DISCLAIMER: I do not own the Teen Titans. why don't I, you ask? because I'm poor. that's why.

Chapter 2

The Fall of Beastboy

Robin stared hard into the camera again. Taking a deep breath, he began his story.

"Beastboy was the first one to be claimed by Riker. It started out as just a normal picnic..."

Flashback

"Come on BB! Throw it over here!" Yelled Cyborg, running down the long grassy field.

"Right!" Beastboy shouted in reply, as he took a step forwards and launched the football towards his robotic friend. Cyborg made a leaping catch, landing hard on the ground.

"Wonderful! A fabulous catch friend!" Starfire cried, clapping her hands.

"Hey, what about my throw? He wouldn't have made that catch if I hadn't thrown it as hard as I could!" Beastboy whined.

"It was a good throw, Beastboy. Though you nearly overthrew him." Robin said as he walked up to his green friend.

"HA! I must have nearly overthrew him because I am so buff!" Beastboy said, flexing his skinny arms and smiling to himself. "What'd ya think Raven? Am I buff or what?"

Raven glances up from the book she was reading.

"Whatever." She says, as she goes back to reading.

"Aw, is that all you can say? Come on Rav..."

Beastboy didn't have a chance to finish, as he was hit in the head with the football, knocking him on the ground. In the distance, he could hear Cyborg laughing at him. Picking himself up, Beastboy grabs a huge pinecone. Transforming into a gorilla, he lets out a mighty roar, and hurls the pinecone at Cyborg. He watched as it hit him full force in the head. Turning back to normal, he yells out, "PINECONE WAR!" Cyborg picked up the pinecone that had just hit him and hurled it back at Beastboy, who turned into a squirrel and dodged it easily. The pinecone flew past him, nearly hitting Robin, and instead hit a man standing behind him. The pinecone bounced off the black armor that covered the man's entire body.

"Oh dude! Sorry about that! Are you ok?" Cyborg asks, as he runs over to the armored man.

In a raspy, cold sounding voice, the man replies. "I'm better then ok."

The man grabs Cyborg by the arm and hurls him back towards the Titans. The Titans immediately prepare for a fight, Raven threw down her book and joined her friends, as Beastboy turned back to human form and took a fighting stance. Cyborg quickly got to his feet.

"Who are you?" Robin asked the armored figure, his staff in his hands, ready to fight.

"Why Robin, I'm surprised you forgot who I am. Though I guess I shouldn't be. It has been eight years since you and that damn Justice League took my team, my family down. Now, I'm back to repay the favor." The armored figure said.

Robin's eyes went wide as he remembered what had happened all those years ago.

"RIKER! Titans, GO!" Robin shouted, launching himself at Riker. Riker easily grabbed the staff and hurled Robin into a tree, knocking him out of commission for the time being.

"Robin!" Starfire cried as she threw starbolt after starbolt at Riker. Riker dodged them easily, back flipping to get some ground. As Starfire stopped firing them, Riker took position and fired a blast of his own from his hand. The weak blast hit Starfire in the chest, and she fell to the ground in pain.

"Enough of this. It is time for me to start my revenge!" Riker bellowed. Putting his hands together, Riker chanted an ancient phrase, and the Titans watched as his body turned into a seemingly black spirit. They watched in awe as the spirit form of Riker flew full speed towards Beastboy, entering his body through his mouth.

Beastboy stumbled back, holding his throat, as if doing that would somehow keep Riker out. Beastboy began coughing violently, managing to choke out a few words in the process.

"Get...out...of...me..."

Another voice exited Beastboy's mouth; it sounded like Riker's.

"Sorry Beastboy. I'm in control now."

Robin had regained consciousness and ran to his friends, who were surrounding the possessed Beastboy.

"Raven! Can you do anything?!" Robin asked, his voice worried about his friend.

"I can try. I'm going to try and push Riker out of Beastboy." Raven replied. "Azerath, Metrion, Zenthos!" Raven cried out, a raven forming out of her powers. The raven flew towards Beastboy, attempting to force it's way through his mouth, as Riker had done. The raven was shot out of the mouth, hitting Raven with the full force of her own power.

"Ugh!" Raven cried as it hit her, knocking her back a few yards.

"Sorry, but there's only room for one in here!" Riker's voice boomed out of Beastboy's mouth. "Now watch and learn Robin! This is what happens when you cross me!"

Beastboy grabbed his left arm with his right, which had turned into a gorilla arm, and began to pull. Hard. Beastboy cried out in pain as his shoulder was heard dislocating.

"Beastboy! Riker stop!" Robin yelled.

This seemed to make Beastboy pull even harder, as his uniform began to tear, showing his bare left arm, the Titans saw his skin begin to rip, blood began flowing out.

"AAAAHHH!!!" Beastboy screamed in agony, tears flowing out of his eyes.

The Titans watched in horror as Beastboy completely ripped his own arm off, letting it drop to the ground. Blood spurted from the stump where his arm used to connect to his body.

"What do you think, Robin? I like him with one arm!" Riker said, his voice coming out of Beastboy's mouth.

Beastboy stopped screaming, as his body began to bulge unnaturally. The Titans watched, as they heard his bones snapping and skin growing big bumps. Beastboy's skin suddenly broke apart, as the last of his bones snapped, his body fell in two pieces on the ground, and standing there was Riker, covered in Beastboy's blood. Starfire had broken down and begun to cry when it started to happen, the other Titans watched silently, tears brimming all of their eyes, knowing they could not do a damn thing to help their friend.

"One down Robin. One down, and four to go." Riker said, laughing.

"I'LL KILL YOU!" Robin and Cyborg shouted at the same time, each launching themselves at the man whom had just killed their friend.

"Maybe later. For now, I shall be leaving." Riker said, as he seemed to melt into the ground.

Cyborg and Robin hit the ground where Riker had been just a split second before. Cyborg got to his feet, then fell to his knees, sobbing. He hit the ground where Riker had been over and over, his fist punching a hole deeper each time he landed it. Robin looked back at Starfire and Raven, and saw that they were comforting each other, both crying over the loss of their friend. Robin sat down next to Cyborg, trying to get him to come away from the corpse of their fallen friend.