Hello readers! I meant to get this chapter out yesterday, but i got...distracted. *glares at Total War: Warhammer and harrumphs* Anyways, we're getting ever closer and closer to all the good stuff that I have planned and it's making me far more excited than you lot lol. Now this chapter isn't anything real serious, I'll admit that. There are a few interesting tidbits scattered about, hints of things to come, along with the introduction of a new friend or two. I'm curious as to how many of you will piece together the things I tease about, tbh.

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P.S.- The subtitle of this chapter is...

Poor Dave


"Come on Rae, just try it."

"No."

"You'll enjoy it!"

"No."

"Just a little bit?"

"No."

"Just the tip?"

"Beast Boy, I already said no. One, stop wasting our time. Two, that's gross."

"But Raaaae! Don't knock it til you try it!"

"I said no." Raven gritted her teeth. "That does not even remotely sound good."

"But-"

"Beast Boy! For the last time, I'm not dipping my French fries into your milkshake!" Raven all but shouted.

The changelings' ears drooped. "Okay, okay. You don't have to yell…"

"I wouldn't have if you had let it go the first time I said no." Raven huffed.

They were sitting in the lobby of a McDonalds three quarters of the way to LA where Comicon was. Neither Beast Boy nor Raven were particularly hungry when they arrived at the gas station, but Emelia was. This had prompted them to step into the adjoining restaurant for a quick bite to eat. Beast Boy had gotten a milkshake for himself along with a medium French fry, a kid's meal for Emelia, and a medium fry and cheeseburger (no pickles) for Raven.

Emelia giggled in her seat between her parents as she ate her chicken nuggets. Her mommy and daddy argued about the weirdest things.

The older empath quietly sat there with an annoyed look on her face while munching on her lightly salted fries. She didn't really even like French fries, but something to nibble on was better than nothing at all. McDonalds wasn't even on her top ten list of fast food that she enjoyed, but since it was convenient she would eat it.

Sitting across from her, Beast Boy wore a half amused smile on his face as he sipped from his vanilla milkshake (no whip cream). A year ago he wouldn't have even thought about being in a public place with just Raven, he annoyed her so much that she might have choked him for suggesting it. Heck, a year ago she would have yelled at him after the second 'No'.

And yet here she was now, three hours from home, in civilian clothes, and with him in a public place with their surrogate daughter.

Funny how life works out.

"At least there's only an hour more to go." She mused out loud. Beast Boy glanced up from his drink.

"Of the interstate, yeah." He said with a smirk. "But you've never been to LA, have you?"

"No?"

He chuckled. "When we get there we have to deal with the traffic in the city. It's a lot bigger than Jump, so it's a lot busier."

"Greeeeat." Raven said sarcastically and rolled her eyes.

Beast Boy chuckled once more and continued sipping on his drink. He cast his eyes on Raven, who was staring idly off into space. Today she was wearing a dark blue long sleeved shirt and black khaki pants, along with some black and white converse sneakers. To him, it was honestly just plain weird to see her in pants. When he first noticed, back in the car a couple of hours ago, he had had to do a double take. The Raven he knewdidn't wear anything but her uniform all the time, so it was taking some getting used to to see her in civvie clothes more often. He wasn't gonna complain though. She looked good in civvies so far. Heck, he thought he looked pretty decent with his black jeans and plain white t-shirt on, topped off with his green skullcap. Emelia was the happy medium, wearing the same thing she had on yesterday, a yellow shirt with a purple flower on it and black pants.

"It's so weird to see you without your gloves on." Raven said suddenly, jerking him out of his musings.

"Huh?" He said, looking down at his hands. He had indeed chosen not to wear them, this was real downtime, not sitting around the tower. "What about them?"

"What happened to your claws?" She said after looking at his hands curiously.

Beast Boy held up his hand and, with a nudge of his powers, shifted them into claws similar to that of the Beast. Then he shifted them back into normal green fingers. The puzzled look on Raven's face made him shrug slightly.

"They're like my skin, ears, and fang. But the claws on my hands and feet are the only ones I can change, so I like to keep them normal for various reasons."

"So that time at the pool…?"

He grinned. "I kept losing my grip on the tile when pulling myself out, so I used my claws to dig in a little."

"Hmm." Raven said thoughtfully. "So you can multitask with your powers."

"Huh?" Beast Boy said in confusion.

"Well, that's what you're doing, isn't it?" She said slowly. "You're changing twenty parts of your body into something else all at the same time."

The changeling looked down at his hands thoughtfully. "I…I guess I am, aren't I?"

"So why don't you try to mix a little more in there? Do more types of transformations?"

"Huh?"

Raven sighed in exasperation. "How about this…keep your hands just like they are but change one thumb into…let's say, a crab claw? Then see if you can keep it like that."

The green boy looked down at his hands once more. In truth, he didn't have the slightest idea how he did what he did. He just did it. Whether it was instinct or innate knowledge of his animorph physiology, he didn't know.

But it wouldn't hurt to try what Raven suggested. Might be kinda cool.

Raven watched Garfield hold his right hand up and stare at it intently. He stared at it for a long time before she noticed a vein bulging in his forehead. The look of concentration on his face increased tenfold before the vein noticeably lengthened. Just before she could tell him to not hurt himself, his thumb changed.

It wasn't an immediate shift, like all his others. It took about thirty seconds of his skin wriggling about in a most disturbing manner before it expanded and lengthened before splitting and hardening into the aforementioned animal part.

"Holy crap, that was hard." Beast Boy panted a moment later, inspecting his new transformation. "I had to think about keeping my hand the way it was while changing my thumb into something else."

"Well, it looks like you did it fairly well to me." Raven said with a hint of pride. She had just helped him find out something new about his powers, which was pretty cool in her book.

"Yeah…" He said distractedly as he looked at his hand intently. "I wonder…."

Raven and Emelia watched him change his hand back into normal, then watched in complete fascination as his hand appeared to grow some sort of shell. Said carapace grew from across the back of his hand and spread across his fingers, making them appear insectile with sharp rigid points on the top and a softer, more flexible shell on his palm. It looked like it belonged on some kind of human/insect hybrid. He flexed it in curiosity, noting the way the little ridges overlapped and intersected like a beetle's shell.

"Is daddy getting a new power?" Emmy asked, gawking at her father's hand.

"Not quite." Raven said. "More like he's exploring what he already has."

"Cooool!"

"That it is, Emmy, that it is." Beast Boy said as his hand returned to normal, his mind swarming with possibilities.


Unfortunately for Raven, Garfield was not joking when he said they still had to deal with city traffic. It had taken them an hour to get to LA and yet another hour to wade through traffic to get to the hotel. It was nice looking, about twenty stories tall with a fair sized parking lot.

"Look, our home away from home!" The changeling chuckled. Raven snorted. There weren't many people in the parking lot, but they were getting stared at already. They both got out of the car, Raven unbuckling Emelia while Garfield got their luggage out.

Holding their daughter, Raven waited for her crush to come along after shutting the trunk. Soon enough he was right next to her, a happy and goofy grin plastered on his face as he looked at her. Raven had no idea why he was looking at her in such a way, but it made her flush a little bit in embarrassment. Nobody had ever been so happy looking at her before and the affectionate feeling coming from him was giving her a veritable contact high. A little grin found its way onto her own face within seconds.

Together they walked into the lobby, where more than a few people gawked at them. Bellhops, guests, and even a valet stared in opened mouthed surprise as the two teen hero's walked up to the front desk. The desk clerk was no exception.

"Reservation for Logan." Garfield said cheerfully.

"I'm sorry, sir, but you'll need to remove your…costume, it's disturbing our other guests." The young man stammered. He was in his mid-twenties, short black hair, blue eyes, and an average looking face. He was just a normal person, totally unaccustomed to dealing with strange looking people in his lobby.

Which is why he almost fainted when Raven and Beast Boy exchanged confused looks, followed by Raven floating up off the floor and Beast Boy turning into a dog.

"Sorry, my costume doesn't come off." The changeling said cheekily. Raven glanced at him, detecting the trace amounts of pain in his aura that lingered for a split second before they vanished.

"R-r-r-right, I'm sorry!" The young man stammered. His name tag read Dave.

"It's alright Dave." Raven said gently. "We're used to it. Mostly."

"Yes, well, I'm sorry. I've never actually seen a superhero before." The young man said shamefully.

"There aren't any here?" Raven asked curiously.

Dave shook his head. "No, there are a few running around, but I've never actually seen them. This part of town has little crime."

"Must be nice." Garfield chuckled. "We had to come all the way from Jump City for a couple days off."

"You're a long way from home indeed!" Dave nodded. "Right, well, let me check your room…"

Raven and Beast Boy stood there silently as the clerk set about typing away on his computer. Raven glanced down at Emelia, who was looking around the lobby at the people whispering about them. She looked more curious than anything. That was good, that meant that there wasn't anything worth worrying about here.

"I'm very sorry Mr. Logan, but the room you reserved was given to another guest. A celebrity of some sort." Dave frowned. "A man by the last name of Lee, who is attending some sort of convention here in town."

There was a frown on Garfield's face for a split second before it gave way to disbelief. "Lee? As in Stan Lee?"

Dave looked up. "Yes, actually. You know of him?"

"He's only the biggest frickin name in comic book history!" Garfield said excitedly, dropping the bags and throwing his hands up. "Marvel exists because of this man! He's a living legend of all kinds of comics and movies!"

Dave glanced at Raven in disbelief, who shrugged. He looked back at the green boy in front of him. "Yes, well, he has the suite that you reserved, courtesy of my manager, who moved your reservation into another room."

"What's the difference in rooms?" Raven asked, shifting Emelia to her other arm. The little girl had some weight to her.

"The original room had two beds, this one has a single bed."

Raven stared at Dave for a moment, digesting his words. Garfield had reserved a room with two beds for him and Rose? Does that mean he really had no intention of sleeping with her for some time?

Interesting.

Beast Boy frowned. "I'm guessing the price was changed too, but now I need a roll-away bed."

Dave's frown turned apologetic. "I'm sorry Mr. Logan, but we don't carry roll-away beds. The way our rooms are designed, they're a safety hazard if there's a fire. I'm afraid your daughter will have to sleep with you and Mrs. Logan."

Both teens froze for five heartbeats as their brains struggled to comprehend what the clerk said.

"We're not married!" They both shouted, blushes forming on their faces.

"Dude, the roll-away was for me!" Garfield said aggravatedly right after that.

Poor Dave was so confused. "I-I'm sorry! You two came in together, with a kid and luggage, and ordered one room so-"

Raven covered her face in exasperation as Beast Boy shook his head furiously. "No, dude, we're not even in a relationship yet-"

"OhmygoshI'msosorry!" Dave slapped his hand over his mouth as he interrupted the hero. "I really didn't mean anything wrong by it-"

"It's fine, Dave, really. We've heard it a lot since we adopted her." Raven gestured at Emelia, who was staring at her father curiously. Raven had no idea why, she had hardly understood Garfield speaking over the poor discombobulated clerk.

"What's going on out here?" A slightly nasally voice said. The two young hero's turned their head to the nearest door, behind the desk and to the left. A hefty man in a button up shirt and khaki pants stepped out of wherever that door led (Beast Boy was guessing a break room cause he could smell coffee). He hesitated when he saw them, concern flashing onto his face instantly.

"I'm sorry sir, ma'am, but we don't allow-" He started to say but was interrupted.

"No sir, they're the real thing, trust me, they proved it!" Dave said frantically. His boss was a notorious prick and he really didn't want to irritate him today.

The man, whose nametag read Bob, looked unimpressed. "Be that as it may, we don't tolerate the use of superpowers here. Any villains that attack and cause damage or any damage caused by your own powers can and will be charged to your account."

"That's fine." Both teens said. It didn't surprise either of them, it came with the job.

Bob turned to Dave. "Now that that's out of the way, did you ID the cardholder?"

"U-uh no sir, no sir, not yet. I was, uh, informing them of the room change." Dave stuttered.

The hefty man immediately turned to the computer and tapped a couple of things in before looking at Beast Boy. "I need to see some form of government-recognized identification, sir."

The changeling rolled his eyes, set the suitcases down, and reached for his wallet in his back pocket.

Raven found herself wondering why he didn't ask her to reach over and grab it from his pants.

Then she wondered where the hell that thought came from.

Bob looked confused as he looked down at what the green boy had handed him. "A driver's license? You're a superhero, what do you need this for?"

"Heeeelllooooo?" Beast Boy said irritably. "To drive?"

"Oh, right." Bob said, slightly flustered with his stupid question. He looked at the computer after reading the card. "Well, everything matches."

"I hope so, I paid good money for this room." The changeling huffed.

Bob was clearly nervous now. "Right, well, I apologize, Mr. Logan, we were unaware of your…celebrity… status. If we had, we wouldn't have giv-erm, swapped rooms with another guest."

"It's fine, Bob, really. Never mind the fact that my name has been public knowledge for years now. Kinda hard to have a secret identity when you're green, after all." Garfield said sarcastically. "Nah man, it's perfectly okay."

Maaan, that's kinda hot. Rude chuckled in the back of Raven's mind. The empath was struggling to not smile.

"Well, uh…the room we've given you has a queen sized bed, if that helps." Bob said carefully. He didn't know what irritated superheroes would do if they got mad and he really didn't want to find out.

"That's fine, just give me a few extra pillows and a blanket." The changeling said in exasperation.

"For what?" Bob asked without thinking.

"Can't you tell? I'm going to build a rocket ship to the moon and need them for a parachute." Beast Boy said this with such a straight face that Raven had to step in front of him so that she wouldn't burst into laughter. Rude was rolling around in her head, laughing up a storm.

"Look, we've had a long drive getting here. Can we get the key please?" She said, struggling to keep the amusement out of her voice. Bob immediately caught on.

"Ah, yes ma'am, here." He said, handing her a keycard. Behind her, Garfield was grumbling to himself as he picked their bags up once more. Another little smile plastered to her face, Raven led them to the elevator. She had no idea what was irritating him so much, but that was okay. It was almost karma to see him perturbed over a room considering how many times he had snuck into hers.

Beast Boy, on the other hand, was a bit more agitated than he let on. If this had happened with Rose here instead of Raven, there would have undoubtedly been a repeat of last night.

It was not a pleasant thought.


The trip up to the room was uneventful, as was the walk to the room. They didn't pass so much as a cleaning lady. Beast Boy had calmed down somewhat by then, thankfully. Raven ran the card across the censor and waited for the click of the electronic deadbolt unlocking. She pushed into the room, Garfield right behind her.

Immediately to their right was the bathroom door. Raven clicked the light on and they peered inside to find it was large enough to have a walk-in shower and a bathtub next to it. White tile, white walls, white everything.

"How droll." Raven commented as she thought about the handful of colorful decorations in the bathroom back home.

The rest of the hotel room was almost as bland as the bathroom. Dull dark blue carpets, ugly dark brown curtains, a tan comforter and eggshell white sheets on the bed, and featureless wooden furniture. There was a table with two chairs in one corner, an entertainment center with a decent flatscreen TV in it across from the bed (which was dead center of the opposite wall), a minifridge with a coffee machine atop it and-

"Are you kidding me?" Garfield grumbled. "There's enough space here to run and have a roll-away."

Raven followed his gaze and found that he was right. Between the bed and the wall where the bathroom was there was a space big enough for a twin sized bed. In fact, there was plenty of walking room throughout the entire thing.

"Well, they do have to follow safety guidelines." She said dryly. "Remember that time we evacuated that small hotel on the edge of town that was on fire? You tripped over a chair because the room was really small and didn't have room to run to the kid under the sink."

His brow furrowed. "Oh yeah…that was a while back, wasn't it?"

"Mmhm."

Garfield sighed. "Alright Rae, you win."

Raven really couldn't keep the smug smile from her face this time as she set Emelia down on the bed. The little girl scrambled for something off to the side as her mother sat down on the bed and her father put the luggage on the table.

"So, we've got the whole evening to kill. Whaddaya wanna do?" Garfield asked as he plopped into a chair.

"We could just stay in here." Raven suggested. "We'd be less likely to draw attention to ourselves that way."

"Yeah, but we spent five hours sitting in the car. I wanna do something now." The changeling turned thoughtful. "Maybe there's a park around here? We could go there."

"What is it with you and parks?" Raven rolled her eyes as the TV suddenly turned on. The young hero's looked at their surrogate daughter who had a big smile on her face and the remote in her hands.

"We can watch cartoons!" She said happily.

Beast Boy chuckled. Two against one, no point in arguing now.

Raven and Beast Boy settled onto the bed shortly thereafter, one on either side of Emelia. They were close, very close, almost touching. The changeling took the controller from his daughter and started flipping channels until he found something cartoony. It was some weird show about talking ponies that were really friendly and used magic.

"This is…kinda creepy." Raven said after the first episode ended. "You let her watch this?"

"It's not creepy!" Emmy protested.

"Let is a strong term. Sometimes she just channel surfs and picks something random to watch. This just happened to be something she got hooked on." Beast Boy frowned. "I'd rather her watch that over half the crap on the Disney channel. But yeah, it is creepy."

"Mhm." Raven murmured before she had a thought. "Say, change it to the weather channel real quick. If I need to get umbrellas I'd rather do it before it rains."

"Yes mama." Garfield said with a teasing tone as he flipped through the channels. Luckily, the weather was clear and sunny all weekend. It was going to be a tad warm for Raven's liking, but she'd cope. Emmy started whining about watching the ponies again after her father started lazily flipping through channels.

"Now Emmy, don't whine. It never gets me anywhere, so it won't work for you either." Garfield scolded her lightly. "Just ask, okay?"

"Okay daddy. Can we please watch more ponies?" The little girl asked sweetly, using The Face (albeit non-transformed) against its creator.

Her father sighed in mock exasperation. "If we must-"

"Garfield, look at the TV." Raven interrupted him, sitting up straight and staring intently. Beast Boy's head snapped up to the TV to find a live broadcast. A woman's voice was speaking, showing a large clearing with a number of trees and a small army of cops surrounding something.

"-and without warning the bank here next to the park simply exploded outwards, showering the area with large debris. In the wake of this occurring two figures were seen fleeing the scene and headed into the park. Local authorities responded instantaneously, but they discovered that the perpetrators are actually metahumans with some bizarre abilities. The police were able to surround the suspects but haven't been able to been able to subdue them. It's presently a standoff-"

Without warning a massive shape rose up from amidst the police, sweeping an arm out and sending a dozen men bouncing across the ground. It had a roundish head with teal skin, weird antenna-like protrusions on the forehead, long pointy ears, narrow slits for a nose, angular blazing red eyes, and a hard line for a mouth. As it rose up in a threatening pose, they could see it was wearing a dark blue sleeveless vest with dark blue gloves and matching pants. On the front of the vest was a large glowing red arrow that pointed up.

"I know that guy!" Beast Boy exclaimed. "That's that dude that was with the Brotherhood that had that really stupid name!"

"Real descriptive, Garfield." Raven said sarcastically as she watched some more cops get blasted away. The camera zoomed in on a man in a black and purple robe with what appeared to be a glass dome on his head that also appeared to make up the top half of it. The exposed grey matter was pulsating with an angry black and pink energy. Raven recognized him instantly.

"Psimon." She spat. She had fought him twice during the incursion with the Brotherhood and knew he was a dangerous opponent. She then realized something was wrong. "Where are the local heroes?"

Almost as if waiting for a cue, a new voice was heard on the screen.

"Hey, cabrón! You think you can come into MY city and make a mess?!"

The camera swung around to find…

"A ninja?" Beast Boy said confusedly. "But ninjas don't wear bandanas on their heads-"

"Shush!" Raven snapped.

The 'ninja', as Beast Boy so eloquently out it, was wearing a black spandex suit with a curious looking purple pattern to it. It almost looked like a pattern of bricks on a wall going up in a V, starting at his waist and ending at his shoulders. There were odd silver bands wrapping around his shoulders to his armpits too. His bandana hid the upper half of his head and was purple as well.

They watched as he charged the larger villain, a strange pinkish-purple energy coalescing around his arms and hands as he ran. The energy took shape around his limbs and changed to look like brick.

"Energy construction, like Green Lantern. Except it looks like it's short range." Raven murmured as the strange ninja dodged a kick from the villain and slammed his fist into the other shin. The villain howled and hopped up and down on one leg, clutching the other.

"Kinda looks like armor made of brick." Beast Boy said as he scooted closer. Psimon came into view, blasting a handful of cops away. The second he let his guard down, the ninja yelled.

"Skitter, now!"

Something small and fast exploded out of the bushes and ran helter skelter across the ground. Neither teen nor camera man could keep track enough of what it was. When it came up on Psimon, he fell back with a cry and blasted it with a telekinetic wave. It shrieked as it was launched into the air and smashed into a tree.

"Skitter!" The ninja cried out as he rolled away from an earth shattering punch from the other villain.

Both teens stared in shock before sighing.

"We're never gonna get a day off, are we?" Beast Boy complained before he jumped up and ripped open his suitcase.

"Such is the life of a hero." Raven said sourly as she raised a curtain of darkness around herself. She always kept a spare uniform in a pocket dimension for emergencies. After she changed and dropped the curtain, she found her partner staggering out of the bathroom, his shirt half on and tying one shoe. Raven rolled her eyes and walked over to him. She grabbed his arm and forced him to finish with his shirt as her magic tied his shoe.

"Never thought I'd see the day where you helped me get dressed, Rae." He joked as he strapped his belt on. Raven stared at in disbelief him until he realized how that sounded. He facepalmed and shook his head. "That came out wrong."

"Indeed." The empath said with a trace of humor in her voice. "Ready?"

"Yeah, let's-"

"Uhhhhh,.."

The sound of a smaller, younger voice stopped both hero's dead in their tracks. They simultaneously turned and found Emelia staring at them wide eyed. Both inwardly cursed, having forgotten about her for a few minutes.

"What are we going to do with her?" Raven asked with a frown. "We can't just leave her in her by herself."

Beast Boy also frowned. "I have no-"

Knock knock knock

Raven and Beast Boy traded confused glances before the changeling walked over to the door and opened it.

There stood Dave, a spare comforter and three pillows in his arms.

Beast Boy brightened immediately. "Daaaaaave!"

"H-hello Mr. Logan, I brought the pillows and blanket you requested." Dave said nervously. Something about the superhero's wide smile made him uneasy.

"That's great, thanks dude, but I need a favor!" Beast Boy said cheerfully as he drug the clerk inside the room.

"F-favor?" Dave stuttered.

The changeling nodded and directed him to a chair. "Yup! I need you, dude, to sit here and watch my kid so we can go help those guys on TV."

Dave looked at the television and saw the one sided fight, then looked back at Beast Boy. "B-but-"

"Thanks a bunch!" The green teen called out before dashing to the window. Only, it wasn't a window. It was a sliding glass door to the balcony. With a cry of 'COWABUNUUNNGGAAAA!' he leapt over the railing.

Dave almost fainted. They were twelve stories up.

"Since somebody didn't use his brain, where's this park at?" Raven said with a scowl.

Dave shakily pointed out the window. "You can see it from the balcony."

"Thank you." Raven said before heading towards the outside door.

"You're gonna leave your kid with a stranger?" Dave called out.

"If I thought you were dangerous, you would have known in the lobby." Raven responded without missing a beat. "Be good, Emelia. We'll be back shortly."

And then to Dave's horror, she too jumped off the balcony.


The French have a saying, l'appel du vide, which means 'call of the void'. Simply put, it means to have a sudden impulse to do something reckless and quite possibly life threatening. Beast Boy had learned this many years ago when the president of France had said he was insane for jumping off the Effiel Tower. At the time he didn't understand what the fuss was about. Beast Boy loved flying and he knew Elastigirl wouldn't let him hit the ground, so why was Mento angry? It would be a little while before he understood what it meant, but when he did know he found it to fairly accurate. He did enjoy jumping off high things, falling for a while, then changing at the last moment. It was a huge thrill for him, an adrenaline rush no other. It was a huge perk of being a superhero.

So as the changeling plummeted down twelve stories, he couldn't help but to smile. He had answered the call of the void once more and still enjoyed it as much as he did the first time.

Within seconds his arms lengthened, feathers sprouting across his limbs as his body changed into that of a great eagle. The superior vision would definitely help spotting his opponents. Below him, people scattered as they panicked, believing him to falling to his death. If birds could smile you would have seen his grin from space as he pulled up from his dive and flapped away.

Would you stop doing that? You're going to give someone a heart attack!

Beast Boy faltered in mid-air, startled with Raven's sudden mental intrusion. He turned his head this way and that until he found her flying down to him.

Sorry. He said with a telepathic chuckle. Couldn't help myself.

He could almost hear her annoyed snort and it made him chuckle again.

Alright mama, I'll behave. Now where to?

Raven pointed in a direction and he dipped his wing to the side, turning to head where they needed to go. They were quiet during the trip up until they reached the park.

High above the combat, Beast Boy made circles in the air as he decided on the plan of attack. Okay Rae, I think me and the ninja can take the giant dude. Can you handle Psimon alone?

Of course. I beat him last time. He's more predictable than most of our villains, truthfully. Raven nodded then pointed at the multitude of injured police. We need to make this quick, there are too many wounded as it is. Including the one called Skitter.

We'll look for Skitter after we wrap these guys up. Beast Boy agreed before dive bombing. TITANS GO!

Don't shout in my head! Raven scowled at him.

Beast Boy, however, didn't hear a word she said. He was focused on the fight ahead. He was gonna get a chance to strut his stuff in a whole new city and he didn't want to mess it up. He let out a loud, piercing cry as he dived, drawing the giants' attention away from the ninja and up at him. It looked quite confused.

Confusion turned into surprise as Beast Boy rolled in mid air, changing into an ankylosaurus and bringing his club-like smashing down dead between the giants' eyes.

With a cry of pain it stumbled back. The ninja down below saw this as the perfect opportunity to strike and slammed both energy swathed fists into the giant's heel. When the teal villain smashed into the ground, Beast Boy, having shifted back into the eagle, turned himself into a brachiosaurus and dropped onto the giants chest and stomach. The air whooshed out of it and it shoved the changeling off. It rolled on its side just in time to take a multi-ton tail right to the face.

Off to the side, Psimon found himself in quite a pickle.

"This isn't your town!" He snarled as he launched another telekinetic wave at Raven. The empath raised a shield with one hand and sent a ray of shadow magic snaking around it, attacking and defending simultaneously. Psimon tilted his blast to intersect the ray, leaving the shield open to slam into him unexpectedly. He felt the cartilage in his nose crack as the shadowy construct hit him, sending him stumbling back. He snarled once more and sent out a wider blast, trying to overwhelm the shield.

A tugging sensation at his foot only allowed him time for a single 'Huh?' before the shadowy ray from before wrapped around his ankle and jerked him off his feet. His head hit the ground with a resounding crack and he went limp.

Raven smirked. "I'm a superhero. Every town is my town."

After checking to make sure he wasn't severely injured, Raven looked over to find the giant also unconscious on the ground. Garfield was jumping up and down on its chest trying to get the thing to change back to its original size. There was a beep as the device activated and shrunk the inert villain. Garfield yelped and dropped to the ground, narrowly missing the teal…thing.

The changeling looked up at Raven and gave her a huge grin and a thumbs up. Raven smiled back and nodded. A look of amazement crossed his face as joy filled his aura.

"Oh Dios mío." A Hispanic voice said in a hushed tone. The two Titans turned to find the ninja gaping at them in awe. "It's really you! Beast Boy and Raven! I'm your biggest fan!"


A/N: I made a Penguins of Madagascar joke and I don't regret it.