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Chapter 4: Plans
"Ya, what should we do with the pod?" Beast Boy said as he scratched his chin "I don't really know, suppose we could open it and see what's in there."
"Are you sure that's a good idea? I mean the plans for whatever's in there seemed pretty important to General Immorutus it could be some sorta new biological weapon." Argent replied with a hint of concern as Beast Boy morphed into a gorilla and jumped on top of the pod.
"Don't worry Argent, I'll protect you if your scawed" replied Beast Boy as he began to tug on the door of the pod.
"I'm not!" was the rather indignant reply, then composing herself some more Argent continued "Just be careful with that please."
"Alright, alright if you're so concerned with my safety then I will be extra careful" Beast Boy replied with not as much sarcasm as he had intended.
"Thank you" Argent said then seeing the gorilla suddenly become an elephant that raised the pod in its tusks while pushing the door down with its trunk, she continued with a smirk "Want some help?"
"No way I got this" a green pterosaur replied as it wrapped it's talons around the handle of the pod's door and attempted to fly off, failing Beast Boy returned to his normal form and then slightly embarrassed went on "On second thought if your that determined to help who am I to stop you."
"Uh huh here this might help" Argent replied as she tossed the changeling now in his normal form a red crowbar.
"Dude this won't budge is that scientist guy still out cold? Beast Boy asked, as even in his gorilla form and the crowbar the door on the pod wouldn't open.
"I'll go check" Argent replied as she walked over to wear Smith had collapsed and finding him awake she asked "What's in the pod?"
"Why on earth would I tell you? You and your little boyfriend over there ruined the Wildebeest Society all our planning for nothing now"
"Because if you don't then I'll tell him you actually cut me with that sword. You don't want to have to deal with the beast again do you?" Argent threatened hoping he wouldn't call the bluff.
"N-n-no" Smith replied looking terrified however he regained some of his nerves before he continued "But you wouldn't do that, you two are superheroes or something like that."
"You're right she wouldn't but the Beast on the other hand… let's just sat he isn't bound by the same morals" Beast Boy said catching on to what Argent was attempting " You saw what he did when he thought you were going to hurt her… imagine what he'd do if he thought you actually did hurt her. Let's just say that when it comes to subjects like this the Beast comes out no matter if I want him to or not."
"O-o-kay I-ill t-talk, I'll talk" Smith said the panic suddenly returning to his face "The Society was commissioned by the Brotherhood of Evil to expand on the work of a Dr. Drury Walker, the idea was that the same process that gave him the powers and persona Killer Moth could be duplicated and repeated, not just with moths but with any living organism."
"But wait Killer Moth got to his current state not by some sort of scientific achievement, but by a deal he made with some demon called Neron." Beast Boy interrupted "back when I was with the Titans we found that out when we dug through his house trying to find his swarm."
"True, however the Brotherhood was not aware of this and when Dr. Walker told them that, they assumed he was merely trying to prevent them from out fitting General Immortus's army with entire divisions of human/animal hybrids. That's when the Brotherhood approached us; you see the Wildebeest Society was originally a privately funded genetic research corporation. However our original benefactors had gone through a rough time recently so, when a Mrs. Rujan approached us and offered to fund us in exchange for working on developing this hybrid formula we couldn't refuse."
"Who was this Mrs. Rujan?" Beast Boy asked
"Rujan is Czech for red ... Red? … Rouge! You were working for Madame Rouge" Argent replied earning her a surprised glance from the changeling and scientist "What? Just because I lived here in New Zealand my entire life doesn't mean I don't know anything about other languages."
"Whatever, look back to the story. That is correct we didn't know it at the time but we had indeed been employed by Mme. Rouge of the Brotherhood. Once our former chairman Edward Baraflisk found this out he decided to investigate just what we were doing. Naturally this investigation brought him to information on where we got our test subjects, according to Rouge our subjects were all "volunteered" by parents who couldn't afford to keep their children. It turns out however that the Brotherhood started to enlist various gangs across the globe to kidnap more subjects. That's how we ended up here actually, a few months ago one of our "recruiters" was caught by American police not wanting to take chances the Brotherhood immediately moved us here. "Smith continued slightly annoyed at being interrupted again.
"So that's why the kidnappings started here in New Zealand! You guys were looking for more test subjects." Argent interrupted again angrily causing Smith to merely sigh and await some sort of signal for him to continue.
"Calm down Toni" Beast Boy said as he wrapped his arm around her shoulders, then turning his attention back to Smith he continued "Is this the Society's only base, where are all the kids you've had abducted?"
"We had another facility however the Brotherhood blew it up as Baraflisk's reward for finding out the truth, all society members and children died there. As for the ones we had here well you see there is a reason why the Brotherhood hasn't released as swarm of hybrids and it's not because Imortus is training them. The tests we preformed required a lot of injections of various serums all with different side effects, to put it simply we had almost no success and therefore nearly all of our subjects died. That's why you were able to discover us and our movements in New Zealand, we were replenishing our stock." Smith answered showing no remorse.
Grabbing a hold of Beast Boys hand that wasn't draped around her shoulder with both of her hands to prevent him from striking the scientist Argent asked fearing the answer "Almost? What happened did you have any children survive?"
Smith smiled and with some pride evident in his voice he responded "Yes, we had two subjects live through the procedures, and they both escaped. We were however able to re-obtain one that somehow just nearly like magic reappeared in our lab. Ridiculous I know however it's the truth, had some sort of strange communication device on it if you're interested the device is somewhere over there" he nodded towards the mess that littered the destroyed table. "As for the subject we recaptured he's inside the pod. To open it all you have to do is enter the passcode: WSEC-8151-TSS2. But I must warn you he doesn't have a very good temper. Also he won't entirely be what you're expecting you see unlike our other subject he is more animal than anything." he added knowing what their next question was likely to be.
"Ok Toni you go enter the code, I'll see if I can find this communication device" Beast Boy said as he started to walk towards the wrecked table.
"Wait? What about me? Don't I get to go since I told you all this? Isn't there any reward? Smith asked pleadingly as both heroes started to walk off.
"No, you deserve everything you're going to get for experimenting on those children." Argent replied angrily as she entered the code and the pod started to hiss open. Revealing a small child probably around the age of five or so, only this child was covered in grey fur, had a long black mane and two still small, not very pointed horns. "Aww… he's kinda cute" Argent said as she looked down at the child who started to wake up. Jumping off the bed he growled and started to grow larger and larger until he easily towered over her "… And now he's kinda scary"
Over hearing this Beast Boy looked up and glanced over at the open pod and saw the familiar giant "Wildebeest? Is that you? You remember me I'm Beast Boy from the Titans; you know we met at the Tournament of Heroes?" He asked all thought he wasn't sure why as he remembered something Cyborg had said about Wildebeest not being able to talk.
Hearing his alias being called Wildebeest looked over and saw the green changling he had defeated in the tournament. Grunting in response he slowly powered down until he was at his normal size. "You two know each other?" Argent asked looking from the child to the changeling.
"Um… ya sometime last year Wildebeest, a few other heroes, a villain, and I got transported to another dimension to play in some sorta tournament that turned out to be a trap by this guy who absorbed the losers of the matches into his amulet and gained their powers. Eventually Robin caught on and freed the rest of us, Wildebeest is an honorary Titan." Beast Boy replied to which Wildebeest grunted and he embarrassedly answered "And when he was big with horns and all he beat me. Why did you want me to add that?"
Seemingly not caring about the mention of the tournament Argent continued on and asked "So what now? You want to come with us Wildebeest? The three of us could form our own team."
Wildebeest grunted, nodded and looked over at Beast Boy who answered "Sure, I'm fine with that if you really want to join us. Just don't call the other Titans… I kinda left them." Nodding in response Wildebeest then grunted and mentioned all the captured Society members. "I'm sure the local police will take care of it all. Toni you know any place we could crash until tomorrow so we can think of a plan?"
"Immortus mentioned something about the Amazon" Smith quickly confessed
"Sure you guys could stay at my place, and you Smith are still staying here for your punishment" Argent responded. Bending over she picked up Wildebeest and asked "You don't mind being carried do you? My house is too far to walk and you can't fly." While he didn't look too happy at the current arrangement since he didn't like to be treated like a child even though he was, Wildebeest grunted and nodded. "Just follow me Gar" Argent instructed as she took flight to the green owl following her.
Beep, Beep
"Ok Titans, we are faced with a situation" Robin said as he pointed at the main screen which held images of Beast Boy and Wildebeest "Beast Boy has run away as we all know, on top of that his communicator has suddenly went offline. Now he could have either turned if off or is merely choosing not to charge it, however we are going to suspect the worst. On top of that Wildebeest suddenly went off the grid last night his communicator so far has not been reactivated. This means that potentially two of our members has been taken out so let's go over what they have in common to see if we can think of anyone who would do this."
"They're both incapable of intelligent conversation" Raven said
"Be serious friend Raven, you may not have liked him but some of us do wish to recover friend Beast Boy safely." Starfire said with an angry glare at Raven
"And I already told you I do care about him to" the empath growled
"Knock it off you two" Robin ordered
"They both have animal based powers, maybe Brother Blood decided to try and capture them thinking that his brain washing technique would work for sure" Cyborg added.
"Maybe, but Brother Blood's been more interested in your tech. Why would he suddenly change to having an interest in nature?" Robin asked scratching his chin
"I don't know man, but I'm telling ya man this screams something he'd do. That would also explain they're communicators going offline, he probably destroyed them to prevent us from tracking B and Wildebeest. Let's at least go see what the Hive Five know about his current whereabouts" Cyborg responded
"Alright lets go, you're right it's the best lead we have so far" Robin agreed finally giving in.
ZZZ…ZZZ
"He asleep?" Beast Boy asked as he sat down on the couch next to Argent
"Ya, the little guy was out like a light before we even went through the door" Argent replied as she scooted closer to Beast Boy and laid her head on his shoulder "You know this means we're probably going to have to cancel tomorrow. Since we've gotta find a way to get to South America."
"Ya… Sorry about that. But if there is even the slightest chance they can get this serum to work for an army I know the Brotherhood will take it" Beast Boy said as he put his arm around her shoulders.
"It's fine I understand how important this is" Argent assured him "I know it's not the date we would've like but we can just sit here and watch some movies like this if you want."
"That sounds like the best date I've ever had…. god I hope that didn't sound as lame is I think that did" Beast Boy said with a blush.
"It kinda did" Argent said with a laugh "But don't worry about it this is my first date to"
Beast Boy was going to respond and inform her that he had been on a date before; it had just ended with the girl betraying him to the Titans worst enemy. But the movie started and both teens were too tired from the long day to do anything but enjoy the moment as they slowly drifted to sleep.
AN: Next Time: BB, Argent and Wildebeest go to South America to search for the Brotherhood and the Titans confront the Hive Five
Narutotheyellowflash: Thanks, I've been busy lately but I plan to update Titans North either tomorrow or the day after. Also I know you asked about it in my other story by I have thought about BBxKole but I'd love to hear your ideas, especially the one about BB x BB never thought of that before so if you want go ahead and shoot me a pm about it.