Author's Notes: Yo, what's up? Finals are over, and I've had a lot of time to write. You know, I'm surprised at the amount of reviews I got for this fic. I figured most people would hate it. Well, due to popular demand (sorta) here's chapter two. Just as a reminder, there are three parts, so that means only one more left. And then I've got something even better waiting for you. insert evil laughter #128 (Please Review)
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans. If I did, Terra would not exist, Cyborg would have a girlfriend, Robin wouldn't be so obsessive, Slade wouldn't act like a pedophile, Gizmo would know some good insults, and Raven and Beast Boy would have multiple episodes devoted to their relationship. With a few dedicated to Robin and Starfire, of course.
Quote of the Chapter: Starfire - Come, friends! I shall thank you for my rescue by reciting the poem of gratitude. All six thousand verses.
Schizophrenia – Part 2
By Mint Dragon
At about two o'clock in the afternoon, an alarm sounded throughout the Titan's Tower. All of them, including Robin, who had been in his room all morning, rushed to the monitor room. Raven walked to the console and brought up a live video.
"There's a gang robbing a bank on Main Street. They're armed. The police haven't been able to stop them." she read quickly. In her head, though, a slightly different conversation was taking place.
There were mixed feelings about this from the mixed, uh, feelings, inside Raven's mind.
"Come on, guys! This is awesome! Let's go kick some bad guy butt!" Brave yelled, hopping up and down and raring to go. Morbid sighed.
"What does it matter? Even if we stop this gang, another one will show up eventually. And then we'll die." she said in a melancholy voice. Happy smiled at her, as usual.
"We can go and do a good thing!" she said confidently. Rage began grinned wickedly.
"We can destroy, Destroy, DESTROY! HA HA HA HA HA!" she yelled, laughing insanely. Lying on the ground with her hands behind her head, the orange-clad Lazy yawned and replied sleepily,
"Can't we just take a nap and let the others handle it?" Sitting on a nearby rock with her arms crossed, a Raven in a teal cloak rolled her eyes.
"Maybe we should just feed you to the birds, Lazy. You're good for nothing."
"Now Cynical, stop that!" Happy counseled her, still all smiles.
"Why should I?"
"It's depressing."
"You're depressing."
"No I'm not!"
"Why," she asked Happy, "must you be so super preppy happy, twenty-four seven?"
"Well," Intelligence cut in, "she is Happy, remember."
"Point taken. But still, I mean-"
"We're going to go and fight, and that's the end of that!" Brave declared, hopping up on the rock next to Cynical and looking down at her counterparts, daring them to contest her. They all sighed.
"Then we'll fight now, and continue this argument at some later date," Intelligence stated. The rest agreed, grumbling, and the decision was made.
Uh-huh. Well, I guess we'll just have to wait a little before we see the end of that discussion. Say, for all eternity?
"Right," Robin said, stepping forward once more to be the 'fearless leader'. "Titans, go!"
They arrived at the bank to see the police cars lined up in a semi-circle around the entrance, but the policemen were hiding behind them as shots rang out from two men wearing black on the steps of the bank. They were holding huge machine guns, and laughed as they blasted out rounds at the hiding cops while two more crooks transported bags of cash from the bank to an armored car.
"Titans, attack!" Robin cried out, and the others instantly followed his command. Starfire and Cyborg rushed past them to deal with the crooks within the building, and Robin, Raven, and Beast Boy were left to deal with the trigger-happy maniacs outside.
Robin pulled out his Bo staff, and Raven floated into the air.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"
A nearby mailbox was coated in tar-like black energy, lifted into the air, and hurled at the criminals, who stepped back before they were flattened. She flew forward, and after disarming them with her powers, began to fight one of them hand-to-hand. Robin leapt up and attacked the other. Beast Boy turned into a rhinoceros and began to charge at the armored car that the criminals were using to cart away the money, but in his mind, a rather odd argument was taking place.
Inside Beast Boy's head, all of his emotions, save Oblivious, were in a group and yelling at Lust. Let's find out why, shall we?
"Dude, what is up with you?" yelled Amiable, the Beast Boy with a pale blue stripe.
"Oh, I don't know, maybe he's just horny? He is Lust, after all." said Sarcasm, his voice dripping with, well, sarcasm.
The dark-green striped Shy gulped.
"Just leave him alone," he whined. "and maybe Raven won't notice."
"Be quiet," said one with a bright red stripe. "You're annoying."
"Now, Frustration," Reason began, but was cut off by Lust, in his dark purple stripe.
"What do mean, what's wrong with me! Look at her! Open your eyes, man! Did you not notice that she's wearing skin-tight clothing!"
Reason sighed, disgusted. "Please," he said. "Raven always wears skin-tight clothing."
"Yeah, but she's never moving around much. I mean, just look. Damn, she's hot…" he trailed off, drooling. Curious, the others tried to see what he was seeing. And soon they were all drooling, except for Oblivious, who was off playing a handheld videogame of some sort or another, and had no idea that anything had taken place.
I guess we should have expected that, coming from Beast Boy. Oh well. I think it's safe to say that that argument ended on a strange note.
Inside the bank, Cyborg dispatched the remainder of the gang, while Starfire began to return the money to the vault. Within the Tamaranean girl's mind, her emotions were having a heated argument.
I'd be lying if I said that I couldn't imagine what they would be arguing about, but I bet you can't.
"He does not!"
"He does!"
"Does not!"
"Does!"
"What are you two arguing about now?" Smart asked the two arguing avatars of Starfire's emotions, irritated. Vanity and Caring pointed at each other.
"She started it!" they exclaimed simultaneously. Smart sighed.
"Will you two shut up?" Focus, dressed in cobalt, asked. "We have a job to do. You may bicker after we have completed our task!"
Ignoring her completely, Vanity and Caring resumed their argument.
"Does not!"
"Does!"
"Doesn't!"
"Does!"
"What are they arguing about anyway?" Smart asked. Focus shrugged.
"Who cares? It's probably about Robin."
"Robin? Did someone say Robin? Oh, Robin is so handsome and strong and brave and…" the pink clothed Starfire popped up out of nowhere and began to once more sing the leader's praises. Focus sighed and Smart grumbled incoherently to herself, walking away.
Well…I didn't know that Starfire had so much inner conflict…
After handing the captured criminals over to the cops, Beast Boy, Raven, Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg all piled into the T-Car and began to drive home.
"Yo," Cyborg said,. "you guys wanna drop by the drive in?"
"Sure."
"That sounds wonderful!"
"As long as they have a vegetarian salad."
"Whatever."
Smiling, Cyborg drove the T-Car into a drive-in and pulled up to the window. And realized that he didn't know what to order.
Inside the mind of the cybernetic superhero, it was, well, rather loud.
"I SAID FRIES!"
"NO FRIES!"
"YOU WANNA SAY THAT TO MY FACE?"
"WE'RE THE SAME PERSON!"
"DON'T YOU GO PULLING TECHNICALITIES ON ME!"
"OH YEAH, WELL…EAT THIS!"
The green Aggression and red Anger were enveloped in a cloud of dust, random limbs shooting out momentarily before being pulled back into the brawl. Intelligence shrugged and turned to the purple-circuited Depression.
"Hamburger with no pickles and extra onions and a large Coke sound good to you?"
"Sure."
"Okay."
That was…completely pointless, actually. But at least he figured out what to order.
"I'll have a hamburger with no pickles and extra onions and a large Coke." Cyborg told the attendant. After the rest of his teammates ordered, they picked up their food, paid, and left.
Once back at the Tower, Robin quickly retreated to his room to work on the Slade case. What a shocker.
Do I really have to remind you of the last time we visited Robin's mind? Oh well, if you really want to take a look…
Obsession, with his oddly violet hair, continued to pace back and forth, this time while the other Robins conversed among themselves.
"Gotta catch Slade, gotta catch Slade, gotta catch Slade…"
"Oh my GOD," a Robin with electric green hair gasped, examining his way-too-short-to-be-of-any-real-use cape. "Can you believe those guys? They got dirt on my cape. They got dirt on MY cape."
"Shut up, Narcissism," the yellow haired (yes, he's a blond) Amusement said, lying on his back with his hands behind his head.
"For once, I agree with Amusement. You are being quite insufferable." A brown haired Robin agreed, the embodiment of Robin's Sophistication. (i.e. manners, etc.)
"Isn't he always?" orange-haired Cynicism asked. "It's no wonder people think we're gay."
"We are NOT gay!" Affection cried out indignantly.
"I never said we were!"
"Gotta catch Slade, gotta catch Slade, gotta catch Slade…"
Yep. I'd say that's pretty accurate for Robin.
So while Robin toiled away in his room, Raven poked fun at Beast Boy at the dinner table, and Starfire tried to convince the reluctant Cyborg to try her new pudding, they were all to be caught completely unaware by the inner chaos that was to result from the weekly conflict that was…movie night.
Well, I hope you all liked that. There's just one more chapter to go, but I've got something even better waiting in the wings after all of this, so I hope you enjoyed it! SUMMER VACATION ROCKS!
-Mint
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