About an hour after Terra single-handedly took down the Hive Five, the titans were having a celebratory lunch at the kitchen table with their newest member, Terra.

"I can't believe you're doing this for me. I mean, it wasn't that big of a deal." The girl nervously tried to brush off, her eyes staying away from all the attention aimed at her.

"Nonsense. Pretty much the only titan here that could take them down easily is Raven, and she doesn't do so because her dark magic could backfire in someway." Cyborg explained. "But you? You took them down like nothing!"

"Got to admit, Terra; that was mighty epic what you did." Beast Boy complimented taking her hand, making her blush and giggle somewhat.

"Thanks."

"A toast, to the newest titan, Terra!" Robin cheered.

"To Terra!" The other titans repeated, all except Raven.

"Raven, why do you not share the jubilation with us?" Starfire asked the pale sorceress.

"I don't feel like it." She dryly responded. Terra's worried face worsened from that.

"Raven, you're being rude to our newest recruit." Robin whispered in a scolding tone, before turning to Terra. "I'm sorry Terra. Raven's not all that great with new members." The blonde metahuman partially believed the titan leader, but just the way Raven was staring into her eyes, almost menacingly like she personally insulted the veteran titan, it was really bugging her.

"I-It's okay. Excuse me, I-I got to go." Getting up quick, she ditched the kitchen heading to Beast Boy's room.

"Yo, what your deal, Rae? Quit giving my girl the stink eye." The green teen told Raven off.

"Starfire asked me a question, and now that Terra is gone, I can answer her honestly. Last night, when I was going to make myself tea, I noticed Terra going into the pantry room. Listening, she said we're falling for her pathetic fearful self and is waiting for the opportunity to take our secrets under our noses."

"You lyin' girl!" Beast Boy objected angrily. "Terra can't so much as hurt a fly it don't do nothing wrong!"

"I must agree. No girl who cries and cowers like she does in front of friendly accompaniment could be the evildoer." Starfire agreed.

"What do you think Robin?" Cyborg asked the leader. Taking this all into consideration, it only took a moment before he decided.

"How about a middle ground? Terra can remain part of the titans and gets a communicator and room. However, if any of us finds her actions suspicious, we keep a close eye on her, and her communicator is partially locked and all important data are closed off indefinitely until she's proven undeniably innocent. All in favor?" Beast Boy, Starfire and Cyborg raised their hands. With a grumble, Raven raised her hand up last. "Then its settled. Terra's a titan, but under restriction and a close eye. Now, let us eat our lunch and save hers' for later."

"I don't like it, but that does sound like a decent compromise. I'm in." Beast Boy answered while slumping, upset that his girl was under suspicion. Everyone else agreed after that.

Terra was laying on Beast Boy's bed in the dark. She's gotten past the point of sobbing but tears still kept her face wet. Not only that, she was in a constant turmoil of not just Raven's behavior, but wanting to take in Beast Boy's scent from his blanket but frequently recoiled from the foul odor it produced. Come to think of it, the whole room stunk, and yet oddly enough, the stink brought a sense of relief, because it reminded her of the person she trusted most for the moment.

"Why is nothing ever easy?" She asked herself. The blonde could feel another wave of anxiety and crying coming, clutching the blanket tighter when there was a knock on the door.

"Terra, it's me. Can I come in?" Feeling the emotional wave going away, instead calming down somewhat, the girl answered,

"Yes." Hearing the door slide open, Beast Boy held a a brown box she could see once he turned on the light.

"I made you something." He told her. Intrigued, she sat up to see a brown box with a lid. In fact, it looked like a box for something like an iPhone or something similar. Taking it from Beast Boy, she tried opening the gift, but it instead flipped open to her surprise revealing a stick of lip balm and a long narrow heart shaped mirror. Terra was taken aback by the simplistic yet unique design.

"Whoa, how did you make this?"

"Three things; claw cut mirror piece, Starfire, and hot glue. I would've gotten you an actual compact mirror but I thought it would be quicker to just make one. What do you think?" He asked, blushing and sweating nervously. Terra began to cry again, but for once it was pure gratefulness. Putting the custom made mirror down, she tightly hugged the green teen.

"Thank you so much. Nobody has ever done such a nice thing for me before."

"You're welcome." Beast Boy replied returning the hug. Once they separated, he gave her something else; a titan communicator. "Since you're a titan now, this belongs to you. Now you can talk to us or we reach out to you whenever."

"Thank you." She replied happily. The shapeshifter then inquired,

"So, you wanna get out of here? Maybe go on a uh, date?" With a soft chuckle, she put the mirror box and communicator into her belt before answering,

"I'd love to." Going outside on the roof, Terra used her powers to break a piece off to make a platform and went to the amusement park. The Pulse Jumper was under repair maintenance from the last titan encounter, so they went with the next best thing there; the tilt-a-whirl. It was even Terra's suggestion.

"You sure you're up for it? We don't have to do any extreme rides if you don't want to." The green teen tried reassuring, but she shook her head.

"Even with my anxiety, I can push it aside for..." Gazing upon the spinning and shaking seats do their thing, she sweated and gulped before finishing her sentence, "...fun. Harmless fun."

"Well, if you say so." He shrugged before taking her hand. She smiled from that gesture. Once on the ride, their expression of entertainment was vastly different. Beast Boy was having the time of his life, having his hands up in the air while Terra clung to the safety bar like her life depended on it, her eyes wide and her teeth clenched, but the smile on her face showed it was all still good. Once it was over, the male titan had a blast. "Whoo! Again!"

"Maybe... not so soon." Terra moaned with a bit of a green tone on her face, clutching her stomach.

"Whoa, are you motion sick?" He asked worriedly.

"I'm not... that. It's just been a while since I've-" Clutching her mouth, she ran to a trash to throw up. Hurrying to her side, Beast Boy took her hair so that it didn't get messy. It didn't last long, just two heaves before the blonde was done, wiping away the vomit. "Thanks. Sorry, that... normally doesn't happen."

"Want me to get you something to eat or drink?"

"Some shaved ice with syrup wouldn't hurt."

"You got it. Just sit here while I get you a shaved ice and maybe cotton candy."

"Sure. I'd like blue." The girl said as she took a seat at a bench while her boyfriend went off for some light food. Closing her eyes and taking a few deep breaths to calm herself down, her body stilled for a second before the metahuman's eyes opened again. Taking out her communicator, she looked for a port, finding the right one and took out from her shorts pocket a tiny drive. Inserting it into the slot, she smiled before putting it back and closing her eyes again. A moment later, Beast Boy returned with a shaved ice cone in one hand and cotton candy in the other.

"Hey Terra, wake up!" Snapping awake, she gasped before looking over to him. "What you doing snoozing away?"

"Hehe, sorry. I guess I just shut down for a moment. It happens sometimes but I don't know why."

"Eh, no biggie. I spontaneously take a nap too if Cy is talking all robot jargon for even a minute." They both softly laughed as Terra was handed her cone. Once the food was eaten, they did everything else there; bumper cars, a photo booth, milk bottles and finally the Ferris Wheel. By the time they did everything at the park and returned to the tower, it was past 11 PM, having spent half the day at the park. It was one of the best days they had. In the living room, Terra stretched her arms up popping her back, sighing happily,

"This... is literally the best day of my life."

"Yeah. Sorry you have to spend the night on the couch again. We don't have your room ready since it hasn't been a full day since your recruitment and we can't sleep in my room yet. A boy girl rule thing here. Not sure where it came from."

"It's okay. The couch is comfortable." She reassured. The two stayed quiet for about half a minute before Terra spoke again. "I'm glad I got to spend the day with you."

"Me too." He replied. Before he knew it, his girlfriend trapped him in a tight hug, happy tears leaking down her face.

"You know, I never said this before because I wasn't certain how things would go, but I am now. I love you." A big stupid smile creeped up on the green teen's face, and it got even better when she kissed him on the cheek. That's when Beast Boy went into emotional overload as his knees turned into jelly and his head fell forward into her chest as she caught his falling body. Softly laughing from her boyfriend's silly antics, the blonde carried him to his room and tucked him on. Kissing him on the forehead, she whispers in his ear, "Good night my sweet beast." Exiting the room, Terra went to the couch to sleep.

Raven made sure that she was ready to stay late up in the night to spy on Terra from her room with a shadowy tendril with an eye through the air ducts. If something like this happened last night, it seemed likely it would happen again. In the living room, the girl was once again mumbling in her sleep, sweat drenching her face like she was having a nightmare. Her body went still before her eyes opened like last night. Getting up, the metahuman got up and took off once of her gloves. Placing it down on the ground, she let her hand glow yellow and feel the floor, sensing the earthen material below. Following the trail, she trekked through the tower sensing where to go, the door to the titan data banks. Grinning, she took the communicator from her belt and presented it to the scanner on the door. Reading it, it initially beeped red before glitching into green.

Unlocking, she opened the door to see something... tremendously underwhelming. Terra expected a row of servers or a giant computer, but it instead looked simply like a really outdated computer under a dingy light bulb, appearing like it was made from the early 80's. A grey home computer screen box on top of the computer system and a unnecessarily big keyboard on a simple desk. Uncomfortably taking a seat in front of the relic, she didn't know what to do until she saw that the side appeared to have an indent in the side, the same size as the communicator. Taking it and holding it to the indent, it locked into place, turning the computer on with a T logo. It asked for a password before the screen glitched for a few seconds before saying 'Access granted'. Despite the appearance, what she saw was today's standards of graphics and performance. The metahuman deduced the retro appearance was to throw anybody off the trail given how outdated it was and try to look for a different computer, but she would've tried cracking it anyway. Grinning again, she tried to copy upload the data, but the more secretive ones were locked. That is, until they were overridden by the drive in her communicator. Able to get everything, she was about to send it when a pop up showed that it needed a password from three titans to send it. Terra waited for the drive to do its thing, but it stayed the same with no glitching.

"Augh, don't tell me that this is what the drive can't do!" But the computer showed no indication that it would changed. Groaning, she took out a small communication device and called her at the moment employer. "Yeah, it's me. I got the information but your stupid drive can't break through a few passwords to send them out." ... "What do you mean it doesn't work on triple or higher encryptions?! These are the Titans! I'd have figured Robin would have 5 passwords just to watch his favorite movies!" ... "Fine, we can meet in the city." ... "I'll be there." Turning it off and putting it in her belt, she turned off the computer and put her communicator away. Heading back up to the living room floor, Terra closed her eyes and took a deep breath several times before opening a door into, only to find Raven, Robin and Cyborg on the other side, completely serious faced.

"Oh uh... hey guys? What do you need?"

"Terra, what were you doing in the tower?" Robin asked. The blonde groaned and face palmed.

"Oh no, was I sleep walking again? I tend to wake up in different places."

"You're lying." Raven denied. "We know what you did." Terra was becoming scared from how much venom was in her dry voice.

"I-I don't know what you're talking about."

"Terra, hand me your communicator." Robin ordered with a voice as hard as steel. Not wanting to get into trouble, she gave it to him. The titan leader inspected it until he found and popped out the small drive. "So this was what set off the silent alarms." Putting it in his pocket, the Boy Wonder moved swiftly, pinning her to the wall nearest to them, the blonde girl crying out in fear. "Who do you work for?!"

"I don't work for anybody! I don't know how that got in there!" She defended. "Just let me go!"

"You think we'd let a traitor go?" The half-demon rhetorically questioned.

"I didn't do anything! I never betrayed anyone before!"

"No? Then how do you explain this?" The dark witch used her magic to recreate what her eye saw, Terra going into the computer room and hacking into the machine.

"What? What was I doing? I don't remember that." She gasped, unfamiliar with the actions.

"Stop lying to us Terra. You're a spy." Robin stated.

"But I really don't know-AUUUUGH!" Her whole body began to spasm as she screamed, her eyes flickering between regular blue eyes and a yellow glow and her hair floating in mid-air from the surge of power in her body. Robin and the other backed away, surprised by this.

"What's happening to her?!" Cyborg asked, getting freaked out. The spastic teenager clung to the wall, her fingers gripping into the plaster cracking it. Eventually, her body slumped forward while still standing. The three titans took one step forward before the metahuman looked up at them with glowing eyes.

"Guess we're doing this the hard way." Her hands glowing yellow as well, she caused the ceiling above them to crash down, momentarily stunning the titans as they were buried. Running off into the living room, she put her hand forward to will a large rock to her from outside. One appeared, but it was blasted into pieces by green energy. Terra stopped as she saw Starfire descend into view, displeased with her treachery. Flying forward, the alien smashed through the window and tried to capture Terra, but the blonde ducked under her and leapt into a roll before jumping out of the window. Making another rock platform come to her, she landed ungracefully yet kept her balance and tried to escape. However, her platform was destroyed as well from a starbolt, forcing her to cry out as she fell to the ground hard. Brushing her hair out of her face, she saw Starfire and Raven levitating herself and the two male titans down to the ground with her, surrounding her from all four sides. Before the metahuman could do anything else, her entire body except her head was coated with black magic as she was lifted into the air, struggling in vain. Raven floated to her.

"Who are you, and who are you working for?" Terra chuckled before answering.

"Who I work for isn't important. And as for who I am? You've already met that sniveling crybaby Terra, but I'm my own me. I never had a name myself, but if I had to go for something, call me..." Raising her chin fast, small rocks rapidly came from the ground and pinned against the sorceress, causing her to cry in pain which broke her concentration, letting the metahuman fall to her feet. "...Gaea." With a push, Gaea sent Raven flying into the outer wall of the titan tower with enough force to break through it. Starfire tried to apprehend her with her super speed, but the villainous persona crossed her arms and fell backwards into the ground, leaving a body shaped hole in the ground. The Tamaranian stopped and was confused on where she was underground when she felt a hand grab her ankle. She only had time to see said hand before she yelped and was dragged underground.

"Starfire!" Robin cried out as he ran to where she floated. A minute later, Gaea popped out of the ground like the mole she was, fairly distant from the titans. "What did you do with Starfire?!" He demanded.

"What, bury the physically strongest titan approximately 1500 feet below the earth? Even if she's powerful enough to break free, I'll be long gone by the time that happens." The metahuman smugly answered.

"Not unless we stop you! Cyborg, we need to work together!" The titan leader ordered.

"Alright!" He agreed as Robin jumped onto his shoulders while the metallic teen transformed into a hovering attack mobile. Flying high into the air, they circled around until they started flying at her, rapidly firing lasers at her. Forming a dome of earth to block the incoming lasers, Gaea took the moment to coat herself in stone armor. Breaking out of the dome, she was able to fly thanks to her geokinetic power. Weaving in between the laser blasts and blocking those she couldn't, she was able to get close to them and crash into Cyborg. She was about to punch Robin when he activated a defense measure, Cyborg electrocuting Gaea. She screamed in pain as she fell to the ground, landing on her back hard. The two males hovered over her, shots set to stun.

"Alright Terra or Gaea or whoever you are, this ends now." Robin growled.

"Ugh, you're right. For you!" Rolling to her left, she used her arms to create to slanted pillars breaching into Cyborg's sides.

"Augh! I'm stuck!" He tried to move but he was stuck in place. Jumping off of Cyborg, as soon as his feet landed on the ground, two earth hands clamped down on them super tightly to the ground. This caused the titan leader pain and fell to his knees and one hand, which were also clamped by rock hands. Taking a birdarang out of his belt with his left, he tried to pry his other hand free from their constraints when his free wrist was grabbed by Gaea. The metahuman looked down at him coldly as she snapped his wrist, forcing him to cry in agony. Just as she was going to finish him off, a large rock slammed into her, forcing her away from the injured Robin. Getting back up, Gaea growled seeing Raven back in action, her cloak riddled with ripped holes from the last attack.

"Get... away from them." She warned, her four eyes glowing red.

"Ooooh, the big bad scary witch of the titans. Whatever will I do?" Gaea mocked. "You may have magic, but my control over earth is greater. It's fitting the name, Gaea. The titans of Greek mythology were quite powerful, but Gaea is everywhere. You can punch it, kick it, blast it, but in the end, there's only the ground beneath your feet. We were born from dirt, and we'll die into dirt. And I'm the master of it. I'm the strongest titan in the world."

"Enough with the gloating. We'll see who's abilities are supreme. We may become dirt, but I'm going to be the one to stomp your face into it." With a wave of her hand, Raven sent a blast of black magic that the blonde metahuman blocked with a big enough rock. The sorceress sent out two waves of energy that Gaea dodged by flying over them thanks to her stone armor. Raven tried to attack with a giant blast of magic, but Gaea simply removed her armor to make a shield in front of her to deflect the blow and pushed it forward at Raven, whom ducked under it. Using her power to lift a boulder as big as her out of the ground, she threw it at the titan sorceress only for it to be cleaved in half by a magic slice and retaliated with many small black magic bullets. Erecting a wall to block the attacks, Gaea pushed against the wall to have the side facing Raven splinter off similar to Raven's last attack, stalemating their current offense.

Needing an edge, Gaea jumped into the shallow pit she made from one of her attacks and parted the earth to dive in, digging underground. Not wanting to give the traitor a chance, Raven focused. "Azarath Metrione Zinthos!" With all her magical might, the half-demon sorceress lifted up a massive chunk of the island, sending it high into the air. Pushing her way out of the chunk to see that she was high above, The blonde growled as she rolled forward, creating a cocoon of rock around her that kept getting bigger and bigger like a cascading snowball until she fell of the huge mass, the size of a boulder. With another magic slice, Raven cut the boulder in half only to see a hollow center. When the two halves fell beside the witch, Gaea sprung out wearing a full body armor of rock except for the eyes, landing a punch to Raven's jaw, breaking her concentration and the floating landmass crashed into the island, offset from where it hovered originally. Managing to land several blows against the hero, it seemed like the earth master was going to win by knockout when Raven used her soulself to push Gaea away with a giant black raven. Unable to move with it traveling at high speed, Gaea was helpless as she was smashed into a small hill. The soul-self returned to Raven shortly after.

The blonde dropped to her hands and knees, her armor crumbling from how much effort she's been putting out for so long. She was sweating, dirty and panting heavily. Raven, whom now sported a black eye and bloody nose, floated over to the tired mole. "What's the matter? Magic overwhelming your rock hard defenses? I noticed you got tired quickly from the Hive Five, so I opted to fight the long way. Tire you out so that you're easy to finish off."

"You think... fatigue... can stop me?" Gaea groaned, before launching from her hand off the ground a rock hand that clutched against Raven's throat, cutting off air supply as she struggled against the hand. "Don't confuse being tired to weak." With a final move, the traitor gave a roundhouse kick to the sorceress's head, knocking her out cold. Looking over to the stunned Robin, Gaea coated her boots with rock so that she could float over the giant hole in the ground that Raven made and got near to the leader. Digging her hand into his pocket, she obtained the small drive. "You're mine now." That was, until a green falcon took it right out of her fingers and landed on a rock, shapeshifting into Beast Boy, whom looked heartbroken.

"Why Terra? I thought-"

"Thought that a girl could ever love a green, pointy eared freak? I never cared for you. I only cared for what you could give me. Now, give it to me. I beat the most powerful member of your team, so you stand no chance."

"There's something you don't understand then. Raven's more powerful than me, but I'm just as adaptable." Morphing into a cheetah, he tried to blitz Gaea but she erected a thick wall between them to slow him down. However, what she didn't count on was Beast Boy jumping up and turning into a rhino to crash through the barrier. Thankfully Gaea was still partially protected, or the debris and rhino horn to her chest would've killed her. Flipping and jumping off the rhino, she clasped her hands together to create two giant hands from both sides of Beast Boy, holding him in place. But this still didn't stop him as the shapeshifter turned into an elephant, making a trumpeting roar. Turning to her, the green elephant charged like a battering ram. Crossing her arms together, two completely solid half domes surrounded him by both sides like before, but much larger and more massive than the hands. While his attack was stopped, Beast Boy simply disappeared from sight, confusing Gaea.

"Where did you go? You know turning into something tiny is useless against me." Almost as if to answer, she felt something tiny land on her head before her body was burdened by a 7 foot long boa constrictor, falling to the ground as he began wrapping around her body her entire body in a dangerous squeeze. Gaea could feel the air forced out of her lungs and bones creaking from the pressure. Gritting her teeth, short spikes beneath them punctured the snake's skin, causing him to hiss as he unraveled from her. The girl coughed and deeply breathed in and out for much needed air. Something grabbed onto her hair and she screamed as she was lifted and met face to face with a western lowland gorilla. With a single swing, he punched her with all his might against her thin torso. Even with the damaged stone armor, Gaea felt the wind forced out of her lungs again as she flew a few dozen feet before landing hard on her back and rolling several more feet. Any remaining armor she had fell off as the metahuman turned to her side, trying to cover her mouth before throwing up digested carnival food.

Amidst the vomiting and gagging resulting in lack of consistent oxygen, overall damage and prolonged exertion left her very vulnerable. Beast Boy lumbered over, still in his gorilla form, picking her up by the back of her shirt with an emotionally drained face. He prepared to do one more punch to knock her out before Gaea used a simply splitting gesture with her fingers, causing the ground below his feet to shift, forcing the gorilla to do a 180 split. The shapeshifter groaned and whimpered from the unexpected movement as he dropped her. Landing on her feet very ungracefully, Gaea let pebbles coat her fingers and knuckles, and punched Beast Boy in the throat. Even as a gorilla, he felt his Adam's apple cave into his neck, preventing him from breathing. Reverting back into human helped with the suffocating part, but the pain was still enough he couldn't react fast enough to dodge a kick to his chest, making the titan fall onto his back. Both hurt and struggling to breath, it seemed like neither one would win. With all her remaining strength, Gaea lifted a slab of stone from behind her about as large as a California King sized bed. Not as big as she hoped, but it'll get the job done. Hovering it over the defenseless green teen, the girl said,

"Nothing personal." And dropped the stone. But it didn't connect, as it almost crushed Beast Boy and yet hovered just a few inches above him.

"No." The rock thrown to the side, Beast Boy witnessed Gaea's eyes flickering again, showing normal blue eyes. "I can't... let you do this."

"They are nothing. You're nothing. You've always been weak."

"No!" Terra yelled at Gaea. "Not anymore! I will not let you kill Beast Boy!"

"He's a sap! He's a stupid clown and look what he done to you!"

"You mean what he did to you. I won't let you do this."

"You don't have a choice." Gaea said as she used her left arm to make the slab start to levitate again and tried to bring it over the titan, but her other arm jerked to throw it away into the sea. "Be quiet!"

"No! That's what I was always to you, was I?! Just some sort of vessel while you acted without my knowhow? Well guess what, the titans weakened you! And this time you'll listen to me!" Lifting a basketball sized rock from the ground, her body struggled with two minds fighting each other while Beast Boy, Cyborg and Robin watched. Even with the pull, Terra had enough strength to smack the rock into her forehead, creating a headache. The blonde fell to the ground, both disoriented from the blow and bleeding from the impact, but Terra let her power surge, using it create a floating platform. Turning back to her former teammate and boyfriend, tearing up in the eyes, Terra said, " I love you." Before zooming off into the east horizon with no concern of distance or destination. The titans could only look on until Starfire burst from the ground with her eyebolts, looked around and asked,

"What have I missed?"

"From the description you gave, it seems like Terra had a personality disorder. Two sides of the same stone." Raven deduced, holding an ice pack to her head as the titans were in the medical bay recovering from the Terra/Gaea fiasco.

"No wonder she traveled so much." Starfire acknowledged. "Each time Gaea acted up, Terra was forced to go somewhere else."

"Hey BB, sorry for your loss." Cyborg put a hand on Beast Boy's shoulder while robot arms were fixing his sides.

"It's... it's okay." The green teen sighed in disappointment.

"I wish I could find her, but I'm not getting a signal." Robin stated. "Probably ditched or destroyed her communicator. At least we secured the drive with our data. Who knows what someone could do with all our secrets?"

"Raven, if we ever find Terra again, is there a chance we could help her?" Raven didn't say anything for a few seconds before responding,

"I don't know. I'm going to take a cold bath." Floating up, the sorceress left the room. Needing to say something, he turned to the others.

"I'll be right back. Just want to tell her something. Getting out of his seat with a groan, he walked after her until he caught up. "Yo Rae. So, I'm sorry about calling you a liar earlier. You say a lot of remarks at our expense, but you accuse us of anything bad. I should've been more considerate."

"It's okay. And... I'm sorry too. About her. I'm sure even amongst the most minuscule, improbable, and unbelievable odds; a girl will be lucky to have you." Raven remarked. The shapeshifter awkwardly smiled.

"You mean it?" He asked. He wasn't sure since she floated faster ahead of him, but BB could've swore he saw a glimmer of a smile before her face was covered.

"I do."

A/N: Whew, what a ride! This was the hardest two parter I've ever written. Let me know what you think of Gaea.