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Chapter Seven

High Hopes

The three downtrodden heroes sat on the couch inside of the Titan's East Tower. The rain poured down on the windows with a force of one of Darkfire's blasts. All of them had the feeling of failure in their hearts, and depression weighted heavily on them. Raven flipped through one of Bumble Bee's books on martial arts. Though in wasn't what she usually read she really didn't have a choice, since all of her books were now ash. Beast Boy and Cyborg watched the newscast about the destruction of their city.

The Teen Titans were now over with, Robin now helping to train the HIVE while Star had gone crazy, and the funny thing was that all this had happened because those two had fallen in love. Beast Boy put a small note in the back of his head to never fall in love with a team member.

Even Terra? the thought crept into his mind.

"Shut up," he mumbled to himself.

"Whazat?" Cyborg asked tiredly.

"Nothin'," Beast Boy responded, still dejected. How he missed her, and because of Darkfire they would have to start all over again on finding a cure for her. He looked at his best friend once more.

Beast Boy had been so afraid they would lose Cyborg after the battle. Cyborg had lost quite a bit of data, plus many mechanical body parts, so everyone was amazed that Speedy and Bumble Bee had put him all back together correctly.

It was still quiet, except for the fact that there was a thunderstorm going on outside. Beast Boy looked at Raven, hoping she wouldn't notice him.

"What?" she answered coldly, not looking up.

"Nothin'," he answered.

"That all you can say today?" she glanced over the top of the book, "what do you want?" she asked again.

"What're you talkin' about?" he asked innocently. Raven tossed the book in the air, and hovered it over to its spot on the shelf.

"You've been looking at all of us like we're aliens or something. You want to say something, so say it!" she hissed angrily, like a snake about to strike. Beast Boy recoiled into himself. He mumbled an answer.

"What was that?" she asked dangerously.

"I said I was just wondering where we went wrong!" he shouted, then collapsed back against the couch, flattening his ears in frustration. Raven and Cyborg both stared at the outburst.

"Beast Boy, we told you we'd get Terra out of there," Cyborg said, "What more do you want?"

"Not Terra, doofus! Starfire! Why did she turn on us? Her friends! Did we not love her enough? Not feed her enough mustard? Not give her enough toilet paper to play with? What did we do?" he collapsed again.

Raven sighed. "Beast Boy, Star is a messed-up chunk of wacko right now, and it's not our fault. Its Rotten the Blunder Boy that did it, not us." she stepped down and put her hand on Beast Boy's shoulder to comfort him, but he shrugged it off.

Cyborg frowned. "Hey guys?" he stood up.

Raven looked over. "What?"

"Robin casued Starfire to freak out, right?"

"Yeah."

"So, essentially, he caused Darkfire to be made?"

"Yeah." Raven frowned, wondering what he was getting at.

"So Robin really caused the breakup of the Titans West, and, inadvertently, the destruction of the Tower, right?"

"Are you going somewhere with this?"

"When did Robin start to act weird? I mean the day he did a complete one-eighty?"

"When he walked off?" Beast Boy asked, starting to get interested.

"No, think back, before that."

"Her birthday." Raven said, bieginning to catch on. beast Boy still stared, clueless.

"Right. He left to get her a gift, came back and..." Cyborg froze, deep in thought. "Get the rest of the Titans down here, now." he whispered.

"Why?" Beats Boy asked.

"Because I think I know what's going on," Cyborg said, "And I think Robin still loves Starfire." The two commragede stared at their mechincal friend before Beast Boy took off in search of Titans East.

"What do you mean you know whats going on?" Raven lifted one eyebrow.

"Look at it!" Cybrog paused for a moment as the rest of the titans were coming in. "Okay. What do we all know about Jinx?"

"She's part of an the criminal cult, HIVE, and she's very acrobatic and a prowerful witch." Bumble Bee stated.

"Correct. Now BB, Rae how did Robin react before going to mall?"

"More cheerful than usally." Raven muttered.

"He was running around the tower trying to get everything together. He was very excited about celebrating with Starfire."

"And after the mall?" stated the large tin man.

"That was like the first time I had ever seen Robin raise his voice at her." Beast Boy annouced.

"It was like..."Raven butted in. "Robin had changed, propbably by force as well."

"You mean?" Aqua Lad spoke up. "Jinx hypnotized Robin?"

"I don't know but it seems pretty logical. I remember at the Academy Jinx once told me that she had a thing for him. I know that she would jump on the chance to get in between Star and Rob."

"Sooooo..." Beast Boy mumbled. "What do you do?"

"What else can we do?" Cyborg shrugged his shoulders. "Get Robin back."

"And how do you susspose we do that?" Raven pulled her hood up.

"We sneak into to the HIVE and get him back."

"Sounds cool." Speedy crossed his arms and laid back on a nearby sofa. "But where do we look for the HIVE?" Cyborg paused nfor a second.

"That's easy" Bumble Bee annouced. "Brother Blood sends the freshmen out to practice on their powers and skills. All you gotta do is look for an area that the crime rate has gone up."

"Good idea." Cyborg smiled at her. "Any ideas?" Bumble bee shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't...um any large cities, probably outside of the states."

"I'll get right on it." Cy then left the room.

"Hold up! I'll come with you!" Bee ran and caught up with him. The rest of the heroes sat in the the main living area and stared uneasily at each other. The sound of the the thunder outside the the tower was the only voice present as each one quietly left to head on with their separate ways.

Raven was still left, sitting on the couch with her eyes shut. She was thinking about the idea of Robin under Jinx power, hopefully her friends were right, they could not be wrong.

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I still feel sorry about not updating lately. But next week I should have a lot of time so I get more done. Chapter Eight, 'Behind Hurt Eyes' is almost done!