Beast Boy hopped up from thecouch in Terra's room and held out his hands.
"There's no better way to cheer someone up." He announced. "Then with a...movie night!"
"Beast Boy!" Terra slumped over on the couch. "I already told you I was feeling better."
"Hey, I know! This is just to keep you that way!"
Terra sighed and let out a helpless smile.
"Okay, Beast Boy. Let's have a movie night."
"WOOT! All right. You're gonna love it." He was bubbling with enthusiasm. "Okay...this is your movie night, so what are we watching?"
"Um...I dunno. What do you have?"
That might have been a mistake. In a flash, Beast Boy turned to the shelf in a blur of green.
"What do I have?" He cackled. "Only the greatest movie collection in the whole stinkin' world!" He peered through the collection and pulled out movies at random.
"Attack of the Protozoids?"
"Seen it."
"Super Samurai Ninja Showdown VII?"
"Too cheesy."
"Cube?"
"Too freaky."
"Jurassic Park?"
"Ugh..." Terra let out a disgusted sound. "I lost all respect for it after the sequels."
Beast Boy blinked.
"Huh...me, too. Ahem." He went back to the movies. "Blazing Saddles?"
He did a double take.
"Wait...this isn't my movie..." He looked at Terra.
Terra shook her head.
"Oh, well." Beast Boy tossed it over his shoulder. "Moulin R-EEP!"
"Yes!" Terra crooned. "That one! I wanna watch that one!"
"Aw, c'mon!" Beast Boy moaned. "I hate that movie!"
"But I love it!"
"...Fine." Beast Boy popped the DVD in and plopped down beside Terra on the couch. "Just promise meyou won't sing along."
"Huh? Why? I have a beautiful singing voice!"
"Psssh. I'd rather here Noir sing!
"H-HEY!"
"Heheheheheheheh!"
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I don't like Titans Tower at night. Maybe we're working on some kind of budget, because the place is always dark and gloomy, like we need two times the light bulbs we actually have. The place is quiet, too. Way too quiet for nine super powered teenagers to be living there. Noir, nine times out of ten, is out on the city doing...whatever it is he does. But worst of all...there's nothing to do.
The main room was empty when I walked in, and that was really weird. I walked around aimlessly for a minute or two before flopping down on the small side couch. My hat and poncho come off. As an afterthought, I kick off my cowboy boots. I leaned back and closed my eyes. If I wasn't going to do anything, I might as well kick back and relax.
I was tireder than I'd thought. I didn't realize I was asleep until a voice woke me up.
"You're in my seat."
I didn't even open my eyes. I was really comfortable.
"Hmmm?"
"You're in my seat. Move."
I finally opened my heavy eyelids and saw Raven looking down at me, a book under her arm.
"Oh...sorry." I slowly slid over to the far side of the couch and, snuggling the armrest, was content to go right back to sleep.
"I said move."
I peeked at her with one eye.
"There's plenty of room here." I pointed beside me. "If you want one to yourself, there's a big red couch five steps to your left."
Raven didn't move a muscle and glared at me.
I sighed. I just wanted to sleep!
"Didn't your mama ever teach you any manners?"
"No." She grated. "Only how to suppress the voice in my head that is telling me to kill you right now."
"Good." I smirked and, quite intentionally, stretched my feet out on the couch, grabbed my hat and put it over my face. I didn't like her tone. "That means I'll be safe in my sleep. G'night, Miss Kitty."
She did it on purpose.
She did it on frickin' purpose.
She waited...intentionally...waited until I was almost asleep before-
ZAP!
She flung me off the couch and across the room with her black telekinesis. I slammed into the top of th kitchen table, slid across it and flipped to the floor. I landed painfully on my face. When I climbed back to my feet with a fair amount of help from a chair, Raven was seated daintily on the futon couch she has tossed me off of. Her face was emotionlessly smug as she read her book.
My blood boiled and my teeth ground together. She had no right to do that! I was about to stomp right over and tell her just that...but then I had a better idea.
I watched her read and, when I figured she was totally immersed in her book...
I hummed.
SWOOOOSH!
Wind plucked her up like a rag doll and blew her across the room. She rolled and tumbled across the floor, only stopping with a thump against the far wall.
I was totally unprepared for her reaction.
"HOW DARE YOU!" Her voice was horrible as she levitated towards me, black telekinesis pulsing around her.
"Say what?" A tornado of wind surrounded me, fueled by my anger. "How dare you! You did the exact same thing!"
My will tried to falter when, I thought, her eyes flashed red for just an instant. But I wouldn't let it. We stared at each other, our powers shaking the room and everything in it.
At that moment, the doors slid open and in walked Static.
"What's up, guys? Have you see Rob-Ack!"
Whirling wind and black energy tried to crush him. With no choice, he erected an electrical shield around himself.
Turns out, that was too much power for the room to hold.
BOOM!
A shock wave arc out, knocking all three of us to the floor. That shock wave, I would later learned, was called an electromagnetic pulse.
Titans Tower went dark. Barely, I could see a pair of violet eyes glaring at me.
I glared right back.
Simultaneously:
"This is all your fault!"
"This is all your fault!"
From somewhere in the tower, a female, terribly off key female singing voice reached us.
"ROOOOOOXXXAAANNNNNNEEE!"
