I can't believe I thought up this chapter on the spot... seriously. I'm going through this story blindly with small plot elements that I'm building up to. Anyway... on with the show!
Chapter 10: Awkward Fans
Across town on an urban street, three of the city's finest superheros were hesitantly standing outside a large building with a massive a crowd of people entering it. Unaware that they had been been following a hacked communicator, their lead looked towards the robotic man for answers.
"Is this some kind of sick joke Cyborg?"
Cyborg looked at his bionic arm that was pin-pointing Beast Boy's location.
"Hey, this is where the signal has tracked him to. He has to be inside somewhere."
"Well I'm not going to be the one that goes in there to find him. I draw the line at these types of places."
"Ditto." A familiar monotone voice added.
"Well we can't just stand here and wait to see if he comes out. One of us has gotta go in."
Cyborg looked at his two young teammates who were extremely reluctant to enter the current location of their missing teammate. After a long pause of staring back at each other the robotic man threw his arms up in defeat.
"Alright fine! I guess it's up to me, but you two owe me Big time for this!" He huffed and marched towards the building.
Robin folded his arms, impressed at his comrades bravery.
"I must say, he's a braver guy than me. I've dealt with big time villains like Slade and the Joker but this takes a lot of guts."
"Likewise, being the portal for an interdenominational demon was bad enough but this is just disturbing."
The two bird named Titans stood secluded behind the T-Car as Cyborg made his way through the large crowd of people who were all dressed up in various costumes. More to the point... they were all dressed as various movie characters. He finally made it to the buildings large entrance, he looked up to see a huge banner that read: "Welcome to Jump City Comic Con 2006."
"Oh boy... well there's no turning back now."
The large bionic Titan walked amongst various cosplayers, each one being more surreal than the last. Now and then he would encounter a DC comic lookalike. He didn't know whether to laugh or be disturbed at seeing cheap copy's of the worlds most famous superheros and villains. Though he had to admit that some of them where fairly good. After a few minutes of wandering he traced the signal into a ballroom which was hosting a particular panel. His robotic eye nearly popped out when he saw it was dedicated to the 'Teen Titans'.
"Well I'll... be... dang..."
Cyborg towered over multiple lookalikes of his friends and enemies. He would then notice several cheap copies of himself which caused his jaw to to hang open.
Quickly remembering why he was here he looked back at his arm. It was then he discovered the signal was gone, along with Beast Boy's tracker location.
"Yo! what's going?! wher'd he go?!"
Hearing his loud outburst the whole room turned to him.
"Oh my god! it's the real Cyborg!" A fan shouted.
"Hey your right! that is him!" Another called out.
"We have a Real Titan at Comic Con! awesome!"
Cyborg sweat-dropped as he was now the center of attention.
"Err... hey ya'll... em... how ya'll doin...?"
He nervously spoke with a fake smile.
"Cyborg! we've got soooo much to ask you!"
He began to slowly back out of the room.
"Em... that's great and all but... I gotta run!"
And with that he bolted out of the room, making a beeline for the exit.
"Hey wait! I didn't get your autograph!"
The star struck fans began to chase after him. Pushing and shoving each other to get through the narrow doorway.
The metal man quickly zipped through the crowd and made it back outside. He stopped in the middle of the street as Robin and Raven ran up to him.
"Cyborg what happened?! did you find him?!"
The masked hero looked at the bionic man who was out of breath.
"H-he... w-was... He wasn't in there..."
Just then Robin happened to glance behind Cyborg to see a large mob of Titan lookalikes heading their way. They came to stop at the edged of the street and all gawked at sight of seeing the real Teen Titans.
"Look! it's the legendary Boy Wonder! Isn't he so dreamy." A hysterical female cried.
Robin's mask widened at the remark and his cheeks went red.
"Uhh... yhanks?"
"Oh my god! he talked to me! Ehhhhh!"
The Bird Boy cringed at her high pitched voice.
He then noticed a group of Starfire corsplayers with their arms folded, glaring at him. He suddenly felt unnerved by their piercing eyes directed at him.
"Is it true that your single now?!" One of them seriously stated.
Hearing that statement caused him to lose his color.
'How the heck do they know about my brake-up?!' He urgently thought.
"Well I..."
"What you did to Starfire was Dumb!"
"You see it was..."
"Starfire was Lucky to have you Y'know!"
Robin began to tug at his collar.
"Em... Cyborg, help me out here!."
He turned to his robotic friend to friend he had an amused grin on his face.
"Heh, heh, having more women trouble Rob? eell your on you own with this one man."
"That's not funny Cy!" He growled and turned to Raven who had a very small smile on her otherwise stoic face.
"He's right about that. You broke her heart, you face their wrath."
Robin hung his head in defeat and sighed hard., but just when he was about face the group of angry Starfires, their attention were caught by an out-of-the-blue comment.
"Hey look! the totally hot Raven is here!"
The three Titans wiped heads towards a group of young male teens who were all grinning in the empaths direction.
"Excuse me?" Raven glared back at them.
One of them boldly spoke up.
"Oh yeah! shes definitely smoking!"
The Gothic Titan's left eye began to twitch.
"Just what is that supposed to mean?"
"That you've been voted number one sexiest goth girl alive."
At that comment Raven's face flushed bright red and she quickly raised her hood. She also noticed that Cyborg and Robin were trying but failing to keep straight faces.
"Ughhh... You can't be serious?"
"Oh we're serious alright. Who else can make dark and creepy be beautiful?"
"B-Beautiful...?" She peaked up at that word.
"Heck yeah, I mean other than Jinx, your living proof that scary can be sexy. Beast Boy is so lucky to have you."
Raven hid a small smile as their complements sunk in for a moment. Then her eyes widened at their last sentence.
"Wait... what?!"
"Hey look out!" Robin yelled.
VROOOOOOM! VROOOOOOOM! VROOOOOOOOM!
In the blink of an eye the awkward moment was shattered when three high powered sports cars appeared on the road and raced between the Titans and the crowd. Robin sidestepped one car only to stumble on the curve and land into the arms of the fuming Starfire group. Cyborg jumped back out of the path of the second car and landed on the hood of the T-Car. Raven quickly took to the air and dodged the third car, she landed back down in the middle of the street.
"Aw man! I don't believe this!"
Cyborg climbed off of his baby to find he'd put a huge dent in the hood.
"Now I've got one More thing to fix on her!" He groaned.
Robin looked up at his current captures who had prevented him from falling.
"Em... thanks girls... for the save."
They Starfire cosplayers all gave him cross looks and promptly dropped him on the ground and stormed away in a huff.
"OW!" The Boy Blunder rubbed the back of his head and slowly stood up.
"Is everyone okay?"
"Yeah, fine. We're just... "
VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The empath was taken completely of guard by a forth vehicle that sped past behind her.
RIIIIIIIIIIIP!
Raven froze. Her eyes like sources and jaw slacked. She slowly looked down, dreading the worst, but it was inevitable. Her trademark cloak had gotten caught on the passing car and had been torn clean off her and was now long gone. She was now standing in nothing but her leotard, belt and boots. In full view of the massive crowd of corsplayers and Titans fans.
"HOLEY COW! Ravens doing a strip tease!"
At that response almost every fan boy took out their camera phones and started taking pictures. Cyborg and Robin were strongly torn between laughing or saving their friend. It wasn't until she sent them both one of her death glares that they opted for the latter and quickly escorted her to the T-Car before making their escape from the endless camera flashes.
On the ride home Raven kept her head down to remain unseen. Robin and Cyborg would secretly glanced at each other, wondering what had just transpired at the Comic Con. But more importantly they were back to square one with their search for Beast Boy. This was going to be a very long day.
Racing through the early morning traffic, four high performance cars battled for position. Inside the trailing fourth car it's occupants were on the edge of their seats... due to a near miss with some pedestrians.
"Dude! that was close!" He the green skinned passenger exhaled.
"Yeah, tell me about. Some people just like to stand in the road like the rules don't mean squat." The stripey dressed driver sighed.
"Heh, yeah, but did you see that girl? she was dressed exactly like Raven. It was so weird."
"Well she must of been one of those cosplayers, Y'know? like they have at those superhero fan clubs around town."
Beast Boy pondered on that thought.
"Hmmm... Y'know that does sound pretty awesome. To have people dress up like me just to show how much they adore me."
A daydreaming smile appeared on his face. Arny laughed and waved a sleeved hand in front of him.
"Focus BB, were in the middle of a race here."
He quickly snapped out of his fantasy.
"Oh... right... sorry." He grinned sheepishly.