Terra silently crept into an abandoned warehouse. The moon shone high into the night sky. Crickets chirped loudly around the large building. The run down warehouse camouflaged perfectly with the dark trees that stood behind it. Terra quickly opened the large, heavy, metal door to the warehouse. She walked inside, keeping her guard up. The darkness of the warehouse began to increase as Terra walked further into the warehouse. Terra silently cursed under her breath as she tried to search for a light switch. She continued to search until she felt a sharp pain come from her foot. She drew her foot back and loudly cursed. She looked down and tried to see the object in the dark. She slowly realized that it was a large rock. She angrily sighed and walked past the rock.
"Where is the stupid light!?" Terra silently asked herself as she continued to search.
Terra sighed and began to walk her way out of the warehouse when the lights to the warehouse suddenly flickered on. She quickly turned around with a fighting stance. She saw no one and began to look around the now brightly lit warehouse. Noises from rusty pipes and machines rumbled through the warehouse loudly as they began to move. She continued her search until she came across two large, connected, metal doors. She looked at it with suspicion and confusion. She strongly forced opened the rusty doors.
The doors to the warehouse slowly creaked open. Terra poked her head in the dark, empty room. She saw nothing more, but a dim light in the front of the room. Terra entered the room, but she began to get nervous. The sight of the room was quite creepy. The room smelled damp. Terra heard water drops from a broken pipe in the background of the dark, empty room. She turned around to leave when she heard a quiet voice.
"Going so soon?"
Terra quickly turned around to find the source of the voice, but she saw no one. She slowly walked deeper into the dark, damp room. She heard nothing, but the noises of the old machines. Terra shook her head and began to exit the dark room.
"What am I thinking? I shouldn't be here.
Terra began to leave when the large, double doors suddenly closed. Terra's heart thumped quickly in her chest. She began to panic. She ran to the double doors and tried to open them, but they were rusted shut. Terra kicked against the doors in anger. She looked around for any rocks that she could use to pry down the large doors. She soon felt a presence in the room. She quickly turned around and saw a tall figure standing in front of the room underneath the dim light. She stood still in her tracks as she stared at the figure.
"You came here for a reason didn't you? What do you want?" The figure said.
Terra fought the urge to grab a rock and throw it at the door and run out of the warehouse, but she knew that she had to do this. She gulped and opened her mouth. "I need a favor."
"What favor?"
Terra winced at the cold voice. "I need you to terminate Raven."
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The washer machine vibrated loudly as it began to wash the dirty clothes. Beast boy fiddled his thumbs as he sat on the floor watching the washer machine in front of him. He was stuck in his boxers. He had forgot to do his laundry that he had promised himself to do. He got too caught up with Raven that he forgot about his dirty clothes. Beast boy sighed in boredom as he watched the soap and water collide with each other causing a soapy foam in the machine. He stood on his feet and stretched his arms and legs. He scratched his butt and looked around the room for anything to entertain him. He would walk out to his room in his boxers, but he didn't want to take the chance of having Nightwing scold him for indecency. He rolled his eyes at the thought and leaned against the dryer. He picked at his nails and looked at the machine. The timer said twenty minutes.
The door to the laundry room suddenly swished open. Beast boy eyes grew big as he tried to hide his indecency. He saw that it was Raven and smiled. He lowered his hands and laughed.
"Hey there." He said as he continued to lean against the dryer.
Raven looked at Beast boy confused. She wasn't expecting to see a half-naked Beast boy in the laundry room. She had her own basket of clothes in her arms as she stood at the door, she rolled her eyes and set her clothes on the floor near the washing machine.
"Want to explain why you're half naked?"
Beast boy nervously laughed. "Heh, I ran out of clean clothes to wear"
"Why didn't you wash them before you ran out of clean clothes?" Raven asked as she began to sort through her dirty pile of clothes.
Beast boy shrugged. "I forgot about them."
"Of course you did."
Beast boy looked at Raven's dirty clothes. He smirked when he saw a dark pantie slip by his eyes here and there.
"Nice underwear." Beast boy said with a smirk and a wink.
Raven blushed and pushed the leaning Beast boy off the washer machine with her powers. He landed on the ground with a thud. He cursed under his breath and rubbed his head.
"That was pretty immature." Beast boy said as he got on his feet.
"No. Your comment was immature." Raven said as she began to load her clothes in the second washer.
Beast boy smiled as he began to wrap his arms around Raven. "Can't blame a guy for peeking."
Raven rolled her eyes and nudged Beast boy's large body from hers. "Whatever…I think your clothes are ready to unload."
Beast boy looked at the washer. "Sweet."
The two continued to complete their laundry. They shared smiles and laughs as they continued to goof off with each other, unknowing of the disaster that was to come.
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Terra tiredly left the abandoned warehouse. Her limbs and muscles ached. She rubbed and shielded her eyes as the bright glow of the sun shone in her face. She slowly walked down the streets of Jump City. Her mind was foggy as she struggled to keep her eyes open. She walked pass the café that she had visited many times. She stood in front of the store, thinking of whether to go in or not. She shrugged her shoulders and walked inside. She sat at her usual seat and waited for the waitress to walk by. She rested her head on the table. She had to close her eyes for at least a minute.
A waitress walked by with a notepad and pen in her hands. She saw the blonde with her head on the table and her eyes close. She stopped and looked closer at Terra. The waitress smile and shook the young titan.
Terra abruptly woke up from her slumber. She realized that she was in the café and sighed. She looked up at the waitress and gave a weak smile.
"Hey Sonia." Terra said sleepily as she rubbed her face.
"Girl, what have you been doing? You look like you haven't slept for days."
"I feel like I haven't."
"What have you been doing all night? At the club?"
Terra gave the young waitress a small glare. "No. Nightwing would kill me if I did. I was just taking care of some business."
Sonia looked at Terra skeptically. "Business."
"Business." Terra said firmly.
Sonia shrugged and nodded her head. "Alright. What do you want?"
"You know what I want." Terra said as she gave Sonia a small smile.
"A cream cheese pie with whip cream and a cherry on top." Sonia said with a triumphant smile as she wrote down the order in her notepad.
"Bingo."
"So how's life in the Tower going for you?"
Terra shrugged. "It's ok. The leader is getting on my back, and no one talks to me."
"Wow. They still haven't forgiven you for beating that dark girl's butt?"
"They have. It's just that they still don't trust me."
"Trust you? You're a part of the team. They HAVE to trust you."
Terra shrugged her shoulders again. "They're weird."
Sonia nodded her head. "Well, they are a bunch of superheroes. What do you expect?"
A loud, male voice was heard from the back of the café. "Sonia! Get back to work!"
Sonia rolled her eyes. "I have to go Terra, but I'll bring you your pie shortly."
Terra nodded her head and sighed. She rested her head on the table again until her pie arrived.
Terra slowly snuck into her bedroom. The sun was now fully rising over the horizon causing a beautiful glow in the sky. Terra closed her window and shades. She made sure that not one bit of sunlight entered her bedroom. She sighed and tiredly walked toward her bed. She smiled as she felt the softness of her bed. She needed her sleep. She closed her eyes as darkness consumed her.
_xXx_
"Friends, where is Terra?"
Nightwing looked up from his plate of food. The team was sitting at the table in the common room, eating their lunch.
"She's usually down here by now." Nightwing said as he took a bite of his burger.
"Maybe she decided to sleep in." Beast boy said as he scoffed down his tofu burrito.
The titans shrugged off the idea of the absent blonde and continued their meal.
"Guys, I'm going to plan a training session tomorrow." Nightwing said.
"No man! We don't need training! We're already perfectly fine!" Cyborg said angrily as he banged his arm against the table.
"We're not perfectly fine! You're falling short on your cannon lasts, Star's aim isn't all that great anymore, Beast boy is lazier than ever, Raven needs to work on her combat and no one knows where Terra is!"
"Alright, so maybe we've fallen a little short, but we're still good." Cyborg said as he continued to eat his lunch.
Nightwing rolled his eyes. "You need to be more realistic, Cyborg."
The doors to the common room swished open. Terra tiredly walked toward her team. She sat in her seat at the counter. She sighed and grabbed her own plate of food and began to slowly eat. She soon noticed the stares from her team mates. She looked at them with a confused glance.
"What?"
"Friend Terra, you don't look the ok." Starfire said.
"Yeah girl, you don't look too good." Cyborg said.
Terra shrugged her shoulders. "It's nothing. I just need more sleep. That's all."
"How are you not getting enough sleep at night? Are you doing anything we don't know about?" Nightwing asked as he eyed the blonde.
Terra rolled her eyes. "No! Now bud your nose out of my business!"
Tension ran through the room from the outburst. No one spoke. Everyone turned to Nightwing who angrily glared at Terra. "I'm 'budding my nose into your business' because I don't want you destroying our team"
"Whatever! You need to stay out of my personal business! You're not father." Terra said as she got up from the table to leave the common room.
Nightwing glared at his plate angrily and shook his head. "Thin ice, Terra."
Terra ignored the comment and left the common room.
The three titans sat quietly in their seats as they felt the anger vent from Nightwing. No one said a word. They continued eating the rest of their lunch.
Nightwing abruptly stood from his seat and left the common room. The three remaining titans looked at each other with confusion and worry.
"…whoa." Beast boy slowly said.
"What's wrong with her?" Raven said as she threw her plate away.
"Terra has been acting the off." Starfire said.
"Terra usually acts off." Beast boy said as he began to another burrito.
"Let's just hope that she doesn't go over the brink of insanity." Cyborg said as he took another burger.
_xXx_
"Everyone report to the common room, now!"
The titans rushed toward the common room after hearing Nightwing's voice boom from the intercom.
One by one the titans met at the sofa, except for one.
Nightwing paced back and forth as he saw his team.
"Yo, where's Terra?" Beast boy asked.
"Everyone shrugged.
"It doesn't matter. There's a disturbance near the outskirts of the city." Nightwing said as he showed them the map.
"Do you know who's causing the disturbance?" Raven asked.
"It doesn't say, but let's get there quickly so that we can catch them." Nightwing said.
The titans quickly evacuated the common room and ran to the garage.
_xXx_
The T-Car came to a stop in front of the docks. Its headlights turned off as the titans left the car. They looked around at the quiet scene. There was nothing more than old warehouses, trees and the Jump City Lake.
"I don't get it. What's the disturbance that you're talking about?" Beast boy asked as he looked around the warehouses.
"My communicator says that there is something going on at this location." Nightwing said as he began to look through his communicator.
"I think it's wrong because there is nothing going on here." Beast boy said.
A loud crash sound was heard not too far from where the titans stood. Everyone immediately took their guard. Nightwing extended his bo- staff and turned to his team. "Let's go!"
The titans ran toward the sound of the crash. They were surprised to see a large hole from the back of a warehouse. Nightwing slowly walked toward the hole. He circumspectly inspected the large hole. He slowly stepped inside with his team in tow. Nightwing and the titans walked deeper into the warehouse. Nightwing stopped dead in his track. He heard a sound. He slowly inched himself closer to the sound. His eyes grew big as he realized what the trace of the sound was.
"Run!"
The titans quickly ran toward the exit of the warehouse. The beeping became louder and louder until a buzzing noise was heard. The warehouse exploded with a loud bang with immense heat and fire. The titans were thrown away from the power of the bomb. They landed on the ground with large thuds. Some were injured while others got right up. Raven rubbed her head and saw Beast boy lying close to her, unconscious. She quickly scurried toward him. She saw the large burn running up his arm. Raven quickly placed her small hands on Beast boy's wound. Her hands turned a bright blue. The wound on his arm began to quickly fade away underneath the blue light. Raven gave a sigh of relief as she saw Beast boy open his eyes and move.
"Thanks." He said with a small smile.
"No problem." Raven said.
The couple quickly ran toward their team mates who quickly recovered.
"What happened?" Cyborg asked.
"This happened!
The titans were soon greeted by a barrage of speeding, sharp rocks. Raven quickly threw up her shield, blocking the impact. Nightwing looked up at the scene in front of him and couldn't believe what he saw.
Terra stood on top of a nearby warehouse in front of the titans. The wind blew, causing Terra's long, golden locks to whip in the air. What cached everyone's eyes was the man who stood behind the blonde.
"Slade." Nightwing sneered.
"Hello, titans. Long time no see."
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Alright guys, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Sorry that it took me a little while to update. I promised to add some action in this chapter, and there isn't much action, but at least I left you with something to hopefully keep you on your toes. Leave a review of what you thought about it and have a nice day.