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Chapter twenty-six. This chapter originally didn't exist. It just went on to the next set of events without really elaborating on the initiations of the other Titans. But since you guys seemed to enjoy it, I have added them in! It's just so darned fun to write! Wee! I finally dyed my hair blood red again. I'm so happy! You don't care, do you:smiles like an idiot: Thanks for reviewing you guys! I love you all!

"The course of true love never did run smoothly."

-William Shakespear

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The five Teen Titans sat on the sofa for a moment, waiting patiently before the next image came onto the screen. Raven, Cyborg, and Robin were standing in front of the camera. Cyborg and Robin were snickering softly, though Raven just looked slightly amused.

"We've got a new member, and you know what that means," she said with a slightly evil grin.

"It means Beast Boy is in for a rather rude awakening!" Cyborg said cheerfully. Robin grabbed the camera.

"He's moving his things into his room right now. Maybe we should give him a hand," he said. This produced snickering from Cyborg and Raven. Robin moved forward with the camera, following Raven and Cyborg down the hall. Cyborg knocked lightly on the door.

"Yeah?" came a voice from inside. The door slid open, and a slightly younger version of Beast Boy appeared. "Oh, uh…hi guys."

"Hello, Beast Boy," Raven said slightly savagely. It was obvious that she disliked the young changeling immensely.

"What's the camera for?" Beast Boy asked. Seeing the wicked looks on the faces of the other three teenagers, he backed up a few paces.

"Oh, nothing," Robin said from behind the camera. "we just wanted to congratulate you for making it into the Teen Titans."

Beast Boy looked suspicious. He may have been just a fourteen-year-old newbie, but he wasn't completely inexperienced. With people like this, the situation was never as innocent as it seemed. "What's the catch?" he asked.

"There is no catch. It's just that we like to celebrate new team members a certain way," Raven said, trying to conceal a sinister chuckle.

"Oh yeah? And how's that?" Beast Boy asked, squinting at the young violet-haired Titan.

"Like this!" Cyborg whooped, whipping out his sonic boom and pointing it at Beast Boy. Having seen this particular piece of machinery in action, the changeling recoiled. Before he had the chance to speak, the device on Cyborg's arm shot a huge blast of a strange green substance. The emerald jet hit Beast Boy and sent him flying backwards onto the floor. The green mush kept shooting out at an incredible pace, pouring onto the fallen Titan and off onto the floor, rushing around the room and soaking into the carpet. When the green finally stopped coming, Beast Boy sat up, looking a bit disoriented.

"Green jell-o? How did you get it into your gun thingy?" he asked, looking bemused and licking a bit of the lime-flavored slime from him chin with his abnormally long tongue. "Why?" (uh-oh. Has he forgotten that there's gelatin in jell-o?)

"Initiation. It's a sort of tradition around here," came Robin's voice cheerfully as he whipped out a water balloon and heaved it at Beast Boy. It his him square in the forehead and exploded, sending a wave of whipped cream over his head and face. He sputtered, spitting the white foam in attempt to get it away from his mouth.

"You guys are nuts," Beast Boy said, shaking his head in wonder. "Why do you do this stuff?"

Raven stepped forward with a slightly playful smile on her face and delicately placed a cherry on top of his head. "Because we can," she told him. She turned and started to walk out of the room, but Beast Boy grabbed the Azarathian by the arm and yanked her down into the puddle of liquidized green jell-o with him. She landed on her back and the limey goodness immediately soaked through her cloak and leotard. She sat up, looking like she was about ready to murder him, and then she only sighed and got up. "You're lucky I'm in a good mood." she said before she walked out of the room. The image faded out.

A new image appeared on the screen. This time, there were five Titans before the camera; Beast Boy, Robin, Cyborg, Starfire and Raven. The camera was sitting on a table.

"Dude, you know by now what we're doing and why we have this recording," Beast Boy told the camera. In the background, there were tables where people sat devouring cheese-drenched slices of pizza (mmmmmm! I want cheese!). They were obviously in the pizza place.

Starfire looked significantly confused. She was holding a rubber chicken and wearing a pair of yellow rain boots and an eye patch. "Friends, I am understanding why we would choose to journey to the place of the edible cheesy wheels, but what I am not understanding is why I am dressed so strangely, and why I am holding this squeaky bird," she said, flopping the rubber chicken around a bit for emphasis.

Beast Boy covered his mouth to avoid laughing too hard. It was obvious that he was enjoying this, having never been around for the initiation of a new team member before. Raven rolled her eyes. It had been a few months since the last clip, but she still appeared to have an aversion to him.

"OK, I'll explain it again, Starfire. You carry the chicken around and ask if anyone will lick it," Cyborg said. Starfire looked disturbed.

"Um…alright. I shall get this over with," Starfire said uncertainly, walking forward. She stopped at a table. "Excuse me, would you care to eat the lovely chicken of the rubber?" she asked the woman who sat devouring her pizza.

The woman looked up at Starfire like she was insane.

"Please go away now," the woman said. Starfire looked hurt.

"Very well, then," she said, heading over to the next table. "Excuse me sir, do you wish to partake in a meal of a splendid rubber bird?" she held out the rubber chicken.

The man stared at the chicken for a moment. "Ch-chicken?" he asked.

"Yes!" Starfire chirped happily.

"Chicken?" the man asked again, his eye starting to twitch. Starfire took a few steps back.

"Yes," she said timidly, shrinking back.

The man leaped to his feet. "You…you have a chicken! SATAN! Chickens are spawn of Satan!" the man screamed, pointing a long, thin, accusing finger in the direction of the squeaky yellow bird in Starfire's gentle hands. "Sssssssssatan!" he collapsed onto the ground, sobbing. "Why God, why? Why hast thou forsaken me so? I will not eat the chicken!" and with that, the man climbed shakily to his feet, suddenly seemingly normal. He turned to walk away, and then he turned back in Starfire's direction, his eyes wide and mad. He grabbed the rubber chicken swiftly from her grasp. He threw it onto the ground, stomping it several times. "I will never join your mindless zombie armies, you filthy pig-livered bacon finger smooshy!'" and then he turned and fled.

Starfire picked up the now flattened rubber chicken from the ground and walked over to her friends, who were strangely subdued.

"I do not think anyone will be wanting the chicken today," she said, looking a bit shaken as she placed the chicken in Robin's waiting hands. Robin, still looking considerably disturbed, walked over and shut the camera off, and the tv screen went black.

A new image appeared. This time, there were four Titans in front of the camera, and Cyborg was holding it. There was a lot of noise in the background and crowds of people. Jump City Mall.

"Come on, Raven, come out from behind that pop machine before we have to get Cy to move it!" Beast Boy said.

"Raven didn't get initiated at first, and so we're doing hers now," Robin explained to the camera, and then turned his attention back to the scene. "Come on Raven, it's part of the rules. Get out from behind there," he said.

"I hate you," came a voice from behind the pop machine as Raven squeezed herself out from the small gap. Beast Boy latched onto her wrist to be sure she wasn't going to run, and she sighed in irritation. None of the others could help laughing.

Raven was wearing a pair of extremely baggy jeans, white wife-beater shirt, and a large chain around her neck with a clunky T attached to the end. She was wearing a sideways baseball cap too. She didn't look happy.

"Whose idea was that outfit? She looks like a female version of those weird wannabe Eminem guys," Beast Boy said.

"Who is this…'Eminem'?" Starfire asked.

"No one important," Robin said.

"So what do I have to do?" Raven asked.

"You just have to rap," Beast Boy said, giggling.

"What?" Raven asked, looking dangerously close to exploding.

"I'm just joking," Beast Boy said quickly. "You just have to walk up to some random person and talk gangsta…and then rap."

"And what if I don't know how to talk gangta?"

"Then you're pretty much screwed, huh?" Beast Boy said with a shrug.

"You'd better get started, Raven," Cyborg said.

"Yes. I wish to see what a 'gangsta' is. It is some type of bird?" Starfire asked.

"No Star, it's- you'll see," Robin said with a sigh.

Raven gave a very loud sigh also. "You are all going to pay very dearly for this someday," she said as she started forward. The other four Titans were laughing as she walked over to a random person who was fighting with the pop machine over a dollar bill. "Hey, homie g," she said emotionlessly. The girl turned around and looked at Raven, raising an eyebrow.

"Um…hello," the girl said, trying hide the fact that she was disturbed.

"How's it goin, pimp joos?"

"Uh…OK."

"That's good man. West side," Raven babbled.

"Um….yeah," the girl said, backing up a bit.

"Where ya goin, g?" Raven asked, though clearly glad that the girl was going

"Home," the girl said, trying desperately to hide the fact that she was urgently freaked out.

"Oh come on homie, I gotta rap for you," Raven said.

"What?"

"Well, it goes a little something like this," Raven said. (note: imagine this being very badly rapped and not metered at all) "Yo yo yo. I got a couple of stupid friends. Yo yo yo, they's makin me act like a frickin retard. Yo yo yo, and all that shit, man. I gonna kick the hell outta Beast Boy. Yo. What. Uh. Yeah. I eat food and all that stuff, yeah yeah yeah. Hey hey, look at the penguin? Yo yo yo, I'm done now." Raven finished with no emotion whatsoever in her voice.

"Um….that was interesting," the girl said, her eyebrow pretty much floating above her head

"Don't even try to deny it. It was stupid. You can go now. I'm sorry I bothered you," Raven said, turning and walking back to the Titans, who were all laughing hysterically. "Whose idea was this one, anyway?" she asked through clenched teeth.

"B-Beast Boy's," Robin stammered, struggling to control his laughter.

Raven turned her eyes on Beast Boy, who stopped laughing immediately. "Whoa, easy dude! It was just for fun! I didn't mean to make you mad!" he pleaded desperately.

"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" Raven chanted, extending her hands. Beast Boy lifted off the ground, enveloped in her energy. He was screaming hysterically.

"Oh shit! Don't-don't do that, Raven!" Robin said as Cyborg shut the camera off quickly.

And then the screen came back to another area of the mall.

"We're killing two birds with one stone today," Cyborg said cheerfully. (get it? Robin and Raven are both birds, and they're doing both of their initiations today)

"Killing is right," said Robin miserably.

"Stop whining, I had to do it," Raven said from behind the camera. She turned the camera on Robin.

Robin was dressed in his normal outfit, but he had a deep magenta lacy bra over his shirt. He was also wearing a short, curly rainbow clown wig and a red rubber nose. His face was painted white and pink with a sloppy blue star on his cheek, and he looked extremely harassed. He sighed.

"Let's just get this over with," Robin said with a sigh. He took off at a run and started sprinting around in circles. People turned their attention to the boy in the cape and bra and clown attire and started laughing. "Mo! Moo! Boobies! Come on Sandy, we're going on a raid of the lobster farm! Weeeeee! Help me hang my panties up to dry!"

"Get a job you bum!" yelled a random guy who was walking by.

"How could you do this to me?" Robin asked, collapsing to his knees and grabbing the guy's pant leg. "After all I've done for you! I mad you urchin baby custard for every day of the week! I packed it all into your potato chippy briefcase to start a new day, and this is how you thank me? With your lies and discarded bed sheets!"

"Excuse me?" the guy asked. "What's the matter with you?"

"Don't pretend you don't sense the awesome power of my long-lost sister's navel hair! I don't know where you think you're going, but you'd better not go. I has connections. I will shoot down your plane! You will land in Cambodia where only flies will lick your wounds and you will be carried to alien ceremonies by the blanket warriors of New York!"

"What?" the guy asked, backing away from Robin and jerking his pant leg out of his grip.

"Don't act like you don't know the code, Santa!" Robin bellowed, climbing to his feet.

The guy was looking more and more frightened by the second.

"Please get away from me! Don't kill me!" the guy said, backing up some more.

"Don't run from me, Betty! I loooooves you! Will you marry me?" Robin asked.

The man turned and ran out of the mall.

Robin returned to normal and walked back over to the four laughing teenagers. They were pretty much exploding. Raven was holding the camera with her powers so it wouldn't shake as she laughed.

"shut that thing off!" Robin said grumpily. Still laughing, Raven shut the camera off.

Back on the sofa in Titans Tower, the five young superheroes were all laughing so hard that the popcorn was spilling onto the floor. Clutching his stomach with one hand, Beast Boy held onto Raven's arm for support with the other.

"That was awesome!" he said.

"It did bring up a lot of memories," Robin choked through his laughter.

The five of them laughed for a few minutes, struggling to breathe properly, when suddenly another image appeared on the TV screen. Slightly confused, they turned their attention to it.

"What is this? I forget what all we had on this tape," Robin said.

"I don't know. Let's just watch it anyway," Cyborg said.

On the screen, the five Titans were standing there laughing as they had so many times before. But there was something different. Someone else was with them. Terra.

"Um…what do I have to do?" she asked, looking confused and scratching her head. "And why?"

"When you became a Titan the first time, we never got to properly initiate you," Raven explained with a slightly sadistic smile.

"Yeah. And now that you're not a rock anymore, we've gotta initiate you!" Beast Boy said excitedly from behind the camera.

"Do I really have to do this?" Terra asked.

"If you want to be a Titan again," Robin said innocently.

Terra sighed. "OK," she said reluctantly. Summoning a rock that was sitting nearby, she hopped onto it and floated up over main street. Hesitating for a moment, Terra then started dancing like a monkey. "Yeah! Uh!" she said loudly, causing people who were walking below to look up at the strange blonde. She coughed several times before she started singing at the top of her lungs, her voice cracking purposely. "I like big butts and I cannot lie, you other brothers can't deny. When a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in your face you get sprung. Want to pull up tough, 'cause you noticed that butt was stuck beef to the jeans she's wearing, I'm hooked and I can't stop staring. Oh baby, I wanna get wit cha, and get your pictcha. My homeboys tried to warn me, but that butt you got makes me so horny. Ooooh, rumple smooth skin, ya say ya wanna get in my benz. Well use me, use me, 'cause I ain't that average groupie. I seen her dancing, to hell with romancing. She sweat. Wet. She's got it going like a turbo jet. I'm tired of magazines. Seein flat butts are the thing. 'Cause the average black man, ask him that, she's got to pack much back. So fellas, YAH! Fellas, YAH! 'Cause your girlfriend's got the butt HELL YEAH! Shake it, yeah, shake it, yeah! Shake that healthy butt! Baby got back!" ( if I tried to type the whole song, my hands would fall off). After the first verse, Terra guided the rock back to the ground and hopped off.

The other Titans were laughing.

"Dude, how did you remember that much of that song?" Beast Boy asked.

"That's MY song, baby!" Terra said, laughing. Her lack of embarrassment was surprising.

"You've done that before, haven't you?" Raven asked.

"I've lost a lot of bets in my life," Terra explained.

"Congratulations, Terra," Robin said. "You're part of the team again."

"Yeah! We're back!" Beast Boy cheered.

"Thanks, guys," Terra said, smiling as Beast Boy flashed a thumbs up sign in front of lens and then turned off the camera.

Back on the sofa, there was an uneasy silence. The Titans sat glumly, staring at the now blank screen. Cyborg grabbed the remote and shut the TV off.

"Terra," Beast Boy muttered soullessly, still staring at the screen. Raven looped an arm around his shoulders.

"I'm sorry," she said softly, stroking the changeling's cheek lightly. Beast Boy rested his cheek on her shoulder.

"This sucks," Robin said quietly. "That feeling before…it was so…content. And now it just feels like something is missing."

"You know what…I think we need a group hug right about here," Cyborg said.

"Yes!" Starfire said happily, leaping over to the other three and taking Robin with her. Cyborg grabbed Beast Boy and Raven and pulled them into the group hug. Beast Boy hugged as many of his friends as he could reach, squeezing them desperately.

"Terra would want us to be happy, right?" Cyborg asked as the five of them broke apart and returned to their original places.

"Yeah," Beast Boy said. "She…would."

"She would want us to have fun," Starfire said.

"Yeah," Robin said.

"Then let's have some fun!" Cyborg said, brightening suddenly. He grabbed a slice of pizza from one of the boxes on the table. "Heads up, BB!" he said, throwing the cheesy triangle. The piece of pizza hit Beast Boy in the side of the head.

He sat still for a moment, sauce and melted cheese sticking to his hair, and then he turned and grabbed a slice also, a smile on his face. "You are so dead Cy!" he yelled, hurling the pizza at Cyborg, who ducked. The slice hit Robin instead. Robin turned to Beast Boy, a very dangerous look on his face. Beast Boy shuddered.

"Well Beast Boy, I guess there's only one thing I can say now," the Boy Wonder said, wiping sauce from his face. The other four sat in nervous apprehension for what he was about to say. "Food fight!" Robin yelled, grabbing a slice of pizza and hurling it into Raven's face.

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Yay! Next chapter soon. Sorry that took so long. I spent most of the week on this chapter. It was the longest one yet and I didn't have very big windows to get it written.