A/N: To all my readers, welcome back! So I tried and tired, but it looks like making my season 6 into a comic isn't going to happen. But the good news is now I'll have more time to write here instead! I hope you guys haven't faltered in the longer gaps between the chapters. It won't be like that anymore! As always drop a fav/follow and leave me a review let me know what you think! Thanks for reading!

As the T-ship flew through the stars of an endless black abyss, everyone seemed to be as silent as the vacuum of space surrounding them. No one knew what to expect as they arrived on Starfire's home planet... without Starfire. The last time they were there Beastboy nearly had his head ripped off by Starfire's guardian for calling the giant Tamaranian Starfire's "nanny." So what would he do to them if he found out she was taken hostage by an unknown enemy under their watch?

The whole team was filled with a sense of anxiety. Though it was hard to tell if they were anxious because each with ticking second Starfire would be further out of reach or if they arrive on her home planet if they would only cause more problems. Most likely it was a mixture of both.

After flying for hours, Beastboy decided to finally say something as if tearing open a rift in the silent darkness of outer space.

"So... Terra, what did you tell your parents before we left?" He said trying to start any kind of conversation.

Terra was staring out her window into the emptiness lost in thought.

"Um, heeellllooo, earth to Terra..." Beastboy said a little louder fluctuating the pitch of his voice in an attempt to get her attention.

"Huh?" Terra said as it finally registered she was being addressed, "oh. Yeah. I just told them the truth. Starfire needs our help so I might be gone a couple days."

"And they were ok with that?" Raven asked joining in the conversation. She thought back to Terra's last interaction with her parents. She didn't seem to enjoy their company. She actually seemed more annoyed by her parents than anything. Something was going on between them and it was nagging at the back her mind ever since.

"Well..." Terra began, "not exactly..."

"What do you mean?" Beastboy said urging her to continue.

Terra paused for a moment and thought back to the conversation with her folks. They had always been supportive but they never encouraged her to help the Titans. They only ever seemed to encourage her to keep up with school and the normal everyday things that regular people deal with. Maybe that was what annoyed her. They wanted her to be a normal highschool teenager but anyone could tell without even knowing her... she was far from normal.

"Let's just say they don't mind I'm here... but wish I wasn't," Terra said with a sense of sorrow.

"Back up," Cyborg said unable to hold his tongue anymore, "are you saying they don't want you around the team?" His voice held a tone of anger and betrayal as if they had no reason not to trust him and his friends.

"No!" Terra said quickly, "no, no, no." She thought about it again and decided to tell them what she thought the problem was even if she didn't know for sure, "I think they just want me to be some normal kid. And I did want that... before I remembered who I was. But..." She paused, looking for the words to describe what she meant, "I'm just... Not."

"Well who is?" Cyborg said trying to lighten the mood, "and why would anyone want to be normal?"

"Yeah!" Beastboy pitched in, "being normal is so boring. Ever since I met you weirdos life has been an incredible non-stop action-comedy with no commercial breaks!"

The team all laughed in unison as they drfited through the weightlessness of the universe. Beastboy sounded proud and happy to know them and even more proud to call them his friends. It put all their minds a bit as ease... The conversation actually ended up killing a bit of time as the neared their destination. But the feeling of worry and suspense returned once they saw the planet Tamaran come into view...

"So... does anyone know what to even say?" Cyborg asked looking for a plan.

"We tell them the truth," Raven respond instantly, "Starfire's been captured and we need their help."

Back on Earth, Richard had re-supplied himself and geared up turning back into Nightwing. He and Red X were preparing to leave the Tower... though Red X wasn't doing much preparing. He was just waiting on his temporary ally. He was leaning against the wall outside the room Nightwing was in relearning all his weapons and gear and even with a mask on you could tell he was growing impatient.

"Are you done yet?" X asked with an annoyed tone.

Nightwing place the final item in his belt and turned for the exit and as he walked out he looked at X and nod his head.

"So whats the plan?" He asked looking to form some kind of idea on how to proceed.

Red X turned his head towards the man in the V shaped mask, "What do you mean?" the robotic voice shot back as if it was obvious, "we go after her."

Nightwing narrowed his eyes under his mask, "I mean as in a plan on how we do that," Nightwing spat. Now he was the annoyed one.

"I was hoping you'd have a ride we could take," Red X sounded like he was laying the sarcasm on thick, "after all, doesn't daddy buy you all your toys?" He gestured to the suit and weapons Nightwing had on him.

This made Nightwing angry but he bit his tongue knowing X was just trying to get under his skin... again.

"Hate to disappoint you but I don't talk to him much anymore," Nightwing said with confidence, "we're on our own. Besides..." he turned away from the man wearing his red x mask and began walking down the hall, "my team and I built all of this ourselves."

Red X let out a small chuckle and lift himself out of his leaning position and followed Nightwing down the hall. Before long they both end up in the hanger where Nightwing began to grow more and more agitated.

The large room big enough to house multiple ships of all kinds was just a large empty space. The steps the two would take as they walked into the room would echo with a deep and long resonance as if ensuring the two that this room was definitely vacant.

Nightwing let out a sigh of disappointment and turned to his former enemy as if embarrassed to ask what he was about to ask. Before he could speak Red X spoke up...

"I take it this empty room was supposed to have something in it?" The sarcasm never ended with X.

"You wouldn't happen to have a ship built of deep space would you?" Nightwing managed to say while burying his pride.

Red X smiled under his mask as if he had been waiting for that question.

"I thought you'd never ask," he said with pride as he turned to leave the hanger and the exit the tower.

They both exit the Tower and began approaching the waves crashing on the island Red X grabbed a small remote off his belt and clicked one button on it...

In the shallows of the waters lights flashed in response and a stylish hybrid submarine/jet rose to the surface of the water. It looked a like a massive stingray, with a red "X" engraved across the entire body, had left the safety of the ocean at the beckon call of its master.

Red X turned around to face Nightwing with a smug look under his mask, "all aboard," the robotic voice taunted.

Nightwing had an eyebrow raised as if not impressed. He was more curious how he owned something like this. Normally it would be the first thing he asked but for now it would be best to deal with it after they saved Starfire.

"Alright... So we have a ship... But we don't know who took her or where they are," Nightwing sounded like he wanted a bit more of a plan before they just took off into space.

"Speak for yourself," X shot back, "while you were busy wrestling with Rancid I decided to get as close to the ship as possible and plant a tracker."

X raised a device from his belt with a small screen depicting a map of the solar system. A small red dot could be seen on that tiny map blinking every so often.

Nightwing looked closer at it and he could clearly see the red dot was moving through space slowly as if it were a ship in a virtual world. Red X did have a back-up plan. He beat Nightwing once again at his own game.

"Like I said," X started to lay his pride on thick, "I won't fail where you do."

Nightwing felt like he was just sucker-punched. His pride dropped even further as he started to realize he was depending on X way more than he ever wanted to and he didn't deny that this was most likely to be exactly what Red X wanted.

It seemed as Nightwing's pride fell, Red X's pride grew. It was like he had already started playing this game for Starfire's heart and he was beginning to take a lead over Nightwing... and Starfire wasn't even in the picture yet.