Hey dudes and dudettes! Ya miss me?? Of course you guys did! 'Cause you love me!! ^.^ Heehee…jokes…wait, you don't love me? *tears up* B-b-b-but…
Titans: Aww…great…
Me: *Runs out of room crying*
Random kid: Hey! I'm alive!! Anywho, Flare wanted me to say that…*reads off of paper* Fire. Star. Studios. Does. Not. Own. The. Teen Titans. She. Is. Also. Prone. To. Random. Mood. Swings. Due. To. A. Lack. Of. Sugar.
Titans: *Sarcastic* Wow…really?
Random kid: *Still reading* Now. Go. Forth. My. Beloved. Readers. And. *Stops reading*
Robin: And…?
Random kid: I dunno, that's where it ends. And this paper is stained with strange red stuff…
Titans: 0.0
"Holy mushrooms!" Flare yelled, staring at a fleck on the floor.
"Holy…mushrooms?" Beast Boy repeated, following Flare's gaze to the floor.
"Sweet peanut and post-box patty!" Flare exclaimed, now pointing at the floor.
"Sweet what of what?" Cyborg asked, trying to peer over her shoulder.
"Great tree-man of California!" Flare shouted, ignoring them.
"Tree-man of California?" Hot Spot joined the confused group of male teens. "What's she going on about?"
"I dunno," Beast Boy answered.
"It's, it's…" she started, pausing dramatically. "A speck!"
Hot Spot, Beast Boy and Cyborg twitched. "A speck?" they asked.
Flare smiled, nodded and skipped off, leaving the confused boys with the speck.
"A speck…" Beast Boy said faintly. "All that attention over a speck…"
Kid Flash then came hopping past them, his tongue lolling out and an expression of great concentration on his face. His hands where moving at great speed, trying to do up the bright yellow tie around his neck.
"Can't…do up…tie…" his said, sounding as if he was being strangled. The others laughed. "Aww, c'mon…guys…not…funny…"
Meanwhile, the girls were still sorting through a box of accessories for their ballroom outfits.
"Ew…orange…" Kole muttered, throwing a bright orange bracelet over her shoulder as she sifted through a box of jewellery. The bracelet hit Argent's head, causing her to frown and regard the item with distaste.
"I see what you mean, love…You seen anything black in there?"
"Hmm…I'll have a look…" Kole went back to searching through the box and eventually pulled out a tangle of black bangles with small, red crystal studs. "This alright?"
Argent smiled her thanks and took the bangles, slipping them onto her wrists.
Raven, meanwhile, was reading a book, pretending she wasn't clad in a maroon dress with a large skirt and pink shoes. Well, until she was consulted by Starfire for a choice between a silver necklace with a star pendant or, what seemed to be, a silver cord necklace with a green teardrop.
Not wanting to get involved with the other girl's fashion fusses, she waved her hand vaguely in the direction of one of them and carried on reading, tugging uncomfortably on the sleeve of her dress.
"Alright my lovely ladies?" Flare asked, walking around them. "Got everything sorted yet? Gosh you take ages…"
"You can't rush art," Argent told her, fastening a gold necklace around Jinx's neck.
"Art, shmart," Flare rolled her eyes. "We have got a movie to film! Okay, everyone UP and out the room! Argent, what are those on your wrists?"
The girl looked down at her hands and then back at Flare. "What, me bangles?"
"They are black."
"…And?"
"No, you have to wear BRIGHT things! Like, uh…this!" She picked up a bright orange bracelet from the floor and shoved it at Argent. "Your character is big and over the top, therefore so are you and- Don't give me that look."
Argent didn't stop giving her a 'you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me' look but walked out with the others, grumbling.
Near the set, the boys were lazing around, all done and dusted. Well, almost all of them. Kid Flash was still having problems.
"Stupid movie, stupid suit, stupid Flare, STUPID TIE!" he complained, trying in vain to tie up the said item of clothing. The others were watching, entertained and laughing. They were all ready. Robin, sporting a poufy, red outfit with a matching hat, fiddled with the medallion that hung around his neck.
"Never knew you were into jewellery Robin!" Beast Boy commented cheekily.
"Hey! I am not! She," he threw where he knew Flare was a dirty look, "made me wear it!"
Cyborg, wearing blue, had done up his tie with no problems at all, and was smirking at Robin whilst Jericho, in a purple version of Cyborg's suit, was giving him a sympathetic look.
"Finally!" Hot Spot exclaimed when he saw the band of girls coming toward them. "KF, you still trying to do up that tie?"
"Be done…in…a moment…"
Just then, the girls arrived, some shifting around awkwardly in their dresses, others giggling at Kid Flash's inability to tie ties.
"Kid Flash…what are you doing?" Flare finally asked.
"I'm…doing…up my…tie…" he forced the reply out his mouth.
"Still?" Flare sighed. "Jinx, help him with his tie."
Jinx went over to him and started doing up the tie for him. His ears turned slightly pink and the others grinned knowingly.
"Okay, so, what's going to happen is the girls apart from Starfire are going to line up in front of Robin. Beast Boy and Hotspot, you need to be standing to the side, over there." Flare pointed to a raised area on the left. The two boys trudged over and climbed on.
"Okay, good…uhh…girls, line up please!"
The girls picked up their skirts and glided across the room and stood in a line. At least that's what they were going to do until Argent tripped over…something…
She yelled out a word-I-shan't-repeat very loudly as she crashed down to the ground. Kole, Jinx and Raven fell over her body and landed on top of her in a pile. They moaned and groaned and rubbed their heads as they tried to unscramble themselves. Robin and some of the boys went over to help them up when they, too, fell over…something…and crashed on top of the girls.
"Thanks, love," Argent gritted her teeth as more weight was added on top of her. "Big help."
Flare sighed and face palmed. "And they came so highly recommended…"
"It's not my fault!" Argent grunted as the Titans slowly started getting themselves out of the tangled mess they were in. "I tripped over something!"
"Tripped over what, pray tell?"
"…I dunno…"
Flare raised an eyebrow and walked over. Eventually they all managed to get themselves up off the ground. They dusted themselves off and looked at Flare who was staring at the floor where they had fallen with a horrified expression.
"What's with her?" Beast Boy asked Cyborg, jabbing a thumb in her direction. Cyborg glanced at her and shrugged.
"It's…it's…"
"It's what?" Robin questioned, following Flare's gaze to the floor.
"It's…THE SPECK!"
"…the speck?" he raised an eyebrow.
"Yes, the speck," Flare confirmed, nodding stiffly.
"You mean that speck you were yelling at earlier?" Hot Spot asked, joining in the conversation.
"I wasn't yelling at it, I was yelling about it…" Flare corrected him. "And that speck is what tripped up Argent!"
"A speck tripped up Argent?"
"Yes!"
"What!?!" Argent screamed, marching over. "You're telling me I tripped up on a speck!?!?"
"Why yes, yes I am…" Flare said calmly, nodding her head. Before the girl could blow up at her and send her to Kingdom Come, she turned on her heel and trotted off. "GIRLS! LINE UP!"
The girls, sighing, stalked off to where they were meant to be lining up. Flare went over and looked at the order they were standing in.
"Hmm…Argent move behind Raven and, uhh…Kole, go to the front. Okay, yeah, that's good…" Flare nodded. "Let's go! Robin, get back over there!" she stepped back off the stage and behind a camera. "Right, and…go!"
Kole stepped forward and immediately fell over.
Flare sighed. "CUT! What happened?"
"I don't know!" Kole said, sitting up. "Ow…"
"Boo hoo, go put a plaster on it. Did you fall over the speck?"
"…The speck?"
"Yeah, the speck that tripped Argent up."
"…I think so…"
"Hmmm…" Flare walked over and regarded the speck. "Stupid speck…Cyborg! Come over here please!"
"What?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Blow the speck up please!"
"…Blow it up?"
"Yes, blow it up!"
"Uhh…okay…" He set up his cyber canon, aimed it at the floor and blasted. A load of smoke and some coughing later, Flare peered down at the hole in the floor.
"Hmm…yeah, I think you got it…" she said with a slight nod. "Okay, let's go again!" Everyone got back into their positions. "Take TWO!
Again, Kole stepped forward…and fell down the hole.
"CUT!" Flare yelled. "What happened?"
"Uh, she fell down the hole?" Beast Boy answered a tad unhelpfully.
"Yes, I can see that…" Flare sighed. "Kole, why did you fall down the hole?"
"I didn't mean to!" she exclaimed, trying to hoist herself up with her arms. Thankfully for her, Jericho had rushed over and grabbed her elbows to pull her out.
"The speck lives on…"
"…What?"
"The spirit of the speck obviously caused her to fall down the hole into its grave," she explained as if obvious.
"But you just said the speck was alive," Kole pointed out, now out of the speck's grave.
"…Uhh…shall we go again?"
She walked back to the camera and waited for everyone else to get into position.
"What about the hole?" Jinx asked, pointing at the offending feature.
"Uhhhh…Ooh! Raven! Make one of them…things…"
"One of those things?" Raven raised an eyebrow. "Yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about…"
"You know! Those…things…the disk thingys! To cover the hole with!"
Raven, without lowering her eyebrow, used her powers to create a black disk which was placed in the hole to make it level with the rest of the floor.
"Okay, good! Everyone back in their places! Take THREE!"
For the third time, Kole stepped forward.
"…Uhhh…"
"UGH!" Flare screamed. "What is it now!?!?"
"…What am I meant to do again?"
"Just…curtsey or something!" Flare told her. "Then when go and do…something…when Robin bows and waves you off! Okay?"
"Okay…"
"Okay, cool. Take FOUR!"
Yet again Kole stepped forward, not falling over, and curtsied. Robin grimaced and gave a short nod of his head.
"CUT!"
"What NOW!?" The Titans complained.
"Robin! What was that?" Flare asked, marching over.
"A bow…"
"No it wasn't!"
"Then what was it!?"
"A nod! A bow is when you bend at the waist, not the neck! Like this!" She demonstrated with a low, sweeping bow with circular, over the top hand movements. "Try again, take FIVE!"
Once again Kole walked forward to Robin and curtsied. Robin awkwardly bent down in a rigid bow and waved her off with his hand. Kole walked off and stood next to Jericho, Cyborg and Kid Flash. Argent then stepped forward and curtsied with a small scowl on her face. Again, Robin did a stiff bow and waved her off. She responded with a scowl and walked off.
Jinx stepped over to him after this and gave a small curtsey. After being waved off by Robin, she stalked off, followed by Raven who attempted to smile at him but it looked more like a grimace.
Flare watched, frowning slightly. Suddenly, she clicked her fingers. "Of course! CUT!"
"What was wrong with that?" Argent asked, throwing her arms in the air.
"I forgot the music…" Flare said with sheepish laugh. "Oops-a-doodle…"
The Titans groaned and face palmed at her. She just giggled embarrassedly and scuttled off to put the music on. She pressed a button on the sound system and some heavy metal started playing.
"What the-? This isn't right!" She said, frowning as she pressed the 'stop' button.
An innocent smile made its way onto Beast Boy's face as he looked purposefully to the left.
"Alright, who changed the disk?" Flare asked, looking at the Titans and holding a CD case in her hand and tapping her foot. The teens all turned to look at Beast Boy who was whistling to himself. His tune slowed down as he realised the number of eyes on him.
"Uhh…"
"Beast Boy," Flare gritted her teeth, "did you change the disk?"
"…No…"
She raised an eyebrow in reply. He feigned a look of shock.
"Can you truthfully say this is the face of a liar?" he asked, putting on an innocent face. Flare's expression didn't change.
"Yes, yes I can…where's the disk?"
"In the music player." He pointed to the disk port with a grin.
"No, where's the ballroom music disk?"
"Uhh…"
"If you've lost it then so help me I will-"
"Please! Do not do the harming of Beast Boy! I am sure he wasn't meaning harm by doing this! Perhaps it was only an accident!" Starfire said, attempting to dissuade Flare from killing Beast Boy in a horrible, unthinkable way.
"If he doesn't want me to do the harming of him then he'd better cough it up!" she said, glaring darkly at him.
"Um, I, uhh, put it…somewhere…but it's not lost! Its location is in a temporary state of, err, forgotteness…"
"I temporary state of forgotteness?" Flare repeated with a slight twitch of her left eyelid. "Well you'd better get them OUT of a state of forgotteness and go GET it!"
"But I don't know where they are!" Beast Boy moaned.
"AHA! So you admit it!" Flare grinned triumphantly with a crazed look in her eyes. "You've lost it!"
"I'm sorry!"
"…Tis okay." She shrugged, pulling another CD case out of her pocket. She wandered back over to the music player and pressed a button to eject the disk already in their and replace it with the one from the case in her pocket.
"Okay?" Beast Boy stared at her. "Okay?"
"Yeah, I had a spare," Flare told him.
"All this time, you've been shouting and yelling at me for loosing it and you had a spare!?!?"
"Yeah, well, taught you a lesson didn't it?" she asked, pressing play to check it was the right disk and pausing it when it was. "Don't loose my stuff! Anyway! Everyone back in your places!"
The Titans exchanged wierded-out glances. One thing was clear to them, Flare had issues, or a multiple personality disorder…Nevertheless, they shuffled into their starting positions and waited for Flare to tell them to start. She pressed a button on the music player, causing some slow waltzing tune to start up, then went back to her place behind the camera.
"Okay, take SIX!"
The first part of the scene went swimmingly. After Raven flashed Robin the smile/grimace, the camera cut to Beast Boy and Hot Spot in their seats on another part of the set.
"He doesn't seem interested in any of these women!" Hot Spot was saying, frowning. "What's wrong with him? Any of these maidens will make a suitable mother!"
Beast Boy coughed. "Ahem…"
"Uhh, I mean, suitable wife."
"Well, I think you're being very unrealistic about it, Sire. I know exactly how you're picturing it! There he is, bowing politely to all the women. And then he stops and stares. He sees another girl in the distance. He doesn't care who she is or how she came here! And so he goes up to her and asks her for a dance. It's a lovely fancy, I must say so Sire, but completely impossible!"
"Impossible you say!" Hot Spot exclaimed, "Well what do you think of that!" He pointed to Robin who was holding his hand out to Starfire. She had wandered into the ballroom after Raven had joined her daughters and Robin had spotted her straight away.
"I-I-I can't believe it!" Beast Boy said staring wide eyed.
But Hot Spot wasn't listening; he was leaning forward on his knees, watching them with a dreamy look in his eyes. Suddenly, he turned to his companion. "Do you know her!?"
"I've never seen her before in my life!"
"Oh well, doesn't matter. Just make sure it's all perfect! Wake me up when he proposes!" he told him, getting up. "And remember, if anything should go wrong then…" he brought his hand across his neck. Beast Boy gulped and nodded.
He skipped down off the platform and started going off, attempting to look happy and enthusiastic as he did so.
From behind the camera, Flare was making frantic gestures, some of them pointing at Cyborg. She grabbed some paper and a marker pen and scribbled something before holding it up. It read,
'DANCE WITH CYBORG!'
As an afterthought, she brought it down again and scrawled something else underneath,
'OR ELSE!'
Reluctantly, Hot Spot grabbed Cyborg's arm, span around a few times, and leapt off stage. The other Titan was left, startled and perplexed.
Flare stopped the camera and grinned. "Okay, now for the scene I was looking forward to!" she said in such a way that unnerved the Titans. "We're going to do the dancing scene!"
The others exchanged looks of fear and horror when they heard the word 'dancing'.
"What are those looks for?" Flare asked with a furrowed brow. "It's just moving your feet to a beat!"
"I don't dance," Hot Spot said, folding his arms.
"You're not going to dance," Flare sighed. "Only those two dance!" she waved her hand in Robin and Starfire's direction. "This is the really fluffy, romantic scene!"
"Can't we miss it out?" Robin asked his voice a little higher than usual.
"Of course not!" she replied, shocked at the idea.
"Why not?"
"Because I-" she paused dramatically, putting a hand on her heart, "-am a hopeless romantic!"
The Titans blinked and looked at each other, unsure of how to respond.
"Come! Let us do the fluffy scene! Robin and Starfire, over there please! Rest of the Titans, yes that means you Bumblebee, gather over here!"
They trudged into the positions, Flare walking around to make sure she was happy with it from every angle.
"Okay, good. When I start the camera, I want you two to start dancing. Crowd people, you need to talk quietly amongst yourselves because…well…your prince is dancing with a mystery woman! And you don't know who she is and…stuff…" after the lame ending, she shuffled back to her place by the camera. "Okay, dancing scene take ONE!"
Robin and Starfire looked at each other, not sure of what to do. The Titans watched them with amusement and expectance. Flare sighed.
"CUT! Why aren't you guys dancing!?"
"I am unsure of how this 'dancing' goes," Starfire said, turning to look at her.
"You don't know how to dance?"
"No," she shook her head.
"Robin, teach her."
"I don't know either!" Robin complained.
"Yeah you do! You danced with Kitten at her prom!"
He twitched at the memory and gritted his teeth. "I don't know how you know that…-"
"How I know that is unimportant," Flare interrupted. "That fact that you have danced before is what is important. Now, go forth and teach her how to dance!"
"But-!"
"No buts!"
Grumbling, Robin turned back to Starfire. "Um, okay…You put your hand here," he picked up her hand and placed it on shoulder, "and I put mine here." He put his hand on her waist then grabbed her other with his free one.
"Okay." Starfire nodded.
"Got it? Good. Now, you basically just spin in circles whilst moving your feet to 1 2 3…1 2 3…1 2 …"
With a deep breath he started to demonstrate this and hoped she would pick it up and join in. To his relief she did.
"Very nice, very nice!" Flare clapped. "Okay, let's go! Take TWO!"
She pressed a button on the camera as Robin and Starfire danced. The other Titans stood to the side, trying to keep the smirks and grins off their faces. Argent and Jinx were pestering Raven, asking questions like 'Who is she?' and 'How dare she dance with the prince' in harsh whispers. Raven raised her hand to quieten them and started weaving her way through the rather small crowd to get a better look.
With a signal from Flare, Robin and Starfire started dancing away from the gathering. Raven tried to follow but a curtain dropped down in front of her, stopping her from going any further. Beast Boy appeared went over to her with a grin.
"They mustn't be disturbed," he told her before sauntering off. The camera moved so it was focused on Robin and Starfire who were now on a set with stone benches, false trees and a fake fountain.
They slowly waltzed around the scene, gazing into each other's eyes. The waltzing music slowly faded as it was replaced with a song.
'So this is love, Mmmmmm
So this is love'
Behind the camera, the other Titans were gathering. Some were stifling giggles with their hands but were still snorting in laughter. Others were silently cooing and awing at the scene whilst the last ones were smirking and smiling.
Suddenly, there was a thundering 'dong'. Starfire gasped and leapt away from Robin.
"Oh! It is most late!"
"What?" Robin reached for her arm as she tried to escape.
"I must go!" she told him, trying to free her arm from his grip. The clock stroke again.
"What? But why?"
"Because it is most late! And I have yet to have met the Prince! Please, I must go!"
"But I don't know your name! How will I find you?"
But Starfire had freed herself and was already running through the door as the clock stroke a third time. She rushed through to the first set, were the others were scrambling to get themselves back into position. She pushed through the crowds with Robin following but then…
Crash
Thump
"Ow!"
"CUT!"
They groaned as that one word sliced through air. Starfire and Kole were lying in a heap on the floor, the other girls and some of the boys crowded around, wondering if they were okay.
"What happened?" Flare asked, raising an eyebrow.
"She won the lottery, and ate a sandwich," Argent replied sarcastically, "as you can plainly see."
"…Really?" Flare frowned in confusion. "Don't look like it to me…"
The Titans face palmed at her.
"Star tripped," Beast Boy finally answered, "over Kole."
"I am most sorry!" Starfire apologised as she clambered off the smaller girl.
"It's okay," Kole shrugged, getting up her self up with a little help from Jericho.
Flare sighed and banged her head into a wall. "Anyway, uhh…let's go from Starfire running into the ballroom. I can edit!"
"…You sure about that?" Kid Flash grinned cheekily.
"Yes! Well…sort of…I dunno, never tried…" she trailed off. "Um…anyway! Yeah, scene! Must shoot! Go forth my Teen Titan thespians! And ACT!"
She ran off behind the camera again as Starfire took her position just off the set. This time she managed to get across the stage with out tripping anyone up, and the scene was finished.
The Titans rushed off to get back changed out of their ballroom outfits, and did this incredibly quickly. As she ran to the changing room, Argent tugged her wrist out of a bright orange bracelet and threw it as far away as possible. However, as far away as possible ended up being the side of Flare's head.
"Ow!" she muttered, rubbing the injured spot and frowning at the attacking object. "What the-?" She looked around to see if anyone was looking guilty, but they had all vanished back to their changing rooms. "I will get you Mysterious Poltergeist of mysteriousness! If it's the last thing I do! MWUHAHAHAHA!!" she yelled, falling to her knees.
Yeeeaaaaaah…randomness, I know...
By the way, my sister gave me the idea of having me go crazy at the end…(Yeah, she's crazy too…live with it…;) )
I got some good news guys! I got an A on my physics exam!! YAYZ!! I'm so proud of myself! Heh, just thought I'd share that bit of news with you…
URGENT MEESSAGE! READ OR DIE! (or cake…lulz, jokez)
Also, gasp shock horror! I have now got THREE people who put down 'Other' on the poll on my profile. Please, if you did do that then please tell me what story you meant! I'd like to know! 'Cause I am really ticked right now, only one person so far has told me! (And I forget who and what 'cause I'm forgetful that way…heheheh…)
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