Terra's Return
Chapter Three: Recovery
Beast Boy was once again in his room going over the events of the day. Terra was back, but she was completely different. Not only did she not recognize her friends, but she tried to attack him! Didn't she remember her best friend?
Just then, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in," he said.
Just as last time, it was Robin.
"You're O.K.?" he asked.
"Yeah," Beast Boy said, "just a little shaken, that's all."
"Yeah," Robin said. "We all are. I don't understand what happened. We did everything the way we were supposed to. She should be back now."
"She's been dead... or not moving for a year. Maybe she forgot about us."
"No, that can't be right. Maybe it had to do with... I don't know what went wrong."
Beast Boy didn't say anything for while. This was a bit depressing that she didn't remember him. He thought about her everyday since she was casted into stone. Now that she was back, she didn't remember him. How low could it get?
The answer came once the others came in.
"There's been sort of a problem," Cyborg informed them.
"What?" Beast Boy said, looking up.
They went down to the basement, where Terra was held captive in the cage. She seemed to be sleeping.
"What happened?" Robin asked.
"While we were trying to calm her down she got loose, and attacked us again," Cyborg said.
"We didn't have any other option but to knock her unconscious until we could figure out what's wrong with her," Raven said.
"We can't get her to talk to us," Starfire said. "She just tries to fight us."
"So that's it?" Beast Boy said, making the others look at him. "All of a sudden she's our test subject? She's still a human being!"
"So are you," Raven said, "yet... not quite."
"And how did I know you were gonna say something?"
"Because it's the truth."
"What about you?"
"What about me?"
"You're not even human, and you're calling me an alien?"
"I never say that."
"But you were thinking it."
"Yes. Thinking that you're even more stupid than I thought."
"Well you know what-"
"Friends," Starfire interrupted, "we should not fight."
The two stared at her for a long time before deciding the same thing.
"Anyway," Robin started, "we're gonna have to keep her look this for a while. We have to find out what's wrong, and then try to fix it. As simple as that."
"It might not be that simple," Cyborg said.
"O.K., well we'll see what we can do tomorrow."
That was it. After a long day, everyone was finally going to bed. It was about midnight when Beast Boy woke up. For some reason he felt the need to go see Terra in the basement.
He slowly walked down the stairs, trying not to wake the others, and found the cage in the far left corner of the whole basement. Since there was no noise, excluding Terra's breathing, he assumed that she was still asleep. Cautiously, he walked over to the cage.
"Terra?"
No answer.
"Are you awake?"
Obviously not.
"If you are, please tell me. I really need to know if you're O.K."
He leaned closer to the cage. He couldn't hear her breathing anymore.
"Terra?"
BANG! She tried to attack him again! The good thing is the cage was there. Despite this, she was still able to grab him by his neck and strangle him.
As he struggled to get free from her grip, and black blast flew past him and hit Terra on the head. She had passed out. Beast Boy looked over to the source of the blast to see who had done it. Of course, it was none other than Raven.
"You should be down here," she said.
"I know, but I-"
"You better get back before the others find out."
With that, she hovered up through the ceiling to the upper levels.
I guess that's enough visits for one day, Beast Boy thought as he headed back to bed.
Later the next day, in the afternoon, the Titans were focusing on Terra. She still hadn't seemed to calm down. Even after take about a dozen drug medications (which, if you read the bottom, say they don't work on humans, but they were careless in what they bought) she was still as wild as ever. The only way to keep her still was to knock her out, but since she has to be conscious to go through the tests, they had to find some other method of calming her.
Finally, they found one meditation (which worked this time) that actually calmed her down. Once she was still, they put her in the De-Gravifier once again, except this time the machine scanned her body. By now, the results had finally come. They put her back in her cage before she could attack again.
"So what wrong?" Beast Boy asked.
"According to this," Robin said, "she suffered a major migraine, which results in memory loss. Usually migraines don't cause this, but with her being encased in stone for a year, it came very slowly."
"So that's why she doesn't remember us."
"Not quite. In her attempt to get free, she had slowly began to formulate a animal instinct."
"Meaning?"
"She had gotten flustered to what or who she was, and immediately went crazy. Once she got out, the rage was unleashed, causing her to attack us."
"What do we do?" Starfire asked, nervously.
"We have to try to get her memory back," Robin said. "That's means we need your help."
He was talking to Raven who, after this remark, had frowned. If there was one thing she'd hate doing ever in her life, it was helping someone who betrayed them. Yet, everyone stared at her, waiting for her reply. She couldn't say 'no', yet she didn't want to say 'yes' either.
Deciding to stay loyal to her friends, she agreed.
Everyone left out, as she required only Terra in this assignment, plus if things went wrong, they might get injured, or worse, killed.
She went over to the now awakened Terra, who was franticly trying to escape. When she saw Raven, she jumped at her with all of her momentum. Using her powers, Raven stopped her in midair.
Then, she placed her hand on Terra's head. Next, she started to chant something. She chanted for another minute before Terra began to glow in the spot where Raven touched her.
The things in the basement started lying around in circles. This is one of the reasons Raven wanted them out. Her powers would go beyond her own reach and start to change the room.
After nine seconds, everything stopped. The levitated things had dropped to the ground. Also, when this all happened, Terra had fainted.
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