After a little ways walk down the golden brick road, the new trio of friends found a clearing in the dense wood. Heading for a fallen log beside a small stream, the three stopped to sit down and rest.

"Oh, X'hal! This is the greatest distance I have traveled walking in a long time," breathed Starfire as she sat down.

Nearly out of breathe himself, Cyborg eagerly plopped down on the fallen log beside her.

"I'm with you on that Starfire. These robotic parts ain't as light as they look," Cyborg said, wiping bands of sweat off his forehead.

"Friend Cyborg, I do not understand? For they do not look light at all," asked a very confused Starfire.

Chuckling, Robin, "Starfire, he wasn't serious, it was a uh…uhm… it's on the tip of my tongue…"

"A joke?" smirked Cyborg, as Robin (still standing) crossed his arms over his chest.

"Hahahaha, I see! It is humorous because these robotic parts necessary for the proper functionality of Friend Cyborg are too heavy for him to carry! And to make up for his lack of strength, he must instead make an abundance of humorous remarks about this humorous situation. Hahaha," laughed Starfire, tears trickling down her face from laughing so hard.

"Hahaha," Cyborg fake laughed. Then, turning to Robin, he mouthed, 'I don't get it!'

Smirking Robin mused, "It doesn't take a genius to realize she just laughed at you, and this is coming from the guy without a brain."

"If I had a heart, I might be offended, "Cyborg laughed with mock offense, "come on Robin, sit with us and we can make some jokes up about you too.

"Yes Friend Robin, rest and take place in the ritual of humorous remarks!" giggled Starfire.

"Sure, I'll tell jokes with you guys, but I don't need to sit. I'm actually not that tired," Robin admitted.

"What?" gasped Starfire.

"Yeah, what? I'm half robot and even I'm tired. What are you, some kind of boy wonder?" gasped Cyborg as well.

"No, I just think standing all day every day in a garden would build up any guy's stamina," Robin said, thinking in the back of his mind, 'Robin: The Boy Wonder, it sure has a ring to it.'

"Booyah! My scanners are working again, they just need a few minutes to get a good signal, I'd swear we were in the middle of nowhere!" Cyborg exclaimed.

"Okay, we'll take some time to breathe then we'll regroup when Cyborg is ready," Robin said, after straining to come up with his suggestion.

"Sounds good," said Cyborg.

"Glorious!" Starfire replied.

After a moments rest, the three friends drank water and stretched their aching muscles (well everyone's aching muscles, except Robin's). When Cyborg was ready, they all gathered around him. Opening his scanner (which was conveniently built in his arm) he searched for the directions to Tamaran, so he and Robin could get Starfire home.

"Okay yall, so according to my scanners…Tamaran is… Tamaran is—"Cyborg stammered as his face paled.

"Cyborg! What is it?" Robin asked, startled.

"Yes please friend, the matter is what?" asked a fearful Starfire.

(A/N drumroll please, one of the most highly quoted lines in the Wizard of Oz!)

"Starfire…" Cyborg began in a serious tone after regaining his composure, "Starfire, you aren't on Tamaran anymore. According to my scanners, the planet of Tamaran is two light years away."

"No!" cried a shocked Starfire, "how can this be? Only a few hours I was home safe, and suddenly I awaken in a strange place, far away from my home!"

"Starfire, don't cry.." pleaded Robin as tears trickled down her face.

"F-f-friends p-please, if I am not on my home planet of T-T-Tamaran, w-where am I W-w-what X'hal forsaken p-planet is t-t-this?" she wailed.

"You're in Jump City, on the planet Earth," Cyborg said softly.

"I j-j-just w-want to g-go homeeeee!"

"Starfire please, it's okay! We'll uh…we…Cyborg and I will help you! You will make in home Starfire. I promise," comforted Robin, placing a reassuring hand on her shoulder.

Taken aback by Robin's words, Cyborg elbowed Robin in the ribs.

"The girl is on the wrong planet man…how are we supposed to get her home exactly?" whispered Cyborg.

"I don't know. Cyborg, I may not have brains, but I have heart, and luckily for Starfire and I, you have a brain. If you could find out she was on the wrong planet, who's to say you can't help get her back on the right planet?" answered Robin in an equally hushed tone.

For a strange and terrifyingly briefest moment, the "heartless" Cyborg felt a pang of guilt for doubting Robin and for wanting to give up so quickly. He owed his life to Starfire; she had befriended him and invited him to leave his lonely home in the woods to join her and Robin. And now, for the tiniest moment, she made him feel. She made him feel…human. And in that instant, Cyborg made up his mind.

"He's right Star, we will help you," Cyborg boomed, with as a warm smile graced his face," Even a heartless Cyborg like me can see you're a great person. You deserve to go home, and we'll help,"

"Truly?" sniffled Starfire, "oh friends, you are glorious!"

Wiping her tears, Starfire flew to Robin and Cyborg and enveloped them in a deathly tight friend. Of all the strange planets for her to be whisked away to, Starfire was glad it was the planet Earth. Amongst all the strangeness and confusion she managed to make the best friends on the planet Earth.

"Starfire!" breathed a crushed Robin, "you're uhm…you're crushing us."

"Oh, oops," she giggled, a small blush tinting her face. Gently, she released her two friends and placed them gently on the ground.

Breathing deeply after Starfire's crushing hug, Cyborg lifted a hand to close his built in scanner, but stopped as he saw something pop up. 'Huh, that's weird', he thought to himself as he scratched his head puzzled. Punching in a quick code, Cyborg ran a complete scan on the "something" that had popped up on his scanner.

"That can't be," he whispered to himself, his face falling.

"Sorry, what did you say friend?" asked Starfire smiling kindly.

When he didn't answer Starfire, Robin grew anxious. What was going on? What couldn't be. What could possibly be worse than finding out Starfire was on the wrong planet?

"Cyborg, are you okay? What's wrong? Why do you look so pale again?" asked a concerned Robin.

"Oh friend, have I hurt you? Have I done the 'crushing'?" Starfire asked worriedly.

"No, no. It's not that. My scanners are going crazy! It's picking up so many traces! There seems to be wild animals in the forest, and they are headed this way!" Cyborg exclaimed.

"Wild animals?" Robin asked nervously as he and Starfire peered over Cyborg's shoulder to see exactly what animals they were dealing with.

"Lions!" yelled Cyborg.

"Tigers!" cried Robin.

"BEARS!" they exclaimed together.

"Lions? Tigers? Bears? Oh my!" added Starfire although she was had no clue what these strange creatures were.

"They're headed this way in 5!" Cyborg yelled.

"Starfire get behind us!" cried Robin pulling a steel rod out from his pocket that extended as he ripped it out.

"4!"

"Robin, please, I can help defend us!" answered Starfire.

"3!"

"No," Robin growled as he planted himself in front of the incoming animals.

"2!" yelled Cyborg, bracing his sonic cannons

"Robin, please! I am stronger than I look," protested Starfire, flying above them, with green star bolts glowing in her hands.

"1!"

As is if on cue, suddenly, from behind the trees and bushes surrounding the clearing in the dense wood, the trio heard a ferocious roar. The bushed in front of them began to shake with movement as something or some things made their way through.

Robin sucked in a sharp breathe. Cyborg sweat dropped. Starfire's eyes glowed a fierce green, and the trio of friends huddled tightly together. Bracing for the worst, the friends were prepared to fight tooth and nail.

At that moment something awful came out from behind the bushes and trees of the dense food.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HH!"


Far away from the events unfolding in the dense wood, in the highest tower, in the darkest corner of Jump City, an evil witch spied on the three friends through her crystal ball. A malevolent smile crossed her face.

"Well lookie what we have here my pets?" she cooed, as she petted a (very ugly) flying monkey, " I've found little Starfire, and she thinks that she's gonna make it home. Well, she's not."

"GIZMO! MAMMOTH! Come here" the witch commanded, the head of her flying monkey army.

"Yes, you're wickedly sick, not snot headded majesty?" asked the smaller, more robotic looking monkey with a curt bow.

"We are at your services," said the bigger, brutish, and clearly less intelligent monkey as he threw himself in a bow on the ground in front of her.

"Ew, get OFF," she commanded in a dry voice, "we need to take every measure to make sure Starfire and her little friends do not make it to Tamaran."

"Well your rottenness, what exactly do you want us lowly monkeys to do about it?" Gizmo asked, rolling his eyes.

"Don't you idiots get it!" the witch growled angrily as her minions cowered before her, "I need confirmation!"

"…Of what?" Mammoth dared to ask.

"Your majesty!" he quickly added.

"I need confirmation that Starfire will never make it to Tamaran. I need someone who won't fail me," she said lazily and she sat down on her throne, "I need anyone besides you two."

"Well your witchlyness, there is only one crummy snot head who can give you that kind of confidence," Gizmo said.

"Yes, your darkness, there is only one more dark and evil than you," Mammoth added in an attempt to look smart.

The witch raised an eyebrow, and immediately stood from her throne. Walking over to her minions, they cowered as she spoke.

"You're right; there is only one person AlMOST as evil as I."

Raising her hand to Gizmo he flinched, anticipating to be slapped by the witch, but instead she patted his head, and took a cookie out of her pocket and stuffed it in Mammoth's mouth.

"So," she finished, "how are we going to get her on our side to take out Starfire?"

"-" Gizmo opened his mouth to speak but was silenced when the witch shoved a cookie down his throat.

"Good idea boys. You two will steal something from the wicked witch of the west, and give it to Starfire. This will through the hag of the west over the edge and she will want to destroy the theif. Then, the witch will come after her and eliminate the problem. And just to make sure the witch of the west doesn't come after me if she finds out who it really was, drop a house on the bitch" the witch said answering herself.

"Muahahaha!" the witch cackled.

"Muababgagadgdf" laughed her minions, whose mouths were still stuffed with cookies.

"Long live the brilliant and beautiful wicked witch of the east," she said proudly.

Flying out of the tower to complete their mission, Gizmo and Mammoth laughed.

"Long live the pit sniffer of the east," Gizmo said.

"Yeah!" laughed Mammoth.

"I HEARD THAT!" yelled the witch, as the monkeys flew faster to escape her rage.