Family Issues I

Robin and Starfire sit perched atop the Ferris wheel as fireworks light up the night. As it stops, Starfire exclaims, "Beautiful! Tell me again what they are called?"

"Fireworks," Robin replies, leaning against the armrest of their Ferris wheel basket.

A look of sadness crosses Starfire's face as she asks, "On my home planet, such explosions would mean the Gordanians were attacking. You are certain Earth is not under attack?"

"Positive. Cotton candy?" Robin offers with a smile.

"The last time I ate a ball of cotton, it was white. And it did not taste very-" Starfire replies with concern.

"This is different." Robin interrupts her as he takes a bite himself, encouraging her to take some as well.

"Mmm... Ah, it vanished!" Starfire exclaims in shock as the cotton candy melts in her mouth.

"Yeah. It'll do that." Robin replies with a smile.

"When I first came to this planet, I did not think I would ever fit in. Earth was full of strange things, but now I see that-" Starfire begins to say before Robin shouts.

"Here comes the finale! Yes!" Robin cheers as the final rockets are all sent out, before leaning back and sighing, "Amazing."

"Earth is full of amazing things too." Starfire says, hesitantly moving her hand towards Robin's as he says, "Best planet I've ever been to."

And just as their hands are about to meet, a strange, purple, and black floating mechanical squid creature swoops in and pulls Starfire from the Ferris wheel.

"Starfire!" Robin shouts.

Down below at the numerous game stalls, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Ditto in the form of Beast Boy, and Raven, are all around Beast boy as he launches a ring that lands perfectly on the glass bottle causing Beast Boy, Ditto, and Cyborg to yell, "Sweet! Awesome! Boo-ya!" Respectively, giving each other high-fives.

"Told you we'd win you a prize!" Beast Boy gloats as he hands a giant stuffed chicken almost as big as himself over to Raven.

"A giant chicken. I must be the luckiest girl in the world." Raven says in a sarcastic, emotionless tone.

"Titans, trouble!" Robin shouts leaping acrobatically from his Ferris wheel basket down the ride and over to the rest of the team.

"Where's Starfire?" Cyborg asks.

"That's the trouble," Robin replies as he runs away.

Raven tosses the stuffed chicken aside and Ditto quickly transforms into Raven, before pulling out a ring hidden in their belt that transforms their clothes to that of their outfit from earlier as the team follows robin to the end of the pier. Where Starfire is seen fleeing the creature, firing bolt after bolt at it to no avail.

"No more chasing now, please." Starfire pleads to the creature as she zooms past the team.

"Who's her new best friend?" Beast Boy jokes.

"Don't know, but I can't wait to meet him." Robin quips while cracking his knuckles.

Starfire zooms back around to the team where Beast boy fails to chomp it with an alligator bite, and the hot dog cart Raven launches at it bounces right off. Only stoping when Cyborg is able to wrap his arms around its tentacles and Ditto uses their Raven powers to help hold it back.

"Don't know what you did to make this thing mad, but it couldn't hurt to apologize!" Cyborg grunts out through the strain of holding the creature back.

"I am sorry?" Starfire hesitantly calls back to it as she hides behind Robin before it snaps free from Cyborg and Ditto's hold as it charges at Robin before he smacks it away and through the floor of the pier.

"So did we win?" Beast boy asks while looking over the edge of the pier. Right before the creature smashes up through the pier deck and Robin lunges atop it.

"Don't see an off switch. Guess I'll have to make one!" Robin quips as he slams his fist through what looks to be a control panel of some kind of control interface when Robin leaps down from it, it begins to go haywire as it launches even further into the sky before exploding seamlessly with the other fireworks in the demonstration.

"Whatever that thing was it can't hurt you now." Robin says, trying to reassure Starfire.

"But, why did it wish to hurt me at all?" Starfire asks in confusion while Ditto sneakily returns to the stall they were at to retrieve a certain stuffed chicken.

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As the team enters Titan's Tower Starfire begins to express her deep gratitude towards her friends for their timely rescue, "Come friends. I shall thank you for my rescue by reciting the poem of gratitude. All 6,000 verses!" Much to the team's dismay.

Though before Starfire can begin reciting her poetry a mysterious black-haired woman makes her presence known by calling out to Starfire, "I see you haven't changed a bit." She then turns toward the rest of the team before saying, "When we were little, I was always rescuing Starfire." Laughing as Starfire squeals in excitement.

"Sister!" Starfire cheers.

"Brought you a present." Starfire's sister says as she pulls a giant green gem necklace from her pocket.

"A Centauri moon diamond? Where did you get-?" Starfire asks with a sparkle almost as radiant as the gem her sister offered to her in her eyes.

"On the Centauri moons, of course." Starfire's sister explains before complimenting her, "Oh, look. It matches your eyes."

"You must meet my friends," Starfire exclaims while dragging her sister over to the team. "I wish to introduce my big sister."

"Blackfire." Blackfire says while cutting off Starfire, "And since Star told me all about the Titans in her transmissions, let me guess."

"You must be... Cyborg." Blackfire says while pointing to Cyborg.

"Pleased to meet you, little lady," Cyborg says with a smile as he reaches out his hand to shake hers. Before pulling it back to realize she's cracked a few joints with her strength. "Little lady, big handshake. Well, alright."

Next Blackfire moves onto Robin, "And you must be Robin? Oh, I am loving the cape! It is positively luscious!" Blackfire flatters as she darts around Robin and lifts his cape to examine it further.

"Thanks, it's a high-density polymerized titanium. It's 10 times stronger than steel." Robin preens proudly.

"Fascinating. And this mask makes you look very mysterious." Blackfire says leaning in close to Robin before turning away towards Beast Boy.

"Beast Boy, what's up?" Blackfire asks.

"Nothin' but the ceiling baby." Beast Boy jokes.

"Good one." Blackfire giggles.

"See, she thinks I'm funny." Beast Boy tells Raven, gloatingly.

"Statistically, I suppose someone has to." Raven snarks back, causing Beast Boy to frown while Blackfire turns towards Raven.

"Raven, I like that gemstone on your ajna chakra." Blackfire compliments Raven.

"You know about chakras?" Raven asks with a faint smile.

"I got way into meditation on Altara Prime." Blackfire smiles back before turning to Ditto who is currently in her Raven form.

"And you must be Ditto?" Blackfire says giving Ditto a peculiar look, as ditto reaches out the hand that's not holding a stuffed chicken behind their back, to shake Blackfire's hand.

As Blackfire and Ditto's hands meet, Ditto quickly shifts into a perfect copy of Blackfire, from her violet-colored eyes and dark black hair with a tinge of purple shine to her armored arms and black gems to her thigh-high boots and dark purple miniskirt and top. Shocking Blackfire slightly.

"Wow! That is very impressive!" Blackfire compliments Ditto as they are about to speak when Starfire pops in and a strange look crosses Ditto's face before it quickly returns to the same smile as Blackfire's as Ditto quickly leaves the team with the stuffed chicken.

"So beloved sister, what brings you to Earth?" Starfire asks as Ditto pulls away.

"I was in the quadrant, thought I'd see if earthlings like to party. Besides, I needed a rest. Nearly got sucked into a black hole on the way here." Blackfire says as she leaves to flop down on the main room's couch quickly drawing Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Robin to her side.

"Black hole?" Robin asks.

"Cool!" Beast Boy cheers.

"No way!" Cyborg exclaims.

"Okay, I'm cruising through the Draconis Nebula and-" Blackfire begins to narrate her escapades as Starfire interrupts.

"Sister, that nebula is full of black holes. You know travel there is forbidden!" Starfire exclaims in concern.

"Most fun things in life are. Now be a sweetie and bring me one of those sodas I've heard so much about." Blackfire says while shooing Starfire off, before continuing her story, "So anyway, I'm zooming over an event horizon, approaching light speed when all of a sudden..." With her voice fading off.

"I see you have not changed either," Starfire grumbles under her breath before grabbing a can from the fridge and closing its door.