Chapter: 8

At that Beast Boy stopped. "Early tomorrow! As in, moving around a lot... IN THE MORNING!"

"Pretty much." Robot Man snickered.

"Man... that should be considered... child abuse... or something..." Beast Boy whined.

Terra groaned, sinking farther down in her seat.

"You two can sleep in the jet if you really have to," Elasta Girl reminded.

"But… won't it be like… loud?" Terra asked, though figured she could sleep through it without a problem. She was a pretty hard sleep.

"They don't need more sleep, they just need to get to bed early." Mento insisted. Sticking to his rule of no cat-naps on missions.

"But-"

"Not buts mister."

"Yes sir," Beast Boy muttered.

Terra sighed. Early bed again… ten was early for her. So, this was like… early early. WAY early. Too early.

"That means finish up the chores, and then go get to bed." Mento informed before heading outside once more, just to make sure everything was ready to go.

"…" Terra stared at Beast Boy questioningly. "We had chores?" she asked.

"Guess you do now." Robot Man laughed before setting his dishes in the sink as well. "I'm going to help make sure everything is ready."

"I thought you guys worked on the jet on cleaning day!" Beast Boy chimed, but got no reply on that remark.

Negative Man left after Robot Man, figuring he'd help out too.

"He didn't leave any details on chores though," Terra reminded.

"I guess we just… clean the kitchen." Beast Boy shrugged though then turned to Elasta Girl. "Unless you have something else in mind."

"I'll take care of everything else," Elasta Girl said. "You two can just head up to bed when you're done."

Terra stood up, taking her plate to the sink.

"Done with what? Dishes? Tables?... watching cartoons?" Beast Boy asked, grinning.

"You're gonna get in trouble if you stay up too late and Steve catches you," Elasta Girl reminded.

"Does that mean take the unwanted choice and going to bed after getting a shower?" Beast Boy asked.

"Personally, I think it's too early to be going to bed. I'm not saying you should stay up and watch cartoons. But, if you really want to, I'm not stopping you," Elasta Girl assured. "But, you probably should go to bed if you don't want more trouble."

Beast Boy thought about it for a minute. "Cartoons, or my life... you know I hate hard life choices like this."

Terra laughed. "Oh yeah, cartoons or life… hardest decision you'll ever make," she said, rolling her eyes.

"But I am going to bed because when he says 'early', he MEANS early," Elasta Girl pointed out.

"Okay, okay! I'm going!" Beast Boy whined as he turned around and sluggishly walked out of the kitchen and turned and went up the stairs. All mumbling about having to get up before the sun was awake. "I'm getting a shower at least!" He yelled, his cuts needed cleaned anyways.

"Okay, that's fine!" Elasta Girl called back up the stairs.

Terra followed Beast Boy up stairs. "I'm taking one after you," she put in, just to make sure he knew.

"I'll only be a minute." Beast Boy said as he looked over his shoulder. "Unless you rather take one before me, I'll wait." Yeah, because you like seeing her hair a mess and wet a voice teased. STOP TALKING TO ME!

"Only if you don't mind," Terra said, smiling.

"Not at all." Beast Boy grinned.

Of course yoooou don't mind

I said leave me alone!

Terra smiled. "Okay then. I won't be too long." She started heading down the hall a bit more towards her room for her pajamas. She'd just change into them when she was done.

Beast Boy dashed to his room and found his night clothes after having to dig them out as well, minutes later he was leaning on the wall across from the bath room, yawning- wait, yawning! Man, he shouldn't be tired this early!

Terra grabbed her pajamas and walked back down the hall. She spotted Beast Boy and smiled before going into the bathroom and closing the door. He's so cute… and just… perfect her thoughts drifted to that statement again. It happened pretty much everyday. The blonde turned the shower on and let it heat up before undressing and getting in. Her shower didn't take too long, she tried to hurry since she knew Beast Boy was waiting. Sometimes her showers could go for longer then half an hour. When she got out, she dried off as quick as possible, drying her hair off a bit with the towel. She pulled her pajamas on, a light yellow tank top and black boxers, before hanging her towel up and gathering her clothes. She didn't feel like drying her hair tonight. So, she left the bathroom and went back into the hall.

Beast Boy looked at Terra and grinned. "Done? Jeez, I thought I was going to die of boredom!" He joked.

Heeeey, she didn't dry her hair- GAH! STOP PUTTING THOSE THOUGHTS IN MY HEAD! Bad little uh-... voice... dude...thing... She looks cute in the boxers too, DUDE I MEAN IT STOP!

"Yes, Beast Boy. I'm FINALLY done," she emphasized the word 'finally' as though she'd been days or something.

"I thought I'd die," Beast Boy joked.

Tank top too! ...SHUT UP SHUT UP!

"Yeah, another five minutes and I'm SO SURE I'd find you dead out here." Terra rolled her eyes, laughing.

"Yep!" Beast Boy laughed.

If-

DONT SPEAK! SHH! NO TALKING! or er- thinking! "Soo, can I walk you to your room?" Beast Boy did a little bow, grinning.

"Of course you can," Terra said, smiling softly. She started walking toward her room, now wishing it was farther down the hall. She liked it when Beast Boy walked her to her room.

"I'm honored!" Beast Boy joked as he walked side by side with her. His hand swinging back and forth, patting Terra's each time it took a swing. "So..."

Terra glanced down at their hands, trying not to make it too obvious. "So…" she repeated, smiling still.

"You up for tomorrow? I mean, I don't want my widdle friend getting hurt!" Beast Boy joked with her, leaning her way for a moment, and letting his hand snake into hers.

Terra glanced down again before looking back up at Beast Boy. "I'm ready!" she said. "Just not to wake up that early…" she hated waking up early. She tightened her hand around Beast Boy's a little bit.

"Yeah, early morning wake up calls stink." Beast Boy grinned, though it was almost purely from the pressure her hand landed on his. Just to be a flirt, his fingers spidered over her hand.

Terra smiled even more if that was possible. "Yeah. I never have liked waking up early," she let out a small laugh, looking over at Beast Boy as they walked.

"Don't worry, when we get home we can laze around all we want till someone finally pops up for us to kick the heck out of!" Beast Boy joked in one of his most hyper voices. "Till then," he stopped when they came outside of Terra's door. "Night Ter..." He smiled at her.

"Good night, Beast Boy," Terra said, smiling. She didn't want him to go! She wanted him to stay and talk. Oh well… there'd be time for that tomorrow, right? She sure hoped so.

Beast Boy lingered there for a minute, smiling he lifted her hand up (which he still held) and kissed it then let go and did another fake bow. "See you tomorrow Ter! Now I need to get my shower before Commando Mento catches me still up." He joked. "I don't think Rita can cover me forever." He laughed then darted down the hall.

Terra knew she was blushing as she laughed at Beast Boy's comment. "See you in the morning," she called back. Opening her door, she walked in her room and fell over on her bed. She couldn't help but smile all over again. It didn't take the blonde girl too long to fall asleep. She was already kind of tired.

Beast Boy hurried with his shower and got in bed just before he heard Mento's foot steps outside his door, ha, talk about in the nick of time. He tossed and turned on his bed. Tried just about every position but couldn't sleep. He sighed and sat up, opening the window right above the side of his bed. The dark green animal printed curtains blew slightly in the wind. But Beast Boy snuggled down and fell asleep. Having animal genetics running through you, sometimes it was comforting to have a little bit of the outdoors with you when you slept.

The next morning (not that Terra would even call it morning), the sleeping blonde heard light knocking on her door. "Terra, it's time to get up," Elasta Girl called. Terra only moaned and rolled over, forgetting about that whole 'wake up early tomorrow morning' thing. She must have fallen back asleep immediately.

Elasta Girl walked past Beast Boy's door again, knocking. "Beast Boy, come on, you have to get up. We gotta go soon."

"Its not a school day mommy," The sleeping Beast Boy replied.

"Beast Boy. Up. Don't make me get Steve up here," Elasta Girl called.

Beast Boy moaned as he pulled the blankets above his head and whined, though the mention of Steve, AKA not-so-nice-Mento. He sat up yawning, only to fall off his bed from hanging on the side in the first place.

THUMP

"...oh darn... I fell on the -yawn- floor and broke something. Back to sleep." Beast Boy yawned as he almost instantly fell back to sleep. Hey, at least he tried... sorta.

"Beast Boy!" Elasta Girl said, getting more serious. "Go wake Terra up. I've passed by both your rooms three times."

"Nooooooo," Beast Boy moaned as he pulled his pillow down and held it over his head, trying to get back to the sleep he was so sure he needed.

"Need help?" Mento came walking up the hall, getting annoyed that everyone was taking so long.

"Sure," Elasta Girl sighed, stepping back.

Mento banged on the door, "Beast Boy!" No answer... "Beast Boy, get up! It's past time!" When Mento heard something get thrown against the door he sighed, "Garfield you get up now or I'm dragging you out!"... Darn kids. Mento sighed again and opened the door, looking down at the sleeping Beast Boy and looked more then annoyed.

"IT'S TOO EARLY!" Beast Boy whined minutes later as Mento dragged him out by the feet.

"It is not, you should have gone to bed sooner if you're still tired." Mento told him.

"FIVE MORE MINUTES!"

"It won't make any difference."

"Beast Boy! Go get Terra up," Elasta Girl half ordered. "I swear that girl is almost as difficult as him," she told Mento.

Beast Boy moaned as he stood up, looking like a zombie by the way he was hunched over and with the dropping face. "stupid mornings-" He grumbled as he started off, down the hall that now seemed longer and led to Terra's door. Minutes later, knocking on her door with one hand and covering his mouth while he yawned with the other.

No answer. Not for a minute anyways. It was too early for Terra to even find her voice! She gave a kind of half moan half grunt, barely moving from her place. She laid on her stomach, head off the pillow with the blankets over her head.

Beast Boy yawned again before smirking and opening the door. "Terra? Ooohhh Terra! Don't make me go over there!" He joked.

Terra barely even recognized his voice, only burying her head into the bed farther while clutching the blankets over her head. "…away," Terra said, not making much sense. That was supposed to be 'go away'.

"Okay, I warned you." Beast Boy slipped into her room and stalked over to where Terra was sleeping. Grinning, from amazingly becoming more awake, before reaching over and tickling the blonde.

Terra tried to burry herself farther into the bed as though only feeling someone poke her. It took her a minute to realize that the 'poking' was actually tickling. "AHH!" she shot up with a short scream before cracking up. "Beast Boy!" she laughed out, trying to grab his hands.

Beast Boy grinned even more. "Gooooood morning," he joked as he continued to tickle Terra, leaning over and finally setting his knee on the bed to keep from slipping.

Terra continued laughing, trying to grab and keep hold of Beast Boy's hands to keep him from tickling her. She couldn't hold him off too long though and ended up laughing more.

"I warned you," Beast Boy was almost laughing himself, when Terra laughed, he often joined in. He leaned over her still, tickling the crap out of the poor blonde after breaking his hands free from her. "Give up yet?"

"No!" Terra yelled, trying to push him away by the shoulders.

"No what?" Beast Boy mocked as he continued tickling, "No you don't want me to stop? Or, no you don't give up? Either way is certain doom!" He joked.

Terra half screamed and half laughed again as she tried to grab his hands. "No, I'm not giving up!" she laughed out from her sitting position. She finally grabbed a hold of his hand at the same time that she fell back on the bed, pulling him over on accident.

"Hey!" Beast Boy laughed, though more softly this time, a warm grin swept over his face when he realized the awkward position she had pulled them into, and the record grows by another one.

"…" Terra looked up at him, just staring for a minute. "Sorry," she apologized, her voice soft. She hadn't let go of his hands yet, but that might be because she hadn't yet realized she was still holding them in hers.

"It's cool." Beast Boy whispered, still grinning. He was kind of frozen at the moment. He wanted to move, but didn't at the same time. At the moment, he was blaming that stupid voice for something or another.

Terra opened her mouth to talk, but failed, so closed it again. She was at a loss for words. So, she just stared up at him, frozen in place as well. She both had hundreds of thoughts racing through her mind, but at the same time, none at all. The hundreds of thoughts was the voice in the back of her head that she sometimes fought with, and the brain dead part was all her.

Beast Boy, still frozen just grinned. That was all his brain could process at the time being.

Pleeaase! Just one teensy little peck? The voice urged.

NO! He scorned himself.

JUST ONE!

NO

... half?

N- dude how is that even possible! But before he could figure out if that WAS possible, he heard footsteps, and an annoyed adult voice. If he thought being seen in the last accidental position was bad, this would be that times ten. He quickly shot up and hoped to his feet, so he stood at the side of Terra's bed.

"TAKING LONG ENOUGH!" Mento yelled.

"SHE'S BEING STUBBORN!" Beast Boy mused back, winking at Terra for a split second.

Terra nearly jumped out of her skin at Mento's voice yelling. She quickly pretended to still be half asleep, groaning out her annoyance. "I'm getting up!" she said in a pretend groggy voice. "Slowly but surely." She faked a yawn.

"Everything is ready, and you two have yet to get dressed," Mento said as he came in view from the room. "Five minutes. If you're not in the garage by then, you're staying here and doing all the chores."

"See you in four," Beast Boy grinned.

"I'm counting down," Mento started back down the hall towards the garage.

Terra waited until Mento was gone before kicking her blankets away and getting up. She went to her bag at the foot of her bed and dug through it to find a clean change of clothes. "So we've got four minutes to get changed and get to the garage?" she asked, digging more to find socks.

"Pretty much," Beast Boy grinned, looking over at Terra. Wait, why was he watching her! He should be in HIS room getting ready. "I should uh- go get ready..."

Terra looked up, grinning a little. "That… might be a good idea," she laughed a little bit, pulling finally getting everything she needed. "See you in… three minutes or so."

"Yeah, see you." Beast Boy waved then dashed out of her room, closing the door behind him to save her the time. When he reached his room he pulled on his uniform and made sure he had all he needed on his belt or in his pockets. T-com, gummy snacks, gummy snacks... and in pocket number three, GUMMIE SNACKS!

Terra quickly changed, probably in top speed for her. She was always sluggish in the morning, but she only had a couple minutes today. So, she went fast, leaving her room with her gloves in her mouth as she buckled her belt. She had pulled her gloves on and checked for T-com. It was there. She stopped outside Beast Boy's door, leaning against the wall to wait for him.

Beast Boy stumbled out of his room, almost bumping into Terra. "Oh hey!" He grinned before grabbing her wrist and sharply turning around and running down the hall then down the stairs, he knew Mento probably wouldn't joke about the time thing.

Terra yelped as she was yanked after Beast Boy. "Well, nice to see you too," she laughed, trying to sound serious. It wasn't easy for her to be serious with him when he was practically dragging her out of the house.

"Sorry, I just don't want us to get left behind." Beast Boy joked as he then burst through the back door and towards the garage. He finally let go of her wrist then bolted into the garage, and up the ramp that led into the ship. "MADE IT!"

"Phew, just barely." Robot Man mused then turned to Negative Man. "Pay up Larry, they did make it." He held his palm out.

Negative Man sighed, almost disappointedly. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a twenty dollar bill.

"You guys BET on us?" Terra wailed in joking disbelief.

"I feel so loved." Beast Boy joked along.

"Yep," Robot Man smiled proudly, "who knew you two sleeping in would profit me?" He joked.

The platform like opening to the ship closed as the ship hummed, starting up. "Buckle up!" Mento's voice came from the end of the ship, piloting no doubt. Beast Boy sat down in the seat next to Robot Man and pulled on the X chest strap over himself and waited.

Terra went straight to the seat next to Beast Boy and sat down, having a little bit of difficulty with the seat belts. Ha!" she laughed triumphantly as she got it buckled.

"Having troubles?" Negative Man asked.

"Just a bit," Terra grinned, almost like a little kid would.

"I almost thought the seat belt was gonna win that one," Negative Man joked.

Beast Boy chuckled before gripping his X strap while the ship started moving, downward though. The windows said so.

"First we go through a under ground tunnel, then we take off on a private path." Robot Man informed.

"I remember." Beast Boy grinned happily.

Terra looked out one of the windows, also holding onto the straps as though she felt like she fall out if she didn't. "So, where are we going?" she asked.

"Wherever the Sisterhood is," Negative Man replied.

"Hopefully not too far, I'll get too bored." Beast Boy joked.

"I remember YOUR first ride in the jet ride." Robot Man started.

Beast Boy moaned, "Cliff! Don't!"

"Oh, what a nightmare," Negative Man whined.

"Story?" Terra asked, looking up at Robot Man.

"No!" Beast Boy insisted.

"Yes," Robot Man snickered. "Two words, jet sick." Beast Boy moaned and slapped his forehead, though just then hung his head, awaiting the story that was sure to come.

"I think he was eight when we let him ride the jet for the first time, lets see, I remember him barfing up chocolate milk all over Mento..."

Terra laughed before looking at Beast Boy. "Awww, poor widdle Beast Boy," she said in a mock baby voice, patting him on the head.

"Then he barfed on... I can't remember. Was it Rita or you?" Robot Man asked Negative Man.

Beast Boy grumbled, he hated these stories.

"Hmm…" Negative Man thought briefly. "I think that was me. The time it was Rita was the third time he rode in this thing."

Terra gave Beast Boy a sympathetic look, but laughed all the same.

Mento walked in, "we have liftoff, if you want you can unhook your seat belts for the moment. It should only take five to fifteen minutes to get to our destination point. "

"So... any chance of knowing where we're going?" Beast Boy asked, more then happy for the change of subject.

"You'll find that out soon enough."

"So you don't know."

"I didn't say that."

"But-" Beast Boy started.

"Don't back talk." Mento warned before disappearing back in the room.

"Yes sir," Beast Boy muttered as he unhooked his strap. Robot Man did the same.

Terra unbuckled the belt that was keeping her seated after Negative Man had taken his off as well. She stared after Mento, wondering vaguely why he was so strict anyways. She shook the thought off before turning to look at Beast Boy again.

"Are we there-" Beast Boy started.

"Don't." Robot Man warned jokingly.

"Why not?" Beast Boy asked innocently.

"Because I can make you fly the rest of the way."

"Good reasoning, I'll shut up... for now." Beast Boy sat back in his seat.

Terra laughed at Beast Boy. "That's a long way to fly," she said.

The jet landed around the estimated time it would, Beast Boy knew so because he hadn't become to awfully bored, and Robot Man only had to remind him of the threat twice. He walked down the platform after Mento, looking around the clearing in the wooded area. "How far are we from the base?"

"About fifty miles or so." Mento replied.

"You couldn't park a little closer?" Beast Boy moaned.

Terra's eyes widened as she stepped up to Beast Boy. "Duuuude…" she stretched the word out, stealing Beast Boy's usual line. "That's gonna take DAYS to walk…"

Elasta Girl and Negative Man came down the ramp after Terra, not replying to the two teens' complaints.

"Good, they wouldn't have seen us coming then." Mento replied before looking at a map he had made on the computer. "Let's go," he started towards the forest like area.

Terra gave Mento a disbelieving look, shaking her head slowly. She turned her head to look at Beast Boy, a complaining look on her face with the words 'he's crazy' nearly reflecting in her eyes.

Elasta Girl and Negative Man walked after Mento, not saying a word. Robot Man brought up the back of the line of superheroes. He had the fantastic duty of carrying the supplies. Food, water, and blankets. That's all they needed, and wanted to pack as light as possible.

The day seemed to drag on forever to Terra. They must have walked for a couple hours before stopping at noon for lunch. Yes, lunch. They skipped breakfast! The most important meal of the day! Well, Terra had been starving and was disappointed when they pack up after only a few minutes and keep going. She sluggishly dragged her feet as they continued walking for hours with only five minute rests every now and then. Finally, they stopped for the day. First they would eat dinner and go to bed early again since they had a 'long day ahead of them'.

"I'm just going to skip dinner and go to bed." Beast Boy muttered before curling up in dog form on the ground, in front of the small fire that had been started a few minutes ago.

"Talk about personality swings." Robot Man joked.

"How come?" Terra asked, sitting down on her knees next to him with a kind of worried expression on her face. It wasn't like Beast Boy to actually want to go to bed early. And it REALLY wasn't like him to skip dinner.

"Are you feeling okay?" Elasta Girl asked.

Beast Boy resumed human form, "I got up too early, and I have been walking all day. I just want to go to sleep." He muttered, still curling up on the ground.

"Fine, go ahead and rest, I can give you night watch." Mento informed.

"...Weee for me." Beast Boy muttered before morphing back into the fuzzy green dog. Mainly because it was easier to sleep on the ground in animal form.

Terra looked at the green dog for a moment. "Good night Beast Boy," she said, scratching behind his ear for a second and patting him on the shoulder.

Beast Boy gruffly barked out his good night, though enjoyed the scratching and patting more then he showed, soon though was fast asleep.

Elasta Girl started making their dinner, simply sandwiches. But, they would have to do for now.

Terra practically inhaled her sandwich after it was handed to her. She tried to stay up a little longer, but it just wasn't any fun with out Beast Boy. She took one of the blankets that Robot Man had been carrying earlier and dropped it on the ground just a couple feet from Beast Boy. Before lying down, she kicked her boots off and curled up, using the blanket like a pillow. The warmth of the fire only made her eyes heavy and she drifted off into sleep.


YES! Me and Grease worked our butts off and fineshed one last chapter for you guys before I go! Took us over all, about a day and night to write. (Before then after school)

Can't wait till I get back so we can start on the next update, till then dudes and chicks, KEEP IT ROCKIN'!

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