Titans: Space
Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans, nor do I own any of the DC characters mentioned in this story.
Chapter 1: Clue
-T-
"It was Professor Plum, in the dining room, with the knife!" Beast Boy exclaimed proudly. He looked at Robin ever confident that his guess would live up to his expectations. He stuck a pose of triumph of power over the Boy Wonder, flexing his arms and dancing about in his chair with his upper body.
"Nope." Robin said with apathy.
Beast Boy stopped in the middle of his victory dance and looked toward Robin with an expression of quandary.
"Huh?"
Robin was still looking at the board game. "It was Professor Plum, in the dining room, but with the noose!" Robin struck up his index finger to look more intelligent. The way Beast Boy was acting didn't seem very intelligent to Robin.
Beast Boy leaned toward the Boy Wonder. "BS, then prove it dude!" Beast Boy grabbed the miniature vanilla folder with his index finger and his middle finger, so he grasped it with no physical effort to use all of his fingers.
Robin smirked and snatched the mini-folder away from Beast Boy. He struck the sides of the folder, so the folder opened up in a circular opening, and grasped the three cards and extracted them from the folder. He held them up for Beast Boy to see. Robin wanted to see his face when he knew he was defeated.
"Aw dude!" Beast Boy ran his hand through his hair in exasperation. "No fair! It's not like I can beat the apprentice of the greatest detective in the world!"
"Then why did you ask me to play?"
"Cause I was bored dude! Without Cy around, it's been a drag around here." Beast Boy stuck a thumb up towards the sky.
"Don't worry B.B.; he'll be back in a week or two."
"C'mon dude, three out of four!"
Robin shook his head. "No Beast Boy, I've already beat you twice. I've got work to do. Get Raven or Starfire to play…"
"It took me two weeks to teach Star to play Go Fish. You think I'm gonna try to explain a game like Clue to her?" Beast Boy threw up his hands in exasperation.
"Then get Raven to play."
Beast Boy gulped at the thought of that. It was hard enough talking to the girl. To go beyond the point of simple social interaction seemed like suicide.
"Nah-uh dude! I'm not steppin' into that pit of vipers."
"Well, do whatever! I have to go write a criminal report to the police." Robin made his final word. He walked up the stairs, and stepped through the double doors to the hallway, connecting to the living quarters. The double doors slid closed, and that was the end of the discussion.
"Aw snap…"
Beast Boy looked around the room. It seemed eerily quiet since Cyborg left for space. Cyborg had the idea of setting up Titans: Space, a tower that circled around the Earth's orbit. Robin thought it was a great idea. He believed that the tower could go along par with the Justice League of America's station.
So Cyborg left, in hopes of building the tower within a three months span. It seemed difficult in Beast Boy's eyes to build a space station in so little time, but the JLA was even nice enough to lend a hand. Cyborg had been sending video-mails to the Titans Tower about every week, claiming how great it was to work along side with Superman, Batman, The Green Lantern, or any of the other "fantastic" members of the JLA.
Beast Boy had been bored as hell as soon as Cyborg left. The occasional villain sparked some interest now and then, but it just wasn't as fun as hanging out with his best buddy. Robin and Beast Boy had played a number of games, ranging from video games to tic-tac-toe, but Robin's interest wasn't seized very often.
"Aw man… I guess Raven will have to do." Beat Boy rose from his feet, and walked toward the doors where Robin had exited.
-T-
Beast Boy stood in front of Raven's room. It seemed dark even from the outside. Beast Boy gulped and raised his hand. He formed a fist, and slightly tapped of the door to Raven's room.
"Hey Raven? Ya in there?
"No." Raven said with the dry sarcastic sound of her voice.
Beats Boy winced. 'This is gonna be tough…' he thought. "C'mon Rae, lets play a game or something. I'm bored."
"Then go play with Stafire or Robin. I'm busy…" She then dozed off into her meditation ritual, repeating those three magical words that were used to control her powers.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos… Azarath Metrion Zinthos… Azarath Metrion Zinthos…"
Beast Boy stared at the door listening. Those words were so weird to Beast Boy. She told him once that it had something to do with her hometown, but that was accidental. He learned many of her secrets by trespassing through her mind using her mirror.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos…"
They seemed so relaxing to Beast Boy. The way the words were vocalized made it seem like a way to relieve stress. Maybe it was…
"Azarath Metrion Zintos…" Beast boy stopped and gasped. The words came from his mouth. He covered his mouth in surprise, then lowered them and gazed at the ground.
Beast Boy glanced back at the door. 'What am I doing?' he thought. Raven continued to repeat her chant, going slower and slower with every breath.
'Maybe I should try it…' He thought. Beast Boy turned and leaned against the wall next to Raven's door. He then slumped down to the ground slowly, and began to chant the ritual.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos… Azarath Metrion Zinthos… Azarath Metrion Zinthos…"
Beast Boy's chant went along with Raven's chant in timing, but he couldn't tell whether or not she could hear him. He didn't care, this was incredibly relaxing. Why hadn't he tried this before? Raven had shared her secrets with Starfire, Cyborg, and Robin, but not himself.
"Azarth Metrion Zinthos… Azarath Metrion-
He stopped. It had just now hit him. Raven hated him…
He knew that Raven thought of him as annoying and a pest, but he never truly believed that he was despised by the girl he had thought to be his friend.
This made Beast Boy incredibly depressed. To think that a member of a team wouldn't mind if he was hit by a bus disturbed him. He loved everybody and everybody loved him, or so he thought…
Then he began to think if the other members of the team hated him. That they just kept him around to use his powers against the wicked.
"Wow…"
Beast Boy dug his face into his hands, tearing up a bit. He brought his knees to his chest and mumbled to himself, being ever careful not to disturb Raven.
But she wasn't chanting anymore…
-T-
Raven was listening…
She leaned against the wall of the door, slumped down. She was in exact correlation of where Beast Boy was sitting, except she was turned at one hundred and eighty degrees.
Raven had first noticed that Beast Boy was chanting her words the minute he said them. She had risen from her bed to listen to the Green changeling. Raven was happy to find another member of the team embracing her ways.
But now he had stopped…
Raven got up and leaned toward the door, placing her ear upon it. She heard him speaking.
"Maybe I should… Leave. It would do them better if I was gone. I have been nothing but a burden ever since I joined." He mumbled to himself.
Raven was shocked. Beast Boy was actually thinking of leaving the Titans!
She would not have it. Under that hard outer crust there was sympathy in Raven. She rarely expressed it, but when she did, she meant it with all her heart.
The doors slid open…
Beast Boy jumped at the sound of Raven emerging. He looked at her with his glistening green eyes. Raven gasped.
He had been crying…
"Um… Hey- Ra-Raven…" He said quietly as he rubbed the tears out of his eyes with his forearm.
"Beast Boy what's wrong?" Raven asked. It was not like Beast Boy to be this upset. He looked up her and put on a plastic smile.
"Nothing! Ju-Just hanging, out ya know?"
And with that, Beast Boy turned abruptly and made his way to his room. Raven watched as he left. She looked at him wondering what had happened that made him so upset. After a while, she turned and went back to her room, able to ponder Beast Boy's crying with meditation.
End of Chapter 1
Author's note: Don't get this first chapter wrong. This is anything but a romance or angst fic. This is Sci-Fi, and I'll be ripping off many great Sci-Fi movies during other scenes of the story. And not Star Wars or Star Trek or all that jazz. I'm talking about real science fiction. The kind that makes you freak out it's so weird. I'm thinking of putting zombies in there too. :)