Ch.16 PMF



“How do we get them back?”
“I don’t know, but we’ll think of a way.” Rae said with all the ferocity of a mother when her children are in danger.
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“Where are we?” Raven asked as she looked around at the blankness that surrounded them.
“Some kind of limbo, I’d say.” with all the studying that Marie had done, she felt pretty confident in speaking her opinion.
“Why are we here?” that was one think that didn’t make sense.
“Remember how the Tower was attacked? And then we were here? I’m thinking somebody messed with our past. Either ours or our parents or something.” because if they had been killed they would be dead, and not here. Wherever here was.
“So how are we supposed to get back?” a good question, that didn’t have an answer.
“We’ll think of something. Or the Titans will. You know how they are when they put their minds to something.” Marie had to keep Raven calm especially when they had no idea what was going to happen.
“But what if they don’t want to bring us back? What if they think that Sting brought us back to our time, or if we annoyed them and they are grateful we’re gone?” Raven was a little insecure about herself.
“They don’t feel that way. Look. Cyborg had a great time last night, right? And Raven and Starfire enjoyed girls’ night? And Robin has sparred with us and we help him out right? And we got Beast Boy and Raven together, right? They like us. They’ll try everything.” Beast Girl kept their spirits high.
“You’re right. What are we supposed to do in the meantime?” now that Raven was calm, she was bored.
“How about a game?”
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“No. I don’t care. No.” Rae very stubbornly said.
“How about….” a suggestion was started, but never finished
“How about not.” because Rae firmly interrupted with another rejection. As she had rejected every idea that they had come up with so far.
“Come on, Rae. Let them at least finish their sentences.” Beast Boy tried to placate her just a little.
“No. All they’re doing is coming up with different versions of the same idea. And the answer to that is no. So, the answer to their ideas will always be no, until they come up with something else.” she wasn’t going to budge on this point. Not when the fate of those two girls hang in the balance.
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“Go fish.” Marie suggested
“Truth or Dare.” Raven countered
“Old Maid.”
“Tag.”
“Hide-and-Seek.”
“This is getting us nowhere.” Raven gave up that train of ideas.
“What do you suggest we do?”
“I don’t know, how about we practice our weak points. I’ll shift, and you practice magic.” Raven said
“Fine by me. If nothing else, it will pass the time. Is there even time here?” Marie quandried
“Don’t do that.”
“Do what?”
“Get philosophical. We both know that you end up thinking in circles, and it does us no good.” Raven had enough of that when they were younger. It made both of their heads hurt.
“Alright. Azarath Metrion Zinthos. Azarath Metrion Zinthos. Azarath Metrion Zinthos.”
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“Let’s start from the beginning of what we know.” Robin suggested. If they figured out what they knew, they could figure out how to get the girls back.
“All right. We know that they are from 150 years in the future.” Cyborg brought up
“They are the descendents of Beast Boy and Rae.” Starfire offered
“They have the powers of both of us, but Raven is more powerful with her magic and Marie is better at shifting.” Beast Boy remembered.
“Someone was messing with our future and their past. Maybe not directly, as in killing them, but indirectly, as in breaking up their parents before they were born.” Robin put in.
“They are still alive, but are trapped somewhere.” After Rae’s addition, the entire team turned to look at her, Robin was the first (predictably) to gain his voice so he asked what they all were wondering.
“1) How do you know this, and 2) why didn’t you tell us this sooner?”
“Remember how I can sense things?” All Titans nodded. “Well, because I’m related to them, we have a bond. I can feel that they are still alive in a sense. They are in a different dimension, a sort of limbo if you will, because they did exist here, but because they now don’t, they had to be put somewhere.”
“Alright. Is there a way to reach this dimension?”
“I don’t know. All I know right now is that it exists. I’m going to have to do research in order to know anything more.”
“Alright. Rae, you go find out anything that you can. The rest of us will, I don’t know. We’ll come up with something.”
“Robin? Do you really think that we can bring them back?” Starfire didn’t want her new friends to spend the rest of their days in the scary limbo place.
“We’ve done the impossible before. We’ll do it again.”