Okay. Kill me now. I know I haven't updated in yonks. I apologise greatly.
SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY SORRY!
I've actually forgotten what's happened in my own story so sorry if I make you confused with contradicting information...
I know this is a short chapter! You must be so shocked!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans.
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"Dudes! You wouldn't believe it! We met your doppelgangers!" Beast Boy exclaimed as he burst into the common room, to grab attention.
"Who?" Cyborg blinked.
"You did?" Starfire and Robin chorused at the same time, standing up immediately in surprise. Beast Boy was grinning from ear to ear while Raven wasn't as excited but did show signs of interest.
"We did." Raven said, to confirm.
"What did you find out?" Robin asked promptly.
"Nothing much. Apart from the fact they're living in the year 2010." Raven said. "And that they have a Dimension machine too."
"Dimension Taker." Beast Boy corrected. Everyone ignored him unsurprisingly.
"Whoa? Seriously?" Cyborg exclaimed. "That's a bit unexpected."
"They are six years ahead of us? How strange!" Starfire said, frowning. "Why is that so?"
"Dunno." Beast Boy said. "But the point is, we saw them! Though, we didn't get to see our identical twins."
"Weren't they there too?" Robin asked.
"Na. Perhaps they had something to do."
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"School Magazine! Jump City High's official school magazine! All the gossip you need!" Rachel raised an eyebrow at the girl who was yelling about the unheard of School Magazine. Rachel knew they didn't even have a school magazine. She went up to the girl and tapped her on the shoulder to get her attention. She turned around and her face enlightened.
"Hey, Actor of Raven!" she greeted Rachel. She handed her a magazine. "Here, have this, free! It has some news you probably wanna know about." Rachel looked at the magazine cover. It had 'JUMP CITY HIGH MAGAZINE' splayed across the front with luminous yellow letters.
"I didn't know we had a school magazine." Rachel said.
"It's new, after many suggestions from the school community." The girl explained. She beamed at her. Rachel didn't beam back; she just took the magazine and walked away.
She stood beside her locker as she opened the magazine. It was made out of the squeaky, plastic-y paper you found in normal magazines at newspaper merchants. From a distance, it looked like an authentic, gossip tabloid. There were bright colours everywhere which screamed to catch your eye. The only thing missing were the advertisements in-between different articles. Rachel looked at the first article. She stopped breathing for a split second.
Raven and Beast Boy-Romance?
The wonderful heroes of Jump City, or at least their actors, have a blossoming romance! Yes yes, the rumours are true! Our secret, unknown spies took a wonderful, clear photo of them having a private 'talk' together as can be seen as above. How adorable! All of us are hoping that this may have an effect on the Teen Titans episodes, as many of us are RavenXBB shippers (for more info about Season 2, go to page 14). However, some people were furious by the picture and started making bad comments. What do you think?
We haven't yet interviewed this cute couple, but hopefully, an awesome interview will be printed in the next issue of Jump City High magazine. Some people suggested the same might happen with the actors of Robin and Starfire, but who knows? Perhaps a love triangle will form. A love square? So many possibilities! Only time will tell! We'll keep you posted on all the latest news about these two and other Teen Titans news.
The article wasn't incredibly long but it was enough to make Rachel feel like she would see her breakfast again. She was disgusted by the fact a picture of her and Gar kissing was in the Jump City magazine. All of their friends would've probably seen it, maybe even everyone in the school. She was furious and held the magazine with such tight fists it almost ripped in half. She turned the page before the tension became too much.
Fortunately, not all of Jump City High's magazine was about Teen Titans, some were typical stuff you found in magazines such as Agony Aunts, upcoming events and pointless articles of some random couples in the school whom Rachel had never heard of. Then she came across page 14. It was about the first episode of Season 2. It wasn't on marathon mode so it was only one episode. Rachel folded the corner of the page, without reading. She didn't doubt some of her other friends would want to discuss about the episode, something they decided they should do every time now.
At the bottom of the article was a reference to page 23 for more 'Titans News'. Not because she wanted to do but feeling like she had to, Rachel flipped to the page. Her eyes widened when she read the article.
Titans' Island in Jump City?
I'm sure everyone reading this knows that Titans' tower is situated on an island on the outskirts of Jump City. Guess what? We found that EXACT island in the EXACT same spot in the T.V. show! Though, don't go jumping up and down about visiting the tower as unfortunately, the tower isn't there. We're hoping the makers of Teen Titans might make a Titans museum for us to look back on when the epic show finishes. Unfortunately, we have no idea who the Titans makers are so we can't really ask them to build such a thing, but it'll be sooo awesome if they did! And-
Rachel shut the magazine quickly so she wouldn't absorb any more of the fan-made magazine. It was the worst magazine she had ever read if she was blunt. But she had to admit; it was a good source of information and would may help them in the future.
"That magazine is stupid, isn't it?" Rachel perked up, and began to eavesdrop on someone else's conversation.
"I know! Who the heck wants to read about Teen Titans?"
"I know right?" Rachel looked over to the people who were talking. They were two boys, one wore huge glasses, had freckles and ginger hair whilst the other looked relatively normal. He had dark brown hair and hazel eyes. They were the both same height. Rachel was ready to approach them, as she agreed entirely with their views, when her friends began calling her name.
"Rachel! Rachel! Rachel!" Three different voices called out her name before Rachel knew it; Victor, Richard and Kori were surrounding her itching to tell.
"What! What! What!" Rachel responded with the same high decibel.
"We went to the alternate universe!" Kori exclaimed.
"It was freaky!" Richard yelled.
"You never guess what we found out!" Victor shouted.
"Sssh!" Rachel hissed. They were starting to catch unwanted attention from students surrounding them. "Let's go somewhere less public."
So, consequently, the four of them slinked their way through the corridors without arousing suspicion and then exited the school building. They found themselves gathering against the wall at the back of the school, where no-one was around.
"So?" Rachel prompted her friends to unravel their discoveries after venturing to another dimension. They all began to speak at once with excitement.
"One at a time! I can't hear what you're all saying! Vic, you go first." The other two shut up obediently and Vic began to fill in Rachel with all the news. He included everything from that they were six years behind them to the fact that the Titans were trying to figure out who they actually were. He left no information out which left Richard and Kori to nod in the right places.
"Whoa." Rachel said at the end. "That's really interesting...and kinda weird if you ask me."
"Tell me about it!" Richard exclaimed. "It's doing my head in!"
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"Oh my gosh, did you watch Teen Titans yesterday?"
"How could I not? It was so awesome!"
"Mmmm, Nightwing's HOT!"
Karen was listening to the girls' conversation whilst she waited for Rachel to come to class. Karen had actually watched Teen Titans yesterday and she'd enjoyed it. She probably would've liked it more if the main characters of the show didn't resemble her friends so much but never mind. They were to find the bottom of that later, as soon as Rachel came with the goods i.e. Stuff she'd found out from Kori, Richard and Victor.
Finally, Rachel came in with a stunned look on her face. She sat beside Karen who scrutinized her expression.
"What's up?" Karen asked.
"Some idiotic fans just yelled at me about being depressing or something." Rachel replied. She looked a little freaked out for a moment before reverting back to her usual state. "Anyway, I'm guessing you want to know what happened?"
"Yup." Karen replied. "Ooh! And tell me about your date with Gar afterwards! I was hoping you'd text me last night to let me know how it went on!" Rachel flushed.
"Erm...later..." Quickly, Rachel began to spill all what the other three had told her. Karen nodded, taking in every word.
"Oh, did you hear? They started up a new School Magazine." Rachel said. Karen's eyes widened.
"What? You're joking! Gimme!" Rachel searched through her bag and handed it to Karen who immediately began to flip through it.
A few moments later, she burst out laughing.
"Haha! They've written an article about you and Gar!" She snorted.
"Ah shoot, yeah they did." Rachel deadpanned. "It's so stupid, isn't it? What weirdoes are going to be reading this junk?"
"Look around." Karen replied.
So Rachel did.
Everyone in the class had the magazine out. Rachel was taken aback- they weren't reading them before were they? Did they just take them out because she'd taken hers out? Strange... Rachel thought.
Karen read the article with genuine interest and then began to flip through it to read other articles. Rachel just sat there, looking a little odd, doing nothing.
"Erm, you done yet?" Rachel asked Karen finally.
"Huh? Oh yeah, here you go." Karen handed it to her. "How much was it?"
"I got it free. They still think I'm an actor, seriously." Rachel rolled her eyes.
"Oh. Do you...do you think I could borrow it then?" Karen asked her after a moment of pause. Rachel cocked an eyebrow at her and then silently gave the magazine back to her.
TT
It was lunchtime and of course, all the students at Jump City high were incredibly happy and were chatting away merrily. They were mostly talking about the new School Magazine, or to be more specific, Teen Titans. Gar, Rachel, Kori, Vic, Richard, Garth, Roy, Karen, Jenn, Wally, Toni, Kole and Joseph were all enjoying their meal around a very large table whilst Vic, Richard, Kori and Rachel was informing them of their trip to the other dimension. Well, excluding Rachel, she hadn't gone but seemed just as knowledgeable as the other three.
This was all news to Gar so he was listening intently as were the rest of them. No one spoke while they did, they simply nodded as their friends agreed to help them sniff out who was behind the Teen Titans gimmick. Once their, ahem, lecture was over they let them mull over it for a short while.
"Seriously, I wish I'd gone." Wally said. "That would've been so cool!"
"You could've asked them more questions." Jenn pointed out. "It would've made this darn thing a lot easier to figure out."
"Well, it was a little hard to when they were asking you questions and had the ability to kill you." Richard pointed out bluntly.
"They wouldn't kill you Richard, don't be stupid."
"You never know."
"They're good guys!"
"Pffft, didn't seem like it to me." Richard grumbled.
"Well, G- sorry, Beast Boy was going on about not doing drugs or drinking or whatever." Vic said.
"Oh yeah, he was..."
"Wait, wait, wait. I'm confused. Why are they in the year 2004?" Toni asked, interrupting Vic and Richard's conversation.
"They're basically six years behind us! So that D.T. thing can go back in time as well?" Vic shrugged.
"You should know!" Toni continued. "You're the one who flippin' made that thing!"
"My dad gave me the blue prints! He'll have the answer to that question!"
"Go ask him then."
"Shoot, time for us to go." Rachel looked at her watch. "The Comic Con awaits."
"Yay." Kori said sarcastically.
"Oh! I'm not going!" Gar grinned. "I'm off for today!" Richard stared at him and then swore under his breath before he reluctantly went with Kori, Victor, Rachel and Jenn.
"Garth- you have to go too." Roy nudged him. Garth deadpanned.
"Shoot. Wish me luck." Garth chased after the other five. With six people having left the table, there was a considerable reduce in number but not a reduce in conversation.
"Have you seen the new School Magazine?" Wally asked his friends.
"What?" Kole and Toni exclaimed simultaoenously.
"A magazine? What could they possibly write about?" Roy scoffed.
"Teen Titans." Karen said. "They've been stalking Rachel and Gar, and apparently found the island where Titans' Tower is on. Seriously."
Wally snickered while Kole and Toni exchanged amused glances. They were just getting desperate now...
"...do you have a copy of said magazine?" Kole asked, interested. Karen nodded and handed her the copy Rachel had given her while Wally gave Toni his.
"It's $2 dollars as well, Rip off!" Wally grumbled.
"Why'd ya get it then?" Gar asked.
"Uh...I was curious." Wally said. "Most of the stuff is crap no one cares about but the rest of it will probably be quite cool for our Teen Titans thingy and finding out the mystery behind it and stuff."
"Wow Wallace, who knew you were so smart?" Roy said.
He's getting smarter every day Joseph signed. Kole grinned and decided not to translate what he just said, to prevent an offended Wally.
"Actually, it is just simple logic." Jenn pointed out. Wally sent her a glare, annoyed that she had ruined his moment of intelligence.
The rest of lunch mostly consisted of them talking about the Teen Titans malarkey and how they were to uncover its secrets. The seven of them were in such deep conversation (well, Joseph was just nodding), they didn't notice that the other seven returned.
"God, I don't want any of that ever again..." Richard cried.
"You're going to have to go through it tomorrow." Vic pointed out. "While I'll be having a day off." Richard glared at him, with eyes so vicious that Vic was intimidated enough to sit a little further away from him.
"You finished early!" Roy noticed with a surprised tone. The bell rang just after he made his comment.
"Not much early." Rachel sighed. "So what were you talking about?"
"I'll tell you later in Art." Kole told Rachel.
TT
"So did you watch last night's episode?" Katie Walls asked her friend Sarah Winfred who was unsuccessfully drawing a rose. However the actual flower was a bit disproportionate compared with the stem and surroundings which was stressing Sarah out. This did not deter here from responding to Katie's question however.
"Yes I did," Sarah replied. "I was almost crying. It was so sweet!"
"Starfire and Robin forever!" Katie gushed, expressing her emotion by flinging her arms out which thus caused the paint on her paintbrush to fling out and land on someone's face, causing annoyance for them. But she didn't even notice and resumed to paint her comparably better rose to Sarah's.
"I'm more of a Raven and Beast Boy if I'm honest." Sarah admitted. "But the show's stupid and it hardly shows any of them... maybe we should write to the producers?"
"Would they actually change the storyline for us?" Katie wondered thoughtfully.
"Maybe. But it's pretty good at the moment... it was such a good idea to make Starfire go to the future!" Sarah squealed. "I love their friendship so much!"
"You're not the only one." Katie said enthusiastically.
Rachel and Kole were sitting a small distance away from the Teen Titans Fan Girls and they could easily overhear what they were saying.
"Did you watch Teen Titans last night?" Kole asked. Rachel nodded.
"We have to; we're trying to find out who's behind that overly popular TV Show."
"Well, did you have any luck? Any idea?"
"No. What about you? What were you talking about at lunchtime?"
"Oh. Just general stuff really. We thought that we should all carry a notebook round because Jenn and Toni suspect we're somehow going to be included with the show too."
"That's a good idea. It'll keep track of all our progress." Rachel proceeded to take a small notebook out of her bag, which Kole remarked as being quite convienent. Rachel began to write down the following things:
Teen Titans magazine
Apparently the island of Titan's Tower has been spotted
In AD Teen Titans seem to be 6 years behind
'Aqualad' is Garth. Maybe the episodes will bring more people in?
"What's AD?" Kole asked curiously.
"Alternate Dimension," Rachel replied. "You know, with the whole machine thing?"
"Ah."
"Girls! Why are your canvases still blank?" the Art teacher bellowed.
Rachel and Kole quickly began to draw.
TT
"What on earth could they be doing with these cameras?" Robin sighed as he used a magnifying glass to inspect them.
"You've been droning on about that for the past two hours Robin, even I'm getting annoyed." Raven said dryly.
"I'll kill Brother Blood, I'll kill Brother Blood..." murmured Cyborg scathingly. He rocked back and forth on the sofa, his eyes looking in the distance, unfocused.
"He's been doing that for a while too." Raven remarked.
"Robin, just look at those red blinky thingies tomorrow morning." Beast Boy suggested.
"Cameras."
"They don't have to be cameras. They could be little laser things that want to shoot us! You better back away Robin!"
Raven and Robin cocked their eyebrows at their younger and more eccentric minded team mate.
"Maybe I need some sleep too." Beast Boy blinked, rubbing his eyes. Maybe he shouldn't of had so many lemon Humzingers.
I know that wasn't much but at least it's something! Suggestions for what happens next will be lovely!
I know the ending was random. Quite pathetic really.