Cosmix

Chapter 7-Casey

Friend or Foe

"Accursed Green Lantern.." said Cosmix in the back of my head as usual.

He began rattling off some unflattering comments to the boys in green. "Dude just tell me how to beat one!" I pleaded, Amethyst looking at me like I was crazy.

"I can show you personally, I'll just take control." He stated, not waiting for my response.

He commanded my body to jump up and fire two blazing beams of plasma towards John. He created a shield from his ring which obviously protected him.

I could only watch as a large hammer grew over my hand and shattered it into pieces. Now this is the part where I admit being fused with an alien symbiote has it's ups and downs. I get incredible powers and an age old alien who can tell me amazing advice. On the other hand, he has a bad habit of taking over my body for fights.

Honestly as the battle raged on I felt like Cosmix was some kid playing a video game, using the controller to manipulate my every move. I watched as Mordecai and Amethyst fought that weird Red Tornado and three teenagers. One had green skin and a red and white suit, he had turned into a green bear and swung his claws at Amethyst.

The second had a black and red costume with a black mask over his eyes and a black cape, I couldn't help but notice an "R" symbol on his torso.

The last ally to the wind manipulating android was a boy in a red and yellow costume, he had a lightning bolt symbol on his chest. That was all I could describe since he was speeding across the battlefield at a blinding speed. He was moving too fast for Mordecai to lay a finger on him.

The blue jay only groaned in frustration before punching the ground, generating a shockwave which sent the speeding boy to a sudden halt.

But anyway, I had my own issues to worry about. Mr. Stewart had created a giant eighteen wheeler truck. I could only shriek as it crashed into my body, hurling my body into the empty road.

I groaned in agonizing pain as my opponent flew over me. "You're tough kid, but you've still got a lot to learn…" he told me, creating a large cage around me.

I wondered why Cosmix still wasn't taking charge. I tried ripping off the bars of the cage, but to no avail. "You really are pathetic aren't you." Said the symbiote in a condescending tone.

I didn't have time to argue with him, I tried harder to break free but I was clearly wasting my time. "If you're not strong enough to break out and fight this weakling! I've really wasted my time on you!"

I gritted my teeth in annoyance, I generated a powerful burst of plasma energy which disintegrated the cage and caused Mr. Stewart to crash into a wall.

As he struggled to get up, I remembered how the former air force pilot was one of my favorite heroes. My big brother and little sister would always get so excited when he was on the news.

My train of thought was interrupted by a series of loud, ear piercing explosions. I looked up to see a purple and green bomber plane flying slowly in the skies. Purple metal spheres fell from it whether they fell to the ground or the top of a building, the spheres detonated.

Mr. Stewart glared at me, before flying up to the plane. He quickly contained the entire vessel in a green orb. But something strange happened, the plane began to shift form. It changed into a large robot humanoid. With one red eye and massive green claws. "Foolish human!" declared the monstrosity before punching his way out of the sphere.

Before John could probably react, the robot punched him down to the ground. I quickly flew up and caught him. "Thanks kid, damn Decepticon.." he muttered before the strange machine fell the ground.

The impact caused a brief Earthquake. "From the order of the glorious Lord Megatron! I shall carry out Lord Fuse's orders and wipe this city off the map!" he declared before picking up a large trunk and hurling it into the air.

This seemed to gather the attention of the others. Amethyst had left lash marks over Red Tornado's crimson shell. While Mordecai had given the boy in red and yellow an impressive black eye. "Hey!" declared the blue jay as he jumped up and punched the truck back towards the lone Decepticon.

"Come on dude!" yelled Amethyst as he prepared to face the attacker at Mordecai's side.

"Those are some powerful friends you've got there." Said John as he watched the carnage, resting on the ground.

"The bird dude hits hard." whined the boy in yellow as he and the others walked towards me.

"Yeah sorry, uhm I'm Casey." I told them all, not exactly anxious to get back into fighting.

The three teenagers introduced themselves, the boy with the shiner was Impulse. The guy with the mask and steel bo staff was Robin and the green boy who sported a monkey tail was Beast Boy.

Mordecai and Amethyst were clearly holding their own against the Decepticon who called himself Lugnut. But before I could rush in to help, I heard a loud guitar solo from the distance. It caught everyone attention, without a word Red Tornado flew off in it's direction.

For a moment, I wondered why the others weren't going after him. But seeing their bruises and what not, I couldn't blame them. "So what Fuse has Decepticons working for him?" asked Beast Boy in a somewhat high pitched voice.

"Looks like" replied Robin.

"Okay what the hell? Why are you guys so hellbent on arresting me?!" I barked.

"Well some Plumbers detected a strange life form that landed on Earth the day the war began. DNA scans proved that it was completely unrelated to Fuse. Normally that would've been taken care of immediately." explained Robin.

I could understand how distracting a mass alien invasion could be. "Two weeks after we heard news stories about some dude with freaky alien powers, the Plumbers brought this up to the League and decided that these two events were connected." finished the young hero.

"So you guys hear that I've been a hero and still thought I was bad news?" I asked as I heard loud punches and a whip snapping.

Impulse began to speak, "Well normally we would've tried to recruit you. Having a guy like you around would be crash, but had something to say about that.."

The same man who had regained some of his wounds began to speak. The fact he wasn't trying to fight off Lugnut, reassured me that Mordecai and a certain purple skinned girl didn't need the help. "I've seen that symbiote before kid!" he declared as he pointed as my chest.

"Ignore him..." moaned Cosmix, I could tell his discomfort.

"Kid that thing using you as a half-way home is a race of symbiote that the Green Lantern Core has been tracking for centuries!"

"Those Lanterns have murdered my people without trial! They punish us all just for the actions of a few!" barked Cosmix, I could hear his anger swelling up.

I didn't do a thing, but before I could stop Cosmix. I saw my hands try to bash skull to pieces, waves of anger and malice that didn't belong to me washed over my mind.