Disclaimer: We all know what it is… I don't own Teen Titans. THERE!
Author's Note: I know Terra's totally, WAY out of character but wouldn't YOU feel the same if you put your faith into your friends but they don't come back over a year later? It's not very easy to forgive that easily…
20 seconds earlier…
"Oh my God… is that you…?" Beast Boy whispered in shock to the suddenly calm Death Stone.
"Yeah, it's me, Beast Boy…" The girl admitted as she placed her hand on her mask and slowly removed it to reveal a face of the one person that he used to care for the most…
The team gasped as the mask hit the ground and the blonde smiled smugly. Beast Boy was the first to speak out.
"Terra…?"
"What was your first guess? Harley Quinn?" Terra asked as she got a few rocks with her powers and made them go around in circles with the twirls of her index finger.
"I KNEW YOU WEREN'T TO BE TRUSTED!" The rock mover heard from Raven. She smiled at Raven and walked over to Raven's pod.
"Funny, coming from the people that I used to put MY trust in… I thought you said that you would find a cure… you said you'd try… well? Where is it?" Terra shrugged as she looked around. "I don't see it anywhere…" Said coldly throwing the twirling rocks into a corner.
"Terra, we did try-…" Terra cut off the changeling's words with a nasty glare that would strike fear to the boogeyman.
"DON'T LIE TO ME, BB!" Terra snapped finally coming out of her calm faze. "You didn't try at all! I'm not stupid! You gave up on me and went on with your useless lives! It was a year, Beast Boy! A YEAR! I've been trapped in stone for over a friggin' year and you didn't even come to check on me or ANYTHING! Now I'm back and I want all of you DEAD! You betrayed me… every single one of you. Saying that you're my friend… saying that you cared for me… saying that you'd find a CURE! You lied, BB… all of you lied to me…"
"Listen, Terra we couldn't find a cure. We tried our best." Cyborg tried to sound reasonable. Terra gave him a face of disgust.
"That's not what I heard from Slade…" Terra pointed out as she glanced at the evil man.
"Terra, you know better than to listen to Slade! How would he know anyway?" Beast Boy shot back, obviously mad at the stone shifter for listening to their enemy again.
"Don't waste your time on her Beast Boy! She won't listen to reason. She never did…" Raven said.
"Never will that's for sure. The last thing I need is to listen to reason from you backstabbers." Terra was getting fed up with listening to the Titans and started to walk out.
"Terra, we'd never give up on you… I thought you knew that…" Beast Boy whispered after her, loud enough for her to hear. She stopped dead in her tracks and shook her head as she went on.
Clayface ran over to Terra and stopped just as soon as he noticed the blonde with no mask.
"Whoa…" Clayface mumbled as he walked over to the dark stone mover. Terra noticed Clayface coming her way from behind but didn't turn around.
"What is it, Bennett? If it's bad news then don't tell me. I'm not in the mood." Terra barked out harshly. The man of clay was surprised by how the young girl knew he was there but skipped the thought.
"Uh… I was just wondering if since I helped you capture the Teen Titans maybe I can get a… reward…?" Clayface said unsurely. Suddenly he perked up as soon as he heard a noise from the blue-eyed blonde. He could have sworn that he heard her snort.
Terra chuckled a bit before bursting into cold laughter. Clayface frowned at her laughing.
"What's so funny, kid?" He asked angrily as he took a step forward. She quickly put her laughter to a halt and looked back at the identity-shifting man with irritation mucking up her face.
"What's so funny is the fact that you think that I'd actually reward you… and for what? You only had to disarm the alarms and act out your part as the Changeling. I don't think you've earned it, Clayface." Terra responded in annoyance with her eye from side view burned through him with hatred. Clayface growled and walked off in a random direction. Terra chuckled as soon as he left the room and started to laugh again but louder and crueler than the last one.
Beast Boy sat silent in his prison looking at the lava slowly pooling down the glass. Then he looked over at where Terra used to stand as a statue. He sighed. She was right. They shouldn't have taken so long. It was his fault such an innocent teenaged girl turned into such a monster identical to Slade. They probably did forget about her and dropped the search all together.
"Don't beat yourself, Beast Boy…" Robin soothed. As a leader he learned that he should always support his teammates. "Terra, took this choice. You didn't force her in any way to turn evil."
"But I didn't help her change her choice, either… we could have got her out of that statue but we didn't. We just forgot about her… maybe we do deserve this…" Beast Boy grumbled groggily still looking at where the rock shifter used to stand when she was in suspended animation.
"Humph, I wish she just stayed in there." Raven stated plainly.
"Don't say that! She deserved better than this. I have a funny feeling it's our fault she's turned bad." Beast Boy explained as he lowered his head to the ground in shame.
"Pardon me if I'm interrupting this 'moment'…" Clayface interrupted as he walked in. Robin growled at the man of clay. Clayface held his hands up in defense.
"Hey, watch it. I'm busting you out." Clayface said defensively. Everyone looked at him oddly, even Slade.
"How? Terra said that it was unbreakable." Beast Boy pointed out as he tapped in prison glass walls. Clayface shook his head and walked over to Robin's pod and pressed a button at the bottom of the glass pod and panels came up in front of each one. The man of clay tapped in a few things into each one and every pod slid upwards, freeing the Titans and Slade. Clayface handed over the boy wonder's and Slade's bow staffs. Robin frowned deeply.
"Let's go."