Hey everyone! I wasn't sure if I was going to update this soon or not. I'm currently at Chapter Seven in where I'm editing this story. Plus I put a lot of effort in readying Deathstroke the Shipper? last week. Don't worry about the edits, it's nothing major. I'm just fixing sentence structure and improper wording. So you aren't missing anything. But because of everyone's welcoming feedback, I didn't feel like I could delay you all a reward. So I'm giving you this chapter. Chocked full of BBxRae fluff!


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Updated: March 3, 2019 10:35 P.M. (MST)


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Chapter Thirty-Two: Oink. Oink. Oink


Squeeee! Squeeee!

The scene showed a rather interesting sight.

Several large pink muddy pigs were rolling around in the middle of a muddy fenced enclosure. A couple pigs were lying in the middle of it basking in the sun and mud. The rest of the pigs were making noises as they moved along near one part of the fence.

It seemed like they were very excited about something...

...

Bloop.

A rotten apple dropped in the middle of the group.

Squee! Squee! Saueeeeee!

Excited squeals came from the pigs as they ran over each other in their haste to try and get at the apple. The smaller pigs were trampled over in the larger pig's haste for the treat.

Bloop. Bloop. Bloop.

More of the rotten, yet still sweet tasting (to the pigs) apples fell around them. It was quite the sight to see the pigs scrambling for the delicious treats. Some of them were indecisive as to which apple to run for. And yes, they were eating them off of the very mud they rolled around in. Which also contained their poop, urine, and a bunch of other things that made it even more gross. But hey, that's pigs for ya. *Shrugs indifferently* Doesn't make the bacon taste any less good.

Bloop.

An apple landed farther out in the middle next to one of the resting pigs. It raised its head up lazily to sniff at the apple that had landed next to it.

Squuueeeeeee!

A long drawn out squeal came from two pigs as they charged right for the apple. The pig resting on the ground widened it's eyes in surprise.

BOOF!

The two pigs collided with it in their effort to get the apple. The three pigs rolled across the mud.

Squee! Squee! Squee!

The three pigs squealed in agitation at each other. While they did this, a fourth smaller pig wandered up on it's little legs and started to eat at the apple. The three larger pigs didn't seem to notice that their treat was being devoured as they butted heads with each other.

"Ahahahahaha!"

On the other side of the fence stood a blonde guy who was laughing at the scene. "Way to go Charlotte! I knew you could do it!" He yelled happily at the smaller pig that strangely enough had a spider resting on its back.

The guy himself stood about 5'7" or 5'8". He was dressed in baggy farmers overalls with a red plaid shirt on underneath. He continued to chuckle while he watched the pigs down below finishing off the snacks he had thrown in. His blue eyes and white skin shone almost as brightly as his blonde hair in the light of the sun. He held a large basket in his hand, filled more than halfway with more rejected apples he had picked from the orchard that afternoon.

"Hey Rae, you need to come and see this!" The guy yelled back behind him.

A little ways away, a girl who could have been about 5'5" or 5'6" was sitting on a bucket next to a cow. There was several other cows grazing in the pasture behind while it stood patiently under the overhang of the barn. A bucket rested underneath it's udders, which the girl was inexperiencely squeezing milk into.

The girl had a straw hat over her head. Protecting her slightly paler Caucasian skin from the rays of the evening sun. Her midnight black hair poked out from under her hat, and rested on her shoulders. She was dressed in clothes that looked like what the pioneer women wore back in the 1800's. She had a plain look on her face. "I'm sorry, but I have no time to watch you play around with your relatives Gar." The girl replied as she continued with her task.

A sour look come onto Garfield's face. "Aw come on Rae. They're being really funny today!" He yelled to her.

"Hmmm." Rachel hummed in reply.

"At least I'm not rolling around with them this time." He added.

Rachel rolled her eyes. "Whatever Gar." She said back monotonously.

Garfield pouted a little bit. Then he turned around and dumped the rest of the apples down into the mud.

Plop plop plop plop plop...

Squeee! Squeee!

The pigs became really excited when their favorite snack dumped en masse right in front of their faces. They attacked the bounteous feast they had been given with relish almost immediately.

Garfield set the basket down next to him, and turned to face Rachel again. Rachel had just finished milking the cow she had been working on. She patted it on the back, and it slowly walked away towards the pasture as the last cow that hadn't been milked yet came to a stop next to Rachel. She started to milk the second cow with a calm relaxed look on her face.

Garfield smiled a little at the sight. "You know, I never thought I'd see the day where you'd be good at manual labor like this Rae." Garfield said.

Rachel shrugged. "Whatever Gar." She again said.

He wanted to get agitated like the pigs, but he instead chuckled to himself again. He had to admit that when Rachel got focused on a task, she didn't really say many words. His efforts to try and initiate a conversation between them while she was this focused didn't tend to last very long. He was about to shrug it off and go back to get another basket of reject apples.

'Wait... didn't she barely start on that one cow five minutes ago.' The thought made him stop.

Garfield turned back towards Rachel to peer more closely. He saw she was squeezing the udders wrong again. She couldn't seem to get that part down even after a couple weeks. Yet milk was still dropping into the bucket, just like every other time... He had shrugged it off before as easy cows, yet he couldn't shake that something felt off with the picture.

...

Then he finally saw it.

'Wait!'

Rachel's hands were squeezing inexperiencely on the cow's udders, but a stream of continuous milk was pouring down into the bucket even when she wasn't squeezing. It didn't look to be coming out of the udders. He examined it more closely, and then finally saw the small black portals where the milk was dripping from under the udders.

"Hey, that's cheating!" Garfield yelled.

Rachel didn't look up. "I don't know what you're talking about Gar." She said monotonously.

"How about the fact that you're using your powers indiscreetly to avoid doing manual labor dude!?" Garfield said while flailing his arms irritably.

"And why would you ever accuse me of such a thing?" She asked without an ounce of care in her voice.

Garfield's eyes bugged out. "Because you're, you're-" Garfield tried to find the words to say.

A small smirk finally appeared on Rachel's face. "I'm doing manual labor the way I know how to do it Gar. Now go on and continue to play with your little pink family." She said as she continued to *cough cough* 'milk' the cow.

Garfield's hands turned into fists at his sides. He looked angry in the way that a kid would be angry when he found out his friend had cheated off his test. 'Why you...' He was thinking immaturely.

Side note, it never turns out good when you think immaturely. Because the anger quickly disappeared and a mischievous grin appeared on his face as he thought of an idea.

"Alright, I'll play with the pigs. In fact, there's one pig I really want to play with." He said almost to himself in a mischievous tone.

If Rachel hadn't been so focused on what she was feeling at that moment, she probably would have heard the comment. Unfortunately though, she had been focusing too much on the cheers and ohhhs and burns from the peanut gallery in her mind at the awesome burn she had given her friend.

Garfield reached over the side of the fence where one of the pigs had just pooped into the mud. He then picked it up, grinned widely, and threw the mud/poo projectile through the air.

Splat!

...

The inside of Rachel's mind went quiet.

...

The emoticlones were staring up at the screen in shock. Rachel's hat fell down in front of her next to the cow.

"Mooooo..." Translation from Cow to English: "Now he's done it."

The cow wandered away over to the rest of the herd to avoid the potential nuclear zone.

...

"He did not just do what I think he did." Rude said in an almost amazed tone.

...

Rachel's hand felt the bag of her head with almost trembling fingers. They came back wet, muddy, and smelly. A glob of poo made it's way down the back of the shirt dress combo she was wearing...

...

Rude looked like she was holding back a laugh as they all realized it one by one.

"Impressive. I didn't think he'd have the guts to actually do that." Brave said in an impressed tone.

"It's probably because he knows she can't use her powers out in the open to kill him." Wisdom suggested.

"He will suffer the torture of a thousand hells for this!" Rage yelled.

Rude finally started to laugh. "This is amazing! Does anyone have a camera!? I want to capture the look on leader bitch's face right now!" Rude said mirthily.

"Quiet! I want to see how she handles this." Knowledge snapped.

The others stopped talking, and looked to the screen with curiosity. In the real world, Rachel slowly turned around to face the smirking Garfield. The back of her head was now brown and dripping mud (and other things) off of it. The look of almost held back anger and shock on her face was priceless.

Rude was right, somebody should have gotten a camera for this. "Hey pig, what ya gonna do about that?!" Garfield said almost too happily to her as he put his hands cockily on his hips.

He was enjoying this moment way too much...

After a moment, a pale look came over his features. Rachel was now looking at him with a rather evil smile on her face. She picked up the bucket she had been sitting on.

"What am I going to do about it?" She asked almost evilly.

Garfield felt a wave of dread fill him. 'Maybe I shouldn't have called her a pig.' He thought as he put his hands up. "Wait now dude, we're not supposed to use our powers out in the open-" Garfield started to say.

Whack!

The bucket slammed into Garfield's head before he could even react. It didn't hurt much, but it did stun him for a few seconds. "Whoa-"

Shove! Sploosh!

Then before Garfield could recover, Rachel pushed him over the fence into the mud.

Squee! Squee!

The pigs scrambled away from the scene to the other side of the pasture. Garfield's form had blended into the thick mud somewhere down below...

"Pbbttthhh!"

Garfield emerged like a volcano from the mud. He spewed mud and other nasty things out of his mouth. "Ahck! Ths tases lie cap dude!" Garfield spat out as he tried to wipe at his tongue. His mud covered hands only moved the foul tasting stuff, which probably had pig feces and urine mixed into it, around on his taste buds. He looked like he wanted to die while he gagged on the stuff.

It was all Rachel could do to not die of laughter at the scene. Her emoticlones, who didn't have that limitation, were dying of laughter inside her mind. Rachel put her still clean hand over her mouth, trying to hold it in.

"My, now you're as muddy as the rest of your pink family pig." Rachel said in a monotonous teasing tone that held just a fraction of the glee she was feeling.

'OHHHHHH!' The peanut gallery yelled in awe.

Garfield spat a few more times, and then he looked up at her. He should have looked ticked, but Rachel and her emoticlones were surprised to see that he had a mischievous grin on his face again.

"Well how about I invite the in-laws in then!" He yelled.

Before Rachel could react, Garfield shot up and reached over the fence. He grabbed her by the shoulders, and pulled her over with him.

"Ahhh-" Sploosh!

Rachel started to scream in surprise, before she was thrown under the mud with Garfield.

After a couple seconds of lying face down in the mud, Rachel finally managed to free her head. "Pbbtthhh!" She too spat out the horrible tasting mud from the depths of her mouth. Her muddy farmer's dress was now clinging to her body.

"Hahahahaha!"

A few feet away, Garfield was on his butt laughing at the sight of the normally calm and composed Rachel all shocked and covered in mud. "Oh my gosh, I wish I had a camera dude! This is priceless!" Garfield said happily as he continued to laugh.

'That's it! I want to kill him again!' Rage yelled angrily in Rachel's mind.

'Are you kidding me?! This is the best thing that's happened since the stankball tournament we played with him a month ago!' Happy said happily.

After a moment, Rachel was done spitting mud out of her mouth. She took a deep breath, and then looked over to Garfield. He was still laughing a little bit. 'If it's a war he wants.' She thought darkly.

'Then it's a war he'll get.' Knowledge finished for her in her mind.

"Well Gar, I guess I have nothing left to lose now." Rachel said blandly.

Garfield finally stopped laughing. "What do you mean by-" He started to slay.

Splat!

A wad of mud slammed into the side of his face. It almost went into his mouth again.

Rachel held another clump of mud, which was possibly a clump of pig poop, in her hand. She was smiling a little bit now. "Now that I can't possibly get any muddier, it's time we go to war." She said dryly.

Garfield looked at her in surprise, and then he smirked. He lifted his hands which were full of mud off the ground. "This is one war you're going to lose dudette." He said as he pulled back, and then threw.

Splat! Splat! Splut! Splat!

The inside of the pasture turned into somewhat of a small scale battlefield. Chunks of mud, pig feces, and the remains of rotten apples were thrown in a rapid fire spray all over the inside of the enclosure. No where was safe, and even innocent pigs like Charlotte and his spider friend were caught in the crossfire by their own wastes.

Garfield dove behind a pig that was asleep on the ground and used it as a barrier.

Splat! Splat! Splat!

Globs of mud turned the side of the pig brown faster than you could say the word "Splat." The pig continued to lazily sleep on despite the war going on in its home. Garfield poked his head back out from above it. "Hey, are you cheating again Rae-" He tried to yell.

Splut!

The next clump of mud splattered across the other side of his face. His blonde hair and white skin now looked dark from all the mud. With bits of golden hair poking out here and there. Rachel smirked as she held her mud filled hands up. "I'm not cheating this time Gar. I'm being fair this time." She said, before she continued with her surprisingly fast barrage.

"At least I know that you can play fair." He said as he returned her volley with one of his own.

Splat! Splat! Splut! Splut! Splat!

The two continued with the mud fight for a little while after that. Garfield was hit several more times, but Rachel didn't go unscathed either. Garfield was laughing in delight, while Rachel let out a small chuckle every now and then. Even though her hair was completely matted with mud and poop, she smelled of urine and rotting apples, and the mud was getting everywhere which would likely mean a long long shower. She just felt so free in that moment. Free from her past. Free from her heritage. Free from everything going in the world. It was like she was more free than she had ever felt before in her life.

Rachel felt something hard in the next clump she picked up, but chucked in in almost childlike glee at the still laughing Garfield.

Splat! Bonk! "OW! My eye!"

Garfield fell on his knees in the middle of the enclosure while clutching his hands over his right eye. The next clump of mud fell from Rachel's hand. A worried look came onto her face as she rushed over. ''Fetch! I should have realized there are rocks in the mud here!' She thought frantically in her mind. "I'm sorry Gar. Are you okay?" Rachel asked as she bent down next to him.

'I could have just blinded his eye with that!' Rachel thought worriedly and frantically as she tried to stay calm.

At first, Garfield didn't respond. He kept rubbing at his eye instead...

"Hehehehe..." And then he started to chuckle.

Rachel became confused. 'What-' She started to think.

Too late.

Bam! Sploosh!

Garfield tackled her. Rachel didn't even have time to react to the sudden change as Garfield's momentum carried them through the air into the mud next to the fence.

"Ha, got ya Rae!" Garfield said happily as he looked down at her with his still perfectly good eyes.

Rachel glared up at him. "Why you stupid little elf." She tried to move her arms as she spoke.

Garfield smirked as he adjusted with the reflexes of a tiger and pinned Rachel beneath him. "The stupid little elf that tricked ya!" He said happily.

She tried to squirm around with her legs, but the mud wasn't helping at all. Then Garfield moved his weight and squashed the rest of her body down into the mud. She was unable to move now.

Garfield started to chuckle above her as she tried frustratingly to escape. She struggled for a few seconds more, and then finally went limp.

"Ugh..." She groaned.

Garfield lowered his face closer to hers. "Sorry Rae, but it looks like I won the war." Garfield said with a dry tone interlaced with a tint of glee, just like how Rachel had spoken earlier.

Rachel looked tiredly up at Garfield and his beaming face. She knew all it would take was a little energy from her powers, and Garfield would be flying through the air five miles away. Or instead, he'd have the mud and other gunk baking off his skin in one of the seven pits of Outer Perdition where the souls of the damned burned for eternitiy...

Instead, she started to laugh a little, much to his surprise. "Okay, you win Gar. I surrender." Rachel said a little happily. Her voice sounded a little more relaxed, and more carefree in that moment.

Garfield was still staring down in surprise at how happy she was. He was speechless, just as he always was when Rachel expressed emotion like this.

After a few seconds, Rachel stopped laughing. She was looking up at him with a curious look on her mud covered face.

"What is it Gar?" She asked curiously.

Garfield didn't say anything. He was only looking down at her as if he was entranced.

'Master?' The Beast finally spoke curiously in his mind.

'She's... wow...' Garfield thought.

The Beast nodded approvingly in Garfield's mind. 'Indeed, our mate is stunning...'

...

'... Even when she's all covered in the earth and the wastes of other species.' The Beast added approvingly at the end.

Rachel stared curiously up at him. 'What's going through that mind of his now?' She thought to herself.

'Maybe he's amazed that you let yourself portray so much emotion?' Knowledge suggested.

'Or maybe he's just pulling our tails again!' Rage yelled.

'Come on. We all know you wanted him to win Rageypoo.' Happy said to her sister emoticlone.

Rage started to blush, unbeknownst to Raven. 'I did not!'

'It could be that BB doesn't know what to do now?' Wisdom suggested.

'Or maybe he's thinking on trying to kiss you or something?' Lust suggested behind her other sisters.

Rachel's face started to blush a little bit as that last thought came to mind. The mud on her face luckily disguised the blush. 'No way, he wouldn't do that!' She immediately thought.

The two stared into each other's eyes then. It was like an almost invisible connection had formed as the awkward silence thickened. Even the pigs were silently watching from the side, wondering what would happen. The spider that had been on Charlotte's back was finishing its touches on a heart shaped web that was on a fence post near the two.

'Would he?' Rachel thought.

...

'Maybe now would be a good time to mate with our mate master.' The Beast suggested.

That almost, almost snapped Garfield out of the awkward moment. 'Are you kidding me dude?! She'd maul me if I tried that!' He immediately thought.

...

'Or you could at least kiss her and see where things go from there?' The Beast suggested a little less brashly.

...

'... maybe she wouldn't maul me?' Garfield thought hopefully.

It was just a kiss. It didn't have to lead to anything. It could just settle the curiosity of trying it...

It was like time had slowed to a crawl...

...

...

... "Hmmmm."

A person hummed up above them. The two relationship awkward teenagers immediately looked up in surprise as the moment they had been in went flying right out the window. (Not sure if this analogy works while they're outside, but blowing in the breeze didn't sound as cool a phrase to use...)

An older looking lady in a weathered farmer's outfit was examining the scene below her. She had a knowing smile on her face. "I see you two are enjoying yourselves now that the work is done." She said kindly.

You would have sworn lightning struck nearby. Because words cannot describe just how quickly Garfield and Rachel bolted upright from the ground and separated from each other. "Oh my gosh!-" "-We're so sorry.-" "-It's not what it looks like-" "-We seriously didn't mean to-" "-make such a mess Marie. We were-" only having a little fun together dude!-" "-And we took things a little far-" The two were surprisingly finishing each others sentences in their rush to apologize to Marie.

After a moment of the spewing apologies, Marie started to chuckle. The two went quiet. "It's fine. Seeing you two in that mud fight actually brought back memories of me and my husband when we were young." Marie told them. Then her eyes took on almost a far sighted look. "When he was still alive that is..." She added almost quietly.

The two looked rather bashful now standing in the middle of a bunch of mud... which was also mixed with pig feces, urine, some of the uneated rotten apples, and who knows what other evil abominations that were slowly running down their now ruined clothes and skin and hair. I'm glad I wasn't standing by them, because I'd probably be wearing a nose clip to block out the stench.

It was probably... most likely... definitely good that their possible first kiss hadn't happened. It wouldn't have been the best story to share to possible future generations.

After a moment, Marie snapped out of her daydream and smiled gently at them. "It's been a long day, and you two must be tired. Go in and wash up. Dinner will be ready within an hour." Marie told them.

The two disguised heroes looked surprised at her kindness. Maybe they hadn't received much of that from people the last three months. Then Garfield smiled for the both of them.

"Alright, we can do that. Thanks dude." He said quickly, before he jumped the fence back over. He started to walk off towards the house.

"Um Gar, a little help?" Rachel sheepishly asked.

Garfield stopped, and turned around. Rachel, now looking even more bashful than before, couldn't seem to get over the tall fence by herself. "It's the mud with these darn clothes." Rachel said a little frustratingly. Her pioneer dress looked very weighed down. Weight that Rachel wasn't used to wearing.

Gar smiled and reached over the other side of the fence, grabbing Rachel's sides. "Whoa!" He grunted in surprise as he lifted. 'Remember to not make a comment about our mate's weight master. Not all species appreciates being called big.' The Beast said in his min.

After a couple seconds she was standing next to him outside the enclosure. He chuckled as a small chunk of mud (hopefully) fell off her bangs onto the ground. "Sorry about the hair." He said.

Rachel had a plain look on her face again. "I get the shower first." She said in her normal gravelly tone.

Garfield laughed, even though he had mud and turds and whatever else dripping off of him. "I think that would be a reasonable punishment for me." Garfield said lightheartedly.

They walked towards the small farmhouse in the distance with Marie following along behind them. A wide smile graced his face, and Rachel couldn't fight off the small smile that eventually came onto hers.

'That was fun.' Both of them thought at the same time.


Author's Note:

And there you have it! I originally had it planned to insert the next scene to this chapter. However, I thought this would be a good enough gift to you all. *bows to amazing audience of readers* I hope you enjoyed it. I know it doesn't really answer any questions. But hey, this was meant as a laidback chapter to show how the two were doing.

Remember to favorite and comment! Hopefully the next chapter will be soon! Depending on how long and how much time I have to catch up on my editing (which is also helping me to remember what I wrote before in the story).

Till Next Time

Allen