A/N: I'm back with my new story, after being completely dry of ideas for a while I got an idea for this one so I just sat down and wrote down the first chapter before I forgot the idea.
Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans.
Dedication: This story is dedicated to HafeWolfDemon who e-mailed me and asked me to write another story. Without that I probably wouldn't have pushed myself as hard to think of another idea.
Under Contract
Chapter 1: Bad News
"Great, this really sucks," Robin said as he and Raven left their annual meeting with the mayor of Jump City.
"How are we going to tell the rest of the team?" Raven asked her boyfriend.
"I have no clue, but I think our best bet is to not beat around the bush," Robin commented.
"You say that like there's another way," Raven remarked.
"There are many ways we can tell them!" Robin replied defensively.
"Well, I guess we could play charades." Raven suggested sarcastically.
"Let's just get back home and hope for the best," Robin said.
When they made it back to the Tower the other three Titans were waiting eagerly for the news. The meetings Raven and Robin always had with the mayor meant they were getting things.
"Finally, you're back!" Beast Boy said excitedly, "When are we getting our GS3?"
"Yes, is Silkie going to get his own room now?" Starfire asked.
"How much money was added onto our food budget?" Cyborg questioned, drooling over how much more food they'd have when they got more money for it.
"No, no, negative $500," Robin answered each question.
Beast Boy and Starfire's faces became down cast, Cyborg just became confused.
"But that means out food budget is zero!" Cyborg realized.
"That's right," Raven said.
"Jump City has fallen into a financial dry spell and can no-longer afford to fund the Teen Titans, so we either have to move and start over or find a source of income," Robin explained.
"I'm defiantly not moving!" Beast Boy proclaimed.
"I would like to remain where we are right now also," Starfire added.
"Me too," Cyborg said.
"So, even if Robin and I didn't want to stay, majority rules," Raven said.
"Alright, so how are we going to get any money?" Robin asked.
"We can't really get normal jobs because we'd either get fired from those for leaving work or be run out of the city by angry people who were hurt when we couldn't get there to help them," Beast Boy reminded his friends.
"He's right, so what other things could we do?" Robin asked.
The Titans came up with a whole list of possibilities including: convincing kids to hold bake sales for them; selling food; doing homework for people; becoming a band; and breeding horses.
"I never thought we'd have to come to this, but I think we need a manager to non-sexually exploit us," Raven said.
"She's right you know," Cyborg said.
"So, what are we going to be looking for in our manager, seeing as how it's our only realistic possibility?" Robin asked.
"Someone with good ideas."
"They need to know how to work with us."
"They have to know how to portray us correctly, or at least have the right angle for us, because we don't want to be doing something that isn't right for us."
"They must have the right personality and they must understand us."
"Alright, how are we going to go about getting a manager?" Robin inquired.
"Easy, we put an ad in the classified section of the news paper. The city gave us $2500 to use until we can get started with something so we can use part of it for that," Raven explained.
"Alright, that sounds good, Raven and I are going to figure out what our ad will say and then will you three contact the news paper?" Robin asked.
"Sure thing boss, but what'll we do while we wait?" Beast Boy asked.
"You guys can amuse yourselves for 15 minutes, can't you?" Robin asked.
"Of course we can!" Starfire exclaimed.
"Alright, we'll be back in a couple of minutes," Robin informed them.
After discussing what they wanted the ad to say, and how much information they wanted it to have, Raven and Robin decided on this:
Teen Titans in need of Manager
-must have ideas
-must have good personality
-must understand us
Call 866-8937 and set up an interview.
"We've got our as, Cyborg will you call the news paper and get our as in?" Robin asked.
"Of course, but where are you two going?" He asked the love birds.
"We need to finish our routine, the meeting with the mayor interrupted it and planning this hs put us behind it and planning this has put us behind schedule," Robin explained and then he and his girl friend walked off.
"If this two didn't have schedules, I think they would die," Beast Boy said, pausing the game he and Cyborg had been playing so that they could put their ad in the news paper.
A/N: sorry this chapter was so short, I'm going to try to write a longer one net time, but for now 'maggio la forza รจ con voi.' (First person to tell me what that says gets a cookie.)
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