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Chapter 2: Loss of Powers Pt. 2Drain entered the top floor from the elevator after going down a while earlier. He looked around, seeing if there was anybody in sight, other than Starfire and Terra. Since he could not see anyone from where he was from, he decided to take a left towards Raven's room.
Beast Boy entered the game room from the other side of the tower and noticed Starfire and Terra sitting on the couch. He approached them, noticing that neither of them looked very happy. "Terra! Why the long face?"
Terra only stared at him for a few seconds. Her eyes filled with tears, but she refused to cry. Then she finally spilled it. "Drain stole my powers, BB…" Terra got up and buried her face in her hands, still holding in her tears.
He rolled his eyes. "That's his name? Drain? Talk about lame!" He paused. "He took your powers? That's horrible!" Beast Boy gave her a hug. "Well, he hasn't stolen my powers yet, so maybe I can get your powers back."
"Ahem," coughed Starfire.
He glanced at her. "Oh, and yours, too." He put his hands on Terra's shoulders. "Don't worry. You'll have your powers back in no time." He paused again. "And yours too, Starfire."
Robin then entered the room. He noticed the three of them near the couch, and finally stepped closer to them. He sighed, knowing that he had to admit his defeat. "Did Drain steal your powers, too?" he asked sadly.
Starfire knew something was wrong by the look on his face, so she ran up to him. "Robin! Please do not say that Drain has stolen your abilities to do martial arts and your other abilities! He did not!" Robin's head hung low. She spoke again. "Did he?"
He could not keep eye contact with her. He instead hung his head towards his right. "I'm afraid he has, Star. There's nothing we can do now." He sighed. "I guess you can steal knowledge…"
Beast Boy approached him. "Hey! Just 'cause you lost your powers doesn't mean that I have, too!"
Robin blushed a little from embarrassment, realizing what he had said. "Oh. Sorry, Beast Boy." He rubbed his neck, trying to think of something else to say that somewhat related to the issue with Drain. "Uh, do you know anything on Cyborg and Raven?"
Beast Boy shook his head. "No. I'll call Cy, see how he's doing." He took out his Titans communicator and called Cyborg. "Cyborg. You there? Where are you?"
"I'm on the first floor. Have you found him yet?" Cyborg responded.
"No, but he got Robin and Terra."
"Aw, man! Now we have to retrieve their powers!" He thought for a moment, then a more concerned look appeared on his face. "What about Raven? Is she okay?"
"Haven't heard from her."
The four Titans on the top floor had their backs to the couch while Drain started to sneak up behind Beast Boy. He was unsuspected and quiet, so…
"But I'll call her…"Beast Boystarted as Drain grabbed him and dashed into the elevator.
"Agh! He got me! He got me!" screamed Beast Boy, joking ever so slightly, as he was being dragged to the elevator.
The doors closed before Robin, Starfire, and Terra could attempt to stop him.
"Beast Boy! No!" cried Terra.
Cyborg was on his way to the second floor. But since the elevator was being used, he decided to take the stairs.
While Drain and Beast Boy were in the elevator, Beast Boy turned into a snake and slithered out of Drain's clutches.
"You think you're so clever, turning into a smaller animal so you could escape," Drain started. "But I can also step on you when you land on the floor."
Beast Boy turned back into his human self. "But I can also turn back into a larger animal, or myself. You'll never be able to catch me!"
"Well, we'll just see about that…" Drain took out his needle, but Beast Boy turned into a fly and flew around the elevator. Drain was about to slap him with his hands, but BB turned into a bee and flew quickly to sting him.
"Ouch! You're going to pay for that!" he shouted.
The elevator door opened to the first floor. Beast Boy turned into a cheetah and ran out of the elevator. Drain, since he could run really quickly, was close behind him. He tackled Beast Boy, and they started to roll on the floor. Drain took out a needle and stuck it in his cheetah leg. As the powers drained, he turned into his normal self. While his powers were draining, his skin seemed to turn less green.
When the draining was complete, Drain stood up, leaving Beast Boy on the floor. "Have fun, Gar Logan." He left for the elevator.
Beast Boysat upon the floor, his hand rubbing on his forehead. He looked VERY different. His skin was slightly tanned, yet it was not green anymore. He had brown hair, and the spiked tooth that he had hanging outside his mouth wasn't spiked and sticking out anymore. His ears weren't spiked anymore, either.
Cyborg came down the stairs, finding Beast Boy still on the floor. He could not recognize him. "Yo, who are you, and what are you doing in Titans' Tower?" he asked.
Beast Boy got up, unaware of his external change. "Dude, what do you mean 'who am I'? I'm Beast Boy! Duh!"
Cyborg was in obvious doubt. "Beast Boy?"
"That's what I said!"
Cyborg scratched his head. "But, you can't be Beast Boy! You're not green!"
Beast Boy stood on the ground, perplexed and worried. "What do you mean I'm not green?"
Cyborg ran to a nearby bathroom, grabbed a handheld mirror, and handed it to him. "That's what I mean."
When he saw his more human self in the mirror, he dropped both the mirror and his jaw. "AAAAGGGGGHH!" He screamed and ran around in circles while flaying his arms in the air.
Cyborg grabbed his shirt and lifted him towards his face. "STOP SCREAMING!"
Beast Boy practically flew halfway across the room from the yelling.
Cyborg lowered his volume. "You look fine. Stop screaming about your looks."
"Can I scream about me losing my powers?"
"Scream, no. But you should probably worry." He began to walk towards the elevator. "I'm going to find Raven. Go back with the others. Maybe Raven and I can stop this jerk."
Beast Boy crossed his arms. "All right." He followed him to the elevator. "But just so you know, you hang around Raven too much."
Cyborg glared at him slightly, pushing the button inside the elevator. "Yeah well, no one asked you."
They traveled to the third floor so Cyborg could try and find Raven. Cyborg exited the elevator. "I'll get those powers back soon."
"Hope you're right," Beast Boy responded, sounding worried. Cyborg exited the elevator. The door closed and Beast Boy went to the top floor. He walked out and went to the game room to find Robin, Starfire, and Terra sitting on the couch. Beast Boy sat next to Terra and sighed. "What's up?" he asked sadly.
Terra and the others looked at him with an extremely shocked look on their faces. "Beast Boy!" Terra asked.
"Yeah. Got my powers stolen too. And I'm no longer green."
"How are Cyborg and Raven?" Robin asked.
"Oh, Beast Boy! What if they do not get our powers back?" worried Starfire.
Robin put his hands on her shoulders. "Don't worry Star. We'll get our powers back. I'm sure that Cyborg and Raven will work well together."
"But how do we know if they'll be together soon enough?" asked Terra.
"And how do we know if they will be able to defeat Drain?" asked Starfire.
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Cyborg was wandering down the hallway on the third floor. He turned a corner and ran into Raven. She did not seem very happy to see him, but he seemed happy to see her, knowing she still had her powers. "Raven! There you are! I've been looking all over for you! Were you on this floor the whole time?"
"Wandering around the whole tower is time-consuming and doesn't help find people as easily as staying put. Besides, it saves energy if you stay put and have him find you."
"Oh. I see. All right, I'll stay put with you until he comes. Then we can kick his butt and get everyone else's powers back."
Raven looked slightly concerned. "Everyone else's? You mean Robin, Beast Boy, and Terra also had their powers stolen?" They sat down with their backs to the wall.
"Yup. So now we have to get their powers back, too." He chuckled to himself. "It's funny, Beast Boy isn't green anymore."
She smirked in slight surprise. "Really? How did he react to his new look?"
"He screamed like a baby and ran in circles. Had to yell at him to shut him up."
She shrugged. "That's Beast Boy for you."
"You bet." He chuckled. "Guess we can't call him anything that has to do with him being green anymore until we defeat Drain."
"That's his name? Drain?" She seemed slightly perplexed at the kind of name this serious threat had used.
They heard a small crashing sound. "Yeah," Cyborg whispered. "And that might be him right there." He got up and scanned the hallway with his red eye. Then someone from behind him silently grabbed him.
"Cyborg!" Raven shouted. She stood up. "Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" She used her telekinetic powers to lift Drain up in the air. She took him closer to her. "Why are you taking our powers?"
Drain chuckled and smiled. "Oh, no special reason. But you seem like you want to know so badly…"
"I DO want to know why! Tell us now, or I'll be forced to destroy you!" she responded angrily.
He only rolled his eyes. "Fine, fine. I was just wondering what you guys act like if you didn't have any abnormal abilities, and how you would act like in school and such…"
Raven angrily glared at him. "You mean that all this time you were stealing our powers just because you were curious about how we would act as regular teenagers!"
"That's basically what I said, right? You're the one who wanted to know so badly…" Drain responded.
Cyborg grabbed Drain's shirt and Raven's powers that were holding him up in the air died down. "That's the most idiotic thing anyone could ever do! What the heck is your problem! Do you have any brains in that ugly head of yours!"
Drain only chuckled. "That goes to show you how much you know about me. But I know a lot more about you than you know about me," he began to explain. "My IQ is 232. I made these needles all by myself. Each one is custom-made for each one of you. Cyborg's needle took me the longest to make, and Robin's the shortest. That's why I call myself Drain. I drain other people's powers, and give them to myself. But needles to drain people's supernatural abilities aren't the only things that I make. Sometimes I make my own powers. My speed and my reflexes were laboratory-made. And don't worry. I'll save the city for you while you spend a year at school."
Cyborg glared at him. "We don't want a psycho genius saving the city. That's the Teen Titans' job!"
Raven crossed her arms. "May we please just have our powers back? You're stealing them for an idiotic reason. We want them back." She glared with Cyborg.
Drain chuckled and grinned slyly. "Now, why would I do a thing like that?" He broke from Cyborg's clutches, took a needle out, and very quickly stuck it in the flesh in Cyborg's arm. Raven tried to take the needle out telekinetically, but it didn't work. "You can't take out the needle until the power is completely drained."
As the power drained from him, his metallic muscles started to be replaced by human flesh. Fortunately, a pair of blue shorts appeared on him before anyone could see anything (This is not rated this for nudity!). When the draining was complete, Drain took the needle out and said, "Now that I have drained away Victor Stone's powers, it's your turn, Raven." He looked over at her.
Unsurprisingly, she looked absolutely furious. Her eyes glowed black as she cried out in fury, "Azerath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" She took Cyborg's needle away from Drain and held it in her hand. "It's mine now." Her frown was still placed on her face.
"Ah, but you're mistaken. Your powers are mine, and you can't do a thing about it, no matter how hard you try!" He pulled out one last needle. He sprung quickly at Raven and stuck that final needle into her arm before she could stop him. She made every attempt to take it out, but as Drain said, no one could take the needle out until all of the power was completely drained.
"Raven!" Cyborg yelled. He got up and ran towards Drain. His mechanical muscles may not have been present anymore, but he still had human muscles, they just weren't as bulky. He still had no hair on his head though.
He threw a punch at Drain's head while he wasn't looking. Although the pain was excruciating, it did no real damage to Drain.
The draining was complete. Drain took the needle out of Raven and said, "Nice to see you, Raven Roth." He took Cyborg's needle from her and dashed away.
Raven stood up. The only thing about her that changed was that the gem on her forehead was gone. She clenched her teeth, looking angrier than ever. She made a fist. "Coward! Get back here!" she screamed. Cyborg took her arm and pulled her towards the elevator. "Let go of me!" She pulled her arm from his grasp.
"Raven…" Cyborg paused, but could not think of anything else to say.
She relaxed. "I guess we tell the others that we failed…"
"Erg! I can't believe we let that guy get us! I mean, we could've beaten him! We let our guard down, and now he has our powers!"
"And now there is nothing we can do." Raven thought for a moment. "But at least we're both fully human, well, to look on the brighter side of things. I know I don't usually look on the bright side, but I couldn't help but notice that… I'm no longer half demon, and you're no longer half robot."
"Yeah, but is that a good thing or a bad thing?"
"Actually, now that you mention it, I don't really know…"
Cyborg sighed and shrugged. "Well, come on. Let's just face the music and tell the others. I mean, he said he was going to steal our powers so he could see us go through high school, right? I don't think he's gonna destroy the world with our powers."
"But how do we know if he's telling the truth?" She looked over at Cyborg, trying to look at his face, but it seemed she could see more of his upper body than his head. "Put a shirt on. I don't want to see that."
Cyborg blushed. "Oh. All right. If I can find one…" They went in the elevator to the top floor.
After Cyborg found a shirt they both went to the game room to find the other four on the couch. Cyborg and Raven approached them. The others looked most shocked at Cyborg's new look.
After a long pause, Beast Boy finally said something. "Cyborg? Dude, you're not a cyborg anymore!"
"I know I'm not a cyborg anymore! That bastard took our powers!"
"No…" said a concerned Starfire.
Robin rose angrily from the couch. "What are we going to do! I mean, we've lost our powers permanently!" He glared at Raven and Cyborg. "Why didn't you stop him! Do you know what your failure means! Who knows what Drain could do with our powers! We might never get to use them again!"
"Robin! Calm down! Just let me explain something!" Cyborg interrupted.
He scowled. "Fine. Go ahead."
"Drain isn't going to destroy the world or anything like that with our powers, unless he was lying to us earlier. But he said that he wanted to see us in high school and wondered what we would act like."
"I don't believe that at all," responded Robin.
Just then, the television turned on to reveal Drain. "Oh, really. Well, then, I guess I'll have to make you believe me."
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I couldn't really edit much in this chapter, but it's still better than the original, if you can tell the difference, that is… just review, I'm sure that you liked it as much as the last chapter, especially if you like CyRae. I'll update later. Later days.
Vandagirl :D