From this point on, the story is going to be a bit more intense, as Control Freak "steps up his game" in order to defeat the Titans, as he's getting desperate at this point.
Control Freak sighed as he furiously paced around his apartment, the nerdy super villain's patience wearing thin. So far he had made three attacks on the Teen Titans and with each one failing miserably, was not happy. He grunted something incoherent and furrowed his brow out of complete disgust, his mind racing to review what he did wrong.
"It just doesn't make sense..." he finally muttered. "My Gundam should have been more than enough to stop the Teen Twerps and to think that a low-class Tammaranian princess is stronger than the Price of all Saiyans! BAH!"
He attempted to calm his nerves by stuffing his face with several sticks of strawberry Pocky. He continued to speak to himself, but large, partially chewed chunks of Pocky fell out of his mouth onto his carpet.
"And don't even get me started on Cyborg! That was so cheap using car parts as a weapon!"
The chubby super villain...
"You know, I'm getting rather irritated with all these fat jokes!"
"Yeah, that's right, I heard you!"
Excuse me?
"You've been cracking jokes about my weight this entire story and it's starting to get on my last nerve!"
What? I'm the All Powerful Narrator, I can frankly do whatever I want.
"Haha, you really think you contain more power than I, the great Control Freak? You are what the Klingon's call a ta-ka koh-rungf! That means, 'a fool who is ready for death'."
Wow. Just wow.
"Impressed aren't you?"
Suddenly, without warning, Control Freak decided to to play Britney Spears on his CD player.
"Hey! What are you doing!"
The nerdy super villain rather enjoyed the music, finding that Ms. Spears' lyrics and bombastic beat were addicting. So addicting that he began to dance around the room, shaking his groove thing all over the apartment.
"Stop it! Must...fight...dancing...some...sort...of...alien...mind control...not...talk...in...fragments..."
Control Freak danced around the room, singing, laughing, spinning and just downright getting groovy. The music played it's beat as the lovely Britney Spears continued to make Control Freak shake it like a Polaroid picture all over his apartment. And since the song was on repeat, he wouldn't stop dancing...unless...
"ANYTHING! Just make...it stop!"
Unless Control Freak shuts up and will allow the Narrator (who is quite handsome, I might add) to do his job.
"Fine!"
The music stopped abruptly, Control Freak collapsed to his knees panting and wheezing at how out of shape he really was. He managed to crawl over to his couch and collapse on it, laying on his back as he tried to piece together where his previous plans went wrong.
"It's obvious I need to step up my game." he thought out loud. "No more robots or anime characters. As long as they're in this world, I have no chance."
A sly grin spread on his face.
"But, if I took them to MY world, where they had to play by MY rules, things would be different! Time to find my Dungeon Master book..."
Decisions.
For someone who was wise beyond her years, Raven sometimes had difficulty making decisions, especially when it came to literature. She loved books, it was her addiction and she couldn't help it. She loved nothing more than to relax with a good book, curling up on the couch as she was whisked away to whatever story she was engaged in.
The pale empath was currently at King's Books, along with Beast Boy, who was happily engrossed in the comic book section. Raven rose an eyebrow as she contemplated on what her next purchase should be, with each book seemingly more and more temping than the last.
"Hey Rae! Check this out!" came Beast Boy's voice suddenly, as he ran eagerly to his girlfriend's side. "Dude, this is so awesome...I was reading the latest issue of the Crises of the Infinite House Identity of M Rebirth or Die: Graduation Day and like, in this one part, Darkclaw was fighting Iron Lantern, right? And dude, Darkclaw was all like 'You cannot stop me! I am Darkclaw!' and Iron Lantern was like 'DUDE! I am Iron Lantern! Bow before me!' and there was explosions, and chaos and buildings were destroyed, right? And then the zombies came out and it turns out they're all from Jump City-2 in an alternate dimension and then the WORLD EXPLODED!" he gushed in a non-stop, high pitched squeal of over-enthusiasm. His emerald eyes were shimmering with nerdy, fan-boy delight.
"Wow." Raven said dryly, her voice dull in tone and pitch. Beast Boy's ears sagged a bit, seeing that she didn't share his love of the comic book.
"I guess you're not interested?" he said quietly.
"Obviously." she deadpanned. Beast Boy sulked a bit and turned around to drown out his disappointment in more Dark Claw versus Iron Lantern action. He was cut off though with a pale hand reached out to grab his hand.
"Gar...wait..."
Beast Boy turned around, half expecting to be lectured on the childish nature of comic books. Instead, he was more than pleasantly surprised to find himself being kissed. Though it was a rather unusual kiss from her. Instead of just full on full lip contact, she gently brushed her lips against his, letting the soft flesh of her lips trace and feather the contours of his mouth. When she finished, a smile spread on the corner of her mouth. She normally wasn't the teasing kind, but she rather enjoyed keeping him wanting more.
"Didn't want to end that on a bad note." she said.
Beast Boy sat in shock for a second, till he spread his usual toothy grin and reached forward to encompass her in huge hug. "I love you!" he gushed loudly, not caring if the whole store heard him.
"Gar..I love you too...but..."
"But what?" Beast Boy asked, his voice tinged with a sense of worry.
"I need to breathe. I swear, you're worse than Starfire."
Beast Boy let go and blushed slightly, uttering a quick "Sorry" before returning to his beloved comic book section, leaving Raven back to her previous dilemma. She studied the spines of each book, having narrowed it down between Stephen King or her favorite author, H.P. Lovecraft.
"Excuse me ma'am, but may I please have your autograph?" came a familiar sounding voice. Raven tore her attention away from her books to see Control Freak standing a mere inches from her. Though, along with his natural stringy, oily hair, his costume was exactly the same as normal, with one exception. He was wearing those obnoxious comic gag glasses...the ones with the bushy eyebrows and huge nose, in a pathetic attempt to disguise himself.
"Go away." she said flatly and returned her focus to her books.
"Hmmppfhh. Some public figure you are." he scoffed, irritated that his plan wasn't working.
"Some villain you are." she shot back in an icy monotone. "At least Puppet King gave us a run for our money."
"ARRGGGHHH! I am so much better than PUPPET KING!" Control Freak bellowed with a nerdy rage, adding "That's it!" as he flung off his gag glasses. Immediately from his trench coat, Control Freak produced a glowing book and flung open it's pages. A bright red tendril shot from it's pages and wrapped itself around Raven's slender waist. She fought back with her own powers, but the book was too much.
"GAR!" she cried. "I need help!"
In a flash Beast Boy rushed to his girlfriend's defense, turning himself into an elephant and wrapping his thick trunk around Raven, trying to tug her free from the red tendril. Even with the combined efforts of both Titans, they still weren't enough and soon they were pulled into the book. Control Freak laughed in an over-the-top, maniacal fashion and facing the book to himself, was sucked into it's void as well.
"Ugghhh...my head..." Raven said slowly, as her violet eyes slowly opened. She sat up and glanced around to size up her surroundings. The book store was gone and it's place were miles and miles of country side. Beautiful skies, serene green grass and off in the distance she could make out...a castle?
"Where am I?" she wondered and then immediately thought "Wait...where's Gar?" Her mind raced in a quick panic before she noticed her beau was laying right next to where she was, completely unconscious and oddly enough, dressed completely as a court jester. "Gar...Gar..." she said softly, nudging him back to consciousness.
"...I'm sorry, but our Princess is another castle..." Beast Boy droned. His scrambled brains slowly regaining their composure, till he was able to piece together what was going on. "DUDE!" he squealed "Where am I? And why why are you dressed like THAT?" he added.
It was then for the first time that Raven noticed her own wardrobe. Gone was her cloak and leotard and it's place was a frilly, bright pink dress made of the finest fabrics. "I look like a car wreck between Snow White and Cinderella." she groaned. "What about yourself?"
"AH! Dude! I'm a joker! But not like...the bad dude Joker, an actual joker! Raven, where in the name of tofu are we?"
"You are neither in Dagobah or the planet Hoth
Welcome young Titans, to the kingdom of Roth!"
Sitting on a nearby rock sat a young man, apparently in his mid-20's, clad in rather nice peasant wear, happily strumming a stringed musical instrument. Apparently, it was him who sang the short little verse about being in the kingdom of Roth.
"Roth is such a terrible name..." Raven thought to herself.
The peasant smiled and nodded as Raven and Beast Boy just stared back at him in shock.
"Who...are you?" Beast Boy asked.
"My life for Control Freak, I work for him
I have many names, but you may call me Tim"
"Fine Tim." said Raven. "How did we get here?"
"Is it not obvious, my dear? Take a look!
For you are trapped in Control Freak's book!"
"So...uhhh...how do we get out?" Beast Boy asked.
"Gather green child and listen to me
The way to home is through the Golden Key!"
Raven let out a long and bitter sigh of irritation, as Tim's musical anecdotes were causing her Azarathian blood to boil. "I'm know I'm going to regret this...but where exactly is this golden key? And Control Freak for that matter?" she asked.
"The goth girl is angry and wishes to cease to wander
Control Freak and key can be found in castle yonder!"
"This is seriously getting annoying." said Raven, a vein twitching in her forehead.
"Dude, tell me about it." Beast Boy said in agreement. "I mean, Tim is good and all, but he's no Backstreet Boy."
"You listen to Backstreet Boys?" Raven asked with a curious eyebrow.
"Well...uhhh...so I've been told." Beast Boy stammered in response, laughing nervously. "Thanks for the info, uhh Tim was it? But Raven and I have to be on our way now to 'yonder castle.' Thanks again for everything, dude."
"Yeah, sure no problem." Tim said, disappearing in a cloud of smoke.
Raven took another bitter sigh and focusing her mind, began to float in the air, happy she still had powers in this cracked up fantasy world.
"Come Gar." she said. Beast Boy quickly morphed into a hawk and flew side by side, next to his Azarathian goddess as the two flew together towards yonder castle to find the golden key to return home.