In the making of this chapter, SushiChica has officially downed four tins of tangerine Altoids. I'm not kidding.

Hey has anyone read the book "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck? One word: BLEGH. That book SUCKS. The first three chapters are about how this kid has a Red Pony and he leaves it out in the rain and then it dies. The rest of the book is about how the kid eats breakfast. I'm not even kidding. Sorry to anyone who likes the book, but ugg. HAHAHA my friend Adriane and I got bored one morning and this is what we came up with:

The Red Pony (Paraphrased by Poki and Sushi)

"I'm a lil boy...and I have a red pony. One day, I went to school...in my brand new over aaaalls...aaand I was in claaaass and a sat in my chaaair...and then it started raaainin, and I remembered my red pony. So I raan the miiile back to my house and the other half miiiile back to the baaarn and it was still raaaainin on my brand new over aaaalls...and when I got to the pony it was still raaainin and the pony...it was still red...and the raaain was still soakin my brand new over aaalls... and so I took it into the baaarn...and it was still raaaainin and theeen, I went back home, and I closed my eeeeyes, for a very loong tiiime...and then I opened my eeeeyes...and I went down to breakfast, and I ate my eggs and bacon in my brand new over aaalls...and everyone knows that bacon's made from pigs. But then I found out that my bacon wasnt made from no pigs. It was from the red pony. So I went outside aaaand I told Bill, who was getting rope from the feeeence...I told him...I said... "That there was pony bacon" and he blew chunks...on my brand new over aaaalls...and shoot they was braaand new too...

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And so on. Just imagine all that in a heavy HEAVY southern drawl. I don't have anything against southerners. Just The Red Pony. It went on too...but I think that you'd rather read the next chap of exboyfriend huh? Heh... yeah...

DO NOT READ THE RED PONY UNLESS YOU ARE FORCED TO. Like me. -gags-

Dedication: To...um...to...uhhh...erm...RILES! A more faithful reader/reviewer, I've never known. Thank you SO much for being there for me and my pathetic story since the beginning. Such awesomeness...

WAIT HOLD UP THE FIC I NEED TO QUOTE:

"..."

"What?"

"...I need a reason."

"..."

"Don't say money. Why do this?"

"Why not do this?"

"..."

"-sigh- Because yesterday, I stepped out of the joint after losing four years of my life, and you're cold decking Teen Beat Cover Boys."

"...hmm..."

"Because the house always wins. You play long enough and the house takes you unless you come along with a perfect hand and you bet it all."

"...You've been practicing that speech haven't you?"

"...yeah a little bit. Did I rush it? It felt like I rushed it..."

"No, no, I liked it...the Teen Beat cover boy thing was good..."

(Elevator closes)

"I wonder what Ruben will say..."

End Quoting from Ocean's Eleven

Sorry had to do that...

Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans, Oceans Eleven, Charity Balls, Queenie, or Furbies. Thank God. Furbies...so...damn...annoying!

The girl called Samantha stood by a refreshment table, drumming her fingers on the wooden surface and tugging at her tastefully sparkled navy blue gown with her other hand. She scanned the groups who were scattered around the courtyard carefully, examining each face. There had to be a good two hundred aristocrats prancing around the courtyard, acting like the rich snobs that they were. Samantha checked each familiar face off her mental list of prominent citizens . There was the Mayor...The Miller couple, the richest in Jump City, with their two bitchy, preppy daughters...Bruce Wayne...

Samantha smiled as the renown millionaire just barely nodded in her direction. Wayne was a major benefactor for THE PLAN, and was well aquatinted with all council members and executive officers, such as herself.

Suddenly, a flash of white-blond hair caught the bespectacled brunette's eye. Her gaze followed, but she held her position, watching carefully. This is a reconnaissance mission, she reminded herself ruefully. No attacks. No contact. Nothing.

A rustle in the bushes behind her made Samantha jump.

"Relax, Queenie, it's just me." A girl in a midnight blue dress with red streaks adorning her lengthy brown hair emerged from the shrubbery. "Oh, excuse me. Queen-Of-Azarath."

"Oh, shut up Linka." Samantha rolled her eyes smiling, then suddenly noticed Linka's odd look. "...SushiChica. Whatever."

The two collapsed into a total random fit of laughter over a "joke" which wasn't really a joke at all, an not really funny either way.

Such was the nature of Samantha and Linka...ahem, Queen-Of-Azarath and SushiChica.

"So, did you hear?" Linka asked, raising a curious eyebrow.

"Of course I heard." Samantha flashed a sideways smile, pulling up the right strap of her dress which threatened to slip off. "It's not every day that you hear Raven singing 1,2 Step. It turned out well, I guess...but I still can't believe you rapped the Missy Elliot part." Linka flushed, embarrassed.

"Yeah, yeah...you know I'd do anything for the proper Titans pairings, even at risk of total public humiliation...even when I don't contain a ghetto bone in my body."

"I noticed." Samantha bit her lip.

"Hey..." Linka's face contorted, but her friend cut her off.

"And did you...?"

"Yep. I must say, her kiss from Beast Boy was well received." Linka had a triumphant look burning in her dark brown eyes.

"I'm glad." The two friends shared a smile.

"I…uh…heard about your little escapade this afternoon." Linka gave Samantha a look.

"Oh…that…" Queenie resisted the urge to sweat drop. "Look, you make a character from hell, it's only natural that I should want to beat him a bit."

"It was a recon mission Sam." Linka sighed.

"I know…"

"Look, I'd better go. My work here is done for tonight. Call me if you need anything, and don't try another attack, for the sake of the fic. Your job is to observe. Please?"

Samantha grinned and nodded.

"Good luck, then." Linka gave Samantha a quick wink and was off, back into the shrubbery and out of City Hall territory.

"All right..." Samantha gritted her teeth and removing herself from the bushes. "I'm watching the guy…"

With a gentle shove, Raven reluctantly pushed Beast Boy away.

"You know I can't…"Her voice was a low whisper. The psychic was about to leave, but a green hand grabbed her arm and pulled her back.

"Why?" Beast Boy demanded, more confused then angry.

"I…I told you…I just…can't..."

"No, you didn't tell me Rae, not really." The crystal punch bowl that sat on the refreshment table collapsed, sending tangy pink liquid flying everywhere. People screamed as they were splattered by the punch. Beast Boy and Raven shared a short moment of silence as one girl with glasses and shoulder length brown hair back flipped out of harm's way, landing gracefully a few yards behind. She'd obviously had some training…

"That's why." Raven thrust a finger toward the remains of the shattered crystal punch bowl, breaking the odd silence between them. "That's what could happen. Only next time, it might not be an innocent punch bowl that gets blown up. Next time…it could be Titans Tower."

"So we'll rebuild it!"

"You want a reason why?" Raven was losing control, her eyes wild. "It's because I'm afraid, okay? I'm afraid for your safety, I'm afraid for other people's safety, I'm afraid OF you, of this situation…" Raven took a deep breath. "And…most of all…I'm afraid of myself."

"…Fine." Beast Boy reluctantly released her. "Got it."

The Changeling watched sadly as Raven sunk into a particularly large group of people who passed by.

Why? Raven questioned herself as she emerged from the throng of rich citizens. Why do I keep putting myself in positions like that? Why do I keep putting him in positions like that? Why do I have to keep hurting him?

Because you're suffering from a serious case of denial…Raven's inner voice responded on cue. In a sudden wave of absolute fury, Raven threw her fist into the wall at her right. She regretted it soon afterward, though, when she realized that she'd left a dent in the structure. She'd have to apologize for doing that…

Cyborg inwardly praised himself for leading the petite blond away from the crowd of men begging for her attention. Then now sat in a pair along the edge of the courtyard, talking and laughing. So far, so good.

Then again, the half robot doubted that a Titan had ever gotten more dirty looks than he from all the jealous men milling about.

"So, Cyborg, do you dance?" The blond smiled coyly.

"Hey, just cause I got over half of my body parts replaced with machinery doesn't mean that I can't still do 'The Robot'" Cyborg couldn't actually believe that he had used a pun worthy of Beast Boy, but Crystal Summers seemed to like it. She giggled appreciatively.

"Well then, let's dance Titan!"

(A/N: YAY! Cyborg got a part in this chapter…yeah he has a SERIOUS lack of stage time in this fic, BUT the SEQUEL shall star a lot more of him…:grin:)
Starfire kept her eyes locked on Robin and…his…Starfire refused to consider Kitten as the Boy Wonder's date.

"Dance partner." The Tamaranian decided pleasantly, though, at the moment, there were an unusually low number of pleasant thoughts in her head. Attempting to keep herself from blasting a four foot buffer zone between Robin and Kitten, Starfire busied her mind with the plan that Robin had come up with, which wasn't really much of a plan at all. In fact, the only instructions that the alien girl was given couldn't even be called proper instructions.

Stay safe.

What kind of plan was that? But the Boy Wonder had said nothing more before climbing onto his R-Cycle and zooming off.

"Enjoying yourself, my dear?" Scorpio stood watching as Robin and Kitten danced. While the Boy Wonder was in obvious pain, the blond Tamaranian was having the time of his life. He was surrounded by rich people, Starfire stood beside him, albeit silently, and dear Robbie Poo was being tortured for all he was worth. Scorpio could hardly imagine anything better, nearly giggling in delight.

"Not particularly." Starfire eyed her ex-boyfriend suspiciously. For a moment, he looked as though he were going to say something, but seemed to change his mind at the last minute "What?"

"Excuse me?"

"You were planning to alert me of something. What was it that you wished to tell me?" Scorpio raised an eyebrow, then shook his head.

"It's nothing." Agitation shot through Starfire's veins. She was annoyed enough as it was, what with Robin and Kitten dancing the night away. She didn't need Scorpio keeping things from her.

"Inform me at once!" Starfire's eyes glowed green, but she was careful not to lock a gaze with the Tamaranian male beside her. His skills in mind control had not slipped her own cranium. Scorpio sighed.

"If I must…" He shot a glance at Robin, then back at Starfire. "He's protecting you."

"Of that, I assure you I am well aware." The red haired beauty crossed her arms, now almost afraid of what Scorpio would say next. "What point are you intending to establish?"

"What I'm saying, my lovely Starfire, is that he doesn't need the extra baggage." Starfire quirked a single eyebrow. "You wish to have…a…relationship with…Robin…correct?" Scorpio said the words 'relationship' and 'Robin' with such utter hatred that Starfire could say absolutely nothing in response. "Look at your so-called 'Boy Wonder', rescuing you again. Why is it that you always need to be rescued?

"I-"

"Do you really believe that Robin will always have the time to save poor, pitiful you? One day, he'll leave you, and then who'll be there to fight away all your fears, hmm?" Starfire reluctantly shifted her attention from Scorpio to Robin, who looked as though someone were about to perform open heart surgery on him…with a sledgehammer. It pained the girl to see her best friend enduring such torture…and all for nothing more than her safety and well being. "You're nothing more that a bother to dear Robin. Nothing more than a bother…"

Starfire blinked back tears. She was causing so much trouble for someone who was supposed to be her best friend…he wouldn't even be going through this if it weren't for her. There was a faint buzzing in her ears, and suddenly her head was spinning, her heartbeat accelerating. She felt woozy, as though someone had just hit her with a mallet. The Tamaranian crouched down as voices echoed in her head, which she clutched in her suddenly sweaty palms.

You always make situations worse than they are!

Why can't you ever stay out of harms way!

Why do you always have to be saved!

You stupid, weak girl! Robin doesn't need someone like YOU tagging along with him!

Fool! How could you think someone as immature and frail as you would be accepted by Robin?

"STOP IT!" The high-pitched piercing scream silenced everyone in the courtyard. Everyone but one.

"Starfire!" Robin leaped into action, practically jumping Scorpio and knocking Kitten to the floor in the process. The Boy Wonder and the Tamaranian male crashed to the floor in a tangle of arms and legs. Kitten helped herself up, as no one seemed to be willing to do it.

"Get BACK here Robbie Poo…" Kitten hissed, brushing off her dirty pink dress to no avail. "Now!" Her commands were ignored completely. Scorpio seemed to be putting his alien strength to good use in trying to pin Robin to the floor.

"WHY are you attacking me you foolish mortal!"

"You did something to Star!"

"I did NOTHING! I laid not a hand on her!"

"I don't know WHAT you did, but you WON'T get away with it!"

The Boy Wonder wasn't about to be brought down so easily. He reached for the retractable bo-staff he had stored in his suit pocket only a few hours earlier and was surprised to find that it wasn't there. Surprised and extremely annoyed. It must have fallen out while he had been dancing. Grunting as Scorpio shoved his head into the ground, he instead withdrew two smoke bombs and threw them into the Tamaranian's stomach, sending the alien flying backwards when they exploded. It was only a matter of seconds, however, before the two were within attacking distance of each other once again.

"Oh Robbie Poo!" Kitten voiced loudly, feigning confusion. "Why are you attacking an innocent alien?" She leaned down to the wrestling boys. "Keep it up, Robbie Poo, and I'll release the moths." Blind hatred, however, blocked out whatever hearing the Boy Wonder had once possessed. His only response to the threat was to smile as he thrust Scorpio's cranium into the wall that lay behind. It seemed to have had no effect on the alien whatsoever, and time seemed to stand still for a split second.

"…ouch." Scorpio's icy eyes narrowed with his sarcastic tone as he raised a lone hand to his blond hair. "You…messed up my hair." His face contorted but his voice remained calm. "Damn you." Scorpio let out something of a Tamaranian war cry and flung Robin to the side, directly into the hedges. The Boy Wonder vaulted out, covered in leaves and dirt, and tackled Scorpio yet again.

"That's IT!" Kitten's screech, like nails on a chalkboard, stunned the wrestling pair. They fell away from each other but looked ready to fight again. "Your friend's moth food Robbie Poo!" Closing her eyes in pure concentration and grinning triumphantly, the pink clad jail breaking blond snapped one heel from her right shoe and pressed down on the broken end. Nothing happened for several minutes, and the spectators looked at her oddly, just as you would had you seen a random girl pushing down on the jagged, broken heel for no apparent reason whatsoever. Cracking one eye open, Kitten's gaze drifted to the busted heel on which her thumb was so proudly perched. "Oh…heh…wrong heel…" This time, she yanked the heel from her LEFT shoe, and proceeded to press the large, red, overly-clichéd "Button of Doom" that rested upon the broken end. For a second, it seemed as though nothing were going to happen yet again. Then, with buzzing sounds like Death itself, a hoard of moths swarmed the courtyard. Rich people were suddenly screaming and running as quickly as they could with all that jewelry weighing them down, trying to get out of the way of the moths before their million dollar a piece outfits were messed up. It didn't really matter though. The moths were ignoring everyone.

Everyone but Starfire.

The insects made a beeline in Starfire's direction, quite obviously after her. Robin desperately tried to make his way to her through the throng of rich people who's idea of a desperate situation was probably a dirty Rolls Royce. He had almost made it through when a hand jerked him back. A girl in a sparkling navy blue gown eyed him critically.

"Look, I'm sorry, but I'm kind of in a hurry right now and-"

"Well then, you might want this…" The bespectacled girl we know as Samantha handed Robin his bo-staff. "I found it on the dance floor. You'd better be happy, I almost got trampled by rich people for this." In an instant, the girl was gone.

A scream and a loud explosion came from Robin's right and suddenly he was thrown headfirst back into reality.

Starfire winced noticeably as a moth clamped it's teeth upon her forearm for the second time. Summoning power, she flung the abnormally large insect from her arm and into three others. Blinded by fear, she aimlessly shot starbolts in every direction, making more misses than hits. Starfire needed backup, and fast. Raven, Beast Boy, and Cyborg had left to manage crowd control, in order to make sure no maniacal aristocrats ran anyone else over as they peeled out of the parking lots in their Bentleys, Rolls Royce, and Mercedes. Scorpio had disappeared from where he had previously been laying and was no where in sight.

"Need some help?" Starfire's head snapped to the right and there was Robin, at her side, retractable bo-staff in hand, whacking moths with more confidence and a better aim and she. The alien girl stood in awed silence as the Boy Wonder continued to thrash at insects.

Scorpio had been right.

Here was Robin, saving her again. Immobilized by such a though, Starfire stood stalk still, Robin continuing to beat away the moths. He suddenly turned to her.

"Look, while I realize that you're wearing a dress and you probably don't want to chip a nail or mess up your hair or something, I could REALLY use some help right about now..." The bo-staff swung backwards with a sudden reflex, sending one of the attacking parasites crashing into another two.

"Dress...nails...?" Starfire looked at her hands, grinning as they began to glow green once again. "You are imagining fictitious thoughts friend Robin."

Raven, Beast Boy, and Cyborg tried their best to calm people down, but it seemed that the only effect that they were having was a negative one. Raven was slowing cars down with her telekinetic powers, preventing several would-be accidents, Beast Boy had transformed into a sheepdog and was unsuccessfully attempting to herd people from all areas of major chaos. Cyborg wasn't being much of a help, choosing instead to guide Miss Crystal Summers to a safe place.

A bellowing explosion that sounded like a good 10.4 on the Richter Scale shook the area. Everyone paused, then screamed for all they were worth and ran even faster than before. A girl appeared at Raven's shoulder; the same girl that had back flipped out of the way of the exploding punch bowl. She adjusted her glasses, flipped her brunette hair over her shoulder, and looked determined.

"How can I help?"

"Who are you? Where'd you come from?" The empath eyed the girl a she (unfortunately) saved one of the Miller family's preppy bitch daughters from being mowed over by a speeding Bentley.

"Where I come from isn't important. All you need to know is that you can call me Samantha and I'm here to help in any way that I can."

"...Right..." Raven was suspicious in spite of herself.

"Rae! Chill out! The chica wants to help!" Beast Boy had taken his human form once again and motioned Samantha to take control of a certain congested area in the courtyard, rapidly shouting instructions as the brunette took up her post. She could run surprisingly fast in a floor length dress and heels (A/N: As opposed me, the one who can't walk two steps in high heels before tripping ad falling flat on my face, a tested theory).

"Chica?" Raven grumbled, annoyed, sending a wall of black magic in front of a couple who were about to run out into a dangerous intersection. "Since when did Beast Boy become bi-lingual?"

Starfire was thrown back by the sheer force of her most recent starbolt.

"Nice shot..." Robin whacked off a few moths still standing after the huge explosion. "I think we took care of most of them. Think you can fend off what's left? I need to find Kitten." Starfire nodded with confidence.

"I am able." She shot off a moth diving down at her without looking up. The Boy Wonder began to run off, but suddenly he turned around.

"I...I'm sorry I couldn't say it before, but...you look...beautiful." With that, Robin was gone. Starfire stared after him for a matter of seconds before letting out a high pitched squeal and letting a line of starbolts erupt from her fists, each hitting a moth with perfect accuracy.

"Finally!" Cyborg sat down on a bench, breathing heavily. "The crowds are pretty much gone."

"Not that you did anything to help..." Beast Boy eyed the half robot warily.

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did too!"

"Did not!"

"Did-"

"Cyborg, personally escorting some girl back to her house doesn't exactly count." Raven brushed a lock of hair behind her ear.

"Hey ya'll, I didn't escort her! She's still here..." Crystal Summers stepped out from behind the bush to the side.

"Is it safe to come out now?" Raven rolled her eyes.

"The moths weren't after you."

"Still...they scare me..." Crystal did look jittery.

"Hey...where'd that bespectacled girl with the brunette hair go?" Beast Boy scanned the courtyard but couldn't seem to find her.

"Did you just say bespectacled?" Raven raised an eyebrow.

"Been readin' Rae's dictionaries lately?" Cyborg also looked surprised.

"Hey...isn't that the girl who triggered the moths?" Crystal pointed a delicate, French tipped finger to none other than Kitten, who was hiding behind a clay pot near the punch table and seemed to be cursing under her breath.

"Yeah..." Beast Boy shrugged.

"Um...shouldn't you guys go after her? Capture her? Something!"

"Naw..." Cyborg shook his head.

"...Why...?" A blood curdling shriek sliced through the air.

"Because Robin's already taking care of it." Raven gestured to the clay pot, which was now in pieces. The Boy Wonder had accidentally hit it when he came down on Kitten. Now, the blond was being hand-cuffed and pulled up by Robin.

"...Oh..."

Robin led Kitten into the back of a police van and pushed her in.

"I'll get you Robbie Poo! One day, some day, I'll make sure that you and that little alien pay!" Her eyes were maniacal. The Titans stood back, rolling their eyes. They'd been hearing the same threats for years.

"Why can't they be more original…?" Beast Boy shook his head and sighed.

"Criminals are simple minded. They have not mental ability to be...creative..." Scorpio was suddenly at Starfire's side for the second time that night.

"You would know..." Raven's eyes flashed. The Tamaranian boy turned.

"Excuse me, did you say something? The last time I checked, you were too busy controlling those wily emotions to be making snide remarks." The empath said nothing. What could she say in response to that?

"YOU!" A familiar screech cracked the eardrums of the Titans and Scorpio. "THIS WAS ALL YOUR FAULT!" A flash of pink blinded them, and the next thing the Titans knew, Kitten had landed a flying tackle on Scorpio and was bashing his head into the ground. "YOU TOLD ME THAT IT WOULD WORK! YOU SAID THAT NOTHING COULD STOP ME! THAT YOU'D HELP ME IF ANYTHING WENT WRONG!" Someone had obviously not locked the door of the police van.

"Get off of me mortal girl!" Kitten was thrown to the side, but Scorpio had nail gouges in his arms nonetheless.

"Scorpio...you..." Starfire's eyes were glowing angrily.

"Starry, you don't understand..."

"There is nothing TO understand! You set this up, did you not? You instructed Kitten to lay siege upon us, so that we may be distracted, so that I might be taken under your control!"

"Starry, it wasn't that way at all!"

"OH SHUT UP! I WAS ALMOST DONE SERVING MY TIME IN JAIL TOO! AND NOW I'M GETTING PUT BACK IN THE SLAMMER ALL BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR STUPID IDEA!" Kitten attempted to jump Scorpio yet again, but missed when he slid out of the way. She fell flat on her face and went unconscious immediately.

"...Oookay...so do we put her back in the police van or do we call an ambulance?" Cyborg looked slightly confused.

"The van..." Beast Boy gestured to the door of the automobile. As Kitten was carried off, Starfire, Robin, and Raven surrounded Scorpio.

"Starry...I...I did it all out of love! My deep love and devotion for you! Please, have mercy!" Starfire glanced at her team mates, both of which looked ready to murder the Tamaranian boy. Slowly, she shook her head at them. She didn't want to be too harsh.

"You...you will be allowed to stay for one more night and one more night only..."

"WHAT?" Robin and Raven looked aghast.

"...During which you shall pack whatever possessions you may have brought. In the meanwhile, I shall send a transmission to the Tamaranian police. The shall collect you the following morning." Starfire nodded with finality. Suddenly, her eyes turned a bright green once again, her hair flaring outwards. "And if you run, I shall hunt you down and you will most certainly regret the day we met." Her face was a mere inch from Scorpio's. "Understood?"

"...Thank you for your mercy, my dear."

"AND DO NOT CALL ME 'MY DEAR' ANY LONGER!"

"Right! Right...Starfire."

"You shall return to the tower now. You have packing to do."

Scorpio flew off obediently, his head hung low.

"Very...diplomatic." Raven cleared her throat. "But I wouldn't have minded if you had added something about ripping his lungs out..." Starfire only sighed and leaned against the railing that ran around the outside edge of the courtyard.

"...You okay?" Robin stood beside her, concerned.

"I am...fine...simply...confused. Perhaps we, too, should return to the tower."

"So who wants ice cream?" Cyborg and Beast Boy had returned, grinning at the prospect of sugar.

"You up to it?" The Boy Wonder gave Starfire a worried look.

"...I believe that some mint cream of ice might be...enjoyable." She smiled.

"Let's go then!"

"...There's a café near the ice cream place right?"

"I never checked. That's your deal Rae."

"I think I'll get chocolate chip!"

"Announce it to the world why don't you?"

"I think I just did..."

"Ugg...sarcasm?"

"Ugg...jokin?"

Starfire and Robin lagged behind their arguing team mates, saying nothing but enjoying their walk nonetheless.

Hmm...not my best chapter...well I don't know. That's for you to decide. This was the other psycho long chapter. I hope you liked it! I'll update again by Friday. PROMISE. It's Spring break so I have time.

Happy Easter Everyone!

Love,
SushiChica

Edited 6/23/05