Let Sleeping Beetles Lie

Mount Justice

December 15, 15:16 EST

This is gonna be great! Beast Boy thought as he snuck towards the couch in the Cave. They had a new team member and he was sleeping on the couch, prime prank material.

This was a tradition, so with a hop and a thought, he landed on the back of the couch in the form of a rooster. Like any proper rooster, Beast Boy strutted to the head of the couch, puffed his feathered chest, then crowed for all he was worth.

Only to fall backwards off the couch with a squawk as Blue Beetle's plasma cannon singed his tail feathers.

"Dude, what was that?!" Beast Boy screeched, popping up behind the couch. "You almost shot me in the face!"

"Sorry, ese. Didn't mean to do that," Blue Beetle apologized, rubbing the back of his head embarrassedly and yawning.

"No, shooting him with the plasma cannon will not allow me to sleep better!" he hissed after a moment.

"Good to know," Beast Boy responded. He had heard about Blue Beetle's tendency to say odd stuff, but it was a little disturbing in action, mostly because of the implications to Blue's self-reprimand (Beast Boy was not one of the team members that could feasibly survive a plasma blast).

"Fine."

Beast Boy stiffened. Blue hadn't changed his mind about the plasma cannon, had he?

Luckily, or maybe not, it was the staples that were fired at Beast Boy, neatly pinning him to the wall.

"Feel free to wiggle out of those," Blue Beetle said with a wave as he curled back up on the couch, "but I can't guarantee I won't accidently hit you next time you try to wake me up like that."

"Noted," Beast Boy said with a gulp.

After a minute, Beast Boy transformed into a snake and fell right out of the bindings. It was a bit of a bummer the prank was a bust, but it did go better than the time he pulled it on Superboy (it's very hard to hide from someone with super-hearing and infrared vision when they're determined to hunt you down for hurting their super sensitive ears). He scampered off to the monitor room where Robin was watching the surveillance feed.

"Told you it was a bad idea."

"Yeah, but you never explained why," Beast Boy shot back.

"From what I've seen, Blue Beetle doesn't handle surprises well. Usually pulls a weapon, though he doesn't fire it most of the time either. Add in that Blue is a bit sleep deprived at the moment and you've got a recipe for being 'shot in the face' since he's not fully awake and functional."

"Noted," Beast Boy said with a nod, looking at the sleeping Beetle on the screen. "Soooo… new Cave Rule?"

"Seems appropriate," Robin replied, looking at the singe mark from the plasma blast and the staples in the wall. "I'm thinking it should be: Let sleeping Beetles lie."


Author's Note

Well hello and welcome to Bug Jar! This is going to be a drabble collection on Blue Beetle because I've recently gotten back into Young Justice and he's one of my favs. Also because a majority of the stories with Blue marked as a character are for shipping him. It's not that I hate that or anything, I just think he deserves some more love for being as he's depicted in show, un-shipped. Anyways, this one is because I thought changing "let sleeping dogs lie" to "beetles" would be fun and make sense when the scarab likes to shoot "threats" in the face. And Blue Beetle's only been part of the Team for two weeks at this point.