KARAOKE PARTY!

[teenidollinda]

Who: Linda, Kite, everyone else in the mansion who wants to come.
Where The Dining Room
When: Saturday Night, January 12th
Rating: PG. At most, PG 13.
Summary: Linda has been talking about a Karaoke Party with Kite for weeks now, and finally it’s a reality.
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[master_of_dudes]

Good thing Beast Boy decided to come. They didn't have a disco ball, and everyone knows parties need disco balls to be awesome. Thankfully, BB had brought one along. The party was saved! They could thank him later.

He strutted in, disco ball in one hand and boom box in the other. (Why he brought it along is a mystery; possibly because his favorite CD is still inside after he kicked it and messed up the eject button).

"Linda, Kite! The party animal has arriiiiived!"

Just to make sure his entrance was dramatic enough, he took a handful of confetti and threw it in his path.

[azureflamegod]

Oh, Beast Boy was here! And he had some kind of... sparkly, reflective orb. The Azure Knight stared at the object, completely entranced. It was so... shiny!

Oh wait, right, Beast Boy. Kite shook his head, looking away from the fascinating sparkly thing to smile at his friend. "Ah, hello!" he said cheerfully in his normal zombish way. He was getting better, though. At least he wasn't moaning all the time.

He paused, looking back at the glittery, sparkly, shiny round thing again. "What's that?" he asked, pointing at it.

[master_of_dudes]

"It's a disco ball. If you stare at it long enough, it gets really trippy. I think the hippies used it in the 60's to fight off the Nazis and the French."

Beast Boy nodded, quite satisfied at his very acute and totally accurate account of history. Then he smiled, spinning the disco ball and making the room shine with spinning lights.

"Nifty, huh? So, uh, what're you planning on singing tonight?"

[azureflamegod]

Woah! Now it was sparkly all over the place! This concept simply amazed him! He stared at the pretty lights, trying to follow them as they twirled around the room. He started getting dizzy though, so he stopped and stared at the... disco ball? for a little while longer.

After a few minutes of that, he remembered BB had asked him a question. "Ah, singing?" he said, still watching the sparkly spinny disco ball. "Uhh... working on it." Maybe he could just grab something from Kite's memories or something. Kite sang, didn't he? ...Okay, maybe not, but it was worth a try.

[master_of_dudes]

Beast Boy grinned deviously. It was the type of grin that people get at camp when the first person--who just happens to have a bed wetting problem--falls asleep.

"You'd better. Or else."

Before Kite could respond, he quickly morphed into a falcon, carrying the disco ball up to the ceiling and very carefully tying it to the light fixture.

Swooping down, he morphed back mid-flight right in front of Kite. "Man that's hard to do with talons."

[azureflamegod]

Kite managed to catch what Beast Boy said despite the sparkly distraction. "Ah?!" he said in surprise. Or else? Or else what? Why was everyone threatening him?!

He watched his friend put up the magic pretty ball, but tried to stick to the matter at hand. "Or else what?" he asked, a little worried. He was starting to regret this idea. He could probably take the pressure of being forced to sing infront of whole crowd of people, but having to sing infront of a whole crowd of people or else... something was even worse! What would they do if he messed up? Would they hate him? He didn't want his friends to hate him!

Had he been human, he probably would have been feeling a little faint right about now. Instead he just looked a little horrified from calculating all the possible horrible outcomes.

[master_of_dudes]

Glancing around to make sure there was no Riku around (and there wasn't), Beast Boy grabbed Kite's arm and quickly ushered to the side.

"Or else silly string," he began. He paused, making sure the utter epic of his plan set in before continuing. "So that jerk Riku isn't coming to our karaoke thing. I've got a plan cooking, involving silly string, a boom box, that strange song about lip gloss, and a ninja outfit. You'll see in due time."

He smiled, patting Kite lightly on the shoulder. "Don't worry though! You showed up at least, so if you plan to go deserter on us, you only get the silly string. Or, alternatively, your whole room shrouded in tin foil."

He frowned, then added, "That won't mess up your system, will it? I mean, I know you're not the type to wear a tin foil hat or anything, but. You know. Just making sure."

[azureflamegod]

"Silly... string?" Kite stared blankly. What the heck was this 'silly string'? And... 'boom box'? Did it explode? He wasn't entirely sure what to think of this threat. "Ah, plan...?" As usual, Beast Boy just confused him, but at least he wasn't having a panic attack anymore.

"Ahh... tinfoil?" Thin sheets of metal... All over his room? "Might disrupt scanners, internet, please don't." He really, really didn't want to let them down, but it would be a lot easier if he didn't have to worry about possibly losing his scanners for a day if he did. Kite didn't like the idea of not being able to detect anything outside his room. Or inside his room, if he moved outside. What if something happened to Elk?

"But... won't abandon. I'll try not to let you down." He nodded slightly. Even if he couldn't sing, he still wasn't going to just abandon them. That wouldn't be right.

[master_of_dudes]

"You'll see in good time." After all, it was going to take a couple days for his epic plan to be in full fruition.

Oh... so tinfoil wasn't a good idea. Pink hair dye in shampoo might be the way to go. Now he just had to find out if Kite took showers. Somehow he had to find a way to slip that into casual conversation.

Beast Boy opened his mouth to quite casually change the topic, but then Kite had spoken again. The words died on his lips, and the little shape shifter smiled.

"You won't let us down. I don't think you could let us down even if you tried. At least you wouldn't let me down, anyways. Even if you did abandon us--not saying that you will--I'd still be your friend."

For a moment, his face turned very serious. He stared Kite straight in the eyes, holding his gaze before whispering...

"Can you connect to the internet with your mind?"

[azureflamegod]

"...Okaay." At least this plan sounded... interesting? Hopefully nothing would really be exploding, though. That might not be so good.

Beast Boy was pretty good at making the AI feel better, at least. Kite smiled--he was getting better at that, too. As long as they were still friends, it would be fine. Then again, it wasn't BB he was worried about. It was scary, violent Linda.

Hopefully she'd stay his friend, too. Or at least not try to kill him tonight.

He noticed the shapeshifter suddenly staring at him very seriously. Kite stared back, confused. He was about to ask when Beast Boy asked his very serious question. "Ah...? Of course, how else?" he replied, feeling a little foolish. How else was he supposed to access the network? He couldn't figure out those weird user-terminals, with all their lights and buttons... Too complicated.

[master_of_dudes]

One didn't have to stretch the imagination to know what Beast Boy's expression at that moment. It basically amounted to looking like this: 8D only more starry-eyed and jaw dropping.

He made a first attempt at properly expressing his feelings. "KFLDJASKLFE;WJAKRS;LAGFJLA;E"

He then cleared his throat and tried again. "THAT IS THE COOLEST THING I'VE EVER HEARD OF. YOU COULD DOWNLOAD A LITTLE DANCE!"

[azureflamegod]

Apparently, to Beast Boy this was a pretty big thing. Kite wasn't nearly as impressed, but then again, he lived inside the network before. Not being able to connect to it would have been weird for him.

"Where would I download a dance?" he replied, chuckling quietly a little. "Wouldn't be required anyway..." An Ultimate AI could learn on its own, of course.

[master_of_dudes]

"I DUNNO. BUT YOU COULD." He was far to excited for his own good. Kite's mind was connected to the internet in addition to being a game character. That would make him the best online gamer in existence.

"YOU COULD DOWNLOAD EVERY EPISODE OF SPACE TREK EVER AND WIN SOLITAIRE AT THE SAME TIME AND DOWNL--"

Beast Boy's little tirade paused. Wait. He was supposed to be something right now...

"Oh yeah! My song!" He ran towards the stage thing, going to grab the mic. If he could do this once, he could do it again!