New chapter! I finally updated! I had big exams so I was pretty occupied
with major studying. Anyway, since some of you don't like the idea of Slade
becoming a main villain, I've decided to cut him out of some parts and just
have him make the idea of Terra make sense. Just so you know, I got all the
ideas of Terra being a traitor from the comics and it seems as if she's
going to betray the Teen Titans in season 2 as well. The main reason I put
Terra in was to have some major Beast Boy*Raven fluff and you'll see why
soon. I don't want to compare my story to season 2 too much because this is
way different than what will be actually happening. So the only thing from
season 2 is Terra and Slade. So this chapter will have fluff and yet some
angst at the bottom. By the way the 'Love Festival' will take place in
chapter 15. Can't wait.
Disclaimer: Must I put this up? I do not own the Teen Titans.
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There she lay in her soft pink bed. Smiling, and staring at the ceiling. She was on it backwards and while her feet rested on her pillow, her head hung over the end. Her fiery hair was touching the immaculate floor. Her eyes were bright and all color was back in her face. She took a minute to enjoy this moment of calmness and shut her eyes.
All of a sudden she felt a bit of a warm breeze blowing in her face. She opened her eyes to see a very green face.
"Yo. What's up!" Beast Boy calmly said.
"Aaah!" Starfire yelped, turned over, and fell to the floor.
"Beast Boy! Please do not surprise me like that." Starfire panted as she held her chest. She then got and looked into Beast Boy's smiling face.
"Is there any reason why you voyaged into my dormitory?" Starfire asked curiously.
"Yea. Robin sent me to say that we need to head over to the training room." Beast Boy was excited for some reason.
"Very well then. Let us join our companions." Starfire hovered out of the room and Beast Boy followed.
They walked together down the hallway and into the elevator. They went to the second level where the whole floor was used for training and combat practice. It was gray and made out of metal.
On the other side were Robin, Raven, and Cyborg. Raven was looking as if she had to have been dragged here. Cyborg seemed quite out of tune since he was mysteriously watching the opposing wall. Robin however looked anxious.
"So tell me why have we all been gathered here?" Starfire asked her teammates.
"We're supposed to be training a certain someone who is late." Raven grumbled and pointed impatiently at the clock behind them, which read 9:23.
"Oh come on Raven! Don't tell me you've never been late to practice." Beast Boy said with a bit of anger in his voice.
"I haven't ever been late, I've always come five minutes early unlike you who thinks he can show up thirty minutes tardy and call it fashionably late." Raven's vein started to pop.
"Please don't fight like this when the kid arrives. Now what kind of example are you two going to show?" Cyborg corrected them.
"Where is Natalie?" Starfire seemed to notice she was missing.
"I think she's in the garage. She's been in there since yesterday." Robin took out a clipboard and started to write some things on it.
"What do you mean she's in the garage? I bet she's messing up my baby! Ooh! If that girl touches my car she's dead!" Cyborg was about to head out when the door burst open with a motorcycle charging through.
The rider rode it all the way to where the Titans were standing and stopped right in front of Cyborg. The rider took off the helmet to reveal Natalie. She got off the motorcycle and closed Cyborg's open mouth.
"Setting perfect examples huh?" Beast Boy muttered sarcastically.
"So what you think of your baby now?" She said smugly.
"What you do to my baby!" Cyborg then looked at the motorcycle. "What have you turned my baby into!" He hugged the motorcycle and cried while Natalie just rolled her eyes.
"I meant what you think of your car in comparison to this thing I hooked up." She pulled Cyborg off the bike and the Titans now got a good view of it.
It was painted red and green and the seat was yellow. It had thick black tires and an 'R' painted on the front. She showed the helmet that was also red with a black and white 'R' on it.
"I present to you, the 'R-cycle'! I inspected that car of yours, Cyborg, and I figured it just wasn't capable of major transportation that required small and swift chases. So since you have that bulky car of yours, and everybody else can fly, I decided to give this to Robin." She said while ignoring Cyborg's confused face.
"Um, thanks." Robin said with uncertainty.
"It is glorious!" Starfire exclaimed while bending down to get a better look at its different angles.
"Cool." Beast Boy hopped on and made whooshing sounds.
"More vehicles?" Raven raised an eyebrow.
"Wait! Where did you get the material and cash for this thing?" Cyborg asked Natalie as if he was robbed.
"I ordered a model and it was dropped off yesterday in the mail. Sure I had to fix it up bit but I used some your spare materials that you used on your car. I found some paint and you can tell what happened from there. And NO! I didn't steal any money from you. In fact I paid for it last month." She smiled widely.
"Oh really, and since when are you a mechanic?" Cyborg asked with much suspicion.
"It's a hobby of mine. Then again, even after 12 years of knowing each other there's a lot of things you don't know about me." Natalie said slyly.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Cyborg snapped back but Natalie just shrugged her shoulders.
Again the doors opened to reveal the familiar face of Terra. She was smiling and ran over to the Titans.
"I'm so sorry I'm late. The excitement must've gotten to my head and well I kind of overslept." She blushed in embarrassment.
"It's alright, I do that all the time." Beast Boy spoke up.
"Wow, Beast Boy admitting his wrongs, must be the sign of the Apocalypse." Raven again grumbled. Beast Boy turned crimson red that was noticed in his green complexion.
"Ok! Let's get down to business. Cyborg, set up the computer for the practical test and Raven can get the questions ready." Robin tried to break the other two Titans' fight up.
Cyborg marched off to the side that had a door leading to a smaller room with a glass window viewing the actual training room. Inside were many buttons and different screens.
Raven however snatched the clipboard from Robin's hand and used her power to summon a chair from the other side of the room. She sat down and took a minute to look through the notes.
"So what're the questions about?" Terra asked brightly.
" They help us know what you would do in a tense situation or how would you use your gift to solve the troubling ordeals." Starfire replied with a smile and her fingers laced together.
"Right." Terra looked quite calm and didn't feel any nervous feelings.
"Well then, let's begin shall we." Raven got everyone's attention back and began to read the first question.
"Just tell me what would you do in this situation with the following options. 'Imagine you're fighting some thugs with your teammates. If one of your teammates needed help with their opponent but you were about to capture the ringleader what would you do? A. Ignore your teammate and follow the kingpin. B. Go and help your teammate. Or C. Stay where you are and don't do anything at all." Raven asked monotonously.
"I actually picked C. when Robin popped me that question." Beast Boy whispered to Starfire.
"I think........ B." Terra finally responded and Raven read the next question and the next question following that.
On and on the question followed. There were some hard ones and easy ones. Sometimes it would take seconds and yet sometimes it would take minutes. Every five questions you would hear Beast Boy's opinion of the question being whispered into Starfire's ear. However Raven wasn't only taking note of the answer being given, but the reactions as well.
"Ok, that was one half of the test. Robin will now analyze your answers and will come back with the results." Raven pushed the clipboard into Robin's chest and stepped back.
"Ow. The next part of the exam will be the practical one where we will test you physically and mentally on the field of battle." Robin tried to make it sound as exciting as possible.
"Can you believe I almost did worse on this part than the question?" Beast Boy again told Starfire.
"For some reason Beast Boy, I find that I can believe you on that." Starfire made Beast Boy sweat drop.
"Alright Cy! Turn on level one!" Robin called out. He waited for several minutes but nothing happened.
"Um Cyborg! I said to turn on level one!" Robin yelled again. Then after a minute, Cyborg showed his head through the glass window and showed and ok- sign.
"The little boy obviously doesn't know what he's doing. I'm gonna go and give him a hand." Natalie said impatiently and marched into the room.
"You know it's gonna be World War III in there don't you?" Raven muttered.
"Oh well, let's just make sure they get the computer working." Robin smiled.
They waited for a couple of minutes. They felt the ground shake two times but other then that the battle stimulation got started.
Out of the walls came targets and from the metal floor came walls that just popped up.
"Ok the first thing you need to do is to basically get from this side of the room to that side." Robin then brought his attention to Beast Boy who was trying to spike is hair up casually.
"Hey Beast boy, do you mind giving Terra a quick demonstration?" Robin surprised him a bit at the mention of his name.
"No. Um, why not?" Beast Boy sweat dropped and strutted over to the starting line.
"Well this should be entertaining." Raven muttered to Starfire who just giggled.
"Hey Cy! Set the thing up." Robin called to the window. Instead of Cyborg up came Natalie who nodded with a wide smile. It appeared as if she was forcing something down.
"Ok on the count of three! One..........two.........three!" Robin yelled and Beast Boy set off.
Now that the field was activated, the walls that sprung from the floor were moving and the targets from the walls shot out revealing guns to be there instead.
Beast Boy ran through dodging the walls and managed to hit the targets that were in mid-air. As he came to where the lasers were however didn't go too well.
"AW MAN! I just got these pants!" Beast Boy tried to fan his butt which was currently on fire.
"Shoot the emergency water gun!" Robin again yelled at the window.
"Oh shoot!" Beast Boy grumbled as he was drenched in ice cold water that shot from the wall.
"Beast Boy! Are you undamaged?" Starfire yelled from afar.
"You really know how to fire things up don't you?" Raven muttered.
"I am fine Star, thank you for asking. It seems as if you're the only one that cares anyway." Beast Boy retorted as he walked back over to them.
"What do you mean?" Starfire asked as Beast Boy walked past her and sat right down.
"I mean even if I do mess up once in a while doesn't mean someone has to act evil all the time!" Beast Boy shot a glare at Raven who just rolled her eyes.
"Um, guys. Can we talk about this later? I mean we're kind of busy at the moment." Robin whispered from the side of his mouth.
"Whatever." Beast Boy huffed and just continued to sit with his arms crossed.
"Ok, now Terra, why don't you try to go across............"
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"I can't believe it. She would actually embarrass me like that in front of everybody. I guess Raven doesn't have a heart after all." Beast Boy groaned as he sat quietly on his bed.
"I don't get it. She seemed so nice at that dance party but now she's all mean like before." Beast Boy wondered.
"Maybe the kindness I saw was just a phase because there's no way that all her meanness would be a phase that lasts this long." Beast Boy let his head rest on the palms on his hand.
Just then the door opened and Beast Boy saw Terra's face poke out.
"Hey. Sorry if I interrupted but I just came back from the bathroom and I got ,well, pretty much lost." She smiled and blushed in embarrassment.
"It's ok. The living room should be down the hall. Fifth door on your left." Beast Boy said with his head bowed down.
"Are you ok? You look kind of bummed." Terra now opened the door fully and leaned on the side.
"Well you would if you found out that the one thing that would give you hope each day wasn't really ever there." Beast Boy looked at Terra's face. It was full of concern and understanding.
"I did. To tell you the truth, I guess I had one of those situations too." Terra slowly walked in and sat next to Beast Boy.
"Really, what was the thing you thought was there but then you found out wasn't really there." Beast Boy said this quickly and started to blush.
"It wasn't really much of a thing, it was a person. When my parents died and I had to go live with my aunt as she was the only relative thought to be mine at the time. When I was there, I felt really bad. I just kept to myself and hardly talked with anyone. That was when my powers became active." Terra paused for a minute.
"You mean you always didn't have your powers?" Beast Boy asked curiously.
"I did but they just weren't active. In fact, my whole family had those powers and I remember how my mom would dream and fantasize how wonderful it would be when I got my powers but I guess it wasn't meant to be." Terra bowed her head down and Beast Boy regretted asking that question.
"So please continue about the thing you lost." Beast Boy didn't want to push the subject about her parents too much after seeing her reaction.
"After I found out my powers were growing I didn't know what to do. I told my aunt but she just sent me to this strange place. They just told me that they were going to help me to control my powers and teach me how to do good things with them. I used to think every night how much good I would do, but the real truth was found out soon. They were just going to use me as a weapon to take over who knows what and I just ran away. My aunt made sure that they were stopped and somehow she hushed up the fact that I had powers. No one knows about them except you guys." Terra began to show a dark look on her face.
"Wow. That must've been tough. How do you feel about the whole thing?" Beast Boy hardly knew what to say about what he'd just heard. He just saw the dark look on her face fade away.
"I felt angry, really angry." Terra just said simply.
"Maybe I should go now. The other Titans were waiting for me in the living room. See you later?" Terra walked toward the door.
"Yea." Beast Boy smiled as he watched her leave.
"Maybe hope isn't lost after all." Beast Boy said to himself.
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Raven sat on the couch with her fingers tapping on the seat next to her. Robin was in the kitchen getting a drink with Starfire while Cyborg and Natalie were reading magazines on opposite sides of the room.
'I am not that mean to Beast Boy. He just needs to understand that I have no patience to deal with dunderheads like him. But then again everyone else says I act a bit impatient with them as well. Ok, since when do I care what everyone else thinks anyway.' Raven thought to herself.
"I'm sorry I took long. I got lost and had to ask for directions." Terra popped out of the door and blushed.
"Well I guess we can finally tell you then." Robin looked at the other Titans and nodded.
"Wait! Let me get out of the room first." Raven stood up abruptly and left.
"Don't worry about her, she's just overwhelmed by the excitement." Cyborg explained rapidly.
"Yea and you should be too. We've decided to let you become a Titan. Of course not an official one just yet but we'll just have to give it a few days' tries." Robin said with a smile.
"Congratulations Terra." Starfire beamed at her.
"Welcome to the team." Cyborg put one thumb up. Natalie just smiled at her from across the room.
"Wow! This is amazing! Thank you guys so much!" Terra jumped up and down.
"Tomorrow we'll move you in." Robin informed.
"Don't worry. I'll be here. (On time.)" Terra ran out of the room and left with a big smile on her face.
"You think what you guys just did was wise?" Natalie asked silently.
"We'll just have to wait and see to find out." Robin said with much exasperation.
"Well I'm gonna hit the sack. I'm beat." Cyborg yawned.
"Yes. I would also like to rest. We've all had a long day." Starfire put her hands together and looked at her friends.
"Yea. See ya." Natalie left for her room.
Robin just nodded and left with Cyborg and Starfire behind him. Lights went out and so did they.
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Raven again slept badly that night. She was squeezing the dark covers and her forehead was wet with her purple hair sticking to her head.
She was twisting and turning. This time she was plagued with a different dream. She only saw flashes of familiar scenes and heard things that she had wanted to forget.
***Dream***
'Who is Slade? Who is Slade? Who-? Who is Slade?'
'Robin? Please respond!'
'Slade-'
'I don't want to hurt you.'
'-Slade'
'We need to control our emotions.'
'Don't you guys get it? They won we lost'
'Then the Teen Titans are finished.'
' It's over!'
'No.'
'-over'
'I wish Robin were here.'
'no'
'I made a mistake Starfire, it won't happen again.'
'And he won't get away with it.'
'I promise. –promise. –promise.'
Just then a shadow appeared. It was of a mask. Half of it was showing but the other half was cloaked in darkness. Only one cold eye showed with much
hatred released thought it. It then spoke.
'Enjoy your time on the stage while it lasts my friends.'
'Your curtain will fall soon enough.'
'-enough.'
'-enough.'
An eerie silence followed. Then flashes followed of her friends on the ground, still, on their backs, and with no life showing in their eyes. Robin was with black and orange armor, Starfire with a crown on her head, Cyborg and Natalie were lying near each other but their hands were two inches apart from each other, Beast Boy had a blood stain where his heart would be, and Raven's lifeless body was lying far away from them with no wounds whatsoever. She was just alone.
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She woke up again. She was panting. She held the covers close to herself and dried her face with them. She failed to notice again that the gem on her forehead was glowing yet it faded seconds later. Soon tears came running down her cheeks.
"Why won't it just leave me alone!" Raven tormented herself and she ran her fingers through her hair and started to lie back down. With much effort she managed to go back to sleep to just see the other dream she had hoped she had gotten rid of.
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All of the Titans gathered in the living room. Cyborg was trying to find a good channel to watch, Beast Boy was talking to Terra about all their past missions, Robin and Starfire were talking about the Tamaranian government back on her home, Natalie was chatting with her friends on her cell phone, but Raven was just reading her usual book on the couch. Every once in a while, she would take a hidden towel and tap her forehead to cool down. From up close you could see water droplets shining on her forehead.
"AAAAAh! The big football game is on!" Cyborg jumped onto the couch and watched anxiously.
"Please don't – ok-" Robin was about to go yell at him but Starfire held him back by putting a hand on his shoulder.
They were into the game for about 10 minutes when they heard a crash on the roof and the game went off to just show some static.
"What's going on! Who dares to ruin Cy's game time?" Cyborg was steaming and was growling.
"Chill already! It's probably just your cable hook up!" Natalie burst out..
"Robin! Don't tell me you forgot to pay the bill!" Cyborg was charging up on Robin.
"Don't look at me! I pay the bill two weeks ago. You even made sure, remember?" Robin's vein started to pop.
"Friends! Please do not quarrel. We will simply go on the roof and inspect the cable system." Starfire begged her friends who were on the verge of committing homicide.
Everyone except Beast Boy, Terra, and Raven went on the roof. When they were up there they were shocked. The cables were burnt and there was a burn mark on the spot.
"That's interesting. It looks like it was hit by a starbolt. Star? Did you do this?" Robin looked at Starfire.
"No Robin. I wasn't up here all morning." Starfire explained.
"Yea. She was with us. Even you were talking with her." Natalie crossed her arm and tried to keep the wind from blowing the hair in her face.
"Well I hope you know how to fix this!" Cyborg was still angry and was tapping the tip of his foot impatiently.
"I can call the company but it'll take some time." Robin placed his hands on his hips and just shrugged.
"I suppose we'll just have to do without TV for a while." Robin saw the drastic look on Cyborg's face.
"There's got to be something on!" Cyborg looked as if Christmas was cancelled.
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"I can't believe it! There's nothing on!" Cyborg was clicking the same button on the remote for the past two hours.
"Well what do you expect? You guys only have 14 public channels on there that don't require cable." Natalie grabbed the remote and pressed two random numbers.
"I think that would be something appropriate for you to watch!" Natalie laughed as she gave the remote back to Cyborg. Cyborg slowly turned to see what was on to just scream.
"Augh! It's Barney! Someone please shield my eyes. I think I'm going blind someone please stop it. The light. I'm stepping towards the light! Some please stop me! I'm heading towards the light at the end of the tunnel." Cyborg screamed as he covered his eyes and rolled on the floor. Natalie just rolled her eyes and turned the TV off.
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Hours later Cyborg was in the closet with a phone next to his ear.
"Hey! Is this Tony? Yea, I heard you have this cable thing going on I wanna know how much it costs for you to do your thing!" Cyborg whispered into the device.
"Yea, no, my name? It's um, Cyborg from the Teen Titans. I'm not gonna rat on you man I just wanna get my foo ball game like any other brother. You'll be here in two hours! Ok I can wait. Wait, do you have any install it yourself discounts I can get?" Cyborg asked quickly before the closet door opened to reveal and pissed off Robin.
"Cyborg! Oh don't tell me you're trying to hook up the cable illegally! Give me that!" Robin grabbed the phone from Cyborg and hung up.
"I guess I'm busted huh?" Cyborg slouched away and left a disapproving Robin in the hallway.
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One hour later..........
"Think happy thoughts. Think happy thoughts. Think happy thoughts." Cyborg muttered to himself as he sat down behind the couch with his arms rapped around his knees and rocking side to side.
"Oh give me a break Cyborg! The cable's gonna be here tomorrow!" Robin kicked him.
All of the Titans entered and just stared at Cyborg who still rocking on the floor and Robin kicking him impatiently.
"Come on, what you need is some TV." Natalie helped Robin bring Cyborg over to the couch. She turned on the TV.
Cyborg who was still out of it, was trying to focus in on the images shown. Annoying words were trying to be understood.
'I love you, you love me.'
Cyborg's eyes were becoming wide.
'We're a happy family, with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you.'
"NO!!"
'Won't you say you love me too.'
"The Horror! The Horror!" Cyborg jumped and ran out of the room at seeing the big purple dinosaur appear on the screen.
While running by Raven he tripped and fell. He then picked himself up and continued to run.
"And you say I'm evil?" Raven muttered to Beast Boy. She then made a small smile.
Beast Boy however to Raven's surprise didn't smile back and just walked over to Terra.
"Come on Terra. Let me tell you about the time we were facing Thunder and Lightning on the ........." Raven felt taken aback and watched him leave the room with Terra.
She didn't understand. She just couldn't understand Beast Boy. Terra was a problem but now, would she be a personal problem as well?
She walked out of the room and headed for her dormitory. She entered silently and went over to her large mirror and stared at herself. All she saw was a shadow of a person that couldn't find love and that was going to end up alone all her life. That was the future she saw for herself. She was sure that if the way things were kept going, she would be a wreck one day. The question was can she change the future she has predicted for herself?
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"Enjoy your time on the stage my friends."
"Your curtain shall fall soon enough."
"I have finished the task you set me on. Though I still do not understand of what importance it is."
"The importance is not seen yet. You did reassure that you didn't just damage the cables did you?"
"No I damaged the cables and the radar. I made the cables more obvious as you asked."
"Good. I will alert my agent. Things are going according to plan."
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***Dream***
'Who is Slade? Who is Slade? Who-? Who is Slade?'
'Robin? Please respond!'
'Slade-'
'I don't want to hurt you.'
'-Slade'
'We need to control our emotions.'
'Don't you guys get it? They won we lost'
'Then the Teen Titans are finished.'
' It's over!'
'No.'
'-over'
'I wish Robin were here.'
'no'
'I made a mistake Starfire, it won't happen again.'
'And he won't get away with it.'
'I promise. –promise. –promise.'
Cruel laughter. A blowing sound. Another sound like lasers shooting. Ending with a huge explosion.
"Goodbye Titans."
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Well that was chapter 13. I didn't get a chance to say how great the first two episodes of season 2 were. The first was touching and made you think a bit. The second was pure laughter and funny-ness if that is a word. I hope to update real soon and I want those reviews to keep on coming.
Thank you to the people that reviewed. I want to thank the people that have been following the story and have been here since chapter one. I also want to thank people who are enjoying story and I hope you guys are satisfied with what I write. I promise I will listen to your reviews and if there's something you don't like then I'll try to change it as much as I can to make this story enjoyable. REVIEW!
-Story dedicated to T.D.
Disclaimer: Must I put this up? I do not own the Teen Titans.
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There she lay in her soft pink bed. Smiling, and staring at the ceiling. She was on it backwards and while her feet rested on her pillow, her head hung over the end. Her fiery hair was touching the immaculate floor. Her eyes were bright and all color was back in her face. She took a minute to enjoy this moment of calmness and shut her eyes.
All of a sudden she felt a bit of a warm breeze blowing in her face. She opened her eyes to see a very green face.
"Yo. What's up!" Beast Boy calmly said.
"Aaah!" Starfire yelped, turned over, and fell to the floor.
"Beast Boy! Please do not surprise me like that." Starfire panted as she held her chest. She then got and looked into Beast Boy's smiling face.
"Is there any reason why you voyaged into my dormitory?" Starfire asked curiously.
"Yea. Robin sent me to say that we need to head over to the training room." Beast Boy was excited for some reason.
"Very well then. Let us join our companions." Starfire hovered out of the room and Beast Boy followed.
They walked together down the hallway and into the elevator. They went to the second level where the whole floor was used for training and combat practice. It was gray and made out of metal.
On the other side were Robin, Raven, and Cyborg. Raven was looking as if she had to have been dragged here. Cyborg seemed quite out of tune since he was mysteriously watching the opposing wall. Robin however looked anxious.
"So tell me why have we all been gathered here?" Starfire asked her teammates.
"We're supposed to be training a certain someone who is late." Raven grumbled and pointed impatiently at the clock behind them, which read 9:23.
"Oh come on Raven! Don't tell me you've never been late to practice." Beast Boy said with a bit of anger in his voice.
"I haven't ever been late, I've always come five minutes early unlike you who thinks he can show up thirty minutes tardy and call it fashionably late." Raven's vein started to pop.
"Please don't fight like this when the kid arrives. Now what kind of example are you two going to show?" Cyborg corrected them.
"Where is Natalie?" Starfire seemed to notice she was missing.
"I think she's in the garage. She's been in there since yesterday." Robin took out a clipboard and started to write some things on it.
"What do you mean she's in the garage? I bet she's messing up my baby! Ooh! If that girl touches my car she's dead!" Cyborg was about to head out when the door burst open with a motorcycle charging through.
The rider rode it all the way to where the Titans were standing and stopped right in front of Cyborg. The rider took off the helmet to reveal Natalie. She got off the motorcycle and closed Cyborg's open mouth.
"Setting perfect examples huh?" Beast Boy muttered sarcastically.
"So what you think of your baby now?" She said smugly.
"What you do to my baby!" Cyborg then looked at the motorcycle. "What have you turned my baby into!" He hugged the motorcycle and cried while Natalie just rolled her eyes.
"I meant what you think of your car in comparison to this thing I hooked up." She pulled Cyborg off the bike and the Titans now got a good view of it.
It was painted red and green and the seat was yellow. It had thick black tires and an 'R' painted on the front. She showed the helmet that was also red with a black and white 'R' on it.
"I present to you, the 'R-cycle'! I inspected that car of yours, Cyborg, and I figured it just wasn't capable of major transportation that required small and swift chases. So since you have that bulky car of yours, and everybody else can fly, I decided to give this to Robin." She said while ignoring Cyborg's confused face.
"Um, thanks." Robin said with uncertainty.
"It is glorious!" Starfire exclaimed while bending down to get a better look at its different angles.
"Cool." Beast Boy hopped on and made whooshing sounds.
"More vehicles?" Raven raised an eyebrow.
"Wait! Where did you get the material and cash for this thing?" Cyborg asked Natalie as if he was robbed.
"I ordered a model and it was dropped off yesterday in the mail. Sure I had to fix it up bit but I used some your spare materials that you used on your car. I found some paint and you can tell what happened from there. And NO! I didn't steal any money from you. In fact I paid for it last month." She smiled widely.
"Oh really, and since when are you a mechanic?" Cyborg asked with much suspicion.
"It's a hobby of mine. Then again, even after 12 years of knowing each other there's a lot of things you don't know about me." Natalie said slyly.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Cyborg snapped back but Natalie just shrugged her shoulders.
Again the doors opened to reveal the familiar face of Terra. She was smiling and ran over to the Titans.
"I'm so sorry I'm late. The excitement must've gotten to my head and well I kind of overslept." She blushed in embarrassment.
"It's alright, I do that all the time." Beast Boy spoke up.
"Wow, Beast Boy admitting his wrongs, must be the sign of the Apocalypse." Raven again grumbled. Beast Boy turned crimson red that was noticed in his green complexion.
"Ok! Let's get down to business. Cyborg, set up the computer for the practical test and Raven can get the questions ready." Robin tried to break the other two Titans' fight up.
Cyborg marched off to the side that had a door leading to a smaller room with a glass window viewing the actual training room. Inside were many buttons and different screens.
Raven however snatched the clipboard from Robin's hand and used her power to summon a chair from the other side of the room. She sat down and took a minute to look through the notes.
"So what're the questions about?" Terra asked brightly.
" They help us know what you would do in a tense situation or how would you use your gift to solve the troubling ordeals." Starfire replied with a smile and her fingers laced together.
"Right." Terra looked quite calm and didn't feel any nervous feelings.
"Well then, let's begin shall we." Raven got everyone's attention back and began to read the first question.
"Just tell me what would you do in this situation with the following options. 'Imagine you're fighting some thugs with your teammates. If one of your teammates needed help with their opponent but you were about to capture the ringleader what would you do? A. Ignore your teammate and follow the kingpin. B. Go and help your teammate. Or C. Stay where you are and don't do anything at all." Raven asked monotonously.
"I actually picked C. when Robin popped me that question." Beast Boy whispered to Starfire.
"I think........ B." Terra finally responded and Raven read the next question and the next question following that.
On and on the question followed. There were some hard ones and easy ones. Sometimes it would take seconds and yet sometimes it would take minutes. Every five questions you would hear Beast Boy's opinion of the question being whispered into Starfire's ear. However Raven wasn't only taking note of the answer being given, but the reactions as well.
"Ok, that was one half of the test. Robin will now analyze your answers and will come back with the results." Raven pushed the clipboard into Robin's chest and stepped back.
"Ow. The next part of the exam will be the practical one where we will test you physically and mentally on the field of battle." Robin tried to make it sound as exciting as possible.
"Can you believe I almost did worse on this part than the question?" Beast Boy again told Starfire.
"For some reason Beast Boy, I find that I can believe you on that." Starfire made Beast Boy sweat drop.
"Alright Cy! Turn on level one!" Robin called out. He waited for several minutes but nothing happened.
"Um Cyborg! I said to turn on level one!" Robin yelled again. Then after a minute, Cyborg showed his head through the glass window and showed and ok- sign.
"The little boy obviously doesn't know what he's doing. I'm gonna go and give him a hand." Natalie said impatiently and marched into the room.
"You know it's gonna be World War III in there don't you?" Raven muttered.
"Oh well, let's just make sure they get the computer working." Robin smiled.
They waited for a couple of minutes. They felt the ground shake two times but other then that the battle stimulation got started.
Out of the walls came targets and from the metal floor came walls that just popped up.
"Ok the first thing you need to do is to basically get from this side of the room to that side." Robin then brought his attention to Beast Boy who was trying to spike is hair up casually.
"Hey Beast boy, do you mind giving Terra a quick demonstration?" Robin surprised him a bit at the mention of his name.
"No. Um, why not?" Beast Boy sweat dropped and strutted over to the starting line.
"Well this should be entertaining." Raven muttered to Starfire who just giggled.
"Hey Cy! Set the thing up." Robin called to the window. Instead of Cyborg up came Natalie who nodded with a wide smile. It appeared as if she was forcing something down.
"Ok on the count of three! One..........two.........three!" Robin yelled and Beast Boy set off.
Now that the field was activated, the walls that sprung from the floor were moving and the targets from the walls shot out revealing guns to be there instead.
Beast Boy ran through dodging the walls and managed to hit the targets that were in mid-air. As he came to where the lasers were however didn't go too well.
"AW MAN! I just got these pants!" Beast Boy tried to fan his butt which was currently on fire.
"Shoot the emergency water gun!" Robin again yelled at the window.
"Oh shoot!" Beast Boy grumbled as he was drenched in ice cold water that shot from the wall.
"Beast Boy! Are you undamaged?" Starfire yelled from afar.
"You really know how to fire things up don't you?" Raven muttered.
"I am fine Star, thank you for asking. It seems as if you're the only one that cares anyway." Beast Boy retorted as he walked back over to them.
"What do you mean?" Starfire asked as Beast Boy walked past her and sat right down.
"I mean even if I do mess up once in a while doesn't mean someone has to act evil all the time!" Beast Boy shot a glare at Raven who just rolled her eyes.
"Um, guys. Can we talk about this later? I mean we're kind of busy at the moment." Robin whispered from the side of his mouth.
"Whatever." Beast Boy huffed and just continued to sit with his arms crossed.
"Ok, now Terra, why don't you try to go across............"
~*~
"I can't believe it. She would actually embarrass me like that in front of everybody. I guess Raven doesn't have a heart after all." Beast Boy groaned as he sat quietly on his bed.
"I don't get it. She seemed so nice at that dance party but now she's all mean like before." Beast Boy wondered.
"Maybe the kindness I saw was just a phase because there's no way that all her meanness would be a phase that lasts this long." Beast Boy let his head rest on the palms on his hand.
Just then the door opened and Beast Boy saw Terra's face poke out.
"Hey. Sorry if I interrupted but I just came back from the bathroom and I got ,well, pretty much lost." She smiled and blushed in embarrassment.
"It's ok. The living room should be down the hall. Fifth door on your left." Beast Boy said with his head bowed down.
"Are you ok? You look kind of bummed." Terra now opened the door fully and leaned on the side.
"Well you would if you found out that the one thing that would give you hope each day wasn't really ever there." Beast Boy looked at Terra's face. It was full of concern and understanding.
"I did. To tell you the truth, I guess I had one of those situations too." Terra slowly walked in and sat next to Beast Boy.
"Really, what was the thing you thought was there but then you found out wasn't really there." Beast Boy said this quickly and started to blush.
"It wasn't really much of a thing, it was a person. When my parents died and I had to go live with my aunt as she was the only relative thought to be mine at the time. When I was there, I felt really bad. I just kept to myself and hardly talked with anyone. That was when my powers became active." Terra paused for a minute.
"You mean you always didn't have your powers?" Beast Boy asked curiously.
"I did but they just weren't active. In fact, my whole family had those powers and I remember how my mom would dream and fantasize how wonderful it would be when I got my powers but I guess it wasn't meant to be." Terra bowed her head down and Beast Boy regretted asking that question.
"So please continue about the thing you lost." Beast Boy didn't want to push the subject about her parents too much after seeing her reaction.
"After I found out my powers were growing I didn't know what to do. I told my aunt but she just sent me to this strange place. They just told me that they were going to help me to control my powers and teach me how to do good things with them. I used to think every night how much good I would do, but the real truth was found out soon. They were just going to use me as a weapon to take over who knows what and I just ran away. My aunt made sure that they were stopped and somehow she hushed up the fact that I had powers. No one knows about them except you guys." Terra began to show a dark look on her face.
"Wow. That must've been tough. How do you feel about the whole thing?" Beast Boy hardly knew what to say about what he'd just heard. He just saw the dark look on her face fade away.
"I felt angry, really angry." Terra just said simply.
"Maybe I should go now. The other Titans were waiting for me in the living room. See you later?" Terra walked toward the door.
"Yea." Beast Boy smiled as he watched her leave.
"Maybe hope isn't lost after all." Beast Boy said to himself.
~*~
Raven sat on the couch with her fingers tapping on the seat next to her. Robin was in the kitchen getting a drink with Starfire while Cyborg and Natalie were reading magazines on opposite sides of the room.
'I am not that mean to Beast Boy. He just needs to understand that I have no patience to deal with dunderheads like him. But then again everyone else says I act a bit impatient with them as well. Ok, since when do I care what everyone else thinks anyway.' Raven thought to herself.
"I'm sorry I took long. I got lost and had to ask for directions." Terra popped out of the door and blushed.
"Well I guess we can finally tell you then." Robin looked at the other Titans and nodded.
"Wait! Let me get out of the room first." Raven stood up abruptly and left.
"Don't worry about her, she's just overwhelmed by the excitement." Cyborg explained rapidly.
"Yea and you should be too. We've decided to let you become a Titan. Of course not an official one just yet but we'll just have to give it a few days' tries." Robin said with a smile.
"Congratulations Terra." Starfire beamed at her.
"Welcome to the team." Cyborg put one thumb up. Natalie just smiled at her from across the room.
"Wow! This is amazing! Thank you guys so much!" Terra jumped up and down.
"Tomorrow we'll move you in." Robin informed.
"Don't worry. I'll be here. (On time.)" Terra ran out of the room and left with a big smile on her face.
"You think what you guys just did was wise?" Natalie asked silently.
"We'll just have to wait and see to find out." Robin said with much exasperation.
"Well I'm gonna hit the sack. I'm beat." Cyborg yawned.
"Yes. I would also like to rest. We've all had a long day." Starfire put her hands together and looked at her friends.
"Yea. See ya." Natalie left for her room.
Robin just nodded and left with Cyborg and Starfire behind him. Lights went out and so did they.
~*~
Raven again slept badly that night. She was squeezing the dark covers and her forehead was wet with her purple hair sticking to her head.
She was twisting and turning. This time she was plagued with a different dream. She only saw flashes of familiar scenes and heard things that she had wanted to forget.
***Dream***
'Who is Slade? Who is Slade? Who-? Who is Slade?'
'Robin? Please respond!'
'Slade-'
'I don't want to hurt you.'
'-Slade'
'We need to control our emotions.'
'Don't you guys get it? They won we lost'
'Then the Teen Titans are finished.'
' It's over!'
'No.'
'-over'
'I wish Robin were here.'
'no'
'I made a mistake Starfire, it won't happen again.'
'And he won't get away with it.'
'I promise. –promise. –promise.'
Just then a shadow appeared. It was of a mask. Half of it was showing but the other half was cloaked in darkness. Only one cold eye showed with much
hatred released thought it. It then spoke.
'Enjoy your time on the stage while it lasts my friends.'
'Your curtain will fall soon enough.'
'-enough.'
'-enough.'
An eerie silence followed. Then flashes followed of her friends on the ground, still, on their backs, and with no life showing in their eyes. Robin was with black and orange armor, Starfire with a crown on her head, Cyborg and Natalie were lying near each other but their hands were two inches apart from each other, Beast Boy had a blood stain where his heart would be, and Raven's lifeless body was lying far away from them with no wounds whatsoever. She was just alone.
***
She woke up again. She was panting. She held the covers close to herself and dried her face with them. She failed to notice again that the gem on her forehead was glowing yet it faded seconds later. Soon tears came running down her cheeks.
"Why won't it just leave me alone!" Raven tormented herself and she ran her fingers through her hair and started to lie back down. With much effort she managed to go back to sleep to just see the other dream she had hoped she had gotten rid of.
~*~
All of the Titans gathered in the living room. Cyborg was trying to find a good channel to watch, Beast Boy was talking to Terra about all their past missions, Robin and Starfire were talking about the Tamaranian government back on her home, Natalie was chatting with her friends on her cell phone, but Raven was just reading her usual book on the couch. Every once in a while, she would take a hidden towel and tap her forehead to cool down. From up close you could see water droplets shining on her forehead.
"AAAAAh! The big football game is on!" Cyborg jumped onto the couch and watched anxiously.
"Please don't – ok-" Robin was about to go yell at him but Starfire held him back by putting a hand on his shoulder.
They were into the game for about 10 minutes when they heard a crash on the roof and the game went off to just show some static.
"What's going on! Who dares to ruin Cy's game time?" Cyborg was steaming and was growling.
"Chill already! It's probably just your cable hook up!" Natalie burst out..
"Robin! Don't tell me you forgot to pay the bill!" Cyborg was charging up on Robin.
"Don't look at me! I pay the bill two weeks ago. You even made sure, remember?" Robin's vein started to pop.
"Friends! Please do not quarrel. We will simply go on the roof and inspect the cable system." Starfire begged her friends who were on the verge of committing homicide.
Everyone except Beast Boy, Terra, and Raven went on the roof. When they were up there they were shocked. The cables were burnt and there was a burn mark on the spot.
"That's interesting. It looks like it was hit by a starbolt. Star? Did you do this?" Robin looked at Starfire.
"No Robin. I wasn't up here all morning." Starfire explained.
"Yea. She was with us. Even you were talking with her." Natalie crossed her arm and tried to keep the wind from blowing the hair in her face.
"Well I hope you know how to fix this!" Cyborg was still angry and was tapping the tip of his foot impatiently.
"I can call the company but it'll take some time." Robin placed his hands on his hips and just shrugged.
"I suppose we'll just have to do without TV for a while." Robin saw the drastic look on Cyborg's face.
"There's got to be something on!" Cyborg looked as if Christmas was cancelled.
~*~
"I can't believe it! There's nothing on!" Cyborg was clicking the same button on the remote for the past two hours.
"Well what do you expect? You guys only have 14 public channels on there that don't require cable." Natalie grabbed the remote and pressed two random numbers.
"I think that would be something appropriate for you to watch!" Natalie laughed as she gave the remote back to Cyborg. Cyborg slowly turned to see what was on to just scream.
"Augh! It's Barney! Someone please shield my eyes. I think I'm going blind someone please stop it. The light. I'm stepping towards the light! Some please stop me! I'm heading towards the light at the end of the tunnel." Cyborg screamed as he covered his eyes and rolled on the floor. Natalie just rolled her eyes and turned the TV off.
~*~
Hours later Cyborg was in the closet with a phone next to his ear.
"Hey! Is this Tony? Yea, I heard you have this cable thing going on I wanna know how much it costs for you to do your thing!" Cyborg whispered into the device.
"Yea, no, my name? It's um, Cyborg from the Teen Titans. I'm not gonna rat on you man I just wanna get my foo ball game like any other brother. You'll be here in two hours! Ok I can wait. Wait, do you have any install it yourself discounts I can get?" Cyborg asked quickly before the closet door opened to reveal and pissed off Robin.
"Cyborg! Oh don't tell me you're trying to hook up the cable illegally! Give me that!" Robin grabbed the phone from Cyborg and hung up.
"I guess I'm busted huh?" Cyborg slouched away and left a disapproving Robin in the hallway.
~*~
One hour later..........
"Think happy thoughts. Think happy thoughts. Think happy thoughts." Cyborg muttered to himself as he sat down behind the couch with his arms rapped around his knees and rocking side to side.
"Oh give me a break Cyborg! The cable's gonna be here tomorrow!" Robin kicked him.
All of the Titans entered and just stared at Cyborg who still rocking on the floor and Robin kicking him impatiently.
"Come on, what you need is some TV." Natalie helped Robin bring Cyborg over to the couch. She turned on the TV.
Cyborg who was still out of it, was trying to focus in on the images shown. Annoying words were trying to be understood.
'I love you, you love me.'
Cyborg's eyes were becoming wide.
'We're a happy family, with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you.'
"NO!!"
'Won't you say you love me too.'
"The Horror! The Horror!" Cyborg jumped and ran out of the room at seeing the big purple dinosaur appear on the screen.
While running by Raven he tripped and fell. He then picked himself up and continued to run.
"And you say I'm evil?" Raven muttered to Beast Boy. She then made a small smile.
Beast Boy however to Raven's surprise didn't smile back and just walked over to Terra.
"Come on Terra. Let me tell you about the time we were facing Thunder and Lightning on the ........." Raven felt taken aback and watched him leave the room with Terra.
She didn't understand. She just couldn't understand Beast Boy. Terra was a problem but now, would she be a personal problem as well?
She walked out of the room and headed for her dormitory. She entered silently and went over to her large mirror and stared at herself. All she saw was a shadow of a person that couldn't find love and that was going to end up alone all her life. That was the future she saw for herself. She was sure that if the way things were kept going, she would be a wreck one day. The question was can she change the future she has predicted for herself?
~*~
"Enjoy your time on the stage my friends."
"Your curtain shall fall soon enough."
"I have finished the task you set me on. Though I still do not understand of what importance it is."
"The importance is not seen yet. You did reassure that you didn't just damage the cables did you?"
"No I damaged the cables and the radar. I made the cables more obvious as you asked."
"Good. I will alert my agent. Things are going according to plan."
~*~
***Dream***
'Who is Slade? Who is Slade? Who-? Who is Slade?'
'Robin? Please respond!'
'Slade-'
'I don't want to hurt you.'
'-Slade'
'We need to control our emotions.'
'Don't you guys get it? They won we lost'
'Then the Teen Titans are finished.'
' It's over!'
'No.'
'-over'
'I wish Robin were here.'
'no'
'I made a mistake Starfire, it won't happen again.'
'And he won't get away with it.'
'I promise. –promise. –promise.'
Cruel laughter. A blowing sound. Another sound like lasers shooting. Ending with a huge explosion.
"Goodbye Titans."
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Well that was chapter 13. I didn't get a chance to say how great the first two episodes of season 2 were. The first was touching and made you think a bit. The second was pure laughter and funny-ness if that is a word. I hope to update real soon and I want those reviews to keep on coming.
Thank you to the people that reviewed. I want to thank the people that have been following the story and have been here since chapter one. I also want to thank people who are enjoying story and I hope you guys are satisfied with what I write. I promise I will listen to your reviews and if there's something you don't like then I'll try to change it as much as I can to make this story enjoyable. REVIEW!
-Story dedicated to T.D.