I got through the robotics competitions, an internship, and moving. Now I just have to finish my summer assignments and then... I still won't have time because of school. D=

At an unknown location...

"So, uh... What'dya bust us out for?" The Joker asked the Cheshire Cat.

"Unca Hattah has to buy me a Christmas present. Then we gotta go ice skating. And we need a Christmas tree. And we gotta go carolling and play out in the snow..."

The villains all traded their "evil smirks", just for the sake of it, which Scarface sadly couldn't do.

"We can help with that," Ivy said, smiling kindly at the little girl.

And so they started planning...

Meanwhile at the Manor...

"Uhh... Guys? I think I'm lost again," Beast Boy said into his communicator.

"What floor are you on?" Robin asked.

"The 10th?"

"There is no 10th floor," came the confused answer.

"Am I in some freaky alternate dimension in which space zebras and monsters from underneath the bed roam free and wild, looking for green Beast Boys to eat?" Beast Boy asked, panicking.

Robin, as luck would have it, rounded the corner a few seconds later.

Beast Boy squealed in happiness (something he would later deny ever happening) and jumped onto Robin with a big hug.

Robin was too surprised to keep steady, and so he fell, right atop a pedestal holding a vase.

CRASH!

They stared at each other, wide-eyed before Robin regained his senses and ran, leaving Beast Boy to be scolded by Alfred.

Elsewhere in the Manor...

Bruce, Raven, Cyborg, and Starfire were seated at the overly-long dinner table.

It was quiet.

Bruce stared at the Titans.

The Titans stared at Bruce.

Robin ran into the room.

"What did you break?" Bruce asked, slightly amused.

"Me?" Robin asked innocently. "I didn't break anything. Beast Boy, though..."

"Were you not looking for him?" Starfire asked.

Robin pretended not to hear and sat down as if nothing happened.

And just in time, too! Alfred came in only seconds later, dragging a repentant-looking Beast Boy by the ear.

"Dinner will be served shortly," Alfred said in that unfazed British butler way after he deposited Beast Boy in an empty seat.

Poor Beast Boy looked as if he was about to cry.

"Space zebras?" Bruce asked with a faint smirk.

"...It could happen!"

Cyborg and Robin snickered.

"Tell him, Star! It's possible, right?" Beast Boy asked, trying to defend what he had said.

Even Starfire looked amused as she denied ever seeing anything that looked like a zebra anywhere other than Earth.

The next morning, the Titans, Bruce, and Alfred were all seated or standing around the smallest kitchen in the manor, watching the news. Robin was dreading the start of school tomorrow and the rest had been teasing him about it until this little tidbit came on the morning news:

"This is Sandi Rayne," the reporter cheerfully yelled at the camara, "live from Gotham's super-mega toy store where some of the Gotham rogues were spotted only a few hours ago in the company of a girl in a cat costume."

Her image cut off the screen to be replaced by surveylance camara footage of the toy store from the night before.

"As you can see here," the peppy newslady continued, "The scarecrow came in, unnoticed even though he was in full costume, and planted some kind of gas bomb among the toys. Only after he finished did he reveal himself to the staff and patrons of the store by using his toxin on the manager of the toy store and then setting off the bombs.

"It is then that the Mad Hatter and a girl presumably dressed as the Cheshire Cat came in wearing gas masks, followed by Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum. Then came a few henchmen dressed in uniforms reserved for the Penguin's people, followed by Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy.

"These villains spent a good half-hour browsing the aisles and loading up shopping carts according to the young girl's instruction before a school bus crashed in through the north wall of the shop. The Joker came out and supervised as the rest loaded the bus with toys, stopping only to give one of his signature smiles to an unconscious patron who is now in Gotham General, and then sped away to an unknown location."

The school bus shown in the security footage pulled away just as Sandi finished her summary of events and the scene switched back to Sandi, now in front of the gaping hole left by the school bus.

"The school bus has been returned to the school district that it came from with only minor damage to the vehicle. Back to you guys there at the studio!"

The reporters, camaramen, and newspeople back at the studio seemed speechless before someone realized that they were still on the air and things continued as normal.

Back in the Batman's smallest kitchen, Bruce and the Titans were still in a daze.

Bruce's and Robin's excuse was that this did not fit the personalities on the villains mentioned at all. The rest of the Titans were shocked at the ferocity of this crime. There was never anything really like this at Jump and none of the news programs would have ever shown what the Joker did to that man.

This was what Alfred Pennyworth had to deal with on Sunday morning.

This is actually 2 chapters smushed together because I can't write long chapters. Bleh.