"Well, I can't remember too well right now," you admit. "In the meantime, let's see if we can get parts of this to become a power generator for the house."
"What?!" Blackfire demands. "You want to use a Citadel jet engine to be our home's power source?"
"Blackfire, I just told you," you say, "I don't know if this is Citadel or Kozoal."
"Exactly!" she counters. "Which means it could be Citadel, and we'd be using enemy technology!"
"Blackfire, calm down," you say. "Don't just assume it is Citadel. After we've made it into a generator, we can use it to power up a communicator to talk with Rabsy! Then he can tell us what we have."
"We are not waiting to call Rabsy AFTER the fact that we used a Citadel engine," she declares. "We are calling him now!"
"Blackfire, that's why we need to convert the engine. We don't have anything that can--"
"I don't care!" she shouts. "We can use something else to make one!"
Blackfire's glare is made even more ferocious by the glowing lazer energy in her eyes. You know you can win in a fight against her, but that doesn't mean you want to fight her.
"Okay, okay," you say, patting her on the shoulder. "We'll call Rabsy now."
You turn to Cyborg.
"Do you have a way of calling other planets?"
A few minutes later, Cyborg has created an interplanetary communicator using some spare parts he had in the Titans' ship.
You tune the frequency to find Rhythmis and Rabsy's garage.
*BEWOORRZZ* The communicator's speakers let out strange noises as you work to find Rabsy's frequency.
"Rabsy," you speak into the com, "are you there?"
*KKRRRKKZZ* Static comes over the speakers now.
"Bl-- Bo--er, is tha-- you?"
Rabsy's voice comes and goes, and an image flickers on a screen. You tweak the frequency just slightly.
"Rabsy? Can you hear me?"
The static disappears, and the screen clears up. Rabsy and Foxy are both visible, Rabsy holding the microphone.
"'Ey! It is you, Blue!" he shouts. "How's it been? We thought you were done in when we couldn't get a word out of ya from that ship of yours."
"Yeah, we had been meaning to tell you," you say. "It got blown up by Val-Yor on Nuh's home planet."
"Oh, you dropped Nuh off at her home?" Foxy asks. "That's great! Where are you?"
"Earth," you say. "We decided to live here peacefully after Blackfire and I got married."
"Married?!" they both echo. "No way!"
"Yes, half an Earth year ago. If we still had that ship, we would've brought you to Earth for it, but--"
Blackfire nudges you, reminding you of the engine.
"Hey, Rabsy, we need a favor," you say. "Check your schematics for engines, namely Kozoal and Citadel."
"May I ask why?"
"We found an engine here on Earth that resembles both and I'm not familiar with the minute differences."
Rabsy scurries off as Foxy sits down.
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