Welcome back!! Sorry that it took so long to write this chapter! I have
seriously horrible sunburn all over my arms. I have been writhing in pain
during the last few days. Oh no!! Now it's itchy!! *scratches arms* WHEN
WILL THIS TORTURE END??? I will ALWAYS were sun block while playing tennis
from now on! Well, I won my match, so it's all good^_^! Anyways, here's
chapter 4!
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans.
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"TEEN TITANS GO!" Robin shouted as the titans stumbled into the room.
Starfire and Raven's hair were both only half brushed. Cyborg, after running to his room and then realizing that he actually didn't really have to get ready anyway, re-entered the TV room looking a bit sheepish at his mistake. Beast Boy was still pulling on a shoe as he entered.
"Ow, ow, ow!" Beast Boy cried out as he hopped on one foot trying to slip on the shoe. "EEK!" He slipped and toppled over towards the floor. Beast Boy braced himself for the collision of boy and floor which he expected to feel, but he found that the impact didn't come. He cautiously opened one eye, and to his surprise, he discovered that Raven had her arm around his chest, holding him just inches from the floor. Beast Boy quickly scrambled up and out of her arms embarrassedly. "Thanks for the... catch, Rae." He mumbled as he slipped on his shoe. Both Beast Boy and Raven's faces were a healthy shade of pink.
"Hurry!!" Robin shouted as he looked at his wrist and tapped the skin just above his hand, depicting the well-known signal of someone impatiently waiting for someone else to hurry up.
"You are not wearing a watch, Robin." Starfire stated, not understanding his indirect suggestion. "Why would you act like you do have a watch on if you really do not?"
"Uh... I'll explain it to you later, Star." Robin sighed and stopped tapping his wrist. He turned to the other three titans. "We have to go, NOW!"
"Rightie-o, Robin!" Cyborg had a huge excited smile on his face. Nothing had happened recently that required the Teen Titan's assistance. All of the crimes were petty ones that the New York Police Force could handle without the Titan's help. 'It's nice to know we're still needed.' Cyborg thought as they headed out to kick some butt.
"Quickly! To the stairs!" Beast Boy said sarcastically, with his eyes closed and his arm extending straight into the air in front of him, with only his index finger pointing at nothing in particular.
"Come on, Green Bean!" Cyborg grabbed Beast Boy by the shirt collar and dragged him towards the stairs.
"Let go, Tubber! I can walk by myself!!" Beast Boy struggled out of Cyborg's grasp on his shirt and trotted, head high, towards the stairs.
Beast Boy was the first to start the long climb down the many flights of stairs (yes, the elevator IS broken, what else is new? ^^). He was then followed by Raven, Starfire, Robin, and Cyborg (in that order). The titans were moving so quickly down the staircase that they began to be practically tumbling down. With only two flights left to go, Cyborg tripped on a faulty step and fell, pushing Robin in to Starfire, who then happened to push Raven whom fell and pushed Beast Boy. Everyone screamed as they went head over heals down the stairs, landing in a big heap at the bottom.
"CYBORG, GET OFF!" Four of the titans yelled. Cyborg, being at the back of the falling line of teens, and due to the laws of physics, landed on top of the other Titans.
"Sorry." Cyborg grunted as he got up off of everyone. He dusted himself off and then walked over and opened the door to the T-Car and then got into the driver's seat.
In the big mess of falling down two flights of stairs, Beast Boy just happened to land on top of Raven. Starfire and Robin were lying on the floor, faces just inches apart. Beast Boy laid where he was, groaning as he felt all the aches of hitting hard steps and then having a gigantic, fat robot fall on top of him. It wasn't until he felt Raven's breath on his face he realized that he had actually landed on top of her. Raven laid on the ground, unmoving staring up at him.
"Um... sorry, Raven." Beast Boy said to her, but instead of quickly jumping up and scurrying away shyly and embarrassedly, he slowly rose to his feet and then offered a hand down to help Raven off of the floor.
"Thank you." Raven said. Beat Boy couldn't make out any emotion in her voice so he couldn't tell what she was feeling or what she was thinking. 'If only I could read minds...' Beast Boy thought to himself.
'I could... but I won't read his mind.' Raven thought as she took the hand. 'Some things are better for me not to know now... but maybe to know later.'
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Robin opened his eyes to find two large, green pools of light shimmering back at him. He was in a daze, just having had the wind knocked out of him, not realizing until he felt warm breath on his nose that he was actually staring into Starfire's eyes. And then after blinking a few more times, he realized that Starfire's eyes (as well as the rest of her) were close to him, extremely close.
Robin quickly scrambled into a sitting position, quite aware that he was sweating, even though he wasn't hot. Starfire sat up more slowly, looking at Robin as she rose.
"Here, Star." Robin said as he took her hands in his and they helped each other to stand up. As soon as they were on their feet, Robin shouted, "Alright everyone! We have to get moving!"
Robin jumped onto the R-Cycle and started up the engine.
Beast Boy jumped into the back seat of the T-Car, pulling Raven roughly in with him.
"Ouch," Raven said looking at the place on her arm where Beast Boy had grabbed her, "don't grab me so hard. It's turning red."
Beast Boy looked at her arm. "Sorry Raven..." He frowned, a bit distressed.
Raven became upset at Beast Boy's distress. She began to comfort him. "It's alright, I'm alrig..." But she was cut off as Robin's shout echoed through the room.
"Go, Go, GO!"
"Man, he can calm down some. We'll get there in plenty of time." Cyborg said as hit the gas.
Robin grabbed Starfire pulling her onto the R-Cycle behind him. Robin clutched two helmets. Each was red with a black, lightning shaped strip along its side. The helmets covered up the wear's entire head with a see through plexy-glass opening in the front which could be opened or sealed shut with the press of a button. He handed one to Starfire and put one on his own head. Starfire quickly put the helmet on. It seemed to mold to her head snugly but she still did have air flowing through the helmet for her to breathe.
Starfire wrapped her arms tightly around Robin's waist. 'Wow, he's actually letting me ride his R-Cycle! We must really be in a hurry...' Starfire thought to herself as they left the island. The two vehicles then sped off onto the busy New York streets, full of busy New York traffic.
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"Rush hour." Cyborg commented as he tried to weave through the traffic. "Ugh. This stinks. How far ahead is Robin?"
"Not far." Beast Boy stuck his head out of the window to see how far ahead the motorcycle was. "A motorcycle is much easier to maneuver through traffic than a car, though."
"We're not going to make it in time!!" Robin shouted above the roar of traffic around him and Starfire. "Damn!" Robin yanked out his communicator and contacted Cyborg.
"Cyborg?!? You there?" Robin shouted into the communicator.
"Yo."
"We need to get out of this traffic, ASAP!"
"What traffic?"
"CYBORG!"
"Alright! Calm down, Mohawk Boy."
"... We are going to mode X, I repeat mode X! Do you read me??"
"Read yah loud and clear, Rob!" Cyborg smiled a broad grin.
Beep! Robin switched off the communicator.
"Umm... I'm just wondering, Cyborg... what's mode X?" Raven asked a bit confused.
"Oh, just something that Robin and I installed into the R-Cycle and T-Car. I've been going mad having to wait to try it out!"
"Great, so it's NEVER been tested before!?" Beast Boy's voice was a bit annoyed.
"Yup." Cyborg began to click what seemed to be random buttons on the dash board.
"Oh, no!" Beast Boy and Raven said at the same time. They looked at each other and blushed at the coincidence in their thoughts.
"I've never seen that blue button before." Beast Boy said as he glanced at the dashboard.
"Well that's because that's the button that starts the whole mode X system and it's never been there before." Cyborg answered as he finished clicking his series of buttons. "Alright, ya'll got your seat belts on?" Beast Boy and Raven quickly scrambled to fasten their seat belts. "Okay, then. Here we GO!" Cyborg pressed the blue button on the dashboard and mode X was activated.
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Robin switched off his communicator.
"That good for nothing..." Robin muttered as he put the communicator away.
"Robin, what is this mode X?" Starfire asked confused, as she usually is.
"Don't worry, Star. It's just a way to not have to go through this traffic. We can make it to the mall faster, so we can stop... whatever's happening there... quicker." Robin answered as he pressed buttons on the R-Cycle's handles.
"Alright, if it will help us get there faster..." Starfire said, still a bit unsure.
"Hold on tight, Star!" Robin felt Starfire's arms tighten around his waist. Without even realizing what he was doing, Robin found that he had put one of his arms behind his back and he was holding on to Starfire. Because of his contact with Starfire, Robin felt a sensation like electricity running through his veins, but a good kind of electricity, not the fry you to death kind. He gulped as he pressed the blue button. 'This had better work... for Starfire's sake.' Robin thought as mode X was put into action.
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"WO!" Beast Boy's eyes grew wide as the T-Car began to shake violently. "What's it doing!?"
"WHAT?" Cyborg yelled over the noise the car was making. "I CAN'T HEAR YOU BB. SPEAK UP!"
"WHAT IS THIS STUPID CAR DOING?!?!" Beast Boy shouted scared and annoyed at the same time.
"HEY! THIS CAR IS NOT STUPID!" Cyborg yelled back. He held on to the steering wheel with both of his hands which were shaking without mercy. "YOU'LL SEE WHAT IT CAN DO SOON ENOUGH, BOOGER BRAIN!!"
The windows of the car blacked out and the car became dark. If not for the weak light bulb shinning from the center of the car's roof, the T-Car would have been pitch black.
Raven's teeth chattered in her head and her body shook so hard that her head began to develop a steady rhythm to its hitting the headrest behind her. She grabbed onto the seat with both arms plastered down her side. Her eyes were open wide. 'I'm going to kill Cyborg and Robin... I'm going to kill them both!' She thought as she turned her head to see how Beast Boy was doing.
Beast Boy's mouth was open as if he was screaming but no sound escaped his lips. His eyes were closed and his body shook from side to side so rapidly that it seemed as if he was in more than one place at a time. His arms were thrashing around at his sides because he couldn't find anything to grip.
Raven slowly (the forces of the car were causing all of her movements to be slow) moved her hand that was on the side nearest Beast Boy over until her fingers brushed against his flailing hand. Beast Boy stopped moving his arms suddenly and turned his head to see Raven looking at his questioningly. She moved her hand closer to his and he moved his closer to hers until they were holding hands.
'It will be alright.' Raven said telekinetically into Beast Boy's mind. 'I know,' Beast Boy thought back to her. 'I know it will be now.' He smiled as he held her hand in his.
Without warning, the T-Car stopped shaking and the windows changed back into their see-through state, no longer black. All three titans in the car were thrown forward. 'Thank god for seatbelts.' Cyborg thought as they were all shot forward and then back into their seats as the seatbelt stopped each titan from flying out of the car through the windshield.
"W-w-what was t-that?" Beast Boy asked bewildered from their journey.
"That, my friends, was mode X." Cyborg answered slowly and softly looking straight in front of him. Then suddenly he turned around and asked excitedly, "Are you all okay? No broken bones or injuries?" The boy and girl shook their heads. "WHOOHOO! IT WORKED!" Cyborg shouted happily! "MODE X WORKS!"
"What happened to us?" Raven asked as she looked out the window and realized that they were no longer in the busy, car-packed street but in a crowded parking lot. "How did we get here?"
"Well..." Cyborg pondered whether or not to tell them what mode X had just caused to happen. 'They'll kill me if I tell them...' Cyborg thought to himself, but the cold looks given to him by Beast Boy and Raven were enough for him to know that if he DIDN'T tell them, they would kill him. "We were, uh please don't kill me guys... we were just umm up in the air..."
"You mean like we were flying?" Beast Boy asked, scratching his head with his free hand.
"Well not exactly." Cyborg continued uncomfortably. He knew they wouldn't like what he was about to tell them. "We were in the air... in a million tiny little pieces..."
"You mean like how television and radio signals are transmitted?!" Raven asked, astonished.
"Yes, like those... but then also NOT like those. It's hard to explain..." Cyborg looked at their expectant expressions and continued. "It's more like we went into an alternate dimension for a short period of time."
"An alter..." Beast Boy's voice trailed off and then continued after he had a moment of thought. "We were in an alternate dimension!? Wow how did yah do it?!"
Raven glared at Beast Boy and then addressed Cyborg. "So you are telling me that we went through an alternate dimension, and you hadn't even tested it yet!" She ended in a yell of anger. The car began to shake again, but not because it was in mode X.
"Raven, I'm sorry! Please stop! You're going to wreck the car!!" Cyborg pleaded. "You helped me build this baby! Please don't kill her!"
Raven took deep breaths while she started to meditate and slowly began to collect her anger. The car stopped shaking to Cyborg's relief. Beast Boy looked a bit bewildered. He had held on to Raven's hand the whole time she had been expressing her emotions. 'Luckily for me, she didn't aim her powers at me but at the car.' Beast Boy thought. 'Even though I know she can't control where her powers go when she has an emotion, I'm just glad that they didn't go after me. I was holding her hand after all...' He looked down to see that they were still holding hands.
"Rae, are you alright, now?" Cyborg asked. Raven nodded slightly, but said nothing. "Robin's probably waiting outside, let's get going." Cyborg opened the door and climbed out of the T-Car.
"Raven... are you sure you're okay?" Beast Boy asked gently, looking into her eyes.
"Yes, I'm fine, Beast Boy." She said, but she moved her gaze to the floor as she answered. She looked back up at him. "Come on, BB! Let's go teach some criminals a lesson!" Raven released Beast Boy's hand from hers and exited the car.
'Woh, now! Did Raven just call me BB? Wow, the whole world's going crazy! First I find out that I'm in love with Raven, then we travel through another dimension, then Raven calls me BB! What else could possibly happen to make my life anymore bizarre than it already is?' Beast Boy thought as he, too, exited the T-Car.
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"Wow!" Starfire voice was full of shock and awe. The R-Cycle had just landed roughly in the mall parking lot with the boy wonder and alien still present on its back.
'Thank god it worked.' Robin thought as a wave of relief rushed over him followed by a wave of guilt. 'I can't believe I risked Starfire's life just now! I didn't know IF mode X would even work, but I tried it anyway, WITH STARFIRE! Oh man, I hate myself...'
"That was amazing, Robin!" Starfire beamed. She had really enjoyed their trip through an alternate dimension.
"Yah..." Robin answered. 'What a great idea! The car's metal frame (should have (don't know yet...)) held together its passengers while they traveled through the alternate dimension, while the motorcycle helmets held our atoms together as we went on our journey through the space-time continuum. Now I do have to admit to myself that WAS pretty awesome.' Robin beamed to himself.
Starfire hopped off the motorcycle and handed her helmet to Robin who was lifting his leg over the side to dismount. As he was doing so, the T-Car suddenly appeared beside them with a deafening boom.
"EEEK!" Starfire screeched and jumped back behind Robin.
"It's alright, Starfire. It's just the other Titans arriving. We, Cyborg and I, set the navigational instruments so that we would land just feet from each other so we wouldn't have to search for where the other had landed."
"Oh..." Starfire replied as if she understood what he had just said. 'I wish Robin would take me for rides on his R-Cycle more often. I really do love it, as well as his company...' Starfire thought to herself as she watched Cyborg, Raven, and Beast Boy exit the T-Car.
"All here? All unharmed?" Robin asked the Titans stumbling out of the car and into the mall parking lot.
"Yah, we're all fine." Cyborg gave Robin a high five, congratulating him on mode X's success. "Now let's go kick some baddie behind!
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Yah, I know, I DIDN'T put the fight scene in this chapter. Please don't kill me (directed at Kevin...)! It IS going to be in the next chapter!! I super-duper promise you this time! Really, how much more can I stall the characters from the fight? They are right outside the doors! I'm really sorry, but this chapter was soo long and it's been such a long time since I last posted that I just couldn't wait anymore! And yes, someone doesn't come back from the fight! You'll just have to ponder about that until I post chapter 5!! Whaha! I'm evil...(
I hope you liked chapter 4! Please Read and Review! Oh, I'll answer some of your reviews now!
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Brian, Warrior of Time: Yah, I loved the cereal part, too! ^_-
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Carrot The LuvMachine: Yah, it was funny when everyone got mad at Cyborg. Wouldn't you? Don't worry; no one will get hurt badly, like as in they die from it. There will be some physical and emotional pain in the next chapter, though.
Tamaran Girl: You were the first person to review!! And because of that, I am eternally grateful *bows down on hands and knees*. Yes, I too do feel bad for Cyborg and his lonely self... -_-;
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Destiny Smasher: NO! Terra and Beast Boy must never go together!! Terra is evil!! Beast Boy and Raven 4eva! ( He he, sorry bout that. I just strongly feel that Beast Boy should be with Raven, not with Terra. And there is evidence to support the idea that Raven has feelings for Beast Boy. Did you see Nevermore? Well anyway, thanks so much for the long reviews! I love 'em!
Kevin: THE FIGHTING WILL COME SOON! CALM DOWN AND DON'T HURT ME! 0.0
Purplerave: The chapter may be ended, but a new one is about to come!
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Special thanks to my sister, whom I force to read my story before I update! Also, special thanks to Tori, without you, I wouldn't be writing about Teen Titans now! I owe it all to you girl! (
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Until next time... R&R! And stay out of heavy traffic.
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans.
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"TEEN TITANS GO!" Robin shouted as the titans stumbled into the room.
Starfire and Raven's hair were both only half brushed. Cyborg, after running to his room and then realizing that he actually didn't really have to get ready anyway, re-entered the TV room looking a bit sheepish at his mistake. Beast Boy was still pulling on a shoe as he entered.
"Ow, ow, ow!" Beast Boy cried out as he hopped on one foot trying to slip on the shoe. "EEK!" He slipped and toppled over towards the floor. Beast Boy braced himself for the collision of boy and floor which he expected to feel, but he found that the impact didn't come. He cautiously opened one eye, and to his surprise, he discovered that Raven had her arm around his chest, holding him just inches from the floor. Beast Boy quickly scrambled up and out of her arms embarrassedly. "Thanks for the... catch, Rae." He mumbled as he slipped on his shoe. Both Beast Boy and Raven's faces were a healthy shade of pink.
"Hurry!!" Robin shouted as he looked at his wrist and tapped the skin just above his hand, depicting the well-known signal of someone impatiently waiting for someone else to hurry up.
"You are not wearing a watch, Robin." Starfire stated, not understanding his indirect suggestion. "Why would you act like you do have a watch on if you really do not?"
"Uh... I'll explain it to you later, Star." Robin sighed and stopped tapping his wrist. He turned to the other three titans. "We have to go, NOW!"
"Rightie-o, Robin!" Cyborg had a huge excited smile on his face. Nothing had happened recently that required the Teen Titan's assistance. All of the crimes were petty ones that the New York Police Force could handle without the Titan's help. 'It's nice to know we're still needed.' Cyborg thought as they headed out to kick some butt.
"Quickly! To the stairs!" Beast Boy said sarcastically, with his eyes closed and his arm extending straight into the air in front of him, with only his index finger pointing at nothing in particular.
"Come on, Green Bean!" Cyborg grabbed Beast Boy by the shirt collar and dragged him towards the stairs.
"Let go, Tubber! I can walk by myself!!" Beast Boy struggled out of Cyborg's grasp on his shirt and trotted, head high, towards the stairs.
Beast Boy was the first to start the long climb down the many flights of stairs (yes, the elevator IS broken, what else is new? ^^). He was then followed by Raven, Starfire, Robin, and Cyborg (in that order). The titans were moving so quickly down the staircase that they began to be practically tumbling down. With only two flights left to go, Cyborg tripped on a faulty step and fell, pushing Robin in to Starfire, who then happened to push Raven whom fell and pushed Beast Boy. Everyone screamed as they went head over heals down the stairs, landing in a big heap at the bottom.
"CYBORG, GET OFF!" Four of the titans yelled. Cyborg, being at the back of the falling line of teens, and due to the laws of physics, landed on top of the other Titans.
"Sorry." Cyborg grunted as he got up off of everyone. He dusted himself off and then walked over and opened the door to the T-Car and then got into the driver's seat.
In the big mess of falling down two flights of stairs, Beast Boy just happened to land on top of Raven. Starfire and Robin were lying on the floor, faces just inches apart. Beast Boy laid where he was, groaning as he felt all the aches of hitting hard steps and then having a gigantic, fat robot fall on top of him. It wasn't until he felt Raven's breath on his face he realized that he had actually landed on top of her. Raven laid on the ground, unmoving staring up at him.
"Um... sorry, Raven." Beast Boy said to her, but instead of quickly jumping up and scurrying away shyly and embarrassedly, he slowly rose to his feet and then offered a hand down to help Raven off of the floor.
"Thank you." Raven said. Beat Boy couldn't make out any emotion in her voice so he couldn't tell what she was feeling or what she was thinking. 'If only I could read minds...' Beast Boy thought to himself.
'I could... but I won't read his mind.' Raven thought as she took the hand. 'Some things are better for me not to know now... but maybe to know later.'
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Robin opened his eyes to find two large, green pools of light shimmering back at him. He was in a daze, just having had the wind knocked out of him, not realizing until he felt warm breath on his nose that he was actually staring into Starfire's eyes. And then after blinking a few more times, he realized that Starfire's eyes (as well as the rest of her) were close to him, extremely close.
Robin quickly scrambled into a sitting position, quite aware that he was sweating, even though he wasn't hot. Starfire sat up more slowly, looking at Robin as she rose.
"Here, Star." Robin said as he took her hands in his and they helped each other to stand up. As soon as they were on their feet, Robin shouted, "Alright everyone! We have to get moving!"
Robin jumped onto the R-Cycle and started up the engine.
Beast Boy jumped into the back seat of the T-Car, pulling Raven roughly in with him.
"Ouch," Raven said looking at the place on her arm where Beast Boy had grabbed her, "don't grab me so hard. It's turning red."
Beast Boy looked at her arm. "Sorry Raven..." He frowned, a bit distressed.
Raven became upset at Beast Boy's distress. She began to comfort him. "It's alright, I'm alrig..." But she was cut off as Robin's shout echoed through the room.
"Go, Go, GO!"
"Man, he can calm down some. We'll get there in plenty of time." Cyborg said as hit the gas.
Robin grabbed Starfire pulling her onto the R-Cycle behind him. Robin clutched two helmets. Each was red with a black, lightning shaped strip along its side. The helmets covered up the wear's entire head with a see through plexy-glass opening in the front which could be opened or sealed shut with the press of a button. He handed one to Starfire and put one on his own head. Starfire quickly put the helmet on. It seemed to mold to her head snugly but she still did have air flowing through the helmet for her to breathe.
Starfire wrapped her arms tightly around Robin's waist. 'Wow, he's actually letting me ride his R-Cycle! We must really be in a hurry...' Starfire thought to herself as they left the island. The two vehicles then sped off onto the busy New York streets, full of busy New York traffic.
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"Rush hour." Cyborg commented as he tried to weave through the traffic. "Ugh. This stinks. How far ahead is Robin?"
"Not far." Beast Boy stuck his head out of the window to see how far ahead the motorcycle was. "A motorcycle is much easier to maneuver through traffic than a car, though."
"We're not going to make it in time!!" Robin shouted above the roar of traffic around him and Starfire. "Damn!" Robin yanked out his communicator and contacted Cyborg.
"Cyborg?!? You there?" Robin shouted into the communicator.
"Yo."
"We need to get out of this traffic, ASAP!"
"What traffic?"
"CYBORG!"
"Alright! Calm down, Mohawk Boy."
"... We are going to mode X, I repeat mode X! Do you read me??"
"Read yah loud and clear, Rob!" Cyborg smiled a broad grin.
Beep! Robin switched off the communicator.
"Umm... I'm just wondering, Cyborg... what's mode X?" Raven asked a bit confused.
"Oh, just something that Robin and I installed into the R-Cycle and T-Car. I've been going mad having to wait to try it out!"
"Great, so it's NEVER been tested before!?" Beast Boy's voice was a bit annoyed.
"Yup." Cyborg began to click what seemed to be random buttons on the dash board.
"Oh, no!" Beast Boy and Raven said at the same time. They looked at each other and blushed at the coincidence in their thoughts.
"I've never seen that blue button before." Beast Boy said as he glanced at the dashboard.
"Well that's because that's the button that starts the whole mode X system and it's never been there before." Cyborg answered as he finished clicking his series of buttons. "Alright, ya'll got your seat belts on?" Beast Boy and Raven quickly scrambled to fasten their seat belts. "Okay, then. Here we GO!" Cyborg pressed the blue button on the dashboard and mode X was activated.
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Robin switched off his communicator.
"That good for nothing..." Robin muttered as he put the communicator away.
"Robin, what is this mode X?" Starfire asked confused, as she usually is.
"Don't worry, Star. It's just a way to not have to go through this traffic. We can make it to the mall faster, so we can stop... whatever's happening there... quicker." Robin answered as he pressed buttons on the R-Cycle's handles.
"Alright, if it will help us get there faster..." Starfire said, still a bit unsure.
"Hold on tight, Star!" Robin felt Starfire's arms tighten around his waist. Without even realizing what he was doing, Robin found that he had put one of his arms behind his back and he was holding on to Starfire. Because of his contact with Starfire, Robin felt a sensation like electricity running through his veins, but a good kind of electricity, not the fry you to death kind. He gulped as he pressed the blue button. 'This had better work... for Starfire's sake.' Robin thought as mode X was put into action.
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"WO!" Beast Boy's eyes grew wide as the T-Car began to shake violently. "What's it doing!?"
"WHAT?" Cyborg yelled over the noise the car was making. "I CAN'T HEAR YOU BB. SPEAK UP!"
"WHAT IS THIS STUPID CAR DOING?!?!" Beast Boy shouted scared and annoyed at the same time.
"HEY! THIS CAR IS NOT STUPID!" Cyborg yelled back. He held on to the steering wheel with both of his hands which were shaking without mercy. "YOU'LL SEE WHAT IT CAN DO SOON ENOUGH, BOOGER BRAIN!!"
The windows of the car blacked out and the car became dark. If not for the weak light bulb shinning from the center of the car's roof, the T-Car would have been pitch black.
Raven's teeth chattered in her head and her body shook so hard that her head began to develop a steady rhythm to its hitting the headrest behind her. She grabbed onto the seat with both arms plastered down her side. Her eyes were open wide. 'I'm going to kill Cyborg and Robin... I'm going to kill them both!' She thought as she turned her head to see how Beast Boy was doing.
Beast Boy's mouth was open as if he was screaming but no sound escaped his lips. His eyes were closed and his body shook from side to side so rapidly that it seemed as if he was in more than one place at a time. His arms were thrashing around at his sides because he couldn't find anything to grip.
Raven slowly (the forces of the car were causing all of her movements to be slow) moved her hand that was on the side nearest Beast Boy over until her fingers brushed against his flailing hand. Beast Boy stopped moving his arms suddenly and turned his head to see Raven looking at his questioningly. She moved her hand closer to his and he moved his closer to hers until they were holding hands.
'It will be alright.' Raven said telekinetically into Beast Boy's mind. 'I know,' Beast Boy thought back to her. 'I know it will be now.' He smiled as he held her hand in his.
Without warning, the T-Car stopped shaking and the windows changed back into their see-through state, no longer black. All three titans in the car were thrown forward. 'Thank god for seatbelts.' Cyborg thought as they were all shot forward and then back into their seats as the seatbelt stopped each titan from flying out of the car through the windshield.
"W-w-what was t-that?" Beast Boy asked bewildered from their journey.
"That, my friends, was mode X." Cyborg answered slowly and softly looking straight in front of him. Then suddenly he turned around and asked excitedly, "Are you all okay? No broken bones or injuries?" The boy and girl shook their heads. "WHOOHOO! IT WORKED!" Cyborg shouted happily! "MODE X WORKS!"
"What happened to us?" Raven asked as she looked out the window and realized that they were no longer in the busy, car-packed street but in a crowded parking lot. "How did we get here?"
"Well..." Cyborg pondered whether or not to tell them what mode X had just caused to happen. 'They'll kill me if I tell them...' Cyborg thought to himself, but the cold looks given to him by Beast Boy and Raven were enough for him to know that if he DIDN'T tell them, they would kill him. "We were, uh please don't kill me guys... we were just umm up in the air..."
"You mean like we were flying?" Beast Boy asked, scratching his head with his free hand.
"Well not exactly." Cyborg continued uncomfortably. He knew they wouldn't like what he was about to tell them. "We were in the air... in a million tiny little pieces..."
"You mean like how television and radio signals are transmitted?!" Raven asked, astonished.
"Yes, like those... but then also NOT like those. It's hard to explain..." Cyborg looked at their expectant expressions and continued. "It's more like we went into an alternate dimension for a short period of time."
"An alter..." Beast Boy's voice trailed off and then continued after he had a moment of thought. "We were in an alternate dimension!? Wow how did yah do it?!"
Raven glared at Beast Boy and then addressed Cyborg. "So you are telling me that we went through an alternate dimension, and you hadn't even tested it yet!" She ended in a yell of anger. The car began to shake again, but not because it was in mode X.
"Raven, I'm sorry! Please stop! You're going to wreck the car!!" Cyborg pleaded. "You helped me build this baby! Please don't kill her!"
Raven took deep breaths while she started to meditate and slowly began to collect her anger. The car stopped shaking to Cyborg's relief. Beast Boy looked a bit bewildered. He had held on to Raven's hand the whole time she had been expressing her emotions. 'Luckily for me, she didn't aim her powers at me but at the car.' Beast Boy thought. 'Even though I know she can't control where her powers go when she has an emotion, I'm just glad that they didn't go after me. I was holding her hand after all...' He looked down to see that they were still holding hands.
"Rae, are you alright, now?" Cyborg asked. Raven nodded slightly, but said nothing. "Robin's probably waiting outside, let's get going." Cyborg opened the door and climbed out of the T-Car.
"Raven... are you sure you're okay?" Beast Boy asked gently, looking into her eyes.
"Yes, I'm fine, Beast Boy." She said, but she moved her gaze to the floor as she answered. She looked back up at him. "Come on, BB! Let's go teach some criminals a lesson!" Raven released Beast Boy's hand from hers and exited the car.
'Woh, now! Did Raven just call me BB? Wow, the whole world's going crazy! First I find out that I'm in love with Raven, then we travel through another dimension, then Raven calls me BB! What else could possibly happen to make my life anymore bizarre than it already is?' Beast Boy thought as he, too, exited the T-Car.
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"Wow!" Starfire voice was full of shock and awe. The R-Cycle had just landed roughly in the mall parking lot with the boy wonder and alien still present on its back.
'Thank god it worked.' Robin thought as a wave of relief rushed over him followed by a wave of guilt. 'I can't believe I risked Starfire's life just now! I didn't know IF mode X would even work, but I tried it anyway, WITH STARFIRE! Oh man, I hate myself...'
"That was amazing, Robin!" Starfire beamed. She had really enjoyed their trip through an alternate dimension.
"Yah..." Robin answered. 'What a great idea! The car's metal frame (should have (don't know yet...)) held together its passengers while they traveled through the alternate dimension, while the motorcycle helmets held our atoms together as we went on our journey through the space-time continuum. Now I do have to admit to myself that WAS pretty awesome.' Robin beamed to himself.
Starfire hopped off the motorcycle and handed her helmet to Robin who was lifting his leg over the side to dismount. As he was doing so, the T-Car suddenly appeared beside them with a deafening boom.
"EEEK!" Starfire screeched and jumped back behind Robin.
"It's alright, Starfire. It's just the other Titans arriving. We, Cyborg and I, set the navigational instruments so that we would land just feet from each other so we wouldn't have to search for where the other had landed."
"Oh..." Starfire replied as if she understood what he had just said. 'I wish Robin would take me for rides on his R-Cycle more often. I really do love it, as well as his company...' Starfire thought to herself as she watched Cyborg, Raven, and Beast Boy exit the T-Car.
"All here? All unharmed?" Robin asked the Titans stumbling out of the car and into the mall parking lot.
"Yah, we're all fine." Cyborg gave Robin a high five, congratulating him on mode X's success. "Now let's go kick some baddie behind!
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Yah, I know, I DIDN'T put the fight scene in this chapter. Please don't kill me (directed at Kevin...)! It IS going to be in the next chapter!! I super-duper promise you this time! Really, how much more can I stall the characters from the fight? They are right outside the doors! I'm really sorry, but this chapter was soo long and it's been such a long time since I last posted that I just couldn't wait anymore! And yes, someone doesn't come back from the fight! You'll just have to ponder about that until I post chapter 5!! Whaha! I'm evil...(
I hope you liked chapter 4! Please Read and Review! Oh, I'll answer some of your reviews now!
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Brian, Warrior of Time: Yah, I loved the cereal part, too! ^_-
moezy-chan: Thanks for telling me I had good description. I hope I'm getting better at that!
Carrot The LuvMachine: Yah, it was funny when everyone got mad at Cyborg. Wouldn't you? Don't worry; no one will get hurt badly, like as in they die from it. There will be some physical and emotional pain in the next chapter, though.
Tamaran Girl: You were the first person to review!! And because of that, I am eternally grateful *bows down on hands and knees*. Yes, I too do feel bad for Cyborg and his lonely self... -_-;
hieiandbotan4ever: I'm updating!! (
Destiny Smasher: NO! Terra and Beast Boy must never go together!! Terra is evil!! Beast Boy and Raven 4eva! ( He he, sorry bout that. I just strongly feel that Beast Boy should be with Raven, not with Terra. And there is evidence to support the idea that Raven has feelings for Beast Boy. Did you see Nevermore? Well anyway, thanks so much for the long reviews! I love 'em!
Kevin: THE FIGHTING WILL COME SOON! CALM DOWN AND DON'T HURT ME! 0.0
Purplerave: The chapter may be ended, but a new one is about to come!
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Special thanks to my sister, whom I force to read my story before I update! Also, special thanks to Tori, without you, I wouldn't be writing about Teen Titans now! I owe it all to you girl! (
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Until next time... R&R! And stay out of heavy traffic.