(A/N: Pre Robin cray cray)
The Titans had just finished an intense workout. Beast Boy was passed out on the couch and Cyborg had gone to recharge his batteries.
Raven and Crystal sat on the floor very close to one of the ACs trying to catch their breath.
Starfire and Robin, well, were showering together.
"What the fuck is up with Robin and his excruciating workouts lately?" Crystal asked, sipping from a can of Pepsi.
She was currently on her fifth can for the day.
"I'm pretty sure this is punishment for the Mabel shit. He said we're getting lazy," Raven replied. "Well that's ridiculously unfair," Crystal stated.
Beast Boy whimpered in his sleep and woke up. His eyes were slightly opened and the girls knew he was still very sleepy.
He walked to the girls and turned into a puppy. He crawled into Crystal's lap and stayed there.
"Aww," the girls chorused.
Crystal caressed his fur and he sighed comfortably. He adjusted himself and soon fell back to sleep.
"Lucky! I wish I was the one he came to like that," Raven said, looking at the shapeshifter. Crystal rolled her eyes.
"It seems like you're into Beast Boy, Crystal," Raven stated. Crystal raised an eyebrow, "um, no, please."
"This isn't the first time Beast Boy is coming to you like this, whether asleep or awake," Raven queried. "He's my friend, Rae, so I'm supposed to be always here for him," Crystal returned.
"Plus he and Starfire are the only ones who tried to make me feel welcome when I came here at first," she added.
"Whatever."
Robin stepped out just then.
"Is that Beast Boy?" Robin asked, peering at them. "No, cause they're obviously other green animals you know," Raven replied, sarcastically.
Robin raised an eyebrow, "why's he on your laps?"
Crystal narrowed her eyebrows at him. "Seems like all that time in the sack has slowed your mind. Since your mind has chosen to be slow, he's asleep dummy. Now be quiet and let him sleep."
Robin looked startled and embarrassed for a moment then he turned red with anger, "I AM YOUR LEADER AND YOU'RE NOT PERMITTED TO SPEAK TO ME IN SUCH A MANNER!"
Beast Boy was startled awake. He began crying.
"Look what you did!" Raven snapped as Crystal held him, still in his puppy form closer to herself and tried to soothe him.
Raven snapped and punched him through a portal with her soul self.
Beast Boy opened his eyes and looked at Crystal and Raven, "What happened?" "Robin woke you up, you poor thing," Crystal replied, caressing his fur in that way she knew he liked.
"I don'ts thinks I want to sleep anymore," Beast Boy stated but still remained on her lap.
Crystal's phone rang just then. She groaned and picked it up.
"Hey Dad... I'm fine... Yes I'm sure... No dad, you don't have to come over to see the tower... You're too busy for this... You don't have to meet my friends, dad... Dad... You're not listening to me... I'm not saying you shouldn't come over I'm saying you don't need to... Ok, fine!" she dropped the call and groaned loudly.
"What's wrong, mama?" he asked trying to read her mood. "My dad's coming over today," she revealed.
"How's that something bad?" Raven asked. "Oh you don't know my dad. He's never gonna let me be while he's here. He's gonna question every fucking thing I do and you guys as well," she replied.
"I have to go shower and prepare for my dad," she said and Beast Boy left her and turned back to his human form.
Later, Crystal had set the kitchen table and waited tentatively for her dad. It was a three course meal. There was some soup as an appetizer, coconut rice and chicken as the main course and apple and peach pie for dessert.
She had her hair in a bun. She was wearing a long sleeved silk white top she tucked in a flared black skirt that stopped just below her knees and royal purple ankle boots with black fishnet stockings.
She sensed her dad coming up the elevator. "5, 4, 3, 2..." the elevator dinged when she got to 2.
The elevator dinged to reveal a tall, broad shouldered man in a dark blue buttoned up long sleeved shirt and black trousers with shoes the same color as his top.
His complexion was best described as ashy white. He had a perpetual blank, semi-hostile look on his face.
He looked around warily for a while then raised his eyebrows as he saw his daughter. "I thought I told you not to use this complexion. Embrace your demon side, Crystal."
"I also have a human side and an angel side, dad," she deadpanned.
"Uh good evening sir," Robin greeted, trying to raise the tension and the other Titans greeted and welcomed as well.
"Ah yes, the Boy Wonder and his team of misfits..."
Beast Boy furrowed his brows, "who's you calling a misfit sir?"
Crystal's father chuckled as though Beast Boy was the most inconsequential creature in all the world.
"What's up with the fake fancy get up? I know you guys usually Walk around in your superhero costumes till it's time for bed," he queried.
He looked around the living room as though searching for something to point out. But the living room was uncharacteristically immaculate. Usually they'd be some empty snack packs on the floor and some random unknown stain or smell on the couch.
Crystal had prepared for that possibility by using magic on the sitting room after doing physical cleaning.
He sat down on the couch his hands ghosting the pink fabric of the sofa warily. The Titans could see where Crystal had gotten or probably imbibed her neat freak nature from.
"Why are you wearing fishnet stockings?" he asked. He'd finally found an outlet for his querulous nature and she knew he'd pursue it to the end.
"Because you don't like me wearing shorts or trousers and this is the only way I can wear a none fancy schmancy skirt, dad," she answered." "Still no excuse. You should've won a dress," he pressed further.
"I didn't want to wear a dress, I barely have dresses. You know I don't like dresses," she returned.
"Why don't you ever take to correction? Go take that off right now and wear a dress... And is this what you wear around Miss Starfire? Showing off your thighs and stomach when you know there are boys in this tower," he attacked.
'You were not kidding,' Raven mouthed at the hybrid when they made eye contact.
"Boy Wonder? Is this what you let the girls on your team wear? Outfits that show off their bodies? Is this a super hero base or a brothel?" Crystal's father spat.
'Ok, you need to check your dad," Raven mouthed to the hybrid.
"Would you like to eat now, dad?" Crystal cut in, stopping her father's critique of Beast Boy's clothing and hygiene in general.
"No, not now. I came here straight from work and I need a bath first," he stated.
"I'll show you where the bathroom is, sir," Cyborg said, leading him away.
Crystal relaxed into the chair. She let out a breath she didn't know she had been holding. "You were not the kidding, your dad has some of the bad issues," Starfire said, cringing.
A loud, annoyed yell came from the bathroom just then. The window shattered and Robin, who was leaning against them fell. Beast Boy swiftly turned into a terranadon and caught Robin.
They both landed in the tower, short of breath.
Crystal looked From Robin to Starfire repeatedly. "Y'all fucked outside the tub, didn't you?" she finally burst out.
Starfire and Robin looked at each other and grimaced.
"And the two of you literal fucking pigs didn't think of cleaning up your nasty body secretions?" she let out again, obviously boiling.
"Who had sex inside the bathroom?" her dad asked, startling them. He had teleported in to the living room.
Crystal rolled her eyes, "that's literally none of your business, dad."
He looked startled at first but ignored her and turned to Robin who had precariously perched himself near Starfire. "It was you and Miss Starfire, wasn't it?" he asked in the tone of someone who knew the answer but asked anyway.
Crystal, who was about to say something and already had her mouth open, froze. Her face widened and her face stretched into a grimace.
There was no way she could challenge her father now. She knew his feelings were valid and she agreed with him. As a matter of fact, she felt as annoyed with RobStar as he did.
Wait... She was agreeing with her dad on something.
She didn't think it had ever happened before.
She was brought out of her sudden realization by her father yelling at RobStar. "... Really Boy Wonder? Wait till Batman hears this. I stepped in cum!" he scolded stamping his foot in annoyance.
Robin grimaced and Starfire looked down in embarrassment.
"You will be punished for this! Fucking in the same house as my daughter, wow!" he snapped his fingers. Something like fire surrounded RobStar, they screamed and disappeared.
So did Crystal's dad.
Crystal looked around in confusion.
"What the fuck?!" Raven yelled in shock.
"Oh my god! Where did he take them, Crystal? Where did he take them?!" Cyborg was hyperventilating and shaking a shocked Crystal.
Beast Boy turned into a gorilla and pulled him away from Crystal.
"Where's he takes them, mama?" Beast Boy asked.
"I'm not quite sure," Crystal replied. "Who the fuck teleports with flames?" Raven asked.
"My dad, depending on where he's going," Crystal answered.
"They were red and orange and black flames, Crystal," Raven revealed.
"No, he couldn't have," she whispered in horror.
"Couldn't have what?" Cyborg asked.
"They're in transdimensional hell," Crystal replied.
Raven gaped at her.
It dawned on the half demon now.
She had wondered, since Crystal's dad walked in, why he looked so familiar. She was only then realizing that he was Trefaniel, the super powerful half demon who'd pledged his life to doing her father's bidding. Trigon, ever egostic, had been so flattered he forgot to take the offer completely but handed over transdimensional hell to him.
Transdimensional hell was only the outer ring of hell but had the same amount of torture and demons around. Trigon used to say Trefaniel handled transdimensional hell with More vigor than Trigon himself handled the real hell.
Raven had only been to transdimensional hell only once before, there was no way she could teleport there.
She was brought back to the present by Beast Boy.
"... I've read about it once. When them scientists got interested in my color and I'd stays in the lobby waiting for thems to return with the test results they were always running. It's still hell buts Trigon handed it over to a dude named Cephas... Stephan..."
"Trefaniel," Crystal cut in.
"Wow. So Raven's dad is literally satan, your dad is next in command to satan. You're also half angel right? So your mom's like second in command to archangel Micheal or something?" Cyborg asked sarcastically.
"Pretty much," Crystal deadpanned and Cryborg's jaw dropped.
"How are we gonna get them back?" Raven asked.
"I can teleport all of us there at midnight, easy but the tricky part is getting them and getting out," Crystal replied.
"Why?" Cyborg asked.
"There are no powers in transdimensional except that of the keeper and his demons," Raven and Crystal quoted simultaneously and glanced at each other.
"And why midnight?" Beast Boy inquired.
"That's the time the portal to the underworld is weakest so the mundane living can pass through," Raven replied.
Beast Boy sat on the couch, his head tilted slightly to the side, trying to process all the information.
The others gave him time.
For the first time in a while there was complete silence in the living room even though the TV was off.