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Chapter Eight: Why Shadow and Nightmare Aren't Pirates

"What are we going to do?" Raven cried, a bit ashamed of the amount of panic in her voice.

Beast Boy didn't notice the panic. Well, it could be because he was admittedly as alarmed as she was.

There was already nearly three feet of water in the basement, and it was coming in so fast; just a few minutes ago they had been having that battle of the minds…

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"Well, I think that they'll be ok for a little while… at least until we can get someone to come out and take a look at what happened," said Robin, sighing slightly.

"Correct me if I am wrong," said Starfire in her strange manner. "But I believe that it shall be… uneasy to get a Person of Fixing-It to our home until this weather passes." She gestured at the window, where the chilly rain was still pouring down over the choppy waters, which were now iron-gray.

"Star's right…" Robin muttered. "…but they should be able to get out, right? Raven can phase through things…."

"Perhaps something is preventing her from doing the phasing. When I am distraught, I cannot fly. Perhaps it is the same way for Raven…"

"Well, we're going to have to do something…" Robin muttered under his breath.

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In the "Other" dimension…

Shadow and Nightmare aren't pirates for a reason: if you stuck any sane person on a boat with them for months at a time, they'd be insane before the boat was several miles out to sea.

This is partially because they're kind of "out there," and mostly because they're probably the two most annoying beings on the planet.

Well, the crew had been stuck with them for only a few hours (during the entire time they had been singing "Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life for Me"), and they were already planning to make them walk the plank.

So, that night, when the two were sitting on the edge of the boat keeping watch for sea monsters and Samara, the guy with the fake eyeball grabbed the opportunity to push them overboard, to be greeted by tumultuous applause by the rest of the men on deck.

In the water, Shadow and Nightmare, being the idiots that they are, called up to the cheering men on deck.

"UH, I THINK YOU GUYS ACCIDENTALLY PUSHED US IN THE WATER!" Nightmare yelled, getting a mouthful of salty water. "CAN YOU GET US BACK ON THE SHIP?"

As if in response, the ship started sailing quickly in the opposite direction…

Suddenly, huge tentacles covered in suction cups the size of truck wheels came up out of the water.

Shadow and Nightmare looked at each other for a split second before starting to scream.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

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"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

They were getting desperate. They couldn't do anything but scream for help now; the water was now nearly up to the ceiling, and they were floating in it as it swirled them around with the contents of the boxes they had been going through earlier….

Suddenly, a piece of pipe that had been sticking out of the ceiling fell out of nowhere…

Beast Boy saw it all happen as though it was in slow motion: the pipe breaking loose and tumbling through the air before crashing into Raven's head with a sickening clunk…

He saw her go under, too….

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They saw tentacles, and then nothing. Some sort of wormhole had opened up right in the middle of the ocean, sucking Shadow and Nightmare into it before the thing with tentacles (whatever it was) got them. And even though Shadow can open up portals, she was pretty sure that it wasn't her fault.

You see, for some reason, neither one of their powers worked. It probably had something to do with the fact that they were in an entirely wrong universe…

When they came out the other end of the wormhole, they were in an office. The T.V. was on, and it showed a girl with long, strangly black hair that fell in her face crawling out of a well and then staggering toward the screen….

"AHHHHHHHH! SAMARA!" the two craziest Titans shrieked.