Hey all! Well, isn't this interesting, I am now going to be writing for Teen Titans! It's something that I have not really written for yet and I am a bit nervous, especially since I DESPERATELLY need experience writing out action scenes, but… I feel as though I might be able to do this, especially since my wonderful sister and I have come up with SEVERAL stories I think you guys are really going to enjoy! To be honest I LOVE Teen Titans, always have, always will. So I figured why not and have some fun! Now, heads up, I am an AVID Terra fan, and BB/Terra is my OTP, which means, absolutely NO BB/Raven, and if you don't like that, sorry. She won't be featured in this story, but there will be some later on where they are the main points, I will also be using Rob/Star, Flinx, Herald/Bumblebee (Cause they were canon in the comics guys!), Red Star/Pantha (Same!), and as for Raven and Aqua and Speedy and Cy? Don't worry I have special people in mind for them! ;) if you're DYING to know, give me a private message, I might be so excited I just let ya know! Anyways, I hope you enjoy these stories! As for THIS story… I will be using the origin issues from the Teen Titans Go! Comics (Issues #s 45, 46, and 47) the "The New Teen Titans Origins!" book from 1988, and various other sources I have found. So… enjoy!
Disclaimer: The Teen Titans belong to DC comics and Warner Brothers entertainment.
They were back.
It had taken him three years but his family was back together. A few years ago Richard Grayson, A.K.A Robin had gotten the news that the Titans were losing funding, and unfortunately would have to disband. This was a bit hard for many of the members but once everyone found a place to stay it turned out to be for the best. Robin himself went back to the Justice League along with all the other "sidekicks" to get some extra training, Starfire went back up to Tamaran to help Galfore with various issues (Thankfully visiting Robin about once or twice a year.), Cyborg decided to spend the time with his father at STAR labs and got his high school and college degree while he was at it, Raven decided to spend some time with her mother in Azarath for a bit, and get herself a college degree, and Beast Boy decided to follow in his parents' footsteps and do some environmental exploring, discovering some new species insects along the way (now aptly named "Gar Beetles" and "Logan Beetles" the public was none the wiser).
Now he was seated around a giant campfire (set up by Cyborg and Hot Spot) with all of the thirty plus members of the Titans who, after finding out that the funding was going to be reinstated three years later, rebanded together and started back where they left off. They were now having a "we're back!" celebration campout in the woods by Titans North tower to celebrate.
"Well, It makes me happy to see all of you here today, and it makes me even more happy to know that our organization is back up and running!" Robin said with a grin on his face.
The thirty plus titans there all cheered. (Well most of them anyway, Raven was kind of against hooping and hollering… she was happy though)
"Now I hope you understand that things are not necessarily going to be the same." Robin explained to his teammates "I understand that as these past years have come by us, we have changed some too. I see some of us have grown." Indeed some of the titans had grown, those who were short and spindly such as Beast Boy and Robin himself had grown into themselves, but the biggest difference here was seen in Mas Y Menos (who were now officially teenagers, and looking good too!), Wildebeest (Who was currently in his human form, happily seated next to his 'mom' Pantha), Melvin, Timmy Tantrum and Teether (now called "Chomper") who all looked a good bit older as well. "I also understand" Robin said with a smile at Starfire, "That there are a few more couples in this organization as well." Starfire giggled with that laugh that Robin frankly loved, and waved at him while Herald and Bumblebee, Red Star and Pantha, and Kid Flash and Jinx (now in a new, white uniform with her hair down) all smiled at each other. Those who were not in a relationship either smiled at their friends, or (like BB and Cyborg) laughed a bit. Robin grinned back at Starfire. The two of them had been practically inseparable ever since Tokyo, and only seeing her once every few months during the disbandenment was torture to him. He smiled and finished his speech "But I am none the less proud to see that ninety nine percent of those who got an invitation back, returned. And cannot WAIT to see what our futures bring!" Robin sat down next to Starfire as the rest of the titans cheered. Cyborg collected the food for the campfire, (which consisted of Tofu Dogs, Hot Dogs and marshmallows, which had been mostly eaten by Kid Flash earlier in the day.) and they began to eat.
"Man" Cyborg said happily to Raven "This is almost as awesome as some of those other parties we used to throw!"
"You mean those god awful Halloween parties? Surely you haven't forgotten the 'banana' incident?" Raven asked.
Cyborg thought for a moment and remembered.
The theme for this year's party was "pop culture figures" and cy had decided to be Mr. T from the A Team. He was standing with Beast Boy, who was the Green Giant from the frozen vegetable company and Jinx, who was the Nyan Cat, complete with posterboard pop-tart body and ribbons hanging off the side.
"Yo, Jinx, where's Kid Flash." Cy asked, Jinx rolled her eyes.
"He'll be here in a minute." She said, just at that moment Kid Flash walked up to her in a full body banana costume, with a big, devious grin on his face.
"Hey, Jinx!" He said grinning.
"What?" she said, groaning.
"I'm a banana!" Kid Flash said, beaming.
"You're a what?" Beast boy asked, snickering, in on the joke.
"I'm a banana!" Kid flash beamed, and started jumping up and down in an awkward dance move as he sang "I'm a banana, I'm a banana, I'm a banana… LOOK AT ME MOVE!"
Once he finished he proceeded to go up to every group at the party and do the same presentation for everyone.
"Yeah… that did get a little annoying after the third time he did it." Cyborg said to his friend.
"A little?" Raven asked.
"Hey mmpf… dudes." Beast Boy uttered as he scarfed down his last tofu dog "what should we do now? Campfire songs, stories?"
"I wanna hear ORIGIN stories!" Melvin said excitedly. All of the other titans uttered words of agreement, Origin stories would be fun.
"I don't see why we can't, as long as the information doesn't leave this group." Robin said, receiving nods from the rest of the organization "But there's probably only room tonight for a handful of people."
"Then I say Titans West goes first!" Aqualad said, grinning. Robin smiled as the other four members of his team smiled back at him; it looked like it would be their turns first.
"I'M FIRST!" Beast Boy proudly explained as he jumped up onto a nearby rock and began his story.
"My real name is Garfield Logan" he explained, "My parents; Mark and Marie Logan were environmental adventurers and scientists. When I was a toddler my father was called to work at this lab in Upper Lamumba in Africa mixing various animal dna to try and find cures to various human diseases. One day they went out to find some more dna and left me in the cabin, told me to stay put… I didn't listen."
A young Garfield Logan was beginning to get frightened, at four years old he wasn't as good as his father and mother at identifying all these sounds that the different jungle animals were making. He decided to get out of the cabin and see if he could find his parents, surely they wouldn't mind him accompanying them on their trek? They loved taking him on hikes, why should this one be any different? He slowly walked out of the cabin and began walking down the trail.
"Mommy? Daddy? Where are you?" he called, hoping that he would be able to find his parents quickly.
He heard a funny sound and turned to see a green monkey on the trail in front of him. Garfield smiled.
"Hi there little monkey!" he said happily "are you here to play with me?" He walked up to the monkey and reached out to pet it.
And was promptly bitten on the arm by the creature, who ran away when the boy yanked his arm away and began flailing it around, screaming. Luckily his parents were nearby and once they heard their little boy screaming like that, ran to see what had happened.
Marie quickly grabbed her son up and they rushed him to the lab for analyzing… it was Sakutia, a virus that only animals could survive.
Mark knew it was a risk, but he had to take it. He quickly made up a mixture of animal DNA and injected it into his son's arm at the place where he had been bitten… it worked, but at a price. Garfield's caucasian skin, blue eyes and blonde hair all turned green, while his canine teeth and ears developed sharp points… he was now officially a changeling.
"It wasn't long after that when my mom took me out for a hike and we encountered a venomous snake" Beast Boy explained to his now rather captive audience. "I saw it, freaked out, and turned into a mongoose to kill it. It was the first time I had ever morphed. My mom was really proud, my dad, not so much. He was afraid that people would find me, do experiments on me. So he wanted to keep me a secret…. A few months later my father was called to a different lab in a different part of the country. We got on a boat on the river to get there but, along the way something happened. My father took the wrong way at a fork in the river and we ended up coming to a waterfall, I was able to turn into a bird and fly away in time but, my parents… they went over the falls."
Beast Boy sniffed, wiped his eyes and continued. "I was on my own for a while, and I managed to sneak onto a cargo ship and hitch a ride back to america. I saw a news report on the television about the Doom Patrol, and decided I wanted in. So I snuck into their headquarters and naturally they treated me as an intruder, but it took them a while to catch me, and that impressed them, so they decided to adopt me into their team, into their family. I stayed there for a while, and then… I grew up, decided I didn't want to work under Mento anymore, and left, that's when I found you guys… and the rest is history!" Beast Boy finished with a big flourish, extending his arms out waiting for applause, which he only got from Starfire, and a few of the younger members. Beast Boy frowned, and sat back down in his seat with a "rasssafrassa". Cyborg patted him on the back, stood up and cleared his throat.
"Well now that the green bean is down with his story… I suppose it's time to tell mine." He said "ok, well here goes, the story of Victor Stone, A.K.A, Cyborg!"
"Unlike Beast Boy, I didn't get my 'powers' until I was much older. I had actually become quite the successful track star in my high school. My parents, Silas and Elinore Stone, cared more about my brain though, they were geniuses, millionaire scientists, and wanted me to follow in their footsteps. I didn't care about that though, all I wanted was to go as fast as I could, to feel the wind against my face, feel like I was free for once. I had gone and bought myself this BEAUTIFUL bright red Ferrari convertible, oh man was that thing nice! And I… well, whenever my dad and I would get into an argument about my future, which happened quite often, I would get into that thing and drive off as fast as I could. One time, after my dad and I had had this really BIG argument I drove off in my car at top speed… I was so mad that I wasn't focusing fully on where I was going and… ran right into the side of a building. The car was totaled and so was I. My parents took me into their medical labs, and did what they had to do to save my life. It saved me but… I never really was the same again. When I woke up in that bed, I thought I'd never forgive them for what they had done to me. And even though they tried to teach me how to manage with my new body, I was still angry at them."
A newly changed Victor sat down at the dinner table with his parents. Grumbling about how his lesson on using his new body earlier in the day had pretty much failed.
"Don't feel bad, baby" his mother told him "You'll get it soon enough, let's just rest and have a good meal, I'm sure you'll feel better then." Victor took up his fork and tried to get some food on it so he could bring it up to his mouth, but found that in attempting to do so he had miscalculated his own strength and crushed the fork. He sighed and tried to take a drink from his cup, same thing, the cup was crushed as well. Really angry now, Victor stood up.
"I can't take this anymore!" he screamed "Why did you guys do this to me!?"
"Victor, we have explained this to you many times." Silas said with a frown on his face. "Now sit down and eat your dinner."
"I would, but I CAN'T!" Victor shot back "All it seems I can do is crush things, I can't even freaking EAT anymore!"
"You'll get it soon enough sweetheart." Elinore tried to comfort her son.
"You guys don't get it, do you? You made me a FREAK! Noone's gunna wanna spend time with me, noone's gunna wanna learn about me, everyone's scared of me! I know you guys pulled me outta school but I bet if I even went back there that I wouldn't last-"
"VICTOR! ENOUGH!" Silas said standing up "we did this to save YOUR life, and the least you could do is show a little appreciation!"
"Appreciation! For what? I've lost everything! My friends all think I am some kinda freak, I can't even go outside without bein' stared at! I'm tired of it. I want outta here… and now!" Vic shot back.
"Victor, sweetie, you can't really leave." His mom pleaded.
"Yes I can! And I will!" Victor said as he grabbed his already packed back (he had been planning on doing this for quite some time) and headed towards the door.
"Son, I forbid you to leave!" Silas said "We're your parents, it's going to be hard out there finding someone else that can understand you as much as we do."
"Understand me!?" Victor said "Bah! You don't understand a thing about me! And as far as I'm concerned, I don't have any parents!" Victor opened the door and slammed it shut as he ran off into the night.
"I just kinda wandered the city until I ran into these fools." Cy claimed, smirking at the rest of his team. "They taught me how to be happy and have fun again, helped me be able to control myself again, helped me find a way to make good use of what my parents had done for me. And I guess that hearing that my mother had died in a supervillain attack on my parents' lab only enforced what I was supposed to do now, and well, here I am."
"Did you ever end up sorting things out with your dad?" Speedy asked, chugging down whatever it was in his waterbottle (Bumblebee had asked what it was, but he had quickly changed the subject).
"Yeah, we're cool now." Cyborg said "He's finally proud of me and what I'm doing with my life so, I must be doing something right."
"Glad to hear it Cy." Robin said smiling. "OK, who wants to go next?"
Starfire jumped up excitedly "Oh OH! I would very much like to go next, may I?"
Robin grinned.
"Go ahead Star. Let's hear your story." He said smiling.
OK! First half done! Part two will be started up once I get THREE reviews. So go ahead and review if ya wanna see Star, Rae and Robin's stories. (Oh GAWD is Raven's story gunna be interesting, it's DARK DARK DARK dude. I think this story's rating is mainly because of that one.) I used as much of the canon stuff as I could (from both show-verse and comic-verse) I hope that I did well. I honestly did leave a little factoid of Garfield's life out that I discovered while doing my online research on him that I decided to save and use for a later story… if I end up doing it. If ya think ya know what it is, let me know! (and no it's not the staying with those gangsters for a while thing, I just eliminated that in this continuity) Also, I hope you got and enjoyed my Kid Flash banana joke… It was just this thing that my sister and I had in my head, and we just had to get it out! If you don't know the song he was singing go onto Youtube and look up "I'm a banana!" I hope you won't forget it… anyways, My first titans story is halfway done! WOOT! Let me know, am I good at these guys… am I not? Let me know! I would LOVE to hear your opinions.
