I've opted to try and spread the origin story over a few chapters. I response to questions I've decided to bring Star in later, as love her I may but she's hard to right and I felt it would suit better to add her later in the story. I intend to keep the charcters closish to the canon but I'll alow myself some wriggling room. :D

Please R and R, constructive critism more than welcome. But no flames.

Chapter 1

The four teenagers had been walking for about 15 minutes when the apartment building came into view. A free standing structure about 4 stories high sat in the centre of a small island in the bay. There was a bridge connecting the island to mainland that the teens began to cross.

"Paradise apartments, home sweet home," Victor said pulling his hood down and removing his mask to reveal his half cybernetic head. He had a nervous glance over to Dick and Raven to see how they reacted. Raven didn't even seem to acknowledge it, but Dick briefly stared before commenting.

"I'd heard about your accident, but I didn't realise your injuries were quite so bad," Dick said casting his eyes over the visible parts of Victors cybernetics. He could see Victor's cybernetic hand sticking out below his sleeves as well as the half of his head that was now visible.

"You think the upper half of me looks bad," Victor said with a sad smile, "you should see the rest of me."

"Your home looks... nice," Raven interrupted looking upwards at the tower, "tell me there's not a load of kids living here."

"Well there's only three apartments in this building, so unless one of my ladies is hiding something," Garfield said seeming fairly proud of himself, Victor just shook his head.

"Dick here has the top floor; the green bean and I have two story apartments with half of the 2nd and 3rd floors apiece." Victor said calmly before putting his arm round Garfield's shoulder, "And I would worry yourself about the beans ladies, if you want them to leave you can just turn the TV off."

"At least I can still get the ladies big man," a slightly irritate Garfield said, "Your metal crotch is bound to be a put off."

"That's just low man," Victor said shaking his head as they entered the lobby. They walk towards the lift, Garfield saluting the security guard as they past him. The guard seemed unfazed at the fact that a bear, a half robot and a couple of cloaked teens had just walked through the lobby and went back to reading his magazine. The four entered the lift and Victor pushed a few buttons. When the lift stopped Garfield, Victor and Raven stepped off, Victor turned back nodded to Dick before departing.

"My room's the one on the left Raven." Garfield said changing into a chimpanzee has he walked over so he could fit through the door. He inserted his key into the door and opened it. Raven gazed around the vast room that contained a living room and a kitchen with a star case leading up to a landing.

"My bed room is the one on the left hand side of the landing, you can take the room on the right and the bath rooms in the middle." Garfield said before climbing his way up the banisters towards his room, Raven assumed he was getting some clothes. She strode up towards her new room and entered.

Raven look around the dark room occupied only by a bed and bedside table, sufficiently dark she thought to herself before opening an interdimensional portal with her powers. Then using her telekinesis she pulled a book shelf and several ornaments through the portal and began setting about decorating her new room.

Victor entered his apartment and called out, "Dad I'm back, you here."

"Good to see you back Victor, I'm glad you finally went back out into the world again, I know your new body worries you but you'll grow used to it in time." Victor's father, a middle aged man with greying hair responded.

"Maybe your right, Dad would you mind helping me with something?" Victor asked after having a thought, "this might seem a strange request, but do you reckon we could programme one of these computers to show us the locations of current crime."

"It is certainly possible Victor, but may I ask why?" His father responded.

"I used my old body to do all the good I could, I believe I should the same with this one." Victor said to his father, who smiled and walked over to the computer.

Dick stepped out of the elevator and into his room. "A team, a team of heroes. That'll certainly change my image." Dick thought to himself smugly as he grabbed a snack before he crashed out on his couch and flicked on his TV. Turning to the local news channel Dick listened intently for any news on his lasted bust.

The presenter began: "Super heroes in San Francisco. It appears tonight that former Doom Patrol member Garfield Logan have taken his Beast Boy mantle up once more, aided by a mystery female, a masked man that could well be Victor Stone's first public appearance since his accident and the group was also assisted by Batman's sidekick Robin..."

"Bastards!" Dick screamed throwing his remote to the ground and holding his head in his hands. He half expected Alfred to start dishing out advice, before realising he wasn't at home any more. "I'll be my own man, just you wait and see, just you wait see."

Garfield left his room dressed in a dressing gown and saw Raven leaving her new room. He could have sworn he saw a book shelf in her room as the door shut, but he shook it off. He watched as she levitated down the stairs without looking up from the book she was reading. She lowered herself down onto the couch.

Garfield sat next to her on his couch and turned to her, "do you mind if I put the TV on?"

"Feel free." She said in her usual monotone without looking up from her book. Garfield flicked the TV on and was fairly taken back when he saw his face flashed on the screen before the presenter began talking: "Super heroes in San Francisco. It appears tonight that former Doom Patrol member Garfield Logan have taken his Beast Boy mantle up once more, aided by a mystery female, a masked man that could well be Victor Stone's first public appearance since his accident and the group was also assisted by Batman's sidekick Robin..."

Garfield heard a crash from the top floor and could hear Dick cursing above. "Wonder what got his goat?" Garfield chuckled as he changed to a movie channel.

"It would appear your friend has doubts about his man hood, and judging by your apparent love of many women I suspect the same is true of you." Raven said coldly. Garfield shrugged and responded:

"Maybe, I'd never really thought of it like that, I just thought I loved beautiful ladies." Garfield leaned bag feeling fairly pleased with himself, then the nights film started. "Oh 'Attack of the plant eaters' I got my second Oscar for this."

"You're an actor?" Raven asked, raised eye brows visible now her hood was down. Garfield actually stared in shock for a few seconds before regaining his composure.

"You don't watch many movies do you?" Garfield said with a smirk and Raven shook her head. Garfield extended a hand to her, "come on I want to show you something." Raven looked down at his hand before taking it with a sigh.

Garfield pulled her towards a door at the back of the main room; he opened it and flicked the lights on. She stared around a room that had a collection of glass jars protecting different memorabilia that was obviously precious to Garfield. He took her over to the jar nearest to them and pointed inside. There stood a small gold statue, "My newest Oscar, I played Romeo in 'Romeo and Juliet.'" He said with a smile.

"How did you play Romeo, your green?" She said stunned.

"They just modernised it a little, instead of two rival families it was humanity vs. an alien race," he said with a cheesy grin, failing to notice the look of horror on her face.

"They murdered a classic," Raven moaned, almost sickened but Garfield just shook his head and pulled her further along.

Victor and his father stood feeling quite triumphant at their success. The large screen that was connected to their computer showed and overhead view of the city with red dots appearing to mark were being reported.

"Nice work Victor, I reckon with a few modifications and we'll be able to get it to show us different threat levels. That way we'll be able to assess which threats should be targeted." Victor's father said examining their work.

"I'll go get Dick he'll want to have a look at this," Victor said heading for the door. He headed to the lift at the end of the hall way, he boarded and pressed the button for the top floor. When the lift door opened Victor could see Dick gazing out of his window, shot glass in hand. Dick didn't seem to acknowledge Victor's presence as he tossed his shot glass to the ground and slammed his fist against the window.

Victor stood still for moment unsure as to how to proceed before finally opting to speak, "Dick, there's something I'd like to show you down stairs."

Raven stood before a giant tank that stood at the back of the room, it contained a child's size purple and black costume. "What film was this from?" She quizzed before feeling sudden sadness emanating from Garfield who stared at it silently for a moment.

"It wasn't from a film," he said after a few long minutes. Placing his hand against the glass he turned and smiled at her, "I was once a hero you know, a proper crime fighting super hero. I was a member of a group called the Doom Patrol; we spent most of our time fighting a group called the Brotherhood of Evil." He rested his head against the glass before continuing, "But that was another life, it doesn't matter anymore."

He began to work towards the door before Raven placed her hand on his shoulder, "It matters to you, I'm an empath, I can feel your pain Garfield."

Garfield turned to her and smiled, "It's my past, a burden I alone have to bare, now come on." He said perking up, "We can still catch the end of 'Attack of the plant eaters' and watch me kick some alien ass."

She watched as he skipped off towards the living area before taking one last look at his former outfit. "So small," she thought, "too young to handle the pressure of being a hero." She then followed him back to the couch.

Dick watched the screen as a red dot flicker on screen, Victor tapped it on the touch screen and a block of text appeared:

Incident: Theft

Threat level: 1

Location: China Town

"Good work guys," Dick said before turning to Victor, "so you're serious about doing this?"

"As serious as I'll ever be," Victor responded with a grin, "I'm thinking I might have found my calling."

"In the morning I think we should get prepared, I've been hearing rumours a group by the name of HIVE Five are planning to hit another bank sometime soon." Dick said walking over to another computer and bringing up a set of schematics on screen, "Looking over their history I realise the previous three banks they hit all had the same basic layout and design. I did some digging, there's only one other bank in the city with the same features. They've always made their escape through the rear of the bank and have always escaped before the alert is raised, that's where we're going to hit them."

"Looks like we have a plan." Victor said patting Dick on the back.

I'll add the next chapter when I feel it's ready, should be some time this week.