Hello there. Rockgod is back with another story! And for those of you who've never heard of me, well, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Rockgod, I am a fanfiction writer, and this is my first Teen Titans fanfic. I mostly do fanfics for Team Fortress 2 and Overwatch, but after rediscovering my interest in Teen Titans, I decided to take a stab at writing a fanfic about them. This popped into my head one night and I decided that I absolutely had to write it down.
This is just going to be a short series, so I'm just going to write and post this first chapter to it, and please give me feedback on it and tell me if you want to see more of it. I look forward to hearing it!
Oh, one more thing, I haven't seen Teen Titans in a long time, so my memory on certain things is still a little fuzzy. If I get anything wrong, please do not hesitate to let me know. Whether it be in your reviews, or personally contacting me. I prefer to communicate through the chat on Steam, where I am regularly active. If you wish to talk to me, send me a friend request, and IM me through Steam Chat. My username there is simply Rockgod and my profile picture there is the same as it is here.
Enough with the intro. On with the show!
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It was night in Jump City.
It was approximately 10:35 and the city shutting down and going to bed for the night.
It was no different in the T-shaped Titans Tower. Cyborg had retired to his garage, plugging himself in to recharge. Robin had gone to sleep by this time with the lovely Tamaranean princess Starfire by his side. The two had been going steady for a while now and had recently started sleeping together. Raven was – of course – locked away in her gothic bedroom with a sign on her door giving off a very severe warning to anyone who disturbed her sleep without good reason (in other words, an alarm going off signaling crime in the city).
But one Titan was not going to bed at this moment.
Beast Boy stayed behind in the TV room after everybody else had gone to sleep for the night. He had a can of Coke and was turning on the Gamestation. This wasn't so he could beat Cyborg's high scores whenever he wasn't looking. Cyborg had all of their games password locked and the locks would trip a silent alarm to his recharging station if they ever detected anybody trying to tamper with them, including a certain green-skinned boy.
But Beast Boy was not interested in playing games this late at night. He had something else in mind.
Due to a system update, the Gamestation was now capable of handling online streaming services as well as playing games. So a few nights ago, also when no one else was around, Beast Boy downloaded a Netflix app onto the GameStation after discovering it and finding out all the cool movies and TV shows that it had. What was probably the best part about it was that he pretty much had Netflix all to himself now. Robin had too much on his mind to worry about the hottest new shows on TV, Starfire didn't understand the concept of streaming services, and in fact didn't watch much TV to begin with, Raven disliked most shows on TV, thinking that they were either crude, crass, vulgar, or lacking any substance. As for Cyborg, well, Beast Boy didn't really know what Cyborg's opinion on TV shows and streaming, or if he even had one.
But Beast Boy was intrigued. As soon as he discovered Netflix, he saw all the shows that it had to offer and he realized just how much he was missing out on. So he decided that whenever he had a free moment – in other words, a moment that wasn't spent training, fighting, eating, or trying in vain to kick Cyborg's metal ass in his racing games – he would try to catch up on some shows that he missed out on.
"All right," he declared, after settling down on the couch, picking up the GameStation controller, and using it as his Netflix remote. "Let's see what's good."
The room was dark, illuminated only by the glow of the LCD TV. All the lamps and overhead lights were turned off and the only sounds Beast Boy could hear were the distant noises of crickets chirping outside in the city and the tapping of the controller, as he browsed through the menu trying to find something good.
"OK, let's see…dude, all of Star Trek is on here? Man, how much time do I gotta spend watchin' that?!" He scrolled some more. "All right, Netflix Original: Marvel's Daredevil. I bet that's just a laaaaaaaame carbon copy, like everything Marvel does," Beast Boy said disparagingly. "Sherlock, too long for me. Just added: Monty Python's Flying Circus. I keep hearin' that's great. But I don't know, I'm not really into that British stuff. I know Rae isn't. She thinks it's just vulgar crap."
Beast Boy browsed some more, until he came across one show in particular that stood out to him:
"Huh. AMC original series: Breaking Bad."
It wasn't really the show itself or its' cover picture that struck Beast Boy's attention. It was the reviews. There were over nine thousand user-generated reviews for Breaking Badand every single one of them was five stars, the highest rating that Netflix had.
"Damn," Beast Boy said. "It must really be that good, huh? I've never heard of any show get anything like this." By now, he was really intrigued. "Maybe I should watch it." He thought about it for a moment, and then he decided, yes. He absolutely should watch it. He had to know what all the hype was about. He hit play, and the episode began.
It started with the familiar scene of its' main character, Dr. Walter White, in the desert in his RV meth lab, recording a video message to his wife, son, and unborn daughter, talking about what he did and why he did it. Beast Boy thought this was an unusual way to start a series, with its' main character already making his death video, but he decided, whatever, this may lead to something cool.
An hour later, the episode ended. Beast Boy's reaction to it was that it wasn't quite the grand spectacle that everybody was saying that it was, but maybe he was being too hard on it. After all, it was only the first episode and that's usually used for introducing the characters and setting up the main premise of the series, which it did just well. That would be like if the Teen Titans had their own TV series but without a proper episode setting up its' characters and setting.*
"Oh well," He yawned, stretching his arms. "I'll watch another episode tomorrow and decide if I want to keep going or not." He shut off the GameStation and the TV and headed to his room to get some sleep in.
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The next morning, business in Titans Tower ran as usual. Cyborg was making breakfast. With lots of meat. Sometimes Beast Boy wondered if he was doing this just to spite him. Some mornings he was convinced that Cyborg didn't really want to eat all that bacon he kept saying that he was said so proud of frying. He was convinced that he was just doing this to rub it in his very vegetarian face. Regardless, Beast Boy grabbed his tofu eggs from the fridge and walked past Raven. Unknown to everyone else, Beast Boy had a crush on Raven. He just never told anyone out of fear of being laughed at, or in the purple-haired empath's case, being chucked out the window.
Because of this, he walked by her. She was sitting in her usual spot, reading a book, shielding her face from view, making it very clear that she did not want to be disturbed. Usually Beast Boy would try to make her smile or even laugh by cracking a joke at her. Only this time, he didn't even bother trying. By now, he figured he knew how it would turn out. She'd scowl and scream at him and he'd most likely get a couple of bones broken in the process.
Instead, he walked back to the couch, and turned on the TV and GameStation again.
"Yo, Grass Stain!" Cyborg shouted from the kitchen. "Isn't it a bit early in the morning for me to start whoopin' your ass again?"
"Shut up, dude! I'm not playin' games! I got something else I want to do!"
"Oh, really?" Cyborg asked, in a tone that was half mocking and half genuinely curious. "Like what?"
Beast Boy went back to Netflix and started watching episode 2 of Breaking Bad: Cat's in the Bag…
The other Titans were completely taken off guard by what appeared to be Beast Boy's new hobby. Even Raven looked up from her book in a bit of shock, though she shielded it before anyone could see her, and she quickly took a sip of her herbal tea.
"Are you watching Breaking Bad?" Robin asked, utterly bewildered.
"Yeah, dude. I'm really likin' this show. It's great."
"Excuse me, friends Beast Boy and Robin," Starfire asked. "I do not know. What is the breaking of the bad?"
Robin was hesitant to answer that question, given the innocent nature of Starfire and that of the brutal show that Beast Boy was slowly becoming obsessed with.
"Um, well…uh…"
"What is it, friend Robin?"
"It's a…a show."
"So it seems. What is it about?"
"Um…well…"
"It's about a high school chemistry teacher who has cancer and makes meth for his family."
"What is meth, friend Beast Boy?"
"It's a drug," he said bluntly, before Robin could cut him off.
"I do not understand. I thought drugs were not allowed on Earth, yes?"
"Uh-huh."
"Then why is he doing it?"
"Because his job sucks and pays next to nothing, and by teaming up with one of his old students, he can make a boatload of money to provide for his family after his cancer kills him." Robin was just standing there, cringing at the idea of Starfire hearing all of this.
"But if what he is doing is not allowed, then this Walter White is not a very good person, yes?"
"Hey, he does some weird things, but he's helping his wife and son out. He's a good man."
"OK, everyone," Robin said, abruptly cutting off the conversation, "Let's get to the gym and do a little training. We never know when we'll be called into action." The other Titans murmured in agreement and followed him. Beast Boy, too, though not without pausing the episode at the part where Skylar White was confronting her husband about the marijuana that he apparently bought from one of his former students.
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Training went well. Everyone performed above expectations. Even Beast Boy, and he spent the entire time talking about how great he thought the show was quickly becoming and his predictions for what was going to happen next. It started to annoy Cyborg, who wanted to drop a spoiler just to shut him up. Unfortunately, he had never seen the show, so he knew nothing about it.
After training, Beast Boy resumed watching. He spent the rest of the day watching all seven episodes in the first season of Breaking Bad. He was going to start on the second season, but Cyborg made him stop so that he could fire up one of his games for practice.
"Yo, BB. Ya wanna join me so I can beat you again?"
"What? No way, dude! I need to find out more about this show! I need to see previews of the next season? Did you even see how it ended? Tuco just killed one of his own guys in front of Walter and Jesse for no reason at all! Dude, that guy's a psycho! I gotta read something on the internet! I need to know what happens next!"
"BB," Cyborg asked. "Don't ya think you're getting a little obsessed with this show?"
"Well, it's a great show! It's worth getting obsessed over!"
Cyborg rolled his eyes. "Alright, fine man. Whatever works for you."
Beast Boy left the room to return to his bedroom. He was aware that Cyborg was behind, with his own opinion about him and his new hobby.
He was not, however, aware of the purple-haired goth girl that was also starring in his direction. She had a large scowl and a small green flush on her face and she was unhappy with the fact that he had not said a single word to her since that morning.
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And this concludes Chapter One.
How do you think I did for my first Teen Titans fanfiction? Should I continue this story? Let me know in the reviews!