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Chapter 6 Public Speaking is bad for you

"No way." Raven said, crossing her arms.

"Oh, come on, cuz! It'll be fun!" Claire pleaded.

"How is visiting a hellhole of little, hyperactive, annoying kids fun?"

"I love kids!"

"I don't." Suddenly, Terra and Peter appeared.

"I'll go, as long as my lover comes too!" Terra said, yanking Peter close to her. He tried to push her off but she wouldn't budge.

"For the last time, Terra! I am not—" Peter started, but then Terra put on a 'brink-of-tears' face, so he sighed in defeat and she kissed him on the cheek. Beast Boy fumed, and Cyborg had to hold him back from strangling Peter (which is weird, since Peter didn't even want to be her lover, but hey! It's Beast Boy!).

"Are you sure you guys don't want to go?" Cyborg asked.

"NO! I mean… uhh, we have stuff to do. Right, Mona?" Oswin asked.

"Yeah! We have to go to… the place! Yeah, to see that guy about the thing!" Mona said. Cyborg shrugged and walked into the other room. Mona and Oswin 'phew-ed'.

"Now we can set up the Tower while they're gone." Oswin said with that evil glint in his eye.

"Yes! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!" Mona laughed.

"Umm…Sis? You sound like one of the authors…"

"How did you even sign up for this? You don't even live here!" Raven asked, but her cousin did not reply because se was already marching out to the T-car with Terra, Peter, and the others tagging behind her. Terra hopped in the driver's seat and Claire opened the passenger side door and sat down, saying, 'I know where it is.'

"I was going to have Petey-bear sit there, but that's okay." Peter said 'phew' and wiped his brow.

"He can just sit on my lap!" Terra said, smiling mischievously at Peter. Raven's cousin's eyes bulged and he "fainted". Raven rolled her eyes and half-seriously dragged him into the seat next to her in the back.

"Faker." she told him telepathically.

"I am an illusionist, you know."

"Oh, will you stop making it sound so glamorous? That's so annoying!" Cyborg, Beast Boy, Robin, and Starfire got in after them. Terra drove out into the city. Claire pointed down this street and that street, while Terra occasionally looked back at Peter the Faker. Beast Boy, on the other hand, glared lighting bolts at him. Eventually, they arrived at the school. Everyone got out of the T-car except for Raven.

"I absolutely refuse." Claire's eyes glowed a dark purple and an aura formed around Raven's cloak. It wrapped itself around her and came rolling out of the car. They walked (Well, Raven bounced because she was being taken hostage by her clothing.) into the building. More than a few teachers stopped to gawk as the floating, walking, and bouncing superheroes walked in. The Titanscousins-2 stepped around them and headed into the office.

"Yes, we're the guest speakers for Ms. Strappleberry's class…" said Claire, said to the awestricken secretary who handed them their badges. Well, almost all of them…

"No! I'm being forced to do this against my will!" Raven said, leaning away from the elderly secretary.

"Come now, deary, you must wear a Visitor's Badge."

"What part of 'I was dragged here by my insane cousin' are you not comprehending here?"

"You MUST wear the STICKER!!!"

"NEVER!!!!" Suddenly the short old woman transformed into a large, hulking, evil monster and shouted angry words at Raven. After the shocked girl had her sticker stuck to her forehead, the secretary un-transformed back into a charming, sweet old woman again.

"Have a nice stay at West Gotham Elementary, now!" she said, waving at their retreating backs.

"Scary… woman… evil… so evil…" said Shocked/Hostage/Bouncing Raven, as they turned a corner and stopped by the door to the classroom.

"Uhh… Star? I think that sticker is supposed to go on your shirt, not on your… umm…"

"My, as my on-the-line friend, KingOftheMolePeople627, would say, sexy ass?" Starfire asked. Robin did that thingy when his eyes go all blank and swirly… yeah.

"WHAT ONLINE FRIEND?!"

"Okay, here we go…" Terra turned the doorknob, and revealed a class split up into groups. The teacher was sitting at her desk, her black hair completely covering her face, as she was bending down over the papers she was grading. A redheaded boy spotted them and backed away wide-eyed toward the teacher.

"Ms. Strappleberry! The Teen Titans and some other people are here…" He said meekly.

"Robert, stop telling all these lies!"

Another kid walked up to her desk.

"He's not lying this time!"

Ms. Strappleberry looked up sternly at the boys, saying,

"I've had enough of this. Go back to your seats." As they reluctantly trudged back to their chairs, Terra walked over to the teacher and tapped her on the shoulder. She looked up in surprise.

"Oh! It really is you!"

"You were expecting maybe the tooth fairy?" Claire immediately went to the front of the class and cleared her throat.

"Hello, children. I'm sure all of you have heard of the Teen Titans, right? Well, we have come to talk to you about crime and why you shouldn't talk to strangers. Terra?" Terra looked up from kissing Peter on the lips.

"Huh?"

"TERRA! THERE ARE CHILDREN HERE!"

"Sorry!"

"Come up here and talk to the kids about crime!!"

"Okay, okay! Gosh!" As Terra replaced Claire in the front of the class and everyone turned towards the front, Raven strolled to the back of the room. She sat down in a desk.

"Hey, babe, my name's Alan." said Alan, the kid who she hadn't noticed before. He was dressed in all black, and he looked like a mini version of Raven as a boy and younger and with non-gray skin.

"…Hello." The kid kind of looked left and right with his eyes and then leaned in close to her and said,

"Nice boobs."

"OH MY GOD! YOU LITTLE PERVERT!" she yelled, standing up and practically blowing up the desk she was sitting in. She raised her hand up to slap him but then noticed all the people staring at her.

"Okay. Calm down. Contain yourself." She mentally told herself, sitting back down. Which was hard to hear, since she was imagining exploding the kid's head and setting everything on fire and shooting everything with a machine gun.

"So you wanna go out with me?" Alan said, leaning over again.

"No." she snapped coldly.

"Oh, come on, you know you think I'm hot."

"I do not. Now leave me alone." Raven looked back to the front of the class.

"And ANOTHER thing! What's the point of trying to be a criminal when you KNOW we're gonna just catch you and put you in jail! Crime is STUPID!" Alan leaned over to Raven again.

"Don't even think about it." Raven said after reading his mind and figuring out what he was going to say.

"Baby, you can read my mind all you want." He said with a perverted look on his face. Raven marched up to Claire and pulled her aside.

"Can I kill him? He is a sick twisted little boy who'd mind is WAAAAY down the gutter! I know! I've been there!"

"NO! You cannot kill him! Just think what that would do to your image!"

"Oh, shut up! You sound like Robin!"

"You think so?" Claire said, looking up dreamily.

"You better stop that before Starfire shoves a starbolt in your mouth!" She said, pointing at Starfire who was looking like she did when Robin told her that Kitten wanted to date him. "Can I at least torture him?"

"You think that's BETTER?!" Raven defeatedly walked to a seat far, far away from Alan. Of course, he moved closer to her.

"And now, Starfire is going to tell you why you shouldn't talk to strangers!" Claire said, stepping aside as Starfire flew up to the front.

"Greetings, young ones. I am here to lecture you about the many dangers of speaking to unfamiliar beings. The first thing is that you do not posses the knowledge of what their identity is. They may be a criminal, a murderer, or even a Vimbaz Wala-Wala Gorkshee!" The entire class gave her a blank stare. Well, Terra and Peter didn't notice because the earthmover was glomping on him again, and Peter was busy trying to get her off (what else is new). Meanwhile, Raven had set up a telekinetic wall of dark energy, cutting her chunk of the room from Alan and the other students. Later, after Starfire's confusing jabber, Claire reappeared at the front of the class yet again, and everyone's confused looks disappeared.

"Okay, class. Thank you for being patient. Up next is Robin, who's here to tell you about all the things that superhero-type leaders have to do." Miss I-sign-up-people-to-volunteer-at-schools-for-no-good-reason-without-warning said. Robin approached the front of the room, feeling self conscious that some of the people in the class were taller than him (If he really IS four feet tall!).

"Woo hoo! Move in a forward direction, Robin!" Starfire cheered from the middle of the desks.

"Hello, children. As you know, I'm Robin, leader of the Teen Titans. But being a team leader is not easy. You have to go to meetings with the police department, hold press conferences, blah blah, blah blah blahdiddy blah, blah blah, blah. Blah blah blah blah blah? Blah. Blah blah blah blah blah…" He droned on about all the responsibilities and hardships of being… well… him.

"Hey, psst! Peter!" Terra whispered a little loudly to her good buddy, Peter, who was being forced to sit next to her. He sighed and reluctantly turned his head her way.

"What do you want?" he said in a monotone voice. Terra frowned and elbowed him.

"Sigh. I mean, Yes, dear?"

"Hey, let's get out of this borefest." Peter sat up in his chair.

"You know what? That's the best idea you've had all day." he said, smirking. They both got up and tiptoed out of the room. Meanwhile, everyone in the class had fallen asleep due to Robin's excessive boredom spreading.

"And that is why… Hey! Isn't anyone listening to me?" Everyone answered with a snore.

"Oh, come on! That's just plain rude." Robin crossed his arms and pouted. Starfire walked up to him.

"I listened to your speech, Robin." She said, putting her hands on his shoulders. Awwww. Anywho, Let us check in with Alan and Raven. (lol) Raven had been sitting happily (well, as close to happy as she could get) in her little aclove, while Alan had been trying to break through with various objects (scissors, pencils, smacking it with books), but to no avail.

"COME ON!!! You know you want me! Open up!" He said, banging on the energy cage with his fists.

"I've got a better idea. Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!!" Her little dark prison dissolved, and then Alan was encased in a bubble. He tried yelling and banging on the bubble, but no sound got through. She simply floated him out the door, and telekinetically shut it. She grinned a little too hard and all the lights went out. Again. Note to self. Stop doing that. Meanwhile, Terra and Peter were wandering around the school, when all of a sudden, the lights went out. Terra gave a little yelp.

"W-what happened?" she asked nervously.

"Oh, don't worry about it. Raven probably smiled again."

"Hmm. Could you stop squeezing my hand so hard? I'm sure my fingers would LOVE some circulation right about now." Peter did that trademark animé "rub back of neck/blush" combo.

"Heh heh. Sorry."

The power came back on after the world's fastest janitor fixed the power fuse, and replaced every light bulb in the school in less than ten seconds. They really ought to pay him more.

Just then, Beast Boy came out of the classroom and saw Peter and Terra smiling at each other.

"What… Terra? What's going on?"

"Nothing! NOTHING IS GOING ON!" Peter exclaimed. Beast Boy gave him a hateful frown and went over the water fountain. Terra was kind of confused, looking back and forth at Peter and Beast Boy like she was stuck holding a bomb. The Titans plus Claire came out of the classroom and kids were throwing rumpled papers and garbage at them.

"What happened?" Peter turned to his cousin and his sister.

"I made Raven give a speech about traffic safety and… well… lets just say that the kids in Mrs. Strappleberry's class don't like her anymore," Claire responded.

"Friends?" Starfire asked quietly, surprising the rest of them. "I would wish to leave this place of mean, hateful, garbage hurling young ones. Raven, I believe it is you who has the power to glide the shadows?"

Raven twitched, wanting to smile, but reminding herself that she may blow out the lights again. She summoned her dark powers, and off they were, in a large shadow the shape of a… RAVEN!

(A/N: IT'S TIME TO AUTHOR THE NOTES!!!

TAK: We are SO sorry for not updating sooner! School and stuff, ya know?

CG: Okay, we had to change this again because that Jenna girl was dumb. And TAK saw an inspirational BB-Terra video. (located here: ) LOVE TRIANGLE NESS! BE GLAD!!)