Beast Boy is home and ready to show the others what he learned and what he can do.
The New End
Chapter 12; No place like home
The next morning Raven sat up and dashed to the common room, it was empty. Raven ran all over the tower looking for Beast Boy, she tried the kitchen, gym, his room, the infremory but he wasn't anywhere to be found. Raven was about to give up when a thought entered her mind, "The roof!" She flew out a window and straight up, standing on the edge was Beast Boy. He was wairing his uniform like old times but his hair had grown shoulder length. Beast Boy was stairing out over the water with a stoic exprestion however when he saw Raven the same boyish smile shone on his face with a light in his eyes. "Ra-" Beast Boy was cut off by Raven hugging him so hard that they fell over, "I've missed you so much." she said with her face buried in his neck, she felt something tickle her face so she pulled back to see what it was and was suprised to find that Beast Boy had stubble and was taller.
Beast Boy gently wrapped his arms around Raven, "You've no idea how much I've missed you Rae." Raven looked Beast Boy up and down before asking, "What happened to you? You've gotten... older." Beast Boy laughed and said, "Well I was gone for three years." "THREE YEARS?!" Raven said with wide eyes, "Well yeah, I know it's only been nine days here but in there it took three years to master my powers completely," he said, "six months had gone by the first time you came by to see me and another year after that the second time." "But when survival took me to Despair's domain you didn't look like this." Raven said. Beast Boy leaned back to enjoy the morning sky as he said, "It was easy for Despair to seal off my shapeshifting but for all the other abilitys he had to bring me back to the point when I couldn't use them." Raven sighed in confusion but layed down next to Beast Boy to enjoy the morning with him.
It was an hour later that Beast Boy and Raven walked into the kitchen. Beast Boy was emedeatly met with a bone crushing hug from Starfire, "Friend Beast Boy, I have missed you so!" Beast Boy returned the hug with just as much anthusiasm, "You too Star." Cyborg walked up and high fived him, "Good to see you BB." Nightwing walked up and Beast Boy said, "Nice threads Nightwing." Suprised, Nightwing asked, "How did you know I changed my name?" "Dude, Intelligence is a part of me, of course I knew." Beast Boy said, Nightwing scratched his head and said, "This is so confusing," "Tell me about it." Beast Boy responded.
After breakfast, the Titans all headed to the gym. Beast Boy turned to the others and said, "Hey guys, I have a favor to ask. Today instead of just Nightwing, could I spar with all of you at once? I need to ajust to the real world in compairison to my mind." Raven gently pulled on him and asked, "Are you sure Beast Boy? You could get hurt." He gently wrapped his arms around her and purred in her ear, "Don't worry Love, I'll be fine." Nightwing and Cyborg's jaw hit the ground after seeing this so Beast Boy asked, "Um... they didn't know?" "I didn't think to tell them." Raven said with a blush, he laughed and kissed her forhead.
After moving all the equipment out of the way, the ring included, the Titans took there places. Beast Boy stood in the middle of the room while the rest took a courner, "All right guys don't hold back, I need the practice." Beast Boy said as he pressed play and the CD player, they all nodded. The bell rang as the song 'Sandstorm' played and Nightwing started his assault on Beast Boy. While he was distracted, Cyborg came up behind him with his sonic cannon armed and ready. Before he could fire it Beast Boy sprouted Despair's tail and, after wrapping it around Cyborg's arm, threw him at Nightwing. Out of nowhere Starfire shot a flurry of starbolts at him however he raised his finger at them and shot multiple energy blasts, canceling them out. Raven, seeing an opening, shot a telekynetic tendril at him only to have him dodge it by jumping. Starfire, Cyborg and Nightwing were ready however, the moment he was in the air they all fired there various attacks at him, causing a large explosion. Everyone was worried at first however the smoke cleared to revile a stone gargoyle with a happy smile, he transformed back and the fight contenued for some time as he tested his new abilitys.
After twentey minutes Beast Boy ended it by nailing everyone (exept Raven) to the wall with Fear's tail spines. He and Raven staired at one another for a moment before they smiled. Raven pointed her finger at Beast Boy like a gun and said, "BANG!" He put one of his hands over his heart and the other in the air and fell back saying, "Oh... Oh! Ya got me!" Raven walked up to him and asked, "So I guess this means I'm still the leader of the Titans?" "I can't talk, you got me remember oh leader?" he joked.
Once back upstairs, Beast Boy called a Titan meeting, "Alright everyone," he began, "with Raven's permision, I will be leading the next misson. Our enemy is," He unrolled a large paper with an image of Trigon, with a goofy mustiche and word bubble that said 'Kick me I suck', on it on the table as his eyes began to glow golden, "Trigon the Terrible... aka; Scath, powers; magic, bodly possesion, control over flame minnons, fighting ability; unknown, weaknesses; unknown, threat level; extreamly high." Beast Boy looked up with a deadly serious look, "Listen everyone, Trigon will be our most difficult enemy ever, namely because we've fought him before so he's already under estimated us once. Starfire, Raven, I want you two to get everyone out of Jump city as fast as you can. Cyborg I need you to set up some phoney disaster so no one will question the evacuation." "Why is it that we cannot just inform the people of Trigon's comming?" Starfire asked. "Because we don't want planetary histeria," he said, "if we tell them about Trigon it won't be just Jump City that panics, it will spread around the world like wild fire in the dry season. Nightwing I need you to swollow your pride and call Batman, we need the Justice Leage just in case I fail. I may not be able to kill him but I should be able to weaken him enough for them to end him."
Raven turned to him and asked "What will you be doing Beast Boy?" Beast Boy never made eye contact with her as he spoke, "I'm going to write my will, just in case. I also have to check on something else that's bothering me." "You're not afraid he might be watching you?" she asked, he just smiled and tapped on the walls, faint blue symbols began to glow on them, "Kindness and Intelligence have it covered, so long as he is on that side he can't watch us."
Hours passed like minutes, in the short time sense Beast Boy had given out his order everyone had completed there task and returned to the tower. Cyborg, with the help of Aqua Lad, made it appear as though a tidal wave would dessimate the city. Raven and Starfire monitured the people as they exited the city, ensuring no one was left behind and no stores were vandalized. Nightwing called Batman and informed him of the situation, he had to convence him not to get involved but to stand by as plan B. Beast Boy walked into the common room where everyone was sitting, "We only have an hour left, is everyone ready?" everyone nodded, "Good, let's go."
Raven hated seeing Beast Boy like this, calm and serious like a storm waiting to happen. She had only seen him like this twice, when the Doom Patrol went missing and when the Brotherhood of Evil made there move. As fast as the day was moving earlier is how slowly it moved now, everyone watched as the sun and moon got into position. Ravager came into view followed closely by an army of Sladebots.
Everyone got ready to fight but Beast Boy said, "Hang on a moment," he walked forward and began to talk to her, "I know who you are Ravager and I know why you're doing this. Trigon won't deliver what he has promised." Ravager gave him a deadly look as she shouted, "What do you know huh? You don't know a damn thing!" "I know you're Slade's daughter, Rose." he said with a grim look in his eyes, "I know that you want to kill him for all he's done to you." Ravager's eye widdened, Beast Boy sighed sadly as his eyes glowed golden, "Name; Ravager AKA Rose Wilson, powers; medicly inhansed healing factor, reflexes and senses, fighting capabilitys; expert fighter and wepons master, weaknesses; blind spot on left side, threat level; high" She stood there in shock at first at how much he knew about her, she reached up and pulled her bandana off, revealing long silver hair and an eyepatch over her left eye. "Rose, don't trust Trigon, he'll use you then throw you away. He did the same thing to your father. You've never before hurt anyone in your quest for revenge, it was Trigon who changed that. Stop this now and join us, use your gifts to help mankind, not end it."
Ravager grabbed her head as all the information filled her mind, 'Father was used by Trigon also? Why? Why am I doing this, so I can kill my daddy? Is he even worth the effort? And did he really mean what he said, that I could join the Teen Titans?' She suddenly yelled out in pain, "Rose!" Beast Boy yelled as he ran for her. Before he could reach her she was surounded by a ring of darkness that Beast Boy couldn't bust threw. Ravager suddenly began cackling as she looked up reviling that her eye were glowing bright red. "Hello green one," Trigon said threw Ravager, "all she had to do was preform the ritual but you purified her thoughts. It was by chance alone that Slade had left her mind in such a disstrout state that I can still take control of her." Beast Boy narrowed his eyes and hissed, "Let her go Trigon, this is between you and me." "It's already to late green one." he laughed as the moon covered the sun.
Trigon pulled out a vile of blood and poured it on the ground in a ring. Using Ravager's voice he began an encantation, "The gem was born of evil's fire, it's body will be his portal. He comes to reap, he comes to sire, the end of all things mortal." the blood began to glow and rose off the ground. Raven began to shake violently as memorys of this experiance flowed in her mind. Seeing this, Trigon turned to Beast Boy and smiled venomusly as he contenued, "The gem's flame has fadded away but in the blood remains the power. May he come to burn and distort the world and force all mankind to cower!" The glowing blood became burning symbols on Ravager's body, a dark light surrounded her in the same way it did Raven and with that the portal was open.
Just like the first time, Trigon's claws were the first thing out of the portal, followed closely by the rest of him. Unlike then however his powers could not currupt the world or even just Jump City. Trigon roared out, "The world is mine! And this time I wil not lose it!" Beast Boy glared at him, all the time Trigon was chanting he was trying to stop him but the dark ring would stop him every time.