Chapter 12

-2 years later-

It has been 2 years since Beast boy abandoned the original titans and created his own team with Argents help. Both of the teams have become closer friends and allies than ever before or at least that is what it looked like. When one team was in serious trouble, the other team would come over and help them out.

Whenever they visited each other Argent had to keep a close eye on Beast boy to make sure that Raven wouldn't have any opportunity to move in on her territory and steal his heart away, like she did on her. Argent always sat close to him, prefably always between Beast boy and Raven, to keep Raven away from him.

This didn't go unnoticed by Beast boy. At first he was quite amused by Argents overprotective attitude and decided to play along with her, but eventually he got bored of it and had a small chat with her about it. He reassured her that she doesnt have to worry about Raven stealing him away from her and that he only has eyes for her.

This did make her feel more relaxed, but still somewhere in her mind a small doubt lingered, so she let her jealousy get best of her, which made her become really territorial when it came to Raven.

Raven was still is oblivious to the fact that Argent and Beast boy have been dating for years. Raven has been attempting to restart their relationship again, but Beast boy seemed to not respond to any of her attempts, which caused her to try even harder. Cyborg has started to notice this quite recently and decided to have a small chat with her about it before this becomes a problem.

-With original titans-

They just returned from another mission in New zealand, helping out Beast boys team to take down brotherhood of evil. It was quite a tough challenge. Today was the day where Cyborg was going to confront Raven about Beast boy and make her understand that she must stop it for the sake of both teams.

Cyborg left the garrage, he just finished upgrading couple of gadgets on his baby and headed towards the kitchen to grab something eat, before having this conversation with Raven. He had his usual eggs and bacon. He remembered the times where Beast boy and him had arguments on meat vs tofu. After he finished cooking and eating his lunch, he typed in several numbers on his mechanical arm and contacted Raven. After waiting for couple of seconds, image of her appeared on his arm. "What" she said impatiently.

CYBORG: "Raven can you come into the kitchen we need to have a chat"

Raven raised an eyebrow in confusion. 'What could he possibly want to talk about' she wondered. "fine I'll be down in a minute" with that she closed her communicator, put her book down and left her room, heading towards the main room.

When she arrived in the main room, she saw Cyborg sitting in the kitchen with a serious face, staring right at her. She wondered if she had done something wrong. She could feel nervousness radiating from him. She headed into the kitchen and sat down at the opposite side of the table.

RAVEN: "What do you want to talk about" she asked, with uncertainty.

He took a deep breath before he started to speak. "Raven I've noticed quite recently that you have been trying to restart your relationship with Beast boy"

Raven blushed heavily, pulling her hood up to cover her blush and turned her face away from him. "S-so is that so wrong" she stuttered, unable to keep her usual monotone.

CYBORG: "In this case yes" he took a deep breath and continued. "I've got to tell you something, but you have got to promise not to blow up on Beast boy or me, infact don't even tell him anything about this" he said in all serious tone.

'What could he possibly be talking about' she wondered. "fine I promise, but this better be important" she sighed.

CYBORG: "It is really important that you stop your flirting with Beast boy"

"What how dare he tell us what to do" boomed rage

"Why" she asked anger clearly present in her tone. She didn't like where this was going.

He kept his face calm, not to show any emotion. "I don't know how to tell you this, but Beast boy and Argent have been dating for quite a while now and I don't want you to complicate things between both of our teams." he explained, takin a deep breath and continued on with reasoning her. "I've already seen Argent become more and more hesitant on accepting our help and if this continues on, we might lose our friendship with them. It's already started to strain and I cant let this go on"

This hit Raven like a ton of bricks. Everything started to make sense to her, why was Argent emiting jealousy and anger towards her and why Beast boy never flirted back like he used to. This made Raven even angrier, knowing that she lost the only person that cared about her, even after she was nasty on him and she had only one person to blame for all of this 'Robin'

"What. Why wasn't I informed about this earlier" she finally responded, attempting to keep herself calm.

CYBORG: "He told me to keep it a secret from rest of the team because he knew that it would hurt you and he didn't want that on his consciousness, but when I saw how much strain it started to put between both of our teams, I had to stop it and make you aware of the situation"

Raven felt her emotions start to go out of control "When did they get together" she said, her tone starting to fail her.

CYBORG: "about 2 years now, as far as I know" with that he stood up, patted her shoulder couple of times "I'm sorry you had to hear this from me", before he left the room, trying to avoid the uncomfortable situation.

"What" shouted jealousy "Am I really that replaceable" she roared.

"Wait till I see Robin, I will put him through a torture, that is even inhumane to demons" shouted rage, clearly not happy with the news.

Timid and happy were wailing from loss of their green tedy bear.

"How did we manage to lose to that bitch" shouted jealousy.

"How dare she steal his heart from us" said love, which was unusual as love is never violent, but hearing what Cyborg just told them made her angry and unstable.

"No h-he was just lying to us, it's not true. It cant be. Beast boy would never leave us for her" shouted denial in anger. Denial didn't want to believe that she had lost Beast boy to some gothic punk.

Raven was having hard time keeping her emotions in check. "shut up all of you or I will come in there and hurt you so badly" shouted Raven at her emotions.

None of emotions barely seemed to registered her threat as they had hard time accepting defeat. Raven felt tears starting to well up, but managed to keep them down for time being.

"Fine" she shouted to no one in particular, standing up and teleported away from the kitchen to her room. She really needed to meditate as her powers were going haywire. She realised that it wasn't her training that had given her most of the control, but it was Beast boys love. Outside of the tower you could hear multiple of explosions going off constantly, without any intention of stopping. She took a meditative position and attempted to calm herself down.

Cyborg shook his head as he arrived into his room. 'the truth had to be told, for the sake of both teams and friendship' he thought. He decided to leave out couple of details like Beast boy had proposed her yesterday and that she had said yes. He knew it would have been too much for her to take in with one day, he thought that it would be better if Beast boy told her about this himself.

His thoughts were cut short as another alarm blared through the tower. He quickly left his room and ran into the main room to see what the problem was. He sat down on the computer chair and started to type in various keys to find out who was causing this.

Raven and Starfire flew in the main room couple of minutes after. Starfire had gone to Ravens room to comfort her about her loss. Ravens eyes were red from tears. "Who is it this time" Raven croaked. She was not in the best mood or shape to fight right now, but they needed as much help as they could get as their usual enemy was attacking downtown again.

"Slades again attacking downtown" sighed Cyborg, getting annoyed with these constant attacks that have been going on for years.

-Change scene-

Titans have been fighting slades bots for 20 minutes now they clearly have started to get tired. As they looked around, they realised that they were going to lose this battle. As they were getting surrounded by slade bots, Cyborg pulled out the communicator, which Beast boy had given them. As he was about to contact Beast boy, one of the Slade bots shot it out of his hand, breaking it in the process. Everything seemed to be lost until they saw Robin jump in front of them in a battle position. He took out several electric explosives and threw them into masses of slade bots, effectively disabling all of the bots in the surrounding area. He took out some type of scanner and made sure that all of the Slade bots were dead. 'Where does he keep getting these new gadgets from' Cyborg wondered as he saw Robin putting the scanner back into his belt and leave. Cyborg decided to speak to him before he left again.

CYBORG: "Robin wait"

Robin stopped and turned around, seeing Cyborg running up to him. "What" he said in it in monotone, which was scarily similar to Ravens.

CYBORG: "Thanks for helping us back there." "You have been great help for past 2 years and if it wasn't for you we might not be here right now."

ROBIN: "You're welcome. I'd do anything to defend my friends" he said it in fake sincerity, that even Raven couldn't pick up.

CYBORG: "Listen Robin. We're sorry for throwing you out of the tower like that. It's just we were upset that Beast boy left the tower and ended up taking it out on you, but the way you treated him was unfair especially with his parents bit" Cyborg apologized and explained the reasons why they did this.

Now it was Robins turn to apologize to them "I'm sorry to. The way that I acted was uncalled for. I shouldn't have snapped at him like that. It wasn't his fault that slade flashed him with those granades, It's just when it comes to slade, you know" he responded awkwardly, staring at the ground.

Cyborg put a comforting hand on his shoulder as the rest of the titans walked up to them. "We know and we forgive you" said cyborg, annoyed Raven. she didn't like anyone making decision for her. She most certainly hasn't forgiven him and she never will, but shrugged it off for the sake of the team. When she saw Starfires face, she had similar expression to her. She wondered 'Why is she mad at him'.

Robin gave a fake smile to them and said "thanks guys, but I need to get going" with that he was about to turn around until Cyborg interrupted him.

"Wait" he shouted.

Robin turned around again, crossing his arms "What" he said emotionlessly.

CYBORG: "Would you ever consider joining the titans again. You have been a lot of help and without you we would have lost so many battles" he said, feeling slightly awkward about it as he saw both of the girls giving him a death glare. He knew that he should've spoke to them first, but they needed Robins help when it came to battles as he was always saving them from trouble.

SLADE: "now is your chance. Accept the offer" he ordered through the earphone.

Robin gave them a fake smile and walked up to them, embracing them in the group hug. "Thanks guys. You have no idea how much I missed you" he said, staring towards Starfire. She just stared away from him, avoiding eye contact.

When Raven felt Robin wrapping his arm around her, images of Red x appeared in her mind. She gasped quietly. 'What does Robin have to do with Red x' she wondered.

They pulled away from the group hug and started heading back towards the tower. Cyborg noticed that Raven wasn't following them. She was standing at the same spot they stood moments ago. She was staring at the ground and seemed to be in deep thought. He told others to keep going and walked back to her "Are you ok" he asked, snapping Raven out of her thought.

RAVEN: "I dont know. Are you sure we can trust him" she asked him, confusion evident on her face.

CYBORG: "I dont know, but we'll find out soon"

She just stared at Robin in confusion, but decided to drop the subject, which was going to be a biggest mistake that she could ever do, as it would backfire on them later on. "Come on lets get back to the tower" said cyborg, turning around, trying to catch up with others. Moments later Raven followed him.

They headed back to the tower. Cyborg asked Robin to go with him. They went to his bedroom. Robin wondered why did Cyborg brought him here. Robin found out moments later as Cyborg took his old communicator out of one of the shelves and gave it to him, which he gratefully accepted. Robin then went back to the main room where Starfire was currently and sat down next to her. The room was filled with uncomfortable silence as Robin decided to break it and attempted to have a small conversation with her, but she only replied to him with one word answers. He realised that she didn't want to speak to him. She was still mad at him for how he acted towards Beast boy after he made a small mistake.

ROBIN: "Star are you mad at me for something"

she sighed, without facing him she answered "yes I am"

ROBIN: "Why"

Starfire growled in her mind 'does he really hate friend Beast boy that much to forget what he had done to him' She decided to reply with a calm tone "Until you apologize to Beast boy about the way you acted, I won't Forgive you"

Robin felt goosebumps spread all across his body. He had to apologize to the person he hated most, just so he could speak to Starfire without her ignoring him. He groaned in his mind as he asked "Where foes he live. Maybe I could visit him" he asked. Starfire shook her head "I dont think thats a good idea". " Ok how could I get in contact him" he said, getting slightly frustrated.

STARFIRE: "It is not up to me to tell you this"

ROBIN: "How can I forgive him then" he asked, getting more frustrated. 'How am I meant to forgive him if I can't get in contact with him' his mind screamed at her.

STARFIRE: "You need to ask that from friend Cyborg and when he thinks you're ready to speak to friend Beast boy, he will let you know" she stated, standing up, leaving the main room.

Robin sighed in defeat and stood up and left the main room to find Cyborg. He has searched throughout the tower for Cyborg, but couldn't find him. Only place he hasn't searched yet was garrage. It was the only logical place left in the tower, with that he took off, heading towards the garrage.

He entered the garage, trying to catch his breath back. He heard someone mumbling underneath the car. "Cy" he asked hesitantly.

Cyborg heard someone saying his name and pushed himself away from underneath his car. He stood up and turned around to find Robin standing by the garrage door. "hey man what's up" he asked, walking up to him.

ROBIN: "Can I ask you a huge favour"

CYBORG: "Shoot"

ROBIN: "could you possibly help me get in touch with Beast boy. I need to apologize to him about the way I acted."

Cyborg stared at him in surprise. He looked like he just had grown a second head. Usually Robin wouldn't even consider apologising after Beast boy let Slade get away. "Alright, but I have to have talk with him on me own before you speak to him"

Robin stared at him in confusion. "Why's that"

CYBORG: "Because I need to know wether he is ready to see you and forgive you"

Robin looked at the floor in frustration. He was slightly disappointed. "oh ok. We see ya then". He said, heading off to his old bedroom. He sat down and decided to contact Slade about their plans. He took out his other communicator, which Slade had given him a while ago. He dialled in 8 digit number and pressed call button.

Image of Slade appeared on his communicator. "Okay I'm in" he said

"Good work apprentice" he praised him for success.

Robin nodded and asked "what's next"

SLADE: "We haven't finished phase one yet. They may have accepted you onto their team, but they don't trust you yet. I want you to earn their trust for couple of weeks before we initiate phase 2" he instructed.

ROBIN: "Understood, but we might be able to skip phase 2 if everything goes as planned"

SLADE: "Explain" be said raising an eyebrow under his mask.

Robin started to explain his plan to Slade.

SLADE: "Excellent. That would certainly put us ahead of the schedule. Let's just hope that Beast boy is willing to speak to you and if not, we'll proceed with phase 2" with that said Robin turned shut the communicator and put it back into his belt.

A/N: Ok I was wrong. This chapter was lot a harder to write. Thats why it took me entire day to write and repeatedly improve it. I don't like this chapter much, but it is important for the plot.

If you have any suggestion on how to make this chapter better, I would love to hear it.

Expect a new chapter soon.

As usual Reviews would be appreciated. :)