Birdarang held a cassette tape made by Cyborg whom plopped it into Boom Box, which started to play some whimsical electric piano music where four of the titans held a dance party. Nightwing and Cyborg hopped with their feet aimed inwards while switching the directions of their heads, Beast ran in a deliberately awkward way with his arms stretched out while Starfire raised her knees from side to side every other rise while also holding her arms up. Some of the other little buddies like Pain Bot, Super Robin and Silkie did their own thing, dancing the best to their bodily ability.
"Booyah! Loving the dance party!" Victor exclaimed.
"Hmm hmm hmm, you're busting out all the moves!" Birdarang agreed.
"Are you feeling it my dude?!" Garfield asked his leader.
"I am feeling it!" He replied.
"Whoo! Whoo, and the hoo!" Starfire cheered, her hair swishing with her movement. The elevator dinged so that Raven and Jinx came into the living room, holding Lotus and Luna respectively having taken them to the pet salon, so they looked nice and pristine. The girls were laughing until they saw the dancing, and were mortified.
"Uh, what's with the corny dancing?" Raven questioned.
"Isn't it obvious? We're doing it just for fun." Richard answered.
"The fun is essential for our sweet moves." His alien princess girlfriend added.
"Uh, if you're dancing with no rhyme or reason, then the 'fun' is so wrong." Jinx said as she looked away, unable to keep watching as she hugged her cat close. Even Luna looked away. Lotus straight up disappeared, no longer wanting to watch.
"Yeah, this just feels embarrassing."
"Hmph, whateves." Victor shrugged.
"When was the last time you danced, Raven? Like I recall was back when we were in Gotham at the academy."
"That's because we were actually dancing, not moving around like limp noodles on strings." The half-demon sorceress remarked.
"We do not always need to use the skills that always pay the bills, friend Raven. Join in on the noodle fun!" As the two 'cool' dark girls sighed and rolled their eyes, Boom Box's music stopped when an announcement came out.
"Oh man, if you thought we were done with the 80's with that roller skating competition that the Teen Titans won, we've still got more for you! Come on down to downtown's dance studio to win 'Best Dancer of the Year' award by dancing the best dance the 80's had to offer! This Saturday, come on down!"
"Booyah, another 80's competition!" Cyborg cheered.
"Now that sounds like something I can get behind." Raven smiled. "Let's get our dance on!" Raven used her magic to change all their clothes into pink unitards and white tights with black dance shoes. Well, it was pink for everyone else. Raven and Jinx wore lavender instead.
"Hey, how come we get to wear pink and you two wear lavender?" Cyborg complained with his chosen color.
"They're a prompt to not dance like that again. I know Starfire likes it but I also know you guys aren't too much into too much wearing femininity."
"Yeah. You guys will look like frilly ballerinas if you stray too much." Jinx giggled mischievously.
"Girl that just wrong." Victor pointed out.
"Maybe, but I'm a bad girl, remember?"
"Alright everyone. Show me what you've got." Raven said as she pressed the play button on Boom Box, which started playing 80's dance music. However, while the titans were more used to modernized versions or the most basic of dance moves of the decade, they were being way off when it came to actually dancing like the 80's. Starfire, while trying to time herself to the rhythm of the music, was doing more of a combination of belly dancing with ballerina jumps and twirls. Must be a Tamaranean dance. Beast Boy was dancing with presumably an African dance Raven wasn't familiar with given his foreign movement with his arms.
"What are you doing?" The half-demon girl asked.
"This, is the takamba, mama. Learnst it from my time in Africa. Only thing missing is a tehardent." Raven pinched her nose. Any other time, learning more of his time and culture in Africa would be interesting. But now was not that time. Nightwing, unfamiliar how to dance like it actually was the 80's, was stiff and lost, unsure how to convincingly dance in such a way. And Jinx, while not as off key as the rest of them, was treating the music like one at a rave where she just partied into it. A little too hard as she accidentally kept bumping into her friends.
"Whoops, sorry." She'd giggle. The only one who was dancing good was Cyborg since he was pulling off all the classic moves. The Moonwalk, The Thriller, The Running Man, then finally The Robot, of course.
"Dude, how are you moving so good with the beat yo?!" Garfield asked.
"You forget, my favorite decade is the 80's! I know all the moves! Booyah!" He yelled as Cy finished with the splits.
"Right, and as you already know, I'm inherently good with dancing. We have a lot to teach you." And so they split into two teams of Cyborg teaching Jinx and Beast while Raven taught Starfire and Nightwing. Something that was a good dance move for Richard was breakdancing, since it's movements were just a dance-ier version of fighting, which he was very good at. Beast and Jinx were real good with The Worm, given their dexterity, flexibility and above average upper body strength, giving actually impressive movements of the dance step. Something that Starfire really liked was The Snake since she could move one way while her hair swished another, making it look like two snakes. Garfield was particularly amused when Cyborg was teaching him the Electric Slide, commenting their should be electrical sparks from where he's sliding.
However, that's not to say that the process was easy. While breakdancing came easy to Nightwing, he was still somewhat stiff to any other moves. Beast and Jinx had gotten better dancing to the rhythm, but tag-team dancing was still something that was more difficult than solo-dancing. And Starfire, while having a grasp now, still understood it just as much as every other Earth custom so far, which was sufficient but widely lacking. By time of the dance competition, they were graded by Raven as, "Barely passable but no longer embarrassing.". There were a total of 30 contestants of all ages dressed up in their dance unitards or 80's suits. Thankfully Raven changed their unitards so that they were more color diversified rather than pink and lavender only. And two of the contestants were Birdarang and Boom Box to boot!
"This place is all that and a bag of chips!" Birdarang exclaimed, before transforming into his combat mode to dance properly.
"It time to breakdance!" Boom Box agreed. A suave looking African American judge with sleek oily black hair in a white unitard moonwalked to the judges table where he picked up a mike.
"Hello everybody, ah! My name is Danny Devon, and I will be your humble and host!" He said all this while making dance moves nearly every word or syllable. "The competition is in three parts, ah. First is solo, the second is pairs of two, then it's one big group until there's one last standing champion! Now, let the competition begin, ah!" Everyone started to do their own dances. However, what nobody suspected was that the little buddies of Lotus and Luna came too over everyone on the support beams. They decided to have some fun of their own. The two cats nodded before Lotus jumped into Luna, so that they could once again become Lunotus; the Jinx Demon.(A/N: Chap 36) However, instead of growing to be the big strong helluva cat she was before, she retained her cute cat size as she slithered through the shadows, and sneaked into the shadows of the dancers. That's when things started to become a little more literal. Someone doing The Electric Slide sparked electricity with his feet, and accidentally smacked into a woman, disqualifying them both. Another guy doing the Footloose steps of moving forward while shooting his feet ahead of himself had that become literal as his prosthetic feet fell loose, causing him to fall over in pain. A woman doing the Roger Rabbit yelled as she tried to not step on an actual rabbit in cute little red overalls that appeared, and the only way she could was to not miss a beat with the Roger Rabbit. Everyone was getting confused on what was happening. A guy doing the Cabbage Patch got pelted by cabbages above. Lonotus was about to do their magic on an old man, but when he was already doing The Pop n' Lock due to his rickety joints causing a whole lot of popping, she moved onto someone else. A girl named Molly was doing one of the dances from the Brunch Group, so when her shadow was invaded, she began cloning like Billy Numerous. They all freaked out and ran off. A guy doing the Egyptian became disqualified when his clothes went from 80's dance clothes to Egyptian clothes. A guy doing The Safety Dance lost his favorite hat and chased after it, thus falling off the dance stage since he was no longer dancing safely. A man doing The Sprinkler started to accidentally make grass grow on the stage and got a woman wet as well. She chased him in anger off stage.
"Alright alright, ah, that's enough!" Danny Devon called out, stopping everyone. "This is getting way out of hand! I asked for a dance competition, not a comedy club! What is going on-" Someone stopped Danny from his rant when someone tapped his shoulder and whispered into his ear. When he smiled and his eyes gained dollar signs for pupils for a second, he said, "Sorry everyone, ah. I was just as befuddled as you all, but this is good. It may be unorthodox, ah, but the watchers are really loving this. Let's just continue to the pair dancing segment now, ah."
"Man, what was all that about?" Garfield asked.
"I don't know man. All these dance moves becoming literal is... actually kind of fun."
"I was certainly weirded out, but hey, I like me some crazy." Jinx was settling into the new vibe. Figuring it was just part of their every day non-sense, the titans went with it as everyone paired into teams of two. Which is another round for Lunotus to have some more fun. When the round started, shenanigans already started as a woman jumped into a man's arms, replicating that move from Dirty Dancing. Only to get actually dirty when a pile of garbage fell on top of them. The Pop n' Locking old man didn't escape this time as instead of literally popping, he was now locked in place, thanks to the Jinx Demon. Two guys doing The Lambada seemed to have gotten too much into the rhythm, for with Lunotus's influence, they danced by slapping each other hard, thus getting disqualified for excessive force. A woman was next disqualified when her hips started to become square shaped, thus making movement too awkward. One especially fat guy panicked and ran to the hospital as when he tried to do the Truffle Shuffle, he became a shuffling truffle dish man! A whole bunch of people accidentally fell off stage when one woman was doing the lawnmower, and was mowing the grass even without the actual device and was spraying people in the face, momentarily blinding them as they fell off stage.
"Alright, that's good, ah!" Danny told them to stop. "Now it's time for the group dance! You all perform the same moves as your competitors. This is now a battle of attrition, ah." Lining up in a row of ten, they started to dance the same move with surprising synchronization. Which didn't last too long though thanks to Lunotus. One woman got a sprain in her ankle wearing a high-heel when they were doing The Sprain, disqualifying her. Thing is, that wasn't the Jinx Demon's fault. She was busy turning someone who had the audacity to make the rest twerk to become a literal butt whom plopped on the ground in shock, making everyone laugh. He scurried away. Now it was just the titans, Birdarang and Boom Box. However, when Lunotus passed through their shadow's thus past Raven's, the half-demon sorceress shifted her eyes. Her shadow gained eyes of light as it detached and reached into Cyborg's shadow, pulling the Jinx Demon out. The shadow's eyes showed disapproval as she shook her finger, the combined little buddies looking down in disappointment. With her out of the way, Raven continued with what she was having fun with: dancing. As good as they were, even Cyborg at his best, everyone was struggling to catch up to the effecient way Raven was busting a move as she twirled around on one leg before stopping with one hand to her face while the other was her arm stretched away from her face. Tapping the toes and heel of her left foot, she then gave one big stomp which gave Raven the chance to jump to her left, using that leg as a support while holding her right leg horizontal to her right. Falling to her right, the titan landed on her right hand while her right leg swished to the left, rising higher than her supporting leg. Using that leg to push herself up so that she was only standing on her right arm, Raven used her left arm to give herself spinning momentum to do upside down splits which became the whirlwind of break-dancing until eventually she was just spinning on her head. Her friends just couldn't keep up as they stumbled down or were poorly able to keep up and replicate her moves. Pushing her hands into the ground, Raven twirled in the air so that she could land on her feet, an arm raised, and panting quite a bit, having finished her dance.
Everyone applauded as Danny Devon stood up with his fellow judges, clearly amazed as they clapped.
"Ahh! That is some of the sweetest dance moves I've seen in a long time, Teen Titans Raven!"
"Well, you know, I was just in the flow, you know?" She shrugged.
"I indeed do know, ah."
"Also, I have to apologize." The titan began to confess as her shadow brought Lunotus into her arms. "My pet seemed to have followed us here and caused some mischief. I'll be sure to fix whoever was affected.
"Well that would explain things. Hmm, considering that this brought in way more viewers than anticipated, how about we give you a sponsorship for a few days so that we can both spread the word, you heal those people without losing money, and I get more dancers following me? Win-win! Is it a deal, ah?" Danny held out his hand.
"Yes!" The half-demon girl shook his hand while the other titans cheered. When the titans eventually left the dance studio, all ten were having fun.
"I should've known you'd try to have some fun." Jinx giggled as she hugged her purring cat. "I will have to take away some privileges, but you did make things super fun so I won't take away too much."
"I will be taking away your lotus leave treats though." Raven lightly scolded her little buddy. Her face drooped before growing happy again from being stroked under the chin. "But thanks for inadvertently getting me that sponsorship."
"Oh yeah, let's get down to it! Drop a beat!" Birdarang said as it played that whimsical song again, with four of the six titans dancing that same embarrassing way again.
"Ugh, come on, this again?!" Jinx groaned. "I thought we told you that... Raven?!" She gasped as she saw her own fellow dark titan swish her hips back and forth before doing the Carlton Dance. "What are you doing?!"
"I'm dancing!"
"But didn't you say you didn't want to dance like a limp noodle?!"
"Right now, I'm too happy to care! I just want to have fun! Isn't that what your Gotham song was, Jinx?" Raven pointed to her friend whom was shocked by the decision. But sighing in defeat, even the self-proclaimed coolest titan of the team started moving her back left to right while keeping her arms straight in front of her front... and even kind of liking it a bit.
"Huh, this is sort of fun."
"Then let's enjoy ourselves! Booyah!" Cyborg cheered as they danced back to the tower, looking like fun loving dorks.
A/N: Ahh, isn't it fun when you just let go and dance like nobody cares? We're at the season finale now. Now, this one will be unique since this season finale for my story will be two interpretations of the same thing. I had one thing, Eris had another, but I wanted to do either so much I decided to do both. Mine is a bit more simpler so I'll be writing mine first. Prepare to have your minds blown for what's to come next.