Chapter 8: Heart stopping

AAAAAANND here it is folks! The moment you've all been waiting for. (at least, you should be waiting for it.) The one, the only, the fiiiinal chapter!!! BUT before we begin, I have an important note. Please read the stuff at the bottom after the story, as it contains valuable info about upcoming stories. Thank all reviewers, past, present, and future for this story, and I hope to see you all in my next story!

Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans… I just have them locked in my basement.

The Titans heard the heart monitor machine start that awful noise. Bliiiiiiiiiiiiiiip. But they refused to believe that it was true. It couldn't be. Beast Boy couldn't have – did he? They ran into the room, where Doctor Kraner was frozen, speechless. Cyborg looked like someone had just come in and told him that – well, that Beast Boy was dead. Robin's expression was unreadable behind the mask. Starfire had a river of tears flowing silently down her cheeks, and Raven a single silver trail.

They looked at the little green teenager. No one dared say anything, confirm anything at all. Speaking would be admitting that the tragedy was real.

Bliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip…

Then…

A twitch

Of an ear

Pointy

Green

Ear

And Beast Boy's eyes opened

And the machine began its soothing march… blip blip blip blip…

A week later…

Beast Boy and Cyborg were in the living room, playing their videogames. Robin sat behind them, next to Starfire, and the two cheered them on. Even Raven was there, eyes fixed on the green changeling. Everyone present was extremely glad that he was alright.

Beast Boy thrashed Cyborg (for the third time in the last five minutes) and Cyborg stood up, and began searching for the remote. "Where is that stupid thing??" the robotic teen asked the couch. Then the control was handed to him by… a slimy tongue?

Cyborg's – and everyone else's – glance shot over to Beast Boy, who pulled the tongue back in and grinned. "New trick," he said, still with the mischievous grin. "I can combine different parts of different animals." And with that, he grew into a lion-headed hippo with the feet of an ostrich and the tail of a horse. "Cool, huh?" he said.

"You can talk when you're in another form? That's new too, BB," came Robin's slightly astonished voice. "Great. Now there'll be no shutting him up," Raven muttered, but you could tell she was kidding.

Suddenly, the doorbell rang. Starfire flew over to get the door, and was greeted by Doctor Kraner. "Oh, how wonderful! It is the doctor who cured Beast Boy!" And with that, Starfire grabbed him by the hand, and pulled him over to the rest of the Titans.

"Um, hello, everyone…" Kraner began. He seemed extraordinarily uncomfortable, or was it… apprehensive? "Uh, sorry I didn't catch this before, but… what is your name?" Beast Boy asked.

"Well, Beast Boy… actually, I don't know you as Beast Boy. The only thing I ever called you was… Gar."

Beast Boy froze for a moment, then rocketed off of the couch and into the doctor. "UNCLE LLOYD!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!!! I thought you were still living in Asia! How- when- why are you back?!?!?!"

Uncle Lloyd just grinned. "Something told me that I should come here. So I did. Good thing, too, because I get to meet up with my favorite nephew, the son of my favorite sister!"

"Uncle Lloyd, I'm you're ONLY nephew, and Mom was your ONLY sibling. HAH!"

"Ah, shuddap."

"No! Hey, ya wanna play videogames with me and Cy? We've got Super Monkey 5!!!!"

"All right, bring it on!"

Beast Boy turned out to be okay, gained a new ability, AND found an uncle, all in a span of a week. Pretty good for the green dude, don'tcha think? And of course, he still had to pull off that trick on Robin and Star…

THE END.

SO DID YOU LOVE IT??? I know you did. Really truly honestly, you did. Review for me, 'kay?

SOOO here's the plan for maybe this week, depending on when I have time to write. I am going to do a new fic called "Someone Like Me" and this time, I don't think anyone will have a near death experience. But I can't promise it. Oh, and in case I haven't already pointed this out, all of my stories – except for one shots, which I will be posting a few of soon – are all connected. So anything that happens or abilities gained or whatever will carry into my next chapter story. It's like a great biiiig connected , uh, thing!

So come and read "Someone like me" when it comes out, and in the meantime, REVIEW!

-Firestorm (Blazey to raeandrob4eva, of course)