Chapter 2: Logan's First Paying Job
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We go to Magnolia where at the Fairy Tail guild hall we see Logan at the request board trying to find a job he could do. Natsu, Lucy and Happy left to do a job yesterday.
"OK… I need a job that I can handle." Logan mumbled to himself as he looked at the fliers and posters
He took a flyer and said, "Get rid of Vulcan… NO!" before he put the flyer back. He took another one and read it before making a decision.
He then approached Makarov who was sitting a bar stool drinking a mug of what Logan assumed was beer and asked, "Mind if I do this one?" as he showed him the flyer.
Makarov glanced at the flyer before spitting out his beer… At Logan.
"Refreshing…" Logan deadpanned as he was soaked
"Sorry…" Makarov apologized before he examined the flyer closely
"Sure… But you'll need someone to go with you." Makarov said
"OK… Who would you recommend?" Logan asked
We see a boy about Natsu's age with Dark blue hair and dark blue eyes approach the bar. For some reason he is only wearing a pair of boxers.
"And second… Why is this guy in his underwear?" Logan pointed a thumb at the boy
The boy looked down at himself confused upon hearing those words before panicking and ran off.
Master Makarov smiled which made Logan a tad nervous.
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We go to the train station where we see Logan and the boy from earlier entering a train compartment. The latter was now wearing a white shirt, black pants and boots.
"I can't believe I have to supervise a kid's first mission." the boy mumbled as he and Logan sat down
"Hey, It's no picnic for me either." Logan said, "But here we are now. And besides we can use this train ride to and mission get to know each other. For example, My name is Logan Sheppard. What's yours?"
"Gray Fullbuster." Gray answered
"Pleasure…" Logan said, "So… What's your magic?"
"I'm an ice make wizard. I can create and mold the ice into objects." Gray said
"Cool!" Logan said
"What about you?" Gray asked now getting interested in the conversation
"Well, technically my powers aren't magic based." Logan said
"So I've heard." Gray said
"Well, my powers come the Omnitrix. This watch here." Logan said as he held up his left wrist, "It allows me to change into one of 12 aliens."
"Like a Take Over." Gray said
"Kind of…" Logan said, "And I have Sixth Sense… It's allows me to see the bad things that people have or will have done in the form of visions."
"That must come in handy." Gray said
"Yeah… It does. However, my sixth sense doesn't work while I am transformed." Logan said, "Anything else you would like to know?"
"Do you have a family?" Gray asked
"Not anymore. My parents died when I was 5. I was raised by my older brother Charlie until he disappeared last year and I was sent to foster care." Logan said
"I'm so sorry." Gray admitted sadly
Gray smiled. Logan kind of reminds him of himself and Natsu.
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After a while we see the train at another station in a town called Oshibana. Gray and Logan had just exited the station.
They walked to the town hall and entered the building. Inside we see Logan and Gray in the mayors office. The Mayor was looking stressed.
"I'm so glad you two arrived!" the mayor said
"Well, We're glad to be here. Anyway, according to the flyer monsters have been terrorizing the town?" Logan asked
"Yes! Every day for a week, a monster comes into town, scares the locals and steals!" The mayor said
"What are they stealing?" Gray asked
"Supplies. Mostly magical objects." the mayor admitted
Logan's eyes widen before he quickly took out a pencil and paper and started drawing something.
"You have to help! Those monsters are scaring people out of town and we might go bankrupt!" The mayor said
"I have one question…" Logan said as he put down the pencil
"Just one?" Grey asked
"Does any of the monsters have this symbol on their chests?" Logan asked as he showed the mayor a drawing of what looked like the Omnitrix symbol except instead of an hourglass we see right half of the inside is red making it look like a "D"
The mayor stared at the drawing for a bit before saying… "YES! As a matter of fact all of them have that symbol."
"Thanks. We'll go take care of it…" Logan said as he got up and left the office
Gray stared at the mayor before saying, "I better go too." before leaving.
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We see Logan and Gray outside the town.
"OK! Mind telling what that was all about?" Gray asked
"I know what the monsters are… Or rather who he is." Logan said
"Who he is?" Gray asked
"His name is Drake Knight… He was with me when the event happened that brought me to this world." Logan said
Logan then proceeded to explain.
"Drake Knight was my school bully. A few months after I got the Omnitrix, Drake had a dream that allowed him create his own called the AntiTrix. It allows him access to 11 monstrous versions of my aliens. While his aliens are more powerful than mine. They are also imbalanced. Too powerful for Drake to use them to their full potential."
When Logan finished his explanation Gray stared at him shocked.
"YOU'RE TELLING ME YOU HAVE AN ENEMY THAT HAS THE SAME ABILITIES AS YOU?!" Gray yelled
"Sort of… He doesn't have a sixth sense and his AntiTrix only has 11 aliens all together. Back then I only had 10 at a time. But now I have 12…" Logan said
"So why are we out here?" Gray asked
"Simple… We're going to find him. But first! And I do mean but first! You need to put your clothes back on!" Logan said
Gray looked down at himself confused to see he was in his boxers.
"CRAP!"
After getting his clothes back on, Logan said, "Just be glad you're not from my world!"
"So how do we find him?" Gray asked
Logan activated his Omnitrix and said, "Simple… We track his scent." as he went to select Rath.
But then he stopped on one of the two new aliens he has yet to use before he quickly changed his mind and lammed down the core.
Inside the flash of green light, we see the Omnitrix sink into his arm a gray fur grew all over his body…
After the light faded, we see a thin, muscular, humanoid husky like werewolf. He has silver and gray colored fur, with three sharp claws on each hand and foot. He has a tail that is small. His eyes and the inside of his mouth are green. He wears a dark green and light green armored vest, black pants, black gauntlets, and an iron shoulder pad on his right shoulder.
His Omnitrix Symbol is on green and white belt as a buckle.
"WOW! This is awesome! I'm now Bashmouth! But I'll need my own name! Uh… Metalwolf? Nah! Too obvious! Bashwolf? No! Too similar to his name." the new alien murdered to himself in a deep wolf like voice
After thinking for a few seconds, a light bulb went off in his head… "I got it… STEEL BLISTER!"
"Steel Blister?" Grey asked
"The name of this transformation!" the newly named Steel Blister bragged
He then got on all four and said, "Hop on!"
"Huh?" Gray asked
"This form should be able to small and track Drake by smell. And he's a lot faster than the average human. Which includes you." Steel Blister explained
Grey climbed on Steel Blister's back and the latter proceeded to run into the forest. He stopped after a minute and smelled the air. After about half a minute, he said, "Got it!"
He than ran at a faster rate which made Gray hold on to the dog like alien very tightly.
We go to the front of a cave where we see Steel Blister had stopped in front of the entrance.
He smelled the air around the cave before all of a sudden he changed back to Logan in a flash of red light.
We see Logan laying flat on the ground with Gray on top of him. The latter quickly got off of him and helped Logan up.
"Thanks." Logan said as he looked at his Omnitrix which the Hourglass symbol is now red
"So… You're sure your pal is in there?" Gray asked
"According to Steel Blisters nose… Yes." Logan said before hey both went into the cave.
Inside we see Logan pull out a flashlight and pointed at around the area. Gray looked at it and asked, "What is that?"
"It's a flashlight… It's from my world. As you can see it's made to be portable light source." Logan said
"Like a lantern…" Gray said
"Yeah! Exactly! But it's more powerful and more directional." Logan said
The continued walking further into the cave for another few minutes before Gray asked, "Hey… What's was your brother like?"
"He was a good person. He was also an inventor. He made several things that my world never seen and also not ready for." Logan said
"What did he invent?" Gray asked
"Well, his first working invention was a Time Machine." Logan said
"Time Machine? Like one of the lost magics?" Gray asked
"No… A time machine is meant to not control time… But rather travel through time." Logan said, "Like going back to when meet your mom and dad before you were even born."
"Whoa, that actually sounds cool!" Gray admitted having never heard that kind of idea before
"Yeah. It does." Logan said, "In fact I used the time machine once. I went back in time to prevent my parents from being killed. But what I didn't count on was the Endgame effect."
"Endgame effect?" Gray asked
"He named it after a story… It means if you go back to kill you mom before you were born… Then who killed your mom?" Logan tried to explain
"Me?" Gray asked confused
"Exactly! Well, turns out when you go back in time, Your past and future won't be changed no matter what you do." Logan said, "When I came back to my present… nothing changed. My parents were still dead."
"That was the day when I then realized…" Logan said
"You cannot change your fate, no man can…"
"That sounds sad." Gray admitted
"Well, you might not be able to change your fate, but at the end of of the day only you can decide if the choices made were worth it." Logan said
Logan then paused as he pointed his flashlight at a crate. They approached it and Gray opened the crate revealing an clear orb.
"Gray? Know what this is?" Logan asked
"It's a Lacrima…" Gray said
"A what?" Logan asked
"A Lacrima. It's Magic crystals that can be used for many things." Gray said
"And I am assuming is one of the stolen items?" Logan assumed
He then pointed his flashlight around the area and notices a bunch of crates ranging from big and small piled in a part of the cave.
Logan approached the pile and touched one of the crates…
Logan sees a vision of Drake who is strapped to a chair being tortured while a black hooded figure is not too from him… In another scene we see Drake as a humanoid alien made of rocks and fire terrorizing the city. Only he looked… dazed.
The vision ended and Logan asked, "What could that mean?"
As he pondered about it, a shadow approached the two. Logan sensed something and quickly turned to see the hooded figure and Drake standing in front of them.
Drake Knight is a 13 year old boy with black hair in a mullet, brown eyes and slightly tanned skin. He is wearing a white T-Shirt with a black leather jacket, blue jeans and black sneakers. On his left wrist is what looked the Omnitrix, but with the dial symbol turned red and with the triangle filled in, resembling the letter 'D', and with the addition of four metal protrusions ending in red lights.
Logan walked next to Gray and asked, "Drake?"
He then noticed his eyes are red and he's not in alien form. He turned to the hooded figure and said, "Who are you and what did you do to him?"
The hooded figure just snapped it's fingers and then vanished…
"Gray…" Logan said as he activated his Omnitrix
"Yeah?" Gray asked
"Put on your clothes and get ready!" Logan said
Gray looked down and saw he was in his underwear again.
Right after Logan said that, Drake activated his AntiTrix and slammed down the core.
After a flash of red light we see Drake is now a humanoid alien that is approximately twelve feet tall, has well developed muscles, two pairs of arms with four-fingered hands, and pinkish purple skin with black markings on the arms. A black goatee can be seen on his chin, and he has four red eyes: a main pair, and a smaller pair below them. His fingertips are also red. He is wearing a sleeveless black bodysuit with red stripes and black boots, red spiked knuckles, and iron shoulder pads.
The AntiTrix symbol is on his chest.
Drake is now Quad Smack.
Logan slammed down the core without looking at what he selected.
Inside the flash of green light, we see the Omnitrix sink into his arm as his skin turned wooden and his body grew taller…
When the flash of green light faded, we see a nine foot tall muscular humanoid creature. His body looks to be made of twigs, stick, small leaves and large pieces of wood. Basically he is a tree with legs arms and a head. He has two green eyes with large black pupils and a mouth. The Omnitrix symbol is on his chest.
The new alien looked at his body amazed. He then turned to Gray and said in a deep voice, "I am Groot."
"That's not what I wanted to say!" Logan thought
"I am Groot." Logan said again much to Gray's confusion
He touched his throat and said, "I am… Groot."
"I can only say "I am Groot" in this form?! Wait! This is the alien in Guardians of the Galaxy, Groot! Why did do I even have this guy?" Logan thought
"Logan? You OK?" Gray asked as he put his shirt back on
"I am Groot!" Logan answered
"Well… I'll just call this one Groot." Logan thought
Logan/Groot then grew more twigs around his left arm to use as a shield and said to Drake, "I am Groot." in a come get me tone.
Quad Smack then ran to Groot and give him an uppercut which Groot was able to block the blow with the shield but got pushed back a bit.
"I am Groot." Groot said impressed at his new alien
Then spike thorns popped out from his right arm.
"I am Groot!"
"You already said that!" Gray yelled
He then ran to the mutant Tetramand and said, "Ice Make: Hammer!"
After he said that a magic circle showed up and a large hammer of ice appeared in his hand. He swung the hammer at Quad Smack, but the latter dodged it, ran up to Gray and uppercutted him with two left arms.
Gray landed next to Groot who said, "I am Groot."
"I KNOW YOUR NAME IS GROOT! YOU SAID IT ABOUT 5 TIMES ALREADY!" Gray yelled now getting annoyed at the tree alien
"I am Groot." Groot said as he approached Quad Smack
Groot and Quad Smack stared at each other with the former's eyes narrowed.
He then had flashbacks to when Drake bullied his before and after he got the AntiTrix…
Groot clenched his fists and roared, "I… AM… GROOT!"
He then charged at the mutant alien and punched him straight in the face hard. That made him fall back and hit his head on a rock.
Quad Smack then slowly got up and groaned as he rubbed his head.
"What happened?" Quad Smack asked
He looked at himself and said, "I don't remember changing into Quad Smack."
He then looked at Groot who was approaching him and an older boy not too far. He noticed the Omnitrix symbol on Groot's chest.
"Hey Sheppard! New alien?" Quad Smack asked
"I am Groot…" Groot frowned
Quad Smack then looked around and asked, "Where are we? And who's the weirdo in his underwear?" As he pointed at Gray.
Gray looked down and saw he was indeed in his underwear.
"AW COME ON!" He said
"I am Groot?" Groot said confused
"Yeah, I know. Your name is Groot." Quad Smack deadpanned
Suddenly, we see the Omnitrix symbol beep a few times. Right after the last beep something fell off of it.
Groot picked it up immediately and examined it. It was flat with a white color and black triangles on the sides. In fact, it highly resembled a Scratch Guard.
"I am Groot?" Groot asked as looked the Omnitrix symbol
The symbol is now emerald green where it was once white.
Groot then touched the symbol and after a flash of green light. We see Groot is now Logan. He looked at the Omnitrix and the flat piece which Logan noticed it felt like some sort of plastic.
He put those thoughts aside for now and asked Quad Smack, "What is the last thing you remember?"
Quad Smack tapped his AntiTrix Symbol and changed back to Drake whose eyes are brown again.
"Fighting you in that lab and that explosion." Drake said, "Why?"
We see the now dressed Gray approach the two and Drake asked, "Who's this guy and why are we in a cave?"
"Drake…" Logan sighed, "We're not in our world anymore."
Drake's eyes widen.
"Wha… Where… are we?" Drake asked stammering
Logan was about to say something before Drake said, "Wait… I get it now! It's a prank!"
"What?!" Gray asked
"Nice try, Sheppard!" Drake scoffed
He then turned and walked out of the cave saying, "What a loser."
After he left, Logan sighed and looked down.
"Aren't we going to go after him?" Gray asked
"No… He wasn't in control when we first clashed. Believe it or not, he was a victim and he'll come find me when he is accepts the truth. Besides we need to return all this stuff he stole." Logan said pointing at the crates
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A while later we see Logan and Gray on a train heading back to Magnolia. After returning all the items to the shops and other owners. The mayor paid them each 100,000 Jewels and they headed for the station to get back home.
Logan was looking out the window in thought as Gray looked at him concerned.
"You alright?" Gray asked
"Huh? Oh yeah… Just a lot on my mind. Like who was that hooded figure that was with Drake earlier? What did my vision mean?" Logan said
While waiting for a train, he had told Gray about the vision he had back in the cave before Drake showed up.
"And why did they have Drake steal all that stuff? From what I have gathered, the magical stuff he stole were mostly Commutation Lacrimas and other minor stuff." Logan said, "Something is up… I can feel it."
"I think you're worrying too much. You snapped your pal out of it, all the stuff was returned and from what have heard about him from you, he'll won't do anything like that anytime soon." Gray said
"Your right, but the real question is… Is it truly over?" Logan pondered
Gray was about to respond before he heard from a group passing by, "Hey, did you hear? Erza is heading back to Magnolia."
Gray froze in fear upon hearing that.
Logan noticed and asked, "Hey, are you OK?" with concern in his voice. "Gray?"
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And Then!
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We go to a forest where we see Logan and Gray walking down a path.
"I can't believe you jumped out the train!" Logan said
"I can't believe you followed me!" Gray said
"Not the point! What's so scary about this Erza?" Logan asked, "And on a related note, What's an Erza?"
"The strongest and scariest woman in Fairy Tail." Gray said
"OK…" Logan deadpanned
He then pulled out his earbuds and started listening to Time of Dying by Three Days Grace on his MP3 Player.
Gray noticed the MP3 Player and asked, "Hey! What is that?"
Logan pulled out an earbud and said, "It's called an MP3 Player. It's basically a music player."
"Music Player?" Gray asked
"Yeah! What my world lacks in magic makes up for it in advanced technology." Logan explained
He then took off the other earbud and said, "Here, give it a listen." as he put them in Grays ears.
"…I will not die! I will not die! I will survive! I will not die! I'll wait here for you! I feel alive when your beside me! I will not die, I'll wait here for you in my time of dying!…"
Gray then took the earbuds off and asked, "What kind of song is that?"
"Hard rock. The band is Three Days Grace. This song is called Time of Dying. It's about getting through tough times. I've listened to this song when my brother disappeared and got sent to foster care, then when I got sent to this world." Logan explained, "Also… You might want to put your clothes back on."
Gray looked at himself again and yelled, "CRAP!" as he was in his boxers again.
As he went to collect and put his cloths back on Logan thought, "Wow! This world is crazy! But then again so was mine."
After he got his clothes back on they continued walking. Gray then said, "Hold on! Need to use the bathroom." before he went to some bushes.
Logan leaned against a tree and waited. After a few minutes he heard Gray yelled, "Logan!"
He walked over to where while saying, "You better not have…" He then saw he was by a cliff where he see Gray along with Natsu and Lucy.
"Oh! Hey Natsu! Hey Lucy! How was your job? Heard you got about 2,000,000 jewels!" Logan said
"No, we didn't." Lucy sighed
"Let me guess… Natsu stupidly refuse to accept it?" Logan smirked
"Yep." Lucy said
"Natsu… Even if didn't want the money, you could've at least accepted enough of it to pay Lucy's rent." Logan said, "I mean you didn't have to accept the whole thing."
"HEY! He's right!" Lucy yelled at Natsu
"Don't worry, Luce! We'll find another job and you'll get your rent money!" Natsu said
"Yeah! Don't be a greedy pants too, Logan!" Happy said
"You know, there's a difference between greed and looking out for your friends." Logan said
"Why were you with the ice perv?" Natsu asked
"What did you called me, Flame Brain?!" Gray yelled
"I was on a job too! The good Master had Gray come with me. We completed it and each got 100,000 jewels!" Logan said
"WHAT?!" Lucy asked, "YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!"
"What job were you doing?" Natsu asked
"Finding a monster that was stealing magical objects from Oshibana." Gray said
"And turned out that "Monster" was my enemy, Drake Knight!" Logan said
"Drake Knight? Who that?" Happy asked
"My old school bully who wields the AntiTrix." Logan said
"AntiTrix?" Lucy asked
"It's basically a bootleg Omnitrix." Logan said
"WAIT! HE HAS THE SAME POWERS AS YOU?!" Natsu asked/yelled
"Sort of…" Logan said, "He only has 11 transformations altogether in his AntiTrix and all of them are very powerful but very imbalanced too."
"And then, when we were on the train back to Magnolia when Gray decided to jump out." Logan said smiling
"You jumped out too!" Gray yelled at Logan
"He heard about Erza returning and…" Logan said before he noticed Natsu and Happy are frozen in fear
"Is she really that scary?" Logan deadpanned
"She's a demon!" Happy yelled fearfully
"How? What's so scary about her?" Logan asked skeptically
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We go to a village where we see a woman with long scarlet hair, brown eyes and wearing armor walking through said village carrying a huge horn with only one arm.
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Chapter Ends Here.
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Authors Note:
Steel Blister: He is Logan's version of Bashmouth. He had acquired the DNA Sample from Drakes AntiTrix which the how of it will be explained later on.
Steel Blister's name is based off the words "Blister Steel" which you can learn by Googling it.
Groot: I was originally going to use Swampfire, but I decided to use Groot as I find him pretty cool. He can manipulate his body to many shapes, regenerate and he is hard to kill. And I like the fact that he can only say, "I am Groot."
As for why Logan will be calling him Groot and why he change into him:
Groot's race, the Flora colossus is a real race in Logan's universe and the Omnitrix used Logan's subconscious to find Groot's name and programmed the DNA Pod to make only Logan say "I am Groot" as his robust and heavyweight physiology causes the organs of his acoustic generation to become stiff and inflexible, rendering the limits of his speech to only very few words.
FYI: I do not own Groot. He belongs to Marvel and by extension Stan Lee who in my opinion was a genius!
As for the Omnitrix. Logan did had Heatblast at one point but he got locked after the Omnitrix rebooted after he arrived in Earth land.
I had took a leaf from the reboot and for right now Logan will have to work with he's got instead of having a well balanced team. Which was by four of his aliens main power is super strength, two of the aliens are flight and none of them have certain elemental manipulation.
Now I have go rest and refuel my Imagination tanks.
