Again and sadly, I still don't own the Teen Titans. Oh, and please feel free to review. I like the feedback.


Chapter Four: Caught In A Landslide

Beast Boy was torpid from the tofu and, for once, was content to rest on the couch watching the television. Raven and Aqualad had taken up the booth near the kitchen and were talking in hushed tones about who knows what. Apart from that, all was calm in the main room of the tower.

Speedy entered and waved a greeting to Beast Boy and the green titan returned it lazily. The masked titan then tossed a box of tea and a bag of coffee into the air randomly. Both were caught in a black aura and levitated over to the booth. The other two titans expressed their thanks and Speedy flashed them a thumbs up before starting up the coffee machine with his own brew.

Beast Boy got up and wandered to his room. Everyone thought he just sat around playing video games all day, but for the better part of the last year he had been working day and night, struggling with a topic he had never before even considered to be important. Geology.

In his room, sitting at his desk, Beast Boy started his computer and stared for a second at the picture that stared back at him. Terra… He thought back to when that picture had been taken. Terra had snuck up behind him while he was talking to Cyborg and wrapped her arms around his chest as she stood behind him. The wind was strong and her long, blonde hair billowed out around her like a halo. Cyborg had liked the look and taken a picture with the camera in his arm. Terra had framed it herself and given it to him just before the battle with Slade…before everything went downhill.

He shook the thoughts out of his head. She had made a bad decision, but she certainly wasn't a bad person. She had proven herself in the last minutes of the battle and proved that she was truly a titan. They had all worked hard for the first few months to find a way to free her from her rock statue, but one by one they had started to fade, moving on to other concerns or with life in general. All except for Beast Boy.

When he applied himself, he learned quickly and completely. He was the son of genetic scientists, after all. Certainly he was no mental slouch, even if he did act like it on a constant basis. He had soaked in volumes of text on geology, geophysics, and volcanology. He retained everything. But it was something he saw on a bad television movie that gave him the best idea yet.

Volcanic eruptions were preceded by resonance waves in the rock surrounding the volcano. If he could find the right resonance frequency, maybe he could bring her back. He had run a computer simulation and found out that it was feasible, so he would now have to run a real test. In one of the drawers of his desk was a box with a wispy stone in it. He had gone to Terra's statue and slowly, carefully, chipped off a small piece of her hair to run tests with. Now he just needed a source of sound waves at the proper frequency.

In the computer database he pulled up every file he could find on his best friend, Cyborg. Sure enough, in one of the classified technical files, he found the frequency range for his main weapon, his arm mounted sonic cannon. With a few modifications, he could easily adapt the weapon to his needs. Beast Boy knew that his friend would gladly give up his right arm for this project, but this was his mission, his love. He was working alone, just this once. He would have to work quietly, stealthily, and very fast.


Night fell on the tower and in his room, Beast Boy checked over the instructions for detaching his friend's cybernetic arm. He sat on the corner of his bed, dressed in a version of his normal outfit, but this outfit being totally black. When his bedside clock struck two, he put on a black stocking cap and gloves and opened his door. To avoid detection in the hall, he shifted into a moth and fluttered down to the door marked Cyborg. A change into a worm, a slip through the door, and he was in.

His friend lay on his platform, recharging. His cybernetic eye was dulled and his human eye closed, the only difference between this and sleeping was the heavy duty power cable attached to his chest. Beast Boy sighed as he opened a tool kit and took the few tools he needed and set to work. Soon, he was able to sling the heavy metal arm over his shoulder. He took a few battery packs from the table and placed them in his bag with the tools.

"I'm sorry, Cy. I know you'll understand why I have to do this, but I don't think you'd let me do this on my own. I have to do this for her. I'll bring your arm back, I promise." He sighed and turned, softly sliding the door open and carefully heading downstairs. With the heavy load he carried, he was stuck in human form until he got outside.

Once outside the tower, however, it was all pterodactyl from the island to the side of the volcanic mountain where Terra's statue stood. He landed and changed to his human form before he walked up to her statue and gave her a quick kiss, the kiss he had never given her. He then sat down and began the task of hooking the arm to the battery packs and changing the sonic cannon's frequency.

"Soon. Very soon now, Terra."


Beast Boy checked his watch; it was almost four o'clock. He had finished rigging the sonic cannon to the batteries and was ready to test the frequency. He placed the wispy rock on the ground and pointed the cannon at it and fired. Instead of the normal blue beam that it usually emitted, the beam was bright red. Beast Boy was temporarily blinded by the bright light but when he turned off the beam, the rock he had aimed for was no longer there. In its place were a few strands of silky blonde hair.

He stood there for a long while looking at what had happened, and then he turned to the statue of Terra. He took a few steps back and set the aperture of the beam to it's widest setting. He test fired it to make sure that all of her would be covered by the beam. One final check of his battery pack and he was ready to fire. He said a little prayer and squeezed the trigger. The bright red light shone brightly in the dark.

For a long time it seemed like nothing was happening. The rock in front of him only glowing a bright red in the light emitted from the cannon. The relative calm changed very quickly as the ground around him started to shake. Beast Boy kept the cannon level, he knew the earthquake meant the beam was working. Terra looked almost like she was shivering as her statue shook. He could have sworn that he saw her head move a little.

What happened next was unexpected. For a few seconds, he could hear the sound of breaking rocks. Cracks started to appear on the façade of Terra's statue. He closed his eyes and kept his finger on the trigger. He heard the rock in front of him crumble and he shut off the beam. He was slow to open his eyes. In front of him he saw nothing, only a pile of dust.

Beast Boy shrank and dropped to his knees, a sob trying to escape his throat. He had been wrong after all. He lowered his head to cry, but before the tears could come, he felt two soft arms wrap around his neck. "So…what did I miss?"

Beast Boy looked down at the familiar gloved hands and leaned against her arm. "About a year. Robin and Star are together, and now you and I are, too. Provided you still want me."

Terra smiled and sat beside him. Beast Boy leaned in slowly, his arms wrapping around her waist. She looked him square in the eye, her bright blue eyes shining with happiness. They came together. Their kiss, so long delayed, was worth the wait. "Of course I do, silly. It's the ears, remember?"


Cyborg was livid. "For the last time, Starfire, my arms just don't magically pop off during the night and walk around on their own. The only time they can do that is when I am consciously controlling them! Now somebody help me find my right arm!"

Aqualad looked up from his coffee. "You have no idea where you left it?"

Cyborg glared and pointed his left arm sonic cannon at him. "Alright, fish man, that's enough of your lefty jokes."

"I'm just saying you might have misplaced it. It might not be some sinister plot to disarm you."

Cyborg fired his cannon, shattering Aqualad's coffee mug. "Sinister is Latin for left, don't think I don't know. Now help me look for it."

The door opened behind them all and Beast Boy entered sheepishly, his hand behind his head and a telltale metallic hand sticking from his backpack. "Umm…Cy, I think I might have what you're looking for…"

Cyborg screamed. "My arm! You found my arm! And you screwed it all up! What on earth did you do with my arm? You have three seconds." He leveled his left arm at Beast Boy's head and started counting. "One…two…"

At this point Terra walked casually into the room. "He got me out of that rock. I think I'll keep him." She kissed the green elf on the cheek. "Got any coffee?"

Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg all stared. Raven had succeeded at choking on her tea. Robin recovered first and pointed at Terra, trying to put his mind around what was right in front of him. "But…you…Slade…volcano…"

Raven had coughed up the tea with the help of Aqualad pounding on her back. She looked at the geomancer with wide, violet eyes. "Beast Boy…thought…"

Beast Boy slipped from Cyborg's line of fire. "Yeah, I found a way to get her out. It was easy once I put my mind to it. And none of your sarcasm, Raven." He crossed the room and grabbed the phone and phone book. "I need to call that opera guy and see if I can get another ticket for Terra."

Terra joined Beast Boy and sat down beside him. She looked to the ground and thought for a while, then spoke slowly. "I have no right to ask you guys to take me back again, but I would like it if I could get some help taking this control suit off. I don't want Slade ever having any chance to use me ever again."

Robin looked over to Cyborg, both nodded. Cyborg took the backpack from Beast Boy. "We'll get started as soon as I've got ten fingers again. Beast Boy, you know better than I do what changes you made to my arm. Help me out here…if you can separate yourself from goldilocks for a minute."

Raven and Starfire looked to Robin and nodded. Robin walked over to the computer and took a spare communicator from a drawer. He turned to Terra and held it out to her.

"We didn't touch your room. Welcome home."