Hello, oh loyal readers! I'm sorry for the delay, my Document Manager was malfunctioning yesterday. Oh well. My thanks go to realfanficts, who gave a most enheartening review, and Icee, who's chain of reviews nicely pumped my numbers ;) Now then, I'm almost positive this the first new chapter since I started reposting Mox Quest. To celebrate, I've made it extra long. Enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: I continue to not own Teen Titans or Magic: the Gathering. I do own an Experiment Kraj card, though. Yay, Legendary Ooze!

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With an ear-wrenching cry, Raven expanded, eldritch tentacles emerging from the depths of her cloak. As she had done with the giant angel formed by the Mox Pearl, she attempted to envelop the Sapphire's construct in her soulself. Unlike that previous attempt, this one worked well. Despite many efforts to the contrary, the Sapphire's body was inexorably dragged into the void. Occasional flashes of blue flared against the inky force, but soon failed. Raven withdrew, leaving a dismantled, corroded, and decrepit remnant of the once-formidable device. Triumphantly holding up a blue, pentagonal gem on a thin, golden chain, she murmured, "Got it," then fainted.

Beast Boy, freed from roosterhood upon the Sapphire's dormancy, caught the dark girl in his arms. "Seems like we've been doing this a lot lately," he whispered fondly to her exhausted form. Unfortunately, he decided to look up for a moment, and blushed furiously from what he saw at that perspective.

Robin was smirking knowingly, his ability to accurately read into every secret (aside from Starfire's blatant adoration) restored along with his sanity. Starfire herself was enraptured by the adorable display of love and chivalry. Cyborg was, thankfully, still out cold, but the scientist, Dr. Stone included, were coming out of their gem-induced trance, and the shifter had a hunch that the father was as skilled in accusations of love as the son.

Quickly, but still ensuring her comfort, Beast Boy put down Raven and whistled innocently, twiddling his thumbs. Unfortunately, it was far too late to feign innocence. Maintaining his smirk, Robin said "Just wait 'til Cy hears about this. He'll never let you two hear the end of it."

"Oh, Robin," moaned Starfire, taking the Boy Wonder's arm, "Do not ruin this most adorable moment between our two slger'klin'rvneq friends. It would be most unfair to deny them the times of adoration we so often-"

Robin cut off the rest of her plea with a gloved hand to her mouth. "I think Beast Boy gets the point, Star." Looking around, he finally realized they were in a rather unusual location. "Why don't we get home and everyone can explain to me what I've missed…"

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After Dr. Stone recharged his son's energy cells, the Titans returned to Jump City.

"Alright team," Robin stated, easily returning to his leader archetype, "I'll be sitting iin the passenger seat so Cyborg can inform me of everything I missed."

"And I," said Starfire, with exaggerated innocence, "will fly alongside the T-Car, as I desire some fresh air, and to sight seas along the way." She frowned in confusion. "Though I am certain I would be able to see such large bodies of water from the T-Car itself…"

"Er, it's sightsee, Star," the leader corrected. He turned to Beast Boy, holding the still prostrate Raven. "Anyway, Beast Boy, you and Raven will be in the backseat. You look after her and make sure her condition remains stable." All of the teens nodded (well, the conscious ones,) and either got in the T-Car or entered its immediate airspace.

As the land vehicle ran along the freeway, Cyborg whispered to Robin, "Rob, great job on getting those two together for the ride home. How'd you get Star to go along with it?"

The Boy Wonder smiled. "It was actually her idea. She does have a point though. Those two just seem right together somehow." He turned to look at them. Neither of the backseat occupants noticed. Raven, while no longer truly knocked out, was still fast asleep, and faintly smiling. Beast Boy, meanwhile, was happily letting her use his lap as her pillow and fondly watching her doze. That the changeling's actions weren't in the least bit creepy underscored Robin's point.

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Raven yawned and stretched as she awoke. Trudging to a nearby bookcase for some early morning reading material, it took her several minutes to register that she had just been in a climactic showdown against a metallic monster. Frantically, she dug through her bedding, soon locating the Mox Sapphire that had fallen out of her grasp, assuring herself that it hadn't been a dream.

"Who...?" she began, but she then discovered who had taken her back to her bed. A certain green boy was fast asleep on a spindly chair pulled up by her bed. Smiling softly, the empath mentally lifted the exhausted shifter and phased him through a few walls to his own bed. Using her mind's eye, she lifted his sheets, covered him, and resisted the urge to rinse out her brain after manipulating such putrid bedclothes. "Thank you, Garfield" she whispered, and returned to a happy slumber.

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Beast Boy, appropriately, awoke later that night to attend to a call of nature. Exiting the bathroom, he noticed a light on in ops. Curious, he entered the spacious common room and looked about. In the kitchen portion of the area, he discovered Raven, but she appeared unlike any version of Raven he'd ever seen.

She was dressed in an overlarge white and red striped long-sleeved shirt; almost totally obscuring the blue boxer shorts underneath. A hand was largely hidden in its too long sleeve, the other grasped a mug of something steaming. At first, Beast Boy suspected it was her usual herbal tea, but the smell and marshmallows peeking above the rim betrayed it as hot chocolate. The ensemble was complete with purple fuzzy slippers adorned with little bat wings at the ankles.

The dark girl seemed just as surprised to see him, though the changeling's attire was his usual Doom Patrol spandex. "What are you doing up?" she asked, shocked at his sudden appearance.

"I was about to ask you the same thing!" he exclaimed, "Besides, what's with the…the…" Where was he to begin? This wasn't Raven, this was, well, cute!

She shrugged. "Hey, even the infernal spawn of evil like a midnight snack." Raven then nonchalantly sipped her cocoa.

"But since when do you drink hot chocolate?"

Raven looked down, and her cheeks reddened a little. "It's kind of a guilty pleasure. Chocolate didn't exist on Azarath. It was one of the first great discoveries I made here. I've become a closet chocoholic ever since. I guess all the combat keeps me in shape."

"And the outfit?"

She raised an eyebrow. "Personally, I thought that would be obvious. I don't know why I ever tried to sleep in Spandex. This is way more comfortable."

Beast Boy's mind had practically slipped a gasket at this point, attempting to cope with Raven not only not in cape, cowl, and Spandex, but as a positively adorable Sleepytime Raven. In an attempt to keep a little sanity and dignity before his conversation devolved into babble, he reached for a change of subject. "So, uh, have you looked at the next Mox's location?"

She shook her head, unaware of his predicament. "I only woke up an hour or two ago, and dozed soon after that." She looked down in concern. "Besides, I'm…worried."

Beast Boy's expression instantly shifted to one of shocked concern. Raven worried about something usually meant that the apocalypse was nigh. "What's wrong?"

She sat on the big red couch, and sipped her cocoa again. "Every time we've faced a Mox, I've lost control of my emotions. I've exploded into a fit of rage, my demon side took control." The mug began to shake in her hands. "Every time that happens, my hold on my powers slips a little more."

He sat beside her, his face the portrait of concern. "But your meditation helps fight that, right?"

Raven shook her head. "Not for this. This isn't everyday emotion, this is Rage slipping free of her bonds, gaining a little more ground in my mind."

"But you took out Trigon." Beast Boy grasped on to the first positive he could think of. "She can't be nearly as dangerous now."

"No, but we've been collecting artifacts of incredible magical power, and the next one governs-" She mumbled the rest.

"What?" he asked. Her only response was to turn away from him. "Raven," Beast Boy pleaded, "please don't hide this from me. What's this next Mox do?"

"Dark magic," she finally uttered. "The power…Malchior was teaching me." The changeling's expression moved to one of rage when the breaker of Raven's heart was named. She continued, "With that kind of power, if I lose control, it could mean the end of the world."

"Again?" She looked at her green companion in shock. He gave his famous fanged smile and continued. "Please, we've already had one apocalypse. How bad can another one be?"

Raven stared at him as though sausages had just sprouted from his fingernails. She had just pronounced global ruin, and he brushes it off like another chore around the Tower? "How?" she asked. "How can you be so calm about this, so easy-going? I could destroy all of humanity! I could…" She could barely finish, "could…kill you."

Beast Boy looked back at her compassionately. "Because you're you, Raven. You would never do those things, no part of you would. You act like you're some kind of monster, barely keeping yourself from tearing loose and destroying everything around you. But you're more than that. You're a person, Raven. You're a wonderful person, and I-" He caught himself. Tears were starting to form in the dark girl's eyes. Could he have said the wrong thing? He backpedaled. "I thought you needed to hear that."

Raven said nothing for a moment, putting her cocoa on the table and not looking at the shapeshifter. Just when he started bracing himself for being on the wrong end of her powers, she embraced him, causing a bit of blushing on both ends. Physics, usually ignored by these two, intervened and forced them to tip over so she was on top of him. Barely breathing, their lips approached one another, and…

The table rocketed ceilingward, tipping the cup of cocoa over and sending hot gooey marshmallow into Beast Boy's ribs. Screaming, he rose, throwing Raven off him as he tried to remove the searing sweet by randomly changing shape. Eventually, he managed to lick the cooling goo off his side by turning into a tabby cat. Turning back, he turned back to Raven and chuckled nervously.

She was also embraced by awkwardness, but was acting far cooler under the circumstances. "That never happened. Agreed?" she proposed, the barest hint of disappointment in her voice.

He was to busy leaping on the opportunity for a joke to notice. "What never happened?"

She risked a smirk at the quip, hoping he wouldn't notice. "Still, Beast Boy, thank you for what you said. I really needed it."

Smiling kindly, he replied. "Any time, Rae. Any time. Ready to check for the next Mox?"

She nodded pulled the scroll out of her shirt pocket. "I've have the scroll right here. Shall we?

"Sure!" With that, both returned to the U-shaped couch, and Raven applied the Mox Sapphire to its illustration. After a nearly blinding azure flash, the binary code faded to a nonluminescent "Blue Screen of Death" hue, and in the center of the scroll, new symbols formed. These characters glowed with a haunting antilight, a blackness on the other side of shadow. The symbols themselves were formed with violent, harsh strokes, as though each glyph was designed to deliver pain to the scroll as much as to convey information. "Dude…" Beast Boy whispered, shocked by the pure malice in the figures. "What is this?"

"This is the written language of demons," Raven explained. "It's…usually written on the hides of the messengers. I'm no master, but I think I can make this out. Let me see…" After several minutes of hushed silence, she suddenly gasped, stood, and started out of the room.

"Raven!" Beast Boy cried, "Where are you going?"

"Please, Beast Boy," she answered, "don't follow me. This won't be pretty." As she walked towards her destination, she muttered, "I'll make sure of it."

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So, what did you think? I tried to pack as much fluff into a transitory chapter as possible, and no fluffest is complete without a ruined kiss scene. Don't worry, I'll make sure these two get one soon. Now tell me what you thought, so I can attune the fic more to your liking! You had the time to read, so please review!