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Beastboy was for the most part a highly emotional boy, running on lots of energy, irrepressible cheer and a sense of humor that was...unique at best.

But sometimes...sometimes he needed time to think and be quiet. Usually he could do that while playing game station, reading comics or going for a flight.

Today however despite his lack of desire to socialize he had energy to burn. That creepy robo chick had teased him with cake and gotten him all worked up, only to drop him just in time to find out he'd missed a huge fight.

So being the responsible and intelligent hero he imagined he was, Beastboy decided he needed a little training to get back into the swing of combat.

The Sensoriums were awesome in his opinion, like a giant do it yourself video game.

So the scene? Jump City streets just outside the his favorite Pizza parlor.

The enemy? Sladebots! The best for cannon fodder, they were robots so he didn't feel bad about stomping them flat, and they were just scary enough to be a challenge.

This was his right? No way he could lose...

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Within ten minutes he was being rolled down the street by the over zealous Sladebot projections...his imagination was running away with him.

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"Yup that's me, the watertribe 'chick,'" she said, mimicking his words earlier, but not with malice. "So how come you're getting attacked by all of these robots in the Sensoriums? What are they?"

But once it changed, Katara raised an eyebrow. Well. That was interesting.

"A pastry world?" Well, that made sense and she could see Sokka loving it there.

"Ah sorry...cake on the brain!" Beastboy laughed again and the world shifted back to Jump City.

"This is my home! Or...at least what my home looks like." He held his arms out displaying the projections around them, "And the Robot dudes were like, badguys that I had to fight alot back home."

Katara shrugged. "Nothing wring with cake...unless you eat too much of it of course."

Jump City. She was always really blown over by other people's worlds, especially their cities. It always looked like some crazy super future place, with the skyscrapers and flying machines that actually weren't run by helium.
She looked around, marveling at how different everything was.

"Ok then! How about we beat some bad guy butt then?"

"Now that's what I'm talking about!" He cheered and thought for a moment conjuring up the first baddies that came to mind...

Only to be knocked through the air by a the room's projection of a massive hulking man with red hair and gold and black armor.

The Green teen flew through the air only to meet the thick boot of a pink haired girl who kicked him back to Katara.

Also joining them was a short bald boy with goggles and a green jumpsuit using big mechanical spider limbs from a pack on his back.

"Aw man...I really ought think these things out better." Beastboy joked standing up.

As if to spite him more of the robot ninjas lined up behind the trio.

"Seriously Jinx would kick my butt if she knew I included her with the baddies." He added and just like that the pink haired girl vanished.

The first target was the boy with the limbs from the pact. He'd wasted just one second looking menacing, and Katara took that second to freeze the mechanical limbs to the ground. While he was trying to undo that, Katara danced into his space, moving effortlessly as he swung at her, and then twisting him and his limbs up fairly neatly. He was already screaming stuff at her, not that she understood what they meant, and the then eyed the robots.

She brought her hands up, and a wave of water came at the robots, washing several of them down the sewer with a flourish, the rest she took out quickly via ice shards. It wasn't a move she would ever have done to
a human or a sentient robot, thinking of B5.

"Can you take that big guy?"

"Watch me!" Beastboy promised with a devil may care grin.

He shifted into a bull and pawed at the ground with his hoof snorting.

The big guy just grinned and braced himself.

With a roar Beastboy charged forward horn down...before shifting into a snake and shooting between Mammoth's legs.

As the massive teen tormentor spun around confused Beastboy rose up as a Kangaroo and slammed both his powerful feet into Mammoth's chest sending him flying.

Katara watched with rapt attention, marveling with the ease that Beast boy was able to change. When he out maneuvered the big lug and sent him flying, Katara had to applaud, adding a few whoops. Yup. she could definitely see why Sokka and he would be fast friends.

"That was pretty excellent!" Katara commented. "So you're a superhero too, huh?"

Beastboy shifted back with a bow, "You bet I am! My friends and I live out there!" He pointed down the hill and to an island just off the coast of the city. A massive T shaped building stood on the island. "There's a bunch of us all over the world...err...my world. But in Jump City there's five of us...sometimes a couple of others from out of town visiting."

Mammoth was coming back for revenge and Beastboy almost casually turned into a T-rex and turned to snarl at Mammoth...who proceeded to scream like a girl and run away.

"Wow, that's really cool!" Katara noted the island that seemed to be almost apart from the city, yet still there. It reminded her a little of Kiysoshi island and how, even being split apart from the mainland, its place as an Earth nation was still evident. And to have that many superheroes in one place, that was just amazing.

Far less amazing, and more frightening, was Beastboy's transformation. She HAD seen a T-rex before, but considering they'd had to take it down, Mammoth wasn't the only one running for cover.

Beastboy shifted back after making sure Mammoth was gone and looked around confused, "Hey where'd you go?" He called as the rest of the robot ninjas cleared away just leaving the city setting. "Did I just imagine that hot girl?" He wondered out loud.

While she did redden a little at the "hot girl" comment, se did come out of hiding, placing her hair back in place.

"I'm right here!" She said, waving. "Sorry about running...we had to fught one of those things a little while ago, and well, it wasn't pretty. THey're pretty hard to take down!"

She walked over to him. "So what's thsi team like that you were talking about, the ones on that island?"

"There you are!" He cheered and sprang a few feet over to her enthusiastically, "You had to fight a Dinosaur?"

He shifted gears almost instantly, "Oh we're called "The Teen Titans!" He proclaimed proudly, as he began to describe them one by one the room produced images of Beastboy's team mates striking poses...

"First we've got my main man Cyborg, half man, half machine, all buttkicking awesomeness! He's got like this big powerful sonic canon on his arm and his robo parts can do tons of cool stuff! Rocket arms, night vision, jet boots, he's also has this totally awesome car that gets blown up alot. He's my best friend and we hang out like all the time!"

"Next there's Raven, she's kinda creepy sometimes but she's really smart! She does all this crazy dark magic stuff and reads all these big thick books. She likes tea, and being left alone, but she's totally brave and strong and has fought all her life to do the right thing and prove that it doesn't matter where you come from, just what you do."

"And there's Starfire, alien princess from another world! She's the strongest one on the team, can shoot starbolts and laser blasts from her eyes Pew pew pew! She's a little weird sometimes because of being from another planet and all but she's the nicest sweetest person you'll ever meet!"

"And last but not least, our leader Robin! Sidekick to one of the world's greatest detectives he's struck out on his own and made a name for himself! He's a one man army using like all kinds of crazy kung fu and ninja skills, tech and tactics, and look at that hair! Way stylin! Also he and Starfire just started dating so their kind of like when celebrities hook up or whatever."

With all four of them on either side of him he spread his arms out and more and more teen heroes appeared behind them including the pink haired girl from before, "And in the last year we started recruiting more young heroes from all around the world, there are Titans on ever corner of the globe! No matter where you go, when there's trouble you know who to call!"

At least a hundred kids and teens from as young as toddler to nearly adult were spread out in different colorful costumes, some smiling, some looking serious. Each one striking a heroic pose save for one, a blond girl in plain clothes standing off to the side looking a little sad. If Beastboy realized he'd materialized any of them he didn't show it.

Nor did he notice that he was speaking of all of them and his world as if they still existed and the OHM hadn't destroyed it all.

"It was during the invasion of this evil god known as the Nightmare King," Katara said. "Basically, he was this evil entity that was able to being up all of your worst nightmares and feed off fear. The stronger he got, the more dangerous things became, until finally everyone's worst nightmares started to manifest. That dinosaur was only one of a long list of things we had to fight. That's why destroying those robots just now weren't that freaky: they pale in comparison to fighting a terminator."

Katara watched him describe each of the members of his team with glowing pride, and it actually made her a little happy. She knew exactly what he was talking about: Zuko, Sokka, Toph, they were her team, her family. She didn't get to see them much, and that was sad: she missed being around them, talking with them about things they knew about. It was as if they'd become strangers, and she wanted that to end.

"Well, it looks like your friends wanted me to see them!" Katara said, pointing to them, and then pausing at the blond girl. "But who is that?"

Beastboy spun around and let out a yelp falling over and scrambling to his feet again startled by the mob of holographic vision that he'd conjured up.

The imagination versions of his friends laughed with good humor at his wild eyed surprise and it took him a moment to process who Katara was looking at.

"Ah I...oh..." His voice fell and he looked a little ashamed, "Ah she's not a Titan anymore...long story." He waved his hands trying to dismiss the crowd of visions who seemed to mock him by waving their hands back. "Go on beat it, show over!" He flailed and laughingly they dispersed.

Katara had to laugh at Beastboy's reaction to bringing up his friends without meaning to. She couldn't help it: his humor was actually pretty comforting, a reminder of why she really liked being on the ship even when all of the misfortunes were piling up on her. It was always hard to feel lonely here!

But she couldn't help but notice his reaction to that blond girl. She knew the reaction pretty well: it was the same type she had whenever the subject of Jet was brought up. She guessed there would always be that reluctance to talk about something like that, especially when it was so personal.

But she did laugh when he dismissed his friends so abruptly. "Guess you;re still getting the hang of the Sensoriums, huh?"

"Actually I think they're getting the hang of me." He joked and grinned sheepishly. "This really is amazing though, we don't have anything this advanced back home."

Katara laughed. "Beastboy, we don't have anything CLOSE to this back home. Where I come from is all ice and snow, and in the rest of the world, we haven't gotten far enough to make anything like machines yet. The Sensoriums is like something out of a fairy tale!"

"Whoa." Beastboy whistled, "You guys are from Waaaay back there. Have you tried movies yet? I love movies! And Television. I could spend an entire day just vegging out with T.V." He joked and because he was in such a good mood turned into a small bird fluttering up to land on her head.

Katara turned a hint of pink. This was way too much deja vu right now: once again someone green was reminding her how not with the modern technology she was. She shook this off though: there was no point in her getting bothered by it now.

She laughed a little when he turned into the small bird. "We don't have any of those things where I'm from Beastboy. Most nation have their own kind of recreation: sports, active games, bending."

He fluttered off her head changing back with a flip in the air landing in front of her with a big grin, "I love games! All kinds, capture the flag, football, soccer, basketball...Cyborg and Robin are way better at that then I am, oh and fetch, I'm good at fetch. No one understands why it's so fun till they've tried it." He babbled, "What kind of games do you guys play?"

Katara thought for a moment. "Depends on which nation you are. In the water tribe, we play ice dodging and go penguin sledding. The air nomads used to play airball, or Bison Polo. In the Earth Kingdom, you could play soccer with earthbending, or ride the Elephant Koi if you were in Kyoshi Island. The Firenation had games like Hide and explode, or Kuai Ball. I haven't played all of these games, and I know there's more I've missed, but those are the ones off the top of my head!"

"Hide and explode?" Beastboy blanched, "Man they take playtime seriously in the fire nation." He joked before turning into a penguin thinking back to Katara's mention of penguin sledding. As if on command snow began to fall from the sky.

"Trust me, you have no idea," Katara commented, trying not to reflect on exactly how seriously the Firenation could take things. "But you should meet Zuko and Mai, they're firebenders and could give you more accurate information."

When she saw him transform into a penguin, she blinked, confused. "Um, you have the general shape of it right, but the face is all wrong. Pengins look like this."

She took a stick and drew a penguin-otter (http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l35/avatar_portal/official_pics/c_penguin1.jpg).

Beastboy blinked a little confused, but well...when in the Water Nation...

It took a little bit of effort but he managed to morph the specific parts till he matched the picture and let out a squawk noise of victory.

Katara was glad Beastboy had altered himself to look like the penguin-otter, but now that he was and the snow was starting to fall, she couldn't help herself. She started to move her hands around, and the snow under them started to shift, so that they were now looming over a hill.

"Get ready to be penguin sledded!" Katara said, leaping nimbly on Beastboy, giving him the nudge to go down, with her on top of him. "Geronimo!" she cried, laughing.

Forgive her Beastboy. She'd been playing mom and sister the last few days, it was rare for her to have a kid moment.

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