Titans: Space

Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans, nor do I own any of the DC characters mentioned in this story.

Chapter 3:

-T-

It was 6:00 in the morning. Beast boy couldn't sleep. The recent thoughts of his new thought of departure and yesterday's bank robbery were clouding his mind with questions. He wondered if he should leave, if it was better for the Titans, and if anyone would miss him.

These thoughts plagued him as he sat on his bottom bunk; the sound of an abandoned video game creating ambience within his room. A constant beeping noice was echoing throughout his room that made him twitch every time it sounded. He twiddled his thumbs thinking to himself. It was dark within his room, such darkness that clouded his judgment.

'This couldn't be the only solution…' He thought. 'I'm their friend right? They would be my friends until the end. Right?'

Beast Boy swore under his breath. This was getting him nowhere… He had to drown out these negative thoughts.

Beast Boy fell back against his bed. The covers made a soft "Flop" sound as he fell against the sheets. There he looked up toward the top bunk. The wooden plank that held up the mattress was covered with curvy designs not made by man. The art of the inside of a tree was impressive, even though that thought wasn't what Beast Boy's wanted on his mind at the time.

"Arrrg!" Beast Boy screamed. "This is getting me nowhere!" He was talking to himself. He did this at times when he really wanted to think. It wasn't that he was stupid, it was just that it made everything seem more dramatic, and it createrd more solutions to problems even though it wasn't intended.

"They can't all hate me can they? They couldn't. Why would they? I'm a part of the team so I have to be their friend, right?"

Beast Boy cycled through all the events of his past, trying to determine if his teammates really hated him or not.

Cyborg… His best friend… Cyborg couldn't possibly hate him. He was too good of a guy. Beast Boy kept recollecting on the events of when he became the disturbing man beast. Cyborg kept saying, "Yo man, just chill!" and "It doesn't have to go down like this!" He wanted to find peace while other promoted violence to a solution. Come to think of it, Cyborg was a hippie under that hardened exterior. Cyborg was always there for him as well. He was always there to play games. He was always there when Beast Boy just really wanted to talk to somebody, and he never judged him too harshly.

No… Cyborg didn't hate him.

Beast Boy then thought of Robin.

Robin… He was the leader of the group. Robin was the kind of guy everyone could look up to, but Beast Boy felt that Robin himself looked down upon Beast Boy. Robin never really seemed to care about his existence, or even the fact that opinion was there for help. During the man-beast escapade, Robin seemed very aggressive towards Beast Boy, even though the whole thing wasn't his fault, but Robin seemed to think very clearly that it was.

Robin definitely hated him.

Starfire was next. Star had always been nice to him, but had always seemed distant as well. It seemed like she didn't even acknowledge that he was there. There were times that Starfire expressed anger towards him, but Beast Boy just figured that was because of his crazy antics. Maybe it wasn't just that… Maybe she secretly hated him.

Next was Raven…

Raven… It was hard to tell with her. At one moment she acted like they were arch enemies, and then other times she was his best friend. So much had happened since they met each other. There was Trigon of course, and then there was the man-beast, then the whole Malchior thing.

But then again, no matter what Raven said in the past, it all came back to what she said the other day…

I smile secretly to your jokes in my head.

No… No, Raven couldn't hate him. She was the only one who comforted him though the entire ordeal. She was the only one who gave thanks for Beast Boy risking his life. She was the only one…

But then again, later that day she went right back to dissing him and putting him down.

Beast Boy couldn't take it. He felt like his head was going to explode with all the questions and accusations going though his thoughts. He had to clear his head…

Beast Boy rose from his fetal position on the bed. A few tears were still going down his cheeks, as he walked toward his CD player. He had no idea what was in the player at the time, but he just pushed play and sat on the floor.

What emerged from the speakers made his tear up even more.

Johnny Cash's Hurt was playing…

The lyrics made his situation worse. Why did Cash have to be so God damn angsty at times…?

There was a knock at Beast Boy's door.

Beast Boy quickly rose and shut off the CD. He wiped his tears on his arm. He may have been able to weep by himself, but he was not going to show his sorrow in front of his frien- teammates…

Beast Boy walked over to his door and pressed the button that allowed entry or exit to whom ever wished it. The door swished open and behind it revealed Robin.

Robin looked nervous and uncertain about his choice of visiting Beast Boy. He had his hands behind his back, and seemed like he was trying to look professional.

There were times that Beast Boy thought that Robin took his job way too seriously. He had always thought that Robin was a stuck up control freak, but sometimes Robin just crossed the line. Beast Boy was glad Robin went on that Quest to see that true master guy. It made Robin a more easy going kind of guy, and this was better for him, as well as the team.

"Hey Robin! Whats up?" Beast Boy destroyed any unfamiliar emotions that the team never witnessed and put on the plastic smile he always used. Beast Boy struck out his hand for friendly hand shake, but Robin did not return the gesture.

"Hey Best Boy… I wanted to talk to you." Robin said.

'Figures...' Beast Boy thought. Robin was always a cut and dry kind of guy. Straight to business…

"Ok. What's on your mind dude?" Beast Boy replied.

Robin seemed to hesitate with his choice of words. "So… Cash huh?"

Robin had heard the music from inside his room. Beast Boy wondered if Robin had been listening the whole time, but was cut short of his thoughts by Robin's continued conversation.

"I just wanted to… to say I'm sorry… I'm sorry for what happened today. I shouldn't have put so much weight o your shoulders all at once. It wasn't my place."

"It's cool man. Just helping the community." Beast Boy replied grinning gleefully.

Robin stared at Beast Boy blankly. He couldn't believe what had come out of his mouth. "That's it? You're not going to get mad or anything?"

"Nah dude, I'm a hero. That's what heroes do."

"DAMMIT BEAST BOY!" Robin screamed. Beast Boy took a step back, unsure of what caused this sudden outburst. "What the hell is wrong with you?" Robin said exasperatedly. "Do you ever shed a tear, get angry, or just have a bad day? You never change! I-I-I don't understand- nay comprehend how you can just go through life without ever being upset about something! So much crap has happened to you these past years we have been a team, and you never change! Raven is the most monotone person I know, and she has had more changes than you. What are you hiding? Why are you so damned passive with everything that happens around you? I would think that you might be a little depressed about Terra's death, or the fact that you almost killed Raven one time-"

Beast Boy frowned and brought up a hand. "Hey I didn't try to kill her that was Ad-"

"It doesn't matter! The point is you never change. Get angry! Get sad! Please, this is unhealthy Beast Boy. I'm worried about you. Why can't you just change a bit?"

Beast Boy stood motionless, staring at the Boy Wonder who was gasping for breath after his convulsive speech.

Beast Boy's face was blank. Robin wasn't sure if he was angry, sad, or about say something.

Finally Beast Boy spoke. And the words that left his mouth were like a ton of bricks falling directly on Robin's head.

"Because I'm the comic relief guy…"

And with that, Beast Boy turned and shut the door on Robin, leaving him dismayed and unable to comprehend what had just happened.

-T-

Starfire grinned happily. She had just finished sending her bi-monthly message to her home planet of Tamaran. She looked down upon her alien console as it displayed 'Message sent' in her Tamaranian language.

The alien computer itself was pink in color. Contrary to what people might have thought about colors and their symbolism, the idea that pink represented 'girly' remained true throughout the universe. What made the console different from other humanly computers, is that instead of using a keys representing each letter, a touch-sensitive pad was used for writing the unearthly words onto the screen.

Starfire looked out towards the morning sky. The sun was rising with the distant yet beautiful orange glow that reminded Star of Earth's Juice of the orange. The bright light from the sun was creeping along the countless skyscrapers across Jump City, until it came into direct view of Starfire's gleaming green eyes.

Starfire thought about how much she loved earth. There were so many different aspects of the marvelous blue planet that made it a special place throughout the universe, something that, unfortunately, other planets weren't as blessed with, sadly, including her planet. Starfire loved Tamaran. She was probably the most patriotic person alive on her world, but at times, she envied earth.

She also, however, despised earth. The earth was an amazingly violent place. People killed for money, power, lust, or anything that could make them somehow a higher being in the eyes of other mortals.

Starfire's world wasn't like that. Starfire's government kept everything in check, making sure that people's safeties weren't threatened, nor their rights to own land, have a family, and just live in general.

Starfire had explained her government to Robin once before. After listening to every detail about it, he stated that her planet was a mix of Socialism and Feudalism. Stafire had done research on these topics after the discussion, and found that they were not far from the truth. Robin had explained the ways of Human Democracy and other culture's views, and Starfire found it interesting how the United States could keep a constant way of doing things without having it backfire in their faces. Starfire had known of other planets who embraced this premise, but she was taught to think of these views as treacherous and to be not trusted.

This was, however, the only part of her patriotism that was flawed. Robin explained that in other countries on his world, some people were brainwashed into believing that the only way to do things was their way. Starfire wanted to go deeper into this conversation, but Robin wished to discontinue it from there.

Unluckily for Robin, Cyborg had shown Starfire how to use the internet in their interactions together.

Starfire had found something terrible…

She found that, Earth had its shares of mass genocide and murder across its dank history for reasons that she could not believe to be true.

Starfire sighed. All of this recollection was blackening this beautiful morning.

"Yourgh's Defcoy'r" popped onto Starfire's computer screen. Starfire looked down to see 'Incoming Message' written in Tamaranian. She almost jumped for joy at the thought of one of her loved ones contacting her.

She was surprised to find the ever so happy looking Cyborg develop onto her screen.

"Friend Cyborg? Oh, it is ever so great to see you again! I believe everyone at the tower has been missing you dearly!"

Cyborg's smile turned into a blank look of confusion. "Star? When did you guys move the Titans monitor onto the roof?"

"Pardon...? Oh! You are mistaken; this is my personal communicator to contact my home world of Tamaran."

Cyborg nodded. "Ah, my relay must have been caught in your transmitter. Well, go get the others and bring them to the living room. I got a surprise for ya'll…

End Chapter 3

Wow, I know I am really late with an update and I'm sorry. I've been caught up in many projects and I've also become somewhat lazy. I'll try to keep more constant. I know it's a short chapter, but I'm trying to get to the sci-fi quicker. Sorry that it so short as well…