Titans of Jasper City

Chapter 1: The Waffle Incident

1 year earlier.

Sitting in one of the Titans cells a teenage girl with long silver hair, pink skin, one blue eye with the other an eye patch, and wears some kind of body armor lay on the bench of her prison cell. She has seen so many opportunities to escape but decides to stay for some reason. She watches the five superhero teens discussing on what to do with her. They know who she is and who is she related to, but the fate of her rest in their judgment.

Finally, the five turns to her as the leader, Robin, steps forward to her cell as she looks at them.

"We have decided." Robin said as he punches in the lock code which unlocks the girl's cell. "Rose Wilson, we have an opposition for you."

"Opposition? Like what?" Rose asked as she looks at the looks of each titan. Cyborg shows caution, Starfire looks a bit concern, Raven was neutral so she's hard to tell, but Rose can see distrust in her eyes, and Beast Boy just grin happily.

"Because your brother has put in a good word for you, you are given two choices." Robin responds. "You can spend your time in juvenile hall for rehabilitation, and be strapped in a straight jacket, or" he pulls out the titans communicator to hand it to Rose. "You get to be free to do whatever you want, as an honorary titan."

She had put a lot of thought into it. She had never considered being a titan before. Her purpose was to carry the legacy of her father and be one of the most deadly mercenaries to ever walk. At the same time, this is her life and she is free to choose whichever path she would like to choose. She leaned her back against the wall and gazed back at Raven who had been eyeballing her for the longest. Being a Honorary Titan did sound promising to her, so she figured why not join the organization? It's just like the old saying, "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

"I choose to be a Titan," she said, no longer wishing to be like her father. The more she thought about it, she saw her future being short and depressing.

Now.

It started out as just another day. A day at Titans Tower where they just do their own business as usual. The changeling just got up from his sleep as he stretches his body up as he is up and charged.

"This is going to be a great day for me." He said as Beast Boy change out of his pajamas as he puts on his uniform. "Maybe something interesting will happen."

The Titan walked out of his room with a big and bright smile on his face. He walked past Cyborg who was slightly amazed that he was this excited so early in the morning, let alone being awake.

"Good morning, Cy!" He said with happiness and excitement which also caught Cyborg of guard. He looked at his arm and pulled up the time.

"7:47 in the morning...," he read quietly. "Beast Boy, are feeling alright today?"

The green titan just walked into the kitchen and searched for something to eat. "Never better!" He said with the same level of happiness. He pulled out the waffle iron and ingredients to make waffles from scratch.

Cyborg notices this as he had to ask "Okay, what's up?"

Beast Boy turns his head towards to his friend with a wide grin as he answered "Why I'm just excited about today because I believe it's going to be a wonderful day!" He said as he puts the ingredients in the bowl to make waffles.

"So you're just interesting in what would be so good for today?" Cyborg asked as he imagines how his best friend's day goes. "You must have some good rest with that good mood."

"Yep, and there's nothing that could spoil this day." Beast Boy states as he mixed the ingredients before putting in the waffle iron.

Starfire flew into the room rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. She sees Cyborg as they exchange "good mornings" then sees Beast Boy cooking. The alien immediately woke up when she laid eyes on him.

"Beast Boy!" she yelled as she flew over to hug him. "I was not expecting your presence for another three hours!" she said as her outfit is now a long sleeve purple midriff top and matching triangular bottoms with knee high boots.

He was placed back on the ground as he continued to cook. "I see that you're excited to see me," he said and smiled. So far he had already cooked seven waffles and was about halfway done. Next was Nightwing who walked in the common room.

"Morning Star, Cyborg, Beast Boy..." Nightwing said as he paused himself as he notices something odd about the atmosphere. He notices the ten waffles as he saw Beast Boy making waffles "Am I in a Twilight Zone episode or is that Beast Boy up and early?" He asked.

"Good morning to you too, Nightwing." Beast Boy said as he makes another pair of waffles. The boy wonder became Nightwing a month ago after his mentor found another Robin, Jason Todd, to take up the mantle. "With you three all here, that means Raven must be the last one to wake up!"

"Is this opposite day it something?" Nightwing asked Cyborg as he pours some coffee.

Raven groaned as she is starting to wake up. She felt tired as she gets up from her bed as she looks at her clock. '8:30? Well, since I'm up I better go and wake up Beast Boy, as usual.' She thought as she slips out of the covers by swinging her legs to land her feet on the carpet floor. Her sense of smell activated as her mouth almost open at the smell of her favorite food in the world more than life itself.

'Waffles.' She thought as she uses her powers to bring her hood and boots and puts them on quick. 'Wonder if Cyborg's making breakfast?'

She slowly floats to the common room as she hears the chatter of the team. There are four voices heard which is weird because it should be three. 'He's awake?' she asked herself as she turned the corner to see everyone eating her most favored food. They all waived and tried to say good morning, but forgot that their mouths were stuffed with bread and syrup.

"Disgusting..."

Beast Boy, excited to see the girl that he loved walk into the room. He greeted her with the same amount of energy as she greeted the others.

"Morning Rae! I JUST finished cooking your extra waffle since you love them so much!"

"What?" Raven asked in deadpan as she sees the smile on the green boy's face that she felt like twitching. "Is he serious?"

"Yeah, Green Bean made like 20 stacks of waffles this morning. Surprised me that not only did he wake up, but made some good waffles." Cyborg states putting extra butter on his waffles.

"You should try these, Raven. These waffles melt into your mouth." Nightwing states as he eats his waffles as he dunks his with his coffee.

"Yes, they taste good in mustard!" Star comments as she spread her waffles with mustard.

Raven had to admit that the food did smell pretty good. The waffles were cooked to perfection with its golden brown color, and looked beautiful the way the syrup dripped down the sides. But these were Beast Boy's waffles, and she only ate waffles cooked by Cyborg, so her appetite wasn't as strong as it normally would be. She eyeballed the cook and gave him a cold stare.

"I only eat Cyborg's waffles." she stated carelessly, "I'd probably eat Starfire's food before I eat yours."

"Oh come on, don't knock it 'til you try it." Beast Boy insists. "You don't know what you're missing!"

"I'll just eat cereal." Raven said as she went to the cabin to fix her some Lucky Fruits cereal in a bowl.

"Used up the milk to stir the batter." Beast Boy notes as Raven twitch. "Just have some of my homemade waffles, I promise you there's no tofu in it. I've already ate mine that has soy milk in it so it's just pure waffles."

"I said NO!" She knocked her plate over and the waffles scattered across the table. She began to float out of the room, but she stopped after hearing Beast Boy growl at a low volume. The rest of the titans heard it as well, but had never heard it before now.

"What is your issue?" he said, slowly losing the happiness in his voice. "I woke up early in the morning just because I wanted to make your favorite breakfast for you. The LEAST you can do is take one bite."

"And why should I try something you make!?" Raven sneered at the changeling.

"Geez, Rae. You don't have to be that cold. The least you can do is appreciate my cooking." Beast Boy told her as Raven's eye twitch.

"First off, my name is RAVEN. Second, your cooking is the last thing I would taste if it were the last food in the world!" Raven snaps at him angrily.

"Why do you have to be so ignorant, Raven? For once I woke up early in the morning with a good mood, and to think I hope you would appreciate for once in what I do for you and everyone else. They like my waffles so why can't you?" he asked as Raven felt that she is at her limit.

"Because, for some reason, they actually LIKE you!"

Silence filled the room after those final words the empath said to him. It cause some shock to Nightwing, Starfire, and Cyborg gasp at Raven's words as Beast Boy stood silent. His mind process on what she said as his face turn to disappointment at Raven as he glares at her. The next thing everyone knew Beast Boy ran out of the common room as Nightwing calls to his name.

"Beast Boy, wait!" Nightwing calls to him but the changeling ignored his call. The former boy wonder turns to Raven with a disappointed look "The least you can do was to eat his waffles he made for you."

"And what? Give him the credit so he'll brag about it nonstop?" Raven asked in deadpan.

"How can you be so mean to Friend Beast Boy after everything he's done for you as a friend?" Star asked the empath with a sad look.

"How can you all be so nice to Beast Boy after how annoying he's been?" she countered.

Starfire flew up at the demon's face and yelled, "You cannot answer the question with the question!" Raven couldn't answer. There was no answer...not a reasonable one anyway. Cyborg took a stand and spoke to Raven. Surprisingly he didn't yell, but instead he kept a calm tone of voice which seemed to be more intimidating for some reason.

"As much love he shows the four of us, you refuse to accept it and love him back," he said staring into Raven's eyes as if he was looking in her soul. "There were even days that I asked, 'Why do you still show love to Raven like you show the rest of us?' He answered and said, 'Because, everyone deserves to be loved. Especially Raven, because there is a spark of happiness inside of her somewhere, and I gotta be the gas that ignites that flame into a fire.'"

Raven felt a little guilt, but for the second time she refused to show her emotions. After Starfire and Cyborg exited, Nightwing added in his two cents. "You should talk to him. Ever since this team got together you had refused to try to get to know Beast Boy a little better." He too began to exit the room, but added one more thing.

"I would tell you to go talk to him, but he'd probably rather not look at you."

As Nightwing exits, Raven looks down in guilt as she looks at the plate of waffles on the table. 'Great, now I'm the bad guy.' she thought unknowingly sounding ignorant.

Beast Boy sits on his bed as he is in a foul mood. He can't believe that after all this time Raven still refuses to accept his feelings for her after all he's ever done for her. But no matter what he does she will never acknowledge him. Even if he made some good breakfast for her and the rest of the Titans, she still for some odd reason, won't accept what he offers her.

'How can she be so ignorant!?' he asked himself as he lay on his bed as a post card flew out from his bed. He picks up the post card as he looks at it. It was from the city called Jasper Town which is about somewhere in the Southern parts of the states. He remembered going there once during a family vacation with the Doom Patrol.

"Maybe I should relocate out there. It's a nice city and it's far away from...her..." he said no longer even wanting to mention her name. As the idea sat in his head longer and longer, he realized that he couldn't even bear to be in the same building as her anymore. Beast Boy rose from his bed and began to remove his clothes from the closet and placed it in his bag.

"You're gonna miss me when I'm gone...," he began, "...but now I couldn't care less"

After everyone went to their rooms, Beast Boy quietly opened the door to his room and carried his backpack with him. He plans to get to the T-Ship and separate his T-Jet and fly off to Jasper. He had to be quiet for he preferred to leave without having to worry about someone trying to talk him out of it.

'I just gotta make it to the main hallway, and I can leave," he said to himself. He was just about to make it, but he stops when he hears the muffled sobs coming from Starfire's room. He either had to abandon her, or tell her so she could hug her brother one more time.

He didn't want to disturb her or any of his friends so he made the hard choice to go. But if his friends want to look for him, he'll make sure to leave a note as picks out a notebook to write down the notes for each but one of his friends. 'Gonna miss you guys.' he thought as he proceed to write.

Later on that night there was no crime for today which is good news for the Titans as they get out of their rooms for dinner after one eventful morning. Raven gets out of her room last as she heads down to the common room, thinking about her actions after talking with her emoticlones.

'Maybe I was being too hard on him.' Raven thought with guilt as she enters the common room as she sees all but Beast Boy present. She then noticed the notes they're holding as they just notice her. "What's going on?" she asked them.

Nightwing passed the paper over to Raven so she could read for herself. She took the paper and looked began to read.

'Dear Titans, I know it isn't the greatest decision in the world, but I decided it was necessary for me to leave the West tower. It is too much emotional distress for me to undergo on top of being a superhero. Believe me, I really wanted to say goodbye, but seeing the heartbreak on your faces would've torn me apart. I know Starfire is crying so someone please comfort her and let her know that she is still my little sister and that I love her. From now until further notice, I will operate in Jasper in the mid-south. I'm gonna miss you guys.

-Garfield Mark Logan'

"He...left?" Raven asked as she felt more guilt than she realizes.

"H-He left because of you." Star said as her arms shakes as tears flood down from her eyes.

"Star, I-" Raven didn't get a chance to say anything as the Tamaranean slaps the empath across the face leaving a red mark on her face.

"It's your fault that he left! If you had just appreciated him more rather than abuse him he wouldn't have left!" Star shouts at the empath who she once called friend as she falls to her knees as she starts to cry, with Nightwing wrapping his arms around her for comfort.

"All you had to do was eat a waffle," Cyborg said shaking his head while tending to the alien who was basically having a panic attack. Her body started to quiver as she spoke shakily. "I w-w-want m-m-m-m-my b-brother b-b-back!" It was obvious that this disappearance had affected Starfire the most out of all of them. Raven looked back down at the note and noticed there was more writing.

'P.S. Raven, your waffles are in the microwave.'

Raven walks away from her friends as she checks the microwave as she opens it. It was a plate of waffles, with butter on top and the syrup around it. She grabs the plate of waffles as she brings a fork out to take a piece of it. As she eats it her eyes widen in shock, as memories of her first waffles made by her mother, Arella before she was separated from her daughter as Raven chews on it as she swallows it.

"I-It's good." Raven said as tears rain out of her eyes as suddenly the microwave engulfed into black magic as it breaks down. Due to Raven's emotions she starts to realize what she has done and now she can never have her friend come back again.

"What have I done?" she muttered as she disappeared from her room.

Jasper City is considered a crown city known for its jewels and architecture. An orange hatch ship flew above the city as it lands near the abandoned clock tower as the cockpit opens revealing to be Beast Boy. He steps out of the T-jet as he looks around the city he loves to visit, and now call it home.

"This is going to be a perfect spot to start up shop around here." he said as he has heard about the crime rate of this city and if he can go to the mayor's office he'll have a Titans sector here. "Titans South does have a nice ring to it." he states as he hears his cell phone ring. He looks at the caller ID on it as he answers. "Hey Star."

"GARFIELD MARK LOGAN, YOU HAVE ME WORRIED SICK!" Starfire shouts as Beast Boy cringe at her yelling as she's cursing in Tamaranean. "A-Are you okay?" she asked as she calms down.

"I'm okay Star," he reassured, "I just had to separate myself from that emotional letdown." Beast Boy will never forget the fun times he and the alien had together. Those may had been the best times he had ever experienced.

"So how is everyone?" asked Beast Boy.

"Raven ate the waffles," she began, "She said they were good and she broke the machine that produces waves that are micro-sized." Beast Boy literally had no idea what to say to that. "Um...good?" he said wanting to change the subject.

"I shall communicate through this cellular device during another time, Beast Boy," she said, "Nightwing has called one of the meetings." They said their goodbyes and hung up their phones.

Beast Boy lets out a sigh as he placed his phone back into his pocket. He looks around and sees a nearby hotel two blocks from here as he locks the T-Jet so he can check out, go to the mayor's office, and reinstate a Titans base here in Jasper City.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Jasper City, a silver haired girl in armor stood on top of the tall building as she spots a T-Jet near the tower. She saw the changeling heading down to a hotel as she wondered why is Beast Boy here?

"Why is he here?" Ravager asked as she wondered if Nightwing sends him here to find her even she didn't do anything bad that would set her up back to her criminal ways. She looks as Beast Boy heads down to the direction of City Hall.

"Maybe it wouldn't hurt to wait for him at his jet." she said as she heads down to the T-Jet.