Part 19

Cyborg could barely hold his glee as he placed the mask atop Starfire's head. The mask? - A werewolf mask. Now all he needed was for Robin to wake up before Starfire. Wait he couldn't do this without BB seeing. He quietly made his way to his green friend's room and knocked on his door.

He heard rummaging a few mutterings and then the door creaked open, a disheveled Beast Boy staring up at him, "What?"

"Follow me, and be quiet." Cyborg tip-toed down the hall, Beast Boy followed.

There was Starfire practically sleeping over Robin whose head was lying on the arm of the couch.

"Shhh," Cyborg said with a finger over his closed mouth. He slowly made his way so that he was kneeling staring at the back of Robin's head. He took a marble that was in his hand and laid it on his thumb. He then flicked it so it proceeded to whack Robin in the back of the head.

Robin's eyes lifted to see what looked like a wolf staring at him. "Ah!" He kicked the beast in the side and fell sideways onto the floor, the floor seemed to abrupt in laugher but the voices were coming from Cyborg and Beast Boy who were standing behind the couch.

Starfire awoke and floated in mid-air, starbolts ready in her hands. She observed the situation, and flew to the ground her green glowing hands becoming normal once again. It took her a few moments to notice there was something on her head, she peeled it off, and stared at it. It scared her slightly, the wolf mask. She looked over to see Cyborg and Beast Boy bending over laughing, she grinned and threw the mask as hard as she could at Cyborg's head, knocking him backwards onto the floor, this cause Beast Boy to fall to the floor laughing – that is until Robin threw a pillow that stuffed itself into Beast Boy's mouth.

Raven observed from the kitchen, tea in hand, she simply shook her head.

Suddenly the alarm burst out. Robin ran over to the computer, "Robbery at the bank, Titans go!"

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Brother Blood guided the Hive through the particulars of the robbery mission, actually the robbery was the lesser part of just a plan to bring out the Titans, he figured they hadn't had to go out in quite some time and maybe he'd catch them in as they're lull.

Mammoth was carrying several sacks of money and placing them in the huge armored van that they 'stole'. Jynx and Gizmo were busying themselves by destroying police cars and causing havoc.

Robin looked around at the destruction and tried to think of the best plan. "Cyborg go after Blood, Raven, Starfire go after Mammoth, Beastboy get Gizmo, I'll handle Jinx.

Gizmo flied around too and fro shooting a gun back and forth causing crevices into the ground, Beast Boy considered that if he were an animal a gnat would describe him best.

Beast Boy turned into a cheetah avoiding Gizmo's blasts. He zigzagged left, right, left, another left, forward, back, right – launch. He jumped at Gizmo and was unsuccessful at tackling him to the ground but he did knock the gun out of his hands and fall into one of the many potholes he had made.

Mammoth threw the sacks of money he was carrying toward the two heroes that were flying at him. Starfire backed away and dodged two sacks, meanwhile Raven stopped to hold three of the bags in the air and them shoot them back at Mammoth who ducked. He then lifted a bus over and used it as protection against Starfire's starbolts. He then proceeded to push the bus forward trying to ram it into the two heroines. Starfire flew over the bus, and Raven hovered away and grabbed control of the bus and started pushing it back into Mammoth. He then jumped ontop of the bus and jumped in the air, he hit Starfire out of the air with his shoulder, knocking her to the ground. He then flew downward at Starfire ready to place the final hit, but he was picked up out of the air by Raven and flung into the nearest building.

Jinx flipped back and forth avoiding the destruction of Robin's polearm. She then parried with her own mesmerizing attacks and Robin would either dodge them away or knock them aside. It was a constant back and forth, both agile both quick. They both stopped and stared at each other, short of breath showing admiration for the other's attack and stamina.

Cyborg was shooting for all he was worth but he was unable to hit Brother Blood. Meanwhile the same couldn't be said for Cyborg who got thrown into a lamppost. He looked at his arm to see his strength at fifty percent. He lifted himself up took a heavy breath, aimed, fired and missed.

Beast Boy changed into a gorilla and swung at Gizmo trying to knock him out of the air, the only thing that was missing was the empire state building and a beautiful blonde. He then turned himself into a condor and grabbed onto the mechanical systems of Gizmo and ripped them apart causing the little twerp to fall to the ground. He rolled around on the ground and saw his gun, he reached out for it, turned around, and saw Beast Boy dusting himself off, and he grinned and fired.

Mammoth wiped the bricks off his body picked one up and threw it at Raven who again grabbed the debris and flung it back at the led head. She was now alone with Mammoth, Starfire flew over to help Robin who was at a stalemate with Jinx but with Starfire helping they were fairing better.

Cyborg screamed as his sonic blaster seemed to almost tear itself away from his body. It shocked like a lightning storm and wouldn't fire. He leaned against a mailbox and whacked his dead arm against it, dulling the pain. He looked around and couldn't see Brother Blood he then proceeded to lean over and vomit on the sidewalk.

Blood grabbed the fallen Beast Boy and carry him away.

Mammoth ran through the alleyways avoiding the wrath of Raven.

Jinx fell backwards against a building and felt her eyes closing.

In the end the team got back together and looked at Jinx, Robin pounded his hand in his fist, "They took one of ours," Starfire grabbed Jinx and held her against the ground, "We take one of theirs."

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Beast Boy's eyes open to see nothing but a stonewall, his back hurt, his mind hurt. Everything appeared to be a blur but he could tell the stone was wall he wasn't sure if he was lying down or hanging from a wall. His mouth was severely dry, his eyes were full of water, he felt a cold sweat across his body, and he could've sworn there were shadows looking at him, dancing around. Whatever was wrong with him he was definitely out of sorts, something was definitely wrong. He had never felt this way his entire life.

He tried to move and his conscious told himself that he could move, but his body remained still. He thought he could hear something around him but it all sounded as though it was being shouted through a concert crowd, it was misunderstood gibberish, and he kept telling himself to but he couldn't, he became more and more restless he felt his insides were going to collapse within itself.

Thoughts of where and who he was never crossed his mind. He couldn't grasp questions, everything was scattered, he felt like screaming but no words would come out, his mouth wouldn't even open, the only one that heard his screams was him.

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Jinx was in the medical bay, still unconscious. Cyborg was watching her, at the same time he was taking a repair kit to his arm, and other parts of his mechanical body. Starfire and Robin were helping as best they could but his systems were extremely advance and high tech so it was often left to Cyborg to turn a certain screw or to connect several random wires and cables.

Raven just sat up in bed. She wasn't able to sleep. She couldn't believe that Beast Boy was gone; she couldn't believe that she let him out of her sights. Damn that stupid large Mammoth… she chased him down and what good did that do? She tried her best to calm herself, she tried to rationalize that they'd learn where Beast Boy was whenever Jinx awoke. What if she lied to them though? What if she didn't know? What if she didn't feel like cooperating? – No Raven would make sure she would, even if she had to plunge into her mind and grab the information from her – and she'd be no bit friendly about it.

She felt so lost. She felt as though a piece of her was gone, not just Beast Boy. She couldn't meditate she was unable to focus. All she could do was stand up in her bed and stare at her walls and door. Just wondering what to do, wondering where to turn. What if they killed him? No they wouldn't kill him, why take him just to kill him? If they wanted him dead they would've just left him dead on the battlefield. What if they torture him? That somehow scared her more than him being dead. At least there is some sort of peace in being dead – there was no peace being tortured.

She swore she'd get them though. And that's when it all became so clear to her. When you finally lose something is when you realize you need it the most. She needed Beast Boy. She needed him because… she loved him. It was now the truth. She had somehow fallen for the skinny, green, sarcastic, jovial friend. She loved him, she loved being around him, and she loved just knowing his presence was near, but now, now with him gone she felt so abandoned.

She had once read that to be lonely is to be different, and to be different is to be lonely. She wasn't that different. Sure she wasn't like everyone else but neither were her friends. They were in many ways much more similar than they were different. The most different being Beast Boy, and yet he was the one that made her feel normal. He was the one that treated her like she was special, like she was something that needed to be handled with care, and she admired his ability to try and make her happy. It seemed to make his day to see her happy and truth was she'd rather be happy then miserable, and if she was able to only act freely when being around Beast Boy, then she wished she could always be with him.

She wrapped her arms around herself expecting some sort of chill, expecting something to reach out and grabbed her. Instead she just held herself, as though she was trying to hold herself together as though she'd fall apart and without Beast Boy who would put her back together again?

"Raven?"

She looked up to see Starfire standing there at her door, Raven wanted to say something but nothing came out, she just stared at her friend unable to utter anything.

Starfire seeing the sad expression on Raven's face, seeing her clutching herself, scared, Starfire went over and sat next to her friend, and hugged her as tight as she could.

"We will find friend Beast Boy, I promise."

-end of part 19