A.N. The following is a nonprofit fan fiction. Teen Titans is owned by DC Comic and I owe none of these Manga/Anime characters.
Summary: Lucy and Rangiku goes shopping when suddenly they are attacked by mercs sent by Lucy's father.
The next day in the tower, the Titans had brought Wendy to the common room.
"You're sending me away?" She asked surprised at the news.
"You said you have no control of your powers, right? None of us has the time to teach you how to control those powers. So we contacted the Justice League. They'll be sending Wonder Woman to take you to Themyscira, the paradise island of women. They specialize in training young women to become warriors. They trained Supergirl so you'll be in capable hands." Garfield replied.
"B-but what about the restaurant? What about Mr. and Ms. Bing?" Wendy asked.
"We've already talked to them. They understand and they're okay with this." Erza assured her.
Before Wendy could object any further, Lucy spoke up. "Oh look. A Justice League Javelin coming in. They were fast." She said as she saw a jet outside the window heading towards them.
"Alright," Garfield said and turned to Ichigo. "Ichigo, would you be kind enough to greet out guests and escort them down here?"
"Sure thing," The orange haired teen replied.
Once out on the roof, Ichigo stood before the Javelin that was just landing. His hair and clothes were waving in the wind the jet was making as it landed. Once the engines were turned off, the hatch underneath the jet opened up as a stair case and down came the world's most famous female super hero. Behind her was another girl. She was kind of dressed like Wonder Woman, only she wore pants and she was blonde.
"Wonder Woman, welcome to the Los Angeles's Titans Tower." Ichigo said with a traditional Japanese bow.
Wonder Woman returned to bow and surprised Ichigo when she spoke. "Thank you, Blood Moon. It is a pleasure to be here." She had said in Japanese.
Ichigo replied in her mother languish. "You speak Japanese?" He asked.
"Hai," Wonder Woman replied. "When you spend thousands of years living on the same island, you get bored. Themyscira has books that teaches you every languish made by humanity." She said.
"Well, when we get inside we should probably speak English so everyone else can understand us." Ichigo said in English.
"Agreed," Wonder Woman replied in English.
"Uh, what did you guys talk about?" The girl behind Wonder Woman asked.
"Nothing important," Wonder Woman replied. "Blood Moon, this is my pupil, Wonder Girl."
"Arigato," Wonder Girl said, bowing.
Ichigo gave the blonde an odd look and asked. "For what?"
"Uh," Wonder Girl said as she was confused.
"You just thanked him in Japanese, Cassie." Wonder Woman told her sidekick. "I think you meant Konichiwa."
Wonder Girl was visibly embarrassed about this but Ichigo didn't seem to mind. "How about we go inside so you can meet Wendy?" Ichigo suggested and they all agreed.
Once inside, Garfield was attempting to greet Wonder Woman but Lucy beat him to it.
"Hey there. Welcome to the Titans Tower. I'm Celestial, big fan of yours." Lucy said, holding out her hand.
Wonder Woman respond in kind and shakes her hand. "I know who you are, Celestial. You are quite known on the news for you many incidents where you expose yourself."
"I'm not a pervert!" Lucy cried out in embarrassment.
"I never said that," Wonder Woman replied. Erza was next to introducing herself, much to Garfield's annoyance.
"Greetings, Wonder Woman. I'm Scarlet Knight." The scarlet haired woman said as she shakes Wonder Woman's hand.
"You I've heard a lot about. You're quite the protégé." Wonder Woman complimented.
"I thank you for the compliment. If you ever have the time I'd like to spar with you." Erza said with a grin.
"I'd like that," Wonder Woman replied, returning the grin.
Garfield once again tried to introduce himself but was cut off by a certain pink haired wonder. "Forget her! I'll fight you right now!" Natsu cried out, jumping into the air in an attempt to attack Wonder Woman. Garfield cried out at Natsu to stop it but luckily someone was able to prevent him. It was Wonder Girl, who kicked Natsu in the face, sending him flying across the room.
"How dare you attack Wonder Woman, you brute?! You should at least have the common decency of asking you opponent if she wants to fight first before attacking!" The blonde scolded.
"This is my sidekick, Wonder Girl." Wonder Woman said.
"Hey everyone," Wonder Girl said, waving her hand to the Titans.
Finally Garfield was gonna get to introduce himself. Or so he thought. "Good day to you two. I'm Dust Mist." Rukia said, bowing respectfully.
Next was Rangiku. "And I'm Sandstorm."
"A pleasure to meet you all." Wonder Woman said.
"Excuse me, but can I introduce myself now?" Garfield finally spat, catching everyone's attention. He walked over to Wonder Woman and held out his hand. "I'm Beast Boy. Leader of Titans LA. It's real honor to meet you." He said, expecting Wonder Woman to shake his hand but she just gave him cold stare. "Is something wrong?" He asked.
"I prefer not to touch the hands of a molester," Wonder Woman replied, shocking the Titan leader.
"W-what?! What do you mean? I'm not a molester!" Garfield insisted.
"Oh really?" Wonder Girl said, going through her iPhone. "Then how do you explain this?" She asked, showing him a picture that made his eyes nearly pop out of its socket. It was a picture of yesterday's incident when he had accidentally groped Gladiator Girl.
"Where did that come from?!" He asked in comical horror.
"Some photographer for LA news was nearby and didn't let the opportunity slip," Wonder Girl explained.
"Garfield, I didn't expect this from you." Rukia said, surprised to see her leader's actions.
"Didn't think you had it in ya." Rangiku said, teasingly.
"It's not what everyone thinks! It was an accident! I swear!" Garfield cried out comically.
Ichigo walked over to the coffee table in front of the TV and picked up the remote. "I wonder if…" He said and turned on a channel.
Fox: Hero Sexually Assault Vigilante Girl
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CNN: Green Titan Pulls a Cosby
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BBC News: Green Lad Inappropriately Fancies Immodest Lady
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Times: And I thought Spider-Man had Sticky Fingers
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TMZ: We have news about Booster Gold's new reality show series, but check out this Green Guy coping a feel.
After seeing all that, Ichigo turned off the TV and turned to see that pale look on his leader's face.
"Hey," Garfield said to everyone, "wanna see me tempt fate?" He asked and raised his hands up and sarcastically said. "Could this day get any worse?"
He would regret saying that as the TV was turned on again, this time showing an angry looking Robin, staring down on the green teen. "Garfield Mark Logan!"
"Oh no!" Garfield whined, dropping to his knees and cried anime tears.
"What is this?!" Robin demanded, showing the picture that had gone viral.
In the background, the other Titans gave their green friend their own response. "I knew you were a beast but dude, have some restraint." Cyborg said. "I can't believe my pure, innocent friend would stoop so low!" Starfire wailed in the background. Raven had a monotone look on her face as she gave her response. "Pervert," She said in a monotone.
"Why me?" Garfield whined.
"Our leader seems to be occupied with dealing with his dilemma at the moment so I'll fill in for him." Erza said to Wonder Woman. She turned to the blue haired girl who had yet to be introduced. "Wendy, why won't you come over here and say hi." Erza said with the kind voice of a mother. The timid girl walked over to them.
"Um … hi. My name is Wendy Marvel." The girl said with shyness, not looking at the Justice League founder. "I … I hope I won't be a burden to you."
"She's a shy one. And she's really cute to. The other amazons will love her." Wonder Girl said to Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman knelt to Wendy's height and kindly said. "It is a pleasure to meet you Wendy. Do not be frightened. We will take good care of you." She said with a motherly voice. Wendy was still looking pretty shy but nodded. Wonder Woman rose to her feet and addressed the Titans again. "Don't worry about Wendy here. She will be treated well during her training. Amazons are harsh but fair."
"We'll take your word for it." Erza said with her arms crossed.
"Well, we better get going then." Wonder Girl said and looked over at Garfield who was still getting chewed at by Robin. "Pray for him." She said before she and mentor left with the blue haired girl.
"Well," Rangiku said rubbing her hands. "This morning has been eventful but Lucy and I have plans." She said and grabbed Lucy by the arm. "Let's go." She said and dragged the blonde to the exit.
"Rangiku, don't pull me." Lucy said.
Los Angeles Mall
Rain, it was all rain for the city of Los Angeles. The rain was pouring around the location of Los Angeles mall, where coming out are Lucy and Rangiku. Both holding shopping bags as they are surprised by the rain after exiting the mall after a shopping spree.
"What? I can't believe it's raining!" Rangiku complained.
"Funny, it was just sunny when we first got inside the mall." Lucy comments, looking up at the rain. "I mean, there wasn't a cloud in the sky. It's odd how it could be raining now when the news promised a sunny day."
Rangiku replied "Oh never trust the weather service Lucy, they're always unreliable. God, I hate the rain, it makes my powers useless."
"Well looks like we'll either call a cab or make use of this rain." Lucy said looking around the streets. However, unknown to the two they are being watched by two shadowy figures across the street, spying on them.
"Is that her?" a female asked her partner.
"She's the one we're looking for, let's proceed." her partner replied as they make their move.
"Oh I wish we had a car right now, all that rain is messing up my hair!" Rangiku whined while crying anime tears.
"Then why don't we wait out here until the rain stops." Lucy suggested, thinking about getting a car for traveling around. Then she starts hearing a singing voice, a lullaby of some kind.
"Drip, drip, drop, Juvia's the rain woman." spoke the girl coming towards them. "The rain is always with me, and what sort of woman I knew pray tell?" she asked. Lucy and Rangiku noticed the girl, she appears to be wearing a blue toboggan hat and long matching raincoat. She has on a dark blue poncho over with fur trims, and brown knee high boots. She has ocean blue curly hair, blue eyes and pale skin. She has a frown on her face as she faces the two. "Drip, drip, drop."
"Uh, what's up with this girl?" Lucy asked while she sweat dropped. Rangiku only respond "Beats me."
"Don't mind her." spoke a male that got the girls turn to see him on the other side. From the looks of him Lucy can tell that he screams out "punk." He has wild spiky hair that reaches down to his back, tanned skin, brown eyes with six metal piercings on the sides of his nose fitting for his scowling look. He wore a black leather sleeveless shirt with metal on each ends, black fingerless gloves, white cargo pants and black boots. "She's always not making any sense."
"And another weirdo appears." Lucy deadpanned.
"If you two are looking for some gothic poetry slam, there is one behind the Hot Topic in the mall." Rangiku joked.
"You dare mock Juvia!?" Juvia demands, speaking in third person.
"Look, let's cut to the chase." the punk said as he glares at Lucy "You over there, Lucy Heartfilia, why don't you come with us quietly. Your daddy misses you."
Lucy's eyes widen by the mention of her dad. 'My dad? Don't tell me he sent those guys to…' realizing the seriousness of the situation, she turns to her busty teammate "Sandstorm, run!"
"What? I'm not leaving you with these guys." Rangiku replied taking her stance.
"You can't perform your powers well in the rain." Lucy pulls out one of her keys, which the head is shaped of the Aquarius symbol "Stardress: Aquarius Form!" Lucy's outfit changed as water appears around her in a flash of light. Now she stood wearing a golden headband with a chain that connects a small plate holding a blue jewelry on her four head. Her only outfit is a two piece blue bikini with white lines around, and golden arm bands on her upper arms and golden bands on her ankles. She charge at Juvia first as Lucy controls the water around her to knock out Juvia, but the blue haired girl raise her hand up to stop the water from coming at her. "Huh? It stopped?!" she asked in shock.
"Juvia's known as Water Sprite. I can control the water around me." Juvia said as she lets the water that was supposed to be thrown at her, absorb through the palm of her hand. "As well as absorbing it." she states as she grew taller as her arms stretch out watery tendrils.
"Oh this does not look good." Lucy muttered.
Rangiku slams her fist with her palm, as she did a karate stance "Alright, punk. Let's see what you got." she taunts him "I may be not able to do much in the rain, but I'm a capable fighter." she states.
"Gi, Hi, Hi, Hi, that's funny, you know." the punk laughs as he suddenly, at an instant, was in front of Rangiku "Cause I'm too hard to handle." his fist collides with Rangiku's flat belly, causing her to spat out blood and fall to her knees, holding her stomach.
'T-That strength.' Rangiku thought as she looks at the punk, his hand turned metallic, like iron. "What are you?"
"Gajeel Redfox, but you can call me Heavy Metal, sweetheart." he said with a cocky grin.
Meanwhile Lucy is having an upper hand with Juvia. Thanks to her Key of Aquarius, she can control the water no matter what Juvia throws at her. Juvia scowled, she hates losing to this girl as she shoots water at her.
"Had enough?" Lucy asked with a confident smirk.
"Juvia will not lose to you!" Juvia declared as she was about to attack, until she hears her partner yelled.
"Yo, Blondie!" he shouts. Lucy looks as he sees Gajeel, holding Rangiku by her hair as his fist change into a shape of a sword "Give up now, or you see this woman's throat get cut!" he threatened, holding his bladed hand pressed onto Rangiku's neck.
"Don't do it, Lucy!" Rangiku shouts.
"Quiet you!" Gajeel growled "Give up or she sings with the angels!"
Lucy knows that she can't let Rangiku sacrifice herself for her own safety. She wasn't going to sacrifice her friend for her sake, not by a long shot "Alright, you win." she said, changing back to her normal outfit with a saddened look. "Please, don't kill her."
Gajeel smirk, lowering his bladed hand down from his hostage's throat. Juvia then make a chop onto the back of Lucy's neck, knocking her out as Juvia grabs her. "Mission accomplish. That was too easy." Gajeel said as he tosses Rangiku aside like a rag doll towards the roof of someone's car. "Let's go, Water Sprite. I can't wait until we get paid."
"Juvia doesn't care about money like you do." Juvia respond while frowning, holding Lucy over her shoulder "Juvia can never be happy about anything."
"Jesus, lighten up." Gajeel said, putting his hands in his pockets as he prepares to jump "Now come on, José is waiting for the price. Sooner we turn her in, the sooner we get our paycheck." he said, as the two leaves in an instant. Gajeel jumping on high buildings while Juvia follows with the unconscious Lucy on her shoulder.
Rangiku saw this as she weakly picks out her communicator. "Emergency contact. Beast Boy, can you read?"
"And that's how you do the banana prank."
Natsu stared in horror as his jaw dropped. He looked pale after hearing one of his leader's prank stories that he ask him about while they're on patrol. The story he just heard is the most terrifying one of them all.
"You…monster." Natsu said in fear.
"Oh come on, I didn't think it was that bad." Beast Boy said with a laugh "Well, it was funny seeing the look on Robin's face when I-" he was cut off when the T-Com rang. It was from Rangiku as he picks it up "What's the trouble, Sandstorm?" he asked, noticing how injured she is.
"Beast Boy, Lucy has been captured by a punk looking guy and a girl with blue hair. They were at the area near the LA Mall." Rangiku reported.
"Don't worry, we're on our way." Beast Boy respond, turning to Natsu "Lucy was kidnapped. Can you get a scent of her?"
"Yes." Natsu respond, sniffing the air. "Let's go!" he told him as he jumps from the roof, just as Beast Boy follows him by changing into a hawk.
At a Luxury hotel, Gajeel and Juvia stayed in a room on the upper floor. Gajeel is seen talking to their boss with his cellphone.
"Yeah, we got her." Gajeel said, leaning on his chair. "Okay, we'll be up there." he finished his call as he got up, facing Juvia "They'll be coming to pick us up through a chopper. We'll wait around until then."
"Fine." Juvia said dryly. She went to the main room where she sits on a couch and turns on the TV, changing it to her soap operas.
While Juvia is busy watching Love and the Restless, Gajeel walks over to the table, holding some kind of can. Once he sits back on his seat, he opens the can revealing to be filled with nails, he starts to pick some up and eats them while observing his phone. Good thing he stop by some iron shop to get some nails. The two were in silence doing their own thing until someone gasp.
"W-Where am I?" spoke Lucy. She finds herself tied onto a bed, arms restrained as her legs were bound in rope. "Who are you guys? Where have you taken me!? I demand to know where my keys are-" suddenly Gajeel punches her in the face to stop her from talking. Luckily for her, his fist wasn't iron, but it still hurts.
"Shut up, you whiny little bitch." Gajeel snarled at her with a threatening look. Lucy shivers at his glare "Good. Keep quiet, or I'll shut you up myself. Got it, blondie?" Lucy nodded, as Gajeel hears his cellphone ring as he looks it up "I gotta take this. Juvia, keep our price company, and make sure she doesn't talk." he said as he went to the other room to answer his call.
'That guy is dead serious.' Lucy thought, as she decides to not speak for her sake of not getting hurt. 'I hope Rangiku's okay. I'm sure the Titans will save me from my father's goons.'
Outside, Beast Boy and Natsu are still looking for Lucy. Natsu hasn't picked up her scent due to the rain while jumping from rooftop to rooftop.
"Have you find her yet?" Beast Boy asked, changing back to his human form.
"The rain is blocking my scent. I'll try to look around to smell her." he said, trying to pin point Lucy's location from her scent.
Beast Boy thought about the information Rangiku told him, about the two guys after Lucy, and mentioning something about her father. 'This calls for some background checking.' he thought. He picks out his T-Com up and start contacting Cyborg. "Yo Cy, you up?"
"Grass Stain? Good to talk to you, man." Cyborg replied over the T-Com.
"You too. Listen, I need you to give me some info on one of my teammate's father, Lucy's dad, along with two people name Gajeel Redfox and Juvia Lockser." he told his old friend.
"Alright, this will take a sec." Cyborg said. After a minute of research on Lucy's profile and the names Garfield mentioned, he finally got something up "Bingo. Got the info you need."
"That was quick, as expected from my tech support." the changeling comments.
"Alright, so from what I got from Lucy, she came from a rich family in Louisiana, the Heartfilia family. According to her profile log, she's a runaway. Rumor has it that Jude Heartfilia, her dad, was abusive towards her." This got Beast Boy to look shocked, he never knew Lucy was a runaway due to her dad being abusive. "Jude is one of the wealthiest men in Louisiana, owns banks and businesses. As for Gajeel and Juvia, they're known as Heavy Metal and Water Sprite, members of Phantom Lord."
"Who are they, these Phantom Lord guys?" Beast Boy asked.
"You never heard of these guys? They're soldiers for hire, lead by José Porla. He's a powerful sorcerer that used to be part of Dr. Strange's Order. This guy is all powerful." Cyborg explained to him. Beast Boy sees the Phantom Lord symbol popped up, as well as profile pictures of their members.
"That's all I need to hear. Thanks, Cy." Beast Boy thanked his comrade.
"Cyborg?" Natsu asked looking at the screen. "So you're the one who fell onto the boss's banana prank." he said, Cyborg paled.
"YOU TOLD HIM ABOUT THAT AWFUL PRANK!?" Cyborg exclaimed, his yelling made the changeling flinched "I THOUGHT WE'D AGREED TO NEVER MENTION THAT UNFORESAKEN PRANK!"
"Uh skeesh, I can't hear you, Cy. My T-Com's -skeesh- gotta help Lucy- skeesh." Beast Boy tries to fake static over his communicator making fake static noises using his gloved hand.
"You do realize that we're talking through screen monitors and I can see what you're doing." Cyborg points out in deadpan.
Beast Boy immediately hung up before Cyborg can scold him. "Okay, let's go find Lucy!" he said while pondering in his thoughts 'Hope he doesn't talk to Robin about me mentioning the prank. Or Raven.' he thought fearfully, while transforming into a condor as he follows Natsu around. Rooftop to rooftop. Beast Boy learns something from the area, as in why is it raining around this part of Los Angeles while it didn't rain in other parts? Strange since it was suppose to be sunny, unless the Weather Wizard decides to pay a visit. Suddenly he looks up at a helicopter, and noticed it heading down at the hotel, as he spotted a symbol 'That symbol…Phantom Lord!' "Natsu, follow that copter!"
"On it, Beast Boss!" Natsu replied as they follow where the copter is heading down.
"Heavy Metal, our ride is on its way." Juvia told her partner.
"Hmm? So soon?" Gajeel respond, finishing up his phone call looking down at Lucy "Your daddy must've really missed you." he grabs Lucy by her pink strap shirt as he swings her over his shoulder. Gajeel restrain her legs so they won't kick as Lucy groans for him to let go "Quiet or your head hits the wall!" he shouts at her.
'I chose the wrong day to wear a miniskirt!' Lucy shouts in her head, while being carried off out of the room as she thinks where the Titans could be.
Beast Boy and Red Dragon followed the chopper heading down to the roof of a luxurious hotel. Lucky for them
"Is that where Lucy is?" Red Dragon asked, the green falcon looks closely seeing two people coming out of the rooftop. They see the chopper hovering down as they spotted a blond haired girl on the shoulder of Gajeel, struggling to get free
"A punk guy and blue haired girl…Lucy!" the green falcon exclaimed. Red Dragon heard him as they charge at them.
"Well, time to leave and head back to-" Gajeel didn't finished as he is suddenly hit in the back by a green long horned ram. It causes him to drop Lucy as the green ram change into Beast Boy who caught her.
"You alright, Lucy?" Beast Boy asked.
"Yeah, thanks." Lucy replied.
"Alright! Time to battle!" Natsu shouts putting his fist on his palm "We Titans will teach you to not mess with one of our own!"
"You fools shouldn't interfere." Juvia snaps at the two.
"This is just fucking great!" Gajeel gets up as he scowl at the Titans "That rich old man better pay us double for having to fight these Titans," he said while his fists turn into iron "Or I'm gonna bust his chops!"
"There's nothing I hate more than people who kidnap for money." Beast Boy states, as he turns into a gorilla after setting Lucy down, as Red Dragon burst his hands into flame, ready for battle.
"Um…I'm still tied up here." Lucy points out, still in a bind with the ropes.
Juvia charge in first, forming her arms into water sickles aiming at the two Titans, but Natsu counters it by blowing out a fiery breath towards her. This shock Juvia as she made contact the flames as she screams from the heat contacting her. Backing away, she glares at the pink haired fire breather "You dare burn Juvia!?" she sneered.
"Bring it on!" Natsu told, with his hands bursting into flames he prepares to fight while Beast Boy unties Lucy.
"You alright, Lucy?" Beast Boy asked her.
"Yeah, but I can't do anything without my keys." Lucy replied, rubbing her wrists.
"Well, you go get to safety, just hide until the others come." he orders her. Lucy nodded as she ran out of the way, down to the roof's entrance. "Red Dragon, you take on the Juvia girl since she seems to be weak against your fire punch I'll handle Iron Maiden over there." he quipped, which Gajeel scowls.
"It's Heavy Metal, ya bastard!" Gajeel growled. He hates being called by one of his least favorite bands.
"Let's just take them down!" Juvia said as she controls the rain droplets around her to form spears, throws at them towards Natsu.
The pink haired pyromancer jumps in the air as his fists burst into flames creating a flaming shield, the water spears turn into steam as they evaporated. He then slams his fist towards Juvia's head, causing her to be smashed down through the hotel from every floor. Passing through every room down below until she lands on a table at the dining hall. Everyone in the dining hall were shocked to see the girl lying on the broken table, food and debris all over her. Falling down the twelve story hotel was Natsu, who landed on the floor.
"Everyone get out of here, NOW!" Natsu orders, as the people in the dining hall immediately leave the hall, leaving Natsu facing at the downed Juvia. "You seem tough, there's not a scratch on you." he said as Juvia gets up from the split table.
"That's because Juvia's made of water." Juvia respond, looking at Natsu with killing intent in her eyes, bobbing her head as she walks towards him in a creepy manner "Juvia vows to slice you up and pierce your heartbeat with your own blood once I absorb it!"
"Bring it on, I dare ya to try." Natsu smirked, getting into position.
Back on the roof, Beast Boy and Gajeel were in a standoff as one is waiting for the other to make a move.
"Tsh, you don't stand a chance against me, tree hugger." Gajeel told him.
"Yeah, bet I can manage what you're capable of, you Metallica reject." Beast Boy quipped.
Gajeel charge first, his hand change into an iron rod. He extends the arm rod to hit the changeling, but Beast Boy dodged it by changing into a hummingbird. The green hummingbird flew quickly at Gajeel's face as it changes into a gorilla, going to slam his fist at his face. The punk quickly coated himself in iron as the large green fist collides with Gajeel's iron face, resulting in his knuckles shattered.
"Youch!" Beast Boy cried out, changing back to his human form, as he held his broken hand as Gajeel laughs.
"Gihihihihi, you're fucking weak!" Gajeel mocks him "I almost feel sorry for ya, kid. Now to get you out of my way from my payday." he forms his left hand into a chainsaw, and his other hand an axe "I'm going to have to chop you up to bits!"
"With those tools, you'd make a handy gardener." Beast Boy quipped nervously, as Gajeel swings his axe hand at him which luckily the leader dodges down from. "I'm gonna get a rain check." he said, changing into a cheetah as he ran away from Gajeel.
"Come back here, ya coward!" Gajeel growls, chasing after the cheetah with his weaponized hands as he laughs maniacally while jumping from rooftop to rooftop "Run all you want, coward, but I'm gonna catch ya and slice ya into dices!" he declared, but he is then hit with a clubbed tail by the changeling who changed from a cheetah to an ankylosaurus, manage to hit Gajeel down towards to the chopper, crashing into it as it gets destroyed.
'Huh, I'd expect an explosion.' the ankylosaurus thought as he change back into human. Seeing many parts and pieces piled up on the rooftop, Beast Boy couldn't help but grin "Well that takes care of that." he said, but then he heard that laugh.
The laugh was coming from the wreckage. Slowly, Gajeel gets back up, laughing as he laughs some more. "That was clever of you, I admit. But not good enough!" he held his breath, as he then he roared "Iron Dragon's Roar!" as he blew out a large, tornado of air, metal shards around as it head towards Beast Boy. The changeling tried to dodge but is caught through the tornado, hitting him far from the rooftop.
'Shit! I underestimated him!' he thought as he is blown away, feeling the shards cutting up his body. He starts to lose consciousness as he falls out of the building and was falling to his death. But then a hand grabbed him before he can land on the floor.
Back up on the rooftop, Gajeel lifts up the unconscious pilot from the wreckage. He slaps the pilot "Wake up, idiot." he orders the now awake pilot.
"Muh muh Mister Redfox, sir." the pilot stammers nervously.
"Listen, contact for another chopper. I'm gonna find and grab blondie who's hiding in this hotel." Gajeel told him. He does not want to waste more time in finding daddy's girl, he needs the money for his own reasons.
"So this guy's the problem." spoke a new voice as Gajeel turns around. He saw another one of those Titan as he has Beast Boy in his arms. The changeling begins to regain conscious.
"Ugh, what hit me?" Beast Boy asked, as Ichigo set his leader down. The changeling is having a hard time standing up due to the injury of the power force of that roar.
"Stand down, BB." Ichigo told him, as he stood facing Gajeel "I'll handle this guy, Heavy Metal, isn't it?"
"So, another head to smash." Gajeel grinned, turning his fists into iron again as he charge at Ichigo "Taste iron, bitch!" he shouts as throws his iron fist (AN: no pun intended) towards Ichigo, but to his surprise the orange haired teen grabbed his fist. "Huh? How are you- AAAAHHH!" he screamed, as Ichigo crushed his hand like an empty soda can, causing him to scream in pain. "Motherfucker! What the fuck, man!?" he asked only to receive a punch from Ichigo's own fist, causing him to be launch straight across the city.
"That one's for Sandstorm." Ichigo said coldly, and then stares at the pilot who shivered nervously.
"I surrender!" the pilot raises his hands up in fright.
"Whoa." Beast Boy said in awe, impressed by Ichigo's strength. He knew the tall hero was strong, but he's like, Superman level strong. 'Ichigo, is so strong, they can easily take down stronger enemies like Gajeel. Compare to him and Erza, I'm the weakest and I'm supposed to be leader.' he thought depressingly as he looks down 'How can I deserve to be called leader if I can't protect myself?'
Back in the dining hall, Juvia was having a hard time with Red Dragon as her water was being vaporized, causing her to pant heavily.
"Give up?" Red Dragon asked as his fists were burning.
"Juvia doesn't know the meaning of the word," The mad woman hissed.
"You're burning up. If you don't stop you could get seriously hurt or worse. Stand down." Natsu urged.
"Juvia won't," Juvia cried out and attacked. Natsu responded by firing a fire ball at her, resulting in a hole in her abdomen. Juvia dropped to her knees, holding the hole in her belly.
"It's over," Natsu growled. "You're under arrest."
"This isn't over," Juvia sneered and turned into a puddle of water and went for the kitchen.
"Hey! Come back here!" Natsu cried out and followed his enemy. Once inside the kitchen, he saw the water of Juvia slipping into the sink. "Crap," Red Dragon cussed.
"Your dad sent those goons after you?" Ichigo asked. He and the others had returned to the tower. Beast Boy was sitting shirtless in the hospital wing and had bandages covering his cut up body. The rest of the Titans were there as well.
"Yes. I haven't heard from him in years. And now he suddenly shows up, thinking he can send some errand boys to pick me up like a package. I don't what he wants and I don't care. He hurt my friends and that is something I won't forgive." Lucy replied with anger in her expression.
"Sounds like you and your dad don't get along well, huh?" Rangiku said as she was also sitting on a medical bed.
"You could say that again," Lucy said, folding her arms. "I did some things back when I was younger that I'm not exactly proud of and dad didn't approve of it. Still, he was unnecessarily cruel when I was growing up. Especially after my mom died."
"What kind of things did you do, exactly?" Ichigo asked, curious.
"I'll tell you guys some day. But for now I'd rather keep it to myself." Lucy replied.
"We won't pressure you if you don't want to talk about it." Erza assured her friend.
"Well, what will you do about your father?" Rukia asked.
"There's really only one thing I can do. I'll have to go back to my home town in New Orleans and confront him about it." Lucy replied.
"If this is something you feel like you need to do then go on. But are you sure you don't want any of us to come with you? He did after all send some dangerous people to abduct you." Beast Boy said.
"Don't worry about me. He's not expecting me to return. He's not so tough when he's being confronted directly." Lucy assured her friends. "I'll be back as soon as I'm finished with him."
"Alright, you take your time. But be back soon though. We're already underhanded as it is." Beast Boy said.
"I will," Lucy replied before leaving the room.
"Alright, everyone out!"
The grizzly bus driver let's all the teenagers getting out of the bus. He mutters them all as trouble makers as every student got out of the bus, with the last one on the back of the bus as she gets up. "I said everyone out, young lady!" the bus driver said as the girl stumbled on the seats She's walking through as she gets off the bus. The driver sneered at the pink haired girl as he muttered "Dumb kids."
Walking down the school yard of the Dressrosa District High School, the pink haired girl wearing circular fake lens glasses, tied her hair into a braid while wearing a raggedy green coat jacket, red shirt, black baggy pants with dirty boots. The girl look like a plain Jane carrying her books to most people but she is secretly the street vigilante of Los Angeles dubbed Gladiator Girl. The students took notice of the pink haired girl, giving her glares. All the students in the yard watches her going passed them as she ignores the whispers and hateful comments thrown at her.
"Ugh, what is she doing here?" said one girl in disgust.
"Man, fo' someone who shares blood wit da murderer, she don't look all dat." Comment one boy dressed as he's dressed like Tupac.
"Yo, no one wants you here, you criminal!"
"Go kill yourself like your granddaddy, Riku!"
"No one would care if you get jumped!"
One student threw an empty soda can at her head. She is then tripped on by another mean student causing her to drop her books. She bends down to pick them up, as she is glared by another girl. This time in the form of a brown-haired cheerleader with three other cheerleaders as their uniforms are colored blue and green, and given their looks at the leader, she just screams "School Diva".
"Poor little Rebecca Riku." The diva said as she smirks at the down girl.
"What do you want, Carly?" Rebecca asked more focusing on picking up her books.
"Carlie Cooper to you, pinky." Carlie Cooper snarled at her. The cheerleader couldn't care less about Rebecca's grandfather or family linage, but what she hates this nerd the most was the fact that Rebecca's the top smartest girl in school. Something Carlie should have and it wasn't fair for her; she's the cheerleading captain, the smartest and head of her classes, until this pink little street rat from a broken home came and outclass her academically. So, Carlie decides to make her the main target and makes sure she's the most hated girl in school. "Better hurry to pick up those books or you'll be late for class, again." She laughs as she and her posse hurries off as the bell rings, as one of the cheerleaders kicks Rebecca's binder away. "Smell ya later, Bitch."
No one bothered to help her, instead they head inside as they mockingly laugh at her. But Rebecca doesn't take it too personal, in fact she could care less about what they think since she's used to this. After she picks up her things and put them in her bookbag she heads down to the door, as she places her bookbag on the table of the security gate.
"Take everything metal off you." The security guard said as Rebecca sighs, preparing the torture of her everyday school life.
[I don't give a damn 'bout my reputation!]
Later after getting off from homeroom, Rebecca walks down the hall about to pass Carlie Cooper and her gang. Carlie smirked as she spilled her soda on the floor at Rebecca's path.
[You're living in the past it's a new generation!]
Rebecca noticed the spill but she only looks up. Once she steps on the soda she purposely slips off the drink. Normally she would just ignore the spill but to cover up her secret identity, she fell on her back. Carlie and her posse laughs at her as well as the passing students at Rebecca's misgivings.
[A girl can do what she wants to do and that's what I'm gonna do!]
Next as Rebecca pulls her homework for her next class, she is suddenly pushed by Carlie. The diva snatched her rival's homework and close the locker door.
[An' I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation!]
"I'll be turning this in for you, into the shredder!" Carlie giggled as she run off leaving Rebecca locked in her locker. Luckily for the pink-haired girl she can pound her way out of the locker, and kept spare copies of her homework cause what bully victim doesn't kept copies in situations like this?
[Oh no. (No, no, no, no, no, no,!)]
During gym class, Rebecca is seen pretending to struggle while climbing up the rope. Only she fells down pathetically, making her look weak and fragile in front of her classmates.
"Good god, Riku! I don't know what's sad, that you couldn't even climb up the rope centimeters from the floor, or you're just that fragile!" the coach barks at her as the classmates laughs at her while Rebecca groans from the "pain."
[Not me. (Me, me, me, me, me, me!)]
This escalates her during exercise as she was doing jump ropes with her classmates. She purposely trips on the rope causing her to fall, as the coach nodded in disapproval.
'Jesus, she's not making progress.' The coach thought as he blew his whistle "Gather around, time for dodgeball!"
[An' I don't give a damn 'bout my bad reputation!]
Rebecca was, as usual, picked last as Carlie Cooper smirked evilly at her. Carlie gives the command "Hit the eel!" she called Rebecca "eel" because of how she slipped at the halls earlier. Rebecca gets plumbed by dodgeballs. Hit her everywhere including knocks her fake glasses fell off from her.
[Never said I wanted to improve my station!]
The balls strike her in the stomach and chest, and they were unnecessarily hard. Eventually Rebecca got hit in the face with a ball thrown by Carlie who smirked in victory as Rebecca falls.
[An' I'm only doin' good when I'm having fun! An' I don't have to please no one!]
Rebecca is continued to get hit by the balls while the couch blew his whistle to stop. Soon the class head down to the changing room leaving a down Rebecca, who only sigh. Carlie just smirked as she steps on Rebecca's glasses that fell off, then skips along to the changing room.
"Crap." Rebecca said as she gets up, picks up her broken glasses and head down to the bleachers with a fake limp to fool the couch. 'Third pair this week. Fake glasses aren't cheap to make.'
[An' I don't give a damn 'Bout my bad reputation!]
At the library, Rebecca with her glasses taped together went to the library, as she greets the librarian. "Good evening, Mrs. Romano."
"Evening, Rebecca. Nice to see you at the library." Replied Mrs. Romano, the kind old librarian who is one of the people who doesn't see Rebecca as the granddaughter of a murderer, but a smart and loving young lady who just want to study. "Yui is stocking up books, why don't you chat with her?"
"I planned on it, thanks for notifying me Mrs. Romano." Rebecca said as she walks to the shelves.
"To you, call me Andrea." Mrs. Romano states seeing the girl walking passed her.
Rebecca search for her friend through the shelves as she hears a scolding voice "Hey! No making out in the school's library, you shameless creeps!" Rebecca moves aside to see two teenagers rushed out as a Japanese girl scolds at them "If I catch you two here again, I will report you two to the disciplinary committee!"
"Teacher's pet!" the boy yelled at Yui while his girlfriend sticks her tongue at her.
"Shameless people." Yui Kotegawa said with a scowling look. The Japanese-American girl has long, black hair passed down her shoulders, brown eyes, light-olive skin, and wears a black zipped up vest over her white t-shirt, which hugs her curvy body. She wore blue jeans and black flats with white socks. She noticed Rebecca as she looks at her broken glasses "Becky-san, your glasses! What happened to them!?" she asked in worry for her friend.
"It's nothing, Yui." Rebecca replied with a shrug "They just got stepped on after gym class."
Yui frowned "Ooh, that Carlie Cooper did this to you, did she?" she demands "That mean girl can't get away with picking on you! I'm surprised that you didn't retaliate!"
"Carlie Cooper is the least of my concerns." Rebecca muttered as she walks to a table and picks out her books and notebook. "So, how's your day?"
The Japanese girl sits at the table across from Rebecca as she replied "Well I had a long day, catching everyone wearing indecent clothing and dangerously short skirts. There are too many delinquents attending this school and I have founded and turned in pounds of drugs from the girls' restroom! Plus, it rained earlier today despite being sunny, what's up with that?"
Rebecca's only answer as she replied "Welcome to L.A." Rebecca said as she focuses on writing her notebook.
"And did you see the news online? Apparently, this leader of the Titans residing in our city, Beast Boy, gropes this shameless girl in a chainmail bikini!" Yui said as Rebecca looks baffled when Yui showed her the newsletter showing the leader of Titans LA groping Gladiator Girl "I'm so glad that you're a pure maiden, Rebecca. Unlike these shameless superheroes who wears revealing outfits."
'There's more to me than you realize, Yui.' Rebecca smirked as she continues to look over her book and take notes. 'Oh well, hopefully the media won't make a big fuss about this.'
Louisiana, New Orleans airport
Lucy exits the airport and sighs at the sight of her home town. She held up her hand for a cab and after about a minute, one finally stopped for her. Lucy enters the cab's backseat and tells the driver, "Heartfilia estate." As the cab was driving, Lucy rested her chin on her palm as she looked out the window, watching the people and buildings pass by. She thought back to her time with her father.
Flashback
A man in his thirties was sitting by the coffee table, with a news paper about a car accident as the front page. The man hung his head in sorrow.
"Daddy?" A three year old Lucy asked, yanking her father's suit. "Where's mommy? When's mommy coming home?" She asked, tucking her suit some more.
"Get out!" He spat harshly and the girl ran away crying.
As the years went by, Lucy tried to get her father's attention but the result would always be the same. He would yell at her and she'd run away crying.
Then she met a blue haired boy at her school whom she starts to date. Which her father did not approve of.
Lucy laid on the floor with a red cheek after having been slapped by her father, who angrily told her, "You are a child of the Heartfilia family and I will not tolerate you seeing that low life. You will start seeing boys of high class and abandon this ridiculous stage of yours and start acting like you are a part of this family, whose name you have shamed enough."
After that, Lucy ran away with her boyfriend on a ride on his bike throughout the country, until one day when they were being chased by the cops.
"Lucy! Come back here! LUCY!" The teenage boy cried out but Lucy didn't turn back to help him as she continued to run, tears leaking down her cheeks.
Flashback ends
"We're here," The cab driver said, snapping Lucy out of her daydreaming. "That'll be 27.50."
Lucy went through her purse and picked out some money and handed it over to the driver. "Here's 30. Keep the change." She said and opened the door so she could exit the cab.
"Hey, thanks." The cap driver happily said.
Lucy took a good glance at her old home. It was a massive mansion with an enormous garden with a large lake that was visible on the backyard. Lucy went to the large gate where a guard was.
"Hold it," The guard said. He was a tall, muscular black man with a mustache. "Who are you?"
"Luke, don't you recognize me?" Lucy asked with a sweet tone.
The guard called Luke raised an eyebrow and further inspected Lucy's face. His eyes widen in surprise. "Lucy?" He said and the blonde nodded. Luke smiled. "I don't believe it. Lucy!" He happily cried out and picked Lucy up and spun her around and the two laughed. Luke put Lucy down and started talking. "I don't believe it. Lucy, just look at you. You look so … decent."
"Yeah, I gave up my punk girl days." Lucy said fidgeting her fingers.
"Where have you been? You just up and left without so much as note. You could've at least said goodbye." Luke said with a hurt expression.
Lucy looked down in shame and she started weeping. "I'm sorry Luke," She said softly. "Not just for running away, but for everything. I'm so sorry for all the things I said and did. If I could take it back I would. I would do anything to-" As Lucy went on apologizing, tears dripping from her eyes and hitting the ground, Luke interrupted her when placing his hand on her chin, making her look up at him.
"Lucy, stop." He said, giving her the sweetest smile. "I was never angry with you. You're not the only one who's made mistakes. I'm just glad you finally decided to come back and tell me you're sorry. I never stopped loving you kiddo. Not even for a second."
"Luke," Lucy whispered as she wept some more and she buried her face into Luke's chest and sobbed. "Thank you Luke. I love you to."
Luke gently rubbed her head in a fatherly way. "There now kiddo. Stop crying and let me see you smile. You know how much your smile lifts my spirit." He said gently. Lucy looked up at Luke and was able to smile. "That's better."
"I wish I could spend some more time with you. But I need to go see my father." Lucy said with a gloom expression.
"Alright. You give him a piece of your mind kid." Luke encouraged.
From a large glass window stood a man, whose face was shadowed, and looked down upon the front porch as Lucy was approaching. Right then, a butler entered the room.
"Sir, your daughter-"
"I know. Send her to me at once." Jude Heartfilia ordered, and the butler nervously complied.
Lucy was walking through the halls of the mansion, being greeted by the many servants who had known her since childhood with much kindness and warmth. Until Jude's butler showed up.
"Young Miss Heartfilia, so good to see you are back. Your father is expecting-"
"Where is he?" Lucy interrupted rather harshly.
"Uh…he's in his office," The butler replied.
"Of course," Lucy said as if it was typical. "I know my way there, thank you." She said, walking past the silent butler. Lucy was at the front doors of her father's studies in less than a minute. She opened the doors and saw him standing by his desk with his back turned. "Father," Lucy said.
Jude turned around, stepping out of the shadows, revealing his face. He was a blonde haired man with a mustache and a stern look on his face. "My daughter," He said, making Lucy feel uncomfortable.
'He still hasn't lost any of his cold demeanors. No surprise there.' Lucy thought. "You sent those Phantom Lord members after me." She accused.
"I did," Jude admitted, not even trying to deny it. "Even though those incompetent trashes failed, I see it at least made you open your eyes and abandon your foolish ways. If you had remained on that rabble of vigilantes I would've kept sending people after you to the point where it would've been destroyed. You are a Heartfilia after all. You have no place amongst them." Jude said in a vicious manor.
"Why did you suddenly want me back?" Lucy asked, ignoring his statements.
"I have made a deal with an associate. And it involves you marrying him. Once you've married this young man, we will be able to expand our family business greatly, increasing our income." Jude replied.
"I figured it would be something like that," Lucy said.
"Now go to your room," Jude said. "The wedding will be in a week. You will receive information about the matter later today. The sooner we get this mirage over the better."
Lucy stood there in silence for a moment before giving her response. "I obviously didn't tell you the reason why I came back. The real reason." She said, giving Jude a curious look. "I'm not here to do whatever it was you wanted me to do. I'm here to give you a warning." She said, surprising her father. "You're gonna abandon your desire to use me for your own personal gains and you will leave my friends alone. If you don't do that my friends and I will abandon our kind quiet peaceful demeanor and come back here and put you on ice. I have no intention of marrying some random guy I've never met before and you're insane if you think I'm going agree to this."
Before Lucy could continue, her father interrupted her. "Well, haven't you developed the backbone? But what makes you think you have a choice on the matter?"
"It's my life. My decision. You have no say in the matter." Lucy sternly told him.
"YOU ARE MY DAUGHTER!" Jude shouted at the top of his lunges. "And you will do as I say!"
"Not anymore," Lucy spat. "And you are no father of mine. You never were. Fathers are kind, carrying and supportive. You were nothing but the opposite. No wonder I turned into that heartless brat I once were. Sure, it doesn't excuse the things I did but you played a part in it when you pushed me in that direction. No more. You may have had control over my life once but not anymore. I am no longer Lucy Heartfilia of the Heartfilia Company. I am Lucy Heartfilia, Celestial, member of the Teen Titans and hero of Los Angeles. Now if you can't understand that, go ahead and send whoever you want. My new family and I will only beat them down and you along with them until you're graveling in the dirt like the worm you are. It's your choice. Just don't end up regretting it once it comes back to bite you in the ass." There was a moment of silence after Lucy said all that before she continued. "I've said what I came here to say. I hope you heed my warning … Jude. I'm out of here." Lucy said and turned to head for the door.
Jude stared at his daughter as she left with anger and frustration. He then got a calmer, yet icy stare and said. "You want me to play it that way? I will be more than happy to." He then turned around towards his desk and pressed the button to a PA phone and said. "Inform Lucy's fiancé that his future wife is being unreasonable. Perhaps he could change her mind."
Lucy was walking towards the exit of the mansion, feeling quite proud of herself. With a satisfied smirk she was about to open the doors when suddenly a figure in the shadows spoke.
"Leaving so soon?"
With a jump, Lucy turned to her right to look at the mysterious man. "W-who are you?" She asked nervously.
"Allow me to introduce myself," The man said stepping out of the shadows. "My name is Malchior. I'm the one you're meant to marry."
"Malchior? Why does that sound familiar?" Lucy asked. She shakes her head and replied. "It doesn't matter. The wedding's of. Go find someone who actually wants to marry you."
"Who says you have a say on this matter?" Malchior asked. Lucy was prepared if this would happen and reached for her keys but in an instant, Malchior was in front of her and punched her in the gut, knocking the air out of her. Lucy lost consciousness and dropped to her knees. Malchior held her up and whispered. "Rest now, my beautiful wife. All your worries will soon be gone."
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