Hello all Solo Gamer here with the next chapter of The Beast Inside! The secretes out! The Titans know about Logan's past and what happened to cause him to shun his old name. However, he got a reaction he wasn't expecting, and somehow made it out with a girlfriend! What could possibly happen next? Ad what is it that everyone forgot about? Read on to find out!
PREVIOUSLY:
"Thanks Rae."
"No problem, and Logan..."
He turned to her after she trailed off wondering what she had to say. She grabbed the front of his shirt and yanked him forward so that their faces were inches from each other. She fixed him with a glare that caused his heart to leap into his throat. Seeing the fear on his face she let a smirk slide across her face before she closed the distance between them and crashed her lips onto his. Logan's mind went blank as he lost himself in Raven's kiss. A few seconds later she broke it off leaving a dazed Logan as she rose and began to walk back to the door inside.
"That's for last night."
When Dani landed on the roof ten minutes later she encountered a still dazed Logan. She walked up to him and waved her hand in front of his face.
"Bro, are you ok? Did something happen?"
The sound of her voice knocked him out of his stupor as a grin spread across his face,
"Yeah, something happened, but you don't need to worry about it. C'mon lets go get something to eat."
He grabbed onto Dani as she turned intangible and fazed through the roof.
"All right, but you're cooking. We remember the last time I tried to cook."
NOW:
The early morning sun shone on the horizon, illuminating Jump City as the cloudless sky slowly changed from a brilliant orange to sky blue. The residences of the city were all enjoying the peaceful morning they had been granted, including those in the giant T shaped tower of the coast.
The Titans could be seen enjoying the morning in their own special ways in the commons room, all but two. Logan and Raven could be found on the roof of the tower meditating in comfortable silence, the warm light of the sun stretching their shadows across the roof. Logan exhaled silently as his eyes cracked open and adjusted to the difference of light. He unbent his legs from the lotus position before he arched his back, stretching out the kinks. His eyes shifted to the left of him, taking in the floating form of Raven as she still sat in a meditative state.
The green teen stood before walking over and placing himself in front of her, and then crouched down so he was eye level with her. A grin spread across his face as he gazed at her serene face, admiring her beauty before a devious though entered his head.
'She looks so content. It'd be a shame if someone…..ruined it."
Reaching his hand up a green feather materialized in his grasp before he reached forward and began tickling Raven's face. He could tell by the way her face scrunched up in aggravation at that the feather was doing its job perfectly. Finally after a few more seconds of tickling and stifling his laughter, Raven let out an aggravated growl. As she opened her eyes to find the source of the annoyance, though she had a hunch she knew what it was, Logan leaned forward and planted a kiss on her lips.
Ravens eyes shot wide open in shock and confusion at the contact before she felt the kiss deepen and her face heat up in embarrassment. When Logan separated from Raven he could see her eyes clouded over with a dazed expression on her face. Logan's chuckling knocked her out of her stupor as her expression quickly turned to one of embarrassment and anger. She leveled a glare at him, but all that did was make him laugh harder. She stood with a huff and began to summon her dark energy to teleport when she felt two arms wrap around her waist stopping her.
"Not funny Logan," she muttered out at him as she crossed her arms.
"Hmmm I dunno….It was pretty funny to me," he replied, the mirth in his voice clearly evident.
"I'm going to get you back for this," she replied before she turned around, still in his embrace, and glared at him again, "just you wait."
"What are you gonna do? Kiss me?" he chuckled, but the sinister smile spreading across her face made him realize he just started something that was going to evolve into something much bigger.
"Maybe, you'll find out soon enough. Right now though, I need breakfast and you're going to make it."
"Why do I have to make breakfast?" he asked in mock exasperation.
"Because you love me and I said so," she replied, "Besides if you don't I'll make you walk down all those stairs."
"Fine," he said with a grin on his face, "If it pleases her highness I'll make her breakfast."
Raven smirked at him as dark energy rose from below them and engulfed them in a ball of obsidian energy before sinking into the roof. They reappeared outside the commons room door. Separating from each other the two walked in seeing the others already there doing whatever. Raven walked over to a chair and sat before she snapped and a book appeared in in a flash of black energy. Landing in her hand, she opened it up and began to read, while Logan was making his way to the kitchen area to begin making him and Raven's breakfast when something occurred to him.
"You know, you never did tell me why you came here Dani."
A young girl with mop of wild ebony hair on her head spun around and looked up at the one standing behind her, ice blue eyes staring into emerald green ones. It was true, with all that had happened Dani had completely forgotten to tell Logan why she came. Dani had been given a message from Danny to tell her green brother, and she immediately paled when she remembered the message and how pissed Danny would be that she hadn't told him she'd delivered it yet.
The others looked over in curiosity, the want to know the reason for Dani's arrival overriding what they were currently doing. Star floated over from the kitchen where she was making one of her Tameranian dishes on the stove as Logan looked down at his little sister with an inquisitive look on his face. Robin and Cyborg paused the game they were currently playing, and Raven glanced up from her book.
She opened her mouth to speak when she paused. A low whistling noise could be heard throughout the room, and it was only getting louder and louder. Everyone began looking around for the source of the noise, until Cyborg happened to look out the window and his eyes widened in shock.
"Ummm, is that a glowing green missile coming straight at us?"
Everyone's heads whipped over to the window Cyborg was looking out of and by their reaction his suspicion was confirmed. Raven and Logan sprang into action, using their powers to create a multicolored shield in front of the tower. The missile collided with the shield and erupted into a fiery explosion, shaking the tower but thankfully the shield negated all the damage.
Raven wrapped everyone in her dark powers and teleported them to the roof where above them floated a squadron of me in floating, white mech suits. Logan growled loudly and Dani paled when they caught sight of the men while the rest of the team just looked on with anger and suspicion in their eyes.
"We finally found you ghost!" exclaimed one of the guys in white agents with a giant smirk on his face, "Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way. Honestly I'm hoping for the latter."
"Logan," said Robin as he pulled out a few bird-a-rangs, "Are these the Guys in White you told us about?"
"Yeah," he replied with hate in his voice, and then he turned to address the agents, "Look I don't know who's funding you right now, but I know it's not the government since they disbanded you a while ago so listen up. You have about ten seconds to leave before we make you!"
The guys in white responded by readying their various weapons before the one that spoke before replied,
"Sorry murderer! But we don't take orders from you, besides….we're not just here for the girl."
Logan flinched when he heard the agent speak. He knew that barb was aimed directly at him and he still hated himself for what he did so long ago, but his resolve returned and he fixed the man with an angry glare. The titans were pondering the rest of the agent's statement. If they weren't here for just Dani then who else were they here for?
"So be it," growled out Logan.
With that the agents charged down at the Titans. At the sight of this Robin let out his famous battle cry,
"Titans Go!"
The agents swarmed around the heroes, outnumbering the titans ten to one.
Logan roared as a pack of wolves materialized behind him and surged forward with him to attack the oncoming horde. Dodging a punch aimed at his skull, Logan reached forward and grabbed the agents head before slamming him face first into the concrete knocking him senseless. He turned as another agent was readying a blast at him, but just smirked when one of his energy wolves lunged at him from the side, knocked him to the ground, and then proceed to bite the shit out of him.
The hairs on the back of his neck stood on end alerting him to danger, and he immediately spun around just barely dodging the blue blast that rocketed by his face. Before he could advance more and more blast were launched his way. Logan was dodging blast after blast and was growing tired of it. They had him surrounded in a circle, and the green teen was about to use this to his advantage. Shocking everyone, he burst into a cloud of hornets, effectively dodging all the blast as they passed through the area he just inhabited and with a resounding explosion connected with the agents around him.
Robin spared the explosion a glance as he dodged to the left as a blast from another one of the agents flew past him smashing into the concrete behind him. Robin flung a few bird-a-rangs at the airborne enemy before dodging a fist aimed at the side of his head. He reached forward and grabbed the agent's wrist with one hand before yanking him into a solid knee to the gut. The strike knocked the enemy into the air while Robin swiftly yanked out his bo-staff and with an overhead strike knocked the agent into the concrete floor. A blast of blue energy hit him in the back sending him skidding across the roof near Cyborg. Robin leapt up and with a mighty roar leapt back over to face the one who shot him.
Cyborg was firing his sonic cannon into the air, grounding some of the still hovering agents, while he dodged their blast. One of the agents dodged the blast and rocketed forward straight at Cyborg who didn't have time to dodge out of the way. He widened his stance and grunted in pain when the agent slammed into his midsection. The blow slid the robotic titan back a few inches, and the agent thought he had the guy beat. That thought immediately left his head when he felt the robotic teen's arms wrap around his midsection and yank him into the air above his head. The last thing the agent saw was the sight of multiple green, black, and blue energy blast flying through the cloudless sky before he impacted concrete and he was knocked into unconsciousness.
Starfire and Raven were working in tandem as they flew through the air dispatching enemy after enemy. Raven raised her obsidian shield blocking Starfire's blindside as blue blast peppered it while Starfire unleashed hell upon those on the opposite end of her starbolts. Agents were falling left and right as they were struck with multiple bolts of the green energy, landing on the roof of the tower. Raven thrust the shield out before she wrapped it around a group of agents and threw them into the tower roof before she moved onto another group. Star was getting ready to strike down another agent when a white and black blur sped out of nowhere and collided with the man's stomach knocking him high into the air before he fell to the earth.
Dani flew around the battlefield attacking from the outside, her fist glowing a furious green as she let loose a torrent of ectoblasts at the agents that were in the air. With attacks coming from all angles, the agents in the sky were quickly being picked off and realized that they were going to lose this fight.
After one retreated, it was like a domino effect as the rest began to high tail it out of there, grabbing their fallen comrades and fleeing as fast as they could. Moments later it was just the titans left standing on the roof, the titans and one very frightened agent being pinned down by a very angry pack of glowing green, translucent wolves standing around a severely pissed Logan. The rest of the titans approached Logan as he began asking questions that were on all their minds.
"Alright look you prick, you've only got one chance to mouth off to me then you're in a world of pain. So I suggest you answer my questions the first time. Why are you here? And who's funding you?"
"Like I'd tell you freak!" the agent tried to yell defiantly, but it came out as more a frightened whimper.
The wolves around him immediately began closing in on him and the cold look on Logan's face only grew icier as he raised his hand, silently signaling to his pets to stop. Logan crouched down so he was face to face with the man as some of his energy swirled around his raised hand, taking the form of a deadly clawed gauntlet. He slowly lowered his hand and pressed the tip of his finger into the man's temple, eliciting a quiet whimper form the man.
"There goes your one chance," Logan growled out, "You won't get another one. Now, answer my questions, or my wolves are going to get a tasty snack."
The man gulped and was about to send back a retort when he caught sight of the Titans and Dani standing behind Logan and the words died in his throat. While not terribly injured it was evident that they had been in a battle, and they didn't look happy at all. When he saw the four red glowing eyes of Raven glaring down at him, his resolve broke.
"I-I was told we were c-coming here t-to capture the small abomination and the two floating girls over there."
Surprise flitted across Logan and the teams face as they glanced at Raven and Starfire. This time Robin spoke,
"Who told you this, and why Raven and Starfire?" he asked in a commanding tone.
"I-I don't know, s-something about using them as potential p-power sources for a project."
Cyborg spoke up this time,
"What project? And you still haven't answered Robin or Logan's other questions."
"I-I can't! If I do I'll die!"
"If you don't tell me I'll make you wish you were dead! So you need to tell me now!" Logan roared out.
"N-no really I can't! He's always watching! I-if I try then he'll have me killed!" the man shrieked back in panic.
"How can this man hurt you if he is not here?" asked Starfire in a confused tone.
The agent opened his mouth to reply, but the only thing that escaped was a bloodcurdling scream that startled the whole group. Starfire covered her mouth in shock and Dani ran behind Logan as blood began to run from ever orifice on the man's face as he clawed at his face in pure agony before moments later falling over. The silence that followed was eerie as the team starred at the now deceased body in front of them. The wolves faded into nothing as Robin walked forward and placed two fingers on his neck, checking for a pulse.
He stood up and looked back at the rest of them before shaking his head silently to indicate that the man was truly dead.
"The Guys in White are back…" whispered Dani, gaining the attention of everyone else.
"Well obviously if what just happened was any indication," replied Cyborg.
"N-no it's part of the message that Danny wanted to give you. He said that they had been back for a couple of months and were preparing to hunt us down, but there's more to it than that. I never got a chance to tell you because of this whole episode, but Danny knew who it was."
"Knew who what was?" asked Robin.
"The one who's funding the Guys in White," she replied to the astonishment of the titans, "It was no one he'd ever faced before, but he said that he would be familiar to you."
Logan raised an eyebrow before he asked the question that was on the rest of the teams mind,
"Well who did he say?"
As soon as the words left Dani's lips she got an immediate reaction out of the Titans. Raven's eyes darkened, Logan let out a low growl, Starfire's fists began to glow, and Cyborg grit his teeth. However the biggest reaction was out of Robin, who had let out a venomous snarl at the mentioning of this name as his fists clenched and eyes narrowed.
If what Dani said was true, then things were going to get a whole lot worse.
And that's it for now comrades! I'm pretty sure we all know who it is who's funding the Guys in White. With Dani, Raven, and Starfire being targeted, what are the Titans going to do? How are they going to combat an army of ghost hating, high tech weapon wielding, white suit wearing agents? The same way they do anyone else, by kicking the shit out of it!
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