Sorry for being late with this update, everyone. I'll try to get them in every Saturday henceforth. That should give plenty of time for reviews to come in. (hint, hint)

Now then, let's check back with our variously incapacitated heroes:

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As the remnants of the giant angel dissipated, the Man-Beast could see the Mox Pearl itself clearly for the first time. The pearl itself was in the shape of a teardrop, and was attached to a golden chain by gold ornamentation that resembled the petals of a wildflower. With a last obligatory defeated-villain Nooooooo, the Pearl fell silent. Finally, the feral figure reverted to Beast Boy, and collapsed on to the now crystal-free floor.

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Beast Boy twisted, turned, moaned, and suddenly awoke with a gasp. "RAVEN!" he cried, fearing the Pearl had been able to regroup. Only then did he notice his surroundings. "This," he decided, "is not the Watchtower's generator room."

"No, it isn't." He turned and saw who had just confirmed his suspicions. Sitting at his bedside was the very person whose name he just screamed. "How are you feeling?" asked the Goth.

He groaned in response. "It feels like the T-Car just landed on my head. What happened?"

Smiling slightly, she held up a thin gold chain. Hanging from the threadlike chain was a very familiar looking gem. "I'm not sure how," she said, "but we got the Pearl."

Noticing the capital letter, Beast Boy's expression split into his trademark grin. "Sweet! Where's the next one?"

Raven frowned. "You shouldn't even stand up yet. The next Mox can wait." Her kind expression returned. "Besides, don''t you want to know how we got back to the Tower?"

He shrugged. "OK, I guess. So what I miss?"

She leaned back in her chair. "Well, first I came to..."

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Raven's eyes fluttered open. She looked around, surprised that moving her head around didn't hurt. The floor of the generator room was devoid of the crystallized mana she'd been growing used to. The various decorations the Mox Pearl had formed were gone. The room was once again nothing more than a rather roomy power plant. The only thing that was out of place was the unmoving changeling lying prone in front of the generator.

She gasped. "Beast Boy!" Raven rushed to the shapeshifter, hoping he was still alive. As she approached, his soft snoring and sleepy smile assured her that he was fine. She noticed something clutched in his hand. Opening it, she was shocked to see the Mox Pearl. She retrieved the scroll from a hidden pocket in her cape, compared it to the stone lying in the green boy's palm, and found that they matched perfectly. (A/N: If I say she's got a secret pocket in her cape, she does. You didn't know about it because it was a secret.) She was astonished Beast Boy had been able to defeat the gargantuan body the Pearl had formed by himself.

Suddenly, the verdant youth shifted in his sleep, and began to mumble. "Anything for you, Raven..."

She blushed furiously. 'He's dreaming about me? Could Cyborg have been right?"

He continued his dream mutterings. "Sure thing, Mr. Hamster. Put the tofu sculpture outside of my moped garage."

Raven slapped herself mentally. 'It's just a dream. Complete nonsense. We've got to find the others, anyway." With that, she enveloped both the sleeping Titan and herself in her soul-self, and flew to where their teammates were trapped.

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Both teens were now blushing from Beast Boy's REM-time ramblings. Raven was silently kicking Affection for letting that bit slip. Desperately grasping for a change of subject, Beast Boy spurted "So, uh, what happened to Cy and Star?"

Grateful for a reprieve from, well, anything having to do with her feelings for the boy next to her, Raven began the story anew. "Well, as far as I can tell, once the Mox Pearl went dormant, their crystal prisons began to weaken-"

"Got that right." concurred Cyborg, who rather suddenly appeared in the doorway of Beast Boy's sickroom. "The med sensors said you were up, so I thought I'd visit."

The patient blinked in confusion, then turned to Raven. "How did you get here before Cyborg?"

She blushed again. Mentally, she was running around in circles screaming 'Crap!' at the top of her lungs. Outside of her mind, Raven simply stammered. "Well, uh, you see, I was, um-"

Starfire managed to wedge herself out from under Cyborg's arm and entered the room. Joyfully, she took it upon herself to explain her friend's behavior. "Friend Raven was here before friend Cyborg because she did not leave! She has been staying by your side as a k'norfka would for their unwell bumgorf. It was most similar to the operas of soap on the television."

This embarrassed Raven so much, the screen above Beast Boy's bed cracked, and the room's windows exploded. Fortunately, the monitor was an inch thick, so it didn't crack all the way through, and the windows exploded outward. A minor effect of the embarrassment was that the telepath's face reddened so much, her chakra seemed pink in comparison.

Sweatdropping nervously, Beast Boy tried to help the Goth get out of this situation before she hurt someone. "So, uh, we were talking about the crystal dome thingies you guys were trapped in..."

Starfire instantly switched to the new topic. "Oh, it was most wondrous! There were many beautiful fields of flowers..."

Cyborg chimed in. "And awesome cars..."

"And adorable Earth creatures..."

"And lots of meat..."

"And much mustard..."

"And Bee..."

"And Robin..."

"And Jinx..."

Both realized they had talked themselves into a corner, and nervously shut up. Raven, eager for revenge, glared mischeviously and encouraged them. "Go on, what happened next?"

Starfire merely eeped, blushed and hid behind her semi-mechanical teammate, who brought his hand behind his head and rambled, "Eh, well, funny you should ask..."

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Vic was ecstatic. The meat kept getting better, the cars kept getting sweeter, and Jinx and Bee...well they weren't too bad either. Plus, the fact that none of his body was electric blue or steel gray was a rather large plus.

But one day, just after a rack of ribs, a new muffler, and some serious...er, after a new muffler, something went wrong. A silent Nooooo tore through Vic's personal paradise, and suddenly everything was changing for the worse. The quadruple bacon cheeseburger in one hand began to droop and dissolve into some strange, white goo. The socket wrench in the other hand performed the same disturbing transmutation. Rushing up slowly softening stairs, he was horrified to see that his two ladies were slowly dissolving into the same nauseating slop, yet still acted as though they were human.

Even as her pigments began to run together like a moistened watercolor, Jinx was attempting to slink towards Vic seductively. Unfortunately, her slink soon devolved into a slither as her legs lost individual identity, and soon merged with her droopy, paling arms. Likewise, Bumblebee's gossamer wings had already dripped into a small puddle, and her attempt at lying enticingly on a couch began to fail once her matter started melting into that of her softening sofa. "Vic..." said Jinx, who was now entering "oozing" territory, "what's wrong, baaabbbbbeeeeeeeee..." He watched in horror as her mouth briefly widened into a gaping orifice nearly as tall as her dissolving form, then shlurped shut at about ankle level.

Horrifed as he was, Vic came to a sudden realization. "There's only one substance I know that's this gooey, sloppy, nasty, and white..." he began, "and that's TOFU!" Charging the wall with a cry of "Evil tofu begone!" Vic penetrated the yielding wall of ooze...

...and Cyborg burst out of his softening crystal prison. He watched in horrified disgust as the dome that had held him in blissful captivity stayed upright for a moment like a lanced boil, then collapsed in on itself with a flatulent, soylike sound. As his prison evaporated into nothingness, the dissolving hemisphere that had enclosed Starfire exploded in the signature green flash of a Starbolt, sending the glop spraying through the entire docking bay. She appeared as traumatized as he did, and nervously said to him, "I wish to never see such things again."

Thankfully, Raven and Beast Boy appeared then, though the changeling was in the telepath's arms. They all got back into the T-Ship with barely a word, and flew back to Titans Tower amid congratulations from the Justice League.

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Starfire nodded after Cyborg's monologue. "My prison experienced similar meltings. To be honest, it was reminiscent of friend Beast Boy's tofu."

The soy fiend in question harrumphed. "That wasn't tofu. Tofu would never do such things. Nufu, maybe, but not good ol' Earth tofu."

Raven rolled her eyes and hid her laughter behind the usual biting sarcasm. "Well, the loyalty of soy curd aside, Beast Boy is right. That wasn't tofu, but white magic losing focus. We stopped the Mox Pearl, so its crystal prisons weren't receiving any more power. That meant they had to lose shape and definition, eventually returning to intangible energy." Everyone else seemed a little glassy-eyed after this. "What?"

Beast Boy was first to break out of his monologue-induced trance. "Nothing, just a lot of information at once." He came to a sudden realization. "Dudes! Where's Robin?"

As if in response, something slithered into the room. It had black spiky hair, a mask, and a human body, so it was presumably Robin. However, the fact that this possibly-Robin was squirming on the ground, attempting to eat Beast Boy's sheets put this logic into question.

As the changeling stared in wonder at his leader, Starfire nervously cleared her throat and showed Beast Boy a newspaper. It was dated yesterday, and proclaimed ROBIN'S NEW LOOK NO EFFECT ON CRIMEFIGHTING SKILL! The picture showed Silkie, in full Robin uniform, happily posing for the cameras next to a group of captured villains. "It appears," the Tamaranean explained hesitantly, "that Silkie and friend Robin have...switched roles."

"Still," added Cyborg, "the little guy's got the city under control. Looks like we can head to the next Mox with no worries."

Happy to move the subject away from Robin's new lifestyle, Starfire zoomed over to Raven. "Oh yes, friend Raven, you must tell us the location of the next Mox jewel! You said you would not until Beast Boy had recovered, but now he has and-"

"All right, all right!" snapped a reddening Raven. She pulled out the Mox Pearl again, opened the scroll, and placed the jewel on its matching illustration within the manuscript. The gem flashed a brilliant white as the Azarathi script faded to a stark ivory tone. After the Pearl stopped shining, new writing began to appear to the left of the original piece. Unlike the graceful, flowing language of Azarath, this was nothing more than a seemingly random sequence of zeroes and ones that shone in a luminous sky blue. Raven stared at the new writing in total incomprehension. "I can't read this!"

Cyborg leaned over her shoulder. "I can. This is standard ASCII binary. My system can easily translate it. Hang on." After a few seconds of whirring and clicking, the mechanoman smiled. "Got it. It says..."

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Hee hee hee...evil cliffy. Where do YOU think the blue Mox will be located? A virtupie (blueberry, of course) is going to the person with the closest guess.