A/N: Well, I'm not really sure how TTG! can be scarring from what a guest reviewer said, but I can certainly see how it can besmirch what was great before. But do not worry, I'm doing good progress from the six other reviews I have gotten so far. I would like like to thank Eris for giving me this idea for the plot, though I gave it a few adjustments of my own. Chapter based on the episode of Ghost Boy. Also, here's something interesting to think about. In the episode, despite being intangible, he still touches the box as he tries to stretch and gets out, which would be a logic error. I could have it where the only thing he doesn't touch is the ground, so that even the box is pass through.
Everything started pretty okay in the tower, early in the morning. Robin was the first to awaken and get dressed as he snapped on his gloves and clipped on his belt. He sat down on his chair to look at stuff online when a loud, high pitched noise threw him off as he jumped up startled, his knees hitting the desk that was painful, and thus landing on the seat again to resume the noise. Getting up slowly this time, stopping the noise, The Boy Wonder checked under his seat to find an air horn taped to the support of the chair. The closet opened where a laughing Beast Boy as he exited the bedroom. Robin groaned from this.
An hour later, Cyborg had enjoyed himself a bowl of cereal and some toast strawberry jam, and was heading to the garage to work on his car. However, when he entered the room and turned on the light, it was filled to the brim with rats!
"Augh, rats!" He jumped out and closed the door before they could get out and a pressed one of the many buttons on the wall for mishaps, labeled 'Infestation" A spray could be heard on the other side for a solid 30 seconds before stopping. Opening his chest compartment to get and put on a gas mask, and waiting to make sure sure all the excess toxins in the room have been aired out, the metallic titan entered the room again to see it the same as it was before, no dead rats. Realizing something was up as they weren't on their backs or sides, the metal teen picked one up and realized it was a toy, as it even squeaked from being squeezed. From inside the car, Beast Boy hopped out from the passenger seat while laughing even harder than before. Cyborg certainly was not amused from this prank.
Raven was in the shower with the water turned on. Putting a tiny dab of shampoo onto her finger and rubbing it on her opposite hand to make sure it wasn't dyed, the female titan was pleased to find that no unnatural color came from it. Same with the conditioner. Satisfied, she placed them back and grabbed the bar of soap to start washing. But the suds wouldn't come. No matter how hard she rubbed, the bar wouldn't give her the familiar bubbles and soapy feeling. She growled,
"Why won't you get bubbly?" Softly throwing the bar down into the bathtub, the peculiar sound of cracking came from it. Confused, the sorceress picked up the soap to see small, hairline cracks where bubbles and soap were leaking out. "A coating? Where did-" She then spotted something that wasn't meant to be there. Picking it up, she saw a case of clear nail polish sitting on the side. Her eyes glowed red as well as her eye brows opening up into additional eyes, before having to close them in irritation because very warm water got into them.
Starfire was outside, watering the plants under a tree when a mosquito flew around her head. The alien girl flung her arms around pleading,
"Please desist! Stop it! You will not take my blood, evil vampire bug!" Zapping it with her eye bolts, it disintegrated. From apparently no where, a spooky voice called out to her.
"Owwwww, why did you dooooo that, Starfirrrrre?" She was very confused and startled by this.
"Beast Boy? Was that you in the form of a mosquito?"
"Yes Starfirrrrre, youuuuu killlled meeeee!" Growing sad and ashamed, she fell to the ground crying.
"Oh, I am the so sorry, Beast Boy! By the moons of Xenoglerb, what have I done?!" Dropping down behind her from the branches, Beast Boy turned into a gorilla and roared, scaring her so much she shrieked and by reflex delivered a left hook into where his face would be, but the shapeshifter turned back to normal, dropping out of the attack.
"Whoa, Star! It's me, I'm still alive!" Stopping her movement, she looked at the nervous titan and came to the conclusion.
"You tricked me like before?"
"Nah, that time was an accident that involved your face. This time was deliberate with no sludge. In fact, I was just going to pour water over your head while you were watering those plants, but this was way funnier." Becoming red with rage, she screamed into his face.
"I cannot believe that you would do such a terrible thing again! I thought you were better than a Chlorbag Barblernelk!" Dumping all of the water in her watering can onto his head, she flew off to the upper levels of the tower in a humph, clearly angry.
"Huh. I guess I underestimated how'd she'd feel about being pranked again." Although he was guilty for the first few seconds, he then shrugged his shoulders. "Ah well, I'll just give her time to cool off then I'll apologize. It worked before." He then went back into the tower to play some games in his room.
Up in the living room, Cyborg, Robin and Raven were doing their own thing on the couch when Starfire floated in, mad as heck and her eyes glowing with fury. Seeing this, Raven asked,
"What's wrong, Starfire?"
"Beast Boy played a prank on me again. I killed a bug, and he made me think I killed him."
"Man, that's dark. Even for Beast Boy." Cyborg commented, a frown evident on his face.
"Yes. He is such a Chlorbag Barblernelk. How could he do this?"
"Well, how about we give him a taste of his own medicine?" Raven suggested. Everybody grinned to this, ready to pay back the green teen for all that he's done.
The next day, Beast Boy woke up, stretching his arms out from a good night's sleep, although he groaned as he popped his back.
"Ugh, I must've overslept. I feel stiff." Beast Boy rose up, but noticed something was way off. For one thing, he wasn't in his bed. Second, when he looked down, he appeared to be pure white, completely ghost like. "Whoa!" He cried out in shock, hovering a few feet above his body in the coffin. The boy looked to the other titans mourning what appeared to be his funeral. "Guys, what the heck's happening here?" He asked very nervously.
"He was so young." Robin bemoaned.
"Indeed. It is not fair!" Starfire cried, tears welling in her eyes.
"I'm going to miss you, my beastly little buddy!" Cyborg hollered in emotional agony.
"At least he's in a better place now. Which also makes this place better." Raven remarked, managing to hold her grieving in.
"Okay, ouch. Second, dudes, I'm right here, hello!" He tried calling out, but they fell on deaf ears.
"I can't believe he died from such a frightful nightmare in his sleep." Robin stated. "We could've woken him up in time."
"Did I die in my sleep?" Beast Boy pondered in fright. "Raven, please! You've got to be sensing me here!" The green- or now rather white ghostly boy yelled as he grappled with this situation. Cyborg gasped.
"Did you hear something? It sounded like a whisper." To confirm his fears, despite the fact he's white and floating, Beast Boy went and floated to his coffin, looking down at his apparently deceased body. With a finger, he tried poking his forehead, but the finger passed through. He gasped.
"Oh no! I really am a ghost!" He screamed as he flew through the wall, leaving the other titans alone, they waited a couple of seconds before bursting into laughter, enjoying their success.
"Hehe, Beast Boy fell for it hook, line and weighty object." Starfire giggled while Robin recovered from his spout of chuckles.
"That astral projection spell worked wonderfully, Raven!" The titan leader said to the sorceress.
"Thanks." As for Beast Boy, once the initial burst of horror and existential crisis wore off, Beast Boy sat on the top of the titan tower, mulling over everything, his tears dripping down his face and hitting his legs.
"It's not fair. I had so much going for me in life. I never got to tell the world my jokes, I never got to get a girlfriend, or a kiss, but worst of all... I'm stuck here." Then a thought came to him. "Wait, am I stuck here?" He asked himself. Floating, Beast Boy flew towards Jump City, flying over the vast amount of water, then the ports, and finally near the buildings. "Cool! I can actually go anywhere I want! Oh, I can see all the movies, I can travel the world, the possibilities are endless! Adventure, here I come!" And with that, he flew off into the distance, going to experience all the new things.
Back in the tower, once the other titans have had their laughs, Raven said,
"Alright, as fun as this is, it's time to get his soul back into his body. Azarath Metrione Zinthos!" The sorceress enchanted with glowing eyes. However, after a few seconds, nothing happened. "Huh, I wonder if he's out of range. Star, can you check to see if he's outside?" She requested.
"Alright." Starfire obliged as she flew around the tower, trying to spot any trace of the astral projection, but he was no where to be seen. She then soon returned to her friends to say, "It appears that he is no longer here."
"This is bad. Really bad." Raven responded with hints of worry.
"Bad? How bad? What have you done with my little buddy?!" Cyborg began to freak out as he picked up Raven and shook her back in forth. Creating a black energy hand to slap Cyborg across the face, he let the half-demon go. She floated away to explain.
"The thing about astral projection is that unless you're a master who overcame most of the weakness that come with the ability, most can only do so for an hour at most. If Beast Boy's spirit stays out of his body, he actually will be a ghost forevermore."
"We need to find Beast Boy!" Starfire gasped.
"But how are we going to find him? We can't track him by any normal means." Robin asked with concern.
"Regardless the distance, the body and soul has an attachment unless its severed. With his body, I can trace him no matter where he is." Raven told them.
"Then we have no time to waste! Titans, GO!" The four titans went to their jet and took off on the search for Beast Boy.
For the past 55 minutes, Beast Boy and the hounding titans traveled all over the world, whom the spirit had a blast getting to do things he always wanted, such as standing on top of the Pyramid of Giza, making road jokes in Rhodes Greece since so many things are called that, flying through the assortment of Stonehenge, checking out if there were actual corpses in the Taj Mahal, which he flew away grossed out when he found it to be correct. By the time he made it to Italy to try to lean on the leaning tower of Piza, he felt his stomach rumble.
"Hmm, getting hungry. Too bad I can't eat pizza no-wait a minute, I shouldn't be hungry. My body's no longer alive. Unless..." It took him a moment while Jeopardy music played in the background. And by that he turned to see in a home someone was watching Jeopardy. Then a lightbulb went off in his head. "I'm alive! ...but how?!" He then asked confused when he saw the titan coming from the horizon. His eyes squinted. "Raven. They played a prank on me. Well, I can certainly dish it right back." Beast Boy chuckled. Phasing inside the leaning tower, he waited for the jet to land and the titans with Cyborg carrying the body.
"Alright Raven, where's Beast Boy in the area?" Robin asked.
"In there. Quick, we don't have much time." Raven told them before Beast Boy stumbled out, staggering before falling, his ethereal form weakening evident by the flickering.
"My-my dudes? Thank goodness... that you're the last I'll see."
"Beast Boy, the ghost thing was only a revenge prank against you! You're still alive!" Cyborg told him urgently.
"R-really?" Beast Boy asked hopefully.
"But if you don't inhabit your body in the next few minutes, you will die." Raven added. "So get in now!"
"O-okay. I'll try." Weakly floating, he tried to get to his body, just trying to touch it. But as his hand was just about to touch his body, it disappeared before it could. Flickering even more now, he started floating up. "Oh, I guess my time is up."
"Beasty, please no!" Cyborg cried out.
"I am sorry for calling you a Chlorbag! Please just come back to us!" Starfire sobbed as tears escaped her eyes.
"It's too late for me now. You were the best family a guy like me could ask for. I love you all." And with that, Beast Boy was gone from them forever, both sight and sound. Starfire collapsed on the ground, unable to hold in her deep pain as Robin stooped down to comfort her. Cyborg was also on his knees as he hugged Beast Boy's body. Even Raven was melancholy as her eyes looked sad and regretful. There's only one thing to do now for her.
"Cyborg, bring me his body." Getting up onto his feet and still crying, he asked her,
"Wha-what are you going to do now?"
"The only thing left to do." Her eyes glowing white, she lifted a slab of dirt out of the ground. Also using her telekinesis to lift Beast Boy into the air and into the hole, the half-demon sorceress said, "Rest in peace. At least you'll be buried in the land of pizza." This was enough that the green teen woke up scared, jumped out of the hole and pleaded,
"Don't bury me! I'm alive!"
"BB?! What's going on here! This is so confusing with all that's happened in the past hour!" Cyborg complained from gaining a headache. Raven explained once again,
"Beast Boy was playing another trick on us. He made us think he moved on, but I could still sense him when he simply turned invisible and entered back into his body to potentially scare us."
"So that..."
"...was another..."
"...trick?" Cyborg, Robin and Starfire spoke in order as their anger began to rise. Beast Boy began to sweat and grow nervous, chuckling,
"Hey, look at the time. I need to go... eat a pizza, bye!" The shapeshifter than turned into a cheetah and ran away and the three titans chased after him, leaving Raven alone.
"Eh, I'll wait for them on the jet." She shrugged as she telekinetically threw the slab of dirt hovering in the air high and went to the jet. A small smile appeared on the girl's face when she eventually heard a pained yell in the distance when the chunk of earth made its target.
A/N: Thank you Eris for giving me some good ideas for this, even if I didn't use all of them. I don't need any help for when I do Hey Pizza! next chapter, for I have a clear idea on what to fix. However, I could seriously use your help for the episode, Girls Night Out. I'm at a serious loss on that one. Tell me what to fix on that while still allowing Jinx to be a fun part of the chapter when I get to it.