep here."
"God knows we're still shooting for 24," Bumblebee muttered. "Robin just got hit by a spaceship."
"That's a new one. Hey, what happened to the TV?"
"They killed it! Those jerks must pay for this! You shall be avenged!" Terra pulled her powers forward, a rock flying from the ground to sweep her off her feet. Jinx hopped on.
"Forward march! This shall not stand!" she screamed.
Bumblebee just shrugged. "And maybe, maybe we'll see Robin and he'll be all right. Not that I care or anything."
They arrived to see the robot fall flat on its rear end before dusting itself off and looking around for whatever it had been chasing. It looked in the direction where they could barely see a yellow and black cape flapping into the horizon – Robin.
"It's after the pervert! Get it!" Bumblebee yelled.
"For the 32 Inch Hi-Definition Television Set!" Terra screamed.
"Banzai!"
They hit the robot hard, and felt their bodies crush against its steel skin. The thing began to waver back and forth, the wind pushing it backwards, off balance.
"Oho, what's this," the elderly voice of Chu Hui could be heard to the girls, though they couldn't see her.
All she was holding, though they couldn't see, was a walking staff. She rose it above her head as a makeshift katana and with a mighty blow cut the suit in twine. "Yare yare," she said, dusting her hands off. "That was taxing." She laughed and walked on her merry way.
The suit broke in two as its pilot fell on top of the girls. The weight wasn't so bad.
"Ouch!"
Terra looked at the pilot. "Hey, she can't be older than you, Bee! What's that, ancient?"
She received a slap to the back of the head for her troubles. Bumblebee rose to her feet, "What's the meaning of crashing into our tower?"
"I am so very, very sorry!" the girl said, bowing, "But I was chasing my sister and she rammed her ship into mine and we could not control our descent. Unfortunately, she got away in the ensuing crash."
"Your sister?"
"Yes, the eternally most-wanted criminal, Blackfire. Wanted for the destruction of the Tamaranian royal house and countless lesser crimes through-out the galaxy – " she took a deep breath, "And I had tracked her to this backwater solar system when she ambushed me. I am afraid I have caused much damage in the process. Apologies."
"So, uh," Bumblebee decided to approach this gently, with the girls nearby, "Did you see an annoying pervert guy around here a little while ago?"
"He assisted my sister's escape! I cannot forgive him for that!"
"Calm down, she's probably scamming him. He's got a good heart, he's just none too smart," Bee said.
"Still," Starfire said, "He doesn't know the danger he is in! If she feels she has no more use for him, he may very well be," she gave a nervous gesture, "Disposed of."
"That sounds bad," Jinx added. "Is that bad?"
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"So, you're from Tamaran?" Robin asked.
"Tamaran was my home, but it fell onto hard times so I left. I'm still rusty with the language, but I remember briefly how to say hello."
"Really?" Robin was interested. He had never met an extraterrestrial that actually remembered her home language before. "Teach me how to say it."
"Well," Blackfire said. She furtively looked out of their hiding spot. It was a warehouse that didn't offer much protection from a close search, but with a giant mech, her sister wouldn't be able to find her. Unless, of course, she had lost or gotten out of the machine.
"C'mon…"
"I don't know," Blackfire said. "I suppose –" She quickly formed a plan. "Okay, first you have to cross your fingers like this." She made a gesture. "Now wave it from left to right. Then say Broknar nix Shama, and clap your hands together and bow." He imitated her quickly.
"How'd I do?"
"Close enough for government work," she answered. "I just hope my dear little sister is okay…"
"Your sister?"
"Why, that nasty space pirate, who no one likes, kidnapped her. Who knows what horrible things he may be doing to her at this very moment! Why, her innocence, it may forever be scarred!"
"I won't let that happen!"
"But there's nothing you can do. The defenses of the Pirate's ship, Gumba-ro, are still active and strong. There's no way you could penetrate it alone."
"Then I'll get the girls to help me," Robin said. "Somehow, we'll save her."
"You're so kind," Blackfire murmured. "But I must tell you, this space pirate. He has many powers beyond that. He can fly and shoot bolts of energy from his hands. He's big and strong, too, capable of throwing a Blakg'nar Humariynd ten meters! You couldn't possibly stand up to him, even with your friends."
"I still have to try."
Blackfire peeked out the warehouse again, furtively. She saw the people passing by, and then the crowd parted and her eyes met her sister's. Their gaze was intense, though it lasted only a second, then she turned away.
"I see my sister! She seems to have escaped. Oh, glorious day!" Blackfire said, clapping excitedly.
"But how?" Robin asked. "It's not like she could have beaten a space pirate on her own." Blackfire cursed the persistence of the boy's memory.
"Maybe your friends were with her? I don't know, I don't know what they look like. So, uh, yeah, let's go say hi! Don't forget to show her that Tamaranian I taught you!" she reminded.
Oh, how she hoped this would work.
"All right," Robin said. She could see he was refreshing his memory quick, but he seemed to have retained most of what she taught her.
This would be too good to resist.
"Robin! There you are!" Bumblebee yelled. She ran up to him and tugged his cape, "Don't do that to me again, got it?"
"Don't do what?" Robin asked pathetically.
"Ah, please, Miss Bumblebee, we must find my sister –"
"Oh, you must be Blackfire's sister. I'm Robin, and, uh," he did the little motions, much to Blackfire's delight and Starfire's surprise, "Broknar nix Shama." Starfire's hands clenched into a fist.
"Nix Shama Noy!" She charged at Robin, her feet lifting off of the ground as she did. Her fist collided with his jaw, and he felt an intense force from her wiry frame.
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Act 3: … to have you hanging on my ankle like some kinda ball and chain.
"Ow!" It wasn't a punch like one of Bee's, but one that really hurt. He slid across the ground and charged back. "Calm down! I was just trying to say hello!"
He dodged the bolts of energy she shot from her hands and jumped up towards her, spinning around with a kick to her side. "I don't want to hurt you."
"What did you say to her, Robin?" Jinx asked.
"I said 'Hello', I think!"
"Can't you use English!" Jinx offered.
"Hey, Starfire, stop hitting my playmate!" Terra yelled. "You're going to hurt him something awful!"
"And that's better than how you play with him how?" Bee yelled. "Stop it Robin! You can't win this!"
"I can and I will," Robin said.
The enraged Starfire struck Robin into the ground then threw him to the side. He almost didn't rise to his feet for a second, but gathered his strength and pushed himself off. The dizziness was only starting to wear off when the flying Tamaranian collided with him, sending him into the side of a wall.
"No you can't!" Bee yelled.
"Go Robin!" Jinx yelled, "Die with dignity!"
"Ohh, Starfire, don't hurt him!"
Robin slid down the wall to the ground below, the starbolts – as they had decided to call those energy balls after a few minutes of the fight – raining down on him. He reeled to the left, one passed by his right. Then one zoomed past his right as he reeled left.
He then collapsed on top of Starfire and spun back to his feet.
"When'd he learn that move," Terra asked.
"Robin! Drunken Fist Kung Fu Master!" Jinx announced. There was general applause from the confused peanut gallery.
Starfire looked confused as she got up, but then she saw Robin dancing from foot to foot, his fists up ready to fight. "Got my second wind, lady." He launched himself in, and much to Starfire's surprise got in a strong left hook.
The look of surprise faded as she grabbed his right and spun him around. She struck with a vicious elbow.
"And now he's lost," Jinx said.
"Hey! Get off of my Robin, you!"
There was a sudden moment of quite – despite the vicious fighting going on – and Jinx and Terra looked at Bumblebee.
They both snuck over and said, teasingly, "Myyyyyy?"
"Oh knock it off!" she screeched.
The fight had culminated into a grappling match. Robin was trying to hold her off, and they tangled through the street until they stopped. Robin was on top. Starfire was gazing up at him. At once, the green glow vanished and her eyes softened as she looked into his. She closed her eyes, "Grak'thar."
"Uh?"
She leaned forward, whispering the word again. Robin couldn't really believe what was going on. Her lips softened, his couldn't resist, though every brain cell in his mind told him otherwise. "Grak'thar."
She kissed him. Gently at first, then much more passionately. Too passionately, apparently, as Bumblebee, who had until this point been watching in morbid fascination moved to punch the Team Leader into a wall. "Stop taking advantage of innocent girls!"
"Innocent?" Jinx asked, incredulously, "You call that innocent?" she pointed at the Robin shaped imprint in the wall and on the road.
"She's just a confused, lonely girl on a strange planet in the middle of a big galaxy. She doesn't need perverts taking advantage of him."
"Ah, well," Starfire said, hesitantly at first, "But it's not taking advantage. He made a challenge, and I willingly accepted." She blushed, "He's quite attractive, I would say, and that he proposed marriage to me so soon, I just reacted on, what is it called in your language? Woman's intuition?"
"You're –" Bumblebee said, incredulously.
"He is now my betrothed. I am so happy!"
Blackfire meanwhile was using this time to get away. "Gumba-ro," she instructed, whispering into a small communication port in her bracer. "Come to me." The ship on the bay began to stir and rise up. Its massive black wings spread out and multiplied. Its massive motion smashed windows as it moved past and loomed overhead.
The Titanesses (and Robin) looked up at the massive construct. "Oh, good. This'll be fun," Terra murmured.
Blackfire waved at her sister as she flew up towards it. "Bye bye, sis! Have fun with the new hubby I found you!"
"Get back here!" she threw a starbolt at Blackfire, who waved it away with a sigh.
"I wish you wouldn't rely on those clichés. Ta ta, Robby, I've got galaxies to terrorize, so please, don't wait up! I hope to be an aunt someday!"
"We need to get on that ship," Robin looked at Bumblebee.
"Whoa, don't look at me, get your girlfriend to lift you up there." She pouted.
"Okay, Starfire. Can you –?"
"I didn't mean literally!" Bee screamed, punching him through the ship's main capsule. Jinx looked to find this hilarious, and put her hand on Bee's shoulder.
"That's one way of getting him up there."
"You're enjoying this way too much," Bumblebee noted.
"Well, I get my kicks out of watching you two flirt," Jinx said. "I think it's something to do with living my life through you." She pointed upwards. "Terra, away! Let's confront the evil space pirate that destroyed out living room and lock her up for grand vandalism television!"
"Roger!" The stones lifted from the ground and lifted her and Jinx upwards. Bumblebee and Starfire flanked them at either side. The ship, its edges glinting, suddenly projected beams of light downwards.
"Evasive action!" Bee commanded. The girls weaved through the laser fire, and regrouped. "Terra, give us some cover fire.
"Roger!" she yelled. Large boulders shot out of the ground towards the ship. The lasers quickly decimated them, but it allowed Jinx to leap onto the wings.
"Button, button, who's got the button," she muttered to herself, looking over the side. "There's no way I can sabotage this effectively. Unless," she looked at her nails, blew on them gently, and then scratched a large dent into the paint-job.
"Aha!" she pried open a panel, revealing a mess of wires beneath it. "Now for a little black magic." The hexes went to work almost immediately. She leapt from the wing to a rock without hesitation as the wing shattered from the force of the backfire. The ship buckled.
"We can enter through the same entry point as Robin. Perhaps he is distracting Blackfire enough that we may storm the ship with little resistance," Starfire suggested.
"Sounds good to me!" Bumblebee responded. "Terra, Jinx, keep these things occupied. We're going in!"
"Don't take too long!"
Gamba-ro's main dome was massive, and the Robin shape hole was barely a dent in it, but it was enough for the girls to sneak through. They had found that Bumblebee's shot was much luckier than it had at first appeared.
Pinned beneath a knocked-out Robin was an equally unconscious Blackfire. They were currently embracing each other with their shock-stiffened limbs. The scene, which Starfire gasped at, led to two very angry young girls staring at two stunned young persons.
Especially after Blackfire murmured, "Oh, Robin…"
"Robin!" Bee yelled.
"Sister!" screeched Starfire.
They looked at one another, shook hands briefly, and at the same time shot out a powerful blast from their respective arsenal.
"Ouch," said Robin, charcoal colored.
"When will the hurting stop?" Blackfire could barely moan.
They were pleased. "Serves him right," Bee muttered.
"Horribly manipulative woman!" Starfire cursed. They seemed content for the time, but they didn't notice that their attack had fried the main console as well.
The loud "Bzz-zap!" was the only thing that gave them a clue that something really, really bad was about to happen.
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"So, I guess that turned out okay," Jinx said, looking at the wreckage of the Gamba-ro that had crashed rather conveniently into an empty school. "We won, Starfire's sister is off to jail, we got a new member, and, best of all, school's out forever!"
"I think my leg's broken," Robin said.
"Okay, one bad thing isn't too bad," Jinx said. "Come on, Boy Wonder, buck up!"
"My back," he muttered.
"So, where are your two little girlfriends, anyway?" Jinx murmured. "Terra, let's get this big baby back home. Then we'll take his credit card and go shopping for a new TV!"
"Yay!"
"No!"
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"I'm gonna give you one warning," Bee said, "And it's gonna be a good one." She pointed her finger at Starfire, "Just lay off of the Team Leader, okay? He doesn't need to be getting any ideas!"
"I completely understand," Starfire said, bowing. "On my planet, however, it is traditional for the female who objects to the engagement to take the matters to the male. I can of course see that you will not."
"What are you talking about?" Bee screeched, blushing.
"You are quite fond of Robin. I understand completely. But I am also fond of him." She nodded, "I won't give him up without a fight."
To her surprise, Bee found herself saying, "Neither will I," before she could stop herself. She noticed the cocky grin on Starfire's face and realized that it was going to be a long, long year.
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Underneath the tower, two figures were sulking about. The smaller one emphatically gestured up at the tower. "I told you! I saw aliens!" Beast Boy insisted.
"Yeah right!" the larger said.
"I did! Really!"
"Next you'll be telling me Robin lives in this place along with a bevy of hot girls," Cyborg retorted.
They both looked to see Robin being levitated into the tower by two girls on a rock.
"I stand corrected." Cyborg couldn't make anymore words, "So, aliens, you said?"
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The next morning, Robin woke up to a nice sensation. Someone was breathing ever so gently into his ear. He smiled and turned over, looking straight into the sleeping face of Starfire.
He didn't know what to do, so he did the only reasonable thing, and got dressed and proceeded to shower. He then screamed in the sanctity of his own little bathroom.
TO BE CONTINUED…
NEXT TIME!
The ever loving planets align once more as the mystical beauty Raven returns to the Titans Tower. But that's not all that's causing love around town. Who's this mysterious beauty who shows up whenever there's water around? And why is the villainous Kitarou so enamored with her? And how is Jinx's bank account growing so large? The answers to this as well as the question: Can Robin survive a psychic assault this big? Will be answered next time, when Raven tells the team that "YASASHII, II KO NI NARENAI!"
Be there!