Ahh! I'm so sorry guys! I've been lazy lately and school's being a bully. So working on my stories has been impossible. And the worst part is, the longer I put off a story the more I don't want to work on it! Please try to stay with this story even if I don't update frequently!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans.
Note: Just too clear things up, it's the 28th of November. Please ignore any dates I said in the past as this is the current date!
2nd Note: Dance is on the 20th December
3rd Note: I have planned everything and I'm confirming that there are going to be 30 chapters altogether in this story.
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"I want to give it some more time." Kori admitted. "A little more time to think about it all."
"Don't worry Kori; I'm on the same boat." Rachel reassured. "And, to be honest, I kinda thought that deal thing was just a joke." Kori blinked.
"Oh. Let's pretend I thought that too..." Kori said. "And so the deal isn't official?"
"Agreed." Rachel had humoured smile on her face, which Kori matched, and the two of them trooped out of the lab.
TT
"Dudes! I can't wait for tomorrow!" Beast Boy announced as he proudly entered the Common Room. The rest of his teammates were located in the room. Raven was talking to Starfire and Robin and Cyborg were battling each other on a video game.
"How many times have you said that?" Raven asked him wearily. He shrugged.
"Dunno, I don't count how many times I say things." He said, matter-of-factly.
"I am guessing you are excited for July the 4th, am I right?" Starfire asked. "Raven was just telling me why you were so excited today."
"We all are BB." Cyborg said while he was concentrating on his video game. "Imma making my famous cheeseburgers and hot dogs. I'm gonna try and make you a carnivore, BB."
"You'll never succeed!" Beast Boy retorted. "Other than what Cy's making, I'm revved up for July the 4th!"
"Beast Boy, would you mind taking the last shift for the night?" Robin asked, his eyes glued to the screen. Beast Boy frowned. He wasn't eager to patrol, it was usually boring. Bank Robbers never really put up much of a fight.
"Yes I would."
"Beast Boy."
"Gah, fine." Beast Boy mumbled. He walked out of the doors again as he was to patrol the city.
TT
The rest of the school week passed slowly and painfully. The Talent show was still in order but all five of them thought it should be called something less misleading. Also, Garth was informed he was to join Gar, Kori, Rachel, Richard, Victor and Jenn in the Comic Con next week as their jobs at lunchtime will alternate. However, one person every day would not participate in the Comic Con, aside from Garth and Jenn, as there weren't enough stalls for everyone. This was excellent news for everyone apart from Garth. He was furious but the Principal did not change his mind.
However, despite what the Principal had made them do, he actually did something that pleased practically everyone in the school; he fired Mr. Mod. As soon as he heard what Mr. Mod had attempted to do, by the Nurse, there was no hesitation (it was rumoured the Principal had a crush on the Nurse, but rumours aren't always right).
During all of this, Rachel was slowly building up panic for her date with Gar. As they were only going to the Pizzeria, she assumed it to be casual. Kori had confirmed that so now Rachel was wondering what she would wear. Karen and Kori offered to help her choose the perfect outfit, something that Rachel never thought she'd agree to let them doing. Gar was just as nervous as she as he was worried that he might be too immature for her. Victor, Richard and Roy helped him out and offered encouraging pep talk and advice which boosted Gar's spirits a bit.
It was Saturday, finally the day where Rachel and Gar would go out on a date (after reading fan letters of course. They were surprised no one had seemed to find out about the storeroom full of fan letters yet.) Kori was in fact, very excited and provided Rachel with many hints and tips for her date. Rachel was extremely nervous. She didn't remember the last time she felt like that before. Kori wished Rachel luck as she left to head off to Vic's house where she, Richard and Victor himself were to try out the Dimension Machine.
TT
Kori arrived at Victor's house and went down to the Laboratory. Richard and Victor were already there though it looked as if Richard had just arrived as he was putting on his lab coat. As soon as Kori entered, a lab coat was tossed in her direction. She caught it neatly and automatically put it on.
"Are you sure we still need Lab Coats, Vic? We're just doing some tinkering. Heck, knowing us we'll just be watching." Richard said.
"You always need Lab Coats, Rich." Vic replied as if that settled the matter. Richard shrugged nonchalantly and went over to the machine. Kori followed suit.
"May I ask what we're calling this thing?" Kori said. "Are we going with Gar's suggestion?"
"Sorta. I thought an abbreviation would be good, 'specially when we're talking with people 'round so they don't listen in on our conversation." Vic said. "Just in case. So it's gonna be called D.T."
"Design and Technology?" Richard said, sounding confused.
"No man, it stands for Dimension Taker. I mean seriously, that name is rubbish, isn't it? So we're calling it D.T." Vic inspected the machine and then pointed to a plaque above the large door. It had the letters 'D.T.' on it.
"I also thought I should abbreviate it cuz then it would actually fit on 'ere." Victor smirked. The other two laughed slightly and then, they began to work. Work, as in checking everything was fine and there were not loose bolts or misplaced sheets of metal. One or two of these examples were found so Victor fixed them right away with Kori and Richard watching with mild interest. They were all in fact; very excited to travel to another dimension again, despite the fact the shock they received last time they went. Anticipation and excitement was in the air.
TT
At Rachel's house, anticipation and excitement was in the air also. Along with nervousness. She sat in her lounge, often taking frantic glances at the window to check whether Gar was coming or not. It was silence at her house. Dozens of hypothetical scenarios zoomed around in her head. What if he actually intended the date to be formal? What if he never came? What if he didn't like her? What if their friendship broke into a million of pieces? Rachel hoped she looked presentable in her black, skinny jeans and deep blue, long sleeved top. She had earrings to match, some black pumps and a fashionable belt, a 'surprise' gift from Karen. Never before did Rachel appreciate that she had such wonderful, fashion crazy friends.
Every minute, she glanced at the clock. She felt sick to her stomach but not literally, just sick with tension and the thrill of having a date with Gar. It was nearing Six 'o' clock on Rachel's clock. Only five minutes to go. Four and half minutes. Four minutes. Three minutes. Two. One. Rachel closed her eyes so she wouldn't look at the clock anymore. Some time passed. She immediately jumped to conclusions and assumed Gar had stood her up.
Then the door bell rang.
Heart surging with joy, she got up in a flash and went to the door. Then she stopped, relaxed herself and then opened it. Gar was standing on her doorstep, looking as handsome as ever in Rachel's eyes. His hair looked like he had attempted to brush it. He was wearing some blue jeans and a dark green T-shirt which read: 'Back Off. She's Mine.' To top everything off, he had a beautiful dark red Rose in his mouth. He raised his eyebrows, twice, which made Rachel smile. Then, she gently prised the Rose from his mouth.
"Ow... ooh..." Gar cringed. "Ouch, I think I should've taken off the thorns."
"I think you should've." Rachel said. "It's beautiful anyway." Gar stopped cringing and smiled at her.
"I thought it resembled you." He said. When she gave him a confused expression, he added: "It's beautiful, isn't it?" Rachel felt her face grow hot and she knew she was blushing. It seemed that Gar knew too because his cheeks tinged pink too.
"Thank you." Rachel said, holding the delicate rose in her hands. She glanced into the hallway and spotted a surface which she could lay the rose on. Quickly placing it there, she turned to Gar.
"Should we go?" she asked.
"Yep! I'm starving." Gar smiled goofily, a smile Rachel secretly loved.
TT
"Is it ready? Is it ready? C'mon Vic, hurry up!"
"Wait, wait, wait! Be patient, man! I can't get anything wrong here." Impatient were Kori and Richard as they waited for Vic to screw in the last bolt. He was taking his time certainly, to ensure nothing went wrong. Kori was tapping her foot impatiently and Richard kept encouraging Vic to finish. Finally, after what seem like hours (but in fact was only ten minutes) Vic announced that the machine was completed and ready for use.
Hallelujah!
Victor, Kori and Richard stepped back to look at the final result of hard work, perseverance and oil stains. D.T. looked high and a little intimidating if you had no knowledge of its purpose. All three of them felt excitement leap in their stomachs as they anticipated what was happening next. Also a little apprehensive of the small chance of something go wrong, though, Victor had assured them that his father had gone over and over the whole Dimension concept with his colleagues and himself and that he was sure nothing could go wrong. Even though they had tried it out before, there was always a chance some of the difficult machinery could go haywire.
Nevertheless, they all took of their dirty lab coats and stared at D.T.
"Who's going in first?" Richard asked.
"Not me!" Kori said indignantly.
"You go Vic." Richard said.
"Wh-what? Why do I have to?" Victor argued.
"Because you're probably most familiar with all the technology and stuff." Richard retorted. Vic looked at both of them and opened the door. They were mildly disappointed to discover there was no dramatic opening such as smoke bursting out. It was quite simple. Victor got in and in followed Kori and Richard. It wasn't as squished as last time as there were only three of them.
Victor got out his iphone-similar controlling device which was familiar. They heard him mutter something like: 'No, not Harry Potter... definitely not Spongebob... there's a Twilight dimension?' After pressing a couple of buttons, Victor turned to them.
"Ready, y'all?" Victor asked them both. They nodded. He slammed his fist on a giant red button. Then it started...
It was all too familiar to the three of them: dizziness, constant spinning sensation, motion sickness, blurs and swirls... it seemed to go on for ages, Richard was sure he was going to throw up...a sudden flash of light...
From what is seemed like midair, they came tumbling down whilst screaming and then they landed on hard asphalt.
TT
As Gar apologetically told Rachel he had not yet got a moped, he had told her that they simply had to walk to the Pizzeria. She didn't really mind of course as she was used to walking and it gave them more time to talk anyway. The more they talked the more comfortable she felt. They talked about school and how Gar was showing signs of improvement already thanks to Rachel's enjoyable tutoring. They also talked about the Principal and the fact he simply was called the Principal instead of 'Principal Holden'. They even talked about the annoying people at school like Mary-Sue (though, they hadn't seen her in a while thank goodness) and other general people.
Much too quickly, they arrived at the Pizzeria. It was pretty busy though Gar was happy because then no one would overhear their conversation. They were directed to their table which was on the balcony, over-looking the streets where cars were driving up and down.
"Nice view." Rachel commented. "Of Jump City."
"Yeah... pretty cool, isn't it?" Gar said, agreeing. "I like coming up here during the evening."
"Me too." Rachel agreed. She picked up the menus which already had been conveniently laid out for them and started reading them for pizza choices. Gar smiled his toothy grin at her.
"I don't see why you still need a menu, Rachel." Gar chuckled. "We've been here like thousand times." She shrugged.
"Might as well look through it again... even though I've memorised this." She giggled a little, something she didn't do often but Gar had noticed she had been doing it a lot more lately. After a moment of pizza-topping-memorising Gar spoke.
"You know Rachel... I'm really glad you're here tonight." Gar said. Rachel looked up to check if he was just exaggerating his feelings but he looked very sincere. "You don't know how long I've been waiting for this." Rachel put down her menu and put her hand tentatively over his. He accepted it.
"The feeling's mutual." She said softly. "I didn't ever think you'll be interested in a girl like me. We're total opposites."
"I thought the same." Gar nodded. "I guess Richard, Vic, Roy, Kori, Karen and any of our other friends were right."
"Perhaps we should trust them more." Rachel suggested. Then they both laughed simultaneously.
"Hmm... I'm actually going to check the pizzas. I'm kinda hungry." Gar pulled his hand away. Rachel felt a little hurt for a moment before she realised why he did so and didn't think much about it.
"So am I." She nodded and they began discussing the menus.
TT
It took Victor, Richard and Kori some time to get onto their feet and ignore the throb in their jaws. Their eyes darted around the area, examining everything. It looked exactly the same as their home, there was no difference. Perhaps one of the signs was a different colour but that was hardly a significant feature. Kori noticed a familiar place in the distance.
"Hey look, that's where Rachel and Gar are going!" she said randomly, indicating the Pizzeria.
"Ssh!" Victor hissed.
"What? There's no-one around." Kori said but said it in a hushed tone anyway.
"We don't want anyone to see us!" Victor said and pulled them both behind a dustbin.
"Why?" Richard said. "Nothing's gonna happen with the space and time continuity whatever..."
"I know but we don't want anyone to see us! They're bound to realise we look oddly like Teen Titans and they'll be a rumour around about the Teen Titans having twins or something." Victor explained. After a couple of seconds, they both nodded, understanding.
"I see. So what are we meant to be doing here anyway?" Kori asked.
"Well, I'm sure this place has got to do with something with all the Teen Titans trash on television. So we just snoop around and see if we find anything worth taking back." Victor said, though, he sounded a little unsure himself.
"Right... so stay quiet and unseen and look for things that we don't even know what are." Richard summarised. "Let's go." Walking from the behind of the dustbin, they observed the area. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary here so they started walking on the sidewalk (or pavement), wary of people nearby. They almost got spotted by a random bystander but he had turned away and ran down an alleyway before he saw them.
"Probably doing drugs." Victor muttered.
"What makes you so sure of that?" Richard retorted.
"Well, why else would he go down an alleyway?" Victor said, his voice changing to normal conversation tone.
"Maybe to rape someone." Richard suggested.
"What? Man, you come up with the strangest ideas."
"It's possible!" Kori deadpanned as they began arguing at a volume much too high for what they were currently attempting to do.
"Sssh!" she hissed. "Someone might here you!"
"Is anyone there?" a strangely familiar voice echoed in the night. Panicking, the three became silent and hid behind the nearest structure- a lamp post. Still, they made an effort to stay unseen. It was noiseless around them for a couple of minutes. The person must have gone, they'd thought.
"Hey!" someone whispered, immediately behind them.
"AHHHH!" Jumping a foot into the air, they turned around and stared at owner of the voice. He was shorter than them, looked oddly familiar, had elfish ears and was wildlife green. They exchanged looks with each other before looking back at him.
"What are you doing out here so late? Are you guys doing drugs?" the Green Boy accused.
"No! No!" Victor said quickly. Oh shoot... he's a Teen Titan! This is not gonna go well. Despite the fact Victor had specifically said that they shouldn't meet and greet anyone, Kori talked to Beast Boy anyway.
"Are you Beast Boy?" she asked cautiously.
"Yep!" He said, seemingly proud that he was. Then he frowned, his eyes scanning them. "Hey... I know you!"
Oh shoot.
"You're the guys who showed up a couple of weeks ago!" Beast Boy said, a smile appearing. He seemed pretty excited. He pointed to each of them in turn. "You look like Cyborg... you look like Robin, and thanks for telling us what colour of his eyes were, and you look like Starfire!" He began to laugh and they froze for a bit, his laughter sounded much too like Gar's. It was too freaky.
"No we're not!" Victor said suddenly. "We're...wearing costumes. Y'know, so we kinda look like the Teen Titans." He nudged Richard who started playing along.
"Yep! We're just trying out our... new Halloween costumes!" he looked at Kori, expecting her to continue.
"Uh... yeah! We thought it'd be really scary to see Teen Titans as normal humans... and stuff... you know... because you're not?" Kori babbled aimlessly, hoping Beast Boy bought it. He remained in thought for a couple of seconds before grinning.
"Oh! Though, Rob's already human in case you guys hadn't noticed." Beast Boy pointed out. Richard already had a reply to this.
"I thought it'd be scary not to see him in Spandex." Richard said, smiling a little. Beast Boy seemed to buy their entire lie.
"Good point... Alright then dudes. Don't do drugs and no drinking either... and whatever else you can think of." He added nonchalantly before walking off, casually. They let out an internal sigh of relief.
"Whoa... that was the best lying you've ever done Kori." Richard said to her in a hushed tone, genuinely impressed.
"I can't believe he actually bought it." Victor admitted. He glanced over at Beast Boy, who was now about thirty feet away from them. "Y'know... do you think we should follow him?"
Richard and Kori stared at him.
"Weren't you the one who just said that he's not meant to see us?" Richard hissed.
"I know...but he might give us some hints about the Teen Titans thing! I mean, he's the real deal." Victor explained. Kori and Richard looked at each other. Not knowing how following a Teen Titan would help, they agreed to it anyway. Who knows what they'll find?
They crept silently towards Beast Boy and when they got closer, they saw him taking his communicator out of his pocket.
"Calling Raven!" he said loudly. The three of them had their eyes bulging out of their eye sockets. They just about spotted someone's face on Beast Boy's communicator which was without a doubt, Raven.
"Found anything interesting, Beast Boy?" she asked him.
"Well, not found exactly. Something pretty hilarious and kinda stupid." Beast Boy replied.
"I see." Raven said, sounding uninterested.
So Beast Boy began to spout all the lies the three early trick-or-treaters had told him.
"Crazy, right?" Beast Boy smirked once he had finished his anecdote.
"Beast Boy."
"Yeah?"
"Those people are right behind you." Beast Boy stared at Raven for a moment. During this short period of time, Kori, Richard and Victor began speed-tiptoeing into an alleyway.
But then Beast Boy turned around.
"Oh! Hey, dudes!" he sounded a little sheepish. "Uh... you didn't hear all of that conversation, did you?"
"Uh..." They were a little stuck. Should they lie again or tell the truth? Or run for their lives?
"Beast Boy, they heard all of the conversation, I was watching them." Raven's voice came out of the communicator.
"Oh." Beast Boy said. "Well... you guys should be back at home, anyway! It's a little late, y'know! For kids like you."
"We're not kids, we're probably older than you!" Victor couldn't help saying. Kori and Richard really didn't want to stay around. Sooner or later, Beast Boy will come to his senses and realise they were just lying themselves silly. Why'd they come here again? Because of Victor's stupid predicament that they'll find some answers to all their questions? Yeah right. They hadn't been here for less than fifteen minutes and already were in a heap of trouble. And then it got worse.
An ebony-black bird swooped in from the sky and landed on the ground next to Beast Boy, materialising as Raven. Just for a split second, the three humans had thought they had bumped into Gar and Rachel on their date. With Gar with green face paint.
Raven looked at Kori, Richard and Victor. She didn't glare viciously at them, but the look she gave them kept them rooted to the spot. They could've easily run off. But they didn't.
"Didn't we see you before?"
TT
Rachel and Gar had just chosen their pizza (a spicy, vegetable deluxe), and now were just talking cheerfully to one another while they waited for their pizza to be cooked. In fact, Gar had just cracked a joke and Rachel genuinely found it funny.
"You seriously found it funny?" Gar said eyes wide. "You're not kidding?" Rachel stopped laughing and smiled.
"I never told you this but sometimes, I did think your jokes were funny. But you didn't say them at the right times." Rachel explained. "You really need to learn to joke at the right time." Gar grinned sheepishly.
"I guess... I wonder if there are classes on it..." he murmured. Rachel shook her head in amusement and then there was a giggle. Gar looked at Rachel, smirking.
"Wow, am I getting funnier or what?" he commented.
"Why do you say that?" Rachel asked.
"Didn't you just laugh?" Gar pointed out. Rachel shook her head.
Then there was another giggle and Rachel's lips didn't move. They both looked at each other utterly confused.
"Did you learn some trick to laugh without moving your mouth?" Gar asked Rachel.
"No."
"Oh."
"Ignore the laughing." Rachel told Gar. Then, they started chatting about their next times for their Tutoring dates. And then there was laughing again.
"Who the heck is laughing?" Gar grumbled.
"Don't let it bother you." Rachel said, thought it was bothering her. Most people said laughter was contagious but not this laughter. It was squeaky, screechy and annoying. The laughter was even louder this time and Rachel and Gar looked at each other, bewildered. They glanced around but no one seemed to be moving their mouth to indicate laughter. Everyone was just talking and chattering. They didn't even seem to hear the laughing.
Before Rachel or Gar could contemplate on it more, their large, fresh smelling pizza arrived on the table in front of them with a few slices of garlic bread.
"Dude, I'm starving." Gar licked his lips hungrily.
"I'm quite surprised with myself actually. I'm pretty hungry!" Rachel said. Gar took a slice from the pizza and started devouring it. Rachel ate with a little more carefully and tried to avoid getting tomato sauce everywhere, which Gar was successfully doing. Oh well.
The Pizza was delicious and they continued eating...
"OH MY GOSH CAN I HAVE SOME!" A bespectacled girl with strawberry blonde pigtails and brunette roots seemed to burst out of the table in front of Gar. It happened in a split second which made Rachel choke on her pizza and Gar scream in fright and let go of his pizza (the pizza slice flew off and landed on someone's face, quite unexpectedly for them).
"WHAT THE FUDGE!" Gar then proceeded to fall of his chair. The bespectacled girl leaned over to look at Gar. She beamed at him creepily which made him shiver.
Rachel had stopped choking when she had got another scare when another being popped up behind her, yelling 'You idot, Martha!'. The bit of pizza she was joking on flew out of her throat and on the back of the bespectacled girl's head. She didn't notice but she did turn around.
"I'm sorry!" she exclaimed sorrowfully. "I was just so hungry! I mean, you know me! I can't stand not eating for half an hour!"
"No wonder you have three chins!" the other girl snapped. "You just scared Beast Boy and you made me scare Raven! How much more idiotic can you get?"
"Hey! You're the one who yelled right in her ear!" the bespectacled teen argued. Rachel was downright furious and Bea- sorry, Gar was about to explode. He sat up straight and got up calmly. He prodded the bespectacled girl on the shoulder twice. She turned around and gleamed, assuming 'Beast Boy' wanted to have a friendly chat with her. Her smiled faded when Gar spoke.
"Who the heck are you and what the flip are you doing here!" Gar yelled.
"We're Mary-Sue's Posse!" the other girl answered. Rachel and Gar stared at her.
"You're what?" they both shrieked. Rachel stood up abruptly and only then did she realise they were the centre of attention. She flushed under the embarrassment.
"Shoot." Gar murmured under his breath. Everyone else was simply staring at them, dumbfounded. He shot Rachel a look which said: 'Let's run'.
Rachel returned a look which said 'NOW!' Simultaneously, they ran past the girls and out the doors. They didn't even look back so they had no idea that Mary-Sue's posse were following them. They clambered down the stairs clumsily, Gar almost missed a step. They scurried along the tiled floor and rapidly, Gar got out his wallet and threw notes at the cash register aimlessly and the two of them pushed the doors with such a force that they swung around into the wall with a bang.
They ran down the street and only this time did Gar take a chance to look back. Mary-Sue's Posse were closer than he thought- they were only a couple of metres away!
"Run faster, Rachel! They're gaining on us!" Gar yelped, doing so.
"I definitely should join Track for this!" Rachel yelled before catching him up, frantically looking behind her. Oh gosh, she definitely didn't want to talk to them or even look at them... they were friends with Mary-Sue. They were bound to be bad. The thought of that encouraged Rachel to run a tiny bit faster.
Suddenly, Gar noticed a flash of light in the distance. It was car heading straight at them! Without thinking, he shoved Rachel off the road along with him and they narrowly missed their deaths. Gar's shoe however, seemed to have been trampled by the rubber tyres of the fast moving car.
"Thank you." Rachel breathed heavily.
"You're welcome." Gar replied and just then did he realise what position he was in. He quickly scrambled off of her and they both flushed again.
"Awwww, they're so cute!"
Shoot.
Mary-Sue's Posse had caught up with them.
The couple got up, prepared for whatever was going to happen next.
"Can I ask you a question?" Rachel said, furious. "Why the hell are you following us?"
"Cuz Mary-Sue told us to." The bespectacled girl's friend said. "We always follow what she said, no matter how stupid it is."
"So she's making you follow us for no reason?" Gar said incredously. He paused. "... I guess it is something she'd do."
"Would you mind just leaving us alone, anyway? People need their privacy." Rachel said.
"Ooooh!" both girls chimed suggestively. Then bespectacled girl's friend added: "If you really want your privacy, we'll leave. But only if you promise you don't tell Mary-Sue. We're not meant to talk to you!"
Rachel and Gar exchanged glances.
"Uh... sure." Gar said, cautiously.
"Okay!" They happily ran off, giggling and shrieking. Once Gar was sure they were gone, he smirked.
"What a bunch of weird dudettes. Do you really think they actually are in Mary-Sue's posse?"
"I seem to recognise them from that time in the cafeteria." Rachel mused. "They're really strange."
"I don't get why people still think we're the Teen Titans from the TV show." Gar sighed.
"Anyway, I think we should continue with our... date." Rachel said, looking at her feet.
"How? We left our pizza way back over there." Gar grumbled. Then his stomach made a rumbling sound similar to Gar's moan of displeasure. Rachel suddenly felt a surge of anger towards the two, immature girls who had unnecessarily intruded their date.
"How about we go back to my house?" Rachel offered.
"Yeah!" Gar said, lighting up. "Sounds great!" Rachel smiled and then glanced sideways at a nearby parked car. She took Gar's hand and led him behind it. Gar caught on quickly.
Nervously, both of them leaned in slowly, the distance between decreased until it reached zero. Their lips met softly and it was a pleasant experience.
TT
There was no point lying now. They all knew Raven, who was the equivalent of Rachel, had more common sense than Beast Boy, preferably known as Gar. They were foolish to think they could get away unnoticed. What was the possibility? I mean, they looked at them for a good few minutes, they were sure to remember their faces (ha-ha, they just need to look in a mirror). Might as well own up now. That they are in fact their doppelgangers that look unbelievingly like each other with the same personalities and that they only came here to learn more about them.
...maybe one more try?
"No." Richard said, a bit weakly as he had no reason to back the answer up. Rachel stepped closer to them to examine their faces a bit more. They, in turn, stepped back. Rachel took a larger step forward. The three took a large step back.
"This is ridiculous!" Raven said, exasperated. She turned to Beast Boy: "It doesn't look like they're wearing Halloween costumes."
"B-but!" Beast Boy spluttered. "I'm sure they are! Who else they could be?"
"Those people a few weeks ago!"
"I thought that too, but who'd be mad enough to come back here? They looked seriously freaked." Raven turned to the other three sharply.
"But they look way too identical to be wearing Halloween costumes." Raven said, but she didn't sound like she was arguing with Beast Boy. It was the conclusion statement
"Well, we'll be going now. Bye!" Kori said hurriedly and Victor, Richard and Kori turned around and began sprinting. In their haste, they didn't notice the black wall and crashed into it.
Wall in the middle of the road?
It was in fact Raven's telekinisis.
"Shoot, I forgot she could do that." Victor mumbled.
"I have a couple of questions." Raven said casually. "Robin, I'm guessing you know who he is, is currently researching on you guys. He and Cyborg are actually making a dimension machine so they could visit your dimension and figure more about you. Does that happen to be what you want to do, too?"
They exchanged looks. All three of them sighed internally, knowing they had to answer. Suddenly, the black wall behind them began pushing them forwards rapidly. They thought they were almost going to crash into the two titans but halted immediately and they were thrown onto the floor. They got up, flustered and Richard answered the question.
"Yeah, actually." He said.
"Wow. That's... pretty creepy." Raven commented. "And that's coming from me. Right, second question... what time period are you in at the moment?"
"28th November 2010." Victor replied hesitantly. "What about for you?"
"Dude! You serious?" Beast Boy said. "We're July 3rd, 2004!"
"How does that work?" Raven frowned. "How can you go back in time...?"
"I could answer that." Victor said, matter-of-factly. "D'you have a couple of hours?"
"Just like Cyborg! I asked him a question about how he made the T-car or summin' like that and I feel asleep." Beast Boy grinned a little at the memory.
"That's interesting..." Rachel murmured. "Okay, last question. Where is your Dimension machine at the moment and can we use it?"
Richard, Victor and Kori pondered on this for a moment. If a moment is one second.
"No." They said firmly.
"Y'know what? I think it's time for us to leave. Nice meeting you!" Victor grabbed his two friends by the shoulders and hauled them off the floor and started running. He let go of them so they could run for themselves. Raven and Beast Boy were a little taken aback which meant that Raven had less time to react. She created another black wall but it wasn't as strong as before.
Victor rammed his hand into it which caused it to crack. Rachel jumped back a little bit and toppled onto the ground. She groaned.
"You okay, Raven?" Beast Boy asked her.
"Yeah... " she murmured. "Wow. That Victor's pretty strong."
"Dude, I know." Beast Boy agreed.
"Don't call me dude." Raven said, annoyed.
"Sorry." She got up and looked in the distance. She couldn't see their doppelgangers at all.
"Hey, I forgot to ask them why our doppelgangers weren't with them." Raven realised.
"Huh. Maybe they were too freaked out to come." Beast Boy suggested.
"I doubt it. If I were me, I would've come." Raven said. She started walking back to Titans Tower and Beast Boy trailed after her.
TT
"Can you see them? Can you see THEM?"
"No, for the last time, Richard, I can't! And be quiet, I swear I saw an old lady pop her head out the window."
"Hide in this dark alley!"
Following Kori's orders, the three friends squatted next to a smelly rubbish bin. Victor got out his iphone look-a-like and started tapping. The only sound around was the sound of finger hitting glass. Finally, Victor had got the right dimension.
"Here we go!" The red button was tapped/pushed and the squishing, squeezing, stretching, swirling sensation started. Vomit was almost included in the swirling motion but thankfully, Victor was able to keep it down.
They landed on the floor with a thump.
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