Cyborg and Beastboy stood in the center of the main living room in front of the large television screen, their voices steadily growing louder and louder.
"What do you mean by cheating?" Cyborg yelled, his robotic arm brandishing the game controller like a weapon.
"As in you win by breaking the rules, that's what!" Beastboy yelled back, glaring in Cyborgs flashing eyes. In order to do this feat, however, he had to stand on the arm of the couch.
"Tell me how, exactly, you can cheat at Mega Mutilating Monkeys! It is a video game! There are certain boundaries you just can't cross!"
The two continued to fight, watched by a mildly interested Raven. "This is the reason, I stay in my room", she said, then retreated to a quieter part of the living room to read her book. No matter how harsh she had sounded, she always thought they were somewhat more interesting when they were fighting over the video game then when they were actually playing it. After a few more fruitless moments of trying to read, Raven stood quietly and walked out of the room.
Starfire too had been watching the fight, but turned back to the breakfast she had prepared herself. She had lived on Earth for quite a few years now, most of them spent living in Titans Tower, but she always failed to see what the interest was in a videogame. Didn't they see enough violence when they were fighting? Of course to ask this question straight to any of the boys' faces would cause uproar. Each of them would try to explain, but their explanations would wind up with her just shaking her head and walking out of the room. Starfire finished her meal, stood and decided to walk back to her sleeping quarters.
As Starfire walked down the empty hallway to her room, she heard the faint pounding noise of the punching bag. She walked into the gym to see Robin standing at attack position and brutally pounding the punching bag. He stopped immediately as she entered the room.
"Why do you train this early in the morning, Robin?" She asked as she sat on the small wooden bench next to the mat.
"Habit, before we defeated Slade, I use to get up early each morning and come in here to train. Robin said, taking out a towel from the cabinet and sitting next to her. "I guess it really was more of a way to vent."
"But it has been two years since we saw Slade defeated, I truly doubt that there is a chance that he shall return after falling into lava." She pointed out. Robin smiled at her. She was right. Why was he in here pounding out a punching bag every morning?
"Have you eaten?" He asked her.
"Yes, there are more portions of my Garilian porridge in the refrigerator if you wish to partake of it!" She said beaming brightly at him.
Robin shook his head. "That's alright, I think that I'll just have some toast." He said as they both stood and walked out of the gym.
"I shall warn you, Cyborg and Beastboy are fighting again, I would enter with caution." She said, and then turned and walked down the hall to her room.
Robin smiled as he watched her slowly walk down to her room, then turned and walked to the kitchen. Right as he got to the kitchen, he looked over and saw Beastboy tackle Cyborg. Robin started making his toast then leaned against the table, watching his teammates wrestle on the living room floor. Right as Cyborg had gotten Beastboy into a headlock, the alarm went off. Raven and Starfire were there in an instant.
"Trouble!" Starfire cried as Cyborg ran to the main computer network.
"Downtown, robbers are stealing jewelry at Glen Oaks' place. Titans, Go!" Cyborg cried before running down the hall to the garage.
Raven and Starfire were the first to arrive. They burst in the large doors to find the criminals in a ready stance, their guns pointed and ready. Starfire quickly flew behind a display case while Raven put up a black shield as the bullets flew out of the gun. Starfire blasted one robber with her starbolts just as the rest of the Titans ran in the door.
Robin flipped over a display case and smacked the guns out of the three remaining robbers hands. Beastboy morphed into a constrictor and laced himself quickly around one of the startled villains while Robin tied up the last two with rope from his utility belt. When that was done, he turned to the robber Beastboy had caught and tied him up. Cyborg checked behind each case to make sure no hidden explosives were there and then ran to the back where he found the manager bound and gagged.
As the police pulled the robbers into the cop cars, the Titans turned to each other.
"Is it just me or are the villains getting a little easier to beat?" Beastboy asked.
"That was pretty easy. I don't know, maybe we're due for a vacation." Cyborg said, smiling. "No evil masterminds trying to kill us right now, right?"
Robin shrugged. "We always seem to think that right as a new instigator comes to town. We're probably jinxing the hell out of this right now." The Titans laughed and started on their way back to Titan Tower. As they all got into the T-Car, the hooded figure emerged from a darkened alley. It focused on the T-Car and vanished suddenly into thin air.
