The Titans spent the next several days cleaning, re-organizing, fixing, and re-cleaning the tower from top to bottom under Robin's orders.

True, their leader might not have the healthiest relationship when it came to his former mentor but that didn't necessarily mean that time had withered away his need to impress him in the slightest. Halfway through the week, most of them had gotten used to waking early. That is, except Beast Boy. The green changeling still had to be dragged out of his bunk by Cyborg to spend another day vacuuming unknown substances from the shag carpet. He hated this job. Partially because you never really knew what you would find in there and also because when you did, it was never a pleasant experience. Needless to say, he drew the short straw.

Starfire on the other hand, was just as much (if not more so) enthusiastic about cleaning their home as Robin was. Mind you, she did have the most fun job.

Since Star was the only one other than Raven (who preferred to organize the book shelves) who could fly in human form, the job of cleaning the huge, french - style doors overlooking the harbor fell on her. For anyone else, this would mean long, miserable hours of scrubbing stains off glass in the hot sun. Of course, that sounded like a grand time to Starfire. All day she could be seen swooping and diving as she worked persistent stains from the windows, accumulated over years of wear and little maintenance.

Raven on the other hand, had hardly been seen during the day time that week. She chose to re -organize the shelves in the basement, a clutter of books and scrolls the Titans called their " community library". Of course, this title didn't suit it in the slightest, seeing as Raven was the only one who ever used it. Over the years, the books in there had migrated into Raven's room so it was less a library and more storage.

Cyborg meanwhile was working on updating the computer system for the tower. He often bragged that it was the "most important job" and that he had the "special skills required for it" at dinner. Everyone wished they could say it wasn't but they weren't idiots, they knew it was. Without Cyborg's computer abilities, the tower (and the team) wouldn't last a single day.

It was finally the end of what the whole team (excluding Starfire) hoped to be last "cleaning week" they ever had to endure. It's almost poetic in a way, they could stand, mabey even enjoy hours upon hours of fighting villains trying to take over Jump City and yet, like any other stereotypical teenagers, when faced with cleaning up, a feeling of impending doom enveloped them.

"Dude, I never thought I would say this, but I'm actually sick of tofu." Beast Boy said with disgust as he picked a slimy, mold covered, white blob out of the vacuum cleaner. He tossed it into the garbage bin which was already over filled to the point of collapsing. "I don't even know how it got under the fridge."

"Well now you know how the rest of us feel every single day." Raven replied blandly.

Robin walked to the front of the room and turned around to face it, as if inspecting the cleanliness of it. The couch was spotless for the first time anyone could remember. They had spent hours of spraying it with various spot removers before they finally gave up and asked Raven to magic it off.

The fridge was equally as neat, this time devoid of blue goo on it's way to becoming a sentient species. They had ended up throwing away a lot of their food in the process of cleaning it, well, thrown away or eaten. Halfway through the task BB had decided to "clear some space" as he put it by eating a pizza that none of them remembered. They probably should have stopped him, and Starfire would have if she had been there. But she wasn't, she was at the mall with Robin. They had gone off to get lunch. Yeah sure.

Anyway, BB had eaten the pizza and you can kind of imagine what happened next. It rhymes with "botal shmailure" on his part.

The Titans looked over their common room with pride. It actually resembled a superhero base instead of a teen hang out for once. And just in time too. It was Monday. And Batman would be here any minute now.

They sat in silence for a few minutes, no one wanting to be the first to talk. That's when the heard the thrum of a jets' engine above their heads.

Robin stood up. "He's here"