Betrayal [You can either click the links or read the text, the videos would be better though~]

[changelingdude]

[It's later in the evening when the TVs and D-Terminals pop on with a fresh new memory, and oh look it's Beastboy and Terra! They look to be on some sort of date making funny faces in a photo booth, riding carnival rides and playing games. It's super cute and they are hugging and being adorable together.

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Beastboy happens to be in the arcade when this happens so all the video game systems come on too,  he looks worried and is fiddling with the strings on his apron. Rita is sitting nearby and looks confused but the video plays on.

Things are getting intimate now, Terra seems worried. She's about to confess something and they are leaning in for a kiss...

Anyone within the arcade or even near the entrance can hear Beastboy freaking out]

No no no no no! Not cool glitch not cool!!!!!

[He's scrambling around trying to unplug the video game machines as if that would help but the video plays on.

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A mysterious man with a sexy voice has appeared. He's in full body armor and wearing a mask with only one eye. He wastes no time in grabbing Beastboy by the shirt and hurling him through the door out of the Farris Wheel cart.

"I have plans for you Terra. Did you think you and your little boyfriend could just run away?"

"Let her GO!" 

Beastboy has climbed back into the cart and the fight is on! Beastboy and the masked man fight their way up one side of the Farris Wheel and down the other, outside of the carts, on the struts, ontop of the wheel itself. Beastboy is fighting more fiercely then anyone who knows him would imagine, even choosing to attack the man again instead of running when Terra offers him the chance for escape. He's not pulling any punches as he tries to end the masked man but the villain has superior training and strength beyond a human. He has Beastboy pinned and is about to deliver what would be a decisive blow! Beastboy calls out in desperation for Terra who as the memory shows, is hovering around in the air standing on flying rocks.

With a scream and glowing golden hands she opens a fissure in the ground that swallows up the Farris Wheel and the masked man. Beastboy flies away and the two escape.

But it's not over yet...

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By this point in the video, Beastboy has left the Arcade telling Rita to cover for him and is desperately trying to call Terra, but the system is down while this memory is playing. With no way of knowing where she'll be he stands in front of a wall of TVs on display in the electronics store window catching every horrible detail of his own .

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The duo have run into a fun house to hide but they get separated along the way. The truth is revealed that Terra has been working for this villain the whole time! Beastboy refuses to believe at first having a wonderful freak out smashing his way through the hall of mirrors leaving nothing but glass and broken frames in his wake. He refuses to believe that Terra would betray his friends...his family! The villain informs him that before they left for their date Terra deactivated the security at Titans Tower and his friends were being annihilated. Beastboy doesn't want to believe but...Terra tells him it's true.

 You can practically hear his heart breaking in that moment. His face wide with disbelief, confusion, fear that his entire world just came crashing down. All he can do is ask "Why?"

The villain answers for them. "Because you could never give her what she needs."

Beastboy is pushed over the edge in rage once more transforming into a tiger and hurling himself at Slade. The two clash and it looks like Beastboy is winning this time until Slade catches him off guard with a heat blaster that puts him on the ground again.  For a moment Terra stands firm, tells Slade "No! I won't let you hurt my friends!" But Slade simply admonishes her,

"Dear child, you don't have any friends."

Beastboy's up again as a grizzly bear and attacks Slade with twice the fury. Claws flash across the villains mask leaving deep gouges, and Terra flees into the dark. Slade only barely manages to escape by blasting Beastboy point blank again and slipping into the shadows.

Shifting back to human Beastboy stalks through the funhouse seeing twisted reflections of himself and Terra, hearing her sob and apologize again and again.  It's almost grotesque as the funhouse music plays in the backround. She falls to her knees and he finds her shaking.

"Beastboy, I'm sorry! I'm so sorry! I never meant for any of this to happen!"

Beastboy's voice is cold and cruel, more so then any have heard in this world. "Then why did you let it?"

She looks shocked, hurt. It's like he just slapped her. "I don't know OK? Slade helped me. Saved me from myself. He said I owed him."

"So it was all game? You were just pretending?" The pain in his voice is masked only by his anger at this betrayal, blinded by his own hurt to see how scared and upset she is.

"No..." She approaches him desperately, "You said you'd be my friend no matter what remember?" She holds out a hand for him...but he sneers and turns his back on her.

"Slade was right, you don't have any friends."

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With that crushing line he walks into the shadows and the memory cuts. Anyone passing by on the street will see Beastboy, stunned, pale, tears running down his cheeks as he was forced to bare witness to a memory he wishes he could bury down deep and never return to.

Wiping his face on his sleeve he opens up a message looking for Terra and types three words.

"Where are you?"
 

Comments

[strengthinkindness]

B...Beastboy...

[She's not sure who she hurts for more. It had all seemed so intense, and both of them had been in so much pain.]

[changelingdude]

O-oh...hey Shy...

[super awkward Beastboy is both ashamed and embaressed and glum]

[strengthinkindness]

A...

[She catches herself before asking that question. Obviously he wasn't okay.]

D...D-Do you need...anything...?

[changelingdude]

I dunno...a time machine?

A sharp kick in the rear?

...Oh! If you know where Terra is I'm trying to find her!

[strengthinkindness]

I-I...I haven't seen her...

B-But...if I do, I'll...I'll let her know you're looking for her.

[Text] 1/2

[for_granite]

[She saw it. Clearly, she saw it. The response comes back clipped and short.]

Not here.

[Text] 2/2

[for_granite]

[And the second, about thirty seconds later:]

No. I am. Just not here. Sorry. I need to deal with this.

Crap.

Re: [Text]

[changelingdude]

I am SO sorry! I didn't mean for everyone to see that. This glitch...I mean I figured it would pick a memory of me being humiliated but I never expected it to do...that.

Are you ok? Can I help?

[Text] [Filtered]

[for_granite]

I don't know. And I don't know.

I don't know what to do.

Are you okay?

Re: [Text] [Filtered]

[changelingdude]

I'm ok I mean...ok no.

...I'm like the biggest jerk in the world for how that ended. I am SO sorry I should have...I don't know, ANYTHING other then that.

[thescaronhisface]

[When Kovu finally responds, he looks almost...dejected.]

I guess...even someone who seems really happy can get stuck right in the middle of something horrible...

[He doesn't know what else he's supposed to say. It's too easy to imagine himself in Terra's shoes, with Zira watching over him, and Kiara...leaving.]

[changelingdude]

Yeah...yeah that stuff sucked.

It turned out...well OK it turned out pretty bittersweet but better then it could have been.

[thescaronhisface]

You...really liked her, didn't you?

[changelingdude]

Still do man. It's been a year or two since that happened and it still hurts because I still really really like her.

[thescaronhisface]

Did you ever...see her again?

[Kovu's still pretty despondent, for an observing party who wasn't involved.]

[brain_behind_purple]

[...Well that had been shocking. No, that was an understatement, that had been heartbreaking to see. Donnie isn't even sure if he shoould say something. But he also wanted to check on his friend, so...]

Umm... Beastboy, you okay buddy?

[changelingdude]

To tell you the truth dude? I've felt better.

[brain_behind_purple]

I'd imagine so.

Hey wait, I saw that blond girl back when Donnie went into the Dark Zone! Wow, and she looked like she was a nice person.

Kamemon. [Elbows the Digimon and gives him a warning glare]

[changelingdude]

She was! I-I mean she is!

We just...she made a mistake. Everyone makes mistakes. I should have handled it better.

[brain_behind_purple]

Well... I don't know what happened, but you were just upset by what she did. So I don't think anyone can blame you for acting like you did.

But what about now? Are you and her good now?

[acceptedburden]

[Kaldur, as usual when things like this occur, appears concerned. He is quiet for a moment, as he has always been the type to listen and try to weigh matters carefully. It is not completely the same, but parts of this are eerily similar to incidents surrounding the revelation of the mole.]

Do you want to talk about it, Beastboy? I...know something of an experience like this.

[changelingdude]

You do?

I mean...this stuff happened like...two years ago but it still hurts having it shoved in my face

[acceptedburden]

We had some issues of mistrust within the team. There were rumors of a mole within the group leaking information to others. The information alone nearly brought an end to our team.

[He nods. He had left before he could really speak with Roy about what had occurred and his status as a clone. He hoped he would get that opportunity again. He did not want to leave Roy to brood. It would not end well.

I fear I may have lost a friend in the aftermath...but I hope there is still an opportunity to reach him and reassure him that what occurred was not his fault and that he is not as alone as he seems to believe.

[changelingdude]

Wow...

...ours wasn't so widespread. We didn't know we even had a mole till...well till it was too late.

B-but she turned it around! She took down the bad guy and saved the whole city! Big dramatic self sacrifice and everything! She's a hero!

[acceptedburden]

At first we believed it to be false information meant to divide the team, which it nearly did. However, it later turned out to be true...just not from the source or sources we originally would have suspected. By that point it became too late.

[Kaldur nods.]

I am glad she was able to come back as a hero. She has certainly proven herself here and has been a good friend to me as well.