Chatper 21
No to the Wicked...
"Ladies and gentlemen!" Beast Boy said, "Get ready for the scariest nights of your lives!"
Polybius just rolled his eyes as Robin joined the rest of the team on the couch in the main room.
"Maybe Control Freak's monsters didn't scare you." Beast Boy went on, "But this move will freak you out!"
"Whatever." Raven said for both herself and Polybius.
"It can't be any creepier than that documentary on hotdogs Starfire made us watch." Robin pointed out.
"Yes! It was the most fascinating!" Starfire declared, "I had no idea that Earth people ate some many pigs! And Insects!"
Cyborg then promptly vomited.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bugs and hotdogs, big deal." Beast Boy waved off "This movie is supposed to be cursed. When people watch it, strange things happen. Evil things!"
This was followed up by Beast Boy, giving a rather pathetic attempt at an evil laugh.
"Just start the movie." Raven told him.
But before Beat Boy could react, Polybius held up a finger.
"What is it, Polybius?" Beast Boy asked.
He then texted his question to Beast Boy.
"If this movie is cursed, then why are we watching it!? This is about as dumb as that movie about the people who watch the tape that kills people, and everybody knows it dose. But people still watch it!" Beat Boy read out loud.
"Aw, come on, Polybius! Don't tell me you're superstitious." Cyborg said.
Beast Boy's phone then went off with a text from Polybius.
"And after everything we've been through this past year, you aren't? After everything we've seen, you aren't remotely superstitious?" Beast Boy read out loud.
"He makes a good point." Robin said.
"No way!" Beast Boy said, "We've gotta watch this movie!"
"Then, just start it!" Raven said, cutting Polybius off from texting a response.
Beast Boy then did as he was told and joined the team on the couch.
After their fight with Control Freak a few hours ago, Beast Boy picked up a copy of the movie Wicked Scary. The mute Titan had heard about this movie and could care less about it. Horror didn't really make him scared, which ruined the whole point of the film. In fact, Polybius found them more humorous than anything else with just how dumb they all were.
The movie opened up with a bunch of teens their age heading to this party in the swamp. But this wasn't just any swamp they were headed to. It was Shrek's swamp. However, Shrek clearly got evicted and replaced by a creature that looked like a blend of Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy.
And of course, there were all these warnings about disappearances and missing people in the swamp. This made no sense to Polybius as he had many questions about the logic of this.
"Sush!" Beast Boy quickly said when Polybsiu tried to get his attention to ask.
The mute Titan rolled his eyes and just watched as some old man tell the teens who were headed into the swamp to go back. 'He had seen a thing in that swamp.' But the man was promptly ignored, and the teens laughed at him and sped off.
"They ain't gonna come back." The old man said.
The mute Titan rolled his eyes at the scene.
"Polybius?" Starfire asked, "Are you not enjoying the movie?"
The mute Titan shook his head.
"Why?" Starfire asked.
"SUSH!" Beast Boy quickly silenced her.
The movie then followed up with the teens having a party in some old dirty cabin. Of course, there had to be at least ten minutes of the film dedicated to the teens having sex because it wouldn't be a horror movie if there wasn't any.
Eventually, one of the teens passed out drunk in a bush outside. There he had a dream of the monster killing him only for him to wake up and the monster to be right there.
Naturally, the screams attracted everyone else, and they came out just in time to see the monster drag the kid away.
The mute Titan looked around to see everyone shared the same mixed look of jaw-dropped shock and horror. He meanwhile, was silently laughing at the movie's stupidity and predictability.
"We gotta get out of here." Said a girl that looked, but didn't sound at all like Donna, said.
And of course, the teen that got dragged away had the keys to the car on him. And so when they went outside, they got attacked by the monster and started running through the swamp. Only for blonde hoe number 3 to trip and fall because she was wearing high heels.
And of course, jock number 2 had to go back to save her, only to get himself killed by the monster.
The mute Titan looked around to see that Beast Boy had disappeared, and Starfire had hidden behind Robin's cape and shut her eyes. Like that was going to protect her from anything.
In the next scene, the trio of survivors made their way back to the house: two chicks and a dude.
So after they barricaded themselves in the house, they found that they couldn't get any cell service.
"Somebody has to try and make it to town." The girl in heels said.
Polybius couldn't help but shout 'No!' in his head. They walked themselves into this situation despite everyone telling them not to. They deserved to die for how stupid they were.
The guy then got a brilliant idea and that he would go into town by sneaking past the monster. This, predictably, ended in disaster. The beast attacked and promptly killed him, not even nine steps away from the house.
But of course, to make things more dramatic, the producers had to have him manage to crawl back to the small opening and for the useless hoes to try and rescue him. Grabbing onto his arms and having a tug of war with the monster. And naturally, they lost.
Polybius then heard a bowl fall onto the floor and saw that Starfire had knocked over her bowl of whatever, and it had spilled onto the floor. Yet she seemed to be utterly oblivious to it. The mute groaned as it was his week to clean the main room, and he knew he was going to have to deal with that.
So then the two girls had about a five-minute freakout session before the monster broke into the house. This caused them to flee upstairs and up into the attic. Up there, they found the guy with the car keys. And of course, they tried to free him following a pregnancy reveal by the Donna look alike. Naturally, the two females were unable to rescue their friend, and the monster killed him.
The mute Titan couldn't help but silently laugh at the movie. It was so dumb!
And of course, the monster then had to show up after this failure and quickly dispatch one of the girls. Hitting her with its tentacle and causing her to crack her head wide open on a dog cage? Polybius wasn't sure what it was, but it was a cage of some kind.
This then prompted the lone survivor, the Donna look alike, to then go up on the roof. Up there, the monster took off its swamp cloak to reveal it had more than enough mouths to satisfy eight people at once.
And of course, she had to find a conveniently placed can of hairspray and lighter.
"Go back to hell!" The girl shouted as she suddenly got a burst of courage.
Then, stealing a page out of Polybius's book, lit the monster up and caused it to fall off the roof and retreat into the basement. After a good two minute cry and tossing away can and lighter, she headed downstairs and, for whatever reason, decided that it would be a good idea to go and check the basement.
And naturally, this didn't go well for the Donna look-alike for as soon as she entered, she got thrown forward. Looking back, it revealed itself to be the shadow of the creature looming over her. She then gave one loud shriek of terror, and the movie ended.
The mute Titan silently laughed. He couldn't figure out what possessed this Donna look-alike to go down there. Wait, yes, he did. Plot!
"Is it over?" Beast Boy asked from behind the couch as Polybius silently laughed to himself.
"I dare not open my eyes to find out." Starfire replied.
"Now, I'm really sick to my stomach." Cyborg commented.
"I've fought psychotic villains, robot commandos, and giant oozing monsters, but that was the scariest thing I have ever seen." Robin commented, which the mute Titan found just sad.
The mute Titan couldn't take it anymore as he began shaking his head. Oh, was that movie terrible!
The four Titans then laughed as Raven turned away. They commented about how bad, bad being good, the movie was. Beast Boy then went over to Raven.
"So? Beast Boy questioned her, "Come on! Admit it! You were totally scared!"
"I don't do fear." Raven replied.
"Liar!" Cyborg said, "Now, the guy sitting next to you is a different story."
"Oh?" Beast Boy questioned.
"Polybius didn't even flinch during the whole thing!" Cyborg said.
"Yeah!" Robin confirmed, "In fact, when we were all scared out of our minds, he was sitting over there laughing like it was a comedy."
"I don't remember hearing any laughing." Beast Boy said.
"That's because he can't talk." Raven replied.
"Oh yeah." Beast Boy said.
"So did you actually get scared, or were you just laughing the whole time?" Cyborg asked.
Polybius then texted him the appropriate response.
"Not even a little scared!?" Cyborg questioned in disbelief.
"Now, there is our fearless Titan!" Robin said, "Sorry, Raven, but I think Polybius has got you beat."
"Whatever." Raven replied.
It wasn't long after that that the mute Titan headed back to his room and hopped on his computer. He then went to Beast Boy's twitter page and looked at a particular post.
The image was of him and Donna sitting together on the couch. It was just the two of them with the description 'Polybius's new friend Donna!'
Of course, it had millions of likes, comments, and retweets. The mute Titan had read some of the comments. Most of them were saying how they would make a cute couple, which he just scrolled past. Others were commenting about how good Donna looked, which Polybius just scrolled past. And then there were a few genuinely pleasant comments about how they seemed to be great friends.
And Polybius knew he was missing Donna a lot. He was missing her at that very moment and wished to see her again. However, he knew why a relationship would never work out between them. Between the fact that he didn't want one, nor could he do one, was all the reason he needed not to pursue one.
But Polybius had another reason for visiting this image.
Quickly saving the image, he sent it to the picture printer down in the evidence room. And while Robin wasn't a fan of the Titans using it for personal stuff, Polybius didn't care. He had finally bought a small frame for the photo and was going to put it next to the picture of him that Jinx tried to steal a while back.
Once the picture was set in its frame and put on his desk, the mute Titan called it a day and went to sleep. However, a scream about four hours later would bring all of the Titans to the main room except for Polybius. And after the lights shut off in the main room, the Titans started to lose their nerve.
"Okay!" Cyborg said, "Polybius, come out! Stop messin with us!"
Nothing happened.
A tentacle then appeared on Robin's shoulder.
"Alright, Polybius. You got us." Robin said, calming down rather rapidly.
"I thought Polybius's tentacles were black. Not green." Starfire stated.
"That's not Polybius." Beast Boy corrected.
Robin then looked back to reveal the monster from Wicked Scary. It threw off its cloak to reveal all of its mouths.
A fight then ensued where Raven discovered that she lost her powers. Luckily for her, the monster quickly disappeared, almost as quickly as it appeared.
"Um, there was just a monster here? Right?" Cyborg questioned.
"Forget the monster!" Robin said, "We need to find Polybius! Split up and search the tower!"
However, Beast Boy was quick to shoot down that stupid idea, reminding them that they were safer in numbers. Robin agreed that this was a better idea.
"Where do we start looking for Polybius then?" Starfire asked.
"His room." Robin replied, "He's the furthest away from the main room, so he may not have heard the scream."
"You mean he might be sleeping with a giant monster looming over him waiting for him to wake up to do horrible things to him!" Starfire quickly said.
"Look, Star." Cyborg started, "Let's not think about the bad, okay. Polybius is the toughest guy we know. I mean, the dude fought off Wonder Woman. Most of us here would have gotten our butts handed to us by her."
"He's right." Raven said, "If there is anybody who could survive this one their own, it would be Polybius. Especially how he handles everything more tactfully than we do."
"No!" Beast Boy countered, "Were you guys not paying attention!? The monster took the first guy and used him as a trap for the others! Polybius is a lost cause! We've gotta get out of here!"
"We can't abandon Polybius!" Robin quickly countered.
"He may be right." Raven said, "There is a high possibility that the monster has already taken Polybius and wants us to go to his room."
"Then that's where we'll go." Robin said and then turned, "Come on, let's…"
Robin then stopped himself when he saw that no one was following him.
"I'm sorry, but the dude is really far away." Cyborg said, "And while I do want to go after him, after how that monster just trashed us, I don't think it's a good idea."
"Seconded." Beast Boy said.
"Come on!" Robin said, "We can't abandon Polybius when he may need us most."
"As much as I hate to say it. I think they're right." Raven said, "The best course of action is to go get some help."
"No!" Starfire declared, "We cannot abandon Polybius like this! We must go after him as he would never abandon us in a time like this!"
"Come on, be reasonable, Star." Cyborg said, "It's as we said earlier, if anybody could survive this by themselves, it would be him. He'll be fine."
"No!" Starfire said, "We must go find him!"
"Alright, how about this." Robin said, "We go to his room to see if he's there. If he's not, we will then declare him lost and get out. That's fair?"
"That seems like the best plan." Raven said, "We can use the west wing elevator to get to the ground floor from there."
"It's settled then." Robin said, "To Polybius's room!"
With that, the team began heading towards the mute Titan's room. However, their journey was slow, and each step filled with caution. Yet the whole trip was oddly quiet.
"There it is." Starfire said, looking down at the end of the hall where Polybius's room was, "I hope our friend is okay."
"He's probably fine." Cyborg assured her.
Just then, a loud roar came from behind them. It revealed itself to be the monster.
"Run!" Robin shouted, "For Polybius's room!"
With that, the Titans took off towards the mute's room. However, it seemed that every step they took only got them a millimeter closer to the door. Despite this, Cyborg was the first one to reach the door and quickly punched in an override code to open the door.
"Come on!" Cyborg said as he stood in front of the door, waiting for it to open.
Unable to stop themselves, as the door opened, all of the Titans crashed into each other and through the door. As they landed on the ground, the door shut behind them. This caused Polybius to shoot straight out of bed with a mild panic attack at all of the sudden and loud commotion.
"Eek!" Starfire shouted, "Someone's claws are on my grebnecks!"
"Eh, sorry." Beast Boy said as the team got up.
"Polybius!" Cyborg shouted, "You're alive!"
The mute Titan gave the team a confused look. He had no clue what they were talking about.
A loud knock on the door got everybody's attention. While the five who had just crashed into the room quickly jumped over to the far side by the rocking chairs and desk, the owner didn't. Instead, he looked over at the closed door with a profoundly annoyed look on his face, and pain setting into his back.
"Polybius!" Robin said as the mute got out of bed, "Get over here!"
Polybius ignored the leader as he walked over to the door.
"NO!" The team shouted as Polybius reached for the button to open the door.
Yet fear kept them on the far side of the room as Polybius hit the button. And when he did, the wicked scary monster revealed itself to be standing on the other side of the door.
"AH!" The team screamed in fear as Polybius just looked up at it with the same annoyed and absolutely unamused look on his face.
The creature was quick to get in his face and unlead a deafening roar. This caused Polybius to close his eyes, but not out of fear. Rather out of not wanting to get the monster's spit on his eyes.
Once the monster was finished, it came up about 6 inches away from Polybius's face. And then came one scariest moments the Titans would ever see together.
The mute Titan, rather than do anything about the monster, just turned to his side and looked at his team. He then pointed a thumb at the beast with a confused look on his face. He wanted to know why they were really fearing this.
The monster then let out another roar, and this time Polybius turned on it.
Showing no fear on his face, but instead, a let a neutral look take his face. He then reached back like a pimp and pimp slapped the monster across the face hard with a slap as loud as the creature had just roared.
The other five Titan's jaws just dropped as the monster just stood there in shock. Polybius maintained the same neutral look on his face as the beast looked back down on the mute. Polybius then pointed back behind the monster, telling it to go away.
With a small whimper, the monster then backed off Polybius and left, leaving the Titans in shock and awe of their teammate.
Polybius looked back at them without closing his door. They all just stared at him with shock on their faces.
"Okay. Remind me to never mess with Polybius again." Beast Boy was the first to speak.
"Now that was the scariest thing I have ever seen." Robin said.
"Polybius just drove it away like it was nothing!" Cyborg commented.
"I think I am now more scared of Polybius than I am of whatever is out there." Starfire added.
"Woah." Was all Raven said.
Down the hall behind Polybius, the team saw what looked like two Wicked Scary monsters talking to each other. The one Polybius had just slapped pointed down at the end of the hall, and the other one quickly came charging.
"Here comes another one!" Beast Boy shouted.
Polybius looked back just in time to time his attack. As the monster charged him, Polybius slapped it right before it reached him. However, for this monster, Polybius was not putting up with its crap.
The monster looked back at Polybius only to get slapped again. The mute Titan then began repeatedly slapping the crap out of it, causing it to cry in pain and whimper in fear as it backed off.
The other monster, who was standing not too far behind, began to back up as well. The beast that was currently being attacked by Polybius then managed to back away from the mute. Once outside of Polybius's arms reach, it was on.
The mute Titan then began chasing both of the monsters down the hall. This caused both of them to scream in fear as the mute relentlessly pursued them, leaving the Titans in awe and the dust.
"I am never going to disrespect Polybius again." Cyborg stated as Polybius left the view.
"Same." Beast Boy said.
"Come on!" Robin said, "Polybius has given us an opening!"
"And what?" Raven asked.
"To get to the bottom of this." Robin said.
"You kidding me?" Cyborg asked, "I think Polybius is going to take care of the problem for us."
"Which means we can use this as an opportunity to check the evidence room." Robin countered.
"Why?" Beast Boy asked.
"Yes, it seems that Polybius has the situation under control." Starfire agreed.
"I think I know what may be causing this." Robin said, "But I need to check that room to be sure."
The team then headed down towards the evidence room where they found Control Freak's remote. Robin then began to explain what he thought was happening. However, before he could finish, two green tentacles from the wall appeared and took him away.
"Dang it!" Cyborg said, "How many of these things are there!?"
"At least two." Raven answered, "They probably split up once Polybius began chasing them."
Suddenly they heard screams of terror coming from the hall.
"Help!" The screams shouted, "Somebody help! Somebody help me, please!"
The four Titans quickly rushed into the hall to find that it was a monster shouting that. It quickly rushed right past them. And only eight paces behind it and gaining was Polybius, who also passed them as well.
"Is that the towel rack from the bathroom?" Cyborg questioned the long metal object the mute was chasing the monster with.
"I think so." Starfire said.
"Why does he have the towel rack?" Beast Boy questioned.
"To beat the monster with." Raven answered.
As quickly as the two flashed by them, they both vanished in the halls.
"Okay. That dude is scary." Cyborg said.
"Agreed." The other three quickly agreed.
"Well, what do we do now?" Beast Boy asked.
"Look for Robin." Raven answered, "If Polybius has those things afraid of them, then we have nothing to be afraid of."
"Expect him." Cyborg countered.
"Yeah." Beast Boy agreed.
The four then stuck together and began searching the tower. However, there were no signs of Robin, and oddly enough, they didn't run into Polybius or the monsters either.
After thoroughly checking the main room, they reconvened to discuss their plan of action.
"We haven't checked the basement yet." Raven pointed out.
"Then, we'll go there." Cyborg said.
"No way!" Beast Boy said, "There is only one way in and out of that place! And if the monster comes between us and the door, we're done for!"
"Polybius has probably beaten the monsters to death by now." Cyborg pointed out, "He was gaining on that one monster we saw earlier.
"That's saying he's still fighting." Raven said, "He may have been taken out himself."
"That doesn't matter." Cyborg said, "We have to find Robin and figure out what he was going to say."
However, as the team headed towards the basement, they quickly found themselves getting attacked by one of the monsters roaming the halls. It ambushed them just as they were exiting the elevator and ran off with Beast Boy.
"No!" Cyborg shouted as the creature ran off with Beast Boy.
Before any further action could be taken, they heard a crash come from the main entrance.
"What was that!?" Cyborg asked as the trio made their way over there.
One there, again, the found Polybius fighting a monster. He didn't have his towel rack this time, but instead was throwing the foldable chairs at two Wicked Scary monsters.
"Where did those chairs come from?" Starfire asked.
"I bought them so that way if we ever had to have a massive briefing here, we could use them." Cyborg explained.
"Should… we help him?" Raven questioned as they watched Polybius pull more chairs off the rack and throw them at the monsters.
Before anybody could make a decision, both of the monsters then took off, and Polybius grabbed the last foldable chair and followed suit.
"Okay. I know I keep sayin this, but that dude is terrifying." Cyborg said, "Nothin scares that man!"
"And there is nothing scarier than him." Starfire added on.
The team then made their way towards the basement. Starfire wasn't eager to check it as it was the scariest place in the tower. And without Polybius to protect them, exploring it didn't seem like a good idea.
Which it wasn't.
Starfire quickly found herself getting overtaken by the demon rats of the basement. And while Cyborg and Raven tried to save her, it was too late.
"No!" Raven said as Cyborg hauled her out of the basement, "We need to go back! Maybe there is a way we can still save her."
"Without Polybius, we aren't doing anything." Cyborg said.
Just then, the two heard a loud crash come from behind them. They both looked back to see that Polybius was stabbing one of the monster's eye out with a…
"Is he seriously stabbing that monster's eye out with a plastic butter knife?" Cyborg asked.
"Y- Yes…" Raven said, seeing the same thing.
"Okay?" Cyborg asked as Polybius continued to utilize the butter knife as a weapon.
That was precisely what Polybius was doing. With questionable effectiveness, the monster did manage to slip away from him, one hand over its eye. The mute Titan dropped the ruined butter knife on the ground and gave chase.
"That worked?" Cyborg asked.
"It looked like it." Raven said as she began to head towards the remains of the knife.
She looked down at it to see that it looked like it had been effective in at least blinding the monster. She wasn't so sure about taking its eye out.
"Hey, Cyborg, I could use a little more…" Raven started, but as she looked back, she cut herself off when she saw Cyborg missing.
A screech from down the hall Polybius and the monster had just gone to reveal a new dinosaur looking monster flying towards her. She quickly began to run towards the elevator. Once she was inside, she was taken to the main room where once again she found Polybius fighting a monster.
This time, Polybius had ripped part of one of the countertops off and was using it to beat the monster as it tried to crawl away from him. She watched as it crawled out of the room, and Polybius followed.
She tried to follow two but was cut off when the other Wicked Scary monster stepped in her path. The magical girl quickly found herself with her back against the wall and monsters closing in around her. This caused her to accept her fear, and realize that, like Polybius, she too could fight back.
Unleashing her freshly regained powers, Raven banished all of the monsters in the tower and subsequently passed out. Hours later she woke up to find everybody except Polybius there.
"Where's Polybius?" The conversation eventually got to.
As if on cue, Polybius then walked in, holding one of the LED light bars that Cyborg used in the garage.
"There he is!" Cyborg shouted happily, "There's the scariest man alive!"
"You mean the scariest creature alive." Starfire corrected, "The most horrible things I have seen on my planet pale in comparison to what we saw the previous night. And if he is willing to fight off those showing no fear, then he has earned the title of scariest creature alive!"
"How?" Robin asked, "I mean, I get that you weren't scared by the movie, but were you scared by the monsters in the tower?"
The mute Titan shook his head. He wasn't the slightest bit scared. Only annoyed that he lost sleep.
"All hail Polybius." Beast boy then began chanting.
And there you have it! I hope you enjoyed this chapter and have a good rest of your day!