Jump City

Garfield looked up at the top of the huge "T" shape tower. It seemed to be at least 15 stories tall. He reached up and hit the doorbell. In a few minutes, the doors whooshed open, and the five teenage superheroes stood in the doorway.

"Um… can we help you, Dude?" said the green kid, whom Garfield knew to be Beastboy, whose first name was the same as his.

Garfield hopped up and down, holding out the note and waving it around. The black-spiky-haired boy, with a mask, took the note with a green, gloved hand. Garfield know him as Robin. Robin read the note and raised and eyebrow. He bent down on his knees, to be level with Garfield, and took a deep breath.

"You sure it was him?" He asked the rotund orange cat.

Garfield nodded, reached into his pack, and retrieved the disk-like object he found earlier. He placed it in The Boy Wonder's hand. Said Boy Wonder examined it intently, then nodded slowly.

He stood up and faced his friends.

"Guys…" He said. "This cat's name is Garfield, and he needs our help. His friend Odie the dog was taken by Slade."

"You sure, Robin?" monotoned a pale girl, with a hooded cloak, Garfield identified as Raven, the 16 year old psychic. Robin handed her the disk and note. She took the disk and stared at it. She handed it back.

"It was definitely Slade…" She said softly.

"Don't worry…" Said the half-teen, half-machine named Cyborg, as he patted Garfield on the head. "We'll get your buddy back."

"Do you know as to why Slade wanted your 'Odie'" asked the brown-haired alien girl, Starfire.

Garfield shook his head. Why did Slade want Odie? It made no sense to him.

The Titans lead Garfield inside. They brought him to the Communications Room. Raven tapped at the console keys of the small computer in the kitchen-section of the room. Garfield was her pull up a profile on Odie. Next to his picture was his full name: Odysuess Gerald McTwain. Garfield thought this was really weird; He had no idea Odie's name was so long. The was something about "McTwain" that faintly jarred something in the cat's mind. But what?

"Says here that Odie's the son of the two most brilliant dogs on earth," said Raven, reading Odie's description aloud. "Their names were Arthur Hawthorne McTwain and Penelope Sheryl McTwain."

Garfield gasped; he now remembered why "McTwain" was so interesting to him… The two named dogs were like the Albert Einstein-Steven Hawking minds in the animal kingdom. How come Odie never mentioned them?

"All three of them," Raven continued. "Were pets to the Brilliant Dr. Lyman Hall. All three dogs were so brilliant, they developed a way to communicate with people."

Garfield shook his head disbelievingly. Surely, she couldn't mean his Odie, could she?

"But about 27 years ago," Raven went on. "Dr. Hall's lab was destroyed by an unknown person. Hall and Odie managed to escape, Arthur and Penelope were never found after the 'accident'. Hall went under as a normal citizen and 'Odyseuss' went under as 'Odie', and lived with their roommate, Jonathan Arbuckle. But about 17 years ago, Hall disappeared after the 10th birthday of Jon's cat. You, I believed." she pointed at Garfield, who nodded. He remembered Lyman last being seen on his birthday 17 years ago, but he never gave it much thought, before. Odie's profile seemed to explained everything now; Lyman's disappearance, Odie not being as dumb as he looks, no apparent past of two.

" Hall's disappearance seems to be connected to Odie's and his parents'." Said Robin. Seeing the confused looks on everyone's faces, he explained how. "Odie's parents were brilliant dogs, and they were missing after the accident. Hall disappeared just as suddenly, who was also just as brilliant. I'm sure Odie is just a brilliant as his parents, if mot more, and was dog-napped. We know it was Slade who was after Odie. If Slade was after all of them, they must have knowledge of something Slade wants."

Garfield shook his head disbelievingly. Odie brilliant?

"Turns out," Raven read off the screen. "Hall and Odie's family were developing a way to time travel. All four worked on separate parts of the project, so the information would be scattered from spies. If Arthur, Penelope and Hall had the first three parts to it, Odie would have the last piece Slade would need."

"Dude!" cried Beastboy. "We have to get Odie back! If Slade rewrote the past, he could nullify our existence!"

A cricket chipping silence followed after. Everyone seemed stunned that Beastboy would know that. He rolled his eyes.

"Honestly, Dudes, am I the only one who watches sci-fi movies? I'm not a complete moron, y'know. "

"Beastboy's right," said Robin. " When Slade finds out the secret of Time Travel, He could change our past; make it so we don't exist. We got to stop him."

"The question is," said Cyborg. " Where is Slade?"

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A cliffhanger! tune in for the next Chapter: Odie's Claim