Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN 'TEEN TITANS' NOR ANY OF IT'S CHARACTERS, NOR AM I MAKING ANY MONEY FROM THIS
Note: I am from the UK so some spelling may be different, however, it is correct for my language and country. Thank you.
Note 2: Okay, this is quite a long one, and heavily references a great game. Cookies to anyone who recognises it.
A Year of Drabbles - Teen Titans Edition
Leoanda Taylor
Robin's Jump Scare Mansion
Positively fuming at the sheer audacity Beast Boy had, Robin paced back and forth in front of the Teen Titan's strategy table. Seated calmly in her usual seat, Raven watched the Fearless Leader wondering why she had been singled out.
"So... why am I here, exactly?" She inquired politely, if slightly bored.
"He did it, again! Again! Beast Boy never takes anything seriously, and someday, he's going to get someone hurt!" Robin fumed, glaring at the walls,
"So, talk to him."
"I've tried that! He just nods his head, and then proceeds to do whatever he wants!"
"And you need me to talk to him?" Raven asked, one eyebrow raised. She honestly wasn't sure if Beast Boy would listen to her over anybody else.
"No. I need you to help me scare him into understanding how important it is to listen to me," the Boy Wonder smirked.
Stretching languidly, Beast Boy ran a quick hand through his hair glancing at the clock on his bedroom wall. Starfire and Cyborg were still out on patrol and wouldn't be back for several hours, Robin was probably training or scouring over some cold case or other, and Raven was doing who-knew-what where.
He should probably get something to eat, and make sure that the other two Titan's ate something too.
Standing, the greenling pressed the button to open his door.
He blinked.
Then blinked again.
Turning to check that he was still stood in his room in the Teen Titan Tower, Beast Boy looked back to the corridor which looked like it definitely didn't belong in the Tower. The corridor was now dark and ominous, with grey bricking and chequered flooring. Looking left then right, the changeling briefly debated just going back into his bedroom and ignoring the whole thing - no way would Robin allow this to happen without raising some sort of alarm - but he knew better than to just do nothing.
Sighing, Beast Boy stepped gingerly into the hallway, letting his bedroom door swoosh behind him. Tossing a mental coin, Beast Boy took the left side of the hall, cautiously moving towards the end of the corridor and keeping note of all the missing doors. In fact the only door in the hallway seemed to be the one at the very end.
Approaching it slowly, Beast Boy pressed his ear to the wooden object hoping to hear anything on the other side. Not hearing anything, he slowly and delicately pulled on the iron knob internally wincing at the loud CREAK-ing it caused.
Fortunately, the only thing on the other side of the door seemed to be yet another corridor. Hesitating for just a moment, the greenling slipped through the gap and let the door close behind him. Beast Boy continues to make his way through the corridor, when his animal senses force him to jump backwards and his human senses force him to scream.
Dangling in front of him - having been dropped unceremoniously from the ceiling - a creepy puppet-like man holding a large sewing needle and a Joker-esque smile jangled slightly from the drop.
Realising that the puppet was just that, a puppet, Beast Boy pushed himself against the wall as much as he could in order to slide past it which out having to touch it. He officially had no idea what was going on, but now he was well and truly scared.
Practically racing down to the next door, Beast Boy jumped back screaming for a second time and a wooden board painted like a cute Lucky Cat sprang out from the side of the wall. Under any other circumstance, Beast Boy would have cooed over it, but right now, he just wanted to get the hell back to somewhere normal. He was really regretting leaving his room.
Beast Boy's journey through what was once the Teen Titan Tower was full of much the same. Wood boards painted with cute pictures (ice-cream cones, cats, flowers, ect.) would pop out at irregular intervals, and more creepy puppets (skeletons, ghost-like Dementor things, 'ghosts', shadowy figures ect.) would either drop down from the ceiling or follow him down each corridor.
Eventually, the green teen sped through a door and into the Titan Tower living room.
Glancing around, Beast Boy noticed that despite that it was dark, it was the same as it had always been. The large couch was the same, the T.V. and the table, the small kitchen/dining area - nothing seemed off.
Not trusting for whatever was happening to be over with, Beast Boy quietly padded further into the room, just waiting for something to drop down.
"Don't you think that this is a bit much?" Raven asked Robin.
Admittedly, most of this had been her idea. She knew best just what actually scared the green teen, but she didn't want to traumatize him. He was her best friend after all.
"No. He needs to learn. Besides, he's always pranking us, it's about time we got him back," Robin smiled smugly. He knew that Beast Boy would appreciate all of this once it was over with, but the dark haired teen also wanted to in-still the knowledge that Robin needed to be listened to. "Let's move onto the next phase."
Sighing, Raven only shook her head as any outward sign of her disapproval. Giving Beast Boy a taste of his own medicine was the only reason she had agreed to this in the first place, but now she kind of wanted it to end. Hopefully, Robin would come clean soon enough.
Jumping yet again, Beast Boy let out a growl of frustration. He was almost done being scared.
Almost.
So far, everything around him was just making him jump, nothing had actually touched him, or even attacked him. That had led him to believe that this was a test of some kind. No doubt one of Robins, but Beast Boy was still unsure of how he was pulling it off. The Boy Wonder had probably pulled another Titan in on it - maybe Cyborg wasn't actually out on patrol, or Raven may have been using her powers to create this weird, twisted world - either way, he was going to get more than an earful when this was all over.
If this was a test - which was becoming more and more likely - then they were messing with the wrong Changeling.
Glaring at the wooden board (painted to look like a cute smiling cactus) which had just jumped out from the wall, Beast Boy decided to take this into his own hands. He was the Prank King for a reason. And whoever was messing with him, was about to find out why.
"Uh oh," Raven smirked. "Beast Boy's gone missing."
Squinting at the bright screen, Robin alternated between each camera trying to find the green Titan to no avail.
"He was here a second ago. Maybe he finally changed into something and hid?" Robin said more to himself than the half-demon.
"Why don't you go down there and check?"
"Better idea: why don't we go down there and check?" the masked teen shot back.
"Fine by me," Raven shrugged. She really wasn't that into this anymore. It had been funny at first, but now she was actually concerned with the state of Beast Boys mentality. He had seemed pretty freaked out just before he had disappeared.
Leaving the security room, Robin and Raven made their way through the new maze that was once the Teen Titan's Tower, and with Raven's magic the two Birds arrived at the living room in record time. Scanning the immediate area - and with Robin hoping that he could further scare Beast Boy if possible - the two could find no trace of the changeling.
*DINK DI-DINK D-DINK-A-DI-DINK, DINK-A-DINK A DINK-A*
Spinning to face the direction the Jack-In-The-Box music was coming from, Robin and Raven watch as a small doll totters it's way over to them. It takes several paces before falling flat on its face, the arms and legs still moving.
"Mamma! Mamma!"
Shuddering, Raven takes an unconscious step closer to the other Titan, eyes wide in fear. She didn't remember and music or dolls being in the plan - or in any of the props they had spread throughout the Tower.
"Did you do this?" She asked timidly.
"No. Did you?" Robin whispered back.
"No."
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Jumping in unison, both teenagers turned pale white as they both registered the scream having belonged to Beast Boy. Swapping looks of horror, it began to dawn on them that maybe someone had taken advantage of the situation - neither were quite at the point where they believed that actual ghosts/spirits/skeletons/puppets were causing any of this - and Beast Boy was in actual trouble.
"Let's go!" Robin commanded, trying to sound as confident as he usually did - and not like the terrified five year old that he felt.
Running through the main door and into the 'haunted' corridor, the two screamed as three puppets dropped from the ceiling (all with menacing looks) and right in front of them, child-like giggling followed further creeping them out.
Gulping back his growing fear, Robin pushed the props aside and sped down the hall trying to get to where the initial scream had come from with Raven following closely behind.
Spinning on his heel, Robin shrieked as he felt a very human finger trace its way down his left arm.
"Was that you?!"
"Was what me?"
"Did you just brush my left arm?"
"No, how could I do that when I'm on your right side?"
Thoroughly freaked, Robin finally decided to stop messing around. This was no longer a game, and Beast Boy may be in some actual trouble. Trying to keep the fraying pieces of his mind together, Robin gulped again, and shook his head before continuing in the direction they had heard Beast Boys scream come from.
"Let's find Beast Boy and end this," Robin spoke, not quite keeping the trembling from leaking through. Raven only nodded her reply.
Passing through the door at the end of the hallway, the two Titans kept their senses wide open, trying to locate any potential threat or Beast Boy - whichever they found first.
"BOO!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhh!"
"I'M TOO PRETTY TO DIE!"
Clinging to one another, it took the two of them a few moments to realise the cackling figure hunched in front of them meant them no harm.
"Dude, did you just really scream that you're 'too pretty to die'?" Beast Boy giggled at Robin, wiping away tears of laughter.
"WHAT THE HELL-!" The Boy Wonder began to rage.
"Dude," Beast Boy interrupted. "Don't ever try to prank the King of Pranks. You'll always lose."
Leoanda: Thank you to Eris for the prompt, and cookies to anyone who gets the title!
All prompt, themes and pairings welcome!
