Gizmo Agino- A Past In Shadow
Chapter-6 Attackers, Flashbacks, and Protectors
Okay, this chapter is going to be long, so, bear with me! However, this is a treat for all U Gizmo fans out there! As this chapter is mostly a flashback of Gizmo's (Chiheo's) past (consult the title…..) in Pahora, and his past on Earth. So, read, review, and like it! Or else……….Tee-Hee! Now, on with the fic.
As the Hive Seven entered Miss Sherry's office, she was still sitting her lavish wooden ppolished desk, her seven students entered, Mimi, placing the book on her desk.
Miss Sherry smiled silently, with a look of satisfaction on her face as she silently took the item and placed it in her large desk drawer.
"Thank you. Now go off to bed, as I may have, another mission, in store for you then." She said in a pitiless voice as she gestured for the students to leave. And they did so.
As soon as they were out of sight, her pink cell phone rang…..Brother Blood was calling her.
"Did you get the book?" He asked.
"Yes father, everything we need, is all right here." Sherry replied, thumbing through the think book.
"Excellent, we strike in Pahora first. When preparations are through- Next Wednesday." Blood said, as Sherry nodded, and hung up.
That night, little Gizmo was too afraid to sleep alone, the chills and slight glimpses of eerie dark shadows still loomed about in his bedroom.
So he walked almost silently out into the dark, forbidding hallway, and broke into a sprint over to Jinx's room.
Not even taking the courtesy to knock, he pushed the door open with nothing more than a faint creak. Walking in, he saw the witch was very much awake, reading by the rather dim light her bedside lamp.
"Huh?" She whispered to herself as she looked up, and then spotted her little friend standing nervously by the door.
"Gizzy? It's almost two AM! What're you doing up?" Jinx asked.
"I think I should be asking you the same question." Gizmo smirked as he slowly made his way over to Jinx's pink, full sized bed.
"I kept on getting these weirdo feelings, and seeing shadows 'n' crap. So I can't sleep!" Gizmo said as Jinx rolled her pink, catlike eyes.
Marking the page in her book with her red ribbon bookmark, she placed it over on her bedside table. Picking Gizmo up.
"Fine, you can stay here, but only for tonight! Deal?" Jinx asked. As Gizmo nodded twice, crawling over next to her.
"And don't worry, I've got it planned out, I'll go to a different room each night." Gizmo said smiling, as Jinx giggled. Kissing the top of his bald head. And turning off the light.
Gizmo slowly drifted off to sleep with Jinx, and he still couldn't help but feel that there was something wrong.
The next morning, Mammoth walked in to wake up Jinx.
"Hey Jinx! There's just enough time to make us breakf- Mammoth was cut off by the sight of little Gizmo curled up next to Jinx, both of them, fast asleep. (Aww!)
Just then, they awoke, Jinx letting out a slight shriek of surprise by her friend unexpectedly towering over her.
"So, you like 'em young do ya1?" Mammoth joked as Jinx got up and Mammoth left laughing slightly.
As Jinx went downstairs to get breakfast started, Gizmo walked back into his own room, there, on his wall, it read, in black letters- Keep on trying, you'll never escape my grasp. You'll be dead before you know it! And as for your friends, they're no match for me either.
The child was utterly shaken by this, and called the group up to see it.
"God! Who the fuck keeps on sending these threats?" Steffauri asked angrily, as she used a powerful water blast to wipe the paint clean off of the blue wall.
"I just hope they find the bastard. Sounds like he's got it out for these Chiheo and Orrei guys." Mimi's voice echoed as the two, along with Gizmo left.
Later that afternoon, Miss Sherry had kept her promise, another missions was given to the group.
"Alright, now, listen closely. I need you all to break into the Wayne Tech corporation, and grab me 32-cases, of Zinothium." Sherry smirked as the group nodded in an unsure manner, breaking into the Wayne Tech. was dangerous enough, but screwing around with unstable chemicals, made their day!
Meanwhile Titans Tower, the alarm sounded. And Robin, some sense, felt relieved and excited, as there hadn't been any crime for them to fight all day.
"Titans Go!" Robin shouted as he and the team fled off to Wayne Tech.
There, The Hive Seven were made to heave the heavy loads of Zinothium outside and into Private Hive's Hummer.
As soon as they were about to carry out the last box, the Titans burst in.
"This ends, now!" Robin shouted as the two groups began to fight.
The group mistakenly dropped the cases of chemicals, and their glass containers blew up, and Zinothium splashed everywhere, eating away the floors. But luckily, it had hit no one.
As the fight began to diminish, things got worse, the black shadow haunting Gizmo, and others like Bumblebee in it's way, showed up. And took out the teams alarming speed.
So the SIX of the Hive seven cleared out, knowing too late, that they'd left Gizmo, behind.
And while it killed no one, Gizmo was undergoing more severe treatments from it.
"AGH!" He cried out as it slammed him up against a wall.
The little child lay there, hoping, praying, that it would leave his beaten body alone now.
But it didn't.
"GIZMO! LOOK OUT!" Robin warned in a panicked shout, but when Gizmo looked up, and saw a long, bowie knife, headed for him- It didn't miss.
"AAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He cried out in agony as it pierced deeply through his right side. The figure then yanked it from his victim's frail body, and with that. Gizmo passed out on the floor.
Back in the Hive Academy- "Oh GOD!" Jinx sobbed, as she thought of what could've happened to Gizmo.
"Don't keep on worrying like this! It ain't healthy!" Mimi said, trying to comfort her friend, but it was no use.
"Yeah, I'm sure he's fine! And besides, we'll find him, some how. I promise." Steffauri stated, hugging her friend.
For a few more days, Jinx began to keep hope that her little friend was okay, and he was, but in who's care, she wouldn't like to know.
At Titans Tower- Gizmo was laying in a bed, barely awake.
As he opened his black eyes a little more, he turned, and noticed a nasty, curved line of stitches, trailing from his upper hip all the way to his chest. Where the slash once was. He shut his eyes forcefully, but then looked around once more.
The room was dimly lit and had things like blood pulse and heart rate chartings hung up as far as he could see. Then, the looked to the corner, and saw he was also hooked up to an air tube.
At first, Gizmo thought he might be in the hospital, or the Hive Infirmary, that is until he saw Beast Boy walk quietly through the doors.
"Hey, you okay?" The green shape shifter asked as he walked over to him.
Gizmo found it a little hard to garble out his words, or breathe, but he managed to do so anyway.
"I'm f-f-fine." He muttered, as BB simply nodded and walked to the door, calling Cyborg and Robin into the room.
"CY! ROBIN! HE'S AWAKE NOW!" He yelled at the top of his lungs.
And the boy wonder and the teen hybrid entered. "Is he doing okay so far?" Cyborg asked as Beast Boy nodded.
Just then, Robin kneeled down by Gizmo's bedside.
"Gizmo, none of us saw him close enough, is there anything at all you can remember about him?" Robin asked.
"N-not r-r-really. Just, that he was wearing a b-black cape thing, and- and you could see he had one red eye, but the rest of his face was in s-shadow. A-and he had a knife holster on his right leg, the rest of his clothes were b-black, and r-red." Gizmo stated as his speech slowly returned to normal.
"Good, thanks for that." Robin said as he exited the room. With that, Gizmo lay back down to rest some more.
Meanwhile, in the living room, Hayley, Raven and Starfire were checking the City's crime scanner, the man as Gizmo described was no where to be found.
"Agh! Damn it! We have to find this guy! Before he strikes again!" Hayley cursed as she logged off of it.
"I know, but he's nowhere to be found. And that's the way it is, learn to accept it, no matter how much you dislike it." Raven said in her monotone voice, as she pulled back her blue hood.
That night, Cyborg unhooked Gizmo's air tubes, as he was now able to breathe again.
The group had pizza that night, and Robin kept on asking Gizmo if he remembered anything else, but the answer remained the same, every time.
Late That Night……………. It was about 10:42, BB, Cyborg, Raven, and Gizmo had all gone to sleep.
Now only Robin, Hayley, and Starfire remained awake in the living room.
"But Robin, what if the assassin attempts to break into the tower, and attack the Gizmo once more?" Starfire asked in concern.
"We'll be ready if he does, but- I think I have a solution." Robin stated, as he typed swiftly on the keyboard, and a lavish home with a beautifully crafted black iron fence surrounding it in a large square formation popped up on the screen.
"Please, what does a house have to do with anything at the moment?" Starfire asked as Hayley went on talking about it.
"It's a Pahoran shelter home. They take in any Pahoran, man, woman, or child in need of protection. And since Gizmo's a Pahoran, and he's in trouble, we're sending him there." Hayley stated as Robin and Starfire nodded once.
"And Hayley, you'll be the one escorting and guarding Gizmo on the way there." robin said as Hayley shot up, her azure eyes widened.
"NO FRICKEN WAY! I'm NOT watching over him! It's to risky, on me AND him!" Hayley yelled out. And then Robin did something he new he'd regret.
"HAYLEY! Don't be so stubborn! You HAVE to take this mission! It's your duty! It's OUR duty! Now tell me why you just don't go along with this!" He yelled, as Hayley snatched him up by the front of his shirt.
"Because Robin- I have my reasons!" She replied, her voice now shaking. "Huh?" Robin said to himself, as Hayley's blue eyes filled with tears. "But it's not like you'd ever be able to understand. After my mother I SWORE I'd never let anyone die at my hands Robin! Never again!"
"Whoa, Hayley, I had no idea. I'm sorry." robin said, as Hayley leapt into her boyfriend's warm embrace.
And Starfire exited with a sad jealousy in her eyes. (HA!)
"Alright, I'll take the mission!" Hayley said, wiping away her tears as Robin nodded, and the two walked off to their own rooms for the night.
Back in Hive Academy- Jinx was laying in bed, looking at the stars from her rectangular skylight.
"Oh, I miss you so much. Come back soon, please!" She whispered to herself as she broke out into silent cries.
The next day….. Hayley woke Gizmo up at six, and packed them some food for the trip. And they set off.
The Pahoran protection area was all the way in Harmony City, at LEAST twenty one miles from Jump City. A good ways away.
"Okay, we both need to cooperate to get there safely." Hayley said, as Gizmo suddenly clung to her, tightly.
"Giz, you're gonna make me trip that way! Please let go!" She said harshly, as he loosened his grip, he looked back, and knew that the assassin, was nearby.
About a hour or two later, Gizmo looked up at Hayley and simply said- "Run."
Hayley looked at him questioningly. "Um, why?" The blonde asked, turning to face him, when she saw it.
"Don't ask questions! JUST RUN!" Gizmo yelled as Hayley snatched the child up by the arm and dragged him in midair as she flew. (Gizmo would have, but his tech was damaged in their first fight. –See, everything planned out! Tee-Hee!)
Suddenly, they came to a fault, there was no more room to run, they were on a cliff. The assassin had caught up.
"You are going back where you belong!" The dark voice stated, as Hayley picked up Gizmo, and jumped, but not before the man ripped Gizmo's amulet from his frail neck.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The two cried out as Hayley regained her flight, and took them to a cliff side cave farther away.
It was fairly late at night before they were sure the man had lost their trail.
"Oh, they were expecting us an hour ago." Hayley sighed, warming her hands in the campfire they'd just made.
"Well, there's nothing we can really do right now, so, you wanna just, talk about ourselves, you know, get to know each other?" Hayley said. Gizmo finally nodded once.
"Okay, I'll go first. I was born, sixteen years ago, in the last kingdom of Pahora, Rahiko. And we were in the midst of- And Hayley continued on with her story, for almost 40- minutes.- And then I became a Teen Titan."
Hayley concluded.
"Wow, so, did all that stuff really happen?" Gizmo asked with fascination from his friend's life tale.
"Hell yes it happened!" Was his answer, Gizmo then laughed, and decided to continue with his life story. (Okay, kewlest part of the fic, and the best, is right here!)
"Okay, I don't really know much about where I was born, or where I really come from, but, here's what I DO remember. I was born, in some kingdom on the planet Alaya Pahora, and I remember having lot's of sibling, all of them were older than me. I remembered them by name. I only had one brother, the oldest- Zofeiz, juniper April, Violet, Rosalinda, my adopted sister, Kole, and my fraternal twin sister, Orrei. And then there was my dad, Gizmo the second, and my mom, Katrina, and my grandma, Maoa, that was all living together in the palace.
And that's all I remember from Pahora- that was good at least.
But I did remember when I was one, Orrei and I were separated, and I was given to the Tremaine family here in Jump City, but they made me keep the last name, Agino for some reason. They told me, that Agino meant dark fires. And, I pretty much grew up with them until Hive found and enlisted me.
And that family that kept on visiting me at Hive was the Tremaines, not my real family. I don't even know them anymore." Gizmo said sadly.
"Wow, that's really sad. But, who was that Trinity Erista person that you went to see? Steff, tipped me off about that, in case your wondering." Hayley said.
And Gizmo sighed again.
"One of my unmentioned birth sisters, she died, bringing Orrei and I to Earth. and that's how we were separated. See, Trin was hit by a car, and the guy only found her body, dead, and Orrei, alive. The guy and his wife took Orrei in as their daughter, but like me, her birth name was changed. They called her Melody. And a few minutes after, the police took Trin's body to investigate and burry it, and a woman bystander found me, near the side of the crashed cars. And adopted me." Gizmo finally finished.
"Wow, that's pretty amazing, inches between life and death, and you got you're second chance." Hayley smiled.
"now, we really should get to sleep, we have another long day of walking tomorrow." Hayley said, smothering the campfire, and heading off to sleep, while Gizmo looked tirelessly up to the stars. somehow knowing that Jinx was out there, and worried.
"Don't worry, when this is all over, I'm coming home." He said, with one last look, before heading off to bed.
PHEW! Longest chapter so far! I do hope U like it! I'll keep updating, but YOU keep reviewing!