Several days have passed in the outside world, but in the simulation the titans were in, it was three years. While escape from the island still hasn't been figured out, the titans have adjusted to living on the island. At the beach, Beast and Jinx were playing volleyball while Starfire and Raven were sunbathing. Starfire lost her boots long ago and Raven's stockings didn't last a week. The middle of her leotard was torn off to cut circulation of a laceration she had long ago. This was a good time, that is until they heard a yelp from Garfield and a scream from Jinx. The two girls looked from their beach chairs to see that Beast's shorts fell down and he was protecting his privates while Jinx's skirt broke off while she was crouching, briefly on the ground before she picked it up and covered her underwear. Garfield was courteous enough to look away as fast as he could, even if the shorts around his ankles caused him to trip.
"Aw man! I don't have any other clothes to cover myself!" She complained.
"Do not the worry Jinx! We will assist!" However, as they tried getting up, Starfire's top and Raven's hood snagged on some sharp edges of the chairs. If they were in better conditon, only simple tears would've happened, but due to years to wear and tear, Starfire's nature and animal hunting cuts on her sun bleached shirt provided enough weakness for it to just fall apart, leaving only Starfire's bra which had one strap left. And Raven's cloak broke off with the gem around her hood being pulled loose, which left her basically as bare as when Slade ripped most of her suit off. Everyone was panicking when Nightwing returned from fashioning his worn out suit into a shorts and armor plate only outfit over vital areas when he saw all the others in distress and yelling.
"Whoa, what's going on here?!" He questioned while looking away.
"Our clothes are falling apart fool!" Garfield complained. They're nothing but rags now!"
"Well, then I guess it's a good thing we're on an island, where we can make new clothes from our surroundings." Richard said, trying to be uplifting.
"What could we possibly wear here?!" Jinx barked.
Later...
"I feel like a cavewoman." The female metahuman remarked as she wore jaguar animal hide over her torso from mid-thigh to over her chest. She had her arms crossed in disapproval.
"At least your outfit looks warm and snuggly. All I could find was this pirate flag to wear." Starfire remarked as she wore said brown flag around herself like a dress.
"Garfield, why are you naked?!" They heard Raven yell. They turned to see the half-demon girl in palm leaves as tall as her shoulders in a poncho kind of way, whom was shielding her eyes from-the two other girls screamed as they covered their eyes from the shapeshifter's nudity.
"I'm already naked whenever I'm an animal. I just figured I'd be comfortable doing the nudist life." He reasoned. "But, if I need to..." Everyone heard him grunt for a sec before he said, "Okay, they're gone. You can look now."
"Gone?" Richard questioned, looking to see that Beast's privates were gone. Nothing there. "Wait, where did they go?!" Hearing what he said, the girls looked to see that what disgusted them was indeed no longer there.
"Animals don't always have their stuff swinging around. They're either retracted or just don't have external organs."
"That... makes sense." Jinx shrugged, still looking uncomfortable. "It's going to take a while though before I get used to... you being naked. Even when nothing's there."
"Indeed."
"Agreed." Starfire and Raven said simultaneously.
"Fair's enough." He shrugged. So, considering we still need shoes, I tore my outfit up so you could make shoes with them. It may be unfit for wearing as an outfit, but the material is still strong and long lasting."
"Oh, that is the most kind Beast." Starfire sighed. "I've been trying to find the right natural shoewear but nothing was good so I've been flying everywhere. My legs feel weak and unused." The Tamaranean waved her legs around like they were noodles.
"Yeah, me too." Raven admitted. Having discarded all their clothes except for Raven's cloak and Beast's clothes, the titans went back to their well guarded home, only having to worry about the really big animals and insects getting in, Raven went to repurpose her cloak as another blanket for her bed while Nightwing fashioned Garfield's clothes into shoes for everyone. Finally they didn't have to worry about constant cuts and bites against their feet. Starfire and Jinx went to their garden of fruits and vegetables which helps them survive. Nightwing and Jinx have worked the past three years on trying to build a generator that can store the power found in coconuts to restore Cyborg, but they just weren't the kind of geniuses where they could Macgyver a totally functional thing from random stuff. Cyborg could probably make a TV with the coconuts by ionizing the milk and even craft a coconut remote too boot. They missed their metallic friend so much. His body is being kept in an underground basement Garfield dug to keep his body under perfect conditions as to slow down deterioration. Some rust has accumulated, but mostly he was fine.
One day, while Garfield was surveying the ocean for any signs of rescue, his eagle eyes spotted something-wait he spotted something?! Focusing in on the incoming sea craft, he found it was...
"Hey, our little buddies!" He turned into an eagle to fly down to their home, and alerted the titans. "Dudes, someone's come to rescue us, and it's our little buddies!"
"For real?!" Jinx inquired. "Luna, I'm coming baby!" The pink haired witch screamed as she ran to the beach. All the others ran, and in the middle of the jungle, everyone was reunited. Starfire nearly crushed her little bumgorf with a hug and licked him like her life depended on it. Beast and Dave wrestled each other to regain that sense of playfulness. Luna and Lotus were snuggled by their respective dark owners, purring in delight while Nightwing got surrounded by Birdarang, Boom Box, Super Robin and Pain Bot.
"Dang bro, it took us forever to find ya'll! We missed you all so much!" The floating weapon remarked.
"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared." Boom Box spoke from an audio book reading.
"All I know is pain." Pain bot retorted.
"Say, where's Cyborg?" Birdarang asked.
"He's at the safehouse. He's been on standby for a few years but still alive. How did you find us?"
"We... well uh we... uh..." Birdarang seemed stumped. "Huh, weird, I have no recollection yo."
"Hmm, well, since you managed to rescue us, that means we can use that to leave. Let's go and-"
"No! The boat!" He was inturrupted by Garfield screaming, so Richard ran so that he and the girls saw that the boat that came to their island was floating away at sea. "Not the boat! Whyyyyy?!"
"Don't worry, I'll fetch it!" Starfire assured as she tried flying to it, but the effects of the island forced her to remain on the island, getting no closer to the stray boat. And that was before a shark smashed through it, destroying it.
"Nooooooooo!" They all screamed. A dry metallic voice laughed as the Brain watched as he had put the little buddies under his Matrix machine as well.
"Hahaha. Your little buddies thought they could rescue you, but I was prepared this time. I have prepared for every contingency." A couple of days after realizing both the Teen Titans and Little Buddies were gone, most of the lower level criminals started to go out again. Cinderblock was just destroying stuff, Mumbo Jumbo and Doctor Light are robbing the banks, Control Freak is bringing all of his favorite movie characters to life to get more electronics, the skies were overrun with moths from Killer Moth, Punk Rocket destroying every police station, Mother May Eye leading an army of gingerbread people to terrorize the populace and the two strong villains Atlas and Adonis were fighting to see who was the strongest robotic melee villain in Jump City, thus also destroying stuff. Try as the Tween Titans tried, there were just too many and even just facing one required all five members. Even with the help of Titans East they were overwhelmed, with Mas y Menos trying to catch every mutated moth, Bumblebee handling Mubo and Light, Red Arrow trying to destroy every one of Mother May Eye's terrible treats and Aqua Lad using his powers to keep Control Freak contained.
"Hah... hah... there's too many of them." Lizzie complained as they had just defeated Cinderblock, supposedly the least complicated enemy of the titan roster and its great strength and durability still proved to be quite a challenge for them, even with a couple of years under their relative lack of experience compared to their mentors.
Where could they have gone?" Steven gasped as he tried to catch his breath. It was then that a drone came to them, in which a hologram projected Gizmo, now wearing a green business suit since he built a small security company for the city, and he spoke to the Tween Titans.
"Greetings snot munchers. You already know me as Gizmo, or as I'm now professionally called, Mr. O'Jeneus."
"'Mr?'" Lizzie scoffed. "Even Softie is older than you kid."
"Hey, I am on intellectual par with Cyborg!" The former villain retorted angrily. "I will not be underestimated by my age!"
"How did you even get to make a company anyway?" Lynn questioned. Gizmo paused as he recalled the people he approached laughed at him and were going to leave. Billy and Mammoth ensured they'd 'stay and listen'. While intimidation was something he wasn't hoping for, it did ultimately work when they listened as saw his potential. A deal was made and now he's the owner of Mikron Machines and Security.
"Uh... they were persuaded to listen. Thankfully they didn't have to get hurt to do so. But that's not important. I know where the titans are thanks to my research."
"You do?!" Sophie gasped. "Please tell us! I've been so worried for them!"
"I'll tell you. We'll even come with to save them."
"Say, I've come to realize something." Raven brought up to the others, while they were trying to go to sleep.
"What's up mama?" Garfield asked.
"We've been on this island for... five or six years, and yet we haven't been physically aging. Garfield doesn't look like he's entering his mid-twenties yet, or our Little Buddies getting old for that matter, our hair hasn't grown an inch, Cyborg looks rusty but he doesn't feel scratchy like rust and nobody has come around. Islands may be remote, but not a single plane and or boat in that whole time?"
"Come to think of it, yeah." Richard agreed as he nodded his head. "Beast has been surveying this whole time and he for sure could see a cargo ship and commercial airplanes. All of those combined reminds me of something. Almost like... we are in a-" He didn't finish his sentence though when the simulation turned off and all of the titans woke up as the liquid in their pods drained out and their pods opened up. Removing their breathing and feeding apparatuses, each of the titans stumbled out wearily.
"Oh man, what happened?" Cyborg questioned. Upon seeing and hearing their best friend and lover up and running, any sign of being suspened for almost a week wore off as Garfield and Jinx jumped onto him, crying in joy.
"My man! My dude! You're back!"
"I missed you so much Cy! I love you so much! Please don't leave me that long again!" The metahuman witched cried out as she kissed Victor with all her passion, taking him by surprise. He was caught off guard from how uncharacteristically open she is with her vulnerable emotions, and the confusion was only compounding when he tried to process everything.
"Whoa, what happened? Where are we?" Nightwing asked.
"We rescued you guys from The Brain!" Steven ran up to the Titan leader. He pointed to Mammoth and Billy who were playing catch with Brain's yelling head apart from a broken combat machine while Monsieur Mallah was beaten up by the rest, Mas y Menos having tied his beaten body with steel cables. All the rest went back out to fight the chaos.
"Thanks to me, of course." Gizmo in his usual green suit from when he was a villain walked up beside Steven.
"Gizmo? Why would you help us?"
"You gave us a chance to get our feet on the ground." The young prodigy remarked sort of begrudgingly, like he's not used to being nice and grateful. "Even selfish jerks like us can be grateful for something like that." The titan leader smile as he held out a hand.
"Thank you." Looking at it uncomfortably, especially since it was covered in goo, Mikron just offered a fist bump.
"You're welcome, but don't push it." Chuckling, Richard gave his own fist bump.
"Alright then. Let's save Jump City. Titans, get your bearing back together, then get ready." As soon as the Teen Titans and Little Buddies were properly prepared with some practice to get rid of the atrophy rust their bodies accumulated, they were more easily able to defeat every villain on the rampage, and saved Jump City once again.
A/N: Ehh, not the best conclusion to a two-part story, but at least I got to utilize the former Hive members for something good for once.
