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Updated: October 8, 2016 10:25 P.M.


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Chapter Seventeen: Team Alpha Vs. Team Beast


Crunch! Crunch! Crunch!

The sound of boots, trudging through the deep snow of lovely cold Nunuvat filled the air. The sounds belonged to a small group of three heroes wearing these boots.

One pair of boots was a deep green, and were worn by a tall tanned man. He also had a pair of heavy pants, and a heavy coat on. Both of which were green. Though his hood was up, you could see the blonde locks on his forehead, along with his blonde beard and mustache. The last visible thing on the man that could be seen as he moved away was the large green bow attached to his full green quiver on his back.

After him came another tan guy, who looked to be in his teens. He wore yellow boots, unlike his former mentor. But the heavy coat and pants he was wearing were red. With the hood he wore on top of it giving him a really bad case of hood hair. Much to the guy's displeasure. He had a smaller yellow bow attached to the yellow quiver of his pack. And he didn't look happy at all to be trudging through the snow of northern Canada. He seemed to be constantly shivering, even underneath his very heavy clothing.

The last person of the group was wearing a pair of red boots. But above that, it was his normal body tight uniform. A mainly black unitard, with three red stripes around the waist and both knees of it. A red collar that went about halfway up his neck, though it stuck out from his body a couple inches. And that was it, besides his black skin. He didn't freeze, since his internal body temperature made that almost impossible.

Green Arrow, Speedy, and Hot Spot. Who better to make up an Alpha Team searching northern Canada for two traitorous Titans.

The three continued trudging through the snow of the forest. With Green Arrow being the one upfront leading the way. Hot Spot was in the back, guarding their rear. Speedy was in between the two, freezing his butt off. He wanted more than anything to get out of the cold they were in. But with how much they still had to search, that wouldn't be happening for a while.

'Stupid anal retentive leader. Making us go freaking up north to search for two traitors that are likely relaxing on some isolated warm beach somewhere. While I'm out freezing my *** out in this cold. So ****ing stupid!' Speedy thought grumpily to himself.

The pyrokinetic behind the two was bored to say the least. He thought after he had been recruited into the Teen Titans the week before that things would have been a little more exciting… not... this.

'If only Toni was here with me.' He thought sadly. Unfortunately, she had been assigned to Team Delta. And Team Alpha was so far north now that they couldn't even call anyone except the Tower or Cave to report in. And with how far north they were, the connection was static with noises at best. Calling Toni was out of the question.

"Queen, why the hell are we even searching here!" Speedy exclaimed at last.

Green Arrow continued to move as he spoke. "What do you mean Roy?"

"Well, doesn't the Watchtower have its own monitoring systems that could be put to use here?" Speedy asked.

Green Arrow shook his head. "Yes, it can monitor things on the surface. But it mainly does that through the security cameras all over. And if the area is heavily forested or snowed in like this one, the Monitor wouldn't be able to pick up anything well if it surveyed the area."

Speedy grumbled to himself. "But did they really have to send us out to the middle of a ****ing wasteland?"

"Would you have rather been sent farther north towards the Arctic Circle?" Green Arrow asked.

Silence… "I didn't think so." Green Arrow finally said.

The group of three continued to trudge through the snow. Wanting more than anything for at least a sign that they weren't wasting their time. Or at least one shivering individual in particular.

That sign was answered when they reached the peak of a hill, and saw a black covered blizzard going on just ten feet away from them. Their eyes widened to the size of dinner plates at the sight. The snow was flying through the air at fast speeds in front of them. And the height of the storm at its highest appeared to be thousands of feet up in the air.

Recognizing the inky blackness, Speedy was quick to pull out his communicator, wanting to contact Robin immediately. Although the heat the device produced in his hands might have also been a reason. He turned it on, getting a static showing on his screen.

"Robin. This is the Alpha team reporting in. We found some strange blizzard going on here. Your orders?" Speedy said into it, as the other two waited.

"... Alpha… message… little warbled… say… again." Robin's voice was barely discernible.

Speedy smirked at the fact that Robin had technically called him Alpha. But he understood what he had meant. "Robin, we are in Nunuvat. We found a magical black blizzard just now. It could be hiding the changeling and the demoness inside it. What are your orders?"

There was silence on the other end for a moment.

"Team… go… and investigate… do… engage… repeat… engage." Robin's staticy voice said.

Speedy looked to Green Arrow and Hot Spot weirdly, but they shrugged their shoulders. Speedy did the same before he answered. "Okay, we will go in and investigate the area. And if we somehow find them, we will engage if sighted. Alpha out."

Speedy hung up on his communicator, and turned to face the other two. "Well what are we waiting for? Let's find those two creeps before we freeze to death out here." Speedy said, before he stepped face first into the storm.

Green Arrow looked skeptically at it, but Hot Spot just shrugged as he walked right into the weird storm. Green Arrow sighed as he pulled his coat tighter to him. He walked into the storm, just as Robin tried to call in again. Alpha team never received the call.

The three ended up walking around in the blizzard for a while, trying to find something that would indicate the two traitor's whereabouts. But with visibility at an all time low, it was rather hard. The only thing they were able to figure out after a bit was that it was definitely not a normal storm. Mainly because the snow wasn't coming from the air above, but from the ground below. All the snow that had been lying on the ground before was being thrust up by the inky blackness and swirled around, creating the storm. Definitely not a normal storm.

"I don't think snow's supposed to come from the ground." Hot Spot pointed out.

You don't say.

Speedy ended up walking face first into one of these geysers of snow.

"Maybe walking into a magical blizzard wasn't one of the brightest of my ideas!" Speedy shouted over the noise of the storm. The front of his uniform was frosted over from the snow.

"You think!" Green Arrow shouted back sarcastically.

"Maybe we should go back to the edge of the storm? See if we can figure out how big it is before proceeding!" Hot Spot loudly suggested.

"Where's the edge!?" Speedy shouted.

"I thought you knew!" Hot Spot shouted back.

Green Arrow groaned to himself. About ten minutes in, and they had already gotten lost. Not to mention, he was starting to feel a slight chill himself. "Just keep moving forward! Maybe we'll find their shelter that way." He suggested.

The three continued to trudge through the storm. Hoping they'd somehow either find the two. Without freezing to death of course.

Suddenly, all around them, the storm stopped. Just like that. The three stared around them amazed as they saw the inky blackness retreat. As it retreated, all the snow that had been suspended in the air fell down in piles…

One of which conveniently landed on Speedy.

Hot Spot and Green Arrow turned in astonishment to look at it just as Speedy's head reemerged. He was spitting out snow, with a mixture of dirt and grass in it. His hood was also thrown back, showing his ruined red hair. When he was done coughing, he glared up at the two.

"Not, a word." He gritted out with a sour look on his face.

Green Arrow chuckled as he pulled back his hood, showing his perfect blonde hair. "Oh I'm not saying a thing Roy. I'm not saying a thing." Green Arrow said as he started to walk forward again in the direction where he thought he saw the inky blackness retreat to.

Speedy growled, but then another pile of snow fell on top of him. Hot Spot chuckled this time. 'Well, at least I got to see that. To bad I couldn't record it for Toni though.' He thought as he used his powers to melt Speedy out of the snow.

Speedy took some time as they walked after that to take out a comb and mirror from his heavy coat to fix his hair. He'd be damned if he found the two traitors and took them down without looking good first. Had to impress the ladies and all that after all. Although there wasn't really any within a hundred mile radius of their location. But you never knew who could be watching...

While doing that, Hot Spot saw something in the shadow of a tree. Thinking quick, he launched a fireball from his hand at it.

Boom!

'Oops, that might have been a little too much power there.' He thought as a large smoking crater showed in the snow and the ground beneath it. The blast had luckily missed the tree, otherwise there might have been a nice forest fire on their hands. The other two turned in the same direction as him to stare at the smoking crater.

A slightly singed white fur squirrel ran out of it away towards another tree. It climbed up into the pine needles and disappeared. Speedy put his mirror to the side so he could give himself a face palm.

"Wow, nice aim there Hot Head. You almost managed to give our position away, just to barely miss frying a squirrel." Speedy said in a sarcastic voice.

Hot Spot turned to glare at the archer. With a snap of his fingers, a hair on Speedy's head burst to flame. Speedy eeped as he started to try and bat at his head. He then tried to use his comb to put it out. But he seemed to only be fueling the flame as his comb caught fire. Hot Spot watched, looking slightly amused at what he had done.

Finally, Speedy seemed to find some ounce of common sense in his ego, and he dived head first into a pile of snow. That common sense must have not stretched very far though. He put the fire out, but he also ended up diving headfirst into a tree that the pile of snow had been against.

Ouch.

Hot Spot couldn't take it, and he finally burst out laughing at how funny it was. Speedy jumped up from off the ground, still rubbing his head. "Oh, you think that was funny!" He shouted at him, before he rushed and pushed Hot Spot into another pile of snow.

This pile, hadn't been against anything. So Hot Spot came out without a bump on his head. Nor did he have ruined hair, since he would have had to have hair for that to happen. Hot Spot chuckled at Speedy's childishness.

"Wow. Throwing a pyrokinetic who is immune to the cold into a pile of snow for revenge. Brightest idea I've seen yet." Hot Spot said as he continued to chuckle.

Speedy's face turned bright red from anger. At least he wasn't cold anymore. "At least I have hair!" He shouted back.

"At least I don't spend hours taking care of it only to strike out with the ladies." Hot Spot retorted.

"At least I still look good with it!" Speedy shouted.

"You don't seem to look that good with it at the moment." Hot Spot pointed out. Since Speedy's hair was burnt in places, covered in wet patches of snow, and unkempt from where he hit the tree.

Green Arrow, who was now slightly ahead sighed to himself. There they are trying to find the two targets that have eluded them for a while, and the two are getting into an argument in the middle of nowhere over hair. Hair! Sure, he also loved his hair. But not to the point where he would have it jeopardize a mission!

He stopped to wait for them to finish arguing. He honestly had nothing better to do, unless he wanted to take on the two rogue Titans by himself. Speaking of which, he wondered how close they were.

Then he thought something else, would they be able to hear the argument going on? Or any of the loud noises from before that? Like the explosion...

After this thought, his sharp ears heard something. Not the argument Speedy was trying in vain to win, but the sound of a twig snapping. Green Arrow cursed to himself. Of course, the two were going to be nearby. And they were likely to know their position due to all the noise they were making.

He instantly turned back to the two who were still arguing with his bow drawn. A second later, a green fledged arrow flew right between the two, impacting itself into the tree behind them. The shock of the arrow missing them silenced them. And they turned to see Green Arrow glaring at them.

He put his finger to his lips in a gesture of silence. The two gulped as they obeyed the veteran superhero. They stood in their spots for a moment, listening to the sounds of nature. Which in the middle of a pine forest in winter, didn't have much sound to begin with.

Then, they heard a snap in the undergrowth to their left. They turned just in time to see a green wolf bound right from under the cover of a pine tree. The green wolf launched right through the air above them, before landing on the other side and disappearing behind a few pine trees.

Speedy and Green Arrow were instantly firing at the group of trees. They recognized the green pelt that could only belong to the changeling. Using explosive arrows to knock the trees out of the way, the trees toppled over with a loud crack. But no green wolf was to be revealed. Why the hell had it done that? Just sneak up on them, only to end up leaping over them.

Then they heard another whistling sound, but from the air above. Green Arrow turned his head first to see a large log hurtling right for them. Hot Spot saw it right after him, and was quick to change into his full fire form. When the log was twenty feet from them, Hot Spot jumped in front of the group and encased the log with a stream of fire from his arms.

Five feet away, the log was nothing but cinder. And when it was two feet away, it dissolved into a pile of ash while still in the air. A faint breeze picked up the rest of the ash, sending it out into the forest. Hot Spot still stayed in his elemental form though.

"Well, at least we know they're here now." Hot Spot said to the group.

"You don't say." Speedy sarcastically replied for the author.

"Awhoooooooooo!" The green wolf sounded from behind them.

They turned, seeing the green wolf again dashing towards a group of trees. Hot Spot launched some of his fireballs this time. But before they could hit, the green wolf was suddenly enveloped in a black portal. The fireballs kept on going until they weakly hit a couple trees in the distance. Only leaving scorch marks on them.

"Awhoooooooooo!" The wolf sounded again to their right.

Speedy and Green Arrow turned and fired at where they thought it would be. Only to hit the area behind it which consisted of a group of rocks sticking out of the snow. The arrows let out a field of electricity when they made contact with the rocks, before they fizzled out. Before the two could readjust their aim, the green wolf disappeared. Only to start howling at them from the left.

This pattern repeated five more times. With the green wolf appearing in one spot. Then one or two of the members of Alpha Team managing to fire at it. Ending with their shots either missing, or making the wolf disappear through a dark portal since they would have hit it. The wildlife around them suffered all sorts of damage from the fireballs and the variety of arrows. It was getting frustrating to say the least.

Finally, Green Arrow had enough. "Stop wasting your arrows and energy. Get back to back with me so we can have a 360 view. I'm sick of missing this pesky little bastard." He ordered.

Speedy and Hot Spot complied. Each of them took up a 120 degree of vision behind Green Arrow. With Hot Spot holding a few fireballs at the ready, and Speedy and Green Arrow nocking explosive arrows in their bows. All three had their eyes trained on the outside for the wolf.

But where was the other one? The one that was creating the… portals...

When the three finally realized their mistake, it was too late. A now green gorilla appeared in the middle of them through another dark portal that had formed above them.

Hot Spot was sent flying about thirty feet by a backhand from a hairy left fist. Speedy was sent into a tree about fifty feet away by way of a hairy right fist. While Green Arrow was sent flying into a large rock twenty feet away by a large black ethereal fist.

The three members of Alpha team groaned as they got up. All three looked as one to the area they had just been in.

There was now a normal smirking Beast Boy, and a blue cloaked hooded Raven. Her face nothing but an expressionless mask underneath her hood. Both of them were in battle stances, with Beast Boy facing the two archers, and Raven facing the pyrokinetic.

"Hey Rae, do you think they'll go down easy?" Beast Boy asked.

"Only one way to find out." Raven monotonously replied.

And that's when the fight really started.


Raven floated up into the air, and she directed her powers in Hot Spot's direction.

"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"

Two trees were encased in black and lifted off the ground. Raven prepared to throw them at Hot Spot.

Thinking quickly, the pyrokinetic threw several fireballs at Raven. Who moved the trees in front of her to block the attack. The trees were splintered into pieces as steam filled the air around her from the fireballs collision with the wet wood.

Hot Spot flew up by use of his fiery arms to get Raven by surprise. But when the steam cloud dissipated, there was no empath to be found. He started looking around himself trying to locate her.

A blue booted foot connected right with his fiery forehead, sending Hot Spot crashing down into the ground. He lifted his hot head from the melted snow and rubbed it as he looked up. Raven was staring down at him, as if she was merely bored. Her boot smoked where she had hit his head.

"Did you really think I would only stay in one spot?" She monotonously asked.

His response was a stream of fire from his arms. Which made Raven fly up and away into the air to dodge it. Hot Spot took off after her.

Meanwhile, the two archers currently had their hands full with a certain green changeling.

Beast Boy had morphed into a cheetah. And using his high speed, he sprinted right in between the two archers. Making them almost fire their arrows at each other. They barely missed, and the arrows flew off harmlessly into the distance.

Before Speedy could recover from the shock of almost hitting his mentor, Beast Boy appeared in front of him again. This time in the form of a grizzly bear. The bear roared as it brought its clawed hand up and swiped down. Speedy had to raise his bow to block the hit.

On the upside, it saved him from being mauled.

Snap!

On the downside, it broke his bow in two.

"That was my favorite bow!" Speedy shouted as he jumped and kicked the bear on its snout. Beast Boy reared back away from the archer as he rubbed his nose.

Beast Boy then heard a whistle sound behind him, and was too late to avoid the explosive arrow that hit him in the back. The blast sent him flying through the air, and the shock made him morph back into himself as he fell into a pile of snow.

Speedy took a yellow clip from his quiver, and pressed a button on it. It extended into the backup bow. Green Arrow appeared at his side. Both of them were aiming at the pile of snow.

The snow pile blew up, as a green elephant appeared. With a loud angry trumpet, it rushed on to the two archers.

Back to Raven. Who had just appeared out of a portal behind a tree. She had momentarily lost sight of Hot Spot, and was making her way to Beast Boy to help him out.

Suddenly, a wall of flames appeared in front of her. She barely stopped herself in time, but the front of her cloak got singed from the close proximity. The flames turned off, leaving an area of melted snow in its wake. Raven turned around to find her opponent, only to see several fireballs coming towards her face.

She raised a shield in front of her. But at an angle, causing the fireballs to hit it and deflect to another area to her right.

Another set of fireballs appeared from her left, and she again deflected them. As more and more came from the pine trees around her. She deflected them away, while she tried to lock onto where the pyrokinetic was.

Finally, Raven saw through the space between two pine trees to see him flying right past the gap to her left. With a wave of her hand, her black soul self suddenly enveloped the trees Hot Spot was about to pass under and they crashed down, blocking his path.

He made to turn back for more cover, but then those trees behind him fell too. Giving him only five meters of cover. He made to shoot fireballs from the little cover he had.

The trees were enveloped in black and lifted from off the ground. Exposing Hot Spot to Raven. She smirked as she hit him with one of the trees, hurtling him into a boulder.

Hot Spot quickly got up, looking slightly angry at how formidable his opponent actually was. It also didn't help that she actually seemed disinterested for the whole fight. She even yawned into her hand as she floated forward.

"Is that really the best you can do? Robin must be getting desperate if he's sending idiots like you to capture me." Raven said in a monotonous voice.

Hot Spot felt anger course through him at the taunt. He got back up and unleashed a large stream of fire at Raven. Raven countered with a black beam of her soul self. The two attacks hit in he middle, creating a large cloud of smoke.

The two continued to fight each other.

The two archers had somehow managed to catch Beast Boy in an electrical net from their two arrows. And they had been just about to finish him off when they saw the large cloud of smoke appear a few hundred feet to their right.

"Come on! Let's help with the demoness while he's down!" Green Arrow said to Speedy.

Thinking they had the changeling trapped for now, they started to run off to help Hot Spot.

Before they got even ten meters in that direction though, they heard a small explosion from behind them. They both turned to see the electrical net had short circuited. And a green eel was right in the middle of it. The green eel morphed into a mammoth, breaking the net from off it.

Speedy groaned. "Doesn't he know how to stay down or something?" He said as he nocked another arrow.

"We'll just have to find out about that now, won't we." Green Arrow replied as he fired an arrow at the charging mammoth. The piercing arrow opened a gash in its side, but it only served to anger Beast Boy as he plowed down the trees in his way to get to his prey.

Green Arrow jumped out of the way in time.

Speedy wasn't as lucky.

The sound of trees crashing didn't faze the other two combatants in the slightest. As one was using his fiery arms to try and land a hit on the demoness. While the other was making thin shields of her soul self to block his attacks. Hot Spot had given up on ranged attacks, and was now trying to take Raven down with close range combat.

Hot Spot slashed down at Raven's head, only to hit another black shield. He then sliced his other arm sideways, only for Raven to lean back under the attack. He tried going for a leg sweep after that, only for Raven to back flip away from him using the momentum she had when she leaned. Her feet connected with his face again.

In desperation, he tried extending his fiery right arm to hit her again. Only to hit another one of her shields again. Hot Spot was getting frustrated with not landing a hit on her. And his frustration was leading to anger.

"Are you even going to try and fight back!?" He shouted as he tried to stab her with his left arm, only to again get blocked.

Raven shrugged. "Depends. Are you willing to actually try to show some skill in your combat style?" Raven asked.

Hot Spot screamed as he dove forward, his whole body ablaze with his anger. He looked like a miniature comet thanks to his powers. He so wanted to take this demoness down. He so wanted to see the look on her face when her shield failed to protect her from this hit.

Suddenly, he didn't see Raven anymore. All he saw was a field of blackness in front of him. As he went through it, he felt a deep chill enter his body. The chill that symbolized Raven's powers. The cold around him made his body's powers shut off.

Having never felt the cold before, Hot Spot was shocked by how numb his body felt. And he could do nothing as his body plummeted head first out of Raven's portal into a tree. He fell, fully clothed and black skinned again, into the pile of snow at the bottom of the tree.

He didn't rise.

Raven took one check with her senses, and found Hot Spot was out cold. He was fine physically, but he wouldn't be waking up anytime soon. Raven opened her eyes after her check, relieved to have the annoying hero off her back.

Then she heard another sound. The sound of explosions off a few hundred feet to her left. Raven groaned to herself, there was still two more to deal with.

Raven melted into the shadows of the tree next to her.

Green Arrow let loose another arrow at the large green lion in front of him. Blood was covering his right hand from a gash he had on his wrist. He was using his left hand to pull back the string, since his right hand couldn't pull the string back without it slipping. Speedy was nowhere to be seen since the mammoth from before had plowed him into the undergrowth.

The lion morphed into a hummingbird, dodging the arrow, before turning back into a lion again. The lion pounced for the wounded hero. Green Arrow raised his bow, preparing to defend himself.

An arrow made contact with the lion's side. It exploded on contact, sending the surprised lion flying into the pine trees. Green Arrow turned to where the arrow had came from.

Speedy was leaning on a tree, a clear smirk on his face. "Hey old man, need a little help?"

Green Arrow smiled a small smile. "Maybe." He said as he pointed his bow at the pine trees the lion had crashed through.

With that, the two started firing a storm of explosive arrows all over the area. The lion that had crashed through there had morphed back into a dazed Beast Boy. But he heard the hail of green arrows coming his way, and was quick to get up and move as a mountain lion.

The arrows blew up the trees all around him. Making him have to slide and duck under a few that collapsed or sent splinters of wood at him. Craters appeared in the snow all around him, even as he tried to escape the oncoming hail of arrows.

Then, a lucky arrow, the only thing that Beast Boy would ever admit about the incident, exploded beneath him. Sending him rolling into the path of a falling tree. Beast Boy was to shocked from the explosion to try and morph into another animal, as the tree was inches from landing on him.

Speedy and Green Arrow heard one last great crash and ceased in their volley. They still couldn't see all of what they had managed to hit, but for some reason, they felt that the changeling had been taken down. Now where was the demoness?

Their answer came when she came out of the ground in front of the group of trees. Her eyes were blazing white with power, while her hands were covered in her soul self. She started to launch black ethereal balls of energy at the two archers, making it their turn to be on the defensive.

The two heroes eventually manage to start firing arrows back, to which Raven merely started raising small shields in the air in front of her to block them. Electrical arrows shorted out, explosions happened mere feet in front of her, a weird foam fell from the air onto the snow. Yet none of this fazed Raven's concentration.

She continued her barrage of energy. The spheres cutting through the trees behind the two heroes.

One ball knicked Green Arrow on his right side, making him wince in pain as he brought his hand to it. Raven, seeing her opening, put just a little bit more focus on the veteran hero. She charged up a larger sphere of energy to hurtle at him, when an electrical arrow from Speedy hit her arm. The shock from this made Raven scream out in pain and drop to a knee.

Speedy smirked at his mentor, and he started to fire arrows from his bow faster and faster. His quiver was almost empty, but the end was in sight. Raven was forced to put the pain and slight paralysis she felt in her arm aside to melt into a dark portal. She appeared out of the air above where she had been. Yet Speedy found her quickly, and continued to fire a swarm of arrows at her. Forcing Raven to fly around in the air to dodge them.

After a moment, Green Arrow also started to fire at her. Albeit more slowly than the pace Speedy was setting. His right hand, and his right side were aggravating him.

The two of them both tried to land a hit on Raven. All their attention was focused on Raven's random flight pattern, trying to figure out where she would go next.

What they didn't see, was Raven smirking under the hood of her cloak. 'This is almost too easy. I hope Garfield is ready.'

A rustle in a pine tree came from behind Speedy's position. But he was so focused on the demoness in front of him that he didn't hear it.

Suddenly, just as Speedy was aiming for a spot that would have hit Raven out of the air, a large thump came from behind him. It shook the ground with enough force to make him stumble. His last arrow flew way off target. Before he could react, he found himself launched through the air. His body turned around in mid air thanks to the way he had been hit, and he saw a big green tail, belonging to a great green T Rex.

'I thought he was down!' He thought in pain to himself.

He hit hard against a tree, the force of the blow making his backup bow fly from his hands into the trees around him. Speedy slid down it onto the ground, his head slumped forward. He didn't get back up again.

Back where Raven was at, the large green T Rex approached Raven, before it shrinked down into Beast Boy. Raven floated down from the air to his side, and the two looked to Green Arrow. Beast Boy cracked his knuckles, looking ready to go. While Raven's eyes glowed a fierce white. Even after all the heavy fighting they appeared fresh.

Green Arrow was now gripping his right wrist. His right hand was spasming on him. He then looked at his downed protege, seeing he was clearly unable to fight. And then he looked out into the trees to where Hot Spot was likely to be. He realized at that moment he was the last man standing. And he was injured, not good.

He weakly pulled an arrow from his quiver, before nocking it into his bow. He looked up at Beast Boy and Raven.

"If I were you, I'd surrender dude." Beast Boy said to him in a flat voice.

"There's no way you're going to win. You might as well give up and make it easier on us." Raven added to the statement.

Green Arrow's eyes burned with determination. These two were enemies of the Justice League. They had caused mass destruction throughout the universe. He wouldn't let that just go unpunished.

"Never." He said.

Twang!

Suddenly, almost too quickly for the eye to see, Green Arrow raised his bow and let go of the string. The piercing arrow he had notched in his bowstring flew through the air right at Raven. Raven's eyes widened as she saw the arrow coming right for her. She was trying to get her soul shield to form in front of her. But in that slow motion moment, it wasn't forming fast enough...

Before it reached its target, a large green hand appeared in front of her, grabbing the arrow by the shaft just inches away from her chest. The hand clenched around it, breaking it into pieces.

Green Arrow's and Raven's eyes widened. Raven looked to her right at Beast Boy.

He was still in his normal form. But he looked mad. His eyes seemed more cat like than usual. His fangs were now clearly visible. His claws had pierced right through his gloves. And was it just her, or had he grown a couple inches. Either way, he looked… dangerous. And he was glaring right at the veteran member of the Justice League.

'Now he deserves what's coming for him!' The Beast thought inside his mind.

"Big mistake." Beast Boy growled out.

Before Green Arrow could react, Beast Boy was right in front of him. Raven had barely blinked her eyes when he had moved.

Pow!

A lightning quick green punch connected with Green Arrow's jaw. Followed by a punch to his gut from the other hand. Green Arrow bent back, and curled over at the same time from the quick hits.

Before he could even grunt in pain, Beast Boy kneed him in the face again. And then when his body had naturally went up again, he started to punch him in the face over and over again. All within the space of two seconds.

Raven stood in her spot shocked as Beast Boy singlehandedly beat up a member of the Justice League. Her brain was trying to process the speed he was going at, but it was almost impossible. It was like he had combined a cheetah with the strength of a gorilla and was unleashing it on Green Arrow's perfect face.

Pow!

One particular punch sent a tooth flying in slow motion out of Green Arrow's mouth. Blood flew from his mouth with it, and his face shook from the shockwave of the hit.

Green Arrow tried to raise his bow to protect himself after that hit, but Beast Boy suddenly ripped it from his hands. Before Green Arrow could even blink, Beast Boy had broken it in two. The pieces were thrown somewhere else, and Green Arrow stared in shock at the changeling in front of him. That bow had been made from a titanium alloy. And he had broken it with his bare hands.

"Lights out Justice League crap."

Kapow!

Beast Boy delivered a haymaker of such intensity, that it blasted Green Arrow back one hundred yards over the ground. His body connected with a pine tree. He groaned as his body fell to the ground and he mercifully slipped into unconsciousness.

Raven was still standing in her spot. Her face showing she was now calmly watching what had happened. Even though she had just watched her friend beat the crap out of a JL member, she still appeared calm. Stoic.

On the inside though, it was a whole other story.

'Holy Azar! I never knew he could move that fast!' Raven thought.

'Or move so fluidly in his natural form!' Rude said in an impressed voice.

'Or deliver a punch of that intensity!' Brave added on.

'Or look so hot while beating the crap out of our mortal enemies!' Rage shouted.

… the others were silenced.

'What? You have to admit he looked hot while doing that.' Rage said.

The awkward silence from Raven's side continued. In the real world, as she thought about it, the way how Beast Boy had looked so ferocious, had actually been… hot. She blushed slightly underneath her hood as she had no counter reply to what Rage had said.

'Oh look! BB's coming back!' Happy shouted excitedly.

Raven snapped out of her stupor, and saw that Beast Boy was approaching. She thanked Azar that Happy had managed to divert the subject from off of Beast Boy's… whatever. He looked normal again at first, as he seemed to have calmed down somewhat. He was even back to his normal size, and his claws and fangs were hidden. Besides the small one protruding from his mouth. But his face still betrayed all the anger he had to rein in.

"Let's go." He ordered as he walked past her.

Raven tensed up slightly at the harshness in his voice. But then she figured it was probably the fight getting to him, so she put it off. For now, she decided to envelop herself into her soul self and flew off after Beast Boy.

The two of them only took about two minutes getting back to the sight of their pocket home. And Raven thought for a second that he was going to go into it. But then he stopped by the front porch, and lifted up a small square box she hadn't seen on the corner of the porch. It revealed a familiar red button. Which he pressed.

Just like that, the house started to shrink in on itself. The outer walls turned back to the glowing blue they were before. The chimney shrunk back into the roof which was already shrinking into a box form. The front porch pulled itself in as the box got smaller and smaller.

Finally, it was the same box as before. With the small red button on the top of it. Its surface dotted with Cyborg's typical blue lights. It rested in the palm of Beast Boy's hand.

He opened up a compartment on his belt, and placed it in next to his drawing book. He then turned to Raven for the first time since the fight.

"Alright, that fight likely brought a lot of attention here. So we need to move away from here now. Do you have enough energy for that Raven?" He asked.

Raven silently nodded her head. Though she was confused as to why he would think she was tired. Beast Boy nodded his head back to her. "Alright, we can't fly above the trees. So I suggest you stay in your soul bird or whatever you call it since it can phase through objects and the like."

With that, Beast Boy turned around, not even waiting for a reply from Raven. He morphed into a green wolf, and took off pounding south into the Canadian wilderness.

Raven rolled her eyes back in her spot. 'And I thought I was complicated. He's gone from fun, to curious, to serious, to comforting, and back to serious all within the past day. Just how many sides to him are there?'

'Ooh! Ooh! Maybe he has emoticlones just like you Rae Bear!' Happy said.

'DON'T CALL ME THAT!'

'What? It was only a suggestion.' Happy said back.

'Our sister is right though Raven. Maybe it is about time to ask him some questions of our own.' Knowledge said to her.

'Okay, I'll try.' Raven thought to herself.

Raven closed off the connection to her mind, not hearing what Rude said. (It's been like over ten chapters since we suggested it! Do you really expect us to believe that leader bitch will listen to us now!)

Raven did what Beast Boy had strongly suggested and turned into her black soul Raven form. The form gave a loud caw before it took off after the green wolf. She'd ask Beast Boy her questions… hopefully. You never know what could happen after all in the life of a superhero.

...

Back where he had been lying against the tree, Speedy weakly lifted his head. Almost every part of his body was hurting, along with his neck. But he could see his mentor was in bad shape about two hundred feet away, along with Hot Spot. Who was farther away from his mentor.

Speedy looked up at the fading light in the sky, and felt the chill of the air around him at last. Now that the heat of battle had faded from his veins. He shivered as he tried to pull what remained of his heavy clothing around him.

Speedy weakly got up, using his strength to get over to his mentor. He didn't know how, maybe it was stubbornness or pride, maybe it was genuine concern. He managed to limp the short distance to fall down next to him in the snow, and he wrapped the both of them in their heavy clothing. His mentor was cold, and Speedy was afraid of that fact. He would have worried about Hot Spot, but he couldn't even see him now. He hoped he was alright.

With the last of his energy, he fished out his Communicator and pressed a button on it. Sending a distress signal to Titan's Tower. He hoped they got the message soon.

He finally passed out from his injuries next to his mentor. Just as a real winter blizzard started to form on the horizon.


Three hours later

'Don't be too late! Don't be too late! Don't be too late!'

Crunch! Crunch! Crunch!... Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The sound of people flying through the cold air and running on booted feet filled the night. It had been a little over four hours since Speedy had called in. And the evil person was almost begging that they hadn't been stupid enough to engage. Even with the blizzard around the evil person didn't slow down.

Not when they had finally found them. Not when they could have finally captured her. Not when so much was hanging on the line for his plans.

But no, the large group of heroes arrived too late.

The first person they found was Hot Spot. Argent let out a scream at the sight of his unmoving body, and it took Bumblebee having to check his pulse to see it was still there for Argent to finally calm a little. Though that didn't stop the cold tears from falling from her eyes as she tried to rouse her boyfriend.

Then they found Green Arrow and Speedy. Laying side by side with each other. Both of whom were still barely alive. A person pulled Speedy away to tend to him, while the rest gathered around the veteran hero.

When a flash of light appeared in front of his eyes, Speedy weakly opened them. He was expecting the face of his leader.

It was Zatanna.

Robin and the others were trying to wake Green Arrow. Only Zatanna was with Speedy.

'Don't you dare say it was them! Don't you dare say it was them!'

"Who did this?" Zatanna asked.

'Please! They couldn't have gotten away! Not now!'

Speedy was silent for a moment.

"... It was… Beast Boy… and… Raven. They got away… I don't know… where..." He managed to say. Before he passed out again.

… … '...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!' The hidden evil person thought angrily in his mind.


Author's Notes:

Well that went well. I think someone is getting a little frustrated at the end if you ask me.

So down goes Alpha Team. I wonder who will be next? Will frustration drive Zatanna over the edge? What was the deal with Beast Boy? Will Raven finally be able to ask him some questions that she's been wanting to ask? And where will they hide out next?

Till Next Time

Allen