Okay, another A/N: If anyone is wondering about that Olivia character, I left out a physical description on purpose. Shes just supposed to be cute. I generally envision her with blond curly hair, maybe just past shoulder length, short and pretty. You can substitute your own ideas, but it wont really matter that much what exactly she looks like... I may update those first chapters later and include something, but for now- just imagine someone nice! There was something else too... Oh! Beast Boy Beastboy beast boy beastboy. Its going to happen, his name is difficult for my phone (the thing im writing on) to process... I tried to clean it up but im sure its still all over the place. I apologize for that. Look! I remembered to put this in bold this time!
5: Vegan Zorka Marshmallow Mustard Casserole
Meanwhile Starfire and Beast Boy were trying to think of something fun to occupy their time. They settled on swapping vegan recipes. He brought her a plate of tofu to experiment with.
"It's kind of like a base, you add whatever to it to add flavor and texture in place of defenseless animals!" He was overjoyed to have someone on his side. He never knew Starfire was vegan.
"Oh! I could add Zorka berries to make it bitter and salty, or mustard to make it tangy, or perhaps the gravy of a glorvax to make it crunchy!"
"Woah woah woah Star, isn't a glorvax an animal?" He pointed an accusing finger narrowing his eyes at her.
"Yes, it is e-normous!" She said enthusiastically.
"Then you can't eat it!"
"Why can I not?" She looked confused.
"Because VEGANS don't eat defenseless animals!"
"I assure you friend, they are far from defenseless." She said, suddenly becoming gravely serious.
"Okay... but it's still not vegan."
"But Tamaran is part of the Vegan system." They were both confused now.
They decided to just commence with the cooking. Starfire vowed to use no part of any animal from any planet so that her friend could also eat it. They started with dicing the tofu into cubes, adding some earthly vegetation, a little water, some kool-aid (lime) hot peppers, quick oats, Zorka berries, mustard, ice soy cream, coconut, almonds, grapes, pizza sauce, and a bunch of cherry tomatoes, and decided to slow cook it in the oven. After an hour, they took it out and looked upon their unholy creation.
"I don't know Star- this looks kind of dangerous to me." Beast Boy poked the dish with a spatula and sprang away as it recoiled in an unusual way.
"We should try it, so it does not go to waste." She reasoned, looking slightly afraid herself. "I will try if you do." Her voice was low and foreboding.
"Okay, one bite, then you go." They nodded and stuck a fork into the concoction. She pulled a quivering hand to her mouth as he raised the fork high, revealing many layers of good only knows what, and popped it in his mouth.
"It's chewy, and... crunchy... and sweet but spicy-bitter. " he chewed some more considering the new food. "It's actually pretty good..." He ate another bite as Starfire dug for another fork. She took a few bites of her own and concluded that they were excellent cooks. Before long, most of the pan was empty and they began to feel light headed.
"Star... have you ever noticed how kitty-kitty can fly?" Beast Boy slowly scooped up the cat and inspected her closely for wings. "No wait... only you can fly Star." He looked at her with jealousy. "Not fair. I wish that was my power."
"I can fly up up up up up..." her voice flitting higher with her hands as she illustrated her words. She looked at the ceiling with awe until she fell out of her chair. She and Beastboy laughed manicly at her loss of balance.
Starfire remained on the floor, her hands above her grabbing at empty air as she tried to catch the stars in her eyes like lightning bugs, giggling happily. Beastboy stared at the air, wondering what she was seeing. Maybe the food was making her hallucinate. He laughed, because he felt totally normal. He looked out the window at the sunset. It waved at him and gave a thumbs-up. Yep, he was fine. Just then he noticed something terrible.
Beast Boy leapt up suddenly onto his chair. "Starfire! The floor!" He shouted in panic as the floor began to swirl as though covered in snakes.
"Oh!" She exclaimed. She tried to fly away but the floor had her trapped.
"I'll save you Star!" Beast Boy jumped into snake pit and started to swim towards her. The snakes slithered across and over him until he too was trapped. "Kitty-kitty! You're our last hope!"
Kitty-kitty flew to a bar stool and licked her paw, looking down at Beast Boy and Starfire. "You must save yourselves." She said calmly.
"We can not kitty-kitty!" Starfire shrieked as a snake began to coil around her kneck.
Kitty-kitty regarded them each coldly.
"You are going to die."
They cried out in panic. Beast Boy summoned all of his strength and pulled himself to a bar stool, he took off his shirt and tied a sleeve around the base, holding fast to the other as he reached for Starfire. She grabbed his hand and pulled them both to safety on top of the kitchen island. There they sat, shaking and watching the snakes.
"Oh no oh no... this is the not good... how will we get all of this quicksand out of here!?" Starfire looked at Beastboy, who just looked confused.
"I'd be more worried about the snakes."
"Snakes?"
"We'll figure it out Star, but look outside!" The the now midnight blue sky swirled with clouds and stars was like a painting. The great full moon danced over the ocean, and the water applaued it's beauty with a thousand small flecks of light. The lights of the city curled like smoke around the edges and framed the natural majesty of the scene.
"This planet never ceases to amaze me." She mused.
They watched the scene for a few moments before they were calm enough to formulate a snake/quicksand avoidance plan of true brilliance.
"Star, can you fly us to the couch?" She nodded and took to the air, flying only inches from the high ceilings before dropping them both on the sofa.
"What stall we do now?" She asked.
"Let's watch tv!" He said. They looked up at the tv and saw the most amazing show. It was them, but silly and cartoonish.
'T-E-E-N, T-I-T, A-N-S, TEEN-TI-TANS, LETS GO!' Dudududu-dada-nananana, 'TEEN TITANS GO! teen titans!'
They looked at each other, eyes filed with childlike wonder and watched their show.
A while later Cyborg entered the ops room to see them jumping on the couch in front of a clearly 'off' television.
"What are you guys doing?" He asked flatly.
They turned around and smiled at him. "T-E-E-N. TIT. ANS. TEEN TITANS. LETS GO!" He watched them rock out to their little made up song with a look of pure 'whatthehell' on his face.
"Where's your shirt green man?"
"Oh... I... don't remember..." Beast Boy looked around the ops room, the daze wearing off. "Oh! I took it off because... there was something... on the floor?" He couldn't remember his drug induced logic.
Starfire shrugged at him as he looked to her for answers. "What are we doing?" She asked.
"Are you guys high on something?" Cyborg stared at them as they got off the couch.
"The food!" Said Starfire, suddenly remembering.
"Oh yeah..." Beast Boy collected his shirt and pulled it on. He scraped the food into the trash with disdain. "Let's not do that again." He shook his head to clear the last of the trippy visions and glared at the cat. "Drop the act kitty-kitty, I know you can talk now."
"Kitty-kitty can what now?"
"Talk! Kitty-kitty, why did you not go for help?" Starfire looked the cat in the eyes, hands on her hips, clearly displeased.
Cyborg shook his head. "You two are so weird."
With that he skulked back to his room.
"Ugh, I still feel a little weird actually." Beast Boy clutched his head. "Who knew that you could make acid out of tofu."
Starfire tilted her head, not getting the drug reference. "Perhaps the Zorka berries reacted with the marshmallows, or maybe the soy..."
"At least it wore off though."
"Yeah, I was a little worried about you two." They both looked at kitty-kitty with horrified expressions at her outburst.
"Time for bed!"
"Pleasant snorvlax friend!" They raced to the door.
Raven was just entering the hallway as they zipped past and into their separate quarters. Maybe that bonding wasn't such a great thing after all. They were twice as odd when they were in kahoots.