Beastboy was sprinting to the location on his communicator. He knew that if Robin was calling for his back-up that it was pretty serious. He ran so hard his lungs felt like they were burning, his legs felt like cement, and his feet felt uneven. But Beastboy was really sprinting so hard only to numb the pain he had in his chest from what Terra said to him.
Things change Beastboy. The girl you want me to be is just a memory.
The words were the only thing his mind could focus on. He was heart broken... again. By the same girl. He knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that was her. That was Terra. All the evidence pointed to one conclusion. Her statue was missing, her eyes, her smile, her laugh. It was all too real. There's no way he could be imagining everything.
Even her scent was the same! He thought to himself. He ran even harder to dry the tears that started to pool in his eyes.
Meanwhile at the recycling plant, the battle raged on. Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, and Raven were all fighting this new enemy. It had recently been tossed into a vat of red hot liquid by the team, but this creatures abilities were far beyond supernatural. Any material it touches, and it can instantly become that material. Needless to say this creature was now made up of liquid magma.
"Raven!" Robin shouted while facing down the creature slowly backing away from it. "Find some water to put this thing out! Quickly!"
With a nod from under her hood, Raven was swallowed by her dark energy and teleported somewhere unknown.
Cyborg shot the creature in the back with his sonic cannon. In a fiery rage, it turned from robin and looked down on Cyborg and threw a fist of magma at him. Its arm extended at Cyborg like a long rubber band.
A look of panicked fear came across Cyborgs face. He dove to his left avoiding the initial strike only to find himself seeing another magma fist coming straight at him from the other arm.
In a flash of blinding green light, the fist was stopped right before it got to Cyborg. Thanks to a heavy barrage of starbolts from Starfire hovering above him, letting out a vicious war cry on every starbolt she fired. Once the creature had withdrew his attack on cyborg to defend itself, Starfire flew down and picked Cyborg up to carry him away from the impending doom he nearly fell to.
After the creature saw his target being carried away, it stretched its arms out to capture them both in mid air. Robin wasn't having it though. Using his staff as a pole vault, he launched himself into the air above the creature throwing a circular device at its outstretched arms. On impact the device exploded and the creature's arms had turned to solid ice in a cloud of smoke. Robin then used the momentum from his fall through the air to land a devastating heel kick on the newly formed ice that were, just moments ago, made of magma. They instantly shattered into a thousand shards of ice.
The creature looked down at its dismembered arms un-phased as if it didn't feel pain at all. Within a blink of an eye, the creature grew two new arms and turned its gaze back on Robin.
A dark figure in the shape of a raven suddenly appeared from the ground in between Robin and the creature.
"I think it's time you chilled out." Raven said in her usual monotone voice. With her eyes glowing white with dark energy, and her hands surrounded by dark orbs, she lifted her hands into the air. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"
Out of the floor rose a massive pipeline filled with water that came barreling out like a dragon breathing fire. This took the creature by complete surprise and completely drenched the magma he was currently made up of.
A loud hiss of steam filled the room and when it cleared, the four Titans found themselves calmly regrouping around an iron statue of the creature frozen in the position it held right before the water drenched it.
"Good work team," Robin said, "what the heck is this thing?"
"I'll run a molecular scan to see if I can get an idea," Cyborg respond with his scanner already raised.
Just as he got closer, the creature's eyes opened wide and starred straight at him.
"Oh... MAN! You gotta be kidding me!" Cyborg yelled in frustration as he switched his scanner back into his sonic cannon.
The creature then started moving its new iron body as if nothing had changed. The Titans started backing off in every direction unsure how to proceed with their next move. They found themselves in a fight they knew they couldn't win on their own.
As they continued to back up, as a familiar voice cried out from above.
"HEADS UP!" Beastboy yelled. He was swan diving from the top of the recycling plant straight down towards the creature when mid flight he morphed into a massive humpback whale.
The creature looked up just in time to get crushed under the weight of a 300,000 pound sea dweller.
"YEAAAAHHHHH!" The team yelled with approval.
"BOOYAH!" Cyborg yelled happy to see his best friend back in action, "now that's what I'm talkin' about!"
Beastboy changed back to himself to see if the fight was really over. Looking down at the creature, it returned to its original pale white material, looked up at Beastboy, jumped to its feet, and threw a backfist across his jaw. The mighty blow sent Beastboy flying into a pile of steel cross beams. The anger and emotions were starting to boil inside Beastboy.
Starfire, Cyborg, and Robin opened a furious hail storm of starbolts, sonic blasts, and explosives on the creature immediately after it struck Beastboy.
"Enough!" Raven shouted angrily as she moved into a meditative state and sent her spirit form into the creature's body. She vanished inside.
But... Nothing happened.
After a moment she returned to her own body. Her attack was a complete failure. When she awoke in her body she flew over to the others, "I can't make it sleep. Whatever it is, it's not alive!"
"THAT MEANS WE DON'T HAVE TO HOLD BACK!" The furious yell came from across the site. From Beastboy of all people. He transformed into a cheetah sprinting full speed at the creature.
The Titans immediately ceased fire as he got closer to it. With a roar and a swing of his claws, along with the full force of the momentum behind his sprint, he left a massive slash in its chest. The creature turned to strike at the large cat but only struck air as Beastboy ducked under the strike, morphed into a tiny fly, and entered the huge gash he had put in the chest of the creature.
The creature looked down confused... Thinking to play this to its advantage, it regenerated the deep slash trapping BeastBoy inside.
A loud gasp of panic came from Starfire. The rest of the team had a look of terror on their faces. They were frozen with concern for their friends safety.
After a long moment, the creature looked back up at the Titans like it had finished Beastboy off.
"Beastboy!" screamed Starfire.
"No!" Raven cried with sadness.
"Titans! G-" before robin could give the command to save their friend the creature looked back down at its chest. With an ear splitting roar the creature exploded into bits and pieces as a giant green Tyrannosaurus Rex took its place from inside. All the pale white pieces that were part of the creature turned to dust and blew away with a gentle breeze. All that was left in tact was the creature's face. it was mechanical and it's eyes were still glowing red.
Robin reached down to pick it up and as he did the eyes faded to black.
Beastboy returned to his normal state. His back was to the rest of the team, breathing heavily. Tears were in his eyes but he wiped them away, slowed his breathing, and quickly put a friendly face on. He turned to his friends with his normal cheerful voice...
"Duuuuudes! Did you see that?!" He laughed, "now thats what I call head splitter!" His laughed continued but it sounded slightly fake.
The rest of the team looked at him nervously. They all thought that was unbelievably unnecessary.
"Beasyboy," Starfire said shyly, "that was... Um..."
"Brutal," Raven finished for her.
"Yeah man. A little over the top don't you think?" Cyborg added, "not to mention reckless! You had us worried sick, man!"
Beastboy raised his hand to the back of his head with an embarrassed expression on his face, "yeah... uh..."
"What's done is done," Robin finally spoke up, coming to Beastboy's defense, "In the end this thing was on a path of destruction. We had to take it down or hundreds of innocents could have been injured." He turned to look at Beastboy. His look was full of concern but no judgment what-so-ever. "Good work Beastboy."
Beastboy let out a huge sigh of relief as they waited for Robins next order.
Robin put the mechanical face in a containment device and handed it to Cyborg. "We still need to figure out what this thing is and where it came from."
"I'm already on it," said Cyborg taking the containment device as he walked to the T-Car.
Robin looked back at the rest of the team and with a satisfied smile he said, "Let's get out of here."
Later that night the Titans were back at the Tower and Robin was in his study going through old files when Raven walked up to the door of his study. The door was already open so Raven spoke up to make her presence known.
"What's going on Robin? I've been in your mind. I know you wouldn't let that slide even on your best day," Raven spoke with concern in her voice.
"If you're talking about Beastboy, your absolutely right," replied Robin, "but something wasn't right with him. The only time I have ever seem him with that kind of mentality was when we were fighting Terra after she betrayed us."
Raven knew exactly what he was talking about. Beastboy was on a rampage destroying anything in his path between him and Terra. It was the most terrifying thing she had ever seen from him.
"So what are you looking for in these old files then?" She asked curiously.
Robin stopped looking through files as his eyes fixed on a certain folder. He pulled it out quickly. It was not very thick but very recognizable. It had a picture of Terra paper-clipped to the to top right corner, with large red letters on the cover that read Case Closed. Under his breath he manged to say one word in response to Raven...
"Answers."