The next morning, Beast Boy awoke flat on the floor of his bedroom. His head hurt so much, like a whole line of garbage tucks had run over him.

“Duuuude…!” he groaned as he slowly and shakily got up onto his feet while, clutching his head.

Then he gagged as felt an awful taste in his mouth, which also felt very dry like the rest of him did.

“I need a shower, and get this taste out of my mouth!”

He managed to find strengtht to make it out of his room and into the hall, and as he walked down to the bathroom, he could see the lounge was wide open, and all the other Titans were all there chatting away.

“Should we not alert Twilight or Beast Boy?” asked Starfire.

“I already tried to wake him up,” said Cyborg “Little guy was out cold, and anyways, it’s probably best we handle this now.”

Robin agreed to that, “Twilight and I were up pretty late last night, so we may as well let her sleep. She’s not really part of the team anyway and she can’t really help us in this.”

“Can we please focus here?” asked Raven “I don’t get how all those men were murdered last night.”

Robin held up faxes from the police station with all the information given. “Nobody knows, but they were all definitely murdered, but it’s just like before at the museum.

There were witnesses who heard the scream, but nobody saw anyone leave the building. For that matter nobody saw anyone even enter it all around.”

Beast boy heard them, and images began to flash before his eyes…

-Men screaming…
-Blood gushing…
-A sword driping with blood, and a tounge actually licking it!
-That same evil laugh…!!

He began to tremble in fear, and backed up aginast the wall.

The Titans heard, and Robin dashed to the hall. “Beast Boy?”

The others came to him.

“You okay?” asked Cyborg.

“He does not seem okay to me.” said Starfire “He is all but dry and stiff.”

Raven said nothing, but she was actually looking at him with concern rather than hostility.

Beast Boy felt too tired, as well as scared, to even think of being his usual cold self to them, and before he could say anything, Robin calmly and softly suggested he go shower. “You need to hydrate yourself.”

Beast Boy nodded very slowly, and groped softly as he made his way down the hall to the bathroom.

“I was afraid of this,” said Robin “His depression and anger is getting out of control. We’ve got to get him some help.”

“But what about Twilight?” asked Starfire “She is attempting to help us, is she not?”

“I don’t think Twilight can really help us.” said Raven “Don’t get me wrong, she’s a great kid, but this is getting worse. Beast Boy’s health could be in danger.”

“Still,” said Robin “There might hope for him yet.”

He guided everyone into the lounge to talk about what he and Twilight spoke about the other night.

Beast Boy made it to the bathroom and started the shower, but his shaking caught up with him as all those images and the hot taste of blood hit him hard.

Then the sounds of that evil laugh echoed in his head again.

Beast Boy nervously looked all around the bathroom. “You’re here, aren’t you?”

“I’ve always been here.”

Beast Boy was slowly spinning in circles as he looked all around. “Who are you? What are you? Where are you?”

The voice snickered, “Think back now. Think back to the museum.”

He thought it over and remembered the sword, grabbing it and feeling very strange after that!

He then turned to look in the big mirror above the sink, and his reflection it was glaring at him so wickedly, and his eyes were glowing yellow.

He quickly turned away trying to deny it all, but then found his own actual self, speaking back to him.

“Many before you placed their hands on the sword, and I could sense their energies. Not one of them had what I needed most, and then you…!

I never felt anything like it-- the anger, the hate, the violent thoughts, and the fact that you already possess incredible powers. It’s all too perfect.”

Beast then thought back to the murders and it all made sense now!

“It was you…! You killed them!”

“WE… killed them!”

Beast Boy held his throat in disgust and horror.

“Why? How could you do that to them?!”

“Don’t play innocent! I know your thoughts. I can feel the hatred flowing through you, I can sense your desires to get even! I simply helped you say what you wouldn’t, make that extra step.”

Beast Boy was livid, and growled at his reflection, “Just because I felt like it didn’t mean I actually wanted to do it! You just went right out and killed innocent people!

I won’t let you get away with this anymore! I won’t let you hurt anymore people!”

The evil only chuckled, “Yes, give in to your anger, the hate. Let it grow. It only makes me stronger, and you grow weaker.”

“What?”

“I’m afraid there’s nothing you can do, little one. You’re already past the point-of-no-return. The hate cannot be silenced, and nothing you can say or do will change that!”

“You’re wrong!” thundered Beast Boy “I’ll tell the others, they’ll know what to do about you!”

“Go ahead, try. See where it gets you. Meanwhile, I can plan our next move.”

Beast Boy was twitching in anger. He couldn’t help feel this way and couldn’t control it.

“What’s this I see within you?” the evil hissed as it sensed Beast Boy’s memories. “…A heart that is broken.”

Beast Boy gasped softly.

“Two cold figures standing in a school hall, and one saying to the other…”

“No! No!!” cried Beast Boy, but then he saw the images, he heard Terra’s voice.

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

Then there were the images of back at the museum, when Jackie and Jillian pushed him, and she was witness to what happened and did nothing.

Then there was in the park when she tried to talk to him and he just read her out and scorned her.

He was growing more and more stressed, which amused the evil. “Have I struck a nerve? It seems that this female is very important to you, even though she had caused you great anger and hate.”

“You leave her alone! You hear me! I won’t let you hurt Terra! YOU GOT THAT?!!”

In an extreme moment of rage and insanity, he raised his fist and punched the mirror so hard that it shattered to bits!

The Titans heard the sound of the shattering!

Twilight rushed out into the hall just as they came running down. “What was that?”

“I don’t know!” cried Robin.

They all opened the door to the bathroom, and Starfire and Twilight gasped in horror!

Beast Boy was passed out on the floor, the mirror was all broken into shards all over the floor, all around Beast Boy who was passed out flat, and his right glove was all torn and stained with blood, meaning he had punched the mirror out in an obvious moment of insanity. The shower was still running, and the drapes had been pulled off their rings, with the water still running all over the floor.

Cyborg, with his metal feet, made his way over, shut off the water, and then felt Beast Boy’s neck. “He’s way out cold. He must’ve had one heck of a freak-out!”

He picked him up to take him to get his hand bandaged up.

Raven used her power to gather up all the shards and actually fixed them all into one piece, setting them back into place over the sink, impressed Twilight as well.

“Wow, I’ve barely been able to use spells like that myself.”

Raven gave her a small smirk, but then they both with Starfire and Robin went off to check on Beast Boy.

“What next?” Robin wondered “Beast Boy’s going crazy, then all these murders and hardly any evidence! What else can happen?”

Terra awoke in her apartment, and her head still hurt a bit from hitting it. She went to the bathroom to wash her face.

She had a little bruise on her forehead from where she crashed, “What a night.” she groaned to herself “And what a day too.”

She honestly didn’t know how much longer she could stay like this with her guilt hurting her, but it was obvious to her right now that she probably needed professional help in dealing with her stress, and hopefully find a way to fully move on with her life.

…Like a psychologist maybe. But how could she afford it?

Then she remembered, the school nurse from Murakami High, Miss. Caroline, who was also a student councillor and psychologist.

She could see her for free… except it was Sunday and there was no school, so she wouldn’t be able to go there.

“Ugh!” she groaned as she exited the bathroom. “Now I’ll have to wait until Monday to see her.”

Suddenly, there was a knock at her door, and as luck would have it.

“Miss Caroline?”

It was her. She was a young woman in her early thirties. She had long brown hair, and a kind and soft spoken voice.

“Forgive me, Terra, I just came over to see if you okay.” Then she noticed the bruise on her head. “What happened to you?”

“Oh, I uh… bumped my head in the night.” replied Terra. “What do you mean?”

Caroline was now confused, and she held up the morning newspaper, and the front page showing the article of the massive murder of the workers the other night.

Terra dashed over to her window and looked down the street towards the broken up Pizza Place, to find it was still surrounded by police and news crews.

Then she ran back to see the paper and how the story read that all the men were found brutally murdered by an unseen assassin that somehow crept into the premises.

Miss Caroline explained how she knew from school records that several Murakami lived in the general area. “I was worried about all of you since you live around and thought you’d have been attacked by the killer as well, or at least not be too shaken by it that it could affect your school studies.”

I saw Jackie and Jillian. They were out doing their community service early, and I must say it serves them right for the trouble they caused.”

Hearing that and remembering the incident, Terra began to think, “Beast Boy was walking down the street last night. Surely he would have heard or seen what was happening. Wouldn’t he have tried to do something about it?”

Caroline could see Terra was okay and not really badly shaken, and she decided to head off.

“Wait! Mss. Caroline!” called Terra “I need to talk to you about something.”

“Yes? What is it?”

Terra paused and chose her words carefully, not wanting to reveal her past or her connection to Beast Boy.

“I’ve been having a little hard time sleeping lately. I keep having really bad dreams.”

“Have you been studying a lot? Overdoing it can stress you out.”

Terra hesitated and she didn’t even have to say anything. Caroline could tell form her silence and how nervous she looked. “It’s something else isn’t it; something that you saw or something you did.”

Terra still did not speak, which only further confirmed her theory.

“…Guy-trouble, isn’t it?”

Terra snapped upright in near shock.

“I thought so.”

“How can you tell?” asked Terra.

“Well, you just told me.”

Terra felt silly now and groaned irritably.

“Even if you hadn’t, I already guessed. I’m practicing to be a real psychologist, and being at Murakami High is just part of my training. I’ve seen the way girls like you have acted, and it’s usually a guy.”

Terra hung head down, rolling her eyes to the floor in shame.

Caroline then asked, “Why don’t you come by to my place this afternoon and we can talk about it better. I have a home office where I practice by having guests over.”

“Okay, I will.” Terra agreed, and Caroline gave the girl her home address. Then she had to get going and check on other students who lived in the area.

Terra still didn’t feel any better, especially now that she knew about the incident in the night; and to think… it was happening right outside her own window and she slept through it all.

A new funny feeling came over her-- a desire to have been able to do something to help those workers last night from whatever or whoever it was who slaughtered them?

Why was she now thinking about that too? She was done with trying to be a hero, and didn’t to use her powers anymore, even though she did on the night museum curator was killed.

“No, no… No!” she groaned as she clutched her head “Don’t think like this, you might hallucinate again!”

She shut her eyes really tight, but that didn’t stop images of her past with the Titans, actually being a hero and beating up baddies, saving lives, and using her powers for good!

Now she was wishing Miss Caroline hadn’t left as she really felt she could use the session she promised her now.

She felt she needed someone to talk to, but with Jackie and Jillian working, and no one else to really interact with, she felt maybe just taking a walk around town.

Only there didn’t seem to be too many places she could go.

-The park was closed and demolition was due to begin as the workers were removing the last of the wildlife to get them out of the way.

-A lot of other places weren’t that much fun and many other buildings still under construction too.

The only place left she could possibly head was the mall, but then again she hadn’t much money and couldn’t do too much.

Usually Jackie and Jillian paid for her, wanting to be good friends.

“Maybe I should get a part-time job.” she wondered to herself. “Well, at least I can window-shop and browse around.”

Beast Boy was resting peacefully in the sick-bay. Cyborg had given him a sedative to help him rest as well as to numb the pain around his wounded wrist.

Once he cleaned all the blood off, Raven used her powers to help the wounds heal.

“Why would he punch out the mirror?” Twilight wondered aloud.

Robin could only shake his head, “He’s worse than we thought. He’s really taking things too far with this hate and anger towards us.”

“I cannot bear to think of what would happen if things were to worsen within our friend.” added Starfire.

Cyborg checked the figures on the medical scans. “He’s calm now, but when we first got him on the bed, his stress levels were off the charts. He’s liable to knock himself to bits.”

Starfire then remembered what Robin had to them in the lounge-- what he and Twilight had talked about the other night.

“Perhaps we should ask him of what troubles him so? It must be far more than just Terra breaking his heart.”

“Assuming the girl even is Terra.” reminded Robin

“Let me try something.” said Raven.

She knew Beast Boy wouldn’t talk while he was sleeping, so she decided to read his mind, and get to the bottom of his emotions once and for all.

She softly laid her hands on Beast Boy’s forehead and she concentrated hard. All the others were watching with anxiety.

Raven began to feel as if she were seeping into Beast Boy’s mind, as light as the air itself, but much to her surprise, she couldn’t see anything, nothing but black-- long, endless, empty black.

She snapped her eyes open again.

“What is it?” asked Robin “What did you see?”

Raven shook her in disbelief, “I saw nothing. Not a single memory. It’s as if he didn’t have any.”

Everyone looked at her with the same disbelief she expressed.

“No memories?” asked Twilight “How is that possible?”

As the Titans and Twilight all contemplated and debated about Beast Boy, the evil from his mind snickered sinisterly. “Those fools don’t suspect that I’ve blocked out his memories so they cannot try to save him. I must keep him as he is if I am to achieve my goals.”

Twilight then shivered softly as a chill ran up her spine so suddenly. It was her alicorn nerves reacting to the nearby evil.

“You okay?” asked Cyborg.

“I think so. I just felt a chill in my back.”

“The A.C is cranked up in here so Beast Boy doesn’t get too warm or cold.” Robin pointed out. “Why don’t we all go talk in the lounge; Let him sleep.”

Everyone agreed, and left the sickbay, which gave the evil his it’s chance to awaken Beast Boy and control him again.

“I can’t stay here like this, not when there is so much to be done.” he thought.

He remembered his argument with Beast Boy in the bathroom, regarding Terra.

“You leave her alone! You hear me! I won’t let you hurt Terra! YOU GOT THAT?!!”

The evil got a nasty idea, far worse than hunting Terra down and killing her, but as he hopped off the bed, then he turned to face it, and raised his hand, unleashing soft magical waves producing a shell like copy of Beast Boy in his place on the bed.

This he had been doing for the past while, allowing him to slink about without suspicion. Even the Titans already had no way of realizing the truth as he had been getting away with it.

“My power is growing stronger all the time, and if this new plot of mine is successful, I’ll finally have all that I need to reach my ultimate goal.

The hate will rise, and the light will cease, and anyone who defies me shall pay the price!”

He finally slunk off, leaving his shell clone behind to begin his new mission.

Creeping to the windows and opening one, he then used Beast Boy’s abilities to morph into a falcon and flew off towards the city, shutting the window behind him.

No sooner had he left did Starfire peek into the room and saw “Beast Boy” still asleep on the bed. She could only assume it was really him.

“Beast Boy does not seem to have lost any memories.” said Starfire “He has not the injury or blow to his head.”

“It’s probably emotional shock.” suggested Twilight “Even in my world of Equestria, ponies and other creatures become so overwhelmed by emotional trauma that their memories just fail them.”

“I’m not really sure that’s why,” said Raven “But then again I can’t disprove it either.

If he hasn’t lost his memories, Raven should’ve been able to see them regardless.”

“Well, as soon as he wakes up, maybe then we can talk to him.” suggested Cyborg.

The Titans agreed.

Twilight fell rather silent, and her head was dropped down as she stared at the floor.

“What is it?” asked Robin.

She looked up, “I really wish all my friends were here, then maybe Beast Boy could have been better by now, and we’d be able to work on helping the rest of the city with its friendship problems.”

Cyborg put a comforting hand on her shoulder, “And you miss them, huh?”

Twilight nodded softly.

All the Titans felt sympathy for her, but Robin informed “The next full moon still isn’t until the night after tomorrow, and even still we have something even bigger to worry about-- that killer that’s still out there.”

The other Titans agreed, and Starfire said “We must find out who this murderous beast is before it causes anymore trouble.”

“Easier said than done.” said Cyborg “No one’s even seen the creep, and they don’t know what he looks like… if even is a “he.”

Twilight was a little surprised in them suddenly ignoring Beast Boy like this, but she knew this was a more important priority, and she offered to help with whatever she could.

Robin was about to protest that she not, as she wasn’t really part of the team, but Raven spoke up, “I say we let her in. She may not have special powers, in her current form, but she does have experience and idealism.”

“Girl’s got a point.” agreed Cyborg.

Starfire nodded in agreement.

Robin couldn’t argue with this, and he knew they needed all the help they could get.

He then looked at Twilight proudly and declared, “Okay, you’re in.”

Twilight felt honored and promised not to let the team down.

Author's Notes:

Sorry Raven. I'm afraid this type of evil/power is unlike anything you know. You CANNOT sense it.