Well now I have to say, this story has been barrels of fun. And so he won't strangle me, the title of this chapter came courtesy of SxStrngSamurai13. Go check out his work and tell him Zissman sent ya! Now, let's get on with the show...

PS – If anybody can catch all the zombie references in this chapter, then you my friend are seriously awesome.

Oh and of course, I don't own any of these franchises.

Raven gently glided down in front of the castle, which of course was surrounded by a large moat. The castle was large and mossy, seemingly having stood there for centuries. A flag, which Raven could only assume was Control Freak's coat of arms, features his souped up remote control and a light saber crossed over a King's crown.

"Typical." she thought to herself.

Beast Boy changed back into his human form in mid-air and fell to the ground in a crouched position, merely for dramatic purposes, this causing the bells on his jester's cap to jingle.

"Whoa, dude...this is where Control Freak lives? I wonder if he rented the place from Bill Gates or something?" Beast Boy said. He craned his neck back as far as he could to see just how big the castle was. The massive structure was huge, with blocks carved out of thick stone making up the Goliath-like outer walls. "So...uhh...how do we get in? I don't see a doorbell."

Raven eyes flashed white and with her fists shrouded in black, it only took a mere "AZARATH METRION ZINTHOS!" and the heavy wooden drawbridge was encased in Raven's dark powers. Without warning, the drawbridge hit the ground and with a loud WHAM sent a cloud of dirt and dust into the air.

"I've got a bad feeling about this..." Beast Boy mused, an uneasy, nervous feeling brewing in the green changeling's stomach.

"We don't have much a choice." said Raven. "If we're even going to get out of this nerd-haven, we have to take Control Freak head on."

Beast Boy sighed. "I hate it when you're right..." he said.

"This is why I'm the smart one in this relationship." Raven replied with a sly smirk.

The two Titans began to cross the drawbridge and into the inner sanctum of Castle Freak, with Beast Boy's mind a million miles away, as he was lost in deep thought.

"Dude...this is messed up..." he thought. "Just once I'd like for some alone time with Raven, but nooooo, Control Freak has to go and ruin it! This is probably why Batman never has a girlfriend..."

His thoughts were abruptly cut off by the sound of Raven tripping over the glittery pink high heels she was wearing. The pale empath fell down to her knees, tearing away the silky fabric of the princess dress and scraping up her knees.

Beast Boy was eager to run to her side to aid her, but the empath merely waved him off.

"I'm fine, Gar." she said, making her way back to her feet. A quick inspection showed that her knees were rather cut up and bleeding, due to the old weathered wood of the draw bridge. With a sigh, she encased both her hands in a pale blue glow and laying them on her wounds, healed herself.

"How anyone can walk in these infernal things is beyond me." she scoffed and proceeded to kick off her heels into the moat. "I'd rather go barefoot then wear heels."

Taking one more second to make sure she was ok, Beast Boy followed Raven into the front door of Castle Freak.

It was dark inside, very dark. So dark that Beast Boy and Raven couldn't see a foot in front of their own faces and on top of that, there was the most hideous stench that torched their noses. Beast Boy quickly morphed into a bat to send out his sonar waves to figure out the layout of the inner castle.

"Find anything?" Raven asked.

Beast Boy quickly changed back to his human form and instantly grabbed Raven's hand. The Azarathian could feel that his grip was cold and clammy.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"Someone...is here with us.." Beast Boy said in a panicked whisper. At that exact moment, torches all around the throne room, which is where they had been all along, flared up and began casting their fiery glow. Seated up a tall flight of red, carpeted stairs sat Control Freak. On his head was an extravagant crown made of solid gold and encrusted with sparking jewels. He had on a flowing red robe, lined with fur and in his right hand was a gold scepter, with a remote control dipped in gold resting on the top.

"Welcome Titans, to Castle Freak!" he gloated with glee. "You're perhaps wondering what the awful smell you've been experiencing is? Haha, I've love to tell you, but I think I know someone who can say it better than I can..."

With a poof of smoke appeared Tim, standing right in front of Control Freak, his stringed instrument right in his hands.

"Not Tim..." Raven groaned. "Anyone but Tim..."

Tim flashed a million dollar smile and giving his instrument a warm up strut, began to sing his next little diddy...

They feast on flesh, like it was made of bread

Meet thy doom at the hands of the undead

"Un...dead?" Beast Boy croaked, swallowing the lump that was forming in his throat.

Soon you'll be reduced to crimson stains

On the menu tonight are YOUR brains

A large drapery behind Control Freak fell to the ground and Raven saw the source of the smell.

Zombies.

Hordes and hordes of zombies, all in various states of decay. Their moans sent shivers down the empath's spine, something that was hard to do, needless to say.

Beast Boy, however, was not to be intimated.

"Zombies. I hate zombies." he said fiercely.

Control Freak cackled loudly with glee, with Tim sharing in his joy of their diabolical plan.

"And now, my army of darkness, ATTACK!" Control Freak shouted. Tim was quick to join in the fun.

They are fierce and deadly, like the chubacabra

Look out! "They're coming to get you, Barbara!"

The first zombie lunged towards Raven, his mouth agape. moaning incoherently. Raven flew up her hands and with a quick "AZARATH METRION ZINTHOS!" illuminated the ghoul in her dark energy and with a mere wave of her hand, sent the zombie flying against a stone pillar.

The undead hit the solid rock and with a sickening SNAP, Raven heard it's neck break.

And then slowly, the ghoul returned to his feet, his neck an impossible angle and again lunged for Raven.

"How do you keep these things down!" she asked, her voice rising with panic. Beast Boy morphed into a gorilla, and grabbing a spear from the wall, chucked it at that zombie with the spear going straight through the ghoul's brain. The zombie let out one last moan before collapsing on the ground in a heap.

"Like that." he said, after changing back to human. "You take out the brain and these undead dudes die...again..."

"And how do you know this?"

"I saw a movie about it once!" he said beaming. Raven opened her mouth to comment about how anyone for the love of Azar could possibly take a movie about zombie killing seriously, but she had to hold that thought when another three zombies creeped up behind her and before she had time to react, one of them had grabbed her arm, ready to sink it's rotten, broken and jagged teeth into her tender flesh.

In a panic Raven spun away, tearing some of the glittery pink fabric of her dress away from the sleeves and using a kick she learned from Robin, connected with the side of her bare foot against the mid-section of one of her attackers. Much to her disgust, her foot sunk into the necroflesh of the zombie, coating her slender appendage in a thick gooey substance.

Raven's nose wrinkled out of disgust, feeling like she was going to throw up at any moment. Now irritated and revolted, Raven threw out her hands and belted her mantra as loud as she could. All three zombies were surrounded in Raven's own brand of magic, floating 10 or so feet in the air. She held them there for a second, while gorilla Beast Boy was smashing deadite skulls with his bare hands, and promptly closed both her hands into fists. The ball suddenly shrank drastically in size, crushing the zombies into nothing more than a pile of decomposing bones and rancid flesh.

"ARRRGGGHHH! MORE ZOMBIES!" Control Freak shouted, his arms and legs kicking and flailing in the air with his royal temper tantrum.

A side door opened and more zombies poured into the room, their numbers seemingly to get bigger and bigger. Moaning, clawing, rotting undead deadites were as numerous as flies as just as annoying, if not leaps and bounds more deadly.

During all of this chaos, gorilla Beast Boy was smashing and crushing zombie skulls like over-ripe cantaloupes in his large primate hands. Entire legions of zombies were smashed with his powerful primate fists, showering his green fur in carnage and gore. More and more the zombies filed in the room, the two titans desperately using everything they could muster to stay alive...one bite and it's over.

By this point Raven's pink princess dress was caked in blood, with various pieces of fabric torn off from over-eager zombies.

"ENOUGH!" she bellowed, her patience having finally snapped. Raising her hands to the air she chanted "AZARATH METRION ZINTHOS KLATA BARATU NIKTU!"

A solid wave of black flew from her hands and surrounded every brick, every tile, every inch of the castle and all the zombies under Control Freak's command instantly exploded into thousands of tiny pieces, ending their second grasp at life.

A rather macabre looking Raven, fire dancing in her violet eyes, stormed up the steps to Control Freak's throne and before the nerdy super villain could escape, a black claw rose up from the ground and wrapped itself around him.

"CONTROL FREAK!" Raven shouted. "Take us home now!"

"TIM! HELP ME!" he shouted, his voice cracking with fear. Tim merely shook his head.

The dreaded zombies will hack and cleave

Thanks, but no thanks and now I will leave

And just like he had appeared, Tim vanished in a cloud of smoke. Control Freak laughed nervously as Raven hoisted him at least 20 feet in the air with her powers.

"Home. Now." she reminded him.

"FINE!" Control Freak finally snapped. "Just put me down!"

Raven obliged and unceremoniously flung the nerdy former king to the ground with a loud thud. Control Freak stood up and dusted himself off, sneering at the blood soaked Titans. A hot bath is exactly what Raven had in mind to help wind down from this evening.

But such was not the case as Control Freak reached into his pocket and produced a small, golden key.

"GOODBYE TITANS!" he shouted and ran straight for a swirling portal that had just opened a few feet from him as soon as the key was in his hands.

Not wanting to let him escape, Beast Boy morphed into an elephant and wrapped his long trunk around Control Freak's waist to yank him back to this world, but the pull of the vortex was too much and the green elephant found himself being pulled along as well. Raven instinctively reached out and grabbed the animal's ropey tail and soon all three were sucked into the vortex.

"Duudddee...my head..." Beast Boy groaned. "Am I still a joker dude?"

He patted himself down but to his surprise, found his medieval garb was gone and instead was wearing a plain brown robe. So was Raven, who was just getting to her feet next to him.

"Dude, why am I dressed like a monk?" he wondered out loud. "And what's this metal thing on my hip?"

Beast Boy reached down to his hip and removed the small metal tube like object. It had some sort of opening on the top and various buttons and wires on the side. It looked so familiar, like he'd seen it somewhere before...

"DUDE!" he squealed. "It's a lightsaber!"

Raven just groaned audibly.

"Great, so now we're stuck in another nerdy dream come true? This day just keeps getting better and better..."

It was then Beast Boy's ears picked up the sound of heavy boots approaching, accompanied by a deep, heavy breathing. He swallowed his spit as he knew it could only mean one person...

DARTH FREAK

Dark Freak was just like Beast Boy had pictured. Black Jedi armor encompassed every inch of his body, a glowing red lightsaber clutched tightly in his gloved hand.

"Do not worry, rebel scum. For your time in this world draws to a close."