-note- Greetings! Salutations! Dr. Suess! Umm, as you all know, you are all verily confused at this whole story and are just hanging on because you have to. (okay. Maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, but that's okay) Just stick with me, though, darlin's! Everything will be good in due time! Oh yeah. And I couldn't think of a name for Speedy because if I got it wrong I'd be mad and if there wasn't a real name for him anyway I'd still probably give him one that no one would like…. So I'll just stick with Speedy.

-note- also, I would like to mention that I am no longer using html while I write this (because I FINALLY got word installed on my computer) so if some things are messed up I'm terribly sorry. But I'm still just very happy that I got word. Cause its nice and it has spellcheck. Hehehe.

Chapter Four

Two girls were seated together, happily chatting as they read fanfictions and their reviews on the site, one of them, Winter, drinking bottled water and the other, whom we have barely been introduced to yet, sipping a frozen latte. The girl that we have barely been introduced to yet was leaning on the table to look at the computer screen, and her pink-blonde hair was falling gracefully across her face. Unlike Winter's other friends who had stopped by, she was not wearing black, but instead loose pajama pants and a purple tank top.

"You know what really sucks, Ana," Winter said in a slightly down tone, "Some of the people on fanfiction think that we're all the bad guys!"

Ana seemed taken aback and she replied, "What!" in a gasp, "We may not be perfect, and I can't speak for everyone but I know that we're sometimes a pain, but I didn't think that we were the bad guys."

Winter picked up her water bottle and drank from it before continuing, "I bet it's 'cause I'm just so bad at being an author. It's probably because I have no inspiration and my note taking sucks."

With a shake of her head, Ana responded, "Now that's a little bit extreme. Let's just go rant about it on a forum. It'll be fun. And when you put up the next chapter make sure that it's something that helps the readers understand what's going on."

"What could I post that makes them understand stuff more?" Winter asked before finishing her bottle.

Ana looked thoughtful. "Well, you could use Vesta or Rayne's notes for the next chapter… it could be based on what's happening over with Beast Boy. I mean, you haven't put him in since, like, the second chapter.

With a nod, Winter turned the laptop to face her strawberry blonde friend and spoke.

"Good thinking. Call up those two's notes - I'm going to go kill John for not doing his job, then I'm going to get another water. When I come back we'll do some hard core writing."

After hanging up the blue cell phone, Emily looked up and headed toward her other friends. There were five of them sitting there, on a picnic bench outside of the cafeteria. They had already been on their lunch break for fifteen minutes, as opposed to Winter who was just beginning hers now, and there were three boys and two girls waiting for her.

Vesta, her shoulder-length dirty-blonde hair pretty messy from the wind, sat between Garfield and Achilles. Garfield wasn't very tall, but he was very strange. His skin and hair was tinted green (his hair more blue than green) - a result to a copper spill in the water when he had lived in France. After drinking it a few times his skin had begun to change, and soon after his hair followed. It had made him sick almost to his very death but his parents had saved him. He was very fortunate to have survived, but, due to the chemicals that saved his life, he would be permanently green. He wore blue-jeans and a green shirt, because even though it was part of his skin he still liked the colour.

Achilles, on Vesta's other side, was more fortunate in his skin tone. It was not at all tan, but very light, due to the hours spent in front of the television and the computer playing games with Gar and a few others. His shaggy hair was dyed black and his wardrobe reflected the same colour. On the front of his shirt was a ghost. It was badly drawn but everyone seemed to like it so it continued to stay there.

They were sitting on top of the picnic table, and, on the bench below them, sat Rayne and a guy who liked to be called Speedy. None of them sitting together knew his real name, except for perhaps himself, but none of them bothered to try to find out either. He wore black sunglasses and an orange tee-shirt, and sat, not speaking, with a bemused smile on his face.

Gar and Achilles were fighting over a video game.

"Dude! To get to level forty-seven you have to duck under the moving ladder, race through the hurricane then do a double jump slash back kick-flip to defeat the boss. Then you have to answer the question about the first boss you fought and type in the password!" Garfield was forceful and to the point. Anyone who did not totally immerse themselves to the point of obsession in video games (i.e. everyone else) had no clue what the heck was going on. But Achilles seemed to understand completely.

His tone was low and monotonous but just as forceful as Gar had been. "No, first you have to race through the hurricane and then you knock over the ladder with a double jump slash kick-flip before you get to the boss where you have to outsmart him with your knowledge of the first boss. Then a secret door opens and you have to imitate everything that the guitar dude tells you to do on your own guitar then you win."

Gar seemed taken aback. "I just said that, you moron! Weren't you listening to a word I said!"

Achilles raised an eyebrow and shrugged carelessly.

"Dooooooo-ude! You weren't listening to me?"

"I knew you'd say it wrong." Achilles didn't seem as if he cared that Gar was annoyed.

"But I didn't!" Gar said loudly.

"Yes you did. I heard you."

"But you said you weren't listening!."

"I lied." Achilles stated, simple and short; to the point.

"So what?" Vesta intervened, "I believe him." She was referring to Gar when she stated this.

Gar grinned at his friend seated between Achilles and himself. She grinned back, but only until Emily cleared her throat to get their attention. The only ones who had noticed that she was standing there were Rayne and Speedy, and they had decided to stay out of it all.

Everyone looked at the short, blonde haired girl, who was standing nervously in front of them. Almost all of them were wondering why she was so timid - she was, after all, their friend.

After clearing her throat again, she spoke. "Girls, code purple-blue-red alert," she said first, then, sort of as an afterthought to the grimly spoken announcement, "Yeah… and Rayne? Winter wants you to call her."

Rayne chuckled a bit, finally realizing the cause for Emily's concern. "She figured it out, didn't she?" she spoke this more than asked it.

"Well duh," Emily switched her weight from foot to foot and tried to change the subject - she did not like the stares that she was getting from Gar, Speedy, and Achilles, "So what game are you guys fighting about? I might know the answer."

Garfield seemed more comfortable as they moved back into a topic he understood, and, as Rayne walked away to go use her phone, he said, "Planet Invader! He thinks that to get to level forty-seven you have to duck under the moving ladder, race through the hurricane then do a double jump slash back kick-flip to defeat the boss and answer a question about the first boss you fought and type in a password. But I told him, no, no, no, you have to race through the hurricane then knock over the ladder with a double jump slash kick-flip before you get to the boss where you have to outsmart him with your knowledge of the first boss. Then a secret door opens and you have to imitate everything that the guitar dude tells you to do on your own guitar then you win! And that's the only real way to do it. Achilles just won't admit that I'm right and he's wrong."

Achilles just shook his head. "You're hallucinating."

Emily gave him a fairly blank stare as she sprouted an idea. "Well, why don't you guys just play it? You'll know who's right then."

Speedy spoke for the first time since Emily had come back. "Please. Maybe it'll give us some peace and quiet!"

"You're quiet enough for all of us! The only time you talk is when you're hanging out with the Harrisfield guys!" Gar said.

Harrisfield was the name of the school that the other 'titans' attended, and where Rayne would probably be relocated at any moment. The school that the green boy, along with Emily, Vesta, Achilles, and Speedy attended was called Lemington.

Achilles ignored the comment made by his green friend, and spoke to him about the game. "Okay then, today. After school, my room. Then we'll see who's right and who was messed up. Even though you did already claim to say what I said. So it doesn't matter all that much anyway…"

"Nope," Gar said, after checking what seemed to be a day planner on his fingers, counting off things and mouthing what they were on them, "Can't. I'm goin' to Vic's after school, remember?"

Vesta rolled her eyes and intervened. "Can't you drop that just this once? Tell him you're busy!"

Some things that Gar do are weird, which are funny and just a little out there, some are strange, which are just stupid (but still have that funny feel to them), and some are even odd, where you have no idea how to classify it because it is so… just, odd. Normally anything he did could be classified into one of these groups, but the smile he gave at this moment could only be described as… evil.

"Nope," his grin grew wider with more evil feel to it, "I have a date."

Emily, who, like Vesta and Speedy, was a bit tired of her conversation, perked up at the sound of the word "date."

"What - who - huh -?" Emily managed to stutter for a moment before she got her bearings, "Who do you have a date with?"

The smile was now directed completely toward Achilles. "I'll tell you who," the boy said, "Rae."

"You're hopeless, dude." Achilles responded in his normal, apathetic tone.

Speedy had the same attitude toward this. "Really. Who is it that you're really going with?"

"Rae."

"Her name's Raven," Achilles mumbled.

Vesta looked very terribly excited and almost immediately pulled out her notebook and started to write. She, like the other girls, was obliged to get down the details of this historic moment for any future fanfictions.

Emily shrugged her shoulders, a bit disappointed that this would not turn out to be a GarOC experience. Okay, cross that out. She was majorly pissed. But since she didn't want anyone to know she kept as low of a profile about it as she could, and said, "Whatever, can we go eat now?"

"What about Rayne?" Speedy countered as Achilles tried to sneak unsuspicious glares at Gar while Gar loved it, "Shouldn't we wait for her?"

"Oh don't worry," Vesta said, closing her notebook, "She isn't coming back. Let's go eat."

After a brief phone conversation, Winter hacked into the school's computer files and enrolled Rayne. Since it was still the beginning of the school year and everything was hectic as muffins, it was easy to get her into everything she needed to without arousing suspicion. By the end seventh period, the period right after lunch, Rayne was a student at Harrisfield High.

It was the end of that period, when Rayne had finally shown up at the front gate of the school, that they had exchanged their greetings, that they began to talk reality fanfictions.

"Okay," Rayne said a bit excitedly, "First we have to get Rich and Kori together. Right after I abduct him and touch his hair." She shivered jokingly in delight. But even though the shiver was a joke, the delight was apparently real.

"So, love, do you have any particular plans on the matter?" Winter was helping Rayne carry her two suitcases towards the dorm room. She had set her up with a girl who lived across the hall from Betty and Kori so that she would be able to keep an eye on them, and that's where they were headed.

"I don't know…" Rayne thought for a moment, then lit up. They were approaching the building quickly and would soon be inside, but she didn't seem to mind if other people heard; she was using their titans names to identify them. "Okay. We capture Star and hide her in an tall tower being guarded by trolls and a really big fire breathing dragon. And then we do a huge television broadcast and make sure that Robin sees it and it'll say that only the person who loves her can free her, and only with a kiss because she's in an enchanted sleep that can only be broken by true love's first kiss then-"

Rayne was interrupted by Winter putting up her hand and saying, in a bored voice, "then we drug her to sleep until he kisses her, then they all live happily ever after. It won't work, Rayne. They don't have their superpowers and we don't have the time, money, or means to get a hold of a dragon, a few trolls, the tall tower or the drug that will wear off at an exact point. This is a reality fic, remember?"

Rayne seemed thoughtful. "Well, actually, I was going to say that once he got into the room we could abduct her again and make it look like aliens then put up another telly broadcast saying -"

Winter cut her off again. "Just - try to think of something that will work, okay?" at this moment, Winter's cell phone rang for the third time that afternoon. She pulled it out and spoke into the speaker. "Oi, Emily… what!…okay…I'll take care of it… Good… Yeah…This is better than I imagined…I'll talk to you later… Bye."

Almost as soon as the phone conversation had begun it ended, and Winter looked at Rayne, smiling a bit.

"Well?" Rayne asked.

"We're going to have to wait a bit to try one of your StarRob plans," Winter explained, putting away the phone, "We're gonna have some BBRae to take care of first."

The redhead standing in front of Winter seemed very confused and lost, so Winter chose to elaborate.

"The two have a date. We didn't have to set them up after all." Winter shrugged and continued to the dorm hall, still carrying the suitcase. When she noticed that Rayne was still a bit hesitant, she went on, "Come on! Let's get moving. We have work to do, and standing out here won't get it done."

Rayne and Winter walked into the building, readying themselves for something that very well may be disaster.

Tidus'luvr: yes, you do love bb more than life i suppose. i think i'll add that in a later chapter somewhere :-p merci du la review.

Rose: everyone thinks we're the bad guys! (begins to whine jokingly) thanks for the review!

renayumi: don't worry about reviewing. i'm glad you think it's kawaii :-d thanks for the review

WHENICOMEAROUND: i recorded lost last night... but i havent watched it yet so i dunno... so yeah. YOU'D BETTER WATH TEEN TITANS! lol. thanks for the review even if you didn't read it yet.

-note- so I'm getting better at this Teen Titans thing, no? All right, some things are still a little confusing, and some things are probably making you think, "Why is that there?" and stuff like that. But, never fear, I'll tell you my secret: Don't think about it. Just pretend that you are as hyper and crazy and random as this authoress is and you'll be fine. Check out the next chapter on next Thursday, March 31, 2005.

Sneaky Peaky: "Chapter Five"

Well, what do you expect? The next chapter is the video game wars, the date between two people who we all want to see get together, and the craziness, havoc, and the two girls writing it all down. Tune in.