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Chapter 6

Name Change and a Remembrance

Jake awoke the next morning with a massive migraine. As he sat up in his bed his head burst into pain. He cried out in agony as his head exploded. He fell back into a sleeping position.

"Ooooh," he moaned grasping his head.

"Yo, Jake, it's time to get up, man," Cyborg said. "I'm making breakfast."

"Ahhh! Stop screaming," Jake said as he rolled over and checked his communicator. "I have a headache."

"You have the headache, Jake?" Starfire asked popping into view. "I have a medicine from my planet that could cure that very quickly."

"That's okay, Starfire. I'm sure I'll be fine." Jake had seen enough of Starfire's so called remedies that he didn't want to take the chance.

"Hey, Jake! Time to get up!" Alex shouted as she popped her head into his room.

"Ah…" he whimpered as she walked in.

"What's the matter, not feeling well?"

"That obvious?"

"I'll take care of that," she said and walked out of the room. A few minutes later she walked back in. "I have just the thing." She came over to his bed and poured something warm down his throat. It tasted like raspberries.

"What was that?" Jake asked. His headache was already getting better.

"It was one of the remedies Jessie taught me." Upon realizing Jake had no idea who Jessie was she said "She's the old Indian woman the gang lives with. She's really pretty cool. She always lets us play games and stuff whenever we want to."

"I see," Jake said as he stood up. "That's some good stuff."

"Yeah, but sometimes it doesn't sit right with your stomach and you get these aches in you sides. It's okay though. They go away after a couple hours."

Jake grasped his sides. "Remind me never to have that stuff on an empty stomach again."

Alex walked into the kitchen while Jake kind of stumbled in.

"So," he groaned, "What's for breakfast?"

"You okay? I thought you were sick," Beast Boy asked.

"I had a headache. Then Alex gave me this raspberry thing and it got rid of my headache but gave me these massive side aches."

"Breakfast's ready," Cyborg called. He put a plate of waffles on the table and brought out a tub of ice cream. "Waffles al a mode."

"Sweet!" Beast Boy yelled and grabbed a waffle. He grabbed the ice cream scoop and began shoveling the stuff onto his plate.

"Uh, Beast Boy," Jake said. "Is there even a waffle under there any more?"

"Nope," he said.

"Whatever," Jake said. Beast Boy finally finished scooping the ice cream onto his plate and passed in to Jake. It was empty. "Beast Boy, give me some ice-" As he looked at Beast Boy he found that he had already eaten the whole thing. Except for the waffle. "Oh well, I can just have waffles. Is there any butter?"

"Yeah but it's frozen," Cyborg said.

"That's not a problem," Jake said. Cyborg handed him the plate with the frozen block of butter on it. Jake covered it with his hands for a moment. When he pulled his hands away, the butter was soft and pliable.

"Cool," Beast Boy said.

"You know," Jake said after he finished his waffle, "I've been thinking about what Alex said yesterday and I've decided to change my name back to Heat."

"I agree," Starfire said. "Black Flame sounds too much like my sister."

"I'm with Starfire on this one," Beast Boy said. "Her sister gave me the creeps."

"It's settled then," Robin said. "Your new name is Heat."

"Woo-hoo!" Jake said.

"I liked Black Flame," Raven said. Everyone stared at her. "Well, the 'Black' part anyways."

The alarm sounded.

"We've got trouble," Robin said as he jumped up from the table. "It's at the corner of Fifth ad Broadway. Let's go."

"What do I do?" Alex said, confused.

"Stay here. And don't mess anything up," Jake replied as he started for the door.

"Wait, Jake," She said as she pulled two silver gloves out of her coat pocket. "These are weaved metal. They used to be your weapons back with Phoenix Night. Believe me, these things get really hot."

"Thanks," He said as he took them. He opened the door.

"Jake," Alex said. Jake stopped. "Be careful."

"I'll see you when I get back."

They arrived at the corner of 5th and Broadway just as the monster was crashing through the various buildings.

"Didn't we already kill that thing?" Raven asked.

"Apparently not," Robin replied. "Titans, go!"

Jake put on his gloves and ran towards the monster. He dodged tentacles and falling debris.

"Our first priority should be to get the people out of harms way," Robin said over the communicator.

"No one over here," Jake said.

"Deserted," Raven said.

"Empty," Beast Boy said.

"Nothing," Cyborg replied.

"There's nothing over here either. Where is everybody?" Robin said.

"I don't know, but I'm going after this thing," Jake said and rushed it.

Tentacles flew past his head as he ran toward the blob. It's electric blue eye was fixed on him. He was dodging tentacles left and right. Every single tentacle was after him now. The things were everywhere. It was getting hard for him to dodge.

Suddenly, one of the things hit him. It electrocuted him. He flew back and hit his head. As he fell unconscious images flashed before his eyes.

He awoke in the infirmary at the Tower. Raven and Beast Boy were standing over him holding hands.

"He's awake," Raven said. Beast Boy pulled out his communicator to contact the others but Jake stopped him.

"Don't, Beast Boy," he said weakly.

"Why?"

"I remember. I remember everything." With that he blacked out again.

When he awoke he found Robin standing over him with a syringe.

"Beast Boy tells me you remember everything," Robin said.

Jake nodded. "I do."

Robin stood up and walked over to Jake's IV drip. "I'm going to give you something."

"You shouldn't be here, Robin. I saw you go away with Starfire. Everybody forgot. But I remember now."

Robin stuck the syringe in the tube. Jake ripped the thing out of his arm and jumped at Robin. Robin disappeared and Jake hit the floor hard.

"You should have taken what was in the syringe. Everything would have been so much more painless that way."

"Jake!" Alex said as she rushed to his side. "What happened?"

"Where is Starfire?"

"She's here with us," Beast Boy said. He turned around but only saw Cyborg and Raven. "Whoa! Where'd she go?"

"With Robin. They disappeared the day Alex showed up. They somehow took away our memory of that and inserted themselves as spies when we weren't looking."

"Do you have any idea where they went?" Raven asked.

"Yes, but we can't go in there by ourselves. We're gonna need a few friends."

A/N: Chapter 6 is up!!! I am on a roll. Two chapters in one day. I love myself.