(I do no own the Teen Titans, DC comics does.)
Beast Boy awakes to find himself in a cage that instead of bars there is a wall of thick glass with holes and the other walls are steel. He notices a collar around his neck that is preventing him to change into any animal. He begins to struggle trying to get the collar off him. "It's no use," a voice echoed from the back of the cage. "The collar keeps you from using your power by tapping into your brain and controlling your power." A girl emerges from the depths. She wears a smile.
"Who are you? Where am I? What's going on? Who was that man?" He asks all in one breath.
"People know me as Dragon, but I know myself as Maddy. I don't really know where we are or what's going on. I do know that that man is a mad scientist but that's pretty much it..."she tails off. "What's your name?" She begins again.
"Beast Boy."
"Not that name but the name you know yourself by?"
"I can't tell you! I don't know if I can trust you."
"I haven't given you a reason not to trust me, have I?" Beast Boy was about to say something but decided not to say filled the air. Maddy broke the silence first. "You're a Titan right?"
"I am..."
"Well your leader Robin, do you know his name?"
"No..."
"Does he have a reason not to trust you? If I can trust you with mine after just meeting you yet your friend doesn't trust you with his?"
"It's a security thing, I guess."
"It's not too hard to figure out his name anyway."
"Wait you know Robin's name?" She shakes her head yes.
"Richard Grayson."
"How do you know that?"
"Back when Richard's parents and brother died Bruce Wayne took him in. And later Batman started showing up with Robin. It's all about putting the pieces together." Beast Boy just stands there in awh. He doesn't know what to think. It thought about why no one, not even Cyborg his best friend, have trusted him with their secret identity. He feels betrayed. She leaves him at that and lay down on a pile of blankets in the corner.
"How can you trust me with your name?" Beast Boy asks.
"I can tell if someone is good, if I can trust them. It's like intuition." she explains. "I can just tell that you're a good guy, who would never do anything to hurt anyone."
He takes in all she says before he says; "Garfield. Garfield Logan." He sits while she stands and goes over and sits across from him.
"Well Gar, may I call you Gar?"
"You can as long as I can call you Madder." He says in a happier tone along with giving a large grin.
"Hahaha sure. Well Gar it's a pleasure to meet you, tell me about yourself."
-Back at the Tower-
Back at the tower Robin was hard at work trying to figure out where Beast Boy last was while the others were out searching for him.
"Where did you go Beast Boy?" Robin mumbled to himself. A ring came from his communicator. It was Cyborg. "Any news Cyborg?"
"There was an attack at the zoo earlier this afternoon," Cyborg explains.
"We are normally altered to attacks," Robin pondered.
"Not sure...neither animals nor people were hurt and the attacker left almost as soon as he appeared. I guess the police didn't feel the need to contact us."
"Let's check it out," Robin said getting up from the desk.
"Already on it, Rob. Raven and Star are on their way too," Cyborg said hanging up. Robin rushed out of the Tower riding on his motorcycle.
-Back to the laboratory-
"That's pretty much it," Beast Boy just finished telling Maddy. She has a look of interest on her face. She then leans in and hugs him.
"I'm sorry that you have had to go through all of that! It must have been hard." She says tithing her hold.
"It's not that bad," he says. She lets go of him. "It could have been a lot worse." The sound of a door opening echoes bounce through the hall. Maddy stands up and goes up to the front of the cage and presses her face up against it.
"He's coming," she says backing up behind Beast Boy.
"Who's-" before he finishes the man from the zoo is standing on the other side of the cage with an evil grin on his face.
-At the zoo-
Now at the zoo Robin meets Starfire, Cyborg, and Raven. A security guard is with them. "Yeah I saw the green guy," the security guard explains. "This crazy guy set of a bomb to break into the Black Panther's cage. The green guy rushed in to try to stop him. It didn't stand much chance." The Titans have a look of bewilderment on their faces.
"What do you mean," Raven asks.
"He got shot," said the security guard sending fear through the Titans.
"Is he at the hospital?" Robin asks with a tone of rage in his voice.
"No, the guy who broke in, grabbed him after he got shot and took off," the guard said. Cyborg in a fit of anger grabs the guard and pushes him up against the wall.
"And you didn't think for a second to call us?" Cyborg yells. Starfire and Robin try to pull him off of the guard.
"Clam down Cyborg," Raven says joining the others in restraining him. Cyborg finally let's go of the guard. The guard falls to the ground.
"It's not his fault," Starfire says trying to comfort him.
"He could be dead, Star!" Cyborg shouts.
"We don't know that yet," Robin says trying to keep clam.
"Do you know who attacked the zoo," Raven asks.
"I don't know who he was but he wore a lab coat and has black hair. I can show you the security video from yesterday."
"That would be helpful," Robin says.
"Fallow me," the guard says leading them to the room where the security monitors are.