We went through each room so quickly, it was just like one long blur of expensive furniture and bright purple colors. It really would have been a great time to flex our stealing muscles if it was a different situation.

Our first few stops were the largest rooms: the throne room and what we suspected to be the royal bedroom. Both were empty. Then, as we narrowed our search through rooms smaller and smaller, something quickly dawned on us.

"This place is completely empty!" See-More exclaimed as we teleported into what had to be at least the 70th room. I had honestly lost count. See-More paced around the room, his eye focusing on the palace that surrounded it. "I was thinkin' that maybe Tamaranians were cold blooded or something and that's why I can't see any of their heat signatures, but..."

See-More than looked down to the ground. "There's something way down at the bottom. Probably the dungeon...not that I really want to go back down in there."

I looked around the room we were in. It was messy, but only slightly. A drawer slightly open, bed sheets slightly askew. Something I wouldn't have noticed had we not been previously looking at completely flawless rooms for the last hour. As See-More continued to walk and talk to himself, I decided to poke around. 

I went through the drawers first, only to find that they were completely empty. Had some of the drawers not been slightly open I could have assumed this room simply wasn't used. But as I looked around, I noticed that the room seemed slightly more furnished than the others...slightly brighter, too. I took another look at the bed sheet and realized it was very different than the others, it was bright pink where as every other bed was a darker shade of red. I instantly recognized the bed sheet and, as I looked around the room, every piece of furniture, even the way they were positioned, brought back memories. Memories of the time I snuck through the Titan's tower. The time I went through their bedrooms. The time I was in Starfire's bedroom.

Starfire.

The realization hit me as soon as the door burst open. I grabbed my cloak and turned in time to see the Tamaranian herself, clothes torn, hair a mess, and bright green eyes glowing brighter than a fire.

"Uh oh..." See-More mumbled.

"Why are you in my room?!" the Titan cried, her fists glowing as green as her eyes. "Explain yourselves!"

"Ah, actually...we were just leaving!" See-More replied before quickly stepping beside me. "Right, Kyd Wykkyd?"

I nodded and raised an arm to pull the cloak over us, but before I could do so green energy shot from Starfire's eyes, slamming straight into See-More's chest and sending him crashing into the vanity behind us. Before I had time to react, the Titan was in front of me, her hand holding my wrist and an unimaginably strong grip keeping my arm from rising any further.

"Why are my own people attacking me?" Starfire hissed, her bright green eyes piercing into mine. "Why is my k'norfka's palace empty?! Answer me!"

I wasn't sure if the Titan remembered that I couldn't answer her even if I wanted to. What I was sure of was that she was a simple clenched fist away from shattering my wrist. I could see that her glowing eyes were seconds away from blasting me the way she did with See-More. I wonder if he's--

"Kyd! Duck!" See-More suddenly cried and, despite my predicament, I reacted in an instant. I lashed out with my one free hand, the claws cutting across the Titan's face. She let out a cry of pain before releasing me and, as soon as I was free, I hit the floor, narrowly avoiding the large green orb as it sailed over me and into the Titan as she held her face.

The prison orb took her in before bouncing slightly against the wall.

"Release me! Now!" the Titan cried, slamming her orange fists against the bubble, causing ripples to appear but nothing else. Only one eye glowed fiercely at us now, the other closed shut by the deep looking scratch marks that now decorated one side of her face.

"Oh, man...did you really have to cut her so bad?" See-More asked as he stood back up.

I was just trying to escape... I thought  as I looked over at my comrade. I could see that the costume around his chest was completely singed away; the now revealed skin burned a bright red color.

Not that she was holding back either.

I looked down at my clawed hand. The once black tips were now colored red and I couldn't help but notice how much my hand was beginning to twitch.

"Maybe we should get goin'..." See-More mused. I looked up to see Starfire still pounding away at the bubble.

"Do not leave me!" the Titan hissed, then with a cry of rage the green laser eyes appeared again, only now just shooting from one eye. See-More and I were instantly focused on the burning red mark the beam was creating against the bubble.

"Er, maybe we should go...like, right now!" See-More suggested, stepping up closer to me. "My bubble wasn't made to handle things like that!"

Starfire is Number 26's sister...

The thought hit me randomly, but it shook me to the core. I remembered Blackfire mentioning her sister; I remember the spite that was in her voice. This was our leverage, this was our chance.

"Kyd?...Where are you going?" I heard See-More ask as I walked away from him and towards the Titan in the bubble. I ignored him.

"Hey, man, I don't think that's such a good idea..."

I did not stop walking until I stood before the Titan. I could barely see her through the red glow of her eye beam against the wall of the bubble, but I made sure that if it was possible for her to see me. I took in a very slow, very deep breath.

"Kyd?"

Without another moment's pause, I threw my clawed hand into the cell and into the green laser. My glove was instantly incinerated. I couldn't see it any longer, but I could feel it burn away. While I did feel my hand heat up, it did not hurt. It did not burn.

 I slowly began to exhale as I stepped further into the cell, hand still outstretched. The green energy was now behind my hand, being held back by my palm. And despite being able to see the ugly black and purple thing, I could not be more thankful for it right then at that moment.

I pushed the beam further and further back as I stepped closer and closer to the Titan. I was now completely within the cell, my hand inches away from the Titan's face.

"Do not stop me!" the Titan cried, still fruitlessly trying to burn through my hand. "Do not get in my way! I must find my people, I must find my k'norfka!"

I look another step closer and suddenly the beam stopped. I hesitated, and it was long enough for her to reach out and grip my arm again. Only this time the grip wasn't painful, it was weak, gentle.

"Please..." Starfire whispered. I looked at her face and was taken aback when I saw that the green glow had been replaced with tears. "Please don't stop me."

"You know something," See-More spoke up, causing me to jump slightly at how close he sounded. I turned my head slightly to see that he was standing right outside the bubble, his single eye focused directly on the Titan's single eye. "Something that's scarin' you..."

The Titan looked surprised at first, but the surprise quickly gave way to grief before she let her head fall, the hand that gripped my arm falling to her side. "I must find my k'norfka, something has happened to him," she said simply, her voice sounding very much defeated, the fire and anger gone. "I do not care why you are here; I just wish to find him."

"Er, is a k'nerfglah like...family or something?" See-More asked softly, the Titan nodding slowly in reply, her head still bowed.

 I finally lowered my arm, the twitching in my hand had finally stopped.

"Well, we're actually here to find Blackfire. She's your sister, right? Does sister mean k'nafknamah?"

"Blackfire...?" Starfire said, finally looking up. I instantly took a step back; her one good eye was glowing again. "My sister is here?"

"Uh, yeah?"

Damnit, See-More.

"Release me," Starfire said, standing straight up, her eye looking past me and focusing directly on See-More. "I must find my sister and stop whatever it is she is planning."

"Um, well, maybe I can do that--"

"You will do it!"

"Okay, okay, I will! But, uh, well, do you think you could...take us with you?"

I turned on See-More in a flash, giving him my best 'what the hell' look, to which he promptly ignored, his one big eye looking up hopefully at Starfire. The Titan looked back down at him, though her gaze switched between the both of us. "If I recall correctly, you two were working with my sister. You broke into our home and stole Raven and Beastboy."

"Well, technically, it was just Raven. The green guy kinda just snuck on..."

"Where are they?" the Titan demanded, pushing past me so that she was face to face with See-More, with only the wall of the bubble between them.

"Ah, well, last time we saw them they were fighting with Blackfire and some really big Tamaranian guy..." See-More muttered, stepping back slightly.

"My k'norfka! He was fighting my friends? Why?!"

I tried to catch See-More's eye behind the Titan's back, tried to let him know somehow that he was telling her too much, that he was ruining our best shot. See-More finally glanced over at me, though it lasted less than a second.

"I...I'm not sure..."

I breathed out a silent sigh of relief.

"Then you must know where they are now! You must take me to them!"

"Well, I don't know exactly where they are now...But you're in luck! Me and Kyd are a great team for finding people." The dirty look I shot at him quickly vanished when the Titan looked back at me "We can help, if you promise to let us talk to Blackfire before you do...whatever you plan on doing to her."

The Titan remained silent as she looked between us again. Finally, she let out a sigh. "Robin would be most furious at me if I befriended criminals..."

"We don't have to be friends or anything!" See-More quickly assured. "Just think of us as...er...people with similar interests?"

I rubbed my good hand over my face.

"Are you both sure you could not rethink your paths? Perhaps become good so this 'working together' can be easier?"

See-More and I exchanged glances.

"Well, I wouldn't say Kyd and I are really...bad...I mean, we're bad but like...we aren't...evil? Well, I'm not evil; I don't know about Kyd Wykkyd over there. He's been acting kind of darker lately. Oh, sorry about that scratch by the way. I think Kyd is sorry too."

I quickly nodded in agreement, though the Titan merely looked confused.

"Scratch?"

"You know...the one on your face...?"

The Titan stepped back slightly so that she was facing the both of us and raised one careful hand on her face, her fingers brushing along the cuts. She pulled back her hand, the surprise in her face growing when she saw the blood that now decorated her fingers. I felt my own clawed fingers twitch again.

"I did not even know...is it horrible?"

See-More and I exchanged glances.

"No not at all!" See-More quickly assured as I shook my head to agree with him.

"But why can I not see out of one eye?"

"Er...it'll stop being like that...soon."

"I see..."

"Here, let me see if we can use some of these bed sheets as a bandage or something...Er, you don't mind, do you?"

"No, it is fine," the Titan said simply, still staring somewhat sadly at her bloodied fingers. See-More then went off to go tear up her bed.

It was a wonder what I was becoming. My clawed hand felt stiff and cold, unfeeling, but as I looked into the Titan's sad, more than likely scarred face, I felt something. Something I hadn't felt since seeing the cuts on 72's face. And despite my best intentions, my more human hand reached out and gripped her shoulder. 

Starfire looked up at me, confused. I could imagine that I probably looked just as confused as her and, with great effort, I gave my sworn enemy the best smile I could muster.

The Titan looked back at me for a moment before her own smile began to form before breaking out into a full blown giggle. I quickly retracted my hand.

"You know, you are not as frightening as you first appear," the Titan said, making me really wish I still had my cowl. 

See-More laughed somewhere behind me, over the noise of torn fabric. "That's what all his friends say, eh Kyd?"

...I hate you.

...

"No!" Robin shouted, slamming a fist against the wall.

"I'm sorry, Robin, but scans are coming back negative. None of these guys have the capabilities of space travel."

"Check them again."

"This is the third time I've scanned them, none of them can do it. We need another plan."

"This is the best plan we have!" Robin declared, turning to face the rows of frozen villains. "One of these low lives was supposed to actually have some purpose."

"Well, it turns out they don't," Cyborg said, walking up to stand beside his leader. "Robin, we need a new plan."

"Nothing we do will help Starfire in time."

"It's only been a day, man, and Starfire is a strong girl. Stronger than all of us put together, literally. She'll be fine until we can think of a way to help her out."

"How far along are Titan's East from completing their ship?"

"A few months at least. Up until this point, they were only working on the thing for fun. But even after it's built, we still have to test it--"

"I want you with them. And I want the ship to be ready to fly in a week."

"Robin, even with me there, I don't think--"

"Cy," Robin interrupted, his somber tone catching his metal friend's eyes. "Please."

"Alright, man. I'll try," Cyborg said with a sigh before casting his sight to the doors that led to outside. "And what about Jinx and Kid Flash? You want me to keep an eye on either of them?"

"No, I am going to have them join up with the Honorary Titans to move these villains to more secure locations."

"Why do I get the feeling you are not going to take part in that particular mission?"

"I have my own mission," Robin said as he began to make his way away from the wall of frozen cells. 

Cyborg remained where he stood, looking after his leader. "You don't think it might be a bad idea to have her out of our sights?"

"Jinx has proven herself on more than one occasion. If we are going to fully trust her, we need to start letting our guards down. But I will keep radio contact with the other Titans should that not work as planned."

"Gotcha. Mind if I ask what this... 'personal mission' of yours entails?"

Robin stopped just before the door that lead out of the room. He paused for only a moment, his back to his friend. "I'll just be catching up with an old friend." 

And with that, Robin left the room, leaving Cyborg with only more questions.