Meanwhile, Jaime had headed out for a walk, and Gar, Terra, Lionel, Cherry, and Riley had gone with him.
"Couldja slow down, Jaime?" asked Gar.
"Go back to the tower, then," Jaime retorted. "Nobody asked you to come."
"Ah, c'mon; we're here to support you!" Gar replied.
"I'm not," Terra chimed in, tossing her empty cup in a trashcan. Everyone turned and glanced at her. "...What I mean is, I respect Jaime not wanting to talk. In fact, more people should learn to shut their mouths..." she added, glancing at Gar.
Lionel chuckled at that.
"Wow... Methinks somebody's watched the Rush Hour trilogy." Todd commented.
"No spoilers, I still haven't seen 2 or 3!" Cherry covered her ears to that.
"Looks like I know what we're watchin' for Friday's movie night!" Yang grinned.
"Fine by me, I did enjoy the first one." Cherry replied.
Jaime soon fixed his eyes on across the street as he took a few steps over.
"Uh... Okay, I give up." Gar shrugged of what his friend was staring at.
"The center," Jaime pointed out. "My parents volunteer for the one in my town."
"And...?" Terra replied.
"Maybe I should volunteer." Jaime suggested.
Terra snorted. "Yeah, right," The others turned and glanced at her. "We're Titans; we don't serve soup."
"You don't hafta move a mountain to help people, Terra," Jaime explained. "Besides, I gotta find a way to make the bug more comfortable around humans."
"A novel idea, man!" Lionel commented.
And so, they entered the center, where Jaime spotted a red-headed girl his age working with a sign. "Can I help you?" she asked.
"Yes, um..." Jaime's eyes read her name tag. "...Traci? I was wondering who I could speak to about volunteering."
"That would be me." Traci replied.
"...And there it is," Terra scoffed.
"Just because we have powers doesn't mean we can't...have relationships..." Gar replied. "Don'cha think?"
"I can attest to THAT!" Lionel agreed.
Cherry looked over to the people who were eating soup as she looked almost sick to her stomach.
"Hey, there's nothing wrong with having a life, right?" Gar continued.
One woman seemed to look back at the girls, though mostly Terra. Terra clenched her eyes shut, as if experiencing a memory of a rough time in her life.
"What's the matter?" asked Gar.
After some hesitation, Terra blinked a couple times. "...Nothing. This is lame; I'm out." she said as she turned and headed out the door, as Gar watched her go.
"I wonder what all that was about?" Riley asked.
"Something personal, I'm sure." Cherry replied.
"She looked like she'd just seen a ghost." Lionel commented.
Cherry then rubbed her arm silently about the poor people who needed to come in for charity.
"Still... It sucks that everyone here's so down on their luck," Lionel continued, changing the topic. "I figure we should do something nice for them. Question is, what?"
"I'd say sing, but... I can't do that." Cherry said bashfully.
"I can... Though I'd be happy to help." Lionel replied.
"Well... I have an interesting taste in songs..." Cherry looked away.
"Okay. Whaddyou got?" Lionel asked.
"I... I can't..." Cherry shook her head with a small bashful smile. "Forget I said anything."
"Alright, if ya say so," Lionel replied with a warm smirk. "Howsabout we go get some lunch?"
"Well... I guess I could eat..." Cherry said. "Uh... Are we by any chance going to McDonald's?"
"Eh, I was thinking Wendy's." Lionel replied.
"Oh, okay, luckily I love both, I always love me a Junior Bacon Cheeseburger." Cherry nearly drooled.
"Good on ya," Lionel replied as they headed out. "Personally, I enjoy the triple-cheeseburger. In fact...I heard they have a QUADRUPLE."
"Guhh... I've never felt so hungry in all my life... I feel like the last time I ate was at my birthday party." Cherry said.
"Well, we might as well go and sate our hungers." Lionel replied.
Cherry soon held her stomach as she could feel it growling right about now as they walked off from the soup kitchen.
Eventually, they finished their lunch, and headed back to the tower.
"Much... Better..." Cherry said, now full.
"Agreed!" Lionel nodded, until they noticed the Tower shaking.
"Wah!" Cherry yelped at the shaking before falling over to the side to keep her balance. "What the heck was that?!"
"Dunno, but I doubt it's anything GOOD!" Lionel replied, poofing them into the tower, and they race towards the source of the quaking.
Turns out it's Terra, who's subconsciously generating the quakes in her sleep.
"TERRA!" Cherry called out.
"She's going to bring the building down!" Damian told the others.
"I can help." Raven said as she came towards the blonde girl, putting her hands to her head with her eyes glowing purple.
Terra gasped as she woke up before glaring. "What're you doing?" She then shoved the half-demon teen. "Get off me!"
"Yeah, well, you're welcome, Blondie!" Cherry glared back from that.
"No shit! Your sleep-quakes almost turned our home into a pile of rubble!" Lionel added. "Or maybe you'd PREFER dying in your sleep from being crushed by 20,000 tons of gravel, mortar, and other assorted materials!"
"We came to check on you." Kori told Terra.
"Are you all right?" Dick added.
"It was a freakin' nightmare..." Terra muttered. "Just leave me alone, so... Get going. You heard me! Get going!"
"Hold on, I have a math problem," Cherry glared, raising her fist. "What does your face plus my fist equal?"
"Cherry, no." Atticus told her.
"No, Atticus, Raven tried to help because this little Night-Terra almost got us all flattened into super-pancakes!" Lionel replied. "And yet she has the cojones to act all arrogant over it!"
"Violence doesn't solve anything..." Atticus sighed. "Cherry's parents taught me that."
Lionel sighed. "Once again, fair enough... It isn't worth the trouble." he relented.
"Do you have to be right about everything?" Cherry complained to her best friend.
"Yes!" Atticus smirked, a bit cockily.
"Don't get cocky. That smug attitude will get you into trouble." Lionel retorted.
"I'm not smug, I'm proud." Atticus replied.
Cherry just rolled her eyes.
"Potato, po-tah-to. It ALL adds up to arrogance." Lionel replied.
Atticus soon walked off to get back to exercising.
"Well, THIS was an ordeal." Lionel sighed. "Whaddya wanna do now?"
"Who? You and me?" Cherry asked him.
"Well... Sure." Lionel shrugged.
"I was gonna watch some videos on my laptop actually," Cherry shrugged. "I could use a laugh or two."
"Sounds fun." Lionel replied.
"You wanna come?" Cherry offered.
"Alright. Not like I have anything else to do..." Lionel replied, following behind.
Cherry soon took Lionel into her room and went to get her computer to find video clips she had been watching for a while just to keep a good laugh, luckily, it wasn't just black comedy that appeased her, as she put on clips of a show she missed known as Whose Line is it Anyway.
"Alright... Let's see what we're dealing with here..." Lionel thought as he looked closer.
Cherry soon set the computer up and put on the improv comedy series she used to love watching as a child. And Lionel watched with her.
AND SO, THE NEXT DAY...
The Titans were gathered outside in the yard for a training session.
"How are you today, Cherry?" Nightwing asked.
"Meh... I'll be all right..." Lady Gothika told him. "Guess I just have a lot on my mind from Terra."
"Same!" Bat-Mite agreed. "After last night, who KNOWS what she might do?"
"Try not to think about it too much." Nightwing advised.
"...If you say so." Bat-Mite shrugged.
Nightwing soon went to do his part once they were all lined up together.
"To be ready for anything, you must train for everything." Starfire advised.
Terra seemed to have a deadpan look on her face.
"These were the lessons taught to me by the Warlords of Okara." Starfire continued.
"Something tells me this is gonna hurt..." Todd commented.
"And so it shall be instilled in you," Starfire continued. "Those not fighting, watch and learn. Nightwing?"
Nightwing then went to go and join her.
"Shall we dance, good sir?" Starfire smirked.
"But of course, my dear." Nightwing smirked back.
"Thrilling..." Todd commented while playing a handheld video game.
Yang, however, was more than content getting an eyeful of Starfire's...(in his own words) "cantaloupes".
"Todd, focus, we have a job to do." Riley told her brother.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Todd retorted. "Ungh! Whoo! Hoo-yeah! Almost to the end of the level!"
Riley soon took his video game away from him with a sharp glare.
"Aw, weak!" Todd groused, before glancing over at Yang, who had a vacant look in his eyes and a trail of drool hanging from the edge of his mouth.
"Isn't this amazing, you guys?" Yang asked.
"What is up with you?" Todd complained.
"One, this caters to the fight-monger in me," Yang explained. "And two, as Starfire moves, so do her cantaloupes. Let's just say I'll have PLENTY to think about during my private time, eheheheh..."
"Oh, brother." Sayia Man sighed and rolled his eyes to Yang's behavior.
"You're telling me." Yin replied.
"Whatever, guys," Yang shrugged. "It's a hormonal impulse that I am happy to shoulder the burden of for the rest of my days."