Teen Titans – Video Games Are Fun!
3. Chapter 2: Into the Temple
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TDG3RD – Sweet! A repeat reviewer! Okay, I liked what I did too! Well… technically, I liked what my fingers did with this chapter! If I were actually the one in charge of that chapter, something stupid would've happened… like a random scene of stupidity, where Raven hides in a closet and BB wears big shoes! Oh, as for the lemon. I think I should just end this pole. I don't think that I'm even really gonna listen to the outcomes. But, I thought I'd have some communication with my reviewers. But, I think I've changed my mind about the lemon. I'm either gonna make it happen at the end… or a particular point that I'm not gonna reveal… for quite some time. But, if anybody and I mean anybody can think of a particularly interesting location for it, I just might put some thought into it! Oh shit! I'm rambling! Well, bye!
Rave-Widow – I can see some pretty cool stuff happening to them while stuck in a game… or something. I honestly believe that Beast Boy has some hidden issues, especially with all that Raven's done to him. I mean, she's just been so mean to him. But, you'll notice that he seems to be back to his somewhat normal self in this chapter. But, that has nothing to do with a short attention span. It's just that something ferschizzeliscious has happened. You can ask what ferschizzeliscious means in your next review if you want. I love this back and forth thing we've got going on! Now, the definition of smoofy, just for you
Smoofy – being in the state of, or indulging in the emotion of smoofiness.
Okay, now on to the story!
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Raven's POV
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I dropped to my knees with his limp form in my arms. I stared down at his half lidded eyes and blank… almost dead expression. It filled me with a terror that I had never felt before. All I wanted to do was stay right there and wait until he awoke and was himself once again. But, those creatures were almost seeming to be regenerating, so I ran around until I found myself looking directly at a massive stone temple.
I knew that my demonic heritage had no effect on whether or not I could enter a church. But, still I hesitated… as if I knew that I wasn't welcome. But, the demons were drawing nearer, so without a second thought, I ran through the open door.
The first thing I saw upon entering was a massive plaque on the far wall of three glowing triangles formed so that there was an empty space shaped like an upside-down triangle. I quickly laid Beast Boy on a platform with the same symbol on it. I then knew that I had to meditate, for my emotions were trying to get the better of me. So, with that decided, I crossed my legs in the lotus position and began to chant my mantra "Azarath Metrion Zynthos."
In Raven's Head
Happy: (in a taunting voice) You like Beast Boy!
Raven: Shut up.
Happy: No! (chuckles)
Trigger-happy: Hey, thanks for lettin' me out there with the zombie things.
Raven: When'd you appear?
Trigger-happy: When you started playing video games.
Timid: She scares me…
Rude: Everything scares you. (belches)
Raven: I can't believe you're a part of me.
Lust: Hey, quit distracting her from the point at hand! She likes BB!
Raven: Since when was that the point? Wait! I don't like…
Lust: Yes you do! If you didn't, then why would Love be back?
Raven: Wait. Love's back?
Love: Hi.
(Timid screams from the surprise.)
(Happy giggles in response to this.)
Raven: What are you doing back?
Love: Well, duh! You love somebody again.
Raven: Not possible.
Lust: Oh, just quit denying it and fuck the little hottie! Come on! Me so hooorny!
Raven: Mmm, hmmm…
Love: Even Rage likes him.
Raven: What?
Love: You heard me.
Raven: No…
Psychotic: I'm gonna sing the Doom Song now! (proceeds to do just that)
Raven: Once again. How are you part of me?
Happy: OOH! I love this song! (joins in)
Raven: Everybody just shut…!
(Psychotic interrupts by putting hand up in a gesture of demanded silence as to finish song.)
(Happy and Psychotic finish song.)
Raven: So, hypothetically speaking, if I were to lo-like Beast Boy…
Depression: It wouldn't matter. He doesn't love us back! (cuts wrists)
Timid: I agree with Depression…
Depression: No you don't! You hate me! (hangs herself)
Rude: How many times are you gonna try and hang yourself? You're an emotion. You can't die!
Depression: You're so hurtful! (cuts own wrists again) Just make it end! (proceeds to bash head against a wall in hopes that she'll at least go unconscious)
Raven: Why do I even talk to you? You all suck.
Depression: She hates me! (lights self on fire, cuts self repeatedly, while still bashing head against the wall, with a noose around her neck from another failed suicide attempt)
Raven: Stop it! We must return to the TRUE purpose at hand. Where have my powers brought Beast Boy and myself?
Logic: Isn't it obvious? Oh! I forgot. You don't know a thing about video games… but you should at least know about alternate dimensions.
Raven: Of course! We're not in Beast Boy's stupid little game. We're in the dimension that it was based off of. I guess that this just proves the theory that certain individuals can tap into the goings on of another dimension and just see it as a burst of inspiration.
Logic: Well, guh! You ever doubted it?
Raven: Ummm…
Logic: I can't believe that I'm the intelligence of such a dumbass!
Raven: Hey, if I'm dumb, that just means that you haven't been doing your job.
Logic: Oh… yeah… hehe… (fades back into own realm)
Raven: Well, I should go check on Beast Boy…
Happy: Byyyyyyyeeeeeee!
Back in the Temple
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BB's POV
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Flashback 1
"Oh, friend Beast Boy! I'm so sorry! The sound created by the vacuum of sucking devouring your blanket of warmness resembled the war cry of the vicious Florghnofl!" shouted Starfire as she pried the door off my body in terror for my safety.
"It's okay Star, I guess I wouldn't want to be one of those Fl-fl-florgh… things" I replied still not used to the letter combinations used on Starfire's home planet.
Flashback 2
"Okay, you're WAY creepy" I said trying to calm her down by simply letting her have her own way. "You think you're alone, but you're not."
I began to walk away but stopped when the door opened and I was enveloped in a tight embrace. I don't know why, but this shocked me and caused me to jump back in surprise. I could tell that this had disappointed her, so I was going to return the embrace when a stankball smacked against my head, causing me to fly a couple feet away.
Flashback 3
"But, she's gone! What am I supposed to do?" I shouted through the door between sobs.
"Beast Boy, we'll find a way to reverse the effect. But, until then, you can't just hide from the rest of the world. Its really boring out here without ya' buddy."
Because of those words, I finally realized how selfish I had been being. I hadn't been the only one who cared. I had cared the most. But, I can't let this destroy me. I'm needed and can't betray my friends. After all, my usefulness arises so rarely.
Flashback 4
"It's not the presence of that thing that makes you an animal" she began in an unusually calming voice. "It's knowing when to let it out that makes you a man."
"Then… maybe you should start calling me… Beast… Man?" I replied doing one of my stupid mock-buff poses.
"We're having a moment. Don't ruin it" she replied with the shadow of a smile flashing across her face before disappearing completely.
End Flashbacks
I tried to open my eyes, but the light was far too bright for that. I decided to lay there with my eyes closed as to allow them to partially adjust through the lids. After awhile, I began to hear a familiar and soothing sound. It was the sound of Raven chanting her mantra, in her ever calm, soothing voice.
I was finally able to open my eyes and turned to face the gothic beauty. It was at that exact moment that her eyes opened slowly. When she saw me, she landed and ran to my side. She actually ran… when the world wasn't about to end… or was it?
"Are we all gonna die?" I asked slightly unnerved by the worried expression on Raven's normally calm and reserved face.
"No. I was just worried about you" she began, but quickly continued with "I am unfamiliar with the creatures of this world. You know far more about this place and I will probably need you to survive."
"So, you're admitting that I was right?" I asked with a rye smile spreading across my face.
"No. We were both wrong. We're not in your game. But, we ARE in the dimension that it was based off of."
"Good enough… DUDE!" I suddenly realized exactly where we were. We were in the Temple of Time from the Zelda… world… thingy. I leapt to my feet and ran toward the open doors toward where the game's resident relic was supposed to be kept, but when I saw what was there, I nearly fainted from the shock. I was able to call out to Raven, but just barely.
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Raven's POV
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He suddenly dashed off. I assumed that he had recognized his surroundings from the game. It probably would be pretty intriguing to see a place in a video game and then find yourself in it… especially such a beautiful and haunting structure as this one. He dashed through the door in the distance and faded from my view. I was still feeling slightly protective of him so I began to follow after him.
At first I went at a leisurely pace, almost a stroll. But, I began to run when I heard Beast Boy shout my name with panic evident in his tone.
I ran quickly through the gap in the wall and stopped by his side. I was just about to ask what was wrong when I saw the answer for myself. That boy… the one with the tunic… was laying on the floor, in a puddle of his own dried blood, with a sword pierced through his chest. We just stared for the longest time.
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Cyborg's POV
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"Hey BB, we're home!" I shouted as I entered the common room expecting to see the grass stain playing some game. I turned to ask Raven, who usually read in the common room when some of us were out, but she was nowhere to be found either.
I shrugged and flopped myself down onto the couch and let out a groan of pain when I felt a plastic object narrowly avoid entering a place from which objects should only come out of. I moved over and pulled the GameStation out from under myself and placed it next to me. It was at that point that I noticed that another controller was out.
I was beginning to freak out a little. The only two possibilities for two controllers to be out were if two people were playing, and the only ones who had been home were BB and… Raven…, or BB had forgotten to hide the evidence of a terrifying fetish involving GameStation controllers. I figured that the later was far more likely and proceed to move myself as far from the controllers as possible. Then, the worst discovery of all was… discovered. Where the GameStation should have been, was now a pile of melted plastic , circuitry and… goo.
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Starfire's POV
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I heard the sound of friend Cyborg's high pitched scream of infantile horror. I quickly flew into the common room to see if I could be of any assistance in comforting him in his state of immense distress.
"Friend Cyborg?" I began in hopes that he could respond and was therefore remaining in a state of consciousness. But, there was no reply. "Are you unharmed?"
"The little grass stain melted the GameStation!"
"Who is this 'Grass Stain'?" I was not sure who friend Cyborg was speaking about but had a distinct memory of the name being used multiple instances in the past… never in positive instances…
"What's the color of grass?" asked Cyborg, putting an unusually immense force to hold back his obvious anger.
"Green?" I replied, still not certain of his meaning.
"And… who do you know who's that color?"
"Friend Beas-OH!" I cried suddenly understanding the nickname of hate. "He has melted the Station of Games? I was unaware of him having power over flames."
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Cyborg's POV
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She was right. BB can hardly light a match without burning himself. But, that only leaves one possibility. He pissed Raven off. I wonder what she did to him…
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BB's POV
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And suddenly, everything made sense… well… sort of. The hero of this world had died. So, it was up to Raven and myself to take up where he had left off. I was finally beginning to calm down as I found that there was some sort of rhyme and reason to the seemingly random chaos. But, of course, something random had to happen to freak us out all over again.
Someone who I was only too familiar with cralled over to me, hardly able to move. I just stared for the longest time, but it eventually struck home that he… she… whatever… was badly injured. "Raven!"
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Raven's POV
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He called my name, interrupting me from yet another shocking event. Far too many things have happened in far too little time. I was beginning to become upset. First, some evil… thing… tried to eat Beast Boy. Second, whatever had tried to eat him, released hatred and… sadness… that I hadn't realized Beast Boy even held within himself. Third, there was a man laying before us, killed by his own weapon. And now, another man was in horrid condition. It was all too much. But, I must remain strong and focused.
"I know" I said in response to Beast Boy's panicked cry. I approached the man who flinched… or would have if he hadn't been in such a weakened state. I placed my hands on one of his many injuries and resited my mantra "Azarath Metrion Zynthos." Instantly, that injury was healed. I began to move my hands about the bloody and bruised body of the young man now that my powers were focused in this particular fashion.
After a long while of healing his wounds, I finally fell backwards, exhausted from the great amount of power I had had to exert to do so. Expecting to collide with the floor, I was surprised, pleasantly so, to find myself caught in an embrace.
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BB's POV
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I saw her falling backwards, swiftly toward the hard stone floor. But, I simply took a step forward and caught her. But, what happened next caught me by surprise. Rather than resisting as I had expected, due to Raven's hatred of physical contact, she just allowed me to hold her and even pressed herself against me.
I looked up at the… previously… injured young man… whatever, and waited for some kind of explanation.
"I don't know why you're here. So, don't ask." The response startled me. I had even formed the theory that we had actually been brought to this world by the very one who denied any knowledge as to our purpose.
Author's Note: I'm sorry if this chapter's not as good as the others. But, not everything can be gold… or even silver. But then again, maybe I'm wrong again and it's actually good. I have self-esteem issues and always think that everything I do is under-par. But, I think I'll be getting over that with all the positive reviews I've been getting. Oh, speaking of reviews, when I don't get reviews, the only motivation I have is myself. I'm not a self-motivated person. I need others breathing down my back to do anything. But, just one review seems to get me ready to go on! Oh, by the way, I don't own the Great Golden Legume of Sewer Gate 17. A friend of mine thought it up. His name's Ben and he's a genius. He's actually set up an entire religion around the Great Golden Legume of Sewer Gate 17, and yes, you MUST refer to it by its FULL name! The reason that BB worships it is because he's annoying. All followers of the Great Golden Legume of Sewer Gate 17 must be annoying. They must stand outside in the middle of a snowstorm until they (1) get a vision of a small insect or food product telling them whether or not they're annoying, or (2) die. If the small insect or food product doesn't tell them that they're annoying, they are not worthy of joining the First National Church of Humfang Faffanannaranth! Are you worthy?
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The Cheese!