A pair of violet eyes opened sharply and she turned around, her eyes turned downwards and she glanced at the rotten grass, some flowers were there, but all looked decayed, sad. Turning upwards, she saw that there wasn´t sun, but instead thick rainclouds.
As her unsure steps went forward, as she saw the rotten flowers and the very smell around was of something that hasn´t taken a bath from days. Accumulated human odor, up there in a hill her eyes in the horizon saw a tree, a tree full of life, green, even flowers emerged from its trunk, with more speed she walked forward and the vision distorted, instead of a beautiful tree instead there was no tree, only a lonely tree-trunk with no branches at all, it looked empty.
Underneath a tree a figure dressed in a rainbow colored hooded cloak giggled ceaselessly, she sighed blissfully knowing that everything was alright even with her confused state of mind now.
´What happened? Why am I here? Am I not supposed to be going with cyborg to the common room?´
She asked and thought that the only answer to her problems was finding Knowledge, her powers which were based off of her own emotions, such emotions were a pillar for her strength and for her to remain conscious and sane, they´re what kept her in the physical world and prevented her from going commando over the whole world. From destroying everything around her, whatever happened outside or what was about to happen, was serious enough that she needed to contact her emotions about it.
And as always, she landed on Happy´s place first, though at first the ambience it gave it wasn´t exactly a vibe of happiness, as she continued her passive steps she faced her happiness, and stared at it.
"Where´s knowledge?"
She toned her question yet she received not answer, instead an arm was rose and a palm rose with it and she whispered to something, her eyelids shrunk as she turned around and stared at her giggling emotion speaking through a sea-shell, placing its ear on the shell, the silence was all that went between them before she giggled.
"Oh, that was a good joke. You´re so funny."
"Where is Knowledge?"
She asked once again only for the rainbow cloaked emotion to get up and run, as she giggled, she turned around as if someone was pursuing her.
"No wait, it tickles."
She giggled and the female already had enough with it, she pinned down the emotion and the cleak revealed it a pair of empty and unfocused eyes, as she was about to demand to know what was happening, those unfocused eyes widened and she grasped her head and shook her head.
"No, no, NO!"
She screamed and gripped her head and in fetal position she started to repeat a mantra.
"Foxes are green, trees are green, happiness is green, the world is green, my world is green, unicorns are green…green, green."
Raven distanced herself from happiness, as she started to cry.
"I hate blue, I HATE BLUE! Blue is pain, blue is the worst, blue is blue, and green is green, I want to be green. I WANT TO BE GREEN!"
Raven gave a step back as the rainbow clad emotion got up and screamed at her, in full madness demanding her own self to be green.
"I´m as them, I have their skin, their composure, I have it…no…I can´t change…if I can´t change, NOBODY WILL!"
In Happy´s psychosis, she ran towards the cliff, Raven fearing for everything, she ran and tackled her emotion whom was just about to jump the cliff to azar knows where, disturbed by how her own happiness expressed herself.
"I should´ve destroyed it all, they held me back, I NEED IT, LET ME GO, I NEED TO END THEM FINALLY, THEY NEED PUNISHMENT!"
Before she could do anything else right behind her a voice spoke in a very pessimist statement.
"You should let her go already."
The blue cloaked female turned around to meet a yellow clad emotion, she sighed and let the strange happy go whom instead just went back into her own fetal position lying in the surface and she went to sleep.
"What´s happening?"
She asked to the one she believed was the emotion whom apparently was just glancing at the horizon, rising an eyebrow once again, she saw that this emotion didn´t had the particular glasses knowledge had nor the book, but alas she was hoping that the yellow cloaked clone of herself was Knowledge.
"What´s happening!?"
Asking in a louder tone towards the her own clone whom blinked and turned at her, she just shrugged and turned around.
"Why don´t you ask somebody else, it´s not as if I am knowledge to hold all the answers."
She shrugged and turned away, leaving the female alone whom could only seethe in irritation, what has happened to herself and her emotions enough for them all to trade towards strange colors.
Feeling a hand behind her she turned around to see a crimson red cloak and four crimson red eyes glancing at her, she gasped and activated her powers, about to attack to her this emotion rose its hands.
"Wait, it´s me, knowledge."
Speaking in the characteristic demonic tone, Raven with some distrust ceased her defensive pose and crossed her arms.
"What happened?"
She asked to the emotion whom could only glance at the blue cloaked female whom seemed estranged to see everything in so much disarray.
"GET AWAY!"
Somebody screamed behind her as she turned sharply, to see a green clad emotion as it pointed at the crimson red emotion.
"I WON´T LET YOU TAKE CONTROL OF ME!"
She rushed towards the crimson red clad emotion before she was punched in the very face by a black cloaked hooded clone of raven whom literally brought the green clad emotion down and just threw her away.
"Where am i?"
The emotion asked clearly distraught by the whole ordeal, yet Knowledge instead could only speak.
"You´re at Timid´s realm, return to yours."
As the lie went perfectly, the emotion just dissipated as if it were a ghost, leaving both Raven and Knowledge alone, in the silence, before the emotion which was made the ruling one to mediate all others finally asked to the main raven.
"What do you remember?"
Knowledge asked to Raven whom focused on the surface for some time and she retold what she experienced and Cyborg calling for her, then suddenly being back here before going to the common room.
"I see."
The red cloaked emotion stated shortly and staid silent, biting its lip to go on with the tense atmosphere, debating the options of telling Raven the truth or for her to just not know and for everybody to stay here forever.
Even though she would like to happen, Raven had to know it and force her to accept that fact, whatever happened later. It was fated to happen anyway.
"So, what happened?"
Raven asked already irritated and ticked off by the cloak and dagger maneuver that Knowledge was doing, by dancing upon the topic.
"You should be asking, what didn´t happened instead. Everything happened, or have you yet not realized you cannot return to your consciousness."
The female closed her eyes and tried to focus, as the red cloaked emotion saw with certain amusement as she opened her eyes and tried once again to focus and return to consciousness, but she didn´t.
"What´s going on?"
Finally concerned, the emotion instead shrugged and continued.
"You cannot go back because I have made so for you to not do so."
That awoke her anger, at least a tiny margin of it.
"WHAT!? What do you mean I cannot return back to my body? Who´s controlling it? Who´s occupying it?"
She demanded the answer as the emotion once again gave a straight answer.
"Your body is unconscious, right now it isn´t being occupied by no one, that I can assure of."
The silence permeated afterwards and Raven glanced at knowledge with expectation for her at least to explain why was she being kept in her own mind, finally the emotion asked a question.
"What do you think about Beast Boy, or rather, Garfield Mark Logan?"
The blue haired female rotated her eyes in irritation while shrugging at the same time, the very same topic they discussed after she desired for Beast Boy´s death, but she of course already felt bad enough, she was going to apologize, why was Knowledge so insistent on the subject.
"I already said it alright, i´ll apologize him after this whole ordeal is done."
·SLAP·
Pain in her cheeks was what she felt as Knowledge´s palm struck her right cheek, she turned her eyes to the emotion whom glanced at her with a very stern visage, before finally seven different holograms appeared, they were all holographic projections of herself, but dressed in different colored cloaks.
Knowledge indicated to the first one in the row from left to right, it was a rainbow cloaked emotion.
"Happiness, your innate happiness has dulled and ceased to exist; like any other emotion it clung so much that she eventually disconnected herself from reality altogether, and turned into Despair. A desire of faux happiness that´s in imagination but cannot be projected at reality."
Raven glanced at the emotion as it stared at the skies and it smiled, as she spread her arms and ran away, as if she were emulating a plane, before it gripped its head with its hands and screamed.
"Despair´s imagination can go from a rainbow colored fantasy world to a dark hellish world in only a second."
The hologram disspaeared and she indicated to the next, an emotion that stood still, didn´t moved and just stared in shock at her front.
"Timid, once it represented our fears, has turned to sadness. The sadness of having our fears turned reality disconnected timid from her reality, she doesn´t speak, she doesn´t reacts, she doesn´t breaths at all, she´s just, there."
She stated as Raven tried to touch the clone, only for it to dissipate and show the next emoticlone, this one was of a white color, as it glanced to the skies then afterwards to the floor.
"Anger represents our most primitive emotion, could tear the world asunder and render our enemies useless and bath them in fear, our Anger has now emotion, the state of our other emotions affect it thoroughly, in one moment it can be passive, at the next one it can be angered and in despair which creates Self-Loathe, it can be angered and sad creating Hatred or it can be angered and foolish creating fear. Therefore anger has turned into Hate, for as hate can express self-loathe, be passive, multiply itself or even create fear at oneself."
The clone dissipated and it showed a black clad emotion whom was also standing still, not reacting and instead just glancing with deep sadness towards the horizon.
"Love has been forgotten, passion has also been forgotten; it doesn´t remembers anything at all. It has turned into amnesia."
The emotion clone dissipated and it showed a blue cloaked emoticlone, this one was sitting underneath a tree, its eyes were looking at nothing, slob was hanging from the corner of its mouth, didn´t reacted at all.
"Sloth´s own sloth has multiplied to the point of eventually inhibiting its own existence, turning into foolishness."
And finally the final clone appeared, this one had a gray cloak, a cup of tea in its hands, this clone´s eyes were bloodshot and wide awake, its hands were trembling and in between them it was holding a cup of tea.
"And finally, rude has turned dependent, dependent on the tea we consume. Turning into a tea addict, and therefore caffeine addict. It has warped itself into dependent, it personifies our dependence, our addictions, those things that can be pathologic to us, yet that we ignore because it brings us temporal bliss."
Knowledge stated to Raven as she stood still and stared at her emotions, her very own emoticlones and the representation of her own mentality, they were shattred and warped beyond belief into something that even caused her to shiver. She wouldn´t be able to feel happy anymore, not be timid of certain aspects, netiher feel bravery when facing an enemy, neither to feel anger whenever she´s ticked off, nor feeling sloth or rude whenever she wanted to be lazy or give a crude remark to someone, and not feeling passion over her reading books.
What will happen to her?
Hanging her head, she felt the urge to destroy the one that did this to herself.
"Who did this?"
She barely contained her righteous female fury, yet her emoticlone didn´t hold out and indicated her whom was to blame.
"Yourself."
The emoticlone stated and the blue haired female with blue cloak glared at the crimson red cloaked emotion whom still had a stern glance at her.
"What´s that supposed to mean? I would´ve never warped my own mentality to this state of utter disaster? What am I going to do?"
Knowledge instead nodded and spoke to her.
"You might not believe it, but you did. The only thing you can do for now is, to assimiliate the reason of why you are like this."
Giving her the letter, the female took it away and she started to read it all, absorbing it as she continued to be so engrossed in it, the female finally hung her head down. The emoticlone raised the original raven´s head and it showed a catatonic face that cascaded tears, to knowledge it was better for her to assimiliate that letter, and read it as many times as needed for her to realize something that should´ve been realized a long time ago, yet once again, time is what they don´t exactly have.
"N…no…"
She could only whisper, her voice breaking as she could only sob. The first time Raven genuinely cried and the rain poured over nevermore, finally the news of Beast Boy´s farewell hit her, and it hit pretty hard, enough for it to be felt in all the corner´s of Raven´s emotional walls she has kept very tightly protected, they were utterly crumbled now.
"Yes, beast boy is gone. And while not directly, we never got to apologize for what we did to him. In that letter he expresses out his emotions in the open, naked before us. And we will never get a chance to answer to that letter. The only man who looked at us as a person, whom loved us even after showing whom we were, whom thanks to his amorous gesture of giving us THIS coin…we instead went after robin and not thank him for giving us that confidence we screamed out for. You shattered yourself raven, and the only one that can aid us to feel again, is gone forever from our lives."
Knowledge showed her that same coin from years ago right in front of her face, and she could only kneel down and glance in shock at the surface as her eyes shed tears; he emotion glared at the original whom could barely keep herself in check and affront the consequences.
"Since when?"
She asked realizing something after all, Knowledge instead crossed her arms and glanced at the original whom glared at her.
"Since when did I felt like this for beast boy? Since when didn´t I felt nauseated by his presence? Since when did my emotions felt something so near to him than any other? Since when-."
"Since Malchior."
Knowledge stated clearly towards the female titan whom got up and glanced at the letter, and gained a firm stance.
"Return me."
She stated and earned Knowledge´s interest, she didn´t expected her to face the adversity head on, instead of just thinking it thoroughly.
"I need to face this, whether I want it or not; this letter and my own emotions prove that there was something I never saw that happened right before my eyes. He believed in me and dedicated his time to me. It´s time I face him and confront him for this."
She stated earning the female emoticlone´s nod and smile, it seems that in the end it shall all work out.
"I´ll return you, however…you´ll be powerless."
The original female heroine nodded solemnly accepting the conditions given by her emoticlone, being powerless was a price she was willing to pay the price in exchange to be back in the world of the living and start her quest in search for Garfield.
A pair of forest green eyes opened as the light from the sun peaked through his window, his animal instincts however went haywire as he felt a very thick and menacing presence in his room, turning around, he saw there leaning on the wall, a big man, at least 2m tall, a man he knew very well from at least stories told by his former team-leader Mento.
Darkseid.
Hearing about the man and having him right in front of you is quite a different thing, the aura just didn´t compared to Raven´s dad, not even by a tiny margin, this man was utter evil.
"So, you´re finally conscious. You should raise yourself from bed and prepare for your training, or i´ll destroy you with my omega beam."
The man was dressed in that very mythical appearance he had, that black sleeveless t-shirt, paired with black pants, a pair of black boots and gauntlets paired with his trademark exposed-face helmet. His eyes glowed red as he threatened the male to get up, the blonde haired boy immediately got up and got dressed, seeking in his drawer his doom patrol uniform.
"I took the freedom to destroy that heinous purple uniform you wore, it symbolizes you leaving your old life. Beast Boy is dead, destroyed. What lies forth now is Garfield Mark Logan, legacy of the Antimonitor and to the Antimatter, God of The AntiMatter Universe. And as a soon-to-be god, you should act like one."
Throwing forth to the bed a pair of black pants and a purple tank shirt with a pair of socks and boots, the young man glanced at the clothes in the bed and rose his eyebrow.
"Dude! This isn´t even fashionable at all, at least you should´ve let me keep those special dog-tagged sneakers Mento made for me. And even worse, it will tear when I transform."
At this the God of Apokolips just staid still before turning around and finally stating.
"Be ready in a minute, or you shall feel true pain."
Walking out of the room, not bothering to even close the door behind him, Beast Boy sighed and could feel the his heart rate finally dropping, truly he felt lucky after winging it on an argument against Superman´s worse rival, now truly he felt estranged to have the man around and talking casually to him, instead of just beating him. After all, he was an acquaintance of Robin, whose an apprentice to Batman, whom in turn faced Darkseid for the first time with Superman.
After he wore the attire Darkseid brought forth for him, he walked downstairs to reveal a massive garden that extended for miles, as the God took close attention to the young blonde teenager he gestured to a thick metal pole standing at his side.
"This is a military grade metal alloy that the United States uses to craft its nuclear submarines, punch it."
The clear order was given to beast boy whom stood straight and nodded, facing the metal pole, he cringed as he knew he was going to feel the pain afterwards, landing a clean punch through the metal, he seethed and stared at his right fist, it had blood.
"Ouch."
The young blonde haired teenager emitted slightly comically at the man whom glanced at the metal alloy that to the human eye seemed undented and firm, yet to the God´s eyes, it held quite the surprise.
"You dented it enough, which clearly shows that Mobius has succeded into unlocking your full potential. Your body build isn´t fit for a mesomorph type of exercise, speed and resistance should be the key first. You should run."
With a very devious and evil smirk his eyes glowed red and the blonde-haired boy comically screamed like a girl as the god of destruction activated the omega beams, the only alternative left was for the boy to run around as he tried to evade the power of the beams.
´Shit, shit, shit, shit! If they touch me i´m dead, fried…´
Garfield thought cursing as he evaded the omega beams from Darkseid whom was training him now, the boy had short time to get acquainted with his family´s powers and make the family proud, or he´ll succumb before the potential the young devils of the generation had, which was quite heavy if Mobius had to say.
Therefore, Mobius even had to raise his expectations of his nephew by quite a considerable margin.
A pair of violet eyes glanced at the dark ceiling, slowly raising her chest up and massaging her forehead, resisting the urge to groan afterwards. Before she could however realize the difference the room she was with her room in the tower of the Teen Titans, she felt a very foul and dark energy filled with many evil intentions, the energy itself was so thick that even superseded her father´s.
The lights were turned on and she found herself lying in a king sized bed, to her right, close to a window was a figure staring at a gigantic figure, whose body composition was crudely very marked with muscles. The figure of at least three meters tall glanced at the horizon from the window of the room. The cape was swayed slightly by the breeze of wind.
"So you´ve finally woken up, daughter of trigon."
The man commented and turned around, Raven met with what looked to be a robot, but not any robot. A tall and imposing robot, that however didn´t looked to be a robot at all, and instead it all seemed to be an intricate armor.
"Who´re you and what do you want with me?"
The blue haired female asked to the man whom could only cross his arms and wonder out loud.
"My name, is none of your interest. As for what do I want from you? Nothing, in fact, I don´t expect anything from you. Alas, you should take a glace to this window."
Glancing back to the window, the blue haired female got up, only to realize she was without her cloak, she glanced around only to see it missing, shrugging afterwards she walked towards the window the figure was looking at and she looked.
On a garden, so casually, Darkseid was using his omega beams against a green tiger that was running away.
Wait.
Green tiger!?
She was about to spring into action, but she remembered that she wasn´t exactly in conditions to fight since her powers were sealed off, she cursed inwardly due to her incompetence.
"You must be Garfield´s uncle whom took him away from us, isn´t it?"
She seethed the statement towards the man whom crossed his arms and glared at the female.
"I´m his uncle, his remaining family. It´s my job to make sure he´s raised well, as for taking him away, look at yourself right now. If I have to say, you were given a second chance daughter of trigon."
He stated to the female whom could only glance at Beast Boy, whom was evading the omega beams of Darkseid.
How did she knew who was darkseid?
It´s easy, she has read enough books about the Justice League and their main enemies, although from the last news she heard was that the man was supposed to be dead, but apparently he´s back, how? That´s the intricate mystery that fills everything, and why was he attacking beast boy as if he taunted with him?
"Why is Darkseid attacking Beast Boy?"
She asked sternly although with a hint of concern for the shape-shifter, even in her common monotone some would say that she has her voice laced with concern.
"It´s his training, I´ve called on the aid of Darkseid to do so. I believe he can grow strong enough to be a successful heir to our family."
The man stated earning the female´s interest in that last sentence. What did the man mean by family?
She heard a snap of fingers and she turned around, maid dressed females approached to the room and started to clean the room and put the bed back to pristine and like-new condition. The female titan was surprised although to know that Beast Boy had a family as rich enough to actually have that number of maids working in the house, or should she say mansion.
"You should go downstairs and greet my nephew, for all what´s worth, he deserves it."
He turned away leaving the girl alone whom glanced at the young blonde haired man from the window, certainly for her things were getting complex instead of simple, she was now in the house of Garfield´s uncle, with him in tow. How did it happened? She didn´t know, but now she was a guest in it, at least for the moment.
"Oh, and before you´re gone. You should train yourself better."
A book materialized on the table, and she glanced at it, the title stated enough for her to know that it was an implied message, it held a code, something underneath the underneath, even for her to decipher.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Taking the book close to her, she walked downstairs and went towards the garden, to see a very winded and sweaty beast boy after his training, lying down in the grass, gasping for air. As she saw the imposing rival of superman disappear as if it were a mere ghost, she walked up to beast boy whom was lying in the grass and staring at the strange neon green skies of the underworld he was now living at.
"You look drained."
Her comment on the obvious gained the attention of a certain shape-shifter whose drained energies revitalized and he got up, his face morphed into one of happiness as he hugged her close.
"Raven."
He hugged her close to him, even if he was sweaty and smelly from the intense ´evade my omega beam´ training of darkseid.
"Quit it."
She stated, although she felt blissful and happy, and she felt something on her chest and her head, something that indulged her that this was alright, that everything will be somehow okay, even if everything was messed up the moment Garfield´s uncle arrived to jump city and took Beast Boy away, it was that same vibe she felt when she talked with him in the beach after the Beast Incident.
Ceasing the hug finally the young blonde could only chuckle, apparently even if he was human, he still retained his most distinct features, which were the pointy elf ears and the canine tooth that protruded from his lips slightly, it was overall cute if she had to say.
"I thought you would be at the tower with the others. What happened?"
He asked concerned for her and the others and she felt even more at ease, knowing that beast boy still held them up in high-regards enough to remember them even after such big change, that spoke too much of Beast Boy as a person and made him different from many other superheroes.
"Nothing, nothing happened. It´s just, somehow I realized that without you around, i´m lost myself too."
She stated the truth, although she didn´t explained everything that happened with herself and what she has realized since by stating it so from the very start, she feared she could creep off beast boy and scare him, and that´s the least thing she needed to do at the moment.
"I´m sorry for what I told you beast boy, the truth is that I don´t want you to die."
She confessed to the blonde haired boy whom blushed and glanced at the horizon to his left and scratched the back of his head in a manner only known by him. The blonde haired boy nodded and glanced at the grass on the floor, he however could only sigh and raise his head with a smile.
"You…you should return to the tower Rae, the others might need you to save the day."
He stated at her awkwardly, truly for the first time they were having a face-to-face conversation since the Beast Incident, and truly the shape-shifter certainly didn´t know what to say, in his very own warped world, the truth is that Raven hated his guts, he has failed her and he has let her succumb to her loneliness. He couldn´t save her from her own pathological loneliness, that future that Starfire confessed to him was a very dark realistic vision of the Teen Titans.
Cyborg chained forever to the Tower, Robin being a crimefighter and never ´hanging up the spandex´, then Raven isolated inside a room where she herself is alone and finally himself, isolated from all the world, bald and as a circus act; by being here perhaps he has evaded his future since now he´s not green and freaky anymore, he could be however his human form spends no energy anymore.
"Wouldn´t they need you too?"
She asked to him equally, for Raven it was her own purpose to make Beast Boy realize that the Teen Titans are not teen titans without him in the image, she won´t accept him being gone from them, and she won´t return to the tower without him in tow.
"Don´t be foolish Raven, i´m not needed in the tower as you would…"
Seething in pain, he opened his forest green eyes to find the face-mask of Robin glaring right through his eyes, he was in his office going through some documents, he threw a batarang that passed by the side of his face so near. The male finally got up and gripped him from his shirt and rose him.
"Let this be a warning Beast Boy, you turn into that monster again, And i´ll send you to jail. Unlike others, you´re a discardable member of the team, and I won´t jeopardize their security for you."
Robin´s tone was hard on him, hard that it felt as if thousands of blades were impaled right through his heart.
.
Regret and Sadness, those were the feelings that in the end were left of all that ordeal and afterwards always, regret and sadness were the only thoughts he had of the Teen Titans.
He marched away before she spoke to him with certain bravery.
"But you feel more needed here, with an uncle you just met today than with us, the family you´ve been with for five years."
She accused him, yet he could only hang his head, the blue haired female would never understand what happened, he felt the need to just get it out but he couldn´t.
"i…"
He stated yet he couldn´t answer, the female approached and with one of her hands she turned him around and she glared at him, with his head hung. So much for Beast Man perhaps, here was a broken hero whose expectations were broken beyond belief, he was given a second chance and yet the regrets of the past still haunt him right at his very front.
"You prefer being here than with us isn´t it."
Raven replied feeling angered and lashing out at the shape-shifter whom tried to find the courage to finally say it, how the last years with the Titans after the beast incident have been a fluke, how he´s been masking his pain of knowing that he was unreliable and just dismissable, how he felt like dirt, no, worse than dirt, that he felt like garbage.
Before the female could speak a big arm appeared in between them, she glanced around ticked off to see none other than the infamous Uncle of Beast Boy whom separated him from their group.
"You´re persistent with your attempts, I give you that."
Mobius stated quite irritated if he were so to say, he was resisting the urge to just delete this girl from existence and then just go to trigon and do the same with the puny demon, however he thought better than to cause battles where there shouldn´t be, and over something as simple as a bratty girl whom just sees the picture she wants to see and not the big picture.
Darkseid appeared in front of the boy, his palms landing on Garfield´s shoulders and pressing a certain pressure point, the boy fell unconscious and the big god of Apokolips took him away, leaving the AntiMonitor to glare at Raven.
"Why shouldn´t I be? You took Beast Boy away from the family where he belongs."
She stated to the man whom crossed his arms and shook his head, he raised his arm at her and pointed at her with his index finger, his thumb was raised, as if it were something akin to a gun made by his right hand, he bent his thumb slightly and the female´s eyes widened as she fell unconscious to the surface, her body rendered immobile.
"You tend to look at things in your own point of view, you think my nephew didn´t suffered."
He seethed with slight anger towards the female
´Well, it´s time you feel what he has felt, up to his last day as Beast Boy. Perhaps now, I can at least expect you to be more considerate of Garfield, and try to understand him and not making him understand things in your closed off vision.´
He shook his head and in one of her pockets he placed a piece of paper with a remote teleportation matrix towards his residence, perhaps it was time for his nephew to have some justice being delivered, not by his hand but alas by other people whom will empathize to him.
A pair of violet eyes opened again to be herself in her room once more, she grabbed her forehead as she felt the incoming headache, yet at the same time she could only face the covers as she finally could only close her eyes and sigh, a few tears cascaded from her eyes as she finally realized things, she could finally empathize with Beast Boy, she saw through his efforts and suffering, and through his pseudo-failures from his very own emotional point of view, it was something akin as if going through his very own memories, all of them, as he lay naked before her to just read him and she assimiliated it all.
Her respect for a certain poultry named hero has dropped severely, she thought she stated it clear that Beast Boy defended her from Adonis, that the young man never attacked, and yet what Robin said to Beast Boy, it ached so deep within her as it did to beast boy. Nobody deserved to be called disposable, even less to be threatened to be incarcerated for something one has no control for.
She thought that perhaps robin could understand, that everybody would comprehend they were a big family and that they accepted themselves with their talents and flaws, not only talents.
Getting up from her bed and preparing herself for facing Robin, she stared at herself and got off of her room and glanced around, apparently everyone has returned to their respective bases and the morning in the tower however didn´t seemed to be going good at all. As she appeared finally, she saw that a batman costumed dressed red-haired female, whom was chatting casually with Robin casually and Cyborg was making breakfast.
"Good morning."
Cyborg greeted with alas more cheerfulness towards the female whom nodded and finally sat in one of the chairs and finally listening to the silence, she chose to interject in the conversation.
"I cannot believe you judged Beast Boy in such a way when I told you that he saved me."
Raven commented to the bird-boy whom turned at her sharply and spoke sternly at her.
"Beast Boy was a ticking bomb here, he knew the risks of using his power and he chose to use it without inhibition, if loosing him is little price to conserve our security then so be it. He shall realize that the outside world is far more darker than he pictured it."
The apprentice of Batman stated with a shrug to Raven whom was across robin, since Batgirl was by his side on the head chair of the tiny table, in her own anger and bravery she got up and planted a very firm and strong slap to the cheek of the leader of the group.
"I thought this place promised not to judge anybody. Starfire is an intergalactic convict, Cyborg has connection to a device that can easily destroy our world and I´m the daughter of a dimensional tearing demon. And of all those profiles you choose instead to judge an orphaned boy with a power that stigmatized him from society and from ever being normal ever again."
The male hero got up and glared at her.
"He didn´t made any effort to control his power at all, people whom are wild and don´t control their powers are just as equals as to villains."
Has the male hero been so warped thinking in such a way, she brought finally an analogy.
"So If I suddenly just because of situation, my powers distort you´re going to compare me to a villain."
She stated and he blinked before shaking his head.
"No."
He stated and Raven just seethed even further, was she so foolish and close minded that she never saw the ticking bomb that was Robin´s own abuse of Beast Boy, in the end now she could understand the situation, this was merely an exacerbation of what happened in the Beast Incident and afterwards.
She glanced at Cyborg, and glared at him.
"Did you agreed with this too Cyborg?"
She asked in her usual monotone, giving him the chance of doubt, he however could only blink and glance at Robin.
"I knew he spoke about it with B-man, but to put him on threat of being in prison, or to even tell him he´s dismissable. What´s on your head man?"
Cyborg stated surprisingly towards the boy wonder whom crossed his arms and sat down, Barbara could only glance at the interaction between the titans and Robin, apparently they were one-upping him. Apparently the same mistakes Batman made sometimes, Robin was fated to repeat them if he keeps them on.
"Where´s starfire anyway?"
She asked rather ticked off to both males, as Cyborg gestured to the elevator.
"She´s been in her room ever since Batgirl arrived."
The female nodded and hovered towards the elevator, pressing a button and allowing the elevator to go upwards.
Being the princess of a native tribe planet of warrior men and women whom live their lives based on strength and emotions, as a princess of a high above race than man she was taught that with her strength and the power of her emotions she can conquer her enemies with her fists. And certainly she did emerged victorious of all her battles, Starfire, Princess of Planet Tameran is valuable enough to even be given away as a peace offering against the invaders of the Citadel.
Off to be some cheap whore-like offering for her planet´s own peace, one wouldn´t think that in between those plans a particular person stood in between that, none other than a black haired male whose face although she has seen only once, a handsome and very powerful yet stern man filled her with attention. At least, that happened until in Tokyo a special mission she sought out a closer connection with their leader. And she did so, however, one would be surprised that in the time span of a few years, when he stablished connections with his past again.
He chose to cut it a day before she arrived, a woman from his past and charmed him.
Shame.
Shame brought forth to the royal bloodline of Tameran with such action, princesses and tameraneans in general weren´t denied nor…´broken up´ as the gesture her team leader would suggest, tameranean females are a diamond in the rough and are supposed to be treasured, not just dismissed as some common wench, but perhaps she was given the end of the carrot & stick analogy, she had to be given the stick while that girl of bats was given the carrot in that case.
She chose to isolate herself in her room, hugging her legs nearby to her, wearing her uniform ready to battle yet, not feeling the joy of flight enough to be powerful enough to strike fear towards her enemies.
Feeling the knocks on her room´s door, she just chose to not answer, she was deeply thinking about how to cope with the situation.
Even though many might think of her as a very immature and clueless alien girl, she is mature enough to cope and go on, to form that strength of personality.
She chose to not answer and instead continue to glance at her feet, finding staring at her boots a far more enjoyable time, when her door was surrounded by a dark aura she stared at her blue haired friend with dark blue cloak.
"What are your plans Star?"
Raven asked to the female whom glance at her with a slightly saddened visage could only, the saddened female answered solemnly.
"At the right moment, I really don´t know what to do ahead of the future friend raven. Perhaps I shall go to the mall of shopping tomorrow to lift my spirits and prepare myself to emerge victorious of the usual crime fighting of the day."
Starfire portrayed her schedule for tomorrow which was still subjected to change depending on her emotional state, soon afterwards however Raven spoke to Starfire.
"I realized that Beast Boy being absent, creates a certain stillness around here…"
She stated to the female whom could only nod and return back to her saddened visage, Beast Boy leaving the Teen Titans came as a shock to the female, the future she had pictured when she went to the future after the whole ordeal with Warp was all but changed. Just as her perception of Robin was.
"I will be honest here Star, Robin scolded Beast Boy pretty hard after the Beast Incident. I´m not going to tell you what to do, however, I recently contacted with Beast Boy."
The female expressed to her friend whom turned at her with a wide smile and practically her spirits were lifted slightly, knowing that one of her friends and a member of her family was contacted on and could come back was something she didn´t expected though.
"However, after Robin threatened him that if he ever used his powers again he´ll be incarcerated as a villain, he chose to go on his own path. I was offered a chance to stand by his side…"
She took out a slip of paper and showed it to her, the female grew fascinated with the inscriptions on the paper.
"I…i don´t know how hard must be for you to feel lonely Star, and while I believe being with Garfield and express my apologies for how I treated him sincerely. I bring upon forth to you this idea, I won´t be a superhero if being such means to go against Beast Boy."
She stated as her friend boldly got up and with clenched fists and a determinant stance she spoke solemnly.
"Then we must make friend Robin realize that Beast Boy is one of our friends and that has to be with us."
Raven bit her lip, if things were far easier than how she stated them to be. Robin was too prideful to allow to give Beast Boy freedom, and Beast Boy´s uncle was wise enough to know that Garfield´s growth would catapult with his family.
"Garfield´s uncle already stated that Beast Boy would grow better if he was with his family, than being on a tense ambience as that."
Raven stated to the tameranean whom could only stop her flight as her feet touched the surface and she once again was filled with doubt.
"I only came here to say my goodbyes star, I…I believe I can be a better person if I go on this. That´s why, i´m going to leave the team."
She stated solemnly to her comrade whom nodded and glanced at the floor, slightly biting her lip as the blue haired female left the room.
What was her reason to stay as a Titan?
One would say that it was her family but right before her it was splitting into two, on one side her friend Raven and her friend Beast Boy were marching their own path, on the other side her friend Robin whom judged beast boy was going to continue the team and would replace her friends with other superheroes he finds powerful enough, and her friend cyborg was already getting to ´the age´ as he referred himself to.
It would be painful to see how her friends vacant places are emotionlessly replaced, she would´ve to bond again with these candidates Robin has and that would take time, and even then, that would´ve hypocrite because she´ll be forgetting about her old friends.
Robin was reading the newspaper and Cyborg was already cleaning the breakfast plates, as they saw the elevators opening, Raven hovered to the table and gripping with her right hand the communicator of the teen titans she spoke a solemn and firm goodbye to the team.
"I thank you for taking me in and for helping me when I went against my father; I wouldn´t be what I am today without any of your help. Therefore, you have my thanks."
She expressed before she placed her Teen Titan´s communicator in the table and she spoke solemnly.
"I issue my official resigning from the team."
Both Cyborg and Robin could stare in shock as the female left her communicator in the table, earning their shocks as they turned away, for some reason she felt more relieved than ever.
"I´m going home."
And home is where the heart is.
A blonde haired man sat in a chair as he glanced around the people surrounding him around the hall, five people were scattered around the room, by the side of his throne-like chair was Darkseid, his Queen and most powerful servant and evil piece, god of Apokolips.
A white tall slim alien figure of at least 2m tall, its body of a humanoid shape, yet it had no mouth, his eyes had no pupils and no irises, they were all black, with a pair of pointed dog-like ears and a slim tail, the figure´s legs were curved, as if he had no articulations or alas, his bones weren´t exactly of a human build. Once known in a certain moment of human history as the embodiment of evil itself, Giygas was found by the Anti-Monitor and gave him a position in his peerage, his bishop and magic specialist.
With that, he didn´t only gained the indirect loyalty of Apokolips, but he also gained the indirect allegiance of Giygas forces such as the starmen, the octobots and his many other weapons of mass destruction.
A tall and imposing figure with a humanoid figure, dressed in a pair of black pants, black boots and a naked torso; the figure of 3m tall, of the same height as Darkseid and both being slightly smaller than Mobius, the figure had the head of a mollusk, its tentacles coiled and uncoiled and moved around. His crimson red pupil-less eyes were glancing still at his master with his crossed arms.
Cthulu a mythological being which was used to be believed on by many indigenous tribes, the protagonist of many H.P. Lovecraft stories regarding his myth, the figure was tall and imposing, his hands however only had three long digits each, with sharp and long claws, paired of course with the pair of dragon wings he has on his back which enable him to fly, said wings at the moment were folded neatly on his back, as his suction cups which were to the height of what would´ve been the articulation of his jaw, inhaled and exhaled air.
A humanoid figure dressed in a black sleeveless armor with shoulder pads, a pair of black fingerless gauntlets, a pair of black pants with a pair of black boots, covering his face a triangular device which apparently seemed to be a modern state-of-the-art device for breathing and finally from his very own armor behind his head emerged a black hood which darkened his visage even further. The figure´s yellow eyes danced in between the people around him, his pupils remained the same, his arms were crossed and his visage inexpressive and immobile. The legendary Sith Warlord Darth Malgus whom brought the Order of the Jedi Knights to its knees without faltering, whom would kill loved ones to achieve further strength, and whom lived off of anger, the fastest warrior to ever be conceived.
A black humanoid shape blob of matter stood its crimson red eyes expressed a latent impatiency, his teeth were brutally shown to anybody whom dared to look at him, gruesome big and sharp teeth that could tear away any human. Mikaboshi, the brutal aspect of darkness, was the last piece to fit in what could perhaps be the Anti-Monitor´s peerage, perhaps the most powerful peerage in this reality, and it wouldn´t be up for naught.
A peerage is only as great as the devil commanding it, therefore, his peerage had to be composed of Universal and Stellar Threats; to achieve such feat for a man whom wasn´t even a biological devil earned him enough respect and fear throughout the underworld.
"I´ve called you today to outweight a decision, to put my nephew in the military and for each of you all to train him so he can be at his best."
Mobius stated to his five servants whom stood still, the first one to speak however was none other than the Sith Warlord Darth Malgus.
"I heard a rumor that he could dent a military grade steel pole, that´s enough potential for me to accept."
He replied to everybody as Mikaboshi chuckled and nodded afterwards, the dark god of destruction loved mischief beyond belief, and usually Mobius didn´t called for them at all, and when they were called it was usually to take care of some minor threat his family was issued to take, to say that each and everyone of the individuals here has completed their own considerable set of missions accordingly and with honors was an understatement, they gave their best always.
And if they didn´t felt like doing any assignment, they´ll just send their very own servants to do so, after all; they are powerful individuals enough to have servants, except for Cthulhu it seems.
"I agree with your idea, most of the young heirs of the devil families are just pompous and pampered children. Declaring in an open crowd that your heir has a military rank and has ascended through the service, gives an elite status that could be beneficial for the family, a cut above the rest."
Darkseid´s insight was certainly interesting, and it gained the nods of the others, even of Giygas whom was usually expectant and silent most of the time, if he had anything to say, he would transmit it mentally.
"For now I need you to be on standby, I might require your help next time."
He nodded and soon he felt it, the portal which revealed two females whom looked around the entrance hall, when the two females arrived they felt it, the strong presence of many powerful energies, some of them thickly evil and foul concentrating in one place. They approached to see all of the members of Mobius´s peerage retreating with their own trademark teleportation techniques.
"Oh, you´ve arrived."
The blue haired female stared at the tall imposing figures, Garfield´s uncle instead crossed his arms and sighed afterwards.
"So, you made your choice then."
Glancing at the female demoness and empath whom nodded afterwards, she bowed to the man slightly.
"I´m in your care."
It was more perhaps of a gesture of politeness and kindness more than anything else, Raven acknowledged that the man before her, Garfield´s uncle was not a person to be trifled with, and he acted directly when anything else was met. If he managed to subdue Darkseid then it spoke miles about the power of this man.
It is interesting to have Trigon´s ´Little Girl´ by his side now, that would be beneficial for him, if he could strike down the demon, the female could occupy the man´s place and take the man´s forces for herself and augment her power, that would add more men to his indirect troops, and augment his influence even more.
His son was truly blessed.
He snapped his bingers and two maids appeared and he gestured to the blue haired female.
"Please, escort her to her respective room. She´s a friend of my nephew, and for the friends of the family, all the warmth of our home."
He gestured to the female whom was surprisingly taken away by the maids to their respective rooms, meanwhile the man instead sat back on his throne-like chair and smiled, things were looking up, good enough.