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Chapter 6:
"Alright boss man, what's the plan now? We aren't really gonna scour over every inch of rainforest are we," Argent asked as the trio exited the airport, slightly dreading the thought of searching through all the forests in Brazil. She silently hoped that Beast Boy did have a plan, since none of the three of them spoke a word of Portuguese.
"You're right we obviously can't do that, I do have a plan but Wildebeest's communicator needs to charge. So while we wait do you guys wanna head over to the beach for some R&R?" Beast Boy replied, laughing as he saw both of his companions perk up at the suggestion of spending the day at the beach. Upon hearing a grunt from Wildebeest; Beast Boy had to stop and consider for a while. Then after looking around at the surrounding stores, he answered; "While Toni and I go buy some swimwear, you can go next door and buy us some grub. Just power up and head over to the clothing store once you're done okay?" Seeing a nod in approval he then preceded to hand the now powered up kid a handful of cash, hoping the clerks here accepted American dollars. Then turning to Argent he gestured towards the door to the clothing store, he said "After you."
Rolling her eyes Argent walked through the doors and started to look for a swimsuit. Seeing Beast Boy grab a pair of purple swim trunks she couldn't resist the urge to ask, "What's up with you and purple?"
"Uh... to be honest I've got no idea. The Doom Patrol's colors were black and purple, so since I still actually wear my Doom Patrol outfit, I guess you can say that the color just stuck with me." Beast Boy replied and then after a moment of thought he added, "Ya know, I never asked Mento why he chose those colors. You've got me thinking now, if we run into him I'm going to have to ask."
"Oh, well I prefer black but purple looks good on," Argent said, rolling her eyes as Beast Boy said that he thought she'd look good in any color. "Thanks, but I think I'll stick with black," she replied as she found and grabbed a black bikini. Then seeing Beast Boy reach for his wallet she took his hand and told him, "Don't worry about it. You bought lunch so I can cover these."
"Ya, but you bought lunch yesterday, let us sleep in your house, and you'd family paid for the plane tickets," Beast Boy objected and then reassuringly he added, "Don't worry I'm not gonna go broke over two swimsuits."
"Well alright, but I'll pay for dinner," Argent relented. Then once they met up with Wildebeest, who was caring a few bags of food, she picked up the powered down Wildebeest and flew after a green pelican towards the beach.
Left, left, right left
General Immortus smiled slightly as he overheard the all to familiar sounds of his legions training. In their hidden South American base he and the rest of the Brotherhood were waiting for the first patch of hybrids to finish basic training, before launching an attack on Brasilia, in order to let the world know of their power. Sighing in annoyance as he heard the doors swish upon behind him he turned and asked, "What is it this time?"
"Now, now vhy the tone Immortus? I thought you liked me," Madame Rouge replied as she walked on to the platform. 'Is he really so old that the best he can do all day his stand here and watch his precious little army drill,' she wondered.
"The only time you us that tone is when you want something, so just get it over with already," the General replied, not in the mood for the usual battle of wits that took place when Rouge tried to get him to do something.
"Did the children beat you so bad that they knocked out your since of humor?" Was Madame Rouge's reply, then upon seeing that there was no getting to the aged general at the moment, she continued, "The Brain vants to see you."
Again sighing in annoyance Immortus nodded and followed his counterpart towards the center of the base. Upon reaching the control room the two were greeted by the Brain, who asked, "NOW. TELL. ME. GENERAL. DOES. THE. GREEN. ONE. KNOW. WHERE. WE. ARE. OR. WHAT. WE. ARE. PLANNING?"
"Yez, you should have ztayed long enough to either ensure their defeat, or that our former henchmen didn't reveal any of our zecrets," Monsieur Mallah added.
Annoyed at the gorilla's comments Immortus silently curses Mallah in his mind before replying. "I'm not sure what Smith revealed if anything; even if he revealed everything it wouldn't matter. Beast Boy is no longer with the Titans, if he does choose to come at us it would merely be him and his girlfriend. Once we have lured the Doom Patrol into our trap, it will not matter; two adolescents cannot stop us." Then turning to Monsieur Mallah he added, "If I had done that then we would not be so close to achieving our ultimate victory."
"INDEED. IT. DOES. NOT. MATTER. IN. MERE. WEEKS. WE. WILL. HAVE. DEFEATED. THE DOOM. PATROL. AND. HAVE. AN. UNSTOPPABLE. ARMY. EVIL. PREVAIL. AS. WHO. CAN. STOP. US. NOW." The Brain responded, causing all the villains in the room to grin.
Swoosh
Argent looked towards the source of the sound and immediately regretted doing so; Beast Boy had apparently decided to morph into an elephant and was now preparing to shoot the water he had gathered at her. "Don't you dare Greenie," she warned, seeing his trunk being pointed at her. However the changeling decided to ignore her warning and launched a burst of water at Argent, almost immediately upon hearing her threat. Furious over the undesired shower Argent angrily threatened, "Alright Greenie, you asked for it," as she said this, conjured a sheet of crimson energy and used it to launch a wave at him.
Seeing the approaching wave Beast Boy quickly morphed into a fish and rode it out safely under water. 'Well at least now I'll know when she's mad at me,' he thought as he morphed back into a human. Having decided that the nickname Greenie, which Argent hadn't called him before, was the name she would use when angry at him. "Relax Toni, I was just messed with you," Beast Boy said, and then looking over at Wildebeest, who was building sandcastles a short distance away he asked, "Just harmless fun right?" However Wildebeest deciding not to get involved chose not to respond. Slightly annoyed over receiving no backup he turned back to Argent and was slightly surprised to see that, while he was facing the other direction she had repeated her previous attempt, only this time Beast Boy didn't have time to change form.
"Ya you were, by shooting water out your nose," Argent replied laughing as the second wave knocked over the changeling. Walking over and helping Beast Boy up she blushed, as once he got up he brought her into an embrace. "So are we even now," she asked returning the hug. Then however, seeing a goofy grin on his face Argent asked, "What are you doing," then catching on as he turned so that she was facing the incoming waves she said in jest more than challenge, "Oh you're on now." Eventually after an unknown amount of time spent splashing in the water, Beast Boy morphed into a bird and then whale causing a big enough wave to force Argent to admit defeat, "Alright, alright you win." She conceded, then after seeing that the shore was now littered with sand forts she asked, "How long were we at it?"
"I'm not sure," Beast Bot admitted walking up to her. "Wildebeest is probably mad that he had to wait to eat, I mean it's probably closer to dinner now," he said looking over to wear Wildebeest sat waiting with the bags. Returning his attention to the now thoroughly soaked Argent he added, pulling her into another embrace making sure he was facing the ocean this time Beast Boy added, "It was worth it though. Your beautiful you know that, even when you're mad and soaking."
Blushing Argent replied, "Thanks, I'm not mad it was actually fun once you stopped shooting water out your nose." After a quick glance at Wildebeest revealed that he was sound asleep, she added leaning up against him, "I don't think he'd mind waiting a little while longer. I'm pretty sure nothing will interrupt us this time." Beast Boy blushed and while at first he opened his mouth to reply, he was cut off by Argent, who leaned in and kissed him.
Clank, Clank, Clank
"Will you stop pacing Cyborg, it's making it hard to think," Robins said irritably, while he punched in another series of coordinates to scan for Beast Boy. Unsurprisingly these to came up with negative results.
"That's the third lead that's come up with nothing. You're sure you can't sense where he is Raven?" Cyborg replied ignoring the boy wonder.
"I'm positive, he's too far away. The best I can do is telling you that he's somewhere south of here. Probably pretty far south, judging by how faint he feels," Raven replied.
"But can you feel how he is doing? Do you know if friend Beast Boy is doing the okay," Starfire asked, her voice filled with concern.
"I can't say exactly but he does feel like, whatever he's doing right now is making him from very happy," Raven answered and then turning to Cyborg she asked, "Who are you calling?"
"A Mrs. Monetti, I looked up green animal sightings on the Internet and one was of B and some girl messing around on the beach, get this Wildebeest was there to." Cyborg replied and then suspecting the next question he continued, "I'm calling her because I looked up B's girlfriend and she's Mrs. Monetti's daughter. Assuming they aren't on one of those run away and elope trips I'm assuming Mrs. Monetti would know where they are."
All the other questions that formed were cut off as Cyborg started to converse with Mrs. Monetti. "Is this not glorious friends, friends Beast Boy and Wildebeest are safe. Plus friend Beast Boy has found a new love. He was quite worried finding the "one" after Terra did the betraying," Starfire exclaimed ignoring Cyborg's shush.
"I suppose it's good they're unharmed but they will have to explain what happened," Robins said and, more nervously he advised Starfire, "Well its great that he's moved on but, Star I wouldn't word it like that when we meet her. She's only his second relationship, and we don't want to scare her away."
"Good news ya'll," Cyborg exclaimed as he got off the phone, "We get to go to Rio de Janeiro." Then with a mischievous grin he added, "And ya'll never believe this but... turns out our lil' changeling is all grown up, this Argent as she's called and him are dating." Wiping a fake tear from his eye Cyborg continued in a fake sadness, "They grow up so fast."
"Alright Titans, let's get everything ready and get the T-Ship airborne in an hour," Robin ordered and the Titans split up to accomplish the various tasks.
Bleep, bleep
"So what did you do to Wildebeest's communicator," Argent asked while she and Beast Boy sat on the couch of their hotel room, staring at the communicator as it beeped like a sonar radar. "Does he now that you're doing this? Or is he going to be extremely ticked when he wakes up."
"I reprogrammed it to scan for Doom Patrol signatures, since we could use help and knowing Mento, it safe to say that they're already in the Amazon scouring for the Brotherhood. Of course I asked... I kinda broke mine the day we agreed to be partners." Beast Boy replied, saying the last part sheepishly.
"Why did you do that," Argent asked as she scooted closer to the changeling and rested her head on his shoulder.
"…It was a kinda spur of the moment thing; I was so excited over getting a new start. That I broke it assuming that by doing that I was cutting the connection with what I was." Beast Boy explained and then after a minute of silence, he joked "Ya know Toni; we've slept together both days we've been dating. I understand though, I mean I am pretty awesome." 'Dude she thinks I'm funny, she is so awesome,' Beast Boy thought as he slowly drifted off. Unaware that his new start would shortly be meeting his old life.
AN: Next Time: A Reunion, while the Brotherhood makes their first move.
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