Chapter 2: Truth or Dare

Bouncing Boy was rubbing his hands together with a gleeful and somewhat devious grin on his face. It was the deviousness that had Brainiac 5 worried.

"What do you have planned for teambuilding night tonight?" he asked suspiciously.

Bouncy turned away swiftly, half-smirking. "Top secret," he replied. "You'll find out soon enough."

As soon as "soon enough" arrived, everyone was gathered in the lounge for the next teambuilding exercise.

"We'll be doing… Truth or Dare," Bouncing Boy said excitedly.

A few people groaned, but others grinned back at Bouncy.

"So, who'll be first?" Bouncing Boy asked.

"You suggested it, you go first," Lightning Lad said. "Then go clockwise." Lightning Lad grinned, seeing that if they did go clockwise, he would be the very last person to go.

Bouncing Boy shrugged. "Okay," he said. "One truth or dare per person. No changing your choice of truth or dare once you've heard the truth or the dare. You must participate."

"Okay then, how do we decide who asks what?" Lightning Lad asked.

"Um… whoever thinks of a good one first," Bouncy finally said.

"I have one," Timberwolf said with a smirk.

"Uh-oh," Bouncing Boy muttered.

"Truth or Dare?" Timberwolf asked.

"Um…uh…well…dare." Bouncing Boy said finally.

"I dare you to propose to the girl closest to you, using your flight ring as the engagement band," Timberwolf smirked. "And you have to do it in pig latin."

"Ig-pay atin-lay?" Bouncy said. "Kay-oay." He turned and glanced at Tripicate Girl, who sat to his right, and raised his eyebrows in her direction. Then he got down on his knees, pulled off his flight ring and dramatically revealed it to her. "Y-may arling-day," he began, "ou-yay re-aay he-tay elight-day f-oay y-may ife-lay."

Triplicate girl cracked up.

"Ill-way ou-yay arry-may e-may?" Bouncy choked out past his own laughter.

"I'd have to ask my mother first," Triplicate girl said. "And I'd have to learn pig latin."

"Your turn, Trips," Lightning Lad said.

"I've got a good one," Superman smirked. "Truth or Dare?"

"Um… dare?" Triplicate Girl finally said. "That's got to be less dangerous than truth… right?"

"We've got a pack of whimps on our hands," Garth muttered.

"Okay, I dare you to talk for the rest of today and tomorrow with your nose plugged," Superman said.

Triplicate girl sighed and plugged her nose. "I bight as bwell nod dalk," she muttered.

"Next up is… Brainy! Truth or Dare?" Lightning Lad crowed.

"…truth," Brainy finally said.

"Drat, I was goanna have you use a three-syllable minimum in your sentences for a whole day," Lightning Lad muttered.

"Hence why I chose truth," Brainy said.

"That was less than three syllables each," Superman pointed out.

"True," Garth admitted. "And speaking of truth…" he eyed Brainy. "How far exactly can you recite pi?"

Brainy frowned. "Well, technically speaking it's a non-repeating decimal that goes on for--"

"You see? He had words with four syllables in there!" Lightning Lad interrupted.

"I can get up to the three hundred and fifth decimal number," Brainy said quickly, shooting a glare in Lightning Lad's direction.

"Wow," Superman said. "I can only remember three point one four one five nine."

"Mmm… pie!" Bouncing Boy exclaimed suddenly. "Okay, on to Timberwolf!"

"I got one!" Phantom Girl exclaimed, smirking.

"Uh-oh," Timberwolf muttered.

"Truth or dare?" Phantom Girl challenged.

"…dare, I guess," Timberwolf said.

"Okay, I dare you to… bake a dozen cookies for me tomorrow," Phantom Girl said. "And I'd better like them."

"Don't the rest of us get any?" Lightning Lad complained.

"Make that sixteen dozen," Phantom Girl said. "Multiply the recipe times… eight."

Timberwolf shrugged.

"Phantom Girl, you're up next," Saturn Girl said.

"Oh, yeah," Tinya said.

"Truth or dare?" Saturn Girl asked.

"Um… I'll take dare," Phantom Girl finally said.

"I dare you to…End every sentence with 'in accordance with the prophecy' for the rest of today and tomorrow."

Phantom Girl grinned. "Okay, in accordance with the prophecy."

"Superman," Brainy said, "It's your turn."

"Truth or dare!" Bouncing Boy challenged.

"I'll take Truth."

"Did you ever spin around so fast you got sick and threw up?" Bouncing Boy asked.

"Um, no. But I did go on a merry-go-round for so long that I couldn't stand up once I got off," Superman admitted, chuckling.

"Nice," Lightning Lad commented. "It's Saturn Girl's turn now."

"Truth or Dare in accordance with the prophecy?" Phantom Girl asked.

"I'll take dare," Saturn Girl said.

"Hmmm… I dare you to do an interpretive dance that shows the birth of… a Pterodactyl!" Phantom Girl finished.

Saturn Girl blinked. "An interpretive dance on the birth of a pterodactyl?"

"In accordance with the prophecy," Phantom Girl added quickly.

"Okay," Saturn girl said, getting in the center of the room where she dance-mimed being in an egg, struggling to get out, stretching her wings and finally soaring away.

Suffice it to say, by the time she was finished, just about everyone was rolling on the floor.

"That… was… hilarious…in accordance with the prophecy!" Phantom Girl cackled.

"Yea, dad wuz gread!" Triplicate Girl agreed, nose plugged.

Of course, their comments caused further laughter.

"Lightning Lad, you're the last one!" Superman said once everyone had quieted down. "Truth or dare?"

"Truth." Lightning Lad said.

"If everyone else was a whimp for choosing dare over truth, what are you? I mean, you suggested we go clockwise so you would go last," Superman smirked.

"I did not!" Lightning Lad protested. "Well, maybe I did. But that's just because I'm cunning."

Phantom Girl cackled again. "Let's go to bed in accordance with the prophecy. I can't wait for cookies tomorrow, in accordance with the prophecy."

Timberwolf smirked.

The next day, Timberwolf made his sixteen dozen cookies, and Triplicate Girl assured him they "Bwere bery gud!", and Phantom Girl proclaimed them "Excellent, in accordance with the prophecy!"


A/N: Well, I was going to do two truths and a lie, but then I got the idea for this, and so I went with it... Hope you liked it, in accordance with the prophecy!