Okay, I'm not really feeling all "inspired" at this exact moment, so y'all just get to get to the story even quicker!
THANK YOU'S! (with no presents I might add…does no one want anything? What is this world coming to? No greed? No immoral standards to live up to? Gees people! Could you be any more lacking! ;) )to: They call me Sweetsnow (cute word pic!), raven1777(it was really what!), Cherry Jade, DarkWindingRose (I know…I'm just mean), evilsangle, Evilevergreen, Teen Titans Obsessor(you are so cute, and too apologetic!), CuTtErWiThAcAuSe, and hermie!
cyberclock000: Oh, I'm so sorry about your (expletive deleted) week. Well, I shall try to get to reading your story as soon as I can then! It's been a couple of long weeks for me as well…
Savvy: Yay! I'm so glad I could make your birthday more "special" as it were. I hope this one will only add to the excitement and turmoil and tension! (So how does it feel to not be a teenager anymore?)Bethany Elise: Well, I hope I shall not disappoint with the "interaction" between characters in this and subsequent chapters. I like it too, it's just that this particular chapter needed the separation.
Aaronfors: Perfect "me" fashion huh? Hehehe. And I made you squeal! Yay:dies from the happiness vibes: I'm so very glad that you liked this chapter. And yes, I was as you so very subtly put it, drawing out the tension so that the next interaction would seem all the more special. And Thank you once again for reminding me of the phrase "double entendre". I know I will use that more often now.
Disclaimer: I do not own 'Teen Titans'. If I did, I wouldn't be writing fan fics. I'd be writing episodes! –So, uh…duh.
Oh! And bonus for you all! This is not ONLY a BB/Cy Chapter, but it's a Star/Speedy chapter as well! I'm just too good to you, I know…
Double Indemnity
As the pair reentered the tower, they heard shouting and taunting coming from the main room, so they ran in to investigate and discovered this unusual sight: Beast Boy had had enough of being tested on and was now engaged in a morphing contest with Beast Girl.. Beast Girl morphed into a llama, then Beast Boy shifted into an elephant just to top her, so Beast Girl became a T-Rex to get a one up on him. Finding that anything that he changed into would be too big for the tower to accommodate, Beast Boy then changed himself into a humming bird, so of course Beast Girl just had to top that and morphed into a lovely green ladybug, but Beast Boy got her this time and switched to a tiny fruit fly. Once she saw that she couldn't go any smaller and still be able to be seen, Beast Girl transformed into something else and Beast Boy tried to best her again, all the while taunting each other, saying how each animal was "lame" and "there's no way you can top me!" and so on…
Cyborg and Starfire let this go on for a few minutes (giggling and snickering the whole time), before they broke up the "festivities". Cyborg grabbed Beast Boy and dragged him off in one direction and Starfire grabbed Beast Girl and dragged her off in a separate direction.
"I so had you!"
"You so did not!"
Came two replies instantaneously, one after another in unison, followed by two long and drawn out raspberries by each of the "competitors" and a "hmph!" that echoed throughout the room as each sat on an opposite arm of the couch, facing away from each other.
After a few minutes of coaxing and pleading with them to make up, all that either Cyborg or Starfire could do was throw up their hands in disgust. And as they exited the main room in search of the others, just before the door closed fully, they heard:
"Rematch!"
"You're on!"
"Well, since Cy couldn't find anything of use," Starfire said later in the library, shooting a look of exasperation at him, causing him to shrug apologetically, "Ted, please tell me you've got something?"
"Well, it's a very unique situation. I've scanned every database that I can think of for occurrences such as this and I've come up with nothing," Ted stated, pushing back his glasses and tapping a few keys on the keyboard to illustrate his point, "Then I cross referenced the Migdali file on irrational modifications of black holes with the discrepancies of the time-space continuum and I still found no record of any case of anyone being transported to a different dimension without the help of a Griacci ritual."
"The hooby-what-y file? And the "gazpacho" ritual?" Cy questioned scratching his head, "What the heck you talkin' about Ted?"
Cyborg nodded his own head in agreement. "I'm with him," he declared shaking his thumb toward Cy, "What the heck are you talking about?"
"English translation? -He can't find anything and he doesn't know how you got here or why," Raven stated as she crept out of the shadows, "And I couldn't find how or why you came here either." She finally flipped down her hood, prompting Cyborg to once again stare in shock at the stark pinkness of the hair, which he knew his Raven would never tolerate.
"So, what are we going to do about getting home then?" Cyborg sighed.
Starfire looked everyone in the eye before stepping up and revealing her plan, "Well, what I think we should do first is…" But she never got to finish her sentence. -Although she was visibly annoyed at being cut off by the blaring alarm system, she gathered herself quickly and shouted out the order for everyone to head to their stations.
"BG, I need the suspect and the locale, now! What do you got?" She yelled out as she flew into the main room carrying Ted, in her arms (though an outside observer would never have guessed, considering that he had disappeared once again). The two Cyborg's ran behind her through the open door and Raven casually appeared out of thin air, pulling her hood back up as she waited to hear the news.
Beast Girl stopped her still-ongoing one-upping contest with Beat Boy and ran to the computer. Starfire shouted out more orders, "Cy, get the car. Rae, Cyborg, follow him and I'll update you of where to go on the way. BB you follow me. –BG! What's up?"
"We got us a live one!" she hollered back, hands flying at 1000 miles per hour as the screen zeroed in on a little yellow dot, "Down near the old stadium."
"Who?"
"Can't pinpoint 'em."
"Well, then what's our ETA?" Starfire half questioned, half demanded as she flew out an open window.
"30 minutes or less!" Beast Girl responded jokingly, just before shifting her frame into a flying squirrel and jumping out into the air behind Star.
"Oh, ha ha ha…" Beast Boy mocked when he finally got the joke, but by then it was too late for anyone to hear anyway so he begrudgingly morphed into pterodactyl form and followed.
...
Speedy and Starfire arrived downtown not minutes later. They'd left in such a hurry that Speedy barely had enough time to grab a spare shirt. He was still pulling it over his head as Starfire set him on the ground.
They both stepped back to gape in awe at the destruction around them. An entire brick building lay in shambles and another was ablaze with flame; hundreds of people screamed in vain for aid that may never come.
"We must do something to help them!" Starfire yelled out as she flew toward one of the windows, grabbing an entire family of four and pulling them far away from the flames. Speedy's mind sifted through ideas at lightning speed. He settled on one that seemed promising and whipped out an arrow. He shot towards the building, but before it hit the brick, it seemed to bloom like a flower, letting out a large net and suctioning its corners to the building and two metal light poles.
"Jump!" he yelled out to a few of the adults as he shot out another of his arrows. This one stuck in the mortar between the brick and held a length of rope-which he climbed up and used to run back and forth over the wall grabbing the small children in one arm and hauling them to the ground below.
It seemed to them as though it had taken an hour, but it was merely minutes before they had evacuated the entire building. -Just in time as it turned out. The building crumbled behind them as the victims dusted themselves off and ran to find their family members.
"That was a close one," Speedy quipped as he ran toward the perpetrator of the horrendous destruction. Starfire flew forward and rained down scores of starbolts; each one she threw let out her anger and rage, as if she were cursing him with each burning flash of jade.
Speedy realized that with the type of demon they were fighting, her starbolts wouldn't do a thing, but he knew that he had the perfect arrow for this sort of occasion. He drew it from his quiver and placed it onto his bow. He drew back with all of his might. The anticipation of watching this guy squirm was making him almost giddy as the image of his defeat flashed through Speedy's mind. Just as he was about to loose the arrow upon his opponent, he stopped –frozen in mid strike.
Starfire had foreseen Speedy's plan and awaited the onslaught of arrows that she knew was coming, but was shocked to witness Speedy's momentary lapse. 'Come on!' she thought, 'Give this evil thing what he has coming to him!' But as the seconds passed by, she realized that something was very wrong. "Speedy!" she called out, finally getting his name right, though neither cared enough to notice at that moment, "Speedy! What is wrong?" She steered herself towards him hoping to better assess the severity of his situation. As she got closer, she saw that it was even worse than she had anticipated.
Currents of electricity coursed through his body affixing it to the concrete, but not enough to cause him to visibly shake -yet. He was in serious pain, but couldn't do one thing to stop it. The flow of electricity caused welts to arise on his fingertips and he could feel the heat coursing through his stomach and causing his blood to literally boil. The electricity ran over the outside of his body too, cutting into his flesh at vulnerable points and holding his mouth shut so that the flow could not be broken. It tore at his clothing, singeing the fabric, causing it to rip in many places. If the situation had warranted it, he would have made a joke about not really needing that spare shirt, but as it was, he screamed internally in agony as the blisters multiplied and his body gave out.
Starfire did not know what to do. She could hear his muffled cries of pain and she knew what a current of that magnitude could do to a human, but she was never taught how to amend such a thing. Her body sprung into action before her mind could even come up with a plan. She flew full speed at the villain in the hope of using her body as a battering ram and distracting him long enough to free Speedy from his grasp. It was of no use however. Whatever she tried, failed to divert his attention and only caused him to laugh heartily at her expense.
Starfire was at a loss. She had to do something quickly or Speedy would die. In a last ditch effort, she flew full tilt at Speedy, this time trusting that her strength would at least release him from his assailant's grasp.
Just before she reached the suffering boy, the villain finally released his hold. It was knocked out from behind by a powerful force that Starfire could not see and she altered her acceleration just in time. As she swooped to catch the fallen Speedy, Starfire neither knew, nor cared who or what had done it. All that she cared about was that it had been done. She left the villain and carried Speedy home. She needed to concentrate on healing this boy whom she'd come to care about so much. He was the last thing she had in the world… 'And you are not going to leave me too!'
So, are you intrigued yet?
What will happen to poor Speedy? Will the childish games between BB and BG ever end? And when the HECK will Rob and Rae get some action?
Oooooh...you will ONLY know if you review!
Though I do not profess to be great, I do not profess to suck either! -me