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Beastboy was for the most part a highly emotional boy, running on lots of energy, irrepressible cheer and a sense of humor that was...unique at best.

But sometimes...sometimes he needed time to think and be quiet. Usually he could do that while playing game station, reading comics or going for a flight.

Today however despite his lack of desire to socialize he had energy to burn. That creepy robo chick had teased him with cake and gotten him all worked up, only to drop him just in time to find out he'd missed a huge fight.

So being the responsible and intelligent hero he imagined he was, Beastboy decided he needed a little training to get back into the swing of combat.

The Sensoriums were awesome in his opinion, like a giant do it yourself video game.

So the scene? Jump City streets just outside the his favorite Pizza parlor.

The enemy? Sladebots! The best for cannon fodder, they were robots so he didn't feel bad about stomping them flat, and they were just scary enough to be a challenge.

This was his right? No way he could lose...

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Within ten minutes he was being rolled down the street by the over zealous Sladebot projections...his imagination was running away with him.

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While she did redden a little at the "hot girl" comment, se did come out of hiding, placing her hair back in place.

"I'm right here!" She said, waving. "Sorry about running...we had to fught one of those things a little while ago, and well, it wasn't pretty. THey're pretty hard to take down!"

She walked over to him. "So what's thsi team like that you were talking about, the ones on that island?"

"There you are!" He cheered and sprang a few feet over to her enthusiastically, "You had to fight a Dinosaur?"

He shifted gears almost instantly, "Oh we're called "The Teen Titans!" He proclaimed proudly, as he began to describe them one by one the room produced images of Beastboy's team mates striking poses...

"First we've got my main man Cyborg, half man, half machine, all buttkicking awesomeness! He's got like this big powerful sonic canon on his arm and his robo parts can do tons of cool stuff! Rocket arms, night vision, jet boots, he's also has this totally awesome car that gets blown up alot. He's my best friend and we hang out like all the time!"

"Next there's Raven, she's kinda creepy sometimes but she's really smart! She does all this crazy dark magic stuff and reads all these big thick books. She likes tea, and being left alone, but she's totally brave and strong and has fought all her life to do the right thing and prove that it doesn't matter where you come from, just what you do."

"And there's Starfire, alien princess from another world! She's the strongest one on the team, can shoot starbolts and laser blasts from her eyes Pew pew pew! She's a little weird sometimes because of being from another planet and all but she's the nicest sweetest person you'll ever meet!"

"And last but not least, our leader Robin! Sidekick to one of the world's greatest detectives he's struck out on his own and made a name for himself! He's a one man army using like all kinds of crazy kung fu and ninja skills, tech and tactics, and look at that hair! Way stylin! Also he and Starfire just started dating so their kind of like when celebrities hook up or whatever."

With all four of them on either side of him he spread his arms out and more and more teen heroes appeared behind them including the pink haired girl from before, "And in the last year we started recruiting more young heroes from all around the world, there are Titans on ever corner of the globe! No matter where you go, when there's trouble you know who to call!"

At least a hundred kids and teens from as young as toddler to nearly adult were spread out in different colorful costumes, some smiling, some looking serious. Each one striking a heroic pose save for one, a blond girl in plain clothes standing off to the side looking a little sad. If Beastboy realized he'd materialized any of them he didn't show it.

Nor did he notice that he was speaking of all of them and his world as if they still existed and the OHM hadn't destroyed it all.

"Oh yeah?" Beastboy sidestepped a pair of bots that smashed into one another, "What are they like? I love comic books! The library place has a bunch of them from my world!"

"It was during the invasion of this evil god known as the Nightmare King," Katara said. "Basically, he was this evil entity that was able to being up all of your worst nightmares and feed off fear. The stronger he got, the more dangerous things became, until finally everyone's worst nightmares started to manifest. That dinosaur was only one of a long list of things we had to fight. That's why destroying those robots just now weren't that freaky: they pale in comparison to fighting a terminator."

Katara watched him describe each of the members of his team with glowing pride, and it actually made her a little happy. She knew exactly what he was talking about: Zuko, Sokka, Toph, they were her team, her family. She didn't get to see them much, and that was sad: she missed being around them, talking with them about things they knew about. It was as if they'd become strangers, and she wanted that to end.

"Well, it looks like your friends wanted me to see them!" Katara said, pointing to them, and then pausing at the blond girl. "But who is that?"

Beastboy spun around and let out a yelp falling over and scrambling to his feet again startled by the mob of holographic vision that he'd conjured up.

The imagination versions of his friends laughed with good humor at his wild eyed surprise and it took him a moment to process who Katara was looking at.

"Ah I...oh..." His voice fell and he looked a little ashamed, "Ah she's not a Titan anymore...long story." He waved his hands trying to dismiss the crowd of visions who seemed to mock him by waving their hands back. "Go on beat it, show over!" He flailed and laughingly they dispersed.

Katara had to laugh at Beastboy's reaction to bringing up his friends without meaning to. She couldn't help it: his humor was actually pretty comforting, a reminder of why she really liked being on the ship even when all of the misfortunes were piling up on her. It was always hard to feel lonely here!

But she couldn't help but notice his reaction to that blond girl. She knew the reaction pretty well: it was the same type she had whenever the subject of Jet was brought up. She guessed there would always be that reluctance to talk about something like that, especially when it was so personal.

But she did laugh when he dismissed his friends so abruptly. "Guess you;re still getting the hang of the Sensoriums, huh?"

"Actually I think they're getting the hang of me." He joked and grinned sheepishly. "This really is amazing though, we don't have anything this advanced back home."

Katara laughed. "Beastboy, we don't have anything CLOSE to this back home. Where I come from is all ice and snow, and in the rest of the world, we haven't gotten far enough to make anything like machines yet. The Sensoriums is like something out of a fairy tale!"

"Whoa." Beastboy whistled, "You guys are from Waaaay back there. Have you tried movies yet? I love movies! And Television. I could spend an entire day just vegging out with T.V." He joked and because he was in such a good mood turned into a small bird fluttering up to land on her head.

Katara turned a hint of pink. This was way too much deja vu right now: once again someone green was reminding her how not with the modern technology she was. She shook this off though: there was no point in her getting bothered by it now.

She laughed a little when he turned into the small bird. "We don't have any of those things where I'm from Beastboy. Most nation have their own kind of recreation: sports, active games, bending."

Shore leave was certainly interesting, to say the least. Not just for the final day, for that matter. In fact, the second day still had her in quite the shellshock (although she wouldn't admit that out loud). Whatever had gone between her in the Colonel during that simple conversation, it was obvious that the feelings behind there weren't purely professional. And that was no matter how much she'd prefer it otherwise. (Although, thinking on it, she wasn't sure she'd care for it the other way, either.)

For now, however, she couldn't think on it. With the recent events had certainly gone under critical aim training, especially since she felt she could have hit more accurately (a sane person might try and tell her otherwise). Currently, however? She was walking with Hayate, once more trying to completely familiarize herself with the ship. Said pup was doing all he could to try and run forward a little bit until his master said something, to which his ears would fold down for a minute before perking back up and trying to walk proudly. This was done to a lot of rolling of the eyes by Riza.

However, as they passed the Sensoriums the pup decided to stop and nose his way to get in.

"Hayate," the woman said sharply as he pulled her in the room.

However, she stopped at the sight of a very... more advanced city than she was used to and whatever the creatures were that were rolling a young man down the street. While her hand went for the gun on instinct, Riza's eyes narrowed. Soldier's instinct both acting and analyzing, the gun was prepared but it was likely to be a training session (considering she used this room for such, and she had heard of others, as well as the fact it did seem offensive). She was more than certain the ship would have said something if there was truly something attacking. So it took a minute of watching before she sighed slightly.

Riza recognized the boy too. They had spoken through text only, but the image was tell-tale and she doubted there would be many green people on the ship. Holding tight to Hayate's leash she spoke.

"I certainly hope these aren't the tactics you mentioned, Garfield," she said in a casual dry-humor, "...do you need assistance?"

He fluttered off her head changing back with a flip in the air landing in front of her with a big grin, "I love games! All kinds, capture the flag, football, soccer, basketball...Cyborg and Robin are way better at that then I am, oh and fetch, I'm good at fetch. No one understands why it's so fun till they've tried it." He babbled, "What kind of games do you guys play?"

There was only one person so far who called him Garfield on his ship, so unless his mother had arrived.

Beastboy felt his cheeks burning with embarrassment as he saw a blur he assumed was Riza "Nope I got this!" He declared loudly and in frustraition at once again being caught letting his mind get the better of him Beastboy transformed into a mighty T-rex bursting from the can and crashing to a halt digging his talons into the street.

With a roar he swung his tail scattering the robots through the air.

Katara thought for a moment. "Depends on which nation you are. In the water tribe, we play ice dodging and go penguin sledding. The air nomads used to play airball, or Bison Polo. In the Earth Kingdom, you could play soccer with earthbending, or ride the Elephant Koi if you were in Kyoshi Island. The Firenation had games like Hide and explode, or Kuai Ball. I haven't played all of these games, and I know there's more I've missed, but those are the ones off the top of my head!"

"Hide and explode?" Beastboy blanched, "Man they take playtime seriously in the fire nation." He joked before turning into a penguin thinking back to Katara's mention of penguin sledding. As if on command snow began to fall from the sky.

At his response, Riza nodded shifting the gun into one of the makeshift holsters (yes, even on ship Riza did not go anywhere without two guns). Hayate, on the other hand hunched down and let out a small growl as Beastboy transformed into the huge dinosaur. While Riza was reminded of a certain homunculi for a brief moment, she had remembered what the boy said and with the small noise of command silenced Hayate and gathered the pup up in her arms.

If he had been making anymore noise still, it was definitely gone.

For now, Riza kept her eyes trained on the boy-dinosaur as he attacked the robots. This was certainly interesting, at least. Still Riza being Riza, she kept quiet until he was done.

Shifting back Beastboy bowed as if hearing applause, "Thank you thank you, i'll be here all week." He joked cheerfully with a wink at Riza.

Riza rose a brow, shaking her head to herself. Taking a moment, she returned Hayate to the ground where he sat, wagging his tail cheerfully. Friend to play with?

"I'd hope so, considering there doesn't seem much of a chance for us to leave any time soon," she returned straightening, with the small thin-lined, just for, you know, kids smile.

Edited 2010-07-05 22:45 (UTC)

Beastboy rose his head to smile and then spotted Hayate "Puppy!" was his all too childish response and he changed into a puppy himself scampering over to greet the dog.

Riza rose a brow at the interaction, but smiled lighter as Hayate pulled on the leash she had on him to play with Beastboy. It wasn't often he got to play with another dog, especially considering his master.

Taking a moment, she bent down to undo the hook from Hayate's collar.

"His name is Black Hayate," she responded quietly, although stern, "and he's highly trained." Also known as, don't spoil or break my puppy's regiment of training.

Beastboy was a little too peppy to notice the tone and rolled around on the grass wagging his tail excitedly, he loved animals after all and this was the first familiar one he'd seen since he arrived.

Hayate, also, was much too enjoying the fact there was another dog here (although senses did tell the thing it was still human). He glanced up at Riza and when the stern look didn't tell him otherwise, the pup pounced on Beastboy in gentle roughhousing.

Ah, Riza's boy.

Beastboy tumbled and chase the black and white dog around for a few minutes before shifting back and rubbing his tummy affectionately, "Such a good puppy yes he is!" He smiled up at Riza "Awesome dog!" He complimented the master for her pet.

Spoiled, Black Hayate was being spoiled (not that Riza didn't have that tendency herself). He rolled around at the tummy scratch, tail wagging furiously.

Shifting her position, the faint-lined smile remained. "I think so at least," she responded watching her pup, "and he makes a pretty good guard-dog when he wants to."

"He's so small too." Beastboy commented still petting the pup, "Can't be more then a year or two old can he?" His eyes were lit up with excitement, he was such a sucker for animals.

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