Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans. And in case I forget to mention it in future chapters, I probably never will own them.

How Long is Forever part 1

The Mumbo-Jumbo alarm clock started ringing and Starfire's eyes flew open. "They day has arrived!" She hit the clock's hat to silence it and flew out of bed. Not sparing a moment, she grabbed her assorted items from her drawer: bells, decorations and the like and peeked out the door with a laugh. She was aware her friends had never celebrated before, but Starfire was positive they would love it.

Starfire crept along the walls to the common room before dashing the last bit. She dropped a package, but picked it up immediately. With the automatic door opening into the common area Starfire happily exclaimed what she had wanted to share with her friends since she arrived on Earth for the first time. "Happy Blorthog!" Her proclamation did not go heard. "Huh?"

Robin sat in front of a boom-box and tried to drown out the sound caused by Beast Boy and Cyborg fighting over the video game. Raven sat in the corner attempting to drown out everyone else with her book, to seemingly no avail. Next to her was what looked like pliers encased in a black energy.

Cyborg grabbed the controller and wrestled with Beast Boy. "Come on Beast Boy! Give me that thing!"

"Dude!" Beast Boy wrestled back, "I'm in the middle of a game Cyborg!"

"Yeah, my game! Because it's my turn!"

The controller passed back and forth between the both of them. Despite being a few feet away, Raven remained unfazed.

Starfire dismissed these distractions and figured her friends were simply naïve to the glory of Blorthog. "Friends, we must frolic and leap in glorious celebration for today is Blorthog: the Tamaranian festival of friendship!"

Beast Boy and Cyborg's game let out a tire screech sound followed by a crash. Starfire sent them a death look and dropped her unneeded ornaments leaving only her bell-necklace. As the two continued to fight, Cyborg fell against the couch near Starfire. "Joyous Greetings friend!" She prepared the necklace and a green octopus tentacle prepared to attack Cyborg, "I Starfire, give you this tenabula as a symbol of-"

"You are going to pay for that you little grass-stain!" The octopus tentacle pulled him back in the controller war and away from his alien gift.

A small crash, this time not the video game, erupted from the fight as a green toad jumped out victoriously with a Gamestation controller. Beast Boy shifted back to his normal form laughing. Starfire attempted to pick up where she left off, but with a new candidate, "Many blessings friend! May your ears be filled with sugar candies-"

Beast Boy cut her off and redirected his attention back towards Cyborg, "Look, I'll give you back the controllers as soon as Raven gives back my nail clippers!"

Cyborg grabbed Beast Boy back into battle, effectively cutting off his attention in that respect. Raven felt inclined to respond anyway. "Not going to happen. How else am I supposed to keep your toenails off the coffee table?" The clippers were encased in black energy and floating beside her.

Figuring the Gamestation War was too energetic at the moment, Starfire turned her attention to Raven as well. "Happiness and delight friend! On this wondrous day I wish you sunshine and funny-"

Raven shot a look that could turn people to salt cueing Starfire to silence herself. Starfire took the bait and anxiously laughed as she backed away. Raven's death look ceased but she had a problem to gripe about as well, "Robin, could the music be a little louder? I can still hear myself think." The sarcasm was sharp and precise like a needle.

Robin turned his head in acknowledgement, but made no attempt to respond to Raven. As Starfire came over to him bearing a huge grin Robin's response came almost passive aggressively. "I only turned the music up to drown out all the yelling!"

As Beast Boy and Cyborg continued to fight over the controller and Robin and Raven continued to stare each other into submission, Starfire's expression grew from one of happiness to one of sadness.

Cyborg took the controller from Beast Boy, "Whose turn is it now?"

Robin yelled at Cyborg, "Knock it off! I can't work with you two acting like idiots!"

Raven quipped at Robin, "Great Robin, more yelling with definitely stop all the yelling."

Beast Boy chased Cyborg around until finally he accidentally bumped into Starfire. Her alien strength allowed her to be unmoved by this. However, her tenabula was not gifted with the same strength and broke into segments, each falling to the floor with a ring. Tears came to Starfire's eyes, but she fought them back with a loud scream.

Robin shut off his music, Cyborg and Beast Boy stopped fighting and Raven put down her book. She had their undivided attention. "Friends must never behave this way. And especially not on Blorthog, do you wish to invite the Rekmas?"

Beast Boy gave a confused look, "Gesundheit?"

Starfire clutched her hands to her heart and closed her eyes, "In my world, Rekmas means 'The Drifting,' the point in which close friends begin to drift apart... and their friendship begins to die..."

Despite Starfire's sadness, Cyborg seemed far less concerned, "Come on Starfire."

Beast Boy understood Cyborg's thought and finished it for him, "We are so not Rek- whatever-ing."

Raven followed suit, "We are getting on each other's nerves a little: big deal."

Robin finished the idea and gestured to the others, "Yeah, this is just typical roommate stuff." He turned to Starfire, "We are not going to drift apart. I promise: we will all be friends forever."

Starfire's unhappiness faded and turned to a soft smile, "Forever?"

Before anyone could confirm the answer, Robin's communicator let out a few beeps and he opened it up to find out the issue, "Titans, trouble!"

++++++++a little bit later++++++++

As if with muscle memory, the Titans ran towards to door to be heroes. Starfire dropped her tenabula to the floor and followed her friends.

The Jump City Museum of Technical Innovation (MoTI) was famous for its blend of art and science in a collection of beautiful machines. Early aircraft hung from its ceiling while new and old computers hung around the walls. As a must see attraction for technophiles and art majors, the Museum attracted guests from the whole country.

The most famous part of the Museum was the time room. It contained antique grandfather clocks and ancient sundials. Calendars collected from all time periods and all parts of the world were on display for all to see. And in the center of the room was a small clock, small enough to be held in the palm of an adult hand. About six inches wide and twelve inches tall it had a beautifully ordained analogue clock face on the front and had a glass dome on top so you could see its inner workings. The whole thing was plated in a thin- yet sturdy- sheet of lustrous gold. With this beautiful time keeper as the center of attention, a certain tranquility fell over the Museum.

This tranquility was broken when a white light appeared inside time room and spread to form a thin disc. A smooth transition from white to black happened and caught the attention of the two armored guards watching over the room. To their surprise, a man- probably late twenties or early thirties- stepped out of the dark disc. This man was protected by a brass colored metal suit that covered his whole body, excluding his face. The brass became a black cloth around the joints to allow movement and had two crème colored plates, one of the helmet and the other larger one on the torso. He made a move towards to clock centerpiece.

The guards ran closer and pointed their laser rifles at the metal suit man. The older of the two, a man by the name of Arnie Nichols, had a policy of giving intruders one warning and only one warning, "Hey, stop!"

The man in the suit did not seem too inclined to change his course of action and responded, "Stop yourselves." He waved his hand, sent a wave small wave through the air and left Arnie and his coworker encased in ice. "I didn't journey back in time one hundred years to squabble; I came to steal." He turned back to the display and focused on the ornate timekeeper, "The Clock of Eternity: valuable in the past; priceless in the future."

An energized disc flew through the air and hit the man in the chest, knocking him back slightly. It landed on the floor a few feet away. "But for the present, you'll keep your filthy hands off of it." Robin stood poised to lead the rest of the Titans into a fight, as they gathered up on the rafters.

"The Teen Titans, this is a treat. I've read all about you in the historical archives." The man's suit opened up a two laser weapons on his shoulders, "And now you are all history!" His suit open fired by shooting two red pulses, one from each shoulder cannon.

"Titans Go!" The Titans separated and jumped down from the rafters. Robin landed on the ground and was the first to deal with the fighting. He opened his bo-staff and spun it around in front of him as a makeshift shield until the laser beams singed his staff into two pieces, knocking him backwards.

Starfire and Beast Boy came to take Robin's place, this time going for a more direct attack. As a lion, Beast Boy ran underneath as Starfire provided aerial cover with green energy beams. However, the metal suit easily deflected her attack and returned it with equal ease, sending Starfire down to the ground.

The green lion jumped at the man and let out a roar of aggression but was cut short when the suit turned let out an electric pulse, stopping Beast Boy in midair. He changed back to human form as he fell to the ground.

"Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" Two stained cherry grandfather clocks encased in black energy flew in the direction of the metal suited man. Raven attempted to throw more object but a blue pulse sent her to the ground with her teammates.

Cyborg's sonic cannon was the next to have a go. The blue sound attack smashed into the suit and sent the area up in smoke. Cyborg let off his traditional exclamation, "Booyah! - huh?" The latter beings as a result of seeing an energy shield surround the man.

The man threw a small device with the appearance of an egg timer and it hit Cyborg directly in the chest. With a small click it started sparking.

Cyborg collapsed to the ground and felt short of breath, "Draining my power cell."

"You cannot defeat Warp. I am from the future." He threw an explosive disc to meet the disc Robin threw. Robin jumped out of the way. "And you relics are one hundred years out of date."

Warp walked calmly over to the case with the Clock of Eternity. He phased his hand directly through the glass and grabbed the apparently priceless artifact. Tapping the crème plate on his chest, Warp made another black disc appear. Turning back to the defeated teenagers and gave a small smile, "Tata Titans, I have enjoyed our time together but I've got a very bright future ahead of me."

As Warp stepped into his portal, Starfire let out a battle cry and leapt after him pushing her into the portal with him.

Robin saw the portal about to close and ran to try to grab Starfire. He jumped into the air and put his arm forward but grabbed nothing. The portal had closed and Warp was gone. Robin rolled onto the ground and looked where the portal had been. "Starfire!"

Authors Note- This is my first story and I because everyone else seems to want them, I would like some reviews. Anything really. Feel free to be as mean as you want, but you can say nice things as well. I do want to improve my writing both in an out of fanfiction so let me know what I am doing right and wrong.

Finally, this first chapter is taken almost directly from the episode How Long is Forever (season 2, episode 1) and I tried to replicate it almost identically. Other chapters will be totally original (at least as original as a fanfic can be). Anyway, thanks for reading

-Alltheginjoints