Episode 2: Mumbo Jumbo

Robin stood by a table several files and newspapers the table. He sighed as he pushed a file down on the ground.

"This doesn't make any sense! How could these villains know all of our weaknesses?" He asked himself as he pulled his hair angrily and frustrated.

The door to Robin's room slowly opened to reveal Starfire. She looked at the weary Robin with concern.

"Boyfriend Robin Cyborg has prepared the meal of the mid day. Please would you join us for the meal? It is quite entertaining with Beast Boy and Cyborg doing their fight of meat vs. the tofu." Starfire giggled.

Robin forced himself a smile. "Sorry Star I have a lot of files and old newspapers to go through." Robin said as he continued back to his work.

Starfire shook her head. "Robin you have done the researching for hours. You haven't even eaten breakfast! Please come." She said as she tugged on Robin's arm.

Robin sighed. Everyday since the Titans got out of the bank he researched on these new villains. They were certainly new since he had never seen such a fighting style. Throughout the whole bank incident the villains never fought, but they used traps specifically designed for each of the Titans to make them be knocked out. The main question was what did the villains steal when they were knocked out? The police report said that no money had been taken, so what could it possibly be?

"Robin?" Starfire asked shaking Robin out of his thoughts.

"Sorry Star. I-I guess I'll come." Robin replied.

Starfire giggled and she grabbed Robin, flying to the main room. In a matter of seconds they both landed safely and unharmed in the main room.

Robin looked dazed, but he got over the surprise and he mumbled thanks to Starfire. Starfire beamed and together they walked into the kitchen.

The other three Titans looked at Robin in surprise.

"How did you get him out of his room? I tried like five times, but he never came out!" Beast Boy exclaimed as he studied Robin carefully.

After a few moments of consideration Beast Boy pulled out a old chalkboard out of nowhere and he scribbled a few things on the board.

"Okay Titans. So it's either that Starfire made a Robin clone," Beast Boy said as he pointed to a horrible doodle of Robin and Starfire, "or Robin is being mind controlled." He said as he looked proudly at the Titans. "So which one?" He asked pointing to his options.

"I don't know. They both seem like such good options." Raven said sarcastically.

Beast Boy nodded. "I agree to, but I'm leaning on the mind control idea." Beast Boy said with a sigh from Raven.

"It's me." Robin said ignoring Beast Boy's shouts of "prove it!"

Cyborg rolled his eyes as he handed Robin a plate of hamburgers. Robin studied the hamburgers carefully.

Cyborg laughed. "Don't worry grass stain's burgers are over there." Cyborg explained as he pointed to another plate on the counter.

Satisfied, Robin sat down and began to devour the hamburgers fast. The Titans are shown behind him anime style, sweat dropping.

Robin paused. "Um...I'm hungry."

They nodded in unison.

"Um, yeah." Cyborg said uncertainly.

Robin sighed. He opened his mouth to say something, but the alarm rang through the Tower interrupting him.

Happily, Robin went to the computer and he read the reports. His face fell.

"It's only Mumbo Jumbo robbing a small convenience store," Robin explained as he pointed to the elevator saying, "titans go!"

Starfire smiled when she saw the Titans follow Robin. "At last Robin you are back."

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"And now for the grand finale!" A certain green magician screeched his words echoing in the small convenience store.

Mumbo leaned into the clerk's face who screamed, but was muffled by the gag in her mouth. Mumbo tilted her chin up and smiled.

"I will make my grand escape. I shall disappear from thin air!" Mumbo yelled as he securely held onto the bag of money supported on his back.

The clerk screamed something again, but once more was muffled.

"Mumbo-"

The magician was interrupted by five teens entering the convenience store, ready to battle.

"Not so fast Mumbo. Titans go!" Robin, the fearless leader screamed sending the teens into action.

Starfire flew up to the magician's face with her hands glowing with a strong green light.

"You shall not escape and I will make sure of it!" The alien screamed as a starbolt hit a unwary Mumbo in the face.

"AH!" Mumbo screamed and he jerked backwards clutching his burnt face.

Mumbo wagged his finger at the alien girl. "No interfering with the star," he told the bewildered girl, "mumbo jumbo!"

Mumbo's hat lifted into the air by an unknown source. The hat seemed to a have a tornado effect and a humongous gloved hand was sucked out and trapped the teen.

Starfire screamed and rapidly began sending starbolt's in all directions. The glove dropped her and Starfire began to attack the magician once more.

Mumbo sweat dropped at seeing the furious girl in front of him. Soon, however, he regained his composure and without missing a beat he sent three more gloved hands to attack her.

Starfire attacked the first one that lurched towards her and successfully made her opponent fall. However the glove behind her seized its chance and grabbed her. Starfire struggled and continued to shoot starbolts until the glove let her go.

The third glove grasped the alien like the other previous two gloves. Starfire attempted to use starbolts, but the battle with the past two gloves made her extremely exhausted. The only thing that came out of her hand was a faint starbolt that only made the glove twitch.

Soon, after countless minutes of struggling Starfire stopped and fell limp.

Robin who saw this immediately sprang into action. He twirled his staff and hit the glove numerous times until the glove let Starfire go and disappeared into Mumbo's hat.

Starfire fell from where the glove was holding her captive and Robin caught her just in time. He checked for a pulse and breathed a sigh of relief. He immediately began doing CPR and ordered to the other Titans to fight while he watched Starfire.

Beast Boy was the next one to act. He shifted into a goat and rammed into Mumbo sending the magician backwards.

Mumbo clutched his abdominal in pain, and weakly flicked his wand and faintly whispered, "mumbo jumbo."

From the wand thousands of playing cards poured and hit Beast Boy.

Beast Boy responded by turning into a fly and he flew up to the ceiling where the cards wouldn't hit him.

However the cards saw that its target moved and flew up to him.

Beast Boy continuously dodged the cards, but every once in a while a few stray cards would hit him, particularly in the face.

Mumbo frowned at his still standing opponent. He waved his wand once more and the number of cards multiplied.

Beast Boy's eyes widened at the sight of the cards. He struggled sending a few cards back at Mumbo, but he was soon overtaken by the cards.

Cyborg growled at the sight of his fallen friend. He did a battle cry and tried to grab Mumbo's wand. Mumbo dodged some of his attacks, but would be hit by a few.

Cyborg's eyes brightened and he prepared to aim his sonic cannon. Before he could react a clean blue mass of electricity hit his feet causing him to fall with a thud.

Using his chance Cyborg grabbed Mumbo's wand. He attempted to snap the wand in two, but was clearly surprised when not even a dent appeared. He tried again with more force only to get the same result.

Cyborg growled once more and using all of his force he tried again. The wand remained unbroken.

While Cyborg was clearly baffled Mumbo had gotten on his feet and he seized his opportunity and he took the wand easily from Cyborg's hands.

At first Cyborg didn't notice. When he saw the smiling magician in front of him he immediately realized what had just happened. It was too late.

"Abracadabra!"

A humongous plastic cup poured out of his wand. Cyborg didn't seem fazed at the cup and he used his sonic cannon to make a clean hole. However, once he was finished another cup appeared.

Cyborg immediately recognized the strategy Mumbo was using. He looked towards Raven and gave her the signal to attack while he was busy.

Raven nodded at Cyborg's command and in a faint whisper she said her mantra, "azarath metrion zinthos!"

A huge hand formed of dark matter attack Mumbo.

Mumbo at first was petrified at the sight of the black magic used, but he instead wiped the confusion from his face and smiled.

The hand attempted to smash Mumbo which at countless times it had succeeded in doing so. However, while doing this the magician had formed a plan. He kept jumping back at the hand's attacks soon leading the hand to the corner of the room. When the hand attempted to hit him once more he jumped out of the way just in time and the hand smashed into the wall and disappeared.

Mumbo smiled at Raven. "Not so great now are we?" He mocked causing Raven's eyes to turn a faint red.

Although her father, Trigon, was destroyed she couldn't abandon the fact that she was still have demon. Her eyes however wouldn't multiply, but in turn would still turn red when she was extremely angry.

"Azarath metrion zinthos!" She screamed and various objects like tables and chairs hit Mumbo.

When the dust had cleared Raven smiled at her victory when her eyes laid on the unconscious magician.

The cards and huge plastic cups disappeared into thin air leaving Beast Boy free and Cyborg to rest.

Robin smiled at their victory. "I'll call the police. They'll be here any moment to pick up Mumbo."

While Robin called the police Beast Boy untied the clerk. The clerk gave a bright smile and gave Beast Boy a surprise tackle hug.

"My hero!" She exclaimed as Beast Boy sweat dropped.

Raven who was watching the scene rolled her eyes despite a faint feeling of jealousy lurking inside. "As lovely as it is that Beast Boy untied you, I would exactly call someone a hero who was defeated by playing cards."

The clerk frowned and unwrapped her hands around Beast Boy and walked over to Raven. "So what are you a jerk? Leave him alone. He's a better hero than you'll ever be."

Raven's eyes glowed dangerously red. The clerk didn't seem fazed and rolled up her sleeves. "I'll give you a fight-"

Cyborg grabbed the female clerk and pulled her away from the scene. "Why don't you wait over there for the police." Cyborg said while he jabbed a finger over to the cash register.

Intimated by the half robot the clerk complied, but not before she stuck out her tongue at the empath.

"Is this the part where I'm supposed to be intimated?" Raven countered while the clerk responded with a pouty face and went to the register to sulk.

Ignoring what had just happened Beast Boy changed the subject. "Let's go out for pizza!" He exclaimed as he gave Robin a 'i know you want to look.'

Robin sighed. "Fine, but we're ordering out unless of course you forgot about our fallen teammate." He said will he pointed to Starfire who was in his hands.

"Oh, yea." Beast Boy responded, but his sad face soon turned happy and he took out his communicator and called the pizza place.

After a few minutes the police had arrived and Mumbo was soon in the police car to be soon in a jail cell.

"Okay Titans that's the last of them," Robin said while the last police officer left, "let's go."

The Titans nodded and left without a word. Beast Boy was the last to leave.

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Soon the Titans were happily munching on their share of pizza. Luckily for the Titans Beast Boy ordered half veggie and half meat for him and Cyborg, avoiding an unnecessary argument.

Once Beast Boy gulped down his last slice of pizza he attempted to go to his room unnoticed. Keyword: attempted.

"Hey where are you going grass stain?" Cyborg asked once he gulped the last piece of pizza that was in his mouth.

Beast Boy felt his pocket nervously and gave Cyborg a fake smile. "Just going in my room-to do stuff. Well bye!"

Cyborg grabbed Beast Boy's collar before he could leave causing Beast Boy to let out a girly scream. "What would this "stuff" of yours be?"

Starfire who had regained consciousness beamed. "Oh yes! I myself would wish to know what Beast Boy is to do in the doing of his room!"

Beast Boy sweated and fiddled with his fingers. "I'm just going to you know-color pictures."

Raven raised an eyebrow. "Last time I checked we were the Teen Titans, not the Toddler Titans."

"Well, you know. I just like to draw?" Beast Boy replied.

Cyborg grinned. "That's nice. How about tomorrow you show us these drawings you've been working on."

"Well, you see I am just starting." Beast Boy said sheepishly.

"That's great! When you show us tomorrow we can give you advice to use. You know since you're first starting out." Cyborg grinned evilly.

"Okay well got to run!" Beast Boy said. Before Cyborg could react Beast Boy shapeshifted into a snake and slipped out of Cyborg's grasp. He turned back into human form and ran to his room.

Beast Boy sighed when entered his familiar room. He took in the fumes and making his way through the piles of junk he went to his desk.

He turned around to make sure no one was looking. When he was certain he was alone he took out a key from his right pocket.

The key glistened under the lamp light making it look like gold. Engraved on the key was the word, Terra.

He put the key in the lock of one of the bottom draws and soon heard a satisfying click. He opened the drawer and neatly took out a folder. Beast Boy set the folder on his desk and put the key back into his pocket.

Beast Boy opened the folder. Inside were pictures of Terra. He picked up one and smiled. It was a picture of when they were at the carnival together. A tear hit the photo soon followed by several tears. His sobbing was muffled by the steel door that lead into his room.

Once he recovered from his crying he carefully took out Mumbo's wand from his left pocket.

"Maybe it will work. It has to. It has to." He whispered as silently stood up and he shapeshifted into a bird.

With the wand in his beak and he easily flew out the window which he had forgotten to close in the morning.

He traveled in the city for only minutes until he soared down and landed by a school. He looked at the bright lights of the dormitories above him. Beast Boy flew up to a window and peaked inside.

He saw a smiling and laughing blonde girl talking to her friends. Beast Boy looked at the wand in his beak sadly.

"What are doing?"

"AH!" Beast Boy screamed once he shape shifted back into his human form.

He looked at a certain empath with an irritated look on her face.

"Well? Are you going to stand there on the window ledge or are you going to explain to me why you're a pervert." Raven said smugly.

Beast Boy's eyes widened and he waved his hands in front of himself protectively. "No, no! It's just-"

"You came to see her, haven't you?" Raven said softly.

Once the Titans came back from defeating the Brotherhood of Evil Beast Boy had claimed that he had seen a girl who was Terra at the school of Academy for the Gifted.

The Titans were too occupied with a new monster to believe him. However, when the monster was defeated they soon learned Beast Boy wasn't lying.

Robin had told Beast Boy that if she didn't have any memory of them that he needed to let her go and let her live a normal life. Beast Boy agreed, but he soon collected all he had of Terra and he had hidden it away in his room. He made a pact that he would find a way to make Terra remember.

Beast Boy sighed and nodded in defeat. "Have you ever felt how it was to be in love and then have the one you love turn away from you?"

Beast Boy soon realized the mistaken of his question, but before he could apologize Raven began to speak.

"Yes. You know him as Malchior. I loved him the same way you do about Terra. I never had anyone to love me, and when someone cared about me I took it to the extreme and I concluded I was in love. But I was wrong. Beast Boy there is a difference between a mere crush and love. You need to realize that you never truly loved Terra."

"That's a lie!" Beast Boy interrupted only to be shushed by Raven who pointed to the window.

"Beast Boy answer this. Did you really love Terra?"

Silence. Beast Boy's mind was turning. Of course he loved Terra! And she loved him too. But a small voice reminded him that Terra left him by HER choice. It wasn't Slade's fault. Terra had everything she could have had with the Titans. But she was the one who left HIM. And later she told him that she loved him.

Lies. All that time. It was lies. The months that he had mourned over Terra, wasted. HE never loved HER. And SHE never loved HIM. They were both living in a fantasy, happy to be accepted.

Then, something huge happened. Raven felt warm lips push against hers. She was tempted to pull back. But deep inside she wanted it to happen. Her emotions went wild and inside Terra's dormitory a pot broke.

They both heard a window being opened and a scream. "What the bleep are you doing here?! Again! And you have friends? What the bleep!" Terra screamed as she pushed them both off the ledge. When Terra saw them fall she wiped her hands and turned back to her friends, not caring of whether or not they were okay.

The kiss broke and Raven held onto Beast Boy just in time. Beast Boy looked up at his former love and he scowled.

"Goodbye Terra." Were the only words he spoke as Raven quickly flew away from the academy before she could phone the police. Terra looked where the two had left and shook her head. She mumbled "idiots," and breathed a sigh of relief seeing that the green one would leave her alone from now on since he had that other girl.

The ride was silent until they both landed on the roof of the Tower. The two stared at each other before Raven began to speak.

Raven turned to Beast Boy angrily. "What. was. that?"

Beast Boy gulped and he took a deep breath and began to speak. "Rae, when you talked to me I finally realized something. The whole time I was head over heels for Terra I never thought about you. Every since I met you I had a crush on you, but I knew that you would never fall in love with someone like ME." Beast Boy said as he sadly looked at his reflection in the water below, "Raven I love you."

Raven was silent. She didn't know what to feel. How could see ever find love? Then she thought of Beast Boy. She really loved him, didn't she? "Beast Boy I-I love you…" She said and she gave Beast Boy a tackle hug.

Beast Boy grinned when the hug was over. "So are we…"

Raven thought for a moment. She decided to follow what her emotions, well most of her emotions, were screaming at her. "Yea, I guess we are, aren't we. But, I want to take this slowly." Raven whispered.

Beast Boy smiled and he dropped Mumbo's wand into the depths of the Pacific Ocean. "Whoops." He said as he smiled brightly.

A huge thought crossed Raven's mind. "How are we going to tell the others?"

Five minutes later three people in the Tower screamed in unison "WHAT!" And one voice chorused, "crap! There goes $45!" And the whole time Raven and Beast Boy smiled.

And thus, their relationship began. Of course, they wouldn't be able to enjoy it very long for someone was to come very soon.