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Notes and replies to comments:

I agree that Beast Boy's potential in the show is vastly underrated.

Given he'd spent months in the gym working off his frustration, perhaps it isn't so amazing he beat them. But there's another element to that that won't be revealed for a few chapters yet. But it was one-on-one, if he were to face the full team I'm sure he would be black and blue rather than green.

There will be a trial, and they will have to answer for what they did. Maybe, sort off. We'll see. The outcome of it will be shown, but not the trial itself.

Will Beast Boy date/sleep with a few girls? I was wondering about that myself. Unless it's a character I make up it might be difficult. I'm not too familiar with the girls of the DC universe. The Teen Titans is just a show I ran into while taking a break from writing Kim Possible fiction. Blackfire is definitely out. Took a look at a website for Batgirl but good grief there're so many different Batgirls. I'm overwhelmed. I will make a quick google search of the other two you mentioned and see. I want him to have at least one fling.

Beast Boy overpowered. Maybe, but there will be more about that particular fight in a later chapter. I'm guessing around chapter nine or so.

Hrm. Aqualad. If Beast Boy can assume forms of intelligent creatures, that would be a good shape. It would even allow him to talk while in it. Not sure if I will allow that in this particular story. Would two intelligences in the same body clash? The Atlantean form would be intelligent and conscious, while Beast Boy would inhabit the same body, also intelligent and conscious. I would have him hunt down Malchior again, but that would be too repetitive, I think. Still, I love the idea of him using a dragon form.

Time skips. Chapters will have some time skips, maybe a month or two each, to show the passing of time, and yet show how things are progressing.

Time: Two weeks later.


The Search,... The Minion of a new Villain,... No News,... Beast Boy and Decisions,...

The green-skinned dolphin swam over the muddy sea bottom idly thinking about human topics. As a Titan he'd gotten an allowance from Robin, who was backed by a certain very rich individual from Gotham City. Without that income Beast Boy knew life would be pretty miserable; it was something he'd tried. Work for people with green skin wasn't exactly plentiful. Employers saw the strange coloring, along with the pointed ears, and were either calling an ambulance, or looking up the number for a vet. Before he'd joined Boy Wonder he'd even had people try to catch him, thinking he was an alien.

The shape shifter sent out pulses of sound, scanning the bottom once again. There was no way he was facing the human world without money. It seemed people tended to believe if you had money, then you had to be human. It opened a lot of doors. Such as take-out food, and a place to crash should he want it. And for all that he could be any one of more than several hundred animals, a place to call home would be nice. So he spent hour after hour scanning the sea floor.

A few hours earlier he'd crawled ashore on the banks of Spark City; a place well known for matches and candles. There he'd stolen some clothes and headed to the library. An hour of searching had found the likely location of several sunken ships. With his innate sense of how currents worked, he was searching for them. Several times his sonar had sent back images of what appeared to be a mast of an old fashion sailing ship. Each time it'd been a mistake.

Then he'd got lucky. A school of dolphins had passed by and he'd tried talking to them. The area he was currently in should have what he was looking for. Still it was several square miles to examine. With a mental sigh he continued the search.


The alarm sounded through the tower, and wearily she forced herself to her feet. Each day she'd searched and searched, only to find nothing. But now there was a villain to fight, and she could barely move. She staggered to the door, unable to summon enough energy to teleport.

"It's a new foe." Robin said, less enthusiastic than he once would've. Turning he looked at Raven. "You're not coming." His eyes roamed over her, taking in her disheveled appearance.

"I'm okay." The girl insisted, sitting down. Her head was tilted as she stared back at him, her eyes unable to focus.

"At least heal your eyes, friend Raven." Starfire frowned, obviously concerned.

"I will." The violet-eyed girl replied. "When it's time. When I find him." She was aware of the others looking at her with despair.

"How can you fight when you're half blind?" Their leader asked.

"I can see well enough for that. It's just the finer details I have trouble with." Raven insisted, not backing down. She heard a chorus of sighs.

"Okay." Boy Wonder relented. "But stay back and do what you can from a distance. We all know you can't see well enough to be in the middle of a fight."

She nodded, willing to meet him halfway. "Okay." It was her usual method of fighting anyway. A hand reached out to help her stand and walk to the T-car.

As Robin had said, it was a new foe; it brought to mind Slade, but somehow neither of them thought he was behind this. The robot, if that's what it was, was pure silver in color with four red eyes equally spaced around its bald head. A mere five feet in height it was slim and very fast. Except for having no indication of gender, it was humanoid in appearance. As it walked along the street it was emitting sonic pulses that was shattering every bit of glass within a fifteen foot radius.

"Definitely new." Cyborg said, frowning.

"Starfire, hit it was some starbolts." Robin ordered. "Be careful not to get too close." He added, watching the robotic minion closely. The starbolts knocked it back a few feet, then it continued on its merry way.

"Cyborg. Can you scan it?"

"No. It's emitting some sort of interference." The cybernetic teen replied. He raised his sonic cannon and blasted at the new foe. The results were less than spectacular as it merely twisted to one side, completely avoiding the blast.

"Beast Boy is there..." Robin paused, cringing as did everyone around him. Without another word he tried several birdarangs, and then several electric discs followed by several explosive ones. Moving with inhuman speed, all were easily evaded by the silver android. Having to throw from a distance, to keep their bones from being shattered by the sound waves, gave their opponent's electronic brain plenty of time to react.

Raven reached out with her magic and held it in place. Even given her exhaustion she felt weak. Timid and Happy. She realized. They're either gone, or just not helping. Struggling, she managed to hold the robot in place for several seconds. In that time three explosive discs, two blast of the sonic cannon, and over a dozen starbolts hit it.

They all watched as it staggered beneath the impact, was blown ten feet backwards, and toppled over. Then, as if nothing had happened, it got back to its feet and continued its march. Giant sheets of glass in several storefronts shattered, littering the street with sharp fragments. A few seconds later more windows gave way beneath the sonic impulses it was emitting. When it walked by several cars, they all suddenly lost every window they had.

"Tough." Cyborg muttered.

"Still, I think it's damaged." Starfire spoke. "It's not moving as fast as it was before."

"Hrm." Robin said, sizing up the situation. "Cyborg, how much slower is it moving?"

"Not much. When we got here it was walking at five miles per hour, almost a slow jog." The cybernetic teen studied the silver android. "Now it's move at maybe just a little under five. We might've done some damage."

"Raven can you hold it again?"

"I'll try." The violet-haired girl replied, wondering which one of the two silver blobs she could see was the target.

She manged to hold it twice more before she sat down from exhaustion. The robot had been slowed to four miles per hour, though there still wasn't a mark on its surface.

Eyes half closed she watched as Starfire tossed starbolt after starbolt at it, seemingly without doing any damage. Cyborg fired his cannon more than a dozen times before he had to allow it to cool off. The few times he'd hit didn't seem to do much either. When it passed a fire hydrant they soaked it with water. If was indeed mechanical, it was well sealed against that particular liquid. Eventually Starfire dropped from exhaustion. Still, even if it looked like they'd done no damage they must've done some. It's speed had dropped from four miles per hours to three. But for all they knew, that could be from its batteries running down or something.

Robin resumed throwing discs with most of them striking. Apparently the android could no longer move with the speed needed to avoid them.

Raven, a little refreshed, held it in place, trying to crush it, as the rest of the team went all-out against the mechanical minion once again. Slowing to two miles per hour, it suddenly stopped and emitted a loud pitched whistle. Then its skin seemed to melt and collapse inward, giving it a gaunt look; five seconds later it exploded. There was no debris left.

"Hope there aren't any more of those where that one came from." Cyborg said, looking at his arm. It was emitting smoke.

"Pretty sure we'll see more." Raven intoned. "Whoever made it, built it so it wouldn't leave any traces behind; they don't want us analyzing it. They're not gone, just this one toy they sent out."

"I've gotta concur with Raven." Robin said, sitting down on the ground. It'd been a long battle; two hours from start to finish.

Cyborg studied a display on his wrist. "It was transmitting." He finally said, still looking at his wrist. "From the looks of it it was video. It'll be more than enough information for someone to analyze the fight."

"Great." Robin muttered. "We might try different weapons next time, but whoever it was got a lot more data than we did." He looked down the street. From the time it'd taken them to arrived, and during the fight, he figured the robot had travelled eleven miles. For that entire length everything made of glass had been shattered. The windows were obvious, but he knew inside the shops and houses there would've been things like computers and televisions that woud've been destroyed as well. Not to mention a whole lot of dishes.

"At least twenty million in damages." Cyborg said, looking away from the wrist display to stare down the street as well. "A hundred of those could take out the entire city."

"More like ten." Robin countered. "If there was another one, we would be in no shape to handle it. And it didn't even strike back. It was just reconnaissance."

They all frowned at that. The broken team was in no shape to handle another powerful villain.

"Maybe Jinx will have something useful against it." Cyborg finally said. "Her bad luck hexes might make it just explode or something."

"Maybe." Raven mused, hoping it was the case. The pink-haired girl had been visiting Titans East for this particular battle.

Starfire helped her back to the T-car, and they returned to the tower.


At the tower, rather than sleep, Raven sought out Cyborg. "Any news on who altered the tapes?" She asked bluntly.

"No. I've gone over them more than fifty times, and I've used more than thirty programs to scan for anything that might give us a clue. Nothing."He sighed. "Whoever altered them only made one mistake, they didn't take into account the cameras could see in the infrared."

"That wasn't a mistake." Raven intoned apathetically. A few weeks ago she'd been speaking almost normally, but she'd reverted to her old habits.

The cybernetic teen looked at her.

"We were meant to spot it after it was too late." She explained. "It was meant to let us know we'd tossed out someone who was innocent."

"To break up the team." Cyborg added.

"It worked." She replied. "Which doesn't tell us how they knew we wouldn't spot it beforehand."

"Almost like Slade." The cybernetic Titan added. "Just as brilliant a move, and just as ruthless."

"It's not him though. That robot wasn't his; it wasn't made in his image, and his ego would've demanded that."

Cyborg nodded in agreement. "A new enemy we know nothing about." He looked down at the computer console he was working at. "Someone who can access our systems without leaving a trace." He turned his attention back to Raven. "Given any thought to the trial yet?"

"No. It's not important." Her tone suggested otherwise. She craved to be punished, needed to suffer. "I'll be in my room." She said, and turned away.

Back in her room she picked up a book and glanced through it. The writing was just a blur. Until she healed her eyes even the world of books was denied her. That, she decided, was okay. Lying down, she tried to sleep. She would search again tomorrow.


Beast Boy had found what he'd been searching for. Turning into an octopus, it'd taken several hours to dig down and uncover the cargo hole of a ship that'd been carrying more than two hundred million in gold and platinum ingots. The shape shifter looked through the cargo space which was almost intact, wondering why he'd never done this before. His unique abilities gave him an unparalleled ability, with maybe the exception of Aqualad, to search for such shipwrecks. He didn't need gear to breathe underwater, and the sonar of a dolphin could penetrate into the sea bottom, giving him a crude picture of its composition. He estimated each ingot weighed around five pounds, or eighty ounces. If he was able to get full market price for them they would net him a hundred grand each. Of course that wasn't likely. He was hoping for twenty percent, but would be happy with ten.

He grabbed eight of the ingots, one for each arm, and slowly started to make his way to the shore. Sometime trying to carry stuff as an animal was a pain. Still he knew he could expect a decent place to sleep and decent food. It was worth the hassle after two weeks of being washed around by the sea. Nearing the beach, he ran into a strong current and dropped the ingots to switch to a dolphin once more to rest.

The water was filled with sound, including what he thought might be a cry for help. Unable to turn away, he headed towards it. Six minutes later he encountered a small body floating in the water, being carried out to sea by a powerful current. There was a commotion coming from the shore; people were trying to reach the unmoving form, but the brutally strong undertow was keeping them back.

He shifted back to an octopus, and grabbed the child, taking note it was girl of maybe five or six. Way too young to die. He though, cringing and hoping he wasn't too late. His arms lifted her above the water and gently squeezed, forcing the water from her lungs. Immediately she started coughing and crying. It seemed she must've only lost consciousness seconds before he spotted her. Greatly relieved, he headed towards the shore, forcing himself to move against the current.

Soon she was grabbed out of his reach by a courageous young woman brave enough to face what could only have appeared to her to be a relatively large octopus. Despite weighing only a hundred and eighty pounds, his form must've seen immense, and very intimidating. Back out to sea he took to the air as a falcon and watched. The girl was pronounced okay and was allowed to run into the arms of a waiting older sister who was crying as much as the young girl.

Returning to his dropped loot, he gathered it and resumed his slow process to land. It'd felt good to be a hero once more. Any thoughts he'd had of returning to Jump City as a villain just to stir up trouble vanished.

Two hours later he was in a pawn shop, carefully staring at the owner. His sharp hearing was telling him the skinny man of about fifty was nervous, thinking he was buying stolen goods. The man's voice, along with his eyes, also contained greed. When he mentioned a price that was absurdly low, Beast Boy mentioned one that was as ridiculously high. To his surprise, he got around fifty percent of the market value for a single ingot. Fifty thousand dollars.

He searched the city, and found seven more dealers in gold. Only four of them panned out, with the others asking for identification. Still, it left him with two hundred and twenty thousand in cash. More than enough to last him a long time. Recalling the child that'd nearly drowned, he dropped the other three ingots into a donation box for a child's hospital.

A clothing store for a cloak that covered his green skin was his first stop. Then he roamed the city, making a restaurant that served vegetarian dishes his second major stop; eating raw seafood was getting to be a bit tedious. Finding a cheap hotel that didn't bother with identification, he sat back to do some thinking.

First he recalled the fight that'd led to his end as a Titan. With the panic and adrenaline gone, he saw it in a different light. There'd been shock in Robin's eyes at the sight of the explosive disc. The same with Raven with both the disc and when she'd nearly killed her boyfriend. If he'd settled down at either of those times he might've been able to just walk away. Still, their willingness to condemn him without even showing him any evidence washed away any regret he had over the fight. The wounds he'd taken were worth it to let them know ... He shrugged, not really sure what he'd shown them. Still, it'd been worth it. Unlike with the Doom Patrol he hadn't walked away cowed. Not only that, but so far he was doing okay. Far better than scavenging bottles and cans to be recycled just to get a bite of pizza. Much better. He thought, recalling the expensive meal he'd just had. And while the hotel was cheap, it was warm and comfortable. It even had a tv. He briefly turned it on, and then just as quickly turned it off. Definitely not the type of show I'm in the mood for at the moment. He mused with a grin.

So what do I want now? He pondered. I have access to tons of cash, so long as I don't run out of crooked pawn shop owners. I can do whatever I want, whether it be playing video games all day, or ... Definitely not that. Once in a while maybe. Beast Boy stared up at the dirty ceiling, stained with what looked like cigarette smoke. I like being a hero. He decided. It made me feel good, and it was fun at times. But what made it fun was having friends. And I'm certainly not ready to trust anyone that much again. Not now, and perhaps not ever. He sighed. I like turning into animals, and want to be able to change into more. So finding more shapes would be nice.

He settled back, closing his eyes, still thinking. So remain a hero, and hunt for new shapes. Two things I want to do. Choose one? Or can I do both at the same time? The shape shifter turned the thought over in his head. Picking a city to protect would tell the Titans where I am, and while I don't think they would hunt me down I really don't care to deal with them. At least not for a long long time. Hrm.

What animals would I hunt? That was important. If he was going to do both at once, the shape he wanted would decided where he went. I've covered most of the larger ones. Elephant, bear, various whales,... I've also got the more common ones. Most cats, a ton of snakes, dogs, birds, ...Be cool if I could fly to alien worlds and find alien shapes, but that's out. I don't have a form that can survive in space, and starships aren't exactly a dime a dozen. He opened his eyes to stare at the smoke stain again. It was annoying. Which was weird given how messy his room usually was. His thoughts returned to his future and what he would do.


End of Chapter.

Raven isn't taking things well. And there will be a trial.

Beast Boy has tons of cash, with access to more, and has decided he wants to remain a hero while finding new animals he can change into. Even considering going off-world if he can.

As with my other Teen Titan stories, he will need a DNA sample to change into a new form.

Many thanks to those who read and review.