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A pair of hands danced over the keyboard, their agile and skilled fingers clicking away at a furious pace. Their owner's face frowned as a deluge of cryptic information scrolled up the screen.

"Crud munchers!" He cursed as he continued to type. A pink haired girl approached the console and placed a hand on his shoulder.

"What is it Gizmo?"

"I'm not sure. I think there was some sort of spatial distortion."

"You mean like a portal?"

He shook his head as Mammoth and See-More joined them.

"More like a discharge. There was a massive energy surge which was followed by a brief ripple in the space time continuum."

The room's sliding doors opened, revealing a female figure that walked in. She was thin and blond and once she was in the room she addressed the group.

"Did you get a fix on it?"

Gizmo shrugged. "The surge was so strong that it fried the sensors before I triangulate its position."

"Bummer." Terra replied. "So for now it's a false alarm. Get those sensors repaired Gizmo, this time with something more durable. Maybe it'll happen again."

"I'm a step ahead of you boss. I already dispatched the repair droids."

"Thanks Gizmo. OK everyone, take five…"

Before Terra could finish her sentence an alarm began to blare.

"What is it now?"

Gizmo's fingers continued to dance across the keyboard.

"It's a bank robbery … on the corner of 3rd and Market Street … It's Dr. Light." He replied.

Terra raised her head and looked at her teammates.

"OK you guys, you know the drill. Titans Go!" She shouted as they made their way out of the iconic T shaped tower.

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The boy with the shaven head looked around with a look of confusion on his face. He first locked eyes with Cyborg, noticing the color of his tech components. His eyes were drawn next to Robin and he suppressed a laugh upon seeing him. The look of confusion returned when he saw Starfire. Finally he located Raven and a sly grin appeared on his face. The sorceress was standing behind Starfire and she had an alarmed expression.

The bald youth stood up and faced the Titans, his hands on his hips while he adopted a confident if not cocky posture. He continued to stare at Raven.

"Yo Raptor, what's with the hood and cape and what's this?" He asked as he pointed at her leotard. "Are you going swimming or something?"

Cyborg enabled both of his sonic cannons and aimed them at the boy.

"Don't make any sudden moves." The tin man warned the teen in steely voice.

"Very funny Vic. First you almost kill me with that stupid junk you stole from the Doom Patrol and now this?" He then turned to Robin. "And what's with the traffic light suit. I thought you ditched that when you double crossed the Bat! And what's she doing here? Where's Blackfire?"

"You heard Cyborg! Don't make any sudden moves."

The bald teen scowled at the Titans.

"What the frak's your problem Dick?" He growled as he saw that the four teens were beginning to surround him.

"On your knees, with your hands behind your head." Robin barked at him. "And don't try anything."

The stranger complied and dropped to his knees. As he did he locked eyes with Raven.

"C'mon Raptor, you still aren't pissed with me, are you? Just because I flirted with that girl doesn't mean I don't love you."

Raven replied with clenched teeth.

"Shut up you idiot! I'm not who you think I am!"

"What are you talking about?"

Cyborg stepped forward, both of his cannons still targeting the fair skinned boy.

"There was an accident, an interdimensional accident that somehow swapped one of our guys for you."

"You're shitting me." The shaven headed kid replied. "No fraking way."

Robin spoke up.

"Who are you?" He asked the stranger.

The young man laughed. "You mean you don't know?"

"Should we?"

The youth continued to laugh. "You really are clueless. I'm Garfield Logan, but you can call me The Beast!"

Starfire gasped and drew the boy's attention.

"I've never met you. You must be Starfire. You really are the naïve lost puppy your sister says you are."

Raven lost it.

"Shut your mouth, you stupid idiot!"

"I like it when you get angry Raptor. We always had the best sex after you got pissed off at something, even me." He grinned wickedly.

Suddenly the sound of a single star bolt was heard and the 'The Beast' slumped over unconscious.

"You will not insult my friend Raven!" The princess roared, extra star bolts ready in her hands.

Robin approached the boy and checked him.

"He's fine. Good job star, who knows what powers this guy has. Cy, take him to the containment cell."

Cyborg's sonic cannons transformed back into his bionic hands as he approached the unconscious youth.

"So this is BB's counterpart. Now that I look at him more closely I see the resemblance."

Raven cleared her throat.

"Can't we just swap them back?" She asked.

Cyborg looked away from the gray sorceress.

"I have bad news Raven. Something happened to the system, a glitch. Its memory became corrupted and after rebooting it wiped it clean. The machine doesn't remember which dimension he came from, and as you all know there are an infinite number of dimensions…"

Raven shrieked at the top of her lungs as every light bulb in the basement exploded. Cyborg immediately turned on the flashlight that was built into his shoulder.

"You idiot! You wouldn't listen to reason, you damn hot shot! Now Gar's lost forever!"

Raven fell to her knees and began to weep.

"I'll never see him again." She sobbed quietly.

"Actually, that's not true Raven. I can read the quantum signature on this guy and that should help narrow the search."

Raven looked up and locked eyes with him.

"Are you sure? So we will get him back?" She replied, her voice full of hope.

Starfire approached her and hugged her.

"What Cyborg says it true. But it will mean that there will be thousands of dimensions to search through. It will no longer be an impossible task Raven, but it will remain a difficult one. It will probably take at least a year to find him."

Raven turned and glared at the tin man.

"If you find him quickly your punishment might not be so severe." She snarled as her demonic eyes glowed a bright red before reverting to her normal amethyst color.

Cyborg gulped. "I'll start right away Raven." He picked up Beast Boy's "twin".

"I'll lock him up. But what do we do with him? The Tower isn't a jail."

Robin frowned. "I'll call Batman. Maybe they can take him at Arkham asylum.

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"You can't be the Hive 5!" Beast Boy gasped.

"Why not?" Blackfire replied. "We all studied under Brother Blood at his academy and even graduated. Well, everyone except Raptor, she's an honorary graduate."

Cyborg chuckled. "That's right. Would you believe that she used to be a Teen Titan?"

Beast Boy's mouth fell open wide.

Raptor smiled as she sat down on a chair.

"It's true. I was, very briefly, a Teen Titan."

"What happened?" Beast Boy asked, fearing the answer she would give.

She locked eyes with the changeling.

"I double crossed them. I became Slade's apprentice."

"No." He replied breathlessly. "What happened after that?"

"I betrayed Slade and killed him. I used his possessions to start the Hive-5. This base we're in, it used to be Slade's lair."

A chill ran down Beast Boy's spine. Terra had killed Slade in his dimension, but that had been in the heat of battle. This … was different. Raptor had murdered Slade just to steal his property. It was then that he realized that he was walking on ice, very thin ice.

"Don't worry handsome." She continued, as if she had read his mind. "Nothing is going to happen to your sexy green body."

Beast Boy's eyes grew wide as he understood the unspoken context of her remark. She laughed at his fearful expression.

"Victor, lock him up in the containment cell. I would hate for my prize to escape."

As Cyborg grabbed Beast Boy he aimed one of his thermal blasters at him.

"Don't get any ideas punk. I'll waste you before you even begin to transform."

Beast Boy looked up at him.

"So who are the Titans?" He asked.

Cyborg snorted derisively at him.

"If you think they can help you, think again. All they know is that you're one of us. So you can forget about escaping, cuz they'll just throw your sorry green butt into jail."

Beast Boy dropped his head and let the evil version of his friend lead him to the cell. Cyborg punched a button and the force field disappeared, after which he shoved Beast Boy into the cell. He punched the button a second time and the force field returned.

"If I was you I'd be nice to Raptor. That is if you want to eat. Of course if you're really nice to her you might even get laid." Victor chucked as he walked out of the room, slamming the door shut behind him.

Beast Boy surveyed the cell. Other than a toilet and a sink it was empty. He thought of escaping down the sink but when he tried to morph he wasn't able to. The cell had some kind of power cancelling technology in it. Resigned to his immediate fate he let himself down to lay on the hard floor. He suddenly felt very tired and was soon asleep.

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"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos, Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos …"

Raven's mantra was interrupted by the knock on her door. She was tempted to ignore whoever was on the other side but another louder knock followed. She reached out with her senses and detected who her unwanted visitor was. She sighed as she lowered herself from her levitating position, stretching her legs out as floated down to her bed.

There was another knock, and she swore she could hear the impatience in it. Wasn't it obvious she thought, that after all that had happened that day that she would want to be alone? She had lost her boyfriend to the infinity of the dimensions and the cosmos had vomited up that monster as his replacement. There was yet another knock. She sighed before answering.

"Come in, it isn't locked."

She looked away as the door slid open, revealing Cyborg's and Starfire's contrite figures. They entered quietly, as if they were afraid of disturbing her, which they were.

"What do you want?" Raven asked in an accusatory tone.

Starfire stepped forward. She looked as if she were about to cry.

"We bring you the apologies Raven." She replied meekly.

Raven spun around and snarled at them.

"I don't want apologies! I want my Gar back!"

Cyborg stepped in.

"Yeah, well, that's what we came to talk with you about Raven." He said in a contrite voice.

"So I take that you have a plan." She growled.

"Yes, friend Raven, we do." Starfire answered.

Raven stood up with her hands on her hips. Her face betrayed no emotion that a layperson would have noticed, but the Tamaranian and the half robot had lived with the sorceress for enough years to see that was excited.

"Well?"

"Before we tell you the plan, we just want you to know that we're really sorry we didn't listen to you, and it won't ever happen again."

"Yes friend Raven. Cyborg and I, we were 'caught up in the moment' as we experimented with the machine."

"Yes, Starfire, I understand. But right now the only thing I want to hear is when Gar is coming home."

Cyborg sighed quietly before replying.

"Probably no more than three months, but it could be as long as six."

Raven frowned.

"That's unacceptable. Who knows what peril he's in right now?"

"What do mean Raven? For all we know he's basking in sun surrounded by fangirls."

Raven exploded.

"Are you stupid, or do you just pretend to be an idiot?"

"Now just a minute…" Cyborg replied indignantly.

"NO! You listen! Did you take a good look at that monster that came back in his place?"

"Well yeah, he's a creep, so what?"

"He's more than a creep. I could feel the pure evil that oozed out of him. And he knew us. Do you know what that means?"

Cyborg's and Starfire's eyes became wide as they realized the implications of Raven's remark.

"I see you understand. It's almost certain that our counterparts in that dimension are also evil and Gar is trapped with them!"

Starfire spoke up.

"Raven, we are doing everything we can. I have contacted Tamaran and the Royal Academy of Science is already helping us. But I am afraid that this is the best we can do. We must be patient."

Raven turned away and began to cry. Starfire ran to her side and embraced her.

"We will find your beloved my friend, and he will be unharmed, that I promise you."

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Beast Boy heard a door open and lifted his head. As the door to the chamber slid open it revealed Raptor's semi-clad figure. She wore her violet hair long, the way Raven did when she defeated Trigon. Of course that is where the similarities ended. She was wearing her slave girl outfit and wore leather sandals on her feet. She walked with a provocative swagger and Beast Boy noticed he was having a hard time not staring at her very exposed hips.

She was carrying a tray with food. According to the clock that was built into his communicator it had been three days since they threw him into the cell and he was starving. Raptor deactivated the force field and entered his cell. By this point he was standing and she handed the tray to him.

"You must be very hungry."

"Ya think so?" He replied as he examined the contents in the tray. He frowned at the main course, a grilled steak.

"This was Gar's favorite meal." She told him.

"I don't eat meat." He replied curtly as he wolfed down the vegetables and the baked potato on the tray.

"Solidarity with the animals?" She asked. "Gar had no problem eating meat; he said that animals eat each other, so why shouldn't he eat them?"

"Whatever." He replied as he sat down on the floor.

"You know I can make life a lot easier for you?" She replied. "You don't have to sleep on the floor."

He stared at her but didn't reply.

"Don't you have anything to say?" She asked.

He paused for a moment before replying.

"Yeah, I do."

"Well, what are you waiting for? Ask."

He gave her a look of disgust before continuing.

"Why do you dress like a whore?"

Raptor laughed out loud.

"Let me guess, Steve and Rita instilled in you good old fashioned traditional values?"

"Maybe they did." He replied. "It looks like the monks of Azarath didn't do that with you."

Raptor laughed. "Oh they tried, but I wasn't buying any of it."

Beast Boy locked eyes with her.

"That's too bad."

Raptor stepped away from him and spun around on the ball of her foot. As she did she was enveloped in her own dark energy, which after a few seconds faded away. She was now dressed in the attire that Beast Boy associated with the daughter of Trigon: a black leotard, and a blue cape and hood. She even had the blue boots.

"Is this more to your liking Gar?"

The changeling frowned.

"You aren't Raven."

She smiled back at him.

"Oh, but I am. I was Raven when I was a Titan. Terra didn't trust me but only let me join the team because the others begged her. She shouldn't have listened to them."

Beast Boy looked astonished.

"You mean Terra is the Titan's leader?"

"Sure thing handsome. Let me guess, she was an evil villain back home. Am I right?"

Beast Boy shook his head.

"No, she wasn't evil, just confused."

"I'll bet she was. So are you still hungry?"

"Yeah, I am."

"If you kiss me I'll bring you some more food."

Beast Boy gave her an incredulous look.

"You're joking."

"No, I'm not. And I won't bring you anything more unless you kiss me."

Beast Boy rolled his eyes before leaning over and pecking Raptor on the cheek.

"Bzzzt! Wrong!"

"What?" He replied. "I kissed you."

"You have to kiss me on the lips handsome."

Beast Boy didn't like where this was going. Next thing he knew she would demand sex for food. Would she really let him starve? He wondered.

"No dice." He replied.

"Suit yourself green bean."

Beast Boy growled at her.

"Raven never calls me that."

She smiled back at him.

"This Raven does!" She said as she stepped out of the cell and switched the force field back on. "If you change your mind, just page me using the intercom."

Beast Boy watched her walk away.

Great! She left the steak here! Maybe I can cut it up and flush it down the toilet.

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