Chapter 43 Dimension Hopping Time!

Beast Boy's almost shrieked as he saw Megan holding a gun over his leader's face. Sure, Robin wasn't known as the best leader of all time, but… come on, he didn't deserve to die! None of Beast Boy's friends deserved to die! Just the thought of that happening was enough to make a deep, dark void form in his stomach, enough to make him feel as if the whole universe was breaking apart and crashing on top of him.

"No!" Beast Boy struggled against the elves' hold, but for such tiny creatures, they were surprisingly strong. A low growl escaped from his throat the more he tried to get free, he even kicked. Still, it felt as though the elves weren't about to let up anytime soon.

Then he got an idea.

"YOU GUYS LEAVE ROBIN BE!" Without any warning, he transformed into a T-rex. He roared at the top of his voice, making the elves who were holding him shrink back and cower in fear. Everyone else in the room seemed to be taken aback by this display too, especially Santa and Megan.

"What in the Christmas Kringle is going…"

Beast Boy charged at him, his attention solely focused on getting to the Robins. He headbutted Megan, sending her flying back while screaming at the top of her lungs. Her back cracked with the most painful sound the human body could possibly make, making Beast Boy cringe. However, he was not about to feel sympathy for her. She was willing to kill Robin. That couldn't be overlooked or ignored.

"YOU DO NOTS HURT MY LEADER! OKAY!"

Santa looked like a dear stuck in the headlights as Beast Boy charged at him next. Unlike Megan, the changeling decided to whack him with his mighty tail. The jolly old elf flew both upwards and backward, his head making contact with the part of the assembly line attached to the ceiling. He landed with a crash, groaning as he did. Once he was sure he wouldn't get up, Beast Boy decided that it was time to go after the elves. Fortunately… there didn't seem to be any more in the workshop. They had all vanished, no doubt with their tails between their legs.

And with that, Beast Boy transformed back into a human. He let out a breath, noticing for the first time that the rest of the Titans from both teams were gawking at him. Blinking and feeling a little squirmy, Beast Boy chuckled and scratched the back of his head.

"Sorry. I got kinda carried away…"

"BEAST BOY!" Robin yelled. Unlike many of the previous times he had yelled at his team, he didn't sound angry at all. Quite the contrary, he actually sounded proud! An emotion Beast Boy believed he would never see from him. "You… you saved my life!"

Beast Boy smiled, the expression just a tad sheepish. "Well… you're my leader. And my friend." He had to use all of his self-control to not cringe at that last statement. "I… I couldn't just lt you die."

"Very cool, BB!" Cyborg said as he came over and patted his best friend on the shoulder. "Pretty awesome, too."

"Indeed," said Starfire. "You might very possibly be the most heroic out of the five of us!"

Beast Boy's face grew hotter than a stovetop. "Th… thanks."

"Uh, guys," Robin said as he came over. "I hate to break this up, but we need to move!" He pointed toward Santa, still groaning on the floor. "The Clauses are going to wake up at any minute!"

"Right," Robin said. He went over to Santa and grabbed the warlogog (which Beast Boy was shocked to see hadn't shattered or cracked at all throughout any point in the fight). "Come on everyone!" His face grew serious. "We have some dimensions to hop."

Beast Boy smiled, and together, the two teams went out into the snow. Once they were a good distance away from the workshop, Robin looked down at the swirly pink orb in confusion. Beast Boy didn't blame him; in fact, if he were to wager a guess, he would probably say that Robin was asking the same question in his head that Beast Boy was asking in his.

"How do we work that thing, yo?"

Robin looked uneasy. "I don't… know." He stood still for a second before waving his hand over the warlogog. "Hear me of warlogog, and transport us across the dimensions!" He looked at the artifact, leaning close into it before his face fell. "Shoot, I don't think that's right…"

"Here, let me have it," Cyborg said as he approached. Robin handed it over, and Cyborg stared into the orb's pink interior. "I think I know some way to work this. When Cy and I were reading about the warlogog legends, they said that they require you to A) have a specific mindset and B), you have to have some semblance of power to unlock its abilities."

"Oh!" Starfire exclaimed, a big smile growing on her face. "That makes the sense! Robin doesn't have any powers, so he's practically the useless!"

"Hey!" Robin shouted. "Be nice! You know that's a touchy subject for me"

"Yeah!" Robin said as he rubbed his arms. "To be honest, I've always worried about that too…"

Starfire, while she had only giggled for Robin, forced herself to stop laughing when she heard Robin's plight. "I apologize, Handsome Robin." Robin sent her a glare before she turned back to Cyborg. "So, the Serious Cyborg, do you believe you can do the working of the warlogog?"

Cyborg's brow furrowed a bit. "Well I… I don't know. But I can certainly try!" He looked over at his double. "In fact, Cyborg and I have thought up a pretty decent method we can use to try it."

"That we have!" He approached Cyborg, holding out his hand. "Stand back, everyone!" Cyborg grinned in the most mischievous way possible. "Prepare to have your minds blown!"

He took his double's hand, and before the eyes of everyone present, they began to morph. Beast Boy watched this display with a dropped jaw, reeling at how the circuitry and parts of the two Cyborgs were meshing and changing in the most alien of ways. Seriously, he had never see anything like this before! It was like spotting a triple rainbow, or a unicorn in the wild! He couldn't tear his eyes away, couldn't stop staring as the two Cyborgs fused and changed into something entirely new.

Within no time at all, the Cyborgs had turned into what looked like a spaceship. Cyborg's head was situated at the front, and Cyborg's head was on top of a very weird, circular structure. The spaceship had multiple seats; in fact, they had exactly the right amount of seats for every one of the present Titans. It blew Beast Boy's mind as he looked at this structure.

"Woah!" Beast Boy said, approaching the Cyborg ship as Beast Boy tried to remember how to speak. "Guys, how did you…"

"We've done some experimenting," Cyborg said with a cheeky grin. "We wanted to make sure to use the most effective method possible to dimension hop."

"And the most stylish!" Cyborg chuckled. "Okay everyone! Hop in!"

Beast Boy didn't need to be told twice. Grinning, he got into one of the seats. Starfire and Robin got in right beside him, and the Serious Titans got in the seat parallel to theirs. Beast Boy snuggled into the seat, trying to keep himself from falling into a laughing fit.

"Man, you guys are really comfortable to sit on! My butt is very snug!"

"Thanks… I guess," Cyborg said. He looked back towards Cyborg. "Cy, get the warlogog ready!"

"With pleasure, Cy!" A little compartment at the bottom on the circular structure Cyborg was a part of opened up, and a stand holding the warlogog rose upward. Once it was right in the center of the circle, Cyborg snickered, and just like that the warlogog began to glow. Pink bolts of what looked like lightning floated off of it, filling the circle. As if that wasn't impressive enough, a pink bolt of light shot forward, and an interdimensional portal opened up right before the Titans.

"Woohoo!" Beast Boy whooped, much to everyone's surprise. "Cyborgs, that was SO COOL!"

Cyborg chuckled. "Th… thanks." He put on a determined face. "You ready, guys?"

"I don't think it would matter if we weren't," Starfire said as she looked back. She pointed toward the workshop. "The Santa Clauses are coming after us!"

Beast Boy's heart skipped a beat. He looked back and sure enough, both Santa and Megan were outside and getting into what looked like Santa's signature sleigh.

"Oh… boy…" Beast Boy swallowed a lump. "Yeahs, we really needs to be hurrying."

"Alrighty then!" Cyborg laughed out loud. "Well, Titans… it's dimension hopping time!"

The engine roared to life. As Beast Boy gripped the sides of his seat, the machine rose into the air. Fire shot out of the exhaust pipes, adding to the building anticipation. Beast Boy couldn't help but hold his breath. Please oh please let this go well. He paused. Especially for Raven…

"Here… We… GO!"

The machine shot forward. Beast Boy shut his eyes as they entered the portal, on some level not knowing what to expect. He waited a few seconds, just to make sure he hadn't been blown up, before cracking his eyes open a tiny bit. When he did, his jaw dropped. Along with every other Titan, he gawked at the sight that laid before them.

It was space as far as the eye could see. Other portals rested in various places, glowing like the most luminous kinds of stars. And there were thousands of them, possibly millions! They just sat there, twinkling and waiting for someone to fly toward them. With their pink color, they actually looked… pretty.

"Man," Beast Boy said, being at a loss for words for what was possibly the first time in his life.

"I know," Starfire said. "It is more glorious than the Tamaran moon during my planet's lunar festival!"

"It is beautiful," Robin said, frowning as he did. "But how are we going to know which one leads to our Earth?"

"Hmm," Cyborg said, biting his lip as he did. "That… that question might not have an answer quite yet…"

"Well, we need to find an answer!" Robin pointed backwards, his masked eyes growing wide. "Here come the Santas!"

Beast Boy looked back, feeling like he was about to have a panic attack when he saw Santa riding his sleigh. "Cyborg, speed up!"

"Of course!" The engine roared to life once again, and it zipped forward at incredible speeds. Beast Boy once again had to grip the sides of his seat to keep himself steady. Gritting his teeth as tears flew from his eyes, he felt like he was going to throw up with the incredible speeds the spaceship was flying.

"Cyborgs, go faster!" Robin yelled. "They're still on our tail!"

"We're going as fast as we can, Robin!" Cyborg screamed. He cringed. "I don't think we can outrun them…"

"We may not have to!" Cyborg shouted. He gestured toward a warlogog portal coming up. "Aim for that portal!"

"That portal? Cyborg, are you insane?"

"Just do it!"

Cyborg hesitated before sighing. "Okay…" With that, the ship zipped forward. Beast Boy closed his eyes as they entered the portal. Oh, what was waiting for them on the other side?