Garfield Logan

by Kaniis

Beastboy was tired of being treated differently from the rest of his peers so he made a huge decision that would drastically affect the rest of the Titans. I hope you at least check it out, my summary isn't the best at the moment but I can promise when this becomes a finished product it will be much better!

1. Making Decisions

This is my first story guys lemme know what you think!

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Titans Tower: Beastboys Room

Sunday, October 13, 2014

8:45pm

Beastboy was sitting on the bottom bunk of his bunk bed looking at the spotless room in front of him. He was wearing civilian clothes, he had his duffel bag slung over his shoulder ready to head out into the night. He sighed in disappointment, he placed the communicator on the bedside table next to him, there would be no goodbyes, no farewells, just unanswered questions like the ones he asked himself so many times before leading up to this point. He walked over to the window in his room staring at the full moon, it was beautiful and relaxed his heightened nerves. He shoved open his window letting the cool air from the night chill him sending a slight shiver down his spine. Beastboy continued to gaze at the moon as he remembered how he started cleaning his room three days prior, he was happy that they had incinerator shoots in their rooms so he didn't have to leave. He thought about how angry he felt cleaning his jungle of a room.

How could I let it get this way?

This must have been another reason why the others didn't respect him. He decided that he would no longer be messy, that's just a sign of being lazy, irresponsible, another reason for people not to respect you. He couldn't place full blame on them though, he knew somewhere deep down that this was his fault to some extent as well. He should have never allowed his image to become nothing but the comic relief of the team in the first place. Being the funny guy, that was probably why even the weakest of the foes they went against stopped taking him seriously as well.

'No there was no way any of this could be my fault.'

Even when he came to them seeking assistance, they either didn't believe him or acted as if they didn't have the time. Beastboy thought about the past six years of his life, he joined the Titans when he was nine, he was the baby of the team, the youngest member. And now here he was six years later, at fifteen and they still treated him as such. The past year had been the absolute worst for Beastboy, the rest of the Titans were getting older and maturing, their strength rising rapidly to its peak, and he watched on wondering when his growth spurt would come. Beastboy could feel his anger boil as he remembered when Robin now Nightwing told him to get his act together. The choice of words wasn't what made him so angry, it was their implications, Nightwing basically told him will yourself to your full potential. Beastboy was livid he couldn't help it if puberty decided to put a pause on his life.

Nightwing had grown to a very unimpressive 6'2 while Starfire had him beat by an inch. But that wasn't all, it seemed that puberty wanted to receive a standing ovation when it came to those two, not only had Nightwing got a major spurt, but his years and years of physical training seemed to finally pay off as he was nearly 220lbs of pure muscle, everything on him was rippled by a muscle not even an ounce of fat.

Starfire's form filled out into that of a beautiful woman, her hips widened while her stomach became even more toned than it already was, she even had a few abs. With her height her legs seemed to go on forever shredded with complete muscle. Not only that her already crazy super strength became absolutely outrageous, she could now match Superman himself when it came to brute strength. Her powers didn't really improve much but did seem to get a bit stronger with her maturity.

Cyborg didn't change much when it came to aesthetics, but what happened underneath the surface was probably the most amazing. One day he walked into the common stating that he would in his room if anyone needed him, Robin (at the time) asked him why not the garage where he usually was. He looked excited that someone asked him why and went on to explain that he was done focusing on his 'baby' so much and was going to start working on improving himself he said the T-Car was as good as it could be.

'I guess I was the only one that was shocked.'

Robin stood up and congratulated Cyborg clapping a hand on his shoulder and giving him a look as if he was some proud parent. He then went on to say to the rest of the team that some of us should follow Cyborgs example and try improving ourselves without anyone having to tell us.

'I knew he was talking about me.'

2 months later Cyborgs tinkering showed promise, he had managed to create a chip that would always find out different ways to upgrade his body until it saw fit. So, it was a pretty big shocker when Cyborg came flying into the common room, literally flying, it came with some of the upgrades from his new chip, and he also gained the ability to turn both arms into sonic cannons with a new mode where he could shoot his sonic blasts at a quicker rate but the blasts wouldn't be as strong. Needless to say, everyone was thoroughly impressed with this, not only was Cyborg now a flyer but he could chain his sonic blasts together without having to charge them anymore, and that's also when Robin decided to announce his graduation into his new persona Nightwing.

Last but definitely not least there was Raven, she had grown to an astounding 5'9 compared to her previous 5'5, not only that her legs seemed to become perfect with her new height and Nightwings insistent training, she had always been beautiful but she seemed to become stunning when she let her hair grow down past her shoulders, not only that, her body had become the hourglass figure so many women wished for. After Raven defeated her father, she gained better control over her powers and overtime became even stronger than she already was, though she still had to remain in control of her emotions at all times because if she didn't her powers could still lash out.

'And then there's me.'

Beastboy felt slightly disappointed, due to his powers he couldn't necessarily improve unless animals had the ability to mutate into giant super powered creatures. Because of the primitive nature of the animals on earth he didn't have any fancy long ranged attacks that he could do and he wasn't sure if he had the ability to morph into mythical creatures or anything other than earth animals for that matter. With Beastboys powers being so uncommon he didn't know much about them or their extent he just assumed that he everything he could do was their extent.

The other Titans were aware of this as well and assumed the same as him, but they still continuously berated him instead of suggesting helpful solutions. Not only that, but Beastboy didn't go through any impressive growth spurts or gain any new-found muscle, he just stayed the same. He was currently standing at 5'3 and maybe a half, he was also still very thin. He remembered when he decided to try going to the others for some way to help him improve himself...

-(flashback)-

Titans Tower: unspecified

Thursday, October 9th, 2013

3:07 pm

He went to Cyborg first, "Hey Cy, you think maybe you could test some of my DNA, maybe there's more to my powers than this.", Cyborgs response was he didn't have the time and that the last time they looked at his DNA the only thing they found was that it was unstable and what did looking at DNA have to do with power potential anyway. Beastboy left Cyborgs room feeling only slightly dejected from his goal, that was only one person there's still three more he mused to himself.

Beastboys next stop was the training room where he found Nightwing,

"Hey Rob, you think maybe you could help me with some hand to hand combat training, maybe you could also show how to use some of your weapons too?"Beastboy asked hopefully.

Nightwing had responded with a don't call me Rob my name is Nightwing now and no I won't help you with anything because I know you'll just complain as soon as I tell you to do something thst you think is too hard. Beastboy left the room with hurt feelings, he didn't even give him a chance to see that he was actually serious when coming to seek his help. Beastboy thought about who he was going to next and immediately brightened up, there was no way Star would ever reject she was always kind.

Beastboy had been searching the tower and found her in the weight room.

"Hey Star, you think maybe you could help me with weight lifting maybe I could build some muscle too!", he remembered seeing the look on Starfires face and knew rejection was sons coming.

She told him that Robin told her earlier of how Beastboy was probably going to come bugging her about something silly, and went into an unnecessary explanation about why she wasn't going to help him and that he should try it on his own. Beastboy remembered asking her if that was a no and she ignored him focusing on her task. Beastboy left the weight room feeling completely bummed. The last one left was Raven and he wasn't expecting her to help him at all.

He remembered it very well, Beastboy knocked on the door labeled Raven tentatively, she opened it moments later and rolled her eyes when she saw who it was.

"What do you want now Beastboy?" She asked.

" Well I know you're the smartest person on the team and I was wondering if maybe we could play chess since it's s game of strategy and maybe that could help carry over to when we're out in battle." Beastboy replied.

He remembered seeing the shock on Raven's face for a split second before it went back to being blank.

"Sure, Beastboy why not." she answered.

Beastboys eyes bugged out his head that out of everyone she was the one to agree to help him, then right after he began to feel hopeful again and even a bit happy that maybe him and Raven would also develop some semblance of a friendship. What he didn't know was that Raven didn't actually want to help him out at all she was meditating and he interrupted her so she was going to make sure he paid for it. She opened her door and stepped to the side to allowing him to enter she pointed to the floor and told him they would play there, she went to retrieve the set and had everything ready. Beastboy quickly realized why Raven agreed to play with him, after every single move or mistake he would make Raven would be quick to berate and insult him for his stupidity. It got so bad that he didn't even finish the game he just stood up and walked out of her room with the tears he wouldn't let fall. After that Beastboy felt completely useless and was starting to feel more like a burden than a friend. He fled the tower seeking some time away from there maybe some fresh would clear his mind.

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Jumpcity: the rooftop

Thursday, October 9th, 2013

8:37 pm

Beastboy had flown to the roof of the many skyscrapers in jumpcity that night, it was pretty quiet, he appreciated that it was also a bit chilly, the cool wind helping him relax slightly. Since he was finally alone, he decided he didn't have to hide the hurt from himself and he let all tears fall, he wasn't sobbing and hiccupping and blowing snot everywhere, this was more of an angry cry, he felt defeated by his own teammates, his friends, his supposed family. They didn't even attempt to help him, and the only one who did was because she wanted him to feel even worse about himself than he already did. Beastboy was sniffling quietly when he suddenly felt a presence behind him, he jumped up turning around to see none other than Slade himself standing there watching him in his moment of weakness.

Beastboy was quick to get into a fighting and sneered at him "What do YOU want Slade?".

Slade didn't even seem fazed by his harsh tone of voice and even remained in his relaxed standing position showing that he had no intentions to fight. This only served to anger Beastboy more as he prepared to attack.

Slade raised a hand up in a stop gesture and calmly replied "I have no reason to fight you Beastboy, I actually came to talk..." before he could continue Beastboy interrupted him.

"What the hell do you want to talk to me about?! If you think I'm going to tell you the weaknesses of all the Titans then you can forget it, I'm not going to betray my friends."

Slade was quick with his reply "They don't seem like your friends to me."

"And how would you know anything, you've been spying on us?" Beastboy asked a bit hurt from being reminded of his 'friends'.

"No Beastboy but I know that look, I've had it once before, I used to work in a team and I was also betrayed." Slade stated in a soothing monotone.

"Who said anything about being betrayed?!" Beastboy had become slightly curious about what exactly happened in Slades past.

"Beastboy there's more than physical betrayal, what I'm saying to you is that even though they haven't attacked you or sent you into the hands of some villain, they haven't treated you as their equal, I can see it when I monitor you guys in battle, how they just push you to the side and handle everything themselves or how they then proceed to insult you for trying to help out, trust me Beastboy I don't have to bug your home to see how they have treated you. But I've come to offer you something better, a true home where you'll be accepted and if you ever come seeking help, I won't just turn a cold shoulder and call you pathetic, Beastboy I've come to offer you refuge with me." Slade sounded truly sincere.

"Of course I won't force or try to pressure or convince you into anything, when you come to me I want it to be of your own accord I want you to be confident in your decision that you're making the right one."

Beastboy scoffed at Slades confidence, "And what makes you think that I'll be joining you, why would I leave the Titans to join some evil maniac."

"I am confident the Titans will not stop until they've successfully pushed you away, and I'm not evil Beastboy with a spin on perspective anybody can seem anyway nowadays it just depends on your view." Beastboy was starting to feel uncomfortable because the longer he talked to Slade the more sense he seemed to be making, it was probably one of his manipulative tricks or something.

"So why me Slade? Of everyone you came to me?" Beastboy allowed the doubt and disbelief to filter into his voice.

"I've already told you, I was once on a team and like you I was betrayed, only I didn't have someone to come and talk to me, give me a way out to something better. I had to do it myself and I decided that I would be there to help if I saw something like this happen again." Slades answer sounded true, it didn't seem like he was trying to deceive Beastboy.

Slade took his silence as a sign to continue, "How about this I'll give you time to think about your answer, and if you decide to agree come back here and I'll accept you with open arms." Slade backed away into the shadows disappearing once more leaving Beastboy to his thoughts. Beastboy returned to the tower later that night still thinking about his conversation with Slade. When he went to bed that night, he had no idea that the rest of the Titans were planning on making his life a living hell for the next year, solidifying his resolution to join Slade...

-(end of flashback)-

And here Beastboy was a year later, feeling enraged after revisiting these memories, Beastboys face formed into a determined frown and he jumped out his window into the cool night air, flying back to the building where he had his first meeting with Slade. As Beastboy was flying he thought about the all the things he was leaving behind, his old team whom he had thought was his family; his old hero life, he was pretty sure Slade wouldn't have him running around fighting villains like he did on the Titans; he would be leaving behind his old communicator no use in bringing that thing if he was leaving them behind; and finally he was leaving behind his old doom patrol costume which meant he leaving behind the old superhero persona of Beastboy. He was no longer apart of the Doom Patrol and wasn't a superhero anymore so he didn't see the point in keeping it. This was going to be a new start of him accepting himself, green skin, pointed ears and all.

He was going to go by his real name now Garfield Logan. He reached the building where he'd gone so many times before whenever he felt troubled and waited patiently sitting on the edge with his legs swinging. Garfield felt the same feeling of someone suddenly appearing behind him and turned around to see the man he came to meet. Slade took notice of his appearance and saw the duffel bag that was slung over his shoulder, Slade felt sympathy for the changeling, if he was here that meant that his team really had gone and proven his theory correct. Slade knew how the boy felt right now, and this was a big decision he was making.

"Beastboy are you one hundred percent positive about this because once you join me there will be no returning to the Titans."

"I don't go by Beastboy anymore, I go by Garfield now and I've thought about this decision for a while, I don't plan on returning to the Titans in this lifetime." Garfield replied his tone was sad but determined.

Slade stared at him for a minute, Garfield felt as if he was being studied, stalked like a prey, but he resisted the urge to cringe and bravely stood his ground. After seeing this Slade nodded his head in acknowledgment and stepped towards him.

"Alright then, I see you are ready let's head out." Slade places an arm around Garfield's shoulders and led him towards the darkness from where he came.

When they stepped into it Garfield wasn't expecting to have that feeling of weightlessness, it was completely dark he couldn't see a thing, he opened his eyes as wide as he could and was met with nothing but darkness, he felt his breath leaving his body in a gasp he didn't know he let out. Garfield was about to start full on panicking until a thought entered his mind

'that's what Beastboy would have done'.

He decided he would try to calm down and figure out what was going on. As soon as he was ready to assess the situation it was all over, he feet crashed onto the ground, then he fell coughing and grasping at his neck. Almost immediately after he felt waves of nausea wash over him and he almost emptied all the contents of his stomach (which wasn't much since he hadn't eaten in the past few days). After a solid two minutes of coughing and gasping Garfield stood up on weak knees.

Slade has been watching the whole thing and didn't move a muscle to help, he was slightly surprised when Garfield stood up through the pain. He remembered the first time he teleported and remembered actually vomiting, and taking all of 1 minute to stand up himself, he just didn't know that Garfield would strong enough to do so as well.

"Garfield, you know now that you've joined me things are going to be different than with the Titans?" Slade watched Garfield for any signs of hesitation.

"I know and I'm ready for it that's why I dropped the name and my old tights, I'm done with that life it's not like the citizens liked me anyway." Garfield had been thinking and preparing for this all night, he made it this far and wasn't going to back out now.

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Slades Lair: Garfield's room

Monday, October 14,2014

12:15 am

"Garfield you will have 1 more person to accompany you, I ask that you have patience, I do not know how long this will take." Slade told Garfield as he led him down the hall to where his new room would be.

"I guess, I mean you are the boss here so I don't think it really matters either way." Garfield replied with a shrug of his shoulders.

Slade didn't show any sign that he heard a thing Garfield said as he presented him to his new room, "Here we are, welcome to your new room Garfield make yourself comfortable." Slade stated spreading his arms wide in a showman presenting something style.

"Hopefully everything will meet your expectations." Slade left the changeling to admire his new room himself.

Garfield looked at his new room in amazement, it was definitely bigger than his old room, which happened to be the smallest in the tower. It was very plain, no pictures or decorations, the walls were all a neutral chocolate brown and the only lights in the room were the adjustable dimmer lights in the ceiling. There was a full-size bed in the middle of the room with a medium sized chest at the foot of it, there were two nightstands one on each side of the bed, the ceiling betraying that they were somewhere underground and not in some luxury penthouse downtown. What Garfield hadn't noticed before was that the ceiling was the inside of a large boulder which had probably been carved out to make this room. The ground was hard; however, it was a beautiful forest green carpet.

The closet was to the right of the door when you first enter, it wasn't a fancy oversized walk-in, it was a hole in the wall with doors to slide closed over it. On the wall that was adjacent to the door there were 2 silver hatches, after briefly inspecting them Garfield was able to guise that one was an incinerator serving as a trash shoot and the other was for dirty laundry. On the wall opposite was a closed door, Garfield crept over to it and opening it just a crack, he peered inside and found out it was a bathroom. Garfield changed into his pajamas and began to wonder who his partner in crime would be, Garfield rolled over on his side allowing some very much needed rest to overtake his body. As he was drifting off the last thoughts to enter his mind were

'I'm coming back on my worst behavior'.

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Slades Lair: Control Room

Monday, October 14, 2014

1:32 am

Slade sat in a chair watching the monitors that were all focused in what looked to be the hideout of 5 teens. About 4 of those monitors were zeroed in on a girl, she was beautiful, she had grey skin that looked absolutely flawless, she had long odd colored hair and gorgeous eyes to match. She was a powerful sorceress that didn't know or understand the true extent of her power. She was far stronger than her teammates and much smarter, it wasn't fair for her to be held back by them. Slade continued to observe the girl scold her teammates for once again being stopped by the Kidflash who had no help and beat them all by himself. Slade was bristling with confidence, the fact that he got Beastboy to leave behind his old superhero life and go by his real name was no small feat, he took this very seriously, as he was studying his next target: Jinx, leader of the Hive Five. He had a talk with her that was somewhat similar to the one he had with Garfield. Slade was somewhat amazed at how well he could relate to these two, they almost reminded him of himself on some levels, he thought back to his talk with Jinx on the same rooftop as Garfield's, he slightly wondered if they had ever run into each other with how many times they both went there.

-(Flashback)-

Jumpcity: Rooftop

Friday, March 6, 2014

9:07 pm

Slade watched as Kidflash took out each member of the Hive one by one leaving Jinx standing by herself. They were attempting to rob a museum, her team members were knocked unconscious in circle around her, from Slades point of view hidden inside one of the displays he could see Kidflash perfectly thanks to his amazing vantage point. He watched on, Jinx scowled "Why don't you come out already I know it's you!" Kidflash said nothing as he ran out the building, leaving a rose in Jinx's hand not being seen by any of the Hive members. Jinx felt the air that brushed by her and looked down into her hand, sure enough there was another rose. Jinx furrowed her eyebrows in disappointment as she stared at her defeated team. She left the museum, she didn't bother waking them up, she knew Kidflash contacted the authorities as soon as he left, she could always bust them out later.

Jinx went to her favorite plaice to think, it was a rooftop on some high rise in Jump, whenever she came here, she usually wasn't bothered by anyone except that one other Titan who happened to also come here to think. She remembered the first time they bumped into each other, she had poised ready for a fight; but then he said it was fine that they could just share the place, then after she had asked about why he was there and he told her about how things were at Titans tower and he asked her why she was there she told him about the frustrations she was having with her team, he understood to an extent and from there on they became confidants, if they were to ever run into each other at 'their spot' they would complain about the problems they had with their respective teams and then after venting they just talk and get to know each other, Jinx smiled to herself.

She was sitting on the edge of the roof thinking about Beastboy wondering if he would join her tonight, she twirled the rose Kidflash gave her between her fingers before wilting it with her powers and letting it drop from her hands to the ground below. For the past 4 months Kidflash has been singlehandedly stopping every single crime her team attempted to commit, it was bad enough that the Titans team would beat them in the day but now they had a one-man team to stop them at night as well. The more she thought about everything the more frustrated she became, not only had Kidflash been defeating them he kept harassing her, he kept trying to get her to change herself for him, he would say things like 'we could be together if you just changed sides' that would always anger her.

Why did she have to change who she was just to be with him, how come he couldn't accept her for who she was, who ever said she even wanted to be with him in the first place! She huffed in frustration.

'Why couldn't Beastboy be here tonight?'

The more they bonded the more she found herself enjoying his company, what she learned about him was that he was actually funny despite what his teammates said about him. Jinx figured it was just his front that he put up with the Titans, and he wasn't as dumb as Raven always made sure everyone knew, even the enemies they fought in battle.

Beastboy's knowledge was in other areas, he knew so much about all types of animals and their different species, she would ask him questions just so she could witness the joy he got from sharing his knowledge about something he cared so strongly about with someone who seemed to actually be interested. Jinx' small smile grew slightly as she thought about how his whole face actually lit up the first time she ever asked. She made sure that night that she burned his expression into the back of her eyelids, a conversation with Beastboy to her was never dull, they would either tease each other and laugh until their stomachs hurt and they poured tears from laughing too hard or they would wonder what life would be like if they didn't have powers, they discussed weaknesses and trusted that the other wouldn't betray it to their team, they would talk about the hardships they faced with their teams, or they would make up stories about how their lives would be if they were normal.

They would spend hours talking just getting to know the other better and building trust within each other, to Jinx it was a beautiful friendship and she cherished it to the fullest. Whenever their teams met on the battle field, they would always find themselves up against each other and would have fun sparring but never really trying to outright defeat the other, and then when the Hive were inevitably defeated, he always gave Jinx a wink and would somehow find new a way to let her escape him. She smiled a full smile thinking of him one more time before she stood up and turned around ready to leave. She took a step and then froze when she saw Slade standing from of her, she rolled her eyes in, stared at Slade trying to figure out what exactly he wanted, after she got nothing, she decided to ask...

"What do you want Slade?" Her tone surprised even her, she sounded tired and defeated.

"I want to offer you something better, I've watched you for a while now, I've seen flashes here and there of your true potential and I've also seen how much your team has been holding you back, I want to offer you refuge, come and join me." Slades voice sounded confident and sure of everything he told her.

Jinx became curious and began to wonder, Kidflash said something similar to Slade. He told her the Hive Five were holding her back, and that she had so much more potential. As she pondered this she began wondering if Kidflash was only after her power and said he liked for brownie points or if he really liked her.

"Why me?" She asked, the only person who hadn't attempted to recruit into anything was Beastboy, thinking of the green changeling she felt the small smile trying to encroach upon her face but she decided against it since Slade was facing her.

"I won't lie to you like some others, but I have seen glimpses of your true ability and if you let me, I would like to see just how strong you can really become also I can't stand to watch you be continuously dragged down by your poor excuse of a team." Slade answered.

"What's in it for you?" Jinx wanted to believe Slade she really did but there was no way he was doing this out of the goodness of his heart.

"I was once like you Jinx, I also was the leader of a team, but I was always so much stronger than them, always smarter, I couldn't see it then but they were holding me back, and just when I thought I could trust them they went and betrayed me, they tried to hunt me down like some wild animal, and I escaped after that day I promised myself that if I were to find another in that situation I would save them so they wouldn't have to go through what I did. It is only an offer Jinx, I'm not trying to manipulate or convince you into anything just help you, take all the time you need, the offer isn't going anywhere." Slades voice was so calm it was almost soothing in a strange way.

Jinx took some time to think about the offer, she was excited at the chance to become something better, something stronger. She didn't really care too much that she had to leave her team she was already contemplating a good time to do it, the only concern she had was that she wouldn't be able to see Beastboy anymore she didn't know where she would end up, Jinx looked down and sighed not knowing what to do.

"I'll think about it" Jinx answered.

Slade responded with "That's all I ask" he bowed with a chivalrous aura about him and then disappeared in the shadows, Jinx sat back down on the edge and begin thinking about this new predicament...

-(end of flashback)-

Slade stood up from his chair and prepared to meet Jinx at the rooftop he had a strong feeling tonight was going to be the night she joined him.

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Hive Five hideout

Monday, October 14, 2014

1:32 am

"YOU IDIOTS, why aren't any of you taking this serious!"

Jinx the leader of the Hive wasn't a physically intimidating person, she was only 5'5 and 97lbs, so for the rest of the Hive to see their small leader red faced and yelling at them was a pretty funny sight but they knew better than to laugh, despite her size Jinx was the strongest member on the Hive. As Jinx continued shrieking her face became red as a tomato and her small hands were clenched into even smaller fists. Mammoth had been doing his best to stifle his laughs as he watched, he had been doing a pretty good job for most of the lecture until she started waving her arms up and down and shouting at the top of her lungs that she lived with idiots, Billy Numerous lost it, he began laughing so hard he fell on the ground holding his stomach and that's when Mammoth couldn't hold in his laughter any longer, he hunched over slapping one knee and stomping the other on the ground hard enough to cause tremors and make the others stumble around a bit, a vein bulged on his head and he joined Billy on the floor as they mocked their leader after a total of five seconds the other male members of the Hive joined in the laughing and too collapsed.

Jinx felt true disappointment like she never experienced before,

'How can treat me like this after all we've been through, I've proven multiple times that I'm a very capable leader'.

Jinx went to her room and placed her communicator on the pile of covers in the middle of the floor, she left her room and walked past the boys who were still laughing, she left the hideout without ever looking back. She was done with them, she felt hurt and even a little heartbroken that the people she looked at as her close friends couldn't even take her serious for 5minutes. She hadn't expected them to actually listen to her lecture (they never did anyway) but to fall out laughing definitely hurt a lot worse. As Jinx was leaving, she decided she wanted to see her favorite person at 'their' spot, the only problem was that there was no way for her to contact him, Jinx huffed in annoyance why didn't they ever think to buy cellphones.

'Ugh, who knows when the next time I'll see him is'.

Jinx rolled her eyes, she made it to the roof and sat at the edge like she had done so many nights before, the quiet hustle and bustle of the far away city calm her nerves slightly, a cool breeze gently caressing her face and chilling her skin. Jinx let out a shiver.

'I should have brought a jacket or something it's cold out tonight', Jinx wrapped her arms around her body shivering a bit more. Jinx stood up and turned around to face the shadows where she knew Slade was.

"I made my decision..." Jinx trailed off waiting for Slade to emerge. Slade stepped out into view.

"I'm impressed, you were actually aware of my presence this time." Slade stated simply. Jinx stared watched him for a few seconds and then shrugged.

"Might have something to do with my powers I don't know." Jinx answered the same way he did.

'You have no idea' Slade mused to himself. "Well what is your final decision then?"

"I'll join you." Jinx decided that if she really wanted, she could see Beastboy at the tower, maybe hide out in his room and spend time together that way, Jinx smiled at the thought.

"Excellent, you're making a smart move, and I'll let you in on a little secret, the Titans discovered your old hideout and were planning on raiding you guys tomorrow night." Jinx couldn't tell but she thought she heard a hint of amusement in Slades voice, it was hard to tell due to his monotone.

"Guess I left just in time then huh?" Jinx replied.

"Let's see your new home, then shall we?" Slade stepped over to Jinx and slid an arm around her shoulders and repeating the same he did with Garfield and took her to the shadows where they teleported back to his base.

When they started walking towards the shadows Jinx assumed that there must have been a door or the wall was an image projection, she wasn't expecting to feel like she was falling into the sky. In a matter of milliseconds Jinx lost her sight and breath simultaneously, she felt a pulling sensation at her bellybutton. As soon as everything happened to her it all disappeared, air forcefully rushed back into her lungs while her sight blessed her once more, she felt her feet smash into the ground like she jumped off a cliff, she lost all balance and hit the ground and groaned. Jinx sat up and put a hand to her head groaning again, she must have hit her head too hard because she thought she could hear small whispers but they were gone as soon as she sat up. Jinx then wearily stood up, her knees felt weak and were shaking, her vision was playing tricks on her as she saw three Slades standing in front of her, she closed her eyes and shook her head a second, she took a deep breath and when she reopened her eyes everything was back to normal. Jinx studied Slade and noticed that his one eye had widened in shock for a split second before returning to normal.

'I wonder what that was about'.

"Well let me show you to your new room I'm sure you'll love it." Slades voice lacked any excitement, he turned and began walking in a seemingly distracted manner.

'He's probably lying, I bet my room will be complete ass,' Jinx rolled her eyes not expecting much.

Jinx thought back in her life she's never actually had a proper bedroom before and she'd never had a real bed before, this would probably be the same. Slade punched some code and the silver door in the wall slid open silently, Slade stepped in and dim lights flickered on.

"You'll have to come up with a code of your own, I hope the room meets your expectations." Slade bid her a goodnight as he left the room.

Jinx stared at her room in awe, there was nothing special about it. Jinx walked around her new room touching and feeling everything (a/n: the room is the same as Beastboys with a different color carpet). Jinx stripped out her clothes into her underwear and slid beneath the covers she stared the room in the dark one last time before closing her eyes ready to go to sleep, as she lay in her real bed drifting off one last thought entered her mind.

'I hope made the right decision', Jinx smiled contentedly falling into a restful slumber.

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Slades Lair: Control Room

Monday, 14, 2014

4:30 am

Slade was hunched over a desk in the control, he had managed to find the lab that gave Jinx her powers, he studied them for months and found out just how much she could do. The report stated that the scientists gave her a chemical that would allow her body to manipulate the odds of something happening, she also could manipulate the elements as long as her feet were in contact with the earth, she also had magical abilities, she could nullify others sorcery and even make the spell casters attack rebound on themselves, she could also communicate with the earth around her and draw power from the natural magic that resided in earth. Slade had been working on a training regimen for her, he was also trying to figure out a design for the uniform he would give her.

The design he had come up with was a onesie matte all black mesh suit, the whole thing would be stored in a small necklace and would materialize instantly when summoned, in the back of the necklace clasp there was a small needle that would be injected in the nervous system so the suit bond to the user and react at the users will, it is made of a new special material that would absorb shock and damage and store it until the user chose to release it, it is very thin and tailored to fit the form exactly of the user in it, after the first time putting it on it would then adjust to the user and change along with any changes that came from the person in it, but with these new complications Slade decided that he would design Jinx's suit so that her feet could remain in contact with the earth whenever she needed.

As for Garfield, his suit was the same as Jinx's, but the difference with this and his old Titans costume was that when he would morph or change the suit would adapt to the new shape and remain on him in his new forms. Slade didn't know much about the changeling's powers thanks to the fact there was no knowledge about them but he did have a few ideas he wanted to try. With Garfield's powers, every time he morphed or changed forms, he would tear his body down and rebuild it into something else and Slade was always curious that if the changeling could do this why would he carry over injuries from his previous shape, Slade was sure that one of his abilities was self-healing when he morphed.

Anything thing Slade wanted to test out was that since Garfield could change his body into that of any animal that he possessed the DNA of, he could become something much larger than himself or much smaller, Slade was curious where the extra body mass came from when he became something larger or where it went when he became smaller, Slade figured that with his powers he was willing his body's DNA to change and rearrange itself into what he wanted at will.

Slade also wondered if Garfield could morph on specific part of his. The question that Slade had here was if he could rewrite DNA at will could he possibly mix his morphs?

Could morph into one creature and add characteristics of another, could he add wings to an animal that's not meant to fly or could he recreate a whole new animal if he wanted? With his power to rewrite DNA he as long as he has the DNA of both creatures, he wanted to mix could it possibly work? Another speculation Slade had about Garfield's powers, was that did he truly need the DNA of animals or was it just the fastest way for his body to learn the anatomy of the animal he wanted, Slade was curious that if Garfield just studied the anatomy of a certain form could he morph into it? With Garfield's power to become something small or even microscopic like bacteria could he possibly create new diseases and cures or could he create the DNA strain of some new species entirely, and since some bacteria could split and clone itself could he add those characteristics to other animal forms and actually clone himself.

Slade shivered with excitement with the new theories of Garfield's powers and wanted to try out so many things. If he was rights, he figured Garfield could obtain DNA from one of the Kryptonians and mix it with a species that was immune to kryptonite. Slade became almost giddy with excitement of just how much his two new apprentice' could actually accomplish. He even had a theory that meta humans would be considered a different species from humans and figured that Garfield could probably obtain their powers if he could get some of their DNA.

Slade also figured that he should probably began doing research and find the anatomy of creature that were myths and legend in the hopes that his theory was correct.

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Titans tower: Common Room

Monday 14, 2014

6:32 am

Nightwing was sitting at the table drinking coffee and reading the newspaper, he enjoyed the peace he got in the mornings, this was right around the time when Raven would come in, she was the second earliest riser on the team. Right on cue Raven stepped through the doors of the common heading to the kitchen setting up her tea and getting ready for the day. Nightwing couldn't help but stare at his teammate, she had become so beautiful with a body most women would kill for. He felt slightly guilty since he was dating Starfire and planned to stay fully committed to her, but being a horny male, it was natural to look.

Ravens uniform had some slight changes added to it over time, she had been complaining about how heavy her was, so she got a small cape that stopped at the middle of her back, it was the same color as her cloak and even had a hood on it, Ravens leotard stayed the same. As Raven was at the stove preparing to boil her water Nightwing stared at her butt, every move she made his eyes followed he was mesmerized, he was happy that she was turned around and couldn't see him drooling on the table as he ogled her. Nightwing knew that Raven had crush on him, and he definitely wouldn't mind obliging if he didn't have Star to worry about. Raven turned around unexpectedly, catching him, she smirked at him,

"Like what you see?" She teased in a seductive voice.

As if in a trance Nightwing stood up from the table and crossed over to her he trailed his hands down the sides of her body admiring her curves and leaned down for a kiss. He closed his eyes and leaned down thinking how lucky he was to have 2 beautiful women that were infatuated with him. As he was leaning closer, he felt her shift in his arms, his confidence sored thinking that he had her until he felt an immense sting across the side of his face. He let go of Raven and held his hand to his skin that felt like he leaned his on a sizzling skillet. He opened his eyes and saw Raven glaring at him with four red eyes.

"What the fuck do you think you're doing?" She hissed dangerously, Nightwing in his shock felt himself take a step back, Raven matched and stepped towards him.

"I-I... I thought that..." he stammered out trying to find the proper words.

"You thought I liked you?!" Raven spat she was completely livid at this point her body was starting to grow ever so slightly.

"What the hell led you to think that? When have I showed that I held romantic feelings for you!" Raven grew another 2inches, Nightwing was curious if she knew what she was doing.

"Well you've always shown interest in me, when you defeated your father you smiled and hugged me no one else, when we were all at the tower after defeating the brotherhood you spent most of that time hanging around me, and then when we went to Tokyo you were jealous that I was giving all my attention to Star and none to you, you even went and took your anger and frustrations out on Beastboy." After recounting all of this Nightwing felt all his shock fade as his confidence retook its rightful place at the top, he even had the audacity to smirk.

Raven closed her eyes and focused on reigning in her anger before she did something she would regret. When she reopened her eyes, they were back to normal.

"Some detective you are, I'm sorry I led you on but let me break your heart right now, I. DON'T. LIKE. YOU." Raven pronounced every syllable of the last four words slowly.

Despite Ravens denial Nightwing continued to smirk and even took a step towards Raven, which she matched by taking one back, Nightwing smirked at this and kept on walking forward until he was right in front of her with their bodies nearly pressed against each other. He peered down at Raven and lifted her chin to stare in her eyes.

"Of course you do, not only am I handsome, I'm the best member on this team and not only that my competition is some green freak who hasn't hit puberty yet and a Cyborg that can't get any girls so he spends all his time on his car, how could you not like me I'm the alpha here and last time I checked I'm pretty sure you and I have bond like no one else on this team not even me and Star," as he was saying this Ravens face softened from her scowl completely, if Nightwing had been paying attention he would have noticed that she looked hurt by his words and her eyes held in tears, no all he noticed was that she stopped frowning.

He felt his confidence soar once more and began to lean down again a bit more slowly this time. All the caution flew out the window when he felt Raven slide her hands up his body and place themselves on his chest, he got excited and went in for the kill. Nightwing then felt the sensation of something solid slamming into his chest and sending him flying into the large tv in the common room. He slid off and fell to the floor in a heap groaning and clutching his back, he heard sniffles somewhere nearby and looked up. Raven was kneeling in front of him and he was completely confused, Raven had tears streaking down her face and her eyes held a fierceness Nightwing had never seen from her before.

"How could you talk about Beastboy that way? He has never done any of us wrong nor has he insulted us to our face or behind our backs. He's so kind and sweet, you know he told me once that you're his hero. He said that your so brave, even though you don't have powers you never let that stop you, he said he wished he could have your work ethic, he was amazed at how strong you were and how you were so dedicated, he was so proud to have you as his leader and said one day he hopes to be like you. I wonder how he would feel knowing this is who you truly are." The disappointment was evident in Ravens voice, this fueled Nightwing's rage.

"Then why the fuck were you flirting with me when you caught me staring at you?!" Nightwing had now propped himself up against the window glaring at Raven. She returned it with four red eyes, she was not backing down.

"What are you talking about?!" Even though Ravens face showed her true anger she sounded thoroughly confused.

"When you turned around and caught me staring you said 'like what you see?'" Nightwing answered telling what he felt was the complete truth. After hearing his confession, Ravens four eyed glare immediately melted into an expression of worry and concern.

"Richard have you suffered any traumatic brain injuries when you were patrolling?" Ravens voice matched her expression. Raven knelt down in front of Nightwing her hands already glowing as she guided them towards his head. Nightwing jerked his head away with a scowl on his face.

"Raven what are you talking about?" Nightwing snapped his patience beginning to wear thin.

"When I turned around, I asked you when was the last time you saw Beastboy?" Raven repeated the question she asked when she first walked in that morning.

"I don't know but I don't really care, he'll be out and acting like himself in no time." Nightwing completely forgetting the previous conversation.

"Nightwing he's been locked inside his room for 3 days, he hasn't even come out for food, doesn't that worry you even a little bit?" Raven's voice raised an octave.

"I'm not trying to be mean or anything but since when do you care about Beastboy?" Nightwing questioned.

Ravens face became full of emotion, it was the most Nightwing or any of the Titans had ever seen. It was full of shame mixed with embarrassment, then became sad for just a second before returning to her blank stare, Nightwing was amazed it was like watching a movie. Ravens voice shook as she answered his question.

"I know I have a funny way of showing it but I do care for Beastboy he's my friend too." Raven fought hard to stop it but she felt a few more tears well up in her eyes. There was a loud whistling in the background, Raven stood up to make her tea, when she was done, she retreated back to her room.

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Titans tower

Same day

3:30 pm

Raven plopped down onto her bed after successfully meditating for 7 straight hours, Raven became skeptical,

'shouldn't Beastboy have bothered me by now'.

For the first 3 hours of her meditation she wasn't worried but the longer she went without any interruptions the more worried she became. Raven left her room and headed towards the common room. When she walked through the sliding doors the sight she saw was almost like any other normal day in the tower. Almost. Cyborg was on the couch battling it out with Nightwing on the gamestation while Starfire was in the kitchen making a new poison that she attempted to convince people was food from her home world.

"Has anyone seen Beastboy?" Ravens voice cut through all the commotion like a knife, everyone stopped what they were doing and stared at her.

"You're talking about this AGAIN, Raven give it break already Beastboy will come out when he's ready." Nightwings annoyance was noticed by his other two teammates that didn't know what happened that morning.

"Actually, I think Raven might be on to something man, how long have you known B to stay cooped up in his room like that without even coming out for food." Cyborg sounded concerned as he stated his observation.

"So you've noticed to?" Raven asked with an eyebrow quirked.

"Yeah but no one was saying anything about it so I didn't either." Cyborg answered.

"Friends I think I may be at fault for this." Starfire has her head hung in shame and a few sniffles escaped her. Nightwing was immediately at his girlfriend's side wrapping an arm around her, Raven was disgusted at this, remembering how he tried to come on to her that morning.

"What's wrong Star, what do you mean it was your fault?" Raven was slightly shocked at Nightwings performance, he had just told her that he didn't care what was going on with Beastboy.

"Well last week, I was spending some of my free time trying to become stronger, friend Beastboy walked in and asked me if he could join me, he said he wanted to become stronger maybe he would be able to help out the team more." As Starfire was saying this, Raven and Cyborg also hung their heads in shame, they indeed remembered Beastboy coming to them for the same thing. Cyborg was the first to speak up.

"He came to you about that too huh?" Cyborg sounded sad and nothing like his usual boisterous tone.

"Beastboy came to me also," Raven looked up in shock at Nightwings confession. He sounded sad and it was genuine.

"I turned him away because I didn't think he was actually serious." Nightwing finished.

"I think this might actually be my fault, when he came to me and asked for help, I agreed, but every time he messed up, I made sure he knew that he would never measure up." Ravens tone matched the rest of the team's mood, somber.

"Alright Titans how about we go and make this right, let's go and make our teammate feel loved again. Titans Go." Nightwing smiled a little, as the Titans all headed down, he hall for Beastboys room. They made it and knocked on the door, upon receiving no response they tried talking to him.

"Hey listen Beastboy I'm sorry about the way I treated you, I should have listened to you and helped you out a little, it's my duty as team leader and I should live up to it, I'm sorry little buddy." Even after Nightwing apologized there was still nothing so the next person went up.

"Hey B it's your best bud here, hey man I'm sorry for the way I treated you but how about I make it up to you, I'll make tofu for dinner tonight and everyone's eating it no complaints or anything." They still received nothing, Cyborg thought for sure that one was going to get him.

"Hello friend, I am truly sorry for my behavior and I wish to make it up to you let us hang out together at the mall of shopping and you are like a little brother to me and I don't want to lose you." Even after Starfire went up there was still nothing so Raven knew he wanted apologies from everyone.

"Listen Beastboy I was wrong to treat you the way I did, you were only taking our advice and trying to improve yourself and instead of helping I shot you down, I'm sorry." That was the longest apology Raven had ever given Beastboy, despite it being the only apology she gave him.

Even after Raven went up, there was still nothing behind the door, not a sound at all. The Titans became concerned at this reaction this was not what they were expecting. Cyborg rapped his knuckles against the door hard enough to leave a dent.

"YO, B you hear us man what you doing in there?!" Cyborgs loud voice easily carried through the door, there was still no response.

"You don't think he's actually that mad, do you?" Raven asked back in her monotonous voice.

"Only one way to find out." Cyborg answered entering the override code to get into Beastboys room.

When the door slid open the sight that the Titans faced shocked them. Beastboys entire room was clean, spotless actually, but even more troubling it was empty there was no sign of their green teammate anywhere. Nightwing immediately went into leader and began investigating, the rest of the Titans following his lead. No one had to look very long as Nightwing stood up with something in his hand.

"Guys I think I know what happened to Beastboy." Nightwing stated and then held up the Titans communicator that belonged to their friend.

"What have we done, oh I feel so awful" Starfire was in hysterics. Raven was still as a statue and Cyborg had to sit down.

"Don't worry guys he can't have gotten far, we're going to go out and bring our friend home." Nightwing states in voice of confidence, this brought hope to the rest of the team and they all eagerly set out to search the city for their lost friend with hopes of bringing him back home.

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