Well, hello! I guess I'm back with another Teen Titans fic! This story began as a small one-shot that I wanted to write and post quickly for my readers here on , but instead I think I want to make this a full (if not short) fic. It will be BBXRae (of course, as they're my OTP) and I'd love to hear feedback and suggestions on it if you guys should have any!

With two jobs after graduation, a full fiction story I'm mapping out and plans to go to Grad school for my MFA, I can't exactly say that there will be a schedule for updates at this time. I can say, however, that I'm SUPER excited to write it and I know that updates won't be few and far between! I hope you're as excited to be back as I am! ^_^

Titans, Go!

-Song

When Robin was in charge of the aux cord, the base was always blasting from the stereos of the T-Car. Raven hid behind a dusty book that clouded up the backseat of the T-car and tried not to think about how badly her eardrums would be affected by this. She couldn't understand how Starfire was asleep against her, and she even voiced this aloud to everyone in the car. Robin smiled back at his girlfriend who looked peaceful.

"She's used to a warring planet full of strong, titanic aliens," he yelled over the noise. "I think any sort of disturbance is like a lullaby to her."

"Dude, that's cool," Beast Boy screamed over the stereo. Raven cringed because it was in her left ear that he did. "I don't think I could hear myself think, let alone sleep in this noise!"

"Can you ever hear yourself think?" Cyborg mumbled from the driver's seat.

"What?!" Beast Boy screamed from the back.

Robin frowned. "Are you guys trying to tell me that the music is too loud?"

"YES!" they all replied in unison. Robin looked affronted but ever so slightly turned down his rock and roll.

"Sure," Raven shut the book. "Like that's any better."

"I dunno, Rae," Beast Boy grinned at her. "It literally is quieter."

Beast Boy was a lot bigger than he used to be, taller and took up a lot more space. He wasn't a bean pole any longer, and so when Raven turned to give him a biting retort, she realized that their noes were nearly touching.

"I suppose," she turned her face back toward the front, "you're not wrong."

Beast Boy gasped dramatically. "Wait, are you saying… I'm right?"

Raven's eyes glowed a little. "No, I would never say something so ridiculous."

Cyborg thrust out his hand and tapped the music off. The drastic shift from noise to silence was almost painful, and Starfire stirred against Raven's shoulder.

"Please." Cyborg's exasperation was potent. "Please, just like, stop. Everyone. My sensors are overloaded and if I don't get some peace and quiet, I'm going to run us into one of these damn big pine trees."

Raven looked out the window at the ever growing forest around them. They had been combing their way through several Washington state national parks for over a week now. They'd been notified by other Titans that a disturbance had been popping up in Washington following the strike of a meteor to the Earth. Starfire had been worried it might be alien life wreaking havoc on the area, so they'd come to check.

Except when they reached the crash site, they'd found nothing but green, glowing rock that Star couldn't identify. Without other resources, Robin suggested they start retracing the steps of every distress call other Titans had received.

Now, on day ten it seemed, Cyborg was getting a little testy over it.

Robin seemed like he was going to protest, but stayed quiet. It was a blissful twenty minutes before they came across a fallen tree in the road. There were no signs or warnings that there had been any damage to the area, so they slowed down and discussed moving it out of the way for oncoming traffic.

"Raven, can you just like, you know," Cyborg waved his hands at it over the steering wheel. "Magic it away from us?"

Raven rolled her eyes and stretched out a hand. "Azarath, Metrion Zinthos," she breathed gently. Beast Boy could practically feel her magic fill the car as the massive tree was lifted into the air and removed from the road.

"Goosebumps," Beast Boy joked. He dramatically rubbed his arms, consequentially jostling her and Starfire next to him. He really has grown so much, Raven thought.

"Gee, thanks," she replied, then elbowed his arm for bumping into her so much. He elbowed her back and then suddenly they were rocking the whole backseat, whacking at each other in order to get a few inches apart.

"Hey! Yo!" Cyborg snapped. "Y'all gonna act like children, I swear I will turn this car arou-"

Suddenly there was an explosion from the forest nearby, launching the freshly removed tree and others into the air and down onto the hood and roof of the T-Car. Starfire woke instantly and looked around, shocked at the huge dent now above them. The back windows shattered and Beast Boy instinctively climbed on top of the girls to shield them from the glass.

"Beast Boy!" Raven was yelling, frustrated and a little claustrophobic.

"What is happening?" Starfire was yelling.

"Aw Hell, not my baby!" Cyborg was yelling.

"Titans! Go!"

They couldn't exactly spring into action, what with the T-Car caving in on top of them, but the driver's side and passenger door were able to be opened, so Robin and Cyborg were out first. Starfire, in a fit of rage and confusion, shot the backseat door open with a starbolt blast from her eyes, and Raven and Beast Boy were left entangled in the back alone.

"Get off of me!"

Beast Boy tried to oblige but he ended up elbowing her in the ribs.

"Oh for the love of," she hissed and phased through the bottom of the car and out from under him.

"If you could do that the whole time!?" Beast Boy roared and struggled in vain to get out of his seat belt. He couldn't bear to break the T-Car into bits by changing into something huge, so instead he did the logical thing and became a hummingbird.

"Look out!" Starfire screamed suddenly, and Raven re-appeared out of the concrete just in time to see another massive tree come careening toward them. Toward Cyborg who, of all of them, happened to be the slowest Titan.

Immediately she stuck out a hand and attempted to slow its fall, but was crashed into by a rush of wind which knocked her off her feet, her hood over her face. Raven briefly heard Robin exclaim, and then a horrible cracking sound echoed through the forest.

No! She thought and ripped her hood off. Cyborg still stood, looking shocked, in between the massive halves of the just split sides of the tree around him. He smiled sheepishly over at someone, and Raven heard him say, "Thanks Bb."

"No sweat," Beast Boy grinned.

Starfire soared into the air full of joy. "Glorious! What a fantastic pointed lizard you make."

Beast Boy had somehow appeared in front of Raven, who was still on the ground - possibly in shock - and offered her a hand up.

"Stegosaurus, actually."

Raven wanted to roll her eyes, but instead shot a relieved glance at Cyborg and then nodded. "Good work, Beast Boy."

"I know," he grinned. It was then that she rolled her eyes.

"What was all that about," Robin thought aloud. He moved over to a felled tree and scuffed it with his boot. It was massive, not moving. Unbelievable that anything could have uprooted it and thrown it as far as they had.

"Starfire, what do you think?"

Starfire shook her head. "The crash site that we observed held no clues as to what or who might have landed here. It could be," she thought, "that nothing may have landed here. That simply a meteor may have made contact with Earth."

"And then what?" Cyborg asked, still a little shaky from his near being crushed by the massive pine tree. "If nothing came out of that hunk of rock, what is throwing stuff at us? It's been ten days and not only have we learned nothing? We were almost killed."

Robin could feel the palpable shift in Cyborg's demeanor so he called a time out.

"Okay, I know we've been at this a while so why don't we just take a minute and regroup-"

Cyborg threw his hands up and gestured at the ruins of the T-Car. He couldn't even form words at this point and Beast Boy cleared his throat to relieve the awkward tension.

Raven sighed, walked over to Cyborg and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"I know what you're feeling," she told him gently. "Of all people I know what the T-Car means to you, but it's time to put that aside for now and get out of here. Clearly," she looked around. "It's a bit dangerous."

His nostrils flared but he couldn't snap at Raven, so instead he breathed out a huge sigh and nodded.

"Alright," Robin crossed his arms. "Come on."

"Come on… where?" asked Beast Boy.

Robin pointed to the trees where the projectiles were coming from. "There."

Starfire and Raven flew ahead of the men in order to get a good idea of what they'd be dealing with. They kept their communicators close just in case. As they reached what appeared to be a clearing, they realized it was actually a circle of felled trees. The ground was mauled and the roots were ripped entirely from the earth, leaving black and brown piles of dirt everywhere.

"That's odd," Raven murmured to herself.

Starfire suddenly burst forward ahead, seeming to zone in on something that Raven hadn't seen. Just as she adjusted direction she was blasted out of the sky by an invisible force. As Raven plummeted to the forest floor she saw Starfire disappear into the clouds.

Unable to stop her own fall, Raven attempted a quick force field that would hopefully absorb the impact. Just as she was about to make one, she felt something sharp and thin whip against her left shoulder. She ricocheted off of it, which turned out to be a tree branch, and careened into the trunk of an aged pine.

After that it was nothing but darkness.

Beast Boy did his best to comfort his friend about the broken T-Car.

"Look, it's okay - this just gives us an awesome excuse to go to the hardware store and the auto shop! You know you love shopping for cylinders and… like, wrenches and stuff."

"Do you even know what you're saying?" While Cyborg appreciated the effort Beast Boy was going for, his buzz was too killed to really get into the shenanigans.

"No, but this will also give you an excuse to teach me more about cars!"

"Goody."

Robin walked ahead of them and kept his eyes on - well - almost everything. He scanned the skies for Starfire, watched the trees for enemies and even the ground for any clues or artifacts he might be able to find in order to solve this strange mystery.

"Okay," Robin said aloud in a tone that Beast Boy and Cyborg knew too well. He was about to bounce ideas off of them whether they liked it or not. "Here are the facts: a meteor crashes to Earth without discernible origin or motive. Strange things start occurring within twenty four hours of impact."

"People started disappearing," Cyborg offered.

"So do animals," Beast Boy chimed in.

"Right," Robin nods, but keeps walking. "Then there are reports of power outages and areas of forests completely cleared of trees - trees that were hundreds of years old and never before touched."

"Nothing was scheduled for deforestation," Cyborg offers again, finding comfort in the mental distraction.

"Which only makes it stranger," Robin scratched his head. "Not to mention that Starfire has no clue where the meteor could have come from, and there's the mysterious force that started throwing massive trees at us for no reason at all-"

"So definitely aliens, is what we're saying?" Beast Boy asked.

"I don't want to say anything yet," Robin replied. "It just doesn't make any sense. If, in fact, Starfire is right and this meteor is a completely harmless cosmic event, and not motivated by some alien life force, then why are people going missing? Why the power outages? It's been, what? Ten days since we've been here and twenty days since the meteor struck so why hasn't any alien or creature been spotted or reported?"

Cyborg looked around and felt a chill go down his spine. "I mean," he paused.

"What?" Beast Boy asked, and he and Robin both turned to look at him.

Cyborg gestured to the area around them. "I mean, we're in the Pacific Northwest… the forests and parks here are huge, man. Lots of crazy stuff happens here that hardly no one ever sees. When people claim to see stuff, people like... call them nuts because they're the only ones. You know, haunted places, bigfoot, aliens."

"So you're saying that there definitely could be alien life out here," Robin continued. "But the forests are so big we keep missing them? It's a good theory but we've been here over a week. Neither your scanners nor Raven's powers have sensed anything."

"My nose hasn't picked up anything funky, either," Beast Boy offered.

"How would it be possible that we keep missing them unless they were invisible or something?"

Cyborg shrugged.

"That could explain," Beast Boy interjected. "Why we couldn't see a single enemy hurl massive trees at us just now. They would have to have been right there."

All three men took in their surroundings and felt very much watched.

"Let's catch up with the girls," Robin suggested, and the three of them started lightly jogging further into the darkening forest.

Hey guys! So that's Chapter one of a whole new story idea I'm working on and let me assure you, its as much a mystery to me as it is to you right now. Let me know what you think and please feel free to comment! I love reading your reviews and I'll definitely write back if I can!

-Song