A/N: So you know, this chapter is primarily from my sister, so if you gave a suggestion for Be Mine, apologies if I didn't go for yours. This likely going to be the most dramatic episode of this story's season 1, and I've never done drama of the deep emotional kind like this for a whole chapter before, so I also apologize if this falls under your expectations. And before we start, just so we are absolutely clear, in this story continuity, it's sort of a mix of being tied to the original show, and not. Yes, Terra in the Terra-ized chapters acted similar to when she debuted in the episode "Terra" of the original show, but that was for easiness sake and her involvement in season 5 of that show and the TTG comics are ignored, so she's not a European heir who got her powers via experimentation. In this story, she was just a normal Illinois girl that had a rough life. More details will be in the chapter below.

6 months ago:

Terra had to get away from the tower as much as possible. She... she tried to kill them. Kill him. No, no... it was this split personality. She was the one that was ruining everything. Tears streamed down her face non-stop as she flew with the rock underneath her with no destination in mind. Everything meant nothing to her now, except keeping him safe. By the time her powers started to fail from exhaustion and fell to the ground, she was already over 15 miles away from the island, officially out of the Jump City area. Now in a temperate area, Terra dragged herself to a pond that was nearby, stemming from a small path of water leading to the ocean. Dragging herself to the pond, the metahuman scooped her hands in and washed away all the dirt and vomit as best she could, but no amount could get rid of the emotional bile that flavored her tongue and stomach.

"I can't believe that all this time..."

"That what, there was more than one mind in your head?" Despite her dizziness, she could see in her reflection her evil counterpart, Gaea. If there was anything that Terra was feeling now, it was rage.

"You... it was you that ruined my life. It was you that forced me to travel half the country. It was you that forced me to trick and almost kill my boyfriend!" She screamed into the smirking reflection.

"And that's just the tip of the iceberg, kid. As you may recall, you've had memory issues since you were six, and things only started to get real fun when you became 13."

"Yeah, when rockslides and mini earthquakes were being reported all over Naperville. People thought it was me because I was always sighted near the areas."

"Talk about grateful. I get us all that great stuff, and when you finally figure it out, you don't thank me.

"Thank you?" Terra whispered disbelievingly before becoming furious. "Thank you?! You destroyed our house! You killed everyone in a 1500 diameter sinkhole!" Fresh tears fell into the pond. "You killed... my brother. Brion. Oh god... what have I done? Please Brion... forgive me." Terra collapsed into a fetal position, sobbing her eyes out in newly refreshed anguish when she suddenly stopped, her eyes sharp.

"We didn't need him. He was a goody too shoes who kept us back. He was only useful in keeping dad's hands off of us." Terra gasped. How dare she. The blonde screamed as her hair started floating and her emotions sky rocketed.

"I HATE YOU! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE! YOU SHOULD NEVER HAVE EXISTED!

"Hey, I'm what you're not! Confident, independent, smart! What do you have?!"

"I have morality! I have a body! I have my life! You're just a persona! A fake person!"

"I'm what you should be!"

"I'd rather be dead than be anything like you!"

"Fine! You want it like that?! I'll show you how stone cold I can be!" With her own powers being used against her, the soil started to cover the girl and harden into stone.

"NO! STOP IT! NOOO-" Terra was silenced as her entire body was covered in compressed dirt so compacted and layered she couldn't physically break free. There were holes to breathe, but nothing else. Terra's trapped body stayed where it was for two days, and even when someone did come along, she looked too clumped to be recognized as a person encased in a self inflicted tomb. It was only until around the end of the second day that cracks started to appear on the statue. More and more cracks webbed around the hollow rock until Terra's body fell out, weakened from not doing anything but breathing and mentally fighting for that amount of time. Terra looked up into the sky, seeing the moon as she panted for more than just nostrils worth of air. But there was one problem. Instead of Terra's naturally brown eyes, the iris exposed to the moonlight shined a bright yellow.

Today: Valentines Day:

Three days after Jinx has joined the titans, almost the whole team was sitting on the new couch they ordered yesterday. Same color, but one person longer so that the now heroic witch could enjoy breakfast, enjoy some tv, and sit next to her now closest friend in the tower, Cyborg, whom is playing on a DS at the moment. Raven and Robin were reading while Beast Boy was lounging around as a cat. It was then that Starfire appeared from behind and exclaimed,

"Dear friends, do you know what day it is? It is the happy day of the Valentines!"

"You mean Valentines Day?" Raven corrected.

"Ugh, I've always hated Valentines Day." Jinx swore with an irritated look. "The chocolates are good but everything else sucks. Nobody wanted to go out with me when I was younger and everyone at the Hive's too much of a jerk."

"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that Jinx." Cyborg tried to console her and put an arm around, but she swatted the hand away.

"I don't need pity. This girl's too bad for all that lovey dovey stuff." The pink haired female stated, stone faced.

"Oh, I am the sorry to here that Jinx. It just seems like the wonderful day filled with the flowers and the candy..."

"And don't forget about love." Beast Boy finished for her."

"Haaah, so romantic." Starfire sighed, momentarily forgetting about Jinx's apprehension for the holiday. "Oooo, tonight we shall have the dance in which we will share our true feelings!"

"Well, now that you bring it up, allow me to start things off." Robin said as he got up and approached her. "Starfire, will you be my Valentine?" He asked politely. She gasped.

"Oh yes Robin, I would love to be yours!" She hugged him with deep joy, causing Robin to smile and blush.

"Thank you Star. You won't be disappointed." The Boy Wonder promised.

"Ugh, take this somewhere else love birds or else I'm going to barf." Jinx complained as she left the living room. Cyborg looked disappointed as he opened his chest cavity and pulled out a heart shaped box filled with the chocolates. Sighing in defeat, he shoved it back into his torso and closed it.

"Oh. Well then, why don't the rest of us celebrate the Valentine's day?!" The alien princess asked, trying to salvage the situation.

"Well, I guess that leaves you and me Rae Rae." Beast Boy suggested, crawling onto her lap still as a cat.

"Sorry Beast Boy, but I'm with Jinx on this one. I could get diabetes from just participating. See you." And with that she teleported to her room.

"Awww."

"Sorry that she gave you the cold shoulder BB." Cyborg said, this time successfully condolencing the green teen.

"Oh no! With only the four of us, there will not be enough of the Valentine festivities to celebrate!" Starfire gasped.

"Don't worry Star. We'll just make this a public thing where the whole city could participate. I'll call the mayor." Robin offered.

"Oh thank you Robin! You are the most kind and generous!" She thanked as she hugged him again. However, a loud collision shook the floor they stood on and the alarms went off.

"Intruder alert! Titans, GO!" Robin ordered and they all went to the source, but what they saw was the last thing they were expecting. On their shore was a boulder, and the rider was Terra, whom fell onto the ground harshly. She appeared to be gravely injured from something.

"Wait, it's that b-"

"Terra?!" Beast Boy cried out, more shocked than anyone as he cut Jinx's curse short as he ran to her, checking how badly she was hurt. Taking a hold of one of his hands, she uttered in a pained voice,

"Be-Beast Boy. H-help... me." The blonde then fainted.

"We need to get her to the infirmary now!"

"But Beast Boy, she tried to-" Raven tried to warn him, but he yelled at her in defiance.

"My friend is hurt, Raven! She needs help!" He yelled, shocking the titan as he transformed into a gorilla and took her inside the tower. Once she was stabilized and under the close eye of the six titans, they got a good close look. One thing that they noticed was that her hair was shorter. What was previously shoulder blade length was now only reaching her chin, slightly lower than Raven's own. But what was more note worthy was the injuries she had. There was scratches and bruises all over her arms, legs, stomach and back, implying she was recently in a serious battle. Many places were bloodied before being cleaned and she even seemed to be missing her left pinky, which had to be treated since it was a few hours old at most. On her forehead was a small scar where she hit herself on the head with a rock to gain control on that terrible night.

"I can't believe she came back." Beast Boy commented.

"But why would she return here? After last time?" Robin pondered out loud.

"What happened last time?" Jinx asked.

"Terra turned out to be a spy with a split personality called Gaea and pretty much defeated us. The only reason Beast Boy's even alive is because Terra took control and ran. She and BB dated for a short while."

"Wow. Girl's really good if she can take you all on." The former villainess whistled, impressed by Terra's feat.

"Well, she effectively managed to take us out one by one instead of all of us at once, but yeah, it is rather unbelievable one person can take us down as efficiently as she did." Raven remarked, still feeling animosity towards the earth manipulator. "Perhaps even more than Slade did." The titan leader noticed Beast Boy was looking conflicted. About his choice.

"Beast Boy." Robin spoke, getting the green teen's attention. "Even though she was an enemy that nearly destroyed us, you still took her in to be treated. Even if it'll come back to bite us, you made a good decision, so don't doubt yourself if you did the right thing. Of all the enemies we fought, there's only two of them I wouldn't take in. They'd have gone straight to jail. But in these cases, it's not a hero helping a villain, but a human helping another human, and that's something that anyone could admire." Beast Boy looked profoundly stumped by his explanation, but then shook his head and smiled gratefully.

"Thanks Robin." With a nod, Robin left, Starfire following.

"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'd rather not stick around watching someone sleeping." Jinx stated as she left as well.

"Cyborg, can you leave us alone for a moment." Sensing her voice was as hard as steel, he got the message.

"Uh, sure. Maybe I'll ask Jinx a question, or upgrade my car... or something." He awkwardly left the two alone. The two stayed silent as they stared at Terra, trying to form their thoughts.

"Beast Boy, exactly why did you save her."

"Robin said-"

"What he said may not be all of it. Yes, I'm sure part of it was what Robin said, and I can't blame you for that. But the emotion I saw in your face. I could see-no, feel the emotions surging within you, and some of that was love." The changeling looked at Raven, whom returned the gaze. "And when I tried to say something, you yelled at me. It...hurt." The smallest bit of emotional injury showed on her face.

"Raven, I won't lie about this. A small part of me still loves her. I just don't know what to do with it now, now that there's us. I'm also sorry about yelling at you. I just couldn't ignore the need to help."

"You mean there's maybe an us." She corrected, her eyes sending such intensity into his own. "While I again won't blame you for saving her and holding a fragment of those feelings for her, but you need to break it off if you want there to be an us."

"Raven, that's a bit of a high order, isn't it? The heart does what it want to do."

"Beast Boy." Her tone became dangerous. "I will not be treated like I'm a replacement for her. If you still have feelings for her by the time of the dance, what we have is off. Just friends and teammates, and never more." She then teleported away, leaving the green teen to stare into space and gulp. Sighing from the predicament he was just placed in, he walked close to his former girlfriend, and took her undamaged hand.

"What am I supposed to do?" He asked himself. To his surprise, Terra started to wake up, her eyes distant and glazed over. "Terra? Terra, are you okay?"

"Beast...Boy?" She asked, looking around and seeing a hazy image of the green titan before her vision cleared up. The blonde gasped. "Beast Boy!" She reached out and clung onto his chest, crying into it. "Oh, Beast Boy! Please forgive me for what I did to you! I never meant to hurt you all! It was that stupid Gaea's fault! I'm so sorry!" He could feel hot tears soak part of his costume. He wrapped his arms around her, comforting the wounded female.

"Shhhh, shhhh, it's okay now. Everything's okay." He tried to reassure, but he didn't know if he believed his own words. When her sobbing settled down into quiet whimpering, he then asked her, "What happened after you left?" It took a few moments, but eventually she answered.

"A-after I left, I just resumed my travels again, though this time staying away from any major highways. For the longest time, I stayed in Wyoming because there's nothing there but rocks and a few towns and cities. I never hurt anyone again during that. But one of the people that my alter ego worked for? He was going to profit off your secrets but I failed. He decided I needed to be terminated, so he sent robots after me. No matter where I go, they find me somehow, and they improve with each encounter. Eventually, I realized I needed help and went to you. But before I entered Jump City, they found me again and gave me the worst punishment ever." She looked down at her left hand, missing its pinky. "That's the first time they actually blasted something off of me."

"I'm sorry you had to go through all that." He said, feeling downcast. Terra returned her eyes towards Beast Boy, and tried to smile.

"I missed you so much Beast Boy. I never stopped thinking about you." She clasped her right hand around his. "You were the best part of my travels."

"I missed you too Terra." He replied, tears streaking down his face. "Terra... I got a problem."

"What is it?"

"I'm... sort of in a new relationship. With Raven. It's not official yet, still on the fence, but it's good at least. But... I still have some of the love for you... and I don't know if I can let go by the dance."

"Oh... I see." Terra looked away, feeling down again. "Well, for all that it's worth, I still love you Beast Boy. I always will. But right now, I need your help."

"What do you need?"

"You guys need to protect me. They're getting too strong for my rocks, no matter how I dish it out. I only need to stay here for the day, and show him I have allies."

"I don't know if they'll be so compliant like me." He complained, but she pulled his eyes towards her.

"Please Beast Boy. You're all I have left. Please." She started to cry again, and the titan stood there in thought before sighing.

"Okay. I'll try to convince the others. Will you be okay?"

"I already am. You can't put this girl down so easily." She tried to boast, and tried to prove it by slowly getting up and standing, only to stagger.

"Whoa whoa, I don't think you're that good yet!" He tried to stop her, but she pushed him away and managed to do a few limping steps before managing to walk around the infirmary, if a bit slowly.

"Told ya."

"Well, I guess if you're okay enough to walk without support, than I won't stop ya." Beast Boy conceded, but nonetheless stayed close in case she needed help. "Oh uh... Terra? I like your haircut." He complimented. She blushed while brushing a side back.

"It was getting in the way." She responded. In the living room, the titans, minus Jinx, were back to doing their thing when they heard two pairs of footsteps. They turned back to see Beast Boy and Terra.

"Terra! You're up and about already?!" Robin called out, concerned about pushing herself too much.

"I'm fine. If I can walk, I'm okay. Listen, I need your help."

"Why should we help you?" Raven questioned, not buying it. "You betrayed and beaten all of us."

"Look, I'm sorry about what happened and I wish to make amends, but I'm in danger. Someone is hunting me for failing and I can't do it alone anymore. Just look at this! Does this look like lying to you?!" She showed them the missing finger, and they all looked at each other before huddling.

"She does have a point. You'd have to really be a committed seller if she took that finger off herself." Cyborg acknowledged.

"Oh, I do not know what to choose! This is quite a problem to figure out." Starfire complained.

"I know people in general, and I know hurt. Real hurt. People can be good, really good, but Terra isn't that good, and I doubt Gaea would pummel herself into near critical condition just to trick us." Robin surmised.

"You guys can't be serious." Raven said in an irritated tone.

"Hey, chumps!" A slightly deeper voice called to them, instantly getting their attention. Looking back, Terra's face went from frightened and desperate to cold and glaring. She had her arms crossed. "Yeah, it's me, Gaea." Before anyone could react, Raven sent out her soul-self and trapped the alter ego, though she didn't flinch.

"What do you want?" The sorceress asked in a stern tone.

"For once, Terra's right. This is something we cannot overcome alone. As much as it makes me want to eat the dirt I control, I do need your help. Please." Even with the half-baked effort she put in the request, it's quite unusual when a villain comes and asks for help just like that.

"Raven, let her go." Robin ordered.

"Robin?"

"I've been trained to know when someone is trying to lie with a poker face, but there's no sign of deception in her eyes. Let her go." He said again. Raven groaned but let her soul-self return to her body. "But on the safe side, one of us needs to keep watch. Starfire, will you watch over her so that she tries nothing?"

"Understood Robin. I will keep my eyeballs on her." The Tamaranean warrior agreed.

"Please don't be literal about it. And could you guys lend me some clothes? Mine are rags and this hospital gown isn't flattering." Gaea requested. Starfire gave a happy gasp.

"Oooh, we can do the shopping! Come Terra or Gaea, for we will find the clothes you need and get all the Valentines Day decorations for the dance!" Taking one of the metahuman's arms, she dragged her down the hall.

"This is going to end in disaster." Raven muttered.

By the time the two girls reached the mall, Terra was wearing some temporary clothes. For the time being, she wore one of Starfire's tops and borrowed one of Jinx's skirts and leggings. Her old boots were still good enough to wear. As they shopped, the metahuman got a new wardrobe. Her new top wasn't much different from the old one, a long sleeved black sweater replacing her t-shirt, but she did replace her yellow shorts with white skinny jeans, black and white shoes and a new pair of brown fingerless gloves, since an empty finger would've looked odd. Since Terra didn't have any money, she was basically there for both being watched and get opinions on what Starfire was buying.

"Oh, Terra! I think I found the hearts that proclaim love for others!" The alien girl pointed out, but the blonde saw a meats store where part of the selection was animal hearts on discount, grossing Terra out.

"That's not the kind of hearts Valentine's about."

"Then what is it?"

"Here, let me show you." She offered, escorting Starfire to instead a candy store, and everything had some Valentine decor to it. Starfire gasped.

"Oh joy! This is so much better! What shall we get?" She inquired.

"Well, to truly know what we need, there's a few samples we need to try."

5 minutes later:

"HOLYX'HALTHISTASTESSOYUMMYANDDELICIOUSILOVEITALLSOMUCH!" Starfire was on a mad sugar high from all the samples Terra gave her and was flying around in a manic frenzy, forgetting she had someone to watch. Slinking away, Terra, who was now Gaea went to the closest computer she could find. Accessing it, she looked up some of the local scientific inventions that have been developed recently, and grinned, her yellow iris's reflecting the bright computer screen. Memorizing the location, she shut it off, and ran to the loop-de-looping alien. Pretending to be Terra, Gaea called to her.

"Starfire! Starfire!" Landing with enough force to crack the floor, Starfire asked,

WHATWHATWHAT?!" Her face was crazy with dilated eyes and an insane grin spread across her mouth.

"I spotted someone spying on me. We need to split up so we can take them down. You take the right half of the mall while I take the left. The hyper Tamaranean said something in her native language before flying off, looking for the so called spy. Grinning, Gaea made her escape.

15 minutes later:

A voice was calling out from the dark, sounding far away.

"Starfire! Come on Star! Wake up!" As the darkness overcame the light, which was blinding from her perspective, the alien girl woke up in a bathtub in the store of Beds, Baths and Bathing Beds.

"Oh Groopnock, what happened? I feel like I traveled through time."

"If you consider 20 minutes later to be after you crashed, then ya, you traveled through time." Cyborg replied. Starfire had a red and black striped necktie around her head and a piece of pizza stuck in her hair. All around were a bunch of random Valentine stuff she must've picked up while searching for the spy.

"Ow, oh my nine stomachs feel the most unpleasant. What did I consume during my...ugh." Looking down, she saw several empty cases of bean paste, toothpaste, milk jugs and cartons of eggs, part of a pizza with the cooking stone also partially eaten and finally soap. Covering her mouth, the alien rushed to the ladies room and they could vaguely hear the sounds of barfing.

"She sure knows how to have a sugar high and hangover in less than half an hour." Jinx mused about before heading over to help Starfire.

"We have more than just Starfire having a hangover. Terra's slipped away." Raven pointed out.

"And she'll likely cover her tracks since the earth is her plaything. We won't find her if she doesn't want to be found." Robin stated.

"Then what do we do?" Beast Boy asked worriedly.

"Simple. We prepare for the Valentine's Day dance." The titan leader announced.

"What?" Raven asked incredulously.

"She'll come back, and we'll be ready. And something I'd wager is that whoever is hunting Terra or Gaea would try to ask us, and she'd join us in the fight."

"Yeah, and betray us when it's over and we're tired from the fight."

"There's nothing more that we can do Raven. Now come one, we need to pick up and pay for all this." Those that weren't helping with Starfire picked up all the items and left, but Raven stood there for a moment longer, frustrated that nothing has been going her way today. Things had to change, or someone's going to get hurt. Badly.

At the Jump City Park, many of the men, women and children were celebrating the Valentine's Day dance that the titans were hosting. Robin and the now healthy and well Starfire danced together enjoying the music coming from the boomboxes. Raven kept a watchful eye near Beast Boy while he ate some food, while Cyborg sat in a corner alone, sad that he didn't have the person he wished was his Valentine there. Once the current song has ended, the alien princess pulled Robin away from the crowds, and hid behind a tree.

"Robin?"

"Yes Star?"

"I am the most deeply sorry that I have not given you a gift, but at the very least, I am still happy I could celebrate the dance with you." She apologized sadly, but he took by the hands, and looked into her eyes.

"Don't worry about the gift Star. The chocolates and candy hearts are fine, but the greatest thing I have in my life is you as my teammate. My girlfriend. I love you Starfire." He replied wholeheartedly. Starfire had to wipe away tears from her eyes, her mouth quivering in delightful happiness.

"I love you too Robin." The two then kissed passionately, embracing under the shadow of the tree. At the food table, Raven asked Beast Boy a certain question.

"So Beast Boy, have you come to a decision?" Beast Boy gulped, not having done what he was told to do since Terra went AWOL. Gulping, he was about to answer when the wind started to pick up rapidly. Looking in the direction of the wind, they were shocked that it was tinted red, swirling towards them. "Azarath Metrion Zinthose!" The pale sorceress yelled out, putting up a shield over everyone, blocking the windy attack. Once it was over, the shield dropped and everyone that wasn't a titan left. From the direction of the attack, was an army of red androids. Multiples or Red Tornadoes, Red Infernos, Red Torpedos and Red Volcanoes."

"What the, why are there so many red robots, dudes?!" Beast Boy cried out, intimidated by how many of them there were, around 100.

"I am the cause, actually." Behind the Red Tornadoes came a regular man with a control pad equipped to his hovering platform.

"Dr. Morrow! What are you doing here?" Robin questioned.

"Revenge. You have someone here in this city that I was going to indirectly profit from, and I'd like to have her, if you'd please?"

"Like we'd just hand you over like that after crashing a party? I don't think so, Doctor." Cyborg denied.

"I was hoping you'd say that. My Red Army, destroy the Titans!" The 100 strong army charged.

"Titans, GO! Raven, get Jinx out here now!" The Titan leader ordered. Making a portal, Jinx fell out from her bed reading a magazine and listening to heavy metal when she landed on her back.

"Ow, who did-what the?!" The pink haired witch backed away from suddenly seeing army.

"It's an attack! Cause them to malfunction or something!" The half-demon told her before flying off. Grunting from annoyance, Jinx stomped her feet on the ground, causing water sprinklers throughout the field to burst and drench the front lines, allowing Robin to throw a disc at them and electrocute a good portion of the army. Up in the air, all the tornados tried to blow away Raven with a concentrated mega tornado, but she wasn't having it. Her eyes glowing white, she put more effort into her incantation. "Azarath Metrion Zinthose!" Unleashing her soul-self as a giant Raven, it plowed right through the middle most part of them, but this left her wide open as the sorceress was caught by a blast of water from the Torpedos, standing in waterspouts over the park's lake. Starfire was able to punch through any rocks and blast away any fire that was aimed at her, and took out a solid line of them with her eye beams, but a robot was able to catch her leg, and the warrior was dogpiled by all those close to her. Heating up, they tried to boil her alive under their immense weight, but green energy seeped through until an explosion blew them away, leaving a huffing hero standing there, surrounded by more. Cyborg and Beast Boy were having the worst of it. All their attacks were being blown away and kept getting pushed back or else they'll be incapacitated. While they put up the good fight, the six were outnumbered from all sides. It especially didn't help when all the remaining Volcanoes caused the ground they were standing on to collapse, resulting in them falling 20 feet below normal ground. Dr. Morrow clapped his hands sarcastically.

"Well done. You managed to defeat 40 of my robots. But just the six of you stood no chance against 100. Now, give me what I want, or-" He didn't get to finish his sentence when spikes from underneath each robot's feet shot up, destroying every Inferno and Volcano surrounding the titans. They all gasped when they saw either Terra or Gaea, now equipped with metallic gloves that seemed to have enhanced her metahuman ability.

"Sorry to cut in Doctor, but if anyone's going to crush them, it's me." She boasted. The Torpedos tried to drown her with a wave of water, but with a simple flip of her hand, she simply flipped a massive section of the park over onto them, not only blocking the attack but also destroying all the aquatic robots and causing the lake to surge out and flood the area. The titans were able to either fly out or escape with Raven's help before they were swept by the flood. Focusing her power, the screws of the rest of the Tornadoes came loose, making them all disassemble and fall from the air. Terrified, Morrow tried to escape on his hovercraft when a rock hand caught him from the ground, and reeled him back until he was in Gaea's grasp. "Looks like you've hit rock bottom." And she did hit his head against a rock. Really, really hard. But sparks flew out when his eyeball had an electric wire on the end. "Dang it! An android. Oh well, now for you guys." Gaea now directed her gaze towards the recovered titans.

"Terra, you're doing this to us again?!" Beast Boy questioned, but the girl laughed.

"Terra's not here. I made sure of that." Starfire went first and tried to rush her as fast as she could, making sure she was out of any reaches from underground again, but only received a face full of rock as a giant stone hand came out of the ground and squashed her flat into it, along with seven more hands to compound on preventing her escape. Robin and Cyborg tried to blast at her with missiles and birdarangs, but a think was was able to block their attacks, and she launched said wall at them, prompting them to dodge only to get caught in more rock hands, too thick for them to break free. "Last time it took what, a minute or two take you out? That wasn't even fifteen seconds. With these power amplifiers, there's no way you'll beat me this time."

"Well guess what, Gaea. I'm not going to hold back this time. Azarath..." Accessing her hidden power, her cloak and clothes became white. "...Metrion..." Her hair extended down to her collar bone. "...Zinthose!" Raven shined brightly like a star, before her lumosity diminished to show her ultimate complete form.

"So you changed the color of your clothes. It'll be brown by the time I'm through with you." Throwing her fist, a giant version of it made of stone raced towards the sorceress, but she created a blast from her chakra just as strong, and blew the whole thing up. The metahuman jumped back with rock covering the soles of her boots, allowing her to fly. With multiple spinning kicks, she sent a barrage of earthen slabs at her opponent, only for her to block them with a white barrier. Needing a lot more power than that, Gaea gathered all the sand and soil in the entire park behind her in seconds, and unleashed a concentrated tsunami of sand at the half-demon tita, but Raven could give as good as she gets by firing a beam of energy from the chakra in her forehead, blasting through the sand. The two attacks slipped past each other and almost hit the other by inches, almost burying one in sand or disintegrating from white mythical energy. As this was going on, Beast Boy didn't know what to do.

"Jinx, we got to do something! We-Jinx?" He turned to see that the pink haired witch was on the farthest corner of the park.

"Sorry Beast Boy, but I know when I'm beat! But good luck with your girlfriends!" She yelled in fake confidence, making the hero sigh in annoyance, before turning into a bird and flying. Once the power struggle there ended, Gaea dug her metal clad fingers into the dirt, before flipping it up, letting the whole thing roll into a wide giant wheel barreling towards Raven, but was a simple slash, she cut the attack straight through the middle and pushed the two halves aside, completely unhurt. Shining brightly, Raven let loose her white soul-self, as wide as the whole park and as tall as the buildings, it was like a bird shaped sun was charging on the traitorous titan. But she dug underground to avoid said attack all together while it returned back into Raven's body. Bursting from the earth at high speeds, the blonde threw punch after punch in rapid succession, launching pillar after pillar of rock at the heroine, but with several physical moves, Raven jumped over the first pillar, slashed apart the second one with a swipe kick and smashed the third with a light enhanced downward karate chop. Gaea flew around the white sorceress, trying to overwhelm her from multiple angles, but a bubble of light protected her. Flipping onto her hands, Raven used the breakdancing move of the whirlwind to create an omnidirectional attack of energy blades. Even with her enhanced agility thanks to her rock covered boots, there was simply too many to dodge, so she had to erect a wall that took most of the blow, but was knocked back and cried out as she tumbled across the dirt. Raven was not going to allow her to get a breathe in, as the female titan flew forward and beat her up even more with three kicks. A straight kick to the gut, a front flip kick to the top of her head followed by a roundhouse kick to her jaw, sending the blonde crashing into the ground. Getting up, Gaea massaged her jaw, groaning in pain when she heard trees being ripped out of the ground, and they were aiming right at her! Reacting quick, the metahuman formed an earthen dome around herself before she was crushed by the trees.

"Is that all your power can do? You're basic. HAAA!" Collecting energy within herself, Raven went supernova with light, burning a creator where she stood along with burning all the grass by dozens of meters around herself. The trees were obliterated along with most of the rock of her dome, only being maintained by her effort on the front. She grunted in concentration, feeling her feet slip back. With the shield crumbling, she'd be overpowered in seconds. Looking around, she saw Beast Boy watching as a bird, keeping a close eye from a distance. Grinning, she swiped her left hand to her right side, causing a part of the buildings to break off and hit the green falcon before he could react. Reverting into human, he fell to the ground in a haze. Sensing her friend in danger, she stopped immediately and flew to his aid, catching him before he hit the ground. "Beast Boy! Are you alright?!"

"Yeauh... nev-better... Rae." He answered while suffering from a headache.

("Now's my chance.") Gaea thought. Raising up a boulder, she lobbed it at the two, but it was swiped away by Raven and her magic. Her cloak returned back to blue, and her skin became red.

"GET AWAY FROM HIM!" The now utterly demonic Raven, with her four red eyes and mouth filled with fangs, threatened the spooked metahuman, and screamed as she sick her soul on her. Gaea created a slope out of the ground which managed to deflect the black colored Raven, but with it turning back to the measly human, it would not miss again. Plummeting down at her, Gaea ripped the cliff out and placed it in between her and the giant raven spirit, but it ploughed right through and smashed the screaming girl into the ground, causing the entire area to shake for a few seconds. The soul-self retreated back into Raven, whom turned back into a gray skin tone and two eyes. Returning her attention back towards Beast Boy, she was unaware that through sheer force of will power, Gaea was still conscious and moving. Groaning, her body stood up snakingly, and bleeding from her old wounds. Wanting this to end now, she gathered all the sand near her, and condensed it into a super dense spear. Building up pressure in her arm, the blonde threw the spear as hard and fast as she could. Sensing danger, the half-demon sorceress put up a shield, but only managed to block all but the tip, and the sharp tip went and pierced through her side, causing Raven to gasp. She fell onto her back, clutching the hole in her side that was spilling blood, crying in intense pain. Grinning, Gaea was finally about to finish them off when a wave of pink energy flowed through her gloves, dismantling and falling apart. Filled with fury, the metahuman turned her attention to Jinx, who went another wave. Evading the attack by jumping to the side, she trapped the former villainess with a rock hand, crushing her into the ground. When Beast Boy could finally comprehend things correctly, he looked down to his side to see Raven suffering a deep wound, and turned to see Gaea raising a floating platform of stone while also coating her arms with earth to increase her offensive prowess. Connecting the dots, he shook his head.

"How dare you." He said. Gaea screamed as she charged at them, ready to kill. "How dare you... hurt my RAE RAE!" He shouted with rage as he transformed into something he never did before. It looked like a beast hybrid of a wolf and sasquatch, roaring with fury as he leapt at surprising speed and punched her punched her platform, throwing the metahuman off. She slammed into the wall. Trying to get up fruitlessly since her rocky arms didn't allow her to get proper foundation, her neck was gripped and held high as she stared into the face of this monstrous beast. He roared into her face, terrifying the metahuman before he threw her away, landing awkwardly as she screamed in pain, her arms now broken due to the earth coating around them. Not done, the beast picked up her platform overhead and walked to her so that she would be crushed. Seeing that she was going to be possibly killed, she screamed, writing around for a few seconds before going limp. Once he was close enough, he saw her quietly crying, her eyes now brown.

"Beast Boy, if you can hear me... do it. I'm too dangerous to live. End me, so that Gaea doesn't hurt you or them again. Please." Terra let her head fall limp to the ground, weeping that all she ever does is hurt those she cares about. Her sobbing confused the beast, wondering where the monster in this body went. Grunting with effort, he slammed the rock down, but only an inch above her head. The beast reverted back into Beast Boy, who looked down at her in pity.

"Terra. I'm not going to kill you. Even though you're dangerous, you're still my friend. Here." Stooping down close to her, the green hero tried helping her up, only to receive a slap by a rock hard fist that crumpled from the impact. Falling onto his hands and knees, he looked up to see Gaea has returned, fuming with so much anger and wrath that even her scar was glowing, and extending past its small area, making it seem like Terra's face was cracking apart.

"You. All of you. You just can't make anything easy can you?" Even with her broken arms, the evil persona willed herself to take a telekinetic grip on al the buildings within her natural range. "I am Gaea, and I will not accept this! I'm taking you all with me, so that I'm not going down alone!" Trying to rip the buildings right off their foundations themselves, she was about to bring them all in and crush the entire park, a portal opened underneath her, and she fell in with only the briefest of shrieks that could be heard before it closed. Beast Boy turned his head to Raven, whom cast the portal.

"Raven!" He cried out, running to her and see if she was okay. Next to her was the spike that was previously in her body, along with a cauterized wound that kept her from bleeding out. "Raven, are you okay?!"

"I'll...live. I...just need to...rest." She replied, giving a pained smile before fainting.

"He-help! Someone please help me!" He yelled, not knowing what to do.

Raven started to wake up, groaning from both the headache and the pain in her side.

"Raven!" Her head hurt when a certain voice called her name, and she saw Beast Boy over her, a square band aid on his cheek where he was slapped. "Oh, I'm so happy you're okay Raven!"

"Shut up. Your yelling is making my head worse."

"Oh, sorry."

"Ugh, where am I?"

"The infirmary. You really scared us."

"How...how are they?"

"They're fine. Moderate damage at most. The one we were most worried about was you, Raven. You lost some blood, and had to have your stomach lining fixed up."

"How long was I out?"

"2 days. We're all still aching though."

"And...Gaea?"

"You don't remember? You sent her somewhere else. Where did you send her?"

"Somewhere where she'll never hurt anyone again."

"Oh, that's good... I guess." He replied, looking progressively glum until he started crying.

"Beast Boy, what's wrong?"

"I failed you both. I couldn't help her at all, and you were hurt badly. I should've done more Raven. I'm such an idiot!" He started beating on his head, prompting Raven to catch his left arm, even though it caused her pain in her side.

"Ouch. No, don't beat yourself up Beast Boy. You did all you could as a friend. That's all that anyone can do sometimes."

"But-"

"No buts. Beast Boy, you're like Starfire in some regards. You want others to be happy. You want to help those because you empathize with them. It's just that sometimes, that's not enough, and no matter what we do afterwards or how much we wish we done differently, the only thing to do now is do the next right thing."

"What's that?"

"I don't have the answer. It's up to the individual." She answered, a gentle smile gracing her face. Thinking about her words, a solid few minutes passed before he spoke.

"I think I know what you mean. I'll always cherish what I had with Terra, and focus on the fun we had for awhile... but I can't forgive Gaea for hurting you like this. I can't help her. Raven, I was worried sick about you all this time, hoping you would pull through okay. Raven, I..." He took hold of her hands, and he stared into her purple eyes. "...I want to be there with you all the way, and you there with me. I...I love you Raven. I don't know if you'd accept being with a childish green freak, but I just wanted to-" The female titan placed a finger against his lips, smiling more deeply.

"I do. And besides, we're both oddly colored freaks." Taking hold of his head, she pulled him into a kiss on the lips. Beast Boy was shocked for a few seconds, but his eyes closed as he returned the kiss, staying like that until separation. "I love you too, you green goofball." She said with as much compassion as her monotone voice could muster. He smiled, and rubbed his forehead against hers.

The blonde metahuman opened her eyes wide open, only to see a dark purple sky. Sitting up only to curse when her arms flared with pain, she coated them in condensed dirt so that the fractures of her bones didn't move around too much. Looking around, there was only... garbage for miles to see.

"No." Gaea whispered to herself, looking all around, only to see rotten food and broken junk. "No." She said louder, and raised a platform of the mysterious earth below her to see if there was anything else, but even miles upon miles off to horizon there was only garbage. Lowering herself to the ground, the girl dropped to her knees and screamed into the endless sky. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Her voice echoed through this dark dimension, with no one else to hear it. Finding a puddle, she went to it and looked at her face, the scar on her forehead having extended all over her face, now resembling a cracked mirror forever.

"At least... they'll be safe. Terra sighed, accepting this bleak, permanent punishment. Her face then contorted into outrage.

"There's no way either of us are accepting this fate! Just you wait titans. Either I'll escape or you'll bring me back. Mark my words, I...will...DESTROY YOOOOOUUUUU!"

A/N: Wow, over 8000 words in two days. That's quite a lot. Well, given what happened to the titans, there's only one thing to do.

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LIL' BUDDIES! That's right, I'm bringing in that miniature gang! Birdarang, Boombox, that Robinized Robin bird, Pain Bot, the demon, Dave the Wolf, all of them! They're getting an episode themselves to help cover for the titans! Give me ideas on how they could be added to the group, and what they should do aside from that plot with the Brain. Let me know what you think of this chapter and what your ideas for the buddies in the review down below. I'd sort of like to see what you have in mind, Eris. :)