Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans.
Once the Titans who had been knocked out got back up, they almost immediately began searching the entire city, ignoring the pain their wounds gave them. They knew that they needed to find their lost teammates first, then they could sort themselves out. This time they found at least some sort of clues which lead them to a deserted building, which they recalled from many years ago when they first became a team, had made all kinds of toys. Beast Boy and Cyborg often went there as it often had some games for sale, and everyone knows the two are gaming addicts. Sometimes they took Starfire along with them as she enjoyed looking at all the different items, but they rarely let her buy anything. They were disappointed when it got shut down, but apparently the owners were not making enough money to keep it up and running. Robin wondered why they didn't demolish the building yet since it was not in use for so long, but he decided it wasn't the right time to be thinking about things like that when two of their friends, one of them his girlfriend, were missing.
"Everything points to them being here, so let's split up," Robin ordered. They all nodded and did as he told them to, but in truth Beast Boy would of preferred if they didn't. The place just seemed eerie and dangerous, and he knew that their enemy could be waiting for them and jump out at them at any minute, expecting them to follow. Now they were much weaker than before, they were already wounded and tired, and they had no idea what happened after they fainted. No, he really didn't think it was a good idea splitting up.
He weaved his way in and out of various machines, box stacks and shelves, trying to make this search end as quick as possible without overlooking anything. In the end, he was trying to find Raven, the girl he secretly loved for so many years, and if being in there was going to bring them any closer to finding her, he didn't mind feeling uncomfortable for a while. Sighing, he put his hand on the side of a metal machine, leaning against it. He knew he wouldn't forgive himself if anything happened to her, he'd never get over it. He knew nothing would happen to her, she was a strong woman, one of the best titans, and she would not let anything harm her. That's what he hoped for at least, but what if anything did... No, he couldn't doubt her, she would be absolutely fine, and when they find her she will not be hurt, maybe she'll even return herself. Maybe she was at the tower waiting for them right now, or maybe even took down the villain herself, she had Starfire there to help her, and surely they had done some sort of impact on him from the fight and...
Suddenly the machine he was leaning on buzzed to life, and made loud, horrible choking noises from not being turned on in so long. He jumped back from the surprise. It was one that looked very much like half a digger, that was used for transporting many toys from one machine to another at once in a quick time. It was covered in dust and rust at this moment in time though, and it kept stopping and shaking as it slowly moved down as if to pick the toys that were no longer there up. Still trying to calm himself down from what seemed to be the shock of his life, he had forgotten to let his friends know that nothing happened and it was a simple accident. But now it was too late as they had rushed over from their sides of the factory and looked extremely worried.
"Beast Boy, ya okay man?" Cyborg panted and ran over to him, grabbing him by the arm to make sure he was alright and also to steady himself.
"Did you find Arion? Did he do this? What happened? Speak to me!" Robin barked the questions way too fast for Beast Boy to even open his mouth.
"Calm down, man, give 'im a chance to catch his breath," Cyborg said, and BB was greatful to him as Robin did as he was told.
"No, I just paused for a second or two and must of accidentally pressed a button to turn on the machine as I leaned on it," he explained, but this seemed to make Robin even more angry than if he'd said that this was the work of Arion.
"Why did you stop? Why did you touch anything that was obviously not of interest? We didn't go that far, you didn't need a break yet," Robin scolded, and BB's ears drooped.
"Sorry, Robin," he apologised to the furious leader as Cyborg looked for ways to turn off the ancient machine.
"Sorry isn't good enough! Never stop again unless I let you, understand?"
"Yes, Robin." With that he took in a deep breath and let it out again, managing to regain his composure somewhat. Finally Cy did find a way and the horrid noise soon faded.
"Good, let's carry on then."
They returned to the T-Tower empty handed, much to their disappointment, and the girls were not there as all of them prayed they would be. Once all the rooms were checked over, just in case, Robin immediately rushed over to his computer and began typing. The other two watched him and sighed. He'll never sleep now. Beast Boy did not feel sorry for him though, not after the way he shouted at him back at the factory for making a simple mistake. He went up to his room and sat on the side of his bed, head in his hands as he stared down on the floor. All his hopes he made before the machine turned on had been crushed, Raven was nowhere to be found and if she had beaten Arion she would've been back by now to tell them. Plenty of worries filled his mind and joined his anger at Robin. Before they could take completr control of him, a knock ripped through his thoughts.
"Beast Boy, could I talk to you for a minute?" Cyborg's voice asked through the door and he went and opened it. "Uh, could I come in?" He said as he looked around as if to make sure no one was listening to them. BB nodded and stepped aside to let him in.
"What do you want to talk about?"
"Robin, ya know that he was yelling at ya in the factory - don't take it personally."
"That's a bit hard."
"I know, but ya gotta understand the guy, he just lost his girl and lost a second time to a villain. I'm sure if ya lost someone ya loved so much ya would be worried sick."
"Who said I didn't," BB growled and then realised his mistake straight after. He hoped Cyborg didn't notice and would leave him alone, but he knew him too well.
"Wha? Ya love one of 'em? Ya know very well Starfire is taken."
"No it's not Star-"
"Ya like Raven? Why her outta all people?" Beast Boy planned to just admit it, but when he said that he decided to keep the secret going a bit longer.
"No it's not Raven either, it's... Terra, I s-still love her and I lost her, now could you please leave?" Beast Boy lied and opened his door once again. Cyborg lifted up a suspicious eyebrow at him, but didn't speak again and left as he had been asked to.
Once he made sure he was gone, Beast Boy fell onto his bed with a large sigh. Of course he didn't love Terra anymore, but he needed to say something to get Cyborg off his case. He was even more annoyed now though; why was Raven so bad? She was both intelligent and beautiful, and she was no where near as needy as most other girls. She would do anything to protect her team and the rest of the world, and she was good at it as well. He could list the reasons why he liked her out of all people all night long, however he knew he couldn't really blame Cyborg for saying that. He probably didn't know her as well as he did, even if they were close. He didn't spend years adoring her secretly. He didn't spend six years trying to understand her and trying to make her notice him. Sighing once more, he curled up into a ball and tried to fall asleep.
