Terri

Part 6

Things have been going pretty slow for the Titans. Not having to have to fight a villain for the past two days gave the Titans a lot of down time.

"So, how do I play?" Terri asked taking a game controller from Cyborg.

"All ya gotta do is keep hitting the ninjas away. It's team mission, so we'll be working together," Cyborg said as they both sat down on the couch and started the game.

"Should I start a new character?" Terri asked seeing Cyborg pick out his own character that looked just like him.

"Not unless if you want to be BB, which you might not want to be," Cyborg said with a smile. Terri quickly typed in her name and what she looked liked. She then typed in "ROCK SHIFTER" for her overall power.

"Ok, let's start." Terri said pressing the start button on her controller. The game started in a dark karate room, Cyborg and Terri's characters in the center of the room.

"Here they come," Cyborg said as glowing eyes appeared around them.

"I got you back," Terri said, her character's hands glowing orange. The ninjas came out of the shadows. Terri brought a few pointed rocks out of the ground.

"Where are the weak spots?" Terri asked quickly.

"Anywhere, just hit them," Cyborg said, charging up his character's laser gun and firing at the group of ninjas coming towards him. Terri swung her hands forward, making the rocks fly forward. Every single rock met with each ninja, causing them to explode.

"Ooo hoo, I like this game," Terri said with an evil smile spreading across her face.

Two hours later, we still see Cyborg and Terri still playing "Super Ninja Frenzy" They're both on the second to last level and about to break the all time game record.

"You ready, partner?" Cyborg said as the level loaded.

"I was born ready, Cy. Let the ninjas shiver in fear," Terri said giving Cyborg a high five. The level started, not even the toughest thing could back them out of playing.

"Aw, man! I gotta go!" Terri whined as she squirmed around in her seat.

"I'll pause it, but you better hurry! It's ninja butt whoopin' time!" Cyborg threatened as he hit the pause button on his controller. Terri sprinted out of the family room. Beast Boy walked into the room and sat down on the couch.

"Ah, sweet! Super Ninja Frenzy! Can I play?" Beast Boy said happily picking up the game controller. Cyborg glared at him.

"Put the controller down," Cyborg said low and slowly. Beast Boy quickly put the controller down and sat far away from Cyborg, twiddling his thumbs. Terri came back into family room, jumping over the couch and taking her place and controller.

"She's playing! Why can't I play!" Beast Boy whined as he pouted.

"Because she's good at it and we're about to beat the game," Cyborg said, starting the game again. Beast Boy sat in silence as Cyborg and Terri played the game. In this level you could not hit the walls or ceiling or it would automatically be a game over. Cyborg and Terri were half way through the level when suddenly, a huge ninja appeared out of no where, scaring Terri half to death. She screamed and accidentally made a huge bolder collide into the wall. The TV screen went blank, flashing the words "GAME OVER" Cyborg and Terri sat in shock as the game credits rolled down on the screen. Cyborg turned to Terri angrily. Terri smiled widely and sank into her seat.

"It saves automatically, right?" Terri asked cautiously, hopping Cyborg's answer would be positive.

"Thankfully yes," Cyborg said with a sigh, "Just don't do that again,"

"NOW can I play?" Best Boy pleaded.

"You can take my place, Beast Boy. I'm gonna see what the others are doing," Terri said handing him the game controller.

"At least someone's nice around here!" Beast Boy said sticking his tongue out at Cyborg and taking the controller from Terri. Terri giggled and got up.

"I'll catch you two later," Terri said with a smile, leaving the family room.

"Terri's a nice kid," Cyborg said setting up the game.

"Yeah. She's kind, she's funny. She's pretty and tough, and I like her as a friend-"

"But she's not Terra," Cyborg said turning to Beast Boy. Beast Boy looked at the TV screen for a long moment, then replied, "Yeah,"

Terri walked down the hallway. Passing a couple rooms, going onto Raven's room. Terri knew Raven didn't like her that much, but that didn't mean they could still talk to each other. Terri knocked on the door as she bit her top lip. Raven opened her bedroom door ¾'s of the way, only Terri to see half of her face.

"Hi, Raven. I was wondering if we could go get, you know, some coffee or something... so what do ya say?" Terri said with a smile. Raven took a long pause, the answered, "Already been, don't feel like going. Never bother me again," Raven said as she closed her bedroom door. Terri stepped back, shocked by Raven's remark.

"All right then... I guess I'll catch you later," Terri said to the door. Terri then quickly walked down the hallway onto the other rooms.

Terri walked into the training room hesitantly, watching Robin train on her way in. Robin caught her sight at the corner of his eye and stopped punching and kicking the punching bag.

"Hey, Terri. What's up?" Robin said as he wiped the sweat off his forehead with a towel.

"Well, I was play games with Cyborg, but gave my controller to Beast Boy. I was going to see what you other Titans were up too, so I went to Raven to see if she wanted to get some coffee with me. She turned down my offer and slammed the door on my face, so I was decided to see what Starfire and you was up too," Terri said scratching her arm.

"Starfire went to the store with Speedy. Seems we ran out of mustard. I'm just training, do you mind?"

"Nope Hey, maybe I'll learn something from just watching you," Terri said as she sat on the bench press while Robin continued to punch and kick the punching bag. Sure, she would rather be training herself, but like she said, she could learn something from the boy wonder. She sat there for a few moments, her head rested on her hand. Robin stopped for a moment.

"You look like you're having fun," Robin said sarcastically.

"No, not really," Terri said with a smile.

"Well, do you wanna train with me?"

"Robin, you read my mind," Terri said getting up and walking to the punching bag.

"Here, you stand on one side and I'll stand on the other," Robin said walking over to the other side of the punching bag, "That way, we both can hit it at each time,"

"You can hit first," Terri said taking a step back and curling her hands into two fists. Robin punched the bag, Terri hitting it to him back. Robin punched it again, Terri kicked the bag with her foot. This went on for about twenty minuets until Terri side kicked the punching bag to hard and kicked a hole in the bag.

"Oops..." Terri said as she watched sand pour out of the punching bag and pile on the ground.

"Don't worry about that. It happens all the time," Robin said taking the broken punching bag off the hook that hung from the wall and threw it to the side.

"Guess I don't know my own strength," Terri said with a smile.

"You know, you're a lot different than your cousin," Robin said throwing Terri a towel and a water bottle.

"Yeah, I'm so better looking," Terri joked as she opened up her water bottle and took a sip.

"I didn't mean it like that,"

"I know what you mean. I'm more athletic and more of a redneck than she is. I can also do something she could never do," Terri said wiping the towel she got from Robin on her forehead.

"What's that?" Robin asked confused.

"I can eat twenty White Castle hamburgers under ten minuets," Terri said. Robin laughed out loud, thinking earlier that it was something more important.

"Dude, I'm serious! I won two hundred dollars from a contest for doing that, and that's not the exciting part! You should have seen me later on that night!" Terri said with a smile.

"I'll believe you for now, but we'll have to test you on that later on," Robin said.

"Test on what?" said a voice behind Terri. Terri screamed from shock, thinking it was a bad guy. Her powers suddenly carried Terri up to the ceiling by a huge rock. She looked over the edge of her platform to see Starfire and Speedy in the doorway with groceries in their arms. Terri laughed a nervous laugh and slid down the long trail of rock.

"My bad," Terri laughed, putting the rock back into the ground.

"Good thing this is only the forth floor," Speedy said looking down into the hole.

"We need help bringing the bags of brown into the tower," Starfire said.

"I'll help. How many bags to you still have in the car?" Robin said, throwing his town in the corner.

"Fifteen. Apparently, we won't have to buy mustard for a while," Speedy said looked at Starfire, who was smiling.

"Do you wish to help, Terri?" Starfire said taking Terri's wrist.

"Yeah, su-"

"Glorious! We shall go to the transportation device and collect the bags of brown!" Starfire said as she pulled Terri out of the room. Robin walked over to Speedy.

"What else did you guys get besides mustard?" Robin asked watching the two girls leave.

"Huh?" Speed asked watching Terri being dragged down the hallway by Starfire. Robin smiled wide.

"You like Terri, don't you Speedy?" Robin said with a grin. Speedy's face went scarlet.

"No I don't!" Speedy said quickly.

"Then why is your face all red?"

"I'm hot, that's why,"

"Speedy, you're wearing a shirt with no sleeves and the air conditioning all around the tower is on high. There is no way you could be hot,"

"Well... you're named after a bird!" Speedy said storming out of the room, leaving Robin to laugh to himself.

"I'm giving you a fair bargain, Brother Blood. You give me your top students to get Terri Logan for me, I'll get you the best assassin I know," Slade said holding out his hand.

"I need more encouragement to give you my top students than some assassin, Slade. What are you planning to do with this Terri girl anyway?" Brother Blood said leaning back in his desk chair.

"My plain's are not important, all I need from you are your students, friend," Slade said, placing a bag on money on Brother Blood's desk and holding out his hand once more.

"You don't have any friends, Slade," Brother Blood sneered as he shook Slade's hand.

"I'm gonna cook you all tofu for lunch! My treat!" Beast boy said as he got out a saucepan.

"Nobody's gonna wanna eat tofu, BB!" Cyborg said taking the pan away from Beast Boy's grasp.

"I shall make the lunch!" Starfire said joyfully.

"NO!" The Titans yelled.

"If it's to much to ask, I'll make lunch," Terri said raising her hand. The titans all looked at each other, then nodded their heads.

"Just don't give me anything with meet on it," Beast Boy said giving a spatula to Terri. About an hour later, Terri sat a plate full of grilled cheese sandwiches. She got out a bowl and filled potato chips in it and set it on the table.

"You come from Texas and this is what you make us?" Speedy joked putting two sandwiches on his plate.

"I never really cooked the animals, I mostly took care of them. This is all I learned how to cook besides TV dinners and other stuff like Spaghetti-O's," Terri said sitting between Starfire and Robin. The titans finished their lunch, had a dessert of ice cream that was almost to its exasperation date, and got to watch half of the scary movie, "Aliens At Midnight" until a familiar alarm went off.

"Finally!" Terri said getting up and jumping over the couch.

"Who's butt are we kicking today, Robbie?" Cyborg said getting up and running over to the huge computer a floor up from the family room.

"Are favorite preps from the H.I.V.E," Robin said pin pointing out the location of the H.I.V.E's top students, Gizmo, Jinx, and Mammoth.

" The wha?" Terri asked one eyebrow raised.

"You find out once we get there. Everyone in the T car!" Cyborg said as the Titans scrambled out the door and into the garage.

"Ok, tell me once again. Jinx is the witch, Mammoth is the big dude that needs to cut his hair, and Geekmo is the midget that's bald," Terri said pointing to the villains from the T car.

"It's actually Gizmo, but Geekmo you can use as a way to get the little guy aggravated," Speedy said as situated himself so that Terri and Raven could have some room to move around, since all of them were crammed in the back seat.

"Titans go!" Robin said as the Titans piled out of the car and headed into action.