AN: This is just going to be a short story maybe about two or three chapters long, that's based on the "How long is forever " episode of how I thought it should've been. Yes this story will focus a lot on Beast Boy and Raven since they changed the most of the Titans. I really wished that they would have made Beast Boy more like the version I have in my story because I wasn't really impressed with his future self or any of the other Titans, but mostly just Beast Boy's and Raven's.
I do not own the Teen Titans.
A new future
Starfire punched Warp on the head as she was clinging on to him trying to get the artifact out of his hands. They were being pulled through a time vortex into the future, just like their last encounter. Starfire already had a game plan of when she arrived in the future she would hurry and visit her teammates as she did last time and fight off Warp so that she could return back to her time.
Warp kneed her in the gut and caused her to lose her grip on the villain. As she was falling through the vortex 15 years later into the future, he also plunged into it and began to calculate on how he was going to get back. Just like last time, Starfire toke his time device and he was now stuck without it.
Pulling out a history book as he fell in a bank of snow, he began to check if all the Titans were still the same as last time, reading through he found out that Cyborg and Robin didn't really change at all like last time, but Raven this time was held in a maximum security prison outside of town and Beast Boy had some interesting things happen to him over the years. "Hmmm, that's strange," Warp said to himself as he flipped through the book, "It says that Beast Boy, now known as Menagerie, is founder of Transformation Corp and is a well known hero still, but there are rare sightings of the Changeling and no one can tell what he looks like now." Warp began to fumble around in his pockets and pulled out a tracker to find his time device. Grunting in annoyance that it was clear on the other side of town he decided to go and retrieve it, but first he had to be ready this time when that girl had her friends back at her side again.
Warp still wondered though what happened to the Changeling or Beast Boy. It said in the book that multiple things happened to him and that he became one of the most wanted heroes in the villain world, but why and how was still a mystery to him as he began his search of his tracker.
Starfire rubbed her head as she got off the concrete of where she crashed after falling out of the portal. Looking around she saw a blanket of snow over the streets of Jump with a few cars covered in it. Instantly taking to the sky, she went over to Titans Tower to confirm that nothing big has changed since the last time she visited the future. Little did she know, a pair of green eyes watched far above the buildings on Transformation Corp Tower, his figure was hidden within the shadows and the moon just caught the glint of his razor sharp white claws as he hovered over the 3 foot high stone wall on top of the building that surrounded a small patio.
The Tip of the Tower was in the middle of it with most of the patio facing toward most of the city. "Whoever that is," said a deep voice that sounded like a growl, "There Cyborg's problem, not mine!" he roared and retreated back into the shadows. The moon caught of what looked like a green monkey's tail and some huge green feathered wings that looked like an angels as the figure retreated further into the shadows.
Starfire made haste to the tower and instead of entering in the front door. She crashed through the window and landed in the living room of the tower. Apparently Cyborg was watching some TV and had a mouth full of noodles in his mouth with some of it hanging out. His eyes grew big as he watched the curious alien girl approach him.
"Cyborg, you appear not part of the tower as the last time I saw you in the future?" Starfire said in a happy voice.
"Starfire…" Cyborg said in disbelief as he swallowed his noodles, "How did you… Where were you… Ah man now I remember when you told me about my future." He said getting up to greet his long lost friend. He really didn't change much at all since his youth and didn't even show any sign of aging, due to the fact that he's mostly robot.
"I told the guys that we were forgetting something when we all split up, but no, no one listens to Cyborg," he said rolling his eyes, "So what can I do for ya?"
"I need to gather all of our teammates so that we may do battle with Warp." Starfire said in a strong voice, while flexing her arm and clenching her hand.
"Oh well you see Starfire," Cyborg said in bit of a stutter, "Nightwing is in Gotham helping his mentor with some problems there, Raven's in the slammer for her own reasons and Beast Boy… well Beast Boy is now just a solitude jerk that doesn't even call. Oh, I'm some big shot business man and I have no time for any of my friends, doesn't even go visit Raven in the slammer may I add."
Starfire gasped putting her unclenched hand to her mouth, "The future…," she said hardly believing it, "Has changed so much now, Raven is in jail, Robin or now Nightwing is off helping his mentor and Beast Boy is a… business man?"
"Oh yeah he is," Cyborg said crossing his arms, "Thinks after all we been through was just some joke," Cyborg snorted, "Changes his name to Menagerie, doesn't show his face anymore and owns the world's biggest company and doesn't even let his own friend work there, his best friend!" Cyborg shouted pounding the table with his fists, breaking it on impact.
Starfire stood there shocked and gasped at what she just heard. Cyborg closed his eyes trying to calm himself down from doing any more harm. "Sorry Star, just got a little worked up," he said opening his eyes and smiling at her, "I'll see what I can do about Nightwing, Raven and Beast Boy, you're on your own on those two."
Nodding Starfire flew out of the hole that she made in the window, while waving her friend good bye and see you soon. Cyborg stood there looking at the alien princess fly away and bowed his head closing his eyes, "Please Starfire, if anyone can get those two back its you, please be safe Star and don't agitate Beast Boy then he already is."
The creature in the shadows watched the alien girl come fast at his direction, "Hmmm," he said scratching his chin with his sharp clawed hands, "The girl comes this way… What does she want and how much did Cyborg spill." He said walking back and forth with his arms behind his back.
Looking once more at the approaching girl he growled, "She seems familiar, like I should know her somehow, but why darn it!" he roared.
Starfire gently landed on the patio as she heard a loud roar and stopped, fear had struck her and now she was looking at a pair of glowing white eyes. She gently approached the figure that was the size of her friend used to be, it was kind of odd, in the future she visited he did grow, but she wasn't completely sure if her friend was standing up or crouching down, all she saw were his eyes.
"Stop right there girl," the creature growled.
Starfire stopped and tried to light a star bolt to show her friend, but every time she did, she heard a flap of wings and then her star bolt went out. She looked confused at the creature she knew as a friend stand before her. "Friend Beast Boy," She asked in a kind voice, "Why do you continue to hide yourself?"
"The name isn't Beast Boy anymore," The figure said rising up, Starfire gasped as she was now looking up at the eye's that towered over her, she guessed that he was at least two feet taller than Cyborg and by the way the moon was casting its light she could tell that he was twice the size of her metal friend, "You shouldn't have come her girl," he said approaching her, causing her to step back in fear, "These eye's will be the last you ever see!"
His form now showed and Starfire gasped as she looked at the intimidating figure before her. He had huge set of angel wings that had to be at least a 20 foot wing span. His entire body was muscular and his hands and feet had sharp razor white claws on them. A long monkey's tail wiped around behind him, he had green fur and wore white skin tight shorts and his face was not the loving face she was used to. His ears were even more pointed, he didn't have his little fang poking out of his mouth anymore and his face didn't look like a humans. She heard of these creatures before from Earth movies and books, the one word that came to her mind was "Gargoyle". She said out loud to herself.
"It's Menagerie!" he roared as he approached her with his claws showing more, "Unlike Gargoyle's, which is actually my default form now, I still have the power to change, but no longer into regular animals, no, now I turn into Mythical creatures, creatures of power!" he roared again approaching her.
