Beast Boy flew miserably to the main lands, but he didn’t bother land in the city, not wanting to put up with any more ignorance and disrespect.

As he flew along, he sang a song to himself, contemplating all the many problems and hardships he had, and what respect he desired but was always denied of.

As the song ended, he flew off towards the cliff-faces on the outskirts of town across the water, and Terra saw him, and though it was against her wishes, she decided to follow him talk to him one last time, hoping they could both hep each other to accept the way things were, and hopefully put her mind at ease.

Little did she know she was being spied on by her friends, the Js. They watched her from Jackie’s car, and saw she was following a green bird. The both of them were infuriated, believing Beast Boy was stalking their friend again and telling her to meet with him again!

“This ends tonight!” hissed Jackie. Jillian nodded, and she looked towards the backseat, “You guys ready?”

In the backseat, the three punks sat and snickered wickedly at the thought of what the girls were paying them for. “Don’t worry. We’ll mash that freak into gravel.” one of them hissed.

Meanwhile, Twilight was invited to dinner with her friends, but she didn’t seem to want to eat much. “You okay, Twilight?” Applejack asked “You hardly ate a crumb.”

“Hmm…? Oh, I didn’t notice.” said Twilight.

“Is this about your nightmares?” Rainbow asked. Twilight was shocked that she seemed to know about her dreams, and then she looked at Spike, “I had to tell. I figured it best you need help.”

“Spike is quite right, Twilight.” said Rarity “You should have come to us to begin with.”

“Yeah, that’s what friends are for.” added Pinkie “Helping each other, being there for one another, and you know I love to do best there.”

Twilight sighed, “I’m sorry. It’s just, I didn’t feel it right to worry any of you. I still think that something’s out there and it’s coming for us.”

Fluttershy shuddered, “I feel like that every night… and… everyday too.”

The others rolled their eyes at Fluttershy, but Rainbow didn’t seem too nerved, “If there is anything out there, just let it try and get at us. I mean look at all the bad guys we’ve faced so far.”

Everyone had flashbacks of every enemy they had ever fought-- Nightmare Moon, Discord, The Changelings, King Sombra, Lord Tirek, Sunset Shimmer, The Dazzlings, and even Starlight Glimmer.

“Say, come to think of it, when’s she getting’ back from vacation anyway?” asked Applejack. Starlight Glimmer had gone off to Canterlot to visit her old friend Sunburst two weeks ago. “She’s not due back for another few weeks.” said Twilight “I told her she could take as long as she needed. Probably just as well, I wouldn’t want to worry her either.”

“Come on, Twilight, buck up.” said Spike “It could still all be just a mistake and everything is just you have nightmares from studying about those two tomes too hard.”

Twilight hoped so, but she still couldn’t shake off the feeling.

Princess Luna told Princess Celestia about Twilight’s nightmares, “You’re certain about this?” Celestia asked. “I am…” replied her sister, “Princess Twilight has had these dreams all through the week and from my own experience inside, I fear that something terrible may happen.”

This worried Celestia very much, but so far there wasn’t enough proof to take any steps of precaution. It was already getting late and she had to set the sun for the night, but she decided to conduct an experiment herself.

“Sister, I wish for you to remain vigil by my side tonight. If I experience the nightmare myself, then it will become quite clear that Twilight’s nightmares are indeed a warning.”

Her younger sister agreed to her request.

Beast Boy sat on the clifftops overlooking the city. He remembered how this was the very place he and Terra stopped at on their first and only-ever date. “Terra…” he sighed softly to himself, and he thought of all the good times they had, which only turned into the bad times as Terra betrayed him and the Titans to Slade and became their enemy for a short time before redeeming herself by turning to stone… and then… IT happened.

“Things Change, Beast Boy. The girl you want me to be is just a memory!”

He sighed irritably, but it didn’t matter. It seemed nothing he could do would ever help him move on and forget about Terra, but he knew she didn’t want him in her life, and he remained respectful to her wishes to keep out of her sight. Not that it made his life any better, especially not with no one in the city respecting him, and his teammates having no sympathy or understanding of his grievance.

Suddenly, he began to have a feeling that he wasn’t alone where he sat. He turned round and couldn’t believe his eyes! There she stood, still in her school uniform, and that same look of sadness and regret on her face.

“Hi, Beast Boy…” she said softly to him, but rather than address her back, he narrowed his eyes angrily at her and got up to leave, “No, wait…!” she called to him “I need to talk with you.”

He stood where he was, and she stood where she was, about twenty feet away from one another. “Talk about what?” he sneered softly at her, “There’s nothing to talk about.”

Hearing the way he was talking confirmed her worst fears that he hadn’t moved on at all from what happened between them back at her school.

“Why are you here, Terra?” he finally asked her. “Please don’t call me that!” she protested. “Well what else should I call you? Traitor…? Backstabber…? Girl I thought I could trust, but I was wrong anyway?”

Terra took in a deep breath trying to keep her cool. “Look, I can see you’re still upset about this,” she paused “But you don’t have to be. It’s not like this is the end of the world.”

Beast Boy snuffed, “So what do you want me to do? You want me to pretend that everything’s okay, and go around with a big fake smile on my face?” his features hardened, “For (Bleep) sakes, Terra, you yanked my heart out and squashed it!”

Terra hung her head low, knowing to expect that. “What’s happening to you?” she asked, “You’re not the Beast Boy I remember.”

He chuckled rudely at that, “Funny, I thought you DIDN’T remember me. No, change that, you didn’t WANT to remember me. You didn’t want to remember everything that we shared, not even the good stuff. You just told me to take a hike and never see you again!

That hurt, Terra, more than anything anyone has ever done to me in my life!”

Terra was starting to feel a bit annoyed by the way he was berating her. “Look, did it not ever occur to you that I was never happy with my old life? All I ever wanted was to be accepted, and live things nice and easy with people who loved me! Instead I lived a hard life, causing pain wherever I went and hurting those I cared for, and you were one of them. I didn’t want to hurt anyone anymore, Beast Boy, and I can’t stand remembering all that! I wanted to have a better future!”

“THE WAY YOU HANDLED IT WAS WRONG!!” Beast Boy shouted, making her wince. He calmed down and spoke more softly, but sternly, “I can understand all that pain and stuff, but that’s no excuse for the way you acted.

We could have worked it all out! We could’ve looked past all the bad things… we even could've at least still seen each other, or at least be friends... but no... You just wanted to run, and abandon it all, and what we had. You just threw it all out the door like trash!”

He recalled the last words she said to him before she turned to stone, “You were the best friend I ever had.”

And then what happened at her school…

“You’re my friend! You’re a Teen titan!”

“…You’re wrong!”

Terra tried to come up with excuses for that, but she couldn’t think of a thing. Beast Boy nodded at her silence and stammering, “That’s what I thought. You were only thinking about yourself, Terra, and you didn’t care what happened to me… just like everyone else didn’t.”

Terra sighed, almost irritably, “Look, I’ve changed Beast Boy. This is who I am, and who I want to be.”

“Sure it is…” he mocked. She took offense to that, “Look, I’m willing to let go and move on from all of this, and I hope someday you can as well. You can’t keep dwelling on the past all the time, and you have to accept that Things Cha--” she stopped when he rushed over and put his hand over her mouth, “Shut the (Bleep) up!” he hissed deeply, “Don’t say another God-Damn word!”

Terra was frozen on the spot, unable to bring herself to even blink her eyes. She had never seen him so infuriated before. Not even the time her told her, “Slade was right; you don’t have any friends!”

“I was hoping I wouldn’t have to do this, but there are some things about me you don’t know! I haven’t told anyone this…!”

With that, he began to tell Terra a long story…

By the time he was finished, he removed his hand from her face, and she looked more shocked than ever after everything she had just heard.

“So now you know.” he said to her, looking heartbroken and beaten. “There’s a difference between “Letting Go” and “Moving on” Terra. I hope you realize that someday.”

He turned to walk down the path to head back into down, for he was too upset to fly and feel any lift.

“Beast Boy...” Terra called to him, but he just held up his hand, not interested in what she had to say. “You just worry about yourself, Terra! That’s what you’ve always done. Just know this… I respected your wishes. I let you have your space."

…Now you respect MY wishes and piss off!”

Then he was gone, leaving the poor girl stuck in a never ending veil of shock, heartbreak, and above all things, extreme guilt and remorse.

Beast Boy made it into town, but he stopped a minute and rested his head up against a lamppost. His whole body ached with shame and pain and cold bitterness. It hurt him enough the way he had just acted towards Terra, even if by some odd way she deserved it, after telling her that story.

A tear leaked out of his eye and splashed onto the ground, “I can’t stand it!” he cried himself “I can’t stand it anymore! I’m going to go crazy! What else could happen…?”

He suddenly got his answer when a huge punk guy grabbed him by the collar. “Hey there, kid…!” and he socked him hard, sending him into his two punk friends, and they shoved him hard to the ground.

“Dude…! What the hell is your problem?!” thundered Beast Boy and one of the punks kicked him in the side. “It’s nothing personal, pal. We were paid to do this. We’re gonna beat the crap out of you!”

As the punks continued to wail on him, Jackie and Jillian were nearby in their park car and watched everything. “That’s it! Get him!” hissed Jackie. “That Bitch Boy is toast!” added Jillian.

The two nasty girls slapped each other a high five and continued to watch the beating.

As Beast Boy was being punched, kicked and tossed around, his communicator was knocked loose and its recording camera was activated and began to film everything!

Beast Boy was punched hard in the get, kicked in the side, and pushed hard up against a wall where the punks took their turns pounding at him with their fists. “THAT DOES IT!!” Beast Boy thundered, and he turned into a T-Rex and roared at the punks scaring them out of their wits.

“Whoa! No one said nothin’ about a dinosaur!” the lead punk cried. He tried to run, but Beast Boy grabbed him by the vest. He held him right in front of his face and roared at him, and the airwaves sent the punk crashing hard into a dumpster.

The girls saw everything, and were really getting worried. They had completely forgotten about Beast Boy’s powers. “I thought heroes weren’t supposed to fight normal people?” cried Jackie, “Maybe, but then again he is being wailed on.” said Jillian.

Then it got more serious, as one of the punks decided, “The hell with this! I’m making my own rules!” and he pulled out a pistol from his pocket. “Dude, no!” the other punk shouted, and he grabbed him hard causing his friend to misaim and shoot Beast Boy right in the shoulder.

His blood cursed forth, and the pain was so immense. He wasn’t going to die, but he was infuriated, and roared at the two boys and chased them down. One of the punks curved round a bend leaving the other to get tail swatted!

Beast boy batted him so hard with his tail, slamming him hard into a brick wall.

“I can’t believe this!” snarled Jackie. “He’s beating them like their made of paper!” added Jillian.

The last punk, though scared out of his wits, grabbed the gun, “Okay, freak! Have some of this!” and he shot Beast Boy hard in the knee, injuring him again! This time, Beast Boy fell over, and he transformed back into his regular shape. His transformation helped to heal his wounds faster, but he was still in a bit of pain from the two shots he had taken.

The Punk grabbed him by the collar and picked him up and pointed the gun right in between his eyes. “Any last words, shithead?”

Before Beast Boy could respond, a large rock floated right above the punks head. Beast Boy and the punk both looked up just in time as the rock suddenly slammed down on the punk’s head knocking him out cold! His blood cursed forth, but he wasn’t dead!

Beast Boy couldn’t understand it, but then he looked up the street and saw Terra standing in an alley with her arm stretched out; proving it was she who did it, using her powers to levitate the rock.

She saw him getting beaten up, though she didn’t know why, and gave him a little help.

Beast Boy didn’t know what to think or say.

“Shit!” snarled Jackie, “Let’s scram!” added Jillian, and Jackie started the car and the tires screeched as the car drove down the road. The girls didn’t notice Terra, but she saw them and realized what was happening, and she was nothing short of livid with them both!

Suddenly…!

“BEAST BOY…!!” Robin shouted as he and the other Titans arrived on the scene, having received a signal of trouble, and they noticed the three hurt and unconscious punks, “What have you been doing?” Robin sneered.

“These dudes just came out of nowhere and started beating me up, I had to fight back.”

The Titans didn’t seem to show any sympathy. “You could not have just walked away and avoided such violence?!” scolded Starfire.

“Not cool man!” said Cyborg.

Beast Boy couldn’t believe this. “They shot me!” he whined.

“That doesn’t matter!” thundered Robin, “You also had no right to bash them up this badly.”

He examined the punk that Terra knocked out, not knowing it was she who did it, or that she was even nearby.

Terra had ducked back into the alley, and slipped out the other away since the titans arrived. She didn’t want them to see her. Feeling she wasn’t willing to face them, as well as risking her normal life, but even from where she stood, she could still hear the heated argument between them team and Beast Boy.

“I had no choice, I had to fight back!” snarled Beast Boy, “And I didn’t knock this guy out!”

“Then who did?!” snarled Robin. Beast boy hesitated, not really wanting to reveal it was Terra who did it, as though he was mad with her he wasn’t willing to disturb her space and bring her into this. “Beast Boy, I’m waiting!” snapped Robin, but ultimately Beast Boy couldn’t come up with an alibi.

The titans were extremely disappointed in him. “Beast Boy…!” Robin said “This is the last straw. We’ve tried to be patient with you, but this is going too far!”

Beast Boy felt his anger rising the more the Titans all bashed at him and scolded him, showing no care or no sympathy at all.

“You need professional, help, man!” said Cyborg. “You are behaving worse than a Clorbag Varblerneil! I am almost ashamed to call you friend!”

As for Raven, she just snuffed, “I have nothing to say to you!”

Beast Boy gnashed his teeth furiously, and robin approached him, “(BLEEP) OFF!!” he thundered right in his face “I’M WARNING YOU, BEAST BOY!!!” but finally, he had gone too far…!!

POW!!! Beast Boy punched him right in the mouth, knocking one of his adult teeth right out, and he kicked him hard in the balls!

“ROBIN!!” shrieked Starfire.

“No, Robin! (Bleep) You…!” Beast boy growled, and he looked up at all the others “(BLEEP) ALL OF YOU ASSHOLES!!”

And with that, he changed into a falcon and flew away vowing never to return!

The others were so appalled; they didn’t even try to go after him! Of course Robin was in a lot of pain and he needed some serious medical attention, as did the three punks. The titans had to do the better thing and get help for the invalids first.

As for Terra, she had heard everything, and her eyes filled with tears. She backed up against the wall and slid down to her bottom letting out a few soft sobs. She couldn’t believe what a falling out had just happened between Beast Boy and the Titans, and she didn’t even come out and vouch for him!

“Beast Boy…” she sobbed “…I’m sorry!” but even saying that only made her feel worse, because a simple “Sorry” wouldn’t fix what had just happened.

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