Welcome back. As a reward for finishing all your finals and holiday shopping, you get this huge mother of a chapter. Most of my other chapters have been 3 to 4 thousand words long. This one is over 10 thousand!
This is Beast Boy's chapter. Its the first one where we get an idea of what's going on in Beast Boy's head. We learn what are his Hopes and Dreams and then find out how he goes about his Reality. I tried to keep it in his perspective as much as possible but i sometimes felt the need to switch perspectives for the sake of excitement. We also will see here reference to Beast Boy's past. I didn't make any of it up- its all from the comics
So now that i've tried comedy, melodrama, action, and symbolism, i'm trying out new literary devices. This chapter is gonna start off with regular action but then that will lead into to a section based on imagery, and then the entire second half is gonna be all about mood.
But before we begin, i must issue a disclaimer. This chapter contains GRAPHIC sexual imagery. Call it a twisted sort of lemon (and i aint talking about no citrus drinks either). This first part is viciously Freudian and i think the censors would give it an NC-17. So if anyone between the ages of 13 and 16 sees something here that they feel they are too young to be reading, let me know and i'll change the rating. Also, if you're not familiar with Freud, please don't flame me for this chapter. I assure you everything is here for a reason and not just to appease perverted minds.
And one more thing. If this chapter doesn't show up right on anyone's browser because it's too damn long, let me know and i'll split it into two chapters.
Addendum: The original long chapter didn't work on everyone's computer so it's been split into two chapters. Even though it is split, it is still meant to be read as a single chapter. I even split the original chapter title so that each half is labeled correctly.
Chapter 8: Hopes, Dreams...
Robin stood atop the building, his soot-covered face contorted in fearsome determination, his martial arts body heaving and poised for action. Opposite him, rising from the street below, his gargantuan foe narrowed its gaze at him in the moon light with emotionless red eyes. The beast drew back its house-sized head, its fang filled mouth open, and Robin felt his feet slip out from under him as the wind started up from behind him.
It had been only days since the meteor had landed in the Pacific and already four American cities had been reduced to rubble by the monsters which seem to have traveled to Earth with the meteor. Protozoids, the scientists called them- 30 story tall fire-breathing carnivores, covered head to toe with impenetrable scale armor. The aliens learned quickly that the easiest way to get a meal was to create chaos in a city and scoop up the charred remains of panicked urbanites from the streets-
And this one looked hungry for Robin.
Robin held on to a boiler exhaust for dear life as the protozoid sucked in a vicious wind. He released from his grasp several timed explosives and allowed the beast to inhale them. Robin tightened his grip on the exhaust and counted.
3…
He noticed the wind begin to subside as the monster's diaphragm approached its limit.
2…
The wind stopped and the giant's open jaws lurched forward to deliver its fiery deathblow. Robin grit his teeth.
"Sure hope this works."
1…
A series of blasts could be heard from the creature's throat. It seemed to pause for a moment and then the earth shook and rumbled as the giant took a stumbling step backward, its mouth open and pointing to the sky. Robin grinned and loosened his bite slightly. Apparently these things weren't invincible! It stumbled into the building across the avenue, causing that face of it to crumble to the streets below.
"That's it!" Robin exclaimed into his T-radio. "The mouth! Go for the-"
His voice was eclipsed as his gargantuan foe fully regained its balanced and let out a roaring blaze in his direction all in one movement, lighting up the entire block and creating huge long shadows which flickered violently. Robin ducked and shielded himself with his cape but that was the last anyone saw of him as he was engulfed in flames.
"Robin!" Called Starfire from the five story high pile of rubble that was once a residential high rise.
Cyborg looked up at her from the ground. He was covered in rubble and broken glass to his neck.
"Go help him out. I'll dig myself out. And Raven."
Starfire gave him a nod, and took off after Robin, her eyes green with fury. She flew towards the giant with all the speed she could muster, charging a starbolt in her hand. When she was satisfied with its intensity, she let it go with a curt battle cry.
Her shot landed on the end of the monster's snout but to her obvious disappointment the behemoth didn't even acknowledge her. The beast's flame finally dissipated of its own accord and Starfire rushed to the edge of Robin's building. She looked to the place she had last seen Robin- there was nothing there but a road-sized strip of soot. Starfire gasped as her heart sank.
"Robin?" She ventured meekly.
She heard a dry cough and saw the blackened edge of the building stir as if alive. Robin threw his cape off of him and stood up with difficulty from his crouching position. He had taken cover behind the concrete hoarding around the edge of the building and had thrown up his cape to shield him from the heat. Nevertheless, his face was badly burned and some of hair had been singed off. Starfire put her hands together with glee as the saw Robin stand fully upright and cough out a puff of smoke. Then she felt a wind from behind him and gasped as she saw his eyes widen in fear.
She turned to see a giant open mouth, sucking in air. She turned to fly to Robin to save him from another attack but found him holding his exhaust pipe again and herself unable to fly upwind. She closed her eyes and screamed as she felt herself being slowly sucked in. She suddenly felt an abrubt force pushing skyward on her waist. She doubled over and opened her eyes to see the building rush away from her. The wind left her skin and ears all at once and she saw the horn on the tip of the monster's snout appear in the bottom of her field of view. She was above its mouth!
She finally came to rest well above danger. Robin set her down next to the giant horn which jutted from the top of the monster's head. His grappling cable was wrapped around the horn, which was nearly three times his size and as thick as a Volkswagen.
"Robin, I wish to-"
She finished her sentence with a yell as the giant head upon which they stood lunged to spit flames, throwing her forward. Her fear stricken face danced with shadows as she sailed over the inferno, screaming the entire way. Robin held tightly to his grapping gun as he watched Starfire crash through a window across the street behind the building the protozoid was burning. His face was alive with the same shadows and he could feel the heat of the monster's fire breath from where he was hanging.
He lowered himself to the side of the protozoid's head, just behind his left eye. He repelled himself with his feet until he landed on the beast's forehead, his boots inches from the inner corner of a giant eye as wide as he was tall. The tall black pupil traversed the bright red background and stopped facing Robin. It dilated grotesquely. Robin smirked.
"Now you see me…"
He whipped out his attack rod with his free hand and decompressed it.
"Now you DON'T!"
On his last word he thrust the end of his bo through the tire-sized lens. The protozoid threw its head back and let out a thunderous roar that shook the entire city, finishing off semi-destroyed structures and shattering any glass that remained in pane. The creature had no eyelids so the rod just stuck fast against its eye-socket as the monster tried to roll its eyes into its head for protection. It jerked its head like only a reptile could, trying to shake off Robin, who despite his burns and temporary deafness, held on ferociously.
The protozoid soon gave up shaking. Robin held onto his grappling gun with one hand and his attack rod with the other, hanging between them utterly exhausted. The pause in the action caused him to look up wearily. He felt the giant head turn slightly and then opened his eyes wide with horror as he saw a gigantic clawed hand fly towards him. He instinctively released his attack rod and let his grapping gun swing him to safety- but it was useless. The range of motion offered him by the rope was no where near enough to escape the gigantic hand.
He was swatted full on and flew limply downward towards the street below. Halfway through his fall he was surrounded with black energy and decelerated, gradually coming to rest near Raven's feet. Her eyes faded to their usual lifelessness and she shifted her gaze downward to get a look at him. He was very burnt and completely limp.
"He's alive." She said to Cyborg. "And he's found a weakness."
She took off leaving an unconscious Robin and a badly damaged Cyborg. Cyborg watched her go and then went back to repairing his sonic cannon. One of his legs was hopelessly mangled.
Raven levitated up to get a visual fix on Robin's attack rod, still sticking out of the protozoid's left eye. She spotted it and focused. Her eyes glowed white and her hands went out in front of her forming black orbs. Robin's bo was surrounded in the same dark energy and began working its way slowly into the creature's skull.
The protozoid started jerking its head again, flailing its arms and roaring in frustration. Its giant claws crashed through buildings, crumbling concrete and steal alike. With all the movement, Raven couldn't follow the rod and certainly couldn't direct it where she wanted it to go.
Realizing that the pain had subsided, the protozoid stopped thrashing and looked up to see Raven floating in its view. It narrowed its eyes, retracted its head, and charged her open mouthed, its feet pounding somewhere in the concrete dust which had formed to blanket the roadway below. Raven took the opportunity to sight the rod and push it in again but in doing so had not noticed the ominous wind which picked up from behind her.
She continued to push in the rod but the beast did not seem to react to the pain. It was too much into the momentum of its attack to afford any other movement. It crashed through the street a few more steps then finally leaned backwards and dug its heels into the pavement. With a forward lunge of its torso and head it released a full breath of flame at Raven.
Raven watched the fire rush towards her, appearing much like a flower from hell blossoming to consume her field of view. She instinctively crossed her hands in front of her and surrounded herself in a sphere of dark energy. If only someone could fly in there and push that rod in while he was occupied. Damnit, where was Beast Boy when you needed him?
She watched as the flames spread over her sphere. Waves of fire began from a wandering center point and traveled outward and around her. Finally, the firestorm had ended and she let down her shield to concentrate on the rod again. The monsters head turned slowly away from her and then quickly back towards her. She realized the aim of this movement only too late. The moonlight above her was eclipsed and she looked up to see a giant clawed hand racing down for her. She made her body horizontal and flew as quickly as she could to get out of the way but she didn't quite make it. She felt the giant hand sock the back of her calves and suddenly the world became a blur. She was conscious but she was spinning wildly, unable to tell which way was up. She stopped trying to levitate and decided there was nothing left to do but wait and hope she didn't land on her head.
What happened next surprised her. She suddenly felt something squishy wrap around her middle and tug. She abrupt stop caused her to lose all her breath in a dry oof. She bounced up a little bit and then sagged back down again, doubled over against the tentacle. It began to swing her. She looked up and saw a green octopus wrapped around the scaffolding at the bottom of a billboard. She wasn't sure but, she thought she saw it smile at her. Beast Boy!
With one more swing, she was tossed into a window, the glass of which had long since been shattered. She landed in the dark disheveled office and fell to her knees and hands wheezing. She had lost her breath both from fear and from getting the wind knocked out of her by her green savior. She heard Beast Boy transform behind her. She looked back over her cloak and found him standing tall with his chest out, his hands on his hips, and a huge heroic grin on his face.
"Beast Boy." She managed between urgent breaths. "Where…were you."
He raised his hand in front of him nonchalantly and blew on it.
"Just saving the world." He said looking at his nails.
"That…thing….is destroying…the city." She wheezed. "Cyborg's…damaged. Robin's...unconscious. Starfire's-"
"Leave everything to me." He interrupted suavely, rubbing his nails on his chest.
He poofed into a bird and flew out the window. Raven took two more breaths and then pushed herself up to go to the window.
"Be careful." She said softly into the outside air.
A bright blue beam shot diagonally up her field of view. She looked to the source but saw only dust. The dust let out another blast and Raven followed it with her eyes and saw it connect with the monster's neck. It was completely ineffectual. She heard muffled shouting echo sharply in the empty night air.
***
"Heyy!" Cyborg shouted, firing his sonic cannon to the heavens.
He coughed into his fist, which held a dug-up parking meter right beneath its head. He brought the bottom of it back to the ground and supported himself on it as he took another painful step forward, dragging his dead leg behind him. He took another shot at the shadowy outline of the protozoid. Even with his bionic vision, the outline was all he could make out in the fog that filled his lungs and clouded his vision.
"That's right!" He coughed. "I'm talking to you!"
He was entirely covered in white, like an oversized pillsbury doughboy. He dragged himself another step forward.
"Yea! Down here ya overgrown gecko. I got a bone to pick with you!"
Despite his ranting and shooting, the protozoid continued destroying the city and burning anyone with the audacity to flee their homes.
"Look at me damnit!" His voice cracked. "You invade my planet, destroy my city, and then you try to eat my friends..."
His expression was pained as he took another shot.
"And I ain't gonna stand for it!!" He exclaimed furiously.
With that his hand slipped down the parking meter and his knee crashed into the pavement, his mangled leg extended behind him. His torso fell forward as well and he was forced to put his cannon arm down to keep his face out of the asphalt. Suddenly there was a huge crash close behind him. He turned around quickly.
"Huh?"
There was a huge green foot with giant scales and claws bigger than him. Another was sailing over him.
"Aw no. Two of em?" He asked himself in awe.
He rolled onto his back and aimed his sonic cannon at the foot on the ground. He gave it a blast, hoping to trip the behemoth, but it didn't even flinch. He felt himself bounce off the ground slightly as the other foot come crashing down some distance behind him. He looked at the foot he had shot and waited for it to lift off the ground so he could take a shot at its underside. He watched as its weight shifted forward but it did not lift off the ground. He soon felt a nudging at his side and looked over to find himself being scooped up into a giant clawed hand. He was lifted up and out of the fog. Looks like he was going to get a head shot.
He continued his ascent until he was brought level to the monsters face. His sonic cannon was fully charged and extended out in front of him.
"Thanks for the lift." He said menacingly.
He aimed for one giant red eye and prepared to fire. Suddenly his cannon was surrounded in a black orb.
"Huh? Yo!"
He felt himself being lowered.
"Raven!?" He called out, looking wildly about him. "What the-?! Let me shoot!"
The hand suddenly turned over and he was dumped onto a building, his cannon still encased in black. The hand retracted and Cyborg saw Raven float up beside him, her eyes white.
"Whaddaya doin? I had him!"
Raven freed his cannon. And looked up to the giant green behemoth.
"It's Beast Boy."
Cyborg followed her gaze and saw just how big Beast Boy had become.
"…Woa."
***
The giant protozoid Beast Boy looked down the avenue at his brown opponent. His enemy gave him a passing glance but soon turned back around and went back to burning some fleeing residents. It reached down into the dust to scoop up its smoldering rewards and Beast Boy saw his opportunity. He lowered his head and began scratching up the pavement to form a ramp behind him. He snorted and pushed off the ramp, charging his bent over opponent. Beast Boy came crashing through the fog, covering entire blocks with each bound. His opponent was still bent over and was paying him no attention. As he approached he lowered his head further, counterbalancing by extending his tail fully out behind him. He was completely horizontal now, and only several blocks from his target. After a few more running steps, his top horn connected with its target, just under his opponents tail. Due to his straightness, all of his momentum was transferred.
Beast Boy's charge ended abruptly and he was brought to full stop on impact. His opponent flew forward, its rump sailing over its bowed head. It landed on its back and slid about ten blocks on its smooth scales before it whipped its tail through several buildings, using the momentum to right itself. It slowly rose and looked up at Beast Boy in animalistic rage, white concrete dust falling all around it. It let out an earth shaking roar of aggression, rising up against its tail and baring its claws and teeth. Beast Boy copied the monster's movements in his own display of contest. The two stared each other down along the ruined avenue, each knee deep in a dense sheet of fog which made it look as if they were above the clouds, gods, well above the everyday toils of the mortals which undoubtedly envied them from their earthbound milieus. The feeling of being in such a class excited Beast Boy immensely, and he was ready to take it all out on his hapless opponent.
The protozoid whipped the ground with its tail and charged Beast Boy. Beast Boy began his own charge and the two closed the gap quickly. The Earth resounded as if it were thunderclouds which swirled at their feet. Finally, in a show of force, the two brutes butted heads, creating a shockwave that blew out all the windows unfortunate enough to have been caught at their point of impact. They each jerked their heads upward in an attempt to gore each other. The impact caused both opponents to bounce back slightly. Beast Boy wasted no time. He immediately grabbed the monster's hands with his own and tackled it. The two fell to the ground, parting the fog to either side of them and thus creating a giant fog free cradle where they landed. They rolled and tussled, crashing through buildings as if they were paper mache. Hydrants were dismembered and water mains broken through as the pair wrestled for dominance in the white satin.
The two rolled through a building and onto another avenue, moist with the fluids let lose by their frenzy. Beast Boy had finally gained prepotency, and had his opponent pinned on its back under his weight. He laid his elbows on its shoulders and used his hands to forcefully part his prey's protective scaling, exposing the supple throat beneath. He then gathered all the force he could and drove his nose horn into the soft spot, breaking through in one vicious thrust. The beast wailed pitifully and Beast Boy began mercilessly pounding it with his horn, stabbing it repeatedly and causing the monster's blood to spray out and coagulate the white mist which surrounded them. Beast Boy felt on him the witness of all his friends as he proved with his gashing that he was the mightiest of gods, and the thought excited him into even greater frenzy. Beast Boy felt the creature beneath him weakening, and so with a final attempt, he thrust his horn to the hilt into the gaping hole, feeling it scrape against the bottom of the monster's skull. The monster gurgled as Beast Boy continued to scratch the base of the skull, relishing the completeness of his total immersion and and wishing nothing more than for his horn to penetrate deeper.
Finally the creature ceased its struggling and relaxed completely, letting out one final gurgle before succumbing completely to Beast Boy. Beast Boy, spent but utterly satisfied, collapsed atop his conquest and sank into it, the creature's blood oozing out and mixing with the sticky white concrete which had mixed with the water that was now flowing everywhere. He wallowed lazily in the completion of the act for a few more moments and then poofed back into his human form.
He stood up, still atop the slain protozoid's belly, and took a deep breath to bring himself back to reality. He turned as he heard the wind behind him swish in a familiar sort of way. He saw Raven land some distance behind him. She began walking towards him, her face hidden by her hood.
"Beast Boy, you've done it."
There was something different about her walk. It seemed to be looser and affording more movement than usual…
"The protozoid is defeated. The city is saved."
…especially in the hip area.
"Cyborg is repairing himself. Robin and Starfire have come to."
She removed her hood without taking her eyes off him. She was only a few steps away and wore a look of sultry mischief.
"And I…"
She walked right into him and grabbed his waist, pulling his forehead to hers. She spoke into his face with grit teeth.
"…have never been more aroused."
Beast Boy was stunned by her proximity but did not protest. Standing atop the fallen giant's belly, the two were well above the fog, still in the realm of the gods. Beast Boy felt like he was where he belonged- atop the world and beside Raven, and his feeling of both importance and belonging was electrifying. It was time he had claimed what was truly his. He took his hands and placed them both under her cloak, on the small of her back and pulled her closer. She reacted with a pivot about their mutual forehead, bringing their mouths together. The moment of lip contact was not savored but rather sped through for the sake of reaching the kiss's full depth. She probed him aggressively and he returned her passion as best he could. He ran one of his hands up her back as their tongues wrestled for dominance.
Suddenly there was a digital blaring heard from all around them. It sounded like the alarm at Titan's Tower! Was the danger not yet over?
He broke the kiss reluctantly and pulled his face away from hers.
"Ignore it." She commanded breathlessly.
She brought a hand to the back of his head and pulled him back in. They continued their kiss for a euphoric eternity, each doing all they could to invade the other's throat.
"C'mon B." Urged Cyborg's voice.
Beast Boy's eyes widened in embarrassment. He broke the kiss again and found Cyborg standing right behind Raven, his leg fully repaired.
"D'ahhh!!… What're you doing here?"
"C'mon. We gotta go." Cyborg answered urgently.
"No." Persisted Raven, still inches from his face. "Not now!"
She pulled him back in and resumed her oral invasion.
"Damnit. C'mon we really hafta go."
Raven ignored Cyborg completely and continued the kiss. Beast Boy was more than happy to do the same. She pressed her face and body into him as he continued to wrestle deliciously with her tongue and run his palms up and down her back. Finally, she herself broke the kiss gradually and loosened her hold on him. She lowered her hands from his head and shoulders and placed them in the crooks of his elbows, pulling his hands to the back of her waist.
"And that was just a taste." She said breathlessly into his face.
She pushed his elbows down further, bringing his hands to her bottom. Beast Boy choked as she brought one bare leg up and wrapped it around his waist, leaning back over his hands.
"…of much more to come." She taunted with an evil grin, lightly scratching a single fingernail down his chest.
Despite all that had just transpired, Beast Boy was shocked at the extent of her passion.
"Damn Raven. And I thought I was an animal."
"All right that's it." Said Cyborg, grabbing his foot. "Get the hell out of bed."
Beast Boy felt himself tugged away from Raven and the ground slipped out from under him. He fell for a good while before landing rudely on his back. He opened his eyes to see the ceiling of his room. The light was on and the Tower alarm was blaring. He suddenly saw Cyborg pop into his view.
"Rise and shine sleeping beauty." Mocked Cyborg.
Beast Boy put his hands on his face as he felt Cyborg release his feet.
"Aw mannn." He whined as his feet hit the floor with a double thump.
"C'mon already. Everyone's waiting for us." Said Cyborg a little impatiently.
Beast Boy took a long moment to stretch and yawn. That procrastination spent, he turned over and curled up on the floor.
"Just five more minutes." He mumbled.
"Now!"
Cyborg grabbed Beast Boy's collar and pulled him to his feet. Beast Boy stumbled a bit, catching his balance against his bunk bed.
"Stupid criminals." He grumbled, leaning against his bed.
Cyborg grabbed his collar again but didn't pull.
"You coming or ya want me to carry you."
"D'ahhhh!" Beast Boy jumped back out of his grasp, apparently fully awake.
"That's what I thought." Sneered Cyborg.
Cyborg turned and walked out of the room. Beast followed him, stretching his arms out above him and then scratching his head briskly. They walked towards the console room as the hallway flashed red and the alarm blared.
"So…" Started Cyborg without turning. "Ya were having that protozoid dream again eh?"
"Huh?" Beast Boy said in panic. "Damnit, how did you know?"
The side of Cyborg's mouth curled into a sly grin.
"You were tonguing your sock. And calling it Raven."
Beast Boy turned red and laughed nervously. He scratched the back of his head. He was busted and had nothing to say in retort.
"Ain't gonna happen ya know."
"Says you." He retorted quickly, glad to finally have something to say. "My dad said there's no telling just how the treatment affected me. I might have superpowers I've never even-"
"I'm talking… about Raven."
Beast Boy shot him a defiant look. Unfortunately, Cyborg was still looking straight ahead and grinning.
"Dude, she totally digs me and you know it." He said smugly, sticking his thumb into his chest. "All the fans say so."
"Them the same fans that say I'm gay?" Inquired Cyborg, looking down at him finally.
Beast Boy just stared back and blinked, unsure of exactly how to answer that. Cyborg seemed concerned at his speechlessness.
"Uhh. Cuz I ain't." He added firmly.
Beast Boy gave a nervous smile and cowered.
"You know that. Right?"
"Heh heh. Yea. Sure. Whatever Cy." He said with his palms up defensively.
Cyborg snorted and looked back ahead of him.
"Well anyway, she obviously don't know it."
"Hey Cy. I've been wondering something…"
Cyborg stopped walking and looked down at him angrily, causing Beast Boy to yell and jump back.
"No no." Said Beast Boy shaking his open palms out in front of him urgently. "Not that."
Cyborg crossed his arms and looked down at him sternly.
"Uhh…After your accident," Beast Boy started, nervously pulling his collar so he could swallow. "You lost a lot of… Parts…. Right?"
Cyborg looked down at him, his expression changing from anger to smugness with the raising of an eyebrow. He suddenly turned around and started walking again, leaving Beast Boy behind.
"Don't go there B." He said flatly without turning around.
Beast Boy raised an eyebrow of his own and put his hands on his hips.
"Right…" He said to himself.
He chased after Cyborg towards the console room.
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