Chapter 2: The dates… and Lord of Laughs.

Disclaimer/Note: Thank you to all the people that reviewed, I'll say a thank you at the end of the chapter to all! Then again, the Teen Titans characters are properly owned to their creators, and other DC comic characters to their previous creators… You'll see what I mean soon. /

The day was planned out to be perfect… kind of. Raven had other plans, but how far could she take this revenge thing before it goes to far? She just wanted Beast Boy to feel as bad as she did when she found out he didn't care about her. How much it hurt… that he could lie to her… to make her feel so wrong. She knew it was a perfect plan, Beast Boy had come down stairs with a large grin, he stepped next to Raven saying, "Man, this is going to be a great evening, hunh?"

Raven turned away from him not answering, he felt hurt, but he figured she would be stand offish at first. The others came and sure enough Starfire was holding Robin's arm smiling, Robin even had his grin. Raven smiled as she winked at Robin, and noted not only did Robin kind of turn a shade of red, Beast Boy looked at the two strangely, like he felt there was something wrong! Raven figured he was finally starting to get worried, soon revenge was hers!

"Whoah!" Cyborg came out of the tower and said, "Okay, you all have a great time, and I'll stick it out here chillin and waitin for any trouble, kay?"

Robin turned to Cyborg smiling, "Sure thing, try to call us if you need any help okay?"

Cy nodded, Starfire gleamed her eyes, "Oh, what a wonderful day! We will get to enjoy our time with our dearest friends!"

Raven grinned, "Some dearer than others…" She gave a small glance to Robin, making sure Beast Boy had noticed. Beast Boy turned a little brow to Robin as if daring him to say something… he had a bad feeling in his stomach. "Okay, let's move out Titans!"

Raven and the others all made their ways out. Inside the tower was Cyborg, he was rummaging through the fridge making a large sub, some chips and dips, other things of that sort. He then laid them on a table in front of the couch and the TV grinning, "Oh yeah! Perfect timing! Not only do the guys leave for an entire night, but my favorite TV show is running a 5 hour marathon of their most radical stunts ever! Now it's going to so great!" Cy turned on the TV to…

"Now it's time for happy puppy and the grumpy kitty show!" there was a small pink puppy and blue kitten, the puppy was yapping as the cat moaned…

Cyborg snorted, his nostrils kind of flared, "Starfire…" he then tried to flip the channel but the yapping continued, the moaning continued… the sickening… continued… "No…" Cy looked at the blinking light with "Batteries" under it. "NO… NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

Cyborg jumped up and began to scour the drawers, couch, carpet, ceiling, everything he could think of! However, it was useless… there were no batteries! He used the last ones earlier that week but figured would they even need batteries that soon? If he needed them he would take them from the… remote… "Do'h!"

The movies were nothing spectacular, the ones they could choose from were very… not… um… good. Beast Boy wanted to see the comical "Creepy Movie 3" but a lot of the people who saw that seemed really upset with how pointless it turned out. Raven was sort of interested in "Mikey Vs. Thompson" but the outcome she heard was less than expected. Starfire saw the new Sci-Fi movie "Spacers Vs. Hunters", but the endings is supposed to be so easy to see that half way through the movie it's a waste of time. None of the movies seemed to be worth while...

Robin looked at the titles and smiled as he said, "What about "Urban Evil: Armageddon!" the titans all knew nothing about it, it had Action for Robin, Horror for Raven, Comedy for Beast Boy, and even Sci-Fi for Starfire! They all agreed freely that it was the best choice.

As they entered the theaters, Raven had made her way to the bathroom, she felt nauseaous… on the walk down… she "Accidently" fell onto Robin. While on him she felt him grab her leg, she jumped and said "So… sorry." She was now starting to worry, what if he was getting interested? God… what if he was turned on? GAHK! Raven began seeing herself vomiting into the toilet, she didn't but the idea made her feel that way. She liked Beast Boy, but what he did, he deserved to be punished. Raven turned to see Starfire, she was looking into a mirror, upset. "What's wrong Star?"

Star turned to her slightly worried friend, she gave a grin, but it was forced. Raven was now worried, Starfire is not the kind of person that has to force a grin! "Star, what's wrong? You can trust me."

Starfire sighed, leaning over to the wall, "I am worried… Robin has not held my hand since this date began, he seems to be upset… am I angering him?"

"No!" Raven reassured, somewhat defensive in her tone, "He is only getting worked up from the whole date thing. Give it time, maybe he won't act normally until after the dinner?" she planned on explaining herself at the meal, then she hoped nothing bad happened in between.

Star grinned, slowly walking off. Raven raised her hood and removed it to then rub her temples, she heard foot steps her way. She felt arms around her waist, the reflection… "ROBIN!" she turned to be nose to nose to Robin, "What?"
Robin grinned, "Come on, isn't this what you wanted?"

"Robin I…" Raven narrowed her eyes, Robin would never betray Star like this. He loved her… so that means… "You know?"

"What I know," Robin stopped pinning her to lean against the stall and then with a little grin he said, "You have been weird all day, I can't figure out why and I was a detective. The strangest thing is you always make sure you're flirting is in front of Beast Boy, also you try you're best to make these things accidental and out of Star's eyes if possible. So I guess you're trying to make Beast Boy jealous, why I don't have a clue."

Raven nodded, "Yes, I want to make him jealous, but I can't explain it yet. You wouldn't…" She blushed, "Mind playing along a little would you?"

Robin rubbed his head, "Well, I don't know. Star would be hurt if she thought I liked you."

"I'm going to explain everything at dinner, that's all I ask."

Robin looked at Raven, his worried curves to his mask slowly made a plain look of acceptance, "Alright, but if anything goes wrong you have to smooth it out between me and Star."

"Actually," Raven sighed, "If anything goes wrong she may not like me all to well."

That was when Robin left, Raven some time after. However, in the line for snacks was a somewhat red colored Beast Boy… "They…together? BATHROOM!!!"

The clerk at the desk asked, "Um, you okay?"

Beast Boy turned into a tyrannosaurus head, and roared on the man, before turning back to normal and heading to his seat. The man whimpered as he whipped some spit from his face.

The Titans sat from left to right as Starfire, Robin, Raven, and Beast Boy. These seats were not accidental, Raven and Robin figured it would be a nice chance to get Beast Boy upset. The movie played out like it was supposed to, but nothing was so great. Raven whispered into Robin's ears about a certain scene, Beast Boy rolled over to the side thinking, 'Man… always the pretty boys get the girls. He's got Raven, and Starfire! How lame man! Arrgh!' He was now messing up his hair in frustration. Raven noticed, and figured the plan was actually working. Now to really get Beast Boy's attention, but how?

A scary spot popped on the screen, Raven grinned as she jumped and landed into Robin's lap wrapping her arms around his neck. Robin felt awkward but played as well he could. "Um… you okay there Raven?" he "accidentally" grabbed her thigh, Beast Boy was fuming and had flames in his eyes, he SO was not seeing this!!!

Starfire grinned over to the two saying, "Oh Raven, did you get frightened? How humorous!"

Raven got into her seat smiling to Starfire, "Um, yeah." She looked at her friend's smile, so oblivious, but that didn't make having to act this way with a man she loved any easier…

"BATTERIES!!!" Cyborg screamed as he drove down the road to a gas station, "I need them now!" he opened the door and ran inside to find several batteries, "Aw yeah!"

As Cyborg was leaving to purchase his batteries, a large bolt of energy zapped them…Overload had come for a recharge and was absorbing every electrical item or charged item in the store. Cyborg looked at the dead batteries in disbelief, then to Overload in rage he ran and slammed the overgrown lightning bolt into a freezer. Cyborg sighed as he then sat down to think, all the time he was trying to get batteries his show was playing out more and more… he was missing it! The marathon of a life time!

Cyborg saw a clerk in the corner, he had on a turban and popped over the counter saying, "Thank you young man…" Cyborg asked, "You have any batteries I could borrow?" the man sighed saying "I am sorry, that monster ate all of my stock. However, there is an electronics store in the city called "Electro-Eddy" and it is right next to that new restaurant that came out."

Cyborg grinned, "Really? I can see how the gang's date is going then."

It was going bad, really bad. Raven was noticing that Beast Boy was really mad, maybe he was upset about it to much, maybe it was being played out to far. Raven also saw how Robin was getting awkwardly upset, Starfire took his actions as to her personally, as if she was to blame. She knew that even before they ate their meal she would have to explain herself fully to them all. "Lord Laughs-A-Lots" was a silly place for all ages, his newest promotional stunt was for the teenage group, and who better than the Teen Titans to draw in the interests? The hostess was a blonde with her hair laid back to her sides freely. She smiled saying, "Robin! Oh look how you grown, I'm so thrilled!" then she seemed to jump grabbing her ear, she screamed back in her microphone, "Alright already! I forgot!" she smiled sweetly again and ushered the group to their seat. There was no one there except for the clown crew that was cleaning and such. The Titans expected that it was not going to be like that, they expected fans and promotional shoots, but it was like a private dinner.

Raven stood up and coughed, "I need to say something… something about our date tonight." Before she could continue Beast Boy murmured, "What, about how you and Robin were making out in the bathroom at the movies!" he slammed his napkin down to emphasize his rage, Starfire was holding a glass which she easily crushed from the realization. She looked to Raven as if it was a bad joke, but then she began thinking more and more about the way Robin was acting and the books Raven was reading here and there…

Raven was about to speak out again but Starfire said with her face drawn away, "Robin?" Robin looked at her slowly and worriedly, "Is it true… do you not like me as much as Raven?"

Robin stood up screaming, "I don't like her!"

Beast Boy leaped up screaming "I get it! Pretty boys like you really tick me off! You guys take all the woman you can to do as you wish and then you just use em and leave em!"

Raven screamed "Beast Boy! You're just as bad I heard what you said to Cyborg!" Beast Boy turned in shock, how did she know? "I was there, you said that I was just there for the ride! Basically, I had no reason to be here and if you could you'd have hooked up with some," Raven slapped her hands together and swiveled her shoulders, "Fly honeys and not me!"

Beast Boy was furious, "That's no reason to take everything out on us all! You ruined all our evenings!"

Starfire was busy with Robin, now yelling at him, "How could you treat me in such a manner?"

Robin tried to comfort her by grabbing her shoulder but she swiped it, "Star! I didn't want you to find out like this! It was a joke!"

"Some joke! It has hurt and cost us more than any joke should ever cost!"

"I agree." Said a some what fanciful male voice now entering the room from the kitchen, "That's why jokes of these proportions should be left to professionals like me… right bird brain?"

Robin had frozen, he knew the voice… the voice that haunted him when he remembered his past, the past of his early carrer as a crime fighter. God, not him, that sadistic maniac! Robin turned to the purple suited man, his purple brim hat with the black strap about the brim. It was him, the outfit his greatest trade mark, he was covering his face with the hat, for effect, he always went for effect. Robin was feeling a lump in his throat, a change in his emotions to the unknown gully he called hatred. This man… this man…

"Robin," Starfire looked perplexed, Robin had not seemed this upset in his entire life. "Is something the matter?" she turned to the newcomer as the other titans did. Then the hat came to the man's chest causing all but Starfire to gasp, she never saw that green hair or pale skin on the news, that grin in her nightmares. Robin spoke slowly and shakily, "… Joker…"

The Joker, a grin so huge only grew, his arms came out and with a sweepingly large change of playful happy emotion he said, "Oh Robin! How long has it been?" The Joker then came to a halt and started to tap his foot and finger in thought, he was very visual as part to his character, "Let's see… a year maybe, I can't remember. Who cares?" He shrugged and pulled out his cane with the golden clown laughing on it's holder, "Let's start things up… with a bang!" he pushed the clown's mouth to cause several explosions in the room, Raven raised her shield and kept them all from the blaze. While that happened Robin heard it, the laugh… it grows from a chuckle to a cackle of mad emotion. "Eh! Hah! Heh! Heeh! He! Heh!" the way it was so signature to him was only enraging Robin, he left because it was what he heard when that girl… Robin screamed in his rage, ordering Raven to let him go. She did, and Star saw in his eyes that look, the look Robin had with Slade, that look of hatred. She felt tears fall down her cheeks, she was hoping it was over but now he was going to go into a mad hunt for a clown. Robin ran into the kitchen before the titans, and then another explosion closed off the two rooms. Starfire screamed "Robin! Robin!" but her was already gone to her, he was on the hunt, he wanted the clown!

Starfire turned to have a woman smiling at her, she had at her side a large hammer, "Alright, It's Hammer TIME!!!" The woman slammed the hammer at Star, Starfire barely dodged the large weapon and grabbed some water she then threw in the woman's face. The woman whipped it off snapping her fingers, "Oh yeah I forgot!" She pulled out a small compact makeup kit and began patting her face. As that happened several goons came out to begin fighting the remaining titans. The woman then undid her clothing to reveal her tights of red and black, she also then grabbed a two belled jester hood with the suit, and tucked her hair under it. The woman was The Joker's lovely mistress, Harley Quinn! She spat into her hands, and gripped the hammer again saying, "Play ball!" she then stopped and thought, "Actually, wouldn't it be croquet since I got a mallet, live and learn!"

Beast Boy and Raven were fending of some goons. Beast Boy relied on his gorilla form as a brute to fling the goons into each other, Raven used her telekinesis to fling tables into the mobs. She looked at Beast Boy and how he looked at her in a scowl, she spoke to him telepathically, "I'm sorry… I was hurt! You hurt me when you said that I wasn't worth the time!"

Beast Boy turned back to normal, he wasn't listening to her, "We'll talk about this later! Alright!"

Raven was hurt by how angry he was, could he ever forgive her? She just continued to help out as much as she could. Starfire was having the worst part, she had Harle and her mallet trying to squish her! Harley was also able to dodge with her athleticism and Starfire found it to be a problem. Star was shooting her bolts at Harley as fast as possible, but it was not enough. Finally, Starfire flew at Harley full force plowing her into a wall. Harley shook her head saying, "Geesh, these kids are ruthless. I guess it's time for the next part of the plan!"

She pushed a button from a remote and a giant metal egg fell through the ceiling she screamed "Hey, Teen Twits! Why did the chicken cross the road," she grinned as the egg began to crack and then break open to reveal a giant robotic chicken? "To eat the Teen Titans! Get it?" she saw their disbelief, a giant chicken? She sighed saying, "No respect, no respect at all." She then leaped off to the chicken's back, then somersaulted through the hole in the ceiling waving bye-bye as she exited the burning building. The titans looked at the metal bird and sweat dropped as it the crowed out "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!" then opened it's mouth wide to fire a long barrage of missiles!

Robin had followed Joker out through the kitchen and into some kind of storage place, there were tons of crates. Robin had followed the Jokers laugh until he found the tape recorder playing it again and again. He picked it up and the voice of The Joker said, "So by now you found out it wasn't me… loooook up!"

Robin looked up and was suddenly struck with some kind of electrical jolt from the back. The Joker chuckled, "Oops, I meant look behind you!"

The Joker waited for Robin to look at him to then raise his right hand showing his hand buzzer, "So, what's the Buzz? I haven't seen you for so long Bird Boy!"

Robin grit his teeth, "Not long enough!"

"Aww Robin, how can you be so mean to me?" The Joker then began to twirl his cane, "I missed ya twerp, so much I'll have ta kill ya to make up for it!" he lunged at Robin screaming his laugh, Robin blocked the Joker's swipes and swings with his extended pole. The two were bouting it out like it was their old days of fighting, The Joker laughed after he tied up with Robin, "So kid, how ya feel? Like old times huh?"

Robin felt like gagging, "Yeah, just like old times!" He then pushed off The Joker and jumped into the air to use a vertical swipe to The Joker. The Joker grinned and flung the point of his cane out twisting the head ornament clockwise. The cane connected with Robin's chest and began to electrocute the boy wonder massively. Robin fell stunned, The Joker grinned, "Well, it was fun." He raised his cane to Robin's head twisting it again to have a hole come out of the end, "But it's game over." He pulled a trigger and the hole shot out a small pole with "Bang" on the flag, The Joker laughed as he then began to run off saying, "Keep up the good work kid!"

Robin got up slowly to hear the explosions outside, he looked to see the others fighting a chicken robot. He had to choose, The Joker or his friends, he jumped through the window to fling his exploding batarangs at the robot to cause it to topple, but then get back up. Robin screamed "What happened?"

Beast Boy came over in a hawk form quickly turning to human saying, "That one girl was Harley, she like totally sucks! She sent out a giant chicken robot and attacked us with it!"

Raven nodded saying, "We can't destroy it because it seems to have a thick shell, we needed you!"

Starfire asked, "Where is The Joker?"

"He got away, don't worry about it." He turned to the chicken-bot saying, "Okay, now I wish we had Cyborg."

On cue, a sonic blast struck the head of the chicken-bot and caused it to fall over again. Cyborg walked in slowly saying, "You rang?"

The titans all cheered as he came in with his smoking arm. Robin grinned as he said "Titans, GO!"

That was the battle cry, and sure enough Cyborg began bombarding his sonic cannon, while Raven flung cars into the beast to blind it with the smoke. Starfire was giving a bombardment of bolts to keep it from moving, and Beast Boy turned to an elephant to then ram it's legs to cause it to twirl in the air from his force. Robin took it upon himself to unhinge it's legs with his batarangs, Raven used her powers to take out nuts and bolts from the wings soon after. Star and Cy used their strength to break the head from the neck, Beast Boy transformed to his gorilla form to assist them. It was then over, the monster bird was plucked. They looked at the monster and smiled, cheered, then the four dating titans turned to anger and spite. Cyborg noticed but said, "Well, we better get on home now. So how was you're date?"

That was a bad idea because all four of them screamed "LOUSY!" into Cyborg's face.

They reached the tower and Cyborg grinned as he reached for the batteries, he used them to turn the channel and there was his show… "Now to return to the latest episode of "Our Foolish Squabbles" a soap opera to remember for the ages."

"Phew," he let out a pant, "I thought I'd miss this."

Raven and Beast Boy were looking at eachother with daggers, until they overheard the TV show, "Rava! I know I was a jerk trying to act all manly in front of my friends because I feel for you, I know it hurt you, but was flirting with my best friend to get back at me really worth it?"

The character Rava smiled to the man saying, "No, Bobby, it hurt you and our friends! It was not worth it. The pain that you could see me as so little when I feel you could mean a lot to me one day hurt, I want us to make a new Bobby, try to work things out!"

Raven looked at Beast Boy, he had his ears dropped, "Um, sorry Beast Boy." She turned to him with a grin, "I guess even if I have so much control of my feelings in the end I can lose to… jealousy."

"Jealousy?" Beast Boy grinned, "I am one to be jealous of. When I saw you with Robin I freaked, I never could see it coming. I probably should have realized something was up." He put his arms behind his head saying, "Tell ya what, we have a long time to figure out this kind of stuff, how about we take things slow, be friends rather than something else?"

Raven nodded, "I agree, if we don't we may kill eachother!" they then laughed, Cyborg whipped away a tear saying "Man, this is better than the show."

Raven and Beast Boy gave flaming eyes to Cyborg, causing him to slink into his seat and watch his show.

"Robin." Starfire flew after him as he made his way down the hall to his room, "May we talk?"

Robin turned around saying, "Not now." and continuing down the hall.

Starfire flew in front of Robin saying, "Robin!" he stopped, she bit her bottom lip before saying, "This Joker, he is making you act much like when you did with Slade. I am worried, you ran yourself ragged with Slade and if you do it again… I am so worried."

Robin narrowed his eyes, "You don't get, The Joker is worse than Slade, he's a monster!" Robin leaned over to the wall saying, "He is one of the nightmares I tried to forget from my times with Batman."

Starfire nodded, "I realize he was an enemy, but we will stop him."

"That's not good enough!" Robin swung his arm hitting the wall with his fist. His fist was shaking, he was so furious, "The Joker hurts people, he kills people, he does it all in fun. He has this sense of sadistic humor that is in how much he hurts someone is equal to his pleasure. I never wanted to see him again."

Starfire was so scared, Robin was so agitated. He walked to his room, to exit with a box. "These are some things I kept from my days with Batman, here's some articles of The Joker."

Starfire saw some articles, she gasped at the people dead on the ground with gigantic smiles on their faces. "They didn't die happy Star, they just died."

Starfire handed the clipping back, "This Joker is a cruel man."

Robin nodded, "I know, that's why I have to stop him now!"

"No Robin." Starfire grabbed his hand, smiling, "We must stop him."

Robin looked at her, his eyes were softer as he grinned and the brim of his mask was sympathetic, "Yeah, we have to stop him, and we will."

The van was flying down the road, Harley Quinn was driving, while The Joker was watching something in the back. It was his chicken-bot data. He grinned more and more, "Oh, this was absolutely perfect! I have just about enough on the twerps." He popped his head on Harley saying, "Schnukums, could you drive us to this address."

Harley looked at the address and smirked, "Sure thing Puddin."

The Joker grinned, "I need to make a couple calls, The Joker grabbed a cell phone and began to punch in some numbers and said, "Hey, This is The Joker. I got a proposition, you ever hear of the Teen Titans?"

The night had gotten long, the Titans all were tired. Cyborg crashed on the couch. Raven was getting ready to go to bed to. She turned to Beast Boy and how he fell on the floor asleep. Raven smirked, 'I guess revenge is one thing, but friendship is another.' She drifted off to her room to get some rest.

Starfire was in her bed but not sleeping, she was scared, what if Robin lost it? Robin was in his room looking at the ceiling, the dreams he was afraid of having. He closed his eyes to hear his door open, it was Raven, she said "Sorry about before."

Robin shrugged, "Tell you the truth, it was kind of interesting." He then popped up, "but never do it again!"

Raven nodded, "I won't." she left. Robin felt that it was not yet over, there was more, a lot more to come. He was worried, the Joker is a dangerous fiend, how far will that mad man go?

The Joker laughed, "Perfect, that's enough, but I'd rather play it safe and call some of the boys in." The Joker turned to Harley saying, "I told you sweety, now that this Slade guy is gone, the city is ripe for us. We'll take out the Titans and move back to town to finish Bats! It'll be like a honeymoon for crime."

"Ooh! Honey moon!"

The two gave little glares to one another. Then Harley pulled to a stop to smack him into the front window, he peeled off saying, "Gee, never thought a honey moon starts off that painful."

"We're here Mr. J!" Harley jumped out and ran the abandoned hideout of Slade's. The Joker leaped out with his hat on, smiling, "Ah, to take over an old empire, start where it did!"

Harley opened the doors in the van to let out two hyenas, their pets. The hyenas ran the yards laughing in that way they do, The Joker grinned widely, "Ah yes, perfect to give Robin the goodbye of his life… literally." He then began to chuckle, then to roar his laugh, Harley just scrunched her nose in pleasure, "That's my Puddin."

Note: Thank you to all the people that reviewed, I was very happy to see them. I decided to do this chapter mainly for you all. Expect a lag because I have LOTS of others stories I need to work on here and there so I hope you like where it's leading. I LOVE The Joker! He was the greatest villain ever.

Puppet King: Or me!

Pakkrat: You're not a villain. Now the thank you/responses!

Anonymous:

Pakkrat: No I am not doing a Lemon, I did one before but it was never really liked, and I felt weird writing about something like that. Thanks for saying it's not a short story and I would have done more but I think the story is actually a lot shorter than I expected. It may only have 4 chapters after all!

Puppet King: You are a lazy boy.

Pakkrat: Better than a boy made out of wood!

Puppet King: … low blow.

Rose Eclipse:

Pakkrat: Yeah! Some one else wants to see Mr. J! So I hope you like how I brought him through, The Joker ROCKS!

Puppet King: I rock more!

Pakkrat: … no you float more, wanna see?

InuKurama:

Pakkrat: Thanks for the review, I guess Starfire would not like the story up to this point… good thing she doesn't know where I live.

Puppet King: I gave her you're address!

Pakkrat: … Do'h!

I am Inu-Chan:

Pakkrat: Infamous… that was his fault!

Puppet King: I'd give anything to be infamous!

Pakkrat: So you liked the Terra smiling, I was going to have the wind blow and be her voice but how would she do that? Since her power is earthen I figured it was more sense! Raven flirting seems so out of character, but it was so cool. Especially getting Robin in there! Mwah! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Puppet King: You stole my laugh!

Pakkrat: No I didn't…

Pakkrat: Thanks again, if you read I'm happy, review and I am really happy! Just smile when ya can… but not so much you get stuck that way. Till next time!

Also, if you like Dragon Ball Z, I write some of those and they seem to be pretty good! You may want to take a look!