A/N: The action I kept promising is finally here! And this time it really did only take a week for me to update! Anyways I had 95 reviews last time I checked and making this story my goal was 100! I usually set impossibly high goals for myself so I was really shocked to see I was almost there! Anyways, I need 5 more reviews till I meet one of my goals for the first time! Help me out here! Anyways, enjoy!
Looking at the Raven who cared about him and a world full of possibilities Beast Boy had made his decision, and though a small part of his subconscious told him to go back, his legs refused to move. His decision seemed final, he would stay in this world forever, dream or not no longer mattered to him. For here he was happy, if he left the only thing he could see in his future was pain. But here anything could happen, his life was his own. For a while he heard Robin's voice telling him how much Raven needed him. Telling how he would never see her or any of the others again if he stayed much longer. But the main thing that had kept Beast Boy going in the real world, the thing that had convinced him never to fail the team, that assured him they had everything to live for and look forward to, was the chance to see Raven's face one more time. To answer the question that swam through his subconscious for over a week and the need for that answer was suddenly gone.
He had never given up on the dark teen, he had continued to tell jokes hoping someday she would laugh, he had always felt different around her than anyone else, wanted to impress her, wanted to talk to her, no one else would do. He had always wondered what it was about her that was so different to him. That is, until a week ago, he had learned more about himself and the girl in a week than he had his entire life. The reason he never given up on her was not because he hated her enough he felt it an accomplishment to make her laugh, as he had thought before, but because he had longed for her to open up to him, longed for her to be more human, to be more like a girl. For he had begun to like her long ago, but how can you fall in love with someone who doesn't even seem to have a heart?
He had only just realized, as he began to talk to a Raven who seemed perfect, who had the heart that the real Raven was missing, that it was her heart that he needed to see to care about her as more than a friend. It was all beginning to come together, he had begun to worry about the girl only after her powers had escaped her control and she was able to show some emotion. He had not given up on Intelligence because she was almost the same as the Raven he knew but with a clear emotion. He had been desperate to continue without thinking about how exhausted the rest of the team must be because he was so obsessed with seeing the sides of Raven she had never allowed out. But if he accomplished his mission, the same old emotionless girl would be the only one he knew, the emotions, the heart he had been searching for, the heart that would make the girl he already cared for perfect, would disappear. He didn't think he could stand getting to know the emotions he had worked on seeing his entire life only to return to a girl who was as unaffectionate as before. And then losing that same girl forever.
Beast Boy took a good look at the girl in front of him and pushed aside his pleading subconscious, this girl was everything he had been looking for since Raven arrived. The girl in the real world hated him, and who he had finally realized he hated as well. He could never truly love that girl, but the one who sat in front of him now was different, maybe, just maybe, he could fall in love with the side of this girl that didn't exist in the one he knew. But watching her giggling, smiling, and crying, he began to wonder, if this was the girl he was waiting for, why did being with her feel so wrong, if she had the same body, the same face, and the same heart the real Raven would had she let her emotions show, why did she not feel like… Raven.
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Starfire and Cyborg were still kneeling next to Beast Boy. Cyborg begging his best friend to come back, to tell a joke or set up some kind of elaborate prank. Star wasn't sure anything she could say would pull her friend back to reality, but she was desperately trying everything she could think of. Robin had stood up, sensing a number of things happening around him, he was aware of an obvious danger though he wasn't sure what it was, as well as a pair of eyes watching him and the others closely. But before he could investigate he heard the threatening roar of a Minotaur that was conscious and already on its feet. Detaching a pole-like weapon from his belt he yelled for the others to ready themselves, who were staring shocked at the sudden appearance of an angry bull-man.
The creature began its charge, its horns threaten to pierce strait through Robin's fragile chest. But before oncoming threat could reach its target, the center of its brow was smashed against the length of a surprisingly strong pole. Its man-like fur covered fingers reached out towards Robin's suddenly unprotected neck. The hands were locked around his neck crushing it with enormous strength. He could feel claws digging into the back of his neck knowing if he removed his hands from the pole the horns would make there way into his body. Beginning to lose consciousness he heard a cry from above him and a number of green bolts of energy showered themselves upon the head of his attacker.
A very angry Starfire had shaken the Minotaur away from Robin and was still throwing bolts like he had never seen at the creature. It cried in pain and the Titans were convinced the thing would be unconscious or dead by the time Starfire released it, but this was not the case. As soon as the cry ended the creature jumped into the air towards a shocked Starfire and slashed at her unprotected body with a roar of triumph. The girl fell to the ground, bleeding from a deep gash, when she saw the creature that had attacked her about to crush her into the ground. He would have to if it hadn't been for a blue cannon fired by Cyborg.
All three Titans stood together ready for battle, though Starfire's clothes were now drenched in blood and Robin was still having trouble seeing strait. The familiar cry of "Titans Go!" filled the air. Thing outsized all of them but they had him outnumbered, Starfire attacking from above, Cyborg from the right, and Robin from the left. A number of Starbolts were the first to be fired, the creature attempting to escape them almost ran strait into the blast of energy escaping the cannon in Cyborg's arm. With a cry of rage it turned the other way to find Robin's exploding disk making its way towards his face. Starfire and Cyborg relaxed thinking the battle was already over but Robin did not, if this was the same creature he wished for in his dream it would not be so easily defeated.
Robin was proven right when the Minotaur ducked beneath his disk which hit the unsuspecting Cyborg instead. "Cyborg!" Came a cry from Starfire who stopped her rejoicing to land by his side. Robin didn't have time to warn her of the creature whose horns narrowly missed her wide open back and went through her arm instead. With a cry of extreme anguish the girl began to lose consciousness, she had lost too much blood earlier and the combination of blood loss and pain were unbearable. Cyborg seemed to have lost consciousness to and was now laying face down, a wide open target. Robin made a mad dash towards the Minotaur and his two friends but was heard before he reached his destination and thrown aside by a large hoof. He stood up knowing that he may be the two's last hope and began to fumble with his belt picking up the first thing his hand reached.
The creature had put off the death of the two unconscious Titans knowing Robin was now his biggest threat. Its clawed hands slashed at every open area they could find, but Robin was an expert at dodging these attacks and rarely got hit. He immediately threw whatever it was he had pulled from his belt at the oncoming Minotaur, immediately losing hope as a meager smoke bomb was smashed beneath his enemy's large foot. For the first time in a dire battle, Robin felt tears enter his eyes, he had let his team down, he had brought this creature into existence though the portal that had appeared above his head when he had awaken. He had let this creature into the world and now because of it, he had let his team be defeated, or the little team he had left.
Watching the Minotaur raise a large hoof above his head, watching the thing scream a cry of victory, Robin waited unbearably for the inevitable end. The hoof was making its way down now, Robin closed his eyes, it would be at his face soon, it would all be over. Nothing… Robin, having blocked out all sound not wanting to hear the cries of his friends, felt nothing. Was he dead, was this what it felt like, to have been erased from existence. He felt his eyes open as his brain attempted to register where he was, what had happened that he had not felt the rush of pain he had expected. And there in front of him stood the answer. In the middle of the empty field he had never left was the Minotaur in a desperate battle for its life.
No matter how the Minotaur struggled there was no defeating an angry creature such as this. Tears of pain hit the ground, not from the Minotaur who seemed emotionless even at the brink of death, but from the creature battling it. No matter how the Minotaur struggled every hit was blocked and every clawed hand did not seem to make a scratch upon its enemy. Its horns were broken off and fell to the ground, fits made there way into its bruised stomach, cries of pain did not cease. The Minotaur was crushed to death beneath the fists of the creature it battled. And that creature let out the final roar of triumph.
The winner took a reassuring look at all the Titans before growing smaller into the form of a young boy with a badly torn purple and black uniform. "Beast Boy…" Robin nodded faintly before slipping out of consciousness himself.
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When Robin and the others awoke they found themselves in another place entirely, not sure how they got there they looked around questioningly. This place was as dead as the first they had visited, though the dieing trees were willows and the grass was longer. They saw Beast Boy talking to someone but they were unsure of who. The person was hidden beneath what used to be an orange cape but was covered in so many stains and had not been washed in so long, it was now almost multicolored. Of course, they thought, this must be another of Raven's emotions.
"How did we get here?" Robin asked making there consciousness known as well as interrupting a quiet conversation between Beast Boy and the emotion.
Beast Boy looked slightly surprised by the sudden voice but did not turn his head and answered quickly and simply, "This is Grossness," not even bothering to indicate the girl in front of him he continued, "And this is her home. She helped me bring you here."
"Was it your idea to put us into such a terrible dream!" Starfire accused. Grossness did not answer, and neither did Beast Boy. They seemed equally depressed and suddenly unreachable. "Well?" Starfire demanded. Still no answer.
Robin stood up, getting a little dizzy at first but making his way towards the two none the less, "Beast Boy?" The obviously depressed Titan still refused to answer. "Please tell us what's wrong. We're a team." Robin said encouragingly.
Invisible tears in his eyes Beast Boy stared strait through the ground as he said, seemingly to himself, "Grossness needs your help." Finishing he sat silently till the other two Titans rose to stand beside Robin. Then Beast Boy stood himself in a way that reminded them very much of Raven, and walked the opposite way without bothering another word.
A/N: Thanks for reading! I hope you liked it! It was a little darker than the others, the reason I made the whole thing PG13. I'm working on a happy ending and again I only need 5 more reviews! Also, I've gotten a couple emails and reviews lately asking me not to end the story and some saying that they heard that I wasn't going to finish it, I just want to clear this up, I will finish the story! No doubt now that I have so many readers I won't give up on it! Thanks again for reading and I'll try getting another one up next week!