Episode 6: New Teen Titans Go vs. The Date Night Invasion!
Nightwing sat on the edge of his boyfriend's second floor interior balcony and watched Speedy and Aqualad leave. Aqualad paused and looked around, looked up to meet his eyes a moment in resentful accusation, then followed his boyfriend out.
"Well, so much for that, I guess..." Nightwing said, admitting to himself at last that, okay, yes, he might have gone a little too far with the whole minions things.
"Hey, don't sweat it, they were kind of dead weight anyway, and we've still got Salad Boy and The Meatball Marauder over there, right?" Kid Flash said, sitting down beside him and looking down at Beast Boy and Cyborg, who were holding each other and sobbing downstairs, sad that the other two boys were going.
"Meatball Marauder?" Nightwing asked, smiling a little, despite the facts that he'd lost a super-hero grudge match, found out his boyfriend was a thief, and managed to get two of his new Young Justice team to quit on him before they'd had the name for more than a day.
"Well, yeah." Kid Flash said, thinking his boyfriend could be really slow sometimes. "You do remember the part where he shouted Meatball Party! yesterday, turned his arms into meatball guns, and gave my maid service something new and special to test their maid skills against, don't you?"
"Oh, right, that." Nightwing smirked. "They're... kind of an acquired taste. I get that." He admitted.
Kid Flash leaned against his boyfriend. "Yeah, well..."
Nightwing turned to him. "You like them, don't you?" He accused, smirking a little because he realized it was true. "You acquired the Cyborg and Beast Boy taste, admit it."
Kid Flash shrugged. "Eh, maybe. So what?" He asked.
"Oh, nothing. It's just... that's so precious. I'm feeling a little choked up, is all." He teased him.
Kid Flash punched him in the arm. "Oh, shut up." He told him, smirking.
"Ow." Nightwing said, rubbing his shoulder. "Domestic abuse much?"
"Yeah, whatever." Kid Flash said.
"I can't believe I let you talk me into this." Blackfire told her sister as she and Rose, along with her sister and Raven, entered the Happy Times Amusement Park on the outskirts of Jump City. And yeah, it was pretty much exactly what that sounded like: a double date. Still, somehow, when Starfire had come to her all perky and excited, somehow Blackfire had found the words yeah, okay... I guess we could do that coming out of her lips. She still wasn't sure what she'd been thinking.
"Yeah, I was kind of surprised about that too, to tell you the truth." Raven said.
"Well, I think it is wonderful." Starfire said, taking her sister's hands in hers. "In fact... I want you to know how very much it means to me that we have become true sisters once again." She looked down. "Even after you betrayed me repeatedly before, causing me to suffer for your own amusement, I still missed you, every day."
Blackfire felt her heart break a little at those words, and it annoyed her greatly. So did the guilt. She didn't usually feel guilty. Why now? "Um, well... I um, I promise I won't, um... I won't do that again, okay?" She found herself saying, even though she wasn't quite sure why.
Starfire sniffled and tears ran down her cheeks. "Oh, sister..." She whispered, crushing Blackfire in a hug.
Blackfire stiffened, startled, more by the fact that she didn't want to push Starfire away than anything. Nonetheless though, she found herself slowly relaxing and holding her sister in return. She closed her eyes and felt... lighter somehow. "Sister..." She found herself saying, emotion welling up. She'd kind of blocked it out until now, mostly, but she did remember when they were young and they'd been close like this... Why had they stopped? Oh, yeah, she remembered. It had all been about a girl. About stupid Oleand'r... and it had just kind of gone on and on from there, hadn't it?
"Aw, that's kind of really sweet, you know?" Rose said.
Raven looked at her. "You've changed." She said, not exactly accusingly. It was true though. Previously to Blackfire, Rose would never have willingly risked her cool points to say anything like that.
"Yeah, well, whatever, okay." Rose said.
Raven smirked. "That's more like it." She teased.
Rose shoved her playfully.
The sister hug ended then. "Um, okay, so... that happened." Blackfire said, feeling self-conscious about it and kind of not wanting to think about it anymore. "Let's um, let's go buy the tickets now, okay?"
Starfire smiled happily. "It is very of the okay." She said.
"...Right." Blackfire agreed, turning to go take Rose's hand in hers. "Um, come on then." She said, awkwardly pulling her girlfriend along with her towards the park entrance.
"You know, I think she was actually being sincere?" Raven said to Starfire.
"I know. I think Rose is turning out to be the very good for her, do you not think so?" Starfire asked as she took Raven's hand and they followed along.
"Yeah... I guess love changes you, doesn't it?" Raven agreed softly.
"This is so good." Terra murmured in blissful enjoyment as she took another bite of Mammoth Pizza. "It's like, this has got to be the best pizza ever invented or something." She said. Mammoth Pizza was pizza made by Mammoth, Jinx's brother, in the H.I.V.E.'s state of the art wood-burning pizza oven. It was also named that because the pizza was mammoth sized: twice as big and tall as a regular pizza!
"I know, right?" Jinx agreed. "My brother is a pizza genius." She gushed, always happy when other people saw her brother's many good qualities. Not everyone did. It was part of why they'd both ended up here, living a life of crime. H.I.V.E. might be crooks and all, but they'd always treated her and her brother like family (the good kind, not the bad kind), and that counted for a lot in her book... She still missed it, really: being here? She did. Not that she wasn't happy being a Teen Titan of course, she really truly was. She was happier than she'd ever been in her entire life, in fact, and that was mostly because of Terra, and the other Titan girls too (she liked having girl friends, it turned out, almost as much as she liked having a girlfriend)... It was just, she missed having her brother close sometimes, that's all. For pizza reasons, as well as for the more typical brotherly reasons. She was just grateful Terra and the others were okay with her staying in touch and going for visits like this, given the life of crime of it all.
"Mm-hmm." Terra nodded in wholehearted agreement, looking to Mammoth. "My complements to the chef."
"Thanks..." Mammoth said. "I'm glad you like it." You couldn't tell to look at him, or by the way he spoke, but Jinx knew her brother well enough to easily detect the bashful shyness in his gravelly voice. The warmth was easy to see though, if anyone bothered to look.
"Who does the cooking over where you live?" Gizmo spoke up then.
"I do, mostly." Jinx answered, looking to her brother. "You'd be proud of me, I think." She quirked a smile to him. He'd given her lessons sometimes. She'd been the only one of the team he'd let in the kitchen with him, and he'd taught her a lot. It'd been their brother-sister bonding time. She thought about mentioning that Terra had taken to being her chef's assistant now, but she didn't want to make Mammoth feel like he'd been kitchen replaced. He tended to have a thin skin where his chefing was concerned, after all. She knew that. "Rose likes to make breakfast sometimes though. Other than that, Raven and Starfire order delivery or get takeout."
"Ohh. Ouch." Gizmo said, looking at his boyfriend who looked like he might just want to go out and punch a pizza delivery van on principal. You did not order delivery or bring in takeout on H.I.V.E. Island. It just wasn't done.
"They should feed you right." Mammoth grumbled, disgruntled.
"You mean, you cook for these guys every meal?" Terra asked.
"Oh, he does." Jinx confided.
"That's impressive." Terra complemented, meaning it. She knew what it was like to live without a place to call home or any guarantee of a next meal. She knew from talking with her girlfriend that Jinx and Mammoth had had times like that too, growing up. So she kind of got where Mammoth was coming from, and that cooking was how he showed he cared.
"That's what I always say." Gizmo said. Terra gave him a genuinely appreciative smile for that, and he felt more optimistic about winning her over. It might take a while, but he thought he had a shot at it.
And, back at Happy Times Amusement Park, as it just so happened (plot twist!) Cyborg and Beast Boy were visiting that day too. They were sitting at a table by the pizza place in the food bazaar, commiserating on the vagaries of fate as it pertained to their recently nomadic lifestyle and the panorama of characters arriving and departing from their lives.
"At least we'll always have Robin, right?" Beast Boy said. "And we'll always have pizza!" He munched his vegan pizza happily. Jump City didn't used to have vegan pizza, but ever since he'd turned into a giant green gorilla and party crashed the forty-second annual Jump City And The Surrounding Areas Pizza Shop Owner's Convention and protested the unfair discrimination against vegan gorillas which that oversight implied, most of the local pizza shops had strangely decided it was in their best interests to change their ways and add vegan to their menus.
"Yeah, you're right..." Cyborg said positively, taking an optimistic bite of the meat lovers with everything he'd ordered for himself. He chewed, he considered, he swished his tongue to-and-fro so his refined pallet could take in the full varietal bouquet of the pizza he'd just sampled... "...It's just not the same!" He wailed, dejected and braking down into sobs. "I miss that wood burning pizza oven, Beast Boy—I miss it so mu-u-uch..." He moaned.
"I know, brah, I know..." Beast Boy admitted sadly. "I miss that wood burning pizza oven too. It was... like family..."
"It was! It really was... And Mammoth? Who knew such a brutish, unrefined exterior could hide the artistry and soul of such an extraordinary master chef? I was in awe... in awe, I say!" He started to sob again. He picked up the slice of pizza again and regarded it sourly. "By comparison, all other pizza just seems inferior, don't you find?" He asked haughtily, tearing off half of the slice with his mouth and munching it down with the greed and fervor of a hungry hyena, then scarfing the rest of it in short order. "I'm so depressed." He said, picking up another slice and trying to drown his sorrows in pepperoni and cheese, only marginally above mediocre in quality as it might be.
Beast Boy sighed. "Yeah, we lost so much lately. First Titans Tower, then that sweet setup on H.I.V.E. Island, and now Aqualad and Speedy left because Robin couldn't stop being all annoying and, well, his self. At this rate, Nightwing's probably gonna Robin things up with Kid Flash too and we'll end up homeless peoples again. And look at all this:" He prompted, indicating his beautiful self with hand gestures. "Does this fine specimen of beastly boyosity look like the kind of dude belongs sharing a dumpster with Sticky Joe?"
"No, no he does not." Cyborg affirmed, getting into the outrage. "And does this fine metal chassis with the heart of a lion and the soul of a poet look like the kind of dude who belongs there livin' in that dumpster right along next to you?"
"Hell nos!" Beast Boy shook his head in denial.
"So, what're we going to do about it then?" Cyborg asked.
Beast Boy got a sly look on his face. "That, boyfriend a'mine, is precisely why we find ourselves here today." He said, rubbing his hands together.
Cyborg narrowed his eyes at his boyfriend. "Okay, now that's jus freaky's what that is." He told his boyfriend about the nefarious seeming hand rubbing. "Don't ever do that."
Beast Boy let out a breath. "Yeah, it didn't feel right to me neithers." Ne admitted. "I don't normally get to do the sneaky planning thing though, so I thought I'd try'n roll with it."
"You've got a sneaky plan?" Cyborg asked.
"Indeed I do." Beast Boy said proudly. "...Well, okay, so Kid Flash came up with it, but we agreed we won't talk about that... at least, not when Robin's around."
"Well... Robin's not around right now..." Cyborg lead.
"Indeed he ain't." Beast Boy agreed. "But those two guys are." He flicked his fingers to indicate over Cyborg's shoulder.
Cyborg turned and saw Aqualad and Speedy walking hand in hand, clearly on a date. "Ohhh..." Cyborg was catching on.
"Come on, let's go chat some fellas up!" Beast Boy said, hopping up to his feet.
Across the way, Speedy was still kind of brooding inside, but he was trying not to let it show. His boyfriend was trying to cheer him up with the whole amusement park thing, he wasn't about to be a douche and spoil that. He, um... also wasn't going to ever admit that he'd lost the sparring match with Nightwing because the other boy'd smiled that surprisingly heart-stopping devil-may-care smile he had at the wrong moment and it'd made him momentarily stupid, letting Nightwing sweep his legs with that staff of his he was always carrying around and fondling when he thought no one was looking. That Nightwing outfit had... some kind of hot boy magic to it or something. That was the only explanation, really. As Robin, no way could he have tripped him up like that. No. Way.
"I can tell you're still thinking about it, you know?" Aqualad said in that toe-curlingly seductive voice of his.
Speedy winced internally at being caught out. "Yeah... I bet you can. Sorry about that. I am trying." He told his boyfriend, the two of them stopping to look into each other's eyes.
Aqualad quirked a fond smile at that. "Hey, it's okay... I get it. I'm not mad... I was thinking, in fact: maybe we should go east? I've got a standing spot on the roster with Titans East. I'm sure they'd be ecstatic if you wanted to join too?"
"Yeah?" Speedy asked, a reluctant smile coming to his lips. "That... might be nice." He offered.
"Yeah, and, you know... Batgirl's way less of a hassle as a leader. She's really got it together, you know?" Aqualad offered.
"Oh, yeah?" Speedy asked. "Why'd you join up with Robin's outfit then?"
"Why'd you?" Aqualad asked. He'd kind of been too busy trying to talk Speedy out of his clothes to bother with asking questions like that when they'd first met. But, hey, he was a player, he didn't really have a problem with that about himself.
"Money." Speedy told him honestly. "I was... The place I was living had more cockroaches than good taste, if you get my drift. I always thought it was more important to do good in the world, you know? But, I guess Kid Flash managed to convince me I could do even more as part of a team, and live in a decent place while I was at it. It was a good pitch, and it made sense, so I said yes."
Aqualad nodded. "Yeah, I can see that. You're... um, you're really selfless. I um, I like that about you, you know?" He offered, running a hand through Speedy's bangs.
"Yeah?" Speedy asked.
"Definitely." Aqualad confirmed. It was true, too. Being with Speedy like he'd been recently? It really did make him want to be better, try harder at being a hero. When you saw someone put everything they had into something like that, into trying to make the world a better place, you'd have to have a heart of stone not to feel inspired. It was also damned attractive in a boy, he was finding.
"So, um... Why'd you join, then? I mean, I know it couldn't have been about the money. You've got all that shipwreck salvage money, right?" Speedy asked, swallowing a little at how close his boyfriend was at the moment. Were they about to kiss? Damn, he hoped so.
"Oh," Aqualad smirked a little at that. "That's easy. I joined because there was a certain hot boy already on the team that I thought might just be worth my time to get to know..." He said, moving in closer still. "You, if you hadn't guessed." He clarified, going in for the kiss.
Speedy's heart raced at the contact, and he pulled Aqualad in closer to him, savoring the kiss and letting the good feelings grow inside. He heard himself moan a little, in fact, and he reflected to himself that Aqualad had an even better smirk than Nightwing had. Next time... Next time, he was totally going to punch that tin-pot former Robin dictator in the face.
Their kiss was just parting, when they were rudely interrupted. "He-hem." Cyborg cleared his throat. "Sorry to interrupt." He said, smirking knowingly.
"Cyborg?" Speedy asked. "Beast Boy?" He added, noticing Cyborg's shorter boyfriend by his side. "What are you two doing here?"
"Yeah, we's here because I think we need to talk out a few things." Beast Boy explained.
See-More and Billy Numerous were on the roof of one of the H.I.V.E. Island towers. Billy and See-More had left early after lunch was over to give Mammoth and Jinx some sibling time while Gizmo gave Terra the dime tour of their base in a transparent attempt at recruiting. To his credit though, he hadn't tried the hard sell.
Billy'd gotten the idea to bring his boyfriend up here to put the moves on him a little. The view was really romantic, being out here under to open air with the world seeming to stretch out before them like it did.
Down below, Jinx and Terra were leaving the same way they'd come. Gizmo and Mammoth were downstairs watching Samurai Chef on the big screen together.
Billy turned to his boyfriend then. "Hey..." He said.
See-More turned to meet his gaze. "Yeah?" See-More asked.
"Oh, you know. Nothing." He said, moving in for the kiss.
Their arms came around each other in an embrace, See-More automatically responding to the moves. One of See-More's hands even cupped his butt, and Billy groaned a little when his butt cheek was squeezed lightly.
The kiss broke then, but Billy was ready for more.
"You know, I think I like nothing." See-More said, quirking a happy smile and touching his boyfriend's face. Something caught his attention out of the corner of his eye though, and he turned in Billy's embrace to look up. And, uh-huh... sure enough, there were three space ships heading their way, on route to Jump City. "What in the heck..." Was all he had time to say, really, as a three-eyes, shaggy haired, flying purple dragon-panther thing with wings and a tail, being ridden by a teenage girl, swooped down and caught them both in a net, promptly flying off with them as their captives.
Down below, Billy (one of the other Billys) came out of the door on the roof, bringing a big beanbag chair that he'd been planning to use as a make-out seat (you know, for the moves).
"Wait... That's not right..." He found himself saying, watching his boyfriend and the other Billy being carried off.
"Okay, what just happened?" Jinx asked, jumping down to the roof from Terra's flying rock to land beside Billy. They'd seen the space ships coming and headed up to investigate. They'd been in time to see the abduction happen, but not in time to do anything to stop it.
"Um, well, it seems like aliens just kidnapped my boyfriend, and, you know... also me apparently?" Billy explained, still kind of caught flat-footed. Sure, See-More liked to follow alien abduction stories as a hobby, and Billy'd always indulged him his beliefs, but he'd never thought it would actually happen to them.
"Then hop on. We're going after them." Terra said, offering Jinx a hand back up.
Terra brought the rock around and held out a hand for Billy to grab next. He took it and got up on the rock and the three of them sped off through the sky, on a rescue mission.
One thing was for sure, Billy thought: he was never going to doubt See-More's alien beliefs ever again...
Around two hours into their park visit, Raven, Starfire, Rose, and Blackfire were lounging by the pool in the water park. Happy Times had all the regular rides—roller coaster, Ferris wheel, tea cups, bumper cars, etc—but it also had a water park section... and a petting zoo and food bazaar too.
They'd just gone on the water slides a bunch of times and they were doing the relaxing by the pool thing now.
Raven had her eyes closed while Starfire applied sunblock. She didn't actually need it or anything—with her complexion, she could lay out in the sun all day long without it and never burn or get a tan (she knew that because she'd tried it a few times, just to see what would happen). So, yeah, it was a complete ruse on her part, but Starfire's hands just felt really... really, really nice on her. She supposed she should feel a little guilty for it, but she didn't.
Starfire's hands stilled minutes later though, after she'd finished diligently rubbing in all the lotion. "...I want to go pet the bunnies now." She told Raven beseechingly, moving off her so she was no longer straddling her.
Raven sat up and yawned. "Yeah, okay, we can do that." Really, it was a testament to how much Starfire valued sister bonding time that she hadn't pleaded to go to the petting zoo before the water park, Raven knew.
Starfire clapped her hands, happy. "Oh, thank you." She said, sweetly bestowing a kiss on Raven.
The kiss turned deep and meaningful quickly though, their arms going around each other. When Starfire took her lips away, Raven swallowed, looking into her girlfriend's eyes and kind of wanting to teleport them back to their bed for a little while or something. Be patient, she told herself. It's good for you. "Yeah, um... no problem... I kind of want to see the ponies anyway." She admitted a little shyly, thinking of her favorite TV show (Pretty Pretty Pegasus, of course).
Starfire dragged her over to check on Rose and Blackfire, who were (predictably) also involved in making out. "Um, so, we're going to the petting zoo for a little while... Wanna come with?" Raven asked.
Blackfire broke their kiss, her eyes still hungry on a dazed looking Rose. "No, no." She said distractedly. "You go on and have fun. We'll catch up later at the food bazaar or something, alright?" She asked, immediately going back to the kissing without waiting for an answer.
Starfire giggled. "Alright. Have fun, sister." She said, taking Raven's hand and leading her away.
"Oh, I will." Blackfire called from behind them.
"She really puts herself into that, doesn't she?" Raven mused, thinking Rose must have her hands full in a way. Blackfire, like Starfire, didn't actually need to breathe. She could live on starlight and even fly in space if she wanted, so she could kiss for, you know, pretty much ever. Raven herself was half-demon, so she could keep up where Starfire was concerned, but Rose was just a human.
"Oh, she has always been that way. It is actually what caused the rift between us originally, I believe." Starfire confessed as they walked through the park, heading for the petting zoo.
"Um, okay, and what's that mean exactly?" Raven asked, not getting it.
Starfire sighed. "Once upon the time, both my sister and I were interested in the same girl, Oleand'r is her name. Her mother was one of our mother's advisors, so she was almost like another sister to us growing up. Blackfire became very obsessed with her once our hormones began to gnaw tenaciously on our heart organs like the hungry Warfnog." She illustrated gnashing teeth and pincers with hand gestures and her own teeth to make her point. "But the problem was that Oleand'r was what Earth humans would call, the player. She tricked us, dating both of us and professing the lurvs." She explained. "I prefer to think she only did it because her own hormones were doing the gnawings of the heart organ as well, but I do not really know. I found out I was being the double-timed when I walked in on her and my sister sucking the face together one night. It was most unpleasant. After that, we all argued. It went the downhill from that point on, as I am sure you can imagine." Starfire finished.
"Huh... You know, you never told me any of this before." Raven observed quietly. She wasn't judging though. She'd known Starfire was keeping some things to herself about her past, and she'd been content to let her tell her when she was ready. "You just said your sister wanted to be queen."
"Oh, she did, and she was for a while, that is, before she committed the treasons and went on to become the troublemaking thief." Starfire explained. "When Oleand'r dumped her for a Thanagarian girl—they all have very pretty bird wings—I think my sister took it the hardly."
"Yeah... I guess I could see that." Raven mused, cringing internally at the thought of what might happen if Rose ended up dumping her too for some reason (she could actually think of any number of reasons why someone might want to dump Blackfire). "Why'd she do it, though? Break up with her, I mean?" She asked.
"According to the gossip, it was because my sister was being the clingy." Starfire explained. "And possibly also the high maintenance." She added thoughtfully.
"Well, that makes sense." Raven observed.
"I don't think she was as bad as that though. I think maybe Oleand'r has the commitment issues." Starfire said, coming to her sister's defense.
"Mm, yeah, I guess that could be it." Raven allowed, privately kinda doubting it.
Starfire reached over and took Raven's hand in hers then. "A part of me understands." She said softly. "I think that I might go the cray-cray in the head brain for a time as well, if you were ever to do the dumping to me."
Raven's eyes widened a little at that, thinking about what it would feel like if Starfire dumped her. She growled and felt her extra eyes appear, and the shadows gather around her.
"Raven?" Starfire asked.
Raven blinked and forced herself to stop thinking about it and calm the hells down already. She took in a deep breath and let it out. "Yeah, that would really suck alright." She prevaricated. "Um, come on, let's go pet some ponies." She tugged Starfire forward towards the petting zoo, thinking she could actually use some pony time about now.
Just then though, they both heard people shouting in alarm. Raven looked off into the distance, her eyes tracking up into the sky.
"Okay. Alien spaceships kidnapping people." Raven mused, looking over to Starfire. "Didn't we just do this a couple months ago?" She asked. "You know, the tofu guy in the fish bowl with the villain cape?"
Starfire shrugged. "It does sound the familiar." She allowed. "Shall we?" She asked.
"Yeah, let's go help." Raven agreed.
Starfire nodded and they leapt into action, flying off towards the alien invaders to go be super-heroes again.
Meanwhile, back in Jump City, Nightwing dropped silently down onto a rooftop and crept forward to the edge of the building, taking out a pair of high-tech binoculars (the better to covertly observe the goings on across the way with, of course).
Brother Blood had been making waves again lately. He's up to something... Something big. Nightwing thought to himself as he watched on. A delivery van rolled up and parked in front of the nondescript office building. "Right on schedule." He said to himself smugly.
The building across the way had been bought, only a few weeks ago, by a newly incorporated company called Newblood Consulting. Totally obvious, of course, but, then, stupid villains made for happy heroes, he always said.
Newblood Consulting was supposedly in the corporate life coaching business, helping C.E.O.s be the best they could be, or some other new-age, hippy-dippy nonsense like that. Translation? Brother Blood was mind controlling big business types for obviously nefarious, but as yet unknown ends. Kid Flash (his studly boyfriend), had been keeping an eye on Blood's activities for the past week, planning to let him steal the poor, rich suckers blind, so he could then go in, play hero, take the bad guy down, and pocket the profits for himself.
Now, the only difference was that they were in it together. Strange, what a boy finds himself doing for love... He thought wistfully to himself. He wasn't about to back out of it though. For one thing, Cyborg and Beast Boy had been talking up the idea of that spa room lately, and he, for one, had become a believer in the notion!
Besides, getting 'paid' to whack Brother Blood in the face with a staff repeatedly? Those were the kinds of things that dreams were made of...
Down below, the delivery van's rear doors were being opened. Blood had been getting these mysterious deliveries like clockwork at this time every night for the last week. Nightwing was just about to get a look at what was inside... when he just so happened to look up and see the space ships in the sky over the amusement park on the edge of town.
"...Don't see that every day." He mused to himself. It did happen every now and then though, he had to admit.
Kid Flash super-speeded up next to him then. "Oh, good, you noticed." He said.
"Yeah... Kinda hard to miss, don't you think?" He commented.
"Beast Boy and Cyborg are out there, you know?" Kid Flash said, sweeping Nightwing up into his arms. "Time to go be heroes?" He asked with that charming smile of his.
Nightwing swallowed, caught in his boyfriend's eyes a moment. "Um, yeah. I mean, yeah, let's go." He agreed.
And so Kid Flash ran.
Next Episode: New Teen Titans Go vs The Three-Eyed, Shaggy-Haired, Flying Purple People-Eaters!
Isn't it just the way? You're going about your day, planning violent robberies disguised as heroic deeds, kissing on rooftops, trying to get your band back together, or going to visit a petting zoo for cute and therapeutic reasons, and POW! Aliens come and want to eat you... But, fear not, fearless readers—there is hope! Think of next episode like that The Avengers movie—you know, where there's a bunch of scary aliens and a Loki, and Iron Man flies up into the sky through the big portal, ready to make a show-stopping heroic sacrifice, but he lives through it and the aliens are defeated and everyone goes out to a restaurant after. Next episode's gonna be just like that! You know, except... different.