A Beast Boy - Garfield Mark Logan - story
It's not easy being green
(First AN: YOU MUST BE PREPARED TOP FORGIVE ME WHEN YOU READ THE WHOLE STORY AND YOU MUST READ EVERY CHAPTER 'BECAUSE THE EPILOUGE SOLVES EVERYTHING, IT WILL NOT BE AS BAD AS IT SOUNDS)
I kinda made the storyline up in a day… don't be too hard on me – I'm a beginner… XD
Review please!!
(I do not owe the titans but I owe somebody! ha!
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(thinking)
Chapter 1: This can't be fair…
It was very quiet. Not in the sense of tranquility though. It was creepy kind of quiet... She didn't like it. She didn't like it at all... As the young woman walked through the corridor, chills going down her back, her friend, the janitor, greeted her: "Hello Lilly."
"Hi Marv." she answered… "Am I gonna see anything interesting today?"
"Hmm… Depends on how you look at it..."
"What do you mean?" she was worried now.
"Well… You're not going to like it."
"Oh."
She decided not to ask any more questions… What was so bad that she's not going to like?
Lilly worked in a laboratory. Not a normal laboratory. This one was different. It was government property and in there the employees worked on national secrets experiments and things like that (something like area 51)… Like for example aliens (yes, there were aliens) and freakish wonders of Earth that nobody was supposed to find out about… In other words - she worked in a lab where new and weird creatures were explored (dissected and in a few cases tortured).
Most of the time she worked on unseen plants, rarely on animals and almost never aliens or humans…
What Marv said to her freaked her out. She even considered about going back home in her warm bed - the total opposite of the hall and the lab. But she couldn't. She was an adult now and had to face these kinds of things in life, no matter how horrible they could be.
She proceeded to the lab in a normal pace…
Half way to the lab Lilly saw a man waiting for her, already in a white, hospital coat while she was in normal clothes.
"Oh. Hey Pete."
Pete or Peter was her college and something close to a friend… She knew him for two years now, but has only seen him at work.
"Hi Lilly." He said in a very formal voice for his age which was exactly the same as Lilly's. They were both young and, so to speak, full of life.
"Marv said that there's something that I'm not gonna like… What did he mean?"
"Oh; that." There was a short pause… "Well, you're not going to like it. I'm sorry. I can't explain it right now, so you'll have to wait until you see for yourself." He slowly spoke, carefully picking the proper words (which didn't really help).
"Oh. Could you at least tell me something about it?" she really hoped that it was… well… that it was an "it".
"Well the guy we bought it from was pretty stupid. We almost tricked him and got it for free, but he was not that stupid…
"Phiew! Thank God that it's an it!"Lilly thought."But why should I worry then? Why was Marv so concerned? This still doesn't feel right…"
She couldn't handle something that could think like a human being (AN: yeah, I know, it's really weird… Sorry. That's my point of view about being a vegetarian so I used that… couldn't think of anything else reasonable that would fit with the storyline), so because of that matter she was relieved that it was an it… She was still concerned. Why would an "it" be so weird? What was she supposed to worry about?
They continued in silence. Only the sounds of footsteps could be heard through the empty, cold hall. They got to the lab quickly, and in front of it Lilly put on her white hospital coat.
"Shall we then?" Pete asked almost joking.
"Yeah. If we really have to."
They entered a big, dark room. There were small tables with instruments (hospital instruments like scalpels and stuff of course) and tiny bottles filled with colorful liquids. It reminded of a Biology and Chemistry class…
In the middle of the room there was a bigger table and above it was the only source of bright light that illuminated only the center of the room and what was on the table.
On the table was the worst and the scariest sight that Lilly could imagine.
There was a child, no, a teenager, not older than thirteen, lying bonded with pieces of metal on wrists, ankles and neck there half naked only in underwear. The teenager's body was well built with some muscles, but it was awfully thin.
"What?No! This isn't right! Pete said that it was an it! No, no, no, no!"she thought angrily.
The most upsetting part was probably the reason why the poor boy was in the lab. His skin was green. A light emerald green.
She couldn't see the boy's face. As she walked with wide eyes and got closer, she saw a dark blindfold over his eyes, also covering his ears, and a dark piece of cloth covering his mouth. He must've figured out that if he screamed as loud as he could nobody could hear him because he wasn't making a sound. At least not with his voice. He was breathing very loudly and fast.
Lilly turned to Pete. "Can he hear us?" she whispered carefully.
"No."
"W-who's there? What's happening!? I can hear just fine! Who's there? Aaaaargh!! Why can't I morph!! Where am I!?"
"Are you sure?" She asked again because the boy's head was practically turned towards her.
"Yes, I'm sure."
"YOU SAD THAT IT WAS AN "IT"!"she yelled suddenly. "THIS IS DEFINETLY NOT AN IT! THIS IS A HE!!"
"W-what? What is she talking about? What's happening!?"
"I'm sorry, OK? I was worried about you. I'm sorry." He replied as quickly as he could in fear.
"Fine!"
She looked at the boy once more, this time looking more carefully.
He was shivering. Very badly. Lilly wasn't surprised. Even in her clothes and the coat she felt freezing cold. For the first time she noticed the most horrible thing. The teenager was full of massive, dark bruises and cuts. Dark red liquid was around the gashes and on some other places.
Lilly, once again looked at Pete, this time more intense and once again yelled: "DID OUR PEOPLE DO THIS TO HIM!!"
Silence again…
"ANSWER ME!!"
"Y-yes. Well, most of it… I'm really sorry but it wasn't my fault. They said that it was… That is was difficult to catch him… I'm so sorry Lilly. I wish that it could have been different."
"Difficult!? How could it be difficult to catch a teenager!!"
"Wait! Stop yelling at me! I said it wasn't my fault! Now if you would just listen to me, I would explain everything. Can you do that?"
Another silence.
"Ok. They said that he has some abilities… Very unusual abilities… He can transform into animals." Lilly widened her eyes, but kept silent. "Yes, I know it seams impossible, but they said that it happened. I saw some tapes and it's true. The boy can actually turn into an animal in a second! Any animal… We gave him a serum to disable that ability."
"Huh? That's why I can't morph? What? But how? No! That can't be true! This can't be happening!"
"He has some kind of unstable DNA and it's up to us to find out everything about it." As he finished, Lilly was breathing loudly and slowly to calm down.
"Ok. Lets just get this over with." She said.
"Get over with what!? What are they gonna do with me!? What the hell is happening!!"
"Ok."
She walked closer to the big table and looked at the shape-shifters body with pity. She slowly reached out her hand towards him and touched a big bruise on the left side of his chest with the tip of her fingers. He winced and tried to move out of her reach. His breathing suddenly became louder and faster.
"WAH! Who's that? Leave me alone! That really hurts! OUCH! Dude!! Grrr! AAAH! Make it STOP!! PLEASE!"
Lilly felt the warmth of the teenager's body under her fingers through the latex glove. She moved her hand of his chest and he calmed down a bit.
"How could my touch cause him so much pain? He winced so hard. He can't be in that much pain…"
"Are these necessary?" She asked Pete and pointed at the shape-shifter's face.
Lilly wanted to be sure that they were doing the right thing. That the boy was some kind of a threat to society (these things usually were). Surely the expression of his face would show her… She just had to be sure.
"No, but do you think you can handle it? I'd have to make him be quiet."
"What? No! I'll shout as loud as I can! Somebody should hear me… That has to work!"
"I won't look when you do that. I'm sure."
"Ok."
Pete walked closer to the green boy and Lilly looked away. She heard a quiet weird sound and she knew that he removed the blindfold. She tried to imagine the boy's face and was now scared of what she would see. Then she heard another sound, a squeak (she made a painful grimace) and Pete saying: "If you make even the smallest sound, I'll press my hand so hard that it will not only disable you to talk, but it will break your neck instantly!"
She didn't hear anything else, which meant that the shape-shifter understood what Pete said, which also meant that he had human intelligence.
Lilly turned back to the boy and her fears came true. The teenager had a kind face. It was now full with terror. His wide-open eyes, the exact same dark emerald green as his hair, were staring at her. She also spotted some more abnormalities about the boy. He had pointed ears and sharp fangs, but he didn't look dangerous. Not dangerous at all. The only thing that corrupted his mild face was the bruise on his left eye.
Lilly's eyes filled with tears at the sight, but she managed to blink them back.
"Ok…" Started Pete "The first thing we should do is" he took a big needle and handed it to Lilly "take a blood sample."
She just nodded and looked into the boy's eyes. Once again she resisted the need to cry.
"W-what are you doing? What do you want from me!?" the boy yelled. The panic in his voice could be easily recognized. He started to struggle and tried to get free from the bonds, but Pete quickly grabbed his neck. He could feel the boy gulp and trying to relax his muscles. Pete let his thin throat go and the shape-shifter remained silent.
His voice was also kind and soft. It sounded innocent. Kinda rusty though. Probably because of the cold air and mutating…
"We could just put him on sedatives and…" Started Pete but Lilly interrupted him coldly "No. We wouldn't get the same results."
"Yeah, you're probably right." He said nodding and grabbed the boy's left hand.
He winced again.
Lilly sighed and proceeded with work and stuck the clod needle into the emerald skin.
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When they were finished with taking all the samples and they did some tests (reflexes and reactions to chemicals…).
They just left the shape-shifter there, on the cold metal table only that he could cry himself to sleep. Well, he didn't actually cry, but he was on the edge.
The boy kept still and silent throughout the whole procedure except for some short whiles when he was in too much pain that made him scream. Those actions only resulted with Pete grabbing his neck. He was told that he was still being watched and that if he made a sound Pete would keep his promise…
He couldn't even think. He was too scared and exhausted so he quickly fell asleep