Chapter 7: Reunited (The Boys)

Cyborg and Beast Boy watched Raven quickly make her way towards the rest room. She pushed the door open and the sound of the hand dryer filtered out briefly before being cut off by the closing door.

"Damn, I hate to say this but I'm glad she left," Cyborg said.

Beast Boy looked up slightly shocked by his friend's comment. "Easy Cyborg," he said trying to talk his friend down. "She's just as annoyed at you as you are with her. It takes two to tango."

"Raven doesn't tango." Cyborg said shaking his head. "She marches to her own beat."

"Yea," Beast Boy let out a short laugh. He slid his hand up his stack of quarters letting them clink together between his fingers.

"You didn't spend all my money already, did you?" Cyborg quizzed his friend.

"No, just half of it, well actually more than half; the pizza's on me."

"What, you didn't eat yet?"

"No. We had a little incident at the restaurant. Kitten and Johnny Rancid showed up and pretty much trashed the place," Beast Boy explained.

"If you didn't get dinner, how did you lose half of the money I lent you," Cyborg asked.

"Well, I gave our waitress a $100 tip," Beast Boy said proudly.

"What'd you do that for?"

"She kind of helped us with Johnny," Beast Boy replied. "Plus she was really cute."

"Watch your wandering eye Mr. Studly," Cyborg mildly corrected him. "Where's Robin?"

"In the bathroom with Sal; he had a bit of a wardrobe malfunction," Beast Boy said with a smile.

"What do you mean?" Cyborg asked slightly perplexed.

"Come on, I'll show ya," Beast Boy stood up from the booth leaving his quarters on the table and led Cyborg over to the men's room.

The boys pushed the door open. Robin looked up and frowned. He was leaning back on one of the sinks with his arms folded across his chest in quiet disgust. Sal held his pants up to the light as he made the final stitches to close up the broken seam in Robin's pants.

Cyborg smiled slyly at the scene unfolding in front of him. "Man, a picture of this would be worth a million dollars to some rag magazine."

"Only one?" Beast Boy chimed in. "The smiley faced boxers are worth at least five!"

"F-you both," Robin replied coldly. "If it wasn't for me Johnny would have taken a couple of inches off your profile Beast Boy."

"Calm down Robin," Sal interrupted. He tied off his stitch work then turned the pants right-side in and flapped them straight before handing them back to Robin. "Take it easy the rest of the night or the paparazzi are really gonna to get something on you." Robin gratefully took his pants back and quickly slipped them on before shoving his feet back into his shoes. "I guess the gang's all here, huh. I'll put a couple of more pies in for you."

"Thanks Sal; for the food and the pants," Robin gratefully added.

"No problem," Sal replied as he exited the bathroom leaving the boys alone.

"OK," Cyborg said slightly amused. "Will one of you explain what happened to you all tonight?"

Beast Boy and Robin glanced at each other trying to determine who was going to explain what had happened. Beast Boy reached up and scratched his head as he tried to figure out where to begin.

"Well," he paused for a second forming his thoughts. "It got kind of weird. We got to Blue and got to our table."

"They sat us back by the kitchen," Robin chimed in slightly irritated.

"We ordered our food then the girls went to the rest room,"

"Yea, it took them forever to get back to the table," Robin added.

"Right," Beast Boy continued. "That cost me a round of drinks. Anyway that's when Rancid showed up and trashed the kitchen and our dinners."

"But we got him back good," Robin interrupted. "And we did it without my utility belt and without Beast Boy morphing into something."

"Yea, but he crushed you with that pie," Beast Boy added with a slight laugh. "That had three stooges written all over it!"

"Well he got you to, you little shit," Robin responded tersely.

"Oh man, I'm glad the girls didn't see that!" Beast Boy smiled as he shook his head.

"How about our waitress taking Rancid out with the frying pan," Robin continued.

"Yea, how about her," Beast Boy's eyes grew vacant as he replayed the scene in his mind.

"Tell me about it," Robin replied with a sly grin. "Starfire caught me checking her out."

"I saw that." Beast Boy laughed. "You're such a dumb ass."

"Don't worry," Robin quickly countered, "I don't plan on making that mistake again."

"Sounds like you two had a good time," Cyborg interrupted trying to get his friends to slow down so he could absorb the night's details. "What happened to the girls?"

"As far as we can figure out, they ran into Kitten in the bathroom," Robin explained.

"She must have flipped out when Terra and Starfire gave her a swirly," Beast Boy said with a smile.

"It's a good thing we got out of there; both of the girls were soaked when they came back. They must have totally wrecked the bathroom," Robin commented. "How did you and Raven do tonight?"

Cyborg frowned and folded his arms across his chest. "Don't ask. She took me to another one of her dives. The place was a regular comedy club," he said sarcastically. "Thank God Punk Rocket showed up."

"Huh?" Beast Boy commented unsure why his friend would be so thankful a villain had spoiled their evening.

"No biggie, we took him out," Cyborg explained. "Actually he got the raw end of the deal; he has to spend the rest of the night listening to whatever that crowd can dish out." Cyborg closed his eyes and shuddered at the thought.

Cyborg quickly smiled as he remembered something. "Well there was one funny thing I got out of tonight; Raven does Karaoke at this place. I got a well placed source who can tell us when she's on. Anyone interested?" Cyborg looked at his friends who both frowned at his announcement.

"I don't know Cyborg," Robin questioned his friend. "I don't think that's a good idea. If she wanted us to know about this she would have told us."

Cyborg looked shocked at his friend's pronouncement. He turned to Beast Boy who held the same reservations. "You too?"

"Sorry Cyborg," Beast Boy said glumly. "I'm with Robin on this. It's best to give her her space; she'll let us know when she's ready."

Cyborg sighed in disappointment. "Fine. I just thought you guys would get a kick out of that piece of information. All right let's get out of here. I'm starving."

Cyborg turned towards the door as the others fell in behind him.