Beyond the detection of Earth's technology, a spaceship passed through the Solar System.
Inside the ship a mighty scream echoed out. Two guards holding staff-like weapons entered the detention wings and walked gingerly towards the most secure part of the corridor, where the scream came from. The doors opened and the guards meet the two already there and banging came for the heavy bulkhead.
"The door will hold?" one asked.
"It must." another stated.
"The alien will be delivered on schedule, Lord Trogar has commanded it."
"And if this thing gets loose?" another asked.
"Then Zorg help us all."
The small window in the door cracked as a pair of glowing green eyes appear, the guards at the front back away.
The door burst forward and landed with an almighty crash, bend and heavily dented. From the now open cell the eye appeared and an enraged female cuffed in a massive pair of restraints that covered her hands stomped out "Zengtha ru maka!" she shouted, "Kek zengtha ror!" before charging at her captors.
She swung her bond hands at one. He flew into a wall and passed out.
"Zengtha ru maka! Kek zengtha ror!" she repeated before taking another swung, taking two out.
The last guard blocked her next attack with his staff and bash it into the cuff. It snapped in half, the girl jumped and swung a kick into the guard's head making him fall back into a wall, hitting a button panel with his back. An alarm sounded but the girl ignored it "Pes'kavo." she said before flying into the walls and tunnelled her way out into the vacuum of space.
With herself out she flew straight for the nearby blue and green planet.
Down in Jump City a man with a very full sack in this hand hurriedly ran down a street, police sirens wailed in the distance, the man turned into an alleyway. He ducked out of view as the cars passed.
Once gone he looked at his bag before causal walking down the alley.
A shadow passed over fast causing him to jump and turned around. He pulled out a crowbar and slowly backed away looking at the roof tops.
A projectile hurtled towards him and knocked the crowbar out of his hands. The man continued walking back "I don't want trouble okay?" He heard someone land behind him so he turned.
From the shadows a colony of bats flew straight towards him. Thoroughly scared the crook look into the shadows as a voice spook "You should've thought of that before you committed the crime." out of the darkness stepped Robin the Boy Wonder. He sprinted and jump kicked the criminal, blocked his punches, elbowed him in the stomach, kicked him again, jumped on and off the wall, flew to towards the crook, grabbed his shoulder and flip flipped him onto his back before hurling him into the wall.
The criminal slumped down onto the floor before looking up at Robin "Hey, this isn't your town, aren't you supposed to be with…"
"Just moved here." the Boy Wonder said cutting off the question "And from now on I work alone."
"Criminal or not," another low voice called out "he has got one thing right.", Robin and the crook turned, a figure stood in entrance of the ally "You're not the protector of this city, I am."
"It's Rorschach," the crook said "I'm getting out of here." Before the crook could escape the aforementioned Rorschach raised his hand, made a force-field of red energy that the crook ran into. Already tired from his fight with Robin, the criminal passed out.
The Boy Wonder looked back as the new person walked towards him, "Of the cities in all the states in all the countries in all the world, you had to walk into mine."
Before Robin could speak a load noise broke the silence of the night. Both looked up at the sky as a green streak flew over them and crashed half-a-mile away. Robin looked at Rorschach "Want to talk about this later?"
"I rather think so," the young hero with the shifting mask said still looking out to the crash site "don't worry about the crook, I've sent a message to the Commissioner to send a pick up for him." Rorschach turned as Robin bond and hung the criminal upside down "Don't want him escaping."
"True, now come on."
In the main high street outside a pizza restaurant several people cautiously walked up to the massive carter in the road that emitted green smoke.
Out of the smoke appeared a girl with green glowing eyes, orange skin, long deep red hair, dressed in purple and metal clothing and her hand bond in a massive pair of hand concealing cuffs.
"Slopforn ivortmat!" she called out to the crowd before sliding down the carter sides "Slopforn! Ond gudshik zerrole!" she pointed her cuffed hands at the crowd who backed away. One of the crowd members took a picture of her, the flash made her recoil and shut her eyes. Opening them again she started to swing her arms and beating the cuffs into the road causing the crowd to run off. She continued beating the cuffs into anything she could find wrecking them severely.
On the balcony of the restaurant civilians watched her rampaged. She suddenly flew towards the pillar the held the balcony up and swung her cuff into it "Zop! Yark! Mesnef!" she shouting with each bang.
The pillar buckled and the balcony collapsed making the people on it cling on for dear life. The girl didn't seem to notice and went for another swing, before a projectile knocked her sideways stopping her. She turned around.
Robin stood on a car roof and Rorschach leaning against it, his arms crossed.
"Who are you?" Robin said entrance his fighting stance.
"Please," Rorschach said "stop this bad show, we don't want anyone hurt."
The girl didn't say anything, instead she jumped high into the air, Robin jumped out the way as Rorschach quickly made a small force-field over his head with his hands, the girl brought her cuffs down onto it forcing Rorschach down fast and then went for Robin who continued to dodge her swings.
Rorschach picked himself up 'Robin shouldn't have thrown that Bat-a-rang at her.' he flinched as his gloves beeped. He activated his computer, warning of a dark magic aura coming from an alleyway, near to where Robin and the girl fought 'One thing at a time Josh.' he thought turning his attention to the fighting pair, in time to see a car fly towards him, he jumped out the way, before it crashing into a building with an explosion. Josh surveyed to damage around him 'I hope everyone has insurance.'
Robin flew into him, knock them down, quickly they scrambled out the way as the girl tried another hit. Robin pulled out a metal pipe-like object that then lengthened into a staff and hit her forcing her into another car. The Boy Wonder readied the staff again, only for it to crumble apart.
The girl dislodged her from the car and twisted her head, the bones clicking as she grinned "Zota.", she charged at them. Before she landed her hit out of nowhere a green goat rammed into her side. It quick transformed into a five-foot-tall boy with green skin, in a purple outfit, complete with pointed ears, he stood to attention and saluted "Ex Doom Patrol Member Beast Boy sir, how can I help…" his eyes widened "Wowzers! You're Robin aren't your sir?" he then saluted the Boy Wonder.
"Well," Robin said "first you can start by not calling me "sir"."
"Well," the changeling said, his face conveyed pure admiration "let me just say it's a real honour to…"
"If you done fanboying for the moment," Rorschach said "I'd recommend getting out way, and be quick about it." he pointed his thumb to the side, before running off to the side.
The orange girl lifted a coach bus and threw it towards them, Robin and Beast Boy jumped out the way, before the bus could crash into the road a large older teenage boy grabbed the front end, which force him a back a few yards before he lifted it with relative ease and threw it to the side.
This jock, well over six foot and bulky, wore a grey hoody, but enough of his face showed his African-American decent and his glowing red left eye "Yo!" he called out "Who's here messing up my neighbourhood?", beneath the mask Josh's eye widened 'Victor?'
Beast Boy pointed to the girl "She started it.", the girl then took another swing of the cuffs into the ground, however this time the force caused a small earthquake. Rorschach mask formed a surprised shape "Gordon Bennett." he said under his breath.
The clatter of metal caught their attention as the cuffs, dented and buckled finally came off the girl's hands, revealing another pair cuff, though these ones exposed her hands. Rorschach's black shape changed 'She must be both powerful and troublesome to be restrained twice.', the girl lifted her arms, made fists and green energy appeared around then causing the four boys to flinch before she let out a hail of green energy projectiles like a machine gun.
The boys ran in different directions causing her to turn while firing, the energy attacks went everywhere. She stopped, panting she fell to her knees.
Robin observed her from behind the bus. Rorschach, Beast Boy and the jock stood beside him with the bus as cover, all of them tried from their sprint. The jock spoke first "Girl's going to wreck the whole city.", Rorschach mask turned to a scowl like shape "We can't let her.", Robin put a fist in his palm "I won't lose this fight."
"Oh yes," Rorschach said "and fighting has done brilliantly so far." however the three others didn't seem to listen as they charged out from the bus, only to be stopped by black energy that formed a giant bird of prey, Robin turned back "Rorschach?", the mask of the young mystic conveyed his confusion "My energy is red and appears like fire" 'It's the same dark energy I detected a few minutes ago.'
"Maybe fighting isn't the answer." the four turned to were the calm female voice came from, behind them stood a teenage girl in a dark blue hooded cloak.
"My thoughts precisely." Rorschach as the new comer let her power disappear. Robin turn to the still kneeling girl, smoke arose from his hands that rested on the tarmac, "Stand down." he said, Beast Boy saluted and Rorschach put his gloved hand into his coat pockets, however the jock walked up unimpressed "What do you think you're the boss or something?"
"Just give me a chance." came the reply before the Boy Wonder slowly walked towards the girl, still panting she stood up and the green energy form around her hand once more, Robin back away as still advanced "Gokta!" she exclaimed.
"Easy, my name is Robin, and I don't want to hurt you." his hand lowered to his utility belt "I just want to help."
"Gokta! Gokta buhovna." she leaned her hands closer. Robin didn't flinch. "It's okay, look." he showed her the lock-pick in his hand. A moment or two passed before Robin slowly put his hand on the cuffs and lowered the girl's arms the energy disappeared, as Robin made his way through the lock her eyes stopped glowing showing that both the sclera and the irises were green, just different shades.
The cuffs fell off and clattered at their feet, the girl check her arms before Robin spoke "There. Now maybe we can be…" he got cut off as the girl grabbed the back of his neck and pulled him into a kiss, then she opened her eyes, glowing again and pushed the Boy Wonder away "If you wish not to be destroyed," she said in off grammar English "you will leave me alone." she then flew away quickly.
The five in the street watch her leave in silence, then Beast Boy broke it turning to the jock and cloaked girl "So, I'm Beast Boy, who are you?", nobody answered that question as they looked around at the massive amount of damage, the jock broke the new silence "Well whoever she was, the girl sure knows how to make an impression." Beast Boy spoke next rather full of himself "I think we made a pretty good impression, crazy space girl's gone, the city's safe, mission accomplished, right sir?"
"Seriously," Robin said "stop calling me that."
"Roger." and the changeling saluted again.
"Looks like we're done here," Robin said walking away "I appreciate the help.", the cloak girl spoke next "You're going to track down the alien?"
"I have to find out if she's a threat."
"More like find out if she'll give him another kiss." the jock muttered. Rorschach scoffed, ignoring Beast Boy pleas to Robin to let him be the Boy Wonder's sidekick the young mystic turned to the hooded girl, "That was an impressive way to get our attention, you're quite the skilled mage, what name do you go by?"
"People call me Raven.", Rorschach took his hat off and bowed "Pleasure to meet you Raven, I call myself Rorschach, the first Techno-mage and former student of Doctor Fate."
"If you have connections to the Lords of Order then I should leave."
"Wait," Beast Boy said grabbing the attention of the two sorcerers "you guys want to get a pizza?"
"I shouldn't." Raven said walking away. Beast Boy turned to Rorschach "Not when I'm on duty," he said "I need to report this to the Police Commissioner and besides after the battering the building took from Miss Extra-Terrestrial, I presume the restaurant won't be open for a while." Rorschach walking in the opposite way to Raven, the jock happened to be walking that way too, just ahead of him. Beast Boy scurried up to said jock "Just you me then? Cool, I haven't really had anyone to hang out with since I quit the Doom Patrol, this is going to be fun, can we play video game…" the jock stopped cutting off the changeling as he ran into the jock's back. He removed his hood revealing metal parts and circuity in his head "There, take a good long look, I had an accident and now I'm a monster alright, a cyborg."
'So,' Josh thought 'that's why he dropped out of school just before I graduated.' his thoughts were cut short as Beast Boy looked the cyborg jock over "Cyborg? Cool, you're like Robot-Man 2.0."
"You're a weird little dude you know that?" the changeling laughed at the response "You called me dude." Cyborg replace placed his hood and walked away as Rorschach caught up with him, leaving Beast Boy to himself.
Josh looked up at his mechanised former schoolmate "Vic in a world full of super-powered beings, being a cyborg doesn't seem that big a deal.", the jock flinch "Dude, you know my name?"
"Well," Rorschach said laughing his voice lightening to one Victor Stone recognised "you were always pushing me to go into sports.", Victor's eye widened "Josh?"
"Got it in one, can you keep it secret?", Cyborg smiled "Anything for an old friend."
A shrill shout from Beast Boy stopped everyone in their tracks, a massive shadow covered the city as a massive spaceship flew just above the rooftops then out into the bay, a small island sat there which the ship stopped over. The doors at the bottom of its hull opened up and a pillar like structure shot out and landed on the patch of land.
"Looks like space girl has friends." Cyborg said, Beast Boy stood now beside him and Rorschach.
"Or enemies." Robin added as he and Raven joined them.
From the top of the pillar a hologram of a blue bipedal reptilian creature appeared it spoke "People of Earth, we come to your planet hunting an escaped prisoner, a very dangerous prisoner. Do not interfere, and we will leave your city with only minimal damage, but if you attempted to assist her, your destruction will be absolute." and with that the hologram dissipated and the pillar opened revealing forces well beyond the hundreds.
"That's a big ship." Cyborg said.
"And those are some scary looking aliens." Beast Boy added, as the reptiles flew towards the city.
"Gordanians I think," Rorschach muttered "any Thanagarians in the area?"
Raven spoke next "They told us not to interfere", Cyborg turned to Robin "You're still going after her aren't you?" Robin nodded.
"Can we come to?" Beast Boy asked, Robin turned to them "I suppose I could team up just this once."
"Well," Rorschach said as the four boys began to walk "I want to make sure that both Miss Extra-Terrestrial and the lizards don't make a right bog of the city."
"Dude," Beast Boy said "you talk funny."
"My Dad's British, sue me.", he glanced to his side to see Robin stopped, Raven still stood where they all were a few moments ago.
"You in?" the Boy Wonder asked. The cloaked witch looked away from the boys "I'm not the hero type," she said "trust me, if you knew what I really am you wouldn't want me around."
"You're half demon aren't you?" Rorschach inquired, Raven turned around wide eyed.
"I'll take that as a yes," the Techno-mage continued "may I ask another question? Does that matter?"
"If you knew who my father was…"
"Does that matter? Just because you have dark powers doesn't mean you have to use them for evil proposes. From what Doctor Fate told me Merlin had demon's blood in his veins."
"Rorschach's right," Robin said "we know enough to see you're vital, so you in?" Raven blinked with no room to argue she cracked a smile and began to walk with the others.
Around the city Gordanians flew around in search, they broke into cars, turned them over, and blasted rubbish bins as they went. The group of teens leaned out from an alleyway as a group of the reptiles fly away.
"Alright," Robin said, "we need some way of tracking…"
"She's near," Raven said, leaving the others, Rorschach included, confused, embarrassed the blue witch continued "I can sense things."
"Better than I can," Rorschach commented "I can only detect magical energy.", Beast Boy spoke next "I'll see if I can pick up her scent." he then changed into a bloodhound. As Beast Boy carefully smelled his way down the alley Cyborg spoke up "There's a sonic analyse built into my arm, if she's around I'll hear it." then he switched it on.
Beast Boy changed back "I've got her trail." Cyborg check his scan "And I can hear her heartbeat" with that the group headed off.
They came across a video shop with the door burnt through. Entering it they found the alien girl eating her way through the chocolate and popcorn and any junk food she could grab.
"Ah," Beast Boy said "those taste better without the wrapper.", she turned around and formed the green energy in her hands.
"Here we go again." Rorschach muttered.
"It's alright," Robin stated with is hand out "we're friends remember."
"Friends?" she said "Why?" she approached and they back away "For what propose did you free me."
"Just, trying to be nice." the Boy Wonder reasoned
"Nice? We do not have this word on my planet, closest is rutha, weak."
"Then I'll get you a dictionary." Rorschach snapped, Cyborg more sternly said out his response "Well around here nice means nice, and if you want us to keep being nice you'd better tell us why the lizard king took you prisoner."
She calmed done, the glow in her eyes faded "Not prisoner," his tone took a solemn turn "I am, prize, the Gordanians are to deliver me to the Citadel to live out my days as their servant."
Rorschach's mask formed a scowl as Joshua seethed 'Sasu will defiantly relate to that.', Raven spoke next "And the Citadel are?"
"Not nice.", Robin walked up to her "Then you're not going with them, not if I have anything to say about it.", Beast Boy followed "Don't you mean us?", before anyone else could say anything an explosion blasted and knocked the group of six over. They recovered quickly to see a mass number of Gordanians through the hole in the wall, "Seize her." one said, and with that everyone charged at each other.
Cyborg brought his fist down on a Gordanian's head. Beast Boy changed into a Rhinoceros and sent a good few flying. The alien charged through with her flight and super strength. Robin pulled out a new staff and beat his way through. And both Raven and Rorschach used their respective magic to repeal the attackers.
The alien girl flew outside followed by a few on the lizards, she threw a couple energy shots at them taking out one, but another went in close, dodged her attack and smacked her down into the street with enough force to create a small carter in the road. The Gordanian landed over her and charged his weapon, Robin looked back from where he struggled with another lizard, he deflected his attacker's staff grabbed the Gordanian and threw it, hitting the one over the alien girl knocked them both out, she looked at Robin standing triumphant and she smiled.
More Gordanian abounded towards them and the two re-entered the fight.
Cyborg wrestled with one of the lizards, its tail wrapped around his leg and knocked him over. He barely dodged the attack from the Gordanian staff before jumping afar, then being met with a volley of energy attacks. The Gordanian grinned before getting hit by a beam of red energy and falling over passed out. Rorschach ran from where he fired to the cloud of smoke that covered Cyborg "Cyborg you okay?" he called.
The smoke cleared revealing the mechanical jock to be okay, but his clothes ripped to piece, showing the full extent of his cybernetic workings. More Gordanians flew inbound and Cyborg met them by tossing one of them into the group, however those that didn't get knock back fired their weapons, Cyborg tried to shield himself and Rorschach before a pair of talons grabbed the pair as Beast Boy in the form of a large Pterodactyl lifted the two out the way as Raven using her powers, pulled a lamppost from the pavement and batted to remaining Gordanians to the ground. The remaining uninjured flew away.
The alien girl turned to the other "I believe your expression is thanks."
"Your welcome," Rorschach said tipping the brim of his hat, "Miss…" he faulted "We never did get your name."
"In your language it would be Starfire."
'So one alien girl has the name Sun and Moon and now I meet another with the word star in it.'
"It's a nice name." Robin said, the two smiled, Joshua raised an eyebrow and smirked causing a change in the mask shape 'What's all this then, lovebirds in the making?'
Cyborg looked at his wrecked clothes "Oh man, my suit."
"So," Beast Boy said "you look way cooler without it."
"Yeah, like I'm taking fashion advice from the guy in the goofy mask."
"Goofy? My mask is cool, isn't it? Raven?" both Raven and Cyborg shook their heads, Beast Boy looked to another "Rorschach, you look like someone with good fashion sense, tell them my mask is cool."
"I thank you for the compliant Beast Boy," Rorschach began "but I agree with the others, the mask does not look good at all."
"But, what about my secret identity?"
"What secret identity?" Raven asked "Your green.", the changeling tried to argue before faltering and taking the mask off. Rorschach nodded "Much better." then he turned to Cyborg "By the way I agree with Beast Boy; you look perfectly fine without being covered up."
"Well," Cyborg said trusting a person he knew for years "if you say so."
Robin and Starfire walked up to the four, the Boy Wonder spoke first "This isn't over, now that we've interfered…"
"Trogar will strike harder," Starfire continued "it is only a matter of…"
"Fools," a familiar voice called out, everyone looked up as the hologram of the Gordanian leader Lord Trogar reappeared as spoke "the Earth scum were warned. Your insolence will be punished, your city shall be destroyed." the hologram disappeared and the spaceship reappeared over the city, before tilting down and began to charge the weapon on the front.
The teens looked up in silence, the Raven broke it with the simple utter of "Great."
"So," Beast Boy said "after trashing a pizza place and a perfectly good video store, now we've managed to make a humongous space gecko mad enough to vaporize our entire town?"
"Go team." Cyborg said.
Starfire turned to Robin "All the fault is yours, I commanded you leave me alone but you insisted upon to being nice."
"My fault?" Robin protested "You blast me, you kiss me, but you never stopped to mention that they have a gigantic particle weapon?" as the alien girl and the Boy Wonder continued to argue Beast Boy spoke "We're doomed," he turned to Cyborg "I can't believe I let you talk me into this."
"Say what?" the mechanical jock exclaimed "I was ready to walk before you…"
While this went on Rorschach and Raven exchanged a glance, the male mage could see the annoyance on the witch's hooded face so turned back to the other, took a deep breath and cut them off with a loud, drill sergeant like shout of "SHUT UP!", everyone looked at him as he crossed his arms and his mask formed a scowl "Squabbling like a bunch of school children is not going to help matters." he took a breath to calm himself before he turned to Raven "Sorry if I was too load."
"It's fine."
Robin spoke next "Rorschach's right. It doesn't matter how we got into this mess, we're in it and we'll get out together." everyone nodded before Robin continued "Come on, we've got a city to save."
In a side corridor within the massive ship a black orb appeared before dissipating and leaving the six.
Beast Boy shivered "That dark energy stuff gives me the…" he stopped when he saw Raven glaring down at him "I mean it cool." Robin looked out to check the for anyone near, once sure he whispered "We have to get to the firing controls, there isn't much time." four off the others followed however Raven once again stayed behind.
This time Rorschach and Cyborg took notice, Cyborg spoke first "Mind tell us why you're always by yourself?"
"You heard the kid, I don't exactly fit in.", Josh rolled his eye beneath his mask before speaking "I've heard that so many times. A person's difference is what makes them special. Besides Beast Boy is green. Cyborg here his half metal. Robin was trained by a man who dresses up as a bat. My mask has a shifting inkblot and I was trained, for a short while, by a man with a Lord of Order trapped in his helmet. Starfire is from another planet and we're fighting her space lizard captors, I think you'll fit in just tickity-boo.", Raven smiled and the three caught up with the others.
Robin stopped at corridor junction, Starfire then spoke "I bring you apology."
"Don't worry about it. I'm sorry I yelled too."
"And again, you are, nice, on my world only my k'norfka has shown me such, kindness."
"Well things are different here.", the two seemed to lose themselves in each other's stare.
Beast Boy called out "Uh, guys, I think they know we're here.", a group of guards surrounded them.
In the main control room, a panel lit up and a low alarm sounded, one of the Gordanians at the controls turned to the throne in the middle of the room "Lord Torgar," he said "the weapon has reached full power." the throne turned around as Lord Torgar leaned forward "Then begin the firing sequence.". Simultaneously several control personal prepared the sequence. Lord Torgar smirked as he stood up "The Earth Scum shall it takes more than six juvenile heroes to defy the mighty Lord Torgar."
An explosion blasted out the doors behind them.
"We're not six heroes" Robin said as the smoke cleared "We're one team." Torgar growled and all the Gordanians in the room flew into battle, the team broke apart and intercepted.
Rorschach created a force-field and pushed it out slamming some of the lizards into the wall. He heard something behind him and swiftly raise his arm and a beam of red energy blast from his hand knocking the Gordanian back, smoking. Cyborg punched another one coming "Saw you use that energy thing back at the video store, why don't you use it more often?"
"It uses more energy than the force-field, and I can't control the amount of power in the blast, I'm frightfully worried I may have killed that Gordanian."
"Dude, these guys trying to kill us." Cyborg said punching another.
"That doesn't mean killing them is okay either, an eye of an eye, leaves the world blind, I won't kill unless absolutely necessary." he made another force-field, but the two Gordanians started punching it. Josh grimaced at the force. Quickly he let his shield go and fired beams from both hands. He stumbled slight and inadvertently dodged an incoming attack.
Beast Boy as a kangaroo kicked every Gordanian that came near, however he changed back to normal to assume another animal but Trogar came from behind and sent him flying to the celling. The changeling slumped to the floor as the Lord approached.
Raven appeared and created a shield but Trogar punched it repeatedly until Raven couldn't hold it anymore.
Robin jumped on Trogar's back before he could land a hit and pull him back, Trogar threw Robin off, the Boy Wonder landed and gave the Gordanian Lord a left hook, and then a spin kick.
Trogar grabbed him before he could do his third move and threw the Boy Wonder across the room and into a wall, Starfire saw this and gasped, she turned to Trogar her eye glowed green and she sent her energy shots at him. Trogar jumped, grabbed her and slammed her into the floor. Starfire punched him and Cyborg quickly did the same. Together to two gave the Lord, punch after punch. The Lord then retaliated and punched the pair back landing next to Robin, Cyborg's right arm opened up momentarily.
Robin looked at it as Cyborg got up "Can you rewire that thing into some sort of weapon?"
"I can try." the technical jock said. The three looked around, and found themselves surrounded.
"Get away from my friends" Raven said as she and Rorschach held Beast Boy up on their shoulders "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"
The control room exploded causing the ship to fall from the sky and into the bay.
Around the Gordanian lay unconscious.
"My word," Rorschach muttered before turning to the blue witch "remind me never to tick you off." and shadow covered the three. Lord Trogar still stood. His claws lengthened, he raised his hand to strike when a blue energy beam struck him in the back making the Lord pass out.
Cyborg stood triumphant, his right arm formed into a canon "Alright, I'm only going to say this once, Boo-yah!"
"Good show." Rorschach laughed.
The group made it onto island by the time sun came up, they looked out at the city.
"That's quite a view." Raven said, her hood down showing her grey skin and jewel in his forehead.
"Growing up in Jump City," Rorschach added "I've only ever seen the bay, not the view from it. It's pleasant here."
"Yeah," Cyborg said "someone ought to build a house out here"
"Yeah," Beast Boy added "if you like sunshine and the beach." he elbowed Raven, who laughed "You know, you're kind of funny."
"You think I'm funny? Dude I know some jokes" Raven cringed and Rorschach observing this chuckled 'That's done it.'
Another voice spoke "Please." the five turned around, Starfire stood there without her armour and dressed in light purple, "I look nice?" Robin walked up to her "Very nice Starfire, welcome to Earth."
"I thank you all for your bravery and help, and I wish to ask permission, to remain here, where the people are most strange, but also most kind." she looked to Robin specifically, Raven spoke next "You don't need our permission."
"But if you want our friendship," Robin said, "You've got it."
"Guess," Cyborg said "we could all do with new friends."
"Besides," Beast Boy added "we kind of made a good team."
"I thought we might want to keep in touch," Robin said reaching into his utility belt, "so Cyborg, Rorschach and I, designed these." he showed a bunch of communicators which the others took.
"Made them out of my own circuits." the mechanical jock added.
"When there's trouble," Robin finished "you know who to call."
"If you're done with your group bonding," a new voice said, causing them to look up as an African-American man in a black and green outfit with a green ring landed "maybe you can explain to me what happened here? John Stewart, Green Lantern of this sector, my ring picked up a particle weapon on Earth while I was away on Zerbon."
The group explained and Green Lantern nodded "Good to hear the threat's over, I'll take to Grodanians back home, I'm sure Starfire is fine to stay here." with that the Lantern flew up, into the air and with his ring he grabbed the hologram pillar and the ship and flew into the sky taking the alien tech with him.
Rorschach looked up 'Good thing I did a scan of the ship and its tech an hour ago', he then turned to the group "Now can we get back to the mainland please? I need to report what happened to the Police Commissioner." Beast Boy turned into an eagle and flew off, Starfire hooved and picked up Robin and Raven used her magic to move Cyborg and Rorschach.
Once on the main street of the city everyone began to go their separate ways, Rorschach however called Starfire down before she flew any "Can we have a small talk."
"Of course Friend Rorschach, what is it that you are wishing to know?"
"Why did you speak in your native language before you kissed Robin and then suddenly began speaking in relatively good English?"
"It is because Tamaraneans learn languages by lip contact."
"I see, frightfully bizarre biological trait but whatever."
"Please, what is scary about it?"
"Oh sorry, that's just a British phrase, in the context I used it means extremely, I take it slang is not a part of your English vocabulary."
"It must not be, it shall maybe be a problem, so I hope you and the other understand. May I ask why lip contact is weird? On my planet it is seen as a method of passing on knowledge."
"Well here on Earth we humans have developed kissing on the lips into an act of affection between romantic partners." Starfire's eyes widened and blushed. Josh smirked "I can tell your developing feelings for Robin, don't worry I'll keep it secret."
"Thank you Friend Rorschach, I shall be seeing you at later." and she flew off. Rorschach yawed and put his hands in his pockets 'That was a long night, still got work to do, off to Thatcher.' he turned on his heels and walk towards the police station.