Well, this was a while in the making. About two weeks. I came out with three other one-shots in that time, so feel free to check them out. And we also had our election, which I voted in. I am still laughing at how badly the press messed it up still. Now let's get right to the story!

Also, I started a poll on my profile. Who is your favorite founding Titan? Raven is leading so far, with Beast Boy not far behind.


Mailbox Time!

NATSUXERZA 123456: What happened to the Doom PATROL isn't much of a surprise. What happens to our heroes though, is something I doubt most of you saw coming.

Foamsatmouth: Here is the stuff I promised that would catch you off guard.

Dark Azarathian: Nope, not being paranoid. A tuba is an instrument. No killing. And no final showdown just yet. Still have a ways to go on that. But regardless, I think this will certainly catch you off guard :) Enjoy!

HornedGoddess: Amen to that! I much prefer him like his normal! Sorry this update took a little longer than usual. Enjoy!

Azarath Cat: We'll see, I'm thinking of having someone else interfere. Someone who will likely cause problems. Hope you enjoy the chapter!

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RPGPersona: Host body, only hint I'm giving. If you'very ever had to walk through a whole city, it's pretty far. I'd say between ten to twenty miles if they wanted to cross all of it. Yep, it is him. He and his scarab tend to clash with how to deal with villains. Also, before you enjoy this, you missed one other Titan.

Bluedog197: Have I ever told you how much your reviews make me smile :). Yeah, Beast Boy is in the 'Robin' zone now. It will take a disaster of epic proportions to knock him out of it. And ironically, it's in this chapter! And sorry, no Zatanna. She is out at the moment away from the story. Enjoy!

komentator: That inner voice is simply his Beast. A prival part of him made in Season Three. There is a third party, but right now they are still in the shadows. I do have it planned out though. And I do appreciate the thought, and hope you continue to enjoy! Thanks for reading!


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Updated: November 11, 2016 5:48 P.M.


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Chapter Twenty-One: It's A Trap


Raven hadn't been sure what to expect when they had entered the secret headquarters of the Doom Patrol. Maybe it had been a replica of the Titan's Common Room. Or maybe she had been thinking of a style like that of the Justice League. In other words, grand and heroic.

What she saw though…

'Is that a fuzzy box in the corner, or a large rat.'

She looked at the object through the dim light of the room. There was only one working light, coming from one light bulb on the roof of the ceiling. And she saw as the object suddenly look at her with large wide yellow eyes before it darted away into a large hole in the wall. Raven shuddered on the inside, though her face was blank on the outside.

"Secret headquarters… nice…" She looked to a corner where it looked like mold was mixing with dust to create something ugly. "... very nice…" She added sarcastically.

The room was run down. Hell, it made a haunted house look better. It was as if it had been years since it had been painted, refurbished, or anything related to hygiene really. That might have been since it had been months since it had last been used. Or maybe the Doom Patrol hadn't felt the need to modernize it, and only made attempts to clean it when they stayed in there for mission briefings. And based on what she was seeing, they probably weren't around all that often.

Drip! Drip! Drip!...

The sound of several leaking pipes in the shadows of the room was heard. Which could explain all the mold.

"Looks abandoned to me." Raven said sarcastically.

Beast Boy shrugged beside her, as he looked throughout the room as well. "Doesn't look like anyone has been in here for a long while." He said, almost to himself. Before he looked to Raven.

Again, Raven took a look around the room. Rude and Sloth were already taking notes on some of the things they were going to add to their realm.

'Oh, that in the corner. What is that disgusting thing? Who cares, I want it! I want it! I want it leader bitch!' Rude shouted in her mind.

Raven almost puked as she looked back at the mound of mold again in the corner.

"Please tell me the rest of the Doom Patrol didn't have the same hygienic standards for their headquarters as you did for your room." Raven said in a flat tone.

Beast Boy didn't even laugh or chuckle nervously at her words. "Like I said Rae, it's been months since they were here. And this room wasn't even known to anyone outside the Doom Patrol. I'd be surprised if it did look better than it does now." He said in a casual tone.

'I guess he's got a point. But this would deserve being called a health hazard site in my opinion.' Raven thought with a tint of disgust.

He started to walk forward to the only thing lit up in the room by the only pair of dim lights working up above. A mission console. Surrounded by the darkness of the room.

'The perfect place for an ambush.' Raven thought grimly to herself. But Raven, not wanting to be left in the dark, mainly because of what her eyes were able to catch, walked alongside him to it. Besides, he said no one knew about the place, so it had to be relatively safe. Right?

Beast Boy started to work at the old thing, trying to get it to turn on. While Raven stood behind him, trying to keep her focus on something other than the room itself. Which, unfortunately, left her to only focus on Beast Boy himself.

'You know… he isn't really looking that boyish to me right now.' Raven thought as she examined how serious his face was. Beast Boy merely continued to work at the old controls for the thing as he tried to get it to power up. His tongue coming out now and then to graze at his protruding fang in concentration.

Raven merely continued to stare at him. Her eyes losing focus as she looked closely at his face. 'You know, I think he's actually… wait, that thought did not just cross my mind. There's no way that I just thought that.'

Raven heard a girly giggle inside her mind. And that was when it clicked.

'Affection!' Raven mentally shouted.

There was another girly giggle. 'Nah, not Affection this time. She's too busy drooling over BB to think coherently at the moment.'

Raven blinked under her hood. 'Wait, that was you Happy?' Raven asked.

'Of course.' There was silence after that for a moment, silence Raven wasn't used to. This was normally the part her other emoticlones chatted their heads off.

'Wait, where did the others go? I could have just sworn Rude was there.'

'Oh, Rage finally figured out how Timid might have been hiding the penny. So she and the others are hunting for her in her new dark dreary forest now. But I much prefer this hot handsome sight in front of us than his gift at the moment.' Happy said in a casual, yet dreamy voice.

'... Do I even want to know?'

She didn't receive a reply, and Raven realized she was focused on Beast Boy again. The way his face was set in determination, his eyes glaring down at the machine below him. How a bead of sweat slowly traveled down his forehead, between his eyes, down his nose, only to trail to the side onto that fang that poked from his mouth. Raven didn't seem to realize her mouth had opened wide at the sight.

'Azar… that was…'

'Hot!' Affection's and Happy's voice spoke at the same time.

For once, Raven absolutely agreed.

Suddenly, Raven was kicked out of her thoughts as Beast Boy gave the machine a kick. The old thing whirred for a little bit, before it finally turned on, revealing a holographic screen in the middle of it. Beast Boy turned to Raven, success shining in his eyes. Only to become confused when he found her looking away.

"Hey Rae, I got it working." Beast Boy said obviously to her.

Raven's monotonous reply was shaky and snappy from under her hood. "Good. Now get the information we need so we can get out of here!"

Beast Boy rolled his eyes, as he started to navigate through the files. 'Geeze, what made her so snappy.'

The Beast didn't bother to reply to his master for once, since he knew just why Raven was being the way she was. The Beast was smirking to himself, as he could still notice with Beast Boy's senses all the unnatural heat dancing on Raven's turned away face. He really needed to pay more attention to his senses.

'Master really should pay more attention to his senses. Our mate seems quite hot and bothered now if you ask me.' The Beast said to himself inside Beast Boy's mind. Beast Boy didn't hear him as he was now back in serious

"Computer, bring up Doom Patrol business nine months back up till now." Beast Boy said to the machine. Raven turned around at last to look over his shoulder. Her face still slightly red beneath her hood as she muttered her mantra over and over again to calm herself.

The holographic screen changed and split, showing a web of intertwined images with small bits of data below them. Beast Boy pressed on the furthest one to the left.

"Mission 17, Elastagirl sent to Paris to investigate potential Brotherhood of Evil Hideout. Results… inconclusive. Reported that it was possible, but location of it was unknown." The machine spoke.

"Rita…" Beast Boy pressed on another image, though it was a few more to the right and down in the web.

"Mission 36, Robotman was dispatched to Russia to locate General Immortus and engage. Results… mixed. No sign of the General was found, but a hideout of robots was located and destroyed in a timely manner. No sign of the General was found though."

"Cliff…" Beast Boy pressed on another image, this one he saw sporting what looked like a background of Midway City. Though it was in the middle of the images.

"Mission 67, Negative Man was dispatched back to Midway City to do battle with Shrapnel… Target was detained, and still awaits trials for his many murders in Kansas years previously."

This time, Beast Boy whistled at that. "Way to go Larry. Not what I was looking for, but dude, next time I see you, good job." Beast Boy said, as he continued to try and look through the images for what was likely to be what he needed.

Raven was only thinking one thing behind him. 'Who the hell is Shrapnel?' (A/N, I suggest you guys look him up. He is one badass dude. End A/N)

There was another mission involving Elastagirl in Africa hunting down Madam Rouge. Then one with Robotman in both China and Thailand hunting a gorilla named Mallah. There was even one with Larry and Elastagirl being in Canada for some weird nuclear base of operations. But none were of the thing Beast Boy was trying to find.

In the middle of the images, the missions were piled on top of another, as if things had really gotten serious before the Doom Patrol disappeared. Beast Boy was there now, trying to shuffle through it all to find something involving Midway City.

What Raven found oddly concerning was that she had as of yet to hear one involving Mento.

Finally… on an entry labeled three months and four days ago... "Mission Briefing, Mento gathered Doom Patrol to headquarters to discuss latest mission involving The Brotherhood of Evil."

Beast Boy wasted no time. "Computer, show me what happened that day." He ordered. His line of thinking bring it would have been a report of what happened that day.

It immediately replaced the Web of images with that of a familiar person, though it had a background of a wall behind him this time. He was also without the helmet. Making the leader of the Doom Patrol look like the normal Steve Dayton of the world.

Beast Boy was slightly confused by it. But figured it would show the attack in the video. "Alright Rae, if my guess is correct, the video will show us the attack." Beast Boy pressed a command at the bottom of the hologram, and it started to play. A bad feeling came into Raven's gut as she watched.

"Doom Patrol, I have some good news, and some bad news for you all." The recording of Mento said in an authoritative tone. Silence greeted him for a moment.

"Ever since Beast Boy left, and the Brotherhood went on the run, we have been trying to figure out where they have been hiding out. And after three years of searching, three years of combing the planet inch by inch for their foul presence, I believe we have finally found them."

A bored voice spoke from offscreen. "If that's the good news, I wonder what the bad news could possibly be."

Beast Boy looked intently at the screen. 'Was the headquarters compromised? Were they in the middle of an attack? What?!'

"The bad news, is that we need to pack our bags and insect repellant for the long haul. The location of the base… map of the world appears next to him, with a blinking red dot right in the smack dab of…"

Beast Boy blinked. That couldn't be right. It was right in…

"The Amazon Jungle. In South America." Mento finished.

Beast Boy blinked. A pin could have dropped in the room for all the good it would have done. 'No, that isn't possible! The probe told me to come here! Not South America!'

"I expect you all here tomorrow at 06:00 to board the Doom Jet. We are finally on our way to capturing the Brain once and for all. Doom Patrol, dismissed!" And just like that, the video ended. And the web of images from before replaced the authoritative image from before.

"No! That can't be all there is! They had to have been attacked! They had to be!" Beast Boy shouted in anger, as he tried to look through the data being presented to him for something after that date.

Raven was standing still behind him, her face calm. Yet her insides were burning something awful as she clicked together the things in her mind. She didn't need Beast Boy's rising panic to tell her what was wrong. She had seen it from the start.

Beast Boy did manage to find one last data entry after the briefing. And he clicked on it immediately, expecting it to be from Midway City. But then Mento's familiar image appeared again, only it was battered now. And he was wearing his normal helmet that had a few dents in it. It was as if he had just lost a fight.

But there was no wall behind him, only jungle. He wasn't anywhere close to the Estate.

"Beast Boy, this locator pod has found you and you know what it means."

It was then that Beast Boy realized it. Even as the short recording finished itself. This was the original recording Mento had meant to send to him.

"Our last location was in the Amazon jungle. You should begin your search there. Beast Boy, you know what must be done. I'm counting on you." The image of Mento looked around him for a quick second after that, before he bent over the probe he had just programmed.

The image disappeared.

The mission console gave one last whir of life, before it shut down. It's power supply having been drained. But the room was silent, dead silent.

'Raven was right… she was… oh no, she was freaking right! I was an idiot! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid idiot!' He thought in panic to himself.

'Master! What did I tell you!?' The Beast roared inside his mind.

Raven sensed his emotions suddenly spiking, the calm facade he had tried to keep up from before was vanishing under the onslaught of panic that consumed him. "Gar, what's wrong?" She asked, even though she already had a feeling in her gut. Along with her own theory.

Beast Boy looked to her, his eyes wide and his mouth a slur of words. "Um… er… uh…"

And then he suddenly straightened. As the realization dawned on him.

"We need to move Rae! Now!" He shouted to her as he grabbed her hand and pulled her back into the darkness towards the door.

"Garfield! What's going on!?" Raven asked again in her monotonous tone back to him.

"No time Rae! We need to get out of here!" He shouted back as he pulled her floating body towards the door.

"Was I right then?! Was that probe not sent from Mento?!" She asked. Even as he opened the door back to the living room and rushed the two of them out.

That was when he stopped dead in his tracks, as he suddenly smelled two presences before he saw them. One smelled of the jungle, and was very distinctly feminine. While the other was that of a sour, bitter odor that reeked of anger. He didn't recognize the first one, but he very clearly recognized the second one. Since it had punched him right in the nose once before.

Beast Boy looked to his right, and Raven looked with him. "You were right Rae." He said to her. As they both saw, and recognized the smirking and sneering forms of a woman. Who was dressed in an ancient golden armor with a golden whip lasso and sword in her hands, and a shield on her back. Along with that of the boy who had first attacked the Tower so long ago.

"That probe was from Mento, but they found it first." Beast Boy said in a grim tone of voice, as he got into a defensive position beside Raven.

"Get them!"

Wonder Woman and Superboy sprang forward, their eyes intent on their prize.

And that was when the fight started.


You'd think, it being two on two, it would have been a fair fight.

Wrong. Dead wrong.

Beast Boy instantly catapulted to a side, pushing him and Raven apart as Wonder Woman and Superboy passed right through where they had been. The two heroes stopped just short of the door though, and turned to face their respective targets.

Beast Boy groaned.

'Seriously? I have to face him!' He thought as Superboy locked eyes with him.

"Well little changeling, are you going to make this easy, or difficult." Superboy asked as he cracked his knuckles.

Beast Boy shifted into a gorilla and roared. Superboy's sneer shifted into a smirk.

"That's what I wanted to hear." Was all he said, before he launched himself into Beast Boy. Sending the two of them sprawling across the room as they both punched at each other in a fit of rage.

Raven, after locking eyes with her target, had already tried ripping the bookcase that hid the door off its hinges onto the Leaguer. But unfortunately, Wonder Woman had grabbed it before it fell on her, and sent it launching right at Raven. Raven, unprepared for her short tactic failing, was slammed by the bookcase and sent flying back into the modern kitchen where she fell behind a counter.

Wonder Woman approached the kitchen, even though Raven was hidden by a counter. "Surely you're not down already demoness. I was hoping after what you did to Oliver you would actually put up more of a challenge."

Suddenly, a toaster was encased in black, and sent at Wonder Woman. Who smiled as she used her sword to slice it in half. It was followed by a large knife, which she swiped out of the air with her whip. Then a large fridge, which she simply front flipped over and landed on the ground to look up again.

The freezer was wide open, like the maw of a great beast, and it was coming right at her. Yet Wonder Woman simply raised her sword in front of her and sliced it down the middle, causing both sides to split and pass her. She then got up and continued to move forward.

Several more items came after that, like cutting boards, cabinets, etc. as Wonder Woman made her way closer and closer. She either used her sword, or her whip to get them out of the way.

Finally tired of the pitiful play, she used her golden lasso to slice the counter in two. The pieces fell to either side, revealing… nothing?

Whack!

Before Wonder Woman could recover from the shock of finding nothing, a very large book hit her head from behind. Sending the heroine into the tiled ground. She looked back up with a snarl on her face, and saw Raven floating in front of a bookcase behind her. With all of its books circling around her. She then looked down at the book that hit her.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

"Seriously, a book on magic?" Wonder Woman asked in a deadpan.

Raven simply shrugged. "It was the largest book I saw." She said, also deadpan, before she started sending book after book at the heroine.

Wonder Woman was now on the defensive as she put her whip away and took the round shield from off her back to protect herself.

On the other side of the room, where the couches and TV were, Superboy lifted up a rather large family couch, before he used it as a bat on Beast Boy who was in his rhino form. The rhino went flying through the air, and crashed into a massage chair.

It shook its head, before it morphed into a sasquatch and grabbed the squashed chair and sent it flying at Superboy. Who then used his large bat to hit it right back at Beast Boy. His eyes widening at the incoming projectile.

'Why did I even do that?!'

'Beats me master. You're the one who lost to him before.' The Beast managed to say before the object hit Beast Boy and sent him flying behind the TV. Superboy gave a weak chuckle.

"Wow, it's like you've gotten even weaker since last time." Superboy taunted as he approached with the couch in tow.

The TV came flying right at him, and he simply scowled as he prepared to send it flying back again. When a small slithery object suddenly jumped from behind it faster than he could blink and attached itself to his arm. This distracted Superboy, who tried to see what the green thing was, and he ended up missing the TV with the couch.

Superboy was sent flying back into a wall, and the couch that had been in his hands fell to the floor. He groaned as he tried to get up, but found that one of his arms wasn't obeying him. He opened his eyes to look at it. And saw a rather large green snake wrapped around it.

Beast Boy, as a boa constrictor, hissed up at Superboy. And before he could make a move to tear the snake off, it used its massive strength… to make Superboy punch himself in the face.

Over, and over, and over again.

Punch!

'Why you hitting yourself?!'

Punch!

'Why you hitting yourself?!'

Hard Punch!

'Why you hitting yourself?!' Beast Boy and the Beast thought at the same time. Even as that one particularly hard punch actually broke Superboy's nose.

'Payback never felt so good!'

Superboy growled through the blood now leaking from his nose, and it took a few more times of him punching himself in the face before he finally managed to grab the snake around the neck. The snake instantly let go, and Superboy raised it to his face.

A few seconds before that, after knocking a collection of Edgar Allan Poe away with her shield, Wonder Woman finally had enough. As she put her sword back to her hip and took the lasso out again.

One second, Raven had been launching an Inheritance novel at Wonder Woman. The next, she suddenly had a tight gold rope wrapped around her ankle. And before she could even blink, she was suddenly tugged through the air into a wall.

Slam!

Then she was tugged through the air into a bookcase.

Thunk!... Thump! Thump! Thump!...

Then she was finally slammed down hard into the ground hard.

KaThump!

Raven groaned in pain, as Wonder Woman appeared in her vision above her. She lifted Raven by her hood with one hand, while she raised her shield with the other ready to knock out the demoness.

Wonder Woman and Superboy spoke at the same time. "Any last words demoness/changeling?"

Raven focused on her targets blazing blue eyes. Whilst Beast Boy did the same for Superboy's light blue ones. There was silence for the space of three seconds.

And then the two smirked.

"Yes, I do... Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven shouted.

Wonder Woman disappeared into a portal beneath her feet with a gasp of surprise. She came crashing down… right in the middle of the pile of dusty mold in the Doom Patrol Headquarters.

If a snake could smirk, then Beast Boy the Boa Constrictor sure was. And before Superboy could react, he was holding a very big, very mean looking, 3-4 meter long, extremely dangerous electric eel.

'Yeah, next time I'll start out like this!' Beast Boy thought as he activated the electroplagues in his electric organs. Allowing the sodium to flow through their ion channels to produce the mother of all hurts.

Electricity.

"YEAHOW!OWOWOWOWOWOWOW!OWWWWWWWW!" Superboy exclaimed as he felt a wild charge of electricity as strong as a Pikachu's coursing through his frame. Beast Boy allowed the Beast to add his energy to the charge, allowing him to sustain it for far longer than what he normally could have alone. If Superboy didn't know the effects of having 2000 volts of electricity coursing through his body before, then he sure did now.

It took only five seconds, but Beast Boy finally stopped as Superboy let go of him. A very dazed expression on his face as he started to stumble around like an idiot.

"Doiiiiiii…" Superboy mumbled out, as a line of drool fell from his mouth. He stumbled around a little more, before he fell face down…

Onto his broken nose.

'Now that has gotta hurt!' Beast Boy thought. He would have celebrated the feat, if he wasn't feeling so tired from emitting so much energy. Or if their lives still weren't in danger and all that. He was lucky to have adrenaline still fueling him as he turned to Raven to see that she was now next to him.

"Now what Gar?" She asked. Even as a very loud, angry, and disgusted scream came from the Doom Patrol Headquarters.

"By Zeus, what is this foul stuff!"

Beast Boy looked to the ground, where Superboy was starting to groan. He was down, but certainly not out.

"Now Rae, is when we start running."

Just like that, Beast Boy morphed into a parrot, and Raven floated off the ground as they flew away from the scene of the fight. Going back into the hall they had entered in before to escape.

Three seconds later, the closed titanium door to the Doom Patrol Headquarters burst off its hinges. Wonder Woman, now covered in some slimy green and gray gunk, stormed out with a look of murder on her face. By this time, Superboy was on his hands and knees, trying to get back up.

"Get up! Can't you see they're getting away you fool!?" Wonder Woman shouted at him.

He tried to get back up, but got dizzy and fell onto his back. "I didn't mean to steal the cookies mama. I promise I won't do it again..." Superboy said in a dazed tone of voice before he started to suck on his thumb on the ground.

Wonder Woman scowled angrily at him, before she raised a communicator to her lips.

"Jaimes! Where in the Gods are they now!"

"They're a couple hallways away from you Diana. But they're following a different path than the way they came in. I'm trying to predict their path… but Kori and John are out of position to intercept the two together." Jaime's steady, yet nervous tone replied.

"By the gods, are all men this incompetently stupid!"

"Says the woman who just got put through the largest, most disgusting pile of mold I've ever seen in my life." Jaime's cocky tone came over the Communicator. Before a click cane at the other end.

"AUGH!"

Today was not her day. As Wonder Woman used her lasso to destroy a couch that had survived the fight before.

Luckily for her though, a figure hidden in the shadows decided to act, as she used her powers to absorb herself into the granite wall behind her. It seemed like it was finally her time to shine.


Beast Boy and Raven were flying down a random hallway, making their way down a different path than before. "Squawk! If this was a trap for us, I'd bet they'd have reinforcements back the way we originally came." Beast Boy said in a parroty voice behind Raven.

"You think?! How about a different way out then master genius!" She sarcastically replied over her shoulder.

'Hey leader bitch! We captured Timid!" Rude's voice sounded inside her mind.

'Erm… mmmmh!' A gagged voice tried to say.

'Can't you tell we're running for our lives at the moment!?' Raven angrily shouted to her mind. She could barely hear Affection and Happy in the background bringing the rest of her emoticlones up to date. And luckily, they decided to not try and ruin Raven's concentration after that.

They flew for a little bit. "Left!" Beast Boy suddenly squawked at a intersection.

The two turned down that hall and traveled a little bit. "Are you sure you're leading us the right way this time Beast Boy?" Raven asked.

"Squawk! Of course Rae! Mento had me learn how to get to the emergency exit that leads out of the city in case the manor were to ever be attacked! He had me do it from every room in the manor at least a dozen times!" Beast Boy parroted.

"And you're sure they don't know about it? Just like how you were sure they didn't know about the headquarters." Raven blandly asked.

If a parrot could scowl, than this one was. "Right!" He ordered, instead of answering.

The two turned down another hallway. "Well Rae, it's either that, or we fight our way back through a demigoddess, a testosterone filled Kryptonian, and whatever else might be coming our way."

A large crash, like a wall exploding, happened several hallways behind them. Along with an enraged howl of absolute rage that sounded familiar. "Your choice." He said, as the two continued to fly on. Raven decided to continue on with him.

They came to another intersection, and were about to go through it when Beast Boy suddenly flew in front of her and morphed into himself, forcing Raven to stop. Good thing to, since a red tornado suddenly appeared from the corridor to their left. Beast Boy felt the hairs on his head moving in the direction of the tornado with how close he was. He peered around the corner of his eyes down the hall.

"Raven! Send a blast down the middle of the left hallway!" He yelled back to her.

Raven's eyes glowed white at his words. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"

The red tornado was suddenly blocked by a tidal wave of black power, and a loud 'oof' was heard as it collided with a large form at the other side of it.

"Now right!" Beast Boy yelled to Raven as he ran down that hallway. Raven followed along behind him.

The red man who fired the tornado from before got up off the ground in time to see the two targets disappear around a left corner. He raised a communicator to his voice box.

"The demoness and the changeling slipped past me. I was unable to catch them by surprise." The red android said into it.

"Do not fear friend Red Tornado. For I am coming up on their position as we speak." A growling voice came through the other end. Red Tornado remained emotionless at her outburst.

'It seems like humans and aliens are both capable of holding grudges. I will have to remember that in the future.' He made a mental note to himself.

Beast Boy and Raven rounded another corner, when Beast Boy saw it. It was that same blonde streak he had seen before. His eyes went in the direction of the intersection they had just went through. But he saw nothing again.

Beast Boy frowned to himself as he kept on flying behind Raven in his normal form. 'Why do I keep on seeing it? I thought I had finally gotten over her… didn't I?'

"Straight!" He yelled to Raven.

They had went straight through another intersection when he suddenly saw it again. And this time he looked immediately as he noticed it, and saw the full head of blonde hair disappear around a corner.

Beast Boy came to a dead and full stop.

Raven kept on going in front of him, unaware that he had stopped, and he suddenly felt conflicted. 'There's no way… I thought she was turned to stone... how could she be here?'

'Master! Our mate is getting farther away! We need to get her to safety!'

Indeed, Raven was almost to the part of the hallway where it only turned left. She would be out of sight soon if he didn't do anything. But Beast Boy didn't hear the Beast this time, for he was too focused on what he had seen.

'There's a chance that I can be with her again. I could have my best friend back. I could be happy again. I could have her understand me… the real me. I wouldn't have to try and find someone else again...'

Raven disappeared around the corner. And Beast Boy turned to the right, to follow what he had seen.

The camera in the ceiling saw the two friends separate.


Beast Boy ran to the hallway where he had seen the streak of blonde, his heart thumping in his chest. He got to the hallway and looked down it, and saw her body disappearing around a corner.

'Master! What in the name of the animal kingdom are you doing!? Don't you realize that this is a trap too!?' The Beast shouted incredulously inside his mind. Almost unable to believe what his host was doing.

'She's alive! She's actually alive!' Beast Boy thought with joy as he chased after her.

Beast Boy rounded a corner, ran up a series of steps, and passed another few corners, when he saw her stop. She looked in his direction, her blue shining eyes seeming to look right at him, before entering a room.

As he got closer, he realized it was his room. And that it had been her face.

'Master! Master! MASTER!' The Beast roared inside his mind. But he took no note of it. For he was too filled with joy.

'It is her! It is Terra! She's alive! And she isn't stone anymore! Oh happy day!'

The danger that was coming his way was forgotten, along with the howls of the Beast. The conflict of the last few weeks was forgotten. Everything had been forgotten.

For he had Terra again…

He entered the room, his face expressing nothing but happiness. But there was no cameras in the room, only out in the hallway. Precisely what the perpetrator had wanted, as he closed the door behind him.


The person watching from the cameras frowned to himself as he saw the changeling disappear into the room. And see the empath stop at an intersection with a confused look on her face. He could see that the team was closing in around her, so she was as good as captured. What he couldn't see though, was where the changeling was now.

'I better go make sure he isn't trying to escape through that room.' Jaimes thought to himself, as he allowed his uniform to grow around his body and let his wings out to fly out of the room.


Raven had finally stopped flying forward as she came to an intersection. Her eyes narrowed confusedly as she heard no voice behind her directing the way.

"Garfield, which way?" She asked over her shoulder. She got no response.

"Gar, are we lost again?" She said through gritted teeth.

'Um… Raven.' Knowledge said in her mind.

"Damn it Gar! Now isn't the time to be silent!" Raven yelled as she turned around. "Just answer the question, or by Azar, I'll…"

That was when Raven finally realized there was no one behind her. Her eyes widened at the sight.

"Gar… Gar!" She shouted down the hallway. She got silence as a response.

'We were trying to tell you Raven. Honest. But you didn't listen to us.' Knowledge said in her mind.

'Where did he go!?' She frantically asked her emoticlone.

'We don't know Raven. The way this house was made, our physic abilities can't look through all the layers to find him. He could be anywhere now.' Wisdom said a little frantically.

'Then we have to find him! We have to!' Raven thought as she tried to fly back down the corridor.

Kaboom!

Something hit her in the back, and Raven's eyes widened as a small explosion sent her reeling into a wall. She impacted with it and fell back to the hardwood floor. She groaned as she got back up, and turned to face the direction where she had been hit from.

Nothing could have prepared her for the sight she saw. Her jaw went slack under her hood, as her opponent prepared another green star bolt in her hand.

"Why hello old friend Raven. Are you ready to do the meeting of your maker?" Starfire asked, her eyes glowing green with her rage.

Before Raven could even say anything, Starfire was sending a barrage of starbolts at her. And she was forced on the defensive.


The door closed behind Beast Boy, as he ran towards the girl he liked. A girl that was so easy for him to like. The girl that was everything he thought he liked.

His arms were stretched wide, to embrace her. Just as he had always imagined.

She turned around, and Beast Boy saw her spreading her arms wide too. As if she was going to embrace him too. Beast Boy felt so happy…

And then he saw her glowing yellow eyes.

Slam!

Before he knew it, a large rock that had been in the corner of the room slammed into his side. He cried out in pain as the force of impact sent him flying across his carpeted floor into a corner filled with his old toys. All of which fell on top of him.

Beast Boy groaned as he dug himself out of it. All the while she calmly looked at him, not letting anything show in her face. "Terra, I thought-" Beast Boy had started to say.

Slam!

Again, the large rock appeared from nowhere. Sending him flying into his bunk bed.

Crack!

And breaking it into pieces.

He had splinters in his hands and arms. And he felt the Beast in him clawing at his control. Yet he was too much in shock at the moment for the Beast to make any headway.

"What the hell Terra! I'm not the enemy here! Why are you attacking me! I thought you were my friend!" He yelled at her emotionless face.

She didn't respond though, as her rock broke into pieces beside her. And then her eyes glowed yellow again, before the pieces flew at Beast Boy. The impacts were too sickening to describe.

"Ow! Ow! Ow! Terra! Ow! Stop!"

Beast Boy tried to protect his head with his arms, letting the rest of his body take the blow. "Terra, this isn't you! You have to snap out of it! Can't you tell you're hurting me!?" He yelled at her with a voice filled with pain and sadness.

'Master, we have to leave! She's beyond saving! We need to get back to our mate!'

'Shut up! Just shut up! You don't know what you're saying! I saved her before! I can save her again!' Beast Boy internally yelled.

Then he got hit in the head, the rock slipping between a gap in his arms. Beast Boy stopped thinking as the hit and all the pain he was feeling caused him slump onto the ground.

'Why?' Was the last thing he thought, before he passed out. Bloody and unconscious.

The blonde haired, blue eyed girl approached him at last. Her hand briefly traveling over the bump on his head, to make sure he was out. 'He is down. Your orders master?'

A voice whispered in her mind. 'He has been a thorn in my side for too long. This pathetic fool has delayed the grand plan far longer than I even thought possible… if only I could channel the power he holds in his veins… but sadly, we only need the girl…'

'Kill him.' The voice finished, before it disappeared.

Terra moved to do so, combining all the rocks around her back into their large form. She made to start hovering it up over Beast Boy…

Slam! Thud!

The door slammed open, and fell to the ground. Causing Terra to gasp in shock, and make the rock fall to the ground by Beast Boy. She turned to see who had entered the room, and saw Blue Beetle with his sonic cannon out. But when he saw her, he relaxed his arm.

"Way to go Terra, you actually captured him. Good work." He said, before he came close and grabbed Beast Boy around the collar.

"Did you have to beat him up this badly though? Now we have to treat his injuries so he doesn't die on us." He said to her still form as he looked closely at his injuries.

His eyes briefly became puzzled, before he scowled. "No, we will not let him die!" He said to himself.

"He forced my hand. He kept on trying to get to the vents. So I had to stop him." Terra easily lied.

Blue Beetle shrugged at that. "Well, Diana is going to finally have something to be happy about." He said, as he carried the unconscious Beast Boy with him out of the room. Leaving the silently seething girl behind him.

'I failed master.'

'Don't worry my dear. I am sure he won't last what Diana and the others will put him through. He will die eventually, and when he does, I will have what I need to enact the grand scheme.' The voice said, before it started to laugh.


Raven groaned as she got on her hands and knees. She had no clue where she was now. All she felt was pain everywhere on her body. Her head was pounding. Her legs felt bruised, and her back felt burnt from where a particularly strong starbolt had burned through the material.

And by the way her right arm felt, it was likely to be broken. Great. Just great.

"Get up!" A voice above her shouted.

Raven didn't comply. And a orange hand gripped her by the hood, lifting her up into the air. The other hand punched her in the gut.

"When I say do the getting up, I mean! Get! Up!" Starfire shouted in rage, even as she punched her in the gut again.

Raven heaved from the force of the blow, and before she could do anything, she was thrown down the hall again. Her left arm connected with the hard wood, and Raven internally screamed as she felt the bone in her upper arm break.

"Did you really think you would get away with it friend?! Trying to twist my fiance to your demonic desires! That he would actually fall for someone as evil and ugly as you!" Starfire said in a cold tone of voice as she floated forward, another starbolt forming in her hands.

'What the hell is she talking about!? Twist her fiance to my desires? What the hell does she mean!?'

Her emoticlones stayed quiet. For they were too shocked by what their former friend said.

'If she really thinks we would ever go for boring obsessive Robin, then she has to be the dumbest bitch in the entire galaxy of bitches!' Rude shouted angrily to the others.

Raven weakly looked up at her approaching form. And saw what looked like two more figures appear behind her. One a metallic red man, and the other an enraged woman. Her lasso swinging around in front of her.

There was no Garfield to save her. She hadn't found him. And she was about to lose and be captured… unless...

A tear fell from her violet eye, as she looked back down to the floor.

Unless she left him behind.

'I'm sorry Gar.'

Just as the three were about to converge on Raven, her black soul self entombed her body. And it disappeared into the floor beneath them.

Raven made her escape, even as she heard Wonder Woman shout in fury up above. She knew she had no other choice. That she wasn't going to be very capable in finding him with how injured she was. She had to find somewhere to hide and recuperate.

Yet she couldn't help but feel guilty at leaving him behind. As her soul self took her away from the losing battle up above.


Author's Notes:

I have nothing to say. Except I'm sorry. I hope you will all be patient for the next chapter when I make everything clear.

Till Next Time

Allen