Well, this is old as dirt. I first got the concept of this years ago. I didn't think I would ever put this on paper. But, well, it made it.

First and foremost, I must warn you. People die in this one, a lot. I will tell you right off the bat, there's six Titans dead already, not counting Terra (who was the only Titan that died in the show at all). And more will fall. So, if you don't want that, turn around now. Second and secondmost, there's a lot of crap happening in this one as well, and I'll try to explain it all one step at a time, so please be patient. Thirdly, I drew from the comics in volume. So Robin turns into Nightwing, Speedy into Arsenal, and some characters come from DC. With all that said, enjoy, call me out on any mistakes!

Beast Boy, Brotherhood Base, Paris

Garfield trotted past the icy statues, his nose to their heels. He couldn't smell nor sense any hint of life or activity. He passed the former villains with memories slipping through his head. He remembered Cyborg taking down Atlas with a flying tackle, Jinx defeating her former gang with a snap of her fingers, and Raven putting Plasmus back to sleep with well casted magic.

She was behind him now, hand buzzing with power as she casted some sort of spell over the frozen villains.

They were here to investigate the fact that nearly half of the villains interred in the ice had suddenly vanished, sending off alarms in Titans Tower. The likes of Madam Rouge, the gorilla Mallah, and even Control Freak had been released.

"Found anything?" He asked, shifting back into his human form.

"Nothing. Smell anything?" She replied, looking over her shoulder at him.

Beast shrugged. "Other than rat crap, not a thing. You think these guys are dead?"

"I don't know. The ice might have killed them." Raven said, passing her hand over Adonis. "I'm not finding any brain waves, or hints of life."

He smirked. "Look who you're scanning. Not much brainpower to begin with."

Rae fought the smile hard, but it broke through. She turned away from Gar and moved on to Atlas. "Well, none of them have brain activity. Not even Psimon, and he was a scientist before he was a villain."

Beast Boy went silent for a second, peering at her. Raven had told them all of Psimon after all the Brotherhood business. He was a scientist who had served Trigon before Slade did. Rae had faced off with Psimon before she had even joined the team, thrashing the psionic menace.

"Psimon's an idiot." He scoffed. "Who wants their brain in a jar?"

"He wasn't stupid." Raven murmured. "Just desperate."

"Rae." Beast stepped up to stand beside her. "Come on. Don't get maudlin, all that's behind you."

"I wish it was." Raven muttered, shaking her head. "Trigon won't give up."

"And we aren't giving up either." Beast Boy countered, daring to put a hand on her shoulder. "If he comes back, we'll kick his ass again."

"It keeps getting worse, after Iceland, I'm not sure-"

"Iceland wasn't your fault." Gar interrupted. "You know it wasn't. None of Old Titans North blames you. The Herald doesn't, Static doesn't, Mechmana too."

Raven said nothing for a moment. "He just keeps taking things away." Her voice was edged with anger. "First Azarath, then Titans North, what's next?"

"Titans North still lives Rae, because of you." BB reminded her. "You were the one that curb stomped him."

"The price is too high." Raven muttered, her now-long hair slipping out of her cowl.

"Rae, come on." He said. "Enough of the bad. Focus on the good for a change."

She gave him a look he couldn't decipher, and continued walking along the icy statues, few as they were.

Beast Boy trotted to keep up with her. She spoke again when he was at her elbow. "What I want to know, is why the Brain is still here, and Mallah is gone."

"That is weird." Gar admitted. "The monkey would never leave the Brain behind. I think they had a thing."

They stopped in front of the Brain, and Raven passed a hand over him. "No activity. I think he might be dead."

"Looks like literal brain freeze."

Raven stepped closer and peered at the frozen case. "You're right, for once, all the fluid in there is completely frozen."

"For once?" Beast Boy protested. "Oh come on, I'm right most of the time."

"Like when you thought Robin was controlled by zombie mind control?" Rae replied, grinning slightly. "Or when you suggested an army of hamsters?"

"Flukes, Rae, flukes. I can't be right all the time." Beast Boy said, smiling cockily at her.

Raven rolled her eyes and walked down the line again, scanning each of the statues with magic again. "I think they're all dead." She said seriously.

"That explains why they weren't taken." He asserted. "Corpses wouldn't help the Brotherhood."

"It could've been any of our enemies. We have too many of those." Raven reminded him.

Beast Boy grunted. "Yeah, list is way too long." He suddenly grinned, and grabbed his canteen. "Hey Rae, why does Snoop Dogg always carry an umbrella?"

There was a long sigh. "Do I want to know?"

"Fo'drizzle." Gar quipped, splashing a bit of water on her head, then ducking as she tried to hit him on the back of the head.

"I'll get you for that Garfield!" She exclaimed as he slipped away as a moth.

"Sure you will." He taunted, reappearing on a ledge above her head.

"You need me to get home." Raven frowned up at him. "You going to fly all the way back to the Tower?"

"I'll give the Herald a ring. The guy's always looking for something to do." He replied, jumping to another ledge as the one he stood on collapsed.

"What if he's in a meeting?" Raven countered, pulling down the stone Beast Boy stood on.

He went hawk, and flew to a horizontal steel beam. "He only has those on Saturdays."

"And when have you started learning his schedule?" She asked. "I didn't know you two were together."

"Har har." Beast Boy wobbled as a tendril of magic tugged at his foot. "Are you trying to murder me for a reason?"

"Other than the usual cause." She wrapped a loop about his ankle, but he escaped again, taking wing as a pigeon.

By that, she meant him being annoying, which Beast Boy took special pride in. "Oh come on Rae, you know I'm funny."

Raven huffed. She rose off her feet, coming towards him. "Stand still, I want to deliver the punch line."

"Uh huh. Not impressed." Beast laughed. "The beginning to that was terrible."

Raven took a swipe at him, and Gar batted her hand away, losing his balance and falling in the process. He slammed to the ground on all four paws, and went back to human form, grinning up at Rae. "And the ending was pretty bad too."

Raven touched the ground again, and turned again to the statues. "You're an ass." But her voice was warm, or at least as warm as Raven's voice ever got.

"Don't be like that." Beast Boy took the joke in stride. "You want me to cheer you up?"

"Please don't." Rae groaned.

"What did the fisherman say to the card magician?"

"Don't."

"Cod, pick any cod!"

Raven shook her head, completely exasperated. "You're flying home. I'm done."

Gar walked to her side. "Oh come on, my arms would be sore for days!"

"Don't care, you need the exercise anyways."

"I do not." He protested. "You've seen how much I lift."

"You've missed too many leg da-" Raven suddenly flinched and looked over her shoulder, eyes wide and pure white.

"What's up?" He went to her side instantly.

"We're not alone." Raven whispered, eyes still aglow. "At least ten men, no, twenty."

"Where?" Gar said quietly. "On the main floor?"

Raven nodded, the main floor was right behind them, through a thin wooden wall that some hobo had set up years ago. "Coming from underground outlets. Thirty, now forty, and a gorilla."

Mallah. He knelt to a hole in the plywood, and Raven sank with him, ducking down so she wasn't seen. He peered through into the courtyard, and immediately saw, despite the darkness of dusk, several groups of soldiers roaming around the base. They were searching, Beast Boy watched as they methodically furrowed through every corner they came across. He could also pick Mallah out of the gloom directing the soldiers. Above him, there was a woman in a green and black supersuit, floating in midair.

"Fifty-seven." Raven's eyes went back to normal.

"Don't forget Mallah, or that meta." Beast Boy whispered.

"I didn't. Call a Mayday." Raven breathed. "We're badly outnumbered."

Maydays were their name for the emergency signals their communicators could fire off. "Shouldn't we just scram? And come back later with the rest of the team?" He proposed.

"They could leave while we do that." Raven replied. "And we would miss out on a chance to capture Mallah."

"Right." He plucked his comm off his belt and pressed the button on the side. It buzzed twice at him. "Signal se-agh!"

Ferocious pain suddenly burst in his skull, and he collapsed to the floor. His vision swam, then blacked, not allowing him to see the worry on Raven's face as she crouched over him.

Then scenes played out in his head, mental pictures of the Doom Patrol, the Titans, Raven, all people he cared for. Then there was suddenly conflict, a crisis, and he watched helplessly as every Patroller and Titan died. Necks snapped, shootings, villains throwing them in barbed cages, they all fell, one by one, until it came to his family, Rob, Star, Cy, Rae, all hitting the ground with their lives extinguished.

No, no, no. This can't-. This isn't real. Not Rae. The agony was horrible. The fear choked him. He couldn't breathe.

But then came release, Raven's voice came through. "Gar, come on! Wake up, I need you!"

He could see again. Raven was beside him on one knee, arms outstretched to maintain a barrier between them and the cascade of laser fire. The meta was floating right outside their dark bubble, staring at Raven unnervingly.

"It was that bitch. She pointed in our direction and you collapsed." She shook. "I can't hold the barrier so thick for much longer."

"Then don't, keep it thin enough to stop the bullets. I'll worry about anyone getting into the bubble." He morphed into bigfoot in time to club a soldier that burst through the bubble, blade held high.

Raven drew the barrier in tighter around them. "We need to move. Walk back with me?"

Beast Boy grunted in assent, and they began edging their way back, the meta followed, floating silently outside their little fortress. Two more soldiers leaped upwards onto the platform, and Gar lashed at them both, sending them flying.

The meta came to the very edge of the barrier, and he lunged at her, grazing the woman with his claws. She flinched and drew back. Then there was a roar, and Mallah slammed onto the platform, frothing at the mouth. Beast Boy stood his ground as a bull, then a gorilla himself, blocking Mallah's wild punches.

But they drove him back all the same, and he couldn't block the soldiers rushing at them. Snarling, Gar snapped out an uppercut, catching Mallah on the chin, knocking him back. Then he went Rex, sweeping left and right with his tail, knocking away the soldiers, sending them flying over the edge.

But his head was outside of Raven's protection, and he could feel the meta's power, a buzz in his ears. Fear rose unbidden like a venomous snake. He shrank back down to a grizzly, in time to claw Mallah across the chest and hold him in check. The gorilla then suddenly grabbed Gar by the scruff, and hurled him out of the bubble.

Gar switched again in midair, flying back into the sphere, then wrapping himself around Mallah's neck. The gorilla roared and reeled backward.

There was a shout, and black energy ripped through the air. More soldiers went flying, and a massive chunk of rock went flying at the floating meta, who reeled backwards, and extended a hand towards Raven.

Beast Boy struggled out of the death grip Mallah had on him, and lunged for the floating woman again. He didn't want Raven to be struck with the same thing he was.

But Raven seemed to be just fine, and the double attack forced the meta to fall back. Rae cast up the shield again, and a thread of magic yanked Gar behind it.

Then a rift opened up in the middle of the chamber, the sound of the Herald's horn rang through the room, and four figures dropped through the doorway.

"Fall back! Retreat!" Mallah shouted as he leaped off the platform.

"Wounded?" Rae asked, as Beast Boy landed on the black disc she was projecting.

"I'm good. Let's go get the gorilla." The meta was nowhere to be seen.

However, as they soared over Mallah, ready to pounce, sudden mist rolled in out of nowhere. Beast Boy could tell this wasn't natural mist. It was too consistent, and aggressive. Soon, visibility would be zero.

Throwing caution to the winds, he leapt from Raven's saucer and downward onto the fleeing gorilla. He slammed down on the floor behind him, and leapt forward, only to be cold cocked right on the jaw.

Ow, dammit. The hell was that? Gar couldn't even see just what had hit him. He morphed into a cougar in time to sense something scampering off into the mist.

Raven landed behind him, her cowl down. "What hit you?"

"I don't know." He replied, looking round him. "Who came to our rescue?"

"The rest of our team." She said simply. "Lucky for us they were all in the Tower." She flicked her hand, and a squad of soldiers was nailed by debris.

Beast Boy grunted, and turned into a bloodhound, putting his nose to the ground. "I can't get his scent. Mallah's gone." He morphed back. "Dammit."

"We'll get another chance." She stepped close to him. "Are you okay? What did Phobia do to you?"

"Phobia?" Gar asked. "And I'm fine. Just got a bit of a headache."

"That's her name. I learned it when she tried to psyche me." She narrowed her eyes, and placed two fingers on Gar's forehead. "You don't feel fine."

His head cleared, the slight pain ceased. "Don't worry about me. What about you?"

"Stop changing the subject." Rae kept her fingers on him. "What did she do to you?"

He batted her hand away. "Nothing, just some pain."

Raven went to check him again, but shouts came from the mist.

"Beast Boy, Raven?" Cyborg.

"Yo, Cy, we're over here!" Gar called back.

Like ghosts, Nightwing, Starfire, Cyborg, and the Herald all emerged from the mist, which was rapidly starting to clear.

"What happened?" Nightwing asked. "Was it the Brotherhood?"

"Yeah. We were just inspecting the statues and then boom, soldiers everywhere." Beast Boy said.

"Where did they emerge from?" Star asked, looking around.

"From underground." Raven shook her head. "They came out of nowhere. And they vanished just as fast."

Nightwing did a 360, inspecting the walls. "Cyborg, you think you could do a high res scan of this place?"

Cyborg nodded. "Got it." He popped off an arm, and proceeded to tinker with it.

"Either of you hurt?" Nightwing asked.

Raven glared at Gar. "Well, that meta did a number on Beast Boy-"

"I'm fine."

"No, you're not." She tried to do the two fingers thing again.

"Forget it." BB batted her hands away again. "It was just some pain."

"No it wasn't." Raven growled. "She tried to get in my head. And I know she got into yours!"

Nightwing's eyes widened behind the mask. "Beast Boy, let Raven check you out, it'll help."

Not in his case. He had some feelings up there he'd rather Rae didn't know about for now. "I'm fine, seriously. I'm not being mind controlled or anything."

"That's not what I'm worried about." Raven said. "She could've done damage. Stop moving."

"By pointing at me? Come on Raven, and stop trying to poke at me!" He seized her wrist gently, and suddenly became aware of how close they were. They were nearly nose-to-nose. Starfire snickered.

Raven refused to relent. "It's just a check up, stop being a wimp."

"Beast Boy, let her do it." Nightwing ordered. "We need to make sure you're good."

"I am fine." Gar replied, a bit irritably. "She just showed me- pictures."

"Pictures?" Nightwing raised an eyebrow.

"You're lying. It was more than that." Rae tried to touch his head again. "Her name was Phobia, what did she do?"

"Beast Boy?" Nightwing asked. "Did she show you something bad?"

Rob was always the perceptive one. "Yeah. She showed me a hamburger and I died of fright. I'm good Robin, don't worry."

Both Nightwing and Raven frowned at him, but then came Cyborg's shout. "I found something!"