A/N: WOOSH! Fifth chapter now! Yay! And this should be fun . . . It's centered on the character I hate the most!
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Here's the chapter!
Raven sat on the sofa in the living room, watching her Led Zeppelin DVD. The band was playing "live" at the Royal Albert Hall, millions of screaming fans in front of them. Raven couldn't help but sing.
"COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN!
IT'S ALWAYS THE SAME!
HAVIN' A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN!
DRIVIN' ME INSANE!"
Raven stood up and observed her new role model, Robert Plant, who was doing some kind of dance to Jimmy Page's wacky solo. He was shaking himself, as if he was the one playing guitar, and moving his shoulders around and stuff. Raven imitated the best she could, but found it was too hard to keep up with him.
Raven fell to the couch, exhausted. She was much better at making up her own dance moves!
Raven looked over to Cyborg, who was busy making breakfast. "Are we having eggs again?" she asked, a tint of hope in her voice.
"Yeah," said Cyborg, whipping yolks in a bowl. "What else would you expect? This is the only think I know how to make that isn't microwavable."
"What about waffles?"
"Those are microwavable. That, or I could use the waffle iron . . . But it takes too long to make the stuff."
Starfire walked into the living room, headed to the kitchen, and sat down at the table. She lowered her head and looked down, not observing anything that was happening to the robot and Party Queen.
"Hey Starfire," said Cyborg, now putting the yolks into a frying pan. "Cut any better?"
Starfire lifted her wrist to show Cyborg where she had cut herself. There was a pink line across it.
"Take that as a yes." He moved the eggs around, which made a louder sizzling noise as he did.
"Good morning guys," said Robin as he walked into the room, dressed in a bathrobe and carrying a rolled up newspaper.
"Hey Robin," said Raven, putting her Led Zeppelin DVD into its case. "Have a nice private moment?"
Robin grumbled. He hated it when she called it that. "Yeah. Wonderful."
"Any idea if Beast Boy is going to come down?" Cyborg asked, moving the eggs around some more.
"He told me to tell you to make him tofu," said Starfire, still not looking up from the table. "He wants to stay in his room."
Cyborg shoveled the eggs onto plates for the four of them. But something didn't feel right. Ever since the curse had first come into affect, he couldn't help but notice how eerie and weird he felt when he was around them. He found out that Robin felt the same way.
But . . . who was going to be next? Him or Robin?
"Breakfast is served," said Cyborg, proud of his eggs. Raven grabbed a fork, shoveled a mouthful, and gagged.
"ECK!" shouted Raven, sticking out her tongue and waving air at it. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM?"
"Nothing," said Cyborg, looking at all the other eggs. "Wait . . ." He went over to Raven and smelled her breath lightly. "You have chocolate on your breath. You've been drinking again, haven't you?"
Raven closed her mouth and nodded, slowly and shamefully.
"That's why it tastes so bad! You should've known better!"
"It tastes like eating something after rinsing with Listerine," said Raven, still trying to get the yucky taste out of her mouth. Maybe she could just use water?
Raven walked over to the sink while the rest of the Titans enjoyed a quiet breakfast; something that they didn't have too often.
Robin walked into his room, ready to change out of his bathrobe and into his uniform. He smiled as he slowly began to undo the sash, acting as though he were stripping down for a girl.
But there was a noise. Robin gasped and immediately redid the sash, thinking that somebody was watching.
"Who's there?" he asked nervously, hoping that nobody had seen anything. "Come out!"
"GLADLY!" said a voice, possibly the voice that had made the noise.
Robin looked around. All of the shelves to his dresser and his closet doors were opening, all by themselves!
It was then something completely weird happened. All of Robin's clothes, his pants, his shirts, his uniforms, his socks, everything, began to come out of the wardrobe and closet as if they were alive!
"THERE HE IS BOYS!" cried one of the clothing items. "GET HIM!"
Robin screamed as he tried to escape the oncoming clothes. He grabbed his staff and began beating random items into a pulp. But to what good? He wasn't doing any damage!
"GRAB HIM!"
All of the clothes spontaneously jumped on Robin and pulled him down to the ground. Robin lay under all of the clothes, miraculously able to still breathe. He tried to crawl out from under the pile, but to no avail! He was no doubt doomed!
Unless . . .
"HELP!" he screamed, hoping that somebody would hear him.
"HE'S TRYING TO COMMUNICATE! QUICKLY! STUFF HIS MOUTH!"
A random sock immediately crammed itself into Robin's mouth, allowing Robin to speak no more.
The clothes danced on top of Robin, apparently having a great time. Robin could hear the clothes talking about how great it felt to see their master fall, and how nice it was to be in charge. Robin slowly closed his eyes.
But then he heard his door open!
"Laundry!" came a singsong voice. It was Raven! He was going to be saved!
"Robin sure has a messy room," he could hear her say, and immediately began to feel the weight of his clothes lessen.
Raven gathered the last of Robin's clothing and saw Robin, lying on the floor. "Robin!" said Raven, a hand on her hip. "You silly boy! You don't sleep under clothes! That's what people use blankets for!" She left as soon as she came.
Robin stood up and removed the sock from his mouth. WHAT JUST HAPPENED?
His clothes betrayed him . . . How could his own clothes betray him? Well . . . one thing's for sure, he could never trust clothes again.
He began to untie his sash . . .
Raven walked into the room, carrying two laundry baskets stacked on top of each other. "Here's the stuff from Robin's room," she said, handing it to Starfire, who handed it to Cyborg, who dumped the clothes down the laundry chute.
"That's the last of them," said Cyborg, dropping the two laundry baskets. "Now all we have to do is wash, which we'll do later. They're showing a remake of 'The Shining'."
"Another one?" Raven asked, tilting her head. "You'd think there'd be enough."
Cyborg nodded and sat down on the couch, turning the channel to Channel 71: The All Movie Network. Two freaky girls appeared on the TV as the channel changed.
"Come play with us, Stewie," they said creepily. "Forever and ever and ever."
The camera changed to a young male baby, who tilted his head. "Yes, all work and no play makes Stewie a dull boy." He bulled out a bazooka and shot the two girls, which concluded a mass explosion.
"Wait . . ." said Cyborg, flipping through the TV Guide. "Oh . . . They're showing it as if what would happen with people from 'Family Guy'."
"That would make more sense," said Raven, nodding spastically.
They heard the door open.
"Hey everyone," said Robin. Raven and Cyborg turned around, and immediately grew wide-eyed at what they saw.
"AAAAAH!" screamed Raven, throwing her hands over her eyes. "IT'S THE SHINING!"
"More like 'The Flashing!'" said Cyborg, making a disgusted face. "Dude! Robin! Put some clothes on!"
Robin shivered. "No way! Clothes are not to be trusted! They must be destroyed!"
Raven took off her Robert Plant jacket and threw it at Robin. "At least put that around your waist!" she said, trying hard not to gag from disgust.
"No! All clothes must be destroyed!" He grabbed a lighter and set the jacket on fire.
"MY JACKET!" screamed Raven, who stood up and stomped on her once mint condition jacket. The flames were snuffed out, and she picked it up, holding it to her chest. "It's OK, Jacket. We can fix you."
Robin lit the lighter again and brought the flame to the bottom of Raven's bellbottoms. Raven could feel something hot near her feet, and she looked down.
"MY BELLBOTTOMS!" She began to dance around. "MY LEG!!!!!!! STOP, DROP, AND ROLL!" She threw herself to the ground and tumbled, doing more damage to herself than what the flames were doing to her pants. Finally, the flame was snuffed.
"My bellbottoms," said Raven, looking at her now ruined pants. "Wait . . . Ha! Capris!" Sure enough, the only thing that was burned was just the bottom, turning the jeans into natural and ruff-looking capris. Raven licked her finger, touched her butt, and made a hissing noise.
"I'm lookin' hott in these, baby!" she said.
"Don't flatter yourself," said Starfire, quietly. Apparently, she seemed to not care about Robin's nudity. Cyborg, on the other hand, was all over the place.
"Dude, what is wrong with you?" he asked. "You're stark naked! Aren't you ashamed?"
"No! I feel proud to be free!"
Cyborg smacked his head. Starfire shook her head slowly, and Raven continued to admire her new jeans.
"I'm going out," said Robin, heading towards the exit.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" asked Cyborg, nearly falling off the couch at this news. "YOU CAN'T GO OUT LIKE THAT! People will think the Titans have gone insane or something!"
"I'm not insane!" Robin shouted back, throwing his hands up in the air. "I'm just going to try to get people to realize how great it is to be free!" He walked over to Starfire. "Come on Starfire! Freedom! Think about it!"
"There's no point in being free," said Starfire as she turned her head to avoid looking at Robin. "It'll all just catch up to you."
Robin sighed. "Whatever. Expect me back by five." He left.
Cyborg looked at Starfire, and Starfire stared back. Raven came back over to the sofa and joined in the staring.
"I guess we should go after him?" asked Cyborg. Raven shrugged and Starfire sighed.
Robin walked down the large city streets, not noticing the many disgusted stares that people were throwing at him. It was so nice to be able to walk around the way nature intended you to.
A police car pulled up to him, and an officer walked out. Apparently, the same officer that had arrested Raven, but Robin wouldn't have known that.
But . . . we would have!
"You're under arrest for exposure," said the cop, grabbing handcuffs and attempting to place them on Robin.
Robin, who never had superpowers in the first place, was still capable of using his great ninja skills. He jumped out of the reaches of the cop, landing far away from him. The cop growled angrily.
"I need backup," said the cop immediately into his walky-talky. "The suspect is heading for Jump City Park. Meet there."
"WE NEED TO KNOW THE VALUES OF FREEDOM WHILE WE STILL HAVE IT!" Robin preached to the many people in Jump City Park. He was standing next to the manmade fountain, one of the things that had attracted people to the park in the first place.
"WE MUST BE ABLE TO DO WHATEVER WE WANT! LIKE THIS!" He jumped into the fountain and began splashing water all over the place. People became disgusted and made those little "ugh . . ." noises.
Some people, however, thought that Robin was right, and quickly joined him in the fountain. They too began to splash around, making as much noise as they wanted and collecting money from the bottom.
"Hold it right there!" said a voice through a megaphone. The nudists quickly turned around to see a whole line of SWAT men, armed with tranquilizing guns and miniature grenades.
"We will ask you kindly to leave the fountain and come with us!" said the man in through the megaphone, obviously the chief. "Do not resist! We are armed and dangerous!"
"Why are you doing this?" asked Robin, holding his hands up in the air. "We need to be able to work together if we are going to have this whole freedom thing work! You know, unity!"
The SWAT men looked at eachother, mumbling things like "What is he talking about?" and "What? We're already united! We're the United States of America, dammit!'
"Come on now! Give freedom a chance! Let the world know that you have a right to own what it has to give! Pure freedom!"
The SWAT men cheered and quickly joined the band of nudists, leaving the chief behind, hand on his forehead and making an angry face.
"What idiot requested the SWAT Team?" he asked to no one in particular. "We need someone else . . . Like . . . the Superfriends or something."
"Well . . . nothing on this street," said Cyborg behind the wheel of the T-Car, now turning to the right.
"We've been searching for hours!' said Raven, angrily. "Can't we just give up?"
"We can't give up now, Rae," said Cyborg, keeping a lookout for anything suspicious. "We need to at least find something before Robin actually does making a band of nudists."
"I think he did," said Starfire, dully.
Cyborg and Raven looked out the left window, and sure enough, there was Robin, being followed by at least fifty other people.
"Good grief," said Raven, eyes fixed to the nudes. "That's the SWAT Team!"
"THE SWAT TEAM?" shouted Cyborg, pressing his face against the window. "HE CORRUPED THE SWAT TEAM?"
"Apparently." Raven looked out the window once more. "The first nude person I see in my life just would have to be a batch of freaks parading around in the streets. It's almost like Gay Pride Day . . . Just more weird."
"I'll say," said Cyborg, now climbing out of the car, but careful to avoid a glance from Robin. He went to the back of the T-Car and opened the trunk, reached in, and pulled out a tranquilizing gun.
"Stand clear," whispered Cyborg to Raven, who nodded and opened the car door. He loaded the gun, took aim, and fired at the ring leader.
. . . Only to be off by a couple of feet.
A man standing next to Robin received the dart in the stomach, then fell on the ground in a hurry. All of the nudists stopped in their tracks and looked at him, then looked up to see Cyborg standing there, armed with a tranquilizing gun and a worried look on his face.
"He's trying to ruin our brigade!" shouted Robin to the people behind him. "GET HIM!"
"Oh crap!" shouted Cyborg as he jumped into the driver's seat of the T-Car. "Buckle of, kids!" he said to Raven and Starfire, who both immediately did so.
Cyborg slammed on the acceleration, and the three Titans were off in a cloud of smoke. Cyborg let out a grim laugh in success and looked at his teammates.
"No way they'll catch up now!" said Cyborg as he looked in his rear-view mirror.
. . . Only to see that a SWAT car was following them at high speed!
"Oh man . . ." he said quietly as he punched a few buttons on the dashboard. "Turbo speed!"
The car took off at about 280 MPH, leaving the SWAT car in a cloud of flame, nitrogen oxide, and carbon dioxide.
"WOOHOO!" Cyborg screamed as he tried his hardest to keep from laughing. Raven just smiled as she watched the SWAT car get smaller, and Starfire just sat there like nothing was happening at all.
Raven turned around, smiling smugly. Her smug eyes however were soon replaced with fear when she saw the Long Island Sound quickly approaching them.
"LOOK OUT!" she shouted to Cyborg. He fixed his eyes on the approaching water, and, like a professional driver, screamed.
"AAAAAAH!"
The car flew into the water, and down, down, down!
"How long have we been down here?" Starfire asked, looking out the window.
"A long time. Couple of hours, I would guess."
Cyborg sighed and turned up the music to the radio, filling the car with Pink Floyd. Apparently, all the fish outside heard it, too, because they all swam away.
"I wish Nemo was here," said Raven, also looking out the window. "That would be so cool. Nemo comes swimming up with his dad and Dory. I like Dory. She's my role model. Except for that short-term memory loss thing. That's just bad."
Cyborg nodded. "So . . . what are we going to do?"
"Let's hope that our oxygen supply doesn't run out!" said Raven, acting as if she had just requested to play a game.
"OK!"
The three Titans sat there, trying their hardest to not breathe in a lot of oxygen. They were interrupted, however, when the T-Car was bumped by some unknown force.
"IT'S THE WATER SPIRITS!" screamed Raven, leaping into Starfire's lap. "WE UPSET THEM!"
"Get off of me . . ." said Starfire, shoving Raven off of her and into the seat next to her. "Can you see what that is, Cyborg?"
Cyborg turned on his x-ray vision and looked into the vast, deep underwater world before their eyes. "Yeah . . . It's a . . . big . . . metal thing."
Raven peered out the window, and indeed saw some kind of metal thing coming in their direction. It didn't take long for her to realize what it was . . .
"We're about to be run over by the bottom of a ferry."
Cyborg and Starfire nodded, then continued to watch as their approaching doom came. But . . . the ferry stopped!
"What?" asked Starfire, looking at the ferry again. Man! She was looking so forward to dieing!
The head of a crane lowered into the water, then grabbed the trailer hitch of the T-Car. The three Titans were being lifted out of the water and onto the ferry! They were saved!
. . . And they were greeted by a band of nudists.
Robin was at the head of the pack, as usual, arms on his hips and an angry look on his face.
Cyborg climbed out of the T-Car, followed by everyone else, and looking at all of the people in front of them. "You saved us?"
"Yeah," said Robin, the angry look going away. "Even though you drugged our vice president and managed to get away, we decided that our friendship comes first."
"Aw . . ." said Raven, deeply touched. She knocked Cyborg on the shoulder. Cyborg nodded as he pulled out his emergency tranquilizing pistol, giving Robin five darts before he fell.
Robin slowly opened his eyes and realized that he was in the main room of the Titans Tower. Starfire, Raven, and Cyborg were all sitting in the living room, staring at him.
"How long have I been out?" he asked, sitting up slowly.
"About an hour," said Starfire, looking at a clock.
Beast Boy came hurling into the room, an excited look on his face. "I DID IT! IT'S ALL OVER! I . . ." Apparently, he had noticed Robin.
"And . . . uh . . . I'm just now going to go check over anything I may have missed." Beast Boy left as soon as he came.
"That was odd," said Robin, looking at the door Beast Boy exited by.
"That was odd?" asked Raven. "We just got finished running away from you, driving into the Long Island Sound, and being rescued! And by a band of nudists, too!"
"You act like it was a bad thing."
"Not bad," said Cyborg. "Weird. When are you going to give up this thing, anyway?"
"Never!" Robin stood up triumphantly. "The world shall know how great it is to be free!"
Robin left as soon as Beast Boy left as well.
Cyborg sighed. "I guess I'm the only one left."
"Hopefully you won't become utterly insane like Robin," said Raven. "Look at me and Starfire. We're still practically human."
"Yeah," said Starfire, slowly getting up. "And then, hopefully, this whole thing will be over with, and we can go back to our normal lives."
Cyborg, nodded, standing up as well. "I'm tired. Let's go to bed."
Raven and Starfire nodded. But Raven stopped for a minute, then looked at the water surrounding the Titans Tower.
"I have an idea!" said Raven. The other two looked at her. "Let's go drive underwater! I have always wanted to do that!"
"YEAH!" shouted both of the Titans, and soon enough, they were all driving around the bay, running into all sorts of wonderful fish.
That was probably the most random chapter I have ever written. But oh well!
If you guys can't guess who the next victim is, then you guys are just WEIRD!
Stay tuned!