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A few days after the incident with Doctor Light. Beast Boy was finally allowed to leave the infirmary, much to Raven's delight. It was official new in the Titan Network: Raven and Beast Boy FINALLY became a couple. Congratulations from Titans East and Honorary Titans came in. And with Beast Boy in the infirmary the last three days, Raven had to answer them. Needless to say, Cyborg found it all very amusing.
"Thanks Kole and you to Gnarrk. Bye!" Raven said, switching the main screen off. She sighed. Those were the last of the Honorary Titans. Normally she would find all that attention annoying, but not anymore. She found it pleasing to hear that Titans around the world were happy for her. A familiar whistle woke her up from her thoughts. She ran toward the automatic doors. Beast Boy didn't had the time to make one step in the common room or Raven had thrown her arms around his neck and kissed him and, off course, he kissed her back.
"Y'all can do that someplace else. I'm still having nightmares from Rob and Star's 'first boyfriend/girlfriend weeks'." Cyborg yelled from the couch.
Starfire flew to Beast Boy and Raven and gave them her biggest hug she ever given anyone.
"My friends, I'm so glad that you 'have found each other'. This is most glorious. On my planet, this kind of new love should be celebrated with a great feast." she said, in her usual all-cheery voice.
Robin approached the new couple, but kept looking at Beast Boy."
"Dude, stop making that 'I'm-so-serious-gonna-talk'-face. Gives me the creeps." Beast Boy said, while shivers ran down his spine.
"Beast Boy, after what happened with Light and your...developments in your relationship with Raven, I waited from asking this." Robin said. "What was that all about? Who is this 'Doctor Shift?You have a lot to tell us, don't you?"
Beast Boy sighed. "Dude. Long story. Better sit down."
once all seated Beast Boy began to tell, with Raven leaning against his shoulder. "Before I tell everything, there is something you should know. You know I can easily change into any animal on this planet?"
The other nodded. Beast Boy closed his eyes.
"Well, in my early days as a member of the Doom Patrol, It wasn't that easy. Morphing into animals was slow, and very, very painful. What takes a second for me now to change into a dog, lasted more than 5 minutes back then. My morphing could only be used as a last resort, and when I had time enough to concentrate without being disturbed. Back then, I hated my powers."
The girls gasped, while the boys, who were also shocked, didn't make any faces.
Beast Boy continued. "With this in mind, I can continue. Like I said, it was in my early days as a Doom Patroller. We hadn't encountered the Brotherhood of Evil yet. No, back then, we had someone as worse as the Brotherhood. Doctor Shift. Once a respected Doctor in the research of superpowers, became my worst nightmare."
"What do you mean, BB?" Cyborg asked.
"Please hold your questions until the end of the presentation, thank you very much." Beast Boy joker. "But serious. He became obsessed with researching powers, wanted to unravel the 'secret of the power'. All I know of him before the Doom Patrol encountered him the first time, was that years ago, one of his experiments failed and blew up, destroying the company he worked for. He was never found. The first time we met him was when we were called for some strange events happening in Africa, in the village I grew up in. We heard stories of kids going missing. First there seemed no pattern in these kidnappings, but it soon turned out these kids had powers. Controlling plants, talking to animals, pyrokinetics and so on. A few days later, we found the kids, exhausted, terrified and more. One of the kids had still enough courage to show us were they were taking. A massive underground lair. There we found the man responsible. Doctor Shift. He was mad, told us what he..."
Beast Boy bowed his head and shook it. "It seemed that he had...'copied' their powers."
The other gasped.
"It wasn't completely the same as their powers, but very, very similar. He had build machines that generated fire and blasted it at us. Chips, installed into the brains of animals so their thoughts could be read on screen. And so on and so on. Needless to say, we defeated him easily. But he escaped."
"But friend Beast Boy, if you say that your victory was so easy, why do you fear him." Star asked.
"'cause we encountered him a thousands times more. And with each encounter, he became more dangerous, so did his machines and the powers he copied. Cliff and I had given him the name 'Doctor Copycat', because of this. But then the day came that my nightmare started. The day he copied the Doom Patrol's powers. Men that had 'volunteered' installing their brains into machines, robots who could grow in size, more 'negative men', helmets that created mind blasts. The designs were, however, full with flaws. So we defeated him again and went captured him. Mento asked why he hadn't 'copied' my powers. The doctor went crazy and said he couldn't. He tried so many time, but there were to many animals for one body to control. I don't want to know what happened to his 'test subjects'" Beast Boy shivered.
"He became obsessed, once kidnapped me and tortured me to unveil my secret. The Doom Patrol saved me, but I became afraid of him, started to hate my powers, started thinking about ending my live."
Raven wrapped her arms around Beast Boy and gave him a peck on the cheek. "I'm glad you didn't'."
"Did you stop him?" Robin asked.
"Oh, I stopped him alright. On our last encounter, he had done it. We had located him in Portugal, on Mount Metamorpho. On that mountain were ruins of a castle, but underneath the ruins he had build his lair. And in there, he had build a machine that copied the powers of a man, capable of bending time, space and reality. This man never used his powers, because he knew the dangers. But the machine was incomplete, unfinished."
"Well, that's good, right? You stopped him before he could use his crazy machine" Cyborg asked.
"Unknown to us was that he had another 'project'. He had collected DNA from all of his 'donors', like he called it, and had tried to combine their powers in one body. We stopped him before he could began experimenting on his 'willing test subject'. In a last desperate move, he tried to turn the machine. The ground began to shake and portals into I-dont-know-what-kind-of-dimension appeared. They acted like black holes, sucking everything in. Suddenly, blasts came out of the portal, hitting and destroying everything. One of the blasts then hit me"
Starfire gasped in horror. "If you were hit, why aren't you...destroyed."
Beast boy sighed. "I don't know what happened, but from what the Doom Patrol told me... The blast had altered my powers, I could change like I do now. But, I went berserk. My animal instinct had taken control. And what do animals in danger. They defend themselves. Negative Man said I turned into a gorilla and smashed everything into pieces. After that, I turned my attention to the doctor, who was petrified of seeing me. I...I..." Beast Boy bowed his head. "I killed him."
The other Titans gasped.
"No, not our BB!" Cyborg said.
"It was an accident, Beast boy" Robin comforted.
"Boyfriend Robin is right. On my planet, even the most peaceful creatures something fight to defend their loved ones. Accidents do happen" Starfire added.
Raven gave Beast Boy a tight hug. "It was NOT your fault, Gar."
"Let me finish. We all thought I had...ended his threat. It seemed that, in my rage, I had thrown him in one of the portals, who reached their critical level. We managed to escape his dungeon before we got sucked in. We don't know what happened to Doctor Shift, or the machine. But after what Doctor Light said... "
Robin nodded and continued."It seems that he has escaped that dimension and now vows revenge on your behalf. If that is true, then he is the one who have build those devices Cinderblock and Doctor Light were wearing."
"I have analysed that device we took from Cinderblock a month ago. It seems that it amplifies the strength, agility and endurance from the one who is wearing it." Cyborg said.
Raven raised a hand. "But Doctor Light's device gave him new powers. It seems that Cinderblock just had a prototype and we were the test subjects. My boyfriend nearly got killed back then for a SCIENCE PROJECT?" Raven yelled, making the microwave explode.
Beast Boy laid a hand on her shoulder and she immediately calmed down. She gave Beast Boy a thankful look.
Robin watched through the great window at the city. "He's out there, somewhere. He's dangerous, he threatens one of our friends and we will stop him."
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