I don't own TT. thanks a million to World of Nightmares, who I was afraid would kill me after reading the other chapter!
For some reason, I feel like my story is veering off the track of sanity and shall soon crash and burn.
Oh well!
Chapter Seven: Ooops…
"C'mon, Robin! You can't be serious…" Beast Boy groaned. Robin had just given him an unfortunate order: he had to help the rest of them clean out the basement.
And, more unfortunately, he had to go tell Raven, who was right in the middle of meditating.
Or so they thought…
In reality, Raven was lying on her bed, dead tired and feeling like she was veering off the path of sanity and would soon crash and burn…
This might have been due to the fact that she hadn't slept or meditated in nearly three days, due to the fact that she had been having horrible dreams about killing her friends. And the fact that her fight with Beast Boy was weighing heavily on her conscience…
Her emotions were rising, and she was frightened of what would happen if she let them get too out of control.
Suddenly, there was a knock at the door.
"Uhh, Raven? You there?" Beast Boy whispered.
She got up and opened the door. When she did, she glared at him, despite the fact that she was sorry that they had a row…
Beast Boy looked frightened.
"Robinwantsustohelpcleanoutthebasement," he said in one squeaky breath.
She gave him another death glare.
"Fine," she said tersely, expecting him to high-tail it out of there.
He didn't move.
"Raven…" he started, sounding like he was going to apologize for what he had said.
But she didn't give him that chance. She shot down his apology immediately by pushing past him and giving him yet another glare.
He exhaled slowly and followed her down to the basement…
Several boring hours later…
"I'm gonna go get lunch," said Robin. "I should be back in about fifteen minutes, so I'll call you guys when I get back with the pizza."
With that, Bird Boy left in the pouring rain to go get pizza.
All they had been doing all morning was sit around and say whether or not they wanted to keep stuff that Robin asked them about. They went through box after box after box…
There was a tense silence. Raven had been sitting with her arms crossed and resolutely ignoring Beast Boy for the past several hours, making it a very uncomfortable experience for the rest of them…
They hadn't found much interesting stuff. There were only a few strange things, namely the several large boxes of multi-colored glitter that they found stashed in a corner.
The four remaining Titans were sitting around, waiting for Robin to come back with the pizza when suddenly, Starfire screamed.
"I believe I have seen a rat!" she screamed.
So, naturally, she and Cyborg start firing star bolts/ sonic blasts all over the place trying to get the rat. Beast Boy didn't really care, he didn't think that he should be frightened of something that he could be. Raven was busy ignoring Beast Boy, so she simply crossed her arms again.
Unfortunately, Cy and Star didn't take into consideration that Shadow and Nightmare had been living in the Tower for several months, and they were known to keep stuff that's… well, let's just say "questionable." The word "explosive" would work here, too…
So, when the two Titans who were firing like crazy hit a box full of some "questionable" stuff, it blew up, and something large and ominous looking came out of it, Cyborg did the only thing one can do in this situation.
He ran screaming like a little girl after his fellow Titan, and as soon as they were out the basement door, he welded it together with his cannon. He did this to any other door that he came to, as well as the door to the stairwell. He ran up to the main room with the aforementioned fellow Titan. Just as they got into the main room, Robin came in with the pizza. Cyborg sat down, breathing heavily. Then he stood up and started screaming at Robin.
"YOU'RE CRAZY! WERE YOU TRYING TO GET US ALL KILLED? THAT BASEMENT IS EVIL!" he bellowed.
Robin just stared at him, so Cy started yelling again.
"C'MON, BB! BACK ME UP HERE! DID WE NOT JUST ALMOST GET KILLED?"
There was silence.
"Uhh… B?" said Cyborg.
"Where are friend Beast Boy and friend Raven?" asked Starfire innocently.
Cyborg seemed to realize what he had accidentally done.
"Oops…" he muttered.
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In another dimension…
Shadow was lying under a palm tree and looking out over the pool-blue water that was washing over the shore. There was a boat in the distance…
"LOOK!" Nightmare shouted suddenly.
Shadow immediately reacted, standing up and looking wary.
"I found a hat that looks like Captain Jack Sparrow's!" Nightmare said in excitement.
Shadow rolled her eyes and sat back down.
Nightmare was running around yelling things like "Look at me! I'm Captain Jack Sparrow!" She was imitating his drunken British swagger, so it was vaguely amusing.
After awhile she asked Shadow if she could use her dagger. (Shadow carries a dagger, its all in the pic on my deviant art profile, there will be a lot more 'bout Shadow in the sequel to this fic, you'll finally get her backstory…)
Suddenly, a vaguely familiar voice called out "Jack!"
"OH CRUD!" Nightmare yelled, voice impersonation forgotten. "I'VE ANGERED SOMETHING!"
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Down in the basement…
The two missing Titans had been knocked out by the explosion. Beast Boy regained consciousness before Raven did. So, when she came to, the first thing she heard was the sound of a certain someone pounding on a door and yelling "HELP! WE'RE STUCK IN THE BASEMENT!"
"Oh, joy," Raven muttered before she fainted again.