Beast Boy's Past and Future

Chapter 8

"I've got him!" Raven cried, her eyes snapping open. "He's--" She suddenly shut her eyes again, hard, trying to locate Beast Boy again. The other teens watched her anxiously.

Raven cried out in pain, as she was knocked to the floor by an invisible force.

"Raven!" cried Starfire, rushing to her aid. "Are you harmed?"

"Ugh... Not me, but Beast Boy is..."

"Do you know where he is?" Robin asked as Starfire helped her up.

"All I saw was Nicholas... And they were in a big room... It looked sort of like... a basement..." Raven said thoughtfully.

"Well, that narrows it down to about EVERY HOUSE IN THE WORLD!" Cyborg yelled. He turned to face away from them, holding up his fist. "Come on, man! Where are you, man? We need you, BB!"

"Why are you doing this?" Beast Boy grunted, struggling to get up off of the floor. Nicholas strolled over to him calmly and stopped a few inches away from him. Then, as Beast Boy had gotten himself half-way up, slammed his head back to the floor with his foot and holding him down.

He kneeled replaced his foot with his hand. "Because if you hadn't run away, then I would have gotten the fortune your pathetic parents had left behind," he whispered into his ear. He chuckled evilly and stood up again, looking down on Beast Boy.

"My... p--parents... weren't... pathet--tic..." Beast Boy panted. The air felt hot and stuffy in the basement of Nicholas's house, but it didn't seem to bother the aging man.

Nicholas laughed again as Beast Boy made another pitiable attempt to get up. He raised the gun to shoot him, and pulled the trigger. "Ack!" he shouted, letting go of the gun and grabbing his other arm. He whipped around and saw a small figure with long hair holding a smoking gun.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," she said, cocking the gun again.

"Who are you?" growled Nicholas. The girl didn't reply. "Why don't you step out of the shadows and face me like a man?" he sneered.

"I am no man, sir," she said. Nicholas laughed, but his eyes were cold and angry. He took a step back and with his other foot, swung back and kicked Beast Boy in the face, knocking him unconcious. The girl fired the gun again, and Nicholas dodged it by twisting his body around and diving over Beast Boy to the ground. He stood up and turned around.

"RAWRRRR!" A lioness suddenly lunged at him, biting into his shoulder. He screamed in both pain and fright. The lioness transformed into an Allosaurous and threw him into the air. Nicholas slammed into the ceiling and fell back to the floor with a sickening thud.

The Allosaurous morphed back into the girl, who stood quietly waiting for Nicholas to show a sign of life. He coughed, but stayed still in his awkward position as the dust settled over him. The girl nodded silently and walked briskly over to Beast Boy.

She kneeled down next to him and gently unwound the fishing line from him and rolled him onto his back. She searched for his communicator. The girl finally found it lying on a table that held the weapons she had chosen from and turned it on.

"Titans," she said into it. "Are you there?"

"Beast Boy?!" cried a garbled voice. "Beast Boy, where are you?"

The girl shook the communicator, trying to clear the static so she could see the boy more clearly. When that didn't work, she banged it on the table once, twice, three times, and succeeded.

"You're not Beast Boy," the boy said, obviously disappointed.

"Of course not," she replied, blinking her green eyes. She moved a strand of her brown hair from her face. "My name Amelia, but everyone calls me BG."

"Okay... BG... Do you know where our friend is? His name is Beast Boy, and he's, well... green."

"Of course. I've seen him lots of times."

"Do you know where he is?!" A strange looking girl with long red hair shoved the boy out from in front of the screen. There was a crashing noise in the background. She stood staring hopefully at BG with her hands clasped anxiously in front of her chest.

"Yea. But he's really hurt." She turned and aimed the communicator at him so the Teen Titans could see him. BG turned it back to herself and said, "It would be really awesome if you guys could get here fast... And I hope one of you guys is a doctor... Hm. Beast Girl out."

She turned off the communicator, leaving the Titans speechless for a moment. "Uh... Is it just me, or did she just call herself 'Beast Girl'?" Robin asked, rubbing his head.

"That's what I heard," Cyborg replied.

"Ditto," agreed Raven.

"Perhaps that is Beast Boy's sister," Starfire ventured.

"He never mentioned one, Star," said Robin. "But who knows what Beast Boy left out..."