Time for Chapter Four (Applause). I changed the rating because I just wasn't comfortable with writing gory scenes, but don't worry, it won't take away from the action.

Disclaimer:I don't own Teen Titans. But this story is all mine. Muwahahahahahahahaha!

Chapter Four

A few days later, Beast Boy felt back to normal. Gary flipped on his walkie as he watched Beast Boy wolf down a bowl of Fruit Loops.

"This is Gary," he said. "Come in, Ralek. Are you there?"

"Ya man," he heard Ralek answer. "Report."

"Looks like Beast Boy's back to normal. He hasn't barfed in 24 hours and he's eating again."

"Good. Return to base, then I can show you how to use the 'Controls'."

"Awesome. Gary out." Gary turned and flew off over the city until he reached the docks. he set down right on the edge of the water at an old warehouse (Boy, Ralek sure likes his warehouses doesn't he?). He walked inside, down a hallway, and threw a door. At the end of a large room stood Ralek, over a control panel. Ralek turned as Gary walked forward.

"Check it out," he said eagerly as Gary walked up. "I got it all set up in only a few days."

"What is it?" asked Gary.

"It's the key to making sure Beast Boy transforms."

"Are you gonna tell me what the doctor did while I was puking now?"

"Yep. He removed a minuscule part of Beast Boy's brain. This part will allow me to control his emotions, which I will then use to make him so mad that he'll transform!" Ralek pointed to the control panel, where Gary noticed were several dials.

"See? This dial controls happiness, this one sadness, this one fear, this one anger, and so on." The dials all had settings of one to ten.

Gary looked at the dials, grinning. "Well, what're we waiting for?!" he asked. He reached for the anger dial, but Ralek stopped him.

"Hold it there, man! To much of an emotional outburst could drive him insane, and then what? You need to do this very carefully and slowly."

"Got it," Gry answered. He sat down in a chair and turned on the viewscreen. It showed a close view of whatever was happening to Beast Boy at the moment, through Beast Boy's eyes. They watched as Beast Boy picked up a spoonful of fruit loops and shoved it right under the screen, presumably into his mouth.

"Let's see," Gary said thoughtfully. He stared down at the dials. All of them were on zero except fot happiness, which was at five. He grabbed the dial and switched to zero. On the screen Beast Boy's eating slowed down as his happiness left, but it sped back up when the happiness dial went back to five. "What happened?" Gary asked angrily.

"People don't just feel emotion at random, there's a reason they feel that way," Ralek explained, as if explaining basic math to a six-year-old. "If Beast Boy's happy and you turn the happiness off, then he'll just remember why he was happy and it'll go back. Same for when your making him feel stuff. If your going to make him feel anger then there has to be a reason behind it that he'll understand, like if he's in a fight. Then you can turn on his anger and it'll be directed at the thing that has the potential to make him mad. Understand?"

Gary stared at Ralek for a full minute before answering. "What, did you write books on the subject?" he asked sarcastically.

"No," Ralek answered. "But you need to know a lot about the human mind if you want to control the universe."

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Meanwhile back at the Tower...

"So, have you found out anything yet?" Beast Boy asked Robin.

"No," Robin answered. "According to this web site, their are something like a gazillion different ways an average human being can pick up a virus in one day. I think we'll have to find out what happened to you yesterday by looking at it at another angle. Who did you say gave you the needle?"

"Doctor Winters," Beast Boy answered, making a face. He thought the doctor hadn't been entirely gentle when administering the shot.

"Hmm," Robin said thoughtfully. "I talked to Doctor Winters before, and he definetely wasn't the guy who answered your communicator. But it didn't sound like Gary or Ralek either. To bad we don't know the names of any witnesses."

"You'de think one of them would have been smart enough to call the Titans," Beast Boy grumbled.

"Hey, Beast Boy!" Cyborgs voice rang through the Tower. "Let's see if a few days of being bedridden have made you any easier to beat at video games!"

"You're on Cyborg! I studied gameing books while I was sick, so you're dead!" Beast Boy raced off to battle with Cyborg while Robin tried to track down Gary and Ralek. Suddenly, the alarm rang. Robin immediatly dropped what he was doing and checked it out.

"If it's Gary and Ralek again, I'm gonna nail 'em," snarled Beast Boy, annoyed that the video games had to be put on hold.

"It's Plasmus," Robin answered as the others walked in. "Broke into a chemical plant. Titans, Go!"

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"So, what's happening?" asked Ralek as he walked into the control room.

"Looks like there gonna go after a bad guy," Gary answered. "This could prove to be a good opportunity to test out this machine."

"Good," Ralek said. "Just be careful. Remember, if you give him an overdose of emotion, he might go nuts."

Gary swiveled around in his chair to stare at Ralek. "You're making it sound like we're giving him a drug!" he said.

"You got a better way to put it?" Ralek snapped. "I'd better stay here and make sure you do it right."

"Thanks, dad," grumbled Gary.

"Don't get smart bub, or I'll clobber you when this is over."

Chapter Four was boring, I know, but I'll make up for it with a nice cool fight with Plasmus!