Chapter 31
Apprentice Changeling.
Hello, there everyone. this chapter also includes, short stories and behind the making of apprentice changeling and stuff like that.
1) did you know after completing the first chapter, I completely deleted it and rewrote it as what it is now.
the original story was like this..
firstly, beast boys' age in the first chapter was 16 not 12-13.
Secondly, the warehouse in the first chapter wasn't selling beast boy but weapon's and beast boy tries to stop them only for him to get beaten and about to die. luckily Batman comes and saves him and offers to tutor him and act as a spy for him in the new group established by Robin called teen Titans.
this was my second story, after Beelzebub which was my first. if you see the first chapter and current chapter then you would have noticed that, there was a huge change in writing style as well as the length.
I have a bad habit of taking other people's story and copy paste it. some people call it inspiration, some call it stealing and others say free use. I say thank you and sorry for being a jerk.
the story has changed alot from the apprentice changeling i had in mind.
every chapter takes minimum of 20 days and every time i write i try to make it as long as possible. this forces me to read other fanfic, manga, light novel and even a couple of hentai(for research purposes only) and i put those words in and before i know it that sentence which i added had kicked the story to a new direction and this had happened so much, even i am curious as how the original story i had in mind would have ended.
Chapter 30 took one year to write mainly because. There was no source material for me to steal..i mean burrow, so i was in new water. New job, i left my old job and got a new one and i loved the place, i put all my focus on my work. lastly, i not blaming the reader's. i got one review for one chapter, so i was like... maybe people aren't interested in the story. I felt more disinterested in the story.
And the main reason, i had no idea where this story was going. i mean literally i was asking the reader's to give me an idea for the story. i had no idea how the story would end. but now i do have a clue.
For now that's all the sharing i got.
Onwards with the story.
"Are we there yet" speedy asked, boredom clearly in his voice, from the front seat of the Jeep as he looked out the window.
"no" beast boy, currently driving said as he didn't leave his eyes off the road.
"what's so special about where we are going" kole asked as she and her cave man friend, gnarrk sat in the back.
"to meet a friend" beast boy told her.
"can't you tell us at least where we are going" kole asked
"if you can guess the place, then I will tell you"
'Hello' a voice said inside speedy's head.
'...hello' he responded a bit confused and worried about his mental health, boredom usually did crazy things to his head.
'Don't worry, you aren't crazy. I am using my telepathic power's to contact you"
'..and who are you...wait that voice' he couldn't forget that voice
'don't bother pretending'
'Raven' there was a brief pause from Raven's sides. 'there was no was I could forget a girl like you'
'sorry, didn't mean to scare you that much'
'me, scared...ya right, it takes a lot to make me even flinch let alone scared.'
'well sorry, I try to be less intimating next time'
'again I wasn't scared, in fact I through you were cute...ish"
'excuse me' raven asked from the other side and speedy could already feel the killing intent.
'actually why did you contact me exactly'
Gathering her marbles 'everyone is meeting together at the school, I recommend you come as well' with that the line got cut.
"school, hm?"
"how did you know" beast boy asked him. "and by the looks of it we should arrive by another five minutes" beast boy told him.
"That makes things easier" speedy said as he could feel his boredom leaving.
Hospital
Gizmo walked down the staircase before reaching the underground flood and headed straight to one of the rooms.
As he opened the door, he was greeted with the sight of a small kid. A girl at least the age 7-8.
"hey, how you feeling?" Gizmo asked as he entered the room.
The girl got up with a frightened look before relaxing. "gizmo, it's you"
"who else could it be"
"...no one" the girl said as she looked away.
He knew she was hiding something but he didn't want to press her so, he ignored it.
"I found something that might help you" gizmo told her as he takes out a short but thick roll of bandage "I think you wrap this around you.
The moment the bandages were the wrapped around her, they started to move on there own, connecting one end with another and formed a circle around her before enveloping a glow all around her.
it seemed as if time itself has reversed itself as the small bruises all fixed themselves as if they were never there to begin with. The light stopped glowing after a minute and even her dirty clothes were back to perfect condition.
"wooow, what was that?" the little girl asked in complete amazement.
"just something a... co-worker gave me"
"you mean a friend" the girl asked
"no, I don't have any friends...not anymore" gizmo said as a bitter look came on his face.
"what happened" the girl asked. Gizmo has been pretty secretive about himself from the beginning but she wanted to know more about him, she truly considered gizmo her friend.
At first gizmo wanted to downright shut down this conversation but the voice and the way she spoke, he didn't know why but his head bent down and his eyes closed and the words started to come out of his mouth on there own.
"I was born with a disease. my body didn't grow like normal, I was small... smaller than everyone else. It got worst, when I was 10 years and I was already in 7th grade...I kind of skipped couple of grades. My body might have been small but all nutrients that didn't go into my body went to my brain...I was the best in class...hell, I was the top in the entire grade." gizmo suddenly stopped and his face went from gloating to a sad look
"but, that didn't stop them. The better I did the badder they got. They were bigger and I hated myself for being me, for being small...I stopped, I started to fail in exam's on purpose, came late... didn't do any of the assignments. I was afraid and I wanted them to stop...but they didn't...it didn't get better... eventually I was pushed and pushed and one day...it was chemistry class...I was angry. no, I was beyond angry and the guy who was responsible was there...just laughing so hard. I took a tissue paper and put some sodium co...let's call it a powdered chemical before wrapping it up and used a rubber band to fling it.
That was an important day, it was the day I learned many things. I used my calculating skills to measure the distance and height, I had to fire it if I wanted it to work. I fired the chemical wrapped paper perfectly in to the beaker and the mixter of chemicals fizzed..like crazy. It might have been dumb luck or karma but a bit of the chemical that fizzed fell into his eyes. His eyes began to swell and he started to cry out in pain but I couldn't help but laugh, I didn't feel any pity or sympathy for him.
The matter escalated his swelling didn't go down and he was hospitalized because of that he missed a important game and missed his chance at getting a sports scholarship and he eventually had to move to a different School because he couldn't afford to study there. With him gone I thought that there was not going to be anymore bullying... but I was wrong, foolishly wrong, I got bullied by new guys.
Those two months opened my eyes. I stopped getting hurt and started to hurt others back, I took revenge on everyone but in the end I got found out and got expelled. A week later I got an application letter for HIVE, that they wanted me in there collage.
"Well that's my story"
"that's so sad" the girl cried as she hugged him.
"well, it's alright. I became stronger.."
"but you didn't have any friends"
"I don't need friends" gizmo said as he turned away but a part of him felt like he was lying to himself. "let's just drop the topic"
"soooo...give me a minute" she said as she put her hands on her head and brainstormed her head looking for a new topic.
Gizmo couldn't help but look at the little girl in a bit of sympathy, he knew what was in store for everyone, even her. He kept telling himself that all are bad and evil and if he wasn't stronger then he would get simply eaten up by it all. So, he acted tough, he spoke rudely and insulted everyone around him, but everything was minor. Now that was changing, he had created a super weapon for the justice league- one that could be the end for them. because of Kerberos the world would be split and maybe even a war and the casualties would be too great to even calculate and this little girl could be one of them.
'Am I doing the right thing' gizmo asked himself.
"I got it" the girls yells before looking directly at him. "why aren't you fighting like the rest, back then you were like Strong and other's couldn't even touch you"
Gizmo smiled a bit he felt a little pride and dare he say it a little big headed. He looked at her and thought for a couple of seconds and told her honestly "I don't want to fight"
"me neither" she said as she again started to look around, maybe something that can start a new topic.
'my communication level is zero' gizmo thought as he racked his brain for anything to say.
"what was that" the little girl shirked and her voice changed from Sunshine's to the darkest of night's in a drop of a dime.
"it's probably nothing" he said as he reassured her, but it had no effect. Maybe because she was too scared or he himself wasn't too sure of what he just said, maybe both.
"I've go and check it out."
"wait, will you be ok"
"of course, you saw how strong I was right"
gizmo flew threw the halls using his backpack, the backpack actually came to him. apparently it had a feature where it goes back to him if separated and at the sound of a certain frequency noice.
'the sound came from here' he deducted based on where the sound had originated. He moved through room after room. 'it seems as if there was a struggle' he observed that some chairs had fallen to the ground and bullet holes on the walls.
'what ever did this might be in the other room' gizmo thought as he looked at the joint room before grabbing the door nob.
The doors slowly opened and gizmo flew in with a pistol in hand. He did a full circle of the room and after seeing nobody there did he lower his pistol.
It was a bad choice as the moment he lowered it, a girl in a cat mask appeared in a sec and threw her dagger into his head and out the other side.
"sorry kid." the girl said as looked at him.
"don't be" gizmo told her seemingly unhurt.
"I wasn't apologising for the fact that I killed you, I know the difference between a hologram and a human body" the girl told him as she took her knife from the ground "I was sorry that I was not able to give you a quick death"
"your cheshire, aren't you" the holographic gizmo asked the girl.
"ain't I popular" cheshire said as she looked at him "well, it's always nice to meet a fan but it's time I cut this conversation short"
"you are not going anywhere" holographic gizmo said as the disk in the ceiling opened a gap before dropping a ball that looked like an explosive in every sense of the word. That would have been no challenge for her but the ball the moment it touched the ground became five and then twenty five and so on untill the room it self was filled with that bomb.
"holograms" cheshire said as her feet went through the bombs, she didn't know whether if there was only one explosive or more...there was a possibility that there are no explosive at all and everything one of them is a fake.
"I have a couple of questions and you are going to answer them, if you don't then.." he left the threat unfinished.
Cheshire looked around the room, she could try but it was risky. 'guess I have to play along'
"your answer"
"sorry"
"why did you come here" gizmo repeated.
For a moment she stood there as if thinking it over a moment, then answered.
"the truth is I formed a small team consisting of me and six others. one of them saw how you fought and thought you had some special ability or something. so we followed you here and we were about to unleash a surprise attack, a quick and painless one for you and mainly, the kid. We aren't monsters"
"keep telling yourself that but in the end. you already know where people like us end up. There is no happy ending, there never will be" gizmo said with a serious look on his face.
"well, speak for yourself" cheshire said before continuing "speaking of monsters, that is what happened here" she gestured to the room.
"seriously, if you are making a story up. try making it as convincing as possible"
"believe me or not, but what I say is all true. We came here for you but what awaited was a monster."
"why didn't I hear any of the commotion then"
"silent field, we activated it the moment we saw it, for stealth reason."
"your still going with that story. I mean you're telling me that a group of seven which includes someone like you, fought a single person. completely out numbered but still he pulled out a win" gizmo asked her skeptically.
"no, he didn't 'pull out a win', that would imply that there was fighting" cheshire told him and before he could interrupt her she continued "our gun's, grenade's, power's nothing worked on him. He was strong and had the personality of the joker."
"why should I believe you"
"All I have to say is when you're attacks don't work then don't be shocked. Oh, ya I forgot another thing you scanner won't work, even if he is in another room next to you it won't show him at all, I learnt that the hard way" cheshire threw a electrified knife at disk on the ceiling canceling out the hologram of gizmo and the bombs leaving only one. Taking it as her chance she jumped out the window and out of the school.
Another side of the school gizmo sat with a blank screen, the connection having been cut. He could detonate the bomb but he didn't want to, so he simply closed the lab and call it quits.
stomp*stomp*
The sound of heavy foot steps brings up his attention. Staying very quiet he lands on the ground and looks at the scanned for nearly enemies only to find there were none.
A thought arises in his head that maybe what he heard was nothing more something falling but that went out his head as he saw the silicone of a large man Walking past the door...a really large man.
He didn't want to believe her but he wasn't given much options.
Being as quite as possible he opened the window and attached three grenade's to a drone before flying out of the window, before sending it out to meet that giant man.
It didn't take long for the sound of an explosion to be heard but checking his kill count it was still only four. There were many possible way he could finish this.
"What's happening to me" he told himself as he flew down to the ground floor and made his way to the underground rooms to where the kid was.
"what happened" she asked him.
"nothing much, let's leave. there are plenty of other things to see" gizmo said as he started to pack what all they needed.
"There is someone here, isn't there"
Realising that there was no point in lying to her "ya, there is one guy out there but he isn't a big deal but we are still going to get out of here"
A little smile appeared on her face.
"come on hurry up" gizmo told her as they both quickly got ready and headed out.
"so where are we going" the girl asked gizmo, who was busy taking out orbs from his bag looking for the right one.
"don't know do you like the Sea side or farm or maybe a small town like place" seeing he wasn't setting any response he stopped searching and looked towards her.
Her face was pale...very pale, her body was trembling as if she was shacking from fear. It seemed as if she wanted to saying something but no words came out.
Turning around to where she was staring at he saw what made her this scared.
There under the door, The giant of a man stood, A crocked smile on it's face as it stared down on them like toys, toys that were about to be trashed. he was so big that only his head and left arm had gone through, for a moment it seemed as if He wouldn't be able to enter because of the size difference of the door but that was shattered in a sec as the monster just pushed through the wall around the door as if it wasn't even there, breaking it with ease.
The monster now stood in the hall, his height easily towered over the ceiling and he even had to bend down a little to properly fit.
"get back" gizmo screamed as he threw a flash grenade at the monster. Before destroying the ceiling with a thermal cannon above him to give a one way out of there. he grabbed her before flying out through the hole.
"aaaa..." gizmo turned around to see that the invader had grabbed one of the wings of his jet pack and crushed it.
"go" gizmo told her as he dropped her on the above floor and turned around and shot the giant in the face with two thermal cannon for hands. "go, there are couple of car's laying nearby, take one and go. I will catch up"
"your lying, let's both leave together"
"it will be alright. I can't fight while protecting you" gizmo told her.
"hurry up, ok" she cried as she ran away.
"ok, Mr monster. Let's get serious"
"AAAAAAAAAAA" a loud pitch sound echoed through out the room.
Spider like legs grew out of Gizmo's back before a thermal cannon appeared on them. The monster charged at him but was pushed back as ten cannon were fired at him in quick succession simultaneously.
The onslaught of attacks continued without rest, never ceasing. This continued five minutes and neither side was giving an inch.
A smile appeared on Gizmo's face "I guess I don't have to hold back anymore"
Gizmo's backpack opened up and a tube came out before melting and wrapping up gizmo.
"Morph" Gizmo's body changed smoothly and fluidly before taking a shape of that of humanoid robot (accel world: silver crow)
"activating background music: Destiny by Netflix"
The giant in the blink of an eye covered the distance between them as he brought his foot on the ground that gizmo was standing on seconds before.
"your faster and stronger" eight legs of metal came out of his back before it changed into thermal Cannon's, these one's were more powerful. The thermal Cannon's changed there direction to the ground and Gizmo's arm morphed into a wrecking ball "but I am better" blasting off at the speed of a rocket, he hit him with enough force to throw him back.
"Hahahahahahahaha" The giant laughed his voice booming all around them as he got up. Picking up the corner wall like a piece of rock before throwing it at gizmo.
Reacting fast gizmo ducked under it before quickly looking back at the giant, but he was no longer there, using the thermal Cannon's as a booster her jumped to the side as fast as possible as the giant landed where he just stood, destroying the ground around him.
The giant slowly emerged with a smirk on his face before standing in what looked like a fake or pretend fighting style.
gizmo glared before racing towards his opponent with fists ablaze. He aimed for a punch to the skull, but the giant avoided the attack and went for a palm strike to the chest. However, the silver humanoid twisted his body harshly so that he rotated out of the way and went for a low kick to the back of it's knee. The attack struck home and the giant was sent off-balance before gizmo sprung upwards to deliver a powerful uppercut to the chin.
The giant leaned backwards and avoided the strike but not the second one straight punch to his sternum. The giant caught both arms and grinned widely before he proceeded to kick gizmo in the chest.
Gizmo's eyes widened as he felt the force of the kick as it dug into his body. The air was forced out of his body before he was sent rocketing through the air. Following up the attack as he brought his arms backwards and then thrust them forward with a great deal of force.
The shock wave sent gizmo further into the ground and continued to push him along, carving a trench in the earth. Gizmo was even forced through the wall of the hospital he and the giant were fighting in, resulting in him appearing in another room similar to the one from before.
gizmo groaned as he rose to his feet. This guy was incredibly strong and he felt familiar, but he didn't dwell on it as the giant aproched towards him. gizmo slammed his Cannon's on the ground as a trail of fire rushed forth from his point of impact. The giant ignored it as it came at him, only to stop as a few pieces of rubble was set aflame and was hurtled at ridiculous speed.
The giant took a stand as he put his hand in a x shape and took the attack head on. Most of the projectiles hit him head on while the rest passed over his head. Once gizmo had used up all the 'ammo' the giant pushed off from his position on the ground to propel himself.
"Man, you really are a monster" gizmo said as he got up and charged at him. Eight Cannon's glowing as they got ready for what looked like the end. The top four Cannon's turned to the back while the bottom four still pointed to the front. Both of Gizmo's hands fused together and became what looked like a wreaking ball of Spike and fire, before taking a leap at the giant.
The Cannon's fired and due to the difference in direction they were pointing, it resulted in a barrel roll of fire.
The giant and the ball of fire met at the center. The impact of the hit brought the giant to his knees. The force increased and increased before
The giant chuckled before raising his arms and pushing the force back and canceling the entire attack.
gizmo got up and sent forth two punches to the torso, but the giant slapped them aside before raising his knee to block the follow up kick. He then pushed the humanoid away before delivering two crushing punches to the stomach that had him keeling over.
The giant delivered a strong knee to Gizmo's face as he was still hunched over, snapping the teen's head up, whose obviously in pain as he held his pain filled face only for the giant to deliver a kick to the side and send gizmo skidding backwards and hitting the wall.
"I am done, I don't have enough health left." gizmo said as he bent his head. The giant smirked as he started to aproched towards the fallen fighter.
Explosions all around as the building started to shake.
"but that doesn't mean I am just going to lay here and take it" Gizmo said as the shaking increased. The liquid armour melted off and gizmo was back to his baby like form.
The giant frantically looked around as he was trying to make heads of this situation. the building was shaking and it also appeared as if the building was falling towards them rather than down.
"Haven't figured it out yet, allow me to explain" gizmo told him "I knew I wouldn't win, so I had drones lay explosives all around in such area's that when they are set off, the left side will tilt to the right and the right to the left and guess where we are.
The giant looked around and realised that gizmo was right. they were in the center of it all, the building was coming down and they were at the heart of it all.
Jumping as high as possible the giant tried to get out of the soon to be burial ground. All the efforts were but for not as more and more chunks of building fell and fell on him and lack of footing put him back.
"walk out of that bitch" gizmo spoke as what last remaining light that was left disappeared as the entire building collapsed onto them.
"The building it.. it fell" the little girl said as she looked back at the building from the moving car. "you think he is alright" she asked while sobbing.
Cheshire looked at her wrist the name gizmo darkened and then faded altogether. Looking back at the crying face, well she didn't really know how to break it to her.
"he is perfectly fine, he is mostly back in the real world" Cheshire told her as she patted her head "how about this, once this is all over. you go visit him"
"..." there was no response as the little girl kept staring at the hospital building or what was felt of it before it completely went out of sight.
school
"why don't we split up and cover more ground" speedy suggested.
"You sure" kole asked as little worry in her voice "it could be dangerous"
"we put our lives in danger everyday to protect innocent people"
"what does this have to do with innocent people"
"let it be kole" beast boy told her before turning to him "if you want to do it solo, then be my guest, but know your limits and don't forget to ask for help"
"I won't" speedy told them as he ran the other direction while screaming "let see who finds the most"
"it's not a competition" beast boy shouted back with a sigh "but I am still winning" and finished off with a smirk.
"boy's" kole said as gannrk made a sound "what do you mean you want to win as well"
Roy Harper knew life wasn't easy, that it was hard and mean and would bite you if you weren't careful. He knew pain and he knew pleasure, and he also knew how alike the two could be.
Roy tried not to tie himself down, to be elusive and mysterious like the shadows in the night, that was his ideal, how he had planned to live his life.
But… as Roy soon learned, life doesn't always go according to plan.
There was something about that girl...raven that he couldn't really place his fingers on. was he smitten by her? don't know? did he find her interesting? Definitely yes? was he running through out the entire building while she chased him with a hail of plasma blades like an idiot? hell yes.
"where are you?" raven asked as she walked into the new room and started to look around. before the sound of something falling on the floor caught her attention..a grenade.
BOOM
"not bad, but you got anything else" raven asked as the plasma shield disappeared of her.
"why are you doing this" speedy asked as he got out of his hiding spot.
"testing you" raven said indifferently.
"why" speedy asked as he doged a blade.
"to see how good you are" raven told him as she took out her pistol "even I also at a disadvantage, this isn't my power's either"
"well you don't act like you are having trouble with it" speedy shouted from his hiding spot.
"I am just that good"
"fine if you want to fight, then let's bring it on" speedy shouted as a crossbow appeared in his hands.
"no gun's?"
"no gun's"
"very well, you passed"
"what, I wanted to see what kind of person you were, I got high recommendation from beast boy so I wanted to see for myself."
"you already met him, but we just got here like ten minutes ago"
"we talked telepathically" raven answered him.
"now what?"
"we go and join the rest" raven as she directed him to follow.
"you tried to kill me" speedy asked "so, do you do that to all the guys you meet or am I just that special"
"..." raven didn't say a word, ton of experience with beast boy taught her that if she gave a reply then it would just humor him.
"either your really shy or you don't want to speak with me" speedy edged her on, it was dangerous but with his kind of work danger was either you or the one in front of you.
"..." still no reply from raven as she kept on walking and only stopped when she felt speedy stop in his tracks.
"I need answers, you called me here, then you try to kill me and now you are leading me to somewhere without even telling me anything about it, I am sorry but that ain't happening"
Raven looked at him for a moment with her usual eyes before speaking "I never said I won't tell you anything. I didn't respond to your unwanted or flirty comments"
"firstly, I wasn't flirting. you wouldn't last two minutes if I was flirting." he replied with his chest up and full of confidence "secondly, you'll never find a guy with an attitude like that"
"I already have a guy" raven interrupted him. "I much as I like to talk to you about my personal life, I would like to remind you that there are people waiting for us" raven told him as she gestured for him to follow.
"wait... wait what" speedy asked her as he ran behind her. "who... at least give me a name"
Beast boy
"so what now" bumble bee asked
"now we wait" cyborg told her.
Currently, he, beast boy, kole, the cave man and bumble bee were in the same room, waiting.
"so how many more are going to be coming"
"the last are here" beast boy said as he looked towards the door.
The door opens as raven and speedy walk in.
"are these two the last who will be joining us" kole asked.
"yes, we are" raven replies as she takes a seat on the chair.
"since we are all new to each other. why don't we introduce ourselves. I will go first" beast boy spoke as he got up.
"my name's beast boy, my real power's allow me to transform into any animal in this world. I am one of the members of teen Titans. here my power's are pretty much Sonic cannon and heat blast"
"then next is me" raven got up "my name's raven, my ability is empathy as well as spells. here my power's are plasma control and ice wall."
"and your seeing..." speedy asked.
"whoever she wants" bumble bee replied. A gesture of gratitude was shared from raven to bumble bee.
"I don't know why you care so much who raven is dating" beast boy asked him.
"I don't care" speedy replied as he waved it off. "it's that she won't tell me so I am interested.
"your a child" bumblebee
"I understand completely"
"there both children"
"well me and cy are her teammates, so believe me when we say that they are pretty serious" beast boy told him before gesturing to cyborg.
"name's cyborg, half man - half robot, power's, well what all a cyborg can do. here I can cast hex to destroy things"
"hex, haven't seen that in a little while" beast boy commented. while his corner of his eyes look at raven to see there was a little troubled expression.
the introduction went on from one person to another...
"so now that we are all know each other why don't we move on to the matter at hand." raven said as all eyes were on her.
"we lost a member, Starfire, she wasn't alone she was with a team over all consisting of four members including her and they were wiped out by one person, control freak."
"is he that strong"
"in the real world, a little, but here...we don't know but it highly likely that he is." cyborg told them.
beast boy said as he looked around the room. "the reason for this meeting is to establish a counter attack team"
"aren't you overestimating this guy" bumblebee asked a little unsure of how many people are needed for one guy.
"it's not only him, they are strong opponents all around, people who get there hands on cheat like ability and get consumed by them"
"aqualad and wilderbeast were both defeated and they both had there original power's" raven told them to support beast boy's line of thought.
"we will give it a try, to be on the safer side." raven spoke before addressing if there were any other issues and seeing there were none the meeting was officially over.
"Then this meeting is officially adjourned. everyone stack up, pack up, gear up and trade off anything you don't want or need. We leave in twenty" With that the meeting ended.
Cheshire
she gasped over the at the little girl in the car. She didn't know why she did it but when she saw the little girl standing in front of the hospital door looking as if she couldn't make up her mind whether she should go back inside or run away from there.
"hey there, little girl. what might be the problem" cheshire asked her as she approached her.
The kids face went from worry to shock to fear to dought to confusion and finally determination.
"I am not supposed to talk to stranger's."
cheshire couldn't help but smirk a little "but we aren't stranger's. I know gizmo and gizmo knows you, so in a way I know you"
"if you know him them could you help him, he is fighting with a monster right now, can you please help him"
"No" cheshire replied as she started to walk away.
"why?"
cheshire simply pointed to the hospital building. A lot of explosions rocked the huge building "he can take care of himself"
"then what am I supposed to do?"
"he asked you to run from here didn't he?" it was more of a statement that a question and got a nod for a reply "very well then, let's get going" cheshire said as she sent a team up request to the little girl.
"wait but gizmo..."
"will be able to fight a lot more better if didn't have to worry about hurting you in the process" cheshire said as she opened up a car door and monitored her to get in.
Seeing that they were all set up, she sent a message to gizmo through the team radio
"I will keep her safe, in return finish him off"
"I guess I don't have to hold back anymore" gizmo voice sounded through the radio before the connection ended.
Flashback end
"where do you wanna go"
"the sea, he said he would take me to see the sea"
"I don't really like water but I will make an exception" cheshire told her as she looked at the sky. The sun was setting and the darkness has covered the entire sky.
Raven
"seriously, one thing to always be doing this at the T-tower but here as well" beast boy asked as he leaned on the railing on top of the roof.
"I love looking at the sky, especially the night stary sky"
"and think?" beast boy add
"and think" raven confirmed.
"Penny for your thoughts"
"my thoughts are worth more than Penny's"
"how about two dollars" playfulness all over his voice.
"still not enough"
"how about all my love" beast boy whispered into her ears while placing his hands around her.
"you went down" raven whispered while returning the hug "but I will take it"
"fine, how about when we return back to the real world I could do you some favour" beast boy purred in her hears while rubbing her back. "I am not hearing a no"
"fine stoooopppp" whatever reasoning she had left went out the window the moment beast boy started to nibble at her ear.
Grabbing her waist he hoisted her up and placed her on the railing, so now she was in a sitting position.
"you crazy...here?" raven almost shouted "there could be people watching"
"so it's ok if we were alone"
"..." no response from raven equalled a checky beast boy.
"we better get back to them, twenty minutes is almost up"
"jerk" raven yelled at the retreating figure of beast boy, his image becoming redder and redder...wait what.
Looking around she was saw that it wasn't only him but everything around was becoming reddish colour.
"raven, are you seeing this" cyborg shouted from his radio
"if everything is red then, ya I see it too. but what's happening"
"the sky raven, the sky"
Looking up she was greeted by the sight of a red moon, so red that it lit the night sky red.
Announcement:
Apocalypse mode is now active.
A horde of zombies ran, claws fangs and poison spit at ready. The target was a single girl. Her golden hair moved with the wind. The zombies cleared the grasslands, there was nothing to stop them from ripping the girl apart.
Shake shake shake
The last sensation they felt before the earth they stood on swallowed them all up.
Control freak
Monsters... big and small, black and white, hairy and scaly... monsters of all kind ran hid and did whatever they could not to be killed as control freak walked past them.
"are you all scared of little-o-me" he asked to the darkness around him, because of his life detection skill. He knew he wasn't alone...not even in the least. "it's alright, even I am a little scared of myself"
That's it for this chapter.
The story of how beast boy became Kerberos
A well lit room full of training equipment and in the center was a circle painted on the ground. The circle itself wasn't special but what made it unique was the two combatants.
On one side stood a fifteen years old boy, his skin green and ears sharp. The other side was a robot the size of a fully grown man and even a bit larger.
They both fought, the kid using whatever he had learned and instinct verses the special sparing robot made especially for hand to hand combat.
the battle was even at first, even a little favorable to the little boy but as time went on, exhausting took effect and the robot eventually came out the winner.
"it seems you improved in your training" slade spoke while he took looks at the tab that held information about his student.
"master, when did you get here"
"i was here from the very beginning."
"but i been here for more the four hours"
"it's a trick that takes a lifetime to learn but pretty useful"
"can you teach me, how to disappear"
"with your level of patients, not in this life" slade responded with almost a chuckle.
"you don't have to laugh about it" turning his head while sulking.
"don't make that face Garfield, i came her to see how much you have progressed and I'm quite pleased with what i saw today"
"really?"
"yes, i was. that is why we are going to start something new today"
"a new training, what is it?" Garfield asked with a big grin on his face.
"you will have to wait and see" Slade told him as monitored for him to follow.
After a bit of walking Garfield reached a brand new room he had never seen before. entering inside he found what seems to be a torture room. There was everything there knives, things that looked super scary and even a man on a table.
"so master, what exactly is this"
"you will be learning how to torture, interrogate and many more." Slade replied
as he stepped upto the bound man on the table.
"I feel as if I know him"
"that's because you do, I understand that you don't remember, he was but a minor appearance in your childhood but that doesn't change the fact that he was one of the people that used you, made you steal, hurt you and much more." Slade told him while giving him a scalpel "and today your going to hurt him back"
"I don't know" Garfield face was full of dought. He didn't like any of the guys that were part of gang's and the one's that used him to steal and stuff like that, but the guy in front of him wasn't that guy. this was a man who lost all his strength, a face about to cry there nothing but pity from Garfield to this man who had once hurt him.
"I am sorry but I don't want to"
"I see, it's fine I will teach you the proper torture methods a later date" Garfield let out a breath he wasn't aware he was holding only to catch it again "for today I will show you how to withstand pain"
"what" through a chocked voice the question left Garfield's mouth.
"I will let you choose, either you or him"
Garfield's mind went a mile a minute thinking of what to say. in the end he chose. "I choose pain withstanding training today"
"very well" Slade motioned for one of the robots to move him before turning to beast boy "have a seat and make yourself comfortable"
'i can do this, I experienced things people couldn't even begin to imagine. I can do this' firming his resolve "do you worst" Garfield's best tough voice, which came out a bit ok, told Slade.
For the first time in how long he knew his master, this was the first time he even heard him laugh, "you can't handle my worst"
The 'training' took three hours and was the most pain he had ever felt in his life up to that point.
"1000 minus seven"
"993"
"your Mind is still intact, good and with this we shall end this section. We will be having a section every week end" Slade told him as robots came to assist Garfield who couldn't even get up "you still have a choice, it's either you or him" and with that Slade left.
There training kept continuing week after week. it was after the seventh week that Garfield had finally said yes. He started practicing on torturing. At first he was hesitant and did minor things, such as pulling out nails and cutting flesh only to pour salt water, but after a few more section, his personality went a complete 180.
His rage, fear, helplessness, sorrow, every horrible things that had happened to him. every emotion that he had bottled up had finally broke and in doing so he felt a sense of liberation. After that he took active part in torturing his captives.
This was how beast boy started to really change from beast boy to Kerberos.
A short story
Garfield sat down on the train next to the window, even if he couldn't see anything he still loved how the wind blew his hair.
"Don't forget to drink lot of water, always stay hydrated" the sound of a woman, maybe a older women in her 40's.
"yes mother" the voice of a girl replied.
They continued exchanging information. How to sit, not to speak to stranger's, not to put her hand out and other generic things untill it was time for the train to depart.
He didn't know much about her, how she looked or if she was fair or not but he knew that her voice was pleasant to the ear and she wore sandals and to his opinion they also sounded pleasant.
By the sound of the window opening she was sitting at the other end of the row to a window seat.
"Hello, there"
"what" the girl responded a little startled "sorry, I didn't know you were there".
He wondered whether he was sitting at the dark side of the train. well maybe it's just that, those who can see tend to miss the small things.
"I didn't see you either, I just heard you coming in" he replied. "is this perhaps the first time your traveling alone"
"yes, you found me out" the girl confirmed his suspicion "I always travel with my mother so this is the first time I am by myself but I don't think this should count, I just going to visit my dad in metal city."
"that's just two stops from here"
"like I said it doesn't count"
"I think it does"
"let's agree to disagree"
"yes let's" Garfield told her as he rested his head on the window. "actually what do you see outside"
"huh, why don't you tell me from your side"
He couldn't tell her he couldn't see, guess he had to play his luck. putting his face next to the window. his world was now black and white. The wind felt like that of a forest and the moment of dark silloets. It was worth the shot.
"I see a forest. I don't see much animals, I see roods made of dirt but most importantly, I see a girl with quite a interesting face"
"your very bold" the girl replied, her voice didn't give any indication that she was offended by his words.
"thank you but I bet you hear this quite often"
"not as much as you think but I have been told that by people here and there but they were all family" she paused in her words "your quite gifted, I think this is the first time in my life that I spoke to someone this casually"
"well if we are complimenting each other that I would praise you voice. for I swear that I never heard a voice this Devine"
"oh my, you really are bold"
"you have to be if you travel as much as I do"
"where are you heading" the girl asked him.
"jump city"
"lucky you, I always wanted to go there"
"it is a good place and by any chance you go there please do visit at October, there is a feast."
"a feast?, is it grand?"
"quite" Garfield confirmed her "Grand in such way that the night sky is filled with colours, the sound of laughter fills the streets and the smell of food is all around"
there a pause "That does sound grand" before the compartment filled with comfortable silence. the only sound being the sound of train wheels grinding on the tracks before the hault.
"it seems I reached my destination"
"so it seems"
The girl got up and walked out the only thing left is the sound of her sandals that were getting smaller and smaller and the sweet smell of her perfume. The sound of someone new entering greeted him. His game would start a new and with a new player.
He would have loved to continue his game with her for longer but alas good thing always end fast. She might not remember this encounter with a stranger for longer than she reaches her house but he won't be able to forget her even after his journey, maybe then some.
"hey, there" the new person greeted him. a guy maybe the same age as him by the sound of his voice. "sorry your new companion isn't as good looking as your previous one"
"you saw her, if so. would you be so kind as to tell me whether she kept her hair long or short"
"I wasn't paying that much attention, sorry" he said as he sat down "what really caught my attention was her eyes"
"how so"
"She had beautiful eyes, but it is for waste"
"why"
"you didn't notice, she was blind".
If you were wondering how gannrk's introduction went.
Gannrk got up and began his introduction "Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk GannrkGannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk Gannrk GannrkGannrk Gannrk Gannrk " and with that he sat down
kole gave a thumbs up "good job"
"impressive, if I say so myself" beast boy commented.
while the rest stared blankly.
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