"Oh oh!" Beast Boy popped out of nowhere and waved his hands wildly. "Me, I wanna play. What game?"
"Oh, I dunno, I was thinking maybe my new limited edition of Zombie Planet IV," Cyborg announced with a wicked grin as he pulled the game from behind his back.
"Dude!" Beast Boy squeaked loudly as he stared wide eyed at the game. "Dude! I mean… dude!"
"Yeah, it is pretty sweet, isn't it?" Cyborg asked with a smile. "I waited all morning to get this baby."
"So…" Beast Boy said slowly, looking around and finally putting his hands together in a begging gesture. "Can we play?"
"Oh you bet," Cyborg assured his friend. "Let's kill some undead butt!"
Raven looked up from her meditation corner across the room. "If it's undead then how can you kill it?"
Cyborg and Beast Boy exchanged glances and grinned at each other. "With really big guns," they said together.
Raven rolled her eyes then closed them again, preferring the solitude of her mind to the idiocy of the real world.
Cyborg put the game CD into the consul and picked up the second controller. Beast Boy appeared on the couch in a flash holding the first controller and grinning broadly. "Ready?" he asked as he bounced up and down.
Cyborg gave him the thumbs up and sat down next to his green friend on the couch. "Let's kick some Zombie butt."
Robin and Starfire smiled at each other as they heard the two friends obliterate zombies in the game. "What are we looking for?" Starfire asked.
"We're looking for anything about the Irken race and empire," Robin said softly as he tapped away at the keyboard. "I want to know why Zim is here and if there is any possible threat beyond him."
Starfire smiled and put her hand on Robin's shoulder gently. "Well, our friends are engaging in the wonderful activity of the game on video so perhaps we could at least eat breakfast before we work?"
Robin turned to look at Starfire and sighed. "Star…"
"I heard that it is a very important meal," she said softly.
Robin's lips twitched upwards in a smile before he nodded. "All right, but I get to cook."
Starfire jumped into the air happily and floated after Robin as they went to the kitchen.
Cyborg laughed and leaned in to Beast Boy as they continued to game. "You know he had breakfast earlier today."
Beast Boy started to giggle too right before Cyborg took Beast Boy's kill. "Hey!" Beast Boy protested loudly as Cyborg laughed. "That's not fair!"
Danny looked around the field and waved his hand. "Is it clear?" he called.
Tucker gave him a thumbs up from his end of the field and not long after he heard Sam's voice telling him that her end was okay as well.
Danny grinned and sunk into what he believed to be a cool fighting pose. "Going ghost!" he yelled and closed his eyes as he let the cool, ethereal energy wash over him. When he opened his eyes to look around he saw Sam and Tucker running over to him with their equipment at the ready. "What's that?" Danny asked, pointing at a rectangular device in Tucker's hands.
"Radar gun," Tucker said suavely as he held it up against his shoulder. "It's a different one then what we use in your parent's basement though. This baby can read down to the thousandth to show how fast you are."
"Coooool," Danny cooed, looking at the device with new respect.
Sam rolled her eyes. "Danny, it's a radar gun. Who cares if you can go 179.2463 miles per hour? All that means is that you can go about 179 miles per hour."
Danny and Tucker chose to ignore her as Tucker showed Danny the night light feature of the radar gun.
Sam crossed her arms. "Umm, hello? It's broad daylight. Who cares if it can glow?"
"Well, it's cool," Tucker offered. "And it could come in handy, you never know."
Danny nodded. "Yeah, you're the one always telling us to be prepared, Sam. Tucker is just a little more prepared is all."
"Tucker just wants whatever new toy is on the market," Sam said pointedly. "And you know it."
Tucker shrugged. "Hey, toys are toys, and this toy can tell us how fast Danny is flying PLUS offer comfort on dark and stormy nights. Not that I… need it or anything," he added quickly.
Danny and Sam shared quick smiles. Tucker cleared his throat and held out the radar gun. "Okay, Danny, let's see how much faster you've gotten."
Danny jumped into the air and hovered above his friends for a few seconds before flying off in the opposite direction. When he felt that he had a good distance, he arced around and began flying as fast as he could past the radar gun that Tucker had held out in front of him. Tucker and Sam shut their eyes against the wind that Danny created as he whizzed past them, meanwhile Danny was trying to apply his non existent breaks in mid air.
"Well?" he asked as he floated back over.
Tucker opened an eye and glanced down at the reading. He grinned and gave Danny a thumbs up. "193.423 miles per hour, new record."
"All right!" Danny cheered and shared a high five with Tucker.
Sam grinned and pulled some small balloons out of her backpack as the boys celebrated. Danny and Tucker turned to see what she was doing as she held it out flat in her palm and tossed it in the air. "All right, hot shot, I have a new little training program for you since you seem to be doing so well."
Danny smacked a fist into his open palm and grinned cockily. "Yeah? Bring it on, I can take anything."
Sam grinned sweetly and tossed the purple, palm sized balloon in the air and caught it lazily. "Okay, here's the deal. None of the enemies you have just stand there and take hits. Nor do they just run around. Your enemies will fight back and get you if you're not careful. So, I thought up this little trick to see if you can attack and not get hit. The goal is to blast these balloons which I filled with purple dyed water and not get hit with the colored water. The more water you get on you the worse you're doing, the better you are at dodging and blocking the less messy you'll get. Understand?"
Danny nodded and sat cross-legged in mid air as Sam dumped the rest of the balloons out of her backpack. "Yeah, that's actually a really good idea."
"Thanks," Sam said as she beamed. "I thought of it during home economics class. I thought 'wouldn't it be nice to be able to throw a water balloon at the perfect Mrs. Riles and get that perfect dress soaked."
"You really don't like that class, do you Sam?" Tucker asked his friend warily.
"Hey, not everyone is going to grow up to be little miss perfect house wife," Sam told Tucker tersely. "And I wish she'd realize that."
Danny shrugged. "Well, the idea is cool, at least. And it should help."
Sam pushed some water balloons into Tucker's arms and held one up. "Ready Danny? I'm not going to go easy on you!"
"Come on then," Danny teased as he watched Sam and Tucker prepare to throw the balloons at him.
Danny took in a deep breath right before Sam threw hers aiming for his head. He flipped around and shot it with a small blast and scooted out of the way before the water could get on him. He grinned and turned to his friends. "Hey this is eas…" he began before he was cut off by Tucker's balloon hitting him in the face. "Hey!"
"What was that?" Sam asked while Tucker cackled next to her.
Danny shook the colored water from his eyes and let his hands glow green. "Don't think that will happen again!" he told his friends.
Sam and Tucker lobbed more balloons at Danny in reply and watched as their friend tried to hit them without getting the water all over himself. Then, they threw more at him before he was done dodging, earning them a surprised yelp from their friend.
"Hey!" Danny protested as he got purple water all over himself.
"Your enemies aren't going to be nice and stop shooting," Sam yelled back. "You know that! Now come on, the better you can dodge the fewer bruises you have to hide from your mom."
Danny laughed and brought up his energy blasts again. "Point taken, come on!"
Sam threw another balloon and watched as Danny arced over it and shot downwards at the small projectile. Then he turned around and hit Tucker's balloon before it reached him. She grinned as she lobbed another one at his head and watched while he shot it from below and flew from underneath it in time to fly over Tucker's balloon and hit it as well.
"Getting better," she called.
Danny waved cheekily and she laughed as she threw another balloon at her friend.
Danny backed up and shot it as well, right before he got beamed on the side of the head by Tucker.
Tucker laughed and waved at Danny as the unhappy teen shook purple water from his hair. "Aww Tucker."
"Hey, it's training, dude. Training means you take a few hits and keep on coming," Tucker called up to him.
Sam threw the remainder of her balloons which Danny flew around and blasted quite easily. Tucker threw his as well and in the spirit of 'training' Danny caught them all and began to pelt Tucker with them.
Sam laughed until her sides hurt as Danny chased Tucker around the open field throwing water balloons at him despite the apologies and protests.
"Come on, I was kidding! I'm sorry," Tucker yelled as he ducked his head down.
"You need to train too," Danny replied while laughing. "Maybe you'll get a better grade in PE."
"Danny, come on!" Tucker whined and when he no longer felt the wetness on his back he slowed to a stop and turned around. "Heh, ran out of balloons?" he asked.
Danny floated down to land in front of Tucker. Tucker smiled at his drenched friend and held out his hand. "Truce?"
Danny brought his hand down on Tucker's head and watched as the purple water ran down his face. He smiled cheerfully and nodded. "Truce."
Sam burst out into a new wave of laughter as Tucker glared at Danny. "Come on, I love this hat."
Danny shrugged while still laughing. "At least your hair isn't white."
Tucker mulled this over and began to laugh as well. "True," he said.
"Now," both boys said together as they turned and lobbed their remaining balloons at Sam. "Run!" they yelled and Danny picked up Tucker. They flew away from Sam as fast as they could while laughing and congratulating one another on their awesome prank, hoping that Sam wouldn't catch them before they managed to get home.
Yay! Pointless filler for the Titans and... semi pointless filler for Danny, Sam and Tucker. Hope you enjoyed, there's a bit more of this before I carry on with the plot.
Hugs and cookies to my reviewers. See you next chapter.