Beast Boy was semi-aware of the police cars wailing behind him and the officers locking up the shaking men, but he didn't pay any attention. He was too busy staring dreamily in the direction the girl had run. The rain was pouring down even more, flooding the streets with cold water. There was the occasional flash of lightning in the distance and the muted rumble of thunder, but the green boy didn't notice.

He couldn't put a finger on it, but she had seemed so familiar. Her face was beautiful, he couldn't deny that, but it was like she was from a dream. A hazy, partially formed memory that he could feel sitting at the back of his mind. To his frustration though, he couldn't place her. The familiar feeling was nothing more than that. A feeling.

But come on, BB, he thought. How could you forget her?

The girl had stood slightly taller than him, but not as much as Starfire or Raven thankfully. Beast Boy had grown a lot in the past year but was still the shortest team-mate.

Her face had delicate, open features and eyes that he couldn't stop picturing. It had been difficult to tell in the dim light, but Beast Boy could have sworn they were almost purple. Her soaking hair had held some soft, tangled waves. The grubby bunnyhug she'd worn was too long for her and her jeans looked worn and faded, but she was still beautiful.

Ya, but who is she?

"Uggghhh!" Beast Boy shouted with sudden realization. Dragging his hands down his face he remembered what he had forgotten to ask; her name.

"Stupid, stupid, stupid," he muttered, head in his hands. A cop walked by and the changeling could feel the look he was getting. Still in the process of mentally kicking himself he didn't care in the slightest how the armored officer looked at him.

"You're trying to be reached," the cop told him over the mutterings. Looking at his hip Beast Boy noticed his communicator beeping.

"What? Oh, thanks. Beast Boy here."

Robins disgruntled voice sounded loudly over the rain, "Beast Boy where are you? We could really-ow!-use some help!"

Hearing the crackling sound of explosions in the background BB hurriedly answered, "Ya I'm on my way, I got distracted. But you'll never guess what I found," he started excitedly.

"You can tell us later, grass stain," Cyborg joined in. "Get your butt down here."

"Ya, ya I'm coming." Quickly changing into a hawk he took off into the sky.

The wind battered and chilled him as he made his way to the scene of the fight. Flying low over the city he resumed the path he had been on before he'd spotted the purple flashes of the girl's hands. Her powers were impressive, not to mention her fighting abilities. He'd only ever seen Robin dodge punches like that, and he'd learned how from Batman. Chuckling to himself, Beast Boy wondered how long the team leader would last in a fight against the mysterious girl.

Swooping down to the outskirts of the city, Beast Boy flew over the garbage dump. Below him on the muddy ground were the rest of his team battling Cinderblock and Plasmus. Raven's black energy was throwing piles of debris at the stone beast as Robin wailed on him with his staff. On the other side of the dump were Starfire and Cyborg dealing with the gooey one.

Cinderblock landed a nasty blow to Raven, who crashed into the ground. When she didn't get up Robin yelled frantically, "Raven!"

Rolling his eyes as the boy wonder ran to the unconscious girl, Beast Boy decided he should help them out first. Robin would be too distracted fretting over his crush to even notice if Cinderblock attacked. Typical.

Morphing instantly from a hawk, BB hit the ground running as a giant t-rex, one of his personal favourites. Giving a mighty and ear-splitting roar he rammed his huge head into Cinderblock. Flying backwards into a towering pile of assorted rubbish, the concrete monster stirred slightly. Casually the dinosaur moved forwards and stomped on the villain for good measure.

Pleased with his work, Beast Boy changed back. Glancing over his shoulder he rolled his eyes at the sight of the two most hard-headed people he knew. They were disgustingly cute together. Robin, who was the one who told you to take some Advil and shake it off, was stroking Raven's hair and telling her to stay put and rest for a while. Raven, who didn't laugh at even Beast Boy's most hilarious jokes, was smiling up her hero.

Heaving a sigh, he was about to go help his other friends when he saw that Plasmus was unconscious to. Catching his robotic friend's eye, BB looked pointedly at the pair behind him before pretending to gag. Clutching his throat and making retching noises he fell to his knees. Starfire's giggles and Beast Boy's sounds brought Robin back to reality, who looked from the writhing green boy to Cyborg.

"What's with him?"

Trying to hide his snickering behind his hand Cyborg managed, "N-Nothing."

As the stoic boy wonder helped Raven to her feet, all the while keeping an arm around her shoulders, Beast Boy couldn't resist taking it up a notch. Falling to the ground and squirming even more he choked out, "The cuteness! Ah! It's too much!"

A few gagging noises later he played dead, much to the annoyance of Raven.

"What took you so long." Her unamused voice snapped at him.

"Wow, way to get to the point, Rae." He brushed the mud off his clothes before holding his hands up defensively, "And it wasn't my fault I got distracted."

Robin pinched the bridge of his nose, "Beast Boy, if you're going to get distracted so easily when you travel by yourself-"

"No, serious it wasn't my fault. Look, there was this girl, right? And she had the coolest powers ever." The green boy then started to tell his team-mates about the mysterious girl with the purple hands. With great detail and many sound effects Beast Boy recounted how he had seen flashes of purple light from the street beneath him. Landing on a roof top to see better, he'd come across the young girl beating up some thugs. He made great emphasis on how she'd never once touched them, but used evasion and her powers as weapons.

"Her style reminded me of you, Robin." Beast Boy had settled down much since he'd started. His voice went from hyper-active to thoughtful as he remembered the confident and slightly smug look the girl had worn. There it was again, that familiar feeling.

"What do you mean she reminded you of Bird Boy?" Cyborg was completely baffled. Robin's suit didn't make him look that girly did it?

The group of Titans had all made their way to the newly arrived police vans. Everyone except Beast Boy was watching Cinderblock and Plasmus get hauled off. The green Titan was staring at the ground with unfocused eyes as he tried to describe the similarities of Robin's and the girl's fighting styles.

"It's mostly just the way you guys move. Robin and the girl, you're both very...fluid?" He felt almost silly for using that word. He tried again. "You can both dodge quickly. It seems that you can see an attack before it happens, and you know exactly what the best counter attack would be. I can't really be sure, since she never threw an actual punch, but I think she's been trained."

Seeing Robin nod slowly from the corner of his eye Beast Boy hoped he didn't sound like a complete tool.

"I mean, you should have seen her," Beast Boy said in hushed awe.

Behind him, Raven pulled her hood up to mask her smirk. The feelings of curiosity and admiration were dangerously close to affection. They were rolling off of her team-mate in copious amounts. It surprised her a bit, but Beast Boy was impressed, genuinely impressed, by someone other than himself.

BB of course, was completely oblivious to the emotions Raven was picking up. He was still too busy staring un-seeingly at the puddles on the ground. The rain had let up, and was now lightly drizzling instead of pouring. And like the rain, Beast Boy's thoughts had settled to.

Instead of wondering for the millionth time if he'd ever see her again, which he had firmly told himself to let go, he was wondering why she'd run from the police. The sirens had reached their ears and her expression had become panicked. He'd caught her words hastily explaining the cops didn't like her much, but what had she meant by that? In all honesty she didn't seem like the criminal type, but then again he didn't know her. How could he trust her?

All this his rational side told him firmly. Beast Boy knew why he shouldn't trust her, but there was a small part of him that wanted more than anything to believe she was good. With skills like that, she had to be good!

He'd decided just minutes ago that he wouldn't wonder about seeing her again, or suggest the Titans look for her. Just this once he would let his rational side take the lead. But the main reason the changeling didn't want to tell his team about this strange need to look for her was because he knew his ideas would be shot down by logic faster than he could defend himself.

Pulled from his deep thinking by a nudge on his shoulder Cyborg said softly, "Come on grass stain, let's go home." Calling to the rest of the team, "Let's all go home. Besides, Raven needs to lie down, right Robin?"

The metal man gave an evil smile as he watched Bird Boy start to answer seriously about Raven's health, then stop mid-sentence. Blushing furiously their leader stalked off towards the T-Car, muttering under his breath.

"Nice one, Cy," BB laughed. Then he loaded up in the car with his friends.

Beast Boy got about eight hours of sleep, but it only felt like three. The instant he had lied down and relaxed he was out. It seemed like seconds later that he was woken rudely by the Tower alarm. At first the green boy thought that with a groan that it was still night, that really only a few mere seconds had passed, but the evidence proved him wrong. Morning sunlight shone through his window as the incredibly loud siren told him that some criminal was getting things started early.

He slid off his bed and made his way to the main room as fast he could, which wasn't very fast considering he was the equivalent of a zombie.

Yawning and rubbing the remaining sleep from his eyes, Beast Boy entered the room to see everyone already there. Standing beside Robin, who was at the computer, he saw that no one else joined him. The rest of his team were standing in a huddled group behind the couch, observing their leader. Even Raven looked nervous, so Beast Boy started asking, "What's with everyone-"

"Slade," Robin snarled and pounded the keyboard with his fist. He was bent over the monitor like BB had seen many times before. Only the elusive, metal-masked villain could make Bird Boy look like this.

Cyborg winced as his precious technology rattled with impact.

"Where is he, Robin?" Starfire wondered quietly.

Robin answered her in a deadly low voice, fury contained just below the surface, "A warehouse in the industrial area. They've had to evacuate the surrounding buildings because of his bots."

Beast Boy took a few quick steps back. Bird Boy only looked like this when he was over the top angry. Not to mention when he talked in a voice to rival the Batman's, a hasty and dramatic turn away from the monitor usually followed. Anyone within three feet got a face full of cape.

As predicted, Robin suddenly stalked towards the door, edge of his black and yellow cape snapping right under BB's nose.

While the green titan checked that his sniffer was still attached to his face, the stone faced hero called without looking back, "Let's. Go."

Within minutes the Titans had arrived at the warehouse. It was large and completely empty. Entering through the side, they now stood just inside the football field size building. Cyborg had punched down the door, and they'd all burst in ready to fight. But there was something missing.

"Uh, is it just me or are there supposed to be Slade Bots here?" Cyborg raised his eyebrow and pointed at the empty space in front of them.

Starfire hovered nervously above their heads. "Yes, I too was under the impression there would be the Bots of Slade here."

Beast Boy didn't like it. Changing back from his bear form, he walked to the center of the warehouse. The building was obviously new. Unlike most of the warehouses he'd seen, which had been used or abandoned for years, this one had a clean floor with no cracks or bugs running around. The walls were free of grime and stains, but it was still dark. Unusually dark.

Everyone followed their green team mate to the middle and stood in a loose semi-circle, backs to the recently torn down door. Something was telling him, probably his rational side, that things weren't right. The entire place was too quiet, Starfire's recent words had echoed off the concrete walls. It made the warehouse seem even more empty and forlorn. Beast Boy glanced at his team, who were now beside him.

Robin had his staff out and was glaring at the empty space. Raven was hovering now, hood drawn to hide her eyes. Beast Boy guessed that her clenched jaw meant she was uneasy too. Cyborg had his cannon ready and was sweeping the end back and forth while Starfire flitted here and there.

Then the dead silence was broken by a cocky, "Well this is disappointing. You didn't even hear me."

Despite himself Beast Boy shrieked.

The Titans all whipped around. Standing before them was a teenage boy with his well toned arms crossed over his chest. His chin was thrust forward even though he had a mask. Beast Boy could hear the cocky smirk he was wearing. His voice suggested he wasn't any older than Robin, but he was as tall with broad shoulders. His body suit was a dark grey with red gloves that reached his mid-forearm.

The mask he wore covered his entire face, leaving the only defining characteristic his wavy blonde hair that was gelled back. The mask was the same deep red as his gloves with the black and white domino mask over the eyes.

Beast Boy instantly loathed him. Not only had he snuck up on them without his hyper sensitive hearing picking it up, but his voice pissed him off too. It was arrogant and hauty and full of himself.

"State your name and business," Robin demanded, Bo staff pointed at New Guy's chest.

New Guy ignored him and surveyed the team. "Let me guess. Robin?"

"I said-" Robin started, but New Guy cut him off. He pointed to each team member as he identified them, not guessing but stating.

"And we have Raven, Cyborg, Starfire, and Beast Boy. Yes I know what you said Robin, but my name will have to wait." His voice became mischievous, "As for my business, well you'll figure it out."

Then through the walls burst two dozen Slade Bots. Cement flew in solid chunks and dust, filling the warehouse with flying debris of all kinds. New Guy, the second the tank like robots had broken through, had jumped at Robin. The boy wonder's surprise had kept him from reacting on time to the flying side kick, and BB watched the red masked boy kick Robin to the ground.

Fast as he could, he changed into a giant gorilla and tried to hit New Guy. But New Guy jumped away and then climbed up the wall. Like a giant grey and red gecko he crawled his way to an air vent and escaped onto the roof.

While his gorilla mouth was hanging open a large Slade Bot marched up to him. He swatted it and two others away. Catching glimpses of the others in battle, Beast Boy saw Raven encasing the bots in her black aura; Starfire blasting them apart with starbolts; Cyborg using his cannon and punching them across the building; Robin was back on his feet and savagely beating the Slade Bots with his staff.

Another bot rushed Beast Boy, but he knocked it flat on it's back. He pounded down on it with his huge fists over and over until it was in pieces, Donkey Kong style. While he was pounding, he didn't hear the sound of hydraulics at work until he was hit from behind. Forced to his regular form as he was thrown forwards the landing hurt a great deal.

With the air knocked out of his lungs and still stunned from the fall, he couldn't fully process that the bot that hit him was now looming over him. When his vision cleared he saw that he was about to squished into guacamole. As the thick metal arms were raised, something unexpected happened.

As the robots center of gravity was slightly off as it tilted back to strike, it was suddenly pulled down to earth. The way it was pulled down was familiar for some reason. It was like it had no choice but to fall, and it couldn't get up. It struggled before falling to pieces as Beast Boy groggily sat up.

Then he raised his green eyes to see the girl standing a few feet away. He couldn't help it. He grinned at her. He had absolutely no idea how or why she was in the warehouse, but he didn't care.

She was in a slight crouch, purple hands stretched out as she used her unknown powers to tear the Slade Bot apart. Her curly hair was pushed behind her ears and the sleeves of her sweatshirt were pushed up. Her eyes met his, but only for a brief second as three more bots rushed at their new target.

With simple motions of her hands the machines were levitated or dragged down and somehow broken to pieces. It seemed that the girl was tired from the sudden use of energy. Her heavy breathing reached his ears as she looked over at him.

Then another bot came up behind the brown haired girl, Beast Boy tried to call out but it was too late. She seemed too tired to do anything, and barely turned to see the metal monster bear down on her. Beast Boy's eyes widened and fear constricted around his heart.

Oh no.

The arm swung down, and the girl went flying to land in a crumpled heap.

Thanks to everyone who's read, favourited, and followed! And to my sole reviewer it means so much, all of you!

I promise to keep these AN's short, so I'll get right to it. Sorry for the long wait, but trust me when I say I don't mean to take this long. I had a little bit of difficulty getting started, things kept getting in the way but I wanted to take time and put out something (hopefully) good. I hate having to spit out something that's crap just to meet a deadline. Ch. 3 should be up end of this week, promise I got a break from school so I'll have time.

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-Lilly