Chapter 3: Forces of Nature
It was not the most pleasant of evenings. A powerful storm blackened the skies tonight, denying even the stars a chance to shine down on the world. Thunder shook the heavens, lightning pierced the clouds, and Raven could almost swear she was seeing the outlines of a skinny guy doing a freakish dance up in the clouds while a fat guy was using the clouds as drums.
Okay, she had definitely had too much coffee as of late.
It had been three weeks since she was kicked out of H.I.V.E. Academy, though things were not a grim as they were before. Raven did no longer have access to her huge funds and vast arsenal, but she was still doing okay.
She had taken the chance to kick start her mercenary career. After all, she no longer had any ties to an organization. Though she was still planning on wasting Robin, she did after all miss all her weapons that H.I.V.E. Academy had confiscated.
But back to the topic of her mercenary career. She was planning on starting small. A few jobs here and there to lay a foundation. Sooner or later her name would start circulating in the right groups and then the juicy jobs would start rolling in.
And it was because of her mercenary career that she was even out this evening. She had been contacted a few days ago by an anonymous individual, who had promised a large payment for a job he needed to have completed.
Having had nothing else to do, other than spying on the Teen Titans in preparation for her strike of course, she had accepted. The contact had said to meet him at the top of the Wayne Enterprises building in Jump City, and this was where she was waiting for him.
But after half an hour and still no sign of him, Raven was seriously beginning to lose her patience.
"Where the hell is he?" she mumbled irritably to herself. Seriously, a glacier was faster than this!
Raven gave an irritated groan, thinking of hundreds of possible activities she could have done instead of standing around here. If that slowpoke did not show up within five minutes, then Raven was ditching this job.
Five minutes passed and there was still no sign of that damn contact. Finally, Raven had had enough and threw her hands up in the air in resignation.
"Alright, that's it! I'm out of here!" she said mostly to herself, not really expecting an answer.
"Really now? And after I offered you such a high payment?" though fate always liked to throw something unexpected at us, exemplified here by someone suddenly speaking from behind Raven while a hand firmly grasped her shoulder.
Raven instantly froze up, her mind kicking into overdrive. 'How the hell did he manage to sneak up on me like that? I never even felt him approach!" she thought frantically. Instinctively, she now knew that this was not a man to trifle with.
"Took you long enough to get here. Got stuck in traffic or something?" Raven asked sarcastically, trying to cover up her unease.
"That is irrelevant. What is relevant however is if you are willing to accept the job" the man stated calmly. On some level, Raven was sure that she had heard that man's voice before, but dismissed it for the moment.
"That depends on what the job is" Raven countered as she turned around to look her employer in the eye.
He said nothing in response, instead he handed her an envelope which she opened and quickly skimmed through its information.
"So you need me to steal this item for you and then deliver it to a clearing outside the city?" she questioned to make sure she had gotten the facts right. He just nodded his head.
"Very well, easy enough job I guess" Raven said as she was about to walk away, but suddenly stopped herself "But just so you know, if I happen to run into the Titans because of this then I want 15% more than what we agreed upon"
Raven expected some form of outburst from her client, maybe that he would even withdraw the job. She had most certainly never expected him to chuckle at her.
"I wouldn't worry myself if I were you, Raven. The Teen Titans will be otherwise… preoccupied this evening"
She raised an invisible eyebrow under her hood, but just shrugged her shoulders and leaped off the building. As long as she was paid and she did not run into the Titans, Raven was not about to ask too many questions.
At Titans Tower we find a most peculiar sight in one of its hallways. A green buffalo was struggling to pull a massive rubber band into position and place it in a hook. The moment its task was done, the buffalo morphed into Beast Boy, holding a balloon in his hands and an evil smirk on his lips.
He even cackled evilly to himself.
"This is gonna be so sweet" he said to himself, and like Raven before him did not expect an answer.
"Okay, what are you doing this time?" a highly annoyed, and highly feminine, voice suddenly asked from behind him, causing him to jump in surprise and nearly drop his balloon on the floor.
As he finally managed to firmly grasp it in his hands again, he turned around to find Argent looking at him, and not in a happy way.
"Please tell me this isn't another one of your ridiculous pranks?" she half asked, half pleaded with him.
"Okay, it's not a ridiculous prank" he stated proudly while puffing out his chest "It's a brilliant one"
Argent did not even bother to come up with a retort.
"Alright, check it out. Remember how Cyborg put red dye in my shampoo and I turned brown for two days?" he asked seriously.
Here Argent had to struggle not to smile. Of course she remembered, how could she ever forget that? She even had a few photos of the incident she had managed to take without him noticing.
"Well sister, it's payback time" Beast Boy stated while slamming his fists together "I give you the Beast Boy insta-lube 9000. See when crome don steps around the corner, his foot tugs the string, the string trips the lever, the lever releases the mother of all rubber bands, which sends a balloon load of motor oil flying right and boosh! Pretty clever, huh?"
Argent just looked at him as if he had suddenly just turned into the single dumbest creature in existence.
"You're a genius" she deadpanned sarcastically, never once meaning any of the words spoken. Though Beast Boy seemed not to notice.
"It's just a little good fun" he countered before the sound of a door opening further down the hallway reached his ears.
"Here he comes" he whispered before dragging Argent behind a corner to hide.
"I do not think…" she began but was shushed by Beast Boy.
"But what if…" she tried again with the same result.
"Why are we hiding?" Cyborg whispered behind the two but was shushed by Beast Boy. It seemed to take him a second or so before he realized who exactly he had shushed as he gave a panicked yelp while he spun around to face Cyborg.
"Cyborg? You can't be Cyborg!" Beast Boy said frantically while pointing an accusing finger at him.
"I can't?" he asked, both looking and sounding confused.
"If you're you, then who's…?" Beast Boy asked while pointing down the hallway, a cold feeling beginning to grow in his stomach. This could not end well.
And right he was, because around the corner came obviously not Cyborg, but Starfire. Never seeing the trap in her path, Starfire unknowingly stepped on the tripwire and released the deadly projectile.
Beast Boy desperately tried to catch the balloon, but it was too late. Starfire had time to let out one surprised "eep" before her face was covered in motor oil and she fell over in surprise.
"Starfire!" Beast Boy cried out in horror as he rushed to her side, quickly followed by the others.
"You okay?" Cyborg asked in concern. Starfire meanwhile opened her eyes and looked at her friends in sadness and confusion.
"This is punishment? I did something wrong?" she asked in a meek voice.
"You didn't, he did" Argent clarified while giving a pointed glare at Beast Boy, who at least had the decency to look sheepish. There even was the sound of sheep in the background.
"Star, it was… you weren't supposed to… I didn't…" Beast Boy tried to explain, but continuously faltered under the looks given to him by his three friends. Then of course he had to make it worse.
"Heh, just remember to change that oil every few thousand miles" he tried to awkwardly joke his way free. It had the opposite effect as Starfire was instantly on her feet, a furious expression on her face.
"On my planet, we have a name for those who do such terrible things. You are a… a…" she seemed to struggle to say the last word but finally screamed it with enough force to blow the motor oil right off of her "CLORBAG VARBLERNELK" (Not sure if I pronounced that correctly)
"I'm a what-bag?" Beast Boy asked hesitantly.
"You heard the lady" Cyborg simply stated.
"I've never seen a bigger glorbag in my entire life" Argent deadpanned.
"Come on you guys, can't anybody take a joke?" he tried to defend himself. Before anymore words could be thrown at him, a particularly large fork of lightning stabbed down from the skies.
"Titans, trouble!" Robin stated as he appeared.
The trouble he was referring to was a pair of teenagers dressed in Asian designed clothes that appeared right on top of a bridge via a bolt of lightning.
"May we have fun here, brother?" the bigger one of the two asked.
"Of course! We are Thunder and Lightning! We may do whatever we please!" the smaller and skinnier one stated as he shot lightning into the bridge cables.
"Look brother, I command the sparks to dance!" he exclaimed eagerly as sparks flew everywhere.
"Amusing. Now listen as I make music" the bigger one said as he clapped his hands together, creating a sonic shockwave that tore the cables loose. The shorter one suddenly fired his lightning at a nearby bus and carved a lightning bolt symbol on it.
"Let all who pass this way know; Lightning was here!" Lightning said eagerly.
"And Thunder too!" Thunder exclaimed as he slammed his fists together, creating a small earthquake that somehow managed to set off all of the cars' alarm systems. This only prompted more laughter from the brothers.
"Most amusing" Lightning said.
"Hate to break it to you. But you guys got a lousy sense of humor. This ends… now!" Robin suddenly said as he appeared with his team. That order did not sit well with the brothers.
"No one gives orders to Thunder and Lightning! Taste my power!" Lightning screeched as he fired off a bolt of lightning at Robin. And thus the fight commenced.
A night guard was silently walking down past the exhibits in the museum, nonchalantly shining his flashlight this way and that. Truth be told, he was bored, and he expected the rest of his shift to be just as boring.
"Gordon, you got anything down there?" someone suddenly asked from his walkie-talkie, causing him to nearly leap up in the air in fright. He fumbled with it for a few seconds before he managed to press the right button.
"No, nothing down here. It's as quiet as a grave. Why do you ask?" he inquired curiously.
"Nothing. Just got a weird glitch on the security cameras here for a second, that's all"
"Well, you can relax up there in your cozy office. There's not even a rat down here" Gordon said before he continued his patrol.
He had barely taken five steps before he was grabbed from behind and a strange smelling cloth was pressed against his face. He struggled feebly to get free, but whoever was behind him was holding him in a steel grip.
Finally his body grew slack and the assailant let him fall unceremoniously to the floor. With the guard dealt with, Raven casually stepped over him and walked up to one of the exhibits.
"Now why would someone pay so handsomely just to get a simple trinket?" she mused to herself as she gazed at the seemingly unassuming artifact. But eventually she just shrugged her shoulders and drew her sword.
With one swift cut, she removed the top of the glass cage. She quickly sheathed her sword and picked up the item.
"Oh well. So long as I get paid, I won't complain" Raven said mostly to herself. She was about to slip into the ventilation system when she heard a crash outside and the sound of several stone constructs collapsing.
Raven cast a surprised look at the entrance, deliberating whether to go and investigate or to just slip away. Curiosity won out in the end and she silently slipped outside.
What she found was a most peculiar sight. Two teenagers in strange garments were standing in the open and discussing with each other. A quick glance around the immediate vicinity showed that the two of them had been playing at little rough, if the destroyed stone pillars were any indication.
Carefully, she slipped closer while staying hidden in the shadows. Finally she was close enough that she could hear what they were saying.
"The green one's words. He says our fun is… wrong" the big and blue skinned one said hesitantly. Raven raised an intrigued eyebrow. Green one? Was he referring to Beast Boy? Had those two been in a fight with the Teen Titans?
Considering their apparent love of wrecking things, it was safe to assume that so was the case.
The skinny one suddenly burst out laughing.
"Wrong? He speaks nonsense, brother. How could such amusement be wrong?" he asked while gesturing towards the wreckage. "The fun is only beginning"
But as the skinny one dragged the big one away, Raven was looking at the pair with interest. Those two were obviously causing trouble across the city, and the Titans were not about to let them get away with it. This could actually be a perfect chance to do some reconnaissance on the Titans' skills.
All she had to do was wait for those second-rate heroes to show up.
She was not disappointed. Barely ten minutes later, both Beast Boy and Starfire were on the scene. Raven was currently crouching on her stomach on one of the roofs, close enough to hear what they were saying, yet far enough away to limit the chance of detection.
"Well. Either they were just here, or this is the ugliest modern art I've ever seen" Beast Boy tried to joke, but Starfire did not even look at him.
"You are not funny, you are a clorbag varblernelk" she stated coldly while walking past him. Up on her roof, Raven looked thoroughly confused. 'A what-bag?" she thought to herself.
"Come on Star, you can't stay mad forever!" Beast Boy pleaded with her as she kept walking with her nose in the air "What, do I have to do the face? You know you can't resist the face"
The face he was referring to was in the form of him morphing into a small kitten with big eyes. He even let out a cute meow for added effect. Raven had to agree, that face would be highly effective against someone like Starfire.
Though it seemed that this time was an exception as Starfire just walked right past Beast Boy without a second thought. Beast Boy morphed back to his human form, a look of astonishment on his face.
"She resisted the face!" he burst out, not believing what had happened. Internally, Raven was a little amused by what she was seeing. It seemed that alien girl had a stone-cold side of her after all.
"Just talk to me Star! Come on, this is no fun!" Beast Boy pleaded with her, even going so far as kneeling with his hands clapped together. Starfire just continued to ignore him and Raven was beginning to grow extremely curious on what could have happened between those two.
"Wrong again, green one" the skinny one from before suddenly said as he and his brother came flying in towards the Titans. The skinny one was firing lightning from his hands while the big one was firing a sonic blast.
Both Titans dived out of the way of the attacks. Starfire soon found herself chased by the big one as he kept firing after her. She ran right up a wall and used it to flip over her enemy and land behind him. She was quick to fire her own starbolts at him and now he was forced to run away from her.
The skinny one tried to nail Beast Boy with lightning, but he morphed into a rabbit and scurried away. 'How fitting' Raven thought sarcastically. Beast Boy soon morphed into a bird Raven had never seen before as more lightning bolts came at him.
He was quickly back on the ground, this time morphed as a mouse, and charged at the skinny one.
"Your animal forms cannot protect you forever!" the skinny one said confidently before he was rammed by Beast Boy as a buffalo. 'Idiot' was all Raven could think about the skinny one.
Starfire and the big one meanwhile had become locked in a contest of power, as both fired continuous beams at one another in an attempt to overpower the other. Starfire won in the end and the big one was sent flying.
As he hit the ground, he had to crawl away from a green grizzly bear while Starfire became locked in a similar contest again, this time with the skinny one. 'I have to admit, they work pretty well as a team' Raven mused to herself. It was obvious that at this rate, those two brothers were toast.
However, salvation for those two came in the unexpected form of a powerful energy blast that demolished a large portion of the area.
"Star!" Beast Boy's terrified shout echoed from somewhere, but Raven had lost sight of both him and Starfire. Finally, the two brothers stepped out from the smoke, clearly disoriented.
"Your gifts are your own. Who are they to tell you how to use them?" a voice echoed from all around them, putting the two brothers on high alert.
"And who are you that commands such power? Show yourself!" the skinny one shouted out in irritation. Raven was already looking for where this mysterious man was hiding, so far coming up empty.
"As you wish" he answered as he stepped out in the open, revealing an elderly man in red robes with white beard and moustache. A single eye was gazing out from under a strange hat he wore.
Upon seeing him, Raven did a double take in shock. But that shock soon turned to amusement. 'Small world we live in. small world indeed' she thought humorlessly.
"I am but a humble old man. Whose power is drawn from nature, like your own" he introduced himself. Mentally, Raven snorted at him. 'Drawn from nature, my ass' she thought. From her vantage point, she had a good view of the still smoking energy cannon conveniently disguised as a camera lying behind some rubble.
"Come with me, a sow as much destruction as you please" he continued calmly. The skinny one appeared to like the idea.
"Yes! More fun!" he burst out happily, but the big one placed a restraining hand on his brother's shoulder.
"Will we harm anyone?" he asked in concern. Raven raised a surprised eyebrow at his question. 'So the big guy has a conscience' she thought.
"What?!" the skinny one burst out in anger "The green one has poisoned your mind"
The big one seemed to ignore his brother's words as he turned to the old man again.
"This… destruction, will we harm the innocent?" he asked.
"Would it matter if you did?" the old man calmly retorted "You are unique. Gifted. Better. Why should anything interfere with your enjoyment?"
Ouch, was that not a little too harsh? Sure, Raven liked to do as she pleased without a care for others, but she did not harbor any delusions about being better than others. She just had a complete disregard for rules.
"I am going. Follow, if you wish" he old man stated before he turned around and walked away.
"Come brother, and leave your foolish thoughts behind" the skinny one said as he walked after the old man, soon followed by his brother.
Raven meanwhile had seen enough and slowly crawled away from the edge before jumping to her feet and calmly walked away. She had a rendezvous point to reach.
What she found once she reached it was not something she had expected. The old man and the two brothers had arrived before her and she had decided to hide in the surrounding trees for the moment.
Out in the clearing, the old man had set up several sacks with stick in them and strange symbols carved on them. Apparently he was expecting the brothers to destroy them.
"Sticks and leaves?!" the skinny one questioned angrily "Is this a joke? There is no fun in blasting such frail targets!"
Raven could not help but agree. What could possibly be entertaining about such stupid target dummies?
"Are you certain, young master? Try, you may like what you see" the old man calmly encouraged. He sure liked to remain calm all the time. The skinny one grumbled to himself before firing a bolt of lightning at his chosen target. It immediately started burning.
"Dancing lights! Pleasing" he exclaimed in wonder while the big one had a look of awe on her face. Raven could not help but sweat drop at that. 'What? Never seen a fire before?' she thought.
"Let Thunder try his hand" the big one said as he stepped forward. 'So, his name is Thunder, eh?' Raven thought before her eye drifted to the skinny one 'And if my intuition still serves me well, I'd say his name is Lightning'
A loud boom interrupted her thoughts, and as she turned back to the macabre scene she found that Thunder had just blown another target sky-high.
"Wondrous noise!" he shouted in joy. Raven felt like smacking her forehead or something similar. 'Boys' she thought in resignation.
"See brother, there is no harm in our fun" Lightning said. The old man suddenly stepped forward.
"And there is so much fun to be had" he encouraged them and within seconds the two brothers were blowing up targets left and right. Finally they had torched the last target and were now looking at the old man expectantly, who was smiling sinisterly.
"More targets, old one!" Lightning said enthusiastically.
"Yes, please! Give us more!" Thunder pleaded.
"That won't be necessary. You've done quite enough" he calmly stated before turning towards where Raven was hiding.
"And why don't you come out and join us, young one?" he called out to her. Raven's eyes widened in shock that he had somehow spotted her. Nevertheless, she steeled her nerves and stepped out in the open with an emotionless face.
Both Thunder and Lightning watched in surprise as a young girl seemingly melted right out of the forest's shadows. But they became more than a little nervous when they saw the numerous weapons strapped to her form. The old man however looked completely untroubled by her appearance.
"Do you have what I asked for?" he asked her calmly. Raven narrowed her eyes at him. She was really getting annoyed by his calm persona all the time.
"Do you have what I asked for?" she retorted. The old man said nothing, but a cloud of smoke suddenly appeared in the area between them. When it cleared, a briefcase had appeared.
Calmly approaching the briefcase, while constantly holding a hand over one of her Desert Eagles under her cloak, Raven kneeled in front of it. She carefully opened it, her mouth splitting into a grin upon seeing the rows of money neatly stacked inside. Oh yeah, this would definitively keep her floating for quite some time.
"I kept my end of the bargain. Now what about you?" the old man asked, the faintest hints of a threatening tone slipping into his voice.
Smiling at him, Raven withdrew the object from within her cloak; a round yellow disc with a symbol that looked it had like Asian descent carved on its front.
She threw it like a Frisbee at the old man, who expertly caught it in mid-flight before throwing it high into the air. There it began to spin and hover as an energy field surrounded it.
Suddenly it exploded like a mini-supernova and beams of light struck each of the burning targets. Before anyone knew what had happened, red energy beams began to form between the targets, connecting them.
Both the brothers and Raven looked upon this spectacle in confusion, none of them understanding what it was that was happening. What none of them could see however was that if you looked at it from the air, then those beams were forming into a humanoid shape.
The form suddenly ignited into terrible flames that scorched the ground and anything too close.
"Rise!" the old man commanded while holding a staff into the air. On his command, a massive giant made of flames rose up and gave an inhuman roar. The brothers looked upon the creature in horror while Raven merely looked surprised.
"Burn, Fire! Burn it all!" the old man shouted to his minion, who happily obeyed and turned towards the nearby city. But it found its way blocked.
"Didn't anyone ever tell you? Play with fire, you're going to get burned" Robin stated. The burning giant however just waved its arm in font of itself, creating a wave of flames that forced the Titans to scatter.
With its obstacle gone, the burning giant continued to march towards the city, burning everything in its path. All the while, the old man smiled sinisterly at the destruction he had just caused.
"Good, very good" he commented to himself. Behind him, the two brothers looked on in horror.
"Brother, what have we done?" Thunder asked his brother in despair.
"What you two do best in life it seems" Raven suddenly said as she came up next to them. Lightning glared angrily at her.
"Then what have you done then?" he questioned hatefully, causing Raven to smirk sadistically.
"What I was paid to do" she simply answered. For a moment it seemed like Lightning was going to attack Raven, but the old man stopped him.
"Go, young masters! Fire is your creation, they have no right to destroy your fun!" he stated. To Raven that made no sense at all, though it seemed to make sense to Lightning.
"Yes, we must fight" he stated proudly. His brother however did not look convinced.
"But brother…" he began but was interrupted by Lightning.
"Do not annoy me with your foolish concerns, come!" he demanded. His brother said nothing in return, and together they vanished in a flash of lightning. The old man looked pleased with their departure.
"Well, it's been fun making business with you. But if we're done here, I'll just be on my merry way" Raven nonchalantly said as she begin to stroll away from the battle, briefcase in hand.
"That is of course your decision. However, I would suggest that you stick around for just a little while longer. It may prove… enlightening to you" the old man said in a knowing tone while giving her a sly grin.
Raven raised an inquisitive eyebrow at him. 'Is he referring to what I think he is?' she thought suspiciously. Nevertheless, she took his suggestion to heart a silently slipped into a path of shadows to observe what would happen next.
Not long after, Robin came flying at the old man with a war cry and kicked his staff from his hands. Though it did no good in the end since he just stretched out his hand and the staff came flying back into his hand. He and Robin now faced off against each other.
"Robin, we meet at last" the old man said with a creepy smile on his lips.
"Who are you?" Robin questioned while narrowing his eyes at him. The old man's way of answering was by charging him with a war cry on his lips. Robin tried kicking him again, but the old man grabbed hold of his leg and threw him over himself. Robin landed on his feet but was forced to crouch low to evade a swing from the staff.
As they kept fighting, Raven found a golden opportunity for herself. Robin had all of his focus on the old man and she could easily shoot him in the back. But something was stopping her from doing so. She could not explain it, but she just felt on some instinctual level that she should not interfere with this battle. Not if she valued her life.
But if nothing else, this fight was proving to be enlightening to Raven. She had a first row seat in order to study Robin's fighting style in preparation for her battle with him.
But one fact she had picked up, was the manner in which this fight had started. Robin had come at the old man on his own, without back-up from his team. 'Running ahead to deal with the enemy while leaving your friends in the dust? Robin, my boy, you are making this way too easy' Raven thought amusedly while a grin split her lips.
The fight had now degraded to the point that Robin was completely on the defensive, desperately trying to block the flurry of blows that rained down on him. In a last ditch effort, he rolled under a blow and came up behind the old man. He launched a punch at his back, but the old man merely sidestepped and delivered a back handed strike against his face.
Reeling from the blow, he never reacted in time before the staff swept his legs from under him. At that point, the battlefield was flooded with rain and Raven could hear the agonized death throes of the burning giant in the distance. Though the two combatants seemed not to notice any of this.
As he collapsed to the ground, the old man grabbed hold of the front of his shirt and hoisted him up against a tree. Robin tried to break free, but his efforts were in vain. the old man's grip was too strong.
"Robin, is that the best you can do?" the old man questioned condescendingly. But in the blink of an eye, a lightning bolt struck him in the face, causing him to let go of Robin and stagger back in shock.
But as both Robin and Raven looked at his face, they saw parts of his left half crumble away, exposing a bronze colored mask underneath. Neither of them could do anything else but stare in shock at the old man as he went up in smoke, literally.
As the smoke cleared, all that was left was the disc Raven had stolen earlier. Robin carefully picked it up, and as he gazed at it, he seemed to come to a conclusion.
"Slade" he muttered to himself, just loud enough for Raven to hear. She was sure that her heart stopped beating there for a second.
Slade? As in the Slade that had hired the H.I.V.E. to take out the Teen Titans? Why would he hire Raven to do his dirty work after he had already fired her?
This was just too weird for Raven, but this also felt like it was way out of her league. So she silently slipped away, back into the shadows.
A new dawn was rising in Jump City, and the Teen Titans had a perfect view on the sight from atop a hill. Though not all moods were as sunny among the Titans as the morning was.
"So, Slade wants to destroy the city. Question is; why?" Cyborg mused out loud to Robin, who looked as brooding as ever.
"I don't know. But I will find out, and he won't get away with it" Robin stated with conviction. Beast Boy meanwhile was hesitantly approaching Starfire.
"So… am I, you know, still a clorbag?" he asked shyly. Starfire looked thoughtful for a while before she answered.
"No, I believe you are more of a… milnip wosserloop (again, no idea if I spelled that correctly. Stupid Tamarenian language)" Starfire stated. Beast Boy took the news extremely well as he began to perform a victory dance.
"Sweet! Go Beast Boy! I'm a milnip! Who's your wosserloop, huh?" he sung happily before a small thought suddenly struck him "That… is good thing, right Star?"
The only response he got was Starfire flying away while giggling to herself about something.
"Star?"
