Beast Boy was in his room when his communicator went off. He heard Robin shouting something like,
"Come quickly, Raven said she found something pretty important."
Beast Boy sighed and walked to the main room, where everyone was already waiting. Raven gave him a look of impatience. Beast Boy just shrugged and jumped into the only remaining space on the couch.
Raven started talking,
"I was reading through one of my books today,"
"That's a surprise…" muttered Beast Boy…
Raven shot him a glare before continuing, "And it talked about portals to the mind, like my mirror of my emotions. It told me how I could get rid of it safely!"
Some gasps went around the room.
"So you wouldn't have problems with your emotions?"
"So you'd be able to feel?"
"So you could express your emotions without something bad happening?"
"Has anyone seen my mustard? I cannot locate it anywhere!"
Everyone stared at Starfire for a second, who blushed, before Raven continued.
"There's only one problem, but it's a little one. If I want to get my emotions out of the mirror, I'll need someone else to put their's in. I just don't know which one of you would be the safest."
A long discussion followed. They thought about whether Robin should take the responsibility, but Star reminded them that he can get obsessed when he's catching criminals. Raven wouldn't even consider Star, because she didn't want to think about 10 different Starfires escaping the mirror and all asking questions naively and drinking mustard non-stop…
Cyborg was discussed shortly, but they realised that it only needed for one of his emotions to get loose and all of the tower defenses would be down and any villain could walk in. The conversation moved onto Beast Boy, and none of them could think of a big reason it couldn't be him.
"Guys, it can't be me! You know how I get when I'm angry!" Beast Boy tried to defend himself.
Raven just rolled her eyes and said "Come on Beast Boy, let's face it, you're not exactly the strongest on them team, and you don't have as many problems as the rest of us."
Beast Boy gritted his teeth while he thought, 'Yeah, sure, I have no problems compared to you guys… I mean, my parents are dead, I'm labelled a freak in society and shunned because I'm green and I have a crush, or maybe even love, a girl who is constantly putting me down, but that's not as bad as what YOU guys have been through.'
But Beast Boy didn't dare say it so he just swallowed and stammered, "Are you sure it should be me?"
They all nodded so he gave in. "Fine… what do I have to do?"
Raven told the others she'd get things set up and just to wait there for a while. Robin and Cyborg went back to playing video games and Starfire was trying to make mustard ice-cubes, so Beast Boy just went back to his room. He had barely sat down before his communicator rang again and he heard Raven's voice.
"I'm ready."
He walked slowly to her room, wondering what it would feel like to have your emotions stuck in a mirror…
He walked in and saw some sticks of incense burning, some dark roses, and Raven's mirror on a chair in the middle of the room. The other titans were sitting on Raven's bed. Before Raven began, she whispered,
"Beast Boy?"
"Yeah?"
"Thanks."
It was only one word but it made Beast Boy happier and more confident about the whole thing. Raven took his hand and placed it on her mirror. She began chanting and her mirror was encased in a black aura.
"Azarath, Metrion Zinthos. Azarath Metrion Zinthos…"
Different colours, representing different emotions, flew around the mirror, before twisting around the black aura leading from the mirror to Raven's body, and slowly flowed inside her.
Then, tiny strands of colour quickly flew from Beast Boy's fingers to the mirror silently, until everything stopped. The changeling looked at Raven.
"Is it over?"
"I think so…"
Raven smiled and started to say 'Thank you Beast Boy' but she only got to "Than-" before Beast Boy started screaming. Something with a gloved red hand and claw was reaching through the mirror and gripping Beast Boy's arm.
"AAAAAAAAAH! AAAAAAAAH! WHAT THE HELL IS THIS THING?" He screamed as he tried to get free. Cyborg shot at the thing's arm, Starfire shot starbolts, and Robin struck it with a bo-staff, but it kept holding on.
Beast Boy changed into a fly quickly to get loose before turning back to normal.
"What was that?" he said in a scared voice. He didn't have to wait for an answer though, as the dark red figure jumped out and landed smoothly on the ground. He stayed there for a second, before looking up at the team and letting out a cold, evil laugh.
"I'm free…"