Might I apologize for being slightly late? I've been having a lot of trouble writing this, I've been awfully busy this week… next chap. As promised! Oh yeah, and to start, sorry about last chapter's funky font, my computer is evil… If you buy a Dell Pentium desktop, I suggest you don't try to set it up yourself. Starting this chapter, here's a quote from my buddy ivorypanther's poem, yes I got permission; you may e-mail her and ask if you wish to know.

An eternal smile its mind is curled

Around a thought

Around your throat

Animal

Raven sat down slowly in the titan's vast kitchen, enjoying the silence that replaced the usual upbeat screams of Beast Boy and the angry brooding of Robin. How she enjoyed quiet mornings. The quiet, the solitude, the tea… yes, that was probably the best part of all. Raven took a strong whiff of her tea, the dark aroma filling her mind with peace. Nothing could possibly ruin her mood. Suddenly, a sudden noise broke the silence. "DUDE YOU ARE SO PAYING FOR THAT!"

"WAHH! IT WAS SILKIE, I SWEAR IT, WAHH ROBIN!" Yes, the wake up call…

Beast Boy ran frantically into the kitchen, his eyes lit and his mouth in a toothy grin, something black and roughly the texture of coffee staining his usual outfit, and quite like every morning, turned into an ant and dove under the couch. Cyborg ran into the room, holding a wrench and mumbling. "Where is that little maggot, I swear the second I see him I'll crush his scull in…"

"What did he do this time? Break your car?" Beast Boy poked his head out from under the couch. "I didn't hurt it I swear! Raven, don't let him hurt me…" Raven stared blankly, if you want me, I'll be in my room. Raven disappeared in a curling burst of obsidian energy. Yes, it was quite the usual morning. "What did he do this time? Break your car?" Robin walked into the room, frowning and adjusting his mask. "Does everyone think I broke Cyborg's car?"

"Please friends, why do you fight? Can we not partake in the eating of 'pizza' and forget this 'pounding of Beast Boy?' Starfire still, somehow, had trouble with English even though she had been on earth for nearly a year. Suddenly Starfire tripped. "Eep!" A pizza hit the wall and slid down the shining black linoleum, leaving a long trail of marinara sauce in its wake. Everyone stared at each other. "I'll get a mop." Beast boy shuffled away to get a mop.

"It's not fair, why do I always have to get the mop? Why cant Robin get the mop, it's not like I'm specially trained in the art of cleaning up what Starfire dropped. What am I, pizza boy?" Beast boy looked at the console for detecting criminals that Cyborg had built into the wall. He stopped and looked at it.

The screen pulsed a steady green. Beast Boy frowned. He was no expert but something wasn't right. By this time of the morning, there were usually four or five criminals destroying the city, or killing people.

Beast Boy looked at the screen again, staring at his quizzical expression as if the screen might answer his question, the only thing that happened was the screen went into a brief static and his face showed back up. Oh well, the mop wouldn't get itself. Beast Boy walked to the closet grabbing the mop and went back to the kitchen. None of the titans were in the kitchen, but there was a note on the table, written in Raven's small and precise script.

To whom it may concern. (Meaning you beast boy.) We went to get more pizza. Don't go into my room, don't touch any of my stuff, and don't touch any of Robin, Cyborg, Starfire's things either. Robin would appreciate it if you wouldn't play with the controls on the obstacle course again too. Point blank, don't touch anything. We'll be back in a few minutes. If you didn't read this, then thank you. I win Cyborg's twenty dollars.

-Raven

Beast Boy sighed. This was typical. The whole team goes and leaves beast boy alone to clean. He was like godda Cinderella. The pizza sauce was drying on the wall now, creating a hard, brown crust. A single fly swarmed around the stain, buzzing lazily. Wait a minute, something SERIOUSLY wasn't right. The new security system was supposed to block everything that didn't match the titan's individual DNA signatures, he had been bragging about his newest innovation for months. The fly should have been fried by the new high tech laser beams. The fly stopped in midair, suddenly staring at beast boy, or rather at the wall behind him. Beast Boy turned around, shuddering as a breeze hit his back coldly.

Beast Boy stopped cold. There was a huge hole in the wall, charring at the edges, and slowly burning a hole in the carpet. The hole seemed to be beckoning him. "Come on beast boy WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR! Come on beast boy there's an invader in the tower. Get out now. Go get robin. He can deal with it. Beast boy WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?" Beast Boy turned back toward the kitchen, as if in a trance. He opened his communicator.

"Five minutes till operation TL commences." Kerri stumbled over to the console, her mouth plastered in a small grin like a Halloween pumpkin shadows playing over her small pale face. "This is the moment we have waited for for months!"

Beast Boy frowned, and robin showed up on the communicator. "Robin, dude, I think something's going on."

"This is what we have labored for, breathed for, given lives for. THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE DONE!" The small crowd of people cheered, the cheer becoming a roar as the sounds slipped off the icy walls of the cave in an eerie unison. "Only four minutes my friends, only four."

"Robin, I seriously think something's wrong."

"Why Beast Boy, it sounds fine to me, what makes you think something's going on?"

Oh I don't know, maybe the HUGE SMOKING HOLE IN THE WALL!"

Kerri stood, the three straight days she had stayed awake clearly showing as she slightly stooped. The lady, who had stood silently in the corner until now, smiled. Kerri suddenly frowned. She was forgetting something. Something… she was forgetting something. The lady frowned. "Is something wrong?"

"No, no Ma'am."

"Good. Five seconds."

"Beast Boy, get out of there, BEAST BOY! Are you listening to me? Get out of that building. We're coming. Just get yourself out of there."

"Four seconds."

"Beast Boy, do you hear me?"

"Three seconds."

"We don't know what we're messing with yet, you need to leave."

"Two, one."

"BEAST BOY!"

Meanwhile at the Jump city pizza parlor.

Robin screamed into the communicator. "BEAST BOY!" He heard nothing. "Raven, teleport us to the tower."

"But, Robin."

"Now!" Robin was staring at his communicator, as if in disbelief. He didn't wear his determined face though, he actually looked… scared. "Okay Robin, hold on a second." Raven screwed her face, and sat silently, concentrating. Suddenly, they were back at the tower, and all left speechless.

"What happened here?" The tower was a smoldering mess. The furniture was charred and smelled like burnt rubber; all that was left of it were skeletons of metal, every bit of cloth gone. It looked as if a creature had gone through and destroyed everything.

Worst of all, Beast Boy was gone.

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Wow, as I read over that it sounds like a funky mix between the Tommy Knockers and Brave new world. Ah well, my stories usually end up sounding like what I'm reading. So, what happened to beast boy? You'll just have to wait to find out. CRAP that sounded corny… anyways, review, and thanks for the last chapter reviews.