No one moved for the next few moments. The weather, which had been storming a minute ago, was calm, as if nothing had happened. Mumbo was gone, probably halfway across the city by now. His hat was gone, but the tablet was still here, laying on the ground where it had been dropped. Unable to ignore the two miniature problems in front of them any longer, Cyborg walked towards his two male, now significantly tinier, friends.
Crouching down to their level, Cyborg began to scan them both for injuries. He knew that ordinarily, the two boys could take a beating.
"Hey there, guys," Cyborg said softly, not making a move towards them. From just looking at them, Robin and Beast Boy looked like they were now around the ages of six, maybe seven. Robin was practically drowning in his cape, but ironically his mask was still being help in place. Beast Boy wasn't much better, his shirt was engulfing him, hanging far below his knees. A beep told him that the two hadn't suffered any major injuries outside of the usual scrapes and bruises.
Cyborg reached out to get a closer look on a cut on Robin's face when the boy jumped back, conveniently pulling Beast Boy along with him. Cyborg sighed.
"It's ok, guys, no one's going to hurt you," Cyborg soothed, praying that neither one would freak out. The metal teen wasn't sure how he would handle two panicked titans turned miniature.
"That's what strangers say," Robin said. Cyborg blinked. Behind him, Raven sighed and moved forward before crouching down to their level.
"Well we aren't strangers," Raven told him. The former leader of the team scowled. It was rather adorable; when Robin was his regular age, he looked like a brooding miniature version of Batman, though now he just looked like an adorable little boy who was trying to look intimidating.
Not that Raven would ever say that. Beside him, Beast Boy wasn't much better. He still looked the same; green eyes, skin, but his hair was still in the same wild fashion. Oddly enough, her friend wasn't talking a mile a minute. Instead he was looking at all of them, as if calculating their next move.
Which hit the sudden realization straight in Raven's gut.
"Cyborg, they don't remember us," Raven chocked out. Behind her, she could hear Starfire's protestations.
"Strangers!" Robin said again, this time trying to back up, reaching a tiny arm out and grabbing Beast Boy who didn't move. If anything, he seemed calmer than Robin, but he would be the quicker of the two if he decided to run.
"Alright, man, could you answer a little question for me?" Cyborg asked. Raven and Starfire watched, interested in what the android was going to do. Robin slowly nodded.
"Ok, you think we're strangers, right?" Cyborg asked again. Robin nodded, his black hair blocking his eye mask. Even a small child and that stupid mask didn't leave his face.
"I'm going to show you something." Cyborg explained. He pulled out his communicator. Beast Boy took a small step forward to look at it, and Cyborg showed him.
"Now, I want you to find yours," Cyborg told Robin. Robin bent down, sifted through the clothes, until he found the yellow and black communicator. He held it up, realization slowly bleeding though his face.
"We're like you," Robin said slowly. Cyborg nodded and pulled Beast Boy closer.
"You two are, and right now it isn't safe for either of you to be out here. So we're going to take you both somewhere safe until we can fix this." Raven said. Starfire floated closer, eyes constantly looking around them for any threats.
There was no telling who would be after their teammates now, since Mumbo had gotten away, and they wouldn't feel secure until they were on their own turf.
"Come on, let's get you guys home," Cyborg said.
The ride back to the tower was a mess of emotions for Raven. Between the worry and anxiety of what had happened to their friends, and the fear that they couldn't fix this, Raven was two seconds away from locking herself up in her room. But she couldn't.
Not when she needed to stay and help get their two boys back. Robin had been hard to contain once they told him that he was just like them, and was crawling all over the T-Car, until Starfire scooped him up and began to tell him something about her home planet. Beast Boy, on the other hand, was still and looked at Raven with a type of wariness.
Raven hated that.
There was no reason for her best friend to fear her. But, right now, he wasn't her best friend. He was a pint size hero and unless they fixed this there was going to be a swarm of villains just itching to get their hands on two titans.
Raven wasn't stupid; unless they fixed this, there was a good chance that she could lose two of the people she cared for most in this world.
And Raven would go back to hell before that happened.
"Do you like drawing?" Raven asked. Beast Boy, who had been looking at his feet, jumped in surprise. Raven softened her features, knowing that to a child, expressions were key.
"Ya," Beast Boy said, but it was quiet. Raven expected Beast Boy to be the one bouncing off the walls, asking questions left and right, never giving them a break or word in edgewise. The switch between Robin and Beast Boy left her reeling.
"Well, we have a good supply of art supplies at the tower," Raven told him. Beast Boy peeked up at her from behind his green hair. It was longer now and Raven didn't think before brushing it aside.
"I won't get in trouble if I use them?" Beast Boy asked. Raven was about to tell him why he would get in trouble for using his own art supplies, but Cyborg shook his head. Suddenly, Raven realized that neither Beast Boy nor Robin knew that they had been an older age. The two of them were merely going with the idea that they knew these strange people and trusted them not to hurt them.
"No, I promise, no one will yell at you if you use them," Raven soothed. Beast Boy nodded and went back to looking at the window. Robin twisted around the passenger seat, still in Starfire's lap, and looked at Beast Boy.
"I like painting, do you?" Robin asked. Beast Boy nodded and scooted farther towards the edge of the seat.
"Drawing is better," Beast Boy told him. Cyborg smiled a bit as they turned onto the road that led to the tower.
"I can stick figures! And snowmen!" Robin exclaimed. Beast Boy smiled a bit wider.
"I can draw those, too," Beast Boy said. Robin scooted closer.
"You can draw other things?" Robin asked curiously. Starfire adjusted her grip so that the boy didn't fall out of the seat and onto the floor.
"Uh-huh," Beast Boy said. Robin looked at him in awe.
"Teach me! Please, please, please?" Robin begged. Cyborg laughed.
"Ok, buddy, both of you can color when we get to the tower," Cyborg said with a grin. Starfire chuckled as well.
They were almost to the tower when the world around them dissolved into chaos.
With a loud bang, the right side of the T-Car tipped forward, rolling the vehicle, and it stopped with the front end of the car inside a ditch. Raven's ears were ringing, and she scrambled for either of her smaller teammates. With a jolt of fear, she realized that they were gone. Starfire's door was gone completely; the alien princess was gone, too. Raven concentrated her powers to blow the door off her side of the car. With a frantic look in her eyes, Raven sprinted to Cyborg's side of the car.
The android was struggling to free himself from the crush metal; within seconds, he was free and the ruined framework was lying on the ground several feet away from them.
"Starfire and the boys are gone," Raven said, concentrating on the area around her, desperately trying to sense their auras. Cyborg was scanning as well, trying to locate Starfire's tracker.
"Her tracker is still working, and it's moving, so it means either she is running with them, has been taken, or is chasing after them." Cyborg said. Raven swallowed and took a deep breath to calm the rising terror in her.
Usually, when one of them was taken, the panic never truly set in until they hadn't heard from their teammate in several hours, but now this was an entirely different situation.
The first was that both Robin and Beast Boy were the size of small children. The second was that they didn't know if Robin had any of his fighting skills or if Beast Boy could use his powers. Those thoughts were making Raven lose control quickly.
"Raven, Raven!" Cyborg shouted, bringing her back to the present. Cyborg grabbed her shoulders so that she focused on him.
"Raven, we will find them. Starfire is with them or following them. We're going to find the guy who did this and get all of them back home." Cyborg told her. Raven didn't miss the steely resolve in his eyes. None of them did well when one of their own went missing.
"Ok, we should get the tablet somewhere safe, too. It's our only lead in fixing this." Raven said, breaking away to grab the tablet from the back seat.
Cyborg shook his head. "We don't have time to run it somewhere safe." Raven huffed.
"I don't need to go to the tower, just give me a moment," Raven said. Concentrating for a moment, the tablet glowed before disappearing.
"What did you do?"
"I sent it to the tower, encased in magic, and in a secure place," Raven told him. "Now, where are they?"
Cyborg focused on the coordinates again before looking at his remaining teammate.
"They're about ten miles away right now, but we need to move." Cyborg glared at the wrecked car.
"I can't fly you, and teleporting right now isn't the best of options," Raven thought out loud. Cyborg looked at her with growing frustration.
"What do you mean teleporting isn't the best option? It's the best option we have at the moment!" Cyborg yelled. Raven spun on her heels.
"Because I need time to concentrate, so that when we teleport I don't hurt you! Robin and Beast Boy are gone, we don't know it Starfire is with them, and we can't afford to wind up bleeding somewhere when who knows what has our family!" Raven shouted.
Cyborg looked at her, shocked, as the empath took a few deep breaths to calm down. The rocks that had been encased in black energy slowly drifted down to the ground.
"Ok, we don't teleport," Cyborg said. "But we need to think of a plan b quickly."
Raven nodded. "Let's move, maybe there's something in the garage we can put together."
Cyborg broke into a jog to keep up with her.
"What do you mean put together?"
Raven turned to look at him before focusing in front of her again.
"We need to put something together that can hold us both and move quickly." Raven looked at him again at the underground tunnel leading to the tower appeared.
"Let's hope your building skill are up to a time crunch exercise."
Author's Note: Hey minions here's the second part. Read and Review, also if you haven't yet, check out the poll on my profile to vote for what you want to see next :)