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Hey! Here's the third part of Frightful Combination. I hope you all like it, it's my first time ever writing a fightingscene, so I hope it doesn't suck too much. Actually,I kind oflike this chapter more than the others. Well, just review and tell me what you think!
WindyDays:Thank-you, I'm glad you like. Don't worry, I'm not planning onquiting this story anytime soon.I've got too manyideasbubbling in my head.
lol61188: Thanks for the review!
BlackRoses4Raven: Aww, thanks.
TDG3RD: lol, you're so smart! yeah, they are connected... there'll be more about the premonitions soon.
OK, just wanted to say thanks to everyone who reviewed, but I'm done now so... on with the show!
Chapter 3: Monsters and Beasts
Beast Boy walked down the hall slowly. His mind was racing. It must have been a premonition that he had been feeling earlier that morning, but why? Nothing had been happening to provoke it; he had just been sleeping and suddenly awoke with a feeling of foreboding. He had pushed it to the back of his mind though when he had seen Raven. She did that to him sometimes. Just seeing her would make him forget whatever he was thinking about or doing. It didn't happen very often, but it did happen. Sometimes, however, seeing Raven made him remember things, which had just happened at Raven's door less than three minutes ago.
Raven had seemed a bit surprised when he had asked her what a premonition was, Beast Boy noted. Her face had remained expressionless, she always hid her emotions including surprise, but Beast Boy had seen it in her eyes. He had noticed lately that while her facial expressions never gave away what she was thinking, her eyes did. It was hard to explain how he could tell what she was feeling just by looking into her eyes, but he could. It's strange how much you notice when you care for someone.
Beast Boy quickly shook that thought out of his head as he reached the main room. The room was empty; everyone else was busy. Cyborg was working on his car, Robin and Starfire were at the 'mall of shopping', and Raven was reading in her room. With Cyborg all the way down in the garage, and Raven ignoring everything that wasn't within the confines of her room, Beast Boy may as well have been home alone. That can only spell trouble.
Raven sat reading, the premonition incident shoved to the back of her mind for the time being. It hadn't been easy either. As soon as she had closed her door to Beast Boy's retreating form, she had realized she had nothing better to do than think about her dream and wonder about Beast Boy's premonition. Were they connected? What did it mean?
Her inability to find any answers annoyed her to no end, so she had promptly looked for something to distract her. The first thing that caught her eye was, of course, her book self. Searching through the many volumes of books for a book that would have nothing whatsoever to do with visions, she finally picked one and sat down to read.
She was fully enthralled in her book when a loud crash came from the kitchen. Raven tried to ignore it, but found it hard to do so with the smoke detector now going off. A high voice could be heard shrieking over the fire alarm. Beast Boy.
Reluctantly leaving the sanctuary of her room, she went to the kitchen to figure out what the grass stain had done now. What she saw when she opened the heavy metal doors to enter the kitchen would have surprised her if anyone else but Beast Boy had been the one running around squealing.
A big black stone-like thing sat on the counter, burnt passed recognition. Beast Boy was running around the kitchen looking for some way to put out the oven mitt on his hand that was engulfed in flames (he seemed to have forgotten about the sink), and setting random things on fire as he ran by. Raven sighed; sadly, occurrences like this were common in the Teen Titans household. Telepathically pulling the fire extinguisher she sprayed the inflamed kitchen. Now covered in the extinguishing fluid, Beast Boy stopped running around, exhausted from his efforts. He smiled at Raven. She glared back.
"Umm… thanks Raven." Said Beast Boy, blushing.
"What were you doing? Trying out a new tofu recipe?" asked Raven incredulously.
"Nope! I baked you a cake!" Beast Boy exclaimed proudly, motioning towards the black lump.
"Why?" Raven didn't want to seem ungrateful, but she was a bit grumpy after her lack of sleep and she had been in the middle of a good part in her book.
Beast Boy didn't notice her cynicism.
"Because even after I talked to you, and when I talked to you again outside your room, you still didn't seem totally happy. So I decided that I'm not giving up until I make you smile at least once today!" the changeling explained, smiling.
"Goodie." Raven grumbled. Beast Boy smiled even wider, not noticing the empath's sarcasm. "Since when have you ever been able to make me smile?" she pointed out.
"Well, never." He admitted "But, what better time to get you to smile than now?"
Raven rolled her eyes and would have made another sarcastic comment, if she hadn't been cut off from the loud buzzing that announced a crime taking place. Cyborg came running upstairs quickly. The three Titans' communicators beeped. Cyborg answered his first.
"Cyborg, are Raven and Beast Boy with you?" came Robin's voice through the mini speaker.
"Yeah, they're hear." Replied Cyborg.
"Good. There's a robbery going on in the mall's electronics store. Starfire and I are going to need back up!"
"On it, man!" Cyborg replied. They ran downstairs to the garage. Cyborg jumped into the T-car and Raven and Beast Boy ran outside and jumped into the air to fly.
They reached the mall quickly and ran through the main entrance. The robbery wasn't hard to find, seeing as people were running away from it in terror. Not needing to push their way through the crowd, who knew them well, they quickly made it to the store. What they saw surprised them.
The lights had been broken in the chaos. A man stood on the counter and watched as Starfire threw dozens of green bolts at a creature that had been advancing on Robin and herself. When the bolts cleared, Beast Boy, Cyborg and Raven gasped at what they saw. A strange creature stood on its hind legs where she had been firing. It looked like a cross between a wolf and a bear. It had the long, snarling muzzle and lean body of a wolf, but the strong legs and head of a grizzly bear. Even after being hit by several star bolts and a couple of Robin's freeze discs, the beast did not seem to be too hurt. Not in perfect condition, but still horrifyingly stable. They wasted no time in helping Star and Robin's attack.
Cyborg quickly fired his sonic cannon at the monster. It yelped as it was thrown against the wall, but stood up again easily. It gripped its clawed paws onto a large screen t.v that had been up against the wall before the creature had been thrown against it. Lifting the large screen with its large forearms, it threw the t.v at Cyborg.
Raven stopped the t.v using her powers and sent it flying back at the creature. The creature quickly dodged the electronic device with wolf-like agility.
Shape-shifting into a rhinoceros, Beast Boy charged at the monster. It blocked Beast Boy's attack with a large stereo it had been preparing to throw at Raven. The two struggled for a minute, Beast Boy pushing his horn into the stereo and the monster using the stereo to push Beast Boy away. Seeing that they were evenly matched, Beast Boy changed into a mouse. He crawled onto the creature's arm and bit down, hard. Snarling at the pain, the creature flicked Beast Boy off its arm and into the wall.
Taking advantage of its momentary distraction, Starfire quickly threw more bolts at the monster's chest. Several hit him full on, only a few missing him. He was dazed for a few seconds but quickly came to its senses. In its furry, it decided to attack the person closest to it, which happened to be Beast Boy.
Still a bit dizzy from his head first hit against the wall, Beast Boy didn't notice the swift claws coming towards him in time to react. The creature's paw hit him in the chest, sending him flying into a display of a water cooling system, soaking him, and then into the discarded large screen t.v. The broken television sent a jolt through his drenched body and he passed out.
Still on a rampage, the creature picked up a computer, throwing it at Robin. Robin quickly flipped over the p.c. and ran towards the monster, bo-staff ready. He swung the staff repeatedly at the monster, managing to hit it on the side and chest a few times before the creature held it firmly in it's paws and threw the Titans' leader into Starfire.
Cyborg fired his cannon again, hitting the monster's ankles. The creature fell to the ground, but started running towards the robot-man. The creature pounced onto Cyborg, who's head hit the wall, rendering him unconscious.
Now the only one in his way was Raven. The creature swung around to face the empath, finding her already surrounded by glowing black wires that had littered the ground. Using her powers, she wrapped the wires around the monster and gave them a surge of energy. Electricity coursed through the creature's body. Flexing its powerful muscles, the monster snapped the wires. Freed from its restraints, the creature looked weak, but still strong enough to take out the psychic girl. Slowly, it made its way towards her. She mentally threw random objects at the creature, but it swatted them away, rage strengthening his resolve.
Beast Boy groaned, opening his eyes slowly. He could hear the battle still raging. Objects were thrown around the room, the creature growling. Sitting up, Beast Boy looked around. The monster was advancing on Raven, who was desperately tossing things at it, that the creature swatted away like flies. Beast Boy's groan had reached Raven's ears, and she glanced at him quickly. Unfortunately, the small break in her concentration was all the creature needed. Jumping up it pounced on Raven, claws extended. Anger and fear coursed through Beast Boy's body, and he could feel himself unwillingly change into something.
Raven gritted her teeth and closed her eyes as the creature's claws pierced her skin. The creature extracted its claws from her shoulders. Raven could feel the blood pouring out of the open wounds and forced her eyes open. The creature lifted its claws for a final blow, aimed at her throat. Before it could swipe, however, the creature was pushed away quite forcibly.
Raven gasped, despite herself. It was Beast Boy… no… it was the Beast.
The creature lifted itself from the ground, shaking. Howling, it ran at the Beast. Quickly lifting the creature from the ground, the Beast threw it into the glass window that separated the store from the mall. The glass pierced the creature's skin. The Beast ran to the window the see the strange creature try to stand again, but failing; the creature fell to the ground.
The Beast walked towards it to inspect it more closely. It was just barely breathing. Slowly, the creature began to split into two separate animals. The muzzle and lean body belonged to a medium sized dog that immediately started whimpering. The strong arms and bear head, belonged to a little bear cub that had gone missing from the Jump City zoo, just a few days ago.
The Beast walked back into the store and fell to the floor, exhausted from the fight with the mixed creature. Slowly the Beast turned back into Beast Boy.
As the Beast collapsed, Raven let out a breath that she hadn't known she had been holding. She noticed that the other Titans had woken up just in time to see the Beast throw the strange creature out the window. She turned her attention back to the Beast as it shape-shifted back into Beast Boy.
Everyone ran to Beast Boy. He was out cold.
"How did our friend change into the Beast?" questioned Starfire "He has not been the Beast for so very long! I thought the Beast was gone forever?"
"I thought it was," replied Cyborg "the electric jolt that BB got from the t.v must have reactivated the few chemicals-"
"No." Raven cut him off, "the shock may have helped, but the Beast has always been in Beast Boy. It's a part of him that he's learned to control."
Robin nodded his head "Well, what ever the reason, we need to get him back to the tower and run some tests on him to make sure he's all right and won't be changing back into the Beast anytime soon."
If the Titans hadn't been paying so much attention to their green friend, they would have noticed a dark figure picking up a device from under the counter and walking away from the store.