"Titans go!" Robin's voice echoed in the treatment plant as the team dove into action. The white beast they had been hunting for the past several hours was finally cornered, and this time they were not about to let him slip through their fingers. Taking the shape of the cement floor, the beast began to throw itself at any of the approaching teen, forcing them to fight from a distance to avoid a cement headache. Starbolts, cannon fires, and explosives all merely bounced off the shifting creature. As the white beast roared it was hit with one of raven's spells, knocking him back. The black hand encased itself around the beast, holding him down. The hold, however, was merely temporary as the cement creature was able to change forms once more, this time choosing a liquid form after making contact with a container holding an unknown substance.
The creature reached out for the nearest titan, capturing Starfire in a semi-solid grasp. Robin threw one of his explosives at the creature while Cyborg simultaneously launched cannon fire at it. When Robin's device hit the creature Starfire used her bolts, now charged, to cause an even bigger explosion. The creature dissipated, freeing a now soaked Starfire. "Nice work!" Robin and Cyborg high fived each other in victory.
The team regrouped with a few sighs. "Cyborg why don't you get a-" Robin's voice was cut off by a roar and a brick arm knocking the team against the wall, the creature still had not been defeated. "Where is Beast Boy?!" Robin desperately tried paging his team mate again as they worked to hold off the assailant. It was clear they would not be able to defeat the white beast without the help of their furry green friend.
Every attack they threw at the creature seemed to merely bounce off it, and now the team was beginning to grow tired. Each teen had enough scrapes, cuts and bruises to go around, and now they were beginning to run out of options. They had thrown everything they had at the creature, yet still nothing seemed to work. The fight moved out into a clearing, and the creature had taken on a mud form. Robin lodged several detonators in the creature's body, though he did not seem to notice thanks to Starfire and Raven's continuous attacks on his back, causing the beast to circle the clearing continuously. The detonations went off, one after another, though they merely seemed to stun the white monster. As the beast stood there slightly dazed, a deep growl rumbled through the forest and reached the clearing. "Beast boy!" Robin recognized that sound and relief spread across the team. A large green wildbeast crashed through the clearing and staright into the white monster, sending him flying through the other side of the clearing and against a rocky mountain. Again the beast was hit with more explosives, as Beast Boy, now in the form of a gorilla, continuously pounded on the monster. Raven and Starfire now circled above the monster, firing starbolts and spells at a rapid pace. The fight continued to move towards another treatment plant, this one a much larger one. Each titan could tell they were slowly, but surely, wearing the wretched creature down. As the group plowed through a wall, a large detonation went off in the creature, causing a strained shout of pain and a gaping hole in his body. "We've got him!" Robin knew the victory was finally close.
Spotting a container of acid, and idea popped into Raven's head. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Black energy encased the container, freeing the acid to rain down on everything. A black shield emerged suddenly, protecting each other the team members while the creature burned away. They had finally defeated the white shapeshifter.
Back at the Titan's tower, Beast boy silently took to his room, heartbroken by the things said in the last twenty four hours. "THINGS CHANGE" These words rand through Beast Boy's ears over and over until he had a splitting headache, all along with robotic Slade's taunts at the amusement park. He slammed his fists onto his desk in pure frustration and agony. This didn't add up; something was definitely wrong, and even his best friends weren't willing to help him figure it out anymore… Some best friends. Beast Boy stood up suddenly, so quickly that the chair he had been sitting on fell to the ground in his wake. A rush of motivation took over him, he was going to do something and he was going to fix everything and he knew exactly where he needed to start. He would bring Terra home where she belonged and everything would be alright again.
Beast Boy studied the ground before him, running his fingers over the sediment. He studied the rock walls, the cooled lava, and the center where her statue once stood. He searched with his inhumane senses for anything odd, anything that could explain her coming to life and then forgetting everything. Something that would explain how she could forget her powers or the team or even him and what they had. Since he was looking for answers, this place was as good as any to start. Maybe Cyborg could analyze the rocks and dirt and find something his sharpened senses missed. Maybe there was something that poisoned Terra while she was trapped in the rock that would have caused her to lose her memory. Maybe it was due to the lack of airflow or sunlight or maybe even she hit her head when she became human again. Beast Boy was desperate for any solution, as long as he had a way to fix it. Not having Terra in his life just wasn't right. Beast Boy ran his fingers through the now dead flowers he had brought her statue so long ago. Was something maybe wrong with the flowers?
"Thought I'd find you down here." Beast Boy's thoughts were interrupted by a smooth and calm voice, making him jump at first, but he recognized the voice after a second.
"I can't just give it up- this isn't right. She belongs here! With us!" Beast Boy's voice rang with slight desperation as he stood up. He continued to stare at the ground where her statue once stood. "
"Don't you think if she really wanted to be here she'd-"
"NO I DON'T! AND YOU DON'T EITHER! I CANT JUST PRETEND THIS IS THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE BECAUSE IT'S NOT" Robin blinked at his friend's sudden outburst and there was silence between the two for a few heart beats. It wasn't like Beast Boy to blow up like that. It was clear to Robin how much pain his friend truly was in.
"Alright you're right, I don't. But what can we do about it? You've tried everything." Robin was the brains of the whole team, so to say, the leaded, and he didn't have a single idea how to fix it.
"I'll think of something." Beast Boy's voice was small, but determined, his head bowed. He looked so broken, and all Robin wanted to do was find a way to make things right. To end everyone's hurt over this. Beast boy scouped up samples of each unique element in the area.
"Cyborg has already checked everything there is to check, if there was anything he would have found it." Robin didn't know what to say to console his hurting friend. It even made his heart skip a bit to see his friend this way.
"Well maybe he missed something. Maybe there is something new here." Beast boy turned, desperation clearly written on his face. The two of them headed back to the tower with samples for Cyborg.
Back at the tower Cyborg sat at the computer in his room, entering data on the white villain. The titans had all agreed that it would be a great idea to keep a record of their enemies and weaknesses, after the battle with the brotherhood of evil they thought this would make things a little easier. The rest of the team had all snuck off to their room to nurture each of their wounds while Cyborg hastily entered all of the data. He had recorded each second of the fight, and attached the video to the file before hitting save and shutting it down. He leaned back with his arms behind his head just as his door opened.
"Cyborg…" The green titan trailed off, not sure how to ask the favor of his friend.
"What is it, Grass stain?" Cyborg's favorite nickname for the green shifter. As he turned in his chair to face his friend, he noticed what he had in his hands. "You visited her again, didn't you? Couldn't take no for an answer." He knew his friend all too well for that. Beast Boy couldn't let this go, it was just a part of who he was; determined and stubborn. "So what do you have?"
Beast Boy quietly handed him the collection of bags of dirt, cooled lava, and rock. "Something isn't right, I know it and I'm going to fix it." Cyborg simply nodded and turned his chair back to the computer. His green friend was hurting, and if it meant analyzing what he had been brought to show him there was nothing to be done, then he would do it. Beast Boy needed to move on with his life, and maybe this was the answer he finally needed.
"Give me some time, grass stain." Cyborg's door slid closed, giving him the privacy he needed to collect data. He didn't question his green friend, didn't bother to remind him that he had done every test possible already. Beast Boy knew that and that wouldn't help him move on nor was it what he would want to hear.
On the other side of the door, Beast Boy took a deep breath before returning to his room. "Don't worry, Terra, I'll fix everything."