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It had been awhile.

Beastboy had more or less figured out how to use the sensoiums (Once he thought of it as a giant video game it made things easier) so when he made his frequent visits to the rooms he would often muse up places he'd been or places he'd like to go.

But this was the one place he hadn't dared to return to.

A dark cave with a steady path leading up to the surface. Stained glass was melted into the walls their colors muted in the low light. A steady drip from somewhere indicated the ground water from above was still sinking through the earth.

And there in the middle of it all was a statue.

It was stupid of him to think of her like that. She was alive and free, her memories missing or...maybe not. But he needed to talk to someone from his world and she was always the easy one to talk to.

"Hey Terra..."

The statue was of a girl around his age in pieces of armor and wrapped in bandages. Her face a look of stoic determination as she faced her final moments with courage.

At her feet a sign rested,

Terra.
A Teen Titan.
A True Friend.

"I know I know, it's been too long and I have a really good excuse this time." He rubbed the back of his head "See I guess these evil alien bugs blew up our reality and I'm one of the last survivors. Pretty wild huh? I've gotta help this huge group of people fight the bugs and hopefully find a way to fix everything, we're living on a ship that's alive...and the food sucks." He laughed at his own joke, "You'd probably love it though, if you liked Starfire's food this stuff can't be too bad."

He sat on the ground in front of the statue watching her and letting his mind drift back to a happier time.

Laughing, smiling, holding hands, his heart in his throat.

It started out like a fairy tale. It ended like a nightmare.

"I dunno I guess...it just feels so big you know? I've done big things before but this...this is...big! And I don't have any of the Titans here. I mean I've made some friends sure and they are really awesome! I wish you could meet them there's a vampire queen and this really awesome girl named Laurie, and Hawkeye and Katara...I wish you could meet them."

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"Not exactly....see Terra was..." He stopped looking up at her, the statue had faded replaced by what she looked like in life, smiling and happy.

He couldn't...even if it was the truth it was a truth she'd wanted to stay buried. He'd have to offer her the abridged version.

"Terra gave her life to save the city. A madman was threatening to destroy it all..." In the darkness a figure approached, imposing and frightening, armored with an aura of pure evil. "She took him down once and for all...but in the end it put her like this." He hung his head with a look of guilt.

Oh. It was oddly one of the rare times in her life where Lash wasn't sure what to say. Maybe last year in her own homeworld she might have made a comment or two about statues and heroes being stupid in very poor taste, but her personality had changed during the last war and her stay here. She bit down on her tongue until he was done speaking.

Imposing figures, she knew. Worked with them, even. In fact...someone close to her had had a similar fate. Not turned to a statue, but madmen threatening to destroy something once and for all seemed to be almost universal.

"I see," she finally whispered and tried to offer some sort of kind words. "She looked pretty." Was that acceptable? She had no idea. Did compliments to a person work in that situation? Argh! Being nice was so hard sometimes when no one told you what to do. "I know all too well about people sacrificing themselves. At least...she save the city, right?" Well, before the Ohm probably did, man those alien things made anything good that happened in any world sound so pointless and depressing.

"Heh yeah." Beastboy smiled weakly and then shook his head, "A-actually that's not how her story ends...I mean that's how "Terra's" story ends but...well you know how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly?"

The statue began to crack, light peeking out through the cracks as the stone crumbled away. A blinding flash washed away the cave and when the room came into focus again it was a schoolyard.

There she was, pretty as could be walking along with two other girls all wearing schoolgirl uniforms.

"No one's seen her but me and her brother who came looking for her...no one can explain how it happened. But she's alive. She doesn't remember anything...or maybe she doesn't want to. Point is she's happy now...err...was...would be. Stupid bugs." He sighed.

In his moment of not paying attention he inadvertently replayed a scene from his memories where he was barred from seeing and speaking to Terra by her two friends. Watching him struggle to get past two powerless schoolgirls and fail was actually kind of amusing.

"Of course I know about butterflies..." she whispered, watching as the school appeared. She'd never been in one herself, being a child soldier, and her eyes darted from the cemented games of hopscotch and basketball iron posts to the outfits everyone was wearing. So much coordination! It almost reminded her how mostly everyone here wore the suit Stacy had given them, or the Rouge's outfit. Just like soldiers, but with a lot less fighting. Maybe she would have enjoyed that too after the wars...

Beast Boy was right. If that girl wasn't the same one, it was either a twin sister or her clone. And clones had the memories of their predecessors. In her world they did anyway. "Maybe something wanted to thank her for what she did. A second chance to begin anew." She could get behind that. Maybe part of her almost felt jealous about something like that not happening to her.

She did giggle it a bit when the schoolgirls managed to keep him at bay. The scene was rather comical. "Tee hee, they look stronger than they seem!"

Beastboy rolled his eyes as eventually memory him got past the girls and was given the OK to run off with "Terra" and talk to her.

"It was a total pain in the butt at the time but at least I know she's got friends who care about her." He laughed.

"That must be nice," she replied. Lash looked around at the school again. "Hey...how is school anyway? I've never been on one and I'm pretty sure the one on board isn't a typical example." She was rather curious. Being raised for war had that effect on you.

"Uh...good question." Beastboy laughed, "All my schooling was home schooling by my dad. Terra seems to like it well enough though." He shrugged "Dunno how I'd handle math, I hate math."

"Really? But mathematics are the building blocks for science!" she said the last words with a bit of dramatic flair. "How could I create the perfect laser if it wasn't for those calculations?" She looked around and poked at one of the other students. "I guess you could say I was hope schooled too, then. Except by other soldiers and made for war. I just happened to also be naturally talented."

She looked back at him again, his green screen suddenly reminded her of something. "Oh hey! Guess what! I ended up with one of the dogs that large guy in that abandon church gave out!"

"Oh yeah?" Beastboy had seen a few of those creatures running around, "What's yours look like? Does it have hair like yours?" He asked with a teasing lilt to his voice.

"Nah, he looks more like you actually," she replied with brutal honesty. "You'd understand if you saw him. I could, if you'd like! I didn't bring him to the sensoriums since I was going to do a bit of practice, and having a dog trying to curl on your lap when you're busy crushing enemy tanks is a bit distracting, tee hee."

Edited 2010-07-30 22:38 (UTC)

"Oh so you mean he's totally cute~" He wiggled his eyebrows at her, "Sure I'd love to meet him, but if you want we could do your practice thing. Crushing tanks is way more fun then moping around."

"Depends on what your definition of cute is," she teased back, giving him a light punch on his arm. "He's not exactly the type of dog I'd see on my homeworld, that's for sure."

She thought about it for a moment. "How about if we get the dog and then try to do some practice? It could be an extra challenge. I still need to find a name for him anyway...I'm not sure he's too happy to be called Dog all the time."

"Better then being called puddles." Beastboy joked letting Lash lead, "Or Fluffy. Dogs hate that name unless they really are fluffy and have a good sense of humor."

"He's not very fluffy," she giggled as they walked from the sensoriums back to the city.

They arrived to a small area between all of the rubble where she had set up a small basic house-tent...thing. It was really crude, devoid of furniture except a small chair and a bed made of some hay and covering, but Lash was used to sleeping in tight quarters anyway. It almost reminded her of home. The Neotank was parked next to it, like a faithful watchdog. Speaking of which...

The odd sound of an outer-worldly bark sounded inside, and the creature stepped out. All midsections of him. It moved around Lash in an excited manner, before slowly crawling up to her head and resting there.

"Ta-da!" She gave the dog a small pat on the head. "Beastboy, that's Dog. Dog...Beastboy."

Edited 2010-07-31 04:54 (UTC)

"Dude." Beastboy was impressed, "Dog-a-piller. Wonder if he'll turn into a Pupperfly." He reached up offering his hand to the dog creature for a sniff of approval before he tried to pet it.

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I swear this dog is from a movie.

It does look oddly familiar