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Now heads up people. Several stories will be AU so don't expect everything to be like in the games or comics.
Summary: After getting his HQ, Changeling heads to Fate's Tower to persuade and old friend to join his team.
Hudson Valley, near the Bear Mountain Bridge, one week after the incident in Fawcett City
"Late as usual. That part of him never changes." An irritated Steve Dayton growled.
"Calm down, Steve." Rita told her husband. "You know how he is. N no matter how strong he gets some old habits die hard. Be grateful at least one of them showed up." She said, eyeing Captain Marvel next to them, who laughed sheepishly, scratching the back of his head. Then they heard thunder.
"Ho, Captain Marvel, ho Steve Dayton, ho Rita Dayton. Thor has arrived." The thundrer said, landing gracefully before the group. "I apologize for being late. I had to vanquish the villain known as Evil Star before coming here." Thor explained and looked around him. "Where is Garfield Logan? Shouldn't he as the leader be the first one here?"
"You'd think that. But him being his usual self remains too lazy and immature to take anything seriously." Steve replied, still irritated.
"Now, now Steve. Is that any way to talk about your adopted son?" Garfield asked, landing before the group in the shape of a hawk. He transformed and had a huge grin on his face when he saw the mansion behind everyone. "Love what you've done with the place."
"Where have you been, asshole?!" Steve shouted.
"Pub-hopping," Garfield replied as if it was a casual thing.
"Let's just get it over with," Steve sighed.
"Welcome to your new base of operation," Rita proudly said, opening the large gate to the mansion grounds. The yard was huge with several trees and bushes spread delicately around the lawn. It also had a fountain located in front of the mansion entrance. The mansion itself was three storage tall renaissance stylish building with crystal white walls and red roof.
"She's a beauty, ain't she?" Garfield said, grinning. "This is where I used to live before my parents moved to Africa. They had a common taste in the old renaissance style. And now it has become a superhero HQ. Come on let's check out the interior." He said, leading his team towards the entrance.
Once inside, Rita started explaining. "The mansion may look rather of date on the outside, but its inside is a state of the art. It has a full kitchen, thirty bedrooms, a TV room with a plasma screen TV and a mini bar as well as an entertainment room."
"Look forward to seeing that one," Garfield said with a grin.
"It also has an outside pool with an outside Jacuzzi to match," Rita went on.
"This place is freaking awesome," Captain Marvel said with excitement.
"Yes, but it also requires a lot of care." Rita replied. "But don't worry. You can leave that in the tender care of these two." She said as two people entered the room. The first was an elderly man who looked like he was in his late sixties. He was dressed as a traditional butler with white dress shirt, purple vest, gloves and a purple tie. He had grey hair, pale wrinkly skin and teal colored eyes. On his left eye he wore a monocle. The next person was someone Garfield immediately liked. She was a young girl who appeared to be around nineteen or twenty. She was dressed as a maid, (A.N: And no, not as a sluty maid. A normal maid) had tanned skin, blue eyes and blond hair that went down to her upper back.
"Greetings master Logan." The elderly man said in a thick Brittan accent. "Allow me to introduce myself. I am Gregory Winston. You may call me Winston. (OC)" He politely said with light bow. (A.N. from now on whenever an OC is introduced I'll mark them with the initials OC).
"And I am Serena Winston, his granddaughter.(OC)" The maid said with a bow.
"We'll be the caretakers of the mansion." Winston said.
"Wow-ho, you two are spoiling me." Garfield said to Steve and Rita. "We've got a cool butler and a cute maid. Can things get any better?" He said with excitement, making Serena blush at being called cute.
"This place sure is amazing, but how will luxury help us fight crime?" Captain Marvel asked.
"I was getting to that," Rita said. "This way, if you may." The group went to the fire place in the TV room. Rita stood in front of the fire place and pulled the clock on top of it and the fireplace moved aside, revealing an elevator. The elevator toke them to a large underground facility. "Is it to your liking Gar?" She asked the shape shifter who was gleaming with excitement.
"This place is so cool!" He cried like an excited child.
"Well we haven't gotten to the best part yet." Rita went on. "This facility contains a hanger with two fully operational fire fighters or Quinnjets as we call them, capable of mach 8. It also has a training room with similar designs to the X-Men's. It has about 10 levels. The first level has the fire power of over twenty tanks."
"That seems a little low," Garfield said with disappointment.
"Well then, maybe you should try level 10 right away," Steve said with a grin.
"It also has its own holding cell. You know, for interrogation before handing them over the authorities." Rita continued. "It also has a state of the art science lab."
"Since when were you into science?" Steve asked Garfield.
"I'm not. It's for when we get a smart guy to join us." Garfield replied with a grin.
"And in here," Rita said, halting in front a large door. "Is the assembly hall." She opened the door to reveal a large hall with a giant screen computer at the other end and a round table at the center. "From here you'll have access to everything that goes on around the world. Security cameras, villains records, you name it."
"With the exceptions of those are labeled top secret by the world's governments." Steve said with his arms crossed.
"What? But the top secret are the best parts." Garfield pouted.
"We're not above the law, Garfield." Steve sternly reminded his prodigy.
"This is all so much. I mean what do we have fire jets for? All three of us can fly." Captain Marvel said.
"It's for when we recruit more members to this team." Garfield replied. "You don't expect everyone to have wings, do ya?"
"Well, not really." Captain Marvel said, scratching the back of his head.
"Speaking of which, you guys didn't bring any new recruits?" Garfield asked.
"As the team leader, is it not your job to decide who joins the team?" Thor asked.
"Well yeah. But I trust you guy's judgment. If there's anyone out there you approve of then its good enough for me." Garfield said with a toothy grin.
"You've only known us for a week and you already trust us that much?" Captain Marvel asked.
"I wouldn't have you join my team if I didn't," Garfield replied.
"Has he always been this trustworthy towards others?" Captain Marvel asked Steve.
"Not always," Steve replied.
"Well, you two make yourselves at home. I'm off to Fate's Tower." Garfield said before heading for the door.
"What? What're you gonna do there?" Rita asked.
"To pay an old friend a visit." Garfield replied before disappearing.
The Tower of Fate
In the center of a dark room, sat a familiar young woman, cross legged and levitating from the floor. This purple haired girl was once a founding member of the famous Teen Titans, Raven. She had several lit candles laid out in a circle around her as she was in deep mediation. Her surroundings suddenly became bright and in an instant she was engulfed in a bright flash of light. She opened her eyes and she was met with an apocalyptic future. Everything was in ruin and on fire. She didn't look all that worried though. Honestly she was seeing these vision so many times now it was starting to become a drag.
"I know you're there," Raven said, turning her head slightly to the left. "Why do you always linger in the shadows?"
Out the shadows from the ruins of a building came a middle aged woman, resembling Raven. It was her mother, Arella. "You don't seem the least bit disturbed by what you see, my child." Arella spoke.
Raven crossed her arms and rolled her eyes. "Please mother. The heroes of the world have prevented the apocalypse, again and again. Not even Trigon succeeded. What makes you think that this will be any different?" She ranted.
"Because, my child, this is a doomsday caused by one of the heroes of the world." Arella replied, making Raven's eyes widen in shock.
"What? Who?" She asked/demanded.
"I do not know." Arella replied, closing her eyes. "The future is constantly on the move. Alternative futures are being made every second. This is just an alternative future. It can still be prevented."
"Not unless I know the cause of it. How can you be so sure that a hero will be cause of all this?" Raven pressed on.
"As I saw glimpse of what caused this future I could tell the man who did this did it unintentionally. Obviously he didn't know what he was doing." Arella replied and looked up into the sky. "Look," She told her daughter who complied. What Raven saw shocked her beyond belief. The sun was split in half. "Whatever that person did to cause all this obviously had something to do with that."
"What the fuck could split the sun in half?" Raven wondered out loud.
"Like I said, I do not know the full details about this." Arella replied. "All I know is that it will occur on may 16, three years from now."
"Well, at least I got a date. Thank you mother." Raven said.
"Always, my precious child." Arella said with a motherly smile. "I really wish we could have conversations that weren't about the end of the world."
"Maybe some other time," Raven said before the same bright flash of light from before engulfed her and soon she was back in her room. "If only," She sighed. Then someone came knocking on her door. "Who is it?"
"It's Inza." A woman's voice said on the other side of the door. "Raven, you have a visitor."
"Who?"
"He told me not to tell you. He said he wanted to surprise you." Inza replied, confusing Raven. Never the less, if it was someone who was allowed inside Fate's tower it should be safe.
"I'll be right there," She replied. A few minutes later, Raven walked into the library where both Inza and Dr. Fate. "So, where's this so called friend of mine?" She asked when suddenly a pair of green hands covered her eyes, darkening her vision.
"Guess who," Garfield said with a childish grin.
"So you were still alive, Garfield." Raven replied.
"What the…? How'd you know it was me?" Garfield asked, pouting.
"Green hands are a dead giveaway in your case." Raven replied and so Garfield removed his hands so that she could turn around. She expected him to be at least at her height but she was surprised to see that the level of her head stopped at a rather large plexus. She looked up to see Garfield Logan's new appearance. She couldn't believe how much he had grown, much less how manly he looked now. "G-G-Garfield? You look so…so…so…"
"Manly? Handsome? Muscular? Dashing? Pick one." Garfield said with a confident smirk.
"Taller. You're taller." Was Raven's response.
"Taller than who?" Garfield asked.
"Than me," Raven replied.
"Ravy, I've always been taller than you." Garfield replied with his fist on his hips.
'Last we saw each other you only reached as far as my nose.' Raven thought.
"That aside, come here you!" Garfield said, excitingly, wrapping Raven in a hug, making the girl yelp a little. "It's so great see you again, Raven! I can't believe how much you've grown. You look so womanly now." He said jumping up and down with her in his arms.
"Cut it out! Put me down, you idiot!" Raven said irritably.
"Oh, how I have missed hearing this. Only you can call me idiot with so much feel to it." Garfield said while nuzzling her breast with the left side of his face. 'Raven's boobs. Her glorious boobs. They always were rather big for a fourteen year old and now that she's a full grown up they're massive. In fact they may be the biggest ones I've ever seen. And judging by the feel of them I can tell. They're real. I'm in heaven right now.'
After finishing that sentence he was hit in the head by a massive fist made of black aura. Raven had hit him with her magic so hard that he was left lying in a crater on the floor.
"Jeez. When did you become such a pervert? Just because we haven't seen each other in seven years doesn't mean you can say those things and fondle my breasts like that." Raven said with a mix of irritation and embarrassment.
"I said all those things out loud, didn't I?" Garfield asked in muffled sound as his face was buried in the floor.
"Well, it is expected." Dr. Fate said. "Garfield Logan is finally coming to grips with his dormant powers. He's more at peace with his inner animal."
"You know how my powers work?" Garfield asked, getting up from the crater.
"Of course. After all, Ava do visit quite often." Dr. Fate replied, which surprised Garfield.
"You know Ava? How?" The shape shifter asked.
"Ava has been friends with every sorcerer supreme from fist to current. The first one did after all help her create the Irosaru." Fate replied.
"No shit," Garfield said wide eyed. "I never bothered asking Ava the origins of the Irosaru so this is news to me."
"You were with Ava this whole time?" Raven asked. "Why didn't she ever tell me any of this?"
"Who knows? It's impossible to tell what goes on in that whacko's head." Garfield said walking over to Raven. "Now come on you. Let's get going." He said, picking Raven up and flung her over his shoulder.
"What the hell? Put me down you idiot!" Raven shouted.
"Don't bother showing us the way out. I'll find it." Garfield told Fate, ignoring Raven, as he walks past him and his wife who looked oddly at Garfield. Well, if fate didn't have his helmet you would tell he had odd expression on his face.
"Garfield Logan, you put me down this instant!" Raven demanded while kicking. "Where are you taking me anyways?"
"To introduce you to my team." Garfield replied with a grin.
"You have a team?" Raven asked in disbelief.
"Yup. And you are going to be our first female member." Garfield replied.
"Wait. I didn't agree on this!" Raven insisted.
"Don't be so selfish. I'll make that decision." Garfield said.
"That's make you more selfish than anyone here!" Raven cried as she got more irritated.
"Look, I want at least one of the old gang on my team. Victor as already rejected me as he doesn't wanna be a superhero anymore. Kori is still somewhere in space and Nightwing …well I doubt he'll ever take orders from me. And if you turn me down that'll just break my heart." Garfield said.
"You're just unbelievable. You just come back from god knows where after seven years, show up to sexually harass me, then pick me up like I'm some sack of meat and suddenly you think you can decide my own life for me? What kind of sick person have you become?" Raven asked. Silence filled the room as Garfield just kept walking, while picking his ear. He turned his head to look at Raven and said.
"Did you say something Raven? I wasn't paying attention."
Outside the tower, more familiar shadowy figures were hiding in the bushes.
"Oh man, what're we doing?" A gruff one said. "This is the home of Dr. Fate. He's one of the powerhouses of the Justice League. He's probably stronger than Superman."
"Will you quit your bitching, meathead? We have a plan in case Fate becomes a problem." A small one said.
"But it could very easily backfire." The gruff one insisted.
"Cut it out. We'll deal with that when it come to it. For now, let's just wait for Raven to show up." A woman said.
As she finished this, the magical door to Fate's Tower opened and out came Garfield still carrying Raven, who was even more pissed than before.
"Hey look. It's Beast Boy." The small one said.
"Sweet. Two Titans in a row. This'll be fun." The gruff one said, slamming his right fist to his left palm.
"I'm counting to three, Garfield." Raven warned. "One, two…" She didn't get to finish as Garfield finally put her down. "That's what I thought."
"I've decided." Garfield said, confusing Raven. "I've decided on how to convince you how to join my team."
"You seem more persistent, unlike seven years ago. That annoys me." Raven growled.
"Let's spar. If you beat me I won't bother you again about this. And if I win, you my team." Garfield suggested.
"You're gonna beat me? In a fight?" Raven asked, checking to see if he was serious. He was. "Last I checked you never once were able to beat me whenever we sparred."
"That was seven years ago. I've changed." Garfield said with a confident grin.
"So have I," Raven replied. "I'm nothing like the girl from back in the Titan days."
"So do we have a deal?" Garfield asked.
"You're seriously going to go through with this?" Raven asked, raising an eyebrow. "It'll be you funeral."
"Oh, shut and punch me already." Garfield demanded with a grin. But before they could even start, a missile came at them. Luckily Changeling saw it and rushed towards the purple haired sorceress. "Look out Raven!" He shouted and pushed Raven out of the way as the missile struck the ground, resulting in a large explosion. Raven wasn't hit by it, thanks to Changeling but the latter was not so lucky as he was sent flying into the trees, burned and covered in blood.
"GARFIELD!" Raven shouted in terror.
"Hehehe. One down, one to go." The gruff on said, catching Raven's attention. She stared at her attackers with rage evident on his face which turned into surprise. It was the HIVES. Gizmo, Mammoth, Billy Numerous, Kyd Wyld and Seemore. "Remember us, bitch?" Mammoth asked.
"You're too ugly to forget," Raven hissed as she got back to her feet.
"She's grown quite an attitude hasn't she?" Billy asked.
"Then let's teach her some manners," Gizmo said, bringing out his mechanical spider legs from his backpack.
"The ones who need to be taught a lesson here are you people," A familiar voice echoed. A cross shaped light appeared in front of the villains as Dr. Fate came to view. "You are trespassing. Surrender now and I will be gentle." He warned.
"Sorry, but were out for revenge." Gizmo said before he attacked, being carried by his mechanical legs.
"You're way over your head, inventor." Fate said as he raised his right hand to form a magical shield in front of him. He was shocked however when the shield was ripped apart by Gizmo's robot legs. "What? How?" Gizmo took advantage of Fate's initial shock and dug the sharp tips of his legs into Fate's chest. Blood came gushing out of his wounds on his chest as well as dripping out from the bottom of his helmet as he was coughing up blood. 'This is…'
"I think you're the one who's way over your head," Gizmo taunted as he dug his knives further into Fate, causing the supreme sorcerer to cry out in pain.
"Stop it! Get away from him you freak!" Raven shouted as raised her right hand to fire some of her dark magic on the midget. But before she was able to do that she was tied up by a pair of bolas, which had been thrown by the other villains. "What's this?" She asked as she dropped to her knees. "Why do I feel so weak all of a sudden?"
"Damn. Nth metal really do work. This was easier than I thought." Billy said with an arrogant smug.
'Nth metal?' Raven thought. 'That special alien metal from Thanagar that disrupt magic. No wonder we're helpless, Fate and I. there was no way either of us could've seen this coming.'
"Haha. I'll go to history as the guy who killed the infamous Dr. Fate." Gizmo said with an evil grin. "You brought this on yourself when you stuck your nose where it didn't belong. Now you're gonna die." He said as he was about to deliver the killing blow.
"STOP IT!" Raven desperately cried out.
Her prayers were heard when a flash of green came straight at Gizmo, sending him hurdling into Mammoth's chest. Raven stared in utter shock. Standing there, cover with blood and burn marks, was Garfield, whom she could have sworn was caught in an explosion.
"You damn fool. That missile really hurt!" Garfield shouted before turning to Raven.
"You don't know the meaning of the word pain!" Gizmo spat back but was ignored as Garfield went to undo the knots on Raven.
"Geez, and here I thought you said you've gotten tough. Maybe I really should reconsider letting you join my team." Garfield said as he freed Raven from her bonds.
"Shut up. They caught us by surprise. We didn't expect them to used nth metal." Raven said, irritably.
"Nth metal?" Garfield asked.
"Dr. Fate!" Raven cried as she rushed the Fate's side.
"Heal Fate's wounds. I'll deal with these losers." Garfield said, facing the HIVE.
"You're the only loser here! You've always been the weakest link among the Titans, Beast Boy!" Gizmo shouted.
"My name is Changeling from now on. But you can call me whatever you like. I don't care." Changeling said as he started stretching for the fight.
"Why you…" Mammoth hissed.
"Stay back, weakling." Another mysterious figure said as it approached the battlefield. This was wrapped up in paper, making him look like a mummy. "I'll take it from here." The others stepped aside for the man whom Raven immediately recognized, just from hearing his voice.
'Malchior,' She thought with disgust.
"Wow! A real walking mummy. That is so cool!" Changeling said with his eyes gleaming.
"I am not a mummy you fool. Don't tell me you forgot about me. Malchior the Dragon." Malchior replied irritably.
"You don't look like a dragon," Changeling replied, nonchalantly.
"Allow me to refresh your memories." Malchior said as his body started to glow. His size changed as he grew larger and larger and suddenly it toke shape. Then the glowing died down and he was now an 80ft long black dragon. "And now you die."
"Oh, yeah. Better give run while you can, freak. Malchior is more powerful than all the HIVE combined." Gizmo said with an arrogant smirk. Changeling however was just picking his nose as he was unimpressed.
"So you turn yourself into a dragon? Still not so impressive." He said.
"He-he's picking his nose," Billy said, dumbstruck.
"You insolent human filth! Begone!" Malchior shouted as he attempted to step in Changeling, who just jumped back several yard.
"Takes a dragon to beat a dragon," He said and suddenly, he started to transform. His skin grew scales and his fingers gained claws. His tongue became forked and his teeth sharp. Wings grew out from his back and he grew ever larger. His new appearances surprised everyone on the field. Changeling has successfully turned into a dragon identical to Malchior. Only green.
"Garfield. When were you able to…?" Raven wondered as she kept healing Fate.
"Ha! So you can shape shift into a dragon now? Big deal?" Malchior said, unimpressed. "You humans are nothing more than insects trying to place yourselves higher up on the food chain. That dragon form is nothing more than an empty shell. You're just a …" Malchior didn't get to finish however since Changeling punched him square across the face. The black dragon rubbed his sore cheek as he glared dagger on his opponent. "Why you…how dare you?"
"I'm sorry. But you were just standing there, ranting like an idiot. If you won't attack then I will." Changeling replied.
'He can talk in animal forms now?' Raven thought.
"Very well. I will turn you into ash now." Malchior said before breathing in and breathed out his hellish fire on the other dragon, who just stood there and let him get hit.
"Ha! Serves that wimp right." Gizmo said with a grin.
"This is what happens to idiots who think that they can take on our boss." Mammoth said with the same evil smirk as Gizmo.
"Hahahahaha! That takes care of that." Malchior said, feeling proud of what he just did.
"Thanks for the warm up!" Changeling said as the smoke cleared. Malchior and the HIVEs were shocked to say the least. Changeling was still standing and hadn't even received a scratch. "Now it's my turn." He said.
"W-wh-what are you?" Malchior asked as he couldn't comprehend what had just happened.
Changeling inhaled before letting out a breath of fire, much larger than Malchior's. The HIVEs just barely jumped out of the way as the fire went by them. All the plant lives around them started to dry out from the heat emitting from Changeling's flames. 'My skin is suddenly so dry.' Raven thought. Once Changeling was down spouting fire, the smoke cleared the reveal Malchior standing there, looking half dead and shaking. After a few seconds he fell face first to the ground.
"Wh-what just happened?" Gizmo said as he and the other HIVEs were on the ground, after having witnessed their strongest player fall.
"OH MY GOD!" Kyd Wyld and Seemore shouted simultaneously.
"What is it?" Mammoth asked turning to them and saw what surprised them. The mountain that was positioned in the distance had been hit by Changeling's fire. A large chunk of the mountain was now gone.
"Damn! I thought I was holding back enough." Changeling said as he turned back into human form. "I gotta learn how to control my powers better or else someone important might get hurt."
"He-he was holding back he said," Gizmo said nervously.
"That aside," Changeling said turning to the other HIVEs. "There are more fuckers who need to be taught a lesson." He said with a grin.
"Wait! Wait! Wait." Gizmo said, holding his hand up. Then pulled out a white flag from out of nowhere. "We surrender." He said as he and the HIVEs smiled nervously.
"What? Is it over already? You guys were always so boring to fight." Changeling pouted.
'I'm actually kind of glad they attacked when they did.' Raven thought. 'Garfield, you've gotten so much stronger. There's no way I could have beaten you. And you know that.'
Behind the tress, the woman from before had seen the whole thing and was mighty shocked at Changeling's powers. She quickly recovered and ran away as fast as she could before she would spotted. After making some distance she brought out a communicator of some sort.
"This is Madame Viper. The HIVEs have failed us. We cannot trust them. But we've got a bigger problem on our hands. Predator has returned." The woman said.
"Excuse me, Madame Viper. Did you just say Predator?" The man on the other line spoke.
"Yes."
"Then we need the baron more than ever."
A.N. Wow, I've just realized I'm building up too many plot holes. It's time I start filling them up. Stay tuned for the next chapter.
Preview for the next chapter.
"Changeling, I'd like you to meet Blue Beetle."
"All hulk buster units, open fire."
"Hulk smash stupid green man"
"What I need in order to change the world is in The Cube."
"Ross and Shield calls the Hulk a Monster. They're wrong."
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