It was another cloudy morning. Terra sat on a small boulder by the waters edge, staring off in the distance, her hair whipped around her face lightly from the cool morning breeze. Tears threatened to spill over her eyes but instead she stood up and scooped up a rock and held it tightly in her palm. She loosened her grip and flipped her hand over, and stared at the rock.
"C'mon, come on," she whispered concentrating on it hard. It glowed a faint yellow and levitated an inch from her palm before dropping back down. Angry and frustrated, Terra whipped the rock out of sight, and sat down with her head resting on her knees, arms over and covering her face.
"What are you doing out here this early?" A male's voice ask, but Terra didn't bother looking up to see who it was. Speedy crunched his way through the grass and pebbles, then stood above her. He of course spotted her leaving the tower and pursued her, but made it seem like a coincidence. "Nothing," she lied, voice muffled. "You know you have more trouble controlling you're powers if you're upset," he mused quietly, then took a seat beside her. She raised her head, and a navy blue eye peeked out at him. How did he know? "So what's wrong?" he pressed on lightly.
Terra didn't reply right away, then dropped her arms around her face but kept her head bowed. "You know how, last night..?" She began and Speedy nodded. Slade. "Well," she continued. "What if he's really back"
"We don't know that for sure," he said uncomfortably. "But if he is," Terra insisted. "There could be trouble...well obviously but...why do you think he's back? I mean, what does he want?" She asked, speaking slightly quickly in a panicky voice. Speedy paused. He knew she thought Slade could be back for her. But was he? "Even if he is back for you," he said slowly and she finally looked up, giving him a sharp look. "You have us, you're well...protected,". He was planning on saying 'you have me' but chickened out at the last second. "Maybe it's not such a good idea that 'm here, you know?" Terra sighed slightly. "If...that is the case, I don't want to put you guys in danger"
Speedy looked at her with an alarmed expression. He knew she was upset, but she couldn't be serious. "Terra," he told her firmly and he turned his body towards her and put his hand on her shoulder. "Just,-". He tried to search for the proper words to use. "It's going to be okay, I'm here for you," he whispered slightly, ignoring his racing heart. "I won't let anything happen to you,". She looked up at him, her expression was hard to read but her eyes softened slightly at his words.
"Speedy?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you-" she began but a shout interrupted her sentence.
"Speedy! Terra! Get up here quickly!" Aqualad yelled down to them urgently. Terra immediately stood up, whipped her eye quickly then bolted towards the tower. Speedy hurried after her, cursing his bad luck.
The Titan's East stood around him, all eyes were on Aqualad and Bumblebee.
"What is it?" Speedy asked boredly.
"Trouble at Titan's Tower," he said anxiously. "Cyborg's been kidnapped.
There was silence, then Speedy spoke up. "This involves us because..?" he asked and immediately wished he hadn't as everyone shot him a dirty look.
"How do they know for sure?" Terra asked seriously, frowning.
"The Titans heard a commotion in the middle of the night," Bee began, looking slightly worried. "They hurried to his room to find things turned over, there had been a fight and," She paused. "He was gone"
"Was there any clues, something left behind?" the earth moving girl asked.
Bee shook her head. "They didn't find anything. They informed us to keep and eye out for him or anything," she smirked slightly. "They went out on a search of course, but they're too"
"Modest?" Aqualad interjected quietly.
"To ask us too," Bee nodded. "I think we should"
The twins cheered yelling "SENOR CYBORG!" And Speedy groaned slightly then felt Terra look at him and exchanged his expression to determined.
"Yes. Let's, hustle and, find him and, yes," Speedy said clapping his hands together. Everyone stared at him.
"What? Can't a guy get his team motivated?" He asked in an annoyed tone and then turned up and stuck his nose up and stomped off stylishly.
Beast Boy re-transformed from the green bass hound back into human form. He was exhausted.
"We've been searching for hours," He whined to Starfire, who he had been buddied up. His eyes drooped and ached and he was in desperate need of sleep. Starfire looked at him, her eyes were glowing as well as her fists, but she blinked and her eyes returned to normal, no longer needing light as the sun was beginning to rise. They had been searching every since Cyborg had gone missing, at 8:37 that morning, into the afternoon and evening, and all night until now.
"Robin wishes not to rest until we find him," Starfire said sadly. Though she looked just as tired, she didn't want to stop looking either.
The changeling just shook his head. Everyone has slept in yesterday morning. Beast Boy would have never known that something was going on in Cyborg's room until he heard Robin scream 'Titans! Trouble!'. They ran to Cyborg's room and tried to force they're way in but the door was heavily locked and the sounds of a battle ragged on inside. Beast Boy had finally turned into a rhino and smashed through the wall, and by the time the dust settled, he was gone. Nothing else but the destruction of his room was left behind.
"Robin is very driven to find out who did this," Starfire reminded Beast Boy as they had finally slowed down they're pace, and stopped for a breather.
"But I'm tired," Beast Boy whined slightly. "He's too stubborn to ask the Titans East for help finding them, we'd have double the help,". All this searching would definitely cut into the time he had been planning to ask Terra on a date. He immediately felt bad for thinking about his own personal life when his friends' was a stake. Starfire just offered him a hopeful smile and they continued on in silence. An hour or so later they're communicators went off.
"Titans. Report back to the Tower," Robin's voice sounded off. "We'll rest and start looking again later, over and out,".
Beast Boy sighed before he transformed into a bird and flew after Starfire and towards home, thinking of his comfortable smushy mattress back home. His heart lifted slightly at the sight of Titan's Tower and he and Starfire descended. They slumped down into the main area and the changeling raised his head. Robin and Raven were already home, both wearing un readable expression.
"What's up?" Beast Boy yawned jumping on the couch and cuddling into a blanket.
"Trouble, at the Titan's East Tower,"
Beast Boy sat up quickly. The Titan's East? Was it Terra, was she alright? "What happened?" he blurted out, his heart hammering in his chest, his eyes wide. If something happened to her..
"No it's not that," Robin said looking at the look on Beast Boy's face. "Well it is quite serious," he sighed. "Mas y Menos, the speedster twins of Titan's East. Well, they've been taken too,"
Starfire let out a small gasp and frowned. "But surely, the napping of our friends could not be related, could they?" she asked looking around at them.
"I have a feeling they are," Robin replied roughly. "And I'm going to get to the bottom of this,"
(Gah. Sorry this one took a long time guys. I had a whole plot planned out and it's been so long I've forgotten it. .So it'll be a little rough around the edges,
Also some of my question marks don't appear to be showing up. hmm. )