A/N: The return of the shin kicking kid in this chapter. And this first scene is like the one from Foster's on Cartoon Network. I just thought it was really funny and wanted to add it in. R&R!
Chapter 7 Star with a Job and Wanted
Raven had to stop. She was getting tiered of flying all over the mall running away from the cops. She thought it was stupid. She was a Titan! She did not have to put up with the cops chasing her. She could just explain who she was and everything would go good.
Before Raven could really stop, she bumped into someone. Raven got up and helped the other person up. "Star?" she asked because she thought it was Starfire but she was wearing something different.
"Raven!" Starfire exclaimed and hugged Raven with joy of seeing her friend. She wore a loose blue shirt and long black pants with a belt. A walkie-talkie was clipped onto her belt and her hair was put under a blue hat. A pin on her chest said Mall Police.
"Don't tell me you bought that outfit for Robin," Raven said while looking her over. This was not good.
"No," Starfire said with a giggle. "I'm getting him something else that is real 'special'. This is just the job I got to raise the money for the gift. Is this bad?"
"You got a job!" Raven almost yelled. "How did you get a job in less than two hours in this mall? Do they pay you good?"
"I got a superhero special!" Starfire said with excitement in her voice. "They explained everything real well and gave me the job as a patrol officer for the mall." She then held up a paper and asked her friend, "What is free dental they speak of?"
"Starfire!" Raven yelled. She then calmed down and asked, "You get free dental?" She snapped the paper away from Starfire and finally found her head again. "Okay," she said while shoving the paper back and putting up her hands in defeat. "We don't have time for jobs and stuff. Let's find Robin and leave this place before any more bad luck comes our way."
"Raven," Starfire said with pity in her voice. "You are soaked! What happened to you?"
But before Raven could answer, someone called into the walkie-talkie on Starfire's belt. She picked it up and suddenly got real serious. She listened and then glared up at Raven with hard eyes.
"Star?" Raven said slowly while backing away. "I'm your friend. You would always believe me on everything. Right?"
"They said you were going to kill a poor innocent teen, Raven," Starfire said while slowly lifting the walkie-talkie to her lips. "I'm going to have to report you."
Raven now got mad. She did not want Starfire to ruin the rest of her day. Her eyes narrowed at her friend and Starfire was testing her nerves right now. They both frowned at each other with fire in their eyes.
"Being sent to jail is not on my to do list today, Starfire," Raven said with a deathly tone to her voice.
Starfire lifted the walkie-talkie to her lips more and saw that Raven backed up more. Starfire did not want to report Raven, but this was her very first job and she wanted to keep it. Just letting Raven go would be against the rules. And aliens were all about rules.
"You wouldn't dare!" Raven said in barely of a whisper. There was a long silence as they both just stared at each other waiting for the other to make the first move.
Suddenly, Starfire snapped the walkie-talkie to her lips and yelled, "I got the girl here! She is on the run!" She looked up to see Raven running for her life down the hall. The police would do the rest.
"I'm going to kill her for that!" Raven yelled while rounding the corner. With this much people she could not fly. Plus, she was like a fish out of water if she used any of her powers. So she had to be normal for a few minutes.
She found a store and ran into it to hid from the police who just rounded another corner and was looking for her. She saw a sign on the main desk said Be Back in Five Minutes. She hid behind the desk quickly for her escape. The police ran past the store in search for her and totally missed her. She gave a sly smile as she looked up to see no one there. She would stay there till she thought it was okay to come out.
Then she spotted it! It was the greatest gift for Robin! The thing was staring right at her. A small smile came to her lips as she picked it up. He would like it. (You people are not that lucky. I'm still not telling you what it is! HA!)
Robin sipped on his seventh soda with a heavy sigh. This was one birthday that failed miserably. His friends got their butts kicked by an escalator and everything that was bad happened to him. Maybe now they would leave his birthday alone. He wondered where everyone was now.
He had a feeling Cyborg and Beast Boy left because in the past hour he had only had a glance at Starfire but went away before she could talk to him. He had spotted Raven go into a bookstore. He got out of the place before he saw her come out, though.
Things were going real well. He thought it was about time to hit the road. Robin finished his Coke and jumped off his seat near a soda stand in the mall. He threw the cup in a trashcan and searched for Starfire or Raven.
"Hey mister!" a kid yelled and Robin turned around to see the same kid who kicked him a few feet away by the trashcan. He held the cup of Coke in one of his hands. "Its you," he said when he recognized Robin.
"If you come one step closer to me I swear I'll kill you," Robin seethed. He did not want the kid to bug him even more. His shin still hurt from the other two times before. Robin knew he was being a bit harsh with the murder threat, but this kid was crazy.
The kid gave Robin a sly, evil smile and took the top off of the cup of Coke. He looked up at Robin and swished the Coke around as Robin tried to stop him.
"Don't you dare, kid!" Robin said while backing up a little. He held up his hands to stop the kid, but was too late. He chucked the drink at Robin and hit him square in the face. Robin spurt out the sticky soft drink and glared angry at the kid. You could tell he was mad even through the mask.
"Don't make me hurt you," Robin yelled while swiping a bit of Coke off his face with a gloved hand.
"You're a butt head!" the kid laughed while coming up and tried to kick Robin. Robin had been knocked off guard with the Coke in his face, so he moved slightly away from the kid by mistake. So the foot, in the middle of his kick, missed the shin and hit an area for Robin that was not so smart to kick.
Robin could not say anything and he bent over with pain. "Opps," the kid said quietly. Robin looked up at him and was steaming. Now the kid was dead.
"Yeah," Robin said through clenched teeth. "That was a real big opps. And you're going to pay for that! Get over here!" Robin took off after the kid. The kid zoomed down the hall screaming at the top of his lungs. Robin was hot on his tail.
Really Robin was teasing the kid. He was aiming for him to be so scared he would pee in his pants, but Robin was not going to hurt him. He was a superhero, not a killer. The kid was real good at running. He had an upper hand on it too because he was small enough to squeeze through a crowd of people. Robin had to use some of his skills to get through the crowd swiftly.
An evil smile was on Robin's face as he chased the poor kid around the mall. It had been around a half an hour by the time Robin let the kid go. He stopped running and bent over and put his hands on his knees to catch his breath.
"That was the most fun I've had in a long time," Robin said with a laugh as he saw the kid look back with a look of pure panic on his face. He had learned his lesson for one day. Robin was still kind of ticked off by the kid, but the run refreshed him.
"Okay, punk, what were you doing to that poor kid?" someone said from behind Robin. He turned around and saw a police officer there with his arms folded in front of him. Robin gave a weak smile and scratched the back of his neck in nervousness.
"Look," Robin started. "You don't understand. The kid kicked me and I just sort of chased him to teach him one of those lessons..." Robin stopped in the middle of his sentence because he knew no talking would get him out of the mess. It was time to run again.
"I got to go," Robin said while taking off in the opposite direction the police guy was. The guy ran after him and Robin lost him quickly. Robin whacked into an old lady and ended up falling to his butt again. "Sorry," he muttered while getting up quickly.
"Ahhh!" the lady screamed loudly for the whole mall to hear. "It is a robber! Somebody help me!" She scrambled into her huge purse and took out a can of pepper spray. She sprayed some into Robin's face and his eyes stunk because of the stuff. His mask kept some away from his eyes, but still got through.
Robin tried to get away, but the lady was not done with him yet. She slung her giant purse over her head and came down hard on top of Robin's head. "Get away from me!" she yelled to him as he staggered off by the blow.
"Okay," he muttered to himself while holding onto his head in pain. "That was painful. Maybe we should make her join the team. That huge purse would come in handy. Slade would never know what hit him." The positive attitude was not working, and he still could see stars spinning around his head.
Robin finally got his head on straight and he started to slowly run away. The cop could be close behind him. He looked behind him to see if he was anywhere close and looked ahead just in time to see a black force field in front of him. With a bam, he collided with the black wall and fell back onto his butt with his head spinning again and the anime swirls in his eyes.
"Robin!" Raven yelled in disbelieve. "Where did you come from?" She helped him up and hid the gift she just bought in her bookstore bag. "I did not mean to hit you."
"I'm just fine!" Robin said with frustration. "I'm just fine after that kid kicked me, that cop chased me, the old lady beat the crap out of me, and you just knocked me down with one of your force fields. I've had a pretty good day. How 'bout you?"
"Got you a gift," Raven said with a giant smile and tried to show that she was not worn out from the cops chasing after her too. Robin eyed the bag and let out a sigh. He gave a weak smile to her and nodded.
"The people are crazy here, Rae!" he said as they both walked down the stairs to the first floor. "We got to get out of here before one of us go nuts."
"Starfire already has freaked out," Raven answered. "She called the cops on me! Can you believe her? I tell you, when I get my hands on her again it will not be pretty!"
"Calm down, Raven!" Robin said while putting a hand on her shoulder. "You're exploding all the light bulbs on this hall. Take it easy." Raven looked back to see five crashed light bulbs on the floor behind them.
"There is the killer Goth girl!" a police guy said while pointing to them. "And she has the masked robber beside her!"
Robin and Raven froze and looked behind them to see a dozen police people running after them. "Get them!" another said and that was the cue for the two teens to run.
"Let's find Star and get the heck out of here!" Robin yelled to Raven as the stamped of police followed in hot pursuit. Raven nodded. Home sounded real good right now.
A/N: Hope you thought this chapter was funny. I cracked myself up with it. That line about Slade not knowing what hit him put me on the floor laughing. Please send a review! Thanks!
