History

Light from the fire danced against the dark trees surrounding Terra and her new friends, the night was warm but the fire was still refreshing. The three teen's sat on the ground facing the fire, the moon was high in the sky, it didn't look like they where going to sleep much tonight. It was Terra who asked the first question.

"So, you guys brother and sister or something?"

"Close, but no, Torrent and I have been avoiding the same pursuers together for almost three years. We appear to have a common enemy, so we decided to stick together. We've been out here for several years. Are you ready to tell us why you're out here?"

"I take it you guys never heard of Slade? No you wouldn't have if you where out here all that time. Well, you see I used to be a drifter like you guys...

Terra told her story to the two young outcasts, the moon rose higher and higher in the sky as time pasted. She told of how she had met the Titan, of her inability to control her powers, of Slade, Beast Boy was painful to speak of, but she told of him too. She explained how she'd gained control and used her powers to turn on her friends. When she was done she felt better, it felt good to get it all out, to say it all out loud in stead of keeping it bottled up inside. Ann looked shocked. Torrent seemed apathetic though his smile still shined on his face. He hadn't really seemed to be listening the majority of the story, so her being a wanted criminal didn't seem to bother him.

"You took control of the whole city in a day?" Ann mouth was slightly agape

"Yup." Terra felt a small of tang of pride.

"And these Titans, do you ever feel any regret for turning on them?"

"Every Day." Anger burned deep in side of her but Terra contained her urge to rip Ann to pieces, the anger was more toward herself anyway.

"If you're so powerful, who are you running from?"

"I'm not running." Terra looked away. She never enjoyed lying, even to herself

"It's the one you called Beast Boy isn't it?" Terra blushed and turned completely away from the fire, "It's ok Terra, maybe its time you heard our story."

"Both Torrent and I have abilities most humans aren't blessed with, I'm a type of physic and Torrent has an accelerated understanding when it comes to learning or absorbing things from observation. This ability is unheard of, so the government has been hunting him, they have also been searching for me for reasons I'm not yet sure of. Torrent has spent the majority of is life in the wild, so instead of absorbing human traits he fused himself with the traits of wild animals, mostly predators. His personality reflects many North American carnivores, but there's some South American influences there to. When we met he had been watching humans for some time, but he was still more beast then human. He can jump incredible distances and is far stronger then any one else I've ever heard of.

"From what Torrent can remember, he was captured by the military and taken away from his home. He doesn't exactly recall where home is, somewhere in South America. With the help of his gifts he escaped and survived in the wild alone. He made that strange thing on his arm out of the cage they put him in, it's surprisingly strong, after several years the men who where chasing him gave up and Torrent was able to venture near humans again, and that's when he found me. Torrent saved me after I had my first explosion of psychic energy, the same men who where chasing him came for me. After we got away they sent countless search parties to hunt us down. It was only after we came here that we've been left alone.

I started to teach Torrent every thing I knew, that's when I realized what his gifts where. He picked up the entire American language and some French in a single year, writing took him two months, and he even learned complex mathematics in three days. It's the social things that are hardest for him to grasp. Once he spent three minutes watching a cougar stalking an elk, now he can move through heavy underbrush and not make a sound. His senses are very acute, he can hear, taste, smell, feel, and see better then you or I could imagine. I've really been spending my time out here observing him and figuring him out. Ironically psychology has always been my thing. Of course being able to read him mind helps a lot."

"Wait, you can read minds." Terra suddenly felt very insecure

"How do you think we intend to make sure you're not a spy?'

"Then why didn't you just read my mind instead of making me tell you that long ass story!" Terra would have much rather not have poured salt on old wounds if she could have avoided it.

"It doesn't work like that, its more of I lie detector. With Torrent it's different. With how long we've been alone out here together I've kind of developed a link with him. I can decipher his basic mood, like right now he's bored out of his mind." Torrent was half a sleep slumped against a tree.

"I could have told you that." Terra rolled her eyes.

"I can also tell where he is and what he's doing most of the time, like right now he's picking his teeth, with the claw on his index finger." Ann didn't even turn around, and Torrent was doing exactly what Ann predicted, looking up in the trees causally removing small bits of whatever poor animal he'd found to eat that night.

"Ok, so that's your power, following fuzzy over there around making him do all your dirty work?" Terra was smiling, Ann smiled back

"No, I can levitate my self as well as other objects. It's easier to throw them though. It's true my powers are still developing, I also have the lack of control you said you where once inflicted with. It's only happened twice but..."

"I know." Terra understood how Ann was feeling now, alone except for one person. She had Torrent; Terra was alone with out Beast Boy.

"You don't have to be alone you know." Terra was shocked that Ann was strong enough to hear her thoughts. Just a second ago she had explained how feeble her hold over her gift was. Then as if to answer her thoughts "My power has its surges, some bigger then others. You can come with us though Terra, you seem nice and we could use more company."

"Did you hear me; I turned on and almost killed the last group of people that took me in."

"Terra, I know what..."

Ann was cut short when a spot light snapped on over their heads, Torrent roared out in pain and covered his eyes, and Ann stood up and looked around. Terra stared directly in the beam and let her eyes adjust. As her pupils opened she saw the silhouette of a Black Hawk chopper form. She saw ropes fling outward from each side and six black figures repel out ward. A shot was fired and Ann clutched her neck and hit the ground. Terra ripped a rock from the ground and flung it at the spot light, the glass shattered and the night was back again. The silent Helicopter had blown their fire out. Terra was blind in the lack of any light; Torrent however dropped his hands from his eyes and smiled.

All six agents landed simultaneously, and then clicked on flash lights that where attached to the barrels of the SMG's each man was armed with. Terra could only see the beams of light shinning against the black night, the forms of her assailants were hidden in the endless darkness. She bent over and felt Ann's pulse, it was weak but steady. She pulled a small needle from Ann's neck; they must have knocked her out to keep her from using her telepathy. Each light then locked on her; there was a pause then on of the man spoke,

"Where's the other one, I only see the two girls?" almost immediately after the question was asked the agent on Terra's far left screamed and was pulled back into the dark undergrowth. The other five spun and began firing blindly into the bushes. The shrubs and trees snapped apart as needles where driven in to them, and then there was silence again. Every light was now fixed on the motionless shattered bush. The plant stayed unmoving as the men closed in on it. One of the agents pushed the braches aside to reveal the man who had been snatched covered in small tranquilizing needles. Another agent screamed, this time from the back of the group, but by the time the others turned he was already gone. One of the men pulled out a flair gun and fired a shot into the air. The small clearing was filled with a hazy green light. The remaining four attackers turned to Terra,

"Tranquilize her." One man ordered, but before they could raise their guns Torrent burst from the trees above them, the man who had ordered the shot was struck hard across the face by Torrent's metallically platted right fist. His jaw cracked and he fell to the ground. Torrent grasped the one closest to him by the helmet and threw him into the other two; all three men fell to the ground, their guns sliding off into the darkness. The first of the fallen who stood was grasped by the wrist and slammed in to one of the needle covered tree. The second caught a round house to the face and a knee in the ribs. The smile on Torrent's face seemed so insanely out of place, the kind of way the grim reaper would be out of place at a tea party. Terra looked on in a sort of horror as the young man ripped and tour through her attackers with such glee. The last man to stand was tripped again; Torrent placed his foot on the agent's chest and smiled down at his victim.

The earth around Torrent ruptured upward and knocked him off his feet, he landed with his back against a boulder, the rock cracked and fractured to form a fist. The hand grasped Torrent before he could realize what was happening. He looked toward Terra in disbelief, but the same feeling of shock was etched across her fetchers. Only she wasn't looking at Torrent, her gaze was fixed skyward at a young girl. A young girl standing on a levitating stone, a young girl with glowing yellow eyes and short blond hair, a young girl that looked exactly like Terra.

Terra's twin floated down and stepped off her platform. She turned quickly to the remaining soldier in black as he staggered to his feet. He nodded toward the entrapped Torrent,

"Tranq him." Then she turned toward Terra. "Hello there me, how am I doing today." She smiled. It reminded Terra so much of her own smile. She was wearing a black suit similar to that of the other agents. Her hair was the same as Terra's only cut short to six inches in length. She had blue eyes like Terra, a small nose like Terra, even the same body shape. The Terra in black seemed to realize what the other was thinking,

"Amazing isn't it, how similar we are." The agent that had shot Torrent with the same incapacitating needle that Ann took in the neck walk up beside the Terra in black. "But unlike you, I have complete control over my powers, and I have friends." She nodded toward the man to her left. He raised his gun and fired.