Chapter Two
"And I was thinking, you know, that we could chase him out there or something."
Raven shrugged. "I never knew that Cyborg didn't like water. Every time we've gone to the beach, he seemed fine with it."
"Oh, trust me," Beast Boy assured her. "Hit him with enough force and he'll hate it."
"Well, when do you think Robin'll let us go to the beach?" Raven asked, gesturing at the door.
"I got a plan for that, too," Beast Boy replied, rubbing his hands together and attempting to chuckle like an evil villain.
"What?" Raven questioned, rolling her eyes. "You better not threaten his hair gel."
"No," Beast Boy coughed, having no apparent ability to chuckle. "Starfire."
Raven's expression remained confused until she fully processed his words. "Oh," she realized, dragging out the word. Her brow became furrowed again, though. "Still, it's a pretty straightforward plan. I would have thought you would come up with something… you know, more complicated."
Beast Boy shrugged. "If it's effective, and we get a good laugh, then it's a prank." He turned to face the empath. "Besides, not all pranks are as complicated as a contraption that shoots water balloons filled with motor oil."
"Alright," Raven admitted.
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"Robin, may we journey to the beach?" Starfire asked, giving the stoic leader her best puppy eyes. Beast Boy was positively giggling in the background, while Raven had a slight smirk on her face. Robin looked as though he might crumple at the sight of his girlfriend's pleading expression.
"But Starfire, if we get an alert, we won't hear it," Robin mumbled, trying to look away from the adorable alien.
"I was under the idea that our communicators are waterproof," Starfire replied, not letting her face falter for even a second. As soon Beast Boy had mentioned that the beach was an option, Starfire had been set on going, even if it meant confronting the boy wonder.
"Yeah, they are, but we won't have time to change!" Robin tried to reason, though it was clear he was losing. "What will the villain think if we show up in our bathing suits?"
"I believe he would be most confused," Starfire pondered. "Is not confusion an advantage?"
Robin had clearly run out of things to say to his pleading girlfriend. Hanging his head, the boy wonder muttered, "Fine."
"Oh Robin, many thanks!" Starfire cheered, throwing her arms around the leader. Robin's face bore a strong resemblance to a tomato in that moment. Raven snickered and Beast Boy shoved a hand over his mouth to prevent the giant laugh from ripping apart the air.
At that moment, Cyborg burst through the main room's doors. "Someone said something about the beach?" he yelled enthusiastically.
Robin looked slightly annoyed, but he just mumbled a quiet, "Yes."
Starfire, on the other hand, was over the moon. "Yes, friend Cyborg, dear Robin has let us journey to the wonderful place of ocean and sand and sunny-"
Raven chose this moment to walk out from behind the couch, causing Starfire to leap at her and wrap her in a lung-damaging embrace. The empath made a strained choking noise and waved her arms desperately.
"Sunniness and the joyous dolphins and play and FUN!" Starfire finished, ending the last word by squeezing Raven particularly hard around the middle. The poor empath looked like she was having some sort of seizure until the alien released her, in which she collapsed, cradling her head. Beast Boy followed her, though he was far more careful to avoid the deliriously joyful Starfire.
"WE MUST GO AT ONCE!" she shouted, streaking out of the room at near-light speed. Robin tagged after her at a much slower pace. Cyborg ran after the both of them quickly, looking incredibly cheerful.
"He won't be smiling when he's cleaning salt out of his elbows," Beast Boy remarked, looking after them and taking on a smirk with a terrifying resemblance to Raven's. The near-crushed empath nodded, too winded to speak.
The two walked to their rooms, Raven putting on a black bathing suit that looked a great deal like her normal leotard, especially with her cloak, which she wasted no time in putting on. She was soon in the main room, with Starfire and Cyborg. Starfire was wearing a yellow two-piece, while Cyborg obviously didn't feel the need to wear any bathing suit. Beast Boy soon entered, wearing a pair of purple swim trunks with green pawprints all over them.
"Where is Robin?" Starfire asked.
"Probably decided to bail," Cyborg replied, picking at one of his non-existent fingernails. As though to answer him, the doors to the main room opened, and there stood Robin in all his black swim-trunk glory.
"Can we go now?" the boy wonder grumbled.
Starfire giggled in response and grabbed Robin's hand, dragging him towards the elevator. The rest of the Titans followed the strange couple. As soon as the group reached the ground floor, Starfire and Cyborg sped for the doors, throwing them open and running down the island's path like a pair of cheetahs.
Beast Boy and Raven traveled at the same leisurely pace, watching Robin struggle to catch up with his ever-energetic girlfriend. Beast Boy snorted as the boy wonder tripped. "So, you think we can fit him into the whole prank-scheme too?"
"He won't take it the right way," Raven replied. "Besides, what'd he do to us?"
Beast Boy shrugged. "Made us train for hours on end, is creepily obsessed with our nemesis, treats us like pawns - it's like we lived in a comic book or something. Maybe even a Sunday cartoon."
Raven automatically looked away, a bead of sweat running down the side of her face.
"Anyways, are we just going to do it as soon as we get there or wait?" the empath asked boredly.
"We have to wait," Beast Boy answered. "That way, we all get to have fun before Robin gets mad at us."
"I don't find the beach fun," Raven muttered as they reached the sand. Beast Boy immediately lost interest in the conversation and ran into the surf, yelling excitedly. Rolling her eyes, the empath sat down under the beach umbrella she brought and opened her book.
After a while, she looked up at the sound of a large splash. Beast Boy was gesturing frantically at her, while using the other hand to point at Cyborg. Smirking, Raven got out of the sand and flew into the water beside the changeling, wincing at the slight cold.
"You ready?" Beast Boy asked, glancing at Cyborg.
"You bet," Raven chuckled in answer. The changeling dove beneath the waves and started to swim out behind the mechanical teen. Raven hovered a few inches above the water and floated to Cyborg's other side. When she saw a green thumb burst above the waves, she raised her fists. Each hand glowed with a dark obsidian power.
A green whale breached above the ocean, landing with a great splash that sent huge waves in every direction. Raven concentrated on the one closest to her, sending a surge of energy into the water. The wave's height started to increase dramatically, rising far above Raven's head.
Starfire, seeing what was going on, cleared the area immediately and made for the shore. However, Cyborg wasn't as lucky.
The wave hit him with the force of a two-ton barge, sending the teen under the water. Raven was worried he was in trouble for a second, but relaxed after a few moments when he went shooting out of the water as though shot from a cannon. The enormous whale that had done the deed splashed at the water happily.
As Cyborg, the newest shooting star in the sky, rocketed hundreds of feet above the water, both the changeling and the empath could hear a stream of greatly colored profanity coming from the teen. However, there were four words that stuck out over the (unflattering) rest.
"BB! Raven! YOU'LL PAY!"
A/N: …
Eight freakin' reviews. IN TWELVE HOURS.
YOU GUYS ROCK!
This is truly amazing. If you can remember back to my first story, The Bugs, I got NO reviews in the first WEEK. I'm pretty proud of you guys now. But…
You can never have too many reviews. (I couldn't resist.)
Anyway, so that's why I'm posting early. For anybody who's ever read my profile, I'll post early if I get that many reviews.
Anyway, thank you all so much, and just overall for surviving this chapter. I swear the pranks will get better. I just had some serious writer's block, and by the time I came up with a better prank, I was halfway through the chapter.
And I'm adding a new piece to my author's note. I call it: Titan Facts!
This week's Titan Facts:
1. I'm pretty sure that everyone on this website knows that Starfire's Tamaranian name is Koriand'r, but did you know that coriander is an actual herb? It was once thought by medicine people and shamans to bring happiness, which might be part of the story behind Starfire's name.
2. For those of you who have never seen Revved up, Raven's allergic to chickens.
3. In the episode "Tournament of Heroes", Raven was knitting in the background when Starfire was staring at the phone worriedly. O.o
So, thanks for reading, please leave a review, and PEACE!