Starfire, Jinx, Raven and Beast were enjoying some cereal, when Cyborg walked in.
"Hey, what you guys having?"
"Just some cereal, dude." Beast replied.
"Anyone want a beverage?"
"I have the thirst. "Starfire rose her spoon, and the others agreed.
"How about some water?" Raven shook her head to his suggestion.
"Nah, no flavor."
"How about orange juice?"
"Oh, I'll take that juice! Just make sure there's no pulp, please."
"Of course!" Taking an orange from a fruit bowl, he pulled it into his arm, machine noises could be heard through his body from one arm to the other, before he removed his right hand to pour out the orange juice, and shoot the pulp and skin into the trash. "100% orange juice, pulp free."
"Thanks, dude!" Beast took a sip. "Mmm, tangy."
"I'll just have some milk with mine." Raven shrugged.
"Let me guess, to keep them leg bones strong?" Victor chuckled as he got a carton from the fridge.
"It's just what I'm used to."
"While you are getting the beverages, may I have the mustard?" Starfire requested.
"Ooookay." Cyborg asked, a bit weirded out by her tendency to drink that particular condiment on occasion, but knew it was her favorite anyway. "Here you go." The Tamaranean happily drank from the bottle while alternating between cereal.
"What else you got, Cy?" Jinx asked.
"Ummm... maybe some lemonade dust packets, or some tea..."
"Isn't tea just a bag with dirt in it?" Beast asked, but Raven rolled her eyes.
"It's not dirt, Gar. It's crushed leaves."
"Well then how am I supposed to drink a little bag with leaves in it?"
"You don't drink the bag, Booger Brain. You dunk it in hot water, than all that leafy goodness comes out. You've been dating Raven all this time, and you still don't know what was inside of teabags?"
"Whats can I say? She's a tea gal, I'm a soda dude. We have our tastes." Beast shrugged.
"You thought I haven't tried introducing green tea to him just to humor his humorous side?" Raven pointed out.
"So tea is like the hot water salad?" Starfire asked.
"Basically." Jinx shrugged. "Aside from the occasional Earl Grey tea, I'm not much of a tea person anyway. I like the taste, but not the temperature."
"Jinx, you can tolerate peppers up to the point your hair caught on fire." Garfield pointed out. "What's different about tea?"
"There's a difference between spiciness and temperature. Hand me a glass of melted Hot Tamales and Fireball candies at a cool enough temperature that leaves it thick and syrupy, I can drink that no sweat. And a party sized bag of flaming hot Cheetos? I won't even go for milk in the fridge until I eat it all. But hot beverages have the risk of burning my mouth."
"Huh, good point."
"Hey Titans." Nightwing came in. "What's happening?"
"We are talking of the beverages and temperatures." Starfire replied.
"I see. Odd topic, but nothing that weird." He went to the fridge, only to see there were no more drinks. "Speaking off, we're out of drinks. Including the mustard." Starfire stopped drinking from the bottle, and hid it behind her back, giggling. "Guess we'll have to go to the store again."
"To the T car then!" Cyborg proclaimed, so they all went to the car to restock on various beverages. Making sure they had enough, each individual titan got their own favorite variety of juice, milk, soda and tea. However, as they were leaving, the entrance of the store exploded in however, with Mad Mod leading an army of robots.
"The Titans?!" He inquired when he spotted them. He slapped his face. "Of all the bloomin' days."
"Mad Mod, what are you plotting, you Britain obsessed brute!" Nightwing questioned the villain.
"I'm sick of all the bloody sodas I see! All you Americans ever seem to think tea composes of is just Green or Earl Gray in stores. Boring hot water salad. Meanwhile, I see no less than a dozen sugar stuffed sodas in each and every store I go to! It's bloody insulting! And it's not even just an English thing! Tea has been around for around 6000 years, while the oldest I know is Dr. Pepper from the 1800s! So I'm going to steal all the soda, and replace it with the much more healthier version of tea!" He took a sip to prove a point. Jinx smirked at the end of his rant as she stepped forth.
"Mod, you do realize that soda was invented by an Englishman, right?" That took the English villain by surprise.
"What?"
"Yeah, it was invented by Joseph Priestley in 1767. And the first bottled soda is the English brand, Schweppes, from 1783." Mad Mod couldn't believe it.
"I-but... How did you know all that?!"
"Trivia. I'm surprised that for a man obsessed with proving England is the superior country, you didn't even know soda's national origins was British. How embarrassing." She looked smug in how she took down Mad Mod.
"I... I... oh bloody hell." Mad Mod and his robot army left the store without a fight, too depressed to go forth with their plan.
"Wow. You beat him at his own game." Raven said, admiring her dark friend. "That was awesome."
"I know. I rule. Well, let's go. We have groceries to buy."
A/N: Truth be told, the ending was not planned at all in advance. I was writing up to Mad Mod's rant, when I looked up the origin of soda, and found it was originally a British drink. So not only was the episode flawed in prejudiced execution, the whole point of the episode was factually wrong. That's hilarious. While soda was more just carbonated water in the late 1700s, my point still stands. It pays to do one's homework.
