Ch.4: And All That Ever Was
Logan's head was spinning in directions he couldn't control. He wasn't to the Titans front door when the changeling was hit with the dizziness. He felt like he was going to vomit but he kept his cool until he reached the main room of the building and watched his son run upstairs. His body cracked like he was popping his green fingers but he wasn't. He cough and started to hyperventilate and then the emerald man who grew up in pain and love fell to one knee and slammed his head onto the soft carpeting near the love seat. The emerald eyes flickered with senselessness and he was captured in total darkness.
As the warrior went into a deep sleep another hero cam through another hallway and found him lying on the floor. The man's hair was long and slick with lightening blonde highlights. His teeth were sparkling and he wore a normal civilian suit. It was a blue shirt with a red jewel incrusted bird dangling from his neck. He wore long blue jeans with big black lugs with blue streaks. It was the once Robin and now Nightwing Richard Grayson with a black pair of sunglasses shading his eyes from the world.
"Logan! Logan! Holy shit someone get in here!" he yelled as he ran to the green one's side.
Someone had heard the ex-boy wonder's calls and ran into the large room. A tall caramel young girl, she had long soft brown hair and love filled green eyes. She wore a light lipstick and wore a small delicate like shirt with flower rims, she had on tight apple bottom jeans and high heels that clicked as she speed up to reach the room.
"Sarah! Thank god, its Garfield, he's passed out on the floor!" said the bird man in a rushing tone.
"Let me see him, he's probably asleep." She smiled.
"No he's out, I know he sleeps like a rock but this is different." He sighed.
The metal man's wife walked into the room and removed her wedding ring on her left arm. The color in hr arm faded and the slick metal silver and blue metal hand that resembled Victor's but much smaller cam out of the camouflage. She placed her metal fingers on the changeling's neck and felt his pulse, it was normal but he was out.
"He passed out, but I don't know why? It's so weird." The female Cyborg sighed as she shook him with a laugh.
"Well let's take him to his room and lay him down. He'll wake up soon." Nightwing laughed as he lifted Logan up over his shoulder.
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Inside Logan's Mind
The emerald warrior was falling down into the darkness, his eyes closed but soon there bright color splashed open and the former Beast Boy looked around in confusion.
"Hey wait a minute! I have been here! This is my inner mind! But then if this is my inner self then were little me?" asked Logan out loud.
Just as the changeling said the words he hit the black ground with a loud thud and Logan rolled over on to his stomach and pushed his green body back onto his legs.
"I will never get used to myself." sighed the green one as he walked on the hollow floor below him.
The floor soon became lighter and ended at a large movie theatre in his own mind?
"What the hell?" he asked to himself.
The entire floor was carpet with red seats and a projector screen at the front. The green man sat at the first seat at the railing and looked around with utter bafflement. As he sat in a velvet chair the screen began to play with a soft rattling. The lights went out and Logan was left to watch a movie in the darkness.
What he saw was shocking
The 'Movie'
Malice sat in a small vent shaft somewhere in an unknown area. The assassin was watching a small room the vent leaded to, the room was covered in dark velvet with a large black table with a chair on each side. On the sides and end of the table were three cloaked men, one was small and twitchy, while the second was medium sized and calm sitting in a perfect peace. The last was a huge monstrosity big enough to be called a mini van and sighed in his silence.
Before the servants was a tall man, he had long blue hair down to his shoulder's and wore a black body suit with midnight blue armor pieces. In his right hand was a large blade with a skull on the sheath and curved into three spikes at its edge. His face was a pale white and his eyes were an empty blue, his left ear had a hoop earring and his chin had a small blue beard. The man was Riku, the forgotten demon of Jump City.
"Gentlemen, I have called this meeting upon us with good news." said the son of the devil in a cold heartless tone.
"This better be good sir, I had to leave a batch of beautiful babes alone in my room with no one to screw them!" yelled the small warrior with an Australian accent.
"Quite you reached scum! Mr. Price does not need to hear about you and your whores!" yelled the large one with a deep and frightening voice.
"That is enough you two!" hissed the leader of the Price Passions.
"Sorry master." sighed the two hooded villains at once.
"Now I have much to discuss with you, but first I want you all to meet my new assassin." He laughed in a joking matter.
Malice gasped in the vent shaft as he watched the dark lord raise his blade up and pierce the floor with it.
"Here rises a presence that is the existence of the crumbling of time itself! A being so powerful that it can walk amongst the land of the living and that of the dead! He goes by many names, but only known in the dead as Rave! He walks upon worlds forgotten and descended from the heavens to watch the death of all mortal things, the departed he will guide to the path he has chosen! Rise Rave and take your new form!" yelled the dark lord as his eyes sank into his head and fire rose from the ground.
Six cards of fire rose from the hole in the earth and they spun around in a spear causing fire to spin and take shape. The shape was made of pure hellfire and blackness from Riku's body flooded the fire. The shape was now pure black and finally the shape was made. The flames were a man, he was very tall and thin, his pale skin was covered by a three piece black suit with clean shoes and a small black hat. His hair was long and slicked back with gel. His nose was sharp and long like his dagger like fingers sipping through the sleeves of his suit. The man's eyes were non existence like there was none there, only fire. His eyes were completely engulfed by flames inside of his body like windows in an oven. His teeth were sharp and shark like.
"I am very glad to meet you Mr. Price, my name is Pain." smiled the freaky looking man.
"I thought you said he was called Rave?" butted in the small Servant.
"I go by many names my fellow warrior; I choose my name by my appearance. I have no real form I am a guard dog for Satin himself and get my power off of human sins!" laughed the creature as it bowed before them all.
"Did you hear all of that Malice?" mumbled the dark lord as he looked up into the vent that the once assassin sat in.
Malice glided threw the small compartment with his shadow powers and appeared in front of the group. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small blade attachment and slipped it into his right sleeve and took a battle pose.
"I thought you knew where I was, if you didn't then I would have been disappointed" laughed the shadow ruler while he looked at the 4 opponents with a sense of doubt and backed away a few steps.
"This will be a good test for you Pain, destroy my ex-assassin to prove your worthiness." hissed the son of Price as he looked over to his former partner and looked back over at the new one.
As the dark sinner was about to approach the ex-assassin, everything went black and then nothing.
In Logan's Mind
"What the hell! I need to see more than that! Malice! Is he o.k.?" screamed Logan into the darkness.
"Don't worry, he's o.k. he sent that footage to us." came a voice he recognized all to well.
Out from the darkness came his younger self Beast Boy, back when he was 14 before all of it had begun.
"What do you mean?" asked the green machine.
"It's a warning, Riku has been playing us all along, he has everything ready to attack, we thought that we had time, in fact we have none. He has been able to assemble and army."
"We can fight a couple Price Passions, and those 3 goons I cane handle!"
"You don't get it, he doesn't need followers he has your blood! And with it he was able to extract the Beast gene and mass produce It." sighed the small teen.
"How can he just create life like that?"
"Because he doesn't need to he has the technological blueprints of a machine for cops, called the Hound7, these things were built to find drugs or scents in anything. But there was no founding for them, but Riku found the prints and is able to have the founding to produce those mechanical hounds. With an upgrade as well, when they were drawn up there was a small hole in the inner ear to put the scent or object being smelt out, Riku has out the Beast blood into them and they now have the ability to track you down anywhere." bellowed the former teen as he took a seat in one of the chairs.
"So what's the bad news?"
"Glade you asked, with a little bit of help from his staff he was able to put a computer chip into the machines hard drive giving it the instincts of all the most vicious parts of every animal. These things have powerful titanium claws, diamond cracking teeth, and the physical power of 2 Cyborg's. Even better they can transform, into a more human like thing, like the Beast."
"So how can we beat something unbeatable?" wondered Logan.
"You don't, you avoid them until Malice or anyone can find a weakness. So until then you keep your blade with you at all times, and your guards up. Oh and get this, Riku has named them Mecca-Beast's." laughed the boy.
"How many does he have with him now?"
"I knew you would ask that, right now we have no idea, but somehow were guessing between 4 to 5 thousand at his hand." He sighed.
"Well guess he has a number advantage, but we have power."
"So did Napoleon, but you know what happened to him."
With that the teenage boy got up and began to leave the room. But Logan stopped him.
"Do you think we have a chance?" asked the warrior.
"If I know the Teen Titans, we have more than 30 of a chance."
With that the younger Beast Boy left the room and Logan sat in darkness for countless minutes.
"Nice to know we have a chance."
Then everything went black, no movie theatre, no sound, no Logan, just darkness, that's all there ever was.