Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans, but if I did, I'd keep them in a miniature replica of their former habitat. Except for Robin and Raven. I'd take them out and play with them.

A/N: I just realized that some of you may not know what I'm talking about when I mention the monkey. During the episode Fear Itself, the Titans hear this voice inside the Tower saying "Help me." They follow it to Beast Boy's closet, and it turns out to be a stuffed monkey playing the cymbals saying "Help me count! One...two..."

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The Monkey

"You're ready? All right, Titan, go!" Raven rolled her eyes at Robin's dramatics but she found herself suppressing a small grin of excitement as she quietly phased through the walls to complete her first mission. Back in his room, Robin rubbed his hands together gleefully and hunted through the mess on his floor to find the tools he we would need to successfully pull off the prank.

Five minutes later, Raven returned. She sat back down on the bed, placed the small stuffed monkey next to her, and gave her report. "I hope you appreciate that I had to search through Beast Boy's room to get that thing." Raven turned a shade paler than normal as she remembered the disgustingly atrocious unwashed wasteland that was their green teammate's room.

"He was off hiding in one of the storerooms on the third floor, probably perfecting another hilarious prank for someone else. It seems that he gave Starfire a reminder about what April Fool's Day is though, because right now, she's following Cyborg around practicing the bodily noises that Beast Boy taught her a while ago." This time both Titans paused, recalling with dismay the embarrassment the team's public image had suffered when Starfire had shared her amazing newfound talent at making an "armpit chorus" with the press after the team had captured Control Freak.

"Where were those two?"

"Cyborg was in the living room, but he looked like he was about ready to throw himself out the window. Actually, he was thinking about finding Beast Boy, attaching his collar to a boulder, and throwing him out the window." Robin laughed at Raven's matter-of-fact delivery. "We won't have any problems. Do you have everything ready?"

Robin nodded. "Right. I have the voice scrambler set up, along with the miniature speaker and a tape recorder. Here's the framework for movement we can use, and it's synched with this remote. We can use part of the recording that's already there, but not all of it, so it would be easier just to edit out the parts we don't need."

"All right. Let's get to work then."

.o.o.o.o.

When Robin walked into the living room an hour later, he was holding the toy monkey in his hand. Spotting Beast Boy and Cyborg on the sofa, he walked over.

"Hey guys. Where's Starfire?"

Cyborg groaned. "About an hour after I stopped laughing at her "armpit chorus" she decided she needed to go find her old Tameranian joke book."

"So you've decided to teach her the finer points of April Fool's Day, huh Cyborg?" Robin chuckled.

"Oh, man, don't even get me started! It's all collar-boy's fault anyway," Cyborg glared at Beast Boy.

"Collar boy?" Robin feigned surprise when he beheld the shadow-covered roll of duct tape encircling Beast Boy's neck. Raven had told him about her reaction to the vinegar prank, but as he actually looked at the results of her spell, he couldn't hold back his laughter.

Beast Boy looked annoyed, until he noticed what Robin bore in his hand. "Hey! That's mine! Where'd you get that?"

"This?" Robin held up the stuffed monkey. "I thought I remembered that it was yours. Well, I found it sitting on my desk just now." He tossed the monkey lightly across the room to Beast Boy.

As he caught it, Beast Boy frowned. "I didn't put it there. I bet it was Raven!"

Cyborg cut in. "Man, why would Raven do something like that?"

"I don't know, 'cause she's Raven?" And she's really pissed at me, Beast Boy added silently to himself.

"As great as that logic is, Beast Boy," the other two boys got the impression that Robin had rolled his eyes, "Raven isn't even in the tower. I saw her storming out of here a few hours ago. What did you do to her, anyway? She looked pretty pissed."

"Why do you think I had anything to do with it?" Beast Boy tried and failed to look innocently at his leader. Cyborg whacked him in the back of the head. "OW! Okay, alright! I might have—done something to her tea." He rushed on as he noticed Robin about to scold him. "But, dude! Look at what she did to me!"

Robin tried to suppress another laugh and look stern at the same time. "You should just leave her alone for the rest of the day, Beast Boy. You know how she needs to stay emotionally balanced."

Beast Boy looked at the floor guiltily.

"Don't worry about the past, just...don't do something like that again, all right?" When Beast Boy nodded vigorously, fingering his collar, Robin continued. "Well, I just wanted to give that back to you. I guess I wouldn't worry about it too much. I'll be back in my room if you need me."

The two boys nodded at Robin as he left the room. As soon as he turned the corner, he whispered, "Stage three is a success."

Raven materialized next to him from a pool of shadows. "Excellent." She grabbed Robin's arm and pulled him with her back into the darkness.


Dun dun dun!

What the heck did they do to that poor monkey? What are they planning to do to Beast Boy! Find out that and more in the next chapter!