Hello everyone, DTF here with an exciting new story that involves two of my favorite Teen Titans characters: Beast Boy and Raven. And plus it has an OC that I have created. So sit back, grab some popcorn and turn the background color of the story to black, easier on the eyes.
Oh yeah, almost forgot, Disclaimer: I own nothing of Teen Titans, If I did, I sure as hell wouldn't be here writing stories about it now would I? The only thing I do own is my OC. Now Enjoy!
Chapter One
"Ha Ha, I gotcha now Cy!" An overly excited eighteen-year-old Beast Boy exclaimed. He had just pulled into the lead on the final lap of the racing game that him and Cyborg have been playing for the past five hours. "Didja see that Rae?!"
"Yes, Beast Boy, I saw that." Raven replied in her monotoned voice, sitting comfortably near the edge of the semi-circle couch still wearing her midnight black leotard with her dark blue cloak with the hood down, with surprise surprise, a book. Her eyes glanced up at the huge flat-screen T.V., but the book hid the tiny smile that made its way to her face.
"I'm finally gonna win!" The green shape-shifter furiously tapping the controller buttons, all he needed was just a few more seconds and he would beat the famous Cyborg at a video game.
"You haven't won yet, ya little grass stain!" Cyborg's voice matching the changeling's volume, he pressed a button on the side of the controller and the next thing Beast Boy knew, his ride was nothing but scrap, the front passenger side tire sailed into the air, while the back drivers side rim came off and landed on the bed of the 4x4 truck exposing the braking system completely, the body was a crumpled mess of aluminum, the suspension jutted out of random places, some through the wind shield, along with the mangled steel roll cage, all in all, its racing days were over.
Beast Boy watched in complete horror as his ride stopped just maybe a couple of feet from the finish line. That's not even the worst part, Cyborg actually stopped just as far from the line as Beast Boy, got up off the couch, did a victory dance, and trudged on over the line. "Boo-ya! I still got it!"
The green changeling stared at the screen flashing "Player 1 win, Player 2 lost". His line of sight lowered to the controller in his hands, then a question popped in his head. He looked up at his long time friend and asked, "How'd you do that?!"
The metal man shrugged, placing the controller on the coffee table, next to the T.V. remote, picking that up, he turned the giant T.V. off, then set the remote back down and said, "If you read the instructions, you'd know how I did that." With that said, he walked toward the kitchen to make himself a snack and to check up on how Starfire and Robin's cooking lesson was going.
Beast Boy's face showed that he was in deep thought, obviously trying to remember something. Then his face showed that of confusion. He lifted himself off the couch and headed towards the game cases. "There was instructions?"
Raven having seen all that just happened couldn't seem to get rid of the smile that threatened to turn into a full blown grin. The look on Beast Boy's face was priceless when he saw his truck get blown to Kingdom Come. Having to keep her book covering half her face, she peeked a quick look over at the green teenage boy. She noticed that he wasn't wearing his traditional purple and black Doom Patrol uniform, but just a simple dark purple shirt that well fitted his new physique and a pair of beige shorts that exposed his calf muscles.
Beast Boy, thanks to his animal genes, sensed somebody watching him. He turned around and didn't see anybody watching him. Cyborg, Starfire, and Robin were in the kitchen, more than likely talking about how he got his butt handed to him on a silver platter. All that left was Raven, who had her head in her book. So he shrugged and went back to searching for the game case that had the instructions booklet in it and maybe, just maybe he would beat Cyborg at the game.
Unbeknownst to Beast Boy however, Raven had a blush covering her face, making it look like she had a fever. She was checking the green boy out and almost got caught. What freaked her out the most was that she was checking him out. She felt the couch shift a little, which meant one thing, Beast Boy had sat back down next to her.
"I can't find it. I think Cy hid it or something." He pouted glancing over his shoulder to the metal man scarfing down a very meaty looking sandwich. He realized that Starfire and Robin were missing. He figured since the cooking lesson was over Robin went back to the evidence locker to check inventory and the Tamaranean Princess followed him.
Raven tried her best to fight down the blush that still evident on her face. Beast Boy, turning his head back around, noticed that her face was red. He scooted closer to her and brought a hand up to her forehead.
"Um, what are you doing?" She asked bringing down her book and raising an eyebrow, and mentally thanked Azar that her voice was steady and didn't stutter.
"Your face is all red. I'm seein' if you got a fever." He answered back casually, "Well, you're warm, but I don't think your sick. It must be the heat." Taking his hand away from her forehead, he twisted his upper body back toward the kitchen area, "Hey Cyborg," The tin man put the last of his sandwich in his mouth and swallowed.
"Yeah, BB?"
"Could ya turn down the heat, Raven's face is red." Using his thumb, he pointed towards the empath, whose face had the remnants of the blush from before.
"Yeah, sure," Cyborg brought one of his arms up with the display of the temperature in red digital numbers. He pushed a couple of buttons on the LCD screen, and almost immediately the heat in the air cooled some, bringing relief to the overheated titans. "How's that? I've been meanin' to turn the heat down some."
"Ahh, much better." Beast Boy sighed and stretched on the semi-circle couch with his feet on the coffee table and his hands behind his head.
"Yes, much better." It was true, with her in her leotard and cloak, the heat was getting to her. Now she could concentrate on her book...only she couldn't. She'd glance over to the shape-shifter and then back to her book and she kept reading the same sentence. So she just marked her place and closed the book. Using her powers, she set the book on the table away from Beast Boy's feet.
Raven sighed. It figures. The one time Beast Boy is quiet and still, he still distracts me. She looked around the room, Cyborg was gone from the small kitchen, most likely in the garage tuning his "baby", as he calls it. The young seventeen-year-old turned her head toward the common room doors, after a second or two, she turned her head back towards the kitchen and noticed something for the first time since she has been there. We need a clock in here. Grabbing her communicator, she flipped it open and looked at the digital clock built in. 10:25 pm. She flipped it back closed and reattached it to her chain belt. She didn't feel like going to bed, because she wasn't sleepy. She looked around the room again noticing small tid bits here and there. She turned her gaze towards the front window, the moon was out, well half of it was anyway. Then she thought of something that she hasn't done since this morning. I should meditate. She closed her eyes and started floating maybe a foot or maybe a foot and a half above the couch. Azarath Metrion Zinthos...Azarath Metrion Zinthos. She chanted her mantra barely above a whisper. She was almost at the point of complete calmness, when her ears picked up a soft snoring sound. Floating back down on the couch, she opened her eyes and saw Beast Boy's mouth slightly ajar. That was a sound she never heard before, usually she was the first to bed and first to get up. She also saw that he was still wearing his gloves that went to his uniform.
Why is he wearing his gloves with civilian cloths? Curiosity getting the better of her, she eased Beast Boy's left hand out from under his head, making sure not to jar him awake. Oh the irony, usually, he's the one that bugs me in my sleep. She got his hand in hers, and saw that his was slightly larger, but it fitted perfectly with her hand. Even though his hand is larger than mine, it fits perfectly. Its like they're proportional. She studied his hand for a moment longer before deciding on pulling the glove off. Now for the reason why I grabbed his hand in the first place. She was just about to slide his hand out of the glove when the tower alarm went blazing. The T.V. monitor turned into a map showing all of Jump City. Zooming in on the cause. It was Cinderblock.
Beast Boy woke up with a start, using his right hand to wipe his eyes, "Ugh, stupid villains, doing crimes in the middle of the night." He looked around and saw Raven holding his left hand while looking like a deer caught in headlights. "Um, Rae, why are you holding my hand?" It was a legitimate question, when you wake up and find somebody holding your hand, you want to know.
Raven, quickly regaining her composure, let go of his hand and brought her hood up with her powers. "Your hand snaked its way over to me. All I did was stop it." Her voice monotoned and seemingly emotionless. Standing, she made her way toward the computer console and sat in the seat in front of it.
"Oh, sorry." The green boy apologized rubbing the back of his head grinning. I hate it when she hides her face. At least, she wasn't mad. It was true that her voice seemed emotionless, but Beast Boy can tell whether she's mad or not. Living with her for the past two years kinda helps.
The common room doors opened up with a hiss, Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg entered post haste.
"Raven, status." Robin said going to leader mode in less than a second.
"It's Cinderblock, he's wrecking the apartment buildings that are still in use. From the looks of it, he already toppled one, thankfully, it was empty, but if we don't get there fast, he will kill innocent lives." Raven stated in her calm voice. Starfire gasped, Cyborg stood there with a grim expression on his face. Beast Boy was already gone.
"Then, we must hurry to save them!" A frantic Starfire exclaimed.
"What's his location?" The boy wonder asked, trying to keep his cool.
"I'll answer that," The Titans turned toward to Cyborg, "He's in the downtown district. If we book it, we'll make it before any serious casualties happen."
"Alright. Titans go!" Robin said his famous line and the Titans filed out of the common room, until Starfire noticed that Beast Boy was missing.
"Where is friend Beast Boy?" Starfire asked looking around the room and coming up empty.
Robin answered her back, "Knowing him, he left when Raven said 'He will kill innocent lives.' That's why he's not here."
"Will he reach the scene of the crime in time?" Starfire asked.
This time Cyborg answered her, "Don't worry Star, BB's animal instincts will guide him to the trouble."
They reached the garage, Cyborg pushed a button near the entrance door making the garage door raise and letting the cold icy wind blow into the garage making everybody cringe from the lack of warmth. Starfire and Robin were wearing light civilian cloths thanks to the warmth of the tower.
"Robin, I wish to be warm again please." Starfire cringed again against the cold bitter wind, rubbing her arms with her hands to create heat from friction. She was wearing a pink long-sleeve T-shirt with semi-fitted sweatpants with sandals. Not the best for dead winter cold in the city.
"Sorry Star, but we can't go back to change. The citizens of those apartment buildings are counting on us. Besides we need to get there before Beast Boy gets hurt." Robin replied back. He wasn't much better off wearing a tank top muscle shirt and workout shorts with athletic shoes, but still wearing his mask to cover his eyes. " He can't defeat him on his own."
"No, but he can put up a fight," Raven said pulling her cloak tighter against her body.
"True, but he can't last long on his own, especially in this kind of weather," The boy wonder stated turning around to face Cyborg and the T-Car, "Cy, is the T-Car ready yet?"
Cyborg popped his head out from under the hood, from just putting back together the air intake system. Cyborg slammed the hood down and called out, "Yeah, she's ready, everybody hop in. That includes you Robin."
The other three ran toward the vehicle, Raven riding shotgun, and Starfire and Robin riding in the back seat. It was a good thing the seats wasn't leather, otherwise they would've frozen a lot more than just their arms and legs. Though it wouldn't really have mattered since the A/C and Heating system work as soon as you turn the key to start the engine.
Cyborg turned on the Defrost and Floor setting to the heater. Instant heat jetted through the vents leading up to the wind shield and the floor vents in the front and back of the car. He also turned on the Rear Defrost to keep the back wind shield from fogging up. Simultaneous sighs of relief could be heard from Robin, Starfire, and Raven.
Cyborg raised an eyebrow, "Sometimes I'm glad I'm half robot."
Robin gave him a look, but then shook his head, "Cy, do you have an ETA?"
"If I switch the T-Car into Hover-mode so the ice and snow doesn't affect traction, ten, fifteen minutes tops." Cyborg finished looking up into the rear view mirror and giving a thumbs up and a grin.
"Good," Robin replied with smile, but it quickly turned to a frown and murmured, "I just hope Beast Boy can last that long."
Raven may not have heard him, but the waves of emotion was to strong to ignore. She felt butterflies in her stomach. She tried meditating to quell the feeling, but it remained there. What's this feeling? It won't go away either. She was thinking along those lines deep in thought that Cyborg startled her out of her meditation by placing a mechanical hand on her shoulder.
"You OK Raven?" The metal giant asked in a hushed whisper.
The young empath looked up at him then back toward Robin and Starfire, who was talking battle strategy, with a hand on her chest to slow down her heart rate. "I-I'm fine." She answered back in the same hushed whisper. No, I stuttered.
"From the way you just stuttered, you're not OK. C'mon tell big brother Cy what's the matter."
"I'm...I'm worried about Beast Boy." Raven looked out the window to avoid Cyborg's gaze and to hide the tiny blush that made itself known.
Cyborg couldn't help but smile. He has watched the young half-demon open up more to our favorite changeling over the past couple of years. Placing a metal hand back on her shoulder he said, "Don't worry, he's always pulled through. Besides, by the time we get there, he'll be needin' some healing, stupid grass stain doesn't think twice about his own safety."
Raven smiled her trademark small smile, and replied, "Which is why he's in the infirmary more than any one of us."
Cyborg smiled back. Then the speakers in the T-Car gave the new ETA "Estimated Time of Arrival is...seven minutes."
"Alright, hang on y'all, this might get a little hairy!" The metal man shouted as he stepped on the gas making everybody be forced back into their seat until they arrive at their destination.
Meanwhile...
Beast Boy finally arrived at the Apartment Complex, just a few minutes after him hearing Raven say that innocent people will be killed. Transforming back to his human form from a falcon, landing gracefully on his feet. He observed his surroundings for anything out of the ordinary, plus using his acute sense of hearing, he could hear a pin drop in a semi-crowded room. He looked and listened, gaining his bearings for the fight to come. He saw the first apartment building to fall, but no Cinderblock. You would think something like that would make a lot more noise around a place like this. All the other apartment buildings were fine except for the one. It didn't make any sense. Beast Boy was about to doubt the functionality of the Tower Alarm System, until he heard glass break behind him. Quickly morphing into a Ankylosaurus just in time to receive a winding blow by Cinderblock's right hook. But thanks to the extinct dinosaur's tremendous weight and the added benefit of thick skin and bony plates, it felt more like a mosquito bite.
Cinderblock recoiled holding his fist back stepping five or so feet, grunting in pain. He lowered his gaze to a piece of rebar with some concrete still on one end. Picking up his new toy with a evil grin on his face, Cinderblock charged, rearing back the piece of rebar in his hands, forward towards Beast Boy, who was still an Ankylosaurus, but his tail was facing him. Cinderblock bringing down his weapon with enough force to cut a vehicle in half, chuckled at his victory. Beast Boy seeing this, braced his half-ton legs and whipped his clubbed tail right into the piece of rebar, effectively knocking it out of Cinderblock's concrete hands. The blockhead was momentarily stunned, giving enough time for Beast Boy to swing his tail around again and tripping the humanoid. Cinderblock landed with a heavy thud and didn't stir.
Beast Boy morphing back into his human form, examined the big brute. He looks unconscious. He stepped closer to the enemy, keeping his guard up just in case he tried anything funny. He let his guard down when he realized that Cinderblock was out cold. Beast Boy turned around letting his back face his opponent and let out a sigh. It was then that he realized something...IT WAS FREAKING COLD. His hands instantly went to his arms trying to make heat. Oh man, I forgot how cold it was out here. His body, acting on its own, started shivering. His teeth started chattering and just when he was about to morph to a creature with a lot of fur, he was grabbed by the neck with impressive force.
Dude, not cool, playing possum on me. Beast Boy's hands reflexively go to his neck to try and pry lose the hold Cinderblock had on him. The humanoid villain saw this and tightened his grip on Beast Boy's neck. Crap, my arms are losing their feeling to them. The changeling's body wasn't getting enough oxygen, pretty soon his whole body felt limp. Cinderblock didn't want him to die just yet, he brought his telephone pole sized arm back and threw Beast Boy much like a football. The semi-conscious boy sailed through the cold air fifty or so feet, and landed in the ruble of the destroyed apartment building. Scratches made themselves apparent over his body. Beast Boy was still a little dazed from oxygen deprivation. His line of sight saw Cinderblock coming his way, more than likely going to finish him off. He tried to stand, only to receive excruciating pain from his right shin. A slab of concrete was laying on top of it. He tried moving it, but only got it to budge an inch or two, and then it would fall back in place and send more pain through his nerve endings.
Cinderblock was half-way there and Beast Boy still couldn't lift the concrete slab off of himself. Crap, now what do I do? His gaze returned to the grey version of the Hulk, who was twenty feet away from his location. He searched around himself and a few good size rocks. Picking them up, he chucked them toward his foe. Cinderblock didn't even try to stop them from hitting him. They only bounced off of him. Beast Boy was losing options on how to get out of this alive, until he saw something green and bright head for Cinderblock's head. It hit with dead-on accuracy. There's only one person who could do that...
"About time you get here!" Beast Boy shouted with a grin on his face. Robin and Cyborg arriving at the scene. Starfire overhead still unleashing starbolts at Cinderblock driving him away from her injured friend.
"Yeah and not a moment to soon!" Cyborg replied back focusing his sonic cannon and firing a blue blast of energy to accompany Starfire's starbolts.
Robin making his way over to Beast Boy, just as a black raven appeared out of the ground next to the green boy reviling the young empath.
"Hey Rae," The shape-shifter greeted with a smile, "Hey Rob. What's up?"
"Other than me forgetting my utility belt, everything's fine." The raven haired leader said pointing to his belt free waist.
Raven observed her surroundings and found that Beast Boy was still alive. That nervous feeling from before is gone, but only to be replaced by anger.
"Don't you 'Hey Rae' me." She responded with a glare, bringing down her hood.
Beast Boy was slightly confused by this. He doesn't remember doing anything to upset Raven. It must have been the name. Though she hasn't minded being called that for awhile now. "Um, hey Raven?"
Robin, ignoring them for now, was trying to move the concrete slab on Beast Boy's lower leg. Grunting in frustration, he gave up on moving it himself, "Raven, could you move this?"
Raven turned head toward the Titans leader, her glare gone for now. "Yes." Was all she said. Summoning her power to her hands, she encased the slab with dark energy, moving her hand without the slightless hint of trying. Beast Boy hissing from the weight loss on his leg. "Robin," The boy wonder turned his attention to the half-demon, "Go help the others. I know you can still help even without your utility belt."
Robin merely nodded and started running towards Cyborg and Starfire to help take down Cinderblock.
Now that Robin was gone, Raven could heal Beast Boy and talk to him alone. She got down on her knees, her hands glowing white with healing magic. Her glare returning upon looking at Beast Boy. "Do you know why I'm mad at you?" She said healing the scratches on his body.
"Um, is it because I called you Rae?" Beast Boy said rubbing the back of his head. He honestly didn't know why she was angry, let alone just at him.
Her eyes met his, "Hardly." She turned her sight to Beast Boy's nearly crushed leg. "I'm mad because you came here with no backup. What do you think would've happened if me and the others didn't make it in time?" She finished healing his broken shin bone and was now standing facing him on the cold ground with her arms crossed. Her glare still present.
Standing up, his face took on a serious and thoughtful expression, "Probably killed," Her glare intensified, "But," Her glare didn't phase him in the slightest, "You did come and that's all that matters. Besides, nobody deserves do die like that." He answered simply dusting himself off some.
Raven's glare lessened, "Just don't do it again." For some reason, he was the only one who could get her angry, but just as quick, make her seem at peace. She turned around and saw Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg, who were maybe a hundred feet or so from them, were having a tough time taking down Cinderblock by themselves. Raven glanced over her shoulder, "Stay here, I healed the fracture, but the muscle tendons and ligaments will be sore. You won't be able to use them without some pain. So stay here." Raven said bringing her hood back up over her head, and began flying over to the battle to help her other friends.
"You got it Raven!" Beast Boy shouted back at her, "I need some R and R anyway." Limping over to some knee high ruble, he decided to sit and for once do what Raven told him to do.
Little did they suspect, a lone figure, around six feet in height having a medium build with deep blue eyes and dark brown hair that covered most of his forehead. He was wearing an unbuttoned muscle shirt that showed off his toned chest with a picture of a female wolf with her pups near her in the background and the male wolf in the foreground showing his fangs on the back of the shirt. He also wore a heart-shaped locket around his neck and denim shorts that came down to his knees. He carried on his back a three foot Katana hanging with blade edge facing upward so he could draw his sword with more ease. The strap going from the Kurikata(Knob), over his right shoulder, across his chest, around his lower left side and back up around his back to connect back to the Kurikata. The Sheath or Scabbard was black in color with silver tips at the Kojiri(end-cap) and the Koigichi(Scabbard mouth). The blade itself was a shining silver color. The Tsuba(guard) and Habaki(blade collar) were also silver in color. The Tsuka(handle or hilt) was wrapped in traditional black Tsukaito cloth. The Menuki(Ornament) was a small sculpture of a wolf howling.[1] And lieing on the ground was a shoulder strap travelers backpack. He was waiting and watching to see if he was needed to intervene in this fight.
Raven arrived at the battle field, and upon her arrival, she observed how her teammates were fairing. Robin, using a piece of rebar lieing on the ground, was swinging it like his trusty metal bo staff, landing hits on Cinderblock's body in different places, though there wasn't any marks to indicate this. Starfire was flying overhead firing her starbolts at him, scorching the places that her starbolts did connect with. Cyborg, a ways back from the action, was firing his sonic cannon, taking careful aim so as to not hit his fellow teammates.
Raven landed beside Cyborg to get an update on the situation. "What's going on?"
Cyborg halted his firing, his sonic cannon transforming back into his hand. "Well, so far we were waiting on you to get here so you can tie him up. How's BB doing?" Cyborg asked glancing over his metal shoulder seeing his long time best friend watching everything unfold, and occasionally shiver due to the cold.
"I healed his cuts and scrapes and his fractured shin. Other than that, he's fine." She answered back.
The metal man grinned, "See? Worried over nothing."
Raven gave her small smile in return, "Yes, I suppose I was worried over nothing," Her smile faded being replaced by her serious expression, "So, how are we doing this?"
Cyborg's expression turned serious also, "OK, here's the game plan. Me, Robin, and Star will distract him while you phase behind him and encase him with your powers than me and Star will tie him up with the rebar lieing around here. Sound good?"
Raven contemplated this. "Yes, it should work." She finally answered.
Cyborg, giving her a thumbs up, charged forward to the other two, "Alright y'all, time to put the plan into action!" He called out, changing his hand back into his sonic cannon, stopping in front of Cinderblock and fired off a couple of shots hitting the concrete humanoid in the chest doing little damage, after all, he was just being a distraction. And a distraction he was, Cinderblock, disregarding the other titans, turned his attention toward the robotic man.
Cinderblock grunted and started running toward Cyborg, his arm brought back to deliver a devastating punch to whoever was unlucky enough to the on the receiving end of it. Cyborg, though he may not look it he can be fast on his feet when need be, quickly dodging the frontal assault by side-stepping out of the way, leading Cinderblock's punch to hit the snow covered ground. The punch felt like a miniature earthquake knocking everybody down on their backsides, except for Starfire and Raven. Cinderblock's punch made the erupt into tiny spikes stick out at the point of connection. It also made cracks appear along the surface of the ground and along the sides of the apartment buildings. Cinderblock rose to his full height, and seeing his prey still on the ground, an evil grin appearing on his face. He started making his way over to the robotic teen. Cinderblock was right on him until he was bombarded by starbolts. Thus angering him, he turned his sights on the one flying above them.
The concrete giant spotted a concrete slab with some of the rebar still inside it. Picking it up, he chucked to our Tamaranean Princess in hopes of hitting her. Starfire, keeping her sight on her opponent, saw the object rushing towards her. Bracing herself, it slammed into her, but she merely caught it, thanks to her surprising strength. Eyes glowing green with power, she threw it back at her assaulter. Cinderblock's smile faded when he saw what he threw at her come back to him. He couldn't evade thanks to his size, so he did the only thing he could do: shield his head with his arms. The collision between the two resulted in the slab to break into smaller pieces, Cinderblock, however, stood in one piece. After all, he was made to withstand more than that.
The slab breaking caused dust to fly through the air, creating a temporary blind against the humanoid. Robin seeing his chance, gripped the rebar in his hands tighter, charged toward Cinderblock. But the giant wasn't as blind as one would think. Seeing Robin coming with his rebar staff reared back, Cinderblock brought his arms down, and waited. It was true that he wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but when it came to battle, he was the sharpest. Robin believing he has the upper hand brought his rebar staff down, only for it to be caught by Cinderblock's hand. Robin tried to wriggle it free, but it was useless. So he let go of his weapon. Placing the weapon in both his hands, Cinderblock bent it in half and kicked the boy wonder twenty feet away with him landing on his back rolling till he finally stopped. Gasping for the air that was knocked out of him.
Starfire seeing this landed beside Robin, "Robin, are you hurt?" She asked, her voice slightly breaking.
Cinderblock making his way over to the two, the bent piece of rebar still in his hands. Cyborg switching his hand to the arm cannon firing a few shots into his side, hoping to get his attention, but didn't.
"I'm...fine...go." Robin replied back, still gasping for the needed oxygen. Starfire nodded and stood in front of him. Bringing her fists parallel to the ground, green light surrounding them, she released a few starbolts that were aimed at Cinderblock's chest, only to leave a few burn marks. She tried again in a desperate attempt to keep Robin safe, only for it to end with the same outcome.
Sitting in sidelines, Beast Boy couldn't take it anymore. His friends were in trouble and he was sitting here doing nothing. That was when the changeling morphed into a cheetah and started running to his friends aid, only to stop from pain. He examined his back right leg, yep Raven was right, his muscles were too sore to use, but...his friends were in danger. Shoving the pain to the back of his mind, he pushed forward, in hopes of reaching his friends.
Cyborg fired off more pot shots at Cinderblock, only to be ignored. Cinderblock was twelve feet away from the starbolt firing princess and the out of breath boy wonder. He figured now would be as good a time as any. "Raven! Now!" He shouted over the chaos.
Phasing ten feet behind him, Raven appeared with her arms crossed into an X, chanting her mantra to increase her powers potency, "Azarath Metrion Zinth-" But was cut off as the piece of bent rebar came colliding her chest making her fall on her back five more feet away from her attacker clutching her bruised bosom. Cinderblock was now making his way toward the downed girl, it seems he wants to go after a defenseless titan than one active and shooting at him. Starfire seeing this powered up her eyes and unleashed two green lasers hitting Cinderblock square in the back. He didn't even stop let alone turn around. Robin, finally getting his breath back, searched the ground around himself. He found a couple of pieces of concrete lieing beside him. Picking them up, he lobbed them with all his strength at Cinderblock's head, making contact, but like with Starfire, it was useless.
Cyborg following the actions of his teammates, powering up his sonic cannon to full charging capacity, he didn't care about the plan anymore, one of his friends was about to be hurt, he was going to take out Cinderblock before he got the chance. Bracing his legs for what was about to come, he would be using half of his energy cell, but again he didn't care, "Hey blockhead! I gotcha kicks right here!" Hearing the charging sound reach its peak, he fired his sonic cannon at full capacity. Not a moment to soon either, Cinderblock was maybe four feet away from Raven. The sonic beam was a foot in diameter easily covering the twenty feet distance between him and Cinderblock. The blockhead actually turned his gaze toward the sound and saw the blue beam just in time to shield his head with his arms exposing his torso area, but instinctively braced his legs. The beam collided into his side area of his torso, producing a small dust cloud around his body. The Titans waited for the dust to clear, their hearts beating in their ears.
Raven seeing her chance, tried to stand up only to fall a couple of feet away from her previous position. Her bearings were still off, thanks to the rebar hitting her with nearly the force of a small car. Bringing her hand to her chest, she tried healing any abnormalities inside her.
When the dust cleared, to the Titans horror, Cinderblock still stood, the snow was a perfect circle around him because of the force of impact from Cyborg's cannon. Lowering his arms to his side, the concrete being gave a smirk, indicating that he didn't feel any of the damage dealt to himself. Continuing from where he left off before he was interrupted, he returned to a steady pace, even with half his side missing. The Titans resumed their efforts in trying to stop Cinderblock from doing what he did to Beast Boy to Raven.
Speaking of Beast Boy, He stopped when he saw the dust cloud surround Cinderblock. He was forty feet from their position, and he noticed Raven make her way away from him, but fell not to far from where he was standing. He saw her bring her hand to her chest area, the white light emanating from it meant she was healing herself. Beast Boy felt his stomach drop when he saw Cinderblock continued walking toward her. His friends attempts at stopping him were nothing less than futile. Raven healed what she could, from what he could tell, but she still looked like she was in pain. Her hood was knocked down from being hit by the piece of rebar Cinderblock threw at her. She brought her sight up from the ground and looked at Beast Boy. When she did, the changeling felt his heart drop. There on her face was fear, genuine fear. Raven never showed fear, not even during the toughest of times.
Something in Beast Boy snapped. His anger was getting the better of him and he knew it, but he didn't care. Raven was scared. Nobody had the right to make her feel fear, she's been through enough as it is. Beast Boy could feel his body morphing, shifting into his next most powerful creature, other than the Beast. He could feel the cloths he was wearing rip and shred because of his rapidly increasing body mass. His head morphed into a giant five foot long, two feet wide skull with twelve inch long teeth that had chisel-like tips on each one, his neck increased in size, almost as thick as the skull, but was short as to compensate for the weight of the head. His body increased in size and density and was wider than the width of the skull. Beast Boy's legs became more muscular and were long and slender compared to the body the legs belonged to. His five toed feet morphed into a thirty-three inch long and twenty-eight inch wide three toed foot with a dewclaw on the tiny, vestigial fourth toe, each claw measuring a good two and a half inches. Plus with this transformation, a twenty foot long tail came with this certain extinct creature. The arms of this creature maybe nothing more than three feet in length, but could well hold up to five-hundred pounds easily.
Beast Boy's morphing was complete. Standing twenty feet tall up to his head, the nostrils flaring in and out to give oxygen to this seven ton saurian. The three inch diameter eyes narrowed in on the one who caused this. Cinderblock back-stepped a couple of paces away from the young woman laying on the ground, with a frightened expression on its face. The other Titans have stopped their relentless onslaught in keeping Cinderblock from approaching the half-demon on the ground, each with an expression of worry and fear. Raven also had a faint expression of worry etched onto her face. With her being an empath, she sensed great fear in the concrete villain behind her, but she also sensed worry and fear coming from her three stunned teammates. But those feelings were squashed with the emotion pulsing out of the green T. Rex in front of her. Anger. Pure Raw Anger. Raven knew it took a lot to set Beast Boy off, with him being the main victim of her sarcastic remarks and the debates about which is 'Meat and not Meat' between him and Cyborg, but he knows the robotic man doesn't mean any of it and the same goes for her sarcastic remarks.
Raven also knows he uses that form to scare any third rate criminal they happen to come by into giving up without a fight, and he uses the body mass to take most of the hits aimed toward the group. Which is why he's in the infirmary more often than the others. But, from the way his eyes looked and the raw emotion surging to her, he's not meaning to scare Cinderblock to submission, or take a few hits for the team, he has murderous intentions.
Raven thinking fast, summoned her powers, her right hand glowing black with magic, and gathered each of her friends in a orb of energy and placed them behind a formidable pile of ruble away from the ancient beast. "Stay there, I'm going to try to calm him down before he does something he'll regret."
Robin nodded, "OK, just, be careful."
Starfire tenderly grabbed and hugged Robin's left arm, "Will she be victorious?"
The boy wonder merely smiled, "Yes, I know she will be." Turning to his right, his smile fading, he whispered to his metal friend, "Cyborg," The robotic teen turned his gaze toward his leader, "Set your sonic cannon on low, just in case Raven can't calm Beast Boy down."
Bringing his right forearm up, he touched a button on the LCD screen, then he rotated a flat circle counter-clockwise until it flashed the words: Damage Set To Minimal. "OK, its done, but why did you want me to? You aren't having doubts about Raven are you?" The metal man whispered back.
Robin shook his head a little, "No I have complete faith in her. Its just in case things take a wrong turn." He replied back before focusing back on the battlefield. Cyborg doing the same.
The T. Rex took in a breath, the nostrils expanded then they closed then they expanded again. Showing the bottom row of his twelve inch chisel tipped teeth, his twenty foot tail swinging back and forth in a slow rhythmic pattern, he took in one final breath, opening his four foot long mouth exposing the conical shaped teeth in the back regions of his mouth, he let out the breath he drew in by letting out a thunderous battle cry roar that only the Tyrant Lizard King can let out. Nearly breaking the windows from the accompanying apartment buildings, and the ear drums of his fellow friends and teammates.
The T. Rex's tail stopped swaying and aligned with the body of the extinct carnivore. The T. Rex lunged forward, the numbing cold and severe pain in his right shin forgotten, taking fifteen foot single strides with each step. Cinderblock taking more steps back still having a terrified look etched on his face. Raven floated out of the way, not wanting to be stomped by the seven ton saurian, yelling, "Beast Boy! Stop!" Cinderblock's attempts at moving away was just postponing the inevitable. Opening its four foot maw, Beast Boy clamped down on Cinderblock's upper body, digging his twelve inch teeth five inches into Cinderblock's front and back, but missing his head entirely. He then proceeded to lift his prey completely off the ground. Cinderblock, not going down without a fight, started punching the sides of the green lizard's head, hoping to deal some damage, but only angering it more. Swinging its massive five foot long skull side to side, trying to rip the concrete humanoid to shreds, but noticing no limbs were flying in any direction, the Tyrant Lizard King stopped swinging his head and decided to throw Cinderblock into a nearby wall one-hundred and twenty feet away from them. Cinderblock crashed into the wall, his lower body sticking out with his upper body inside the wall. The king of the dinosaurs made his way over, trudging along in the snow making two and half foot long and two foot wide footprints in it. Its breathing was erratic, having done rigorous activity and the cold temperatures didn't help matters either.
Raven, flying up the beast's head, looked into the softball sized eye, "Beast Boy! Beast Boy, stop!" The creature paid no heed to Raven's pleading. His eyes were still locked onto his target. The raw anger still coming off of him in waves, Raven had to do something fast, in order to save Cinderblock's life. It was true they sometimes did the police force's job, but they didn't kill any of the criminals, they left that task to the higher powers. Maybe if I touch him, it will knock him back to his senses. She did just that. Flying closer to his head, she placed her right hand on the left side of his face, right beside the eye, but just as soon as she touched him, she jerked her hand away. He's cold to the touch. If he doesn't stop and transform back into his human form...he'll die from hypothermia.
"Beast Boy! Beast Boy! Change back to your human form!" Raven tried talking to him again begging him to stop, but it was like talking to a brick wall, a mobile brick wall. It was to late, the green saurian arrived at the impact site and was waiting for his chew toy to stand up. Raven keeping her distance away from the fight was trying to figure out a way to get Beast Boy back to his senses. Cinderblock dragged himself out of the ten foot wide hole, rubbing his head to make the pain go away. He opened his eyes to something muscular standing in his way blocking his field of vision. It was then he remembered how he came to be there in the first place. His face contorted from one of pain into one of fear. The T. Rex didn't have the strength left to lift him up and throw him a second time, so he settled to tail swipe Cinderblock instead. Turning his massive frame to the right, the one ton twenty foot long tail connected sending Cinderblock flying twenty-five feet away landing onto the ground face down in an unconscious heap.
Continuing turning to the right, the T. Rex aligned himself with his prey. The saurian started to walk, but stumbled to the right as if he was dizzy from making the quick three-hundred and sixty degree attack. After regaining his balance, he trudged his way to the mangled villain on the ground, but stopped half-way there. Its breathing has become more erratic, the huge shoulders of this creature were slumped, as if he was tired. The jaw was slightly ajar, not having enough energy to keep it closed. The tail wasn't swaying, the end of it was touching the ground creating a drag trail from where he was previously. The three foot long two fingered arms were hanging limply in front of his massive chest. Its muscular legs trembling under its own weight
Raven seeing her chance, she floated up to the right side of the ancient predator's head. Placing her right hand back onto the side of his face near the eye, but jerking it right back. He's colder now than he was the last time I touched him. Placing her back where it was before and ignoring the stinging feeling it gave her, she tried once more to help her long time friend. "Beast Boy, Beast Boy! You have to stop!" She begged once again, "Your killing yourself." She whispered the last part. The emotion emanating from the bipedal dinosaur was coming out as strong as before, the only thing that saved Cinderblock's life was the freezing cold temperatures. The softball sized eyes were still trained on the enemy lieing on the ground, the green dino wanting to trample it to death.
The empath was racking her brain for a solution to this situation. Maybe if I use his real name, he'll snap out of it. "Gar! Garfield!" She called out, praying to Azar that this would work and it seemed to, the right eyeball reluctantly left its target and focused on her. She could see the pupil of the eyeball expand, signifying he had regained some coherent thought. "Please stop Gar, please, just stop," She said in a whisper laying her head next to the eye socket on the cold skin of the ancient dinosaur, "I'm OK, everybody is OK. You can stop." Slightly leaning his head into her touch, it gave a sound much like that of a whimper. Raven raised her head off of his, her right hand still touching his freezing skin, her left hand grabbing her cloak in front of her chest and squeezing.
The T. Rex's eyes became half-lidded. Its breathing was deathly slow compared to before. Then Raven felt the stinging sensation leave her hand, the mighty predator of the past was falling over. Raven could do nothing but watch. The other Titans watched as the great beast fell over sending shock waves through the ground effectively knocking all three on their backs and sending snow that was on the ground flying through the air for the wind to carry and the rest to fall on the unconscious body of Cinderblock. Out of energy to sustain the transformation, the T. Rex morphed back into Beast Boy. His cloths were remnants of what they once were. His purple shirt was basically a vest now, his shorts were almost none existent. The only thing that was in one piece was his Doom Patrol gloves on his hands.
Raven lowered herself down next to the green boy, Robin and the others were making their way over to them. Using the same hand, she touched his arm. It was as cold as before, and she noticed his skin was a pale green color instead of the regular green and he wasn't moving, not even shivering.
Robin showed up beside her, "Raven, is he alright?" Starfire, sitting on the other side of Beast Boy looking up at Robin, asked her own version of the question, "I wish to know he will be alright now, please."
The boy wonder turned his head toward Cyborg, "How is he? What's wrong with him?"
The mechanical teen shook his head, "From what I can tell, he has a severe case of hypothermia. The freezing temperatures and him morphing into a cold-blooded animal didn't help him any," He got down on one knee, bringing an arm up and scanning the green changeling. After a couple of seconds, numbers and beeping lines showed on his arm, "His body temp is in the mid eighties and dropping and his heart rate and breathing are slow. He needs to be back at the tower ASAP." He responded back with urgency in his voice.
Starfire looked confused by this, "Friends, what is this 'hypothermia' you speak of."
Raven, bringing her right hand back to her lap, answered her confused friend, "It's a condition when the internal body temperature of a person goes way below normal. It's been reported in some cases that the person who was hypothermic dies from it." Beast Boy...you...you...I can't even find the right words to describe you right now.
Starfire gave a small gasp, "We must help him."
Robin, sensing his girlfriends distress, changed positions so that he was beside her, "Don't worry Star, he's going to be alright." Starfire accepting the answer, wrapped her arms around her boyfriend and buried her face into his chest. "Raven," The young woman turned her gaze toward the Titans leader, "Can you teleport him back to the tower and get his body temperature back up?"
Raven nodded, "Yes." Summoning her power, a black raven enveloped her and Beast Boy and they were gone.
Robin turning his attention toward Cinderblock, motioned for the others to return to the T-Car. "Come on, let's go warm up in the T-Car. Cyborg getting into the driver's seat and Robin and Starfire getting into the back with the Tamaranean Princess still hugging Robin. Starting the engine, the heater spewed out warm air against the near frozen Titans. "Cyborg, call the police and tell them we got Cinderblock. Though I'm not sure how I'm going to explain what happened back there."
The five-foot ten inch figure picked up his travelers backpack and placed the shoulder strap on his left shoulder so it fell onto his right hip. He didn't need to intervene, the Titans handled their own. After all this is their city, but he will have to make himself known to them because he is just a visitor. A visitor that's been there for the past two years.
[1] If you don't know what I'm talking about here, just go to Google and search "Katana sword parts" or something like that.
P.S. It'll motivate me to write Chapter two a lot faster if I get a lot of reviews. Thank You for Reading.