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Day Seven: Summer and Romance

Man, I’m down to the last day now! This has to be the funnest week I’ve ever had on this site! As I’ve discovered my newfound obsession with destroying the T-Car now. Who knows, I might just continue a drabble series that focuses on the destruction of the T-Car for fun. Although I wouldn’t write it for awhile. Still have lots of other stories to work on.

There may be one last hurrah in here. I’m hoping it will be the pounding nail on the coffin for the T-Car. At least for now. *laughs evilly*

ENJOY!

Disclaimer: I don’t own Teen Titans.

Long Car Rides… I Hate Them

Ahhhh, summer.

Who could name a better time in the year to relax? To sit back and read a book. To meditate the whole day away under the light of the sun. To sip a nice, hot cup of herbal tea. While cuddling up into a certain green skinned boyfriend. Playing his green hair while he tried in vain to beat his half man, half-robot best friend at some game. Man, what a day that would be in the middle of summer.

At least, this was what Raven would have wished she was doing. What she could have been doing. If they were still in the Tower at that moment.

Instead, she was sitting in the back of the T-Car. Sitting in between her boyfriend, and her friend that was a girl. As Starfire so liked to call her at times. Robin was sitting up front in the passenger seat. While Cyborg was driving his stupid baby with a big stupid grin plastered on his face. And there was a speaker blowing out loud rock music into the back of her head. What every girl dreams about at night…

In their nightmares (LOL).

They had been on the road for the past two hours. Which had felt like a couple lifetimes to Raven.

For the whole ride so far, Raven has had to listen to Cyborg’s loud metal music through his surround sound speakers. Too loud to allow her to concentrate on meditating the trip away. Or to simply relax into her green boyfriend.

It also didn’t help that Starfire was singing Tamaranean versions of every song Cyborg played. Now no offense to Starfire, but if I had the choice between listening to her sing any song, or going to a Justin Bieber concert full of girls just to hear him sing ‘Baby’ over and over again. I would shoot myself instead of doing either. As they are just about the same on my scale of worst music ever played.

Yeah, Starfire’s singing was that bad. What was worse was the fact that she was singing quite loudly, especially into her left ear. And squealing when Cyborg played a song she liked. At times, it seemed to Raven that Starfire was being louder than Cyborg’s surround sound speakers. It was like the two of them had a personal vendetta to make sure she couldn’t relax at all.

In short, Raven was in a foul mood.

She was forced to listen to song after song. In English, slang, rap, Tamaranean, and even at times a mixture of all four (That is just wrong). With her only consolation being she had an excuse to dig the right part of her head into her boyfriend’s shoulder. She was both cuddling up to him, and protecting her right ear drum from further damage. She had to keep her left ear uncovered to the world as it would seem rude to Starfire if she had a hand up covering her ear.

Now, why were the Titans in the T-Car for such a long time to begin with?

No, the Titans weren’t off to fight crime. Quite the opposite in fact.

The Titans East had arranged to take over for them in Jump City for three weeks. So they could go on a nice small vacation for a little while. They were going to spend it at a beach side mansion up in the northern part of California.

Now, Raven hadn’t been against this trip. Despite how miserable she might have been in the T-Car at the moment.

Heck, she saw the plans for the mansion. And saw all the space she and Beast Boy had from the others. And the thick walls and everything else surrounding their room. When you have plenty of space from everyone in a house, along with likely sound proof walls.

Let’s just say there’s no need to quiet yourself at night.

So she had been all for this little getaway from the Tower. Even more so than all the other Titans. Excluding Beast Boy.

What she had been against was taking the T-Car as transportation. As you can see here for obvious reasons. She had offered to teleport them all to their destination. Just so they could get to the place that much quicker. Without the searing migraine that would come from the ride. And for… other reasons. Man, her demon side must really be acting up as of late.

But nooooo, Cyborg had to argue that it had been a while since he had gotten to personally 'feel the road’ for such a long time. And put his foot down, literally, that he would drive them all there himself. Come hell, or high water.

He even had the gall to say she couldn’t teleport herself there in case something happened to his baby that he’d need help with. Since she was the only other Titan on the team who knew how his baby ran. Even though the chances of it having a problem from Cyborg’s almost religious maintenance on it were 3,720 to 1. About as likely as successfully navigating an asteroid field.

And you know what, Raven had no problem with giving her cybernetic friend a chance to personally feel the road himself if she teleported them there. If you get what I mean. But unfortunately, her leader would have been against that sort of thing. No matter how hilarious it would have looked to him and the others. Especially to her Beast Boy.

So now, here she was. Going deaf in her left ear from Starfire’s very offkey boisterous singing. Her right ear on the verge of blowing out from Cyborg’s music. Even with it it pressed so deeply into her boyfriend’s shoulder. A headache was forming from all the noise.

Her anger at this unfair situation wasn’t exactly helping her headache either. As Rage was just about ready to blow up something if she didn’t meditate soon. Or get herself away from this loud situation. Not that Raven would stop her this time.

She was actually hoping Rage would blow up the speakers. Or better yet, the T-Car itself. Although, she was holding it back for now in case of that scenario. She and Beast Boy were still in it afterall.

Finally, the T-Car stopped. Raven had her eyes closed fighting off the headache. ’It’s about damn time!’ She thought gratefully, as the speakers stopped playing. And Starfire stopped her singing out of confusion. Raven thought they had finally gotten to the mansion.

“We are already there friend Cyborg?” She asked Cyborg in front of her. Raven was already getting ready to get herself out of the car.

“Sorry Star, we still have another two hours to go until we get there. My baby here is just running a little low on fuel now. So I need to fill her back up again before we get going.” He said back to her as he got out of the car. Whistling to himself as she did so.

Raven opened her eyes. Shocked at what Cyborg had said. She looked out the window of Starfire’s now open door. And sure enough, they were right by a pump on the outside of a gas station. Starfire and Robin had exited the car and went into said gas station. Most likely to get snacks.

Her right eye twitched. Her left ear may have still been ringing. But her right ear had heard just about everything Cyborg had said. Including the part where she still had two more hours of torture until they got there.

Oh man, was she beyond pissed now.

She felt her boyfriend shift beside her. The only thing in this dumb vehicle that was keeping her from letting it join it’s destroyed brothers and sisters (don’t ask) in car heaven. She might help Cyborg in building his cars and upgrading them from time to time. But that didn’t stop her when her emotions got irritated with him. She was hoping Beast Boy would get out soon before she accidentally harmed him.

“Hey Rae, are you there?” Beast Boy said to Raven. As she had been looking out in the distance for the past minute. Not really hearing him.

“Unfortunately, yes.” She said back in a monotone. Shifting so her still functional right ear could hear what he said.

“Aw, c'mon Rae. You’ve been looking forward to this trip for as long as me. What do you have to complain about?” He asked. Not aware of his girlfriend’s mood.

The four eyed glare she sent his way quickly remedied that fact. As he visibly sweatdropped at her.

“Let’s see, I haven’t had one chance to meditate on the way here so far because of all the noise. My left eardrum is still ringing from Star’s loud and horrible singing. My butt hurts from sitting in this leather seat for so long. Cyborg refuses to lower the volume on his music. I have a headache forming from keeping my emotions from destroying this dumb vehicle. Along with the addition of all the loud music. And to top it off, I still have another ****ing two hours of this to go! DO I HAVE NOTHING TO COMPLAIN ABOUT NOW GARFIELD!” She screamed at him in the end. Making him back up against his window.

’Okay, so she does have a long list of things to complain about. And now she seems to be pissed at me. A combination of these two do not bode well together. Maybe if I turn this into a joke…’

“Okay, does that list go any longer. Or was that everything?” He said to her in a joking voice.

Her glare didn’t drop. Beast Boy visibly sweatdropped. Raven may have been his girlfriend for a long while now. Ever since a little after Tokyo really. But she still had the ability to scare the crap out of him.

“You think this is a joke! You think my pain is funny! How funny do you think it’d be if I destroyed this wretched vehicle with you inside it still!”

Could you guess what Beast Boy was thinking at this moment? If you can’t, this is what was going through his mind.

’F***! F***! F***! F***! F***! F***!’ Rather fastly indeed. As every guy thinks when they realize they pissed off their beautiful, yet dangerous half-demon girlfriend. If every guy on Earth were to have one.

“No! Of course I don’t think this is funny! Not even in the slightest!” He said in a fast voice. Wanting to calm her down.

It didn’t work. “Then why the hell are you making a joke out of it!? Because I’m certain as hell that I’m not going to enjoy the next two hours! Or the next three weeks for that matter if I have to go through this again on the way back!”

Okay, she was mad. And Beast Boy had to think of something quick. Otherwise, who knew what would happen. Heck, he could get kicked to the couch the moment they got there for all he knew. She might not even let him into her room at all if she stayed pissed at the prospect of going through the rest of the ride there. Or back. But what could he do to keep this from happening?

Beast Boy looked out the window. Seeing Cyborg whistling away as the gas tank was filled with a premium sort of gas. Only the best for his baby. He was totally distracted, looking at the gauges that showed how much was in his car.

An evil idea came to his mind. His fear left him. An evil smile he usually had when pulling a prank came onto his face. Raven noticed this smile and stopped ranting.

Sure, if Cyborg found out it was him that did it, he would surely not live through the remainder of the week. But it would also mean that Raven would be grateful to him. And that it could mean rewards later. In the bedroom.

“What if you don’t have to Rae?”

She looked at him curiously. “What do you mean?” She asked him.

He started to whisper his evil plan to her. And after a minute, a shocked look came onto her face. Followed by a duplicate of his evil grin. Before she kissed him deeply.

“Gar, you really know when to pull through for me at times. I can’t believe I didn’t think of that sooner.” She said to him in a monotone, yet grateful voice. He started to laugh.

“Just make sure Cy is distracted. And warn me if Robin and Star come back to soon.” He said, He kissed her one more time before he morphed into a small green fly. Where he then proceeded to fly into the A/C. To wreak his havoc on the inside of the T-Car.

Raven kept a lookout the window. Making sure Cyborg was still looking at the gas gauge. Which was now at ten gallons. He was tapping his foot rather impatiently. This had to be one of the slower pumps in the gas station.

In a stroke of genius, Raven allowed her powers to go to work on the inside of the machine. Where they slowly started to cut off the flow of gas into the vehicle. She knew Cyborg would notice this, and he’d be too realize Beast Boy had disappeared inside the car.

Sure enough, Cyborg, who was still whistling, became confused when the gas gauge started to slow down. He tapped on the thing, and it slowed down even more at his touch. Going about .1 gallons per 10 seconds. And then it stopped completely. He cussed at the thing as he tapped on the gauge so hard, it cracked.

He took the pump from the car in a fit of rage. Pressing down on the lever for the pump again. No gas wanted to come out. He raised the end to his robotic eye to see if something had clogged it up. His hand still over the lever attached to the pump. He was swearing like a sailor now. Wondering why his baby wasn’t getting the premium gas she so deserved (Yep, this one was a she in case you didn’t read that right).

Now, Raven felt this didn’t go all the way in payback for the crap ride. But she certainly chuckled at his reaction when her powers that had been clogging the gas flow disappeared all at once. Spraying high priced gasoline right into his eye, and then his mouth when he gasped out of surprise. Sending the gasoline right across his tongue down his throat.

Now, I don’t know how many other people have had the unfortunate opportunity to taste gasoline. But to those that have… let’s just say that premium doesn’t help the taste one bit. In fact, it probably made it worse. Especially since he had specially enhanced taste buds in his mouth to better enjoy the barbeque Metropolis style ribs he so loved to make.

Thus came the following reaction.

“Aughhhhh! It’s in my mouth! It’s in my mouth! Aughhhhh!” He screamed as he ran away. Right past a confused Robin and Starfire who had exited the store. Robin holding a bag of Doritos. And Starfire a case of mustard.

Cyborg ran into the store. Robin and Starfire running back in just in time to see him rip the end off an Icee machine. They stared in shock as he lifted up the container of Wild Cherry, and shoved the ice cold contents down his gullet. Along with the Coca Cola flavor. The Pina Colada flavor. The Watermelon flavor. And five other different flavors. Emptying each one onto his tongue to rid it of the horrid taste.

And to think, he’d been putting his different babies through that! The next car he designed would be electric for sure!

Finally, he let out a relieved sigh. The taste of gasoline no longer in his mouth. When a store employee with a very cross look came up to him. The employee looked to be Spanish.

Raven could see from the car the tongue lashing that Cyborg was receiving. From both the employee in Spanish, and from Robin in English.

She figured he would be responsible for paying for the mess he made. Along with the gas for the car that was still running on the ground outside. She let a small smirk onto her face. It wasn’t all the way to payback just yet.

But you know what they say. Revenge is a dish best served cold. (Badum crash) You know, because of the Icees… I’ll just continue now.

Shortly after this, Beast Boy flew back out of the A/C and morphed back into himself. A very big grin on his face.

“Alright, it’s all set now. Ready for phase two?” He asked her. She nodded her head. Eager to get herself out of the vehicle at last.

Both of them stepped out of the car. Making sure their teammates were properly distracted as they did so. Raven left a note behind on her seat in plain sight where her teammates would surely find it.

She and Beast Boy then walked up to the area behind the building. Where she opened up a portal that she put both of their communicators into. Just as an afterthought, she reinserted the gas pump into the car. She didn’t want them to waste too much money on this trip of theirs now.

She and Beast Boy had to wait thirty minutes. But finally, the trio came trudging out of the gas station. Cyborg with a rather grumpy look on his face. Robin as stern looking as ever. And Starfire with a saddened face at seeing her two friends mad at each other.

Cyborg took the turned off pump out of the car. Glad that some kind stranger had helped to put the pump back in the gas tank. And that the tank was now to be full. That seemed to cast a light on his previously foul mood.

Starfire was the first to open her door. And the first to find the note inside. “Friends.” She said to get their attention. They both looked at her to see the carefully hand written note in her hand. She handed it to Cyborg who read it first.

Hey guys

You three were taking to long in the gas station. So I decided to teleport me and Gar ahead to the mansion. You know, since it looked like you three were having so much fun in the gas station when I last saw you guys.

We’ll meet you when you guys finally get here. Hopefully by then, I’ll be done with my meditation. And Gar will have properly showered. Hope nothing bad happens to the car while I’m gone Cy. Although I think you could fix anything that’d happen to it anyways. So I seriously don’t get why you wanted me to come along in the first place.

All you really did was piss me off with that loud horrid music of yours.

Raven

Cyborg finished reading the note first. “What! She just up and left us behind along with grass stain! I can’t believe those two!” He yelled loud enough for the two hidden heroes to hear behind the gas station. Patiently waiting for their trap to come to light.

Robin sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. Having finished reading it next. “I’d berate them for leaving us behind. But she does leave a good point Cy. You really had that music of yours up too loud.”

“Are you kidding me! She kept begging me throughout the ride to turn the volume up. Even though it was at max volume!” Cyborg said in an irritated voice.

“Uh, friend. I believe her exact words to you were as follows…” Takes a deep breathe. “WILL YOU SHUT OFF THE ****ING HORRIBLE MUSIC YOU SLIMY FLEABITTEN KLORBAG! BEFORE I GO DEAF HERE!”

Robin blinked. Then looked at Cy. Who was now looking startled at the words that had come from the innocent alien’s mouth. “How the hell did you get, 'can you turn up the volume’ from all that?”

“Alright man. That’s what I thought she was saying to me. The music was blasting to loudly into my ears for me to make out what she was saying. So I assumed that was what she had meant.”

Robin shook his head at Cyborg. “Cy. Since when does Raven like anything loud? She lives in an isolated dark room, reads books, meditates.” He exaggerated the last word, just for effect.

Silence came for a few seconds. “Just get in the car Rob, Star. We can talk about how much I messed up later. Besides… (pulls up panel on his arm) their communicators show them at the beach mansion. She’s left us behind. We can’t do a thing about it. And it’s already close to sunset. So unless you want to get there when they might be in the middle of something…” He trailed off. But the suggestion was left hanging in the air.

Robin started to blush, even though he and Star were planning on the same thing later. “Fine, but I’m still mad at you for what you did in the store.” Robin said. Cyborg muttered something that sounded like, 'yeah yeah, whatever Boy Blunder’ as he got into his baby. All three heroes closed the doors and buttoned in their seat belts.

“Let’s see how fast I can get this baby to go! Hopefully, we can get there before they start doing the nasty!” He said, just as he turned the keys in the ignition.

Nothing happened. At least, it looked like nothing had happened. As something inside the A/C opened up. Releasing it’s sightless, and no smell contents into the air of the T-Car.

“Uhhhhh… let’s try that again… Let’s see how fast I can get this baby to go!” Cyborg said as he tried over and over again to turn on the car. It wasn’t even responding to it. He was starting to become confused.

“What now?” Robin said. Rubbing his head where the headache was already forming. From what, he didn’t exactly know.

“Just a sec… just a sec…” He said as he continued to try and get it to start. Starfire yawned loudly behind them.

“Is it just me… or am I feeling the drowsy at the moment.” She said in a tired voice. Robin looked ready to reply to his girlfriend, but then yawned as well. His eyes already closing behind his mask. “You know, I’m pretty tired too.” He said, replying back.

“Uh, guys…” Cyborg tried to say. When a massive yawn cut him off. “What the hell is going on…” Cyborg slurred at the end.

Within one minute. The three heroes were fast asleep. Their heads hanging back, and mouths wide open. Drool was already starting to form a line from Cyborg’s mouth. Beast Boy chuckled at the sight.

“I didn’t think those leather seats were comfortable enough to sleep in now.” He joked to Raven. Who was also chuckling a little at the sight.

“I can’t believe that worked so well. How did you remember that he had a mechanism in the car that’d release sleeping agent through the A/C in case it was stolen?” She asked him.

“I may have tried to take the T-Car on a joyride a few times in the past.”

Silence. “But how did you know where to find it?” Raven asked.

He grinned. “It had a picture of me on it. With a red X over the picture. And the words 'In case the grass stain gets any ideas’ beneath it.

She simply chuckled again. "Well, we know that it certainly works on people other than you now.”

He chuckled as well. “Yeah… I guess it does. So… Phase Three?”

“I thought you’d never ask.” Raven said as she opened up a portal. Transporting the two away from the gas station for real this time. Right to their personal bedroom in the mansion. Where Raven would reward Beast Boy for saving her.

Another portal opened up underneath the T-Car, along with several more inside it. Dropping it and it’s occupants off at the beach side mansion.

Several more portals later and the sleeping forms of Cyborg, Robin, and Starfire were in their rooms. Along with their luggage. All of them comfortably sleeping on their beds. Besides Cyborg, who was hanging from a heavy duty ceiling fan in the kitchen for some reason.

Beast Boy and Raven were in there room. Now doing who knows what as loud as they could. Since they now had the added bonus of their teammates being knocked out by the sleeping agent. So there was literally no one to hear all the things they were doing to each other that night.

The T-Car was the last thing to be portaled. Although it wasn’t in the garage of the mansion. Or out on the road in front of it.

Where was it?

Let’s just say that Cyborg’s baby, had an unfortunate accident in air travel. As it seemed to meet something in between the dimensions it traveled in. That something looking a lot like Raven. Except in a red cloak.

If you looked closely at the ocean surface in front of the mansion though, you might have been able to see the various parts of it bobbing around on the surface. Especially a very beat up speaker head, that looked closely similar to what had been behind Raven’s head in the car.

And thus, as the last song that had been on his car said. “Another one bites the dust!” Or in this case, another one pissed off Rage!

Author’s Notes:

And finished!

Man, I absolutely loved this! It was great all the way to the end! Glad you guys loved this, and I hope you follow my BBxRAE stories in the future!

Next update: Why do you Hate me? Happy Epilogue. Followed by Aqualad, Speedy, and Robin having to fulfill the terms of their bet in a sort of epilogue for Forgive Me. Both of which are on fanfiction.net under Allen Blaster. Without the hyphen. Can’t wait to see you guys there!

Till Next Time

She stirred against me.  It was way too early, but I always thought any time before noon was way too early.  Raven was going to leave me to meditate on the roof like every morning.  I reluctantly let her slip from my arms.  Leaving me to crawl onto her side of the bed to enjoy her leftover warmth.  I lay there and enjoy her scent for a while.

Yet it's not enough, so my body slowly pulls me out of bed to go looking for her, On the way I fill the kettle and put it on the stove.  I am getting better, remembering to turn the burner on most of the time.  

Two cups, two bags of tea. How many of these did we try before we found a few we both liked?  It's too early to remember.  

She finds me standing with the fridge door open coming up from behind slipping her arms under mine.  She presses herself against me, she kisses the back of my neck.

"Good Morning and No"  Raven said into my back.

"What?"

"You are not 15 anymore cold pizza is not breakfast"

"I am glad I am not 15, back then you hated me"

"I never hated you Gar, I just thought you were childish and annoying" She said hugging me a little tighter.

"and now?"

"You have improved slightly"

"I love you too"

Just a typical morning minus alarms and explosions.  I like typical mornings.

Only a little one for this prompt.

According to most people, Beast Boy loved summer. It wasn't hard to see why, seeing how fond he was of beach trips, games in the park, barbecues (veggie friendly, anyway) and pretty much every activity one would normally associate with the season.

However...

This summer saw the Tower suffer a particularly vindictive cyber-attack from Gizmo, one that not only changed their alert tone to a sample of his own voice screaming 'snotheads go', he had completely disabled the environmental systems. So no air conditioning. The Titans did what they could but the heatwave meant there was little relief from the heat, even outside. Inside, though, the Tower was like a greenhouse and the residents had resorted to some strange measures, some small like taking turns in front of the refrigerator, some desperate like trying to buy one of Mr Freeze's weapons on the black market. Though he resisted at first, Robin had given up on wearing his entire uniform at home, stripping down to just his pants.

Starfire approved.

Beast Boy essentially switched to wearing his swimming shorts around the Tower, occasionally floating in the pool though the room was uncomfortably humid. Starfire thought this was a fantastic idea and went to find her own bathing suit.

Robin approved.

On this day, the heat was at its peak and the Tower was muggy and intolerable. Beast Boy trudged down the corridor with a melting popsicle in his hand. Desperately, he ate the whole thing in only a few bites, holding his head and sliding down the wall to sit on the floor as the brain freeze hit him.

"Nnnnnnggggggoooh I hate summer," he whimpered.

He tilted his head as he heard voices from a couple of doors down.

"Star, are you sure this is a good idea?" That was Raven and, involuntarily, a smile spread across his features.

"Oh yes, Robin seemed to have much of the enthusiasm!" That was Starfire. When she finished, she floated into the corridor wearing a purple bikini and a smile, waving at him as she passed. He smiled and waved lazily back. Robin was a lucky guy.

"Well, I've come this far..." he heard Raven say to herself before following Starfire's path. Beast Boy's eyes widened: Raven was wearing a black bikini, simple but effective. She paused when she saw Beast Boy staring but set her jaw and carried on, all too aware of his eyes following her.

"You're so beautiful..." he breathed, causing Raven to pause.

"And you're obviously delirious from the heat," she quipped, continuing on her way.

"Doesn't mean I'm wrong!" he called after her, almost sure he caught her smirking over her shoulder, even though his eyes tended to drift a little lower. When she was out of sight, he leaned back against the wall.

"Dude... I love summer."