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Summary: After losing her powers, Starfire feels she cannot be part of the Teen Titans anymore. She leaves the team of teenage heroes to live a normal life like a normal girl. But Robin shows her that powers do not make a hero.

She was gone; just like that. He searched around for any sign of anything. He did not even know what he was even looking for. Nothing was in the room but her furniture and other heavy things. There was not even a note.

"Starfire…" Robin whispered. He mentally cursed himself. She could not fly: there was no way she left by means through the roof. How could she have left without anyone noticing? I should have been downstairs, he thought, I should have known something like this would have happened. Starfire had attempted this before when her sister had arrived. He should have expected something like this to occur again.

"Hey, this mint pizza's actually pretty good."

"Yo! That ain't yours."

"Both of you: shut up!"

Three voices started to get louder from down the hallway until they finally reached Starfire's room.

"Hey, Star, Beastboy just ate your—"

"She's gone."

"Gone? To where? She should have told us so she could have picked up soymilk for break—"

"She's gone! Gone as in gone: disappeared, left, moved out! How else do you want me to explain it?" Robin was pissed off.

No one dared to speak at this point. Robin continued as his voice softened but saddened. "She just…left. No note or anything."

"Robin, we—" No one knew what to say. It was hard enough for them to hear the news that one of their best friends had left but they understood that their leader was going through more than the hurt they were feeling; considering that he and Starfire had a relationship and she just disappeared.

"Why would she leave?" they asked.

Robin explained how she has been feeling useless. "She might have thought that staying would only bring the team down."

There was a long pause.

"We can try to find her," Cyborg suggested after much thought. "I could feel her heartbeat, remember?"

"We can use the communicator, too." Beastboy added.

"My powers may be able to track her down." Raven also added, "Of course, she knows about my powers and how to use them. It's possible for her to cut me off if I try to locate her. But we could still try."

Robin's hopes were raised. He was so preoccupied in his grief he had lost his ability to think rationally. If he were in his usual detective mood, he would have immediately come up with ways to find her. He nodded and even smiled. "Yeah, let's go get her."

For nearly a week now, the team tried to find ways to communicate to their friend but to no avail. There was no response from the communicator. It was probably turned off. Even her heartbeat could not be scanned. When she turned to a normal human, her heartbeat must have changed, Cyborg suggested. An alien's heartbeat was different from a human's. Cyborg's scanner had a memorized heartbeat of the alien girl, not the human one. Raven meditated day after day but that was just as pointless. And as Raven had known, Starfire was able to cut herself from Raven's mind.

Beep! Beep! Beep!

An annoying alarm and the red lights that blinked on and off endlessly ruined Raven's meditation. She ran, rather, levitated to the computer and typed away. The screen flashed a few pictures before she came to a conclusion. "It's Blackfire." She told her team who were now running into the room.

"Finding Starfire is going to have to wait. We have to bring Blackfire down first. Understand me?" Cyborg told Robin. Robin agreed. Maybe he would get some answers from the sister, seeing as she was the one who started all this.

"She's in downtown at the JC Fashion Corp. Building." Then under her breath, she muttered 'great'. When asked what, she simply replied, "There's a fashion show today. Blackfire's attacking a crowd."

By the time the Titans had arrived at the scene, more than half of the building had already evacuated. The air was filled with throaty screams but one voice was able to stand out.

"Show's over, Blackfire!" Robin started with his 'witty' comment.

"Actually, it just started. Here's the first showcase designed by me!" And she sent her purple bolts toward the four teenage Titans that were currently grouped together.

Two words was the cue for them to move out of the way. "Titans, go!"

The Teen Titans attacked the Tamaranian with their own styles. When that did not work out, the leader instructed for a group attack. Cyborg and Robin did their infamous Sonic Boom consisting of Cyborg's sonic blast and Robin's exploding device. Raven carried Beastboy and dropped him towards her as he turned into a rhinoceros and attempted to hit her. After his attack, Raven spoke three magical words that constricted Blackfire with black shadows in white linings.

Blackfire went down but quickly recovered, wiping off the streak of blood that dripped from the corner of her mouth.

"Is that the best you could do?" She shot each Titan down with her eyes. And they all fell to the ground as they were hit.

"What are you doing here? What do you want?" Robin asked. "Whatever the reason, it's not good. And we're going to bring you down. Then, you're going to tell us what you've done to Starfire!" Anger was rising up within him.

"Really? Don't tell me you superheroes can't even figure it out."

The leader hated getting taunted. He threw a few of his explosive birdarangs and his team followed suit with a few attacks of their own.

"Blackfire, you're going to jail and this time, you're going to stay." Was the final statement after she was finally unable to attack effectively anymore. The JCPD had arrived in time to arrest her where she would then be sent to the Justice League and they would personally deal with the two-time jail breaking criminal.

"Wait, tell me what you did Starfire!"

Blackfire merely smirked, "In this planet, I have the right to remain silent." And with that, she was taken away.

The leader gritted his teeth and punched the wall nearest to him. His forehead touched the brick wall with eyes tight shut.

"Oh my gosh! Isn't that Robin? What a hottie…" someone said from the crowd who had come out after the alien criminal had been sent away.

"He's definitely my hero." Another said.

"Uh, no, he's mine."

"He looks like a beaten punch bag right now if you ask me." A different voice commented.

"Shut up! It's only because you're a guy. You're just jealous."

"Yup, definitely jealous of some guy in tights."

"At least he could kick some alien's behind,"

"She was pretty hot like her sister. Except the red is hotter. Hey, didn't she and punch bag over there get together or something? Where is she? Maybe they broke up and I could ask her–"

Robin's ears perked. Unable to control his sudden reaction to all this, he found himself pushing the guy teen who was speaking against the wall. "Shut up!"

"Stop!"

All eyes turned towards the new speaker. The voice was smooth but demanding. Her hair flowed like a wave of lava against the wind as green eyes stared sadly at masked ones. One arm held the elbow of the other as if on a defensive position. The stare was meant to be long enough to claim her order but short enough to turn way from his gaze right away. However, she found looking back at him more than she wanted to.

"Star…"

One word ended her held trance on him. With a turn of the heel, she ran.

To Be Continued

This chapter is a bit different. How to explain: it's like the Titans side of the story. Get it? You'll see what I mean by next chapter.

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