AN: The Bean Titans Adventures continues! We go into another time phase—the next two years after Part 4.
As I look through my files, I find that this next section mainly revolves around a few of the dogs in the Bean Titans (mainly in Spunky's family). So I figured that I should create a story about them.
One more thing, I apologize for the dog puns that may possibly be seen in the text.
(The same text concepts still apply.)
Enjoy!
~BTA Part 5: Who Let the Dogs Out?~
Chapter 1 — The Return
After a few days passed (after returning home from the Amazon Base), the Bean Titans started to gauge their responibilities again. Of course, they were on the watch for their enemies; however, they still had to help Titans X with building the Moon Base. Because of this, the Bean Titans would have to send a set amount of members up to build and keep another set amount to watch out for trouble; it is around a 70-30 deal. So far, the Moon Base is already halfway finished.
And as always, Dotty would be the busiest Bean Titan, as she has to manage four times as many things as Sweet has to. Her biggest job would start once the Moon Base is fully constructed; she would have to set up the same connection system with the Moon Base and create one network under the Titans Database. It is too much for one Titan to handle, so she took the time to show Nibbler and Congo the works, seeing as they were able to work with the super-computer during the Tower tour.
One day, Sweet sought out Dotty after hearing about her plans about the Database. She was still teaching Nibbler and Congo about the job.
"Dotty," Sweet said, "how long should it take for you to get everything up to the Moon Base?"
"By myself, I'd say about a month..." she replied, having finished with establishing a meeting point of all of the bases' data within Earth's outer orbit.
"Why are my son and Nibbler here with you?"
"They're gonna help me."
"Oh, okay. The both of them are pretty bright." Sweet said.
"I wanna go too!" spoke a light ambitious voice. Bonnie (age 8), Dotty's only daughter, appeared from around the corner. She had followed Sweet, but eavesdropped on the conversation.
"Talk about adventurous..." Congo murmured.
"Why, sweetheart?" Dotty asked.
"Dotty." Sweet said. "I know you may not have thought about this, but Bonnie may have your smart genes. Remember back when Megan first trained? Bonnie put in Megan's statistics after she beat Rocket. I didn't know how, but she did it."
Dotty saw his point. "...Okay. I've already set up the teleporter to take myself to the Moon Base and the three of you to three other bases. If you guys can send all of the bases' data to the meeting point, I can patch it through with the Moon Base and everything will be set up from there. Understand?"
"Yes, ma'am!" replied her three "disciples". All four of them stepped into the teleporter and warped out of the Home Base.
"Dotty!" Spunky called from down the hall.
Sweet heard him and walked towards his voice. "She left already. What's up?" Sweet asked.
"I think she needed to stay for a couple of more moments..."
"Why do you say that?"
"Deputy is back." Spunky told him.
Sweet blinked. "...I think I've heard the name before... jog my memory."
"He's my first son, before Tracker."
"Oh, I remember him now. He's half-brown and half-tan, right?"
"Yeah, that's him. He wants to be back with us." Spunky said.
"Why would I say no?" Sweet asked.
"Cool, I'll just wait until Dots comes back."
Spunky left.
"Your family is somethin' else..." Sweet thought.
A dog whose fur was a light shade of tan and a dark shade of brown had been introduced into the Bean Titans, courtesy of his own father. Deputy (or "Dep" for short, age 19) met with his first friends in the Danger Room, after Sweet gave him the okay to enlist. Max and Marvin from Titans X were also there.
"Whoa... that looks intense." Dep thought, seeing the Titans move all around the Danger Chamber.
Max and Marvin heard Dep's inner voice, and immediately zoomed to the center of the Chamber. "Stop!" they both said, telling their training partners (Sly, Durango, Thunderbolt, Mina, Tina and Fortress) to stop training for a moment.
"What?" Thunderbolt asked.
"We have a guest." Max told him, pointing at the control center—at Dep.
"Uh oh." Dep uttered.
"Relax, he's a newbie." Mina told the group.
"Hey! Come join us!" Durango shouted.
Tina slapped Durango on the back of his head. "How about we talk to him first?" she asked.
Dep heard them, noticing that the mic was on. He found the lift on the east side of the control center and went down to enter the Chamber. He entered reluctantly.
"It's okay, man. We just want to meet you." Marvin said to him.
Dep calmed down. "All right. I'm Dep."
Sly walked to him and introduced everyone.
Durango got up, after being hit by his sister. "Fortress, you haven't said a word since he walked in here." he stated.
"That's because I'm calm about it."
"How can you be so calm?"
"It's because I can sync myself with my own element." she replied.
"What do you mean?" Thunderbolt asked.
"It's hard to explain to others," Fortress began, "especially to those that don't have an idea about an element besides light and darkness. I can tell you that there are certain Bean Titans here with both spiritual and elemental energy. Take me for example: I possess our shared light element skills, but I also can move and generate water."
Durango scratched his head. "I still don't get it." he said.
"I'm trying to say that six of us here, excluding Max, Marvin and Sly, are those certain Bean Titans."
"I know what she's talking about." Dep said, before exhibiting his geokinesis (earth skills).
"Not bad." Max said, sensing his power level; it was on Legendary.
"She's not kidding. Max, let's see if the horses have elemental strengths." Marvin suggested.
"Okay. We were gonna teach them something new, anyways."
As they observed, the four horses rediscovered and strengthened their elemental energies. As a note of reference: Durango had fire, Mina had air, Tina found ice, and Thunderbolt found thunder.
"They have good energy control. I think we should teach them the new technique, Marvin." Max said.
"Yes, we should."
"Teach us what?" Durango asked.
"This." Max replied. Then, both he and Marvin faced each other, with their right hands extended (palms up) beside them. They each created a light blue ball of spiraling energy and collided them against each other, causing a sudden force wave to propel the both of them away from each other.
"Whoa." Mina uttered.
"It's called Rasengan." Marvin told the group.
"You channel your own energy into a spinning ball and hold it in your hand. It takes a bit of concentration though." Max explained.
"Like this?" Fortress asked, wielding her Tearing Torrent in her left hand.
Max blinked, startled at the water spiral in her hand. "Actually, yeah. I guess you're our assistant teacher, then."
Fortress stopped spinning her water. "What? No—I wasn't showing off!"
"What he means is that you can teach the horses and Dep the elemental versions of the Rasengan while Max and I teach Sly the normal one." Marvin clarified.
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After several moments, Max and Marvin left the Tower after doing what they needed to do. Sly left the Danger Room also, after learning the Rasengan.
"Wait, guys. There's one other thing." Fortress said.
"Now you wanna be the teacher?" Durango skeptically asked.
"Apparently. I just remembered a powerful move that may be of use to the six of us. It's called a Burst."
"A Burst?" Tina questioned.
"Yes. It's similar to another technique that I've heard of... the Wind Scar. A Burst is a less destructive, but great cannon of elemental energy."
"Hmm... sounds good to me. So, how do we do it?" Mina said.
"Just think about the way we use Psionic Beams... and increase the power tenfold."
Fortress watched her fellow Titans attempt to use the powerful move, but saw that Dep was not making any progress. Before she had a chance to go over and help him out, Tracker's gruff voice was heard on the mic.
"Yo, I need to train. Get out." Tracker told them offensively, with little emotion.
Dep looked up to see the hound at the control center. Dep was away from the Titans for so long, that he forgot who his siblings were; Tracker was one of his brothers, but he did not recognize him. "He sounds intense..." he uttered.
"Damn straight." Tracker replied.
"You don't have to fight with him, hopefully. That's Tracker... he's been like that for a while now. And I don't know why..." Fortress explained.
Dep sighed. "You don't need to know. I learned that getting in people's business only leads to trouble, one way or another." he replied.
"That's a good lesson to have in mind... especially with that grump." Fortress giggled.
"WHAT WAS THAT?" Tracker exclaimed.
"Nothing!" Dep and Fortress responded, immediately exiting the chamber.
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Overview: A long-lost son returns.
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