Hey there everybody! I hope you guys are all ready for yet more Teen Titan-ic awesomeness, because here is the newest 'episode' of A-Liongleek's season 6 of Teen Titans. And boy will this one be a real earthshaker! Needless to say, here's to hoping you all enjoy, read, and review!

But first, I shall remind you that I do not own Teen Titans, or the DC Universe period. Now that that's out of the way, feast your eyes, on the prologue for the new epic story, Geo-Force!

Prologue:

It was a beautiful day at Jump City Beach on the 1st day of August in the year 2017. The children were having the time of their lives playing around in the sand, splashing in the water, or likewise enjoying themselves in the midst of the two weeks or so they had left before their summer vacation came to an end. The middle school and high school aged citizens were also enjoying themselves, but a bunch of them in a more relaxed and less exuberant way compared to their much younger counterparts. And as for the adults, the majority of them were relaxing in their respective spots on the beach (some of them even sleeping) while a small number were in the water with the kids and teenagers. All in all, all the civilians at the beach were all having a pretty good day.

However, the mass number of civilians present were not the only natives of Jump City present at the beach. Five other guests at the beach at that particular moment, two of which were seated on foldable beach chairs, two of which were sitting on towels, and the fifth of which was lying down on his belly on a third towel, were of a considerably higher status. They were the five heroes of the city. They were, the Teen Titans.

"It is certainly a glorious day is it not?" Starfire asked, her green eyes agleam as she stared in calm happiness at the happy scene that lay before her at the beach.

"You could say that," said Robin, his own face showing his own signs of happiness in spite of the fact that his eyes were still covered, as usual, by his black and white domino mask. He then smiled as he looked in the same direction that his girlfriend was looking. "It's certainly nice that we got to have a good little bit of piece today."

"You got that right," Beast Boy agreed, his fangs showing in a toothy grin and his green eyes dazzling with joy as he continued to lie down on his beach towel with his chin on top of his hands like a cat. "Of course, things haven't been 100% peaceful and crime-free over the last few days. But hey, at least things haven't ever yet gotten as bad as they did during our little adventure two months ago."

Robin grimaced upon hearing that last bit. "Please don't remind me about that right now, I'm trying to relax and enjoy myself here."

At the sound of this, Beast Boy grimaced guiltily, directed an apologetic look towards his fearless leader, and stated, "Oh right, sorry about that."

"It's ok," said Robin. He then shook his head to clear his thoughts of the very real jeopardy he was at risk of facing in another 17 months from the current point in time. Allowing his earlier happy smile to come back on his face, he leaned back in the chair he was using, placing his hands together behind his head (his heavily gelled up spiky black hair serving as a nice shelter for them as well), and said, "Let's just enjoy ourselves and relax just like originally planned."

"You do realize that we can't keep putting off that matter and taking part in this break we've agreed upon forever you know," said Raven, her violet purple eyes directing a stern and serious look towards the teenage caped crusader.

"I understand Raven," Robin admitted patiently. He turned his head to look at the gray skinned sorceress "But for now, let's just keep resting and enjoying ourselves while we still can. It's not often we get chances like this to have a break from our duties as heroes, and whenever we do have them, I believe it's best that we take as much advantage of them as possible. Counting today, I've still got 17 months, plus one day, to wait before my due date comes. And if we still haven't ended our little break by the beginning of this September, then I promise that I will make it mandatory for you guys to get back to work on your little side project." He got himself back into his earlier relaxed position, sighed in content, and continued, "But for now, just relax. Everything's perfectly fine right now, and there's no need for us to make things stressful for ourselves when they don't have to be."

Raven raised her eyebrow at the Boy Wonder. "If you say so," she eventually grumbled before turning her head away from Robin to once again direct what appeared to be a rather disinterested look towards the ocean. A slight breeze then kicked up, sending her dark lilac purple hair blowing around gracefully to her right. At the sight of this, Beast Boy unobtrusively directed a look towards her. For a long time now, he had unconsciously found himself directing a considerable amount of attention towards the teenage Azarathian sorceress. This behavior had only increased after a very unusual incident two months prior to now that he'd begun to gain more and more memories of over the past month. When this behavior had first began long ago, he hadn't entirely thought it was all that big of a deal. But after everything that had now happened, plus the details he was starting to remember about the incident he was thinking about from the Dante's Keys adventure, he was starting to wonder whether or not the nature behind his current actions were of a far stronger nature then he'd originally thought.

A few seconds later, Beast Boy was spared from his current thoughts when he heard a familiar voice say, "Well regardless of how soon or late we get back to that little problem, I'm all for enjoying this little mini-vacation we're having!"

Beast Boy chuckled, turned his head to face Cyborg with a toothy grin on his face, and said, "Join the club dude."

The bionic teenager chuckled, directed his gaze back towards the ocean and sun, and gave a thumbs up towards the sky before saying, "Yep, I'm totally enjoying things today! And boy I hope that those beach boys not too far from our right our willing to let an additional guest join in their party, cuz I'm totally hoping to get to taste some of that barbecue they're cooking!"

As he said the last bit, Cyborg turned his head to his right to take a look at the 'party' in question. He licked his lips hungrily as he watched the one boy in the group that was hard at work at the grill. Cyborg nearly even ended up drooling as he caught a whiff of the meat cooking up on the grill and thought about how very tasty it would probably be if he got the chance to eat some of it.

Robin chuckled, turned his head to look in the same direction as Cyborg, and then gave a thumbs up to his bionic friend before then saying, "Well if those guys let you join them, I'm all for letting you have a taste of that barbecue."

"Yes friend Cyborg," said Starfire, her long red hair billowing in the wind much like Raven's had been earlier. "If granted, the opportunity shall be all yours."

"Whatever," Raven droned without even turning her head to look.

"Well thank you all for that," said Cyborg. "I'm all for going there to ask in the next few minutes. And for that matter . . ." He turned to Beast Boy. "You're free to join them with me if you want BB."

Beast Boy pulled a face, sticking his tongue out in disgust, and then directed an annoyed glare at Cyborg before saying, "Cy, have you ever once said yes to any of my offers for you to try my tofu or join me at the local Vegetarian/Vegan friendly joint?"

"No."

"Then what reason would you have to expect that I'd say yes to this offer of yours for me to eat meat?"

"Wasn't really," Cyborg admitted with a chuckle. "Just taking part in the usual ritual."

"Grr," Beast Boy grumbled. "It's all yours dude. I'd rather die again then eat that stuff."

Robin silently grimaced upon hearing the word 'again,' but he otherwise maintained his composure.

"Understood," said Cyborg, completely unphased by his green friend's choice of words. He stood up from his beach towel. "Well, I'll be heading over there right now. Be back in a few or two." After receiving silent acknowledgement from Robin, Cyborg proceeded to calmly make his way over to the beach boys with their mini-party and cooking barbecue, whistling happily to himself as he went.

At the sight of his friend whistling as he walked over to the beach boys' barbecue party, Beast Boy chuckled, swiftly ran his left fingers through his chartreuse green blonde hair, and stated, "Sure is nice to see Cy enjoying himself."

"You've got that right Beast Boy," Robin agreed. "He's certainly earned the right to have a little fun with some of the local fans."

"Indeed," Starfire stated in agreement with her boyfriend before directing a look towards Raven. "What about you friend Raven? Do you not agree?"

Raven thought to herself, and then shrugged. "You could say I do agree, in a sense," Raven responded; and then she directed a small smile towards her three friends still present there directly beside her.

"Good to know," Beast Boy stated with a cheeky smile directed towards Raven before he turned his head to face the ocean, stretched his arms and hands much like the way a cat would do, even letting out a lion-like yawn in the process, before lying back down once more, sighing in content as he redirected his gaze towards the ocean. The other Titans, likewise feeling relaxed and content, didn't even bother trying to feel annoyed at Beast Boy's more animalistic behavior that he'd recently displayed at that moment. They were just feeling that happy.

. . . . .

At the same time that all the Titans were busy enjoying themselves, one civilian in particular was directing her gaze towards them a couple yards or so away from the beach boys that Cyborg was currently chumming around with. As she carefully watched the five teenage heroes, and in particular, the green-skinned, haired, and eyed, boy with the purple and black jump suit lying around on his belly on a beach towel, she found herself feeling a mixture of sentimentality, relief, and guilt. She was feeling sentimental about how the way they were currently acting reminded her a lot about past experiences in which she'd hung out with her friends. She was feeling relief that neither of the teenage heroes, particularly the green shape shifter, had managed to even notice her presence at the beach. And finally, she was feeling guilty as to how she was forcing these five people she'd once viewed as very close friends to both stay in the dark about her whereabouts as well as (again in the case of the green shape shifter) just how much more she remembered and knew then she let on.

The girl sighed, placed her chin on her left palm as she continued to stare in the direction of the five teenage super heroes, her blue eyes seeming to glaze over with regret. Admittedly, it would have been far more painful than she was sure she was willing to attempt to bear to openly let them meet her and become aware of her entire situation, let alone her continued existence considering what had happened the last time they knew for sure that they had seen her. And that being said, she had more or less done the right thing by allowing herself and them to avoid potentially unnecessary pain, drama, and stress. Then again, and she sighed once more, at the same time, in treating this situation the way she was currently treating it, she knew that she was only running from her troubles and potentially delaying the inevitable. Granted, she was always able to put on a good show for her friends at the school she was attending as well as the people at the small diner she worked at to get money to pay her rent as well as multiple other payments. But whenever she was at her apartment where she lived on her own, she always felt the entirety of her dilemma haunt her and pile on her like crazy. And she wasn't sure how much longer she could handle all the stress she was placing on herself in regard to this problem without either breaking and telling someone or going completely insane.

Then she heard a mass screaming coming from all around her, and she groaned silently to herself as she turned her head to see the cause of all the commotion among all the girls in the group she was hanging out with. She was currently in the midst of a friendly outing with a large group of her gal pals from the local high school she was attending, the school in question being Murakami High. As it turned out, the reason behind the quite fangirlish screaming from her peers was the sight of fellow Murakami High Student, as well as the school's local heartthrob, Jackson Carver.

Under other circumstances, she had to admit that she would probably be right there with her peers in the way they were acting. After all, she had to admit that Jackson certainly was attractive. He had brown hair styled in a low ponytail that always seemed to effortlessly billow around in the wind, onyx black eyes that at times seemed to be able to look straight through to your very soul, and he was also surprisingly muscular and fit for someone as slender in build as he was. All this, combined with the fact that Jackson was both a talented athlete and a dedicated scholar made him a very desirable piece of eye candy for the majority of the girls at Murakami High (keyword being 'majority'). In fact, she herself was the only girl who wasn't affected by Jackson's Fabio aura, a factor that left all of her peers among Murakami High's female student population perplexed and speechless with shock.

At that particular moment, Jackson was preparing himself to go out in the water to do some surfing. And as he stood there holding his lightning bolt patterned surf board, his eyes gleaming with a passionate spark as he gazed towards the water in anticipation, she found herself silently giving points to the boy. After all, there was truly no better way to make yourself happy then to do what you loved, and the only times that Jackson Carver ever had that look he currently had in his eyes were times in which he was either doing, or about to do, one of the many activities that he enjoyed. Seconds later, with a spirited inarticulate yell of enthusiasm, Jackson dashed over to the water, seeming to teleport into position on his surfboard upon reaching the water before then paddling exuberantly out to catch some waves.

As the 16-year old girl watched the free-spirited teenage boy paddling out into the ocean on his surfboard, she found herself unconsciously thinking of her life from before the one she currently led. For some odd reason, she found the way that Jackson was moving oddly familiar, as if she had once seen or maybe even personally known someone in her past life who swam in a very similar manner.

Deciding that she'd rather avoid thinking about that kind of thing for the moment, she looked to her left in time to see one particularly good friend of hers staring dreamily out in Jackson's direction and expressing her thoughts about him in a surprisingly more silent way than all the others in their group. The girl couldn't help but smirk wolfishly, for this girl, named Stephany Troy, had a major-league huge crush on Jackson, and could always be seen acting super shy, stuttering, and blushing like a tomato around him. In fact, the dynamic that had managed to come between herself, Stephany, and Jackson had come to remind her rather unhealthily of the very similar dynamic that had once existed between Sakura, Hinata, and Naruto (respectively) in the earlier segments of the Naruto series. She then sighed to herself as she thought of this, and found herself hoping very much that either Stephanie would one day develop the guts needed to confess to Jackson or that Jackson himself would come to find himself reciprocating her feelings for her and making the job easier. After all, she was really starting to get both impatient with how long Stephanie was keeping herself perpetually dancing around the matter and annoyed with how her own repeated rejections of Jackson's attempts at asking her out still hadn't stopped him from trying at every opportunity he got at school.

Deciding that she needed to have a break from her school-life drama, she looked back at the Titans. Sighing again as she found her mind drifting back to her equally stressful memories regarding them, she stared down at some sand lying nearby her beach towel, her blue eyes misting over as she remembered how she would have once been able to cause a Sahara Desert worthy sandstorm right here in this beach. But that had been another life. And now, she was reduced to hiding herself, maintaining lies, and likewise running away from the life she'd once known and still refused to face to this day.

Sighing yet again, the girl rubbed her fingers through her shoulder-length golden yellow blonde hair. "I used to be so much braver then this," the girl thought to herself. "What happened to turn me into such a coward these days?" However, little did she know that her past life would soon force her to face it and resume it, whether she liked it or not.

. . . . .

Meanwhile, back at the area where the four younger members of the five founding Titans were lounging, Beast Boy heard a voice from his right ask, "Want to play?"

The changeling turned his head, and smiled widely as he saw a young boy standing right next to him holding a beach ball out eagerly as if asking him to play with him. "Sure," Beast Boy responded with a chuckle before turning himself around so that he could properly face the boy. No sooner had he positioned himself on all fours so that he was staring straight at the boy, he turned into a California sea lion, clapped his front flippers together, and barked happily in anticipation.

Giggling at the sight of the joyful green sea mammal, the boy tossed the beach ball towards it. The sea lion tapped it upwards with its snout, and proceeded to bounce it up and down upon his snout repeatedly the way seals and sea lions were stereotypically believed to act in circuses. The boy only giggled further at the sight. The sea lion made what appeared to be a sea lion equivalent of a smile before slapping the ball playfully back towards the boy with a swing of his right front flipper. The boy happily caught it, threw it back, and then the game was officially on.

Before long, with several other kids joining in, a quite lively game of catch soon unfolded with each kid who managed to catch the ball eagerly throwing it with their hands while Beast Boy the sea lion continuously either tapped at the ball with his front flippers, sent it flying with swings of his back flippers, or bounced it on his nose multiple times before bopping it right back at a randomly chosen child among the group he was playing with. Robin and Starfire smiled warmly at the sight, and even Raven had a slight smile, though hers was more wistful and slightly regretful. She had never gotten the chance to play with any other children during her childhood.

Eventually, Beast Boy brought the game to a decisive end by first seeming to catch the ball with his right front flipper before slapping it back and forth between his two front flippers. Then he started to juggle the ball while standing on only his hind flippers. Then he bounced the ball on his nose a couple more times. Then he bopped it hard enough to send it flying over the kids. Then, for a grand finale, he leaped over the kids, landed right behind them, and then turned his head to look behind him before lifting up his hind flippers just in time to catch the ball. The six children he'd been playing with, three of them boys and the other three being girls, cheered in pure childish glee at the sight of this dazzling performance.

Beast Boy smiled, handed the ball back to the boy who'd initiated the game in the first place, morphed back to human form, and then turned around to face the children properly. Smiling, he then stated, "Wasn't that fun?"

"Yes!" the six children replied joyfully.

"Awesome!" Beast Boy yelled before leaning down so that he was closer to the children's level, his arms stretched out wide to his sides.

The children, very easily getting the message promptly gathered around him and hugged him. Beast Boy returned the gesture, making sure his arms encompassed all six of the kids, chuckling happily with his eyes closed as he did so.

Robin and Starfire couldn't help but smile at the sight of this. "He sure is good with kids," said Robin.

"Indeed," Starfire agreed. "I do believe he would make the most excellent father if he ever had any kids." She then turned her head to look at Raven with a sly grin on her face as she thought of how she'd unobtrusively managed to catch onto Beast Boy and Raven's subtle behaviors around each other. "Wouldn't you agree friend Raven?"

Raven turned her head towards Starfire, her impassive face showing no sign of the slight worry she felt inside about whether or not Starfire knew more than Beast Boy or herself thought. "Well I'd have to be blind not to understand that after seeing his current behavior with those six kids," Raven stated in a matter-of-fact tone.

Starfire, much to Raven's dread, only chuckled. "Are you sure that is all you have to say on that?"

Raven raised her eyebrow, desperate to maintain her composure. "And what might you mean by that?"

"I do believe you already know," Starfire responded.

Meanwhile, Beast Boy had just finished hugging the six kids he'd played with when he noticed a seventh kid, a young bespectacled blonde boy joylessly poking at a small sand castle with a stick. Concerned, Beast Boy slowly made his way over to the boy, and then sat down right next to the boy. The boy looked at him with a half annoyed and half melancholy look on his face. "Hey there," said Beast Boy. "Is something wrong?"

The little boy sighed, looked down at his lap, and responded glumly, "My parents. They aren't here."

"Oh," said Beast Boy. "Well that shouldn't be too bad. I mean, they'll probably come back to check on you sooner or later . . ."

"No they won't," the boy interrupted with a hint of bitterness in his voice. "Because they're dead. They died last week in a plane coming home from a vacation in Hawaii."

"Oh," Beast Boy responded, now feeling guilty at how nonchalant he'd originally been acting about the boy's original comment. He then placed his hand on the boy's shoulder in an impulsive act of empathy. "May I ask how old you are?"

"Seven," the boy responded before he even got the chance to wonder about the sudden apparent change of subject.

Beast Boy nodded, directed his gaze towards the sun with a wistful look of sadness on his own face, and then said, "Well my parents died when I was young to. I was eight at the time."

The younger boy's eyes widened. "Really?"

Beast Boy nodded his head glumly, his eyes closed.

"Wow," the civilian boy stated, he then directed his eyes towards his left, his face clearly showing how awkward he felt about listening to what Beast Boy had just said.

"I'll bet you miss them don't you?"

The boy sighed. "Yeah," he replied. Then he looked at Beast Boy. "You?"

Beast Boy sighed, closed his eyes, and hung his head towards his lap. "More than I can say. More than I can say."

Robin, Starfire, and Raven were gaping in shock as they watched and heard what was happening. Never before had Beast Boy ever mentioned anything about this to them. Even Cyborg was watching in stunned silence. The six kids Beast Boy had played with, meanwhile, were also gaping towards Beast Boy and the other kid with looks that ranged from stunned shock, to saddened sympathy, and even awkward embarrassment.

"So who takes care of you now?" Beast Boy asked.

The boy pointed at a tall blonde man sitting next to and chatting with a ginger-haired woman that appeared to be his wife. "My aunt and uncle. I was staying with them already while my parents were on their vacation."

"Huh," Beast Boy stated as he looked towards the couple. "I was raised by my own uncle for a time." Then he looked back at the boy. "Are they nice people?"

The boy nodded his head, a small smile now on his face. "You can bet on your life they are." Then he thought to himself. "What about your uncle?"

At this, Beast Boy sighed. "Sadly, no."

"Oh," said the little boy. "How bad was he?"

Beast Boy chuckled nervously, directed a nervous half smile and half grimace towards the kid, and then responded, "You don't want to know."

The boy raised his eyebrow at first, but then thought to himself, and nodded in understanding. "I guess you're probably right," he admitted.

Robin and the two girl Titans found themselves awkwardly looking each other in the eyes. In just those last few minutes in which they'd observed and listened to him in the midst of his chat with this kid, they had learned far more about Beast Boy then they had ever before learned about him over the course of the almost five or so years they had lived alongside him. Even Cyborg found himself awkwardly looking away over his shoulder. This particular motion ended up prompting one of the beach boys that Cyborg was hanging out with to take over the grill when the barbecue ended up at risk of burning due to Cyborg's being distracted.

Beast Boy then sighed, directed a weak smile towards the younger civilian boy, and stated, "But hey, at least your aunt and uncle are nice people."

"Yeah that is true," the boy admitted. "Still, I wish that my parents were here with me instead of up in Heaven with the angels."

Beast Boy nodded in sympathy, placed his hand back on the boy's shoulder, and then said, "I know how you feel. I've often wished the same about my parents more than once." Beast Boy then took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and maintained a peaceful silence for a bit. Then he opened his eyes, a small toothy grin on his face, and he stated, "But you know what?"

"What?"

Beast Boy's smile widened, his emerald eyes now starting to gleam, and he responded, "Even though your parents aren't alive and right here with you in person anymore, they'll always still be around watching over from you from Heaven."

The younger boy thought to himself. "I guess that's true."

Beast Boy chuckled. "And even if that weren't true," he then stated. "You'll always have them around." He then pressed the tip of his right index finger against the area where the young boy's heart was located. "Right here."

The younger boy chuckled, hung his head in embarrassment, and then looked back up at the teenage green hero who'd now admitted to be not entirely that different from himself in this one important regard, a small smile on his face. "That's certainly true as well. Thank you."

"You're welcome," said Beast boy. He then looked at what was lying on top of a small beach bucket. "Is that a harmonica?"

The boy looked at the object in question, then back at Beast Boy, and then nodded. "Yep. It was my dad's. It was one of the only things that they were able to salvage from the wreckage. My uncle thought it would only be appropriate for me to have it."

"Smart choice," Beast Boy stated. He then chuckled, stretched his hand towards it, and asked, "Mind if I try to play it?"

The boy smiled. "Go ahead."

"Why thank you," said Beast Boy. He picked up the instrument, positioned it appropriately in his mouth, and played a small note on it. After playing that single note, he directed his eyes at the boy, a look inside them that silently asked for permission to continue. The boy nodded, and Beast Boy smiled. Then the changeling transformed into an olive baboon (the species name now oddly appropriate in how this particular morph was a dark olive green), reconfigured his positioning of the harmonica, and then resumed his playing of the harmonica. The tune in question was an exact note by note replica of the tune that had been played by Tony Malone in Escape to Witch Mountain when he'd telekinetically caused a group of toys and puppets to dance around to his harmonica playing. As Beast Boy did this, he started randomly skipping along the beach. And before long, both the young boy he'd just now cheered up and the six kids he'd played beach ball with started skipping along behind him in an impromptu parade.

At the sight of this hilariously heartwarming spectacle, every single person at the beach found themselves either 'aw'-ing happily at the cuteness of the scene, cheering happily, or simply smiling silently as they found themselves feeling sentimental and reminiscing their own childhood memories. The other Titans were also staring in stunned approval, even Raven looked noticeably happy as she watched her green teammate's antics. Even the mystery girl who'd unobtrusively been watching the Titans found herself smiling wistfully as she watched the green baboon skipping along and playing the harmonica like a professional as the seven little kids happily skipped along behind him and followed his every move. From what she remembered, he'd always been both good with kids, and just the type of person to go to such lengths as he was currently going to allow people to have fun. And for another few minutes, the joyous spectacle continued, the entire beach's worth of visitors feeling as if they could never possibly be happier.

. . . . .

However, little did all the people at Jump City Beach know that there was something located about 5 or 10 miles of the coast of California heading straight towards them that would bring a very real negative element to their currently quite happy day. This very detail was something that the black haired, ebony eyed, and blue and black jump suited boy knew all too well as he hurriedly swam through the deep and turbulent ocean waters in an effort to reach that very location. But at that moment, he didn't care. He desperately needed help. And the only people he knew that were conveniently available and capable providing him with the help he needed lived right around that area. "I have to get to Jump City," he thought to himself. "I have to get to Jump City." And indeed he did, for both his life, as well as those of some very good friends of his, heavily depended on it.

Now to be fair, it wasn't so much this boy that was very soon to serve as the upcoming negative element for the people at Jump City Beach. Rather, it was the thing far worse and actually deserving of fear about a few miles or so behind him that was currently being waylaid by some helpful sharks that he'd passed by earlier. Panting heavily, the 17 year old boy continued to swim rapidly through the water, not daring to slow down, but at the same time trying to at least slightly calm himself down. "I should be ok for the last few miles," he thought to himself in a hopeful manner. "I mean, those friends of mine should be able to keep it busy for another half hour at the most . . ."

His optimistic thoughts were promptly dispelled when he heard a nightmare making roar coming from very close behind him. He turned his head, eyes widening at the sight of none other than the very thing pursuing him that his shark friends had been holding off not too long ago. It seemed that it had managed to successfully fight off its way layers even earlier than the boy had thought. Panting in terror, the boy started swimming even faster, for in spite of how it was still relatively far away, he knew that it wouldn't take too long an amount of time for the creature to come very dangerously closer to him.

As it would soon turn out, the creature actually did manage to get surprisingly close in proximity to the boy, close enough that it could have snapped him up in its jaws if it had so desired. But when the creature did actually open its jaws, it didn't lunge forward to gobble up the unfortunate teenage boy. Instead, the boy had just enough time to look behind him and scream before the creature unleashed another paranoia inducing roar. And this time, due to how close the creature was behind the boy, the force of the roar proved powerful enough to both cause a large wave to start forming and send the boy hurtling helplessly through the water at a rocket-fast speed straight towards the very destination he'd been in such a hurry to reach.

. . . . .

Meanwhile, back at Jump City Beach, Beast Boy had finally ended his impromptu parade and returned the harmonica to its owner. After that, and a massive round of applause from all the other people gathered, Beast Boy had said his goodbyes and headed off to rejoin his four fellow Titans, and the kids' parents, or aunt and uncle in the case of the one boy, came to let their kids know that it would soon be time to go. Before long, the seven kids and their families had left the beach to head back into the city proper, and Beast Boy was lounging back with his four friends once more.

"That was quite a show man!" Cyborg yelled happily.

Beast Boy chuckled, directed his gaze towards his bionic best friend, and stated, "Thanks dude. I see you've finished up with your party with the beach boys. Did you enjoy their barbecue?"

"You betcha!" Cyborg yelled, rubbing his stomach happily as he remembered the indeed delicious taste.

"Good, I still don't wanna eat any."

"Totally didn't see that coming," Raven stated sarcastically.

Starfire giggled, raised her fists in the air happily, and stated with her eyes closed, "Oh what a joyous day. I feel almost as happy now as I did on my 17th Birthday party last month!" And indeed, Starfire had turned 17 the previous month, and had been treated to a very joyous and lively birthday party by all her friends. The other Titans, surprisingly including Raven, smiled warmly as they too remembered the event in question. At that moment, it seemed as if nothing could ruin their happy mood.

However, they were abruptly knocked out from that very mood when they heard a large multitude of girl's voices shouting, "Jackson look out!"

The Titans turned their attention towards the direction of the voices, and they saw a large multitude of teenage girls, plus almost all the other people at the beach looking and pointing worriedly towards the ocean. The two most worried looking people by far, however, were two chestnut brown haired adults, one a man and the other a woman, who looked absolutely panic stricken.

Alerted, the Titans directed their gaze towards the ocean just in time to see a large wave rocketing at an unnaturally fast speed towards a teenage boy with brown hair in a low ponytail, onyx black eyes, and dressed in a pair of red and black 'Shego' patterned swimming trunks surfing astride a lightning bolt patterned surf board. At the sight and sound of the shouting and panicked people on the beach in front of him, the loudest and most terrified coming from his parents, the boy turned his head to look behind him and shriek before the wave came seconds away from plowing into him. However, seconds before the wave itself could come crashing down on him, something unseen in the water seemed to bump against the bottom of the surf board, and knock both it and the boy off balance and into the water right as the wave zoomed through the area they'd been in and coming to a crashing stop at the coast of the beach.

Mere seconds after the tip of the wave crashed against the shore, the surf board, the boy who'd been riding it, and another boy with much longer black hair and a blue and black unitard who looked around the same age as the surfing boy burst out of the water and bounced across the beach a couple times before coming to a screeching halt a couple inches away from the two particularly terrified adults. However, the Titans needed only to look at the black haired boy for one second before their eyes widened, they looked at each other with the same silent message, and they then got up and started to rush over in the direction of the two sprawled out boys. The eyes of the one girl who'd been watching the Titans before this moment also widened. She too recognized the black haired boy in the unitard.

After a tense few seconds, both boys coughed and spluttered, and got themselves straightened back up onto their feet. The black haired boy looked at the surf board, then directed a guilty grimace towards the brown haired civilian. "Oops," he stated. "Sorry."

The other boy chuckled, rubbed his hand through his now ponytail-less hair, and said, "Oh it's ok. It's not your fault whatever happened back there. Besides, you actually may have inadvertently saved my life by crashing into my board. After all, if you hadn't crashed into it and knocked me into the water right as that wave arrived, that would have probably smashed me to death against my board or something."

The other boy chuckled nervously, rubbed his hands through his own black hair. "If you say so."

The brown haired boy chuckled, shook his head side to side, and smiled at the boy who'd crashed into him and inadvertently saved his life. "Come on dude," he said. "Is that the proper way to respond to someone thanking you?"

The other boy gulped, hung his head in embarrassment, and then said, "Sorry. You're welcome."

The civilian chuckled, gave the other a friendly punch on the shoulder, and then said, "Now that's what I'm talking about buddy!"

The black haired boy chuckled nervously, said "Good to know," and then collapsed down onto his hands and knees, panting and groaning in exhaustion and pain.

The other boy's eyes took on a look of concern. "Hey, are you ok?"

"I'm fine," replied the boy who'd collapsed. "But I need to know, are the Teen Titans anywhere nearby?"

The other boy was about to answer when both boys heard a familiar voice yell, "Aqualad!"

Aqualad turned his head to his right, and smiled weakly as he saw the five friends he'd just now come searching for rushing straight towards him. The Atlantean found himself giving a weak wave with his hand towards his five fellow teenage heroes right as they made it to the exact spot he was at.

Upon reaching the area where there Atlantean friend was, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and the two girls gathered around Aqualad to try to help him up. Robin, on the other hand, briefly stopped, turned to the civilian boy, and said, "Thank you. We'll take care of him."

The civilian nodded, not needing to be told twice from the leader of Jump City's local super hero team, and then hurried right over to his parents, who promptly embraced him with joy, tears of terror and relief pouring from their faces. No sooner had his parents released him when a young girl around the same age as him with pale blonde hair and yellowish hazel eyes ran up to him, jumped at him, and gave him a tight hug of her own, eyes streaming with tears of relief and fear. The other boy was stunned at first, but then he returned the gesture, whispering to the girl that everything would be ok. None of the people gathered seemed to notice or care about how a large group of other teenage girls was directing envious glares towards the girl who was now hugging the boy.

Meanwhile, Robin had now joined his four friends in the circle around Aqualad, and he stated, "What happened, are you ok?"

"I'll be fine," Aqualad panted before he lifted his head to look Robin straight in the eyes (or more accurately, the mask covering them) and said, "But you can't worry about me right now. Right now, there are bigger things you're gonna need to worry about real soon."

"What are you talking about?" Cyborg asked.

"Yeah dude," Beast Boy chimed in. "Look at you, you could soon end up dying from exhaustion at the state you currently appear to be in."

"Beast Boy, I'm fine," Aqualad snapped impatiently, "But right now . . ."

The sound of an earthshaking roar from somewhere further out to sea from the beach promptly interrupted the Atlantean before he had a chance to finish his sentence. At the sound of the roar, all the people on the beach, Titans and civilians alike looked straight out in the direction of the ocean. Aqualad grimaced, directed a half nervous and half sheepish side glance towards the ocean, and then said, "I might have accidentally led another unexpected guest here." Seconds after Aqualad said this last bit, bubbles started violently erupting out from a spot in the ocean a couple yards or so away from the shoreline.

And just like that, the next epic story of Teen Titans Season 6 begins! Once again, here's to me hoping that you enjoyed this, will be eagerly looking forward to what's to come, and that you'll leave a respectable amount of feedback/reviews. Again, looking forward to seeing what you guys have to think!

Coming up Next: Aqualad's mysterious pursuer finally reveals itself in full, resulting in the Titans engaging in an epic battle against it to prevent it from killing Aqualad (not to mention from possibly destroying Jump City in the process). However, once the battle is over, little do the Titans know that a very unexpected surprise is awaiting them.