Chapter 21

Beast Boy PoV

“Alrighty…lets push some of this over here, and some of that over there…”

I talked out loud in excitement as I set up the tripod with my phone on it. Giving it a good look at the hallway with the booby trap in it. Heh, this was going to be sick!

Turning back to the phone that was recording, I made sure I was in shot before speaking.

“Alright dudes. If you like pranks like this, don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe!”

Before backing off and waiting for footsteps in the distance. Like clockwork, Cyborg came out of his room and started to head for the showers. Just as he rounded the four-way corridor he accidently triggered the trip wire with his leg. He felt the weight of it snap under his leg causing him to look down in confusion.

“Huh? What the-“

And that was all the time it needed to trigger the balloon to be slingshot straight towards his face.

I was able to predict a lot of things. I knew when Cyborg took his daily shower. I knew I had to make a trap without any sort of wiring to get him. I knew I had to put it right at the corner where he wouldn’t suspect it.

But there were still things I couldn’t predict.

Like Cyborg kneeling down to see what he hit.

Which saw my balloon filled with motor oil sail right over his head and into the far hallway wall. Splattering it everywhere. Making a loud wet splash sound.

“What the-“

“Noooooo!”

Cyborg jumped a bit as I fell to the ground grasping my hair in dejection. It was so perfect too. Everything had been just right. Dang it, I knew I was getting too greedy aiming for Cy’s head!

It didn’t take Cyborg long to figure out what was going on, as a large smile came on his face as he walked forward. Taking in me, the tripod, and the trap into his vision at the same time.

“Ahaha. Nice try BB. You almost got me.”

I frowned up at him as he stood over me with a smug smirk. He was already leading by a few points in the prank war, so it wasn’t any surprise that he felt in control. Dang it, if only it had hit…

He jerked a thumb towards the tripod.

“What’s with the camera? Trying to get on videotape?”

I immediately stood back up in excitement. I was glad he was showing interest in it.

“Oh yeah dude! I was planning to go around pranking all of the Titan members and then showing everyone it on Movie night. I thought it would, you know, get everyone’s spirits up after the whole ‘Blackfire’ thing…”

Cyborg grimaced at the reminder. Rubbing the back of his awkwardly. Something that I was probably doing the same. I hadn’t realized Blackfire had hated Star this entire time. Not only that, but we had gotten completely played by her. I felt like such a shitty friend to Star…

“That does sound like a pretty good idea. Though I do have a good suggestion for you.”

“Oh yeah? What’s that?”

He smiled and jerked his thumb to the mess at the other end of the corridor. Ugh. It was going to take days to get that to get that out of the wall…maybe Law won’t notice if I paint over it?

“You should also mix it up with some of your prank fails in it too. It should be good for a few laughs. Also keeps them guessing who was pranked and who wasn’t.”

That…actually wasn’t a bad idea. Just as he started to walk by again towards the showers, I stopped him. Grabbing his arm in order to get his attention again.

“Oh right. I also plan to upload it to Youtube. See how many hits we can get.”

Cyborg shrugged at that.

“Alright. Not a bad idea. Whenever you’re finished, send the video over to me and I might clean it up a bit.”

“Really!? Thanks. You’re the best Cy.”

He chuckled at that. This time walking away without me stopping him. His hand waving while he was walking with his back turned towards me.

“Oh yeah, and most of the cleaning supplies are on the top floor.”

…Oh…right…

Dang it.

*~o~*

The tripod was positioned right outside KF’s room. The moment I pressed record, I sent him the text. Telling him that Wonder Woman had just teleported in, and was asking about him.

A few seconds later I heard some noises from inside his room. Including the sound of various clothes rustling before the door was flung open, and Kid Flash sped out of it.

Only to slip on the carpet outside and run straight into the room across from him. Slamming his head on the door and crumpling to the ground.

Immediately I ran over to his collapsed body and posed for the camera.

“You just got pranked!”

I waited a few seconds for Kid Flash to respond before realizing he hasn’t made any noise since falling. Looking down, I realized he didn’t seem to be moving at all.

“…Uh…Kid Flash? Are you okay?”

He continued to not respond.

Uh oh.

*~o~*

So some of the pranks weren’t exactly going according to plan. That was fine. There was still some that were going to go insanely hard! Every titan was going to bust up laughing at it. Except maybe Raven. She was the only one who’s never laughed at my jokes.

…And maybe Law. He’s laughed before, but it’s never been one of those gut buster laughs. It’s always been one of those “hah.” or “heh.” kinds of laugh. The really fake sounding ones.  Even still, I knew that he found me funny, unlike Raven.

To be honest, I don’t even think she likes me at all. She just kind of stands around awkwardly whenever I try talking to her. Giving a pretty disinterested look during the whole conversation. And on top of that giving only one-word answers.

Like…how do I even work with that!?

Even still, she was one of us.

Which means she gets pranked too!

After placing down the tripod and recording, I ran up to her door and gave a few knocks before retreating. I waited a few minutes for her to answer it before getting in position.

…Only for not even a noise to come from Raven’s room. Huh? Did she not hear me? Alright, guess I just got to knock harder.

I did so, before retreating back. Returning to my position and waited for her to answer. Only for her to once again not even so much as give an answer. Jeez, what was with her?

This time I shifted into a gorilla before knocking even harder on her door. Accidently leaving a small dent in the door. Ah…maybe she won’t notice?

Before quickly retreating back to my position.

…Okay, she had to be messing with me now. Was she…was she not in her room? But she didn’t really go anywhere else. Like…ever. I’m pretty sure if she could she’d just never leave her room.

This time I’ll just yell out her name when I knock.

I ran up to her door and just as my knuckle was about to touch the door, it suddenly slid open. The darkness in the room was all consuming. Even taking most of Raven’s features into the shadow leaving only her eyes illuminated by the hallway light.

Though it wasn’t like she was much different outside of it.

“…what?”

I stumbled a bit with the water balloon in my hand before putting it behind my back. Leaving her to raise an eyebrow at my suspicious movements.

“Oh uh…was just wondering if you were going to show up to Movie night this week.”

“…yes.”

“Oh uh…cool. That’s cool.”

“…”

The door then immediately closed. Leaving me no opening in order to toss the water balloon at her.

Well, that was an hour down the drain. Let’s see who else is left on the list…

*~o~*

I giggled a bit as Galatea passed me and went into the gym. She didn’t suspect anything from my casual demeanor outside the room. She couldn’t possibly guess what was waiting for her inside.

Peering in, I noticed that she didn’t seem to see the tripod that was near all of her weights that she trained with. She proceeded to then start warming up before finally curling with her weights.

As she started to switch between them, she quickly found that she couldn’t drop them. This was because I had glued them beforehand!

Ha!

I jogged a bit in the room in order to get a better view as well as to reveal my prank where the phone could see me. Galatea on the other hand frowned as she struggled harder and harder dangling the weight in her hand left and right.

“You’ve been pran-“

Just then the weight slid off of her hand and crashed through several workout machines. Going through them like a canon ball before smashing through one of the legs of the tripod. Causing my phone to smash into the floor.

“Please don’t break, please don’t break, please don’t break!”

Oh, dang it, that cost like two months of pay!

Wait…was she still trying to get the other weight off!?

*~o~*

After posting the now fixed tripod and phone outside of Star’s door, I knocked on her door. The idea was pretty simple, as she usually left her door unlocked for anyone to walk in. Which meant I could keep the room open when I did my prank.

“Hey Star? Do you have a second?”

“Hmm? Beast Boy? Please, come in!”

As expected, getting inside Star’s room was pretty easy. The hard part was what came next. I didn’t want to do any hard pranks on Star due to her whole…Blackfire situation. So it was a pretty softball level one.

But even then, I felt a little bad doing it. Mostly just because I felt guilty doing anything wrong to her.

She was going through some…tough stuff. It was likely tearing her apart. I could only remember how heartbroken she was when Blackfire betrayed her a week ago…

She was on her bed. Rolled onto her back while reading a book in an upside-down position with a frown on her face. Wait no, she’s upside down. So…it was a smile.

She immediately flew up as I strode into the room and landed on her feet in front of me with a beaming smile. As if there was nothing wrong in the world.

For a moment she had fooled me, until I read the title of the book that was in her hand.

‘105 Ways to Liplock! Even a Dummy Can Do It!’

Liplock. As in zipping her lips. She was keeping it all in to herself. I could only feel further guilt as I saw her bottle her feelings so blatantly in front of me.

“What’s up Beast Boy? Did you want to play the car game again?”

“Uh, no Star. I though that maybe you uh, wanted something to drink?”

She blinked at the nondescript plastic bottle that hid it’s contents from outside eyes. Not that it was necessary needed, as I’m pretty sure Star would drink anything I put in front of her. Regardless of the label.

Because she was trusting like that.

…man, it’s not even a hard prank and I was still feeling bad from it. Maybe I should stop her before she even takes a-

“Oh, thanks Beast Boy! I was getting a bit thirsty.”

And then she immediately takes a long suck of the bottle. Her eyes filling up with surprise. Uh oh.

“…hahaha uh…pranked you?”

“…What’s this drink called, Beast Boy?”

I gulped.

“It’s uh, it’s called mustard.”

“This mustard…tastes amazing! This is the best drink I’ve had so far!”

I watched with wide eyes as she proceeded to suck the entire bottle clean. Causing it to shrink in on itself into a shriveled husk due to how hard she was sucking. That was…pretty cool actually! I wonder if she could do the same think with soda bottles?

“Tell me Beast Boy, is there more of this beverage in the fridge?”

…What have I done?

*~o~*

The rest of the Titans had been more or less pranked. Or at least an attempt had been made. Which left one Titan left.

The one that was currently in the medical room being treated for his injuries.

It had been pretty scary to see Law wrapped up in so many bandages. Heck, after I finally woke up from the battle with Blackfire and saw Starfire cradling Law’s body it uh…

It didn’t look too good.

Thankfully he was still able to recover. For a moment there I had thought…well, it doesn’t matter now. It didn’t happen, so I could safely throw it behind me. And now after talking to Robin, I know that Law’s recovered enough to be awake.

Which means he was on the pranking list baby!

Just as I was about to open the door to the hospital room, it opened for me. Scaring the heck out of me and forcing me to take a step back. I hadn’t even heard any movement inside that indicated-

Oh of course. It was Raven again.

Who was…putting up her hood? Huh. Guess there actually was a time where she took it down. That being when no one else was around.

“Hey Raven. Is uh…is Law in there?”

I cringed immediately at the dumb question. Expecting Raven to retort at the dumb question I winced back, only for her sarcasm to never arrive. Instead, she simply nodded.

“Yes. He’s sleeping.”

Ah, so that’s why it was so quiet in there. Made sense, I guess. After thanking Raven, she then proceeded to just walk away calmly.

Huh. I hadn’t realized she had been worried about Law. Honestly, I didn’t think she’d even worry much about any of us really. Maybe I was being a bit too hard on her?

After waiting a few seconds, I walked into the room. The doors automatically closing behind me as I stepped in. The room wasn’t very dark, even with the main light out. Various medical machine thingies glowed in the dark. Illuminating the place with a faint glow.

It was kind of like my night light.

…That I had when I was a kid of course. Hah. It wasn’t like I still had something like that or anything. That would be totally childish and dumb. Who was afraid of the dark?

Not me! I could turn into animals that could even see in the dark, like owls. It didn’t even make sense for me to be scared of things like that.

Anyway…due to the glow of the room, I was able to see Law perfectly fine as I got closer and closer to him. He was looking…much better actually. The only blood I could see was on bandages that had been discarded into the trashcan. Everything that he had on looked pretty clean.

Robin probably redressed his wounds if I had to guess. Or Starfire. Those two were the ones that visited him the most in here. Oh right, I had forgotten my tripod…eh, that was fine. I could just position my phone on one of the machines nearby and set it to record. It wouldn’t be amazing, but it’d do.

Just as I uncapped the marker and approached Law’s face, his eyes suddenly shot open. Instantly looking in my direction causing me to flail around before hiding the marker behind my back.

“Oh uh, hey Law! How are you feeling buddy?”

“…Like I was hit by a train. Repeatedly.”

…He had definitely looked it after the beating he took…

“Yeah…sorry about that…”

I rubbed the back of my neck with my free hand as I failed to meet Law’s eyes. His eyes narrowed before cracking an eyebrow at me.

“Why? Did you have something to do with it?”

“No, but…I should have helped. I should have seen it sooner or-“

Law grunted before holding up a hand.

“Stop. I got enough of this from Robin.”

Oof. Yeah, Robin had taken Blackfire’s backstab the worst. For…obvious reasons. I couldn’t even imagine the weight Robin must be feeling on his shoulders right now. He seemed to be doing alright currently, but that was just because he was working even harder on the Bat monster case. He hadn’t really talked about anything else unless it was about work.

The only plus side of Law being in the hospital room was that no one was really assigned to do any chores lately, so that was nice. Though uh, that didn’t stop mostly everyone from doing them anyway.

…Maybe I should do a chore some time as well. Like doing the dishes…

Oooor I could provide company to someone who’s doing it. By telling them jokes and stuff. Yeah, that sounded pretty good actually!

Maybe I should do that to Raven, and finally get her to laugh. That was a great idea!

“Gotcha. You’re recovering pretty well at least! That’s pretty cool.”

Law nodded at my words.

“I better be. I have so much tree sap in my veins right now that it wouldn’t be shocking if Poison Ivy was able to control me.”

I tilted my head in confusion at his words. To which he just chuckled and waved off. One of those fake sounding one note chuckles. Hmm, I wonder how I was going to get Law to laugh really hard?

Oh right. There was something Robin asked me to do if he was awake.

“While I was checking up on you with Robin, he also asked me to ask you for something.”

“Hmm?”

“He said he needed some of that healing goop. For Blackfire. So she’d heal better in her holding cell-“

Law then made a loud hissing noise as he winced and held his arm. I shot up in alarm. Immediately putting the marker down on the table next to his bed before coming to his aid.

“W-what’s wrong? Are you alright?”

I helped hold his arm to which he seemed lightly surprised about before nodding his head.

“Yeah. It just hurt a bit when I tried to make some…’healing goop’. I don’t think I can produce any just yet.”

I waved it off.

“Oh yeah no. Don’t worry about it. Take care of yourself first dude.”

He smiled at that.

“Oh, of course. Was there…anything else you wanted?”

His eyes darted to something to my side, but I didn’t pay it any attention. Oh right, there was one more thing.

“Oh uh, what about some pain relievers?”

“…for?”

“Blackfire. Something strong, preferably. Apparently, she’s in some real pain after uh…after what Starfire did to her.”

His smile didn’t die in the slightest. In fact, I think it got…wider? No, I was probably imagining things.

“Oh, of course. In fact, I’ll give her my strongest. How does Ibuprofen sound?”

I didn’t know what that was, but it sounded great. He might not look or sound it, but deep-down Law was the kindest Titan out of all of us. Even after Blackfire beat him black and blue, he was still willing to help her out. Even going so far as to hurt himself in the process.

It was moments like these that reminded me of that fact.

As he held out his hand and produced a pill, I realized that maybe the reason he wasn’t able to make the healing goop was because of his lack of mints. Maybe If I got some for him, he’d recover better?

There was a case of Altoids in the kitchen…

“Wait a sec, Beast Boy.”

He called me over as I took a step back. He grasped my arm as he sat up closer to me.

“Isn’t there something you’re forgetting?”

Hmm? Was there? I couldn’t really think of anything at the top of my he-

I attempted to flinch as Law seemed to wipe something across my face. It took a few seconds to realize he had taken the marker that I had set down. I wanted to pull away harder or to even transform into something bigger to get away, but I didn’t want to risk hurting Law by doing so.

Besides, he’s already gotten half my face at this point. Might as well let him do the rest. Who knows, maybe it’d even make him laugh?