And here is another story starring the transformers and young justice. In this story the Autobot Danny Fenton/ Orion Pax is introduced as Red Tornado's apprentice. Orion's story is the same as in some of my previous stories (He is sent through time to earth by Optimus the first after the fall of the 13) but with The Ark, Omnibots and Dinobots as well as a load of relics and his transector (created along with his new biology during his travel through time) but he had no idea about his past, or his fate as Optimus Prime the second. The only relic of his past is a key (based on transformers Prime's key to vector sigma) that will unlock his destiny. Orion is based upon his transformers Prime concept art also seen in the covenant of primus (which will be seen in the plot after series 1 of young justice (the only series covered btw as the transformers part follows it). Prior to his primehood his mask is based on Wheeljack's Prime mask but only one level (I.E it is curved instead of angular.) while as Optimus he will use a more classic mask.
Also as well as Orion and miss Martian Batman will introduce Kid Flash, Robin, Agualad and Superboy are introduced to Kara Kent, aka Supergirl (16 years old) who heard about Superboy from Bat-Girl, who heard about him from Robin. This gives you the love interest fro young Danny Fenton.
Finally a quick note, because I can't remember them I will not use the identification codes for the zeta tubes. I will use the names.
Chapter 1 3 new team mates
"The 7 of you will operate from here and run covert operations for us." Batman said. Next to him was Black Canary and Red Tornado. In front of them was Robin, Agualad, Kid Flash and Superboy. The former 3 had recently investigated project Cadmus where they discovered Superboy, a clone of justice leaguer Superman. After they had escaped/destroyed the facility and were confronted by the full league the 3 former sidekicks and their new ally had basically told the league that they were going to keep working together like this. Because of this they had no choice but to set up a formal junior team.
"Seven?" Robin asked. There were only four of them.
Batman nodded behind them. The quartet turned to see a redheaded green skinned girl next to the Martian Manhunter. "This is the Martian Manhunter's niece, Miss Martian." He then looked over at Robin. "As for the 6th member when you told Bat-Girl about the Cadmus incident she told Supergirl about her cousin's clone and she decided to join your team." The blond haired kryptonian walked out of the Zeta tube wearing a blue belly shirt with long sleeves and the S symbol, a red skirt and blue leggings along with a knee length red cape and blue high heels.
"The last member is actually my new protégé." Red Tornado said.
"You have a protégé?" Black Canary asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I found him in an abandoned building 6 months ago; he'd been homeless for years. Somehow he is a fusion of biology and living technology yet he doesn't recall being experimented on." Red Tornado explained as a figure ran in. He had black hair and blue eyes and appeared to be in red and blue armour. There were what looked like wheels in his ankles and shoulders. "This is my protégé Orion Pax."
Shortly afterwards Kid Flash, Robin and Agualad departed back to their homes.
"Don't you guys have to go home to?" Orion asked.
"After joining the team and gradating high school a few weeks ago (high school, or secondary school as it is here ends at 16, I don't know if that's true in Kansas but we'll say that Kara has finished.) My guardians let me live here." Supergirl said.
"I was grown in a test tube 16 weeks ago. I don't have a home." Superboy grunted.
"I Only just arrived on earth, I don't have anywhere else to go." Miss Martian said.
"Okay. Do you have any other names to call you?" Orion asked.
"I go by Kara. Either Kara Zor-El or Kara Kent." Supergirl- Kara said.
"I don't have another name." Superboy said.
"I'm M'gann but I like to go by Megan." Miss Martian- Megan said.
"Fine, Megan, Kara and Superboy my name is Danny Fenton." Orion- Danny said.
The next day Wally, Dick and Kaldur, or Robin, Kid Flash and Agualad showed up and the team, minus Danny, who needed to run diagnostics based upon some peculiar feeling he had been experiencing.
"Red Tornado, Orion come in." Miss Martian said over the radio.
"We're here Megan. What's up?" Danny said.
"We need backup. We have been attacked for an android called Mr. Twister. He has the same powers as Red Tornado." Megan said.
"Got it. I'm on my way, send me your co-ordinates." Orion said. Moments later he had set the zeta tube to the location.
When Orion flew out of the zeta portal he saw the team on the ground. His helmet was layered but vaguely rounded with slight 'ear' ridges. On his forehead was an irregular hexagon looking much like a kite shape with a series of horizontal lines. The helmet was the same pale blue as his legs while the crest was dark grey. Over his mouth was alight grey curved battle mask. Over his eyes was a bright blue visor which merged with the mask to form a full face mask.
Landing the boy watched as Megan and Wally initiated their plan, imitate Tornado while he was here as plan b. It worked but he saw a group of 9 human kids off to the side, 6 boys and 3 girls. The team hadn't noticed but the building behind them was set to collapse. He started running towards them, knowing he could use his oversheild to protect them.
'I'm not goanna make it!' the young hero thought when he felt that strange feeling again, like he was coming apart, but stronger. And indeed he did seem to come apart, before the horrified eyes of the team, and the shocked eyes of Mr. Twister and Red Tornado who had noticed the teen's action too late, but then he reformed as a small wheeled vehicle, much like a large model van. He charged at the 9 kids before activating the same mental trigger to reform into his bipedal form while he activated his oversheild and extended it around the group. The building collapsed upon them.
"NO!" Kara screamed as the teens ran at the rubble. Tornado showed up and dispatched Twister while Superboy, Miss Martian and Supergirl was desperately trying to unearth their comrade when a dome of energy that seemed to have a hexagonal pattern burst out of the rubble and continued growing, pushing the hero's and rubble away and revealing Danny and the nine teens., once there was plenty of space the sphere shrunk back down to just surrounding Orion before flickering out of existence.
He retracted his helmet only for Kara to envelop him in a crushing hug. "What did you do?" Robin asked, well yelled.
"When I was running I felt that weird feeling that's been bugging me all morning. But stronger. Before I knew it I had collapsed into that truck mode, I think with training I would be able to shift between modes at will. When the building collapsed I used the oversheild, a 360 forcefeild I discovered years ago, to shield us from the debris then clear it away when it was over." Orion explained.
"That was awesome!" the young green dressed blond boy exclaimed. Turning to look at the nine teens they saw that the boy in the blue hoodie looked a lot like the green dressed boy so they were probably brothers. There was also a girl dressed in a log skirt, grey sleeveless shirt and red a grey vest. Then there was a blond boy with cargo pants a white t shirt and an unbuttoned blue shirt. A black boy in a yellow jacket, orange cargo pants and a black t-shirt, a brunette girl in a red shirt and white pants, a black haired 16 year old in a grey shirt and jeans, a 15 year old punk looking Asian girl and a geeky looking boy in an orange sweater vest. Their clothes were slightly ragged and dirty.
"I'm Jack Darby." The boy in the grey shirt.
"Miko Nakadi." The punk girl said.
"Raf Esquivel." The geeky boy said.
"Rad White." The boy in the blue shirt said.
"Carlos Lopez." The black boy said.
"Alexis Thi Dang." The girl in the red shirt said.
"Coby Hansen." The boy in the blue hoodie.
"Bud Hansen." The boy in green said.
"Lori Edmondson (Lori was never surnamed so I used the classic tradition of simply using the voice actor's surname)" the third girl said.
"Okay but why are you here?"Orion asked.
"We are lost drifters, orphans whose families were wiped out in a terrorist attack in Gotham city." Jack said.
"We had each gone there for various school trips and were to meet our parents, or in Miko's case both regular and host parents, at the airport for a vacation when a bomb went off, over time we, having split into 3 trios based on hometowns, found each other and joined together. We saw you guys and decided to watch, we didn't notice the building. Sorry." Alexis added. Most of the team were simply sad, Robin looked thoughtful.
"What?" Orion asked the young teen.
"Why don't you guys come with us? You can live at HQ and help coordinate the team."
"Co-ordinate?" Wally asked.
"I don't know about you guys but I never planned on the team size being restricted to us. I envisioned us bringing in more and more young heroes, sort of like a pre justice league academy. Any way as well as helping this we could train you guys and maybe you could become members of this movement."
"Absolutely not!" Batman said as he looked at the young team and the 9 kids who looked around in awe. Flash, Aquaman, Black Canary and Red Tornado were also there.
"Come on. It would be great, we would be creating a whole new set of heroes for the future." Robin said.
"They're normal kids!" Batman yelled.
"He has a point." Aquaman said. "They are simply normal children."
"And several years ago was I not simply a normal kid who had lost his family?" Robin pointed out.
"That is true." Tornado said.
"He's got you there Batsy." Black Canary said.
"Look I think this argument is pointless. This team proved that there is basically 2 choices here, help us train these kids and give them the best teachers out there, or we train them ourselves. Basically your choice is do you want these kids to have the best training and the best chance of survival or have training from a group still in training, making it more likely that they will wind up on the field before they are truly ready because we can't train them any better." Orion said with a smirk.
"Well when you put it that way..." Flash said.
"... Welcome aboard." Batman sighed.
And that's that, Orion has just gained the ability to transform. Also I have a suggestion for authors far greater than myself.
Imagine that you are the WB team behind shows like Arrow and the Flash. You have been told that DC has purchased one of the following 4 IPs.
- Generator Rex.
- Ben 10
- Danny Phantom
- Transformers.
You and your team have been chosen by them to produce a new show in the style of Arrow and the Flash. The advised conditions are as follows.
-produce at least one series of 22-25 episodes.
- The episodes are about 45 minutes but can be split into multiple chapters.
- prior to the first episode you will have a chapter displaying the main cast while the guest cast will be shown at the start of episode.
- Make sure to use the basic origin story (Ben 10: 10 year old finds alien watch on road trip with grandpa and cousin- generator Rex: amnesiac 15 year old has to work for agency to cure monsters caused by nanobots dispersed 5 years previously that also give him his power- Danny Phantom: 14 year old gets into lab accident and becomes half ghost- Transformers: group of heroic robots wind up on earth after their planet became uninhabitable due to civil war.)
- Start with the origin of the main story (Ben 10: finding the watch- Gen Rex: joining providence- DP: The accident- Transformers: arriving on earth or leaving cybertron.)
- Ensure that it is around the T/M bracket with it being nitty-gritty and more realistic- violence wise- than their cartoon predecessors. (For DP, Gen Rex and TF it could also include references to sex, Ben 10 stars 10 year olds so yeah.)
I also have some individual suggestions for the individual IPs
Transformers
-obviously have Optimus and Megatron but also include Bumblebee, Ratchet, starscream and soundwave.
- have teenage human companions as always but make sure that they are a quite savvy, perhaps made of outcasts and rebels.
-include a romance between 2 of the human characters because it is easier than attempting to make one between the Autobots.
- use real world vehicles and name them when the transformers first use them.
-ultimately give Optimus a super mode. This should be late into the series, perhaps even the series 1 finale, have little hints building up but make it a late addition so that it is something special instead if something that appears early and becomes so commonly used that Optimus needn't have a separate robot mode.
-Have both sides have static bases that are their crashed ships. This allows for the potential of flying bases later in but not immediately.
- ensure to feature the bot/human friendship.
- Define the bot/government relationship in episode 1.
-Make sure the bot's have a fair number of decisive victories. Up until beast hunters if you think carefully of the Autobot victories in TF Prime you will be depressed to realise that the villains got a win that neutralises the heroes win or there were losses that made it too bittersweet. I understand that it is unrealistic to make it that heroes always win but Prime was too far in the other direction.
- If you start on earth then show the events that lead up to the exodus in flashbacks
Ben 10
- It does have to start with Ben as a 10 year old. If you want to later take it to where he is 15 (whether or not you use alien force or a whole new teenage Ben story is up to you.) Then do that in a sequel after the initial series or even take an example from young justice which took a 5 year time gap between series 1 and 2.
- have Vilgax as a grand manipulator like in the show and then end the series with the battle between them.
Generator Rex
-skip the Rex/doctor holiday onesidedness. It was awkward and stupid; instead focus on one of Rex's other love interests, perhaps even Beverly.
- Have van kleiss be more of a shadowy background villain that won't show himself for quite some time.
- give Rex the omega in the series finale; it gives a new set of Powers if you decide to go onto a 2nd series.
Danny Phantom.
- Have moments that show Danny as a troubled character- he is half dead after all.
-Again make Vlad more of a shadowy manipulator type but defiantly bring him out before the season finale.
- End the first series with reign storm, or as I call it the pariah complex.
- If you continue past that and feature Danielle then make her a more prominent character and establish a father/daughter relationship between her and Danny.
That's pretty much it. This is for the authors who will write their stories from hours on end and may take weeks if not months to make a single chapter who might have just finished a project and is looking for a new one. I have left pairing up to you guys. See you next time for more of my story and if any of these serious authors actually read this story then please consider my proposal, this site has some real artists on it, particularly the TF and DP fandom's and I would like to see someone try this, I know that an author at least began a similar project for spidey. Either way see you guys around.