Day 1 Friday, August 23rd
Airbags are safety mechanisms.
They are built to protect you.
Therefore, they are not supposed to suffocate you.
But in Beast Boy's case, it was different….
The poor changeling had woken up to find himself pinned helplessly against his seat and was struggling to escape. He had thought it hilarious at first, that is, until he had figured out that he couldn't move. Beast Boy then shrieked and morphed into a mouse, and crawled from his dilemma.
Then fell five feet to the ground.
He looked up from the flat of his back in a daze.
"Ouch."
A loud creaking sounded and Beast Boy saw the T-Ship slip half a foot in the tree it was caught in.
He yelped and tried to avoid being crushed by scuttling backwards, but little known to him a large drop lay behind him and Beast Boy soon found himself tumbling down the steep incline.
When he finally rolled to a stop, he moaned, feeling nauseous. Definitely not going on a roller coaster again in my life, ever. He decided.
With a sigh he grabbed at the ground and shifted the grainy substance in his hand, Hmm… His eyebrows rose. Sand? I must be in a desert… But, why?
Beast Boy rolled onto his side and looked along the horizon expecting to see the ordinary sand dunes native to deserts but instead did a double take. He squinted in disbelief. Okay, I must have hit my head pretty hard– why would there be a clown passed out on the ground in the middle of a desert?
He tilted his head hoping to get a better view, but just got sand in his hair. Finally, he came to a conclusion; It's gotta be a clown, too colorful to be anything else; red, green, yellow… Beast Boy frowned, –wait a tick,
"Robin!"
The whole crash with the T-Ship suddenly came rushing back to him like a smack in the face; the failing communicators, the winds, storm clouds, everything.
Beast Boy jumped to his feet and rushed over to the titan sprawled across the ground. He lightly nudged him in the shoulder. "Robin?" He asked, and after getting no response, Beast Boy began to panic.
The first thought that came to mind was, Oh man…. he's dead.
But then, Beast Boy began to think rationally. He MIGHT dead, might being the key word here, but: I have to try and wake him up anyway.
Now, when a person is in the state of unconsciousness, usually it is rude, and perhaps even dangerous, to wake them up using your 'outside' voice. He had learned this lesson from Raven on one of her 'happy' mornings and it had just, well, stuck. So, when he was attempting to revive the boy wonder, Beast Boy took his precautions.
He took a deep breath, cracked his knuckles, and then kneeled down next to him and whispered,
"Robin."
Nothing.
Beast Boy put his mouth up close (meaning uncomfortably close) to Robin's ear and tried again, "Robin."
No response… hmm. Louder?
"Uh, Robin?"
Okay. Beast Boy sat up. He must be dead.
"Robin, wake up, now."
He gave him a slight poke, and received; nothing.
"Robin, I truly hate you." He muttered, only realizing afterwards that Robin couldn't hear him.
Beast Boy scowled. You've given me no choice, my friend… He leaned in right next to the unresponsive titan and yelled straight in his ear, "ROBIN! WAKE UP!"
Robin let out a shriek sounding somewhere between a grunt and scream, sort of a gurgling sound, and scrunched up his face. Little known to Beast Boy, his scream had echoed around in Robin's head as if someone had pounded it with a hammer.
"Oh god…" Robin moaned, stuck in the fetal position and clutching his head.
Beast Boy face was frozen in horror. "Oh, geez, Rae told me. She told me! I should've just… Sorry."
Robin grunted and struggled to sit up. Everything was so fuzzy, it was hard to focus on anything without feeling throbbing pain in his skull. "Ugh… I feel woozy…"
"It's all my -" Beast Boy began, but then Robin suddenly turned his head and the changeling got a full glimpse of the gash in the side of the boy wonder's temple.
Beast Boy gasped. "Dude… I know why you feel woozy. You have a huge cut in the side of your head!" Beast Boy reached out to touch it, but drew back. "It looks really bad, man."
"Really?" Robin asked in disbelief and reached up to feel the side of his head. He felt a sting of pain wash through his temple and he dropped his hand with a yelp.
Beast Boy paled, feeling sick. "Told you…"
Robin looked down at his fingers of his glove now coated in blood and sand. "Ugh." He managed to say before falling backwards from his sitting position into the sand.
"Woah, Robin! Are you okay?" Beast Boy asked, scrambling over to him.
Robin winced. "Yeah, I think…" His vision swam with spots. "My head just really hurts."
"Well no duh, there's a huge hole in your head loaded with sand and crap!" Beast Boy exclaimed.
"What?" Robin raised his hands protectively around his skull. "A hole?"
Beast Boy rubbed his neck. "Well- not really a hole… I was kinda exaggerating about that part. But it does look pretty nasty."
Robin sighed. "As long as there's not a hole in my head," he said and rubbed the sand of his gloves. Wow… wait –sand? He suddenly jumped to his feet, remembering. "Oh my god… the T-Ship, Cy, Raven! I've got to…" Robin swayed, struggling to stay standing.
Beast Boy jumped to steady him. "Hey! Take it easy you're wounded! Just take a break on the 'I'm-leader-and-have-to-do-everything' thingy for a sec."
Robin frowned. "But-"
Beast Boy cut him off and said with malice, "I will personally neuter you with my bare hands if you try anything stupid, boy blunder." He then gave him a piercing stare.
Robin gave him a look. "What the -? Please tell me you aren't serious."
Beast Boy shrugged. "Just trying out my Raven impression…"
They looked at each other.
"Oh man, –Raven!"
"We have to find her, she might be hurt." Robin said, looking determined. With his set jaw and proud stance he would've looked just like he did before he round-housed kicked Dr. Light in the face during a weekly robbery at the bank. That is, if he didn't have a chunk of his face missing. But Beast Boy believed him well enough.
The changeling nodded and then added, "Then again, she couldn't be in any worse shape than you though, right? I mean, look at you; you look like crap."
Pause.
"….No offense."
"Thanks, Beast Boy."
"No problem…"
X
Raven cracked open her eyes.
"Ugh."
She was so sore; had she been lying here for days? Wait… where was here?
Raven glanced about the lush forest surrounding her. She frowned, puzzled. Wasn't I just in my room reading a nice thick volume by… No; the rescue mission. But if I'm here, then where is Robin? Where's Beast Boy?
She rose to her feet and stretched her arms.
"Robin!" She called. "Beast Boy!"
God. It seemed like she was all alone out here. For my sake, I hope not… Raven began again, walking forward, carelessly kicking aside a plant root as she did so.
"Rob— " She broke off with a scream and something wrapped around her ankle and her yanked upwards.
She twisted, trying to get out squirm herself out. While trying her escape maneuvers she got a glimpse of what was holding onto her ankle: a vine.
Did someone set a trap? No. That wouldn't explain why the vine continued to wrap itself tighter around her leg. Though she was now hanging upside down, maybe all the blood rushing to her head was making her imagine things.
Raven shook her head, this wasn't happening. She would just cut the vine and pretend it didn't happen. There, problem solved.
"Azarath Metrion Zin . . ." She trailed off, losing concentration. She had felt a sharp prick in her ankle and then everything went… weird.
She suddenly smiled, beginning to feel numb. Why was everything so fuzzy looking?
As Raven let her eyes slip closed, she couldn't help but wonder: Was that plant… alive?
X
"Robin?"
He pressed on the communicator button again. "Robin, do you read?" All he got was static.
A hand was placed on his shoulder. Starfire. "Cyborg?" She asked.
Cyborg let out a deep breath and set the communicator down. "I don't know Star, I just don't know. It's like they've completely disappeared…"
XxX
A/N: It's been… awhile. Hope it's okay.
BB having a bit of a rough morning in the beginning, Robin seems to have a concussion, Raven… hmm what happened to her? Oh yeah, and two people passing out in the span of two chapters? Yikes, shame on me… Don't forget a bit of a cliffy at the end there. :P
All in all, kinda lame, I don't think it was that funny either. Been having a hard time writing these days, but, I'll move on…
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KTrevo: Haha, I get the hint. It'll probably turn out Rob/Rae in the end anyway, but I'm not making any promises. But this isn't a romance-based fic, more of adventure, I guess. Thanks for reviewing!
PolarPurple: Yeah? I lean more to Rob/Rae, but BB/Rae is good too. I want to incorporate both, but we'll see how it turns out. Raven is alone with the two of them for quite awhile so how can something not happen?
crazynerd: You'll find out soon enough, glad you like it so far! (:
T (?): Thanks for the suggestion, I will add at least some BB/Rae in this. Here's your update. (:
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Michele Provencher: Thanks for the criticism. It is only the prologue though, so I didn't think it'd matter much, I was just trying to build a start for me to work from. But thanks for the comment anyway, I'll keep it in mind. And the titans aren't flying separately. They are all in the T-Ship but there are separate sections where the titans sit, as far as I remember. No one would let BB fly a plane. And yes I do appreciate you flaming my other fics, no matter how much an amateur writer I am, I will try to be as good as the stuff you find in bookstores. Okay? By the way, a lot of the stuff you said is neither constructive or even plan nice. So thanks anyway…
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So, sorry for the long wait, I'll try and update my other stuff soon, I hope that the chapter was decent. I didn't edit it very well. I'm only one person! Anyway, thanks to anyone who reviewed, or even read, favourited, alerted, whatever. Thank you. (:
And anyone reading and/or hoping for an update for the fic, Living a Nightmare. Well… you aren't getting one! I'm replacing it –eventually- with a rewritten version, so don't die on me… Don't wanna be charged with manslaughter... But it will (most likely) have a rewritten first chapter before I do anything else…. Maybe.
See ya next update.
