The titans soon landed in a private jet in the Metropolis airport where a car, came out of it and each of the titans got cleared to enter the city. Like in Gotham, the titans were in their civilian identities of Richard Grayson, Kori Anders, Garfield Logan, Victor Stone, Rachel Roth and Holly Thompson. The titans were invited for a dinner by Lois Lane who wanted to make a piece about the rising star team of the Teen Titans whom was growing from a local team spread through the states to a group becoming worthy of Justice League status. Superman even wanted is so it was going to be like one giant dinner interview. Jump City was protected by the Tween Titans so the city was safe. They did bring their costumes for the interview or otherwise if need be. Though before the interview the titans visited some of the landmarks like how they did in Gotham.
The titans visited Glenmorgan Square, Bessolo Boulevard for a play about Superman 1(A/N: Imagine if the first Superman theatrical movie was a play instead.), Topaz Lane, Centennial Park and Stacy's department store. Lastly before the interview, the titans were visiting the Metropolis Art Museum. As they were walking and appreciating the art though, Beast accidently bumped into a pedestal with a vase on it, and it smashed into the ground. What caught the hero off guard though was the fact that a little old man was in there wearing an orange and purple suit.
"Ow! Hey, that was my favorite sleeping vase!" The little man yelled as he snapped his fingers, and everyone except the Teen Titans were stopped, because time froze.
"Hey, what happened here?!" Cyborg gasped.
"Who might you be?" Starfire asked the diminutive man.
"Are you a genie?!" Garfield gasped with a smile. "My first wish is more genies to grant me more wishes!"
"I am not a genie, though I have inspired their existence." The little being chuckled. "The name's Mr. Myxlplyx, the 5th dimensional reality warper, the imp of imps and the jesting 'acquaintance' of Superman. You young ones don't look familiar."
"This is our first time visiting Metropolis." Nightwing said. "But don't think you can play innocent with me. I know by 'acquaintance' you mean tormentor. You do nothing but screw with people for your own amusement."
"Oh, so despite never coming here you've heard of me." Myxlplyx again chuckled as he laid down on Raven's head to her annoyance. "Well, I guess I am guilty as charged of jesting too much once or twice. But it's not like I really try to hurt people. After all, what's life without some harmless little fun?"
"I know, right dude? I prank my friends all the time and they don'ts appreciate the art. So um, sorry for... breaking your favorite vase. Is there anyt-" Nighting clamped his hands over the shapeshifter's mouth, but he still said too much.
"Oh yes indeed! Come with me." Snapping his fingers, everything went white until the titans faded into a new existence where it was like Raven's mental state when it was crazy. Trees were walking around with fish mooing from their nests before flying off while the flowers sung about the joys of fertilizer. A round purple hat fell out of the sky in front of the bewildered titans, now in uniform, to which Mr. Myxlplyx popped out. "Welcome to the world I just conjured up for you titans!"
"Wait, how did you know who we are?" Nightwing questioned, now suspicious.
"I happen to be friends with a fellow imp called Larry. You might know of him." The 5th dimensional imp told the leader, whom shivered from remembering that overall terrible day. "I may not have been familiar of you guys, I have heard of your team around that time. Now then, to make up for breaking my sleeping vase, you all must complete a series of tests. But first, I'll be borrowing your goblin friend here."
"Goblin?!" Garfield gasped in an offended tone, but gasped out of shock this time when Mr. Myxlplyx tore himself in half like a piece of paper before regenerating into two whole selves. One of which took hold of Beast and teleported him away.
"We're not in the mood to play your games. Let us out now!" Nightwing demanded.
"Oh please, you don't call the shots here. I do." The imp laughed. Raven snapped her fingers to get her and her friends out, but that resulted in nothing. "Nice try, but your lowly 3rd dimensional magic won't do squat here."
"So what will we have to do now?" Starfire asked her friends with concern.
"Right now, just listen." As the second Myxlplyx said that, the first took Beast to a wild grassland where cheetah shaped zebras were eating wildebeest lions while jeeps drove around in jeep sized humans as cars while the jeep tourists used magnifying glasses as binoculars.
"Why did you take me here?"
"There's something about you in particular. I don't know why, but it's like there's something that I just have to know. Plus I'll just have some fun with your friends elsewhere. From what Larry said, you're a shapeshifter. Perhaps if you showed me, I'll figure it out."
"Alrights, but if I do, I get to ask you some questions."
"Yes yes, now show me." Mr. Myxlplyx requested impatiently. "Show me a Japanese Spider Crab." Beast then did so, turning into the long legged crustacean.
"So, what do you mean by reality warper? You mean like Larry where you can just make anything happen?"
"Almost anything. The only thing I can't do is return to your dimension sooner than 90 days if I'm sent back home. Sparklemuffin." Despite the weird word, Garfield was able to turn into a certain, tiny spider.
"What might that be?"
"Let's save that for later if needed. Antelope." Turning into the mammal, Beast asked,
"Nightwing mentioned you like tormenting Superman. Is that right?"
"Phshhh, I'm just trying to get the big lug to lighten up. So what if I brought the news paper tower to life that one time? Okay, I'm satisfied. Here's your first puzzle to find your friends. Fly with the cats until you find the leprechaun's gold into the white sea." And with that, he disappeared.
"Hmmm. Where am I going to find flying cats?" Beast asked himself when the grass of the area started to shake and swell up. As clouds rolled in, water droplets started to pop out out of the grass, heading for said clouds. "Uh oh, don't want to get wet." Turning into an eagle, the shapeshifter took to the air, wanting to get above the clouds. Surprisingly, what he found above them were an army of cats with pop tart bodies, all singing in Japanese. The sheer number of them caused the green bird to yelp and fly away. But they were faster, and he was about to be overrun when he found a rainbow near by. Flying behind the rainbow, the army of pastry cats passed him by. Peeking out in the form of a monkey, the emerald mammal sighed in relief when he noticed he found the rainbow, which started to rain gold coins from underneath it. "Oh, the rainbow!" The hero cheered as he climbed up the rainbow until he reached the top, and laughed as he slid down, until he splashed into a white sea. Surfacing as a human, he recognized the taste. "Hmm, almond milk." Noticing that he was surrounded by diagonal pink walls, the changeling swam to the edge before turning into an octopus to crawl up the side. Reaching the top of a wall, Beast found himself to have been in a giant cereal bowl filled with marshmallows, and a giant door. "Sweet!" Turning into his regular sized human self, Garfield went to open it. He finds a letter though.
"That was too easy, wasn't it? Well, here's your first real test. When you finish all your tests, you can find your friends." Shrugging, Beast went through the door, which then disappeared. As for the others, the titans have been told everything the imp felt like and thus disappeared himself, and the team found that things weren't going to be as easy.
"Ugh, I'm trying to sense where Beast is or bring out my soul-self, but I can't do it."
"I appear to be the limited too. I can't seem to fly very high or for more than a minute." Starfire told her, trying to get more than a few meters off the ground but no luck. Throwing out a very weak hex, the witch crossed her arms with annoyed resignation.
"Yeah, I'm pooped."
"Let's go through there." Cyborg pointed to an upside down building with an exit sign over the door.
"Why do you think that?" Richard questioned.
"Well, who knows when we'll find an exit? We should check to see if there's anything in there." Figuring there was no other immediate choice, the titans went into a building, which on the floor they were on was a rainbow polka dot hallway with clown businessmen walking on the ceiling-err upside down floor in this case. Running towards the stairs, they tried to run up the upside down building, realizing that the clowns were looking down at them from their own side of the staircase just as they were looking up. Figuring they reached the top floor, opening it made the titans yell as they fell side ways from wonky gravity into another building in which none of the windows can to agree which time of day to reflect as the day time windows argue with the night time windows and vice versa. Upon getting in the building while fumbling, Jinx asked,
"Was this what it was like for you and Beast when you were in Raven's head?" Jinx asked her boyfriend.
"Yeah, just as confusing."
"I'm surprised you haven't gone insane from that. This is just too crazy!" Jinx pulled at her hair in anger until both sides popped off like a LEGO wig. She screamed until she put them back on with no problem and sighed. A cloud made of granite though smashed into the building they were in though, and noticed that all the other clouds were falling like the first one. "Run!" Jinx shouted as they tried to not be crushed by the stone clouds.
"No wait, get on me!" His body brought out wings and a jetpack, to which each of the titans latched onto. Nightwing and Starfire on his right wing plus Raven and Jinx on his left wing. Flying through the air, he got them out of the building just as it too were crushed. However, his jet pack started to go kaput as the ends of his wings were now, instead of producing fire like a rocket for lift, was now spurting tuna flavored pudding. The titans fell to the sky and tumbled across the ground, crashing through the door of a big house. Getting up dizzily, they found that they door they smashed through was not there anymore, and found themselves in a yellow room with three other doors.
"Ugh. Well, at least we're in someplace normal, I guess." Raven sighed.
"Friend Raven, there appears to be another letter on your back." Starfire said as she took a letter off her friend's back that was stuck when they smashed through the door. "Hello the new friends. You have survived together, but now is the time to split like the bananas. Find the clues or leave the house, for either way it means you can leave."
"So I guess we'll have to separate into teams. Starfire, you go with Cyborg for his protection if anything shuts down or destroys his body. Raven and Jinx will also team up, since even though they're weak now they're the most magic adept."
"But Nightwing, that means you will be alone to fend for yourself." Starfire expressed out of concern.
"Don't worry. I'm not so vulnerable just because I don't have powers." The titan leader placed his hands his girlfriend's arms. "I'll be fine." Swiftly, Starfire hugged him, to which he did the same.
"I love you."
"I love you too." The two shared a brief, yet sort of long kiss before separating and the five went into three different rooms. The room that Cyborg and Starfire entered lead to nowhere though. In fact, they fell screaming into a black void as the door closed. It took a few seconds before they crashed into stuff in the dark. Grasping for something, Cyborg pulled on a string which lit up a lightbulb hanging from nowhere. It appeared to be a cellar filled with all sorts of broken junk.
"Starfire, you there?!"
"Yes. I am here." The Tamaranean girl said as she sat up, her head covered with a torn lamp shade before pulling it off. Noticing that a ceiling closed the abyss off from them, it appeared that there was no way out. There were however walls. Starfire flew to one and tried to blast through it, but there was no evident damage. Either the walls were indestructible or her powers were very weak. "I am afraid we cannot force our way out of the room. We will have to find a way out of here."
"Wait, maybe we don't have to." Cyborg told her as he looked up at the bulb.
The two dark girl titans entered a room where, after the door closes and disappears, many portals open up. Sticking her hand through a portal, Jinx found herself tapping her shoulder from the other side.
"I guess we'll just have to go through these until we find the right one."
"Guess so." The half-demon agreed, and so they just either walked, jumped or somersaulted through a portal, always winding up inside of the hallway from another random one. This trial and error did soon allow them to find one that actually took them somewhere else, though where they found themselves was much more dangerous. A giant barrel filled with boulders two meters wide as they rolled, crashed and smashed into each other. The girls were taken off guard by the moving floor underneath their feet, but luckily they had the dexterity and reflexes to avoid being crushed in between the stones.
Robin found himself in a news editor's room filled to the ceiling with news paper articles. Finding a newspaper that was labeled by a neon sign as 'Clue!', Richard began to read it.
"An unsolved murder in the big city? So he wants me to find the answer in all of this." The titan leader smirked. "Good thing this is my specialty in my spare time." Cracking his fingers, he went to work.
Entering a hallway, Beast nearly fell into a chasm if it weren't for a colored floating tile he stood on. There was no floor in this hallway, but there were floating tiles of various colors floating around randomly with doors just as varied in color as the tiles. Garfield tried to turn into a bird, but he couldn't transform.
"Aw man, where did my power go?! Augh, this is going to be hard." He wasn't much of a problem solver, but he did note that the tile he was standing on was heading towards a red door, the same color of the tile he was standing on. Upon reaching the door, he tried to open the door, but it was locked. Looking around, he saw more red tiles and figured it needed more tiles to gain entry. Hopping onto a green platform, it started to hone towards the green door, and that's when he learned the tiles go to their respective doors. Seeing he needed to choose a random door, he went purple because he believed it would lead to his girlfriend and he wanted to make sure she was okay. As he hopped around, random objects started floating through the air along with the tiles. One of which was a grey piece of bismuth surrounded by a rectangle box of itself glowing like the color of a rainbow. Garfield snagged it, figuring it might be important. One by one of hopping around, Beast slowly got each of the purple tiles to the purple door. And when he got the final one to it, he yelped in surprise when the door opened and ate him.
As Starfire help Cyborg try to attach the wires from the light into his body while Victor's head provided light from his eye.
"So, I understand linking the wiring and body might allow to get power from this, but what are you planning on doing with the energy?"
"Well, regardless if it's science or magic, this is being powered by electricity. If I can sap enough power from wherever this space is, I could empty out this room of this excessive junk and maybe even break us out of here. Connect these wires here and... there!" With a complete circuit, Cyborg's body began to absorb a lot of power as indicated on a power scale showing on his right arm. 130%, 250%, 333%, 500% 999%. Transforming his body to put all that power into a weapon like he did with the tower aiding him against the demon army of Slade coming for Raven, Victor shouted one thing.
"Booyah!" Firing a beam that took up a huge volume, he disintegrated everything in the room, and even the walls were becoming damaged. Once everything was destroyed, Cyborg's body began to power down until it was a spent, yet still usable piece of mechanical body. He laughed regardless. "I've probably overcooked my body's offensive capabilities, but I sure cleared everything up."
"Cyborg, I remember you did this before, but now I get to say now that that was glorious!" Starfire stated as she was very impressed. "You could take out an army of tanks or war ships with that!" Noticing something appear, she pointed to it. "Look, there's the door!" Reattaching his head to his body while it reverted to normal shape, the two titans advanced to the next section.
Raven and Jinx entered basically a library after dropping out of the boulder filled barrel, filled with books and scrolls. They landed on their backs due to doing flips up to that point. However, it appears to have been trapped for as soon as they entered, the door disappeared and the ceiling and shelves started to close in on the girls.
"Oh come on! When can we get a break?!" Jinx growled.
"Just find a way to stop this! Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Even though her power was weakened, with the right focus she was able to conjure black I-beam constructs to slow the incoming walls and ceiling.
"Alright. Let's try to get crazy." Even though she couldn't feel much power in her fingers, the pink-haired witch rubbed her hands really hard and fast like one would try to keep their hands warm in a blizzard, and pink energy progressively sparked in her hands more and more until her hands were practically ablaze with pink before she spread it out into the bookshelves. For once she was on the bad end of luck as a small yet suspiciously heavy book landed on her head.
"OW!" The witch cried out as she picked up the book which was as big as a mint box and a quarter as thick. "How can something so tiny be so heavy?!"
"Can you please hurry up?!" Raven urged her friend, struggling as the I-beams started to bend.
"Alright already!" Shaking her head, she opened it... only to see it it was still the cover of the book but at a different angle and twice as long. "What the?" Several times, she tried opening the book but it was just the same cover only getting bigger and bigger with each attempt until she was yelled in frustration, "Screw this!" Throwing the book down which landed on a corner, it unfolded one final time becoming the size of a door and it opened up through the floor. "Yes! Raven!" Releasing her failing constructs, the girls jumped through the hole before they were crushed.
Shortly after being eaten, Garfield was falling through space screaming even if no one was around to hear him until he fell into a hairy chair in another room.
"Ugh, I'm getting dizzy." Beast said woozily until he felt a drop of yellow paint on his nose. Looking up, he saw the ceiling was oozing with paint. Not wanting to be covered in more paint, the shapeshifter ran through the paint drops, until the floor slipped and he yelled as he slid through various other things through a funnel under the floor, such as itching power, honey, feathers, itching honey, feathered honey, honey powder, powdered itching feathers and a whole bunch of other combinations of the three items. Crashing onto a black and white checkered landscape, Garfield soon found that he was caught in between a war. A war of black chess pieces with banners saying, 'Black Chess Pieces Matter!', facing off against the white chess pieces wearing banners saying, 'White Chess Supremacy.'.
"Oh crud." Garfield shuddered. Feeling strange, the superhero groaned as everything except his head became a pawn piece. Moving in against his will to the front lines of the black side, he finally got what was needed to be done. "Ooooh, I see. Well, I may have been originally white, but there's no way I'm turning my back to my peoples! For the Fula! Charge!" He and his black chess piece army began their advance... or as best as they could in accordance to chess rules anyway. Unfortunately the other side did not as they cheated and hobbled all over the place where they felt like would be the most crippling. This, and Garfield not knowing how to play chess, caused the black side to lose rather badly. Just as it seemed over, Garfield pulled out one last trick. Turn from a measly pawn into a rook, but not just any rook, a whale sized rook that crushed the table all together along with the pieces. Turning back into a pawn, Beast chuckled. "Oops, I didn't mean to do that."
But it appeared the board did not like being smashed as a black space flopped over and consumed him, sending the now human shaped shapeshifter falling until he crashed into nothing like there was supposed to be a floor there. Groaning, Beast got up woozily to see there was now a table with rectangle shaped holes in them corresponding with a color. Reminding him of something he had in his pocket, Beast took out the piece of bismuth. Placing the biggest part of it into the red section, the piece snapped off because it fit perfectly. Doing the same with all the other colors until he had the grey center, all the colors removed themselves from the table and became sticks of the six colors. No indigo does not count since it's a darker purple. Noticing that they each had a hole and nub at the end, Beast put them all together into a rainbow style staff which then turned into black iron with gold banded with gold rings at the end. "Huh, I wonder what this bar is? It's a bit long." Upon him saying that, it shortened. "Cool. I guess I can keep hold of this." The staff than shrank down to the size of a needle which he then placed in his ear, which he felt like it belonged there for some reason. A trap door then opened in the nothing, leading to another room which he went down through.
Stafire and Cyborg have been having fun with this new place. It was a hall of mirrors where different aspects of themselves were seen. Like in one Starfire was a couple inches tall while Cyborg had a watermelon for a head. The two were fighting foes together, fighting each other, Starfire was Queen of Tamaran, Victor is a football star after high school, Star and Blackfire having sister fun time while Cyborg was on a date with Jinx and such. However, once they decided to touch a mirror though, the two were sucked inside. And it was hear that the Teen Titans finally reunited by various means. A black square opened up where Garfield dropped through, Starfire and Cyborg crashed through reality like a broken mirror, a piece of floor opened up like a book to which Jinx and Raven plopped out and a waterfall sent a swimming gear wearing Nightwing flopping around like a fish before picking himself up.
"Nightwing!" Starfire cheered as she hugged her drenched boyfriend. "I am glad you are safe! Although, why are you in the swimming attire?"
"I found a rubby duck being hunted by toy sharks wanting to eat it."
"Well, it seems you finally found one another!" Mr. Myxlplyx puffed out of thin air. "You passed my trials of showing me what you're capable of! Although I must admit, it was getting a bit boring anyway going from one trial to the next. There was starting to become way too many and I don't have all day even though I can stop time. Since you all survived enough to bore me, I'll just return you all back to before we met." Snapping his fingers, time rewound to the point that Beast was just about to walk into the vase, when something else caught his attention and went to it. Lois got to interview the titans, the titans got to see Superman and Supergirl, and then went home after a few days. Garfield though felt like that something was missing, like something had happened but didn't, all the way back to the vase. It was only when he was in his bedroom when he felt something in his ear.
"What's this?" Grabbing hold of the staff which extended itself, Beast remembered as flashes flooded his brain. Shaking his head, the shapeshifter then knew what happened did occur, but then yawned. "Ahhh, I'll have Raven look into it." Storing it in his closest, Garfield went to his bed and went to sleep.
A/N: So, admittedly I was sort of getting bored and creatively tired at this point. Eris had more, wanting Beast Boy to have a strong tie to Sun Wukong the Monkey King. This is about slightly over the word length of Crazy Day, so this felt like a good place to stop. Eris wanted to give him armor as well like Wukong but... I just don't see him wearing armor even if it's thematic. Admittedly almost none of the titans wear armor, mostly latex, but I see it with BB one of the least in concept. So, the chapter ended early of the whole suggestion he gave. But it was fun to write overall. It was just dragging at this point then. The next chapter will be very much simpler. I also admittedly put in some pop cultural references, such as the pop tart cat and The Sorcerer's Apprentice with the unfolding book, that stuff. As for the chess scene, well, I just hope it didn't cover the shout-out to how racism can be like in a wrong way. It was the only thing I could think of that had any depth and cleverness. And for those DC diehard fans who might think I portrayed Mr. Myxlplyx incorrectly, my defense is that I haven't seen or read anything about him aside from being a high dimensional trickster and I don't know how much Eres knows about him. This chapter was confusing, but if any of you have a problem, blame me as the writer and not Eris as the thinker as they give me ideas, and it's my job to interpret how something goes in what way fits best, his idea or mine. Eris is a great helper for me and never gives me any bad ideas about anything.