The shroud of revenge chapter 6 – Your fall is my rise

As Beast boy made his way back to titans tower, he looked at the bright and dark side of the situation. The situation itself was he; Beast boy of the teen titans had just murdered an average civilian. Yes, it was in self defence but the law probably wouldn't take this into account. The bright side was that Beast boy felt a tad bit happy at killing Julia because she was a friend of the boy who was hunting him who had now been identified as Edward; he now knew how Beast boy felt when he got that letter from the Jump city police department about the doom patrol. The dark side was that the boy now had ANOTHER reason for killing Beast boy, there was a high chance that Beast boy would be caught and arrested and finally, his friends would never see him the same way again.

As Beast boy saw the tower in his eye sight, he again began to think about his friends and the case he was in. Beast boy would except that Edward would want to hurt him but if he tried to hurt the changeling's friends, Beast boy would try and attack, no matter what. Beast boy then turned back into a human as he landed on the rooftop. He was about to leave when the door opened; revealing his four friends. All four of the titans had angry glares on their faces. Beast boy face was overcome with 'quite a bit' of worry when he noticed each titans carrying something in their arms, or in Raven's case, around her arm.

Robin appeared to hold the remains of a briefcase, Starfire held a purple bundle, Cyborg held a burnt picture in his hands and to Beast boy's great worry, Raven's right arm was in a cast! "Guys, what's going on?" Beast boy asked. "Get. Out" Robin said simply. Raven stepped nearer, her eyes glowing red. "Before we decided to hurt you" she said evilly. Beast boy took one step towards them when Robin threw an explosive disc at his feet; stopping him. "You heard them, B" Cyborg said. "You're not welcome here anymore."

Beast boy couldn't believe what he was hearing. He was being kicked off the team for something he had no clue about. "What for? What the hell have I done?" the changeling asked. At this, Starfire's eyes glowed green with rage as she flew towards Beast boy and gripped his throat. "You CLORBAG! How DARE you ask that question when you know full well what you have done!" Beast boy honestly had the feeling that Starfire might've killed him if Robin hadn't come up behind her to calm her down. "It's alright, Star. He's getting his punishment right now." As Starfire released and dropped Beast boy, Robin walked towards him and dropped a green suitcase next to him. "Take your stuff and go" he said maliciously. Beast boy felt he had to leave but he swore to himself that he would return; he HAD to find out what Edward had done to make Beast boy's friends hate him.

Later, at the dead of night...

Beast boy entered the 6-digit password into the Titans tower main entrance. He then swiftly but quietly stepped up the stairs until he reached the elevator. Beast boy stepped into it and pressed the button marked 'floor 5'. As the elevator went up to its destination, the changeling went over in his head what he had to do to find out the truth. When the elevator stopped, Beast boy stepped out and silently sprinted (is that even possible?) towards the CCTV room. When he got there, he entered the same 6-digit code he entered earlier and the door opened. Upon entering, Beast boy immediately relocked the door behind him and then switched on the CCTV system. After waiting for the entire system to boot up, Beast boy rewinded the footage to the time when he was gone. The camera stopped and showed four screens; one of the common room (where Raven was reading), one of Robin's room, one of Starfire's room and one of the garage; Beast boy paused all of them except for the one of Robin's room.

Robin's room appeared to be empty for the first two minutes but then suddenly, an EXACT doppelganger of Beast boy entered the room; holding what appeared to be a hand grenade. The doppelganger immediately went straight for Robin's closet. After a while of searching, he pulled out Robin's briefcase; which held the boy wonder's most prized possession. Setting the briefcase on the floor, the doppelganger opened it and pulled the pin from the hand grenade. He then put the grenade inside the briefcase and closed it; afterward quickly putting it back in Robin's closet and leaving the room. Seconds later, an explosion erupted from the closet where the now destroyed briefcase was hidden.

Beast boy couldn't believe what he had just seen. Someone had copied his identity and committed an act of violence against his leader. Beast boy paused the video of Robin's room and played the one of Starfire's room.

Starfire's room, like Robin's, was empty at first; the only present life form being the tameranian's pet worm Silky, who was sleeping on her bed. About half a minute later, the Beast boy doppelganger entered the room; a purple towel in his left hand whilst a knife was in his right. He simply walked over towards the sleeping worm, smirked evilly and then drove the knife into Silky, causing the pet to let out a cry of pain. The doppelganger sat on Starfire's bed for a moment and watched in pleasure as the worm bled to death. As Silky died, the doppelganger picked up the worm's body and wrapped it in the purple towel. After setting the bundle back on the bed, he stood up and left.

Lost for words at the evil clone's brutality, Beast boy simply paused the video of Starfire's room and played the one of the garage.

There was nothing in the garage except for the titans (except Raven) had all left to run errands; not knowing at the time where the changeling was. Almost instantly, the Beast boy clone entered the room with a different weapon in his hand, this time, it was as simple as a cigarette lighter. He walked over to Cyborg's personal workbench and began to search through his stuff. After a while, the doppelganger picked something out from the rest of Cyborg's belongings; a picture of him and his parents. Scoffing, he lit the picture on fire as if it was his job and after the picture was completely burned up, stamped on it to prevent a mass fire starting. He then left as if nothing had happened.

Beast boy was scared now. He realised what the doppelganger was doing; it was destroying his friend's personal artefacts and putting the blame on him. As Beast boy played the last video, he could only imagine what the doppelganger would do to Raven.

There was no one in the common room except the empath; who was reading. The doppelganger then entered the room; smirking but holding no weapons in his hands. Said evil clone walked towards Raven and after getting her attention, simply stood in front of her and stared.

"What do you want, Beast boy?" She asked.

The doppelganger did not respond with actions, but words. He suddenly grabbed hold of Raven and shoved her onto the floor so he was kneeling on her back; her arm in his grasp.

"Payback" he said before twisting Beast boy's secret love's arm and breaking it.

Raven then let out a scream of pain as the clone simply stood up and jumped out of the window. In pain, Raven used her powers to get her communicator out from under her belt and turned it on. "Raven calling Robin..."

Beast boy couldn't watch anymore. He switched the CCTV system off completely and without thinking, transformed into a eagle and flew out the window; his own want for revenge now present...

Meanwhile, with Edward and Yuri...

Unbeknownst to the green changeling, his two adversaries had been following him all day; including now. Edward smirked to himself as both hunters watched Beast boy through binoculars from the streets of the city. "I believe your plan was a success, droog?" Yuri asked. "Yes Yuri, the plan was a success indeed." Both of them put down their binoculars and looked at each other. After staring at each other for about half a minute, Edward hugged Yuri. "Thank you for helping me with this, Yuri. I honestly probably couldn't have done it without you." At this, Yuri became confused. "Wait Edward, I do not understand" the Russian said. "The target no longer has anywhere to run. We killed his family and broke him off from his friends. I can do the killing myself." As Edward turned to leave, he looked over his shoulder and said "Don't worry. When I take control of his body, we'll see each other again. Goodbye for now, my friend." With those words, Edward ran off in hot pursuit of target. As he watched his friend run, Yuri gave Edward the salute. The Russian then turned around, unaware of the long road of decisions that awaited him...

(A/N – Finally! I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while guys but I'm back a school now so I've been absolutely pummelled with homework and my GCSE coursework. However, school DOES come first so I will update when I can but only when I have the time to continue this.

BTW, just to let you all know a bit about the next chapter, if you couldn't tell from the last sentence, it focuses on Yuri instead of Beast boy.