Hi everyone, in addition to my story on Robin, I decided to write a story on Beast Boy. I hope you enjoy it! Thank you to my reviewers and followers on my other stories and Shadowjack12345 and mad dog-13 for giving me tips and inspiring this story. For everyone who has read my other stories Robin's new powers and Gohan's First Day, this story will be more serious and will move a bit more slowly, hopefully more like an actual novel.
Prologue: Losing then Gaining
Through all of his short life, Beast Boy had been too weak to make a difference, too weak to protect his friends and family. Even after he gained his powers from the Sakutia virus, Beast Boy was still too weak to save his parents.
8 years ago
A little boy with fair skin and blonde hair ran through the African jungle, chasing after a green monkey. Screeching and howling, the monkey was running for its life as the boy chased after it. The monkey quickly scampered up a tree with the little boy following. Although the little boy only wanted to play with the monkey, the monkey thought he was a predator.
As the monkey hid in the top branches of the tall tree, the little boy drew closer and closer.
"Mr. Monkey! Where are you?" cried the little boy as he climbed the tree. Slipping while climbing, the boy accumulated many bruises, scrapes, and cuts as he went up the tree. As he approached the monkey's hiding spot, the monkey reacted purely out of instinct. Trying to protect its own life, the monkey bit down hard on the little boy's arm. The boy screamed and fell 20 feet from out of the tree.
The scream was heard for miles through the quiet jungle. As frightened birds flew out of the jungle in huge flocks, Marie and Mark Logan, two wildlife biologists looked worriedly at the tree line from their small hut. Knowing that they were the only ones for miles around, they frantically packed some medical supplies and ran out into the jungle.
Meanwhile, the little boy, better known as Garfield Logan, the 7-year-old son of Marie and Mark Logan, laid still on the ground after he fell from the tree. He was dehydrated and was losing massive amounts of blood from his injuries. After 3 hours of searching, Marie and Mark finally stumbled upon their lost child.
"Garfield! We were so worried! Are you okay?" asked Marie. When Garfield did not answer, the Logans began to realize the seriousness of their predicament. Without wasting any time, they rushed Garfield back home for medical treatment. Even though Garfield had lost a lot of blood, he did seemed as if he would make it. It was nothing that a blood transfusion, few bandages, and a few antibiotics.
However, it was on the 2nd week into Garfield's recovery that changed his life forever. Garfield physically felt fine that morning and was about to join his family for breakfast when he suddenly collapsed. Worried, Garfield's parents put him into the makeshift hospital bed. They noticed that he had a high fever and that his skin began to turn a pale green. Frantically, Mark Logan attempted to find a cure while Marie took care of Garfield. Garfield's prognosis was devastatingly short. Without a cure, he would only live for about 3 days. On the 3rd and final day, Mark finally stumbled on a potential untested cure made of a serum from the green monkey that bit Garfield.
With no time to test it, Mark quickly injected the serum into Garfield's arm. Almost immediately, Garfield's symptoms were alleviated. However the cure came at a high cost. As Garfield's DNA was overwritten by the monkey's, his skin eventually turned completely green, his fingernails turned into claws, and his teeth turned into fangs. Loathing his new appearance in bouts of self-denial, Garfield would refuse to talk to anyone or even eat and sleep.
After about 3 weeks, Garfield was still sulking in a session of self-pity when a large snake came out of the jungle, ready to attack his parents. Without thinking, Garfield leaped up and turned into a mongoose while devouring the snake. His parents came out of the house to see a green mongoose eating the remains of a dead snake. The Logans were surprised to see a green mongoose, but were even more surprised to see the mongoose turn back into Garfield.
1 year later
The Logans were going to take a boat a few miles down a river to meet up with another family of biologists. However, they didn't realize that they had started boating down the wrong river until they saw a huge waterfall.
"Garfield!" Marie shouted over the roar of the falling water. "I need you to turn into a bird and fly to shore so that you can get help for Mommy and Daddy okay?" Realizing the urgency of the situation, the 7 and a half year old Garfield wordlessly obeyed. After flying for a few hours, he realized that no one was around for miles and that no help would come. Giving up, Garfield returned to the waterfall only to find that his parents had fallen over the edge! Garfield turned into a seal and dove into the water to find if either of his parents had survived. Instead, he found only a large mass of blood, guts, and gore. Sickened, Garfield threw up and vowed never to eat meat again.
Garfield returned to his family's campsite and gathered whatever supplies he could muster and set out.
2 years later
After wandering for several years in the wilderness, Garfield finally passed out from hunger and thirst, a small tribe had taken him in. Most of the tribe had avoided him because of his green appearance. However, the village elder showed him pity and took him in. There, Garfield learned combat wisdom and herbal medicine. However, when the elder suddenly died, the village blamed the green-skinned boy for spreading disease and chased him out the village with sharpened spears.
3 years later
A 13-year-old Garfield had sneaked into a Doom Patrol hideout in Africa. Having heard legends of their heroism, Garfield decided that he wanted to join them and use his powers to protect the innocent. Easily bypassing all the security in the hideout, Garfield waited for the heroes to return. When the heroes found Garfield, he was calmly waiting for them at the kitchen table. Taken aback by the young teen's brashness, they immediately attacked him. After putting up a good fight, Garfield lost and was nearly thrown out the hideout. However, Elast-girl begged Mento to pity the young boy.
However, within a year, Beast Boy quickly grew bored and weary of the Doom Patrol's military-like structure. He hated Mento's constant berating and emphasis on all work, no play. One day, Beast Boy packed his few belongings, left a note, and escaped from a Doom Patrol base in the U.S.
A few days later
A 14-year-old Garfield took up a few acting stints and barely managed to scrape by. He was adopted by an uncle, Nicholas Galtry, for a few months, but quickly ran away from his torturing, cruel uncle. Soon after Garfield's flight from home, Galtry died of a heart attack, and Beast Boy was once again left homeless. After ending up in Jump City, Beast Boy became a founding member of the Teen Titans with Raven, Starfire, Robin, and Cyborg after rescuing Starfire from the Gordanians.
4 years later, Present Time
An 18-year-old Beast Boy was bored, sitting in Titans Tower. Due to the recent influx of missions that did not require his expertise, the green teen had been put on the reserve list. With nothing to do, Beast Boy decided to go to the Jump City museum of natural history. At the museum, he immediately searched out the section of human fossils. While he acted stupid and unintelligent around the other Titans, Beast Boy was actually quite intelligent. His parents both had PhD's and he had picked up his formal schooling in secret. He simply wore a mask to hide his true pain, the pain of not being able to help his parents and friends when they most needed him.
Beast Boy used his Titans privileges to get into a lab to watch an experiment on gene splicing. That day, they were supposed to splice some DNA from a human into a frog to see if the frog would develop human attributes. However, the frog had disappeared, and Beast Boy was checking out the receptacle for the frog when the scientists turned on the splicing machine. A bolt of DNA lightning hit Beast Boy straight in the chest. Beast Boy instantly collapsed into a coma and was taken to the hospital.
Worried, all the Titans came to visit their beloved green friend. However, their friend was soon green no longer. In about 2 weeks, Beast Boy's skin went from a forest green to a sun-tanned color. His eyes turned from a deep green to onyx black. And finally, his hair, which used to be gelled, became pitch black and naturally spiky.
After those two weeks, Beast Boy made an astounding recovery. After only two weeks, he had not only woken up from a coma, but had also regained his ability to walk and even run the next day. As a consequence of his quick recovery, his appetite increased to astounding. After only three weeks, Beast Boy was fully rehabilitated with no sign that he had ever been in a coma.
Eagerly, Beast Boy returned to Titans Tower to rejoin the active list. On the first indication of a mission, Beast Boy eagerly suited up in his Doom Patrol uniform and set out with his friends to handle Cinderblock. Shouting insults and leading the charge, Robin leapt forward with a flying sidekick to Cinderblock's face. The other Titans followed, each hitting the concrete monster with all that they could. All but one Titan managed to contribute to the fight. That one Titan was Beast Boy. Since losing the green pigmentation in his skin, Beast Boy found that he no longer had the ability to change into different animals! Out of pure frustration at losing his powers and for being cooped up for so long, Beast Boy singularly charged Cinderblock and delivered a devastating punch to the face.
The other Titans watched in awe and the hit forced Cinderblock away a few hundred feet. Realizing his new-found strength, Beast Boy picked up a car and used it as he would a giant club. He brutally smashed Cinderblock with the car until the villain finally collapsed with exhaustion. Too stunned to say anything, the other Titans simply stood there with their mouths hanging open.
"Well, I guess that's a job well done." said Beast Boy trying to break the silence. Wordlessly, Raven, Starfire, Robin, and Cyborg ushered Beast Boy back to Titans Tower for tests. After several hours of broken needles and tests later, Robin and Cyborg determined the cause of Beast Boy's new-found strength: his DNA. Beast Boy had acquired some sort of alien DNA, which had overridden his weaker animal DNA. As a consequence, Beast Boy had gained a set of completely unknown powers with super strength invulnerability rivaling a Kryptonian's being some of them. Initially, they suspected that Beast Boy had somehow gained Kryptonian DNA, they tested Beast Boy for Kryptonite sensitivity, but Beast Boy didn't react to Kryptonite, and in fact, seemed to get stronger around any form of Kryptonite.
Finally exhausting the Tower's resources, the Teen Titans gave up. Now that Beast Boy had become the strongest toughest member of the Titans, he was reinstated on the active roster as possibly one of the most valuable Titans.
Well, that was probably the longest chapter I've ever written. For those of you who haven't figured it out by now, Beast Boy has become a saiyan (the DBZ type). He won't immediately go super saiyan, but will slowly discover all his new powers. I'd love to see your feedback on this story, so please review. I take every review seriously and usually reply via Private Message. If you have any requests for this story, please let me know via Private Message.
Until next time,
Johnsmythe58
