Author's Note:
To answer everyone's question on where I was and why I wasn't updating include these reasons: 1.) I am busy and I have to go to high school too you know. And with all the projects we are doing it is VERY difficult to get anything done. 2.) I had a piece of fiberglass in my eye so I couldn't SEE out of my eye, so I couldn't update. 3.) I just didn't feel up to it. Just getting over the flu can take it out on you. 4.) I have recently become a foster parent to animals and watching two little kittens run around making messes isn't very fun.
I posted the link to the picture in my user info (profile) here so you can see the picture. Artist is Dark Persian. Excellent TT artist.
Here's an update. Hopefully one more chapter after this.
Raven A. Star
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Wow, What A Bang
"Cyborg, what time is it?"
The robotic man looked at the clock in his arm and smiled. "10:30 PM."
Raven and Beast Boy groaned as Starfire came running from one house dragging Robin and her bag of candy and flew to another door and knocked on it loudly. The alien girl had already gathered five garbage bags full of the delicious treats and was still on a roll. Poor Robin looked like he was about to croak any second.
The door opened up and a woman appeared in it with a large smile on her face, only to have it fade quickly. She threw up the bowl of candy and ran back inside screaming and slammed the door. Starfire waved.
"Thank you incredibly strange earthling!"
Beast Boy scratched his head. "How much longer do we have to do this? It's kinda…"
"…getting boring?"
Beast Boy nodded. "Yeah! Wait…"
The empath was about to make a sarcastic remark when Starfire marched over and tossed the bag onto the ground in front of her.
"These people are very strange. I say the cheat or manipulate line and everyone screams and runs shouting 'she is going to steal my underwear!' or 'aaah! Call the police George!' However, they are very nice in giving us all this delicious Earthly treats that are incredibly tasty! But I believe I am ready to, 'go home'?"
Robin quickly shot to his feet. "Okay, I'm all for that. Anyone got any protests…I didn't think so…" Robin quickly answered his own question before anyone else could respond. However, his little scheme didn't last long.
"Uh, Robin? Did you forget something?"
Robin marched down the street to the T-Car. "Nope, I think we all had a long night, and we can hold off that little haunted house scheme till next year."
Beast Boy groaned but Raven let out a slight sigh of relief. They followed Robin to the T-Car and piled in (after much difficulty convincing Starfire that garbage bags full of candy do not need seat belts) and headed home.
However, their journey home would be cut short by a very curious Beast Boy.
"Oooh, what does THIS button do!?"
"No don't touch that…!"
BEEP! A computer voice sounded through the speakers. "All systems going into emergency shut down. Repeat…all systems going into emergency shut down."
Then the T-Car stalled right in the middle of the road and the headlights flicked off. Everyone glared at the changeling.
He chuckled nervously. "Hehe…whoops?"
Raven crossed her arms and scowled. "Yeah, whoops."
Beast Boy grinned. "Don't make it seem that bad. Look! There's a big house we can go into to find someone to help us!"
Cyborg climbed out of his car. "I need some tools to get the car back up and running again."
"Why don't we leave it here, go get your tools and come back and fix it?"
Cyborg looked flabbergasted. "And leave my baby all alone!?" He hugged his car. "Never!"
Raven rolled her eyes as Beast Boy snickered. She looked over and glared. "You did that just because you knew this house was here, didn't you?"
The green Titan wiggled his eyebrows. "Maybe…" He walked to the house whistling. Raven wanted to grab a bag of candy and chuck it at his head, but didn't want to face the wrath of an angry Tamaranian who would witness the abuse to her 'poor little sweets that must be eaten because they are so delicious'.
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Raven and Beast Boy knocked on the door loudly. Beast Boy hopped from one foot to the next anxiously while Raven stood with her arms crossed. She was beginning to feel the coolness of the night now really affecting her.
Beast Boy reached over and opened the door and peeked inside. He looked back at Raven and grinned. "Nobody's home. Come on, let's go."
Raven stayed in the doorway. "Isn't that breaking and entering?"
Beast Boy looked at the door. "I didn't break anything did I?"
"…"
He grinned. "Didn't think so. Now where's a light switch when you need one?" Thud. "Ouch, there's a chair." Bang. "That's…a couch." Crash. "That's a rug."
Raven looked over her shoulder and summoned a flash light from the T-Car. It hovered to her hand quickly. She flicked the light on and shined the beam inside to find Beast Boy sprawled in the floor tangled up in dusty sheets and spider webs.
"Nice."
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"Okay, we're in the basement of an abandoned, creepy old house. Where's the mad scientist's laboratory when you need one?"
Raven shined the beam to a box on the wall and opened it up to reveal dials and switches. "Beast Boy, you watch way too many movies."
Beast Boy stood behind Raven as she fiddled with the circuits. "Yeah, right. You're just jealous cause you don't know what could be down here."
"Do they have torture pits in mad-scientists labs?"
Beast Boy placed a finger to his chin. "In the movie I watched they didn't."
"Darn."
Beast Boy scowled at her. "What's the supposed to mean?"
"Nothing, just stand back."
The two stepped back. Using her powers, she flicked the switches and the power zapped on in the house. Lights sizzled on illuminating the room. Beast Boy squinted to adjust his eyes as Raven flicked off the flashlight.
"Dude…this is just like in that movie I saw…"
Raven blinked. "No way."
In front of them looked like a scene out of a science fiction/horror movie. It was a laboratory with viles and tables laid everywhere along with a massive computer off to the side. Hanging off hooks next to the computer was two white jackets presumably the suits that whoever worked here wore.
"THIS IS AWESOME!"
Beast Boy ran over, took a suit and shook it and pulled it on and admired himself. "I look just like a scientist!"
Raven snorted and held back a chuckle. "I'm not saying anything."
"Here," He tossed over the other jacket which slapped onto her face. She coughed and sputtered and tore it off angrily only to find Beast Boy lifting up random containers and admiring the fluids that actually remained in them.
"Alright, I am the Mad Scientist and you can be Igor my assistant…"
Raven shook her head and leaned on a counter after kicking the jacket aside. "Uh, no."
He growled. "Fine. Just watch me then. I'll make a potion to bring monsters to life and change werewolves into pussy cats!"
He took a vile of a blue substance and lifted up a glass of a red powder and grinned. Slowly tipping the blue liquid into the powder, he stuck his tongue out the corner of his mouth in concentration.
Raven backed away nervously as the mixture began to hiss and fizzle.
Beast Boy dumped all of the contents into the one glass and began to shake it with his hand covering the hole. He lifted his hand off of the lid and grinned as he held up the glass that looked similar to vinegar and baking soda reacting.
"Success!"
BANG!
A blast sent the green Titan flying across the room towards Raven. She ducked just as he flew over head. Smoke filled the room as Raven coughed and spluttered.
"Beast Boy! Are you okay?" She ran over to where he flew at only to discover a Beast Boy shaped hole in the wall. "Beast Boy?"
The changeling climbed out covered in a brown soot like substance. He blinked. "Wow…what a bang."
"Beast Boy! What did you get into this time!?" Cyborg's voice boomed down the cellar stairs.
"Nothing!" He called back.
-End of Chapter 4-