Disclaimer: How many different ways can I explain that I have no ownership whatsoever of DC comic characters?

Note: Its been long past my usual update date hasn't it? Sorry about that, I've been caught up. So, next chapter! Once again I did my research, and I'm hoping it turned out good because, once again, I feel terribly insecure about how this story turned out!

Psions: [Pz-ie-ons] a species of sadistic alien scientists who live in the Vegan Star System. These aliens have no difference in sex, so they are neither 'he' or 'she'. So, they will be referred to as 'it' for the following chapter.


Chapter 6: The Experiment

Phobia opened her eyes, withdrawing her mind from the green ones.

"Aww, poor little boy!" She pouted her lips as she spoke and pinched his green cheek.

She cackled and rose up above the boy's lying form. She sighed in boredom as she looked away from the little boy, and turned to the last two remaining Titans.

She shifted her eyes to the girl laying beside him, her black eyes brightening as she looked her over.

"What a pretty, pretty girly." She said to the unconscious girl, placing her black gloved hands on her hips speculatively.

Phobia closed her eyes and reached out to the girl with her powers, probing her happy mind. Her face twisted in disgust as she kept searching, finding only good memories and joyful feelings.

"Ugh, this stuff makes me sick!" She spat, "Doesn't this girl have any-" She stopped in mid-sentence when her probing stumbled upon something more her taste.

"Uh-huh, thats perrrfect." She exagerated her speech in delight, opening her eyes and bending down to the girl's level, tilting her head to see the girl's face begin to twitch in discomfort.

A smile curled onto her lips as she felt the fears within the girl teeming inside of her mind.

Phobia formed her hand into the shape of a gun, giggling madly as she did. She leaned forward, closer to the Titan's head, and placed the 'gun' to the girl's temple, soft giggles still escaping her closed lips. She sighed an shook her head, a disturbing smile still stuck to her lips.

"You're up, princess."

She stifled a giggle as her thumb cranked downward, making a gunshot sound effect as she did. Immediately, a stream of black static energy shot from her 'gun' and into Starfire's temple.


Starfire's eyes fluttered open slowly at first, as if from a pleasant sleep. Her vision blurred, her emerald eyes unfocused, and them fluttered wildly, trying to adjust to the shadows around her.

Then a sharp, unrelenting pain throbbed through her head, causing her to squeeze her eyes shut. Her entire body ached, and she felt exaughsted. She felt the cold, hard steel ground under her exposed stomach and arms, her senses were gradually returning to her. She slowly propped herself up with a hand, rubbing her other hand on her aching skull and looking around for her friends.

"Friends? Where are you?" Her words of concern were unanswered, and she rose to her feet feeling a sort of panic rise in her emotions, "Where am I?"

Examining the room, she saw four dark gray walls surrounding her. The wall directly in front of her was a door that stretched to the ceiling, a few feet above her head. The door had taunt clamps on either side, and thick bars that was held horizontally against the steely gray metal. The room she was in was extremely small, almost like a prison. Looking around the cell, something stirred her memory.

There was something about this room that brought a certain sense of anxiety.

A sense of impending danger.

She raised a fist to the door in front of her, feeling the righteous fury overcome the anxiety. She waited to feel the soft heat of the green starbolt around her wrist so that she could blast through the door and escape the looming walls.

"My powers!" She gasped when no starbolt appeared at her fist. She looked at her hands almost in panic, summoning up all her emotions to create her power. Despite her efforts, her power still did not rise.

"What has happened? Why are my powers useless?!"

Suddenly, a muffled scream of fury and fear echoed behind the thick steel door.

Starfire jumped when she head it. There was another scream, then loud, raspy voice cursed in a language. A language she could understand. The angry shouting and cursing continued, growing louder with each word. She heard objects crashing, and other voices shouting back.

Somehow, that cursing voice sounded frighteningly familair. She took two slow steps to the door, pressing her ear against it to try and figure out what was happening beyond the door.

The voice began to curse again, threatening to destroy an unknown attacker.

"Sister?" She whispered to herself when she finally realized whose the voice was.

Suddenly, the sound of heavy footsteps were approaching her door. Her eyes widened as she realized that they were coming for her. She leapt backward, pressing her back up against the opposite wall, and watched as the door began to open. The bars and locks around the door clamped loudly, and moved swiftly out of the way. The door hissed open, shedding a bright, blinding light into the darkness of the small room.

Starfire gasped in terror.

In the doorway, stood a strange white-coated figure. The figure had smooth, green, scaled skin. It was almost as tall as the door, looming over her. Its body was massive and lizard-like, its face was frightening with black, soulless eyes. Its face twisted into an ugly smile as it looked down on her.

A Psion stood before Starfire.

The Psion reached for her with a abnormally large hand, attempting to hold her securely in his clutches. She backed up as far as she could into the wall behind her, looking for any escape available to her. The only way out was to fight.

She immediatly turned on the defensive.

She braced herself, curling her hands into fists as she tried to summon up her powers. And once again, no starbolts accumulated at her wrists to assist her in the fight. Thinking quickly, she ran up to the Psion, and punched it hard in the stomach, shouting as she did.

The Psion was hurled backward by her punch, holding its stomach in pain. The creature looked up at her, an ugly, angry expression crossing its face. The creature growled, and swiftly ran up to her with surprising speed. It ran toward her again, fury burning in its black eyes as its gaze stayed transfixed on her.

Starfire quickly swung her leg through the air, attempting to kick it out of her way.

But the Psion was ready for her. It caught her leg before she hit its face. In one swift motion, the Psion swung her to the side, and slammed her entire body against a wall. She yelped in pain on impact, and then found herself flying through the air again as the Psion swung her by her leg. In mid-throw, it released her leg, and she soared uncontrollably into the arms of a second Pison.

She felt two strong, scaled arms wrap around her, holding her securely against the Psion's body. She struggled against their hold, gritting her teeth and grunting in effort to escape their clutches. She quickly resorted to kicking the Pison as hard as she could, but still the cruel creature would not release its hold on her.

In the middle of her struggle, she found Blackfire, who trying in vain to fight off two Psions that were struggling to control her. Then, one of the Psions hastily grabbed Blackfire by the hair, and dragged her kicking and screaming through another door and out of Starfire's sight.

"Sister!" she called out as the door shut closed behind them, "Release me!" She shouted at her captor helplessly.

"Yovure ete bouloh." a voice spoke to her calmly in a language she did not understand. She snapped her emerald eyes to the speaker, who has the first Psion she had battled. She bit her lip in fear when it leaned in close to her face.

"Dans vielo forte un durro." It whispered almost sweetly, holding a claw to her, and caressing the side of her face with its deathly sharp blade.

The Psion shifted its eyes from her to the Pison holding her, and barked out an order, thrusting his claw in the direction of where the others had taken her sister. The Psion holding her turned away from the leader, following orders to take her into the room. When they reached to door, her throat went dry, and all she could do was stare with wide eyes. The door hissed open as they approached it, and revealed what was in the room behind it.

The room was rectangular, stretching deep to her left. What looked like control panels were placed in a wide half-circle around the room, with more Psions in white suits playing with nobs and controls. They all seemed to be preparing for something, talking to each other in their language urgently.

She had a bad feeling about what they were preparing for.

The Psion holding her walked past the half-circle of controls, and approached two operating tables tilted slightly upward, and facing outward toward the half-circle. And there on one of the tables, was Blackfire. Her sister lay limply on the steel bed with clamps securing her wrists, ankles, and mid-stomach to the table.

The second table lay a few feet away from where Blackfire lay, and when Starfire saw it her blood ran cold and ice spread through her body, fear paralyzing her as she lay her eyes on it. That table brought back unpleasant memories. It was happening all over again, just like before...just the memory of it sent a shivers down her spine, and tears gather in her eyes. Unable to move, she was easily layed onto the metal table by the Psion. It was only then that her senses snapped back to her.

But it was too late.

The metal clamps were activated, and quickly constricted around her wrists and ankles, firmly holding her to the table. She writhed and squirmed under the clamps, desperate to escape before it began.

Starfire felt the horror gripping her heart. Her breathing grew heavier, shaking and whimpering with each breath. She knew what was about to happen, and it terrified her. It was too horrible for her to relive again...she didn't think that she had the strength to endure it another time. The tears that had gathered in her eyes were now running down her face as she whimpered and cried helplessly. Her entire body trembled, as the terror seized her.

Then, the sound of an engine powering up rumbled into her ears, and she noticed how all the Psions were now grouping around the table she lay on, their black eyes covered by strangely shaped goggles. They all looked down at her ciriously, observing her.

A searing pain suddenly shot up her spine, and she arched her back away from the table. She felt the heat everywhere, absorbing into her very skin. Fire spread through her entire body, she could feel her blood boiling under the dangerous energy. The pain had no boundaries, as it finally burst into her core, the energy tormenting her very soul.

The Psions that were surrounded around her were observing her closely now, her screams of pain seemed not to disturb them as the continued thier horrid experiment.

Starfire threw her head back, screaming louder in agony as the fatal energy built up inside of her. It was too much for her body to handle, she knew it, and she could feel herself about to explode. A white light blinded her, and the dangerous energy that was building inside her consumed her entire being, as her final scream of anguish split the air.

"Everyone is afraid of something…I fear the Gordanians and the Psions." -Starfire (Rena Red Head; Never Alone)


In the DC comics, Starfire and Blackfire were the princesses of Tameran, but Blackfire betrayed Tameran to the Citadel, made Starfire her slave. The sisters were captured by the Psions who performed a deadly experiment on both sisters, looking to see how much energy their Tamaranean bodies could absorb before exploding from the overload. Luckily, Starfire escaped in time and saved them both. The sisters had gained starbolts, which were a result of the experimentation. Starfire then fled to Earth, to escape her sister and the Psions.

In Teen Titans/My Story:The show's backstory of Starfire was...unclear. The TV show made it seem like Starfire escaped from the Citadel and then fled to Earth(remember "Go!"). I took the initiative of altering the timeline a bit, taking out a few things to modify for the TV series version of Star:

(1)Starfire and Blackfire were captured by the Psions (2) They were experimented on and received their powers. (3) The sisters flee to Tameran, where war was brewing (4) Starfire was then offered as the 'prize' to Citadel. (5) She escaped, and landed on Earth