The titans were eating pizza, just having a good time when Nightwing came in.
"Attention, Titans. Today happens to be... Career Day." Everyone was confused, so Cyborg
"Career Day? Isn't that a school thing where kids and teens talk to professionals of a career path without even personally seeing the job, just pamphlets?"
"It is, but considering Beast became 19 yesterday, we have one year left before the Teen part becomes false, and our Tween protégés take our place. It made me reflect on some things. Where would we be if we weren't the Teen Titans?"
"Well, for one thing, my dad would've destroyed the world permanently with no chance of saving it, and Starfire would still be in space being a slave." Raven pointed out.
"Oh, right." Richard was stumped by that. "Well, the point I was going for was what jobs would we have if we weren't heroes, and Trigon didn't destroy everything."
"Oh, that is the interesting question." Starfire thought about it. "The closest I have to the other job is being princess of Tamaran. Otherwise, I have never thought of it."
"Yeah, and I thought I would be the next Madam Rouge or Brother Blood by the time I was 20. When I was still a villain." Jinx shrugged.
"Well now is the time to decide. What would you like your careers to be?"
"Well, I always thought it would be fun to be a dancer." Raven admitted. " It's always fun when I can cut loose."
"My career dream is to be friends to all the kitties!" Starfire cheered. Jinx smirked.
"That's nice. Given how I wanted to be the top villainess partially out of to prove I'm more than just a pretty mook under Brother Blood, I could be a feminist rally organizer."
"Well, given I'm not smart enough to follow my dad's steps or be a zoologist, I could be a professional animal groomer." Beast thought of, which Cyborg chuckled to.
"Ha, of course you'd go for something involving animals. Hmm... since I can't be a professional football player... I could be a car mechanic! I love souping up my baby in my alone time."
"That's all great, Titans. Unfortunately, I can't go back to being an acrobat because I'm not over my personal issues, so I'll just be a private detective eye. With that settled, let's do the jobs we'd love to have the rest of our lives! Titans, GO!"
Raven walked into a hip-hop dance club, dressed in a purple sweat jacket, her legs still in their stockings of her new costume also covering the lower half of her leotard, along with her fingerless gloves and a cap to keep her eyes under shadow. She walked to the dance floor, where a bunch of guys noticed her, and being the drunk idiots they are and not realizing it's the dark sorceress titan everyone praises, scoff at her.
"Oh, sorry, we almost didn't see you there. You're dressed so darkly that you look like an invisible nobody."
"Please, being dressed dark prevents me from being dressed like I'm wearing bright sticky-notes."
"As cliche as it may sound, you may talk the talk, but can you... dance the dance?" People snickered at his messed up use of the phrase. But Raven took it in stride.
"Oh I can dance the dance. I can dance better than you and your whole crew."
"Ha, why don't you go back to the goth club and recite some poetry?"
"Oh, it is on." Raven pulled the bill of her hat to face backwards.
"Bring it." He said as people got out of a way for a dance off.
"Now hold up, are we having a battle with our dance king?!" The DJ announced. "Some goth chick going up against Kyle Cage!" People began to cheer for Kyle as he danced against Raven's moves, the two dancers going against and away their personal space alternately as they went along with the hip-hop beat. He got Raven to duck by jumping over her with a front flip, before spinning on his knees to break her tempo. Kyle then fell back to the floor, only to roll himself back onto his feet with no hands, jumped towards his back only to catch his fall with his hands to land back onto his feet, then twirled with a horizontal side flip.
Everyone cheered as he challenged her to do better. Raven raised her hands as if to say, "That's all?", before doing a standing front flip, going into another one with forward momentum to land with her left foot extended, her right foot and hand absorbing the impact. Her legs pushed her to do a one hand stand with a bit of twist to it. Raven then went back onto her feet, before shimming left to right with her heels and toes rapidly against the floor in a squat. Going into a run, she heads towards a table to use for a backflip, before taking a step to slide across the table with her butt, rolling off of it to do a cart up to a wall, where she did the complete splits against said wall. Bringing her legs close, Raven uses her other arm for support to finish this match with a seamless windmill, spinning her legs all over towards Kyle, forcing him to back up and trip from how unexpectedly skilled she was. Seeing she won, Raven spun into a spinning headstand, stopping by planting her hands onto the floor with her legs posed for flair. Everyone cheered for the titan, holding her up in a wave as she laughed.
Cyborg and Beast, meanwhile, were working on opposite sides of a street, doing their respective jobs of animal groomer and car mechanic. What was especially helping was how fast they were doing their jobs. Using his ability to use multiple animals forms at once, Beast transformed his arms into 8 octopus arms, and utilized his often hidden monkey tail to groom up to 19 pets all at once, helping the employees with their rate of animals by several times. He could see through the street window that Cyborg was employing a similar tactic. Cyborg was extending every single dexterous part of his robotic body, outside and inside to fix up, outfit and clean each car, quickening the amount of cars in the establishment around twice. While Garfield wasn't smart enough to help Cyborg beyond the basic extent, and Victor would get hair and water messing with his gears, seeing the two of each other across the street doing well was good enough.
Starfire was being shown how to work at an animal shelter, how to take care of animals, feed them, clean up after them, something of which she did easily since it was like taking care of Silky. Though she was told to refrain from hugging them to death and licking them, a brush and bath being all that's needed. Once the alien princess was dressed in a worker's outfit, and five separate hair ties and hair nets to contain her hair, Starfire set to work, and gasped when she saw all the cats in their cages.
"Kitties! Be free!" She squealed as she opened all the cages, letting loose all the cats to take care of them. The alien girl used a laser pointer to watch the non-lazy cats run all over themselves trying to catch the elusive dot. And to save time on feeding all the cats one at a time, she used a horse trough to fill it with several bags worth of it so she could spend more time playing with them. Even the usually stubborn bath time was fun as she just simply bathed with them, the cats unable to overpower or hurt her due to her strength and durability even though she was being totally gentle. While she did occasionally had to spray them with the water bottle to deter bad behavior, for the most part, it was one of the best days of our life.
"Come on ladies, stand up and fight!" Jinx yelled into a speaker phone at Jump City Park, trying to gather support. "Aren't you still angry like the protesters from the inauguration riots that just happened?! I refuse to follow any party that limits women's rights! I'm not a Democrat, Republican, or Liberal, but a Left-Progressive, because I'm a free thinker!" More people started to listen.
"Women have had free speech for almost 100 years, and we've made many advances over the century, but we're still so far behind! This won't stand! This won't fly! The rich and powerful men just want us to live like it's the 50's, stuck in the kitchens and doing housework! They may say that's not the case, but we know better! How many women are in the 1%?! The 0.1%?! The 0.001%?! I grew up on the streets as an orphan in India, and they pushed me down for being a girl! My parents abandoned me!" Minority women were really paying attention now, and becoming restless.
"Nevermind that I was also discriminated for my grey skin tone and pink hair-that's right, it's natural! Don't give me that look! And don't get me started on sexual harassment! Cancel See-More for using his helmet to look into my room with X-Ray vision! I don't have evidence, but really, he's that kind of person." Now her audience was becoming a frenzy.
"All my life, I've been discriminated against for being a girl, an albino-likened Indian, a criminal degenerate... well now I'm sick of it! I used to fight the system as a villain to take what I believed was owed to me! Now I fight the system for my basic right! Together, we can empower ourselves and each other, and fight for a world where women are just as valued as men. Join me in this mission to create a more equal and just society! Let's rise up and make our voices heard!" All the women in the park were now in the mob mentality to fight for their right. "Now that's what I'm talking about! Storm the streets, yell out your beliefs! Hell, punch a guy you don't like for all I care! We will not be silenced!
At the end of the day, all of the Titans returned to the tower, having done an 8 hour day like how everyone else acts.
"So, how was Career Day, Titans?" Nightwing asked. "I was able to solve a year old cold case."
"It was awesome!" Cyborg replied. "Beastie and I made car and animal work so easy for everyone else!"
"Yeah, boy!" Garfield and Victor high fived.
"Totally rocked this breakdancing club. The guy was floored." Raven chuckled while wiping her brow."
"And I got to spend all day with the adorable kitties! I do not know why people think cat ladies are weird. It is the glorious!"
"And let's just say I've made my permanent mark on Jump City now. Granted, a majority of my rally was arrested, but I'm sure they'll be bailed out."
"Well, looks like we've had a successful Career Day." Nightwing smiled. At least we've now had a chance to explore some jobs we wish to have if we were ordinary citizens. Let's have a goodnight sleep everyone. Tomorrow is going to be important."
"Why?" Beast asked.
"Because it's the first Justice League Top Idol."
A/N: Shoutout to Step Up 2 for Raven's segment.
