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Blu-Ray special edition Teen Titans memories via the Sensoriums.

It was just another beautiful day in Jump City. The summer had come and the kids were out of school running about having fun the way kids should.

And Beastboy was seated comfortably with some prime seats at baseball game watching an odd mish mash of lower tier criminals challenging the Titans to a baseball game. It had been one of their more silly adventures. But everyone in the stands had been suckered into wearing mind controlling hats and so the Titans had to win or the villains would bring the fans out of the stands to attack the Titans, and mind control or not there was no way the Titans would fight honest hardworking citizens.

So Beastboy kicked back and sucked another one of his alien sodas.

Originally the day had started very differently for Beastboy. He had found himself mildly depressed that his memories of Jump City were apparently no longer sufficiently detailed and that certain locations felt oddly off. Like Stacy had used his memories as a jumping off point and just created the rest as best she could.

But then a brilliant idea had struck him. Back on "The Planet of the swap meet" as Beastboy had called it they had made copies of his memories to sell, and he himself had a set of the copies. Using these he had spent the day reliving some of his favorites. So far he'd watched himself calm and befriend the brothers Thunder and Lightning, Meeting Terra and the subsequent adventures to follow, and now he was picking at random.

He'd yet to have been disappointing by his performance in these memories.

"Maybe after the game I'll rewatch the Japan adventure." He thought out loud as the game began.

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"I don't think I have enough hair for that..." He laughed tugging on his own green fluff as the pitcher (Mumbo Jumbo the magician) took the plate.

While Beastboy contemplated growing a ponytail the magician waved to the hypnotized crowd showboating before summoning up a ball.

"Alright here it comes. Just stand...err...float by the plate there. He'll throw the ball to the guy behind you and you gotta hit it before he catches it. Send it as far as you can!" Beastboy called from somewhere inbetween home plate and third base.

And just like that Mumbo sent the ball shooting cross the way.

"Aww, too bad. I think you'd look cute if it were a little longer." Was Midna serious? Joking? It was kind of hard to tell as she settled by the plate.

The ball came at her much faster than she'd expected from watching from the stands. She swung wide, and missed; the ball made a neat whack! as it found its home in the catcher's mitt.

Man, how did Link do this stuff?

"Really?" Beastboy became instantly distracted by producing a mirror and using the Sensorium to try longer hair in a ponytail and see how it looked.

He was distracted by his mirror gazing by Midna's swing. "It's cool, keep at it. Just uh...keep your eye on the ball."

Mumbo wound up and pitched once more.

This time Midna made contact with the ball... barely. It went wide, hitting the fence to the left.

The umpire called a foul ball.

"Aww, come on!" Midna got back in her (admittedly somewhat odd) batting stance, grumbling. "Do you know how hard it is to hit a sphere like that with your hair?"

Beastboy grinned sheepishly trying hard not to laugh, "I can imagine? Just um...try to keep your eye on the ball I guess?"

And here came the next pitch!

CRACK!

Wow, that ball went flying past the second baseman. The force of the swing also sent her spinning about, what with the floating and the tiny imp body and all. As the player scrambled to grab the ball, Midna hovered her way quickly towards first, then second, dropping the bat as she went.

"SWEET!" Beastboy was jumping and cheering as she flew and the computerized players scrambled to try and make sure she only got a double out of it. Beastboy himself scrambled to the home base and scooped up bat. "Gotcha covered!"

He took a firm stance and the ball was pitched...and he swung and missed. Once.

Twice.

The Third time he shifted into gorilla form and clobbered the ball sending it right into the ground bouncing it up and over the pitchers head and shooting past the second basemen who tried to grab it and missed. "Go go gooooo!" Beastboy called shifting into dog form and racing the bases.

Midna darted to third, heading for home in a cloud of dust kicked up by the players on the field. Just a little further and...

Safe!

She turned around to see how Beastboy was doing.

There was a scream unlike that a dog should be able to make as the entire team converged upon him chasing him around the field with one in the lead holding the baseball. Beastboy shifted into a horse, and then a cheetah as they charged after him. Second base, third base, the entire stampede was heading home. Someone...they all jumped ontop of him in a cloud of dust.

And in the silence of what looked like Beastboy having been crushed under a crowd of players...a snake slithered out of the pile and touched home plate.

"Two points!" The Umpire yelled and Beastboy shifted back looking dazed.

Midna grinned broadly, reaching out with one hand to give the still-dazed Beastboy a hearty slap on the back.

"Not bad, hero! Maybe you should think of changing careers."

Beastboy laughed out loud, still wearing the silly ponytail she had suggested before, "Nah, kicking badguy butt is still way more fun. Plus you know...saving the world and stuff. Someone's gotta do it." He gave her a thumbs up with his own silly smile.

Hey, ponytails were stylish!

Midna shrugged. "You hero types are all the same." But her words didn't hold any real malice. She snagged a bag of peanuts off of a passing vendor, looking at the plastic wrapper curiously.

"So this is the kind of thing you do on your world, huh? There sure are a lot of people."

"Well one of the things sure. And there are way more people then this." The two of them remained where they were as the world fell away showing Jump City as a whole, then the county, then the state, and the country, and the world. "I've been all over the place with my friends too. All around the world and space."

"Hmm... doesn't it get all crowded, though? Where I came from, people were pretty spread out. Except for the towns, I guess."

Midna found it hard to imagine that many people around. What did they all do?

"Are they all divided up into realms, with one ruler?"

"Well, sometimes..." Beastboy really dug on the whole educating others about his world thing, even when most the important stuff like history was wrong.

"See sometimes it gets crowded like in big cities." And suddenly they were in Metropolis. A huge city that stretched out for miles with people in their cars or on the streets swarming about like bugs.

"And sometimes...not so much." And then they were in the heart of Africa, with nothing but fields and jungle and nature as far as the eye can see.

"I guess people just usually stick together you know? Move to the same area. There are some people who'd like to tear all this stuff up and turn it into cities and factories and junk, but others argue with them to try and make sure we still have nature and stuff. We don't wanna be just one big ball of city."

"Hmm. I don't know if I like cities much at all." Actually, Midna had sort of enjoyed the wide-open plains of Hyrule. Even if they weren't always the most convenient. "They're so noisy. And you always have to look out, or someone will bump right into you."

"But your world sure is big." She glanced at Beastboy. "You don't look like a human or anything, though. Are there more of your kind somewhere?"

"Aw, It's not that bad. It can be, but other times..."

And the city streets were around them again, peaceful and calm, just a few people here and there.

"Oh I'm totally human. I'm just different, I had an accident when I was a kid and got sick, so my parents had to make me kind of...more then human to save my life."

"Like with magic or something?" Now that was interesting. She was pretty sure Ganondorf was human -- at least until he'd used his magic to become more than that. But she didn't sense any magic coming off of Beastboy.

She also didn't really think about how mayyyybe what she was asking could be considered rude.

"Eh, it's a good look for you, anyway. You could do a lot worse than green."

"Well not exactly, they used Science, but since I don't understand alot of it, it kinda seems like magic."

He grinned and blushed faintly at the compliment, "I dig it, but you'd be surprised how hard it is to find clothes that play off the green." He winked and the world changed again to a new place, wide open fields of tall grass on the edge of a thick forest, a jungle.

A little blond boy with blue eyes was playing on the edge of the forest when a green monkey appeared. As the boy reached to point at the monkey it lunged and bit his hand before darting off into the forest. The boy cried and his parents and another man came running from their camp.

"See, my parents were scientists trying to find a genetic link between humans and the animals on our planet. That guy's their co-worker Doctor Register, he was looking for that green monkey. It had a sickness called Sakutia. Deadly to humans."

And indeed the boy was looking really sick, green color had started to creep along his arm and he was sweating and crying and looking weak as his parents raced him back to the tent. The Doctor was furious he had lost the monkey and went charging into the forest.

Midna watched all this in silence until the monkey bit the young boy. "They were looking for a monkey that carried a disease that deadly, and they brought you along? Why?"

She had no idea Beastboy had been that close to death. Didn't he blame anyone for what had happened? He seemed so accepting of the whole ordeal, recounting this story like someone might talk about the time a bee stung them as a child.

She'd never even come close to dying when she was young, but she'd still held the Hylians responsible for what had happened to her people.

Beastboy paused as he seemed to think about it and shrugged, "Guess not, I mean hey how many people can say they got to travel the world as a kid right? I mean...accidents happen. Kids get into trouble. It's what they do." He smiled that innocent somewhat oblivious smile, there was no anger or regret about the incident at all.

"My dad figured out the missing genetic code between humans and animals using the virus inside me. He had to work faster then the Virus to save me and somehow, he did."

And out of the tent a little boy, green with pointed ears came wandering out with his parents. "That took a few days to recover from, but once I was well again I was back to playing games, with a few new games even!"

And another scene revealing his mother being confronted by a dangerous looking snake...and little Beastboy turning into a Mongoose and attacking it, chasing it away.

Midna clasped her small hands together behind her back.

"...your parents sound like kind people." A little shortsighted, maybe, but kind. And determined to save their son when his life had been in danger. It didn't seem like they had cared for him any less after what had happened to him, either.

That was the trouble with heroes. They always made you feel a little ashamed of yourself. Like a shadow cast in the face of their brilliance.

Abruptly, she grinned. "Well, thanks for the game and the story, but you know. Things to do, places to go. See you later!" And with a small wave, she disappeared back into the shadows.

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