Chapter Two:
They had escaped Beast Boy's sight, and everyone had later gone to bed. Beast Boy had equally escaped Cyborg's later on wrath about the whole 'egging the T-car' thing. So far things where peaceful, Robin was under his covers, in his night clothes. A red T-shirt and boxer shorts, his mask still on his face, because tonight he didn't trust his friends to leave him alone; it was just an intuition.
The boy wonder was sleeping soundly enough, though he shifted then groaned quietly as he heard someone enter his mind.
Raven… what do you want?!
Something's wrong.
What? What is it? Can't it wait?
No… something is in the tower. Just wait, I'll be over in a minute.
Robin groaned louder this time, rolling over in bed as he jammed his eyes tighter. However, when he felt a hard THUNK knock against his head, he yelped and sat up straight in bed, his eyes going wide as he stared down. "CYBORG?!"
"Keep it down man, I'm tryin' to sleep," the robotic person mumbled, waving his hand in the air. He turned back around and fell back asleep, his large body half teetering over the edge.
Robin just stared in shock, what the hell was Cyborg doing in bed?! He looked over the edge to see a huge battery recharger; it was hooked into the teen. Robin shook his head, his black hair swishing around his head without the gel to keep it in place. He grunted, trying to tug the covers from him so he could get up, but was stopped by someone else pulling them back. Robin looked to the opposite side, where his bed was up against the wall, to see a blond head sticking out from his sheets.
"Terra?!" Robin cried loudly, tugging the sheets roughly from her to expose her in her over-length sized blue sleep pants with number 8 balls all over them, and her short black cut off t-shirt she wore to bed.
"AH!" She cried, sitting up right before glaring wide eyed at Robin. Her face cringing back as she sneered towards him and jerked the sheets back. "Geeze, dude, RUDE much?!"
"Guys!" Beast Boy barked. Robin looked down to the foot of his bed to see a green head sticking up. "Be quiet… pleeaaasse."
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS DOING?!" Robin cried at the top of his lungs as he again yanked the sheets from Terra, ignoring her squeals of protest as he wadded them in a ball and threw the hefty chunk at Beast Boy's head, also making him cry out. "GET OUT!" Robin turned around and kicked his foot against Cyborg, waking him back up. "ALL OF YOU."
"Dude, chill out!" Terra screamed, grabbing a pillow and jamming it over her head. And, as Robin noticed, it as his favorite super-floofy pillow, his eyes narrowed as he noticed the drool stains on it, disgusting. If Terra wasn't a girl, he'd hit her.
Robin looked back over his room, noting Starfire was sleeping in the chair to the side, his mouth dropped a mile wide open. "GUYS!" He cried, again trying to wake them all back up. Why was everyone in his room again?! No, no, why was everyone SLEEPING in his room?! "This isn't a hotel, GET UP!"
As his door was opened, Robin turned to see Raven walk in. There was quietness all of a sudden as she looked around the room; eyeing the three extra Titan's er… keeping Robin company. Her brow lifted, and Robin's face dropped.
"I have no idea why they are in here," he growled.
"I have no intention of wanting to know." Raven shook her head lightly, flipping the lights on as she closed the door behind her.
As the light flooded the room, everyone started groaning and crying out in protest. They all sat up, Terra rubbing her eyes with her fists as Cyborg's yawn over-rode everyone else's. Beast Boy tried curling in another tight ball to fall back asleep, digging under Robin's second bed sheet, before the boy wonder growled and pulled it out from over him, making the changeling sit up awake.
"What's the deal?" He moaned, rubbing his face with his open palm. "I was, like…" Beast Boy yawned again, much like a cat in a way that his sharp teeth were exposed. "Sleep and stuff."
"Why are you guys in my room?" Robin asked them again, his eyes narrowing. "Why are you guys sleeping in my room?! You all have your own beds to go hog up!" He took a whiff of the air before letting out a disgruntled 'yuck!' "And you guys stink."
After a moment, Terra shrugged and let her hands fall to her side. "Well, I heard something in the hallway, so went to go sleep in BB's room instead… but he had heard it too and was leaving to go to Cyborg and then we met Starfire on the way, but then when we got to Cyborg's room he was going to come see if you were awake, but you weren't, and we we're tired and didn't feel like running back to our rooms." She explained with a dreary eyed look.
Robin was staring at her darkly. "Next time." He snarled under his tone. "Wake me up."
"Moving on," Raven's curt voice cut into the room, even as Starfire yawned loudly and sat up in the chair, Silkie still sleeping soundly on her lap like a tiny squishy cat with no ears and a stub for a tail. "There's something in the tower, I can sense it."
"Like what?" Robin asked, trying to wake his brain up. But he almost started to doubt that was possible… his 'friends' might have killed it, or chased it away… they were really good at that.
"I don't know, but it's not human."
"Did you have bad dreams or something again?" Beast Boy asked, sitting up a little further as he rubbed his eyes. "I mean," he blinked several times before facing Raven. "All we watched was some Easter bunny movie… "
"It isn't me," Raven snarled quickly, glaring towards the changeling so that he yelped then morphed into a puppy and bolted into Terra's lap.
Robin sideways glared at the two, mostly Beast Boy even as Terra stroked his head with an open palm. He returned his look to Raven, part of him believed her; the other wanted to crawl back in bed and go to sleep. Sighing loudly, Robin gave Cyborg a hard kick with both his feat, sending the robotic teen off the edge with a loud scream and a THUNK. Ignoring his friends protest, Robin jumped out of bed and spidered his fingers through his hair, making it stick up with his Boy Wonder hair magic.
"Well," He said, straightening his red sleep shirt and opening his eyes a little wider. "Team, let's go check it out."
The response he got was less enthusiastic. Terra stared at him blankly, her look could have rivaled Forest Gump in intelligence. She smacked her lips together a few times before flinging herself back down on the bed, setting the BB puppy next to her as she curled up. "No thanks."
Robin grunted, crossing his arms as he looked to Cyborg, who was slowly standing up. Starfire had stood up behind him, and while cradling Silkie she shouldered between Robin and Raven with a drawn and tired look on her face.
"I will come," she yawned, Cyborg also then stretched and walked up.
"I guess I am too."
But then they looked to where the last two where back asleep. Robin's face turned flat as he glared at the two. "I guess we leave them," he muttered. It'd be way easier than trying to drag them along.
Cyborg gave Robin a perplexed look. "You're going to leave Beast Boy and Terra alone… in your room?"
Robin's eyes grew wider. "Good point, grab em'."
As the first three left the room, Cyborg grabbed Terra by the back of her shirt and tugged her out of the room with him. Screaming and eyes wide from surprise, the geomancer gripped the green puppy closely as she was tugged out of the bed room in a anime like style.
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"Dude, we've been looking for the past hour, there isn't anything here." Beast Boy moaned into the air, swinging his head back and letting his arms limp like wet noodles at his side; much the same posture as a whinny two-year old.
"Beast Boy," Robin said, eyes narrowing to the side, though the changeling was walking behind him. "It's only been thirty minutes."
"Well it feels longer!"
It felt familiar, strangely parallel to that episode 'fear itself' though really the Titan's don't know we are taping their every move, so moving on from that. Raven swore up and down she had nothing to do with it this time, and they believed her… still, this was not fun. Six tired teenagers walking around a six story tower at midnight, in their pajamas; only three of which were not complaining. Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Terra however, where moping like pouty little kids, and didn't seem to care much if something was in the tower.
As they entered the rec room for the second time, everyone then paused and recognized something was wrong. Starfire was holding Silkie, as she had been for the whole time, so the worm could not be a suspect. But the couch had a giant bite out of it, and all over the carpet where huge claw marks. The Titan's all stared in horror at what had become of their common place.
"The couch!"
"MY GAME STATION!!"
"The kitchen!"
"THE REMOTE!" Beast Boy sudden screamed, falling to his knee's as he beheld the TV remote controller laying in the middle of the floor, shattered into a thousand little pieces of plastic and wires. Tears started running down his green face before he fell to the floor completely, face down he sobbed loudly. "Why…?.... WHY?!"
"Pathetic." Raven muttered, side stepping further away from him.
"What could have done such damage?" Starfire asked, looking around as Robin walked further into the room, looking around in his Robin-ish manor.
Rubbing his chin, he bent down and examined the claw marks, his eyes narrowing at them as his fingers lightly brushed into the crevice whatever had done this left. "There is a lot of weight bearing down here." He said out loud, not looking up from the tracks. "The way their digging inwards towards the tips… say's that it was either running, or jumping." After that, Robin looked up to his friends with a frown.
"From what?" Cyborg asked.
"IT CLEANED OUT THE FRIDGE!" Terra screamed from the kitchen. She held up the small fridge door, her face red and flushed as her lips quivered. "Whatever it is, it ate everything." She snarled, throwing the door to the floor and ducking back down behind the counter. "EVERYTHING. The stupid thing even ate my carrots"
"Terra, you where complaining about those carrots," Robin pointed out.
"SO?!"
"Look at this," Raven called. When the Titan's (even the sobbing Beast Boy) looked to her, she was standing next to the dining table; in her hands was a small round ball of fluff.
"What is it?" Robin asked.
"… I think… it's fur."
"Fur?"
"White, fur," Raven nodded, a equally perplexed look on her pale face as she offered the evidence to Robin. He walked over and took it, looking it over and rolling it in his bare hands a few times.
"This is… weird."
"No, you wanna know what's weird?" Cyborg cried. They looked at him, from where he was on the other side of the couch holding a huge oval brown object. "This thing, what is it?!"
"… it kinda looks like a guinea pig turd…" Terra scoffed a laugh, her cheeks puffing as she stared at it.
"…EW AH!" Cyborg cried, dropping the object and backing away from it with a mortified look.
Robin walked up to it, and noticed a nest of the nasty 'turds' that where the size of his arm. They stunk, but where somewhat hard, telling him they had been here for at least two hours. His face straightened as he tried to make sense of it. White fur, missing carrots, claw marks from jumping and running… and huge turd balls?!
"BEAST BOY."
"What?!"
"This wasn't funny," Robin snapped, standing up straight as he glared towards the changeling. "I mean c'mon, wait to prank us at least until we are all fully awake." At this accusation all eyes turned to the changeling, who stood up and looked around wildly
"It wasn't me!" He cried. "Dude, c'mon! That thing," he pointed towards the turd nest. "Is like, the size of me!"
"I think, we can all remember the T-rex incident," Robin cautioned darkly, at the reminder everyone cringed and groaned in remembrance of the event.
Beast Boy flushed, then crossed his arms and snorted loudly, pointing his chin in the air. "Dude, seriously. After you guys made me clean that up with a kitty litter scooper, that is never happening again. Besides, I wouldn't destroy the tube remote."
"Good point," Robin sighed, crossing his arms and looking back down at the appalling pile. "Well… what was it then?"
Hey look, I got some readers! YEY! xD This chapter was almost double the size of the last one -dance- I'm trying to write one chapter a day to try and get most if not all of this done before Easter. Since this is humor, again I am not going for anything fancy, thus the quick updates.
Special thanks to my sister, Tegypte who co-writes different parts so I don't get stuck and end up taking forever -thumbs up-
I salute you readers, you are brave souls.