Moshi moshi! Foamy had another abrupt idea while struggling with his writer's block for his main story and this is the result!
Well, that's not true. There are a dozen more one-shots and short stories I now have brain stormed and basic outlines of.
Not that that helps with my main story.
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Anyways, this here was an interesting idea that I happened up whilst reading the veritable mountains of fanfic that inhabit this site. I haven't seen a story like this one (I can say that with confidence since i've gone through around 700 pages of story listings), so I'm *hoping* I can make this one work out well! I have a few ideas for it, most of which might end up being a little disturbing for my dedicated BBRae shippers.
Fear not, I shall never abandon my OTP.
With that, I be yee adieu and ask for naught but a read and review!
"Heya Rae, you okay? Looks like yer noggin got knocked pretty hard."
The violent haired girl reached up and touched the new knot on her aching head, the sounds of battle echoing through the building. She spared a glance up the green arm held out to her and gasped.
Standing, somehow, in front of her was Beast Boy, covered in wounds. His left arm hung limply at his side, riddled with burns and cuts. His head had a large gash just above his right eye and blood was slowly covering his face. His right arm had four gashes and a small burn on his wrist. His legs were covered in similar but smaller burns, as was his torso. It was a wonder he could still move, but here he was staring at her with intense concern.
"Beast Boy! Look at you! Why are you worrying about me, you could die just from the sheer volume of wounds you have!" She scolded him as she took his hand. He hoisted her up with a chuckle.
"Aww, com'on Rae. You know me. Even tho' this is a big battle with Brother Blood and Slade, I gotta pester ya a little bit."
That big stupid grin on his face led Raven to once again question his sanity and apparent obsession with bothering her. She shook her head and frowned.
"You need to fall back and get first aid before you bleed to death. I'm too worn out from healing the others to help much right now."
"Nah, I got this." His smile widened, but she could tell it was laced with pain. The sound of metallic footsteps drew her attention away from the green boy, though, as dozens of Slade-bots and Blood-bots poured through the wall that she had been thrown through.
Well, that wasn't quite accurate.
She and Beast Boy had been blasted through that wall, but only because the crazy boy had turned in to some weird animal she had never seen before and wrapped himself around her to protect her from the laser fire. He had once again saved her, for reasons she couldn't fathom.
"Hey Rae…I'm gonna do something crazy."
Her attention snapped back to him. His green eyes, though filled with pain, held a look of determination in them that she hadn't seen since the battle with the Brotherhood of Evil months ago. It startled her. Where was the green goofball she had spent the past few years growing up with? Where was the annoying jokester? Where was the Beast Boy that she knew?
Raven shook her head of those thoughts and stared at him cautiously. "Can you fight like that?"
"Prolly, not." He grimaced. "Tell ya what, heal my hand and I'll be fine."
She swept her violet eyes over the assembled robots, which had yet to do anything but stand there. Typical machines, waiting for their orders. The sorceress reached a tentative hand out and grasped the changelings', swathing it in her azure healing magic. He hissed as his flesh knitted itself back together and a finger regrew from the knuckle out. When the process was done, Raven couldn't help but flex her own hand in pain. Beast Boy saw this and frowned, hating that he had to ask her to heal his hand when he knew that she felt the pain from healing.
He snarled at the machines. "Now for an old fashioned Beast Boy Beatdown!"
As the words left his mouth, his flesh began to ripple and his bones began to crack. The sound of bones popping and shifting of flesh filled the air for a moment as the changeling doubled in height, his dark green hair sprouting across his body as his canines elongated in jagged fangs. His hands, once tender and soft from years of video games, became hooked and clawed in seconds. His muscles had easily tripled in size and his eyes held nothing but bloodlust.
He had become the Beast once more.
With a savage roar, he leapt into the machines and began to rip them apart in gleeful frenzy. Raven couldn't help but wince at the sight of her companion as he shredded his way through the machines, using momentum to swing his limp arm as an attack. His claws were sharp enough to pierce the metal bodies, even if there was little strength behind the movement. And with one limb incapacitated like that, he was relying more on movement and speed than strength. The machines simply couldn't keep up.
Around the edges of the mini-warzone, many of the mechanical men began to charge their lasers. Seeing this, Raven spat out her mantra and dissected them before they could fire. She rose into the air and continued to rip apart any ranged attackers as the Beast below annihilated the rest. It took some time, but they destroyed them all in the end without any further injuries.
Raven landed cautiously near the Beast, which was panting with exhaustion. It turned to her and took a single step. As it took another, it began to shrink back down. By the fourth step, Beast Boy had returned to his normal self. He stood there, staring at the floor as he struggled to stay standing. Raven, far less injured than him, tucked herself up under his right arm and walked him to a nearby box. He practically collapsed on it.
This was a stupid idea, she thought while biting back a growl of irritation. Attacking a base full of robots under an alliance of Slade and Brother Blood. He gave us less than a week to prepare, less than two days to plan an attack, and the initial charge consisted of me and Argent shielding Beast Boy as he bashed the front doors in. Was he thinking that a reckless plan like this would throw those two off?
"Raven, report!"
Raven raised her communicator and looked at Robin. "Raven here. Beast Boy and I just dealt with roughly three dozen bots. We're in the eastern side of the compound."
"How the heck did you get way over there?"
"I let my guard down and got swarmed. Beast Boy jumped in the way just before they blasted me, though it sent us through several walls. He's in pretty bad shape. I think I have a concussion and I'm not sure where Argent went."
Robin growled. "She's here with Aqualad and Kid Flash. Speedy's lost an arm and Wildebeest in down. He's still alive, but he's hurting pretty bad."
"I'm not sure if I can heal anyone after that berserk charge we made just to get into this place." Raven frowned and glanced at Beast Boy, who was sitting up and staring at something behind her. Raven turned and almost dropped the communicator.
"Raven? What's going on? What are you looking at?" Robin shouted.
"There are kids here, Robin." Raven said shakily as she stared at the scene before her. Encased within glass tubes the size of adult coffins where two children, no older than four. There were dozens of computers and other strange machines littering the area, which Raven now realized was a laboratory. It appeared to have been evacuated when the Titan's attacked the compound. There were a dozen other glass tubes, but they appeared to have been deactivated for some time, a small layer of dust decorating each of them. The two active ones, however, glowed a soft green, indicating that they were still an open project and just not something that was abandoned some time ago. Raven approached the computers and attempted to gain access. After several frustrating moments, she pulled her communicator back out. Cyborg appeared on the screen.
"Cyborg, I need your help. Come to my location."
"I'll be there in a minute little lady, got tons of-" The sounds of twin sonic cannons filled the air "-cking robots everywhere! Rob, Star, cover my back! I'm headed to Raven and BB's location!"
As Raven communicated and hacked, Beast Boy pulled himself from the box where he was stationed and approached the contained children. He couldn't help but stare at the one closest to Raven, a blonde haired girl with slightly pale skin. The one on the right was a redheaded boy. They were so young and were being treated like some kind of science experiment by Slade and Brother Blood!
It made Beast Boy's blood boil and he snarled once more. His good arm shifted into a gorillas arm and he began to wail on the glass of the little girl's prison.
Raven snapped her head to Beast Boy, her surprise evident on her face. How was he still moving?!
"Beast Boy, stop! We don't know what that will do to them!" She shouted.
"They're just kids, Raven, I can't leave them in there!" He roared before he shattered the glass. Two more quick punches and the hole was large enough for him to lift the girl out of the spewing liquids that he hadn't noticed she was submerged in. He gently lowered her down and handed her to Raven, who began to pat the child on the back. Within moments, the little girl coughed up a fair amount of the liquid, but didn't wake up.
"Well, she's alive." Raven said irritatedly. Beast Boy grinned and reached out to the girl, only for Raven to smack him.
"You idiot!" She growled. "What if that was the only thing keeping her alive?! We don't know what kind of condition she's in!"
The changeling faltered. "I'm sorry Rae, I wasn't thinking about that."
"I noticed." Came the responding growl. Before Beast Boy could defend himself, the rest of their immediate team came in. Cyborg immediately pounced on the computer and began power hacking it, his fingers flying across the keyboard. Starfire saw what Beast Boy had done and flew towards the other tube. Before Raven or Robin could stop her, she smashed her fist into the glass once and shattered the whole thing.
"Show off." Beast Boy muttered as Starfire pulled the little redheaded boy out and began to pat his back. He too spat up a good bit of liquid, but opened his brilliant ice blue eyes immediately afterwards. He looked up at Starfire and Robin, who came up to her side. The boy smiled and reached his arms out to encircle Starfire in a hug. The alien princess immediately began to squeal something about 'the adorable bumgorf' and swing him around happily. Robin, confused and feeling uneasy, glanced at Raven and Beast Boy. The changeling shrugged and turned to Raven. The little girl in her hands had opened her dark blue eyes and was staring at Raven and Beast Boy intently. After a moment, she smiled and hugged Raven's neck.
Raven froze. The only people she had ever hugged before were Beast Boy and Robin and the only children she had ever interacted with were Melvin, Timmy Tantrum, and Teether. But now there was some strange child from a strange glass tube in the middle of the enemies' compound hugging her! Raven turned an uneasy glance towards Beast Boy, who shrugged again.
"I dunno why you guys keep looking at me, I'm more clueless than ya'll." He chuckled.
"Nothing new about that, grass stain." Cyborg muttered under his breath from in front of the computer. Minutes later, he smiled. "Iight guys, I've gotten everything I can from this computer."
He turned and raised an eyebrow at the little scene behind him. Starfire had brought the little boy in close to Robin and was chatting quietly with him, undoubtedly asking if they could keep him. He could tell Robin was not pleased with this idea.
On the other hand, the sight of a little blonde girl clinging to Raven was highly amusing. Raven appeared to be on the verge of a panic attack and Beast Boy was, for once, trying to not laugh. After a moment, he moved in closer to Raven and spoke to the little girl, who practically jumped into his arm. Raven couldn't have looked more relieved.
Cyborg shook his head and opened the communicator in his arm. "Bumblebee, how are things holding up?"
Bumblebee's aggravated face appeared on the screen. "Brother Blood escaped and the only sign we've seen of Slade are all his freaking robots. We've just about cleaned them all up though. How's it going over there, Sparky? I heard something about kids?"
"Yeeeaaahh, Raven and BB found a couple of kids in glass tanks. I stripped the computer of all I could, but I'll have to look at it when we get back to the tower. You guys ready to wrap up?" Cyborg glanced at his friends again. The boy was now in Robin's arms and trying to talk to caped crusader, leaving Star to coo over him like an over-adoring mother. The little blonde girl had ahold of Raven's cloak even though she had her arms wrapped around Beast Boy's neck, leaving an irritated Raven standing rather close to the blushing changeling.
"Yeah, Killowat, Herald, and Jerico are stripping the north, west, and southern computers of everything they can. We'll meet back at the T-ships in a half hour."
"Gotcha B. Be careful. Cyborg over and out." The half metal man looked at his flustered companions and wondered just how a raid on Slade and Brother Blood turned into a babysitting job.
Who were these kids and what did those maniacs want with them?
It's been two whole weeks since the kids were brought to the tower and as far as Raven was concerned, things had gotten really weird.
For starters, Starfire and the little boy were inseparable. Everywhere Starfire went, the boy followed her or she carried him. He always had an ecstatic look in his big bright blue eyes and a laugh ready on his smiling lips. The boy was so friendly he made Robin smile more often than Starfire did, much to everyone's surprise. He chattered almost constantly with Starfire, even though no one understood a word he said. (Starfire pulled Raven to the side one day and told her that the boy had spoken several things that sounded very close to Tamaranian; it was disturbing, to say the least)
On the other hand, the little blonde girl was almost a polar opposite. She was quiet and very observant, rarely making any noise, but smiling no less than the boy did. Her two people of choice, unsurprisingly, were Beast Boy and Raven. The little girl would sit and watch Beast Boy play any games he was playing, cheering him on every now and then and giggling when he acted silly. The changeling was very attached to her and they spent hours together just playing.
But for all the time the girl spent with Beast Boy, she spent almost as much time with Raven.
It had greatly disturbed Raven the first time the girl approached her and held her arms out, indicating that she wanted to be picked up. The sorceress was sitting in an old leather recliner that the others secretly called 'the Raven's Nest' due to the fact that she sat in it so much that her butt was imprinted on it (not that she knew). The girl, apparently bored of Beast Boy, was quietly insistent that Raven hold her. Beast Boy attempted several times to pull the girl away from the reading Raven, only for her to clamber back over to the recliner and resume her vigil on being held. When Raven finally relented, the girl gave her a huge smile and comfortably wrapped herself in Raven's arms.
To Raven's surprise (this whole surprise thing is getting rather old, she had thought at the time) the girl appeared to be trying to read the book with her!
After that it became a reoccurring thing for the girl to join Raven while she read, with Raven eventually giving in and reading aloud to her. The sorceress read her a variety of books, from educational things to silly children's book that mysteriously appeared on her bookshelves (she suspected Beast Boy had something to do with that but could never catch him in the act) to works of literary art. The little girl seemed to drink all of it in like a sieve, much to Raven's amusement. Beast Boy was never far away when this reading was going on, no matter where it was going on at. If they weren't in the common room, he would bring along a handheld game or two and a pair of headphones, keeping one ear open for when Raven grew tired of the child. When she did, he would take the girl and entertain her until next time.
It was on this very day that Raven was meditating on top of the tower, thinking of the strange events that had occurred. Two things puzzled her the most. First were the children. Cyborg had spent every free minute (not counting fighting crime, gaming with Beast Boy and Robin, or tuning up the T-car) pouring over the files he downloaded from the base. He had told her many of the things had encryption so complex he wasn't even going to try to mess with them. Others were simple and mostly just half deleted notes that made no sense by themselves. He had taken blood samples and done various other tests to the children to check their health over the past couple of weeks and most of the results would be in today. It was making her rather nervous, for some reason she couldn't put her finger on. She had already realized that she had grown attached to the girl and could (after some prodding) admit that out loud. The thought of losing the girl to some illness or other malady from their previous environment was unsettling.
The second thing she pondered was a certain changeling. He had been unusual in the months following the Brotherhood of Evil's defeat, but now he was even stranger. In the time before the raid on Brother Blood's hidden base in the Rocky Mountains, he had grown a little quieter, a little more serious, a bit more thoughtful, and had been uncharacteristically aggressive at times. Raven suspected he was a going through puberty a little later than most people, but it wasn't unreasonable since his DNA was so unstable. And amongst those odd traits he actually made an effort to have real conversations with Raven now. While she couldn't deny enjoying this more intellectual Beast Boy, it unnerved her. Sometimes they wouldn't even talk, just sit around near each other and entertain themselves.
Things became downright weird with him at this point, at least to Raven.
He was being almost fatherly to the strange little girl and Raven was honestly beginning to wonder if he was thinking he could be her father. It was a bizarre concept, considering how immature he was. But at the same time, Raven just couldn't deny how much he took care of the girl. He fed her and clothed her (though he insisted that Raven or Starfire bathed her), tucked her into the bottom bunk of his bed every night (in his CLEAN room, I might add!), took her for walks, read kids' books with her, and all manner of other things a parent would do.
It had really disturbed her to see him like this, though the others just shrugged it off as Beast Boy growing up. Earlier today Raven's curiosity had finally gotten the better of her and she had asked him about his behavior as the little girl napped on the couch between them.
"Well Rae, when we found her I kinda noticed that things were already screwed up in her life." He had said, "So I did some thinking and decided that I wanna try to make sure had at least a little bit of a fun time, ya know? Just in case…things happen."
"That does make some sense, I suppose." She had agreed as she stroked the sleeping girl's hair.
"I was hoping you'd say that." He chuckled. "You and me ain't exactly had the best of childhoods, so maybe we can make hers…I dunno, normalish?"
"That's not a word, Beast Boy, and having publicly acknowledged teen super heroes as guardians automatically makes her not normal."
He had sighed. "I know, Rae. But I still wouldn't mind trying."
Yeah, things were definitely weird with Beast Boy now.
Cyborg couldn't help but pace around the common room. He was nervous and had every right to be. He checked the time and saw that soon they would receive the information on the children. Receive it from whom, you ask?
The Justice League.
Cy flinched at the thought of having to reveal what he had done to Robin. The boy wonder was likely to have a heart attack when he found out that his friend had been thoroughly crushed by the encrypted data and had turned it over to Batman. Batman had promised the data would be delivered today, along with the test results on the children's health that the resident mechanical man had also sent him. But why had he sent that data too?
To put it simply, there was something very wrong with the kids' DNA and Cy just couldn't understand what he was seeing.
So now here he was, pacing a hole in the common room when suddenly he received an incoming call on his systems. It was Batman and he would arrive in several minutes. He took a deep breath and activated the intercom system via wireless connection.
"All Titans report to the common room for debriefing."
Within minutes, Robin and Starfire arrived with the little boy swinging from their arms, having the time of his life. Starfire had the biggest grin plastered on her face as she sweet talked the boy into releasing their hands. Robin, however, was looking expectantly at Cyborg.
"You got the data decrypted?"
"Something like that, yeah." Cyborg said shiftily, not meeting his friends' gaze. Robin raised an eyebrow (only those closest to him would know this expression since he almost never took off the mask) and said nothing as he and Starfire settled into the couch to await the info.
Soon after, the strangest sight to have ever filled Cyborg's vision appeared in the doorway. It was Raven and Beast Boy, with the little girl perched happily on the changeling's shoulders. Raven was scolding him for taking her too close to the top of the door, where she might hit her head, and Beast Boy was saying that he wasn't tall enough to do that, she still had several inches of clearance. Cyborg hadn't noticed it until now, but Beast Boy had grown in the past few months. At this point, he might have had half an inch to an inch on Raven. Cyborg frowned at this late realization and then it turned into a humorous smile when he realized that Raven and Beast Boy were arguing like a married couple. When Raven demanded that the changeling give her the child so that he wouldn't drop her, Cy really did laugh.
Raven's eyes narrowed. "What's so funny?"
"Nothing." Cy quickly reigned his amusement in, least he anger the resident half demoness. He watched Raven huff as she took the girl from a pouting Beast Boy and settle on the couch. The changeling sat next to her, though not close enough for Cyborg to tease them about being a couple. Still chuckling to himself, he retrieved drinks for everyone (juice for the kids) and handed them to his friends from behind the couch. He warily watched the little blonde girl take a small sip of Raven's hot tea and smile. She then tried a sip of Beast Boys' soda, to which she frowned. On the other side of couch, the little boy sipped happily on Starfire's jar of mustard, much to Robin's horror.
This was not going to be easy to tell them, not at all.
"Everyone ready?"
Cyborg screeched and leapt clear over the couch in fright. He whipped around and saw that it was Batman that had spoken from just behind him.
"Maaaan, how the hell did you do that?! I didn't even hear you and I'm connected to the freaking security system in the tower!" He practically cried.
"Dude, watch your language." Beast Boy scolded his best friend, which raised several eyebrows in the room. After a moment, Robin turned stiffly to his old mentor.
"Batman."
"Robin."
The two nodded tersely at each other before Batman walked around the couch. He motioned to Cyborg to sit down and the metal man complied. After a pause, the dark knight walked over the main computer and inserted a info drive into it. Within seconds there were multiple files popping up on the screen with all sorts of graphs and data that made little sense to the assembled teens, minus Cyborg.
After all the data was assembled, the caped crusader turned to the teens and began to speak. "What you see here is the majority of the data retrieved from the base of Brother Blood and Slade. Your impromptu raid was a good idea in the long run concerning the data acquired. Most of it is fairly useless seeing as it was either outdated or more relevant to Justice League related matters than to the Teen Titans. However, there was one particular topic that is very related to the Titans."
"The children?" Starfire asked, glancing down at the boy in her arms.
"Yes. To get straight to the point, these are no ordinary children. They are clones."
Beast Boy, Robin, and Cyborg all stiffened, but Starfire and Raven looked clueless.
"I am sorry, mentor of Robin, but I am afraid I do not know that Earthly term." Starfire frowned.
Raven quirked an eyebrow at the dark hero as well. "I'm not familiar with it either."
"Cyborg, I'll let you explain it." Batman gestured towards the girls.
Cy sighed and shook his head. "I knew you were going to say that. Look, okay, to put it simply, a clone is an artificially made person using the DNA of one or two people."
"Artificially? Like in a laboratory?" Raven turned her gaze to the little girl in her arms.
"Pretty much, yeah."
Starfire, apparently having understood, was staring intently at the little boy in her arms now. The boy stared back, smiling. After several minutes passed, Starfire asked the question that was bothering her.
"Mentor of Robin, you are saying that these children are artificially made versions of our friends?"
"Close, but not quite."
"Who are they clones of?" Robin dared to ask as he eyeballed the boy in his girlfriends' arms.
Batman turned to look directly at the couple and wasted no time beating around the bush. "Princess Kori'ander of Tamaran, half of your DNA was used in making the boy in your arms."
Starfire slowly held the boy up in her arms and spoke even slower. "This…this is my bumgorf?"
Batman's eyes flickered for translation to the other teens, who mouthed 'baby'. He nodded after a brief consideration. "In a sense…yes, that is your bumgorf."
"I…have a bumgorf." The alien princess said slowly. "I have…a bumgorf."
Her eyes lit up like neon lights and smile that threatened to engulf her face appeared. "I have a bumgorf!"
Without warning, she blasted off the couch and began squealing with joy, flying circles around the room with the little boy laughing in her arms. The noise she was making was so loud that the windows began to crack and splinter. Batman swept his eyes across the other assembled teens, who were accustomed to Starfire's screeching, and decided by their lack of reaction that her fit of joy wasn't anything new.
Robin sat forward and ignored Starfire for a moment. "So who makes up the other half of the DNA?"
"Are you sure you want the answer to that, Robin?" Batman asked pointedly. Starfire, somehow hearing this, swooped down and landed in her seat beside Robin and looked at the caped crusader eagerly.
"Yes, Mentor of boyfriend Robin, please tell me who the k'norfa of my bumgorf is!"
(A/N: I'm using the base word of k'norfka, which has the definition of adopted father, and modifying it to mean father)
Batman, however, did not answer. He was staring intently at Robin, who was growing more and more uncomfortable by the second. After what felt like a lifetime he turned to the little boy in his girlfriend's arms. The boy smiled and reached up towards him. With a sigh, Robin let the boy remove his mask, revealing piercing ice blue eyes.
Starfire's eyes widened, for even she hadn't seen Robin's eyes. Her gaze went back and for between the two blue eyed boys in front of her before she squealed with joy yet again and blasted off the couch with both of them in tow.
After about ten minutes, Starfire landed back on the couch with a thoroughly ruffled Robin in tow. Cyborg couldn't help but snicker at his leaders' predicament.
"Say there, k'norfa, you're looking pretty-"
"Shut it." The boy wonder growled.
Cyborg started cracking up and turned to high five Beast Boy only to find that his friend wasn't paying attention at all. Instead, he was staring intently at the little girl in Raven's arms. After it became quiet the changeling turned to Batman.
"So…who are her parents?" He asked.
"This is where things get complicated." Batman's lips quavered for a moment as a frown formed. "This girl's DNA is highly unusual. It took us days to sort through the mess and identify her 'donors'."
"Okay…so who is it?" Robin asked, eyeballing the girl suspiciously.
"The better question to ask is: how many Titans have blonde hair and blue eyes?" Batman asked the teens in front of him. There were several confused looks before Starfire answered.
"Two? Friend Jerico and friend Terra."
Raven had expected Beast Boy to flinch, but he was still as a stone, his eyes having turned back to the little girl in her lap. Inwardly, Raven seethed at the thought of the traitorous geomancer having anything to do with her friends' lives once again. Terra had hurt her friends, had hurt Beast Boy, and nothing the girl could ever do would get her Raven's forgiveness. But if this little girl was Terra's…
"Jerico has green eyes, princess. And no, Terra's DNA is not present in this girls'." Batman interrupted her train of thought. Raven let out a sigh of relief she didn't know she was holding. "Actually, there is one other Titan who has blonde hair and blue eyes, not that you could tell."
Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, and Raven all looked at each other confusedly and began to mentally tick off the list of their friends. After a long moment, they looked up at Batman and spoke simultaneously.
"Who?"
Batman didn't answer, but someone else did.
"Me."
Heads snapped to the one who had spoken, Beast Boy. He didn't look at them, but he did take the girl from Raven's arms and set her on his lap. Cyborg was the first to shake his shock.
"Hold on, grass stain. YOU'RE blonde with blue eyes?"
"Yep. Born that way and stayed that way until I was six, when my geneticist parents used an experimental serum to save me from a fatal disease." He ruffled the girls' hair and she smiled. "It's kinda funny seeing how the dominant alleles of my genetic code were for blonde hair and blue eyes instead of green everything. I figured that would be the passive allele and that my mutation would override my original genetic code for pretty much everything."
There was a long silence following his words, making him look up to see his even more shocked friends. His brow furrowed. "What?"
"You just…talked smart." Cyborg said slowly.
Beast Boy frowned. "There's plenty of stuff in my noggin, Cy, I just don't use it."
Batman smirked, for he had already known the boy was smarter than he let on. "There you have it. Beast Boy is, for the lack of a better term, the girls' father."
As the others sat there and congratulated him, Beast Boy couldn't help but wonder aloud. "Who is the mother?"
His question quieted the room and Batman's smirk disappeared. Before he could say anything, however, he was interrupted by Beast Boy.
"I mean seriously, dude, who on this planet could have DNA that could bond to mine? Mine is so freakin' unstable that it should have killed me several times over." He paused. "I mean, I know there is a girl out there now, but what are the chances of me meeting her? She's obviously an amazing girl and intelligent beyond belief, cause this little girl in my arms is waaaay smarter than she should be at this age. Heck, she's probably smarter than me!"
"That doesn't take much." Raven muttered aloud, earning her a halfhearted glare from the green boy beside her.
"This is where things get interesting." Batman spoke softly, then appeared to look back and forth between the teens. "Raven, since you're sitting closest to the girl, why don't you tell me some of her features?"
Raven raised an eyebrow at him, but pulled the girl into her lap regardless. She inspected the girl very closely for several minutes before speaking.
"Well, her face is a bit round, kind of like Beast Boys'. She has a little nose, which doesn't say much. The tips of her ears are just barely pointed, so they might end up elf-like like her 'fathers'." Raven used that word loosely, for it did not sit well on her tongue. "Her chin is slightly pointy, unlike Beast Boys'. Her teeth are straight and none of her canines are pointed, which means she might not have fangs like him. Her hair is obviously blonde and straight, down to her back. Other than those features, she has very dark blue eyes."
"Are you certain her eyes are dark blue?" Batman asked her this pointedly, making her gaze deeper into the child's eyes as she tilted the girls head into the light better.
"No…looking at them like this…they're more of a dark…a dark…" Raven's breath left her at this moment and she struggled to regain it. Her friends were staring at her in concern, minus Beast Boy, He had already noticed the actual color of the girls eyes and had wisely not said anything.
"Friend Raven…is something wrong?"
The purple-eyed girl smiled up at Raven and spoke for the first time. "Mommy!"
A/N: Anyone think this is worth pursuing? Lemme know!