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Twilight Sigma: Yeah, dumb riddles. Who likes them anyways? Not Raven! Enjoy the chapter Wyatt!
HornedGoddess: Sorry, as Bluedog guessed before, it isn't Trigon. Who else had the power though to control the Justice League? Hmmm... Here's the more you wanted! Posted right alongside The White Stick!
Foamsatmouth: Heheh, and guess what. You remember when you said you'd love to have Raven see the box of condoms... read and find out! LOL! Hope you enjoy man!
RPGPersona: Yep. And sadly, that breaking point is breached. Hope you want more conversation between emotions. Yep, to most of that review, just yep. Up to the point where Happy almost let something slip. I wonder if she ever will remember that blow up doll. Hmmm, you know, I think Raven finally became a little smarter this chapter. I bet Timid will be the winner, because she is hiding the penny in the most obvious spot! Not mentioned in this chapter though. You try to guess what Titans he called in. And as to your answer, funny! But sadly, no, it isn't Control Freak. In fact, when you figure out who it is, you'll be wishing it was him! BWUHAHAHAHAHAHA! As to that horde, they are to now add mystery to the story. What happened to them? Where did they go? How did they defeat the Man of Steel? And lastly, are they heading towards Earth, or being used as a diversion? Hope you like the chapter!
Darkapprentice98: I'm glad you like the plot. It is actually something I worked on a lot before the story started. Hope you enjoy the rest of this!
Azarath Cat: I put holo-rings in their packs for a reason. I know in the second season that Beast Boy appeared, but honestly, they really cut into his backstory. The only thing they really kept was the waterfall. So yeah, I'm totally ignoring that part. We'll just have to see what happens from here on out!
BeastDark: I haven't introduced the Doom Patrol, I'm still making plans on whether they are included or not. Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean though since I know you're a Spanish author. I do hope you like this chapter though!
Bluedog197: Well, Raven might have had a breakthrough at last. That could be the reason, or maybe it's because Starfire doesn't sound so naive anymore. She seems out of character. That might be the reason dude. Reason why I avoid most stories labeled with the blasphemous RobRae or BBStar. Three words, out, of, character! Sorry, again, it is not Zatanna. And no, she didn't do the looped video either. That will get you guessing again I bet! Here is the next chapter for you to enjoy good friend!
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Updated: September 4, 2016 9:05 P.M.
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Chapter Twelve: Breaking Point
It took Beast Boy and Raven about six to seven hours before the edge of the storm finally came into sight. Both of them were physically exhausted from the long flight as they finally started to descend from their great height down to some random forest below. They didn't know where exactly they were at, just that the area below was still mountainous, covered in forest, and miles away from the nearest town.
The two descended where the rain was still falling a little thick, just to make sure that no one saw them as they came closer to the ground. Though it was clear there was no sign of civilization for miles around, you could never be too careful. They were close enough to the edge of the storm that it would finally pass over them within the hour they landed.
It took them only five minutes of careful flying before the two finally were level with the tree line. And it took about twenty seconds more for the two to navigate the branches and finally touch down on the muddy pine needle strewn ground. As soon as the mighty green eagle touched foot with the ground, it morphed back into the form of Beast Boy.
Who promptly fell onto his face into the mud/pine needle strewn ground. Covering his whole front with mud and pine needles.
"Uggggghhhhhhh… my arms hurt so muchhhhhhhhhh… my legs hurt so muchhhhhhhhhh… everything hurts so muchhhhhhhhhh..." He said in a whiny tone into the mud. Raven simply rolled her eyes and brought her cloak closer to her body. Beast Boy also got into the fetal position on the ground, as he was a little cold. The mud he was on wasn't exactly helping his situation.
"Okay, so we've landed in the middle of nowhere... now what?" Raven asked in her monotonous voice. Even though on the inside, she was still angry and frustrated with her emoticlones and their ridiculous behavior.
Beast Boy didn't even lift his face to reply. "Take out the TWPTHAH and activate it."
Raven looked down at him. "I'm sorry, did the mud mess with your reply or something?"
Beast Boy lifted his head slightly so his voice would be clearer. "Take out the TWPTHAH and activate it."
Raven looked at him with a slightly confused face. "Are you trying to mess with me Beast Boy? Because if you are, it's not funny." She said in a monotone laced with anger.
He glared at her. "Just take the damn cube out of your pack and press the button on it Rae! Before we freaking freeze to death out here!"
Raven glared back at him. "Like that's capable of happening at forty-five degrees." She said in a sarcastic voice, before she summoned said cube from the pouch she still had hanging on her shoulders.
The cube still looked the same as it had before. With the blinking blue lights the same color as Cyborg's tech, and the big red button poking from the top of it. It looked just like a small box, how it would keep them out of the cold, Raven had no idea. Still, it was Cyborg's design, so she didn't know what to expect.
Remembering what Beast Boy had said before, she looked around them to make sure that there wasn't any trees, stumps, or other things nearby to make sure they had a wide open area. There was a few large rocks, but a simple flick of her powers put them deeper into the forest. Other than that, there wasn't really anything else around them for about thirty feet in every direction. So after doing one last survey of the area, Raven looked down at the cube, and pressed the button.
The cube jumped from her hand onto the ground. A whirring sound came from it like it was warming up and turning on. Raven took a step back from surprise, while Beast Boy stayed still on the ground since he already knew what was going to happen.
Ding!
After a few seconds, the top of the small cube opened like a box. A small ding came from it. Raven stared down unimpressed by it. "Really impressive." She muttered sarcastically.
"Wait for it dude." Beast Boy said.
Then, as if by magic, the cube itself started to expand. Becoming bigger and bigger and bigger, yet somehow keeping the same light blue pattern of lights on the outside of it. A triangle shaped thing appeared out of the top of the box that connected to the frame, while the sides of the top itself jutted out slightly. Raven backed away as the box grew and grew. After a moment, when the box had surpassed Raven in height, a hole appeared in the new roof of the box, from which a square chimney emerged. Every change that came in the seconds that passed continued to astonish Raven on the inside more and more and more. Even though on the outside she was calm and collected.
Finally, after a good minute had passed, the small cube that had been in her hand before was now the size of a one story cabin. The light pattern along the outside flickered once after the changes were done, before the outside surface changed. Making it actually look like a real life log cabin. With sides that looked to be made of logs, a front porch with a wooden chair and table, a brick chimney sticking out of the roof, and that was only the outside.
Raven heard rustling next to her, and turned to see Beast Boy getting up from off the ground. He had a slight gleam to his eyes now. "Well Rae, here it is, the Titans Weatherproof and Pocket Transportable Home Away from Home. Or the TWPTHAH for short. Made from the very same nanobots that Slade tried to kill us with. Pretty impressive, especially since it was from old Bucket Head himself." He said with a smirk on his face. The silence after that stretched on for a few seconds.
"So, what do you think?"
Raven somehow managed to look bored. "Can we go in now?"
Beast Boy looked at her weirdly, before he turned away and rubbed the back of his neck. Raven suddenly felt a lot of nervousness coming off of him with her senses. "You can go in and see it for yourself Rae, I'll be fine with staying out here. The rain is about to stop anyways."
'What's with Beast Boy now?' Raven thought irritably to herself. "Fine, you can stay out here and freeze if you want." Raven said to Beast Boy, before she floated over the wood (or whatever material it was) of the front porch, and opened the door to her TWPTHAH.
Raven was instantly hit with a blast of warm air. And she let out a small sigh of relief as she walked into the inside of the apparently heated cabin. Beast Boy stayed out in the rain, as he decided to take refuge under a tree. Where it was still muddy. But at least it was less muddy than the other areas.
He morphed into a wolf, and curled up on the ground. Still wishing that despite his animal forms, that Cyborg hadn't taken his (calling it pocket home from now on) pocket home for upgrades. Sure, he could have followed Raven into her cabin, but the note from Cyborg was still fresh in his mind… along with the box he still had to dispose of...
'Now I wish I didn't ask Chrome Dome if he could make my pocket home have satellite TV.'
Raven closed the door behind herself, and felt the temperature in the room rise a little more without any cold air coming in. The source of the heat was a small fire, burning in a realistic looking fireplace in the back left corner of the room. It was also the only thing that lit up what she was seeing.
She almost couldn't believe it.
It was almost an exact replica of her old room. Besides the lack of creepy artifacts, windows, or candle holders, it looked almost exactly like it.
She still had all her shelves along the sides of the walls where she could place her books. There was her hooded headboard bed right in the back of the room. Her vanity and dresser was still in the bottom left corner of her room. And Raven looked down at the floor to see that there looked to be carpeting beneath her booted feet. She instantly took off her blue boots and let her feet bask in the fuzzy softness beneath her. Who knew nanobots could be this comfy?
There was a doorway on the back right side of her room. Right where her old chest would have been. It was one of the few differences she noticed about the room. There was also the fact that her old room didn't have carpeting. The closet that would have been in the front right corner wasn't there. As mentioned, the lack of creepy artifacts was also obvious. Along with the fireplace in the back left corner. The lack of windows or places to light candles.
The only big difference she saw was that the walls were the color green.
'They just had to be green.'
Raven decided to float to the back to see what the doorway led to. And opened it up to find a small bathroom. It was a pretty normal looking small bathroom. With barely enough room for a toilet, a sink and mirror, and a small shower. Raven gladly got herself out of her soaked uniform and went into the shower. Wanting to wash away the stress of the past few days.
And thank Azar, there was hot water running in it too!
About a half hour later, Raven walked back out into her room, fully clothed in a different uniform, and feeling better than she ever had the past few days. She moved a still wet lock of hair from her face as she started to examine her bed. It looked almost like her old one, with the same headboard and everything. She placed her hand on the bare mattress, and she could have sworn she felt the nanobots that made it up adjusting themselves to make her hand more comfortable.
Somehow, it felt like she was pressing her hand against a fluffy pillow, instead of millions of tiny robots. Then again, the carpet was made from them too, so she shouldn't have been as surprised by the fact that the nanobots could be comfortable. When the fuzzies down below felt good enough to lay in.
'Wow, Cyborg really did his work well for this one. I think I could actually like it in here. I see why he would have home away from home in the title... It's almost like I'm back in my old room in the Tower.' Raven thought to herself, as she pulled her sheets and comforter from her pouch, and made her bed.
After she was done, she actually jumped onto it, relishing in the feeling of relief her body felt. Now she had a nice hot shower, a good hot place to sleep on, and maybe a nice hot meal before she would go to sleep. Heck, she felt so at peace, she didn't even feel like meditating.
The three questions still nagged at her mind, but they felt more distant now. Her irritability from before was almost forgotten.
Raven looked up at the ceiling for the first time as she laid on her bed, and saw that it too was green. Just like her walls, and a frown came on her face. 'I just wonder why Cyborg had to paint my room green? He couldn't have just done gray, or blue, or even purple.'
Raven got herself up, and she looked around the room again. She took in the green on the walls again. And the green carpet, now that she looked closely at it. It was almost like he had been trying to imply something.
'You know, speaking of green, I wonder why Beast Boy hasn't set up his pocket home yet? I mean, he said he would have one in his pack too… but he never took it out…'
Raven felt like face palming. She had left her teammate out in the rain, somehow thinking he had his pocket home on him, when it was still in his pack! That had been a rather cruel move on her part!
She hadn't seen him take it out after all.
Raven summoned his pack from her pouch, and started to sift through his pack to see if she could find his pocket home. But with all the other stuff in it, Raven wasn't having much luck. Finally, after five minutes, Raven used her powers to empty Beast Boy's pack in an organized fashion, so she could put everything back in the way it was supposed to be.
As it was emptied, Raven wasn't finding anything that resembled her pocket home among the items. 'I wonder if he put it near the bottom.'
Finally the last item from it was set gently on the carpeted floor. It looked to be a battery pack for a device. Raven looked into the pack with wide eyes.
'Wait… where is his pocket home? I thought we were all going to have one. At least, that was what he said…' Her mind trailed off, going back to when he had pulled a note out of his pack. And then tore it up out of anger and embarrassment. But then he pulled out a bigger looking box after that. Couldn't that have been his pocket home?
'Well, I won't get any answers standing in here.' Raven thought as she packed everything back into his pack, and moved to her doorway to open it up. The blast of cold air that hit her almost made her slam the door again, but then she steeled herself up and floated out onto the porch. Even though the porch was still a little wet, there was no longer any rain falling onto it. The storm had finally passed over them.
Raven looked to where she had left him standing last time, and saw a big green wolf, shivering underneath a big tree. Raven felt a small stone of guilt sink into her stomach. The wolf looked up at her, and then turned its head away. Raven wondered what it could have been that he was thinking.
'You know master, that robotic pal of yours did have a good point in that note of his.'
'Will you shut up about that! We are not going to sleep in the same bed as Raven!'
'Hey, there is always the floor master. You don't have to think everything I say in a… dirty manner as you would call it.'
Beast Boy mentally frowned. 'Don't you get it Beast! Rae would never even allow me to sleep in the same room as her. Look, she's even outside right now to probably tell me-'
Beast Boy trailed off in his line of thought as he heard footsteps approaching him. Beast Boy lifted his head again to see Raven was walking over to him. He cocked his head to the side.
'Doesn't our mate usually float around?'
'Yes.' Beast Boy found it odd to note that fact.
The wolf looked at Raven curiously. And Raven, at seeing Beast Boy up close, found those three questions from before circling in her mind.
Why was the penny important?
Do I really need to suppress my emotions?
Who is it that I'm crushing on?
And with those three questions, came the headache and irritation.
'Arghhh… it's like my brain is trying to tell me something, and I don't know what it is.'
Deep in Nevermore: (Please tell me the ****ing leader bitch isn't that stupid!)
(I'm afraid so.)
Raven didn't hear it, as she had forced all the thoughts in her mind aside to focus on the one she needed to ask Beast Boy. "Beast Boy, can you morph back so I can ask you something?" Raven asked Beast Boy in a monotonous voice.
The wolf looked at her weirdly, before it changed back into a still muddy Beast Boy. The Beast had thankfully gone silent in his mind. "Sure, what is it Rae?"
Raven grimaced at the nickname, but didn't say anything about it. "Why haven't you set up your pocket home?"
Beast Boy looked at her weirdly. "Do you mean the TWPTHAH?"
Raven pinched the bridge of her nose as she sighed. "Beast Boy, can we just call it a pocket home from now on?"
Beast Boy laughed a little, before he answered. "If it's easier for you to say, then go ahead."
Raven glared a little at him, but it didn't stop him from chuckling. "So why haven't you set up your pocket home Beast Boy?"
His chuckling stopped, and his face looked almost… down. "I requested some upgrades to it a few weeks ago, and apparently, Bucket Head never finished them. So I didn't have mine in my pack."
Raven looked at him confused. She had said earlier that he didn't have one. But she had meant it as sarcasm. He had never honestly said she had been right. "But what about that small box I saw you put in your belt? I thought that was your pocket home."
To say Beast Boy was shocked was an understatement. Hell, breathing seemed to be the last thing on his mind at this point. 'No! No! No! No! No!'
'Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes!' The Beast howled inside his master's mind. Apparently the two had different opinions about Raven figuring out about that box of condoms.
"Uh… uh… uh… uh…" Beast Boy was trying to at least form a sentence in his shock. Raven looked at him with a blank face.
Beast Boy didn't know how the next thing happened, but somehow, during his shock, his hand had wiped the mud off itself on his back, and then went into his belt…
To pull out the box of condoms to the world.
Raven looked at it with disinterest at first, as she examined the small box she saw before, and then when she finally read the label…
'What the hell!'
Raven almost took a step back out of shock. As some rock went flying out into the distance from her emotions. Beast Boy looked down at his hand, seeming to realize just what was in it now. He instantly yelped and put the accursed box back in his belt. His face turned several different colors, the most prominent of which was a very dark brown. Why had he subconsciously pulled it out?
Something seemed to click in his mind.
'BEAST!'
'What? You would have tried to skirt around it forever, and all you would have done was piss our mate off in the process. I just made it a lot more simpler to deal with master.'
"Um, was that what I thought it was Beast Boy?" Raven asked in the real world. Beast Boy's mind seemed to stop all over again.
'What do I do! What do I do! What do I do! Oh god what do I do!'
'Try telling the truth master.' The Beast said, ignoring his master's question.
'What! That Cyborg gave me the condoms because he somehow thinks that we are going to be having sex in the near future with her!'
'Exactly master! Just tell her so we can get to the good stuff already!'
'... You're insane!'
'And you are keeping our mate waiting.'
Beast Boy seemed to finally snap to the real world. Where Raven was impatiently tapping her foot on the ground. His blush increased ten fold as he remembered what his Beast had said.
"Well?" She dryly snapped at him.
"Heh, well…" He trailed off, not sure what to say.
Suddenly, it was like his mouth wasn't under his control anymore. "Cyborg gave me these because ever since those chemicals were dumped on me, I sometimes go into heat around spring time. Which is coming up in about a month." Beast Boy snapped his hand over his mouth.
'What the hell! Nobody even knows that I have that problem! Why would I even blurt that out now! To Raven!'
Raven raised her eyebrow at him. "Um… okay… but that doesn't make any sense. Wouldn't I be the only female around if you were to go into… heat?" She asked in a monotone.
All the color drained from Beast Boy's face. His mouth seemed to move again without his permission. "Yeah, and Cyborg just wants to make sure if it happens, that I wouldn't get you or any other female that would be around me pregnant since I have no control over myself during those times when I am in heat."
'Dude! I didn't want to say any of that! What the freaking hell is going on!?'
Raven had her eyebrow raised up into her hair. "Why would Cyborg have specifically mentioned me though?"
Beast Boy tried to snap his mouth shut, but the words still somehow escaped. "Because he thinks when I go into heat, that I go to a female I'm attracted to physically. Which in this case, happens to be you." Beast Boy said it all in a calm deep voice.
'Aaaaaaaauuuuuuuugggggggghhhhhhhhhhh! Why is this happening to meeeeeeeeeee!' A high pitched girl scream echoed in his mind.
'You're welcome master.' The Beast said in a pleased tone as he retreated back into his mind again. Where he waited to see how his help would get them and their mate together.
Raven was bored on the outside, while on the inside, her emoticlones were in a frenzy. 'He's attracted to us!' 'Beast Boy goes into heat?' 'I wonder how long he can last.' 'This is freaking awesome!' 'Oh yeah, come and give it to momma Beast Man!'
Finally, Raven thought. 'What in Azar's holy name is he trying to imply!'
A voice spoke up in her mind. 'Duh, he just told us he is attracted to you. And wants to bang us whenever he goes into heat.' Rude said with a loud belch at the end.
Raven instantly cast her mind aside, as she focused on the changeling in front of her. Her eyes were starting to split to four, yet they didn't go all red, they stayed violet. Rage was absent, but Raven herself was full of anger.
"I don't know who you think you are! To think that you can give me some bullshit excuse to want to bang me Beast Boy!" She shouted in an angry monotone, as a tree was heard falling in the distance.
"No, wait! Rae! I can try to explain-" Beast Boy did try to explain as he finally found he could speak again. When a black band covered his mouth. He instantly tried to pry it off.
"You wouldn't even have to worry about getting me pregnant! Since one, I would never lower myself to being attracted to the likes of you!" She said, as black tendrils lifted him up into the air.
'Ouch.' That kind of hurt.
"Two, I would never engage in such an act, since it would potentially destroy the planet!" She said, as her tendrils started reaching out to random objects. While those wrapped around him started to squeeze tightly around his body.
'Understandable.'
"And three, even if I did end up doing it, it would be pointless to use birth control, since my ****ing genetic structure makes it impossible for me to get pregnant by anyone! And if I somehow did get pregnant, that baby would be infused with my father's evil! And I would never wish that on ANYONE!"
Beast Boy had no thoughts for that one.
He suddenly found himself being thrown through the air. Before he banged back into the tree he had been lying under. He let out a grunt of pain as he hit the ground again. A tendril of power still held him against the tree. After a moment, he looked up into her expressionless four eyed face.
"I'm going to make this very clear to you Beast Boy. If you ever, ever, ever! Try to take me while you are in heat, you will find that your heat will be the least of your problems. Understood!" She said with malice at the end.
Beast Boy gulped, as he nodded his head. Raven then turned around. "I am going to meditate, if you even think about bothering me at all tonight, I will personally send you to another dimension. And that isn't a threat Beast Boy, (Raven turns head around to look him in the eye) that is a promise."
Beast Boy wanted to speak. What about his own pack? What about the coming cold weather of night? What did she mean by she couldn't get pregnant? Why did she even say all of that to him? Heck, why did he say all that to her!
H kept his mouth shut, mainly because of the gag over it, and turned away from her. His ears heard the faint sound of a door opening, and then slamming shut. The tendrils around him disappeared into the air. Then all he heard was the forest. He sat motionless against his tree.
'... Well… that didn't turn out the way I thought it would.'
Beast Boy stayed silent.
'Um… master, are you okay?'
Beast Boy still remained silent.
'Master-'
'THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! IF YOU HAD JUST KEPT YOUR BIG FAT MOUTH SHUT, WE WOULDN'T HAVE PISSED HER OFF! DO YOU HEAR ME BEAST! BECAUSE OF YOU, YOU PISSED YOUR MATE OFF! I, I, GAH!'
In the real world, Beast Boy was clawing at the tree in front of him. Well, clawing was a mild word. More like dismembering the tree in front of him.
'Master, calm down for a-'
'NO! I WILL NOT CALM DOWN BEAST! I DISCOVER THAT I DO KIND OF LIKE HER! GOSH, IT'S ONLY BEEN LIKE FOUR DAYS SINCE WE LEFT THE TITANS! I FEEL SO ****ING STRESSED WITH TRYING TO STAY ON RAVEN'S GOOD SIDE WHILE LEARNING THAT EVERY HERO IN THE WORLD HAS TURNED AGAINST US! AND WHAT DO YOU DO! YOU PULL OFF THAT STUNT AND MAKE HER EXTREMELY MAD AT ME! AGAIN!'
'I was only trying to help-'
'HOW? BY TELLING HER FLAT OUT THAT I'M ATTRACTED TO HER ONLY WHEN I'M HORNY! THAT I ONLY WANT TO RUT WITH HER BECAUSE MY BODY IS TELLING ME TO! I'M NOT EVEN ATTRACTED TO HER IN THAT WAY!... well, maybe a little… BUT STILL, YOU TOLD HER THAT I WANTED TO **** WITH HER EVERY TIME I GOT HORNY! THAT IS JUST WRONG ON SO MANY LEVELS!'
'But-'
'NO BEAST! WHAT YOU SAID IS WHAT ANIMALS DO! I'M NOT AN ANIMAL BEAST! I'M A MAN WITH MORALS TOO!'
'But master, I-'
'I'M TOO ANGRY RIGHT NOW BEAST! JUST LEAVE ME THE **** ALONE!'
There was silence on the other end for a moment.
'Okay… master.' The Beast said in a meek tone, like he was a puppy who had just been scolded. Beast Boy felt him retreat back into his mind.
Back in the real world, Beast Boy finally stopped what he had been doing in his fit of rage. The hundred foot oak tree he had been laid against was nothing but a large pile of logs and wood chips in front of him now. And now that he thought about it, his hands hurt from what they had just done.
Still, he thrust his hand into his belt, and pulled out the thing that had ruined it all. That small freaking box of useless condoms. The last straw from his former best friend.
With a howl of fury, his claws tore up the offending box, over and over and over, until all that was left of it was the dust particles that were blown away by the breeze. Shredded into mere nonexistence.
Finally, after he felt his anger was spent, he felt tears trying to pick at the edges of his eyes. The things she had said before were finally clicking in his mind. He truly did have no chance with this crush of his.
'No! I haven't cried since the day my parents died! I am not going to start now just because I was rejected by Raven of all people! It was only a small crush! Just like Terra! I can survive her not wanting to like me!'
With that, Beast Boy morphed into a wolf, and took off running into the coming darkness of night. If Raven wanted him to leave her alone, then that was what he was going to do. If anything, the running would at least warm him up. It was still near the end of February, and now that they had traveled farther up into the mountains, the temperature was really going to drop that night.
At least his situation couldn't get any worse.
Meanwhile
"I can't believe you would do that to BB!" Happy yelled in a very unhappy voice.
"What is your problem!?" Brave yelled at Raven's face.
"You hurt him. You hurt Beast Boy. He's going to hate us now." Timid said in a small voice.
This, and so many more complaints were coming from all of Raven's emoticlones. I'd mention more, but let's just say that Affection was crying on the ground. Rude and Rage were both cursing like one eyed carpenters in English and demonic. Knowledge and Wisdom were just being silent. While Brave, Happy, and Timid had been the main voices of discontent.
When Raven had tried meditating, she couldn't calm down again, and had went into her meditation mirror to calm her emoticlones herself, since meditation hadn't been cutting it. She found that Wisdom and Knowledge had been with her other emoticlones at the center of her mind. They didn't look mad, just… disappointed. That had been why they weren't speaking. The only missing emoticlone had been Sloth.
"Will you all shut up already!" Raven yelled at her emoticlones. Since trying to use meditation had been no help.
"Why should we?! After what you just did to Beast Boy out there!" Rude was the one who yelled back.
"Why does that matter!? You heard what he said!" Raven shouted in disbelief.
"Raven, all he said was that Cyborg gave him those condoms in the case he lost control of himself around us or another female." Knowledge said in a sad tone.
"So!" Raven shouted back.
"He said in case he lost control. As in, he wouldn't be acting by himself anymore. It would be like something else had taken over his mind." Wisdom said in an also sad tone.
"He said he was actually attracted to us! And you just beat him into the dirt for his words!" Affection cried from the ground. Rage was bent over her, trying to sooth the sobbing emoticlone. Raven looked at the two weirdly.
"I wouldn't call it attraction when every time he gets horny, he could-" Raven started to say.
"Raven!" Knowledge's sudden shout stopped Raven in her rant.
"For once in your life, will you stop thinking of Beast Boy as a normal person here! We aren't just talking about another human! We are talking about an animorph! A person who can change and take on the instincts of every animal in the world! We didn't even know that Beast Boy had enhanced senses in his own human form till a short while ago! Azar knows what else he has to suffer from! And now you want to write him off all over again because he revealed that he has another animalistic trait that affects him more than we originally thought! This is just like with what happened back in the cave!" Her tone was just bordering on rage.
Raven seemed less sure of herself. "But… but he said-"
"We all know what he said! We are you after all Raven! Though you tend to forget that a lot!" Brave said this time.
"Hey! I've been trying!" Raven shouted back. It only made Brave laugh.
"How!? You still meditate every time you have the chance! You push us back every time we try to express ourselves! You refuse to try and understand us! Hell, the only ones you even try to interact with are Knowledge and Wisdom! And they aren't even real emoticlones!" Brave shouted with anger in her tone.
"Hey." Wisdom said in an offended tone.
"You hurt him." Timid said in a small whisper from the corner of the group, as tears fell down her face. Wisdom was beside her now, soothing the shy emoticlone.
Raven snapped at last. "This isn't about me trying to understand you all! This is about me, trying to get you all to back off! You know I'm not supposed to feel! You know I'm not supposed to express anything! Who cares!?" She shouted in rage.
"Oh yeah! Then why have you been doing all that lately! Why are you yelling at us when you're supposed to be calm! Why have you been smiling while you meditate and stuff like that! Heck, why are you mad at us over such a small thing concerning him!" Brave shouted back.
Raven just became madder from the words her Brave emoticlone said. "Me, mad! I'm furious at what Beast Boy told me! How is what he said a small thing!? How am I supposed to even trust him after what he told me! Hell, I don't understand how you all aren't angry at the fact that we could be raped at any moment!" Raven shouted.
The emoticlones became silent. Each one of them stared hard at Raven, causing her to take a step back at the cold looks they were giving her. Her anger was steadily replaced with confusion.
"Do you honestly think that Beast Boy himself would ever try to rape you?" Knowledge finally asked.
Raven took a while to answer. "I… Um… Well… … … ... no." She finally said in a flat tone.
"That is why we aren't mad at him Raven. In fact, we are appreciative that he let us know about this… problem he has. Don't you think you would have rather he told us now, instead of later when he was acting… different around us?" Knowledge said.
Raven thought on it for a moment, then she let out a sigh. "I guess it was better he told me now…"
Knowledge nodded at that. "Now that he has told us, we can prepare for when he does go into his heat. When he loses control of himself, we'll be able to help him, instead of being in the dark as to what is going on. And then having him end up doing something he would regret."
Raven thought about that a little more, and realized what her emoticlone was saying made sense. Then she thought about how she reacted to what he had said, and her shoulders fell. "I overreacted again?"
Knowledge actually smiled. "At least this time I didn't have to help you with finding out that part." She said with a small chuckle.
Some of the other emoticlones looked to have calmed down somewhat. Even Affection had stopped crying on the ground. Raven looked at each one of them, and saw them staring back at her. Her anger was finally spent, and guilt was washing over her soul again.
"I just promised him earlier that I would do better… and now… what am I supposed to do?" Raven asked, as her shoulders fell.
"What do you think you should do Rae?" Happy was the one to say in a gentle tone.
Raven only had to think for a moment. "I guess I should apologize, and let him know I understand now."
"And…" Brave added at the end with a smirk.
"And… what?" Raven asked.
"Girl, he is going to be thinking you really hate him now! You have to show him that isn't the case!" Brave shouted in exasperation.
Raven looked at Brave confused. "How am I supposed to do that though?"
"What about you smile at him, since he is always trying so hard to get us to do that." Happy suggested in a peppy tone.
Raven wasn't so sure. "But what about all the damage it-" She started to say.
"Raven." Again, Knowledge cut her off. Though this time her tone was back to normal. "Is one small rock now and then, really worth having someone think we hate them for what they suffer from?" She asked.
"But what if it's something bigger? What if it's another tree, or some animal, or even him? If my powers acted out on him, what would I do?" Raven asked.
Her emoticlones were smiling at her, making her even more confused. "Raven, don't you think he would have realized by now what even a simple act of smiling does to you?" Wisdom said.
Raven had no words for that. So Wisdom continued. "He knows how your powers work Raven, yet he still tries to get us to laugh or smile at him, his antics, his jokes, or whatever else he does when he's around us. Even though he knows we aren't really supposed to, he still does it. Do you think that would change now, if he were to accidentally be hurt, because you finally gave him a smile?"
Raven… after a few seconds, could only shake her head from side to side. The silence stretched for a few moments.
"Well, what are you waiting for! You have a certain someone to try and apologize to bitch!" Rude yelled at her.
Raven looked at Rude with a flat face one last time, and then she turned around to walk out of her mind. Now having a clear idea of what she had to do next.
Before she walked out though, she looked to Affection one last time. Affection was looking back at her with expectant eyes. As if her very life depended on Raven's next actions. The three questions in her mind seem to swirl in those eyes of hers. Then Raven looked to Timid, and her words registered in her mind. Along with those of Affections. All of what her emoticlones said circled in her mind, around those three questions.
Something finally clicked in Raven's mind, like a piece of cloud moving from the puzzle. All her questions had revolved around one source. And that source had been there with her the whole time. She just hadn't seen it until now.
'I guess there is another reason why they aren't mad at him… and why I shouldn't be mad at him.'
Raven actually smiled. Shocking her emoticlones with the small action. "I guess I get to eat my words from earlier after all when I meet him next time." Raven said to them in an upbeat monotone, before she walked out of her mind. The red portal of the Forbidden Door flickered once, before it completely shut down. Leaving her emoticlones back in her central mind.
"Um… did anyone else understand that statement there?" Brave asked.
All the other emoticlones seemed confused. Except for Affection, who was now smiling widely on the ground. Rage was the only one to notice. And then, she clicked it together in her mind too.
Rage smiled. "She knows. She finally knows."
All the other emoticlones looked at her. But she didn't elaborate.
They'd find out soon enough anyways.
Back to Beast Boy
There was a bright sun shining in a clear blue morning sky. Birds were singing in the trees as they went about their morning. Squirrels were chattering as they worked on unearthing their last winter stores of food. And a big green wolf was jumping over a piece of log sticking up from the ground as it ran at a frantic pace through the forest.
Boy did it seem out of place here in nature.
It had wide frightened eyes, as if it was running away from something. And it's heavy breathing suggested it had been running for quite some time.
The wolf continued to run through the underbrush of the forest, trying to lose the something that was chasing after it. Left and right, going along both trails and game tracks to lose it's pursuer. The noise it made seemed to make nature itself curious as to what was going on. Birds peaked over their nests, and squirrels appeared from knot holes in trees. While small mice crawled onto the roots of trees to see what was going on.
The wolf whipped by a branch, making it swing back and forth for a few seconds. Then, a few seconds later when it had stopped, another something whizzed past the same branch. Making it swing back and forth a lot faster than the wolf had made it.
The wolf was breathing hard as it made a turn running up a hill diagonally through some thorny underbrush. It's desperate hope being that it would lose its pursuer that way. It heard the something chasing it stop at the thorny bushes, drop a cuss word, and then run off somewhere else to find an alternative route. The wolf smiled to itself since it knew the thorns stretched for a good mile and a half in either direction.
The wolf finally paused at the top of the hill, it could see the log cabin about a half mile away. That was where it's disguise for itself was. Along with the person who he knew was likely to be mad at him. It had only to make it there undetected, and it would be safe. Well, relatively safe, it depended on whether that person was still mad at him or not.
Just as it started running forward again though, a bright red and yellow blur sped in from the side and rammed the wolf with its body. The wolf let out a startled yelp as it flew through the air, before it turned back into a rolling Beast Boy. Beast Boy rolled along the ground for a little bit, before he got back on his feet again in a defensive stance to face his pursuer. He growled at the sight of who it was.
Wally/Kid Flash smirked. "Well, looks to me like this schoolboy gets to finally teach someone a few lessons." He said, as he cracked his knuckles together.
'Scratch what I said earlier, it can get a lot worse!'
Author's Notes:
Cliffhangers, got to love them, right?
Anyways, seems to me like some serious stuff happened this chapter. From Beast Boy revealing yet another animalistic trait (one I will find most amusing to write about later), to Raven finally seeming to figure something out.
And then the cliffhanger.
Is Wally the only one in the area, or are there others with him? Try to guess who it could be! Solo, or… heheheh!
Till Next Time
Allen
