Sorry for not updating this uberly cool story in such a long time... Like 3 months. Wow, that's a quarter of a year! I'm so sorry about that, but I've been busy and I wanted to make sure that my other story was updated before I did this one, because I didn't have severe writer's block. But now with my handy chainsaw I've cut through the monstrous wall before me and this story, and it can now continue! Yayness!

Chapter 4: A Little History...

Kuki searched until she could no more. Her muscles were exhausted from moving all the heavy bags and boxes, and there was still no sign of Raven. She had checked cello and base cases, knowing that was the likely place to hide someone in. But even after checking half of them, Raven had still yet to be found, and it depressed the young girl greatly. She sat down and heaved a loud sigh. Thoughts of the past whirled in her mind, reminding her that she still had a promise to keep. About to leave the room to find a better hiding place, she heard a faint voice.

"Azarath... Metrion..." It whispered, muffled by the case between it and freedom. Kuki's eyes widened as "Zinthos!" was shouted and the western quadrant of compacted cases blew up with a dark crackle of black energy. Numbah 3 took cover as debris blasted in her direction, using her arm to shield from the clothes being flung everywhere. A thick cloud of dust settled in the car, blocking any attempt to see what happened. Kuki opened some of the windows to let out the thick clouds of dust, and after a few minutes of waiting, finally got to see the destruction that was wrought.

There lay Raven, on top of some molted bags that had taken most of the explosion. Her cloak was torn in many places, the bottom ripped to shreds probably because of the things it got caught on. Kuki rushed over to see the violet headed girl's condition. She was breathing fine, and when Numbah 3 reached her, her eyelids flashed open. Agony enshrouded and clouded within those purple eyes, a weird glint shining from within. Raven just gave a look of pure confusion, being able to sense a different vibration pattern beside her own in the room but not seeing the source. Kuki gave a hopeful smile and quietly whispered, "It is I."

Raven instantly relaxed, and said, "I knew that energy wave was familiar. Trying to be serious when around some but truly a kid at heart. But... Why have you come?" Kuki raised her eyebrow.

"What do you think? I've come to save you! And pay back a debt. You saved me, and now it's my turn." Kuki replied, astonished at Raven's weird questions and confusing words.

"You never owed me anything, but right now I'm not going to complain." Raven said, trying hard to focus on something with her useless eyes. Kuki jumped when the violet orbs became a piercing white glow. Raven gave a weak smile, signaling her gratitude but also revealing her tired frame.

"You do look older since the last time. Gone back to wearing the baggy greens I see." Raven commented, giving a small laugh as Kuki blushed, deeply embarrassed.

"I didn't want the other one to get torn, so I wore my old one." Kuki responded, attempting to make it look like she didn't choose the green by instinct and left the dark navy blue hanging in her closet for a reason. Raven just shook her head.

"Don't worry about it. But now that matters and introductions are done... How are we going to get out of here?" Kuki just gaped in response.

"I was...err... kinda hoping you could teleport us out of here." Numbah 3 coughed shamefully. Raven just sighed.

"I can't." Raven said wearily.

"Why not?" Numbah 3 questioned. "I mean, you can do it any other time, but why not now? You're using your powers right now, why can't you use them to bring us back to... umm... that City?"

"They've been restricted. For one, I used most of it up blowing that quarter of the room to pieces, and another, he forced me to drink a vial that was supposed to keep me unconscious, but not even a heavy dose like that can keep me out. But that vial also restricted use on my powers. I literally used most of it a few minutes ago, and now I'm using it to see. I couldn't even teleport us just off the train even if we wanted to." Raven answered, feeling really weak and vulnerable in her current condition. Feeling out of place in the caboose car, Numbah 3 suggested to hide in one of the other cars. Raven agreed, and with Kuki as a support, began a slow trudge to one of the neighboring passenger cars.

Meanwhile...

"Titans, launch!" Robin ordered, strapping his seatbelt across his body to keep himself secured. Starfire sat next to him, listening to his explanations about planes, how they are made, their most proper uses, and why must they wear a seatbelt. Beast Boy sat back with the KND, in a semi-circle in a back which was originally made for meetings, but has never served that purpose. Flame sat on his own in one of the rows of seats, feeling very uncomfortable with the group. It had only taken him a few minutes to quickly become friends with the 'clan', as some friends back in England would call it, but he still felt uneasy because he didn't know if anyone trusted him, and if this friendship was real and not just a ploy, like his last few were. He still felt partly responsible for these recent events, he should of just stopped Dr. Light sooner and headed back to the Tower as fast as he could. But no, he hesitated, hidden from view, deciding the moment to strike. Whenever he attacked didn't matter, the result would of been the same, so he felt like a total twit and blamed himself. No one seemed to hear his accusing muttering, scolding himself for his decisions.

Lastly, Cyborg was the head of the gang. Meaning, he was the pilot of the T-Jet. Sitting in his rather comfortable cushioned chair, he set up the monitors, flicked up some switches, and prepared for takeoff. When Robin gave his command, he began one of his few drives as a pilot, and began to perform the procedures required to get the big hunk of metal off the ground.

After a few minutes of complex provisions and perfect accuracy, the T-Jet was finally on its way to Yellowstone... the national park in the South Eastern region of Montana and North East of Wyoming.

"So, how long have you guys and Rache...er... Raven been in the superhero business?" Numbah 2 asked Beast Boy asked in interest. Numbah 2 loved this world they had been sucked into, there were superheroes, and the technology was so much more advanced. He was already planning on asking Cyborg on how he built some of his complex designs, and how certain things worked.

"Well, Robin's been in the business for years. Before he came to Jump City, he used to work with The Batman, dark crusader and hero of Gotham City. Robin's like... famous everywhere! Even Steel City is rumored to have secret worshipping shrines of Robin, even though the Titans East are their real superheroes." Beast Boy began, pausing to remember the exact events in chronological order.

"But after a while, Robin needed to be more than a sidekick. So he left Gotham, and journeyed to Jump City to start his own team of heroes. But he had no clue where to begin. It was pure luck that he stumbled upon Raven while passing the poetry cafe. She completely ignored him and acted like a normal person, giving him this death glare when he protested that she must have something, because his scanners were going bizarre being around her. Getting angry at all the nonsense, Raven rushed out of the cafe and into the nearby alleyway. When Robin followed, she had just... disappeared. It was like she never existed, so he gave up and started searching around again for any sign of Raven or another super powered being worth his attention." The KND just stared. The history was just so strange and gibberish to them, as they came from another dimension, but it all seemed familiar to them. Like in their subconscious, it seemed like they had always known this. Intrigued by the story, Numbah 4 urged Beast Boy to continue. Even Flame listened in, though technically he wasn't invited to do so.

"One day, a robbery occurred, and Robin rushed in to stop it. But before he did anything, a blue cloaked... thing had jumped in upon the action, and with it's dark telekinesis, stopped the burglary before it even began. Robin managed to grab a part of the cloak just before it disappeared through the ground, and irritated, the being decided to see who would interrupt its escape. Robin didn't know who it was, but as soon as the blinding white eyes died down and turned purple, he recognized Raven, but dressed really oddly then she was before. So he again talked about the superhero business, and she agreed, though Robin still hasn't said if it was out of reluctance or not. Most likely, she was reluctant. So they both co-founded the Teen Titans, though Robin took the role of leadership. Cyborg had come later, he had... an accident which caused him to be how he is now." Silence engulfed the group, and in the background Cyborg silently let a single tear go down his cheek. The KND felt like they were intruding on the team's privacy, but nevertheless, Beast Boy continued, as Robin nor any of the others restrained him from doing so.

"I came about half a year after him. My family and I went on a trip to Africa, to attempt to discover what the legends labeled as the green monkey. It was rumored to have special powers, but it was very dangerous and could kill if bit you. Well, my mother... kinda did get attacked... and died... and my father rushed to save her, tripped on a hidden log, and drowned in the raging river. His body was never found, trapped beneath the current for the rest of his life." Beast Boy stifled a sob at reliving his dreadful and most horrific memory. All the KND showed looks of apology for making him relive and speak of his past, but he continued, knowing he had to let it out. Even the other Teen Titans listened, because he had never told him this. To them he had always been a comical relief type character, but now... he seemed like so much more.

"And when that happened, I got mad and threw as many rocks at it at possible, and within my blind fury I did not realize it hadn't noticed my existence until then. It just watched me miss throwing the stones, almost tauntingly. Only when one stone hit it's mark did it grow angry, and it attacked me, and it... bit me hard. I could feel weird fluids rushing through my systems, disrupting my normal intercourse. I gave a shrill scream before blacking out, and when I reawakened, I was back in a hospital in sunny Florida. But by then I was forever scarred, my skin having turned green because of the monkey's poison, so I fled north when the doctors wanted to use me as a test example. They had caught the green monkey, and it still resides in Tampa Bay, Florida today. While running, I felt that I could soar in the air if I wanted to, or rush fast across the green hills that I was entering in Georgia. And I realized, that if I put my mind to it, I could actually turn into animals that could do just that. And so that's how I got my powers. I had run into the Titans while they were fighting against some villain on 35th street. Wanting to feel helpful, I transformed into a ram from behind and knocked the guy over, and Raven quickly trapped him with her magic. And then, Robin asked if I wished to join them and with eagerness and feeling hope in my dismal life, agreed." Beast Boy gave a bright smile after that last sentence, feeling really pleased with the best decision of his life.

"Lastly, there came Starfire. Her story is not as long as mine, or at least, not that I know of. It was a warm night in August when the stars were glinting brightly. The team had decided to eat dinner on the roof of their newly built tower, compliments of Cyborg's father. We were talking about constellations in the sky, asking what they meant, and Raven would even speak of quadrants that formed certain constellations that we never heard of. When Robin pointed to speak of Orion's many stories, a yellow glint flashed across the sky. I exclaimed of a shooting star, being the second time I've ever seen a shooting star, but Raven said that wasn't a star. We all gave her confused looks until she pointed out that the star was coming around again... but it had gotten bigger. It was falling!" Beast Boy paused and felt suddenly like a successful storyteller. Everyone was entranced with his version of events, and the KND gang were eager to hear the rest of his tale. So he continued.

"After observing closer, we realized that she was right, and it was heading right towards our island. We jumped into defense positions, except Raven, sensing something we couldn't comprehend. Soon the raging fire ball was just a few miles above them, and trailing down fast. In a few seconds it crashed in the rocks, releasing the sound of a loud explosion. Rock sprayed in all directions, smoke clouds hung over the targeted spot heavily. Raven summoned a draft of wind to clear the smoke that had gathered. Robin rushed down into the crater and found a weird, globe spacecraft. Robin backed up a bit when an unseen door opened in front of him... and there she was. Starfire. She looked really confused, and she was very dizzy. When she saw us, she spoke in a very native tongue, which we could not understand. Well, most of us couldn't. Raven translated what she said to us, which was, "Hello earthlings! My name is Koriand'r, or here it be Starfire. It's nice to meet you!" Raven used another language which we didn't understand, probably Azarathian, but Starfire understood everything that was said, and began to use a language which we all knew very well... English. And then we let her join the team, and that's how it all came to be. So all in all, 2 to 3 years." Beast Boy finally finished. The KND just stared at him. They were just expecting a few minute answer, not an hour of history. Not that they minded acquiring new knowledge. It made them feel tuned in with this dimension, which they felt oddly out of place before.

The Kids Next Door just stared at the Teen Titans in amazement. That wasn't even a scratch on the surface with their history, they could tell. But they still didn't know much about Raven. Where had she come from, how did she get her powers, and why did she always seem... monotonic? It was like she couldn't feel or something...

To Be Continued...

Author's Note:

That is the longest chapter I've ever written for any of my stories. Ever. So I hope that serves as a main apology for being late. And yes CrazyDeafGirl, in my other story, the quote did come from TTGo! #1, congratulations. You hurt me, saying that I'd probably not update until another month. It hurts me. P Heh, most often times it would most likely be true. But as I said before, Spring Break! Woot! I hope everyone that reads this story likes this chapter, please Review!