Teen Titans

You think I own the Teen Titans? You're crazy! I wouldn't have to put it on if I was the owner of something so cool!

In other words, please don't sue me, I own nothing.

Chapter 3:

Otakuizm

Three Weeks Later

"Hos-t-ages, hos-t-ages, la, la, la..." I sang as I skipped down the stairs that lead from my attic room to the lobby of the Titan's household, where breakfast was currently being cooked. I skipped over to where Cyborg was frying some bacon on the stove. "What's cooking, Cyborg?"

"I'm the funny one!" Beast Boy protested once again as he ate his already made tofu breakfast pack. I looked over at him.

"That wasn't a joke."

"Neither is all this foliage." Raven said, entering the room from the hall and looking around, noticing that the lobby was once again filled with various plants stringing all over and nearly blocking all sunlight from entering the room. "Robin's coming."

"Starfire!" I shouted instantly, "Help me get rid of this stuff before Robin gets down here! Starfire! Where are you?"

"I am over here!" I followed the voice to a corner, "I am stuck!"

"Zap 'em, Star! We only have seconds before…" I turned as a heard a large thud. Robin was laying on the floor, tangled in vine, looking not very pleased about the pumpkin that he had just tripped on.

"…….!" Came his muffled exclamation as a large hibiscus plant started enveloping him. I rushed over to where it stood.

"Bad! Don't eat the Titans! How many times have I told you that?" I scolded the plant as it released Robin. His glare was wasted on me as I untangled Starfire and we started moving the plants back outside to the garden.

"Thank you so much, Starfire." I said as she finished planting the last, "Robin already hates me enough without these guys' help."

"I am happy to help you." She smiled, "Although we did get off to a 'rough start' I believe that things are getting better. You did not 'mouth off' for all of yesterday."

"Hope you're right." I said to her, "You might as well go get some breakfast. I can take care of the rest."

As soon as I saw her fly into the window, I turned my full attention to the plants. I smiled at them as I felt their happiness expound that I wasn't alone and need never be. As I watered them, I whispered to them as well.

"Who do you think I am? Mokuren? I can't talk to plants and make them understand me." I laughed as I felt them lovingly object that they understood me perfectly.

"Then why do you always get me into trouble with Robin, huh? He doesn't like you guys wandering around the staircases looking for me in the middle of the night." I smiled as I sat down on the ground, instantly shaded by several large sunflowers. "No more, okay guys?"

It may have been weird, but I loved talking with these plants that loved me so much and begged for my happiness. Now they were begging for a song, more attention, so that they wouldn't mind so much when I slept inside. And I gave it to them.

Inside

"Is that her singing again?" Raven said, tiling her head as she ate breakfast. Beast Boy shivered.

"She creeps me out. Singing, getting on Robin's nerves, refusing to eat tofu--"

"Not just tofu, but anything that has fruits or veggies in it. She's as bad as you!" Cyborg said, eating his own food.

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?"

"That you're both freaks!" And they started their daily fight.

"She is not all bad." Starfire put in timidly. She felt that it was her duty to make everyone get along, but Robin wasn't up for it. He was still annoyed about the pumpkin juice that was smashed all over his cape.

"She has a major attitude problem." Robin almost snarled, "She won't respect anybody. I think we should kick her off the team!"

Everyone stopped and stared at him. That was not something that they had ever thought they would hear him say. He was the leader. If he wanted someone off the team, they would be off.

"That's extreme." Beast Boy said, releasing Cyborg.

"Don't you think that's taking it too far?" Cyborg said, also releasing Beast Boy.

"She does wish to get along!" Starfire protested. "Please give her another chance!"

"She doesn't listen to orders, she wreaks the house, she destroyed the training equipment…!" Robin continued, feeling justified.

"You're right." Raven said, "She is too dangerous to be set out on the public."

Robin was silent. Raven was silent. Everyone waited for something to happen. Then, it did.

"Well thank you very much. If you didn't want me, why didn't you say so in the first place?" I said, standing in the open doorway, feeling once again like something was terribly wrong. It had happened several times before, but not to this extreme. And I lost it.

"I think that some fun is in order! First, this place it completely drab. I don't care for the style. Let's paint it tomato red!" I shouted as a giant tomato tried to squeeze through the glass door and burst, sweeping juice through the room. When they had got their bearings about them, I was gone.

"What---" Robin sputtered as he tripped over a giant tomato seed.

"It's the shadow half of her spirit. I imagine that it was triggered by the sudden emotional shift that she had just experienced." Raven said in a dry tone.

"But how could she have heard us?" Beast Boy protested.

"Yeah, she was singing in the garden, remember?" Cyborg agreed. Robin didn't say anything for a moment, he was looking at the potted plants.

"I think they told her." He said. Suddenly the alarm was blaring as the large television screen flashed reports of plants running amok all over the city. In every shot, there was painted with lime green, "Slade! I'm gonna rule the world before you do! Nyah!"

"It is all my fault! I should have been a better friend!" Starfire started crying.

"No, it's not." Robin said, patting her on the back, "No one could have done anything." He backed up when he saw Cyborg and Beast Boy looking accusingly at him. Raven looked thoughtful for a moment, disappeared, then reappeared again with a mirror.

"Hey, isn't that your soul?" Beast Boy asked, looking at it.

"First, it was a portal to my mind. Second, do you think that it would be white if it were mine?" Raven said, not even looking at him. She held the mirror in front of them. "As she has been training, she felt it necessary to acquire one of these just in case something like this happened. It--"

"You mean that we have to go in there?" Beast Boy said, pointing, "I don't want to see her mind if it's anything like yours!"

"It isn't." Raven almost glared at him, "We must enter if we are to stop her. With her shadow spirit unleashed, she is unbeatable."

"Let's do it." Robin said after a minute of internal debate. Raven set the mirror on the table.

"Everyone must hold their hand above the mirror like this." She demonstrated, "Then I will recite the keywords and we will be transported."

"How come we didn't have to do that with yours?" Cyborg asked. She looked at him as everyone put their hands out.

"Because you entered mine so easily, I placed extra security measures on this one." She put her own hand out. "Otakuism!"

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