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The Titans are gathered around their dinner table just enjoying a normal breakfast (for them anyway). With Cyborg devouring large portions, BB ever the vegetarian, Robin and Raven eating tranquilly and Starfire feeding her mutated worm pet Silkie as if it were a baby. It was a rather mundane morning for them.
Suddenly the alarm blares a red light upon them making them spring into action and head for the living room to check the computer.
"Is someone causing trouble?" Robin asked Cyborg who was checking the large computer.
"No?" he answered with obvious confusion in his voice. "It's not a criminal alert, it's the intruder alarm; someone's tryin' to get in the Tower." He explained to them and sharing his confusion with them.
Cyborg pressed buttons on the computer to bring up the camera view of the front of the tower. And indeed it showed someone knocking on the front door of the door; three small someone's to be exact.
"Raven! Oh, Raven! We came to see you!" The girl with the blond pigtails yelled. It was of course Melvin accompanied by Timmy Tantrum and Teether; the trio of honorary pre-adolescent Titans.
The Titans turned to Raven, since she was the one they seemed to be looking for. Raven seemed recede into her cloak not very pleased. In the background the yells of her name from the girl can still be heard. The girl did not look like she would give up anytime soon.
Raven sighed exasperatingly, of course they're here, she thought.
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"PLAYDATE"
"Raven!" Melvin exclaimed in joy as the three little kids wrapped themselves around her feet. Raven tried to maintain balance as they put pressure on her legs. She placed her hands on their shoulders.
"Uh… hey" She responded awkwardly after getting over the surprise of them being here. "What are you guys doing here?" she was finally able to ask them.
"We're here to visit you" Melvin told her as if it were obvious. "You said we could see you whenever we wanted" she reminded Raven of her parting words from when they last met.
"Right… I did say something like that" Raven regretfully remembered.
"So Rae, you gonna introduce us to these munchkins?" Cyborg asked for the team having been watching their reunion. Raven turned to her team and remembered that they had never really been introduced to the kids.
"Right, this is Melvin, Timmy and Teether" she quickly introduced.
"Don't forget about Bobby" Melvin reminded her while pointing up to the right of her, but there didn't seem to be anyone there. The Titans were of course confused by this.
"Right how could I forget about Bobby" Raven said as she saw the confused looks on her teammates.
"He's shy around new people so he's hiding" Melvin tried to explain, but it didn't seem to remove the confusion. Raven herself didn't really know how to explain the giant invisible imaginary teddy bear to her team.
Starfire chose this time to fly over to Timmy with a bright smile, "Hello there young one, I am Starfire!" Timmy seemed uneasy under the alien princess's intense gaze.
Raven seemed to notice this, "Star I wouldn't-" but it was too late.
WAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Timmy began to cry and wail. This caused Star to panic and try to find some way to get Timmy to calm down. She searched franticly for things that could please him. She first presented him with her little bumgorf Silkie, hoping he would please him as he does her. Timmy momentarily stopped his crying to look at the worm, but soon his mouth began to quiver and he resumed crying. She continued to bring him anything she could carry, but nothing seemed to calm him.
Beast Boy decided to help out by turning himself into an adorable kitten, which she presented to him. It had the same results as the others. Soon the two were frantically trying to find ways to calm him.
Meanwhile Teether seemed to be mesmerized by something; that something being Cyborg's shiny armor. The gleam and shine of his metallics caused the pacifier to fall from his mouth as it hung open exposing his one tooth and produce large amounts of drool.
Cyborg had been watching, in slight amusement, as his friends fretted over the crying child, before he felt a painful wet sensation. He looked at his right hand where the feeling was coming from, and saw that said hand was completely engulf around the infants mouth. Teether seemed to be quite content chomping on his hand.
"Ah! Get him off! Get him off!" Cy screamed as he tried to wriggle him off to no avail.
Robin came over to assist and grabbed onto the toddlers body and tried to pry him off. He was able to move Teether from Cy's hand to his arm, but was unable to completely remove him from his person.
Raven looked on as her friends were already being driven mad by the kids. Now they see what I had to go through, Raven thought with a slight grin. She then decided that they had had enough.
She walked over to the still crying Timmy and picked him up holding him with one arm. Put his blankie on her shoulder for him to rest his head. That finally quieted his crying and calmed him down.
She then goes to detach Teether from Cyborg's shoulder. Teether, still biting away at a frantic Cyborg, notices Raven coming his way and removes himself as he looks at her.
"Up" came the infants usual request as he raised his arms at her to further emphasize what he wanted. Raven accommodates him and holds him with her free arm, and uses her powers to put the previously forgotten pacifier back in his mouth. The two kids looked very content and comfortable in Raven's hold.
The Titans were happy to have survived that ordeal, but found how the children took so well to Raven peculiar.
"Man, it's weird to see kids take to Raven like that" Cy voices the team's opinion.
"Yeah, she's usually scaring them away" BB said which Raven heard causing a cold chill to come down his spine as her dark aura reached for him.
"Raven" Melvin's voice interrupted her attack. "Bobby says he wants to do something because he's bored." She informed her.
"Well, what do you want to do?" Raven asked unsure how to entertain the children to remove boredom.
"Can we play something?" The girl suggested.
"I don't think we should play in the tower" Raven told her worried thinking of the damage they could cause to their home. "How about I take you guys into the city, we can find something to do there" Raven suggested as a plan.
"Okay, that sounds like fun" Melvin smiled at the plan and turned to look at the other Titans. "Are your friends going to come with us?" she asked.
The Titans grew nervous at the question, and quickly tried to come up with any excuses (no matter how stupid or unconvincing they sounded).
"I need to reboot all the programs in the tower and wax the T-ship"
"I gotta clean under my bed before the things growing there take over again"
"I must partake in a Tamaranian ritual of some sort"
"I have to organize all the evidence alphabetically"
With those excuses the Titans one by one tried to speed out of the room. As Robin tried to leave a wall of dark energy was formed in front of the exit. He ran into the wall and fell back. The wall morphed it's shape and there stood Raven before him.
"Where do you think you're going?" Raven asked sternly looking down at him. Robin wasn't able to respond to her question before she continued, "If I recall this is all your fault" she accused.
"W-what are you talking about?" Robin nervously asked confused.
"You were the one who sent me on the solo mission that got these three so attached to me" she explained pointing down to the kids who were once again wrapped around her legs.
"So if I'm going to be spending the day with them, so are you" she told him with finality.
"I was going to-"
"No you aren't"
"But I have to-"
"No you don't"
No matter what Raven didn't seem like she was going to let him out of this, so he eventually resigned himself to his fate and agreed.
They decided that the best place to take the kids for entertainment would be the fairgrounds at the pier. Although, it was difficult to go on several of the rides with these kids. On the bumper cars Teether kept trying to eat the wheel while Timmy cried every time he was bumped. Similar things happened at the tea cups and merry-go-round. They weren't even able to go on any of the rides like the Ferris wheel or roller coaster or anything with heights because 'Bobby's afraid of heights' Melvin informed them. Even with all this Robin and Raven were somewhat enjoying their time with the kids.
As they continued on the pier they came to the games portion with all the stands where you can play various tests of skill. They tried their hands at the ring toss, water target, shooting hoops, etc. and thanks to their advance abilities they were able to win most games and had several prizes to please the little ones.
When they passed by a certain stand it seemed to catch Melvin's attention. There on the prizes was a stuffed bear that reminded her of Bobby. The older Titans noticed her interest and decided to take a look.
The guy running the game tried to convince them to play, "C'mon step right up and give it a try" he called them over. "Just a dollar per ball to knock over the bottles" he explained. "C'mon Mr. Superhero you should be able to do this no problem, you're practically robbin' me here" he tries to further entice him. "You can win a something for yer gir-" he suddenly stopped as he noticed something. "Hey, weren't you with the red head or something?" and the two birds were of course embarrassed by this. "And you already got three kids, man you work quick." he further said making them more uncomfortable.
"Just give me a ball!" Robin said angrily handing him a dollar really wanting him to stop talking. He took aim and threw the ball towards a point on the bottles he knew would make them all topple. But when the ball hit it merely bounced off while the tower of bottles remained as if untouched. This made Robin confused sure that that should have worked.
"Musta been a bad throw why don't you try again, and try to throw it a little harder this time" the guy seemed to mock him. Robin paid for another and threw it with all his might, but still it only bounced off like last time. "Man it's a wonder you stopped any criminals with a throw like that" the continued mocking was putting a vain on Robin's forehead. He tried one more time and with the same result. The guy just smirked at the frustrated Boy Wonder. Robin was fed up and was pretty sure there was some foul play, so he came up with an idea."
"One more try" he said handing the man a dollar with a sly grin. He was handed the ball and he pulled his arm back and flung it. The ball hit the bottles, but did not drop them but neither did the ball bounce off it just stuck to the bottles. That was because lodged through the ball and pierced into the bottles was a birdarang. A beeping birdarang whose beeping went from steady to quick.
BANG!
The small explosion left no trace of any bottles and covered the man running the stand in soot. "We havea… winner" the man said before falling over while Robin smiled victoriously. He grabbed the bear that this was all for and handed it to Melvin who looked at it with happy blue eyes. He then noticed another stuffed animal; it was a dark blue bird.
"Here Raven, for you" he handed the bird to the now blushing empath. "So you have something to remember today by" he told her. Raven couldn't look at Robin directly anymore hoping he wouldn't notice the reddened cheeks.
Melvin was happy with her new bear until she turned to look at her imaginary friend. Her face turn to one of concern, "Hey Bobby what's wrong?" she asked. After a time she seemed distressed, "No wait, Bobby come back!" She yelled running after her friend, followed by Timmy and Teether.
The older teens turned and noticed that the kids were no longer around and they could not see them through all the other patrons.
"Where are they?" Raven asked with obvious concern.
"Don't worry they can't have gotten far, we'll split up and look for them and meet back here" Robin told her the plan and trying to keep her from panicking. They took off in opposite directions in search of the missing children.
"Bobby! Oh Bobby! Where are you Bobby?" Melvin called out having lost sight of the giant invisible bear. "Huh, I don't see him anywhere" she sighed. "Do you see him Raven?" she asked as she turned back but only saw Timmy and Teether standing there. "Raven?" she called looking around, "Robin?" she called. "Oh no we lost them" Melvin realized.
"Lost?" Timmy whimpered, "W-we're… lo-lost… mmm ah… aWAAAAAAAH!" Timmy balled out before crying out.
"Don't worry Timmy, all we have to do is use the communicator Raven gave me and they'll find us" she said trying to comfort him while reaching for the communicator. She didn't find it anywhere on her though. "Where is it?" she asked looking around. She then saw that said communicator was in Teether's mouth. "No Teether don't eat that!" Melvin exclaimed as she tried to pull it from him, but he wouldn't give it up. They continued to struggle over the device, all the while not realizing the sound of its beeping was muffled by Teether's mouth.
Raven sighed as she closed her communicator the kids not responding to her calls. She returned to where she was to meet with Robin. She saw him approach, "Did you find them?" Raven asked getting more worried by the minute. Robin shook his head 'no' which did not do well for Raven's nerves.
"There seems to be some interference on the tracker in their communicator" Robin also added for not being able to find them. "So next what we should is search for them from up high and see if we can spot them. I mean with these kids they should be noticeable eventually right" Robin explained trying to calm Raven who nodded her head in understanding and agreement of this plan. "Okay good, now where's the highest point we can look from?" He wondered as he scouted the area, his eyes stopping at the Ferris wheel.
Unbeknownst to any of the Titans they aren't the only super-powered crew currently at the pier. For walking along are the H.I.V.E. Five: Gizmo, Mammoth, Billy Numerous, Kyd Wykkyd and See-More.
"Tell me why we're here again?" See-More questioned Gizmo.
"I've told you snot for brains we're here to steal and break stuff and cause a riot" Gizmo explained angrily.
"Okay, but why here and not someplace else?" See-More still wondered.
"I thought it was a good place to start!" He blurted out in response. "It's the best I could come up with since that barf-sniffing traitor Jinx left leaving me in charge of you bozos!" Gizmo continued angrily.
"Well I ain't complainin" Mammoth announced as he shoveled down vast amounts of various foods he had acquired here.
"Yeah, I'm havin' a blast" came the southern drawl of Billy as many of his copies were off enjoying themselves in rides in games at the same time. "Me too" "And me" were the responses of those copies.
Their hijinx seem to do nothing but infuriate Gizmo, "Will you crud-munchers get serious! How is anyone supposed to take us seriously as villains with you numbskulls goofin off all the time" Gizmo began to rant. As he continued his rant See-More picked something up on his advanced eye helmet.
"Hey, look at that" he pointed out cutting off Gizmo's yelling. They all turned to look and saw three little kids in strange outfits struggling over something.
"So what? It's just a couple of snotty kids" Gizmo commented.
"Yeah, but look at what they're holding" See-More explained. They did look closer and recognized the T-communicator they were fighting over.
"Those booger brains are with the Titans" Gizmo realized.
"Yeah and if we catch them the Titans would probably do anything to get these kiddies back" See-More explained the diabolical plan.
"That's a great idea, glad I thought of it" Gizmo said which clearly irritated See-More.
With the kids Melvin had finally pried the communicator from Teether's mouth and was wiping the drool off with her cape. "Now we can call Raven so she can find us" she happily remarked. She gasped because before she could a red gloved hand took it from her.
"I'm afraid we can't let you do that little lady" said Billy as his copies tossed their communicator back and forth away from their reach. The H.I.V.E. Five then surrounded the frightened children.
Robin and Raven were at the top seat of the Ferris wheel having asked the man running it if he could hold there for awhile. Of course the driver misconstrued their request as a romantic gesture, but they were a little preoccupied to argue with him.
"You know I could have just flown over to look for them" Raven suggested still somewhat embarrassed about what this looked like to others.
"Yeah but I can't fly and two eyes searching are better than one" Robin explained why this was a better plan.
"Right, whatever let's just look for them. Where could they be?" she told him quickly obviously still tense about the missing kids. Raven noticed that Robin was looking at her with a smirk, "What?" she asked him.
"Nothing it's just nice to see this side of you, really teaches me more about you" he explained with a smile.
"L-like what?" Raven asked as a blush was forming.
"Like you could be a great mom someday" he told her.
"Yeah because losing your kids makes you mother of the year" Raven said sarcastically but with a still apparent blush.
Robin scooted closer to her and put an arm on her shoulder in an attempt to comfort her, "We'll find them" he assured her.
It was getting late and the sun was beginning to set and the view from where they were was incredible. Especially when Raven's head came up and looked finally looked him face to face. He didn't seem to be able to look away from her, "and then we-then we'll" he began to babble as he leaned closer to her without really noticing.
"Robin" Raven whispered as he came closer but she could not seem to stop him. As Robin was only a few centimeters away from her face and their eyes began to close-
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
The sound of Timmy's loud powerful cries resounded through them separating them, and they looked to where it had come from.
With the kids, Timmy's supersonic cries had sent the five villains flying back. "Ah! Someone quiet that little crud bum up!" Gizmo exclaimed as he held his hands over his ears. After he said this he felt something weird on his back, he turned to look and saw a small toddler biting into his mechanical backpack and actually removing chunks. "Ah! Get it off! Get it off!" Gizmo scream as his pack began to go haywire. Billy, See-More and Kyd Wykkyd were busy trying to push through Timmy's supersonic cries, while Mammoth tried to catch an evasive Melvin.
Eventually Kyd Wykkyd was able to create a portal to get near Timmy and covered his mouth with his hand to muffle his powers. When Melvin noticed this she was distracted with concern, "Timm-" was all she was able to get before Mammoth grabbed her. And as Gizmo ran screaming Billy was able to get Teether off.
"Looks like we finally caught these critters" Billy cheered as he held Teether. Before they could celebrate however, a flash bomb was ignited in front of them. This shocked them and caused them to drop the kids from their grasp.
"Let's see how you guys fair with someone your own size" came Robin's quip as they came down ready to fight.
"It's the Titans; get them you slugs for brains!" Gizmo ordered as they charged at the two.
Raven quickly used a nearby light post to wrap all the Billy's together making him struggle and argue amongst himself. Robin sent an electric birdarang into Gizmo's already damaged pack further taking him out of the fight. While See-More and Wykkyd set their sights on Raven, Mammoth lifted a fake horse that he had pulled off the merry-go-round and aimed it at Robin. Robin was prepared to dodged but noticed that the kids would get hit if he didn't do something. As Mammoth threw the horse Robin ran and grabbed the three and tried swoop them out of the way. He was successful in protecting the kids but he received a bit of damage. This was not good with the large Mammoth heading towards them, and Raven too busy fighting off two villains to help.
Before Mammoth could reach them a giant figure landed in front of them from seemingly nowhere. Said giant creature was a vicious looking teddy bear, "Bobby!" Melvin cheered recognizing her friend, but both Robin and Mammoth were confused having never met the creature before.
Bobby exposed his many sharp teeth before releasing a huge roar in Mammoth's face. This deflated Mammoth as he ran away screaming from the large beast. The other members of the Five seeing that they now had to deal with a giant bear as well as the Titans decided that they should probably retreat. "Let's get outta here!" came Gizmo's cry of retreat.
Once the villains were gone Raven turned to the kids and ran to hold them, "Where were you guys? I was so worried!" Melvin looked ashamed for having worried her.
"I'm sorry but Bobby ran away and I had to go find him" Melvin explained as Bobby rubbed the back of his head embarrassed that he caused this.
Raven looked to the bear, "And why did Bobby run away?" she asked annoyed at the bear.
"I think he was jealous of Franky" Melvin suggested showing her new bear Robin won.
"Franky?" Raven wondered.
"That's what I named him" the girl explained. "But you didn't have to be jealous Bobby, I wanted Franky to be a friend for you too." She told the large bear while handing him the smaller one. Bobby picked up Franky and looked at it, before smiling and hugging it. This also made Melvin smile.
"Well, I think we've had enough fun for one day" Robin said obviously exhausted from the day they had. "I think it's time we go" he told them as they headed off back to the Tower, not looking back at the state they left the now wrecked pier.
Back at the Tower Robin entered alone as he saw the rest of the team sitting around the couch clearly finished with their 'errands'.
"Hey man, how'd it go babysitting the munchkins?" Cyborg asked with a smile knowing it was probably a pain.
"Actually it was pretty enjoyable, wouldn't do it again anytime soon, but it wasn't too bad" Robin told them honestly.
"Whereis Rae?" BB asked noticing the dark girl wasn't with him.
"The monks are here to take back the kids and she's saying her goodbyes" Robin explained.
"So you enjoyed your outing today with Friend Raven?" at this question from his girlfriend a feeling of warmth and guilt flew through. He remembered the small moment they had up above as the sun set.
"Y-yeah, I guess I did"
And thus ends another episode and we're nearing the end. We're about to wrap it up because coming up next is to first part of the three part finale. Stay Tooned!