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Robin woke up to the sound of something tapping against glass repeatedly. Opening his eyes, he noticed that he and the others were in the T-Ship, and that it was raining outside. He groaned, reaching a hand up to touch his forehead painfully. Ugh. What happened? he thought to himself.
Suddenly the events of that day came back to him, and he felt a wave of nausea hit him. At that moment, Sparrow's voice came in through the communicator.
"Hey! You woke up!" she said, in an overly-too-happy voice that made Robin flinch. "Can you not talk so loudly? It's giving me a headache." he said. "Fine. Just one thing. Your not going to go and faint again anytime soon are you?" she asked. "What? I didn't faint!" Robin yelled indignantly. "I just fell and hit my head…hard." he added.
From her seat, Sparrow rolled her eyes. "Suuure, whatever. We'll go with that story." she said sarcastically. Robin sighed and sat up. He looked out the window, but could barely make out anything on account of the rain.
"Hey, how long have we been flying?" he asked. "We left Steel City a while ago. In fact, we'd be in Jump City already if it wasn't for all this rain." Sparrow replied. "But we should be there in like, ten, maybe fifteen minutes." "Okay." Robin said.
He sat up in his seat and looked out the window again. There was some lightning, and he could make out the shape of their tower in the distance. Robin frowned suddenly. Something wasn't right. Maybe it was just the huge headache he had, or the way the tower looked against the lightning, but he couldn't help but feel that something was off.
Robin shook his head, sure he was just being paranoid and turned his mind to other matters.
Meanwhile, with Terra and Tammy:
"Ugh!" Tammy yelled, trying to find some shelter from the pouring rain. Terra meanwhile just stood where she was, watching Tammy struggle. "Hey, don't you want to get out of the rain?" Tammy asked.
"Why should it matter? I'm already wet. Besides, the rain matches my mood." she replied. "Well you're a real downer, aren't you?" Tammy said, rolling her eyes. "C'mon." She walked back the way they came.
"Where are you going?" Terra asked. "Back to the tower. It's dry there. Besides… I'm supposed to meet some people there in a five minutes." She hesitated for a moment then added as casually as she could. "You should come too."
Terra gave a harsh laugh. "Yeah, right." Tammy frowned. "C'mon. You'll like it with us. Besides it's not like you have anywhere else to go." she added, seeing Terra flinch. "Oh, what do you know?" Terra countered. "I'm outta here." With that, she began to walk away.
Tammy considered her options. She could just knock Terra out and take her back unconscious, but she'd probably get in trouble for it. After some debating, she finally leaned against the wall.
"Fine. Whatever you say…Mom." she called, grinning when she saw Terra freeze, then spin around to face her, shock written all over her face. "Wha… What did you just call me?" Terra asked. Tammy shrugged. "You heard me."
Terra walked back, and looked at her for a long moment. "You're my daughter…" she whispered softly, then her expression hardened. "Prove it. How do I know your telling the truth?" she demanded.
Tammy shrugged and raised her arms. Immediately, they began to glow yellow and a moment later, a large rock flew out of the ground. "Believe me now?" Tammy asked. Terra didn't know what to say, so she just nodded.
"Now c'mon!" Tammy insisted, pulling Terra by the arm toward the tower. As she was dragged along, Terra couldn't help but notice a bruise on Tammy's arm. "Hey, where'd you get that?" she asked. "Get what?" Tammy replied, slowing down.
"That bruise on your arm." Terra explained, trying to get a better look at it. "Oh, this?" Tammy said pulling away. "I just got in a little fight today with… a former friend of mine." Tammy explained. Terra tried to ask something else but was instead pulled by the arm.
"Let's go! You can ask all the questions you want later!" she insisted, "Who exactly are we meeting at the tower?" Terra couldn't help but ask. "You'll see." Tammy replied.
Five minutes later:
The doors to Titans tower opened, and the two soaking wet teenagers let themselves in. Terra wrung the water out of her hair then looked around the room. "That's funny." she muttered. "I'd have thought the titans would be back by now. Wonder what's keeping them…"
"Let's just say they got a little sidetracked…" a voice called. Terra turned to Tammy but she merely pointed behind her. Confused, Terra turned and came face-to-face with her own reflection.
At least, she'd thought it was her reflection, until she noticed that it looked older, and was wearing an orange and black suit instead of Terra's normal clothing, and that she wasn't wet. The older Terra smiled at her then turned to look at her daughter. "Good work Tammy." she complimented.
Terra stared for a moment. "Whoa." Was the only intelligent thing she could think of to say. "Are you…" The older Terra grinned. "…you?" she finished. Terra nodded. "Okay, this is getting creepy… but kinda cool at the same time."
It was then that she realized that her older self wasn't alone. Another figure stood beside her. A figure she knew all too well. "Slade?" For once, her voice held no hostility, only confusion. Slade nodded at her.
Her older version smiled, then turned serious. "Listen, we need your help." she told her younger self. "We need to know where the time machine is." Terra frowned. "Wait, wouldn't you remember? I mean, you being me and all that…"
Older Terra shook her head. "No. See, you weren't supposed to remember who you were, at least not when you did. So when you did remember, that altered the time stream here, forcing the titans to take you and their parent's younger selves here to fix whatever it is you remembering messed up. So all of this that happened to you didn't happen to me. Get it?"
Terra shook her head. "No…not really, no." Older Terra sighed. "Look, the point is, I don't know where the time machine is because I didn't come to the future. So can you tell us where it is or not?" she yelled, seeming impatient now.
Terra hesitated for a moment, then shrugged. "Sure." she said, leading the three to the time machine.
Ten minutes later:
The T-ship landed in front of the tower, and everyone hurriedly got out and ran inside. Once in, Beastboy turned into a small dog and shook himself, spraying water on his friends.
Changing back, he turned to find them dripping wet and looking at him without the slightest hint of amusement. "Hee, sorry about that." he said sheepishly. Stinger opened her mouth to say something, but shut it suddenly, looking at the Ops. Room with narrowed eyes.
She cautiously took a few steps forward, looking around the room. "Hey Moonfire. Look at this." she called. Moonfire came over and when she saw what Stinger was pointing at she frowned as well. Meanwhile, the others were all talking about something food related.
"Shh!" Moonfire hissed at them. Everyone stopped what they were doing. "What's wrong guys?" Crow asked, noticing the serious expression on their faces. "Search the tower." Moonfire ordered, turning around. "Someone broke in while we were gone. They might still be here."
A look of alarm crossed everyone's face. "Wait, how do you know that?" Beastboy asked. Stinger pointed at the floor, where they saw a puddle of water on the floor. "Someone must have walked in from outside and the water dripped off of them."
Starfire frowned. "Could Terra not have stepped outside for a moment and come back in wet?" she asked. "Star's got a point there." Wasp said. "That's possible." Stinger replied, relaxing, but Moonfire didn't look convinced. "Still, we should check the tower, just in case." she insisted.
The others agreed and split up. Five minutes later, everyone came back to the Ops. Room. "Did you guys find anything?" Darkstar questioned. "Someone's been to my room." Moonfire said. "The door was open and the photo albums were lying on the ground, but nothing's missing."
"Tha is wiod." Sparrow muttered. Moonfire frowned. "Sparrow are you eating?" she demanded. Sparrow tried to hide the veggie hotdog she'd been eating behind her back. "No ay." she said with her mouth full. Moonfire raised an eyebrow and put her hands on her hips.
Sparrow swallowed her food and glared at her. "Look, just because you can go all day without food doesn't mean the rest of us can. We haven't eaten since breakfast and since then we've had to fight Slade twice! So yeah, I'm going to eat this and I'm going to enjoy it!" she said, talking a defiant bite out of it. "Mmm…"
Moonfire would have rolled her eyes if she hadn't been so shocked. Had it really been just this morning that Stinger was about to kill Sparrow for the prank Crow pulled on them? she thought to herself. It felt like centuries ago.
"Hey, have any of you seen Terra?" Raven suddenly asked. She didn't particularly care, especially now after all of the extra revelations, but she couldn't help but notice that the blonde was nowhere to be found. Everyone answered that they hadn't seen her.
Robin frowned. Why is it I have a bad feeling about this? he thought.
Ah, yes. The evil cliffhangers. Dun dun dun!! Hee, even after everything that happened, Sparrow is still same old Sparrow. The rain doesn't really have any significance. I considered not putting it in, but I did mention thunder and an overcast sky in the last chapter and the weather isn't always perfect so I figured, why not? Anyways, unlike the rain, the time machine is very important. Either way, please leave a review! (=