Seethe

[thebeastwithout]

[phone]
That's it.

[It is the day after his encounter with Tara. Beast Boy slams a fist down on a table. Given that it is a gorilla fist, it breaks.]

I've had it. I'm sick of this. I just did this. I just did this! Three months and we were finally friends again!  I'm not going through this... this crap. This is crap. This is bull. Crap. [This sounds like the first time someone has ever said anything harsher than heck.] I don't know what you guys are gonna do, but I'm not letting some crappy fake doctor do this kind of thing to my friends!

Starfire, Raven. We're still the Teen Titans, Robin or not. You guys in or out?

I'm gonna be at the dairy. I'm getting to that machine and I'm fixing it. I hope whichever one of you bozos went in and blew it up is happy.

[Yeah, that's right. He said bozo. What're you gonna do about it, huh?]

[action, dairy]
[Once again, there is a Tyrannosaurus Rex on the loose in Mayfield.  This time, it pounds itself against the walls repeatedly, a desperate, kamikaze effort.  Beast Boy is not one to give in to his bestial urges.  There is nothing feral in this methodical battering except insofar as a man may be so enraged as to lose all that distinguishes him from an animal.

This will continue until he is droned.
Or... until after an hour has passed, when he slowly shrinks back into a skinny, green-skinned, pointy-eared kid, sinks to his knees and tries not to cry in pain, rage and despair.]

Comments

Action, dairy

[spinningorange]

(The large, rampaging reptile catches the eyes of a child-sized neko girl flying through the air. She's not one to normally approach such a dangerous looking creature, but she's never seen one like this before and it was attacking the dairy...that didn't work out so well last time.)

Hey, hey! Wait a minute! You shouldn't do that!

[thebeastwithout]

[Yes, he should. He'd just made a very sound and convincing argument for doing it over the phone weren't you listening? Beast Boy ignores the... flying... cat?? and continues to pound against the door of the dairy.

From time to time, he roars in frustration. It seems he cannot speak in this form.]

[spinningorange]

(Phones required flying down to the ground and Chen agreed it was safer in the sky. The roars easily make her hide behind something out of fear, but she just pops back up and tries again.)

Careful; you'll break it again! They just fixed it!

[thebeastwithout]

[OK he doesn't want to smash the cat against the wall so he temporarily shifts back.]

I'm trying to break it down! Geez!

[spinningorange]

(A shape shifter...? She'd have to ask about that later.)

That'll mean another week of people being put through horrible experiments and another week of permanent death! The first one brought more panic to this town than I've ever seen before. Are you sure you want that to start again?

[thebeastwithout]

[Ugh fine talking he can do talking.]

...What're you talking about?! That's why I'm breaking it down! The machine's not fixed; she was doing all of that crap on her own.

Action.

[midgardserpent]

[Jormungandr is walking through town when he sees a large green monster fruitlessly pounding its head against the dairy.

He walks up to it and watches. That little green kid could turn into different animals. It's probably him. He's not sure why he's interested, but he is.]

[thebeastwithout]

[Oh great. It was the sociopath. He is too angry and unfocused to do anything except vaguely acknowledge the presence of Jormungandr in the back of his mind; that he was watching him seemed inconsequential.

The T. Rex roars before it transforms into a much larger Apatosaurus. The tail swings back and slowly builds up momentum before smashing into the building with a force of several tons.

...Nothing happens.]

[midgardserpent]

[Huh. That's kind of interesting.

But nothing's going to get done at this rate, it's kind of useless.

So Jormungandr steps forward and holds out a hand and shakes his head.]

[thebeastwithout]

[Sociopath getting in his way what the holy crap his color is green but all he sees is red... There is more than a brief moment when he considers stepping forward, pretending not to have seen this man from his height of 26 feet, and crushing him or kicking him out of the way.

...

Instead, he shrinks. And breathes. His shoulders heave as his breath comes out in spurts.]

What.

What?

[midgardserpent]

[He shrugs.]

It's not working.

action

[echidna]

[ Jade is just passing by, green and glowing and very teary eyed. Fear wells in her eyes and her lip quivers as she watches. ]]

What are you doing?!

[thebeastwithout]

[There is a little green glowing girl accosting him. Under normal circumstances, this would have been cause to celebrate mutual greenness, but the dinosaur simply stares with dispassionate eyes and snorts a spurt of hot breath before it continues with its attack.]

[echidna]

[ Once the tears begin it doesn't take long for them to snowball into full, shaking sobs. ]

Stop it!

[thebeastwithout]

[Crying green glowing girls accosting him. ...Stupid. What good was crying? As if anyone in the world ever got anything done by -- ]

What do you want, dude?

[He is exhausted. His voice is thin and hoarse.]

Action - post-droning

[adropofjupiter]

[Marisa lands behind Beast Boy and wraps her arms around him. He... looked like he needed a hug.]

[thebeastwithout]

[He recoils sharply at first, morphing halfway to porcupine before he sees who it is.]

W-What? What're you doing?

[adropofjupiter]

[She'll let go at that reaction.]

You looked like you needed a hug...

[thebeastwithout]

[His eyes flicker away.]

...I need a lot of things right now. I dunno if hugs are much help.

[adropofjupiter]

Probably not, but it's kinda all I have to offer, ze.

Action

[sarcasmandbooks]

[Raven showed up. Of course she did. He called for the Teen Titans, and they don't ignore a call. So after trying and failing to get her powers to blast an opening in the dairy, and an hour later. She offers him a hand up.]

It was a good try.

[thebeastwithout]

[Beast Boy doesn't take it immediately.]

...It's not gonna work, is it.

[sarcasmandbooks]

[She sighs and shakes her head.]

No.

No it's not.

[thebeastwithout]

[Beast Boy lowers his head.]

...Starfire's probably been droned, hasn't she? I haven't seen her in weeks.

[sarcasmandbooks]

....She is.