Chapter 6

Beast Boy and Cyborg sat playing one of their many video games; this one happened to be a car racing game. Their fingers moved as fast as was humanly possible. They were both gritting their teeth and muttering horrible things under their breath. Raven walked in and saw the two going at it.

"This is it, ya lil grass stain, you're goin down!" said Cyborg.

"You wish metal butt!" said Beast Boy.

Raven plopped down on the couch and watched the game. She had never really paid attention to any of the games they played before, but she figured, "What the heck?" It wasn't long before she was on the edge of her seat.

"Go left! Go left!" she screamed at Beast Boy.

"I'm trying!" he yelled back. He turned the controller to the left, as if it would help.

"Why the heck are you helping him?" asked Cyborg.

"Look out for the truck!" screamed Raven at Cyborg. He went to swerve, but hit it head on. This made him lose precious seconds and helped Beast Boy pull into the lead. Cyborg tried to catch up to him, but it was too late. Beast Boy crossed the finish line… first!

"YES!" screamed Beast Boy jumping up. "I did it! I beat you! Go Beast Boy! Go Beast Boy!"

"Aw man," said a defeated Cyborg.

"Can I play?" asked Raven.

Beast Boy stopped his little victory dance. "You want to play? Really?"

"Here, take my controller," said Cyborg tossing it to her. "I'm gonna go work on my baby." He stood up and left the two, pouting and grumbling to himself as he did.

"Okay, so how do you play?" asked Raven looking at the controller, which she was holding upside down,

"Well, first of all, you hold it like this," said Beast Boy turning the controller over. "This button makes you speed up, these buttons help you turn, that little switch gives you the choice to view up close or from a distance, now don't push the green button because it'll pause the game, and the red button will take you to the menu. If you push the triangle it will take you to a different menu where you can chose…"

"Stop!" said Raven. Her head was spinning with all of this information. "I don't think I can remember all that."

"Okay, I'll help you," said Beast Boy restarting the game. "We'll do a one player game so you can get the hang of it."

He helped her chose a car and the terrain. He made sure it was the easiest one in the whole game. Raven was smiling from ear to ear with excitement. She saw the screen read 3… 2… 1… GO! Raven started pushing all the buttons and her car slowly started to move, while the other cars passed her quickly.

"Keep your finger on that button," said Beast Boy.

"What button?" asked Raven frantically.

"The one your middle finger is on," said Beast Boy.

"This one?" asked Raven.

"Yeah, that one. Now go right. Not left! Right!"

"Ah! My fingers can't be in seven places at once!"

"Okay now avoid that corner. I said avoid it! Ow! Oh, that didn't look pretty."

"My driver got thrown out of the car! What the heck? She's back in? Woo hoo, I'm back on the road!"

"Good, now stay there."

"What the heck is that!"

"That's just an airplane."

"Why the heck is there an airplane on the road? How do I get around it?"

"Just go under it."

"What about that ramp?"

"No don't take the ramp."

"Too late!" Raven screamed with excitement as she took the ramp and flew over the airplane. Beast Boy was in shock.

"I can't believe it! You made it! No one's ever made it over the plane without crashing on top of it."

"This is so cool." Raven was giggling horribly. Her hands were flying all over the place with the controller. Beast Boy never thought he would have this much fun with Raven, especially not while playing video games.

"I did it! I got first place!" Raven screamed throwing the controller into the air. She turned to Beast Boy and gave him an excited hug. Beast Boy lived in that hug for what seemed an eternity, even though it only lasted a brief moment. She released him and stood up to do her own little victory dance.

"Awesome job," said Beast Boy.

"That was so cool," said Raven sitting back down. "Let's do two player."

"You sure?" asked Beast Boy raising an eyebrow. "Cuz I'm not going to go easy on you."

"Beast Boy I could go back to normal at any second," said Raven picking her controller back up. "Are you going to play against me or not?"

"Hold onto your controller," said Beast Boy with an evil smile. "It's going to be a bumpy ride." He picked up his controller and hit the restart button.

It was a brutal game. Beast Boy jumped right into the lead, but Raven had a few tricks up her sleeve. She pretended to still be a little slow at the game, but then smashed into him and managed to get ahead. But she hadn't counted on a cow that just wondered into the road, and she smashed into it. This gave Beast Boy just enough edge to beat her.

"Sorry, but I warned ya," said Beast Boy stretching casually.

"Hey, I would have won if it wasn't for that stupid cow," said Raven pushing him.

"Sure, you just keep telling yourself that," said Beast Boy patting her on the back.

"Rematch! Now!" she yelled and started the game back up. Now things were getting serious.

They played game after game, each winning a number of them and the other demanding a rematch. As they played each of the other Titans stopped by to cheer them on, but eventually got bored. After four hours the two were in a death match. All rules were off and anything went. They nudged each other hard and tried to throw the other off. Raven started to kick Beast Boy, and he elbowed her back.

"Don't push me," growled Raven.

"Well don't kick me," he growled back.

"I'm only kicking you because you keep shoving me," said Raven kicking him back.

"And I'm only shoving you because you keep kicking me," said Beast Boy shoving her so hard that she actually fell over. The controller fell out of her hand and Beast Boy crossed the finish line.

"YES! The undisputed champ reigns all!" he screamed. He raised his arms into the air and started to kick his legs wildly.

"You cheater! You knocked my controller out of my hand," said Raven.

"Hey, all's fair in love and war," said Beast Boy feeling quite pleased with himself. On the screen shown the phrase, "HIGH SCORE, ENTER NAME". "And now to make it official," said Beast Boy reaching for his controller to enter his name. But his smile faded when he saw Raven hovering over the restart button. "You… wouldn't… dare."

"Oh wouldn't I?" she said evilly. Her finger started to move towards it.

"Don't," Beasts Boy warned.

"I'm gonna do it," she smiled. Her finger was just about to touch the plastic when Beast Boy tackled her. She screamed as he grabbed her and the two started rolling on the ground. He had his chest pressed against her back and his arms wrapped around her. He looked up at the screen and saw that when he had tacked her he had forced her to push the restart button. His score was lost.

"NO!" he screamed.

"Let go of me!" yelled Raven trying to wriggle out of his grasp.

"You erased it! You erased my high score!"

"You made me, you cheater. Now let me go!" At this point Raven started laughing, which surprised Beast Boy.

"What the heck are you laughing about?"

"That was awesome!"

"What?"

"Everything! I've never had so much fun in my whole life." Beast Boy let go of her and she rolled off of him, still laughing. She sighed and stood up, rubbing her eyes. "I think I'm blind. I've never looked at a screen for that long."

"Well, I guess there's a first time for everything," said Beast Boy sitting up. He wasn't sure what had happened in that last minute. He and Raven went from fighting to her busting out into laughter. He was really starting to like this Raven.

"I'm starving," announced Raven running to the kitchen. She opened the fridge and peered in. "Do you want anything?"

"Yeah, I could go for some tofu right about now," said Beast Boy standing up. He headed towards the fridge and stopped short in his tracks as he saw Raven. She was bent over looking on the bottom shelf. He couldn't help tilting his head and studying her.

She turned her head around and casually asked, "Where is the tofu?"

"Left shelf," he replied with his voice cracking. 'Oh my God, I'm checking her out. I'm checking her out! Gotta stop. Turn away, Beast Boy, just turn away… Oh God she has a nice body. What! Stop it, stop it, stop it! I gotta get outa here.' With that Beast Boy sprinted out of the room. Raven turned around and saw that he had disappeared.

"Beast Boy?" she asked. She simply shrugged and went back to getting herself something to eat.

Beast Boy ran into his room and pressed his back up against the door. His heart was racing and then he noticed that his palms were sweating. This had to stop. He had to put a stop to this. By any means necessary.