A/N: Hey so, I have something to say. Originally I was going to do a chapter on the episode 'A Farce', trying to add some of the serious weight into the third season like them having consequences for their destructive habits and repaying Jump City all they money they owe from property damage. But when I asked dad since he knows a thing or two about how trials work, turns out the titans are for the most part scot-free. While I can't say this for the actual show, in my story any damage they do involves fighting a villain, which means any fees would fall on the villains they're fighting, and only would be sued if the titans themselves inadvertently hurt someone innocent in their heroics, which is never really focused on, so that rendered my idea for 'A Farce' null and void. However, that doesn't mean I can't use what Eris proposed for that chapter for something else. It'll just be something that comes after the chapter for 'Pyramid Scheme.'
Garfield was sleeping in his bed, happily snoozing to his dreams when his alarm went off. For once, he actually woke up to it on time and hit it before the thing could ring three times.
"Aw yeah! Today's my B-Day!" The shapeshifter cheered as he ran to a mirror, smiling to himself. "Bro, today, you're the center of the universe! Now get out there and get your friends sing you a song, watch you blow out candles, and open up presents!" Opening up his door, he ran to the kitchen where everyone was sitting at the table, green balloons and purple confetti everywhere, a banner saying 'Happy Birthday!', and Raven presenting a green sheet cake with two candles that were 1 & 8 respectively.
"Happy Birthday Garfield!" They all yelled.
"What up everybodies?!" They all got up to personally congratulate him. Cyborg was practically crying with his organic eye.
"I never thought I'd see the day. My little Grass Stain becoming a man instead of a weird little string bean." The mechanical titan even hugged his best bud, though careful not to crush him.
"He's certainly grown out of his boyish looks alright." Jinx agreed with a nod. "While still a bit scrawny, I can actually say he's matured since I first laid my eyes on him. Just in the looks though, you're still a silly clown."
"And that ain't ever gonna change Jinx!" Beast laughed in response, making her giggle.
"Congratulations on your own day of the birth Beast Bo-I mean Beast. Sorry, the habit." Starfire giggled as well. "I wonder how you would do with my planet's coming of age passage by slaying the mighty Koozbane?"
"There ain't nothing you got that I can't handle Star." Then he remembered that some of Tamaran's alien wildlife is especially dangerous. "Umm, is it a beast or some kind of elemental construct?"
"A beast."
"Then I'll slay it so bad yo!" The alien princess giggled again.
"Garfield." The green titan turned to his leader. "I'm proud to have had you since the beginning. You are truly an invaluable part of the team."
"Thanks bro." The two guys fist bumped. He then turned to Jinx, whom was blushing and smiling nervously. "What's up Rave?"
"It's just... I'm remembering when I thought I was going to be the doom of this world, that Trigon would take you all away from me, and throw me away when I served my purpose. But more than that, it's that we're here now, and we can celebrate holidays and birthdays past that point. I found love. I get to have you. With me." She reached a hand up to feel his face, tears in her eyes. "And after defeating my father twice I can even feel my emotions freely. I'm just so..." She sniffed "...happy."
"I understand baby." He sweetly said, taking her hand in his. "I'm glad I could celebrate my 18th with such a mysterious and wonderful girl like you." The two went into a strong embrace as the two kissed, Raven even raising a leg while doing so. The two other couples thought the moment was sweet. Once they separated, Beast yelled, "Let's get this party started!"
"First will be cake and presents." Robin began to list off. "Then we'll have a party with our little buddies at the-"
"No more talking! I need cake in my tum-tum!" Cyborg bellowed as he ran to the table along with the rest. When Beast went to sit down, the titans began to sing.
"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Garfield! Happy birthday to you!" Just as the green titan was going to blow out his candles, he glowed white before shifting into a normal colored, brow haired and blue eyed baby.
"Beast Boy?!" They alll gasped before Raven glowed and thus turned elderly with white hair, wrinkles and her leotard now a dress down to her shoes.
"Rave-" Starfire glowed and shrank into a baby version of herself, along with Robin and Cyborg turning elderly themselves. Jinx closed her eyes, waiting for her turn as three of her literally old friends questioned what was happening, but she didn't feel any changes. Opening one eye, the witch saw that she was unchanged.
"Huh, weird."
"What is the meaning of this?" Robin spoke like a weak old man.
"Greetings Titans." She turned the fastest while the rest struggled to or ignored the voice and saw a yellow color schemed villain they fought in the past.
"Wait, I remember you!" Robin called the villain out.
"Yes, it was I. Warp!" The chronological time thief. Only this one looked different with the face. He appeared to be younger and his villainous hairs weren't as long. Then he noticed something. "Hmm? Now who might you be? You weren't among the titans when they defeated me in the past."
"I joined at a point. So you've fought us before."
"Yes. It was around shortly before 4 years ago when I tried to steal the clock of eternity from a museum when Starfire followed me 20 years into the-"
"Oh, you're that Warp." Jinx realized. "Yeah I heard this before. So I'm guessing you're a younger version of yourself whom saw your defeat at the titans." Warp was stumped at how quickly she came to that.
"...Yes."
"Cool, so skip to the part where you fix my friends to their correct ages or I'll beat you six ways to Sunday." The villainess threatened. The time traveling thief just laughed.
"Don't think that you alone can beat me, girl. My chronokinetic powers thanks to my suit can handle all five of your teammates at once, but I don't plan on fighting you. I'm just going to let nature take its course."
"What do you mean you rapscallion?!" Cyborg questioned.
"I can't kill you five outright in the past because of various taboo and paradoxes that I would threaten to break the space-time continuum, but I could shift your ages around to the point that you'd be unable to stop me, whether that be decrepit old fools or drooling babies. And even you three will die within the hour because of natural causes.
"You won't get away with this!" Robin objected, before falling asleep.
"I already have." Warp laughed as he stepped back through a time portal.
"Raven, what do we-" It appeared that Raven also fell asleep, and Cyborg. Groaning with an eye roll, she proceeded to slap all three of her elderly friends with one swipe.
"Huh?! What's happening?!" Cyborg asked.
"Raven, Warp came back and shifted all your ages. How do we turn you all back?"
"Well, that's simple deary. All we have to do is get my spell book and I enchant a chrono-reversal spell."
"Okay, what does it look like?"
"Oh, I can't remember." Groaning, Jinx began to run for Raven's room, but noticed Beast Boy and Starfire were getting at the cake, so she picked them up and took them with her. "Oh no, you're not ruining a specially ordered cake." Putting them into their rooms and locking the doors, the witch went to Raven's room, and paled more so then her usual grey skin color when she saw hundreds of Raven's books on shelves. "Okay, time to speed things up." Flaring her arms out, the female metahuman filled the room with her pink magic, and due to a spot of wood breaking, a single book fell out with a clock on the face. "There we go." Picking it up, the former villainess ran back to her friends, only to stop when she heard glass being smashed in Starfire's room. Opening it, she went to the window to see the alien baby chasing some seagulls, laughing while doing so. "Ugh, I'll deal with that later." Going back to her course of getting to Raven, she plopped the book down on the table. "Okay Raven, just do what you need to do and everything will be back to normal.
"Alright alright just give me a second. I'm not as spry as I used to be." Putting on some obnoxiously thick old person reading glasses when Robin noticed something.
"Wait, is that Star over there?" He, along with Jinx and Cyborg saw that the Tamaranian baby chasing around some very confused and frightened birds. "We need to bring her back." The elderly titan leader threw a birdarang, but due to his weak strength, it merely bounced off the window.
"Don't worry, I've got this." Cyborg said as he prepared a sonic cannon with his right arm, but while it blasted a hole in the window, he was sent rolling back with just energy in his wheelchair and yelled as he crashed through the opposite window, falling with gravity. Jinx ran to the other side, worried for her boyfriend until he came up, flying with a helicopter motor coming from his wheelchair.
"Now, what was my signature spell?" Raven tried reading the paper. "Azamoth Metropolus Mentos?" She accidentally transformed Robin into a roll of chewy mints. "Nope, that's not it." Riding on Cyborg's lap, the female metahuman was trying to get Starfire's attention.
"Hey Star! Star! Look over here!" She started flinging hexes which exploded in the air after a few meters. The joyous little girl noticed her and cheered at the sight, flying right at them at high speed. "Oh crud."
"Azaroth Metrios Zintack?" The cake then exploded into confetti. "Darn, gonna have to remake the cake."
"Whoa, whoa! Calm down Star!" Jinx yelled as she was zipped in random directions as Starfire laughed as she made her carry-on hang on for dear life.
"Hey Star, guess what I have!" Bringing his hand into his arm, Cyborg replaced it with a colorful disco ball with music coming from it. The baby stopped to gawk in awe at it before flying straight for the elderly mechanical titan, banging into him with enough force to push him back with a wheeze, and played with the disco. With the both of them sighing, Cyborg helped fly the two girls back to the tower, where Raven said,
"Alright, I should have the spell down right this time." When she saw the red and green colored mints and the cake made into confetti, Jinx anxiously asked,
"Well, what if you don't got it right?"
"Then we could die."
"Oh." The young former villainess wasn't ready to kick the bucket yet, but she didn't know any other people to reverse this. Well, if she's going to die, she might as well do it with her friends instead of living without both her boyfriend and closest friends. Her life was hard enough as is.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" The old woman enchanted, and with a flash of black magic, everything went back to normal. Raven, Cyborg and Robin became young men and a woman, while Starfire and Beast in his room turned back to normal.
"Oh, thank goodness you're back to normal!" Jinx cried out as she hugged her boyfriend.
"Oh man, feeling so old I could fall apart at the joints did not feel good." The metallic titan groaned as he held his head.
"At least things are back to normal." Raven said before noticing the cake, or lack there of. "Oh, almost." Snapping her fingers, the confetti turned into a cake. That was when Beast ran into the room.
"What happened?!"
"Warp happened." The sorceress answered. "I just need a moment." Opening a portal, she went through it. At the museum where he first met the titans, Warp was attempting to steal the clock of Eternity.
"This time, no one will be able to-" Black energy surrounded him as he was flung back yelling against a wall. Raven phased through the floor into the room was a displeased look on her face as she effortlessly stripped all of his time based gear off.
"I'm going to make you wish you were never born."
"What are you going to do then?" The villain sneered with confidence, even if it was just to save face. "You can't change anything in the past of your own personal timeline. It's set in stone, and therefore if you try to kill me or take away my knowledge of time travel, then you and your friends might be missing some important knowledge." Picking up the piece that allowed him to travel through time, Raven chuckled as her eyes glowed white.
"There's one problem to that." Warp lost his smile as the Vortex Regulator glowed black. "You're not the only one who can manipulate with time. Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Thrusting the device towards Warp's head as he screamed, everything went into pitch black before everything faded back to normal.
Opening up his door, Beast ran to the kitchen where everyone was sitting at the table, green balloons and purple confetti everywhere, a banner saying 'Happy Birthday!', and Raven presenting a green sheet cake with two candles that were 1 & 8 respectively.
"Happy Birthday Garfield!" They all yelled.
"What up everybodies?!" They all got up to personally congratulate him. The only thing different was the new knowledge Raven had. Meddling with time with her magic alone was dangerous, but with Warp's technology, it was easier to do two things. One is redirect Eric Chen from studying quantum physics of time and becoming Warp to something more mundane like an agricultural scientist in Brooklyn, New York. Two is she also went back and occupied the Raven in the past and helped her friends see the value of friendship even as they lost the knowledge of Warp overall. Once everything was done, she destroyed the regulator, having no need to exist. "What's up Rave?" The half-demon girl snapped out of her thoughts, not having been thinking the thoughts she was originally having, but that didn't mean that she forgot the words.
"It's just... I'm remembering when I thought I was going to be the doom of this world, that Trigon would take you all away from me, and throw me away when I served my purpose. But more than that, it's that we're here now, and we can celebrate holidays and birthdays past that point. I found love. I get to have you. With me." She reached a hand up to feel his face, tears in her eyes. "And after defeating my father twice I can even feel my emotions freely. I'm just so..." She sniffed "...happy."
"I understand baby." He sweetly said, taking her hand in his. "I'm glad I could celebrate my 18th with such a mysterious and wonderful girl like you." The two went into a strong embrace as the two kissed, Raven even raising a leg while doing so. It was however then that the titan alarm came up. "Oh come on! I was having a good moment there!"
"Don't worry. It's just Control Freak." Robin assured. "Also, our new costumes came in. Let's show the city the new and improved Teen Titans.
As Control Freak stepped out of the electronics store with his boon, he laughed until he heard a familiar voice.
"Control Freak, you didn't follow the 10 items or less rule, so now you're on the express line to jail." The villain simply grinned.
"Robin, it's been a while hasn't-" He stopped talking when he saw the titans underwent a major wardrobe change. Robin ditched his traffic light colored costume, and now wore a capeless black suit with a blue bird on the chest. Starfire wore a pink t-shirt with a purple star on the chest, with the addition of purple athletic jacket and pants to go with it with some silver accents. Cyborg was more mono colored, losing the blue as he was mostly a white chest plate and arms, black lower abdomen and grey legs and head on the mechanical side.(A/N: Justice League Doom) Beast didn't have much of a change. He was simply wearing a t-shirt and shorts variant of his costume, but that allowed his hairy arms and legs to be exposed and was now shoe-less, allowing his body better breathing and detection. Raven wasn't that much different either as while her cloak was the same, her legs were now covered in stockings, her leotard is now sleeveless and she wore thin finger-less gloves reaching midway her forearms. (Mostly DCAU version) Jinx was probably the most drastic. Instead of a witch theme, the metahuman was now sporting a punk rock look with a dark purple shirt, a black leather jacket with spikes on the shoulders, finger-less fighting gloves, a dark purple skirt over fishnet stockings over her legs and athletic sneakers also colored purple and black. She even wore earrings which had black crystals dangling from them.
"Whoa, did you go with an update?" The villain asked.
"Yep. Now we're going to take you down. Titans, GO!"
A/N: If you're wondering why I changed the villain's name from Emil LaSalle to Eric Chen, it was just random. I used a random name generator. I was even surprised that I got a first name that started with E as well, but there you go. What did you think? How about the costumes that I went with?