Hey there everyone! I really hope you enjoy this next chapter. I would like to send a special thanks to randompandattack. If you read the comments, you will see that he said that I wrote Robin OOC (out of character) And with this comment, I must say that I agree with him. I did make Robin a tad bit out of character. BUT I would like to add that Robin does over-react to some things. And in this particular situation, I thought he would over react. Two of the teammates sneaking around the others backs? I know I would over react. Anywho, I just wanted to thank him publicly for giving me a gentle nudge in the right direction of the characters. So thank you randompandattack. Keep it up.
EXTRA SPECIAL THANKS GOES TO MY FABULOUS BETA GRLWITHAPEN
DISLCAIMER: I DON“T OWN TEEN TITANS. HOWEVER I DO HAVE A COMPUTER THAT JUST STARTED TYPING IN SPANISH...AND IT MAKES ELEPHANT NOISES.
Terra felt like she was a spy. Sneaking around, trying not to be seen by teachers, or students for that matter. People already think shes weird, she doesn't need anyone else thinking she's a freak just because she's tip-toeing in the hallways.
She sneaked around enough corners of the hallway to find herself at the door to Mr. White's room. She jiggled the handle to find that he had forgotten to lock it.
Terra let a small sigh of joy escape from her lips and proceeded to enter the room and close the door.
She glanced at the clock. Terra only had five minutes to replace the real pin with the fake, get out of the room, and run half-way around the school to her next class...without being late. Okay. Easy enough.
Terra ran to the teachers desk and began her search for her pin. Opening drawers, and going through papers in case it accidentally got tucked in between a stack of homework or tests. With no luck in her search she prayed that it would be in the last drawer, because if it wasn't that meant Mr. White had it with him.
She squeezed her eyes shut and pulled open the last drawer. Terra opened her eyes to find a small silver butterfly catching the light that spilled through the window.
"YES!" Terra shouted, a lit louder than was necessary. She looked back at the clock to find that time was up. She took out the fake pin and switched them quickly and slammed the drawer shut, and rushed to the door to find that it was being jiggled. The bell that signaled the end of lunch rang, and the door slowly opened to reveal Mr. White struggling with papers, a jacket and texting someone on his cell phone. Terra was going to be caught red handed.
Mr. White dropped his soda, cursed under his breath and bent to pick it up.
With that amazing stroke of luck, Terra opened the window and scrambled out of it as fast as she could.
She managed to get away. She breathed a sigh of relief. On the down side...the bell had rung, that meant she had thirty seconds to get to class...well now it was more like 15.
Terra thought that this would be the only time that she could get away with using her powers without feeling guilty.
She lifted her hand and a blouder quickly followed which she stepped on top of and she was off.
She directed the boulder over the school and the the east entrance to her geometry class. She jumped of the boulder and hid it in plane sight among the others that decorated all entrances to the school.
Feeling that she did an excellent job of disguising her powers, she ran inside and bolted down the hall to her Geometry class.
Just as she was about to step through the door the bell rang signaling she was late.
"Terra." Mrs. Fare said giving her the nastiest death glare Terra had seen since her days with Raven. "You're late."
Terra sighed and said, "Of course I am." And walked over to the teacher's desk waiting to hear her punishment.
Mrs. Fare pulled out a pink slip and wrote out the reason for her punishment. "Now this isn't a big reason for detention, so I'm letting you off easy. Stay after school tomorrow for your punishment."
"Fine." Terra said taking the pink slip and waling to her desk. She sat down and reached for her book bag that she realized was still in the art room. Terra just couldn't catch a break.
"Perfect. Just perfect."
Beast Boy and Raven flew, and flew and kept flying until they completely out of sight of Titan's Tower. And once they were, the flew to an alleyway in between to skyscrapers. Raven landed first and took the box from Beast Boy's claws, allowing Beast Boy to change back into his normal teenage self.
"So what are we going to do?" Beast Boy said taking the box back from Raven and taking out the two necklaces.
"Well unless you know of a convenient little home in the middle of the city, I suggest that we find a place to live while we look for Terra." Raven said sitting down on the pavement and sitting cross-legged.
"Fine, just...please hurry. I want to get to Terra as soon as possible." Beast Boy said putting the blue necklace around his neck.
Azarath Metrion Zinthos. Azarath Metrion Zinthos. Azarath Metrion Zinthos.
"What are you doing? This is no time for meditating!" Beast Boy exclaimed.
Raven sighed and opened one eye. "I'm looking for a place for us to stay."
"Oh. Well, alright." Beast Boy said focusing his attention back on the blue necklace. "Umm. Raven? I don't know how to work these things. Should I call Cyborg and ask?"
"Not a good idea. We don't know if he's disconected our communicators. I'll figure it out. And I found an orphanage for us to stay at." Raven said standing up.
"AN ORPHANAGE?" Beast Boy practically screamed. "Why do we have to stay at an orphanage?"
"Because we're two teenagers, and we have no home." She said taking out the pink necklace and putting it around her neck.
"Alright fin. Can you at least tell me how to work this thing?" Beast Boy said shaking the gadget.
Raven sat down and looked closely at the pink chip on the necklace. She flipped it every which way until she knew the surface of it by heart. Then she used the tip of her nail to wedge in between the gadget and reveal it's insides.
"Aha. Here we go. Open up your necklace there are a set of dials."
Beast Boy did as he was told and found four tiny, green buttons. "Alright, what do i do now?"
Raven pressed the first button on her gadget, and nothing happened. Beast Boy did the same and fell to the ground and started grunting like he were in pain.
"Beast Boy are you...whoa..." Raven said looking at the Green boy crying before him.
"AHHHHH! What's happening?" Beast Boy said pulling one hand to his ear and the other to his mouth. Under his fingers he could feel his pointy ears becoming round. And his fang suddenly disappeared.
Then the burning pain suddenly stopped. "Raven... What just happend?"
"I think the button you pushed took your powers away...which means...Azarath Metrion ZINTHOS!" Raven said trying to throw an apple core that was lying side ways on the ground. But to both Beast Boy and Raven's surprise, nothing happend.
"The button we pressed took away our powers." Raven said helping Beast Boy off from the ground.
"So...wait...how do I look?" Beast Boy said with enthusiasm.
"You look normal." Raven said focusing on her necklace. As much as she hated to admit it Beast Boy looked...well...kind of hot.
"Normal." Best Boy said running to the very back of the alleyway and knelt down to puddle that showed his reflection. He gasped. His fang was gone, and so were his pointy ears. His skin was white and his hair was a light brown. His eyes were still the same emerald green and his voice still sounded the same, but he was different. He was normal, just like he was before his accident.
"This is great! I look like my parents again! Raven are you going to..." Beast Boy paused when Raven put her small hand over his mouth.
"Be quiet. With all the noise you're making, someone will find us."
Raven new that her appearance wouldn't change because she looked like this all her life, her powers hadn't changed her appearance.
"Alright so then how do I change my appearance?" Raven said messing with the buttons. Since she already knew what the first button did, so she pressed the button next to the first and waited for something to happen.
She didn't feel any pain, only warmth covering her arms and legs. She looked down to find her cape and leotard gone and was replaced by a long sleeve yellow shirt that said dare to be different in bold black letters and dark blue jeans. Then before her eyes, her blue boots turned into green converse sneakers.
"Alright Beast Boy, the second button changes your clothes." she said expressionless. Then looked up to find that Beast Boy had already changed his doom patrol uniform into a green and purple tye-dye t-shirt and ripped jeans with black converses.
"Yeah, I know." He said pulling down his shirt a little bit and dusting himself off.
"Ok. You don't look the same at all, but I don't know how to change my hair and face..." Raven said giving Beast Boy the once over look.
"Well you've already tried the first two buttons. So, try the other two." He said giving Raven the once over as well.
"Alright." Raven took the necklace back in her hands and pushed the button underneath the first. Her hair started to grow down to her rib cage and turned from a violet blue to a light brown.
"Ok, well that settles hair, now this last one must do...AHH!" Raven said grasping her head.
"Raven? Are you ok?" Beast Boy said as he knelt next to Raven who was now on the floor throbbing with pain.
"Raven! You're skin! It's...tan!" Beast Boy said.
Raven looked up at him with small tears in her eyes. "Really?"
"And your eyes! They're emerald green like mine! We look like we're brother and sister!" Beast Boy said helping her up.
"Well now that we look different, we have to come up with a cover story about why we're going to an orphanage." Raven said in a monotone voice.
"Works for me, but now that you're emotions don't control your powers anymore, you could try to sound like a normal teenage girl." Beast Boy said following Raven out of the alleyway.
"I don't think so. Just because I look like a stupid preppy girl, doesn't mean I have to act like one." Raven said keeping her eyes forward as she walked ahead of Beast Boy.
"Alright it was just a sudgestion." Beast Boy said jogging to catch up to her. "Well we should probably think of different names."
"Ok, good idea. What do you want you're name to be?"
"Logan. It's my middle name." Beast Boy said smiling thinking of his past.
"Alright. You pick mine. I'm not good with names." Raven said turning the corner. They were only a few minutes away from the orphanage.
"You look like a..." Beast Boy stepped in front of her and walked backwards so they wouldn't have to stop. "Jade."
Raven stopped. "Jade? Really? Turns out you're not good with names either."
"Fine it was just an idea. So what do you want to be called?"
Raven thought this over. "Call me...Paige."
"Paige?" Beast Boy thought about this. "I guess you do kind of look like a Paige. Ok, works for me."
"Now for our cover story." Raven said pulling Beast boy into a book store to have some spare time. "This will give us a little more time to think since we're now only two minutes away from Wistore Orphanage."
"Alright." Beast Boy said going along with it. "Just can we please hurry? I want to find Terra as soon as possible." Beast Boy looked at the clock above the book store entrance. "Terra's school let out twenty minutes ago!"
"Ok, ok. Just come on." Raven said taking hold of Beast boy's hand which made him blush ever so slightly.
They walked to the back of the store which had a sofa and a tiny table in front of guarded by three bookshelves so no one could see them, or hear them. They walked around the table and sat down on the sofa and began to think.
"What could we make up that would still sound believeable?" Raven said looking at Beast Boy.
Beast Boy went into deep thought, then remembered his parents, and how they died in a boating accident. Tears slid down his face at the painful memory.
Raven noticed his pain and asked, "Are you ok?"
"Yeah." Beast Boy said wiping his eyes on his sleeve. "I just came up with a cover story that will sound believable because it actually did happen to me.
Raven felt like an idiot. She had forgotten Beast boy really was an orphan. Well at least he would be if he wasn't part of the Teen Titans.
"Alright, what's the story?" Raven said laying a hand on Beast Boy's shaking shoulder.
He tried to compose himself, but found no relief to his pain. So, instead of leaving Raven out dry waiting for the story, he spoke.
"When I was really little, I was living with my parents in the jungle. One day I wandered off on my own and found a monkey. I stepped toward it with my hand held out to pet it, and it jumped off of it's branch, landed in front of me, bit me, and ran off. I screamed with pain and my parents found me and brought me back to the house we built. My parents were both doctors and realized that I had a rare and fatal disease. They were very smart and came up with antidote that they knew would cure me. I drank it and the pain went away, but was quickly replaced by a new pain. My parents had no idea what was going on and all they could do was try to calm me down as i cried in my bed from the pain. They gasped with horror as my ears became pointed, a fang appeared and covered my upper lip, and my hair and skin became green. When I told them the pain was gone and they told me what happened, they ran some tests and found out that the serum they gave to me, not only cured me, but gave me my animal shape-shifting powers."
Beast Boy took a deep breath and wipied his eyes one more time.
"A few years later, we moved back to civilization. And one day when I was home alone, the police had come to my house and told me that my parents had died in a boating miss-hap. It was the worst day of my life."
Beast Boy sighed and let a few more tears fall onto his jeans and waited for a reply from Raven.
"Beast Boy...I had no idea." Now that her powers weren't linked to her emotions, she let herself feel sorry for him. "Why didn't you tell me? And do you want to use your story for our cover story?" Raven said sweetly while rubbing Beast Boy's back gently, trying to calm him down.
"I didn't tell you, or anyone, because it's hard for me to talk about. But right now, giving the curcumstances of finding Terra, I thought it would be alright to talk about." Beast Boy said taking Raven's hand off of his back. "And yes, I would like to use that for our cover story...the boat part not the part of me getting my powers."
"Alright. Are you sure?"
"Yes." Beast Boy said collecting himself and walking back towards the entrance. "Come on, we've already lost too much time."
Raven followed him out the door ad they walked the rest of the way in silence.
Raven stopped at the sign for the orphanage and grabbed Beast Boy's shoulder to keep him from walking any further. "We're here."
Beast Boy looked at the small brick building and at the sign that had words that were so faded that you could barely read them.
"We're one step further away from Titans Tower." Raven said entering the small building.
"And one step closer to getting Terra back." Beast Boy said with hope and followed Raven into the building.
With Robin and Starfire out in the city looking for Beast Boy and Raven, Cyborg stayed back and focused on disconnecting BB and Raven's communicators. He went to their loft/kitchen and got to work. First he'd disconnect Beast Boy's since this was all his idea after all.
He typed in all the codes to get to his communicator and jammed the signal by typing in new codes that the others wouldn't know until all this had blown over. Next was Raven's communicator. Again he typed in a series of codes that only he knew. Then Raven's communicator had no signal along with Beast Boy's.
Now was the time to test it out.
Cyborg took out his communicator and signaled for Beast Boy.
"Beast Boy! You and Raven there?" Cyborg said quietly in case they had changed their identity already.
"Yeah we're here Cyborg, have you disconected the signals?" said a boy with brown hair and green eyes.
"BB? Is that you?" Cyborg said rubbing his eye. "I guess you've already changed your appearance."
"Yeah, it was...painful." Beast Boy said. "You could've warned us."
"Sorry, when I tried it, it didn't hurt me." Cyborg said recalling the memory. "Anyway, from what I can tell from the computer, you're signals are jammed to Robin and Starfire. And...where's Raven?"
"I'm here." Said a girl with long light brown hair and green eyes that matched Beast Boy's. "But can you call us by new names? We're about to go to our new rooms."
"New rooms? Where are you guys?" Cyborg said trying to trace their communicators and found no signal. He smiled, his plan worked.
"We're staying at an orphanage."
"Oh ok, I think I know where you're talking about. Alright." Cyborg said turning off the computer and standing up to see a worried Starfire floating outside the window.
"Hey I have to go, Robin and Starfire are back. Good luck finding Terra." Cyborg said turning off his communicator and running downstairs to meet up with Robin and Starfire.
"Could you find them?" Starfire said sounding hopeful, but was hidden by a worried frown on her face.
"I couldn't, I was trying to get them to answer me through my communicator, but they must have done something to jam the signal because I couldn't find them on the computer either." Cyborg lied.
"Cyborg, I am most worried about our friends." Starfire said with a tear streaming down her cheek.
"It's alright Starfire. I'm sure they're fine." Cyborg said wiping the tear away and pulling Starfire into a gentle hug.
"I do hope you're right." Starfire said softly as Robin came into the room.
"Any news?" he said walking over to the two of them.
"No luck, sorry man." Cyborg said shrugging and letting go of the whimpering Starfire who flew up the stairs and out of sight.
"I'm starting to get worried, I think I over-reacted and made Raven and Beast Boy worry too much, I feel really bad." Robin said walking over to the small couch and put his hands to his head. "I mean really bad. I just wanted to know what was going on. I didn't mean to worry them."
"Well once we find them, be sure to tell them that." Cyborg said making sure not to reveal any of the information that Beast Boy and Raven had told him.
"I just hope that they're alright" Robin said standing up. "I'm going to go look around Beast Boy's room, maybe it'll give me some idea to where they are. Call if you need me he said pointing to his communicator.
"Will do." Cyborg said walking up the stairs and to his room.
