Back At The Titan Tower…

"How could we not find whoever it was that robbed that bank?" Robin said, slamming his fist on the table. Starfire was cooking dinner, she turned when she heard Robin's fist hit the table.

"Robin, you know it was not any of our fault. We will catch them, but it will take time." She said to him.

"What if we don't have time?" Robin yelled. Starfire shrank back. Robin softened and went to her, "I'm sorry Star. I did not mean to be harsh to you. Um…by the way, you food is burning." Robin said as the pan on the stove caught on fire. Starfire screamed and threw the spatula that was in her hand at it, and hid behind Robin. Beastboy changed into an elephant and sprayed the pan until the fire was out.

"Wow Star. I didn't know you were so afraid of a little fire." Beastboy said, changing back. Cyborg had token a mask from the wall and crept behind Beastboy and tapped him on the shoulder. When Beastboy turned around, and came face-to-face with the mask, he squeaked and ran under the sofa as a mouse. Cyborg removed the mask and laughed.

Beastboy came from under the couch. "I…I wasn't scared. I was just fooling… yes, that's it…just fooling." He said sitting at the table. "So Starfire, when is dinner gonna be ready? I'm starved. I hope there's tofu in it." Beastboy licked his lips.

Starfire put the pan on a hotplate in the middle of the table. Beastboy looked at it. It looked like tofu, so he took a big bite. His face scrunched up with disgust. He spat it out in his napkin, "Uggh! What is the Starfire? That's not tofu at all!" he said wiping out his mouth.

Starfire sat down and took a bite of the bubbly goo in the pan. "Mmmm…It tastes fine to me. Not as good as my moms, but still good." She said. She offered some to the others, but they refused. They knew that Starfire's cooking was not the best in the world.

Beastboy got up and got out the stuff to make his tofu meal. He sat down at the table, picked up his fork, and then the Titans crime locators came on. "Noooo! I just sat down to eat! Why does this have to happen now?" he complained. But he got up and ran off to help the others who had already ran out of the room.

When they arrived at the scene of the crime, they found nobody there. There was just some glass on the street where the criminal had broken into a jewelry shop. They looked around to find anything to help them.

"Hey you guys, look at this." Cyborg said leaning over the broken glass of the jewelry counter. The others came and look, and saw a note taped to the glass. Robin untapped it and read it aloud.

Dear Titans,

I can see you have noticed our destruction. We are the same that robbed that bank that you had such trouble figuring out. So, we thought we would introduce ourselves to help you out. Be prepared.

Signed,

Greens

"That's all it says" Robin looked at the note again, " 'Be prepared?' I wonder what that means?" he said, reading the letter over again.

"Robin! Up there!" Starfire yelled, pointing to a low building nearby. Atop stood what appeared to be the Greens. They swooped down, picked up Beastboy, and jumped down a sewer hole.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh! Help me!" Beastboy yelled, his voice shrinking. 'Oh yah, I can fight.' He thought, changing into a tiger. He jumped out of their grasp and turned to face them, growling. He studied the two people. Even though they had masks on, he could tell one was female and the other male. They pulled off their masks and looked at him. Beastboy could see they had another mask over their faces under the ones they just pulled off. He continued to growl at the two people. Somebody threw a small item between them. A dark smoke erupted from it. Beastboy started coughing and fell to the floor, unconscious. As his eyes slowly closed, he felt the two people pick his limp body off the ground. Then he saw, heard, or felt nothing else as he slipped into a deep sleep.

He awoke later to find himself lying on a small couch. "Ugh. What happened? How long have I been out?" he said to himself. His head hurt and he closed his eyes.

"You have been asleep for 6 days." A voice said as a man came into view.

"Really! That long?" Beastboy cried.

"No, of course not! You've just been out for a couple of hours. You should have seen the look on your face. 6 hours. Ha-ha-ha-ha." The male slapped Beastboy on the back with a laugh.

"Bill, stop that." another figure, a female, came across the room with a glass of water. Bill went and sat in a chair, pouting.

"I was just having some fun with the boy Annebella." He mumbled.

Annebella glared at him, then handed the water to Beastboy, "Here, drink this." She said.

Beastboy gulped down the water and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. He didn't realize how thirsty he was. He gave the glass back to Annebella. His head still hurt and he brought his hand up to the pounding.

"Hey what's the matter with you, huh? Oh, is it from when your head got cut open?" Bill asked, leaning back in the chair.

"WHAT! MY HEAD GOT CUT OPEN!?" Beastboy yelled. He frantically started searching his head with his hands, trying to find stitches or something.

Bill started laughing again. He laughed so hard, he fell back in the chair and hit the floor. "Ow! No, you didn't get your head cut open. I'm just messin' with ya." He said, slapping Beastboy on the back again.

"DUDE! That is so not funny." Beastboy crossed his arms and dropped down on the couch. Bill sat down next to Beastboy.

"Oh give it a rest. It was just a joke, you know, something that's funny. Gosh, you must never tell or take jokes, you big serious person." He said crossing his arms also.

Beastboy glared at him, and thought of how Raven never takes his jokes. 'Raven! The Titans!' Beastboy suddenly remembered what happened. "I have to go. I need to go back to my friends. It has been fun though, bye." Beastboy got up from the couch and started walking, but didn't know where the door was. He looked around the room, and saw there wasn't a door or windows or any way out of the room. "How do I get out of here!?" he yelled.

"You can't get out, trust me, we've tried many times. There isn't any way out. Usually, this is more than one room, we live in a whole house, but when you were brought in, it turned into one room. Only temporarily though." Bill said.

"You joking again aren't you. Ok, very funny. Now, how do I get out?" Beastboy asked.

"No, this time I'm tellin' the truth. There is no way out." He said. Bill calmly started picking fuzz balls of the pillow on the couch, looking up at Beastboy's shocked expression from time to time.

Annebella had been watching them with a worried look on her face. "Its not so bad. We get to go out sometimes, but we have chips in us so that we are always followed so we don't try to run away. you have a chip in you know too. I know that this must be a shock for you, but we can make this work. You can be happy here. We have been happy here for a long time now." She said, sitting on the other side of Beastboy.

Beastboy wanted to argue, but his head hurt so badly, that he decided it wasn't worth it. Suddenly, there was a loud rumble, and the wall on the far side of the room lifted up to reveal a kitchen and halls. "Ah, there we go. This is the rest of our house. Come with me, I'll show you to the room you'll be staying in. it was all fixed up a couple days ago when Bill and I had our day out." Annebella said, standing up from the couch. Beastboy hung his head followed her down the hall and into his new room. "Well, here's your room." Annebella said.

Beastboy lifted his head and looked in the room in disbelieve. It was a green room with animals all around it, but not those little baby room animals, they were cool animals. All stuff Beastboy could turn into. He let out a small whistle. "Wow! This is great!" he exclaimed. "Wait, I can't just live with you guys. I mean, I don't even know you two, and what about my friends? I can't just disappear from them. They must be worried about me." He said. He sat on the bed and put his chin in his hands.

Annebella and Bill glanced at each other. They sat down next to him. "You know, we don't know what to say at the moment, but you'll get used to it." Bill said in a gentle tone. He looked at Annebella.

Annebella sighed and put her arms around Beastboy, "It won't be so bad. You'll see. We'll all have fun together." She kissed the top of his head and she, along with Bill, walked out of the room.

Beastboy lay on the bed and closed his eyes. 'What can I do? I can't stay here. but, they do seem like nice people.' Beastboy opened his eyes and decided to see what was in the room that was now, supposedly, his room. He got off the bed and went over to a small green dresser on one side of the room. He opened the drawers and peeked inside. There were pants and shirts in the bottom drawer, nicer pants and shirts in the second drawer, and socks and undergarments in the top drawer. Beastboy walked to the closet ad opened the sliding, green doors. Inside were books, games, coats, and other types of things. He whistled again. 'Wow, this is nice stuff. Nicer then what I have at the tower.' Beastboy felt a pang of guilt as soon as he thought those words. "Great, what a thing to say. I can't get to comfortable here. I need to find some way back to the Titans." He mumbled.

There was a knock on his door, and Bill stood in the doorframe. "Hey kid. You want something to eat? Supper's going on the table, so if you want to come join Annebella and I, then whenever you feel like it." Bill asked.

Beastboy's stomach growled at the sound of food. He nodded and followed Bill to the dining room, where there was tofu sandwiches and salad along with a huge bowl of just tofu. "Dude! You like tofu!?" Beastboy exclaimed, his eyes lighting up.

"Oh, do you not like tofu? I'm sorry, that's all we ever eat. We have this thing about not eating stuff that comes from animals. If you want something else, I guess we can try to find it." Annebella said. She got up and went to the cabinet, trying to find something that wasn't tofu.

"No, no! That's not it. I love tofu. I was just surprised that you did too. I haven't really met anyone that likes it also." Beastboy said, waving his arms.

Annebella and Bill smiled. "Well, that's good to hear. We were worried that you wouldn't like it, then what would we have done?" Bill laughed. They all sat down at the table to eat. Not wanting to seem rude, Beastboy didn't pile his plate up with tofu like he would have done at the Titans Tower, even though he was very hungry. Bill watched him and laughed, "Oh, you can have more then that! There's more then enough." He picked up the wooden spoon from the tofu bowl and plopped a big glob of it on Beastboy's plate. Then put some more on his plate. When he offered some more to Annebella, she refused, so he shrugged, and started scooping it into his mouth.

Beastboy laughed at him. "You're funny. I like you." He said, putting tofu in his mouth. It was maybe the best tofu he had had in a long, long time.

To be continued…

I know that I said that I would have Annebella and Bill tell Beastboy that they were his parents, but I have another idea in mind. They will tell him though…eventually. Well, till the next chapter, bye.