Colds suck. I just thought I'd like to mention that, seeing as I have a craptacular one right now.

Raven: Hey, it could be worse. You could have West Nile or cancer.

Me:...Gee, thanks a lot. Really puts my troubles into perspective / Just for that...

Raven: Let me guess. Theme song fun. I swear...

Me: Yep! With FEELING!

Theme song fun!

(Beast Boy)

I will obey the traffic rules.

Teen Titans!

(Robin)

I will eat everything without likes or dislikes.

Teen Titans!

(Starfire)

Earthquakes, lightning, fire Dad. Grammar, math, science social studies. There is nothing I am afraid of!

Teen Titans, GO!!!

(Cyborg)

Holla Holla

Holla

Holla

Holla

Holla

Holler

My na-ame.

Teen Titans!

Half of your troubles will be gone!

Teen Titans!

(Raven)

Father's schedule control. Mama's weight control. Wishes are endless.

Teen Titans, Go!

(All)

One, two, three, four, five. Teen Titans!

(Beast Boy)

Goodnight, Tokyo!

Last time, on Fused...

Raven raised an eyebrow. "'I'm your worst nightmare'? I thought that phrase went out in like, the 80's or something. If you think that's going to scare me, you've got another thing coming," she said, a hint of amusement in her tone. "You think this is funny, do you? Let's see how humorous THIS is!"

Irrelevant fired a punch at Raven so fast she didn't have time to block the blow. "Ungh! Alright, you want to throw down? It's on," Raven said, launching a Chuck Norris roundhouse at her opponent. Irrelevant caught Raven by the ankle and yanked her up so that the two of them were right up against each other, face to face. Raven tried to break the hold, but Irrelevant was too quick. Grabbing Raven under the arms, she spun the Azarathian empath so that they were back to back, then jumped up and performed a perfect knee drop into Raven's right leg. Raven screamed in pain and went down hard on her face.

Irrelevant put a foot on Raven's back. "Well, my other 'siblings' are out destroying your emotions one by one. And it looks like I've bagged the first-place prize." With that, she put pressure on Raven's back. Or at least, she tried. Suddenly, Irrelevant was thrown back, landing on her face as Raven got back up, favoring her injured leg. Acting quickly, Raven placed her hand to her leg and healed the bone that had broken upon the impact of Irrelevant's knee.

Irrelevant placed a finger up to her bleeding lip and licked the blood off. "Nothing like a bit of spilt blood to wake you up," Irrelevant gave a morbid smile at the horrified look on Raven's face. Both regained their fighting stances and circled each other, occasionally firing a plasma bolt at each other only to have them cancel each other out. Finally, Irrelevant made the first move, sending a five-finger throat punch in Raven's direction.

But Raven was ready, She grabbed Irrelevant by the wrist, snapped it, and pulled the sadistic clone downward to the ground. Grunting in pain, Irrelevant attempted to get up, only to find it made difficult by the blue-cloaked pale Azarathian sitting on her backside, faced towards her legs. Irrelevant tried turning left, right, and bucking up and down, but Raven held firm. Grabbing onto Irrelevant's leg, she pulled it back at the knee until a chilling pop filled the room.

Now it was Irrelevant's turn to scream as Raven dislocated her left hip. Raven, finding it more difficult to hold her opponent down, jumped off and gave Irrelevant a kick to the side of the head. Irrelevant was blinded in a world of pain at this point, unable to move due to he inability to support herself on her left leg. Seeing this, Raven ran for the exit out towards Azar knows where.

"I am Gradius. I am the X-Wing," Beast Boy crowed on the way back. Robin just smiled. Beast Boy and himself had taken almost sadistic pleasure in taking Malchoir down. Robin especially had felt an enormous release of rage as he repeatedly stabbed and cut into the evil dragon's purple hide. Finally, the Titans touched down in front of the T-shaped mansion that they called home.

"Alright guys, one problem down, two more to go," Robin reminded them. Despite the victory celebration, everyone knew that Slade, or at least hired help of his, was running rampant in the mind of their Azarathian telekinetic powerhouse, Raven. "Yeah. Let's go find her m-" Beast Boy was cut short by the alarm. Robin sighed. "Alright, let's do this quick and simple, then head back for Raven," Robin commanded,

The Titans arrived at the scene and saw no one at first. Looking around, they slowly fanned out and searched. Within minutes, a loud crashing was heard. "Ah, the Teen Titans!" The team quickly reassembled and searched for the source. They didn't have to look long. Their target was perched upon an upturned semi. The Titans looked him over with cocked eyebrows. "What the hell...?" Robin cocked his head.

The villain was dressed in an obvious imitation of Batman's suit, cape and cowl, with small differences. The ears on the cowl were elongated into horns, and the suit featured a red "B" on against a black background, as opposed to the black bat against yellow. "Allow me to introduce myself. I am Badman!" He declared, striking a pose and smiling wickedly. "And I am Rotten!" A boy wearing Robin's uniform with the mask looking like a pair of evil eyes declared. "We are the Devious Duo!" They said in unison. Then they looked down and frowned.

Robin was looking very annoyed, although he couldn't suppress a small smile. Starfire, who knew about Batman from Robin's telling of adventures that he had shared with the Caped Crusader, was floating up in the air giggling up a storm. Beast Boy and Cyborg flat-out laughed out loud at the cheesy villain. "What's so funny?" The villains asked menacingly. "Sorry, but it's hard to take you seriously with names like that," Beast Boy said between laughs.

Five brutal minutes later, the ill-prepared doppelgangers were out cold. "Well, that was short and sweet. Can we go back to our real problems now?" Beast Boy asked, half annoyed and half amused.

"Yeah, we better get back to the Tower. Beast Boy, you know more about what's happening here than any of us. For that matter, you probably know Raven more than any of us. So, for this mission," Robin gave him a look full of meaning, "I'm stepping down as leader and letting you take over." Starfire and Cyborg turned to stare at Robin in slack-jawed shock. Beast Boy, however, barely even flinched.

"Thanks, Robin. Now as leader, I'm saying that we need to get into Raven's room. Let's go," Beast Boy said impatiently. Inside, he was extremely proud. Robin, the person he had admired up to the point of calling him "sir" when they first met, had just trusted him, Beast Boy, to lead his team into battle against a force of unknown strength. "Evil beware, there's a new Robin in town," he thought as a smile formed on his face.

Once inside the Tower, they hauled for Raven's room. Beast Boy picked up the mirror that would transport them to their necessary destination, noticing Cyborg take the slightest nervous step back from it. "Alright guys, here it is. Before we use it, I need to give you a few warnings. First of all, once I activate this mirror a large black claw is going to drag us into that mirror," Beast Boy waited as the team nodded. "We will land on a rock floating in a middle of seemingly nowhere. Once we are inside, we will probably encounter some of Raven's emotions, as I mentioned to you guys earlier," The team remembered his earlier speech and nodded again. "Although they are part of Raven, they are not Raven herself. However, they do look and sound like her. Finally, none of the emotions are truly dangerous except Rage, so don't be afraid of any of them attacking us," Beast Boy finally concluded.

"Alright, everyone ready?" Beast Boy turned around and saw nods of confirmation from everyone. He turned back to the mirror. "Azarath, Metrion Zinthos!" he commanded. Instantly, the claw came out and swept the four teenage heroes into the mind of their Azarathian friend.

"Ahhhh!" All of them yelled on the way down. With a slight "poomph," they landed on top of each other. "You warn us about her emotions, you warn us about a big spooky claw thing but you fail to mention a 20-foot drop straight down onto a rocky ground?" Robin complained, dusting himself off. Everyone looked at him for an explanation. He, however, was too busy looking at himself to hear.

"I'm...still in the Fusion body," He said, confused. Then it dawned on him. "Of course! Raven isn't with me at the moment. So I'm alone, in the Fusion body, until we get Raven back. Great," He muttered under his breath. He motioned for them to follow, and they started down the rocky path.

"Yeah, this is Raven's mind alright. Looks just like it did last time," Cyborg commented as they progressed forward. "Where exactly are we going BB?" The mechanized teen asked curiously.

"I've retained knowledge of where certain things are in Nevermore. That's the name of this place," he added, seeing the confused looks on his friends' faces. "I'm heading towards the portal that leads into her memory banks. Hopefully, she will have remembered the events leading up to her disappearance, and possibly even locate her current position if she's conscious of her current surroundings," Beast Boy informed them.

"Since when did you start making logical sense?" Cyborg teased. Normally, Beast Boy would have shot back his version of a witty comeback, but right now he was too focused on finding the right place to care. After about ten minutes of walking, they found themselves in front of a blueish-white portal. "This should be it," Beast Boy said, beckoning his team forward. One by one, they nervously entered the vortex.

"Yep. This is the place," Beast Boy confirmed. They were on a floating rock just like the one they had landed on upon entry. In front of them stood what looked like some sort of futuristic virtual reality system. It consisted of a console with a keypad, which lay between two of what looks like handprints. Above hung a device similar to a fighter-plane pilot's helmet. "Alright, guys, stand back," Beast Boy ordered. Approaching the console, he suddenly knew exactly how to operate the device, as if it was second nature. Placing his hands palms-down on the hand spaces, he chanted "Azarath, Metrion Zinthos." And with that, the helmet lowered for him to take.

Placing it on his head with trepidation, Beast Boy was instantly flooded with an HUD. In the middle flashed a message. "Choose the backwards velocity of remembrance," It read. Beast Boy took this to mean "How far back do you want to go," and decided to set it right before the battle with Rage. He chose to see things from Raven's point of view and started it up.

"Is he going to come?" Raven was worried about Beast Boy. Around her raged a battle. Rude, Brave, Happy and Timid were tangling with Rage and her army of hellfire minions. Suddenly, Rage was hit hard in the back of the head. "Gah! Fuck, that hurt! AUGH!" Rage was screaming in pain as Timid punched Rage square in the head. With Rage being taken care of by Brave, Timid ran over and unlocked Raven. "Are you alright, Timid?" Raven asked. She received no answer. Instead, she saw a flash of dark orange as Timid raised her fist, then all was black.

Beast Boy's eyes widened. "That's when the switch was made! One of those minions was masquerading as Timid! But where was the real Timid..." He continued to let the memories play. Now it seemed as though someone had pre-recorded a series of memories to play, because Beast Boy couldn't control which ones came up. He furrowed his brow as the next memory played.

The landscape of Happy's realm lay before him. 'This is Happy's view,"' Beast Boy realized. "Yay! We saved Raven AND figured out how to work this new Fusion stuff!" Happy thought out loud. A sudden cough interrupted Happy's victory dance. "Hello, Happy," It was Knowledge. 'What's Ol'Dusty doing in my realm?' Happy wondered. "Hiya Bookworm, wassup?" Knowledge smiled. "Do you know what it's like to be knocked out?" Knowledge asked serenely. Happy was confused at the odd question. "Uh...no? What kind of question is-" Happy was interrupted by Knowledge's sudden foot in her face. Standing over the unconscious form of Raven's joyful side, the yellow-cloaked girl smirked as the wind blew, revealing the dark orange and black leotard. "You do now."

Beast Boy gasped in shock. These...Slade-warriors...they had been impersonating Raven's emotions! He watched as Rude was taken down by Brave, and Brave in turn was taken down by Happy. One by one, Brave, Happy, Rude, Knowledge and Rage all fell to doppelgangers of other emotions.

Beast Boy removed the helmet with his mouth agape. "Friend Beast Boy?" Starfire inquired, seeing the look of amazement and fury on his face. "BB, what's wrong? You look like the President just announced a worldwide ban on jokes and pranks or something," Cyborg asked. "Guys, just give him a minute," Robin told the both of them. He waited for Beast Boy to speak.

"Alright, Beast Boy. Robin's right. He entrusted you with his team. Collect your thoughts, stay calm and focus," The elfin changeling told himself. After a minute of bowing his head, he looked at his team and spoke. "Ok, you remember the Slade-Raven girl I told you about?" The team nodded. "Apparently, she wasn't the only one. Raven and five of her emotions are being impersonated by these warriors. We need to watch out for Brave, Rage, Rude. Happy, Knowledge and Raven herself. I couldn't see where Raven is at, nor could I locate the other true emotions. We need to search the realms. Let's go." Beast Boy commanded, walking back towards the portal.

Beast Boy decided to check Happy's realm out first, but he was straggling slightly. Ever since he had used the memory device, he had been feeling strange. Like his movements were more strained. It wasn't long before Beast Boy fell to the ground on his knees. "What the hell?" He muttered. It felt as though he was fighting his own body. When the team realized they were missing their current leader, they turned back to find Beast Boy on the ground.

"Beast Boy!" Robin cried, running over to him. "What's wrong?" The spiky-haired teen asked, his hand out for Beast Boy to take. "Cant...move...Like I'm fighting...just to...control..." Suddenly, his expression changed from a strained look to a smirk. "BB, cut it out! This is no time for fooling around!" Cyborg yelled. They all thought Beast Boy had simply been playing around.

"Fooling around?" Beast Boy replied. His voice was now much more menacing. Inside, Beast Boy realized what was going on. "No! Get out of here! It's RAVEN fused to me, not you!" Beast Boy cried mentally. The familiar laugh that belonged to Irrelevant rang through their head. "You think I looked and talked like Raven for nothing? Slade connected us to the girl. We're just as much a part of her as any of the emotions, fool. And since I have both Slade's AND Raven's brilliant mind power, you don't have a chance in hell of overpowering me! "

Irrelevant advanced on them in the Fusion body, and the remaining Titans prepared to fight.