AN: Thanks to everyone who reviewed. I really appreciate it I'll try to update frequently. I should have 5 up tonight or tomorrow morning. I'm actually up to 7, but I'm trying to leave room for suspense, not that this one does that… ;;

Underestimated

Chapter 4: Why!

They couldn't believe it. Beast Boy had disappeared months ago, but here he was, standing before them as their enemy. But there was something different about him. He was no longer scrawny, but had gained some muscle mass and appeared taller. Instead of the uniform he used to wear, he was wearing an all black bodysuit with bare arms, knee-length black boots, and strapped to his wrist was a device similar to the thermal blaster Robin had used when he was working for Slade. His eyes were also different. Instead of conveying stupidity and cluelessness, they had a malicious glint in them.

"Beast Boy, is it really you? Where have you been?" asked Starfire.

"Not being pushed around by you guys."

"You think this is gonna help?" said Raven, exasperated.

"Listen, we know we've been cruel to you sometimes, but it was all a joke," said Cyborg.

"Maybe to you it was all a joke."

"But still, have you lost your mind!" exclaimed Robin. "This isn't the way to go about it!"

"None of you took me seriously enough to do it any other way. You saw me as nothing more than the comic relief."

"We've been real jerks, and we're sorry, Beast Boy," Robin apologized, but Beast Boy wasn't buying it.

"It's too late for that." He raised his arm and fired at Robin, but he dodged it..

"Too bad it has to be like this… Titans, go!"

Starfire shot star bolts at him, but he transformed into a hawk and flew at her, turning into a tiger and tackling her.

Cyborg shot at him with his cannon, but Beastboy quickly moved out of its path.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" chanted Raven, surrounding a bunch of test tubes with black energy and throwing them in his direction. He blocked them with his forearm, only receiving a couple scratches as the shattered upon impact. He fired at Raven, who produced a shield.

Robin took out his bo and attacked from behind, but Beast Boy caught him and kicked him in the gut. Starfire drop kicked him in the back of the head, but he morphed into a lion and turned to face her, growling. Cyborg shot at him, but he dodged the sonic blast and pinned him against the wall, piercing his armor with his claws. Cyborg punched him in the jaw, forcing him off.

He transformed back into his human form and caught Robin's foot as he tried kicking him, and pulled him to the ground. He aimed the device on his wrist at Robin's head, but a star bolt from behind threw off his aim, causing him to miss by an inch.

Raven chanted her usual mantra and Beast Boy was bound by her powers, but he switched forms too quickly for her to keep up, and eventually let him go. He took out a vile and threw it in front of her. As it broke, the volatile liquid turned to a thin vapor. Raven wondered what the point of it was until she felt her limbs go numb and she fell to the floor, unable to move.

He picked her up and held her in a headlock and held the blaster to her head. "Just give me one good reason why I shouldn't do it."

"You know you don't want to do this!" said Robin, but he just smirked in response.

"Oh, believe me, I do."

"Why are you doing this?" asked Starfire.

"Because I'm sick of being a Titan, sick of being ridiculed, sick of being the comic relief. I'm sick of you guys!"

"If you couldn't stand it, why didn't stop acting like a dumb ass?" questioned Cyborg, confused.

"You didn't give me much of a choice. None of you ever took me seriously, even if I tried. And you took away the only person who ever understood that!"

"And so you joined Slade?" said Raven, even through the tight hold Beast Boy had on her neck. "Terra died because she decided to join up with Slade. So why are you doing the same thing?"

"Shut up!" he tightened the headlock, cutting off her air supply, while charging the blaster, still aimed at her head. "You treated her the same way you treat me: like shit. You have no right to talk about her like that! Say hi to her in the afterlife for me, ok?"

Robin threw his grappling hook at him, which wound its way around his arm, pulling it away from Raven's head. With his other hand, he threw several small disks at him which exploded in clouds of smoke, blocking his vision. Beast Boy could tell Raven phased through the floor, but when the smoke cleared, none of the others were in sight.

Beast Boy punched a wall in anger, leaving an imprint of his fist. "Next time I will get them, and I will make them pay…"