I never intended for this story to get as intense as its turning out to be.

If it was a trailer, it'd be epic. XD

Enjoy!

Chapter 4
"However Vast You Knowledge Is"

Blackfire:

This definitely wasn't worth missing out on sex with Red X, but it was entertaining. I'd always had a thing for chaos and I wasn't about to change now, just appreciate when it came rather then causing it myself.

Watching Raven run from Arella and Beast Boy give her a nasty look before following stifled my need for at least three years. That imagery was gold to me. Starfire hesitantly touched Robin's arm and he looked at her, shaking his head. I assumed it meant 'don't follow them', but I wasn't sure.

"Arella-." Jinx began.

Arella blurted everything out quietly. "Raven is part demon, its where she got her powers from. Her father's cult was after us most of her life, and then the police killed them. I killed her father's body, but I didn't have the kind of power to kill his spirit. He's after her he can use her as his link to Earth to destroy our world. She's upset because I was trying to hide it from her and wouldn't tell the truth. Terra's being influenced by his powers but I've been taking them out of her. That's why she's upset."

With that she left, slamming her door shut behind her. The audible click insinuated she wanted to be alone and have privacy.

Robin looked at the elders, lining the edge of the room. "You knew about this?"

They bowed and one woman spoke, "Arella asked us not to tell, as a favor. She said she'd tell you when the time was right." The woman glanced around the room. "It appears that she felt now was a good time."

I was just joining the team and was unsure what was going on. But everyone began heading in the same direction until we eventually ended up in the garden, all of us without the elders and that included Melvin and her brothers. Someone had picked them up and Kole, Jericho, and Jinx were holding them, Kid Flash near them.

"So, what do we do?" Argent asked eventually. "We can't just leave Raven to deal with just Beast Boy, mates. S'not right, at all."

"I don't know about anyone else, but I have no desire to be here at the moment," Red X said from beside me. "Anyone else up for the Old Spot?"

It was quiet.

"I haven't been there since we left," Aqualad said quietly. "I do kind of miss it . . ."

"Then let's go," Gizmo agreed. "Who wants to go get Raven and Beast Boy?"

Kid Flash stepped away from Jinx, "I'm fastest. I'll get them out quick, so no one will notice we're gone."

With that he sped off and we waited, discussing our plans.

"We can't just run away," Jinx pointed out. "We're super heroes, its not like they won't notice."

"They've got our communicators. There hasn't been a big problem besides Madame Rouge, recently. The other Titans can take care of the minimal stuff until we figure out what we're going to do. Until then, we'll build some makeshift houses, to fit all of us and camouflage them in like you're old house, Jinx." Speedy said. "Like all of your guyses old house."

"Sounds like a plan to me," Cyborg agreed. "And what are we doing? Hiding Raven from Arella?"

"It only makes sense."

Raven, Beast Boy, and Kid Flash appeared. It was Raven who had spoken.

"Arella's never going to let me out of her sight if I stay," She continued. "She'll keep me as her lab rat, like she's done because of Terra's nightmare. I couldn't be happier to leave."

"As much as I hate to admit it," Robin grumbled. "Taking a break doesn't seem like a bad idea."

"Friends," Starfire seemed afraid. "Are we truly leaving our home behind?"

"Its just for a while," I assured her, looking pointedly at Robin to agree. "Right?"

He nodded, "Its just to sort things out, Star. Don't worry about it."

Reassured, Starfire took Robin's hand fearfully.

"They'll know where we're going." Kid Flash pointed out. "Its pretty easy to figure out."

"We'll set up motion sensors over a 100 mile square radius. As soon as anyone steps onto our territory, we'll know." Cyborg said confidently. "No ones taking my little sister from us."

Raven smiled sadly. "I'm sorry you all are doing this because of me."

"Raven, don't worry about it," Kole insisted. "We want to do this. You're a part of our family. We're not going to let anything happen to you, okay?"

She nodded.

Beast Boy folded his arms behind his head. "We've got nothing packed."

"Cyborg came make more holo-rings," Jinx insisted. "We'll take turns going out to buy disguises with the holo-rings, and then keep up the appearances. Everything will be fine you downers." She said, teasingly. Some people laughed.

"Raven?" Robin asked, insinuating her to transport them.

She closed her eyes, "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos."

A black aura encases us and we were back where Red X had taken me in a matter of seconds, the darkness evaporating around us. I felt in a sort of awe.

We started the essentials immediately, Robin taking charge.

"Cyborg, you take anyone you need and start on those motion detectors. I want one on every square foot of land, and that includes the trees."

"Got it, Rob."

"How many do you think you'll need?"

Cyborg thought a moment, "About . . . five people. I'll Aqualad, Kid Flash, See-More, the Harold and Gizmo."

It was a smart choice. Everyone else could be more useful in building then placing things on the floor. Kid Flash could use his speed to his advantage in placing the detectors, or handing them out as Cyborg threw them together. Aqualad was useless in heavy lifting, because his element was water, and so he could place the ones along the river. See-More could see if anyone had missed a spot. Gizmo could help build the devices and the Harold was patient, and wouldn't get bored. It was smart pickings.

Robin nodded his approval. "Alright. Jericho and Kole, you'll be taking care of the kids." They nodded, Jericho holding Teether in one arm while Kole held Timmy, Melvin in between them being held by Bobby. "Everyone else will start on building. Starfire, Blackfire, Red X, and Jinx, you're on one team, start over there." He pointed and we left.

My strength was not as inhuman as Starfire's, but that still made it easily ten times beyond what any human could withstand. I noticed every team had lifters (Starfire, Mammoth, Argent, etc.) people who could cut the wood (Jinx, Red X, etc.) and people who had enough knowledge for planning (myself, Robin, etc.). Robin was a good leader. Some people could multitask as well, which only helped more.

I caught Red X glancing at me a few times. By the end of the day I'd averaged around 28 times every 2 hours. I snickered and Jinx noticed. Robin chose about five minutes later to give everyone a half hour break. We deserved it for working so hard.

I sat down by the lake, as away from everyone as possible without being obvious about it. Jinx sat down next to me.

"So . . . Red X, huh?" She started, bluntly.

I looked at her, my brow up. "What do you mean?"

"You like each other, I can tell." Jinx replied, leaning against the tree next to the one I was against. "How you made him like someone besides himself though . . . I gotta give you props, it definitely isn't something I thought was possible for my brother."

I smirked to myself. "I won't pretend it wasn't fun."

Jinx mimicked my expression, snorting. "How are you and Starfire related?"

I laughed, "I wondered that myself."

Jinx glanced over her shoulder, waving at someone before turning back around.

"What was that about?"

"Red X was staring at you." She said, giggling like a schoolgirl. "I'm so going to use this as blackmail."

"Well thank you," I rolled my eyes. I jumped as Kid Flash appeared next to Jinx, in a blur that jolted into him.

Jinx barely glanced up from the river. I had a feeling she was used to this by now. "Shouldn't you be working with Cyborg?"

He kissed her on the cheek and she rolled her eyes, "Nah. Gave us a break too. Robin and Cyborg must have coordinated breaks together."

He blocked down in front of us, grinning like a child and Jinx sighed. "He's always like this, if that's what you're wondering."

"Mm," I nodded, understanding. "I figured."

Kid Flash scrunched his face up in irritation. I noticed everything about him seemed animatedly peppy. "Gee, thanks Jinx."

"No problem." She shot another look over her shoulder before grinning at me. "He did it again."

"Who did what?" Kid Flash asked immediately.

Before I could intervene, Jinx said, "Red X likes Blackfire."

Kid Flash's eyes practically bulged out of his head. "What? That's impossible! He doesn't like any girls besides you and Kole!"

"Well, that was before Blackfire came," Jinx said calmly. She then nudged me. "How about you room with me tonight, since my room is right next to Red X's, it wouldn't be horrible if he saw you in the middle of the night."

"Jinx!" Kid Flash hissed. "Inappropriate!"

Jinx and I shared a sly look before she started up again. "Blackfire, what's your planets thoughts on sex at sixteen?"

"Jinx!" Kid Flash squeaked, shocked.

I thought a moment. "Its not unheard of-."

"Blackfire!"

"Its actually quite common." I finished, ignoring Kid Flash. "The people on Tamaran are warriors, and many are killed in battles, so the more children had, the better-."

"Okay! I can't here you! Lalalala!" Kid Flash fell over on his side, his hands firmly planted over his ears, all the while shouting 'lalalalala'. Some people looking at him with odd expressions but most ignored him as Jinx and I laughed, unable to breath.

"Do I wanna know?"

I looked up and smirked, focused again. Jinx's laughter ceased to giggling, giving me knowing looks.

"Kid Flash is drowning our conversation out because he thinks its inappropriate," she explained, trying to suppress her amusement and failing.

Red X looked from me to Jinx, suspiciously. "And what were you talking about to make him like this?"

I grinned evilly, standing uncomfortably close (for him) to Red X. "Do you really want to know?"

Beside me Jinx snickered and Kid Flash made a disgusted noise that was quickly silenced by his girlfriend.

Red X crossed his arms, leaning forward. "Try me."

"Alright, breaks over!" Robin shouted, Cyborg beside him.

Jinx grabbed Kid Flash, despite his tired protesting, and casually left the two of us alone. Neither of us had moved an inch.

I leaned in, next to where his ear was. "Oh believe me, I will."

And at that I left, back to where Jinx and Starfire were already gathering. When I gave a quick glance over my shoulder I saw Red X, staring after me with huge, disbelieving eyes that stretched his mask widely.

"Sister, what have you done to friend Red X?" Starfire asked, amused as she watched him over my shoulder.

I laughed, "Nothing he didn't want, sister dear, nothing he didn't want."

We didn't finish until the next day, and so we shared rooms. It was easy, because Beast Boy, apparently, had a house as well, with two rooms, two bathrooms, and an abnormally large kitchen/family room. There was plenty room for everybody.

But Jinx and Blackfire did somehow end up sharing a room. And Kid Flash had ended up sharing a room with Red X, much to the dark boys slight irritation. Surprisingly, Beast Boy and Raven shared Beast Boy's room, but Speedy, one of some staying with them, said if he heard any screaming in the middle of the night, he was going to assume someone was being murdered and open the door without knocking.

Raven stayed in our room for a few hours, until midnight. Starfire was with us as well, but she'd be staying with Argent and Kole. During that time, a new friendship sprouted, oddly enough.

"I like Beast Boy because . . . We just love each other, leave it at that," Raven insisted.

Jinx and I laughed, Jinx speaking first. "So, sharing a bed with Beast Boy . . ."

"What about it?"

"You're comfortable with that?" I intervened.

Raven nodded, "Its not like we do anything."

"If I had a man I wanted in my bed, I would so do something," I muttered.

"Blackfire," Raven reacted surprised. "I never took you as the type."

I shrugged. "If you have the opportunity, take it, that's my motto."

"Well, if you're going to screw my brother, at least wait until he's alone in his room. Like, when we get all the houses built and Kid Flash isn't sharing with him," Jinx begged. "I'll never hear the end of it if he catches you two screwing around in there."

"Sister, you and Red X are doing the dating?" Starfire sounded beyond stunned. "This is glorious! I must-."

I clamped my hand over her mouth. "We're not dating yet, sister dear." I released her. "Its just casual flirting."

"Soon to be casual sex," Jinx muttered, under her breath. Raven smacked her. "Ow!"

"Ignore her, I think its nice Red X has finally got someone to rile him up. Its time he learned what it was like to get teased about a girlfriend or a crush, so he can get knocked down a couple pegs after he does it to us." Raven said happily.

I snorted, "I'm going to the kitchen, anyone want anything?"

There was a chorus of 'no thank you's before I left the room, to get myself of cup of hot tea. I'd become accustomed to tea, as Starfire had become addicted to mustard shortly after her arrival. It was very warming in my body. When I drank it I felt comfortable. It was addicting and I started to pour the water, when someone cleared their throat from behind me. I smiled knowingly and turned, leaning up against the counter*.

"Come back to ogle me some more while my back was turned?" I hedged.

Red X seemed displeased at my teasing. "This needs to stop."

"What?" I asked, sauntering towards him. "I'm not the one staring."

"You know what I mean. You can't keep . . . trying to seduce me." He seemed uncomfortable with this conversation.

I touched my hand to his chest, "You know, this water could take some time to heat up. It could take a few seconds or a minute or the rest of the night."

Red X:

It was taking a large amount of my will power to keep my composure.

Okay I lied. It took all of it.

She began pulling my costume neck off, slowly. Immediately I moved away.

"You . . . seriously need to stop that." I sounded nearly winded, unfortunately.

Blackfire pouted, which did strange things to my stomach and my heart.

My eyes narrowed. "I said stop that."

At that moment the microwave went off and she was forced to move away, to get it. She plopped a tea bag in quickly before turning back to me, serious now. No flirting or trying to arouse me, just genuine confusion and honesty.

That sucked worse then her flirting.

"Whats the point of liking me if you refuse to even touch me?" She asked, searching for sugar.

I grabbed the sugar from the cupboard, handing it to her. Blackfire sat on the counter, stirring the sugar into the tea.

After a moment she said, "You didn't answer my question."

I sighed, "I'm not use to relationships . . . at all." I began walking out of the room, back to mine, calling over my shoulder. "If you really want to give this a go, wait until we've settled down here and Kid Flash is out of my room so we can talk privately, alright?"

She didn't respond and I shut the door behind me, Kid Flash already snoring on the cot. I rolled my eyes and settled onto my bed, drifting off to an uneasy sleep.

Raven:

We left. We actually left. Beast Boy woke me with a kiss, but my body was numb with shock.

He seemed to sense that.

"Rae, its alright that we left. We wanted to leave." He insisted, immediately. I still didn't say anything. The only time I'd been interactive with them was last night, when this seemed like a good idea. He sighed, "Do you want to stay out of building today? I'll stay with you."

I shook my head, standing. He grinned at me and I turned to him, my brow up. "What are you looking at?"

"You. Anyone ever tell you how damn fine you are?"

I threw a pillow across the room at him, knocking him off the bed with a thump.

Arella:

Terra's condition was becoming gradually worse. Each day the power was redder, darker, blacker. Each day she needed a little more taken from her mind, and she had yet to wake up or show any signs of it.

I drowned out my real concerns of my daughter with Terra. I knew she'd get over it. I knew that until the Elders came barging in, alarmed. They were gone. All of them had disappeared as soon as my secret had gotten out.

Raven was with them.

"No," I gasped out. "No, find them! You have to find them!"

Terra stirred in her sleep and I looked over her, peering closely. Ever so faintly, I saw her smirk. I froze.

"Arella?" One of the women asked, concerned. "Are you alright?"

I couldn't breathe.

"He knows."

"Who knows? What do they know?"

"Trigon knows she's gone."

Robin:

I'd asked Cyborg to build us new communicators, so we would only have to use our old ones when Arella inevitably tried to persuade us to come home, so Raven could supposedly be 'protected'. We all knew she only wanted to study her. It wouldn't be fair to Raven or Beast Boy or any of us to see her that miserable just for Arella's personal gain. I regretted being unable to bring Terra, but if we could treat her the way Arella did, we would. But we didn't know how, or we'd be back to get her in a heartbeat. Aqualad was agonizing over the decision to leave her.

Cyborg had improved the communicators. Unlike black, white, and yellow, they were now just black, white, and whatever color was the favorite of the person it belonged to. His was an electric blue, Jinx's was pink, Starfire's orange, Beast Boy's green, Raven's purple, very simple. It also let us know who had lost their communicator, if one color was found without an owner, and who should be punished for losing it. They could also be destroyed, manually, or from a signal Cyborg could send to a specific one. They could be tracked. They weren't circular, they looked like cell phone with a small 'T' in the corner. It had all our fake identities Red X and Jinx had made for us. I had to admit, having former criminals on the team made things a whole lot easier. We could specifically contact someone at any time.

This was better then I thought. It took only three days to finish the building. By the end of that, we set up a projector, and finally answered one of Arella's constant calls. We set up the projector in a windowless room, shutting down the tracking devices on all of our communicators and disabling any chance at following us. We had her outmatched. She could see all of us and we cold see her.

"Raven, please-!" she stopped, seeing it wasn't just Raven there, though she called her specifically. "Oh."

"Hello Arella, can we help you?" Kole said kindly, as if this was just an average call.

Arella looked pleading. "You all have to come back! You're in terrible danger if you don't!"

"So you can what?" Cyborg demanded. "Do your experiments on Raven too? Not gonna happen."

She frowned. I'd never seen Raven's normally sweet, loving mom like this. Something inside of her had snapped. Trigon had made her snap.

"They would be painless and necessary," She said, justifying herself.

Raven made a disgusted face, in the back of the crowd with Beast Boy's arm slung around her. "We're not coming home. We'll take care of this ourselves."

Arella looked furious. "You'll regret this."

"Pardon me, Miss Arella," Starfire said in a scathing yet polite tone. It stung even the people in the room. "But I believe the proper phrase my friends are searching for is 'fuck off', yes?"

Some people began laughing. No one had ever heard Starfire swear before. And she'd done it so politely, that was just too much.

Arella looked ready to murder. This was not the same woman I'd known my whole life.

"We're coming to find you!" Arella hissed. "We already know where you are!"

"Even if that's true," I said calmly. "We'll be hidden by then. We could be right in front of you and you'd never see even know it."

Arella sneer at us then. "I have Terra. What are you going to do about that, hm? You have no idea what I'll do to her!"

Argent's brow rose. "Are you threatenin' us, mate?"

"You're damn right I am!"

"Good luck with that," I said. "Until then, we're shutting down all communicators but one. If an emergency in the city pops up, call, immediately, because we'll be investigating it before you tell us, so you don't lure us into a trap."

"You little-!"

"Be seeing you, Arella." Beast Boy interrupted. "Later."

Many said goodbye, mockingly, swearing at her. Some made rude gestures and others said things to the effect of 'goodbye crazy!' and things like that. After a minute of this I cut the transmition, tossing the communicator to Cyborg.

"Get that hooked to a messaging machine, so we can record whatever messages she leaves us. I want blackmail, and I want a lot of it." I ordered.

Cyborg gave me a thumbs up. "You got it dude." He then addressed the crowd, pulling something from a drawer. A lot of boxes, each with a different color. "Oh and by the way, we're going shopping this evening."

*Imagine "Sisters" where Starfire turns and sees her leaning up against the couch.

I figured, now that its rated M (and this being my first story rated M) I might as well have some type of sexual thing involved. Blackfire and Red X were easiest, because they're an unexplored couple. They'll probably end up banging later, and my apologies if it seems like I'm focusing on them more then Beast Boy and Raven, its just difficult for some reason. Red X and Blackfire come easier, oddly enough, so I hope you at least like the coupling.

Also, you're all probably mad at me! :-(
I made Arella go psycho crazy on them, I know. I'm sorry! It just fit because otherwise they'd have no reason to be mad at her and no reason to take off and hide Raven from the Elders and Arella.

And finally, STARFIRE SAID FUCK OFF! WOOO! GO STARFIRE!

Until the next time, my dears.