Okay, since I need to place one of these here, I'll just say it now.

I do not own the Teen Titans. Or the Titans themselves. Unfortunately. So, I'll stick with what I DO have. This story IS my property.

Beast Boy was always the underestimated one. The other Titans never realized his full potential, and now the green-changeling has been thrown off the team. Finding no mercy at the hands of street crime, he is forced to use his powers against ordinary people. But when sinister foes find his talents too good to go to waste, what will come of him?

THE DISGRACED ONE

The sky was dark with storm clouds, low rumblings of distant thunder echoed across the ocean waves stirring into a violent frenzy. In the middle of Jump City harbor, a giant "T" stands guard over the citizens of Jump. Within those steel walls, three heroes sat in the antechamber waiting for their resident shapeshifter's debriefing to finish. Robin paced back and forth in his office, a heavily injured Beast Boy standing in front of him, waiting for his leader to chew him out. The green boy had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach, his insides twisting in a mad dance of worry as the tension and his anticipation grew. Robin seemed to be seething, his eyes narrowing every second he paced the floor. BB knew that unless he acted soon, Robin's anger might lead to some… complications in the team. Beast Boy shifted his weight on his feet and spoke up, clearing his throat quietly.

"Uh…Robin… I just wanted to explain…"

"Explain?!"

Robin's voice was filled with unadulterated anger, directed at the green shapeshifter. The young man flinched at his own name, his temperamental leader suddenly in his face.

"Do you know what you've done?! Do you know how many lives are at stake now because of you?!"

"Dude," the changeling shouted back, "You don't know what you're talking about! Slade ordered his robots to attack me and I was overwhelmed! I couldn't get them all!"

Robin's face morphed into his mask of fury again.

"OVERWHELMED?! Did you bother to notice any of us during that fight, Beast Boy? Did you see how many we were taking on? Cyborg and I alone took out at least fifty of those bots each!"

Beast Boy returned fire as quickly as the Boy Wonder's mouth closed.

"Are you saying that I wasn't pulling my own weight?! Is that it?" he demanded hurtfully.

Batman's former apprentice glared a hole through his subordinate, the object of his fury beginning to glare back. Robin finally found his voice as he rounded back on him, his voice shaking in anger.

"Not pulling your own weight, Beast Boy? No. I'm saying you were not only "NOT" pulling your own weight, I'm saying you were a liability to the others!"

BB couldn't believe what he just heard. Liability? Is that what he was now? He was so shocked that he couldn't even speak. Robin had no such inhibitions.

"And," the Boy Wonder said with extreme frustration, "the lives of everyone in this city are endangered! You've put EVERYONE at risk!"

Beast Boy felt like he had been slapped. He spoke hesitantly, his voice quivering with restrained hatred.

"You're blaming me?! You are seriously putting all of this on me?"

Robin walked up to him, his face a grim canvas of everything the young man was thinking.

"Beast Boy. You directly disobeyed an order. You put the lives of everyone on the team in danger. Ever since that whole Terra-thing, you've been like this."

The green hero's eyes morphed independently of the rest of his body, becoming feral with slit pupils as he shouted in unleashed fury.

"TERRA-THING? That 'Terra-thing' was more than you know, Boy Wonder!"

Robin seemed unfazed by the animalistic changeling, as he instantly cooled down and calmly said,

"Beast Boy, you've been nothing but a hindrance since Terra's death. For the sake of the team, and the city, I'm going to have to ask you to hand over your communicator. As of right now, you are no longer a Titan."

The young Titan stared dumbfounded. He had misunderstood. He hadn't heard him correctly.

"Wh…What?"

"Hand over your communicator," Robin repeated.

Beast Boy's mouth hung open in disbelief, his eyes wide with shock. Then reality stepped in and brought him back to the situation. His eyes narrowed as they became normal again, his mouth shut tight as he dug into his pocket and removed the yellow device from his suit. He dropped it onto his former leader's palm as he about-faced and stormed out of the room. His mind was everywhere, forming plans on what he would do. He couldn't stay in the tower, the others would only make it worse. He'd have to go somewhere where they couldn't find him.

He entered his room as the door whooshed open, quickly grabbing all of his money and leaving. He left his Titan suits in his closet. He wasn't a Titan anymore.

The deep rumble of thunder shook the walls of the Tower as he walked onto the roof, rain coming down fast with gale-force winds blowing from the ocean. He stood on the ledge of the Tower, pondering where he could go. He would need someplace big, filled with people. Maybe even people like him, a place where he could 'fit in'…

With sudden realization, his eyes widened at the memory of a place he had once heard Robin speak of. A city so large that it needed an entire clan of heroes to protect it. Beast Boy leapt off the Tower, morphing into a falcon as he took off into the distance. He had found the perfect place for him. A place called,

"Gotham."

(A/N. This is my first fanfic on BB and I'm sorry it was a little short. But they will get longer, I promise! And, if it seems a little slow, I'm just building it up. The next chapter will reveal exactly what happened with Slade. By the way, please, NO FLAMES! Constructive criticism is very welcome, and I would love to have some feedback on this.)