AN: References used: Family Guy. In this chapter: Teen Titans, Marvel/X-Men, Bleach, Naruto, Pokémon, Star Fox, Xiaolin Showdown, Dragonball Z, and Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core.

All the members of Titans X are dogs except Hershey, Ralph (both brown bears), Ivan (green tiger), and Boomer (gorilla).

Chapter 3 — Impending Danger

The next day (1:00 PM), in the Danger Room...

(Music selection: "Ultimate Secrets"— Naruto.)

It was time for the New 12's training session. This time, since Felix and Bonnie are absent, the remaining ten must practice combat in a frenzy—alternating from one opponent, to another. The New 12 members started out by having the five males fight amongst each other, while the females did the same, separately. The Danger Room simulation took place where the room transformed into a vast forest.

Zen no Kyoudoutai vibrated in Mooch's hands.

"What's going on?" Mooch asked, looking at his blade.

"Mental speech, Mooch." Zen no Kyoudoutai responded.

Mooch closed his eyes. "Is there something wrong?"

"Nothing is wrong. That shake only meant that the Mirror of the Zodiac has been recharged for reuse."

"Oh. Okay then. I'll save for when I really need it." Mooch said, reopening his eyes to end the mental conversation.

"Are you done, Mooch? My Orb is getting wet." Ears said, holding the leaking Orb of Tornami.

"I didn't know it could do that..."

"That's cause I'm coming at ya with the TORNAMI TWISTER!" Ears uproared, using the Orb of Tornami's power to shroud himself in a spiraling pod of water and then taking off towards Mooch like a jet.

Mooch avoided Ears by Flash Step.

As the rabbit continued his direct flight, he encountered Slowpoke and Sly, and stopped to where they left a triangle's space between each other.

"Hey Ears..." Slowpoke called.

"Yeah?"

"Are you thinking what we're thinking?" Sly hinted him.

Without taking longer than three seconds, the three Bean Titans prepared to use their similar techniques against each other.

"Tornami Twister!"

"Tunneling Fang!" Slowpoke shouted, generating himself into an earth-drilling pod.

"Fire Fox!" Sly exclaimed, inflaming himself and beginning to clash against Slowpoke and Ears.

"That's actually pretty cool." Mooch uttered, watching the three men.

"Watch your back, bro!" Bongo shouted, attacking Mooch from behind with a Fire Kick.

Nonchalantly, Mooch kicks up his sheath, catches it and uses it to block his brother's leg.

"I ALWAYS watch my back, bro." Mooch replied, swinging his tail.

Bongo knew what it meant—Mooch's tail was about to become a lethal weapon. The monkey distanced himself by jumping off of Mooch's sheath before the sharpened tail could hit him.

"How do you do that?" Bongo questioned.

"What?"

"It's like you're holding back for one second, then the next, you capitalize on your opponent to prove them wrong."

Mooch lowered his eyes. "Oh, so you don't want me to hold back..." he figured.

"Whoa! No, no, no, no, no, no! Even though I've only seen one of them in person, no need to pull out the Eight Gates on me." Bongo rephrased.

"Okay, then. I'll be as generous as you requested—no Eight Gates." Mooch said, powering to Legendary and motioning his zanpakutō to release it. "Transcend, Zen no Kyoudoutai."

"Oh crap..." Bongo murmured, grasping his Legendary power as well. He had to act now if he wanted to contend with his expert sibling. "Fire Blast!" he shouted, firing a small but heavy shot of fire.

Mooch raised the diamond encrusted blade. "Soshi..." he began, as the Fire Blast made contact with the sword, "...Inferno Blade."

Zen no Koudoutai gave off a red glow, with a light flame aura around the blade. It completely cancelled Bongo's attack.

"Damn it." Bongo uttered.

"You're gonna need a lot more firepower, bro." Mooch called.

"Fine with me! Fire Spin!" Bongo shouted, whirling himself around until a fiery spiral surrounded him. He then manipulated it so that it acted like a floating current of fire, as opposed to water.

Mooch began to dodge. "I see he practiced with this one... this oughta be fun." he thought.

/\/\/\/\/\/\

Hoppity stood in the middle of nowhere, silently trying to detect where the other four female Bean Titans were.

"I guess they're teaming up to hit me. I think they're gonna have a spot of trouble with that." Hoppity thought, smiling with the slightest bit of confidence in her ability.

Christina and Lucy popped out from behind two trees that were thirty feet away from Hoppity, on opposite sides.

"Solarbeam!" shouted Christina, firing the fearsome light beam from her hands.

"Psi-Cannon!" announced Lucy, unleashing her signature blast from the psionic pink "butterfly" on her forehead.

Hoppity simply jumped high into the air, to avoid both blasts. Suddenly, a trail of light was about to intercept Hoppity's upward path. It was Ewey's Luminescence blast—an intense ray of light that exhibited multiple long "ribbons" of light at the head of the blast. She fired it while keeping herself hidden in another tree.

"Did I get her?" Ewey questioned.

"Um, not quite." Hoppity replied, startling Ewey before she was hit by a kick from the multi-talented bunny. Hoppity used her Wizardry spell, Teleportia, to warp herself away from the light blast.

"Fire Style: Dragon Bomb Jutsu!" Megan shouted from ground level, aiming at the tree that Hoppity stood in before unloading a big ball of fire at it.

Hoppity jumped out of the tree right before the fireball hit it. She hid herself deeper into the forest, afterwards.

"Miss." Megan told herself, knowing how talented Hoppity is.

"We can't hit her!" Christina complained.

"You just have to study her more." Megan replied.

"How?" Ewey questioned, rubbing her back from the kick Hoppity gave her.

Megan gave a smirk and pulled out a small deck of cards. "With my Ninja Info Cards..." she said in a secret-like tone.

"What the heck are those? Most of us aren't ninjas anyways." Lucy interrogated.

Megan sweat-dropped. "Oh... wrong deck. Here they are—my Titan Info Cards."

"They're just cards. How can you put all of a Titan's info on it?" Christina asked.

"The cards are chakra-responsive; in other words, I can use my own energy to process everything I've learned from an opponent and store that information into this card. For Hoppity, there is a distinct way to get to her in battle, but it's not that easy since she has all these powers: invisibility, ghostly phasing (through matter), Wizardry, Black Magic, flight and psychic ability. Think about all the possibilities—very little, right? She could've redirected my Dragon Bomb Jutsu with a telekinesis spell if she wanted to."

Hoppity reappeared to the other girls. "What can I say? I'm gifted." she modestly claimed.

(The music stops.)

Before another action was made, the PA System of the Tower was turned on, giving a second-long tone to grab the attention of all Bean Titans present.

"Attention New 12 members," called Sweet on the line, "finish up your training session, and then meet myself and the rest of the Legendary 12 inside the Mission Room. That is all."

"You heard him, guys. Let's go." Mooch said to the group.


2:00 PM, in the Mission Room...

"Everyone is here." Mystic reported to Sweet, getting a head count of 22 Bean Titans in attendance.

"All right. Titans, listen up. Titans X has something that they absolutely must warn us about—which means something bad may be upon us. Dotty, patch us through to the Moon Base."

Dotty quickly configured the main screen so that it displayed Marvin on-screen, with Max and Frisbee also. They were in the observatory room (with the telescope).

"Hey, glad you're here now." Frisbee said, having been patient with revealing the news to the Bean Titans. "Wait. You're short a couple of heroes..."

"Felix and Bonnie are out training somewhere we don't know about. We'd best leave it to them." Mooch said.

"What seems to be the news? I know it isn't good." Sweet assumed.

"It can't be." Marvin began. "It all started when Max and I were looking through the telescope just for the heck of it. As brothers would probably do, we were bickering over the spot in space we should watch. Eventually, we both grabbed the control stick and stopped it at a random location. We both looked and saw this golden dragon flying towards a slow-moving gigantic meteor, and it sort of looked like Bahamut."

"Like Bahamut?" Sly murmured, looking at his summon crest.

"Its wings are different though. The main portion of it is shaped like a heart turned upside down and split in half... and there are these six big blades wedged on the outside of it." Max described, before showing them the snapshot of it.

"Whoa... he looks intimidating." Lucy said.

"You'll be thinking something worse than that when you see this clip we recorded of it." Marvin said.

"Send it to us—we'll look into it. Stay put though." Dotty told him.

Within a couple of minutes, the video was sent to the Bean Titans.

/\/\/\/\/\/\

Dotty switched the screen back to Titans X, after she and the Bean Titans in attendance saw the clip.

"Did you see it?" Frisbee asked.

"...Holy... crap." uttered Bongo, completely phased by what he just saw, along with all the other Bean Titans.

"I know..." Marvin said. "The thing that scares me the most about it is that frightening Mega Flare he created with his blades... it reduced a Jupiter-sized meteor to ashes—and calling that a Mega Flare should be a drastic understatement."

"At the end of the video, one of its blades were missing. Where'd it go?" Hoppity remembered.

"AAAHHH!" yelled Charlie (in Titans X). He knew about the situation as well.

"What is it, Charlie?" asked Frisbee.

"Take a look..." he murmured, pointing at a long golden rod floating 5 miles away from the Moon Base.

Frisbee winced. "WHAT?" he thought, immediately going back to the telescope to track down the entity. It was still extremely far away from the Moon Base, but it was seen flying towards it. "No...!"

"What's wrong?" Mystic asked.

"It's heading right for us all!" Frisbee shouted.

Sounds of fear and shock escaped the mouths of most of the 22 Bean Titans.

"Earth must its next target." Mac presumed, with a bit of shock himself.

Lucky showed up on the screen. "I wish we could help you guys, but we're still getting the kinks out of a few defense programs. If we can, we can probably set up a defense grid around Earth's atmosphere."

"That would take entire days." Dotty replied, knowing about how long it takes to get even a regular program working. "Do you guys know how many light-years away it is from us?"

Frisbee looked back at the video and checked the details. "We saw the video thirty minutes ago, and back then, it was about five light-years away."

"So it'll probably get to the Milky Way in less than 24 hours from now." Dotty did the math in her head.

The globe in the middle of the Mission Room changed from a blue glow to a red one.

"Aw, what now?" Christina complained, not wanting things to get worse than they are now.

"Weather conditions are gradually getting worse in Central Texas, the upper Pacific Ocean, and the Mojave Desert." Dotty reported.

"Those places... it's what Slowpoke and I heard from the news yesterday!" Fleece said.

"What is happening over there?" Aurora wanted to know.

"Whatever it is, it's nothing that Mother Earth intended." Sweet assumed, after putting his fist down on the nearest tabletop. "Spunky and Dotty, can you keep us posted on all four of these disasters? If it hasn't settled down by next morning, the Bean Titans are going to take action... all of us."

"We'll have to do this without Felix and Bonnie. They didn't exactly set a date on when they'd come back." Mooch said.

"Agreed, son. Titans, I can already tell you—this won't be easy. Meeting adjourned."

/-/

A raging thunderstorm in Texas's windmill fields, a dense sandstorm in the Mojave Desert, a violent tempest that moves the waters of the Pacific, and an overly powerful Bahamut-like entity approaches. The Fearsome Four Trials will test the wills of all the Titans.

Stay tuned.