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"So this is Pa's place?" Beast Boy asked curiously as the massive farm house stood before the two boys. Robin sized the area up, his instincts telling him to check the grounds out beforehand just in case.
"Looks clear to me."
"Looks clear to you? Dude, it's a FARM HOUSE! What, do you think Mad Mod is gonna bust out of a cow or something?" the changeling protested. Robin just formed his face into a tense frown. "It never hurts to be careful." he said.
Beast Boy just shook his head. "If you say so, dude. Let's just go find the girls."
The boys slowly walked their way up the gravel drive way when Beast Boy tripped over something, hitting the ground with a loud "OOMPH!"
"Beast Boy, what's wrong?" the Boy Wonder inquired.
Beast Boy stood up, dusting the mud and dirt as best he could off his jeans, when he suddenly caught a glimpse of the object that blocked his path.
A shotgun.
"Robin! Look!" he said as he pointed out the firearm. Robin saw it all to well, that cold icy feeling creeping up in his stomach again. "I see it." he said his voice low in a Clint Eastwood like rasp.
"We need to find the girls and fast. I don't like the looks of this."
Beast Boy nodded, swallowing his spit back down into his throat. "Right. So what's the plan?"
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
Raven let out a sound from the back of her throat that sounded like a mix between a sigh and a grunt. After almost two minutes of waiting for Cyborg, she finally threw in the towel and hung up. The Azarathian then made her way back into the living room where Starfire had gone to after finishing her sandwich. The Tammaranian girl was happily sipping down a bottle of mustard, her eyes lighting up when she saw Raven emerge into the room.
"Did you manage to contact friend Cyborg?" she asked. Raven merely shook her head. "No, he's not answering."
Starfire frowned at this unfortunate news. "I hope he is not hurt."
Raven's frown turned into a scowl. If her suspicions were right, he was far from hurt..."Let's not jump to conclusions just yet, Star. I'm sure he just fell asleep or something."she said, not believing her own excuse.
Starfire nodded softly, hoping Raven was right at that Cyborg really was ok.
BAM!
It happened so fast that neither Starfire nor Raven or even Sandy had any proper time to react. Within the blink of an eye Sandy's door was kicked down with a thunderous "HII-YAHHH!" coming from what sounded like Robin. Indeed, it was Robin as the Boy Wonder, complete with green polo shirt and khakis, somersaulted his way into the living room taking up a defensive martial arts position upon his landing.
Followed closely behind him was Beast Boy in the form of a tiger, snarling and growling at who-ever had dared to threaten his girlfriend with a shotgun.
Robin scanned the room with his expert accuracy searching for the culprit behind this case...was it Slade? Mad Mod? The Brain? Control Freak? ...Dr. Light?
Anybody?
Instead of being greeted with another threat of super villainy, he instead found himself face to face with a wide eyed Starfire, a completely shocked women in a nightgown and Raven who had buried her head in her hands, sighing deeply to herself. Robin slowly backed down from his stance at the sudden realization of a lack of a serious threat.
On the other hand, Beast Boy still remained in tiger form, growling fiercely at Sandy, sending shivers of fright down the poor lady's back.
Pa was still asleep.
"GARFIELD LOGAN!" Raven hollered "Snap out of it!" and with that the green changeling quickly morphed back to himself, his head hanging a bit low. "Umm...sorry?"
Raven sighed before attempting to help calm down Sandy who was near hysterics. "It's ok..." the empath said trying to make her voice sound as soothing as possible "They're our friends, they just got a little excited."
"We..we saw the shotgun on the ground and thought..thought maybe you were in trouble..." Robin said, his voice trailing off.
Raven was not amused. "And so you thought the most logical thing to do was to simply kick the door down and rush in here?"
"Yeah...basically..."
"Men." Raven said defeatedly.
"Wha...how...he...he changed into a dang gone tiger? How in tarnation..."
"It's magic." the empath offered. Sandy nodded her head softly still a bit shaken. "And of course," Raven added "Robin is going to pay for her door to be fixed...right Robin?" The way she said Robin's name made the Boy Wonder swallow his courage, not wanting to cross paths with the irritated sorceresses. "Of...course I will!" he said, forcing a nervous smile.
It was then that Beast Boy finally lifted his head up to make eye contact with his beloved Azarathian goddess when he noticed her change of wardrobe...
At first it started out as a soft giggle, then the giggle began to pick up volume and become a chuckle. It was during the chuckling that Raven noticed what he was doing and instantly knew why. By this point Beast Boy's chuckle had broken loose into flat out hysterical laughter, with the changeling hunched over clutching his side as he laughed so hard he thought one of his lungs were going to explode.
"Q-Quoth the Raven 'YEEEEEE HAWWW!'" he managed to spit out, before laughing even harder as his eyes began to fill up with the tears of laughter. Robin could see the vexation on the empath's face and tried his best to warn Beast Boy to knock it off.
"Uhh...Beast Boy? You might wanna reconsider..."
"DUDE! Look at her! She's dressed like an extra off Hee Haw!" Beast Boy burst out, laughing harder to the point where he was coughing. "I wonder if they have rodeos in Azarath?"
Raven grit her teeth to the point where she felt like they were going to crack and behind her clenched set uttered "Azarath Metrion ZINTHOS!" the sound of which caused Beast Boy to sober up real quick.
"Uh-oh..."
Confused and startled, Beast Boy took a slow step backwards...right into the awaiting clutches of a talon claw composed entirely of Raven's own dark energy. The talon lunged for the jade skinned prankster and grabbing the elastic waist band of his He-Man boxer shorts, gave a mighty yank towards the heavens.
Beast Boy had just received a wedgie.
Robin winced as he thought he heard the very fabric of the boxers tear.
"Uffggghhfffffkkkkk..." was all that escaped from Beast Boy's lips, his eyes rolling slightly back into his head. With one final tug, the claw disappeared back into the ground as Beast Boy fell to the floor in a heap.
"Have anything else to say about my wardrobe?" Raven asked, a devilish smirk on her marble hued face.
"...n-n-no ma'am..." he croaked, his voice not even a whisper.
"So...did you girls manage to call Cyborg?" Robin asked quickly, eager to change the subject.
Starfire shook her head. "I am afraid not. Raven has attempted the calling of friend Cyborg, yet he fails to answer."
"Cy's not picking up...that's weird." Beast Boy thought out loud, as he slowly made his way to his feet, attempting to remove the cotton that had now wedged itself firmly into his backside. "I hope the dude is ok..."
"I'm sure he's more than ok." Raven said, her eyes narrowing. "Didn't he seem just a bit too impatient for us to leave the Tower?"
"He did seem eager for us to depart." Starfire mused, curious where Raven was going with all of this.
"Exactly. And he hasn't seen Sarah in a couple of weeks now." the empath added.
"Dude, you don't suppose he's...?" Beast Boy didn't finish his thought, too embarrassed to go on with the sentence.
"But if he is not answering the phone, how shall we retrieve the ride back to the Tower?" the crimson haired princess wondered. Both Beast Boy and Robin took a deep sigh as they both uttered at the same time the only answer they knew...
"Squiddly Spooch"
