A/N: Apologies, this chapter may be a little short. The alternative was a longer wait, figured a smaller, but faster update was better.

Review Responses

Stormplains - When I was thinking up chapter 6's fight scene, I thought to myself "How would Raven and Beastboy work together around Season 2's time?" And I came up with the idea of Raven using Beastboy as a "Wrecking Ball." Glad it was entertaining.

Ludra90 - Things are about to get very ugly for the changeling and the dark girl. As for them continuing their interrupted conversation? You'll have to wait and see. (Hopefully not too long.)


"Uh oh." Beastboy heard Raven say, he echoed her sentiments. They were surrounded in an open area. This was not going to end well for them.

"Attack..." Jinx started, her hands glowing pink.

"...Pattern..." Gizmo continued, his laser cannon charging up.

"...Delta!" Mammoth finished, slamming both fists on the ground in front of him. He created a shockwave that was destroying the street as it moved towards the two Titans. At the same time, Gizmo fired his laser cannon and Jinx threw her pink energy blasts. All three attacks were going to converge on Beastboy and Raven.

"Brace yourself!" The dark Titan yelled to her green teammate, holding her hands out and creating the strongest barrier she could. Half a second later they were hit by Attack Pattern Delta. The explosion could be seen from several blocks away.

It took a little while for the smoke to clear, but the Hive were patient, they needed to verify that they had eliminated their target. Finally the smoke cleared enough to where the trio of supervillains could get a look at the aftermath of the damage they caused. It wasn't pretty, well for the two superheroes at least. Every single one of the supervillains had a grin on their face when they got a good look at their handiwork.

Lying in the middle of a giant crater in the middle of the street were Raven and Beastboy. Numerous rips and tears adorned their costume as well as bruises that littered their skin. The changeling was lying facedown his left arm stretched out in front of him while his right remained at his hip. The dark girl was lying on her back, her now damaged cloak wrapped around her like a funeral shroud. Neither Titan was moving.

"Our lucky day." Jinx said softly to herself, grinning from ear to ear.


"An illusion."

"A fantasy."

"You can never give her what she needs."

Beastboy kept hearing Slade's arrogant words repeating themselves over and over again. He was back again in that damned house of mirrors, surrounded by multiple images of Slade. The changeling fell to his knees, holding his hands to his ears in an effort to block out the villain's voice.

"Her orders were to strike, but I guess she took pity on you."

"Shut up!" Beastboy shouted, still clutching his ears.

"Perhaps she wanted to keep you as a pet."

"I said shut the hell up!" He yelled again, closing his eyes so that he wouldn't have to see the multiple images of Slade on the mirrors.

"...She took pity on you..."

"Damn it! Stop!"

"...wanted to keep you as a pet..."

"Stop!"

"...a pet..."

"Why won't you just stop!" Beastboy cried out, falling on his side and curling up into a fetal position. Even though he was still clutching his ears with his hands, he still heard Slade's mocking voice as clear as a bell.

"...Never give her what she needs."

"Fuck off!"

"...What she needs..."

"No..."

"...You can never give her..."

"NOOOOOOOO!"


Beastboy's eyes snapped open, and he found himself not in the house of mirrors, but at the middle of a large crater. His vision was still blurry, but he quickly spotted Raven to his right, lying on her back and groaning in pain as she fought her way to consciousness as well. The changeling coughed and managed to prop himself up with his left arm.

"You toejamming barfeaters are still alive after that?" Beastboy heard Gizmo's voice to his right. The pint-sized villain had his tech in spider-form, just at the crater's lip. His malicious smile was sporting all his teeth.

"Guess we'll have to fix that." Mammoth sounded from in front of him. The massive supervillain slammed his right fist into the palm of his left hand.

"One more time ought to do it." Jinx said from Beastboy's left. The changeling grimaced and struggled to his knees.

"Raven..." The green Titan called out, worry evident in his tone.

"...I know..." She replied through clenched teeth as she rose shakily to her feet. The Hive were already preparing their attack once more.

"Attack Pattern Delta!" Jinx shouted and once more Gizmo and her fired their respective attacks at the two Titans while Mammoth created another shockwave with his fists.

This time Beastboy morphed into a pteradactyl as fast as he could, trying to gain altitude as fast as possible. Although he dodged the initial blast, the sheer force from the explosion was enough to turn his controlled flight into an uncontrolled one. He felt like Mammoth had just punched him in the gut, but the changeling soldiered on.

Beastboy managed to regain control of his flight in pteradactyl form, frantically he searched around for Raven, finally spotted her emerging from the huge cloud of smoke generated from the Hive's second combined attack. The changeling inwardly frowned, it looked like she got tagged pretty good with the second attack. The dark girl's cloak was little more than tatters at this point, the right sleeve torn all the way up to her bicep, her right arm itself covered in bruises and small cuts. A small trickle of blood was running down her right lip and there was a nasty gash on her left leg. At least she was alive though.

"Eliminate the target!" He heard Jinx scream to her fellow teammates from below him. Beastboy looked below and saw the other two Hive members face him. He mentally cursed, someone was after him? Was it Slade? Probably, maybe he got to Terra more than he thought and the masked villain didn't like that for his new apprentice.

All three Hive members got into fighting stances and the green pteradactyl readied itself for some aerial evasive maneuvers. He saw Gizmo pull out a small disc-shaped device, it was grey with the bottom a flat surface while the top was dome-shaped. A small orange light was placed at the center of the dome and the outer edges were painted orange as well.

Beastboy watched as the pint-sized evil genius looked up at him with an evil smile and rear back his right hand which held the disc in it, ready to throw. The changeling braced himself preparing to dodge.

"Beastboy look out!" He heard Raven call to his right, on the edges of his vision he could see Raven reaching towards him, hands glowing black. He couldn't focus on that right now though, he needed to watch Gizmo so he knew which way to move when he threw the disc at him.

To his surprise, he saw Gizmo's grin grow even wider, changing direction suddenly, the pint-sized villain threw the disc, but not where Beastboy was expecting. Gizmo's aim was good and the disc sailed perfectly to it's target. The changeling was caught completely off-guard.

So was Raven as the disc landed on her right shoulderblade. The light on the disc began to blink rapidly. Raven only had time to open her eyes wide in panic and then the disc exploded.

Losing concentration on his animal form, Beastboy reverted back to his human form in midair.

"RAVEN!" He shouted at the top of his lungs. The disc created a decent-sized explosion. As Beastboy continued to watch, horrified. He saw a small column of smoke fly out from the cloud, heading for the street. The changeling realized that the column of smoke was actually Raven and she was dropping like a stone.

Beastboy mentally cursed himself for his foolishness. He wasn't the Hive's actual target.

Raven was.