The ultimate lifeform...

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(This is during and after the last episode thing)

(Feeling creative, and this kills alot of time... plus an interesting way to explain what the hell that white creature is)

Chapter 1 - the beast inside...
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"Come in, Beast boy!" barked Robin on his communicator as he dodged a fiery swipe from the creature they had been chasing all day. "We need your help!" he added as he combat rolled to avoid another swipe of it's arms that burned through the floor that he was just standing. Robin took this chance and lobbed several ice disks into the creature's side, dousing the flames, but also changing the beast into a walking ice block.

"Beast boy to Robin. I'm on my way. Over," he heard Beastboy's reply as he jumped back to try and avoid the creature's sharpend ice arms, getting a cut across his chest in the process. Afterward the creature was bombarded from all sides by Starbolts, and parts of it's body were blown to chunks by Cyborg's cannon before the creature changed it's form to concrete from the floor.

The titans continued to pound it again, but the creature's new body just shrugged off any attack as it picked up an oil tank and tossed it at Cyborg, but missed as he blasted it sending flaming chunks flying everywhere. Raven then sent several Oil tanks flying into the creature with alot of power, and sent it wheeling backward as Starfire flew down and rammed it through the wall... yet it was still unharmed.

The creature simply kicked her off and rose to it's feet again, studying the titans as they chased after it through the hole. It did not see the green gorilla suddenly behind it where it was picked up and slammed head first into the ground. Beast boy didn't skip a beat, and picked it up again where he did the same thing again and again. This still proved ineffective, but then several more white creatures exactly like the first appeared out of the ground, and tackled him to free their comrade.

"What the heck? There are more of these things?" Cyborg growled with irritation as he fired his cannon at them. Sending a few off of Beastboy as he charged forward while still shooting his cannon.

"One is bad enough..." Raven deadpanned as she and Starfire flew past him and sent a few more of the creatures off of Beastboy as Robin hit the last one with a flying kick to the head.

Beastboy rose to his feet, and changed into a T-rex. Letting out a big roar, he charged toward the closest of the creatures and tried to chomp it in two, but the creature evaded him by melding into the ground before reappearing after he past. The other creatures used similar tactics, but then their arms narrowed and turned into sharp sword-like limbs that they began to swing at them wildly.

The creatures and titans fought for several more minutes, neither side getting any head way until the titans began to grow tired. The creatures, quite the opposite as they were about to push their advantage, but then suddenly, melded into the ground and dissappeared. "Oh my god... is there no way to beat these guys?" Cyborg panted, trying to regain his breath.

"I do not know, Cyborg. They appear to be very durable to our attacks," Starfire replied.

"Well, it's obvious we're dealing with something big. There's not one, but over several of these things and there may be more," Raven added sternly.

"Yeah, and we have to follow em and find out who's commanding em," Robin growled.

"Robin, you can't be serious. We're tired out, the day is basically over... we need to rest man," Cyborg groaned.

"He's right, they're much to tough to fight when we're exhausted," Raven nodded her agreement.

Robin sighed and stretched saying, "I guess you're right. No point in trying to chase them down and we can barely stand on our own two legs," Robin caved in. "Lets go home," he finished. The others agreed, except for Beastboy who hadn't said a single word to anyone since the creatures left.

When the got back home, Beastboy went straight to his room where he locked the door behind him and crashed into bed. He did not sleep, atleast not for a hour that he spent thinking about what Terra and what she said. She was right... things did change, and even though he hated to admit it, he couldn't change that. With this, he fell soundly asleep.


The following day approached, and after a quick breakfast the titans set out on patrol. Robin had a hunch that if one of these creatures made a persistent appearance, then more of them should be easier to track. Beastboy flew around the city, keeping a birds' eye view of the streets below until his gaze fell apon the school Terra went to. He couldn't help but land and gaze longingly at it thinking, "I just can't believe that everything has changed for the worst..." he sighed as a sudden explosion from within brought him back to reality.

This was soon followed by a scream, and without hesitation Beastboy grabbed his communicator and said, "Guys! Something's going on at Jump high!" he reported.

"Good work Beastboy, just stick tight and we should be there in a heart beat," Robin replied, but Beastboy didn't seem to hear him, and was already running into the school where he weeved through running students. He then came by a door that was ripped off it's hinges, and inside was a classroom full of petrified students, and one of those white creatures holding Terra by the hair.

"Let me go!" she demanded, kicking at the hulk feebly as it raised her up as if to examine her.

"Hey ugly! She said put her down!" Beastboy roared as he changed into a lion and pounced on the creature, making it drop Terra and sending it crashing into a wall. He then changed back and said to Terra, "Run! I'll hold it off!" he told her as the creature tried to pry him off, but had trouble when Beastboy turned into an octopus and clung to him.

"Be careful..." Terra said to him as she scrambled to her feet and ran out of there as fast as possible.

When she left, the creature had finally managed to pry Beastboy off, and slammed him through a couple of desks before he finally let go. It then tried to smash him with both fists, but missed as Beastboy turned into a snake and dodged it at the last secound where he turned into his Werebeast form and rammed the creature through a wall to the grounds outside.

"Crap... bad idea Beastboy," he thought to himself as the creature's body changed to rock. Then it backfisted the side of his face and kicked him off, scrambleling to it's feet to follow up with a couple punches. It was then that Terra came running out of the doors, stopping as she saw the sight of the creature once before trying to run past it... a big mistake as the creature turned around and grabbed her by the back of her shit. "Put her down!" Beastboy roared again as he turned into his werebeast form again and tried to pry it off.

Luckily for them both, a blue beam came hurtleling through the air and slammed into the Creature, sending it flying backward after losing it's grip on Terra. "Booya..." Cy smirked as Robin ran up and shouted...

"Titans go!" and off everyone went pounding the creature again with vicious speed. The fight was very short, as the creature seeing that it was outnumbered, for whatever reason dissappeared back into the ground where it fled. After everyone made sure the thing was gone, and that it wasn't getting any buddies, Robin said, "So... Beastboy was right," he said eyeing Terra.

"Oh my friend! How good it is to see you again!" Starfire squealed as she was about to give Terra one of her bone crunching hugs. She was luckily stopped by Beastboy...

"Uuuh, do I know any of you?" Terra said confused, raising an eyebrow and turning to Beastboy for help.

"Yeah... they are... or used to be your friends," Beastboy said, a smile he had a minute ago dissappearing. "This is Robin, Raven, Starfire, and Cyborg..." he added glumly.

"Oh, hey..." Terra said.

"You don't remember us?" Robin asked puzzled.

"No... I don't think I've ever met any of you," Terra replied. "But can we save that for another time, why was that... that thing after me?" she demanded.

"We're not entirely sure... but I think it whould be best if you came back with us to the tower," Raven replied, frowning at her as she seemed to look over her shoulder like she was being watched. "It's the safest place you can be right now until we can figure out what that thing wanted with you, and where it came," she added sternly.

"Oh... ok I guess," Terra said hesitant on the idea.

"Then it's settled, everyone pile into the T-car!" Cyborg said, leading the way as Raven's paranoia was not being paranoid, but someone, or something, was watching them as they left....

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Chapter 2 - Cell, mankind's evolution? Or mankind's extinction?
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The sun was slowly setting over Jump city, and our heroes had just arrived at the tower with Terra in tow. "So, you honestly don't remember any of?" Robin started as he continued to lead the way.

"No... I can't remember a thing," Terra replied automaticly as she followed the others inside. "You guys have a nice home," she added.

"Thanks, we try our best to look good," Cyborg chuckled to her. Shortly after everyone had settled in, a pizza dinner was prepared for everyone to enjoy. "Ahhh, meat lover's pizza. Nothing better!" Cy sighed happily as he took a huge bite out of his slice.

Afterwards, everyone went about doing their own things. Cyborg was giving the T-car a tune up, Raven was reading a book in her room, and Robin was watching a sappy romantic with Starfire. Beastboy was with Terra in her room... her actual room, and making small talk. "Bummer, I always stunk at math..." Beastboy chuckled sheepishly.

"Yeah I know what you mean... to many numbers and to much you can do with em," Terra giggled nervously, alittle worried Beastboy would start off on trying to get her to remember anything again.

"Look... I've been thinking about what you said..." Beastboy then started.

"Uh-oh..." Terra sighed inwardly.

"And I guess you're right. Things do change... so what do you say we start over?" Beastboy went on brightly. "I'm Beastboy," he joked, holding his hand out while putting on a bright smile.

Terra giggled and shook his hand. "Nice to meet you, I'm Terra," she said relieved he decided to drop it finally.

Meanwhile...


There came a loud pounding noise coming from the front door. The tower's alarm system was going off like crazy as the noise persisted until it drew the attention of the others who gathered infront of it ready to meet the intruder head on. A few more pounds, and the door came flying off it's hinges only to be plucked out of the air by Raven and set aside. "Knock knock homo-sapiens," cackled two voices as a figure emerged through the doorway. He had tangled and matted charcoal colored hair that fell infront of a pair of gleaming yellow eyes with a row of green crystals glowing just on his collar bone, and the rest of him was completly black from head to toe with green tiger stripes covering half of his arms. What struck him as being a threat, was the three spikes protruding from his forearms that were held in a hostile position.

"Who are you, and what do you want pal?" Cyborg demanded, cannon held at the ready to blast him.

"I'am called...Cell!" the man replied in his double sounding voice as something bulged it's way through his arms and out to his hands. They were a pair of white spikes, and with a pair of quick tosses he sent them flying toward Cyborg, and hit him head on; yet they did him no harm except imbedding inside. A secound later, and sections of the floor exploded as somethings erupted through the floor. They looked human, but only so little as the rest of them were horribly disfigured with tentacles flailing around or they shuffled around with uneven sized limbs. "And there is someone here I'am looking for..." Cell added with a sinister chuckle as the monsters charged at the titans.

"Go!" Robin roared, pulling a pair of birdarangs out and cutting into the wave of monsters, only to have another one burst through the wall to his side and make a swipe for his leg tripping him. It was then that one of the bi-pedal monsters leaped at him, but was quickly blasted to pieces by Starfire who flew over Robin and sent vollies of starbolts hurtleling into the rampaging creatures. Beastboy then rounded a corner with Terra, skidding to a hault as he spotted the monsters fighting his friends. "Beastboy! Keep Terra away from them!" Robin grunted as he held a mutated looking dog at bay with his bo-staff.

"Oh no you don't little one..." Cell hissed, form rippleling and shrinking in size as it changed into the shape of a big wolf. With a loud howl Cell padded off, leaping over Robin and strafing through Starfire's starbolts before pouncing on Cyborg and bounding off after them.

"This way!" Beastboy yelled grabbing Terra by the arm and leading her away as some of the tower's defenses armed to shoot at Cell. Peering over his shoulder, he panicked as Cell shrugged them off and continued to chase after them, gradually gaining on them if he didn't think of something fast. "Terra, grab on!" he urged her as he turned into an ostrich. Terra wasn't about to question him and did as she was told, grabbing on for dear life as Beastboy broke into a run, eventually putting distance between them.

Running into the living room, he quickly turned back to normal and barricaded the door hoping it whould slow Cell down. Panting to catch his breath, he nearly jumped out of his skin as Cell began to pound into the door making fairly big dents. Then, with a tremendous roar, Cell rammed the door down couch and all barricading it as big as Plasmus. "Did you really think that was going to stop me?" Cell cackled, fixing Terra with his own eye. "Terra... you and I have an arrangement..." he said darkly as Beastboy stood infront of him defiantly.

"If you want her, you'll have to go through me first!" he growled, changing into his werebeast form.

"That can be arranged..." Cell chuckled as his form rippled and changed again. This time, the bulk of his body went into his arms and legs, while the rest of him was dwarfed minus the crocodile-like head he had grown with sharp teeth and all. "Prepare yourself green one..." he hissed, lounging at Beastboy with a powerful swing of one of his arms.

Beastboy ducked low and avoided it, springing back up and hitting Cell right in the torso with a headbutt where he pinned him. From there, Beastboy pulled a claw back and stabbed Cell in the chest, earning a thick spray of black blood that then splashed him. "AAAAAAGH!!!!" he roared in agony as the blood seemed to eat his skin of, forcing him to change back from the pain where Cell backfisted him off and into the wall on the otherside.

Cell arose to his feet, and started to approach Terra thinking Beastboy was dealt with, but he didn't count on a green T-rex suddenly appeared infront of him in a powerful headbutt. "Infernal changeling, you will regret not standing down!" Cell hissed as he pushed against Beastboy's attack. The two seemed to be dead even before Cell did a low blow and pulled Beastboy with him, then kicking him over his head into the wall again.

"I... won't... let you hurt her!" Beastboy groaned, hissing painfully from the acidic blood attack as Cell picked him up by the neck.

"I'm afraid that you have no choice in the matter... inferior being!" Cell cackled as he applied pressure to his grip, his lips twisting to form a sadistic grin as he watched him flail around trying to get free. Changing into different animals to try and make him lose his grip. Then, a shoe hit him in the back of the head that made him turn his head to see who had the tenacity to throw a shoe at him. It was Terra, and she had her other shoe in hand ready to throw next which she did, and hit him inbetween the eyes.

"Heheh, a feisty one you've got here... I like that," Cell smirked as he dropped Beastboy unceramoniously and walked toward her. Terra then tried to back away, tripping over the turned over couch until she was backed up into a corner. "You should have ran when you had the chance, because now there is no escape for where you're going now," he went on as one of his arms split into multiple tentacles that ensared Terra and hoisted her up.

"Put me down ugly!!!" Terra growled, thrashing about trying to free herself from the tentacles that began to wrap around her. "Beastboy!" she wailed before a tentacle clamped her mouth shut.

"Ugh..." Beastboy coughed until he heard Terra's cry for help. Seeing the tentacles, he quickly changed into a lion and thundered toward Cell, leaping into the air while pulling one of his claws back and slicing through some of the tentacles.

"Argh! Stay out of this!" Cell hissed, extending his other hand and shooting a hail of white spikes from them at Beastboy. A few hit, and in secounds he fell to the ground from his legs locking up. "What... Terra!" he said trying to crawl toward her, but failing to get more then an inch as Cell began to draw her toward him.

"Resistence is futile, little girl. Prepare to be assimilated into my being!" Cell cackled loudly as Terra managed to get her mouth free.

"Beastboy... I promise I won't forget you again..." Terra cried, tears forming in her eyes.

"Terra!" Beastboy cried, managing to scramble to his feet only to be brought back down from the spikes embedded in his thigh.

"Goodbye..." she said right before her entire body was engulfed within Cell's own body.

"You bastard!!!" Beastboy swore angrily as he tore the spikes out and charged him with tears in his eyes. Before he knew what even happend, he changed into his werebeast form and steamrolled Cell through the wall, and sent him flying outside where he gave chase. He saw cell rise back to his feet, bolts of electricity arching around his body as it stood limply for a minute until Cell flexed his chest out and roared. It was then that his entire body lit up with an incredibly yellow light, making the ground around him shoot up in and spin around him like a sandy tornadoe as his voice echoed throughout the city, shattering the tower's windows and flooding the inside with the yellow light which got the attention of the others stuck in battle.

"Terra and Beastboy! Lets go!" Robin ordered, throwing a few explosive disks into the mass of monsters and blasting them to fleshy chunks so he and the others could run outside and see what was going on. What they saw, was a giant beam of light coming from the ground and soaring up to the sky.

When it died down, Terra was left standing where Cell was standing. "T-Terra?" Beastboy stammered, running up to her, slowing down as he got to her. "Y-y-you're alright," he said relieved.

"Am I?" she said darkly, flashing him a twisted smile. Then, the ground at Beastboy's feet suddenly shot up and hit him right in the jaw, sending him flying up into the air where he came crashing back down hard. "You were alwasy easy to trick..." Cell said through Terra's body as Terra's body just shattered away to reform Cell from underneath.

"What did you do with Terra?!" Robin demanded as the others lined up next to him, all primed to blast Cell to oblivion.

"Why, she's right... here," Cell replied, pointing at himself, and then letting a cold, and sadistic laugh fill the air, using Terra's voice with his own to unnerve them while he made the ground around him shake and tremble as his body began to glow yellow...
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Chapter 3 - The rock and roller is dead, Cell's reign of terror is born.
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Without hesitation, Cell used his new power and made the ground the titans stood on shatter into tiny pieces, using the broken pieces to throw at them, but Raven protected everyone under a black shield. Cell used this time, and charged toward them while keeping the rock barrage up until he rammed the shield hard. It was enough to force to dissipate it, and no sooner had he, Robin then pelted him with explosives. Cell stumbled backward as black liquid sprayed everywhere from the hole in his chest.

Starfire then flew at him and shot her eye beams straight through his head, pulling up and turning around to see what the damage was only to shriek in terror as the split ends of his head turned into tentacles, and came up after her! They managed to grab her arms and legs, but instead of pulling her in they formed blades at the end and cut them as they withdrew. Starfire hissed with pain and roared angrily as she came flying back down at Cell, shooting another pair of eye beams straight for him.

This time, Cell barely even flinched as he backhanded her to the ground where he was hit in the back by Cyborg's cannon. "You pathetic lifeforms are no match for Cell," he cackled as he sent more rocks flying at Cyborg to distract him, only to have Raven break a boulder over his head. "Wait your turn..." he growled, pushing his hand out while turning his arm into tentacles, and with a sharp tug he brought Raven down and into the ground as Cyborg and Robin came running toward him.

"Insignificant fools!" he laughed as he made chunks of the ground shoot up and try to hit them. Robin either avoided them, or jumped on top of them and leaped to another while Cyborg blasted and smashed his way through the onslaught. Cyborg was the first to reach Cell, and tried to punch him with a right and left hook, but Cell blocked them both. "Got ya..." Cell said slyly as he hit Cyborg with a sharp front kick, pulling his arms backward and the ending result was his arms breaking off while he crashed into the ground. "Pfft, scrap metal," Cell mocked as he tossed the arms to the ground as Robin hit him in the side of the head.

"You're going to pay for what you've done!" Robin growled as he began swinging madly at Cell.

"Oh am I? I think not," Cell replied as he flexed his chest out and the next swing Robin did broke as Cell's form bulked out tremendously. Locking onto Robin with his single eye, he ran toward him while making the ground rumble with each step, and swung a right hook to try and smash him into the ground. He missed, as Robin nimbly jumped out of the way from being faster.

Raven groaned and got to her feet, and using her powers made two large rocks rise up on either side of Cell. And with a clap of her hands, the two rocks smashed together with Cell in the middle making dust kick up from the shockwave from the two halves colliding. She kept her eyes peeled, waiting for Cell to either emerge unscathed from the debris, or for the smoke to clear so they could investigate, but Cell did something unexpected, and sent a trio of sharp tentacles shooting out of the ground where they pierced through Raven. "Ungh..." Raven suddenly groaned, feeling her legs give way as the tentacles withdrew back to Cell.

"Raven!" Robin growled as he threw some more disks into the smoke, hoping to draw Cell out as Beastboy came barreling in afterward. Then, there was a giant bang, followed by another blast of yellow light that send Beastboy flying backward, and the smoke swirling up and into the air to reveal Cell glowing green. "What the..." Robin said astonished and for the first time for awhile, he feared for his life.

"Hahahahahaha, you cannot win. I'am the ultimate being, you will never defeat me!" Cell said in a booming voice from within the glowing energy that was now his body.

"We may not defeat you, but we sure as hell can try!" Cyborg roared, shooting missiles from his shoulders and blasting his body, but Cell barely acknowledged he was hit as he zapped Cyborg with a beam of energy, making him crash into a rock. Starfire came next, shooting starbolts into the glowing mass only to realize it was growing bigger with each one. "Is that all you can muster against me? An animal loving changeling, an inferior cyborg, an alien, a gloomy goth, and an ignorant boy?" he mocked raising his arms up to the sky.

"I laugh at your puny attempts at stopping me, and now I will show you the full extent of my power! Witness the destruction at hand and cower before me!" he roared again. His voice pumping with power as he channeled Terra's and Raven's power into the island, making parts of it crack and give way to yellow and black even green energy as it started to shake again.

"We need to go, he's trying to pull the island out of the lake!" Raven said, coughing blood up.

"We can't just run and let him destroy our home!" Cyborg growled angrily.

"Raven is right, we cannot beat him right now. All is lost if we do not retreat..." Starfire argued as she picked Raven up from the ground.

Robin looked from face to face while Cell continued to pour his power into the island, and sighing he said, "Alright, we leave for now, but we will come back later. For Terra..." Robin said, placing his hand on Beastboy's shoulder at the last part to comfort him.

"For Terra..." he said appreciating the gesture as he turned into a Pterodactyl and let Robin climb up. Then when he took off into the air he scooped up Cyborg and together with Starfire they began to fly off.

"Thats right! Run! Your time will come! And we will meet again titans! Count on that!!!" Cell cackled as the island at last broke up and began to float steadily into the air. Then, the rim of which began to glow black, green, and yellow from the powers he was using, and slowly but surely the island was moved toward the city. People down below gazed up at the floating rock, screaming with terror as they began to run for their lives just before Cell dropped the island back down, and crushing a portion of the city with rocks and showering them debris from the tower that fell over and crushed even more buildings under it's weight.

"I just can't believe this..." Robin said in the distance as he braced himself for the resulting shockwave. He couldn't stand to watch a villain get away with winning, but Cell was more then just an ordanary criminal. He had accomplished what no other criminal had... he had beaten them, and used their own home to destroy part of the city with one clean sweep. "Well, we have no other choice... lets round up the other titan teams and plan a counter attack," Robin sighed sadly, looking back at the destruction once before leaving...
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