Ilixm: ...*gaping at computer screen*...

Sora: She just checked up on her story's reader traffic thingy... *checks over shoulder* She's still overwhelmed...

Beast Boy: *looks at computer screen* Holy shiet! 119 views and 58 visitors!

Ilixm: *stares blankly at computer*

Beast Boy: *grabs a whip and brandishes it* Womanz! Write the next chappie, or I'll use this on you!

Ilixm: ...

Sora: *puts a hand on Beast Boy's shoulder* Lemme take it from here. *whips out a sea salt ice cream* Hey Lixlix! I'll give ya this if you start on the new chappie!

Ilixm: Yes! Let's do this! *grabs ice cream and sticks in mouth*

Beast Boy: *jaw drops*

Sora: Ilixm doesn't own the characters in any way. Only the plot... Thank God...

4. And We're Off!

*~(Starfire's Room)~*

Much to Raven's disdain, Starfire, in place of Robin, dragged her to be her fashion specialist for the day.

"Oh! This shall be the most glorious day of the fashion picking!" Starfire squealed from inside her closet.

Raven's eyes widened as she narrowly dodged a pile of crop tops. "Hey... Star?" Raven called tentatively, peeking out from the side of said Tamaranean's bed.

"Yes, Raven?"

As Raven, once again, dodged another pile of Starfire's unwanted clothing she said, "Don't you think this is a bit... too much... for a rescue mission?"

Starfire's head popped out from the walk-in closet and giggled, "I like to believe the saying, 'People will stare. Make it worth their while.' by the Harry of Winston. Did you not think the same about others when you changed your style?" Thinking a bit deeper, she added, "Or for Beast Boy?"

Raven blushed. To avoid the question, she deadpanned, "Go hurry up and change. And don't even think of throwing another pile of clothes in my face."

With a knowing smile on her face, Starfire ducked back into the closet.

Not too soon after, a high-pitched squeal erupted from Starfire's closet and shocked Raven into summoning her dark powers. Starfire hopped out of the closet clothed in what you might say was the sexiest outfit that was sure to turn heads.

"Well friend Raven? Do you think this is not of the sexy?"

Releasing the dark energy collecting in her hands, Raven surveyed the Tamaranean. She was dressed in... bright pink hot pants... and a black, ruffled skirt that had the front part cut-out so her hot pants were totally visible. Apparently, even that didn't show enough skin and added a black, strapless scuba bra crop top which showed quite a bit of cleavage. To Raven's relief, Starfire chose to keep her attire... PG-13... by wearing a short-sleeve, cropped denim jacket and a pair of leather, thigh-high boots. Stiletto heeled (of course), and four inches at that.

All in all, on Starfire's curvy figure, it was definitely sexy, albeit a bit on the mature side.

Raven chuckled. "Oh man Star. Robin's going to drop dead when he sees you in that."

Starfire made a pouty puppy face and said, "So it is the hideous?"

Raven, remembering that the Tamaranian wasn't as used to the English language as most people, corrected her mistake by saying, "No! It's because Robin already thinks you're beautiful, but seeing you in this?" Raven smirked. "Well, let's just say that to him, you've just taken 'beautiful' to a goddess-like level."

Starfire smiled and blushed saying, "So it doesn't make my thighs look fat?"

Rolling her eyes, Raven deadpanned, "Star, trust me. If you really looked fat in that, I would tell you. Anyways, aren't you supposed to be the fashion expert here?"

*~(Start of Obstacle Course [Play Island])~*

Beast Boy shuffled his feet awkwardly into the sand as three sets of orbs bored into his skull.

Riku was the first to make a somewhat intellectual response.

"Heh. Superhero?" Riku smirked. "Yeah right. What's your power? Blending in with plants, then jumping the enemy?"

Beast Boy grinned saying, "Not exactly..." Morphing into a monkey, he jumped on top of Riku's head, using it as a launch pad to leap to the top of a palm tree. Morphing back into his human form he shouted, "How's that for a superhero power?"

Sora put his hand on his hips and pouted, "Awwww... I wanna turn into a monkey too!"

Kairi giggled, "You already are one, silly!"

Riku slow clapped Beast Boy. "Well well. The power to turn into monkeys. Bra-vo."

Beast Boy was throughly pissed now. Somersaulting off the tree, mid-jump, he morphed into his infamous t-rex form. He hit the ground, efficiently causing a small earthquake, and roared in Riku's face. The look on said teenager was enough for Beast Boy to morph back into a human and collapse on the ground in laughter.

"Ahahahaha! D-dude th-the look on your f-face is absolutely p-priceless!"

Sora leaned in front of Riku's face to see if Beast Boy observation was true, and he too collapsed in bouts of laughter. Beast Boy captured a mental picture of the moment, and filed it under 'Best Days Ever' along with quite a few of Raven's smiling face.

Riku snapped out of his shocked state when Kairi yelled in his ear, "Hey! Riku! Are you still there?"

Riku's face settled into one that of a smart aleck smirk. Totally ignoring Kairi, Riku grinned. "Animal shape-shifting powers? Now I'm impressed."

Beast Boy smiled and straightened up. "Glad you think so."

As Sora was about to ask Beast Boy about his green pigmented skin, the sound of a Corridor of Darkness opening echoed through the atmosphere. It was quickly followed by a chorus of screams, belonging to three individuals, along with a familiar voice shrieking, "Oh shi-!"

*~(Roof of Titans Tower)~*

Raven and Starfire had been already standing at the top of the tower for a good ten minutes, waiting for the boys to come up.

Just as Raven was about to teleport both of the boys on the roof, ready or not, she and Starfire heard two pairs of footsteps thump up the stairwell.

The doors burst open revealing two sweaty and breathless teens. Much to Raven's amusement, Starfire blushed the second she saw a certain boy wonder. Apparently, both boys decided to change out of their usual costumes.

Raven started off by inspecting Robin's attire first. He wore a black muscle shirt with a short sleeved, leather biker jacket. Dark blue skinny jeans with two silver chains, attaching themselves to the sides of his hips, crossing each other in an x formation, and coming behind to secure themselves right at his ilium. Now his shoes were black Rowley Pro Lite Vans. Lets just say that he made for a very handsome human compared to a certain alien's standards.

Cyborg, in Raven's opinion, should have been up on the roof long before Robin did. After all, all he had to do was program his holoring to his preferred clothes, put it on, and he was good to go. Cyborg decided to cover up all his robotic parts and projected a navy blue tank top. A black short-sleeved, hooded bomber jacket went over that, just so he didn't expose too much 'skin'. Black slacks fully covered his lower half and his shoes were steel-toed sneakers. Cyborg's ring was on his left middle finger and took on the shape of a simple silver band with the letter 'C' engraved in the front.

Raven sighed at the boy's attempts to look somewhat civilian for the game's standards. "Ready to go?" she deadpanned.

"Hey!" Cyborg exclaimed. "Lemme pass out the rings to you ladies first. Ya know. Just in case something happens."

He placed a ring in each of the girls' hands. Raven inspected hers. The sterling silver band curved in a corkscrew shape; the ends not connecting. Engraved on the outside of what seemed to be the top of the ring was the letter 'R' in a cursive font. Starfire's was very similar except that her band was made of gold and had the letter 'S' engraved on it.

"So, ladies, this is how you work the ring." Physically demonstrating as he explained, he said, "Basically, to turn the hologram on and off, you tap the letter on the ring; pointer fingers only, mind you. These babies were programmed to react to your own, and only your own, fingerprints. Pretty cool huh?" Tapping his ring with his right pointer finger, the hologram dissipated and left him as the cyborg the team all knew and loved. Tapping it again to disguise himself, Cyborg said, "You ladies try it out."

Raven and Starfire tapped their rings and instantaneously saw the results looking at the mirror Cyborg seemingly pulled out of nowhere. Raven smiled out of pure relief. The rings didn't alter her so much to the point that she was almost unrecognizable. Instead, all it did to the empath was add a little more color to her skin tone; it was still pale, but in a more lifelike shade of porcelain. For Starfire, her eyebrows were shaped to be more human-like, changing her scleras from a light-green to white, and putting her skin tone at a more subdued, tanned tone.

Despite her pleasant surprise to the results of her holoring, Raven deadpanned, "Can we just go now?"

Cyborg couldn't help but to tease Raven by saying, "Can't wait to save you boyfriend's butt, huh?"

After being flashed one of Raven's infamous four-red-demon eye face, Cyborg squeaked, "Just gotta check one more thing!" Turning off his holoring, Cyborg popped a mini solar power panel out of his arm and held it to the sun.

Grinning, he said, "Just making sure my panels are working fine."

Raven, sensing that everyone was up and ready to go, she instructed, "Okay. Everyone, hold hands and we're good to go. Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Stepping through the portal, Raven smiled grimly and said, "And try to hold on. We wouldn't want to be missing any more members. Would we?"

The remaining team members blanched, made sure their were tightly linked, and stepped through the swirling vortex of darkness.

Following Raven through the tunnel of darkness, the three linked superheroes were pale, seeing as this mode of transport showed them all their worst fears. Such was the principle of darkness. Robin and Cyborg were the most calm, keeping their heads kept staring straight ahead. Starfire, on the other hand kept jumping at every little noise and evil beings best left unmentioned. One monster in particular basically scared the crap out of her, causing the Tamaranian to jump and fly at a breakneck speed forward. The boys and Raven were in front of her causing them to all be pulled towards the light at the end of the tunnel.

"Oh shi-!" Raven screeched (along with the rest of the team) as they fell out of the tunnel, landing in a messy pile on what seemed to be... sand?

*~(*)~*

Ilixm: Finally! This chappie took forever! What with an Asian tiger mom breathing down your neck the whole way through...

Beast Boy: Yeah dude! Her mom was all like, "Rawr! What are you doing!" And Ilixm's all like, "Imma go sleep now." but then she types this up till like 11:00 P.M.!

Raven: Just... Wow.

Ilixm: Yeah. Anyways, for Starfire's skirt thing, think of Yuna's blue cloth thing except black and positioned over Star's butt. And the research for the boys' fashion took forever! (Yes. I tried to get their clothes to blend in with the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts people). Also, review please! I really would appreciate anything you guys want to point out, questions, etc. Ilixm out.

Sora; 'Till next time!