Hey everyone,
This is the first chapter. I hope everyone likes it, remember you can tell me what you think, if there's problems in my stories I will try to fix them.
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2 Years Later
None of the Titans had truly been the same since the Ridgeway "accident" as the team named it. They had all been deeply affected and had dealt with the trauma in their own ways, Robin being the obsessive type of person that he is, began working on more emergency evacuation plans, even upping the team's training difficulty to make sure everyone stayed on their toes should another emergency like the Ridgeway "accident" ever happen again, Cyborg upgraded his technology and made his systems faster and more powerful, Starfire had tried to get more involved with the public, more specifically orphans and the more unfortunate of Jump City, Raven had meditated more and trained a great deal to make sure her powers as well as her body were in top shape. She now had enough control over her powers that she could smile and have fun with her team, although anger was still a big factor in her control over her powers. Beast Boy on the other hand had taken the event to heart the most. He locked himself in his room like Raven did and only came out for missions. He would sneak to the kitchen at night to get food. He had trained as much as Robin did at night for hours until Raven or Robin awoke. He eventually stopped his unusual and unhealthy behavior after three weeks but still trained fanatically. He was greatly rewarded for his efforts, his lanky; string bean frame had been replaced with a lean, muscular frame that made fan girls even crazier for him.
He and Raven had become closer and were sometimes inseparable when they were having their "good days", as Cyborg called it. They had been dating seriously for one and half years. The rest of the team and even the public were surprised that they hadn't tied the knot yet as both were at a legal age to do so.
"Hey Cy, can I talk to you for a minute? It's kinda important." Beast Boy smile sheepishly as he looked down at Cyborg who was under the T-car fixing a gas leak from one of the team's last battles with Adonis.
"Sure man, what's up?" Cyborg asked, his bald half metallic head poking out from under the car.
"Well, I was just wondering if you had any advice on how I should propose to Raven?" The green boy's sheepish grin grew larger if that was possible.
"Finally! Man, we thought you were never going to ask. You're as bad as Robin you know that? Hmmm, ok if I were you, I would take her out to her favorite place, a restaurant or something, and pop the question there."
"So… do we have dinner there or….not….?"
"Of course you have dinner!"
"Do I pop the question before or after the dinner?"
"After would probably be better. I mean that's just what I would do."
"Ok, thanks for the advice Tin-man. I'm going to ask her out tonight and we'll go to that restaurant that she likes so much…uhh what's it called? Oh right, Red Salt. And then-"His rant was interrupted by Cyborg's loud voice.
"Hold up Grass Stain. Do you even have a ring? I mean you can't plan all this stuff and not have a ring."
"Don't sweat it. I have a ring, it was my mom's. I figured she would have wanted someone special like Rae to have it." Beast Boy seemed to lapse into a state of nostalgia as he remembered his parents. He was snapped out of it by Cyborg's large metallic hand being waved in front of his face.
"Hey BB? Are you ok?"
"Huh? Oh, yeah, just remembering some stuff. Well it's getting late, I better ask Rae out now before it gets too late. Thanks for the advice Cy."
"Sure man, don't mention it. You know where I'll be." With that last parting statement, Cyborg slid back underneath the T-car. Beast Boy bounded up the stairs with a new found excitement that he hadn't felt before he went into the garage.
He ran as fast as he could until he got to his girlfriend's room. He knocked lightly on the titanium door and pressed his ear against the cold metal to hear for movement.
"Who is it?"
"It's me."
"Oh ok, come in Gar." None of the Titans but Raven could call him Gar. This nickname was exclusively used by his parents, the Doom Patrol and now Raven.
Beast Boy pressed one of the buttons on the control panel and stepped into the room as the door swished open. He saw her levitating in front of her massive window. He looked around her room and remembered the first time he had been in her domain. It had been dark, creepy and seemed like every object with eyes were watching your every move. But now, with his help, she had painted the walls a lighter blue, had taken down the heavy black curtains and had given her room a bit more life, of course it was still mysterious and still had hints of her mystical and dark personality.
"Come sit Gar." She beckoned for him to sit on her large oval bed and he accepted happily. "What's up?"
"Well, I just wanted to ask you if you wanted to go out tonight? Perhaps to Red Salt?" His mouth formed a hopeful smile and his eyes seemed to morph into the cute puppy dog eyes he knew were irresistible even to her.
"Sure, what time?" Raven replied in her restrained monotonous voice. She knew that she shouldn't have to hide her excitement from him, but she reasoned it was because old habits die hard.
"I was thinking around six? Is that ok with you?"
"Yes, that's all good. So I'll see you at forty passed five then?"
"Ok then." He leaned in forward for a quick peck on the lips, but she pulled him closer and wrapped her lean yet strong arms around him, preventing him from escaping. The couple reluctantly let go when the need for air became too strong. They were about to lean in for an encore when the jingling of their communicators went off. Beast Boy pulled his out from his pocket and opened the screen to see Robin's stern face fill the screen. Raven leaned in to share his yellow device.
"Hey guys, just telling you that we're having a briefing on the now."
Raven was the first to recover. "Ok, we'll be there in five minutes."
"Don't get too carried away guys. You want to save some of that for you honeymoon don't you?" Robin had a mischievous grin plastered all over his face when he saw the couple's embarrassment.
"Bye, Robin." Beast Boy closed his communicator before the masked boy had a chance to respond. The red blush on his green cheeks making him turn a brown color.
"Well, we better head off before Boy Blunder thinks you scored third base." Raven said, also sporting a playful grin.
The Yin and Yang couple, as the paparazzi had named them after being seen on their first date, headed towards the common room hand in hand. Beast Boy recalled the first time they had been called the Yin and Yang couple; it had confused him at first because he knew that neither Raven nor himself were Chinese in any way. Only after Cyborg had explained to him that it was a Chinese philosophy about exact opposites that once were accustomed to each other worked in perfect harmony and balance that the Chinese knew for hundreds of years did he understand the unusual name for a power couple.
The doors to the common room opened easily on well oiled hinges to reveal the rest of the team already seated on the large semi-circular couch, waiting for them.
"Well, okay, now that we're all here, I'll begin. Lately there have been a number of robberies and missing persons, who the police actually think have been kidnapped, in local areas outside of Jump City. The authorities didn't tell us because it would have been out of our jurisdiction to intervene. The JCPD have requested that I tell the rest of you to be prepared because it appears the crimes are coming closer to Jump City."
"Hang on, why would we need to know about this stuff? I mean that description sounds like normal everyday crimes to me." Said Beast Boy, with a confused look on his face.
"Yeah, I know. I though the same thing when Sampson told me. But it's not what's happening; it's what's being taken. It's not money or jewels or any of the normal stuff, its experimental weapons and chemicals for the military."
"So are the people who have been going missing normal civilians?"
"Yes and no Cy, the thing is that yes they were civilians but no they weren't normal. They were meta-humans like you guys."
How was that? Not too bad I hope? Anyway, I'll try to update as soon as I can.
Sincerely,
Cuervos Bestia xox
