Afterburn: Part I
Arc III: Diversions
Chapter X: The Hotel
By: mrbeans
Rated: T for stylised action violence and mild sexual inuendo.
El Queso de Malisioso:
1- How did you manage to guess who it was?!?!?
2- I don't know why your confused either
3- I wsa unaware it was possible to get THAT bored.
4- Yes, lets go with that
5- jetih utong ale-sin-feih (Eliteish, my own personal language that's not just jibberish) whatd'ya make of that?
Blueyedgirl- Glad to hear you're confuzed!
STJadeTebraa890: Stop asking so many questions!
Now, I hope I have appheased the BB/Rae shippers here because I don't like to piss off shippers (save StarJadeKnight, just kidding) so, here is the long awaited Arc III of Afterburn Part I
The T ship sputtered, strained, and whined before it ran completely out of gas. It crashed into the middle of a desert town smack in the middle of nowhere. Raven and Beast Boy got out of the T-Ship, a bit shaken, and stopped abruptly. Beast Boy because they had crashed almost 1500 miles from where he thought they had been flying; Raven because they were being held a shotgun point by what appeared to be the entire town. There were roughly thirty people."Um...Hi?" said Raven unsure of whether to be angry or panicked.
"Shut up alien scum!" said one towns-person, heavily accenting the 'u' of 'scum'. He appeared to be the leader, he wore a rather disgusting suit, a tie that was probably not the same color as it had originally been, and a large faded sash that read 'mayor'.
Apparently Beast Boy thought they could be reasoned with "Um, It's ok, we're not aliens. We just need gas for our sh.." Raven elbowed him in the ribs "AIRPLANE!!" he plastered his face in a large but unsure grin as if to prove his good intentions.
The town apparently didn't buy it "So you're here to steal Earth's gas supplies are yeh'!" roared one woman from the crowd.
"No!" continued Beast Boy, his confidence undeterred "We're Teen Titans, super-heroes." he showed them a front page article with their picture.
"Hmm" said the leader "But that doesn't mean we have to trust you! While y'all are here, you follow our rules!"
Beast Boy was about to attempt further negotiation but Raven clapped her hand over his mouth and said "That'll work"
Raven and Beast Boy were led into a dilapidated Hotel called the "La Scheisse". Half the windows were boarded up, the shingles were falling off, and the once brilliant blue building was now yellowed with large white streaks of bird poop everywhere.
"What does that mean?" whispered Beast Boy, pointing to the hotel's sign.
"Not only did these guys mix German and French for their hotel" said Raven without looking at BB "They named it 'The Shit'"
BB began to snicker but abruptly stopped when they came to the reception desk.
Larry Wayne was not only the sheriff, but the owner of the hotel. He was a beefy man with a thick mustache. He fixed his hat, pulled up his holster belt, and stood up as the two people who were about to screw his life up entered the room.
Raven sized up Wayne as they walked up to him. Nothing could of painted him more as the sheriff if he tried. He had the cowboy hat, the boots, the belt. The only thing that set him apart from an 1800's town sheriff was the Glock laser gun in his holster in place of a revolver.
"So? Who the hell are these here folks?" asked Wayne, his voice covered in his southern 'sergeant' accent, as Raven and Beast Boy were led up to him.
He walked out from behind his desk, walking as though he expected to need to draw his gun at any point.
"These two aliens began the man who had led them to the hotel began.
Beast Boy cut him off "Dude! We're not aliens!" he blurted, beginning to become very annoyed with people calling him such.
Wayne leaned forward, sticking the tooth pick he had been chewing in his mustache like an afro comb. "Is that so? Well, let me tell you something." he leaned even farther so that his face was inches from Beast Boy's "I don't like you, and as long as you're in my town, you'll follow my rules. We square, dude?"
"Very" replied Beast Boy, his voice covered in more fear than syrup on Cyborg during his waffle fetish.
"Take em' to room...10" said Larry, smiling maliciously as he said the room number.
Room Ten was a bad as Wayne made it out to be. It was one room, in one corner was a rust covered bath tub which, as if for dramatic effect, leapt a possum who proceeded to leap out the closed window, shattering it, and landing on the ground, six stories down, with a rather nauseating crunch. The next corner was a dust, and cobweb, covered table and a lamp. The rest of the room was devoid of both furniture and sanitation. The only other object in the room was a fly magnetic, rusty toilet that, once more as if for dramatic effect, was placed in the middle of the room, completely unshielded from every pair of eyes in the room.
"Where's the tank?" asked Beast Boy, noticing the lack there of from the despicable toilet in the center of the room.
"Up there" said the 'guard'. He pointed to a dripping metal sphere, half invisible due to the ceiling. It was connected to the bowl portion by a crooked pipe that was apparently not sealed very well to the tank,
"Yuck" said Raven, in her characteristic monotone as a large chunk of crap fell from the fault seal and fell into the bowl, splashing very shitty water all over everyone but Raven, who blocked the 'shrapnel' with an energy shield.
"Sucks to be you" said Raven uncharacteristically with an even more uncharacteristic grin.
"Enjoy your stay" said the 'guard'. He shut the door and left Raven and Beast Boy standing rather dumb struck in the worst hotel room ever.
Raven had gone back to the ship briefly to get some necessities; she got a book, extra clothes for both her and Beast Boy, a lamp, toilet paper, and soap, lots and lots of soap. She walked back in rather on edge, which was understandable as every towns-person acted like she was getting some supper weapon.
"You know that's disgusting right?" she asked Beast Boy, her gaze unaverted from her book, as she returned to the room.
Beast Boy, in one of his more stupid ideas had decided that the bath tub was safe for bathing.
"It's not so bad" he said, catching a bar of soap that Raven had thrown at him with her powers. "All you have to do is block out the rust and the random objects, and the cold"
"Where did you get bubble bath?" she asked, just noticing the foamy bubbles that were very plentiful in BB's tub.
"I didn't get any bubble bath" he said
"Then why are there bubbles?"
"I don't really know" he said, looking at the bubbles with a confused stare.
Raven raised the corner of her lip in disgust but made no other indication she was inches away from OCD-ing out. She opened her book, The Encyclopedia of Victorian Torture, and began to read until BB let out a high pitched scream and stood up like a rocket. Raven had been to surprised to surprises the urge to not look up and ended up looking at BB right between the legs. She tried blocking his groin from view but found this impossible (for reasons you know but this author will no state in a T rated fic). Instead she sent the book, cover facing out, at Beast Boy. The book nailed him right between the legs.
"Say it with me" said Raven "tow-el, towel" said Raven sarcastically.
"Will do" said Beast Boy, bending over, his voice raspy and distant, once more, for obvious reasons.
Beast Boy go dressed and walked up to the wall. "Hey" he said, his voiced recovered "I think there's some kind of pull down be here." He grabbed a ring near the top of the wall and pulled with all his weight. Mildly annoyed by his own failure, Beast Boy morphed into a gorilla and grabbed the ring again. This time the whole wall came down. The room on the other side was the rough size of a broom closet and contained a single twin bed.
Raven turned to BB "You're sleeping on the floor."
Raven had gone up to the roof to get some quiet. She sat in a lotus position and thought. That was until there was a resounding crash from her room. She teleported herself into the shabby excuse for living quarters and then wished she hadn't.
Beast Boy didn't know exactly how it had happened, he remembered the grunts and pushing and sounds that go hand-and-hand with pushing, on the toilet. All he had been trying to do was take a dump, he had. When he flushed the toilet though, things went down hill fast. The ceiling had creaked and given way and then the tank had fallen from it's lofty position.
Beast Boy was now standing in the middle of the room, the large spherical tank for the toilet trapping both him and the bowl.
Raven lifted the tank off of BB with her powers. She turned to go back to her meditation when there was a small clang.
Beast Boy heard it too, in fact he saw the object that caused it fall from up where the tank had been. He picked it up and examined it; it was a large crystal.
Raven had only one hobby, of which she told no one. She collected Azarthian artifacts and attempted to figure out how to unlock, and use their powers. They were fairly rare so it wasn't a very consuming hobby most of the time. There was the occasional magic rock on eBay, the talisman at the antique shop. All were enjoyed challenges for Raven, some of the objects were fairly self explaintiory so finding the proper spell was easy, such as the talisman of seduction, others, like the helm of valor, were more cryptic. The helm gave the wearer the power to control small fires. Raven's eyes glittered very slightly as she looked at the crystal.
"Beast Boy" she said "You may of just put us in a very powerful position".
There, one uber long (for me) chapter. I hope you all liked it. Here's a recap of most of what's happened in case you forgot.
-Robin had been swiched with his evil alternate self who is working with Malchior the dragon to conquer the universe.
-Starfire and Cyborg have stumbled across a secret government agency called the Crisis Response Team, or CRT for short, led by Terra.
-Beast Boy's alternate self disguised himself as Blackout, put himself into television with the help of Control Freak, and was finnnaly captured by Elija, a CRT agent, and Starfire and Cyborg.
-Cyborg encountered his father who he made repremands with before sacrificing himself so they could get evil Beast Boy to CRT in a duel with Control Freak.
-Beast Boy confirmed that Robin had in fact been swiched with his evil self.
-Malchior had used a potion to disguise himself as a human so he could enter CRT when Arc II ended.
That's basically everything, once more, I hope you all enjoy Arc III and also read my other fic Super Mario: Titans Trouble.
Happy Reading, please review,
-mrbeans
PS: Sorry that it took me so long to write this chapter but I hope its legnth and wordy-ness pleases you. I can't make any promises on when I will release the next chapter so I won't. It might be a while.