Gah! Haven't been able to write for a few days due to school. Midterms suck. Anyway, Here we go, next chappy :O By the way, for those of you who aren't understanding the theme song reference, it's from Trouble in Tokyo, when Beast Boy gets stuck singing karaoke with the Japanese version of the Teen Titans theme song. The lyrics are actually the literal translation of the original Japanese lyrics sang by Puffy Ami Yui. Speaking of which...
Raven: Please tell me we don't have to sing this again. My eardrums are still on strike from hearing Cyborg "sing" last chapter.
Me: Wish I could :D
Raven: I've killed for less, you know.
Theme song fun!
(Beast Boy)
I will obey the traffic rules.
Teen Titans!
(Robin)
I will eat everything without likes or dislikes.
Teen Titans!
(Starfire)
Earthquakes, lightning, fire Dad. Grammar, math, science social studies. There is nothing I am afraid of!
Teen Titans, GO!!!
(Cyborg)
Holla Holla
Holla
Holla
Holla
Holla
Holler
My na-ame.
Teen Titans!
Half of your troubles will be gone!
Teen Titans!
(Raven)
Father's schedule control. Mama's weight control. Wishes are endless.
Teen Titans, Go!
(All)
One, two, three, four, five. Teen Titans!
(Beast Boy)
Goodnight, Tokyo!
Last time, on Fused...
"Eat my boot," Irrelevant threw a kick at him. It connected dead-on to his beak, and Beast Boy crashed down to the ground.
Quickly getting to his feet, he rushed her as a tiger. As soon as he got close, he launched with his claws up. However, the Slade-clad clone simply waited and grabbed Beast Boy by his front arms, swinging him around like a shot-put. Realizing that he wasn't getting anywhere with brute force, he morphed a humpback whale to break her grip, then went skunk. "Oh, crap," Irrelevant backed away quickly and grabbed her staff. He launched at her, spraying. "AUGGGH!!"
A scream of agony let Beast Boy know that he had nailed a skunk-spray bulls-eye. He grabbed her roughly by the shoulders and stood her back up as she screamed, trying to get the spray our of her eyes. "No one imitates MY Raven and disgraces her like that. Wait, MY Raven? I really need to talk about this with the real Raven..." He went gorilla, yanked her straight up by the hair and threw a haymaker straight at Irrelevant's face. She was knocked out before she even had time to yelp. "I gotta warn the others before she wakes up. I gotta go-" He took about three steps back towards the library before he bumped into Brave. "We got this, Beast Boy. There's shit going on topside that you need to get back to. Go!" She pushed him back towards the Forbidden Door. "Where's the real Raven?" Beast Boy questioned, waiting for the answer he was dreading. "We don't know. We'll find out later. Just GO!" Brave pushed him again. This time, he went.
Exiting the Forbidden Door, Beast Boy found himself back in the Fusion body. He wondered where the others were, since Brave had said something was going down. "The common room would probably be a good start," Beast Boy reasoned. He made his way down from Raven's room.
Opening the common room doors, he was treated to a very depressing sight. Starfire was leaning up against one of the walls with a hopeless expression on her face. Robin was sitting on the couch, looking furious, and Cyborg was plugged in to the Titan's Tower information databanks. "Uhm...what's going on? You all look like you just got sentenced to twenty years of cleaning septic tanks or something," Beast Boy said with a weak laugh. The next two words he heard made his heart freeze. "Trigon's back."
"No...He can't be. Raven sealed him!" Beast Boy cried frantically. Starfire looked up sadly. "Yes, friend Beast Boy, but we fear that the seal she created may have been...reset when Mumbo attacked you," the Tamaranian princess said sadly. "And you guys have proof of this...where?" Beast Boy's head was spinning. "Slade's minion or minions inside Nevermore, and now Trigon supposedly out and about again? What went wrong..."
"The proof is right here," Cyborg said angrily, although the emotion wasn't directed at the green changeling. He brought up a feed of one of his cameras in the sky, which displayed Malchoir engulfing another building in his green flames. "Oh, shit. Wait, that's seriously not cool but how does it prove Trigon's out?" Beast Boy scratched his head. "Raven, there's only one other person with the power to let him out again. There's no other logical explanation for Malchoir's newfound freedom," Robin said.
Beast Boy looked at him strangely for a minute. Robin had just talked to him like he was Raven. Then it hit him: they didn't realize that he was currently the lone inhabitant of the Fusion. Robin must've thought that Raven has asked that previous question. "Robin...I have to tell you something, and you aren't gonna like it," Beast Boy said, his voice a mix of guilt, nervousness, anger and sadness.
Robin looked at him with trepidation. "Well, might as well lay it on us while we're at the task of receiving bad news," Robin said dryly. "Alright...where do I begin? Raven and I had a conversation this morning, and something I said gave her the idea of heading into Nevermore to try and sort out this whole issue with the Fusion," Beast Boy started. Cyborg interrupted him. "See Robin? Told ya she was in her mirror." "Whatever. Continue, Beast Boy," Robin said wearily. "Ok, well, once we got there Happy showed up. Raven wanted to talk to Knowledge, so-" Beast Boy broke off as Robin and Starfire gave him a confused look.
"Oh. They've never been in there before. They don't know about the different emotions," he realized. "Ok, there's this mirror that transports people into Nevermore, a place in her mind where embodiments of her emotions live. These embodiments look and sound just like Raven, except they were different colored cloaks and act according to their names. They each have their own part of the area, which is freakin' huge," he stopped to let Robin and Starfire absorb the information. They nodded for him to continue.
"Anyway, we landed in Happy's realm as I stated before. Raven told her she wanted to speak with Knowledge, and asked Hsppy where she was. Well, we started out for her library, running into Brave, Rude and Timid on the way. Timid, who's usually just kind've shy around me, wouldn't look at or talk to me. She was scared out her wits of me. So we all went, and as we neared Knowledge's library Raven fell into a trap and got taken away by Rage." Beast Boy paused again, letting everyone process that.
"When Raven got kidnapped, Brave told me that she and the rest of the emotions would save her while I headed for the library and told Knowledge what as going on. I refused to leave because I...I love her, and I sure as hell wasn't going to run away from a fight to save her," Beast Boy blushed furiously. Despite the situation, all of them gave Beast Boy a small smirk. "Alright Cyborg, you're paying up at some point," Robin said, obviously victorious in a bet. "Damnit. I was sure it was gonna be Raven confessing first," he muttered.
Beast Boy sighed. "Can we continue please? We don't have time for this shit," he said forcefully. All of them stared at him for a moment, and Robin nodded slowly. "Thank you. Anyway, Brave and I argued for a few seconds, then I tried to get past her as a tiger while she flung me into the library. Yeah, the result wasn't pretty. Anyway, I told Knowledge what was going on, and she played twenty questions with me. Asked me why I was gonna fight Brave to get down there, did I love her, all that good crap," Beast Boy said. "Actually, she didn't ask me if I loved her. I just kinda said it..." Beast Boy realized.
He shook his head and continued. "So yeah. after a while, Knowledge and I went down after the others. Turned out Raven had been dragged down to Rage's realm," Beast Boy paused due to Cyborg's audible gasp.
"I'm assuming that's not a good thing," Robin said dryly. "You assume right. Rage is the emotion that takes over when she does that four eyes and tentacles crap." Beast Boy stated plainly and informatively. "Oh. That would definitely explain why you wanted to get down there with her," Robin said. "Yeah. So me and Knowledge went down, and I accidentally attacked Rude because Rage's cloak is red and Rude's is a reddish brown. By that point, the fight was already over and Raven was safe." He stopped for air.
"When we got back to Knowledge's realm, she explained that Raven's emotions had been going nuts from this Fusion thing. That explained the rise in Timid's , well, timidness. Knowledge said that if we worked together in this body, everything would go back to normal in due time, but that if we fought it would get worse. Well, everyone dispersed except Raven and I, because I asked her to stay," Beast Boy blushed again and continued.
"I had only really asked her if she was alright, and started to actually talk before she called me and told me I had a lot to learn about her before I said I loved her. As you can guess, that entirely threw me off. A few minutes later, she had rearranged her cloak, and I thought I saw something odd about her leotard. Well, I had my suspicions but I figured I'd go with it for the moment." Beast Boy paused, letting everything sink in.
"Well, the more we started talking, the weirder and un Raven-like she began to act. She pulled me over and Frenched me," he stopped and blushed at the looks on all of their faces, then continued, "and then when we left she said that she'd get me some 'action', if you know what I mean, when we got our bodies back." he frowned again as his friends barely suppressed their laughter. "Anyway, on the way back to the Forbidden Door she was acting all kinds of erotic with me. I finally stopped her and called her bluff. See, before, when I saw her leotard it looked like it was two colors split down the middle-dark orange and black," he let that sink in real good, giving Robin a meaningful look.
The boy wonder's face drained of color. "Slade?!" he roared. "How could Slade have gotten into friend Raven's mind without her permission?" Starfire inquired. "Yeah, she got it blocked out in about 500 different ways," Cyborg said. "You're asking the wrong green shapeshifter. Anyway, she ditched the cloak and confirmed my suspicions. I demanded her name, but all she told me was that she was working for Slade and had been there to take out the other emotions. Well, a fight ensued, and I knocked her out. Brave showed up and told me to go back out the Forbidden Door. I asked her where Raven was, and she said they'd search, and that you needed me here. So I took off, and, well, here I am," Beast Boy concluded.
"Alright, let us review. We have Malchoir on the loose, destroying our city as we speak. Slade has somehow smuggled at least one of his people into friend Raven's brain, and Raven is missing. At the same time, the only explanation that we have for Malchoir's freedom is that Trigon is back, meaning that the world could be plunged into eternal destruction at any time. And this time, we would be unable to help because friend Raven is no longer her to protect us. Therefore, we are the fu-" Robin covered her mouth and gave Beast Boy a dirty look. "Have I almost used the impolite language?" Starfire inquired. "Yeah, you did," Robin let out a small laugh.
"Ok, here's an idea: how about instead of just moping around crying about how much shit we're dealing with, we come up with an actual fucking plan as to how we're going to stop whatever the hell Trigon, Slade and Malchoir have planned?!" Beast Boy exploded. Everyone abruptly turned to stare at him with eyes widened. "Beast Boy, that was very impo-" "Spare me the parental lecture, Star," Beast Boy snapped, but softly.
"Beast Boy's right. We need a plan. I'd say we need to take Malchoir out first. Then, once we've done that we can worry about Slade and Nevermore. We can't really deal with Trigon until we he shows himself and/or we get some more information about what he's planning. With Beast Boy with us, we'll have a better chance against Malchoir," Robin finished. Everyone nodded. They knew what to do. They all flew out the door, Robin riding shotgun on Beast Boy as a pterodactyl and Starfire carrying Cyborg. "Let's do this," Robin muttered.
Ooooooh. This looks like it's gonna be epic. Malchoir vs. the Teen Titans. Place your bets and order your candy, soda and popcorn. Oh, and review :D