All The Lies You Want To Hear

By

Teen Tyrant

This story takes place sometime during the middle of season 5. It is based off of an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which seemed perfect for the Beast Boy and Raven Situation that follows…

Part One: Trapped

"He's going into that cave!" Beast Boy shouted, as he and Raven continued to pursue their quarry.

The Teen Titans had been traveling the world, gathering up all the young superheroes in order to battle the growing threat of the Brotherhood of Evil. But despite all of that, they still had to deal with regular crimes, since they were superheroes.

Beast Boy and Raven had volunteered to apprehend the crook who had just finished robbing a bank and was now trying to escape from them. He had run into the forest and had now ducked inside a cave in the side of the mountain he had been running towards.

Raven and Beast Boy continued to chase him and followed him into the cave. It was surprisingly easy to see inside, since there were small openings in the cave ceiling, allowing light to filter down into it.

Raven listened closely. She could hear footsteps echoing through the cave. Hurried footsteps, moving away from them.

"He's going deep in, trying to lose us." she told Beast Boy.

Beast Boy nodded. "Well, let's find him and catch him so we can get out of this creepy place." he said, shivering at the ominous nature of the cave.

They continued to walk cautiously forward, expecting the criminal to jump out at them at any moment. Soon, they came to a place where the cave branched off into two separate tunnels.

Raven looked at the tunnel on the left, then the tunnel on the right, not sure which one their crook had taken.

"Ooookay. So, which one do we go down?" she asked, rhetorically.

Beast Boy turned into a bloodhound and began sniffing the ground in front of the two cave tunnels. He turned back into a human with a confused look on his face.

"I can't tell which one he took. There's something strange about his scent. Like the smell he left behind isn't a real smell, but a fake one. I can't tell what I'm smelling at all, never mind which way it went." he explained, stupefied.

Raven sighed. "Well, that leaves only two choices. We can wait for him here until he comes back out. But we don't know how often he's been here. He might have enough supplies hidden here to remain for days. He might also know another exit somewhere. Which leaves the other choice, we split up and investigate both tunnels." she said in her monotone voice.

Beast Boy gulped nervously. "Well, I don't really want to be wandering these tunnels alone, but I don't want to wait here for days either. So I guess we should split up." he said, trying to sound like he wasn't as scared of this place as he was.

Raven nodded. "Right. I'll take the left tunnel, and you take the right. We can't take forever going after one bank robber. The others are going to be waiting for us to meet back up with them to go after the Brotherhood soon, so we need to hurry. If we don't find him in twenty minutes, we meet back up here and leave.".

Beast Boy nodded. "Yeah, I mean, no one ever said we had to catch every criminal.".

With that, the two Titans began walking down their respective tunnels, unsure of what they would encounter.

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After fifteen minutes of following he tunnel, Beast Boy still hadn't seen anything, not the crook, nor a clue that he had come this way. He was going to go another five minutes, then turn around and-

What was that? Beast Boy strained to hear it better. It sounded like someone calling for help. There! It came again, it was Raven calling for help!

Turning around, Beast Boy sprinted down the tunnel, back to the area where the two tunnels converged.

Once he reached the junction point, he began hurrying down the tunnel Raven had taken. He could hear her clearly now, calling to him in a distressed voice.

"Beast Boy! Help me! I'm in here!" he cries echoed around him.

About thirty yards into the tunnel, it opened up into a circular area, about twenty feet across. Raven stood in the center of the space, seeming to be alright.

Beast Boy stopped running. "Raven… what… happened? …are you… alright?" he asked, panting.

Raven looked at him and lowered the hood on her cloak. "Beast Boy. I can't move." she said plainly.

Beast Boy cocked an eyebrow. "What? Why not? What's wrong?" he asked, confused.

Raven pointed down at the ground and Beast Boy followed her finger, looking down at her feet.

Raven's right foot was encased in what appeared to be some kind of crystal formation. The crystal seemed to grow up out of the ground and envelope her foot clear up to below her ankle.

"What is that?" he asked her.

Raven shook her head. "I don't know. I was walking along and it just suddenly latched onto my foot. I can't get it off. My foot is starting to go numb.".

Beast Boy looked her in the face. "Why don't you use your power and pry it off?" he questioned.

Raven shrugged. "I tried. Whatever this thing is, it absorbs my dark energy. Look…" she lowered her hand, pointing her palm at the crystal on her foot. She focused, and seemed to be summoning her energies, but nothing happened. Suddenly, Beast Boy watched as the crystal suddenly grew to halfway below her knee!

"Whoa!" Beast Boy exclaimed.

Raven looked up to him. "You'd better alert the others. We're going to need their help. I think this thing is growing, whether I use my power on it or not." she said, ominously.

Beast Boy nodded. "Right." he took out his communicator.

Raven shook her head. "It doesn't work in here. I already tried. You'd better take it outside the cave to get a clear transmission." she said.

Beast Boy thought that made sense. "Okay. I'll be right back." he began to head back down the tunnel to the cave entrance, then stopped and turned around, a slight grin on his face. "Don't go anywhere." he said, jokingly.

Raven only frowned at him.

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After making it back outside, Beast Boy took out his communicator again and tried to contact the other Titans.

"Titans, come in, this is Beast Boy." he spoke into it. Nothing, only static. Nothing on the display, nothing over the speaker. He tried again.

"Hello. Robin, can you here me. Cyborg. Starfire. Anyone? Hello!" he began yelling. Nothing. Something was wrong here. The communicator wasn't working at all. Maybe something in that cave was putting out some kind of interference. Or maybe the criminal they'd chased into the cave had some device that was jamming the signal.

In any case, the situation was not good. He couldn't leave Raven, because if that thing on her foot was indeed growing, there might not be anything left of her when he returned with the other Titans. Not to mention that the bank robber was still in that cave somewhere, and he was armed. If that crystal was absorbing Raven's power, then she'd be defenseless.

In an instant, Beast Boy realized the full implications of that. He was standing outside… while Raven was inside with an armed criminal!

Beast Boy spun and began running back inside the cave to make sure Raven was alright. If he couldn't leave her, then he'd have to find a way to get her out himself. Either way, it wasn't good. They were both stuck in a cave with no help coming soon and a dangerous person lurking around with them…

Continued in Part 2

Part 2 will be coming tonight, for certain, while Part 3 may come tonight as well, or maybe tomorrow.