A/N: Robin finally explodes in this chapter. It was bound to come. Please R&R!
Chapter 5 Cracking of Glass and Robin
Robin did not want to come out of the bathroom. Beast Boy would be there setting off sparks of bad luck. If he could just stay in the bathroom for the rest of the day it would all turn out okay. He knew had to go and be with him, though.
He pushed the swinging door open and some guy was opening it at the same time and hit it back. The door came swinging back, and before Robin could take another step, the door slammed into his forehead and sent the poor teen to the floor.
"I'm so sorry for that," the guy said while looking down at Robin sitting on his butt. "Did not see you there." He did not even offer a hand, and Robin had to get up himself. Robin was on his feet but did not stay there for too long. A little kid busted the door open and hit Robin in the nose. He ended up on his butt again.
"GEEZ!" Robin yelled while holding onto his sore nose. "I can't even get out of the flipping bathroom!" Robin scrambled to his feet gave an evil glare at the little kid.
"You're a butt head!" the kid said into Robin's face and kicked Robin in the shin. The poor teen yelled out in pain and grabbed his shin while wincing. The kid started to laugh and headed for a stall.
"I'll send you to jail when you are old enough, kid!" Robin yelled to him through clenched teeth and leaning against the wall while stilling holding onto his shin in pain. The father came in to hear the whole threat and when Robin looked up he saw the hurly man with the long hair and black fingerless gloves.
Robin gave a weak, guilty smile to the biker dude and said, "Kids are so cute, you know?" The guy just glared down at Robin and growled like a tiger. Robin gulped hard and made his way to the swinging door. The guy let him go and Robin made it out of the bathroom alive.
"Hey, dude!" Beast Boy called over to Robin from a different booth they had been sitting in. "This is the coolest seat in the whole place."
Robin sat down while wincing a few times. His butt was so sore from getting pushed to the floor so many times. "How come it is so cool?" he asked Beast Boy to just get to talking. He did not talk to Beast Boy that often because of the lame jokes he had to put up with.
"The awesome fishes," Beast Boy said while pointing to the huge fish tank next to them in the booth. The whole tank was a wall with all kinds of fish. Beast Boy then started to hit the glass with an index finger and it made a pinging noise.
Ping
"Don't tease the fish, BB," Robin muttered to his friend. "You never know what could happen."
Ping. Ping.
"BB," Robin said more sternly to make Beast Boy stop.
Ping. Ping. Ping.
"I mean it, Beast Boy!" Robin said louder while giving a stern glare to his friend.
"What could happen?" Beast Boy asked with his annoying laugh.
Ping. Ping. Ping. Crack.
Cyborg, Raven, and Starfire leaned over panting from the long run. "That is the second time this day we got run out of a store!" Raven muttered to her team through gasps for air.
Cyborg just smiled weakly and they started to walk again. "It is a good thing that guy had too much to eat in his past years, or he would be catching us by now," he said while swiping a bead of sweat out of his eyes.
"I wish to eat, friends," Starfire said while hovering above the ground of the mall a few inches. Her friends nodded in agreement and headed for the food court with stomachs rumbling.
"Stop!" came a voice from behind them. The three stopped and turned around expecting to see the fat guy from the comic store. "The food court is off limits because of some teen messing with the cheese machine. It exploded and now cheese is covering the whole court."
"Looks like BB was here," Cyborg muttered as they walked away from the police guard that stood right next to the food court. They glanced into the room to see cheese on everything and table and chairs smothered with the melted hot stuff. By now it was cold and nasty tasting.
"Let's just find someplace to eat instead of the food court," Raven said as they headed away. "There is this rich sushi restaurant close by," she said with hope. "If everyone pays, it will be fine."
"Yes," Starfire said with a nod. "That would be glorious!" She was hungry for anything right now. Cyborg shrugged and followed Raven there. He wondered where Robin and Beast Boy were.
"I told you to not tease them!" Robin yelled to Beast Boy as they watched the crack in the tank glass grow and spread. "Now that stupid big fish whacked into the glass too hard and the glass will break if we don't do something!"
"Don't sweat, wonder boy," Beast Boy said while patting Robin on the shoulder. Robin just kept looking at the crack and the water now starting to come out of it. His friend had to think of something fast.
"You just put some napkins up to it," Beast Boy said while grabbing a ton of napkins and putting them on the crack to stop it. When he touched it the water started to burst out and it hit Robin and sent him to the floor. "More napkins," Beast Boy said with panic coming to his voice as he now shoved the napkins to the crack that had now turned into a hole in the wall.
"Beast Boy!" Robin said while coughing up water and getting off his butt.
"No, dude!" Beast Boy said while hitting Robin away. "I got it all under control!" People started to notice the hole and got up and watched as the green changeling shoved the hundreds of napkins into it.
"We got to get away from here!" Robin called to Beast Boy who was getting soaked with water. Then the whole wall that had the tank busted open and the water was like a killer wave at the beach. Just that this was the mall and there was no soft sand to collide with afterwards.
Everyone gasped as they stared up at the water before it crashed down. It then came tumbling down and crashed right onto Robin's head and he got pushed to his butt again. The wave swept across the room and when it was done no chair or table was on four legs. All the rich folks looked at their ruined suits and dresses and gave evil glares at the two Titans.
"That was awesome!" Beast Boy said as he looked for Robin. He splashed up to Robin and slipped. He slammed into his masked friend and they both slid into a table and Robin hit his head on it with a huge thump.
"Sorry," Beast Boy said as he saw Robin on his butt and his hands supporting him up. He had a fish on his lap that was jumping around and a thing of squishy seaweed was resting on Robin's nose.
"Robin!" Cyborg yelled from the door of the restaurant. Cyborg and the others with him came in and helped Robin to his feet again. Robin was just thinking of sitting on his butt all day so he did not have to keep getting knocked down. Raven took the seaweed off his nose and flung it away.
"Are you undamaged?" Starfire asked her friend with worry in her voice.
Before Robin could answer the same little kid from the bathroom came up to him and Robin looked down at him with question. The kid looked up at him and gave an evil smile.
"You're a butt head!" he laughed and kicked Robin in the shin again.
"AH!" Robin yelled while clutching his shin again. The kid ran away before Robin could get his hands on him. The Titans grabbed Robin before he fell. He was yelling madly at the kid.
"Calm down, man!" Cyborg said while putting Robin in reality. Robin just sighed and winced in the pain going down his leg from the kick.
"What happened here?" Raven asked while looking around the mess of fish out of water and the poor people heading out of the place. The place looked like a giant wave hit them.
"THAT IS IT!" Robin said while shoving his friends away from him. They all looked at him with shock. "I don't want a stupid birthday party! I don't want to hang out with you guys! And if I get pushed down onto my butt one more time I'll SCREAM!"
"You already are screaming, dude," Beast Boy muttered.
Robin glared over to him and Beast Boy had to hid behind Cyborg to get away. "Just everyone leave me ALONE!" Robin yelled and after a few hesitations his friends ran off and Robin was alone in the restaurant. He breathed deeply and cleared his mind.
"This is going to be a long day," he muttered to himself while walking out of the place.
A/N: Next chapter...the return of the comic store punk! Please leave a review!
