Hanging up someone's underpants as a flag, The Teen Titans sang a short a short underwear pledge, before laughing.
"Haha, look at my undies fly!" Beast chuckled. Jinx shook her head with a grin.
"I feel like I should be above this... but it's still funny."
"Classic." Raven remarked.
"What-Titans?!" Nightwing gasped when he came outside the boys cabin, looking up at the underwear. "You can't do that! It's against the rules!"
"It's just some of them good to camp pranks, bro." Beast shrugged, with Cyborg agreeing,
"Yeah, lighten up."
"They're right, dude." Bumblebee spoke up. "It's not like there's a creepy dude wearing sports equipment picking us off acting a fool." Just then, the comm speakers picked up, with Deadman speaking to the campers.
"Attention, campers. There have been reports of a creepy dude in sports equipment picking off campers who are alone. Please remain in groups, and stay near camp grounds at all times."
"There is a creepy catcher on the loose?!" Starfire gasped.
"We'll have to heed Deadman's warning." Nightwing warned, but Garfield wasn't afraid.
"Please, we be superheroes, Star. We can just use our powers to get away or fight them off. No biggie."
"Well, I'm not leaving things to chance. We'll split up in groups of two and search for this creepy catcher. Good thing I bought this late 90s recording camera to take notes from the gift shop." Nightwing held up a camera, turning it on. "Titan Log 1: There's a creepy catcher on the loose here at the hero camp grounds." Karen pushed him aside to speak to the camera.
"To be honest, I'm a little excited. I ain't going to be some snot nosed, lip quivering little girl. Nor the first one to go out."
"Eh, whatevs." Beast shrugged as the Teen Titans went to do their own thing. Garfield went to the lake. "No way ams I gonna get caught. I'ms as slippery likes an eel." Beast tore off his clothes, and jumped in skinny dippy style, creating a big splash. He floated to the surface, floating on his back. "Ah, so peaceful likes. The sweet sounds of nature. Little fish jumpings. Birdie birds singing. Paradise, yo." Bubbles came up from underneath him, but he frowned. "Wait, those ain't my bubbles. They don'ts smell like tofu." From the distance, Nightwing and Bumblebee heard Garfield's scream coming from the lake.
"That sounded like Beast!" Richard cried out as they ran to the lake. "Beast! Beast!" He yelled out.
"Nightwing, look!" Karen held up Beast's outfit, and a baseball bat. "It's his clothes. And do you think he was taken out with a baseball bat?"
"If he was skinny dipping, he might've been taken out before transforming if he was hit between the legs." Nightwing turned the camera on. "Nightwing log 2. Beast has been kidnapped. The only clues we have are his clothes, and possibly the weapon of assault, a baseball bat. Beast did mention before that it's the comic relief that always go first."
"Step right up, ladies and gentlemen!" Cyborg attracted his fellow campers. "Step on up and try your luck. All you got to do is follow the pea under these nut shells!" Tigress, formerly known as Artemis, stepped up and picked the left net shell. But when he picked it up, there was no pea. "Oh, so sorry, little lady. Better luck next time!" The Tamaranean princess knelt down to look at the game.
"Oh, is this some sort of magic pea? What dark forces cause it to disappear from underneath the shell?"
"No dark forces, Star. It's just some sleight-of-hand. You just slip the pea out of the back when you push the walnut forward, then slip it under the other walnut when no-one's looking."
"Oh, I wish to play! But it not the underhanded trick wrong?"
"Only if you're gambling with money, but since we're not, it's okay! It's all yours." Cyborg stepped aside, passing a microphone to her. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'll just be over there, lifting weights to show off my guns." Cyborg changed his hand into a barbell weight, and started lifting to show how much of a jock he is.
"Okay." She levitated off the ground a few feet, and yelled into it, "Step the right up, males and the females that are mild in the temperament!" Miss Martian stepped up, raising a hand.
"I'll play."
"Just simply follow the pea, Miss." Starfire did the trick so fast, she was swapping thd walnuts in a literal blur, confusing the young Martian. When the Tamaranean was done swapping around, Miss Martian picked the left one, only to get wrong. "Oh, I am the sorry, but you got it wrong."
"But you were going too fast! I was having trouble keeping up!"
"Then I shall try it again slower." This time, Starfire went really slowly, almost as if she was trolling Miss Martian if she weren't a pure, wholesome girl. When the fellow alien picked the middle one, Starfire went into a giggling fit. "The wrong again! Hahaha, no one has any of the idea where the pea is! No idea!"
"Hey Star, maybe you should chill?" Cyborg suggested.
"But I am having so much of the fun! I am the queen of the pea! Kneel before me! Kneel! Who is the next to challenge the pea queen?! Who dares?!" Starfire was laughing, having the time of her life, before Nightwing and Bumblebee heard the two of them screaming.
"Starfire!" Richard called out, running ahead of Bumblebee as she followed suite.
"Cyborg!" She yelled as she flew overhead, and the table was abandoned. "They're gone! The catcher must've gone them too!"
"Looks like they were playing a shell game. And look at this. A baseball." He picked up one of the shells, resting on top of a baseball. Nightwing recorded this. "Nightwing log 3. Starfire and Cyborg were taken next at around sunset. The only clue remaining is a baseball. I'm getting a theme here."
"Wait, hold up." Karen took the camera, and spotted a feature. "Are those filters?" She turned one on to let her have puppy ears, and a snout with the tongue hanging out. "This isn't an authentic 90s camera, this is a modern camera made to be retro on the outside!" She started whimpering like a puppy, playing around a bit. Nightwing got annoyed at her antics.
"Bumblebee, you're messing with my notes!" He came into the shot, getting puppy features too. "We better hurry up and find Raven and Jinx before the creepy catcher gets them too."
At a particular cabin, Raven floated out, looking annoyed.
"Oh my goodness. That party is getting way too rowdy for me. I don't care what Jinx says, I am not going to do questionable behavior that could make me seem promiscuous. And what does it matter if I'm a bookworm like some other heroes believe? That doesn't make me a basket case. Ugh, I need to go somewhere quiet." Seeing the doors to a basement underneath the cabin, Raven opened the doors, and stepped on down. "Ah!" Raven bat at her face, trying to get a spiderweb and the spider out of her face. "Stupid spiderweb." Raven went down into the basement, but the light went out. "Ah! Ugh, stupid light. Someone needs to change that. Ow!" She started hopping on one foot. "Stupid tack!" The sorceress slipped, and fell down with a grunt. She looked up, and saw two yellow eyes. Her scream could be heard loudly enough that Bumblebee and Nightwing came around outside of the cabin.
"Raven?!" Karen called down fearfully, but got no response. Jinx came out, disheveled and drunk as she downed a drink, before throwing the bottle back inside where it shattered against something.
"Wha-what happened? Where my g-hic-girl Raven at? I have these guys that want to-"
"Never mind that!" Nightwing told her. "Raven's in trouble in the basement!"
"What?!" Jinx tumbled over the porch rail, and got up yelling, "Don't worry Raven! I'm going to-ow!" Jinx tripped over her feet, and fell down the stairs. "Back, elbow, shoulders! Ow, face!" Jinx exclaimed in pain down several steps down to the bottom step, then yelled in fright as she got too. When two yellow eyes peaked out from the shadows of the basement, the two titans screamed as they ran off. If this thing could get Starfire and Raven, what chances did they have?
"Wait, Nightwing, shouldn't you do something?!"
"Me?! I'm just an athletic guy! You're the one with flight, shrinking and those stingers!" The Titan leader retorted. From one of the bushes, a bat struck against Richard's shin, causing him to yell out in pain as he tripped, and felt something grab his legs.
"Heeelp!" He cried out before being dragged into the woods. Bumblebee was legit scared. She prepped her stingers, looking out for any signs of the creepy catcher. A creaking tree branch, a swarm of crows flying off a tree, the sounds of heavy footsteps around her. She started walking backwards.
"Come on, you want a piece of me?! The Final Girl?! Come on and take me too! I dare you!" She backed into a bulking man. Looking up to see behind her, she saw the man looking down on her. "Ah!" She shrunk down before he could grab her, and flew into the forest. But the next thing she saw, was something she couldn't have expected. She came across... a baseball game in the middle of the woods, with her friends playing, with exception of a sleeping Jinx. "Huh? What is this?!"
"Yo, Bumblebee, you made it!" Beast greeted her. "Don't worry, we all good here!
"But... but the creepy catcher!" Karen tried comprehending this, when she felt a hand on her shoulder. The heroine shrieked as she saw the creepy catcher behind her, only for him to take his mask off, and it was Deadman in disguise.
"My apologies, Bumblebee. This was just a prank of from us camp counselors to give you young campers a good scare, and see how many would heed our warning in case there was a predator."
"Oh. Whew." Bumblebee wiped her sweating forehead. "But... why baseball of all things?"
"I played little league before going to the circus where I was murdered."
"Well, I feel silly now." Karen giggled.
"You feel silly?" Richard laughed. "What about me treating this like a legit horror story? My detective skills were entirely unnecessary.
"Hehe, yeah. Anyhow, deal me in! Let's play some baseball!" Karen cheered. Everyone cheered.