Dear Readers:

Six years ago when I started writing this story I was in the 8th grade, just getting ready to start high school. I loved writing, loved reading, and I especially loved the Teen Titans. I had no intention of setting this story on hiatus, but when High School life hit I just got so distracted and somehow completely forgot about this story for a while. I never stopped writing things however, and over time my writing style changed and grew, as did I.

Currently, I'm not even in High School anymore, I'm about to start my third year at college. I have plenty of other writing project under way, school papers, my own novel, short little things etc. etc. While searching the internet a while ago I heard mention that in 2013 Teen Titans is coming back to CN (though in chibi-style now with a plot more centered around shenanigans and comedy) and I was thrilled. If there's one thing that hasn't changed about me at all it's my love for the Teen Titans. Ever since the show first started almost ten years ago I have been in love with it, and I'm sure I will until the day I die.

Hearing that the show was coming back got me thinking about my old account, and my fanfic that I had never finished. I had chuckled at the thought, and curiously decided to go back and read it just for kicks. What I found shocked me for two reasons.

The first one is just how awful this story is. Grammatical errors abound, there's not enough depth, sometimes I feel that I wrote the Titans OOC, and well…it reads like it was written like a middle-schooler. Which it was. Looking back on it there are just so many things I would change about this if I could. The basic plot was comprehensible, and strangely enough to this day I still remember where I had intended to take this story and where it was going, but beyond that I mostly frowned or laughed at what I had written. Still, I was thankful that I did, it showed me just how far along I have come as a writer, and where exactly I used to be. I was content then to simply delete the story all together and possibly my account as well and just move on with my life.

That was when I noticed the second thing that shocked me. When I had left this story last it had very little hits and possibly twelve reviews tops…right now as it stands there are 107 and all of them positive, and most of them asking me to write more and please finish the story. I had never even expected this story to pass maybe 50 when I had first started, and I'm pretty sure that 50 was my goal. But you've exceeded my expectations spectacularly, and even when I stopped they kept flooding in. What touched me the most was the fact that these reviews weren't all from 2006 or 2007, they've spanned almost the entire six years. You readers never gave up on me. You never lost hope that I would someday come back and finish the tale I started when I was not even yet in high school, because you liked it enough.

Reading all of your reviews got me thinking. With that many people cheering me on, how could I not go on and let them down? I considered deleting the story anyway and possibly starting over and changing everything, but I decided against that. Instead I'm going to leave what I've written as-is (as much as I dislike it) but I'm going to continue on writing as the way I do now. It's impossible for me to write the same way I did back then, but perhaps instead this story will serve as a testament to show just how much I've grown as a writer, by comparing the first seventeen chapters and what I will add to it soon.

So as it stands my dear readers, currently I have started chapter 18, I've been writing it in between shifts at work, and as soon as I have it done I will post it. My goal is to complete this story by the time the new Teen Titans episodes air, as a sort of celebration for their return, without contradicting anything that has already happened in the first seventeen chapters of this fic (even if I dislike or want to change it). If the Titans can come back, albeit slightly different, then so can I…but slightly different. Things change, but sometimes they do for the better, and know that I do not write this for myself but for you.

It's because of you readers that I have decided to pick this project back up and complete it, so let's finish this together and give this story a good ending! I promise to try my best and not let you down!

Thank you all. For standing by and never giving up hope.

Sincerely,

McNoodle

….I'M BACK Y'ALL!