Hey there! This is the thirteenth chapter, and I have some news. I have spent the past few hours drawing the kids and in their official uniforms. The clothes that they wore in the first chapter and are wearing now throughout the story are not their actual uniforms, they're more like back-up uniforms. I reread the first chapter and I just didn't like what they were wearing, except for Mariana and Matt, they were fine, but I will probably be tweaking them as well. Anyway, I didn't like what they were wearing so I've come up with new designs. Let's go with this, their official uniforms, all of them, are torn up, and so are the duplicates of the outfits. They needed to order more uniforms, and while they waited for those to come they used their absolute LAST back-up uniforms from before they became Titans.
Anyway, to the point, I have posted pictures of Sunburst and Chance on my tumblr. I will get the other three up hopefully by tomorrow, Sunday at the latest. Anyway, if you want to check it out: ange lsaku bud.t umblr com (Angelsakubud is the shortened version of my pen name, and you know what to do take away the spaces and add in the '.'s) That's my page, you might have to go through a few pages before you find it, but I rarely reblog things. I just uploaded them not that long ago (at the time of this posting) so they're on the first page. So, go check them out.
Sunburst groaned and sat up. "Where am I?" she muttered.
"You are in the infirmary, and we are safe," a voice answered to her left. Sunburst turned her head, and saw Starfire lying on the bed next to her. "Chance managed to get some of the poison and Cyborg was able to make an antidote. He saved both of our lives at the last minute."
"That was a close call," Sunburst chuckled nervously.
"Sunburst, why were your powers not working?" Starfire asked.
"I don't know," Sunburst lied, looking the other way.
"I heard Chance say that you would not exist if I died," Starfire confessed. "Is that why? Is it because I am supposed to be your mother?"
"If you already knew the answer then why did you ask?" Sunburst huffed, crossing her arms.
"Sunburst, I would never abandon my child," Starfire assured her. "Tamaraneans love their children, no matter what. I would never purposefully leave you or Robin, please believe me."
"Well I don't!" Sunburst huffed, getting out of her bed. "I'm out of here." The younger redhead floated out of the room angrily. She flew through the tower, flying angrily into the main room. "HOW MUCH DOES SHE KNOW!?" She shouted. The past titans all jumped back, afraid of her. Mariana continued to eat her cake, while Chance continued reading a book, right next to the half-Atlantean.
"W-What do you mean?" Beast Boy asked nervously.
"Who told her that she was my mother?" Sunburst growled.
"She figured that out on her own," Raven answered, standing up straight. "She was dying and your powers stopped working. Since you're from the future, anything done here could affect you. Starfire isn't stupid."
"How much does she know?" Sunburst growled.
"I think she's figured everything out for herself," Robin answered. Sunburst floated over to him and glared.
"Then let's get one thing straight. She left us. I don't care if you, here or in the future, want me to get along with her. I'm not doing it," she growled lowly. The redhead turned around and floated out of the room.
"Do you think she noticed that she was barefoot?" Mariana asked.
"I doubt that's the most important thing on her mind right now," Chance told her.
"Okay, so, I've got Jinx," Kid Flash smiled, walking into the room. "Wanna tell me what's going on?"
"You guys are on your own!" Chance shouted, running out of the room.
"How many speedsters are there in the world," Jinx huffed, smoothing down her clothes.
"Depends on what decade it is," Cyborg muttered.
"Huh?" Jinx and Kid Flash chorused.
"I'm going to go practice," Mariana smiled, finishing her cake. "I need to practice my water control."
"Have fun," Beast Boy smiled.
"So, what's going on?" Kid Flash asked.
"Okay," Beast Boy smiled, taking a whiteboard out of nowhere. He took out a marker and began drawing on it, creating small, deformed version of the present and future titans. "So, Sunburst, Mariana, and Chance, are all from twenty years into the future! They and their teammates were sent here by some bad guy calling himself Master Time!" He drew an outline of a person with a question mark on his face. "At first we didn't know anything about them until Mine, Cyborg, and Robin's future selves came here to tell us that they were in this year." Beast Boy drew older versions of the three, with an 'F' on each chest to show that they were from the future. "First came Sunburst, and she's Robin's daughter! She's the leader of the future titans. Then Chance appeared, we don't know who his parents are. After him Titans East found Mariana, who, get this, is the daughter of Aqualad and Speedy! They get married!" Beast Boy smiled.
"Yes!" Jinx cheered. "You owe me fifty bucks! I knew I sensed some major sexual tension between those two!"
"Pay you later?" Kid Flash smiled. "Continue Beast Boy."
"Alright, there are two more kids, Cam, which is my son, as well as Raven's-!"
"You and Raven? Really? I just don't see that happening," Jinx confessed.
"Well, if you go by the opposites attract angle, it might," Kid Flash smiled.
"Can I continue!?" Beast Boy huffed. Jinx and Kid Flash waved their hands, allowing him to continue. "Alright! And then we have Matt, Cyborg's son! That's all the titans from the future. And they're all here in some month. We just have to wait for them to appear!"
"Can we get back to the whole daughter of two men thing for a moment?" Jinx requested. "How is that possible? I doubt any orphanage would let two superheroes adopt a kid. And unless the whole homophobia thing has gotten better, they wouldn't even think about letting two gay superheroes adopt."
"Mariana said that I combined their DNA and created an artificial womb for her to develop in," Cyborg explained.
"Those two really wanted a kid," Kid Flash whistled.
"No kidding," Jinx nodded. "So, what do you need us to do to help?"
"Honestly, just keep an eye out for Matt and Cam," Robin answered. "We're trying to keep them on the down low. If any of the villains found out they could do something. You saw what happened to Sunburst when Starfire was dying."
"Since she was disappearing, Starfire was never supposed to be poisoned," Jinx reasoned. "Only if something happens that isn't supposed to, the kids could be in trouble. You guys need to be careful. Just by being here they could be in serious danger."
"We know," Robin nodded. "Can you just keep an eye out for them?"
"Yeah, we can do that," Kid Flash nodded.
"Just leave Central City to us," Jinx smiled.
"Thanks," Robin nodded.
"Sunburst?" Chance asked, knocking on the girl's door.
"Sunburst, can we come in?" Mariana asked. The door slid open and the redhead stood there with her arms crossed. She lowered them and walked back into her room silently. Chance and Mariana followed their leader, closing the door behind them.
"Are you alright?" Chance asked, watching his leader sit on her bed.
"As fine as I could be for someone who almost disappeared," Sunburst muttered.
"Sunburst, it's okay to say if you're feeling overwhelmed by all this," Mariana told her, sitting next to the girl.
"Yeah, we're not your teammates, we're your friends," Chance added, sitting on her other side.
"I just, it's so stressful being here," Sunburst sighed, dropping her head into her hands. "If we were back home then we would be battling some loser villain and dad would be training with me on the weekends. I'm used to being on a schedule, and this place is just complete chaos."
"I know how you feel," Mariana nodded, looking at the floor. "In this time, daddy and papa don't love each other yet. In our time, we were perfect, I was their little princess. Now, I'm nobody's princess. I won't get a call from them, or get gifts, or even new toys. I miss knowing that no matter what, they'd be by my side in an instant."
"We're just missing the things that make Titan Tower ours," Chance told them. "We're missing the sense of security that, at the end of the day, we have a home to go back to if needed. We can call our parents and talk for a few minutes, and let them know that we're fine. I miss being able run around the world with my dad, making races out of everything, and then trying to cook with my mom after the race was over. It was fun."
"This timeline stinks," Sunburst huffed. "I want to go back home. I want to go back to just me and dad, no one else. I don't like seeing him with Starfire. I hate her. I hate what she's going to do to us."
"But, she hasn't done it yet, do you really have to hate her now?" Chance asked.
"Why judge a person by what they're going to do?" Mariana agreed.
"She left us, she went one night and she just never returned," Sunburst muttered, falling onto her back. "Dad was out of commission for two months trying to come to terms with her leaving."
"Sunburst, don't think about that, we should be focusing on what's important," Chance said "Finding our teammates."
"You're right," Sunburst nodded. She sat up, and smoothed down her hair. "And in order to do that we need to train and be ready for anything that comes our way."
"Yay! Training time!" Mariana cheered. Sunburst nodded and flew to her drawers, taking out her uniform. She flew into the bathroom, closing the door behind her. Once she came out she was looked at her teammates, who stood up and saluted her.
"We can't let what almost happened today get us down. We're going to train so that the next time it happens we can be prepared and save our parents, as well as ourselves!"
"Yeah!" Mariana and Chance cheered.
"Let's go!" Sunburst nodded, opening the door and flying out of the room and towards the training room.