Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans or Superman. I do own the town of Marcy's Canyon however, because I ran for mayor and won. (Not by much...)
Titans on the Run!
Chapter 6: Canyon City Blues
Song of the Chapter:Highway Chile by The Jimi Hendix Experince
"Hey, Mornin' Char."
"Mornin' Ted" She said, pouring him a cup of coffee, just like every morning.
A man of roughly middle age sat down at the counter of Charlene's Steak Place. The only place to get a steak in all of Marcy Canyon, don't you know? The tiny town of thirty-eight residents sat on Utah's side of its border with Colorado. There wasn't much, But they got Internet access in the library last week, and McPherson's boy had come back from Denver as a doctor, so they were plenty proud.
"Say you hear about that traffic accident on Route Five last night?"
"Hear it? It woke me up! What'd Sheriff do?" She said, lighting a cigarette.
"Well." Ted said, sipping his coffee. "He gave 'em a good talking to, seeing as they were just kids."
Charlene taped her cigarette against a nearby ashtray.
"But you heard those explosions, right?" She asked.
"Oh yeah. I heard." He said, tiredly.
"And what was up with that metal fella?" She said, directing her gaze to the ceiling, watching the fans rotate slowly.
"Oh him? Well he's in the lock up, with the green fella." He said.
"We tried to breakup their fight, but they guy had us in the strength department. And that green kid? Forget it."
"What of that weird car?" Charlene asked, waving to a couple passing her storefront.
"It's at the station. We tried to find the make and model, but that thing custom, through and through. Couldn't even start her up..."
He was cut off as two girls entered the diner and sat down next to Ted. Charlene handed them menus.
"Welcome to Charlene's Steak Place." She said, the greeting feeling foreign on her tongue, as she knew everyone in town.
"Where you girls from?" Ted asked, eyeing their strange clothes.
"The west coast." Raven replied coolly, scanning the menu. "What're you going to order? She asked Starfire.
Starfire's brow knitted in thought. She turned to Ted.
"What should I order?" She asked.
Ted looked at her. "Hmm...perhaps you should get a porterhouse. Yeah, a 72 ouncer." He joked, gaining a laugh from Charlene.
"That sounds delicious!"
"Alright, explain it again."
"Okay, we were driving east on Route Five..."
"We got that."
"Then my friends got into an argument..."
"Alright, keep going."
"...then they started fighting..."
"...okay..."
"...then one of them hit a button on the dash board by mistake...."
"Makes sense..."
"The button was to the rocket launcher."
"...I see."
"We've got a license for it! Seriously!"
"Oh, I believe you."
Robin sighed, and leaned his head on his hand, as he faced another round of questioning. The Sheriff put his feet on the table, leaning back as he tried putting the story together. The deputies and some curious townsfolk surrounded Robin's utility belt, murmuring in interest.
"WAIT! DON'T TOUCH THAT!"
A loud bang, and a puff of smoke sent people scattering for cover. The Sheriff gave the Boy Wonder a grave look. Robin laughed sheepishly.
"Man, this sucks! I have rights, you know? Where's my phone call?" Ranted Beast Boy, pacing in his cell.
"Oh, be quiet. Besides who are you going to call?" Cyborg countered from his cell.
"Superman?"
"Oh sure! Get him on the horn! He'd love to know why were in a jail in the bowels of Utah!" he scoffed.
"Well, what are we going to do? I can't escape with my powers." He said, calming down.
"Why not?" Cyborg asked, uninterestedly.
"How would that look? That's just like me admitting I did something wrong." He explained.
"Oh, any everyone knows you're the innocent party in all this." Cyborg said, with a sarcastic yet murderous edge.
Beast Boy stretched out on his bunk, staring at the ceiling.
"At least the T-Van wasn't totaled." He pointed out.
Cyborg's eyes widened for a second.
"MY VAN!!!"
Raven sipped her coffee, as curious residents crowed around Starfire.
Ted was flabbergasted.
"How could you eat that steak? And the all the others?"
Starfire tried answering with a mouth full of steak.
"She not from around here." Raven said, nose in book.
"Well that's obvious." Ted stated. "I've haven't seen her before."
"I mean not from around here." She said, with extreme emphasis.
"Oh...Man you can sure put 'em away!" He said, slapping her shoulder.
"Yep!"
"You know it!"
"Seven steaks...in a row!"
"Amazing!"
Finishing her last mouthful, Starfire blushed. "So...what's for dessert?"
Raven flipped a page as the crowd gaped at her alien friend. Although her eyes took in the words, her mind was on the boys. She had been at this diner, watching Starfire eat for hours now, and she was getting worried.
"Starfire, save your appetite. Let's go find the others." She said, standing up.
Starfire nodded, and bid farewell to her newest fanclub.
"By the way Starfire," Raven added, as they flew to the Sheriff's Department."What?"
"Beast Boy's going to hate you for all that meat you've eaten." She said with a small grin.
Signs flashed in the night as the T-Van tore down the road. As they pulled away from the town, the streetlights stopped. The headlights of the T- van and the moon were the only sources of light. The moon illuminated the desert landscape, giving it a surreal quality. The sand glowed a pale white, as the occasional cactus broke the pattern with its dark-green silhouette and shadow.
Starfire, snoring softly, slept off her meal in the back seat, with Robin re- organizing his utility belt.
[Man, what didn't they mess with?] He mused, tackling a tangle in his grappling hook.
Focusing on the belt, he didn't notice the Tamaranian shift in her unconscious search for a more comfortable position.
He reddened visibly when her head found his shoulder.
His mouth fell open when she snuggled into his side.
He bit his thumb when she sighed in content.
He froze in place, not wanting to wake her. When he felt her fully relax, he followed suit, savoring the feeling. After all the trouble he had to sort through today, this was more than he felt he deserved.
Not like he was complaining or anything.
Cyborg, who was watching through the rear-view mirror, was cracking up inside, as he settled himself in for a long drive. Although he would get a little tired, he loved to drive. It was something he just liked to do; there wasn't a rationale behind it. Noticing that everyone seemed ready for sleep, he decided to 'burn the midnight oil' and gun for Denver in the morning.
Beast Boy lied on the floor of the van, in dog form, under Raven's seat. His canine senses could pickup every sent in the van; Robin's hair gel, the oil on Cyborg's shoes, the smell or Starfire's dinner...
....and Raven's scent.
[Rae...]
It wasn't bad or anything. In fact he, really liked it. He couldn't name what it smelled like, but he couldn't get enough of it. So he called it 'Raven's Scent'.
Resting on his side, he let the events of the last twenty-nine hours run through his head. He and Cyborg made up and Robin forgave them both. Funny thing was, after all that trouble, he couldn't remember what they were fighting about.
Raven stared out of the window. Something about the desert at a time like this mesmerized her. Coming back to reality, she looked down...into Beast Boy's soulful Labrador eyes.
Emotionlessly, she let herself scratch him behind his ears.
"You know, you guys are a handful sometimes."
AN: Hiya! Well it's shorter this time, but it sort of fell together. I had a lot of fun with this chapter, yet I don't know why... Anyway, I've been trying to track down copies of Teen Titans Go! (Which is awesome by the way!), but it eas recently "Free Comic Book Day", and they were giving out that same comic to the public. Now you may ask: "Piezo, what's so bad about that?" Well, it seems that everyone who got a free comic, also bought the rest as well. sob Oh well, I wait a little longer, but the copies I do have are awesome. Thanks to Aya Sadaka! (We can bum rides off of Cyborg when he gets back!)
Later!