This is my first go at doing an AU, and yes, it is the overly used idea of them being regular teens. But hopefully, this one will be uniquely weird! And funny! :D Enjoy!
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Chapter 1: Doing Nothing Takes A Lot Of Work!
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Garfield Logan was sitting at his desk, gluing Popsicle sticks onto the frame of a scale model ship. His best friend, Victor, peeped over his shoulder. "Man, I can't believe you're building the Spanish Armada out of Popsicle sticks." He said in wonder, shaking his head. "You worked overtime on our joint-Geography project. Take a break, man."
Garfield frowned in concentration. "I need a good grade in history." He muttered, his tongue sticking out. "Otherwise, my parents will send me off to Study Camp. But I wanna stay here and do nothing all summer with you guys." He explained, sticking a napkin sail on his 3rd ship. "Hey, can you give me a hand?" He asked Victor.
"Sure!" Vic replied, taking off his prosthetic arm and handing it to his short friend. Gar looked at the arm and burst out laughing. "Dude, that's genius!" The two laughed together for a while, sharing more bad puns. Vic looked down at Gar's project.
"I think four ship should do, man. C'mon, Dick's waiting for us at the movies. It's scary Saturday down at the cinema!" He said and Gar grinned.
"Scary movies? Let's roll, Cyber-dude!" The little teen cried, grabbing Vic and pulling him out the door.
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Vic was right and Dick was outside the movie complex once they got there. "Hi guys." He said distantly. Vic and Gar waved.
"How'd the break up go?" Gar asked his spiky-haired pal. Dick groaned and muttered, "Kitten's always had a temper, and she managed to destroy 3 park benches and a birdbath."
Vic shrugged. "Well, it was for the good of the gang. We can't have an awesome summer with HER hanging around, man. Just think, next week, we'll have no problems, no school, no bratty girls and NO problems!" He exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air.
Gar and Dick grinned. "You're right, Vic. Let's go see that movie. I have to visit my great aunt tomorrow so I don't have to in the holidays." Dick complained, walking into the theatre. "Shush! It's starting!" Gar whispered loudly.
They were barely 5 minutes into Wicked Scary 3 when a very loud screech interrupted their terror. "RICHARD GRAYSON!" Dick's blood ran cold.
"Hide me! It's Kitten!" He squeaked, jumping under his seat.
Gar and Vic tried to look very innocent, hiding the chair, but Kitten found them. "You two! You know Dick! Where is he?" She screamed, scowling furiously.
"Uh, we dunno, man." Vic stuttered nervously.
"Yeah, dude! He's certainly not under this seat! Hehe Hehe." Gar chuckled nervously.
Kitten's eye narrowed and she reached under the chair, pulling out a terrified Dick. She grabbed his ear and started dragging him down the cinema aisle. "Help! She's taking me to her lair!" He cried, struggling against his evil ex-girlfriend.
"Don't worry, dude! We're coming!" Gar cried as he and Vic ran to their friend's aid.
"Ow! Help! I'm being used as a tug of war rope!" Dick yelled as Kitten and his friends pulled his arms and legs. A short struggle ensured but Kitten soon fell over and Dick crashed into his pals.
"Grrr! I'll get you back one day, Dick Grayson!" Kitten screeched as the three boys ran out of the theatre. Once safely outside, Dick muttered "I so don't want to date her for the 4th time."
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Garfield climbed through his bedroom window at 12:00pm, dreading his parents' response to his arrival. "Dick could've told us the time." He grumbled. "But I guess time flies when you're running from Kitten." He carefully slipped under the covers of his bed and hoped that his parents hadn't noticed that he was out all night.
"Garfield! Where were you!" his mother called and Gar winced.
"Uhh… Well we ran into a bit of trouble at the movies… so we ran around the neighbourhood trying to shake off Kitten." He explained, expecting a very violent response. The response he actually got was much worse.
His mother rushed into his room and hugged him tight. "Sweetie are you OK?" She asked, squeezing him ridiculously tight. "Uh… Yeah! Can you… let go? I can't breathe!" Gar wheezed as his mother hastily let go of him. "Goodnight Gar." She said quietly, leaving. "Night, mum." He replied, still gasping from the hug.
Gar quickly fell asleep, and had a very odd dream. There was silence, but after a while, Gar could hear someone laughing faintly. It sounded like a girl, but not high pitched or giggling like Kitten's. It was one of the greatest laughs he had ever heard. "Who are you?" He asked in the dream. The laugh got louder and seemingly more intense.
He thought he saw a glimpse of violet and the laugh stopped suddenly. "Go away." A girl's voice called. Despite being rather hostile, Gar identified the voice with the laugh. "Who are you?" He asked again. There was no reply.
Suddenly everything turned purple and he heard the girl's voce say, "Why do you try so hard?" He wondered what on earth she meant but he didn't have any time to think, as he was suddenly spinning around really quickly.
Gar fell onto something very soft. It looked like a platform of made of black feathers. There was a large hole in the middle and when he looked down through it, he saw a giant T. "What the?" he asked, looking at the T. It seemed to dissolve into tiny little black birds whispering, "Turn back. Turn ba-a-ack." Immediately he woke up.
Gar was sitting bolt upright with sweat running down his forehead. "I think I might be glad I have no idea what that was about." He muttered to himself, slowly getting back underneath the bed covers.
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"Richard Grayson… Garfield Logan… Victor Stone… Your joint project was excellent. You pass." The boys sighed in relief as their names were called out by their Geography teacher. "It's official." Vic whispered to his friends. "We have no extra studies for the summer! And it begins in 2 days!" The boys grinned at each other in eager anticipation of the school holidays.
There was a knock on the door and their Geography teacher opened it. The deputy principal was standing there along with a very large and hairy man and a tall, thin girl with long red hair. She was very beautiful but she was a victim of a bad spray-tan that left her with an unusual orange tinge.
"This is Kori Anders and her caretaker, Galfore Anders. Miss Anders will be starting here next school year and they are taking a tour of the school." The deputy explained, walking in. Gar leaned over to Dick to make a joke about the man's hairiness when he realised dick was staring at the girl, dumbfounded.
Vic sniggered at Dick's expression and Gar had a laugh, too. Dick didn't even notice, he was too enthralled with Kori's beauty. "Isn't she amazing?" he breathed to no-one in particular. It seemed that he wasn't the only one with that opinion. Quite a few of the other boys were staring at her too, and most of the girls were rather annoyed by this.
Even Vic's girlfriend, Karen, was angry about the gawking. "Can you believe the way they were staring at her!" she asked him angrily after class. "They were treating her like a show! That poor girl…" She ranted on, and Vic just stood there nodding.
After Karen had run out of things to yell about, Vic hastily diverted the topic. "So are you gonna join us in our summer of pizza and video-games at Gar's house?" he asked and she sighed. "Unfortunately, no. I'm going with my family to visit friends on the east coast. I'd much rather hang out with you all summer, though. I mean, all those boys do is argue all day."
Vic groaned. "But you're so much fun!" He protested, causing Karen to laugh. "I'm sure you'll have heaps of fun without me. Bye!" He waved to her as she walked away from the bus that took the boys home.
"So Karen's not doing nothing with us?" Gar asked his friend. Vic nodded and sat down across the aisle from his friends. "I guess you guys will have to provide the girlfriends this summer." He joked, making Gar laugh and Dick pull a face.
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Well, I hope you're interested because it's only gonna get weirder from now on! And yeah… Karen is Bee, because I like CyXBee.