Number 95

"Mal, tetu, morceau de merde!"

From the common room, Robin chuckled at the kitchen table before shaking his head and standing up to get a fork. Placing the utensil on the table, Robin went back to his paper, looking up only when the doors opened and a rather annoyed Beast Boy walked in.

Trying to placate his youngest, Robin help the fork up and gave his most charming smile, knowing that a happy Beast Boy was a happy tower and no one wanted a cranky changeling in addition to Raven's mood swings.

"What'd it do this time, bunny?" Robin asked as Beast Boy stalked into the room.

"It took my stupid sock again," Beast Boy fumed, taking the offered fork, before walking out of the room with something akin to murder in his eyes. Robin laughed before putting his paper away and following out in Beast Boy's wake. It wasn't hard to find him.

The changeling was in the doorway of his room, fork in hand, face pinched, muttering under his breath. From this angle, Robin practically see the agitation rolling off his youngest.

"Beast Boy?"

The boy glanced up before going back to his task at hand.

"What?"

"How long have you been battling the vacuum?" Robin ask as he sat down across from his teammate. Beast boy shrugged, angling the vacuum so that he could see the bottom of the contraption more clearly. Robin almost broke out in laughter; you would that the vacuum had committed some next level crime with the glare Beast Boy was leveling it with.

"Long enough, I just want me sock back," Beast Boy said. Robin nodded. Suddenly, Beast Boy dropped the fork.

"Got you," Beast Boy said, taking his sock back before shooting the vacuum a rather heated glare.

Robin couldn't hold it anymore; he started to laugh. The look on Beast Boy's face was even better. The changeling couldn't decide whether to ask why his leader was shaking with laughter in his doorway, but he didn't ask. Getting Robin to laugh was a task in itself; if he managed to do it, well, points to him.

Shaking his head, Beast Boy grabbed the sock death trap and dragged it back to the closet, making sure to hit every corner, praying for the thing to fall apart.

He and Cyborg had been trying for the better part of three years to break it and it still survived. They tried pushing it down stairs, bashing it into things, even kicking and hitting it, and nothing worked. They couldn't get a new vacuum until this one broke; that was the rule with any appliances they had at the tower.

Later that day, Robin and Beast Boy were trying their hand with technology again. This time with the microwave; it was painful watching the boy wonder get defeated by an Easy Mac.

"Just give it to me," Beast Boy finally after the third try. Robin frowned.

"I can do it," Robin fired back. Beast Boy didn't budge, choosing instead to hold the container away from his friend.

"Robin, I know you want to win against the microwave, but you just nuked three of these, and Raven went shopping yesterday. I'll do this one and we can try again later," Beast Boy explained. Robin grumbled, but let go of the Easy Mac.

Not five minutes later, as Robin was stirring his lunch, and Beast Boy was enjoying an orange, there was a loud bang from the floor below them. With reflexes that had been honed in for years, Robin and Beast Boy sprinted down the stairs to the lower floor. When they got there, they couldn't help but laugh.

Cyborg was covered in dust. Beside him, Raven was fuming, her clean blue cape now gray. Beast Boy tried to ask a question but he was laughing too hard. Robin tried to gain some control, but every time he looked at his teammates he dissolved into laughter.

Eventually he managed to calm down and asked what happened.

"The thing just…exploded," Raven said throwing a glare in Cyborg's direction.

"Ya man, I don't know how it happened," Cyborg said innocently. Robin raised his eyebrow, but didn't press for answers.

"Alright, go get Star, you know the rules," Robin said. Cyborg raced off, pulling Beast Boy with him. Robin looked at Raven.

"He blasted it, didn't he?"

"You can't prove it, and the rule is no new vacuum until the other one croaks," Raven retorted. Shaking his head, Robin walked down the hall after his teammates.

The evil vacuum had finally been defeated.

Author's Note: Here, have some fun times in the tower. If you haven't yet, check out The Two Littlest Titans! Read and Review Minions :)