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In case you start wondering, the ding-dong-daddy incident discussed is referencing the episode "Revved Up" in Season five.
Disclaimer: See summary. I don't think GPS 6000 is real, but if it is I also don't own it.
Thanks so much to Music 6 who suggested Cyborg get lost and refuse to ask for directions and hit a deer AND KaytieGrl who wanted Starfire and Raven to get on each other's nerves.
Evening of Day 6:
"Wow, guys, we made better time than I thought we would. We might actually be there by the middle of the morning tomorrow," Cyborg did one last scan of the route on his fancy new GPS 6000 that he had insisted on getting so they could 'keep up with the future' before igniting the engine.
"That was a wonderful restaurant, and the man at the table next to ours was so generous to send me a free milkshake!" Starfire beamed over the 'generosity' and 'kindness' of an older man who had been sitting at the table behind the Titans at a roadside diner.
"Yea, Star, I don't think he was doing it just to be nice," Robin commented.
"Why else would he send me such a delicious beverage?"
"He, well…. He probably thought… um… he wanted to… uh… never mind. Maybe he was just being nice."
Starfire nodded in understanding although everyone knew she was more confused than before.
Cyborg pulled out of the parking lot and started the team on their way once again.
"Hehe! It is quite amusing!"
"It is pretty hard to keep a strait face. I just wish I knew why."
"I have done the hearing…"
"Well, I've found that whenever…"
"Okay, enough of that!" Raven couldn't take it anymore. For the thirty minutes since the teens left the restaurant Starfire had been leaning over her and Beast Boy to whisper about who knows what with Robin, and while Raven didn't mind her boyfriend being pushed into her, she did very much mind Starfire's arm practically shoving her face into the window.
"No more. You have two choices: talk at a reasonable volume and let all of us hear so that Starfire can sit back in her seat or just don't talk, but either way, get back in your seat."
Starfire sat back and everyone in the back seat readjusted. Beast Boy put his arm around Raven comfortably for the first time since they had gotten back in the car, and was shocked when Raven leaned into him more.
"Um… Raven?" Starfire spoke up.
"What?"
"You have gotten to sit beside your friend who is a boy for this whole trip, would it not be fair if one of you sat in the front so Robin and I may sit together?"
No one responded for a few seconds.
"Why don't I go up front? It is only fair." Beast Boy leaned forward, forcing Raven to sit back in her seat.
"Yea, sure." She loved her boyfriend's concern for others, but didn't want him to move.
Starfire squealed as Beast Boy and Robin climbed over each other to switch seats.
"Yo! Be careful, you're gonna break something in my baby."
The boys were able to successfully switch seats without destroying anything.
"See. We know how to switch seats, Metal But!"
"You got lucky that you didn't break anything, Grass Stain!"
Cyborg and Beast Boy smiled and leaned closer to each other to continue the 'argument'.
"How is it that you two enjoy random screaming about just about everything you two do?" Raven commented, back in monotone for the first time in the car trip.
"Hey. Watch the road, Cyborg." Robin became uncomfortable with the lasting stare.
"You blinked, I win!" Beast Boy sat back in his seat.
"It wasn't a blinking contest! Get back here!" Cyborg reached for his smaller friend, who pressed himself to the window. He also jerked the car in the direction he was leaning, which therefore led the soda in Cyborg's drink holder to spill on the GPS.
"Turn left…right… strait..."
And then it died.
"This is all your fault!" Cyborg rampaged pacing along the side of the road while they all waited for Robin and Starfire to find the map in the very stuffed trunk of the T-car.
"How is it my fault? You jerked the car!"
"Because you tempted me!"
"You didn't have to give in!"
"We have found the map!" Starfire was floating five feet above the ground holding the map above her head like a trophy.
"Fine!" Cyborg did a basketball-player like jump and ripped the map out of her hands. "You better know how to hold a map after that Ding-Dong-Daddy incident!" Cyborg shoved the map into Beast Boy chest and got in the car.
"You better know how to hold a map," Beast Boy imitated.
"Okay, turn left-ish."
"What the heck does left-ish mean?"
"It's like a little to the left but not completely, and what happens after we run out of map?"
"So you mean bear left, and what are you talking about?"
"Well, in like a minute we are going to run off of the map, then what do we do?"
"We can't run out of map, it's a map of all of Pennsylvania!"
The car screeched as Cyborg pulled over to the side of the road once again.
"Give me the map."
After a few minutes of examining the map, Cyborg still had no idea what Beast Boy was talking about.
"Wait, if we are here, which is approximately where we should be, then how are we almost out of map?"
"We're not there, we're here. 'Cause you were driving like this," Beast Boy explained as his finger traced where the T-car had supposedly traveled.
"There is no way we could have gotten that far in the time we've been driving."
"Dude, were you watching the GPS thingy? The map moves like the car does, so we should be here."
The changeling grew worried when he saw his friend's expression.
"The GPS keeps rack of our position. You did look at the map's distance key, right?"
"What key? It just opened on its own."
The boys stared at each other for almost a minute, one in shock and one in fear.
"We're lost, aren't we?" Raven's voice brought them both back to reality.
"I'm sorry." Beast Boy's voice seemed extremely small.
"Maybe Robin should go up front and you should come back here again?" Raven's voice revealed an underlying happy tone.
"I may be able to help." Robin said disappointedly, letting Starfire give him a hug before switching seats back with Beast Boy.
Raven smiled smugly to herself as Beast Boy climbed back into the seat next to her.
Aaaand that's all for today folks! I've had a couple people throughout the story ask to make the story longer, so I'm going to split this chapter (which is looking pretty long already) in two to extend the story a chapter! I'll post the continuation soon, don't worry!
