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Chapter 13

Barely escaping a close call, Raven and Beast Boy struggled not to touch the beams of red light.

Breathing heavily, Raven said, "They're detectors. If anything touches them, the alarm will go off, alerting Red X that someone's in his hideout."

"Right. And we're supposed to just stand here until he turns them off!" Beast Boy complained.

"What other choice do we have?" Raven inquired solemnly.

" . . . . . "

An awkward silence followed. The two shifted uncomfortably. After all, they were pressed together in an attempt not to touch the detectors. In fact, they had no idea why the sensors had suddenly activated.

Little did they know that Red X had sensed their presence and had gone back into his hideout, only minutes after the Titans had entered. Though he did not know for sure that someone was there, he had turned on the detector beams for safety, then left once more.

"I wonder how Robin and Cyborg are holding up . . ."

On the other side of the building, Cyborg was standing on one foot, trying not to move so he wouldn't set off the alarm. Robin was pinned up against a wall with one arm up and in a sort of throwing-a-ball position. They also had just barely escaped hitting the detectors and were now trapped.

Back on the right side of the building, Beast Boy had unsuccessfully been attempting to come up with solutions to their predicament for the last 62 minutes.
"What if you used your powers to –––"

"No, the beams can detect that, too."

"Okay, what if you flew –––"

"The space in between the beams is too narrow for me to levitate through."

"Okay, what If I turned into a mouse and –––"

"No. It's too risky for you. If, whilst morphing, you happened to touch a beam, we'd be caught."

Beast Boy grunted in frustration. What were they supposed to do? Stand there forever? Not that he didn't like being pressed up against Raven, persay . . . He wasn't just sweating because of body heat . . . .

After a while (more like 47 minutes), Beast Boy took to humming and whistling never-ending songs. Raven did her best not to kill him.

After nearly three agonizing hours, the beams finally turned off.

The two moved away from one another, relaxing a bit, and letting out a sigh of relief.

"Yes! Finally–––" Beast Boy was broken off as Raven placed a quieting finger over his lips.

Hoping that Beast Boy would not misinterpret the gesture, Raven whispered, "Red X could have come back and turned off the beams. We need to be careful."

Beast Boy nodded, though somewhat disappointed.

They resumed their ready-for-battle positions and awaited the arrival of Red X. Raven poised herself so that if he happened to walk through the door, she could easily hit him with some empty wooden crates; Beast Boy could effortlessly morph into a gorilla or an animal of destruction of some sort.

After what felt like hours, the two Titans grew tired of waiting for the right moment for Red X to enter.

"Gosh! Does the dude never walk around his own place!" Beast Boy cried in aggravation.

"We just have to be patient," Raven said calmly from half-way across the room.

But Beast Boy could not be patient.

He fiddled his fingers, played with dust on the floor, chased his tail as a dog, experimented with his glove, rolled his eyes into the back of his head, pulled at his hair, pretended his hands were people, smelled his shoe, made a game of blowing fuzzies around, imagined he was on a mo-ped, and sighed with astonishing boredom.

Raven restrained herself from murdering him.

Suddenly, there was a noise from outside the doorway. It was a small thud, then barely audible whispers. Though Raven and Beast Boy could not hear what was being said, they took no chances. They crept as low as they could to hide and prepared themselves for a fight.

"NOW!" Raven commanded abruptly as she began hurling the wooden crates at the suspect. Beast Boy morphed into a triceratops and started charging towards the convict, but hastily stopped when the smoke billowing in the room from Raven's attacks faded away.

"Robin? Cyborg?" he said incredulously.

"Not anymore, man. Now we're Robin and Cyborg Pancake," Cyborg responded, rubbing his head painfully.

"Nice to meet you," Raven snorted sarcastically. "You gave us quite a scare."

"And you gave us quite a beating," Cyborg replied characteristically.

"What are you dudes doing over here?" Beast Boy inquired, changing the subject.

"Cyborg managed to shut down the sensors, so we came back here to make sure you two were okay ––– you are okay, aren't you?" Robin informed them in a serious tone.

"Fine," Raven answered. "And you?" she asked, referring to their recently inflicted wounds.

"We will be, eventually."

"Soooooo . . . can we find Starfire and go since Red X hasn't come back yet?" Beast Boy requested, hopeful that he wouldn't have to sit in endless boredom once more.

"We should stick to the plan," Robin decided firmly.

"But why risk a confrontation with Red X when we can just get Starfire and leave?" Raven challenged.

"Because," Robin managed to murmur. "If we don't defeat him now, he'll just come back and take her away again. I can't go through that another time."

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