Hey dudes and dudettes! Hope you're all ready for yet more Teen Titanic awesomeness, because now's the time I proudly present the beginning of the next 'episode' of the A-LionGleek style Teen Titans season 6! And this one, if my opening greeting for this here note (among other things) didn't make it obvious, this one will give some serious love for our favorite green shapeshifter! Sound worth a read? I certainly hope so! At this time, here's hoping you read, review, and enjoy the beginning of this new story!
A/N: But first, let it be known that I do not own Teen Titans or anything else DC-based. That out of the way, enjoy the show dudes!
Prologue:
It was the sound of a loud, and seemingly quite agonized, high pitched scream, followed by a pounding THUD, that awoke Raven. She snapped upright in her bed; her purple eyes widened.
"Beast Boy."
She hurriedly got up from her bed, forgetting in her current panic and haste that she could use her powers to reach her green teammate much faster. She exited her room…and ended up bumping right into Robin in the process. With some discomforted grunts and hisses, the two Titans collapsed into a tangled heap.
"Nice to see you're up to," Robin grumbled.
"Sorry," said Raven.
They managed to get back up on their feet.
"What got you awake?" Robin asked.
Raven raised her eyebrow, clearly annoyed at having to further delay her attempts to reach Beast Boy. "I could ask you the same question."
Robin thought to himself, and then nodded. "Fair point. I was already up trying to do some research on the computer to see if I could figure out where that 'Master' who controlled Geo-Force and set Adonis on you last month had gotten to." He looked back to Raven. "You?"
"I was just about to check on Beast Boy."
Robin raised his eyebrow. "You mean because of that scream and thud earlier? Sounds to me like he just fell out of bed."
"Is everything the alright?"
"Yeah man, I heard somebody screaming and falling."
Robin and Raven turned their heads in time to see Starfire and Cyborg come to a stop in the same hallway as them, clearly concerned.
"We're alright," said Raven. She nodded her head. "But right now, I have a feeling Beast Boy might not be."
"Guys, he's fine," Robin stated, sounding insistent, and almost certainly as if he'd rather get back to his earlier research. "It sounds to me like he just fell out of bed. I really don't think that's any reason to put up a big fuss…"
"NO! PLEASE! STOP! GGGGAAAHHH!"
The eyes of all four Titans present promptly widened. That didn't sound good.
"That doesn't sound like he's fine," said Cyborg.
"Agreed," Robin promptly stated.
As one, they all rushed over to Beast Boy's room.
The door opened upon detecting their presence, and their eyes widened at the sight of their green teammate, still fast asleep, yet writhing around on the floor shrieking and howling with his hands clenched around the sides of his head.
"NO!" He yelled. "NOT THAT! ANYTHING BUT THAT! NO!"
As he yelled that last word, he suddenly convulsed as if being electrocuted.
"Friends!" Starfire yelled, clearly alarmed. "What is happening to friend Beast Boy?"
"Maybe he's having a nightmare?" Robin suggested.
"Must be a pretty nasty one if he's acting like this," Cyborg said.
"Uncle, please…AAAAGGGGGHHHHH!"
"We need to wake him up," said Raven.
"No need to tell me twice!" Cyborg yelled.
The four awakened Titans rushed into Beast Boy's room, eager to wake their changeling friend from his clearly quite horrifying nightmare. However, as it soon turned out, successfully waking him up would prove just the slightest bit more difficult than expected. Starfire was just about to touch him after getting on her knees to his right when he abruptly swung his left hand at her, claws at the ready to slice.
Starfire squeaked, and jumped back in time to avoid getting slashed, the changeling's clawed fingernails jabbing into the carpet of his room and leaving gashes across the floor. The changeling hissed and shrieked, clearly still reacting violently to whatever he was experiencing in his nightmare as he swung his clawed hands around.
"Yo!" Cyborg yelled, hurriedly getting into position to his friend's left. "Calm down man…"
Beast Boy abruptly bit Cyborg on the arm. And surprisingly enough, his teeth actually managed to sink into the metallic surface. Cyborg's human eye widened. "What the?!"
Electricity burst from where Beast Boy's teeth had chomped into Cyborg's arm, zapping him. This seemed to only make things worse, as he then shrieked in agony as if he'd been electrocuted in his dream at the exact same time he'd been electrocuted outside of the dream.
But fortunately, Starfire managed to grab onto his right arm as this happened, and Cyborg managed to firmly, but gently, grip onto Beast Boy's left arm immediately after his own left arm was no longer serving as a pin cushion for the changeling's teeth. Robin, meanwhile, managed to get ahold of Beast Boy's legs when he started trying to kick out with them. Unfortunately, the feeling of his limbs being gripped seemed to coincide with an event in his dream, as he started writhing and thrashing even more. "NO! NO! PLEASE! STOP! DON'T DO THIS! NO! GAH!"
"Raven!" Robin yelled, eager to get this whole mess resolved as soon as possible. "See if you can wake him up!"
"And hurry up with it please," Cyborg yelled, wincing as Beast Boy's clawed fingernails briefly squirmed dangerously close to Cyborg's wrists. "The sooner I can get my hands away from those claws of his, the better."
"Agreed," Starfire whimpered, noticeably much more worried about getting her wrists sliced by her friend's claws on account of being completely made of flesh as opposed to mostly of metal like Cyborg.
"EYAGH!"
That agonized shriek, combined with the worried looks on the rest of her friends' faces, was enough to snap Raven into action. She levitated into position right behind where Beast Boy's head was positioned, her hands glowing with shadowy energy in preparation for using her powers. She lowered herself onto her knees where she wished to be positioned, whispered her mantra, and then placed her hands against the sides of the shapeshifter's head.
"MREOW!" Beast Boy screeched, snapping his teeth and thrashing against the other Titans' grips as the presence of Raven's power in his mind combined with the events already going on in his dream caused him to instinctively try to lash out.
"THIS IS YOUR IDEA?!" Cyborg yelled, clearly thinking that Raven was only making things worse.
"I do hope you are the knowing of what you are doing," Starfire whimpered.
"Watch it now Raven!" Robin yelled, just barely managing to rear his head back in time to avoid getting pounded in the chin by Beast Boy's feet.
"Uncle…please…stop…GAH!"
"Beast Boy!" Raven yelled, pouring as much of her shadowy power as possible into Beast Boy's mind in her effort to get him to wake up from his devastating nightmare. "Beast Boy wake up!"
"RARGH!" Beast Boy roared, gnashing his teeth violently and very nearly nicking Raven's fingers with his fangs at one point.
"Wake up!"
"GOAR!" The changeling growled, clearly still not quite fully free from his nightmare.
"WAKE UP!"
The abrupt surge of power that resulted from Raven's shouting was enough to finally achieve the desired result. Beast Boy's eyes snapped open, and he gasped and panted in a mixture of shock and terror. For several minutes, the Titans remained as they were, with Beast Boy gasping and heaving from finally waking up from his terrible nightmare while still being tightly gripped by his friends.
"Beast Boy," Raven managed to say while still leaning over and looking into his face. "Are you ok?"
Beast Boy panted and gasped for a few minutes, still too breathless and exhausted from the ordeal he'd just gone through to immediately answer. But then he managed to take a proper breath, and nod his head. "I am." He winced. "Or, I will be." He looked at the other three Titans, his eyebrows now raised. "Um dudes? Could you put me down?"
Robin, Cyborg, and Starfire looked at each other, and then at Beast Boy.
"Right, of course," Robin stated as he gently lowered Beast Boy's feet to the floor, Cyborg and Starfire doing the same with the changeling's arms.
"Thanks," Beast Boy said once his friends had lowered him down and let go of him.
"You're welcome buddy," said Cyborg.
"What happened?" Starfire asked. "In your dream I mean?"
Beast Boy seemed to briefly wince, closing his eyes and gritting his teeth, clearly discomforted. "Can…can I talk about that later? I literally just escaped from it."
Starfire and Raven narrowed their eyebrows, both of them appearing to very strongly wish for him to get it out and over with. But Cyborg and Robin shook their heads, indicating for their friends to be patient. After all, sometimes people needed time to adequately prepare for dealing with unpleasant situations, and the best they themselves could do was to respect Beast Boy's wishes. The two girl Titans took a deep breath, and then exhaled.
"If you say so Beast Boy," said Raven.
But even as she said this, she had a feeling that, sooner or later, Beast Boy would very much need to talk to her and the others about just what they'd woken him up from. Little did she and the other Titans realize, however, just how soon they would find out the answer to this question.
And just like that, the story begins! And with QUITE an electrifying start to! How shall things unfold from here? Hope you're all willing to find out, because all I need to allow the first step to finding out (aka. the next chapter) to be posted is a bare minimum of 1 review being posted for this here prologue. All that in mind, hope you enjoyed, leave plenty of feedback, and are willing and eager to see more!
Coming up Next: The very next morning, the rest of the founding titans work to do their best to keep things for their changeling friend after his unpleasant dream from the previous night, while also wondering just how much possibly quite serious stuff from his past might have been affecting him all this time without their even knowing. And when they soon end up called to go on a mission later that same morning, little to they realize just how soon they'll end up finding out the answers to all their newly surfaced questions.