When The Stars Lie
Beast Boy's Cheerful Gemini-ness
By Shyro Foxfeather
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Beast Boy: Gemini
Curious, witty, young, clever, cheerful, explorer, amusing, can talk too much, cunning, irritating, and irritable…
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Idle fingers tapped the desk's hard wood softly. Robin had been yapping on and on nonstop about their battle plans, and while that was all fine and good, it also happened to be painfully boring.
Cyborg was asleep, not that anyone could tell, and Starfire watched looking a little bored as even her interest began to flicker out like a candle. Raven had her head cocked to one side and her eyes seemed glazed over as she seemingly daydreamed.
Beast Boy thought of just screaming bloody murder and running out of the room right then and there, however, he assumed Robin wouldn't go for that and just kept tapping the dark wood that made up the structure of strategy table.
He soon grew bored with this, as all people of little to no sanity would, and began to idly look around the room. They were in the Conference Room, which had two doors sprouting from its confinement. One led to freedom whilst the other merely brought you to the Evidence Room.
It was obvious that they had too many rooms and too little uses for them.
From his partially obscured view he could somewhat see a shovel hanging from a post in the wall of the Evidence Room (the door was open, after all). It was… weird…
It was one thing to have the Puppet Master's puppets, Control Freak's remote, and Mad Mod's top hat, but a shovel?
His imagination was let loose and seeing as it was already on a long leash it wasn't too much of a stretch for his mint toothpaste mind…
'…A shovel?' He wondered. 'Did the shovel commit a crime or something? No, that's stupid. Well, maybe it was possessed? Nah, that's worse… Oh! Maybe someone killed someone with it!' Short pause. 'Nah…'
He was never one to opt for the most logical answer, although that was obvious.
Raven suddenly snapped to attention for no apparent reason and began to listen in on the long-winded speech. The lecture, however, hadn't changed subject so soon she was drifting off from reality again. She noticed Beast Boy staring inquisitively into the Evidence Room and poked him in the shoulder.
"Huh-what?" He asked voice hushed lest Robin hear him.
"What are you staring at?" She asked quietly.
He raised an eyebrow at her yet answered her anyway. "There's a shovel in there-," he replied as he pointed to the room in question, "and I'm trying to figure out why."
"Oh…" She was quiet a moment. "Think of anything yet?"
"Nope…Well, actually it could've been evil, possessed, or used as a murder weapon." He suggested hoping maybe she'd have the answer.
"Well, it's the Evidence Room so I doubt it would be the enemy. It must've been a weapon." She muttered back.
"A shovel of mass destruction?" He asked.
"Yeah."
Silence.
"I can't believe I'm having a conversation with you about this." Raven groaned as she slouched slightly in her chair.
"What are you guys talkin' about?" Cyborg, who was now awake, asked them.
"The shovel." Beast Boy hissed back from the other side of Raven.
Cyborg contemplated this a moment. "What shovel and why?"
Raven sighed. "That shovel," She pointed to the metal and wood respectively, "and why it is in the Evidence Room."
"Oh…" Cyborg sat in deep though for a while. The other two were silent but when Robin's droning began to wear on their minds they decided to speak up again.
"Any ideas?" Beast Boy asked.
Cyborg nodded. "It could have been the weapon-,"
"We thought of that." Beast Boy muttered.
"It could have been a key part in the investigation, like fingerprints and stuff."
Raven and Beast Boy considered this.
"It could have also been the criminal."
Beast Boy blanched and Raven rolled her eyes.
"What was a criminal?" Starfire asked idly.
Robin remained quite oblivious by the way…
"The shovel." Cyborg told her.
"What is a shovel?"
"Something you use to dig with." Raven supplied.
"…Oh." The Tameranean paused. "Why are you talking about a shovel?"
"We want to know why it's in the Evidence Room." The mechanical man told her.
All four were silent.
"It could have been an alien from planet Zycot." Starfire said as she stared at the wood and metal of the large garden tool that was hanging from the wall.
"Awesome!"
"Good answer."
"Perhaps…"
Silence—except for Robin, of course.
"So, Titans that's the plan. Any questions?" The boy wonder asked, as he stood in front of them unaware that they had not heard a word he said.
Positive replies flurried across the room as they all pretended that they had, in fact, listened.
Following that Beast Boy was the first to speak up. "So…um… Robin, why is there shovel in the Evidence Room?"
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Remember to bring your entrenching tool with you today. You'll need it. (You know...for the marketing meeting.) –Humorscope dot com
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Disclaimer: All things living and dead, animate and not, intelligent or dull, shall have to come to terms with the painful truth that I, Shyro Foxfeather, do not own Teen Titans.
…I'm better at writing on school days…
Julia Poprocks, I read your blog journal thing in your Bio (which I had been meaning to read anyway…) and was overjoyed that you wrote stuff about me::Grins Idiotically: I have converted you! Woo hoo! Awww… thanks! I never knew that my stories deserved that much praise::Grins Again: (Personally I think that all my stories suck but apparently, as I have been learning, that's just me. :Sweatdrop:)
Scathic's Warrior should get a shout out too for usually being the first one to review a story and reviewing a lot of the time, as does Julia. Your last review made me grin too, ironically. Just lettin' ya know I appreciate it. It's cool because I'll post it in the morning and usually by lunch I have a review from you!
I'm supposed to avoid tater tots today…Why, is beyond me.
:Snickers: They all talked about shovels—except Robin who was left out…