Hi guys. So sorry for not posting sooner. But no one reviewed so we can call it even. But seriously guys, no reviews? We were doing so well the first few chapters. If you want you can just say something like "good" or "fine" or "ok" or "eek". I'll take any of those as a good review. But onto the story.
Chapter 3
Behind the movie theater, 11:55 pm
Beastboy walked down the alley way behind the Royal Theater. He wore a baseball cap, covering his not-green face. He had insisted on wearing it, telling Cyborg that someone might recognize him, despite him being not green. He also wore a dark green hoodie over the lighter green shirt and khaki shorts he had been wearing when he had first transformed.
Beastboy found the back door of the theater, and placed the device Cyborg had given him on the door handle. Cyborg had explained how it worked but Beastboy hadn't listened much. He just wanted to get out of the tower.
The door opened and no alarm went off. Beastboy released a breath. The Royal Theater was very big on security. They even had 50 big buff guards to throw people out when they tried to sneak in. He quietly walked up the flight of stairs that greeted him and looked around for anyone who might ruin his perfectly thought out plan.
Unfortunately, he couldn't use his powers with the rings on. He had figured that out when he had tried to turn into a monkey in the garage. Normally his powers were like an instinct, all Beastboy had to do was think about it. With the rings on though, nothing happened. It was a strange feeling not being able to change when he wanted to.
Now all he had to do was get to movie room 8 and then he could sit back and enjoy the movie.
Beastboy made his way through the hallways, searching for the room. Maybe I should have brought a map. The theater had over a 1000 movie rooms and they weren't even labeled in order. So instead o 4, it went 1 22 5 12. It was as if they didn't want people knowing their way around.
3...55…23…8…16 Wait! Beastboy took a few steps back to the door marked 8. Finally.
Beastboy looked at his watch. It was 12:01. The trailers had started and he could be missing the next Marvel movie.
Beastboy took a breath and opened the door. He wasn't sure what the security was like inside the projection room and he had been prepared for many things, but what he saw was nothing close to what he had imagined.
A guy in his mid-thirties was passed out in a chair, his hands tied with rope. A girl was sitting in front of a laptop, next to the projector, eating a large bowl of pop corn. She turned to look at him. And man was she pretty.
She had black raven hair that was up in a pony tail. Her bangs almost covered her eyes. And her eyes were an icy blue that could see straight into Beastboy's soul. She wore a blue sweat shirt, several shades darker then her perfect eyes and on her legs were dark skinny jeans. The girl put a finger to her lips, pointing at the sleeping man.
"Hey. Have a seat, the movie will be starting soon," she whispered grabbing a chair and putting it next to her, returning her face to the laptop. In an almost robotic way, Beastboy sat down in the chair. He turned his head to stare at her, but the girl didn't pay much attention to him, her gaze fixed on the screen as a trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy played. Beastboy finally got the courage to speak.
"Why…How did you know I wasn't like, part of the staff here or something?" was all Beastboy could get out.
"Well, first you looked slightly guilty when you walked in, like you weren't supposed to be here and second, I made sure to know everyone who works here before sneaking in. And third, the cameras." Her face never leaving the screen, the girl pointed at a pile of TV's in the corner that Beastboy hadn't noticed. On them was different points of view of the hallway he had been walking through a minute before. "They're in all the projector rooms. But don't worry. I froze all the TV's in all the other rooms, so no one saw you. For a place that's crazy about security, they sure need an update." She finally turned to look at him and smiled.
"I'm Dani. Dani Fenton."
Hesitantly, Beastboy took Dani's hand, and shook it. "I'm B- Garfield," he said, using the name given to him by his parents. Beastboy had thought about what name he should use in case he needed to use a new one and had decided his own name would be good enough. Cyborg hadn't recognized the name, so he doubted the rest of the team would, if it ever came up.
Dani smiles at him, after he let go of her hand. Just as he was about to ask the many more questions he had running through his head, Dani gasped.
"It's starting!"
Beastboy turned to the laptop, remembering why he had snuck into the theater the first place and let all his questions rest. Dani handed him the popcorn bowl she had been eating from and they sat in silence, not speaking to each other until the movie was over.
When the movie had finished and the bonus scene was done, Dani and Beastboy stared at the screen, as if waiting for more. When nothing came, they started talking at the same time.
"OH MY GOSH, THAT WAS AMAZING!"
"DUDE, THAT WAS CRAZY!"
They looked at each other and started talk at a rapid speed. With all the commotion, the man asleep in the chair woke, and fell out of his chair, his hands still tied. Beastboy, who hadn't notice the man, continued talking while Dani, who had noticed him, quickly thought up a plan.
"RUN!"
Dani grabbed Beastboy's hand and pulled him out of the room, down the hallway looking for the exit. Beastboy could hear yelling behind them. Dani continued running, pulling Beastboy along until she abruptly stopped, coming to a crossroad.
"Left or right?" Dani asked.
"How should I know?"
"This is the way you came in from right?"
"Well, yeah, but didn't you?"
"No, I didn't. Left or right?" Beastboy looked behind them and noticed some guards running toward them.
"Left?" Beastboy guessed.
"Let's hope so."
Dani tugged him to the left and they ran, making guesses when they came to turns. As they ran down one hallway, Beastboy saw a door and barely had time to see the word STAIRS.
"Wait!" Beastboy shouted, bringing his feet to a stop and tugging Dani back to the door.
"I took these stairs-"
"Alright, come on let's go," Dani interrupted, opening the door. They ran down the stairs, and jumped into the alley. Dani and Beastboy started running together in strides as they ran out of the alley, across the street and into the park and didn't stop running until they were in the middle of the park. The teens collapsed on the grass exhausted. It was several minutes until either of them could speak.
"I need to run more," Dani said.
"You and me both," Beastboy laughed.
Beastboy got up and dusted off his pants that had pieces of grass on it. He extended his hand to Dani, who took gratefully. After she dusted her jeans off, a slightly awkward silence settled.
"So… how did you get the guy in the projector room asleep?" was the first thing Beastboy could think to say.
"Oh Greg always sleeps during movies. I only turned off his alarm so I would have time to get out of there when the movie finished. Was that your first time sneaking into a movie?"
"What makes you say that?," Beastboy asked.
Dani gave him a pointed look before Beastboy sighed.
"Yeah..."
"There's always a first for everyone. No need to be ashamed about that. It's Garfield right?"
"Yup. And you're Dani?"
"Yeah," Dani looks at the clear sky. "Gosh, it's late. We should probably be heading to our homes. I'd hate for the security guards to come this way and arrest us."
"Which way do you live? Maybe I could walk you home?"
"Where do you?"
"I asked you first."
"I don't care." Dani gave him a smirk at this.
"Fine, I live over by the water."
"That is too bad. My house is over in the city. Maybe another time." Beastboy frowned slightly at this.
"Oh, okay… I'll see ya later, I guess."
Beastboy turned around and walked toward the direction of the Tower. He couldn't help but feel slightly defeated. He could take down villains easily but couldn't get a girls number.
"Hey Garfield!" Beastboy turned around to see Dani walking backwards as she looked at him. "There's this bookstore a few streets away from the theater called Makeshift. It's a pretty cool place and I'm there every day. You should check it out some time." She flashed one last smile at him before turning around and running in the opposite direction of the Tower, back toward the city.
Beastboy walked through the park, smiling at nothing. He eventually made it to the beach, where he took off his rings and turned into a shark to swim to the island of the Tower. After he went through the underwater garage, and up to his room, he hid the Beastbot in the closet after turning it off, along with the rings, and started to fall asleep. In through all this, Beastboy's face was stretched in a smile.
The next chapter might take a little while but I will do my best.
Peace out peeps
-Ren
