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CHAPTER 13

SUNGLASSES AT NIGHT

It was night now, or early in the morning time reading: 2am.

Gar, Kole and the Storm Twins were meeting up.

Kole crossed the threshold to the area where the house used to stand, it was plastered with DO NOT CROSS tape.

Kole filled with internal conflict kept on telling herself Jericho is with Raven. Me kissing him just complicated matters. Get over yourself Kole, you're better than that!

Following, was Gar who wasn't in the best of moods. His face held a scowl, he still couldn't stop thinking about what happened in the training room.

He was embarrassed, confused, and-and ANGRY! But why? Why was he angry? He was angry due to the fact that Raven humiliated him. She managed to tackle him to the ground after a few of his heartless attempts of lunging at her while morphed into a cheetah.

Holding him down she was then, not even using her powers. They were staring into each other's eyes like they could see in each other's soul...It was weird, but even when he began leaning in. About to press his lips to hers, she turned her face away from his quickly, getting up. Not soon after did Cyborg add in his cents of playful bashing. And Starfire beginning to giggle, and Robin smirking and mumbling a remark as he checked something off the clipboard. Raven stared down at him, giving him a defiant look like he just got served.

He rubbed off the event and paid attention to his comrades.

"So, what's up?" He asked attentively. "You guys look as if you've eaten bad grapes."

Kole shook her head. "Nothing, you know... Still bummed out about the Slade thing. No biggy."

Gar didn't believe her but he turned his attention to the Storm Twins. "What did you guys do?"

Thunder swallowed loudly and broadened his shoulders. "What must you mean Little Blond One, you think we've wreaked utter havoc once more?"

Lightning didn't say anything, only smiling peachy and nodding in sync with Thunder.

Gar cocked his head to the side and raised his brow. "Lightning you're acting funny, and Thunder your voice is too high. Spill."

The brothers gave each other looks before saying anything. Lightning spoke first.

"Um, we've borrowed something." He fidgeted with his holo ring.

"And we'll take it back!" Thunder added quickly his eyes huge. "Once we've given it a name and..."

Thunder might as well could've given their group leader a one word answer, or speak in a dialect that is disturbing to the ears because Gar figured it out.

"Where is the cat?"

Thunder and Lightning turned their heads and looked at each other than they turned their heads back to Gar. They stared at him dumbfounded; Their eyes blinking like an innocent kitty cat.

"We never told you about a cat." They said in unison rather arrogantly.

"Yeah..." Gar shook his head laughing. "Well, your faces said all. And you of course took it from a dude with a red and yellow outfit, and he wore a mask right? He was probably trying to shoot you with arrows, and you were of course donning your holo ring looks. He did not know who you were..."

The Storm Bros once again gave each other looks. "Um, no. Not exactly. But–"

Lightning had to hold that thought because in an instant did they smell a fire coming from somewhere. It seemed like a few blocks over.

"Ah, my son!" The heard a lady scream. "He's still in the house!"

The gang saw that the fire was coming from a house. They immediately ran to it and Gar being the true leader he was of the team began to shoot out orders.

"Thunder, Lightning, I need you guys to go run off somewhere and make it rain!"

"Kole try to calm down the lady!"

Thunder and Lightning ran away to execute the order, and Kole nodded her head.

"But Gar, you can't go up to that house alone," she said in concern, "I can go up there with you."

He smiled a smile made him look rather attractive, like a gleam was in his eyes, and he held a defiant look. "No, Kole. I think this is a job I'd only like to handle. I don't want to be the hero, but I don't know. There is more to the reason on why I wanna do this."

"Firefighters, why can't you jus' go up there?!" The mother screamed to a man clad in a yellow jacket. "He's the only thing I have."

"I'm sorry lady," one firefighter said in a gruff voice, "it's only a requirement to make the fire lessen before attempting to save the son."

Wow, that was Hogwash were Gar's immediate thoughts when he ran up to the house, he didn't think anyone saw him. The mother was still yelling at the firefighters, in hysterics, and the firefighters were trying to put out a fire that hadn't lessened.

Gar saw that the house was falling apart. This hadn't been the only time he'd been in a burning building. He knew the steps weren't of any use, so he tried using the archway frame as a bar to swing from so his feet would go onto the rail case of the stairs.

The hot metal stung on his hands, he didn't care. What he was focused on was saving a little boy who was most likely low on his oxygen level right now.

This house was smaller than it looked. And it looked like it was filled with more smoke than he thought. Running to the room he heard the boy whimpering in. He tripped on a fallen picture frame. Shoot. He burned his foot. Unleashing a curse word from his lips he managed to still run to the room the boy was in.

"Who are you?" The brown haired boy said in curiosity. Tears had flowed from his eyes, and dirt was on his cheeks. "You look like the Terminator."

Gar laughed a little as he picked up the boy. "I'm some one you'll remember."

They were about to retreat the way Gar had come but the boy pulled his sleeve. "Um, sorry to worry you terminator guy, but how are we gonna get out of here?" The little boy didn't even look scared anymore. He just looked bored; like he knew what his fate was going to be.

"Uh..." Gar didn't know what to do. He knew panicking wasn't the thing to do. When he's with his Titan West teammates he remains calm, and he tries to find a solution. So...

In the midst of all the fire and embers coming about he saw Kole. Carrying a dog. "Beast Boy," she said. "I'm sorry I didn't listen to you. It's jut that the lady was also worried about her terrier who she said had been under the bed in her room. And I didn't want the dog to die–"

"Kole, that's alright," he interjected, "but how are we gonna get out of here?"

"Oh." Kole's face had gone white. "I don't know."

It then occurred to Gar that there had to be a close window somewhere. He thought back to when he was in the little boy's room. Was there a window?

He'll just answer the question.

"Kole follow me!"

He located the boy's room once again. It seemed to be filled with more smoke then before. Had kicked the door open he ran over to the window, but no way were they getting out of here! The window was clamped shut.

In this frenzy, he came to the harsh reality that they weren't going to make it out. He always hadn't been afraid to die, but with this innocent little boy, and his dog?

Gar never got to cherish the dawn of day, he never told his teammates how much they meant to him, he never thanked Kole, and Thunder And Lightning, he never told Raven how he felt...

Kole had the same thoughts as well. She wasn't going to cry but, this was how the ending of her story was meant to be. She had to accept it.

In those ten agonizing minutes the little boy began to cry. "We're never gunna get out of here! I never got to say sorry to my mwammy for talking back to her today!"

Now Kole was crying too. But it was silent.

Gar didn't like this he started having flashbacks from when his parents died, and he couldn't save them. It seemed so familiar.

He was going to throw up.

Suddenly, there was the sound of breaking glass. And then of Lightning's familiar voice. "We're getting you lackeys out of here. It's already raining!"

Gar looked up. His hope on the surface again.

So, they managed to jump out of the window with the reassurance that a mattress would be below.

The boy and dog were reunited with the lady and all was well. Sure, the whole Sunglasses gangs suffered minor burns and injuries. Yet, they could rub those off. Besides, they needed to leave. Elusively they did.

"Who saved you Eric?!" The lady asked her son. "We need to thank 'em!"

The firefighters nodded begrudgingly at the idea, even when they didn't want to admit to themselves that they were outed by some vigilantes. Oh the fury!

-/-/

Beast Boy knew he could heal easily, but these burns weren't going to heal easily. All throughout his slumber he felt the burns on his arms and sprained ankle fighting a battle.

It felt like the pain was never going away.

When he had to get out of bed in the morning he felt like everything was on him. Literally.

One step felt sore.

Second step felt like the pain were to not go away for awhile.

But the third step. AGONIZING!

He knew his day were to be filled with pain.

And all day did he have to hold an even bigger facade. Especially when Cyborg gave him one big pat on the back followed by, "Hey Green Bean!"

Oh, he thought he was going to die. He felt that way inside. But, on the outside he let out a chuckle and managed to straighten himself out.

No one had seemed to notice...

-/-/-/-

Kole looked homeless. I mean what would you think if you saw a young looking girl sleeping on a bench with injuries?

She didn't want to come home to her mother looking a mess.

-/-/-

Thunder and Lightning didn't expect a call-in from Robin. Especially when they never got a call-in. Well, except when that Brotherhood of Evil battle happened. But they never expected one.

Now, when they were just waking up knowing these injuries they earned last night wouldn't go unnoticed. So they decided to throw on these stupid matching hoodies Kole and Argent had bought for them.

"Um, Hi. Leader Robin," Thunder greeted rather awkwardly, yet, that may have just been grogginess. "What seems to have occurred, for you having to speak with us?"

Robin nodded curtly, all the other Titans were behind him. Most likely were they using the communication app on the screen device that was located in the common room, while on the contrary the Storm Twins were using the shared communicator they had.

Thunder and Lightning were scared. They didn't think they were in trouble but Beast Boy was trying to tell them something. They knew it, because while all the other Titans were looking at them; all in front of Beast Boy. The changeling was flailing his arms around mouthing: YOU GUYS ARE IN TROUBLE.

Yet, Thunder and Lightning didn't know what they did. They already felt ridiculously stupid in these hoodies. Especially when they were wearing them with the hoods up.

"Thunder and Lightning," Robin began. "It has occurred to us that you both were wreaking utter havoc again. There were accidents in the city from a 'sudden thunder storm' last night"

No, this wasn't supposed to happen. Sure, they were ordered to make it rain by the Green One, but they hadn't been immature in the process. No... Lightning didn't want to 'play', and Thunder wasn't doing any seismic damage. They've grown up.

"That wasn't us," Lightning simply answered, "we were home all day. We didn't get any alerts."

"Yes, we know," the leader said, "but you decided to vandalize the city again. This is the third time already..."

"Excuse me Leader Robin." Thunder began to reason, "But we're being honest, we haven't done anything. We hadn't been 'playing', we were here."

Cyborg gave them knowing looks, presenting them some type of tablet chart device. "Well, Storm Bros, to the looks of it, an unnatural rain fall occurred yesterday."

Thunder and Lightning looked each other then back at the screen. They wanted to start freaking out this minute, but they couldn't.

Before they even had time to explain themselves. Robin simply said to the brothers, "you both are suspended for a month from your superhero duties."

The screen went black. The discussion over.

The Storm Twins could only blink, dumbfounded.

Oh, well. At least Robin hadn't noticed the kitten.

-/-/-

As Raven sipped her tea she eyed Beast Boy suspiciously. She could just tell something wasn't right with him. She knew he always held bad posture. But he seemed to arch his back every once in a while because of pain, if her mighty senses were telling her right.

When Cyborg had slapped Beast Boy on the back there was something in the Changelings face expression. Like he was going to crumble or something.

No one else had seemed to notice. But for some reason she did.

She decided to go to his room to check on him, since he did say he was 'reading'.

Ha, like he read.

Maybe she could do a stakeout at night in his room. Wow, that even seemed creepy for her.

She knocked on his door, and he eventually answered. He held that handsome signature smile of his and happy-go-lucky attitude. "Hey, Raven! Whatcha need?!"

Wait, she needed to rewind this. Weren't they at odd ends with each other? Wasn't he pissed at her?

This was so out of character for her, but she hugged him. I don't know...

Happy thought he needed a hug.

And this sort of felt like déjà vu, but instead, Beast Boy needed the healing. Both literally and figuratively.

He seemed like a reck.

Yet, he pushed her back like he had done last time.

She felt ashamed.

He gave her a perplexed look, and before he could even say anything the crime alarm blared.

-/-/-/-

A/N: I know this was a quick and a SO soon update. But the next chapter will be posted tomorrow.

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