AN: Sorry, worst chapter ever. Still don't own Teen Titans btw. But I'm still trying

Heart of Stone: Chapter XII

Beast Boy waited impatiently outside the infirmary. Cyborg had kicked them out so he could remove the device from Raven, since she was too complex and any mistake could unleash her power. But Terra was in there too and he had no idea how she was doing, but he knew that if anything happened to her, it was his fault.

"Come on, Terra," he said quietly. "I know you can pull through this."

He still couldn't believe that he done that to her, even if he was under Slade's control. He still knew what he was doing and it was as if he had a voice in the back of his head telling him not to follow his orders.

Hours went by without a word and Beast Boy was getting more and more worried. Finally, the door opened and Terra walked out, covered in bandages and stitches. He immediately rushed over to her and embraced her. "I'm sorry," he told her, trying to hold back tears.

"It's ok," she answered, pulling away and looked him in the eyes, smiling.

"No, it's not ok, you could've died. And also, I told you that you were the only one who could control your powers. Then why couldn't I?"

"That's completely different, he had you under mind control," said Terra. "It's not like you realized what you were doing."

"But I did, and something was telling me it was wrong, but I didn't listen. I was too weak…" he trailed off.

"But still, it's all in the past. You can't change it, all that matters now is that you're ok."

"I guess you're right…" As he said this, the door opened again and Cyborg walked out.

"How's Raven?" Terra asked

"She's ok, she'll come to in a while," he said. "And you should be sleeping." She and Beast Boy walked off in the direction of their rooms. "And that does NOT count as sleeping!" He yelled after the two. "Damn sick-minded kids…."

"Wasn't thinking that until you were," Terra said quietly, trying not to laugh.

"I heard that!"

"D'oh!" (AN: darn spell check… that's a real word now, it's actually in the dictionary)

Beast Boy looked at Terra as they were outside her room. "You should really get some rest, you're still healing."

"You're right… Some other time then?" she said, winking at him and he blushed, realizing what she meant, but laughed it off. She kissed Beast Boy on the cheek and went into her room.

The next day, Raven had regained consciousness and Terra was feeling better, although denying the painkillers Beast Boy kept offering her.

"Awww, come on, Terra, they'll make you feel better," he begged.

"But I'm alright," she protested.

The alarm went off, indicating that there was trouble.

"Titans, go!" Robin said to the other five.

Illusion was by herself, but that meant nothing; who knew what she could conjure? "I see the three of you are doing alright," she said to Raven, Beast Boy and Terra, her voice dripping with bitterness as she glared angrily at them.

"We're doing just fine," said Raven, grinning. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" She picked up a trashcan telekinetically and threw it at Illusion, but she disappeared before it could make impact.

"Shocking that you still haven't learned. But kinda amusing in a way," said a voice behind them. "Never trust your senses." She began to multiply until there were about forty of her circling them. Beast Boy's jaw dropped; Raven's eyes widened; Starfire looked around in shock; Terra eyed the numerous illusions cautiously while Robin gritted his teeth and tightened his fists and Cyborg exclaimed, "Now how the hell are we gonna beat her!"

"We can take them!" said Robin, reassuringly. "Go!"

They attacked them with everything they had, but each time, it would just disappear and a new copy sprung up.

One of the copies unsheathed a katana and ran towards Raven from behind.

"Raven!" Robin yelled, trying to warn her. She turned around, but Illusion was already slashing her. They had expected Raven to fall in a puddle of her own blood, but she still stood and there was no blood.

"Raven!" she heard Robin yell as she was about to attack an other of the copies and she caught a glimpse of the blade and turned around as Illusion tried to take a downward swing at her shoulder. She's NOT real! she told herself an suddenly, just as the blade touched her, the copy disappeared. In fact, all the copies disappeared. She had no idea how it had happened but she saw in the distance who she could guess was the real one.

"Raven?" Starfire asked, confused.

"Terra! We need an earthquake to throw off her concentration!"

"What?"

"Just do it!"

"Ok…" said Terra in an 'it's-not-my-fault-if-you-get-killed voice as she caused the ground to shake beneath them. The illusions of Illusion () disappeared as the real one fell over. Starfire shot bolts at her and Beast Boy ran towards her as he transformed into a wolf. A dart hit him in the neck, although the assailant was not visible, but he passed out quickly, transforming back to his original state.

Illusion pulled out a smoke bomb and used it to make her exit, undetected.

The smoke had cleared and Terra ran over to Beast Boy and pulled the dart out of his neck and noticed an "S" on it.

"You think he's hiding at the same place as before?" asked Robin, who was standing behind her.

"I think chances are good," Raven answered.

They were back at the tower and Beast Boy finally regained consciousness.

"What happened, Raven?" Cyborg asked.

"I just realized it wasn't real and then she disappeared."

"But we all knew they were! " exclaimed a confused Beast Boy, waving his arms around in a comical fashion.

"Did we?" asked Robin. "Or were we still afraid?"

"Makes sense," agreed Cyborg, nodding slightly. "Just like the placebo effect: Believing it is enough."

"So why are you still here then?" Beast Boy asked.

"You," they all responded in unison.

"Nevermind…"

(AN: sorry, I suck at ending scenes )

They were where Slade had been hiding out previously, but found nothing.

"Keep searching, we may be able to at least find some clues," said Robin.

"Was this here before?" Beast Boy asked. There was a discrete line in on of the walls, that if one looked closely enough, could tell was a door. "How do we open this thing?" As if on cue, it slid open, leading to a tunnel. The six of them followed it for a while until they were in a cave. (AN: sorry that caves are so cliché in these instances )

In his usual way, Slade slipped out of the shadows, but with a firm grip on Illusion's arm, who had a combination of fear and anger.

"I see you've found out her secret," he said, referring to Illusion, who eyed them angrily.

"You can't expect us to fall for your pathetic mind tricks," said Robin, smirking.

"Hence why there's no use for her anymore," said Slade coldly. Illusion went rigid, then fell limply to the ground with a knife in her back which pierced her heart. "Now that she's out of the picture…" he continued, and as if on cue, about forty robots emerged from who knows where, circling them.

"We can take 'em on, easily," said Robin, encouragingly, then in his usual tone, "Titans, go!"

Sometime during the battle, they had gotten separated somehow by pursuing different robots. Terra was by herself, facing two of them. Mechanical parts from already defeated soldiers were scattered.

She delivered a final blow to the remaining two, a boulder dislocating their limbs. She then became suspicious; it was too easy. Like they were just supposed to get them all apart.

She went to go see if she could find any of the others, but something stopped her. She knew Slade was behind her and she had to end this.

AN: Sorry I took so long to get this out. Had writers block. I knew where I wanted to head, but I had trouble getting to that point, hence the sucky-ness. I just threw a bunch of stuff together to get there.