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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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"Sup Beast Boy?" Robbie said, poking his head in, only seeing the green kid and fleshy green walls thnaks to hsi whole immunity to telepathy.

Beastboy gave a yelp and sprang forward trying in vain to hide the statue from the intruder, "Oh dude, you startled me uh...sup?" He was of coarse completely unaware that Robbie couldn't see what he had mused up.

"Sorry 'bout that. Ah,Nothin' much. Just wondering if by some kind of miraculous intervention I could finally see something in here. Nada. You?" Robbie asked.

"Oh I err uh...wait..." He blinked and stared confused like he hadn't heard, "Did you just say you can't see anything in here?" He flailed his hands around to gesture as to where he was talking about. Of coarse to him it still looked like a cave.

"Nope. Just a green room. Kinda have a whole immunity to telepathy." he replied, knocking on his head. "Usually comes in handy since it means I can't be mind controlled, but here it's kind of a nuisance."

Maaan the sensoriums were always taken recently. Lash had wanted to come in for a quick battle practice. Ahh well.

Decor was pretty interesting, however. She moved along the cavern, not quite in Beastboy's or the statue's view yet. Granted it wasn't exactly proper etiquette and it could be dangerous but...hell it was Lash and the situation clearly lent itself to it.

"HELLO!" she screamed. The voice carried and echoed a bit, "Hello...llo..." and she laughed. "Tee hee! Great ambiance and audio!"

"Oh..." Beastboy thought about that for a minute "Dude that sucks! These rooms are like, one of the best parts of being stuck on this ship." He suddenly shifted from embarrassment at being found out to pity as he approached and patted Robbie on the back "So lame dude, at least it's got some practical uses though. I'm totally weak to brain attacks and stuff." He grinned thinking back to Mad Mod.

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"GAH!" Beastboy shrieked like a little girl and dove behind the statue, "Don't those doors have locks or something? Everyone keeps sneaking up on me!" He yelled back and then after a beat, "Hey you're right the echo is awesome."

Oh yeah, it was Beastboy. She gave him a wave after his less-that-heroic display trying not to laugh. She failed. "Eh, it's not like doors could stop me. I'd just blow them up."

Beastboy slid out from behind the statue and trotted over to greet her, "Can you still do that? I thought Stacy was totally against blowing things up and stuff."

"Well..." she paused, trying to think of a good comeback. "...probably not." You got her there, Beastboy. She looked around the place. "So...you're the one who set up the sensoriums today?"

"Oh um...well this one anyway." He grinned sheepishly trying to position himself so he was standing directly in her line of sight and she wouldn't be able to see the statue. "You know I thought maybe I'd err...go spelunking?"

Lame excuse Beastboy. Lame Excuse.

Spot had wanted to spend more time getting to know his other owner, and who was Laurie to deny a cute puppy's wish to spend more time with Sofia? So she is alone when she enters the sensoriums...only to find that it is already in use (because she had a field of flowers in mind, not a cavern.)

Dismayed, she starts to turn around to leave, when she hears a very familiar voice. I know that voice.

She turns around and walks a little deeper into the cavern, coming to a turn...where she can poke her head around...and see Beastboy sitting before a stone statue. He does not seem his bright and cheery self - which is the Beastboy that first met - but more...morose?

"Garfield?" she says softly, stepping forward, standing right next to the statue.

Beastboy seemed to wince and flopped onto his back smiling sheepishly, "Hey there Laurie I was err...just talking about you." He blushed but was practically glowing with embarrassment.

"Spelunking? I never did that before. Where's your climbing gear?" Why was he in her line of sight? It wasn't so bad talking to a person but she had a feeling judging from his voice that he was hiding something. So she asked in the most delicate way.

"Are you hiding something?"

"Talking about...me?" she has to blush about that.

"I-I don't need gear look at me." He changed into a goat and ran circles around her before turning into a bat and flapping about distractingly before crash landing at her accusation.

Shifting back he grumbled into the gravel, "Would you believe me if I said no?"

"A-ah yeah I was err...talking to a fried." He sighed. Well he'd been found out before this wasn't a big deal really. At least he trusted her.

"Laurie...meet Terra. Or at least the err...hologram version...sorta. It's complicated."

She tilted her head to look at the mangled bat-turned-back-into-his-green-humanoid-form on the damp stone cavern floor. "Not really, no."

Her eyes shifted from him to the statue. So this is what he had been hiding? A statue of a girl? In a strange way, she reminded Lash of a much younger Nell. Whoever had carved it was really good at their job, the thing looked so lifelike she almost expected her to start standing and walking at any minute.

"Terra..." she mouthed, reading the plaque bellow. A Teen Titan. "...she was a team member?"

Beastboy sighed and pushed himself up again shaking dust from is hair, "Yeah...things didn't turn out so well though." He rubbed at his arm without much thought looking up at her, "Case and point...if this were the real cave back home? That's no statue. That's her."

That...didn't make much sense to her.

"So wait...she turns into a rock statue?" That was a kinda neat power. Kinda. But why the plaque then? It didn't hit her what he meant until Beastboy continued.

"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!"

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