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Day 1 :
The rest of the day went off without a hitch. Robin established a rule that although they were free to move about, the y could not be without supervision if they planned to go outside .
After they agreed to the terms they all went back to sleep; everyone still sleepy from their midnight escapades and troublesome fiascoes.
Luckily for them no other villains decided to attack the city.
Day 2 :
It wasn't until late morning, early afternoon, when everyone woke up from their much deserved rest.
Robin was the first to reach the living room and noticed something was wrong with the scene. Kal and Phi were having an arm wrestling match on the couch, Chi was still asleep on a pile of pillows in the cage Cyborg found, in the middle of the room between the couch and elevator. 'I thought Cy put that against the wall....?' he mentally questioned. Shaking the thought from his head, he went back to surveying when it finally struck him. “Where's your friend Si?” he asked Kal and Phi.
Both looked up at him and then started to look around themselves. Not seeing any sign of their friend, they turned back to him and shrugged their shoulders. Yawning from the inside of the cage, Chi answered him sleepily. “She went outside to either meditate or go for a swim.”
“And how would you know that?” Cyborg asked walking into the room, but obviously hearing the conversation.
Sitting and stretching now, she scratched her head briefly before jerking her thumb towards the elevator behind her. “Her scent is faint, but it leads to the elevator – or from, I can't really tell....What's for breakfast?” She quickly perked up at the end, looking around.
“It's like, 12:20 PM now.” Beast Boy grumbled from behind Cyborg.
“Okay~..... lunch then?”She said as she climbed out of the cage.
“We could order pizza!” Cyborg suggested.
“No... we can't” Beast Boy said dejectedly all of a sudden.
“Why not?” Phi and Kal questioned together.
“There was a small incident with Starfire's pet, Silkie, last time.” Robin answered for him, since Beast Boy and Cyborg were fidgeting in the background, remembering that day clearly. The vague explanation was good enough for them.
“So then... can we go out for food?” Kal inquired from the couch. All attention was on him when he spoke. Everyone noticed that he was nursing his right hand in his left, which was a good indication that he lost against his sister, badly too.
“Yeah sure... do you have any idea where Starfire and Raven are? 'Cause I knocked on their doors and they aren't answering.” Beast Boy asked Robin.
“Right behind you, genius.” Raven's monotone voice come out of nowhere causing Cyborg and Beast Boy to scream, very unman-like, and leap towards the safety of the couch. Starfire started giggling as their heads popped over the sofa.
Behind them was Si. She still had her cloak on, with the hood down and partially opened. There was a slight view of a towel underneath, smelling of fresh cut flowers and was dripping water onto the floor; subtle hints that she had just got out of the shower.
“I thought you were outside.” Kal eyed her up and down then quickly turned his head, blushing when he realized he was staring. Oh the many impure thoughts running through his head, all of which about his leader and sister's best friend.
“That was like, two hours ago, you really need to pay attention.” She spat back, obliviously unaware of his blushing.And clearly unaffected by the fact that she was walking around with nothing but a skimpy piece of cloth on, albeit there was something covering that up. “We have another problem guys”
“What now...?” Beast Boy shouted with his eyes closed, respectfully not looking. “Did the Boogeyman scare you last night?” He asked in a babying tone.
“Yeah, that's exactly it....” She replied sarcastically, not even bothering to look in to his direction. “C'mon man, get your head out of your ass. The problem is that I don't have any clothes to wear – or any for that fact.”
“What about the clothes you were s'pose to bring before we left?” Chi asked as she approached them.
“Gone... none of the clothes I packed are there.” She had a look that was a mixture of anger and sadness.
“Well, what do you have?” Phi asked her friend.
“Last time I checked,” she looked up and her face was slightly screwed up, as if thinking. “My wetsuits, scarves, coffin, underwear, and….”
“WHOA, WHOA, WHOA...” Beast Boy interrupted while holding up his hands. “What was that last part?” He asked while picking his ears to make sure he can hear her better.
“Underwear?” Si repeated, looking at him.
“No, no, no! Before that!”
As if not sure of what she said, she held a look of complete bewilderment as she spoke. “Uh... my.... coffin?”
“Yeah, that one!” The Titans looked shocked at how she could easily state that she was toting around a coffin.
As if reading their minds Si quickly disputed, “No, it's not that kind of coffin; it's just my floatation therapy tank that I had customized. Because of the new design people said it looked like a coffin, so that's what I dubbed it.” She finished with a proud look on her face.
“Right~, anyway let me go check my bags; I need to change my clothes, too. Chi go check yours as well” Phi commanded.
Both girls, and Kal, ran into the back where their rooms—in Chi's case, luggage—was. Not long after they ran from view did a blood curdling scream emerge from the back, shaking the foundation of Titan's Tower.
T he Titans came running towards the direction of the scream, read y to fight. W hen entering the doorway of Phi 's room, they were instantly pelted with shoes, pillows, and a bunch of other foreign objects. Moving out of the way, they decided to take a peak into the room this time, afraid to get hit again. Inside Phi was running about, tossing things around while mumbling to herself.
“New friend Phi, is there something bothering you?” Starfire asked, bravely flying into the room.
“Yeah something's wrong,” She stated furiously. “All of my clothes are gone as well. Chi, Kal...” She screamed as she ran into and down the hall, leaving a blurry trail of red behind her. Following after her, the Titans come across the same dilemma one right after the other; everyone's clothes were gone, save for what few items they still had. Which for them was underwear, thankfully, and the few miscellaneous components they deemed necessary.
“Well, looks like we're clothes-less.” Chi stated a bit too happy for what the situation called for. “Just put back on yesterday's outfit.”
“Uuh.... how about no?”
“Why not...?” Phi asked.
“First off, that stupid suit was fugly... and I refuse to be seen in public with it on.” Si tried to reason with her friend.
“There's nothing wrong with our suits.” Kal tried to argue.
Just as he said that everyone looked down at what they were wearing. All of them were wearing the same form-fitting, black space suit, that appeared to be made out of some kind of shimmering material. After a good look at themselves and each other, they immediately averted their eyes to some other place that suddenly required their full, undivided attention.
“Umm... you may be right” They said in unison.
“So... you guys have nothin' else to wear?” Cyborg asked.
“Not unless you're willing to let us borrow some, or go shopping.” Kal huffed.
“Shopping..?! With what money?” Phi yelled at her brother's idiotic remark.
At that moment Si and Chi started giggling and ran away before anyone could ask why. Five seconds later they returned b r andishing something in their hands. Si held up a black, Platinum Xpress credit card, and Chi held out a brown, leather wallet; both of them too proud.
“Now's your turn to be unprepared!” Chi exclaimed.
“What. The. Hell?” Phi stared them down, not fully believing this to be true. “Your parents trusted you with their money?”
“Technically... no. I figured because we might be gone for awhile.....” Si let the rest of that sentence trail off.
“I stole my dad's wallet because he keeps a lot of mom's photos.... plus I pulled damn near ten thousand dollars from his bank account, and needed a place to put it all.” Chi cheered. Everyone was gonna act like she said her father 'gave' her his wallet, and pretend they didn't hear that last part.
“How do you even know if that card has any money on it?” Cyborg grabbed the credit card from Si's hand and proceeded to examine it.
“Because...” She immediately snatched it back only to wave it in front of his face. “I know for a fact that whenever daddy is away on business, he always sends mom a check; to which, she divvies into two savings accounts, my college funds, and... this card” She felt the need to stress that last part.
“But do you even know if it has any money on it? I mean, if your clothes disappeared on you, who's to say the money didn't too?” Beast Boy made a valid point there; Si automatically cursed under her breath for having such ignorance.
“Let me handle this.” Cyborg said with a smug look on his face.
Over by the main computer - located in the left wing, on the top floor – Cyborg inserted the card into a random slot and started pressing keys, at willy nilly. After a few key strokes, what appeared to be a single row, slot machine popped onto the screen. The machine started to spin until the first three numbers stopped. Afterwords, the computer whirled some more, building the tension, then thirteen zeros dropped down; everyone almost fainted at the sight.
“Wow!” Beast Boy exclaimed. “You're rich!”
Removing the card from its slot, she responded back to him rather coolly, “I'm not rich, my parents are. With this much money we can definitely go....”
“SHOPPING.” All three girls shouted.
“So how much of a spending limit are we gonna get, 'cause I know your momma's gonna notice that we took some cash from that once we get back.” Phi stated instantly.
Thinking for a moment, she put her finger to her lower lip with a pensive look crossing her pale features. A light bulb magically popped above her head as she exclaimed, “Eureka!... since we might here awhile, $2000 sounds like a reasonable amount, don't you.” She found no objections until Chi suddenly bounced up.
“Waaaaaaiiiit!!” Everybody stalled to look back at her. “$2000 may be good for clothes, but your forgetting the most important part of shopping.....”
“And what would that be?” Si gave her a skeptical look.
Suddenly Chi and Phi were now grinning ear-to-ear with each other, then posed dramatically and cheered, “Shoes and accessories!”
“Okay, so $5000 each then?”
“Sounds good to us!” they spoke in unison again.
“Yeah, yeah!” they cheered and marched towards the elevator. “LET'S GO TO THE MALL!! LET'S GO, LET'S GO!”
“Wait a minute...” Kal was suddenly blocking their path. “you guys still need to get changed, some of you more than others.” He muttered the last part with another blush dusting across his face.
Confusion crossing Si's features as everyone looked to her. S he then looked down to finally remember that she was running around in nothing but a towel and her cloak. Blushing furiously, she grabbed her friend's hands and dashed back to the Raven and Starfire's rooms to raid their closets, leaving puffs of smoke as an afterimage. Shaking his head, Kal went to Robin's room to borrow some of his clothes, after asking, of course.
After about thirty minutes the girls walked up to the elevator, each looking fresh and ready to go. Chi decided to adorn a pink ruffled midriff top, cutoff shorts and white sneakers.
Phi stepped out in a red, sleeveless turtleneck, black board shorts, flip flops, and her multi red- black hair tied in a high ponytail.
Si nervously came in a black halter-vest, grey scarf wrapped around her shoulders, ruffled white skirt, and black sandals; her hair laid braided to the side of her head.
Wait ing for nearly twenty-five minutes was Kal, dressed in a plain , white v-nick, khaki shorts, and black converse, with his hair p ull ed back. The Titans were also in their civilian clothes, including Cyborg and Beast Boy, who used Cy's hologram rings to disguise themselves.
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Down in the garage, everyone either climbed into the T-Car or hopped a ride on a motorcycle. All of them leaving behind streaks of lights as they rolled out.
“So Kal,” Si called from the back of Phi's hovercycle to the T-Car. “Do you know which store you're going to?”
Kal looked at her with pure shock and quickly exclaimed, “ Nah-uh ! The only reason I left was to get something to eat, not to go shopping around with you three – five if you include Raven and Starfire.”
“Oh c'mon~” Chi whined from the front seat. “It'll be fun!”
“Yeah... c'mon Burnout!” His sister jeered through her helmet as they raced towards the mall.
“Yes new friend Kal!” Starfire cheered from the back of Robin's bike. “The mall is a wondrous and fascinating place to do the shopping and connect with others.”
“No!” He cried out, crossing his arms in front of his chest. “There is no way on the nine moons CVX-17, am I never ever -EVER!- going with you to.....”
“The mall......!” He droned as he was forcibly dragged from shop to shop in Jump city's MEGAPLEXX mall; completely unaware of the eyes watching their every move.