CHAPTER ONE
The brave explorer Silkie was traveling through the treacherous temple in search of the fantastic treasure of his dreams. Suddenly, he could see it up ahead, the sarcophagus, and inside the treasure rested. He cautiously crawled towards it and pulled it open, and the treasure glowed before his little eyes, but as he reached to take it, the temple began to collapse around him, and what's worse, by opening the tomb he had set off a booby trap…
A large boulder came rolling its way along, heading straight for him, and the entrance to the temple was beginning to close. Silkie decided to abandon the treasure and run for the exit as the boulder gained on him. He ran as fast as his tiny little legs could carry him, but he didn't make it in time as the entrance sealed and the boulder was nearly at him…
It was at this point that the boulder turned out to be Terra's pregnant stomach and Terra gazed down at him and the big mess that he made as Silkie was just having an imaginary adventure. The temple was actually the kitchen, the large tomb was actually the refrigerator, and the treasure was a big bowl of pudding Robin had made for dessert after meals, which was now spilled all over the floor.
"Oh, Silkie. Look what you've done." Terra said as she tried to bend down to clean up the mess, but felt herself getting a little stuck and unable to straighten herself out because of her heavy stomach. "Um, a little help…?" she called out.
Robin and Starfire came along and Robin helped her gently stand upright. "Up you go, Terra."
Starfire picked up Silkie "Oh, Silkie, you naughty little thing." she teased at him and then she began to clean up the mess as Robin helped Terra over to the sofa. She felt a lot heavier than usual. Robin gently rubbed his hand along her stomach "Those are some heavy kids you got in there."
"And the sooner their born the better." Terra said. She and Beast Boy were both very anxious to the day their baby son and daughter would be born which was only a few weeks away. Terra was tired of having to carry her large heavy stomach.
"And just think…" Raven said as she peeked up from her book "Pretty soon we'll have two little squirts running around here crying non-stop, and smelling the place up with dirty diapers." The others just ignored her sarcasm and knew that deep down she was just as excited as the rest of them.
"Where is Beast Boy?" Starfire asked.
"He and Cyborg are still out." Copy Cat said "They should be expected home by now."
Cyborg and Beast Boy were out in the T-car gathering the last of the baby supplies for the big day. Ever since it was discovered he and Terra were having twins they had to get doubles of everything. Beast Boy even took the time to use his master craftsmanship to build another crib. He and Terra had studied parenting books, and even took a few adult education courses on parenting, and were fully certified now.
Now, it was just a matter of waiting for the little ones to be born.
On the way back to the tower, Beast Boy was so deeply lost in his thoughts that Cyborg had to wake him up. "You all right, man?" he asked.
"I just can't believe it…" Beast Boy said "I'm going to be a father! Me of all the titans…"
"Yeah, yeah, and your family name will continue. I've heard it before." Cyborg said.
Beast Boy couldn't help himself, telling the story over and over, but he still felt a bit nervous. "I've never really had a positive father figure before, and neither did Terra. Do you think we'll be good parents?"
"No I don't think…" Cyborg said. Before Beast Boy could react, his friend turned, smiled, and said "I know you will. Besides, we'll all be here to help."
Beast Boy smiled.
Soon, they got home and everyone helped unload the car and load them into the nursery; Beast Boy's former bedroom. Beast Boy and Terra loved how the place looked after all the work was done. "Just a few more weeks." He said.
Terra rested her head on his shoulder "I can't wait."
Suddenly, Cyborg realized that they forgot to pick up an extra package of diapers from one of the stores. "Like we actually need anymore…" Raven said as she stood near a whole mountain of packages of diapers, but Beast Boy and Terra weren't going to let this slip. So Beast Boy decided to head back out on his moped and get the diapers before the store closed since the job was small, and the moped was faster than the T-car, especially now that it was fixed so it could fly, and even be shrunken down to a pocket sized to be taken anywhere, or even flown by remote control that Beast Boy carried with him.
The team all headed to the garage to help launch the moped. Beast Boy kissed Terra tenderly promising to return. "You really promise?" she asked teasingly.
"You know I do."
Then he got on his goggles, scarf, and helmet and mounted his Advanced Tidwell-3000. "Ready back there?" he hollered.
"Start her up, Beast Boy." Robin called from behind the console.
"Charging port engine…" with the flick of a switch, the moped began to start-up and Beast Boy counted up the charge "One-thousand… Three-thousand… Five-thousand… Seven-thousand… Eleven-thousand… Thirteen-thousand, Fourteen-thousand, Fifteen-thousand…!"
"Interlock on!" said Robin.
"Charging starboard-engine…! Two-thousand… Four-thousand… Six… Eight… Ten… Twelve… Thirteen… Fourteen… Fifteen-thousand…!"
"Interlock on both engines!" Robin said "You fire now."
"Good! Fire one!" He revved on the bars and the moped let off its rocket exhaust. "Fire two!" and the same thing happened. "Ten minutes." he called to others "Time me." and then he sped off down the tunnel leading to the city, and it was there that he activated the moped's flying mode "Full boost vertical!"
"He is such a show-off." Raven said. The others gazed at her grimly. "What? He is."
With his fast flying moped, Beast Boy got back to the store and got the diapers he forgot in just five minutes. "I think I broke my record." He said cockily as he hopped back onto his moped and took off down the street as the sun set and the streetlights came on. Suddenly, a very bright light shone directly on Beast Boy forcing him to halt his moped so hard the diapers slipped off and fell onto the road, and he dropped his communicator onto the ground, breaking it. "Ah, man!" groaned Beast Boy.
"What the…?" he groaned as he tried to look up to see what was up there, but suddenly he felt himself and his moped being lifted up into the air. "Hey! Put me down!" he shouted. He tried to escape but he couldn't and found himself drifting higher and higher, until he could see a familiar looking ship with the Doom-Patrol's marking on it, and he was sucked right aboard with his moped, and the ship took off into space.
Once safely aboard, Beast Boy found none other than his former teammates, and ex-foster family members. Elasti-Girl, Robot-Man, and Negative-Man…
"Hello Garfield…" Elasti-Girl said and she ran over and hugged him warmly.
"What up, kid?" said Robot-Man.
"Long time, no see." added Negative-Man.
As relieved and somewhat happy he was to see them all again, Beast Boy was rather outraged at them for just yanking him off the street like that, and not even bothering to call him in advance either. He bet that Mento was behind this. "Where is he? Where is he?!" he furiously asked
"Garfield... he's not here." Elasti-girl said "There's been a problem."
Beast Boy's features softened "What kind of problem?"
"You better sit down." Negative-Man said.
While back at the tower, the ten minutes were well up. "Beast Boy should have called in by now." Robin said.
"Maybe he just ran off to get a bite to eat." said Cyborg.
"I do not believe so…" Starfire said sounding worried "He knew that we were ordering pizza tonight, and he would not dare eat a thing to make more room for his fill."
"She's right." Terra said sounding worried "This isn't like him." She got out her communicator and tried to call him, but the signal was dead. "Something's wrong, I know it!"
"Terra…! Calm yourself." Copy Cat said coming to her side and reminded Terra to watch her nerves and that it wasn't good for the babies. Terra took deep cleansing breaths and calmed down.
Robin Starfire and Cyborg agreed to go out and look for Beast Boy, while Raven and Copy-Cat stayed to look after Terra. "Don't worry, we'll find him." Robin said.
Terra hoped he would.
"Just my luck…" Raven said "I'm already babysitting and the kids aren't even born yet."
"Raven…" Copy-Cat sneered.
The others hit the streets and first checked out the store where Beast Boy had gone, and searched every possible route he could have taken on his moped if he hadn't been flying. Suddenly, Starfire found the package of diapers on the road and Beast Boy's damaged communicator. There was no doubt about it, he was defiantly kidnapped.
"Whoever would do such a thing?" Starfire asked.
"More importantly, why?" added Robin. One thing was for sure, Terra as not going to like hear this. Not one bit.
Meanwhile, in a secret lair someplace…
Two young ladies dressed in black outfits entered a throne chamber and bowed. "Madame." One of them said "We have urgent news about our enemies."
The large thrown slowly spun round and there sat a French lady grabbed in a black hood and cloak, concealing her face. She spoke in a soft and articulate French accent "Please, tell me…"
"Madame…" said the other lady "Sensors have detected a Doom Patrol ship is heading straight for us."
Madame twiddled her hands tapping her long black fingernails together. "Are you certain of zis…?"
"There can be no doubt, Madame. They are coming for our prisoner."
Madame turned in her throne and activated a monitor showing her pictures of her prisoner in the dungeon; Mento and he looked badly beaten up. "So, zee fish 'as taken zee bait. Very soon my sisters, we shall reclaim all zat we had lost many years ago. It is time for us to return 'ome."