Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans.
"Three…Two…One…GO!"
And with that said, both Raven and Beast Boy were pressing the buttons on their controllers at the speed of light—or Starfire when there was a sale on mustard at the store. They were pounding the snot/guts out of the enemies and quickly moving onto new targets. Raven didn't immediately take the lead this time. Now their scores were fluctuating so much it was hard to tell who would win.
'Beast Boy is putting up a really good fight this time.' she thought, still glancing at her screen. 'And it's quiet. Usually he's bouncing around, boasting that he's going to beat me, but all I can hear now is the clicking of the buttons.' Raven blasted 5 enemies at once.
'I'm gonna beat her, I'm gonna beat her…' Beast Boy thought, his character dodging two enemies as they crashed into each other. 'I can do it! Just pretend Rae is Cy and think of how good it'll be to beat him after years of defeat! Yeah, so Rae's Cy…Yeah, just like Cy…Only hot.' Beast Boy's character was slammed into a wall as his eyes widened. 'HOT?! Whoa, buddy! Did I just think that? About Raven? Well…she is pretty…Even if she is creepy…Though her creepiness factor does make her seem more…Uhhh…I need a dictionary….' Bang! His character was shot in the stomach. 'Guah! What am I doing?! Play now, think later!' Now his full attention returned back to the game.
Too bad the same couldn't be said about Raven, for her thoughts were elsewhere.
Raven currently had a higher score than Beast Boy and she was confident that she would win. Already, she was thinking up things that she would have Beast Boy do when she won. One of her original ideas was for him to eat vegetarian dog food from a dog dish, wearing a big puffy dress, but they had both agreed to rule out froufrou dresses. Of course, that doesn't mean she couldn't have him wear a costume. Raven smirked, just thinking of all the choices she had for him. This would be her payback to him for all the times he annoyed her. Sweet, sweet revenge.
Feeling cocky, Raven decided to spare a glance over at Beast Boy to see how he was fairing. His screen showed that one of his enemies had found a chair and was beating BB's character senselessly. Internally grinning at her teammate's misfortune, Raven turned to look at Beast Boy himself. The first thing she noticed was his eyes. Within them she saw fiery determination to win. Beast Boy's eyes were always so expressive and she felt herself drawn to them like a moth to a flame. She felt herself get lost in his eyes, forgetting the game completely. It was like he was drawing her soul out of her; she couldn't pull herself away from staring at him.
'I never noticed how beautiful his eyes are.' she thought.
"All done." Dr. Amherst said at last. He wiped the sweat from his brow and directed Starfire to spit in the sink. She did as she was told, and let out about ½ a gallon of spit and water into the sink. Both males in the room grimaced.
"And how long until the…..swelling will go down?" Robin asked the dentist. He glanced over at Starfire, who at this moment was wiping her mouth from any excess spit or water, and studied her a bit. Her Tameranian skin had not reacted well with the Novocain which was only to numb her mouth, but in fact made the side of her mouth swell out into a plum sized bulge. By this time, the bulge had even turned the color of a plum.
"I assure you that she will be fine within hours. The bulge will disappear and her skin will turn its proper color." 'At least, I hope it will.' Dr. Amherst added to himself in an after thought. He had never worked his dentistry on someone foreign to this planet nor had he ever heard of such a thing as this. He could only pray he was right.
"Grorious!" Starfire shouted, sounding much like a squirrel who had gathered its fill for the winter in its mouth. Her mouth still felt numb, and she was feeling a bit drowsy, but still perky at the same time. The last time she felt like this was when she drank a bottle of cough syrup she had found in the medicine cabinet.
"Well then," Robin said, as he stood up from the chair he had been sitting on for the past hour. "We should start heading back to the Tower now." As he slowly made his way to the door, a hand on his shoulder stopped him. He turned to look at Dr. Amherst, eyebrow raised behind his mask.
"And when was the last time you had a check-up?" (1) Robin's other eyebrow raised in surprise.
"What?"
"I asked when the last time you had a check-up." Robin regained his composure and brushed off Dr. Amherst's hand from his shoulder.
"Sorry Doc, but no one touches my mouth."
"Oh? So you don't care about your teeth?"
"I didn't say that."
"Then you should get a check-up right now." Robin glared at Dr. Amherst.
"We only came for Starfire's teeth, not mine."
"Well, since you're already here, why not have a check-up yourself?"
"Wes Wobin! Woo should get a keck-up! My teef have neber felt so quean!" Starfire exclaimed in joy. She flashed her dazzling smile at Robin and was bouncing up and down like a giddy school girl. Upon hearing her agreement with the dentist, Robin's shields lowered and he sighed. He could never say no to Starfire.
Despite every fiber of his being tell him to get out of this place, Robin hopped up on the dentist chair. "This better not take long."
"Hey soda-machine! You're not allowed back here!" Trevor yelped as Cyborg nearly threw the door off the hinges when he open it and marched into the backroom where Trevor was sitting.
"My name is NOT soda machine! It's CYBORG!" Cyborg fumed at Trevor while picking up the nitwit by his collar with his only arm. "WHY CAN'T YOU GET THAT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL ALREADY?!"
"Oh wait! I know this!" Trevor put on his version of a thinking face. "Hmmm. Don't tell me. Does it have to do with spam? Or eggs? Or both?" Nearly face-faulting, Cyborg placed Trevor back down on his chair.
"For the love of BBQ, you seriously need help." Cyborg told him.
"Barbie Q? Is that one of those new plastic dolls that still doesn't taste good no matter how much ketchup you put on them?" Not even understanding a word Trevor said (nor wanting to), Cyborg sighed and tried to reason with Trevor a bit. Well, more like distract him for a while, fill out the paperwork himself, sneak into the supply closet, get a Technut 2000 Valve Connector bolt for his arm, sneak back, pay, then leave before Trevor even noticed.
"Hey Trevor, can you do something for me?" Trevor looked around.
"Where's that voice coming from?"
"It's from me! I'm right in front of you!" Trevor gasped.
"Dude! The candy machine's talking to me!" Slapping his face again, for the millionth time that day, Cyborg decided, as Raven would say, to control his emotions and just to play along with Trevor.
"Yes. I'm the magical talking candy machine."
"Cool! Can I have your autograph?"
"Later. First, I've got a job for you."
"Ooooh! Does it involve vanilla pudding and getting naked?!" Cyborg visibly twitched.
"WHAT?! What kind of job is—Never mind. I don't want to know. Now, the job I want you to do is…" Cyborg thought. What meaningless task could Trevor do that he wouldn't mess up?
"I want you to stare at this pineapple until it blinks." Cyborg placed a stapler in Trevor's hands. "Okay?" Trevor mouthed a silent 'oooh' as he stared at the stapler.
"So this is what a pineapple looks like." Trevor began staring at it. Taking this opportunity, Cyborg filled out the form for the bolt. Quietly and wary of the mechanics in back, he made his way to the storage room. After searching in a few boxes, he finally found a Technut 2000 Valve Connector bolt.
"Booya!" he shouted, while doing his mini-victory dance. Of course, he wasn't so loud as to attract attention by the mechanics. Boy oh boy, he did not want to get their attention. For starters, they basically hated his guts. All of this happened because he simply fixed something of a customer's which the mechanics could not. Yep. That simple. And they had never forgiven him since. But of course, this shop happens to be the only Fix-It shop that carries Cyborg's type of bolt. Go figure.
After returning to the front of the shop and paying the correct amount for the bolt, Cyborg re-attached his arm to his shoulder socket.
"I'm back in the game baby! I've got my arm back on, a fully charged battery and the T-car! How can this day get any better?!" An idea struck Cyborg and he grinned widely.
"PIZZA!"
And as he pulled away with the T-car, Trevor was still starting at the 'pineapple'.
She was lost. Lost in those emerald orbs of his. That is, until the game announcer blared out the remaining time count and awoke Raven from her trance.
"1 minute remains!" Raven's attention quickly switched back to her game screen. Because she was staring so long, Beast Boy had pulled into the lead, without either player noticing. Raven let out an inaudible gasp as reality hit her like Beast Boy, the hippo, falling on top of her. Quickly, Raven picked up her controller and her player sprang into life. The whole time Beast Boy had not noticed Raven's inactivity nor did he sense her staring at him. All he could do was take down enemy after enemy after enemy. His eyes did not even move off his character to glance up at the scores.
"30 seconds remain!" the announcer shouted. Even with the loss of some of the time, Raven was slowly catching up to Beast Boy. This game needed a great deal of concentration, and that's one thing Raven had a lot of. Her fingers gracefully moved along the controller, wiping out enemies this way and that. But with her distraction making a big difference in the score, Raven knew this would be a very close match to the finish line.
"10 seconds remain!" yelled the announcer.
'This is it.' They both thought. No one dared to glance up at the scores. It was too close. They had to keep going to beat the other one. Raven was only trailing by a few points now, but Beast Boy was putting up a good fight. Either Titan could win now. It all came down to luck…
BBBRRRIIIIIINNNGGG!
Time was up.
This was it.
All they had to do was look up at the scores.
Taking a deep breath, they simultaneously looked up. The final scores were:
Beast Boy: 11,583,128 points
Raven: 11,566,413 points
Beast Boy's mouth dropped to the ground. He had done it! He beat Raven! He won the bet against Raven!
Raven, on the other hand, looked up at the scores in horror. She had lost! He had beaten her. And now she would be his servant for a whole day! Why oh why did she stare at Beast Boy? If she hadn't, she would have won for sure! But she couldn't tell him that. She couldn't say 'Oh you only won because I spent my time not playing the game because I was staring at you'. No. Raven would rather be his servant for a day before admitting that. Heck, she'd rather be dipped in meat juice, get covered in pink fluff, step into a room full of dogs, and be licked to death while eating Starfire's Pudding of Sadness. Now that she thought about it, why in the first place was she staring? Abruptly, her thoughts were cut off by the door opening.
"We're back y'all, and we've got pizza!" Cyborg called into the living room as he entered, carrying 8 boxes of pizza. Robin and Starfire both followed, Robin carrying another 2 boxes while Star had a large jar of mustard. Apparently Robin and Starfire had the same idea as Cyborg, and had met up with him at the Pizza Palace.
"Anything interesting happen while we were gone?"
(1) Idea from disappearer/Syani
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