Another good turnout for ch 2. Thank you all for sticking with this story in its early stages, as this story goes in a slightly different direction for this chapter. It's not going to be that bad, so keep on reading.
As for now...I guess I'll reply to the reviews that I got from the previous chapter(If you don't want to read them...then skip to the beginning of this chapter)...
BeastBoyandKingdomHeartsLover: Thanks for reviewing and it's great that I'm being loved here.
Iuz the Old: Huzzah for the reviwer! Thanks.
Firenze2000: Ya, I agree 100 percent. She's not that naive at all times...just gramatically incorrect. Also, you'll sort of find out where in this chapter.
Prince V: Yes, you're right about that, and I'll try not to wait that long. Thanks.
Regrem Erutaerc: Thank you so much for giving me that information, it helps me ten-fold. You'll be credited for it. I'll also try to put something in like what you're saying, I want to try and make it close to the show as possible. And you have no idea how incorrect your guess is(sorry for saying it a bit harsh)...it will be the next chapter(explainations at the end of this chapter).
Wolf-blades-wings: Thanks for reviewing, and I think this way is better 'cuz idk if some people check their e-mail or not.
IGAF-kun: will-do, thanks.
Sasscreech: Thanks and keep on loving it.
pureangel86: Hopefully they will, but it might not be at the end of the story...haven't decided yet.
BigQuise: At least you did. Thank for reviewing.
Michiyo Inu-Ome: Glad that you like it so far. Thanks.
The Halfa Wannabe: I agree completely. I just don't get why some writers do that with almost everytime she talks to her friends, eventhough the cartoon doesn't show that(i don't think the cartoon does that at all)...o well...let those writes write whatever they want to write, and I'll write whatever I want to write.
Silverchild of the winds: I thought that this way was better. With you saying that Raven powers being too much, well I think her powers were just where they should be, considering her situation, showing lots of emotion...many things will break. As for Star's speech...I just put it as bad and confusing grammar.
Ice.Cream.Luver: Well wait no longer...ch 3 has arrived. Hope you like it.
DarkRae4Ever: Here you go. Hope this one's good as the previous 2.
leons dragon: This one's much longer than ch 2, but not too long to make it boring.
TTgals4ever: If I didn't write more, then this story will be stuck at ch 2. Glad that you love it. Thanks for the review.
warprince2000: Wait no more. Thanks for reviewing.
moonfire of darknes: Glad that you love it, and here's ch 3.
dannyspudge: Ya, stories would be much better if they didn't have better grammar, agree with you all the way. And what's this "virtual coconut friend" that you speak of?
ninja-chick-yuki: Well I tried not to make ch 2 rushed. But no matter how much I tried not to rush it, it's still hard to write something like a breakdown scene and make it seem long, eventhough in real-life it could be long. Anyways...thanks for the review.
RavenPlusBeastBoy: Well, the thing is that Starfire was really guessing it...and by Raven's reaction, Star seemed that she was right...guess I should have put that in...o well. I also think that Star is sometimes wiser than we think, go back to "TROQ". Thanks for reviewing
Disclaimer: Own this story...but not the Titans.
Chapter 3-How Hard Can It Be?
"Beast Boy?" Robin called as he was searching under the circular couch in the common room. But there were no signs of Beast Boy under there. His right fist hits the floor, "Ugh! Where could he be?"
Robin picked up his communicator and spoke into it. "Cyborg, did you find anything yet?"
"Nope. No one here in the basement. He must've been really scared. Raven sure did a big number on him."
"I know, but we gotta find him. He couldn't have gone that far? Can he?"
"I don't know, man?"
"Well keep looking. We'll find him soon."
"K, Robin." Cyborg said now directing his attention to find the green mouse. "Yo, B.B.-" Robin closes his communicator to keep on searching. Then the common room door swooshes open, and Starfire comes into the room.
"Any luck of finding Beast Boy, Robin?" Starfire asked as the door swooshes closed.
Robin sighed, "Nothing yet, Starfire. How's Raven doing?"
"She is a little bit better now since I had talked to her, but she still seems sad. Her face was filled with tears, the room was completely destroyed like Beast Boy's, and she seems really worried about him."
"She'll get over it."
"Hopefully she will. I would never imagine that Raven could have a breakdown at all. She would exactly be last person that I would think, between all of us that would have broken down in some way."
"Yeah, I know what you're talking about," said Robin.
"She said that she wanted to help find him, but I told her that you told me to tell her that she needed to rest and that she has gone through a lot."
"Good. Now you can help us find Beast Boy."
"Sure, Robin. What rooms do you want me to check into?"
"Ummm...so far, I've checked here, the kitchen, my room the bathroom, and here. While Cyborg has checked his room, the gym, and the garage. And now he's checking the basement. You can search your room, then the roof, then Beast Boy's room, just incase he comes back to his room, and any other rooms upstairs that we haven't checked so far. I'm going check to see if our surveillance cameras have found anything yet."
"But should we also check Raven's room?" Starfire asks.
"I highly doubt it that Beast Boy would show up in Raven's room. He's probably too scared to even land a foot into her room or even go near her at the moment," said Robin.
"Oh...okay, Robin." With that, Starfire left to search the remaining upstairs rooms.
Robin picks up his communicator again. "Cyborg, Starfire just finished talking to Raven and now she's helping us find Beast Boy."
"That's good. How's Raven doing anyway?"
"Star said that Raven's resting now. She said that Raven's room was also destroyed, that Raven's really worried and sad about Beast Boy, and that she couldn't believe that Raven can even have a breakdown. Raven must be having a hard time dealing with this." Robin said sadly.
"Well, who can blame her? She looked like that she would blow up the tower after she suddenly realized what she had done to Beast Boy."
"I know what you mean," Robin frowned just thinking about Raven destroying the tower.
Then an uncomfortable pause had crept in for a while...
"Hey, Robin?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you think that Raven might be starting to fall in love with..." Cyborg said curiously. Then a long pause hits both boys.
"Naaaaaah," both of them was saying it at the same time, giving each other a nice little laugh.
"She would never. Raven and Beast Boy? Just can't see it," said Robin, laughing softly at the thought of Raven and Beast Boy going out.
"Same here, man. Those two will kill each other before they even think about going out. Well I better keep on looking for 'Mouse Boy' down here before we can't find him for good. Later," Cyborg said said in a happy tone from their little joke.
"K, Cyborg." Both Robin and Cyborg hung up their communicators. 'Beast Boy and Raven, no way!' Robin gave a slight chuckle, and then headed towards the surveillance room.
Starfire reaches to her room, and walks in. Her room is very empty compared to the other Titan's rooms, and very pink compared to the other rooms.
She heads to her big circular bed and checks around and under it. "Beast Boy come on out. You do not need to hide anymore." What she found was no one, except for Silkie napping under her bed. She now heads to her drawers and looks very carefully in all of them. "Beast Boy? You in here?" still found nothing. Then Starfire looks around every nook and cranny, and even by Silkie's bed, but still nothing. 'Where could Beast Boy be?' Starfire thought while leaving her room.
Meanwhile, Cyborg just finished checking the basement and garage. He looked everywhere, from every hidden corner, to every steel beam, to under and around every step down there, to checking his T-Car, the R-Cycle, and the entire T-Ship, and all searches showed no Beast Boy. Cyborg tried to check his scanners again to see if he could find Beast Boy in the basement, but the scanners somehow didn't pick up any trace of Beast Boy in the basement either.
'I don't get it? My scanners should have already located him a long time ago, but haven't yet.' Cyborg scratched his head in total confusion. 'How could he be hiding this good? Guess my scanners must be busted. Great! Just my luck.' Cyborg groaned from being mentally and physically tired of searching for Beast Boy, and started heading outside to try to find if Beast Boy was somewhere out on the small island. 'You never know, Cy. He could be out there.'
Starfire walks in to the already opened door of Beast Boy's room. This was the last room for Starfire to check into. All the other rooms and the roof resulted in unsuccessful searches. She tries to turn on the lights, but the lights didn't turn on. She looked up at where the light bulbs were supposed to be, and saw that they were all broken, due to Raven. So, she used her left hand to light up Beast Boy's room. The room lights up in a greenish hue.
"Beast Boy?" Starfire asks as she first looks around the destroyed room to see if the mouse was there, without having to move anything, but like her other searches in all the other rooms, nothing showed up yet. Then she starts picking up the debris and throwing it to a corner of Beast Boy's room, trying to see if he was hiding under the debris. "Beast Boy? Where are you, Beast Boy?"
Starfire threw more debis to the other corners. "Please show up. Please do not leave the tower, Beast Boy." Starfire kept on looking and throwing the debris to all of the corners, trying to find him. "If you show up, I will tell you something...and it has something to do with Raven," Starfire trying to persuade Beast Boy of coming out of hiding, like in all the other rooms that she was in. But, just like every other room, she couldn't find Beast Boy. Starfire sighed in failure.
Cyborg walks outside onto the small rocky island that surrounds the tower. It was partly cloudy and warm outside, but Cyborg didn't care what the weather was. He just wanted to find Beast Boy. "YO, B.B.! YOU OUT HERE? B.B.!" Cyborg shouted, while walking around the island, trying to get the possible attention of Beast Boy, but so far he didn't hear or find anything. He slowly walked and searched around the island until he got to 'the spot'.
'The spot' had a few rocks sticking up and out right against the ocean edge, facing away from the tower, opposite side of the entrance. This was where Beast Boy liked to go to and skip some rocks in the water, or when Beast Boy wanted to have some privacy to himself, and think about stuff when things were bad for him. Cyborg never understood why Beast Boy always went to that spot, instead of his room, but now, in a situation like this, this would be the place where Beast Boy would hopefully be at. 'He has to be there.'
When he got there, his high anticipation got shot when he saw no one there, and Cyborg got really pissed that Beast Boy wasn't there. "COME ON B.! THIS IS GETTING TOO OLD! SHOW UP, WHY DON'T YOU!" He kept on walking around, searching carefully all round the remainder of the island shouting Beast Boy's name to try and find him. Under every rock, around the obstacle course, and everywhere else that was on the island, Cyborg checked everywhere, but his long search was unsuccessful. "Where are you B.B.?" Cyborg asked to himself, sulking, as he stood near the entrance of the tower.
Robin reached the surveillance room and entered. The room was just a dark, large, and empty room with a wall that was filled with television monitors, speakers, a large desk with a big control board on it, and a swerving chair. Every room in the tower had at least two cameras and two tiny microphones(the more cameras/microphones depending on the size of the room), except the bathroom (but the bathroom did have a few microphones).
The monitors that showed Raven's room, Beast Boy's room, and a few hallway cameras were not showing anything, due to Raven's powers.
He first carefully checked the room to see if Beast Boy was in there. But like all the other rooms, he wasn't in this room either.
He next went to the monitors and looked at them for a long time. Robin heard Starfire in Beast Boy's room, calling for him, and saw Cyborg walking outside, searching and yelling out Beast Boy's name. He looked at the rest of the monitors, but none of them showed any hint of Beast Boy.
'This is getting ridiculous!' Robin thought in anguish. 'Over 100 cameras and none of them can find a damn mouse!'
Then Robin realized something. 'Wait! I might get a clue if I rewind to the time of the accident and see where he went from there. Can't believe I didn't think of this already.' Robin pressed the rewind button for all of the monitors, and all of them started to go backwards.
He first saw himself walking backwards, going away from the surveillance room and back into the common room in a few hallway monitors. Then, he saw Cyborg checking for Beast Boy in the gym in other monitors. Two more monitors showed nothing until they showed Starfire comforting Raven in Raven's room. Finally, he sees the monitors in Beast Boy's room starting to show something. It showed Raven yelling at Beast Boy.
Robin pressed the stop button, turned up the volume to the monitors in Beast Boy's room, turned the volume down to the rest of the monitors, and pressed the play button. All the monitors started to play, with only the monitors in Beast Boy's room only admitting sound.
The monitors then started to play where Raven found Beast Boy, in mouse form, and yelling at him. "...AND DO ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR DUMB PRACTICAL JOKES..." Robin was looking carefully at what he was seeing. He then saw Raven carefully pick up the mouse, and then Beast Boy jumped out of Raven's hands, running past the other Titans, and out of his room.
Robin then looked at the hallwaymonitors that were showing Beast Boy running away from his room. Then a few of them showed the mouse going down the steps that were near Beast Boy's room untill all of a sudden, the following stair monitors didn't show Beast Boy at all.
Robin looked shocked and annoyed while looking at the monitors where Beast Boy disappeared, "So the only clue I have is that Beast Boy somehow disappearing through the walls while he was going down the steps." Then he looks at monitors to see the time that it took place. "And it shows that this was taken close to two hours ago. Great!" He sighed with disgust. Robin fast forward a little bit quicker hoping to see if Beast Boy would re-appear somewhere, but none of the monitors seemed to show the green mouse anywhere.
Robin picked up the communicator again. "Cyborg, Starfire, did any one of you find Beast Boy yet?" Robin asked through the communicator.
"No, Robin," claimed Starfire. "I have so far checked my room, Beast Boy's room, all the other rooms on this floor, and the roof, like you told me to, Robin, but he was not in any of those places."
"Still haven't found anything yet, Robin. Man, where can this little rodent be?" Cyborg asked angrily.
"Hopefully still in the tower. I've found some sort of a lead, but it's the only lead we've got. You two meet me by the stairs near Beast Boy's room. That's where the cameras last picked up Beast Boy after Raven destroyed his room," Robin ordered.
"Got it," said Cyborg.
"Okay, Robin," Starfire said.
Robin shut his communicator, and left the surveillance room. He makes his way to the steps where the cameras last saw Beast Boy.
When he got there, he saw that Starfire was already there with a sad look on her face. Then, Cyborg came up the steps to meet up with Robin and Starfire.
"So...what's your lead?" Cyborg asked.
"Well, I rewound the monitors up to when Beast Boy got scared and ran from his room, and the surveillance cameras had shown him going down these steps. Then all of a sudden, the cameras didn't pick him up."
"So what are you trying to say?" asked Starfire, trying to figure this out.
"Well...it seems to me that Beast Boy has somehow made a hole at one of these steps where the cameras couldn't find him."
"Well you're right, Robin," said Cyborg. "Look." Cyborg points toward a small hole at one of the steps, and by the location of the hole, the cameras posted there couldn't pick it up.
Starfire knelt down to look at the hole. She used a little bit of energy to give the hole some light. When she looked into it, she saw a small tunnel that went a long way in and curved away. "This is a very long hole." When she was about to get up, she saw some strands of fur near the hole. Starfire gasps, "I have just found some fur near the hole, and it is green."
"Yep. Definitely B.B." proclaimed Cyborg.
"So how are we going to get our friend out of this hole?"
"We could use Raven to find Beast Boy, like the way she found you crawling through the vents when you thought you were fighting Slade."
"Yeah, Cyborg. But Raven still needs to rest, and I don't think that her powers won't be stable enough to help us after what happened."
"But how else are we going to find him?" Cyborg argued back to the leader. "We're obviously too big to fit, and we're out of any equipment that can get him out of the hole, that is if he's still here in this tower!"
"Well, we can do three things. First set traps all over the tower, for when, or if, Beast Boy comes out. Second, we'll search the tower a few more times. And if we still don't find him...," Robin said sadly, "...then we start to search the entire city."
Both Starfire and Cyborg had disappointed looks on their faces.
Well...ch 3 is now in the books.
Now, I know that some of you are wondering why I didn't make this chapter the chapter where Raven didn't go into her mind. The reason is that, since I had access to the other 3 Titans, I wanted to make this chapter solely go to them, since most of the others will be BB and Rae centered(it is a BBxRae fic anyways). And also the fact that ch 4 isn't complete yet is a good reason...isn't it?
Anyways...ch 4 will be the chapter where Raven goes into her mind...so don't worry about the next chapter being completely '180°' from the rest of the story.
Continue RxR (or flaming if you think that this chapter sucked) and ch 4 will be posted as soon as possible.