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.]

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[thebeastwithout]

Raven...

But the kind of stuff they're doing... I don't know how to help. We can investigate til you've turned green, but if they can brainwash people without even thinking about it, what can we really do?

[sarcasmandbooks]

We don't know that. We don't know how they brainwash people or what they have to do to do it. Things break around here, we're seeing it right now. This place isn't perfectly put together. We can find weak points. We can get information, from the phones, from what people find.

Think about it. They need us here. Un-droned. They brought us here. They drone us if we do anything and sometimes it stays. But they snap us out of it. If they really wanted to stop us altogether. They would drone us permanently. All of us. But they don't. And new people just keep coming in as old one's go.

We just have to find the reason they brought us here.

Until then....we can help people. People get attacked here. Not just by the town. We're used to things like that. We can step in. When the town decides to set half the town on fire or something, we can help with that too.

[thebeastwithout]

[Beast Boy continues to stare at the ground silently for a few moments. Whether he's taken this in or not...

It's struck him especially hard, seeing Tara -- no. Terra like that yesterday. And Cain a few days before. After a few moments, he half-whispers.]

You really think so?

[sarcasmandbooks]

[For a moment Raven remains quiet. Thoughtful. And then she speaks up, looking up at the sky.]

Beast Boy, you might not have gone through it yet. But we faced the end of the world back home.

Total and utter destruction, caused by a being that planets all over the galaxy fear. There was no chance for us to do anything. It was obvious we were going to lose to him. There was no hope.

[She sighs and looks back at him.]

But we won. We won because all of us refused to give up. Even when things looked like they were lost. We didn't stop.

I didn't believe we could at first. But Robin was right. There's always hope.

And there's still hope here.

[thebeastwithout]

[He glances up in surprise.]

...You're not just making that up to make me feel better, huh?

[Another pause.]

All of that kinda stuff... It's like it was playing by different rules. This place seems different, somehow.

But...

[He finally takes her hand to stand up.]

Yeah. Yeah, you're right. What's the point in giving up? It's all the same thing, anyway. If we're gonna lose, we're gonna lose while we're still fighting.

We're not superheroes 'cause it's easy or 'cause it's a lot of fun or 'cause someone buys us free mopeds. We're heroes because the world needs all the help it can get.

[sarcasmandbooks]

No. I'm not.

[Too serious for that. She helps him up. And there's a rare, small smile on her face.]

Exactly.

[thebeastwithout]

Right.

...OK, first things first. I'm kinda hungry from all of that; let's get pizza.

[sarcasmandbooks]

Sounds like a plan.

[thebeastwithout]

...I'll race ya there.

[sarcasmandbooks]

[She floats up in the air.]

Loser has to buy.

[thebeastwithout]

Hope you've got enough on you, 'cause I'm pretty hungry after all that banging.

[Teen Titans, go!]

[sarcasmandbooks]

[And they're off.]