Author's notes:

This is my first fanfic ever, so please, constructive criticism will be highly appreciated, it's my own take as to what happens post Things Change.

I'm from Mexico, so if my grammar or vocabulary or (most likely) both sucks, that's why, on that account a Beta reader will be a great help and have forever my thanks.

This is a BBxT fanfic, if you don't like the pairing stay out.

I intent to update monthly, but if luck smiles on me, maybe I will update sooner.

Having bothered you already, please, enjoy.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans

Peace of mind

by Geork.

So close and yet so far, he remembered Raven coming up with that one. It didn't make any sense to him; until now. She was standing right in front of him, but despite all of his efforts, she wouldn't let him any closer. It hurt, badly, after all that he had tried, nothing seemed to work out.

-"You go. You're the Teen Titan. That's who you are, that's not me. I'm not a hero. I'm not out to save the world. I'm just a girl with a geometry test next period, and I haven't studied."-

And with that she was out of his reach for the third time. Beastboy wasn't sure if he could take yet another one. But there was a job to be done. Cooped with the fact that he just didn't know what to do anymore, he decided to let it be.

-"Beastboy to Robin, I'm on my way. Over."-

He ran out of the school and took to the skies in the form of a falcon, searching for his friends. They needed him and he knew it. His mind, however, was racing with the last events. There were so many questions, yet, so little answers and it seemed that he wouldn't get any from his former friend. But where could he search then?, Was he even willing to?, He didn't want to think about it right now. If he was to help Robin and the others, he needed to focus on the task at hand.

After a while he landed on the top of a building, took out his communicator and surfed through it until a map with the location of their friends was displayed. They were inside the far east Warehouse of the industrial sector. He put out the communicator then he took off into the skies again.

After a few more moments he saw the building, inside he could make out sounds of the battle: explosions, the sound of metal clashing against metal and the like. With the grace of the falcon he dove through a broken window, flared his wings to come to a halt, and resumed his elf form. He landed in some kind of railing near the ceiling and far above the ground. Down the railing were several machines along with some tanks of oil and stuff. The place it seemed, used to be a fabric. Near the machinery he saw his friends fighting, just in time to see Cyborg crashing against said machinery. Meanwhile Raven, Starfire and Robin tried to corner what looked like a metal golem. Its back was to Beastboy and it was backing out trying to gain some distance from his enemies. It was walking right into Beastboy's range. With no warning, he jumped out of the railing, morphed into a velociraptor and charged.


Once she started walking she didn't look back, not even once. Her mind was blank at the moment, if she started replaying the whole thing she would have second thoughts. If she had second thoughts she would go back looking for him and then…, stop it!! She was doing it again, right now what she had to do was attend her class and then go home and forget everything that had happened for the last couple of days.

She stopped right in the entrance of her classroom. She took a deep breath trying to clear her mind. She entered the classroom and took her usual seat. -"Now focus Terra"-

-15 minutes later-

-"Easier said err… thought than done"- Terra sighed in defeat. Right now her class was a lost cause, for the second time she tried to re-read all the problems on the blackboard trying to figure out which ones were easier. Stupid geometry, after a torturous half hour of I'm-not-shure-this-is-right answers, she just gave up. As far as she was concerned whoever figured out the formulas for these things had way too much time in his hands. It just wasn't the fact that she hadn't studied, fortunately her test wasn't today. It was also because some green changeling just kept coming back into her mind. She had lied again; it looked like that was the only thing she was good at. She was neither a hero nor a villain, not even a decent student. She was a liar.

-"You don't remember me?"- The face he had when he asked was heart breaking. His voice sounded sad and disappointed. Of course she remembered him, he was the best friend she ever had, but what kind of friend she was? Every time he tried to get close she would lie and then he would hurt.

There were so many things she wanted to tell him, to ask him about. She used to talk to the mirror rehearsing, trying to figure out what she would say: How she was going to apologize, and try, whether it was a futile effort or not, to have a straight conversation with him and end it in good terms. No shouting no lying and, if she was lucky, no hard feelings. But when he showed up she panicked and with that everything just went down the toilet.

-"Well that was yesterday. What the hell happened today?"- When no answer came to her mind she realized, again, how messed up she really was.

She placed her head between her hands –"What am I going to do now?"- for the last month she had wondered that same thing. First she didn't do anything. After all, word was that the Titans had left Jump City and it was anybodies guess when, if ever, they were coming back. So she tried the normal life; she didn't intent to stay that way, just until she had made up her mind, but that was it. She was afraid of doing anything else; besides, it shouldn't be much before Slade came back for her. Maybe it was better this way.

She knew what she wanted to do. She wanted to apologize with the Teen Titans, all of them, for everything she had done. She didn't actually expected forgiveness, but it was the right thing to do. However, truth be told, she feared what they might say. She was utterly terrified of insults and rejection. Now she knew they were her true family and putting all reasons aside, she hoped against hope that they would actually forgive her. Just forgive, not invite her back to the team or living back at the tower. Just to know that she wasn't hated.

-"Yeah, like that would ever happen"-

A "shh" and a stare from her teacher told her that she was thinking out loud. After a brief apology she focused once again on the exercises.

Rrrrriiiiiinnngg

-"Okay class, time's up, put out pencils and pens and pass your papers front"-

With a sigh she gave her work, took her stuff and headed towards the exit. She needed to think, a lot -"Beastboy is definitely going to tell the others"- She felt shivers run down her spine at the mere thought of what was coming her way -"Dear God, if I panicked with Beast Boy. How am I going to react with Raven or Robin?"-


The new threat that was fighting the titans turned around just in time to see two massive raptor claws right in front of its face. One of said claws slashed its white mask like face. The other claw went down its neck and torso, the friction between its metal like body and the claw throwing sparks.

Unfortunately for the green raptor, its foes reflexes were cat-like. It grabbed the reptile by its neck and used its momentum of the jump to flail him like a bat successfully striking the other three titans that were still surprised of the sudden appearance of their comrade. Sending all three of them flying in the same direction, followed shortly after by the changeling now in his elf form.

-"Nice one Beastboy"- Raven remarked as soon as they regained their stances, promptly joined by Cyborg. She intended it to be a sarcasm but as they looked at their foe it became obvious that it really was a nice one: the creature's face now held a brand new scar. It went diagonally from just above it's left eye ran down where the nose should be and ended in the middle of it's right cheek.

Robin noticed as well -"Everyone, aim at its face, Titans GO"-

As the teen's scattered trying to surround it, the creature tried to run away as it had been doing for the last couple of days. Getting against the wall, it morphed into the same material and started melting with it. It was promptly stopped by Robin throwing a cryogen disk at the wall freezing it and preventing the creature from merging with it. But as soon as it froze, the creature became pure ice and jumped out of the way just in time to avoid Starfire's fist, that slammed against the frozen wall breaking it into peaces, not standing the power of the alien girl. Raven used her powers to control the wall fragments and began throwing them precisely aimed at the ice being's face. It barely dodged some of them and blocked others. Suddenly the creature was hit in the right side by Cyborg's sonic blast an was sent flying to the other side of the room where a waiting green gorilla punched it right in the face making a loud crack, stopping the creature in mid fly and sending it back where it came from.

As it turned out, it fell face first to the ground and rolled unglamorously until it finally stopped. Its mask/face went flying a couple of yards before also landing. Its body turned back to the "normal" white color. As the titans carefully approached the creature ready for anything, it became obvious that it wasn't going to move anymore. With a push of his foot Cyborg rolled the creature so they could see their "face" without the mask, it also became obvious what it was.

-"A robot?"- Beastboy was the first to ask out loud. The creature's "face" was a mess of wires and circuitry that, in its current condition, threw sparks now and then. As Cyborg kneed to have a better look, Robin went for the mask, picked it up and turned it over. He was not surprised when he saw that the mask also had circuitry on its back side.

-"Not just your ordinary robot"- was Cyborg's reply, as he looked at the scanners in his arm trying to run a diagnose on it. He was promptly met with an "UNKNOWN" flashing red on his display –"There's some serious engineering in this thing that I've never seen, not to mention that ability of morphing."-

-"Cyborg"- Robin called, walking back with the group –"you think you can analyze it back at the tower?"-

-"Sure thing man, but it's funny ya'know? Usually when we beat a robot it always…"- he was interrupted by a loud beep from the robot, then another, and another. Their eyes widened as they knew what was coming.

-"GET COVER!!"- was the only thing Robin was able to shout before it happened.

KABOOOOOOMMMMMMM