Thechilldude(me): I have found a way to end world hunger!
random person: how so?
Thechilldude: by eating pie!
random person: how does that help...? irritated)
Thechilldude: It relieves my stress.
random person: You make no sense...
enjoy!
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(Beast Boy's POV ends)
Robin was in his room, deciphering all the clues. He had to figure out what happened to Beast Boy. Nothing seemed to make sense. Something made Beast Boy go crazy, but what was it.
After Beast Boy had kissed Raven in the common room, Beast Boy acted as if he had a headache. While it may be true, something was causing it. That was what Robin was searching for.
The criminal alert rang and Robin ran down to the common room, where Cyborg, Raven, and Starfire were already. Slade was on the other end. It seemed that he was about to be electrocuted. "Why are you still alive!" Robin asked forcefully.
"It seems I was granted the opportunity to call you, Robin." Slade said, "I know what's happening to your friend changeling, but don't forget. It's going to happen to you." "What?" Robin asked. On the other end, they could see Slade die right in front of them.
"I'll be right back." Robin said, and returned to his studies to find out what Slade meant. Raven went into the infirmary to check on Beast Boy. Cyborg got a snack out of the fridge and ate, with nothing much else to do. Starfire flew towards Robin's room and knocked lightly.
"What is wrong friend Robin?" Starfire asked. When Robin opened up, it didn't look like the same Robin. He was very tired indeed. He hadn't slept at all since Beast Boy had that nasty migraine. That was nearly two days ago.
"I just can't find out what's happening to Beast Boy, or what Slade meant by 'it's going to happen to you'." Robin. "I will not let anything happen to us!" Starfire groaned, trying to free Robin from his displeasures. "I wish I could believe that." Robin said.
Deep down, he had a feeling that there was no one who could stop whatever was happening to Beast Boy, or whatever might happen to them soon enough. Just then, the crime alert, well, alerted them again. Robin and Starfire scurried back to the common room, a.k.a. the living room, and quickly turned it on to see what was happening.
"It's Red X! Titans go!" Robin commanded.
The four titans revealed themselves at the bank, where Red X was making away with the loot. Starfire shot star bolts at the black cloaked figure. Cyborg blasted his sonic cannon at him, which he dodged. "Come on, didn't I teach you last time you couldn't catch me?" He asked as he looked back. He was abruptly stopped by a certain boy wonder with a bow stick.
"Tell us, what was it like being electrocuted?" Robin asked. "It was shocking." Red X replied and shot an x' at him. Robin jumped over him. "Asarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven hurtled a car straight into him. He vanished into thin air, only to reappear behind Raven. "I heard you were BB's girl. Never thought he was your type." Red X stated. Raven shot pure energy at him.
Red X was pushed directly into a wall, followed by a birdarang Red X saw as more came and stripped him of his freedom. He was now pinned onto the wall with no hope. The four titans drifted towards him and set themselves in front of him.
"Now Red X, be a good boy and tell us what your friend did with ours." Raven said. "So it's happened huh? Never thought you'd be so scared to loose someone who was nothing more than a-" Red X was cut off from Raven's telekinetic slap. "No one talks that way about Beast Boy." Raven said. "Who says?" He asked. "I say."
"Then we need a new leader ms. Roth has left the build-" Red X was cut off by another slap.
"Don't talk that about me either."
"Why should I care?" Red X asked. "Because I'm your worst nightmare." Raven said, using her demon side to show Red X all his worst fears. It wasn't the darkness, but blackness. Nothing was worse than this. "I'm not intimidated by this. You think just because-" Red X yet again getting cut off by Raven's ability shoving his face in her blackness.
When Red X came back out of the black abyss, it was as if he wasn't even scared. "Slade has warned me of what was to come. I'm afraid of nothing and no one. There is no death that I care for." It may not have looked it, but Red X was a little frightened of what he saw, Raven could sense it.
"Liar. No tell us what is wrong with Beast Boy." Raven said. "How should I know sweet cheeks? I was just ordered to carry out the mission." Red X said. "Then what did you do!" Raven roared, getting restless of this wasteful conversation.
"Ha. . .I'd actually tell you if I remembered." Red X moaned through her tight grip that she proceeded in shoving him further into the wall. "Why can't you!" Raven yelled. The other titans slowly backed away from her. They had never seen her this angry before, except for the time where she showed Dr. Light that demon side of her, and even then it was short lived.
"Slade wiped out my memory after I did what I did. Face it, it's in the past and there's nothing you can do to save your poor boyfriend." Red X stammered. She threw him off and back onto it in a second and let go. She wasn't going to get anything out of this liar. He even resisted breaking out when he was inside his worst nightmares, which was strange because no one could do that.
The police took care of Red X and sent him to jail, while the titans returned to the tower. They sighed. This wasn't a good thing. What were they to do with Beast Boy. They still didn't know any leads. Without any information, Robin had to go back to the infirmary.
"Beast Boy." Robin said, slightly shaking him. Cyborg entered. "Yo man, I don't think that's a good idea."
"I don't know anything else. Maybe Beast Boy knows if Slade has done anything to him." Robin said. Beast Boy stirred awake. "What happened?" Beast Boy asked, groaning with a mad headache. "Do you know what Slade's done to you?" Robin asked. "Not really. . ." Beast Boy said, "Why?" "Slade said he's done something to you, and now we'll get whatever you've got soon."
Beast Boy shook awake. "It can't be anything I've-." He began, falling back down the bed and nearly screaming with the immense pain. "Robin motioned for him to rest himself and make it easier for everyone.
Just when his headache subsided. "I know it's not your fault. You wouldn't do anything like-" Robin said. Starfire barged in and declared, "Raven has fallen ill."
Robin and Starfire returned to the common room where Raven was lying on the ground forcing irritably back and forth as if there was a pest inside her mind and trying to kill her from the inside out.
Cyborg was sitting, after checking for anything wrong with Beast Boy, which there wasn't, and stared him down. "Could this day get any worse?" Cyborg asked. Beast Boy suddenly held his head as if another headache spread across him and hurting his entire body.
Cyborg fell limp, knowing not what to do to stop his friend from hurting. He decided it was best to give him pain relievers. He popped two pills into his mouth and let him swallow. The pain subsided a little, but only for a second, as Beast Boy thrashed around uncontrollably.
He changed into the Beast. There was no warning, no signs he was going to kill. However, he changed and that didn't change a thing. He tore Cyborg's limbs off, one by one, and then jumped out of the window. Cyborg hadn't had time to even fight back as he was caught off guard.
"What just happened!" Cyborg screamed, "Help!" as the beast tore him apart piece by piece. His body lain wilted from overpowering in him. Cyborg's system shut off and he was just another broken machine.
Robin and Starfire took Raven back to the medical bay and saw no Beast Boy, but a machine that used to be Cyborg. Robin laid Raven down and looked to him. "He is ok," Robin said as Starfire welled up. She sobbed. "Cyborg isn't dead, he's just offline." Robin explained.
Robin began piecing together Cyborg. It was a miracle he did survive, but he had. He turned him back on and asked then what happened. Once Robin heard everything, he left the room without saying anything. It was as if he was in a trance.
"Where do you think he's going?" Cyborg asked. "I do not know friend Cyborg, but I am very worried for everyone at the moment." Starfire mourned. "Don't sweat it Star, thing's will be back together soon. I'm sure any mom-" Cyborg said. He hadn't had time to say anything.
A swirl of wind flooded the room. It emitted from Raven, who was still unconscious. "This has never happened before." Starfire shrieked aloud. She looked back to Cyborg and he was no where to be found. She grew fearful and went to find Robin and tell him the terrible news, for no one could've gotten out of the medical bay without her knowing. She was already at the exit, anyways.
Robin knew this was going to be tricky. He'd never been into Raven's mind, let alone hear much about it. Cyborg had described it to him as some what messed up and could possibly be psychotic with all the strange things that have happened in there.
Yet, here he was about to go into her mind. He knew not what else to do, but felt that this was the right approach. The only person suffering it, other than Beast Boy, who he could find at the moment, was Raven, and she was unconscious. Robin wanted to know the answers he had questions to, yet no one yet knew.
The mirror laid exactly where it had always been, on Raven's desk. It hadn't moved since Beast Boy and Cyborg had last been in the mirror, but he somehow knew it was there. Robin held the mirror and waited for it to suck him in any moment, but nothing happened. Maybe he was doing it wrong?
He sat down and waited for it, directly looking at it. Still, nothing happened. He laid the mirror down on the ground and stared at it. Nothing. Nothing happened and he was growing angry with it. He was about to smash it when he sucked him in, just as he wanted. There was a green flash and he was brought to the center. He was greeted by eight Raven's. Each of them had a different personality it seemed. However, Beast Boy's description of them being only emotions that Raven had, proved him wrong. They were nothing more than emotions.
"Hello," Robin said, unsure of what to say. How they had known he would come was beyond him. All but two emotions began surging in pain. The only ones that didn't were Wisdom and Rage. Rage was to busy being mean to the other emotions to understand the pain. She almost liked it. Almost. Wisdom took Robin to a secluded area.
"I'm glad you came. They haven't stopped since whatever has happened to Raven attacked." Wisdom said, the brown cloaked Raven. "Wait-you don't know what has happened either?" Robin asked. "Not exactly, but I feel like Raven has contracted a rare disease, just as Beast Boy had. It probably happened when they-" "When they kissed! Then she had the headache and I-" Robin said, beginning to get what was happening.
"Yes," Wisdom said. "But I haven't contracted it, why not?" "You have you're gloves on. However, Cyborg didn't have any gloves when he carried Beast Boy into the-" "I have to tell Cyborg quickly before he-" Robin cut her off, getting cut off by her.
"That's not such a wise idea." Wisdom said. "Why not?" Robin asked. "Well, first off, you don't know how it can spread. Second off, you don't know how to reverse the effect, and third of all, Cyborg is a machine." "But Cyborg knows better than any of us how to-Wait, why would being a machine have-" Robin began.
"Remember when Cyborg contracted that virus?" Wisdom asked. "Yes but I, Oh. . ." Robin said, finally understanding what she meant, "So, do you know where it came from?" Robin asked.
"Not exactly, but I know that it came from Slade. He is controlling whatever is happening." Raven said, "But do you remember when Red X said he carried out a mission? Do you think it is possible he gave Beast Boy the virus to spread to you when you guys returned to the tower, giving Slade the opportunity to wipe out Red X's memory. Perhaps that was his intentions so if Red X was caught, he couldn't tell anything."
"Yeah, and he set himself up to be executed, which means he's still out there!" Robin said, knowing that Red X wasn't behind making everyone sick. "Yes." Wisdom said.
"Well I guess I better be seeing you." Robin said. "Wait don't go yet. The cure for the virus may be in the hands of Slade. If we can find him, maybe we can end this." Wisdom said. "Yes, I'll keep that in mind." Robin said to the brown cloaked Raven. He walked off.
He was just about to leave when he saw something disturbing. He couldn't believe his eyes. He rubbed his eyes and made sure he wasn't dreaming a nightmare. The ravens that were there since wisdom had taken him away were still there, but there was something different, something disturbing about them.
All of them seemed to have changed into Slade or something. Each of their heads were a Slade's head instead of a Raven's. "What the heck is going-" Robin asked, getting sent to the ground from a serious jolt. One of the Raven's, Rage, who hadn't changed yet defended herself. "What the heck are you people!" She screamed at them, "I hate you!" Slade laughed as six of him walked towards Rage and Robin.
"What's going?-" Robin tried to asked again, seeing another flash of light. When it ended Robin saw another terrible fact. He was a machine, and part man. He was one of Robin's best friends. How did this happen thought? It wasn't the same flash of light that Robin saw when he came in, so he must've come through a different way. But how?
"Cyborg?" Robin asked.
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