It was raining in Jump City. And it wasn't just raining, it was a downpour. Drops slammed down against the glass as Robin looked out at the city, drinking a cup of coffee. In this kind of weather, not many of their foes will want to go out in risk of getting cold and wet, so today was a free day.
"Wow, it sure is raining cats and dogs out there." Now, when he said this, Starfire just entered the living room, and when she heard this, the alien girl gasped.
"It is raining the pet animals?! But where?! I do not see any!" Going out, it took Robin a couple of seconds to process what happened.
"Star, wait!" Following her, he went up to the roof, seeing a streak of pink trail through the rain. "Star, come back! It was just a-" He flinched when a lightning bolt zapped his girlfriend, a shriek piercing through the rain for a second. He wasn't worried about that for the most part though. The Tamaranean warrior survived much worse than a simple lightning bolt, so it's not like she was in danger compared to say a regular human. Still, after watching her fly through the rain at high speeds and then get hit by lightning, the most painful part was her coming down onto the roof, looking depressed as her feet touched the wet ground. Robin had to jump a bit when she inadvertently sent a wave of electricity out throughout the rain soaked roof. His shoes may be insolated, but that didn't matter when everything about you was wet as well. Starfire walked up her concerned boyfriend, her hair trailing behind her on the roof while her skin and clothes were mildly burnt, though nothing like some rest and a change of clothes will make her good as new.
"I could not find the animals." Her voice wasn't just sad, it was melancholic. Like this was something that for a long time she shouldered but it was finally getting to her now.
"It was just a figure of speech. Rain never consists of cats and dogs. Sure, other animals have rained before. I mean sure, frogs, frozen iguanas, spiders, fish and sharks have rained, but those were due to tornadoes and waterspouts." He then turned away, looking towards 'our' direction, though not officially breaking the forth wall. "Seriously, sharks and tornadoes are possible, as rare, ludicrous and terrible for movies as it is. Look it up."
"But the cats and dogs are not among those animals?"
"Not that I'm aware of. It's just a figure of speech meaning its raining really hard."
"I...see." Sounding resigned, Starfire turned away from her team leader, taking a few steps. Starfire clenched her eyes shut, her frown intensifying while her hands turned into tight fists. Her arms shook while her hands and eyes glowed green through her eyelids before the alien princess shot up into the air. Once she got into the clouds, Starfire trembled with suppressed power and emotion until she screamed, her green energy bursting out with such force the storm clouds were cleared. Not quite enough to blow the storm away, but she certainly pushed the clouds away for a few miles, creating a temporary stop to the rain. Slowly, Starfire descended back to the roof, no longer soaked by just as depressed. Robin took her hands once she came close enough, and the two hugged while Starfire cried. The Boy Wonder just took it all in, letting his girlfriend cry herself out. After a couple of minutes, the rest of the titans came out, looking for trouble.
"Dudes, what happened?!" Beast Boy questioned.
"I was reading a book listening to the rain before that explosion shook me good." Jinx stated.
"That explosion was Star." Robin told them.
"Why?" Raven asked. It was then that the storm clouds had enough time to recover that rain started pouring on them, prompting the sorceress to create a shield so they didn't get wet, though it was too late for Robin for that. Starfire was able to compose herself enough to end the hug and face her other friends.
"Oh, do not the worry about me. I just got frustrated that I mistook another figure of speech. Even after living on Earth for so long, it's still so confusing and it just makes me feel sad that I don't understand my new home." The titans looked at each other sympathetically, before nodding.
"We could help you Star." Cyborg suggested.
"Really? You'd take the time to tutor me?" Starfire asked.
"Yeah, girl! We's about to give you a crash course about Earth!" Beast Boy declared.
"I would prefer a course without the crashing."
"And that's the perfect segway to..." The scene swiped to show a title card saying
Lesson #1: Slang. Robin and Starfire were in his room.
"Alright, your first lesson will be about common expressions. On this white board, I'll show you how things are meant when people say them. Ready?"
"Yes."
"Perfect. Now, when someone say 'This new thing is the bomb', what does that tell you?"
"That it is the explosive and needs to be disposed of."
"If it's an actual bomb, then yes, that is correct. But for anything else, 'is the bomb', just means that it's cool." Robin showed as he wrote a picture of a time bomb not equating to a stereo they used to have before Starfire threw it out for thinking it was a bomb.
"But what about the clocks that alarm you awake? What makes them not bombs?"
"Ah, the difference between the two are something the villains always mess up. A countdown, and colorful wires. Alarm clocks typically don't count down, and they certainly don't have colorful wires to cut. Next one, what context do you normally hear the phrases, catching z's or 40 winks?"
"I usually hear those with sleeping, but they are neither hunting for the letter nor blinking." As amusing as her misunderstandings can be, they aren't so much when trying to teach Star something.
"They just mean someone is sleeping. Moving on, would you say that these lessons are a breeze?"
"What does wind has to do with the lessons?"
"...I don't know." As with most people, robin doesn't know how wind came to be associated with the ease of things. "Moving on. Have you heard of 'money doesn't grow on trees'?"
"Do they not? And I think I have seen business buildings in the city advertising money coming from trees?" Starfire asked. The Boy Wonder pinched his nose, growing irritated.
"That aside, money does come from trees, but not in a direct sense. It goes through a long and complicated process that turns the wood of trees into money."
"Oh, this slang is so confusing how many slang phrases are there?"
"That's rather impossible to tell. There's literal dictionaries for slang, but there's even more than those books contain."
"Oh." Starfire looked down in disappointment.
Lesson #2: The internet.
"So you are saying I will learn all I need to know because of the internet?" Starfire asked, sitting in front of a computer in the metallic titan's room.
"Yeah. What, you never watched any funny videos or researched something on a digital web on Tamaran?" Cyborg inquired.
"Most of our high end technology was for inter-stellar communication and space travel."
"Okie dokie then. Well, let me show you how to use a computer Earth style. You use this mouse here for moving this clicking cursor. This allows you to click on stuff, like this globe." Clicking on the internet icon, a Google search bar appeared. "Now, this bar allows you to search whatever you want to see. What always brings a smile to your face?"
"The cute little kitties." Starfire giggled.
"Then type it in." Doing so, the alien princess was bombarded by countless pictures of baby kittens.
"Kitties!" Starfire proceeded to hug the screen with a huge smile and glowing, glittering eyes. "Oh I so very much love the kitties!"
"Now how about Robin?" Cyborg coyly pushed, amused by her reactions. Typing in her leader, the Tamaranean then saw heroic pictures of the Boy Wonder in action, along with gossip pictures of him and herself together.
"Oh Robin." She sighed romantically. Cyborg's stomach then growled. "Well, I'm off to make a meatball sub. I'll be back in five."
5 minutes later:
As the titan came back into his room, he yelled when he saw his computers on fire with Starfire struggling how to use a fire extinguisher.
"Star! Why is my computer on fire?!"
"I do not know! I clicked on something and a 'firewall' popped up, so I tried extinguishing it with the extinguisher of flame! But I do not know how to get the white stuff out!" The alien girl responded frantic, giving up with her struggle by throwing the extinguisher into the flame.
"Star, that never works!" He shouted as he covered his friend before the red container exploded, technically putting the flame out, but also destroying a significant portion of the wall as well. Thanks to his tough metallic body, the explosion did nothing, and provided enough cover to protect his friend, but upon gazing at the obliterated computer, he asked,
"Firewalls usually aren't literal. What did you exactly click on before that happened?"
"A link that said "The Top 34 Ways Robin Rules."
"Star, if a link or website has 'rule' and '34' in the same sentence, you never click on those. It's those kind of websites that virus and malware infect and destroy someone's computer. Frankly, unless the number is 10, 15 or 20, never click on a rules webpage."
"I am the sorry." Starfire apologized, greatly disappointed in herself.
"It's okay. I just need to get a new computer. And table. And wall." He replied awkwardly. The girl sighed as she left his room.
"Alright Star, Earth Biology 101." Beast Boy tried speaking like a teacher while they were in his room. "First off, we're going to talk about some facts you might have questions about. What might you be confused about?"
"Well, what is this thing I hear about wisdom teeth? Is there some intelligence with human teeth?" Now unlike Robin, his teammates misunderstandings are rather humorous to Beast Boy.
"Hehe, no. They're just signs of maturity, somewhere in between 17-21 human years old. We remove them because as we evolved from our Neanderthal ancestors, they became more and more unnecessary to the point we remove them because they hurt just sitting there."
"Interesting. How come I see a little hole in people's bellies? Tamaraneans do not have such holes."
"That's where our cords connect us to our mommies. Since we can't eat while inside our mothers, the food they eat goes through the tubes connected to our stomachs, and we get fed."
"Oh. The tube you speak of is rather connected to our mouths, so that we can eat more directly."
"Ech, that's nasty." Beast Boy cringed.
"It helps insure that even from birth that we are used to chewing on meats, vegetables, and other edibles."
"Well, I guess that's okay." The green teen shrugged.
"Why do humans get the bumps of the goose when we're cold?"
"Goosebumps?" Beast Boy thought about it, but nothing came. "I don't know."
"Do the nails on the fingers actually grow after death?"
"I don't see how they could. Once you're dead, nothing should grow."
"Does the tongue actually have sections for different flavors, and if so, how come I can feel them all over the tongue instead of just that section?"
"Ugh, all this biology is giving me a headache." Beast Boy tried to go and get some headache medicine, but walked into his scratching post, howling as he fell back into his sleeping box, and the post falling onto him, knocking Beast Boy out. Starfire awkwardly left the room while he groaned in pain.
"So Star, you want to learn about Earth things, huh? Then why don't we start with a bit of country culture." Jinx said as she held up a globe, Luna sleeping on her bed. "Now, nobody would guess by looking, but I'm actually part Indian descent from here." Spinning the globe, she stopped by pointing at the sub-continent in the middle of Asia. "I may have been born in America, but my blood has descent from here. It's something I learned from a DNA exam I had in the Hive starting out. From what I hear, you Tamaraneans learn languages by kissing. Now, first off, be careful with that girl. You're lucky the person you kissed for English was Robin. I dread if you kissed a creep." The female metahuman shuddered.
"Well, if it helps, I can also just kiss the female. We don't have sexual preference when it comes to learning a new language."
"That's great, but some countries frown upon same-sex interaction of any intimacy, even if it's as innocent as that. Some countries are just 'picky' like that to say the least." Her eyes shifted a bit, not wanting to delve deeper into some uncomfortable stuff, at least right now. "Anyway, if you were able to kiss someone here without upsetting the government, you'd likely learn the Hindi language.
"Hindi?"
"Hindi is the language of Hinduist people following Hinduism. It's this big religion thing about karma, reincarnation, pacifism, blah blah blah that basically sums up to leading a life following the eternal duties of oneself, such as honesty, refraining from injuring living beings, patience, forbearance, self-restraint, virtue, and compassion, among others."
"That sounds like a good life." Starfire nodded in understanding.
"Yeah, if you want a boring as heck life, or Naraka in this case. I may be a hero now, but I'm a flipping teenage girl with barely any respect for rules! I mean, think about our first girls night out!" Jinx was getting riled up with her emotions, her grin growing wide. "Instead of talking about boys, paining our nails and watching some sappy chick flick, we went to an amusement park, broke a rollercoaster and fought Mumbo! That was so much more fun than any typical girls night I ever thought of having! Don't you think so too?!"
"It was certainly the enjoyable." Starfire again agreed, remembering back.
"I even heard your powers come from your emotions like Raven, but in the opposite way. What would those be?"
"My powers are fueled by boundless courage, unbridled joy and righteous fury."
"You see?! You're way much cooler than any passive religion could ever be! If I could have any titan power of you guys, it would be yours Star. Have the courage to do whatever you want! Enjoy things to the most joyous you can! And if your fury is justifiable, then be as righteous as you can!"
"Yeah, you are right!" Even Starfire was getting caught up in Jinx's hijinks.
"Now go on Star! Make the most out of life!"
"I shall!" The Tamaranean warrior screamed as she left Jinx's room, distracted by her stoked emotions forgetting the culture lesson entirely. Snickering, Jinx went to her bed, picked up a book she was reading and proceeded to resume so, until remembering what she was supposed to do.
"Oh, I was supposed to teach her about foreign culture." After a few seconds, she shrugged. "Ehh, maybe later. Hinduism is so overrated anyway." Robin was in his room working on a case when there was a knock on the door rather vigorously. Getting up to open the door, once it opened she requested, almost demanded even,
"Robin, I wish to do the making out."
"Wha-" The Titan leader barely got a chance to respond before she pounced on him.
Starfire soon woke up, laying upside down on the couch was was covered in chip bags. Groaning, the alien princess flipped herself around to see Cyborg, Jinx, Beast Boy, Robin, Birdarang, Boom Box, Super Robin, Pain Bot, and Silkie laying around the living room, zonked out from partying pretty much all night since she asked Cy and BB to throw a party, with Birdarang and Boom Box assisting. It was a real shindig that involved too much dip and soda.
"Oh, my head." Stafire groaned, holding onto her cranium walking into the kitchen, only to see Raven waiting for her with both cereal and medicine. "Raven?"
"You guys threw some party last night. Jinx suuuuure helped with your lesson last night." The half-demon sorceress commented sarcastically.
"Huh? Oh, right. All I learned was that Hindu...Hindi..." Her mind wasn't running properly yet. "Whatever that Indian thing was is a boring way of life and that I should live life to the fullest.
"I guess it was a bit much to ask Jinx to teach you something, given who she is." As Starfire took her medicine for the headache, she asked her fellow female friend,
"Do you have any wisdom about Earth too?"
"I'm not originally from Earth. I've probably been here only a short while longer before you. Long enough at least I'm not ignorant about things, but ultimately my knowledge is limited, aside from knowing six languages already." Raven replied. Starfire sighed feeling depressed again.
"I understand. It seems that my ignorance will always hold me back."
"Star, as good as it was to get help with your friends, these'll serve you better." Snapping her fingers, a stack of books appeared. "They don't hold everything, but these are all the books that helped me when I came to Earth. Read these and you should have a better understanding."
"Thank you Raven." The Tamaranean expressed to her friend, ate her breakfast with Raven, then went to her room. Putting the books down, several of the books involved facts about the world in general, the United States, and Jump City in order. She didn't know which end to start with, one that didn't look like the others was a book that was dark and foreboding. But as the naïve alien she was, Starfire picked up the book and read it, coughing as dust poured out of it.
The next morning, the titans were finally 100% recovered from their party comas.
"Oh man. How can something that sucks so much follow after such great parties?" Beast Boy yawned as he and Cyborg got breakfast.
"It's because the human body just can't withstand having such a good time at such intensities. But you know, they're worth it bro." The metallic titan said, the two clinking their drinks together.
"Totes, dude." Beast Boy agreed. As the titans that were freshly recovered came into the kitchen and had breakfast together, talking about their favorite party moments, that's when Starfire came in.
"Oh, are we talking about the party two days ago?" The Tamaranean asked as she sat with them. "Did you know that parties were not celebrated until the Egyptian calendar came to be to celebrate pharaohs becoming gods?"
"Whoa, where did you learn that Star?" Robin asked.
"Raven gave me some books that helped me learn some new things. I spent the whole day studying."
"That's great to hear. It'll be nice having some more intellectual conversations in the house." Raven remarked with a smile.
"Yeah, now we can talk about stuff that you won't ask every ten minutes." Jinx made a playful jab, but Starfire didn't really respond, making the situation awkward. And throughout the day, Starfire would utter facts that were not just interesting, but disturbing. Beast Boy caught her in her room throwing a Rugged Annie doll into a box labeled donations, along with others.
"Yo Star, what's with you ditching the doll?"
"It has a tragic origin, Beast Boy. A girl died from smallpox in 1915 without her parents consent. It was made as a source of story time joy, but came with such terrible timing.
"Whoa, seriously?! That's messed up!" The green teen was shocked.
"Indeed. I cannot enjoy these dolls anymore because they have origins that now make me sad because I am aware of them now. So I shall take them to the orphanage." Taking the box, she flew to the orphanage.
Later, while Cyborg was watching one of his favorite 80s shows, Super Hyper Color Squad of Heroes, Starfire passed through and blurted,
"The actor wearing the blue garb quit because he was made fun of on set for being gay."
"What?! My favorite color coded heroes was homophobic?! Behind the set?!"
"Indeed. He quit midway of Zeo Heroes."
"Aw man." Cyborg moaned out of disappointment. Going into the kitchen, she spotted Jinx enjoying some ice cream.
"Hey Star, you want to try this new flavor I'm trying out? It's called Strawberry Razz-cheesecake. Nothing but natural flavors. It's quite good."
"No thank you. The 'natural flavors' sweets claim come from an additive called castoreum. And that comes from beaver butts." The pink haired witch with chalk like skin paled even more as she looked at the carton in horror.
"B-b-beaver butts?!"
"Indeed. For most of you humans being disgusted by gross things, you sure put the weirdest things into your foods." Taking a fish from the refrigerator, the alien ignored the metahuman as she became so outrageously disgusted she put so much of her power into the ice cream, it ignored all probability and disintegrated. That's how furious she was. Using her eyebeams to cook the fish instantly and then eat it by putting it in her mouth whole. When she took it out, it was stripped clean of flesh, and was thrown into the garbage. Soon, Starfire found her boyfriend doing some training, hitting a wooden dummy with spinning limbs. She noticed how much his jaw is clenched and decided to put a stop to it. "Robin?" Her voice immediately made him stop and turn to her, stepping out of range of the dummy.
"Yes?" He asked, watching her float towards him.
"You are grinding your teeth too much during combat. Might I suggest during training and sleep you wear a mouth guard, as to not make your teeth overly sensitive and possibly crack?"
"Oh, I haven't thought of that. Thanks." Robin expressed gratefully. The two smiled as they kissed before she left. By the end of the day, each of the titans, except Robin, were not happy to say the least.
"Man, I thought I'd never say this, but Star's a complete bummer now." Cyborg remarked. Beast Boy nodded.
"Yeah, I mean, I'm happy Star's knowledgeable of stuff now, but why can't she say facts that are actually pleasant and useful?"
"She ruined both strawberry and raspberry treats for me!" Jinx growled, slamming her fists onto the table. "Now I feel like blueberry is the only berry I can enjoy in sweets! I swear, if she ruins blueberry pie..."
"Raven, what kind of books did you give her? Facts that ruins your day?" Robin asked.
"No, they're just general facts. I have no idea how she came across things about dolls and beaver butts."
"Do you want to hear how meat is manufactured?" A familiar female voice asked the group.
"Nuh uh, no way you're ruining meat for-Wah! What happened to Starfire?!" Once Cyborg pointed to the alien girl, they all either gasped or screamed at the giant pulsating mass that's growing around her head underneath the orange skin.
"Her brain is huge!" Beast Boy observed in terror.
"That is wrong on a number of levels." Jinx agreed.
"I need to check what's wrong." Raven proclaimed before using her empath powers to search through her friend's brain, before being ejected, causing the half-demon girl to fall onto the floor, gasping.
"Raven, you alright?!" Beast Boy knelt down to her in concern.
"Raven, is your coccyx injured from your fall?!" The big-headed alien princess inquired.
"I'm fine, but Star isn't." She responded. "One of the books I gave her must've been one of my books from Azarath. Her head is too full of knowledge and if we don't get whatever is in there out, her brain will explode."
"My cranium will rupture from my accumulated intelligence?!" The Tamaranean girl gasped, before falling to the floor on her knees, begging with her hands clasped together. "I do not wish to perish from my cerebrum! Please, drain me of my infliction!"
"Don't worry. We'll save you. Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Uttering her incantation, the titan submarine appeared, and they all got in. Further using her magic, the submarine both flew forward and shrank at a drastic rate, and by the time they reached Starfire, they were already at microscopic size, moving through her eye without damaging it.
"Uh, why are we going through the eye? Don't things like the nose or ears reach it too?" Beast Boy asked in confusion.
"Surgeons never use the ear canal or nasal chamber to reach it. If outright cutting their skull open isn't the first option, then through the eye is the next best thing." The sorceress replied. Traveling along the nerves, it didn't take terribly long to reach the brain, which was engorged and pulsing with black matter.
"Look at all that knowledge." Cyborg shuddered.
"This is worse than I thought. It's growing at an alarming rate." Raven pointed out.
"Then let's nuke some neurons." Robin declared as he prepped up two cannons. "Fact attack, fact attack!" But even after a few well placed blasts, the matter simply regenerated. "No! It's healing faster than I can shoot!"
"We have to take it out the source!" Raven deduced. So they went ahead, and soon found the biggest, and most intense spot of the black matter enveloping the grey. "This must be the source." Electric sparks came out as neurons formed into a miniature, black colored Starfire.
"Indeed, I am the source. I am knowledge, fact and trivia."
"So you're the one who made Starfire a bummer!" Cyborg yelled at the mass of intellectual evil.
"Yes, I am, and once I'm through with her, she'll be more than just a bummer, she'll be a dead bummer, and you will learn what death is like first hand with her!" The demonic entity laughed.
"We'll see about that! Titans, GO!" Each of them grabbed a breathing apparatus, and dived into the cerebral fluid. Swarms of black matter tentacles tried to attack them, but each had their way of defending themselves. Cyborg went for the demon right away and tried blasting her with both his sonic blasters and barrage of rockets, but she simply bashed each away. Jinx was causing tentacles that got to close to explode, though she had to spin her arms like manic windmills to just keep them at bay. Robin and Raven was surrounded by tentacles, but the Boy Wonder managed to throw explosive disks onto them, and detonate them while Raven formed a shield to protect them. Beast Boy tried to turn into an animal, but the demon said,
"Uh uh uh. Even I don't know if you turning into an animal will make you grow and explode your friend faster."
"Dang, she could be right! Well, how about an ameoba?" Turning into a single cell organism as large as he currently was, he started splitting apart and multiplying fast, it seemed like the tactic was actually working, since he was the biggest things around, and he swarmed over the black matter consuming it. However, electric pulses shocked him away for a few seconds. "Ow! I can't touch them!"
"Let me teach you titans another lesson." The demon threatened as she went further on the attack. Cyborg ducked under first attack, but was sideswiped by another, knocking him back with a grunt. Jinx could keep the tentacles at bay with her speed and acrobatics, but once they all attacked her at once, she was pinned.
"Someone help me!" She yelled, but Beast Boy was wrapped up in another tentacle, while Robin and Raven were forced to stay in Raven's forcefield was tentacles tried to shock it open.
"See how your collective battle strategy and intelligence has failed you, against my superior numbers? I will consume all that populates the Earth, and then once I figure out how to travel across the stars, I shall consume any intelligent life, adding each person's IQ to my own until I'm the only one with intelligence. Then I will make a race of my own which will be as brilliant as I."
"We won't..." Raven grunted from maintaining her shield for so long against the shocks. "...let you." Lowering the shield so that she stood the brain, the sorceress pressed a hand to the grey matter and incanted, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Beside them, green neurons started to form into a person, until it was Starfire!
"Huh, what's happening?!"
"There's no time to explain! We have to fight!" Raven yelled as she sent her shield outwards to repel the tentacles away. "And you need to fight her so you can buy me some time!"
"Okay then!" Starfire agreed to as she flew at the demon. Seeing a miniature of the actual Starfire instead of an impersonation caught the demon off guard as she was tackled, slamming into the skull and wound up being grinded against it hard with Starfire pressing her to it. She even proceeded to smash her through neuron tentacles trapping her friends and punched the demon in the face. By now the demon had recovered from her shock, and proceeded to give back what she was being dealt with, punching and shocking the Tamaranean, but even as a neuron avatar, she was tougher thanks to her alien physiology. Forming her self into a giant neuron, she tried trapping and consuming her prey, but was blasted away by green energy, similar to when Starfire blew those storm clouds away. Dazed, she was wide open as Starfire tackled her into a mass of black matter, and kept punching her. Seeing Raven was almost complete with her purging spell, even having turned white for this, the neuron demon gasped.
"No! You can't-ow! Get rid of me! Ow! I need to-ow! Stop them!"
"You will not hurt my friends anymore!"
"No, stop! Listen to me!" The demon pleaded as she stopped the fists coming. "You could be the smartest being in the universe! If I'm gone, you'll go back to being an idiot who doesn't understand idioms and metaphors that everyone else will!"
"But I will have my friends. Something you don't seem to value." Starfire retorted.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven completed her spell as she summoned a demonic black hole, a variant in which it sucks up anything demonic, and nothing else. Raven then teleported into a different dimension so that she wasn't effected. The same couldn't be said for the demon.
"No! No No No!" She screamed as all the black matter was being sucked up into the black hole. From the outside, Starfire's swollen head began to shrink. The demon could do nothing but scream as she and all her matter disappeared into the void, and then collapsed. Tired and worn out, the titans headed to the submarine, which Raven shifted back into once the hole was gone, and they left to see their real friend. Once outside, the submarine went back to full size, and they were relieved to see their alien friend back to normal.
"How do you feel Star?" Robin asked his girlfriend.
"I feel as if a thousand Glinglads are dancing on my glipnor." The Tamaranean responded, but they were all relieved she would remain alive even if communication was back to the way it was. All the titans celebrated.
"I'm sorry Star. I don't know how I gave you one of my magical books without meaning to, but I'm just glad you're well again. If you'd still like us to teach you thins, we can."
"Thank you Raven, but it wasn't a complete loss. I have retained some of the knowledge."
"Such as?" Jinx asked.
"I now have a complete understanding of calculus and trigonometry, the languages of Greek, Latin, Mandarin, Hindi, European Spanish, French, Arabic, Bengali, Russian, Portuguese and Indonesian, the sciences of physical, life and earth and as much as 12th school grade understanding of American history. However, I still do not have a clear understanding of the metaphors."
"Wow. I'd say Star just skipped a few level of school! Booyah!" Cyborg exclaimed with a smile.
"Now that's what I call a brain blast!" Beast Boy agreed.
"Wrong show." Jinx nudged him, but was glad Starfire reaped some benefits.
"How does it feel having all this new knowledge?" Robin questioned with a grin.
"I feel like I have a much deeper appreciation for Earth. While there are still many things I do not know, at least I won't feel as lost. Thank you." She went to hug Robin and Raven, and everybody, except Jinx, got into a group hug again.
"That's nice. Hey, who wants to watch a mind-numbing action movie?!" The metahuman shouted, wanting a break from anything intelligence related. All the others agreed.
A/N: This was interesting. All those facts I had Star say instead of bummer facts, those were mostly if not completely true. Raggedy Ann was never officially made a symbol of antivax by the inventor, but it did have a sad timing in relation to Johnny Gruelle when his daughter died from an infected needle around the time it was patented. David Yost, the first blue Power Ranger, did quit because he was made fun of for being gay on set. And yes, even the Castoreum thing is real. Things such as certain beverages, baked goods, three flavors of ice cream, candy and especially chewing gum has basically beaver butt as an ingredient. And as for Eris suggesting that Starfire kept some things, I wondered about how much she could really have instead of just two languages, which seemed random to me. So, I looked a dot time 4 learning dot com about what 12th graders learn in general. You'll find some of what I mean in the curriculum section. And as for the languages, most of them are ranked as the most commonly spoken by how many millions spoke it. Please review below.