[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?"