Bounty Hunter - Teen Titans (No. 5)

The Romantic Within

Season 3 Episode 9 (Episode 35)

3rd POV:

Bounty Hunter walks into the Titans' Tower entrance, heading towards the lift; having the day off, she was invited to hang out with them after last time got cancelled, and she waits for the doors to open. They open for her, and she sees Robin waiting for her in the elevator; she smiles as she steps in, ducking her head, trying to hide her blush. "Glad you could make it." Robin breaks the tension as the doors close, and they head up.

"Yeah, it's my day off." She replies, both of them standing next to each other as the elevator goes up then stops at their floor, making them sigh with relief as the doors open.

"Oh, friend, I am glad to see you again; it has been too long." Starfire beams as she hugs Bounty Hunter, who awkwardly returns the hug.

"Good to see you too, Star." She replies, and they break away as they hear a shout coming from one of the hallways.

TEEN TITANS! GO!

The others come around the corner to see a Sasquatch in front of Raven, who takes a step back nervously and warms up her powers as he raises his fists, ready to strike. "Beast Boy!" Robin shouts a warning, "Leave her alone!"

"What's gotten into you, man?" Cyborg asks him, worried for his best friend.

"You are behaving like a royal zarbnarf!" Star snaps.

"BB, what are you doing?" Bounty Hunter shakes her head, and he resumes human form; Raven winds down, and he stalks away as she gives him a dirty look, and he walks towards the other four and stops near them.

"Look. This is who I am now. You guys don't like it? Tough!" Beast Boy snaps at them.

"Fine! If this is how you want to act, do it somewhere else! None of us are interested!" Robin snaps back as they glare at each other; BB makes a sudden lunge, Robin flinches, readying for an attack.

"That's what I thought." Bb chuckles and clears out of the hall, leaving five distraught friends in his wake.

TEEN TITANS! GO!

Beast Boy makes it to his room and furiously throws various items around his room, smashing against the wall, trying to vent his anger. "Always making fun of me." He rummages around. "And when I stand up for myself, everybody's on her side!" He sweeps some stuff off the shelf. "She's the jerk! Nobody pushes me around!" He hits the shelf hard enough to buckle. "Nobody!" He yells in agony as he claps both hands to his forehead, caught in the grip of seizure, stumbling backwards toward the bunk bed, falling to his knees. "What's...happening?" He tumbles all the way down among the scattered items and rolls back and forth, trying futilely to find relief from the spasms that wrack his body. He writhes, huddles babbles madly, then his eyes pop wide open, the iris and pupils closing to a pinpoint, and cries taking on a new, savage tone as one boot bursts open to expose a broad, hairy foot. The rest of his clothing starts disintegrating as his body grows out of proportion; his gritted teeth become fangs in a snarling animal mouth. The sound of his insane, senseless animal gibbering comes within his room of the tower, under the full moon on a clear night.

TEEN TITANS! GO!

A single long howl comes from inside his bedroom when Raven walks out of her room into the empty hall as the noise dies down. "Who's there?" Raven asks in the dark hall, but there's no response, and she approaches a corner, and she walks to Beast Boy's room, moving closer, a soft growling coming from within. "Beast Boy?" She puts an ear to the door; she nearly gets hit when a large section of the sheet of metal bulges out under his hard punch. She moves cautiously to the threshold, gazing into BB's room, and out comes a hulking, hairy creature silhouette before she backs away. Its burning white eyes, slavering mouth beneath them, opens in a snarl, the terror-stricken Titan as it darkens as the beast advances towards her, shadowing her.