The day started out perfectly normal, sun shining beyond the tinted windows of the Tower. She stared at the nearly barren fridge and huffed in annoyance when she saw that there was no more milk left for cereal. So she set out for the nearest grocery store using the heat waves to transport her safely over the ocean. There she picked up two gallons of milk and stood patiently in line while a guy in front of her bought a few bottles of wine. She sighed, after paying for them and started to walk home. Her face implanted the back of another person, and they both stood in a daze staring at one another. Ruby's eyes opened even wider when she saw clearly what she looked like. The girl had long blonde hair cropped slightly past her shoulders in a stringy mess with dark brown eyes and a revealing costume on. The two looked at one another, mostly in shock.

"Are you one of us…?" The girl asked. "One of the elemental controllers?"

"Yes I am. I am Ruby of Fire. Who are you?" "My name is Terra of the Earth."

"Terra…? But I thought you were…" "Yea me too. But someone or something let me out of there and now I'm back. I've been in hiding waiting for an opportunity like this to pop up. Listen we…"

In a flash of light, the two had disappeared from the grocery store and it left the milk behind. The storekeeper blinked and looked at his watch, "It's too early for this sort of crap."

Terra and Ruby arrived in a dank cavern-appearing area and a dark figure loomed over them. "There you are my lovelies. It's time for the gathering."

"What?" The two said together and were immediately slapped with shackles. Then an unknown force stripped them to the underwear, the two standing in chains with only bras and panties on. Embarrassed and pissed, Ruby tried to blow steam to melt the metal but it didn't react at all. Terra's eyes glowed yellow and sh could not get the rocks to move to her command. They were pushed into a circular arena and attached to a rocky wall. A light shone down from above and through it they could perceive three other girls in the room as well, one of them being Aqua. Ruby smiled widely and wagged her tail, "Aqua…what's going on?"

"It seems as if an unnamed evil wants to steal our powers." "Is that possible?"

"no, but they are going to prod and shame us until they figure that out. This person wants himself to be reborn from the ashes of our powers. But that will be practically impossible. WE will find a way to free ourselves. By the way this is Gabriel of the plant." Her head nodded to the girl on her left, her stringy green hair hanging like vines from her scalp. She was concentrating on the dirt very far and deep below. With the collective strength of the plants' growth, the base would start to crumble so they would be freed. She pointed her head over to the right, "And this is Rhea. She controls darkness."

The girl had an aura similar to Raven's dark and depressing but only worse. All her make-up was black and her figure looked like the Sandman's sister, Death. But she was trying to manipulate the shadows to look like the guards of the mysterious cavern. Truth was she was almost on the mark! The soldiers looked exactly like what they had seen at the very beginning of the cavern.

Cyborg was panicking all over the Tower, throwing the pillows off the couches and looking under every single door crack. "Okay…allie allie onsanfree! Come out, come out wherever you are. Oh…" He tipped the couch over for the third time and Robin stepped in sipping a shake and almost dropped it once seeing the condition of the main room. There was trash all over the place and things were thrown like a tornado shifted through. "Uhm, Cyborg? Are you feeling okay?"

"Has anyone seen Ruby? She's been missing all morning. I can't find her on the trackers, or the radar! So she must be hiding right? She's playful like that y'know…"

Robin smiled widely and punched Cyborg's shoulder. "You like her, tell me all the details."

"Okay…but don't tell anyone else alright man? Listen, Ruby and I went on a date about a week ago and I've been thinking about it. She really does mean a lot to me. And I care about her. I want her to know that. But I'm also kind of afraid."

'Let me give you some manly advice my friend. A guy that can openly say he loves a woman is a man all on his own. But one who hides his feelings away, is nothing more than a tiny boy."

They heard screeching and the sounds of static bouncing off the walls, and landing in the center of the circle. "Let go of me you jerks! Argh!"

Two dark shadow guards pulled in another girl with curly brown hair and electricity flowing through her hair, arms and fingers. She looked to be slightly Hispanic. "Elizabeth, with the temper of the tempest she controls. She probably has an even shorter fuse than you do, Ruby."

The girl squirming and flailing was chained fully to the wall with huge shackles that ran over her bare stomach and neck. She finally controlled herself, her hair finally flopping against her sweaty shoulders. She stared up towards the others and gave a slight sad chuckle, "Yeah, but that wasn't enough to save myself from coming here. Aqua, why is this happening?"

"Mankind is young and curious to how things work. But don't worry girls." She glared at the center ring beginning to crack and the cracks filling with green plant life. "We will prevail from this mess."

One by one the rest came in, Lucrecia of Light and Aura of wind came in as a pair. Lucrecia looked like a normal seventeen year old African-American girl with the exception of blinding white hair and Aura had feathers completely covering her skin and wings stretching underneath the length of her arms. Once all were chained up, they started to snicker at the dark man, then the whole room burst into laughing. With his glowing red eyes confused, he shouted to his chained female prisoners, "Stop it! Stop it now! Why are you laughing? You re about to become my slaves, I am about to take your powers!"

Suddenly to his surprise, a large tree popped up through the solid floor and its branches began to snap through the shackles of the elemental controllers. The girls yelled in freedom, taking their powers out and unleashing them on their caper who took it hard, trying to roll and dodge attacks of flame, ice, lighting and harsh tornadoes all while dodging plants popping up in his lair. "I will be back."

The girls found their clothes and without another word, placed them back on their cold bare bodies. Everyone was smiling and laughing at his demise, even Rhea who whipped up the shadows so they could escape into the light above. Turns out the girls were actually in a deep underground cavern that prevented all communicators from working. At the tower Cyborg's tracker finally beeped her location up and he smiled pointing at the map, "She's over near Hawaii. C'mon let's go help her out."

Ruby was simply beaming over all the controllers, but they just gave a sort of glare at her. "What?"

"Uhm, Ruby come with me." Aqua said as Terra began to levitate away back to the city. The two began to walk across the beach, the sands inhibited only by the small red fiddler crabs. Ruby let one snip at her wagging tail as they stopped underneath a small palm tree. "Ruby, the others are not like you in any way. They have a certain feeling towards themselves that they have seen in the past and cannot forgive. They think they have committed sins beyond forgiveness. And when they see you, it is uneasy for them to comprehend their ultimate feelings."

As soon as she stopped, the Titans ship arrived with Cyborg on the top, waving his arms to her in a frenzy, "Ruby! Come on, let's go home!"

She gasped at his sight, beginning to run through the warm ocean waters the salt getting stuck in her fur. She leapt onto the ship, being lifted in the air by Cyborg. She enjoyed his large hands around her small waist, cuddling her nose against his forehead.

"I was so worried about you." He whispered. She smiled and patted his head, "I'm sorry, it's a long story."

"Ruby…" He gulped and held her tight within his grasp. The words came out slowly and quietly but she understood completely, "I love you." Her eyes watered fully and she smiled too, "Oh Cy, I love you too!" The two shared an embrace longer than could be told. They stared at each other after hugging and the ocean waves induced their romantic eyes, glittering in the sun, and the sounds of the waves breaking onto the beach. She felt herself being pulled into it and couldn't stop, didn't want it to stop. The feeling of his lips on hers, soft and gentle was too good to even think about. A tiny tongue explored hers only slightly until they had to let go for air, still holding one another's hand as if they would never want to separate. Aqua was the only remaining Element and she gave a lonely sigh, watching as they stole away back into the ship. Once it had turned around and reversed back to Jump City, she held her slowly beating heart opening her gills to breathe in the ocean waters. "Yes but it is this problem I have. I am one who cannot find a love like that. If only you could understand that young fox…"