She Asked For The Moon
A/N: I am so immensely grateful for the response. I broke double-digit reviews! Whoohoo! So, to that milestone: Here's the last full stylistic chapter. Next chapter's going to be...unusually interesting...
Warnings: BBRae, RobStar, -major, major crack-, -major, major randomness-, defiance of the laws of biology and physics, and guilty of soon-to-be style changes. Oh, and a really strange ending line.
Disclaimer: It's, what, midnight here. DVD watching? Not tonight. I don't own anything else. Not even the comics. Or any figurines. Or anything else, really. (Only thing I own in this story is the really strange plotline, and the major twist at the end of this plot - which I won't give away, but I promise you will not see it coming. You'll probably also think I'm mad, but it is crack, after all.)
Now, read. Enjoy the last strange twist-crack-free chapter.
Beast Boy screamed through the air, heading up from S.T.A.R. Labs. It's complex was first large, then grew smaller, and smaller, and finally it was just a toy building like the rest of the urban areas around it - and finally, it was invisible as the green rocket-propelled blur two-handedly punched through the clouds.
About halfway up, through the atmosphere, Beast Boy forgot how scary it was (and how it was peeling his mouth back) and started making crazy faces in the air. Once, he changed into a snake, opened his mouth and sucked the air in, curling an eye back to witness his whole body acting like a balloon windsock. He changed back to human and gasped. The air friction was rubbing against even his decidedly smooth spandex, and his face was burning and sore - much like after Raven 'spilt' her cup of tea on his face, and it was getting more and more like he was a flame per minute. He wondered if this was how Hotspot felt like, all the time. He couldn't even imagine the pain...
He changed into a giant sloth - he figured the thick skin would prevent the burns on his face.
Beast Boy didn't count on the massive decceleration that becoming a much bigger form would do to him.
It felt like hitting a brick wall.
BB was unconscious until he could see stars ahead of him, stars that were not moving around his head, and he quite suspected he was about to hit space.
Boy, was he right.
He wasn't prepared for this. He could never have been. As soon as he hit space, he noticed he was trying to take a breath, and...couldn't. Changing back to human to think, he rubbed his neck and turned the boosters on his back off accidentally, a good thing because he'd still been constantly accelerating at a high speed towards the pure deep blackness of space.
There were colours flashing in front of his eyes - first orange, then green, then purple - the deep purple of Rae's eyes glinting in anger when he'd annoyed her again and then orange, then green, then...
"Dude!" he cried and gasped, except nothing came out because he was totally in space, "I just got it!" Man, he was so brilliant sometimes...
Starfire had been able to fly to different planets when she was really out at herself, so that meant Tamaranians didn't need special technostuff to breathe in space. So he'd just change into Starfire, and then...
Beast Boy really didn't know how to change into Starfire. She wasn't an animal, he didn't think of her that way, but he guessed somebody did, and he really had to change his mind off this topic because it was just disgusting, and who knew how far Rae's think-sensing range was, anyway?
He still couldn't breathe, and his life was flashing before his eyes - all the pain and sorrow and "Go fetch, doggy," and...
And...
Go fetch, doggy.
Doggy. Tamaranian. Doggy Tamaranian. Tamaranian Doggy. T.D. D.T. D.D. T.T. T.T. totally stood for Teen Titans, and D.D. was something he should never think about if he wanted to live peacefully with a female empath that he really loved due to 'waves of pulsating teenage hormones', and what was he trying to think about in the first place?
Oh yeah, breathe, breathe.
He changed.
A green dog reminiscent of Soto's dog sprawled in the depths of space, a gray rope tied fairly loosely around its waist, kept in place by the weightless mass of metal tightly strapped to the dog's back. It opened its eyes, glowing a bright green, and sniffed, taking in a deep draught of breath. He'd absorbed enough solar energy, that was good. Now all he had to do was find the moon.
...Then...
He never knew how long he spent in space, growing a little bit maturer. But he could just catch a glimpse of the moon beyond the fair shoulder of her sister Earth, which was plenty beautiful enough for him, because it represented his life, but the moon represented Rae, and he was so...wishing that Rae would like him, so that meant...Beast Boy pawed at the rope hanging limp under his belly.
He missed.
All BB ended up doing was flipping in a totally random direction, and by the time he got used to the fact that any tiny movement of his sent him into a flipping frenzy, he was more than halfway to the moon.
Whoa. Totally, moon. All moon. All he could see was moon. Okay, so that meant there was no way he was gonna be able to tie the rope around the moon and drag it closer to the ground. He'd forgotten to bring enough rope!
...Oh. He stared down at the moon and let the slight down-pulling thing drag him down. His head landed with a tuff of moondust as he crashed head-first into the moon, chin sliding a little before the rest of him came down.
The moon glowed with an unearthly light as he looked around. Okay, if he couldn't tie the rope around the moon, then he'd have to settle for -
His T-Comm vibrated on his front right paw. Shaking his paw in a blur of bewilderment, Beast Boy nuzzled the T-Com open.
"Rowr?"
"Friend Beast Boy, are you there?" Starfire, wearing a very short, fluorescent, pink tube top looked at him through the communicator, glowing green eyes meeting glowing green eyes.
"Row!"
"Oh, how adorable! ...Beast Boy, you must come home as soon as you can. Raven has been trying to cause pain to Robin and I am finding it difficult to keep them apart!" She seemed almost in tears.
"Ruff?"
"I am running out of time, but I will speak to you again! Come home soon, please!" From behind her, Robin crawled, brutally bruised and cut. His uniform looked tattered and torn, and he grasped onto Starfire as if he would never let go.
"Star, please, please, save me from Raven!"
"DON'T THINK I'M GOING TO LET YOU GET AWAY!"
Two shadow tendrils rushed up from the ground and grasped hold of Robin's leg, and despite how hard he was holding onto Star, his fingers slipped from his grasp and he was dragged through the floor.
Beast Boy simply watched in horror.
"Come back, please! Beast Boy, Raven seems to have missed you. She is currently taking it out on the rest of the team and any villains who break themselves out of jail. ...I must go now, please come home soon, I am running out of tactics to keep Robin away from the places that Raven can find him - Raven, please play nice and give Robin back-" Star turned off the T-Comm.
"Rowr?!"
Did Raven need help? Maybe he should go back home, go back to where she could jump over him and be less stressed and maybe hit him over the head for worrying her-
No. No thinky about Rae. Bad moon-fetching doggy.