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"You are the precious!" Squealed an ecstatic alien girl. She lunged towards the now terrified changeling and swept him up in one of her infamous death hugs.
"Alright, hands off girly. We don't want him having all the bones in his body broken before we can change him back to normal. Heck, we don't want him breaking bones period." Cyborg said as he pried the shapeshifter away from the infatuated tamarainien. Beast Boy breathed a sigh of relief.
"We don't have time for this, we have to find Mumbo!" Robin says commandingly. "Beast Boy will just have to stay in the T-Car until we beat Mumbo and he turns back to normal."
"Buh I wanna halp!" Beast Boy whined, giving Robin tearful puppy eyes.
"Sorry Beast Boy, you're in no condition to be fighting. Titans GO!"
Cyborg swiftly puts the annoyed changeling in the T-Car and hops in the driver's seat. "Let's find us a magician BB." He says. The half-robot reaches over to the passenger's side of the car and presses a few buttons. The seat raises up so the shapeshifter can see through the window properly, and a few controls pop out of the dashboard in front of him, namely weapons.
"You might not be able to fight by yourself, but rob never said anything about you using the T-Car to fight for you!" Cyborg explains, grinning.
Beast Boy returns the grin. "Tanks Cybog."
"Let's roll!" Cries the two teens, or "les woll!" in Beast Boy's case. The T-Car speeds off to try and find Mumbo.
After an hour of searching the Titans finally give up. Robin is throughly irritated that the villain got away, but none are more frustrated than the changeling who is now stuck as a toddler.
"I don beweive dis!" He wails. "I'm tuck as a bahbey!" He looks at himself in the window of the T-Car. "Doh I ahm kinna coot."
Raven snorts, Starfire agrees, Robin has an exasperated expression on his face, and Cyborg gets a glint in his robotic eye.
"C'mon Raven," Says the robotic teen. "We all know you though BB was cute before, no need to go into denial now."
Raven glares at him. "I did NOT think he was cute before!" Inside the empath's head, Happy and Affection yell their dissent. 'shut up you two' the empath hisses.
"But you think he's cute now?" Teases Cyborg.
"He's still a green imp, being a smaller green imp doesn't change the fact that he's an imp."
"Ouch, cold Rae." Cyborg says, chuckling at her denial.
"I think Beast Boy is very much the cute." Says Starfire dreamily. Robin gives a hateful glare towards the changeling at this remark. Raven and Cyborg roll their eyes upon seeing this. Beast Boy is oblivious to all this. He has been staring at his reflection the entire time, unsure what he'll do now that he has to live like this.
The T-Car pulls into the underground tunnel beneath the moat that surrounds Titans Tower. Four of the five teens hop out of the car upon reaching the garage. Beast Boy struggles to remove his seat belt.
"Having trouble there little man?" Cyborg says grinning.
"Top smiwing an hap me ow!" Beast Boy growls.
"Aww..." Starfire coos. "I shall aid you my little bumgorf."
"Star, you do realize he isn't actually two years old right?" Cyborg asks in faint amusement.
"Yes, but he is just sooooo cute!" She squeals while freeing the changeling from his seat belt prison. Beast Boy crosses his arms indignantly, embarrassed at how Starfire is treating him. Robin jealously continues glaring at the shapeshifter.
Beast Boy attempts to climb down from his seat. He carefully places his hands and feet in niches. He makes it the the floor of the T-Car and looks at the jumping distance to the floor. He gets vertigo and sits back for a moment.
"What's wrong BB?" Cyborg asks, concerned.
"Nofing. Jus migh be hawrd to get dawn to da floar." He slurs. "Non of ma fwying twans-, twons- twins-..." He struggles to say the long word before reverting to simpler terminology. "Non of ma fwying aminals are stwong enof to actuwy fwy."
"Oh." Is all the half-robot can think to say. Starfire reaches down and transfers the changeling to the floor. Beast Boy holds his arms out in front of him to balance, and starts waddling to the door.
"Aw you guys comink?" He asks. "The dowr won opan for me you knows." Starfire gives another helpless giggle and walks over to the door. It slides open upon detecting her. She and Beast Boy walked through the door as the other Titans follow. The walking pace is ridiculously slow because Beast Boy is moving slower than Silky.
Raven looks down at her shrunken teammate in sympathy. She can sense his frustration at his condition, and knows how irritating it is to feel like you don't belong in your own body. (You guys remember the Puppet King episode in the first season right?) "Hopefully I have a ritual that can turn you back to normal." Raven says. "As much as I enjoy your incapablility to barge into my room and prank me I suppose I HAVE to help you." Her sarcastic tone covers up her concern, but Cyborg sees through it. He raises an eyebrow at her and wiggles it. She returns the action with a hateful glare.
The five Titans walk into the main room. Raven only spares a moment to take another glance at Beast Boy before rushing to her room. Beast Boy slowly waddles to the fridge and tries to find a way to open it. The handle is too far up and Beast Boy lacks the strength to pry it open from the side. He growls in irritation before turning into a gorilla to try and increase his strength. The tiny gorrila isn't capable of opening the fridge either, and Beast Boy lands on his rear end after his fingers slipped during one particularly hard tug.
Starfire is lying on the couch in peals of laughter while Robin stares at the changeling, trying to conceal his own amusement with a blocking hand. Cyborg has tears running from his eyes as he snickers at his unfortunate friend.
"Is nowt fuhey!" Beast Boy yells crossly. To prove his point he crosses his tiny arms and pouts he also puts an angry expression on his infantile face and crosses his legs beneath him.
'He looks absolutely adorable.' Thinks Happy, Affection, and quite few others. Raven, who is standing in the doorway, shushes the emoticlones, but doesn't disagree with their observation.
Beast Boy's face lights up upon seeing Raven. "Hi Waben! Whear did you goes?"
"I was just in my room Beast Boy." She takes a breath and delivers the bad news. "Sadly, I don't think I'll be able to turn you back. All of my reverse-transmutation spells only work on demon magic, not random magic like Mumbo's."
Beast Boy's face falls. "So I'm gonna be tuck like dis foevah?"
"Only until we find Mumbo." Robin says, the seriousness back in his voice. The other two laughing Titans stop said laughter and nod. This might be hilarious to them, but they don't want Beast Boy to be stuck.
"But if we don't then we'll see about sending you to preschool!" Cyborg says, bursting out in laughter once again.
You can see the smoke rising over Beast Boy's head. "DIS ID NOT FUHEY! I'M TUCK AS A BABY AN I CAWNT DO ANAHTING FOR MASEWF!" He screams.
Cyborg stops his laughter abruptly. "Sorry BB. I don't think the seriousness has sunken into me yet. You know we're going to do everything we can right?"
"I know... I jus hate beink usewess." He says miserably.
"I'll make dinner for us all. Even your nasty tofu. You just get used to that new body of yours, you might be stuck in it for a while." Cyborg says. He turns to the fridge but can't resist a parting remark. "I guess we're going to need a baby sitter for when missions come around."
Beast Boy shoots him a glare, but he doesn't look nearly as annoyed as before. He has calmed.
'Kids and their mood swings.' Robin thinks to himself. He and Raven share a look before getting to work on the crime scanner.
The next hour is spent in relative silence. Starfire helps Beast Boy get up and down from places while Cyborg cooks and and the last two Titans search for Mumbo.
"Dinner everybody! Time for Cyborg's baby back ribs and famous Stone family salad!" Cries our favourite half-robot. "And here's your tofu blocks buddy." He adds as an after note, sliding a plate of tofu to Beast Boy.
Everyone sits down in their seats. Except for Beast Boy, he has to sit on the table to reach his food. He tries to use his fork, but it's too large and unwieldy for the poor changeling. He abandons his utensils in favor of picking up one of the blocks with his tiny hands. The block is half the size of his face. He tries to fit it in his mouth, but it's too large. He starts leaning back to try and open his mouth wider. Eventually he leans so far back he falls over, still holding the tofu block above him.
Everyone watches the changeling out of the corner of their eyes. Starfire is still trying to stifle her laughter.
"Uh... Ya need help BB?" Cyborg asks tentatively.
"I gowt dis dood." Says the tiny shapechanger. He places the tofu next to him and rolls in the other direction to get his feet back under him. He stands up and waddles over to the tofu block before simply taking a bite out of the corner, not even bothering to cut it. He braces his body by placing his hands on either side of the block and continues to chow down.
Raven looks on in mild amusement, but is interrupted by her pesky emoticlones.
"That so cuuuute!" Squeals Happy and Affection.
"He's rippin' off my style." Mutters Rude.
"He reminds me of me." Sloth comments.
"Disgusting, little, adorable, funny, pig!" Rage rants.
"I hope we can find a way to help him." Whimpers Timid.
"We will, cause if we can take down Trigon than Mumbo should be a piece of cake!" Brave yells.
"Indeed. We shall find a way to aid him." Knowledge says.
'Silence, all of you!' Raven mentally yells at the eight cloaked figures which reside in her head. She takes another bite out of her meal as she continues studying her green friend. Beast Boy has his face buried in a pile of white tofu blocks, munching away by the sound of it.
"That meal is almost as big as you are BB. How are you managing to eat it all?" Cyborg asks, staring at his ravenous friend.
The boy in question pulls his head out of his meal for a moment to respond "Childwen need to eat a wot so day can gwoh. So even if I'm noh gonah gwoh, my bodeh still wans me to eat aloh." before stuffing his tofu covered face back into his food.
"Who knew that green bean studied biology..." Cyborg mutters. The rest of the meal passes in relative silence. Each Titan contemplating the new situation they've suddenly been put in.
"Wewl. I'm noh shur aboud da west of you doods. Buh I'm tiad. I go to bed now." Beast Boy says, yawning. He looks over the edge of the table and contemplates how to get down. He turns into a petrodactyle and tries to fly down. He leaps off the edge of the table, but plummets as his undeveloped wings beat at the air. Centimeters before he hits the ground he is enveloped in a black bubble. He shifts back to human form and the bubble dissipates, dropping him the last little distance.
"Tanks Waben." He says.
"Don't do risky things like that in your condition!" Raven scolds. "You nearly gave me a heart attack!"
"I jus wanned to see if I coud fwy..." Beast Boy says, ears drooping.
It takes all of Raven's self discipline not to kneel down, pet him on the head, and say that she wasn't really mad. But even with her restraint she has a hard time looking at his sad little face.
"Friend Raven you have made friend Beast Boy feel the sadness!" Starfire chides me. "Apologies are in order."
"You're just saying that because he's small." Raven mutters uncomfortable at the accusation. Beast Boy turns his sad expression towards raven and exaggerates the puppy-dog eyes.
Raven breaks. She can't resist "The Face". If you add "The Face" to Beast Boy's current appearance and you have a weapon only the most cold-hearted villains can resist, and Raven is no villain.
"Sorry" She mutters with a guilty conscience. Beast Boy's sad expression immediately turns into a grin.
"I goht Waben to apowogize? I mus beh realeh coot!" He thumps a tiny fist to his chest and holds his head high, proud of his accomplishment.
Starfire is rolling on the floor, desperately trying to take in air through her laughter. Cyborg falls backwards out of his seat and joins Starfire on the floor. Robin has one hand firmly anchored to his chair and one gripping the table, but is otherwise in the same condition as the other two.
Raven reddens and turns away hissing, pulling up her hood. She feels a tug on the hem.
"Waben?" Comes the little voice. "Sowwy if you were offan- offon- offin-" Again the changeling struggles. "Sowwy if you is mad, I was jus jokink." Raven can feel the sadness radiating off him like a fire.
"I'm not mad, except at these three who can't tell a good joke from a bad one!" She raises her voice near the end so that the three howling teens can hear her. They don't stop their laughter.
Raven huffs. "Immature, stupid..."
"Waben... If we can't fine Mumbo, dan am I tuck liak dis foevah?" Raven can hear the very real fear in his voice, and can see the tears in his eyes. She softens and bends down closer to the worried changeling.
"You'll be fine Beast Boy. We won't rest until we find Mumbo, and if that doesn't work then we'll go to a powerful magician like Doctor Fate and ask for his help. I promise that I'll get you back to normal."
Beast Boy meets the empath's determined eyes and sniffles. He wipes the tears from his eyes, says "Tank you Waben." and walks forward to hug the half-demon's leg.
If Raven's face had gotten any hotter at that point she swore she could have roasted marshmallows over them. Her energy sparks all around her. A few lightbulbs break as she tries to calm herself. Beast Boy removes himself from the embrace and walks to the door that leads to the male bedroom hallway.
The door doesn't open.
"Uhh... Waben?" He asks meekly. "Can you halp?"
The highly embarrassed empath joins the changeling by the door and it slides open. She follows him to his room.
"What's your password?" She asks. Beast Boy looks hesitant to say anything.
"giza malaika" He says eventually. Raven raises an eyebrow, not understanding the words, but types it in.
"What language is that?" She asks, curious.
"Jus one a lerned in Afwica with ma pawents." Beast Boy says nervously, evading the question. Raven doesn't pursue the answer. She doesn't want to pry.
She picks up Beast Boy and plops him into his bed. He waddles over to his pillow and tucks himself in with some difficulty.
Raven turns to leave. Once she reaches the door she hears Beast Boy utter a faint "goonight, Waben..." and she again fights the urge to blush. She flips his light switch off and leaves the room. The door closes behind her automatically.
Chapter 2 complete. The Titans really don't seem to be taking the situation seriously, mostly poking fun at the changeling and making comments at Raven's expense.