NOTE: After every horizontal line divider, I will switch from events pertaining to the Bean Titans, to those of Titans X. This will happen most of the time.
Chapter 4 - Evolution: Part II
After the first five years, the Titans League have created a wrestling entertainment business called TWF (Titans Wrestling Federation; similar to WWE), in response of Sweet's thought in the past. The good news: it has been quite successful so far, as more and more people come to see the action. The bad news: it is strictly combat without the use of powers. The Titans feel that if they started using their special abilities, people would get seriously hurt. Nevertheless, this is the Titans' fun thing to do, away from the usual stuff they have to do.
More time passed, and some of the Bean Titans' youth were ready to begin their training. Once they turned three, they were ready to hone their skills, if they had come across them yet.
Sweet wanted to see, at firsthand, what talents that his first five sons had. Dotty was busy looking over her sons (Dep, Tracker and Fetch), so he ran a minute-long simulation where they had to defeat 10 beginner-level robotic drones. Cheeks and Congo (age 5) wanted to go first. The twins almost always fought together, but there was no sign of special ability in them. They did have a power level, just no special power. They only had enough time to beat down 4 of the robots. Fleece came in to watch as well.
"Very good, you two," Sweet spoke on the intercom. "You can come back in now."
"So, who's next?" Fleece asked.
"Let me!" Bongo (age 6) shouted. Sweet allowed him to.
After he was staged inside the chamber, Sweet started the simulation again. Bongo's style of fighting was capoeira, a Brazilian art with lots of ground-based, dance-like movement. He defeated 6 of them in the time given.
Sweet was impressed, but not Slowpoke (age 7). He always thought of himself as the best of his brothers, due to his cocky attitude. He was next, wanting to show Bongo up. When the simulation started, he took out one of the robots with one hit, and gloated about it. Off of his guard, the other robots piled onto him before the simulation was over.
"It's okay son, just make sure you keep you head in the fight," Sweet encouraged him.
"Yeah, yeah..." Slowpoke responded sarcastically.
Fleece had told Mooch (age 8) that it was now his turn. He was silent the entire time, unchanged in his attitude, as if he was meditating—he was calm. He was now inside the chamber, and the simulation began again. He closed his eyes again. All 10 of the drones surrounded Mooch; Sweet, Fleece and his brothers were wondering what he was going to do. Then, when he opened his mahogany eyes, he bursted in front of the drone that stood directly before him, slicing it completely in half with his arm. Mooch then shredded the other drones in under a minute; he had fifteen seconds to spare! His family were amazed to see his combat ability—he never got touched at all.
"It's no wonder he's so quiet..." Fleece stated.
"Yeah, I hear ya," Sweet agreed with her. The session was over, and yet he still wanted to know Mooch's extent. "All right, we're done here. Let me just put in—"
Dotty emerged from the door. "The statistics? I'll take it from here, Sweet."
They heeded her request and left matters in her hands.
After recording everyone's strengths, Dotty saw where the kids were standing. According to the data, Mooch was the most skilled. It is as if he were the Chosen One...
A couple of years later, Titans X have had multiple run-ins with Big Fat Pauly, his Sentinels, and now the rest of his gang. There were six other white bears like him, with the same skills as he does. There was a bigger one (Adonis), a pair of twins (Ace and Clyde), a "shady" one (Bugs), a short but quick one (Mite), and a sadistic one (Ziggs). There were also three others: a big blue bunny who goes by the name of Petunia, a giant brown dog (Flor) who has enough strength to crush a car with her bare hands, and a black bear named Manny, who is also Lena's brother.
Even though they did not positively benefit with every run-in with BFP and his gang, Titans X were given clues to some evil plot that BFP was planning. He said something about "observing the UVs at close range". They did not figure it out at first, until Max and Marvin finally came up with their conclusion. They said that it had something to do with the sun. Raven then saw how they were onto something. "UVs" meant the sun's ultraviolet rays, and "observing" pertained to the use of something to accomplish whatever he had planned to do. Hershey then recalled of an abandoned observatory in Nevada, where BFP's gang could possibly be beginning this plan of theirs. Ernie was surprised at how great Max and Marvin's minds were.
There was only one way to find out whether or not something was going down, and that was to put everything on the line and confront BFP's gang at the observatory. Titans X decided to head there. Soon, they closed in until they were about two miles away from the observatory. They then had an unexpected sight.
"This... is bad," uttered K-9, as Titans X stood atop of a hill... to see a seemingly endless army of Class 1 Sentinels. Even from bird's eye (Sandra's) view, there were countless Sentinels.
"They're everywhere..." Sandra said, after flying down.
"I know we are clearly outmatched, guys..." Lucky began, "but we HAVE to get inside that observatory. If you ask me, this is just the appetizer... so we'll have to do what we can. Get ready." They all do so. "Titans, go!"
The 24 of them gave out a battle cry, to begin this all-out war. They fought through the army, one-by-one; however, as every second passed by, more Sentinels were on the way. Regardless, Titans X did not give up.
Within 20 minutes, the heroes had made it to the observatory grounds, to see a portal that was about to close; they had little time to take action. Unfortunately, a new breed of Sentinels were awaiting them (10 of them). Unlike the originals, these ones were human-sized... but were no pushovers, as their power levels matched the Titans' might. They were Sentinel Elites.
"They look like trouble..." McKee uttered, sensing their power levels.
"They're only distractions," Lucky proclaimed. "We need to reach BFP before he finishes his plan, whatever it is. We'll have to burst ahead; some of us will get inside, some of us won't... but regardless, don't give up the fight. Titans, go!"
They tried this tactic to see what the outcome would be. Only Lucky, Hershey, Frisbee, Ernie, Max and Marvin made it inside the portal before it closed. The rest had to stay and face the Sentinel onslaught.
Moments later, Lucky and his allies appeared inside a blue chamber of sorts. There was a teleporter in the back, which was where they had to go. It wasn't like the Danger Room, as a foe awaited them—one of BFP's associates, Manny. Hershey took a good look at him, before addressing the issue about why he turned against Lena. He was not in the mood to talk, as he transformed into a dragon and tried to attack the Titans... but Hershey immediately ended his attack with just one sharp punch to the face, knocking Manny unconscious. After that, the Titans moved onward, via the teleporter in the back.
The warp took them to another place just like the one they left from, only this time, Ace and Clyde awaited them. The both of them thought talk was cheap, as they zoomed all around the heroes with quick attacks. Soon, Ernie had enough of it and powered up to a such a high level and swiftly took both bears down. Compared to the rest of the Titans in attendance, Ernie's hidden power stood out. After that battle, they found another teleporter in the back of the chamber.
The Titans were warped yet again to a very similar battleground. This time, they were ambushed by Adonis, who tackled into all of the Titans but Frisbee. They were pretty hurt, so Frisbee was left to handle Adonis by himself. In the end, Frisbee beat him by managing to use his Mind Splitter ability—an illusion that makes the target feel like everything has split into two dimensions, causing his or her mind to eventually shut down. His allies were alright, as they all then figured out that they were in some alternate realm, where on every floor, someone awaits them. Doing their math right, they would have to fight their way through five other foes from BFP's gang before getting to BFP himself.
Though the trek was hard to make, the Titans made it to where they presumed that BFP would be. They were now inside a laboratory, with a computer system connected to the satellite outside. Noticing this, they knew that they were back in the original world. To their dismay, so was BFP, who suddenly knocked Hershey and Frisbee out.
"Pauly!" Lucky growled.
"Didn't I tell you before? It's BIG FAT Pauly."
Max and Marvin held their mouths, trying not to laugh. BFP noticed this.
"Grrr... I'll let that pass, since the two of you are kids. I suggest you all prepare yourselves..." BFP warned, getting into his fighting stance.
"Hold on. What are you planning to do?" Lucky asked.
"Glad you asked." He walked over to the computer and flipped a switch, causing the screen to display the sun.
"The sun?" Ernie murmured.
"Correct. Get this, the satellite here at the observatory is not ordinary. I just showed you how; I flipped the switch. Now at this very second, I have a gamma ray laser charging from within the satellite, in a hope to maybe... I don't know—blow up the sun."
"ARE YOU CRAZY?" Lucky shouted. "You'll kill us all!"
"Hey, I don't want any witnesses... none."
"I won't let you get away with this! Ernie, Max, Marvin... stop that laser!" The four of them tried to flip the switch again, but BFP stopped them all from doing so.
"Sorry. That's not gonna happen, see?" he claimed. The four of them got up and tried again, but BFP kept pushing them back, up to the point where they could hardly get up. The laser was already fifty percent charged up.
"Drat!" muttered Lucky, after five minutes of trying to stop BFP's plans.
"Just give up. You won't win." BFP suggested, before he felt a drastic rise in Ernie's power.
"Yes we will..." Ernie responded, before quickly lunging at BFP, now breaking his power limits. He could not believe that Ernie was so strong.
The struggle went on for another three minutes until BFP hit Ernie through many of the lab's metal walls and shelves. Max and Marvin were concerned with whether on not he was alright. BFP grew tired.
"Now... back to business." Before he approached the computer, Max and Marvin used their psychokinesis cooperatively to stop BFP in his tracks and smash him around the lab. They were tired of him getting away with so much. While being hovered in the air, BFP noticed that Lucky was about to cancel the laser. He managed to escape the twins' grip and stop Lucky by letting out a volley of dark energy blasts, halfway destroying the lab as a whole. On his feet again, BFP rushed to the computer, where the laser was on the verge of being fully charged, ready to fire. Before he made it there, Ernie used a Flash Step to appear beside BFP and used Double-Edge Rush—a full-force tackle that not only severely hurts the target, but ails the user as well.
Ernie caused BFP to smash the computer and shut down the laser. Unfortunately, too much force and damage was applied to the lab already; it began to have a system breakdown—a massive malfunction. The lab was about to self-destruct in two minutes' time. Ernie knew he had to stop BFP from getting away, but he was also concerned for his allies. After a moment, he used an accesory he kept until a special occasion arose—a Mega Phoenix. It was used to revitalize any fallen ally; he used it to get Lucky, Hershey, Frisbee, Max and Marvin up. After that, Ernie looked down.
"What's going on?" Hershey asked.
"I wouldn't want to stick around to find out!" Frisbee exclaims, before dashing out of the lab.
Lucky saw that Ernie had a gloomy look on his face. "What is it, Ernie?" he asked quickly.
"The lab is gonna explode."
"Then what are we standing here for? Let's go!" Hershey exclaimed, following Frisbee. Lucky, Max and Marvin were headed in their direction, but stopped when they noticed that Ernie was trying to keep BFP from escaping by bracing himself around him on the floor.
"Ernie! What are you doing? If you want to live, you have to get out too!" Lucky shouted.
Ernie didn't budge. "He tried to kill us all... so he shouldn't live to see the next day! Even if I have to make that happen..." Ernie would give his life to stop BFP.
"Ernie..." Lucky thought to himself. He saw that he was making a true sacrifice.
"Just go!" Ernie demanded. They finally heeded to his plea and left. He then heard the final countdown.
"10... 9... 8..."
Ernie had one last thought. "Max... Marvin... I don't know if you two can hear me but... I want the both of you to carry on for me. I want you guys to grow stronger, wiser, and most of all, better than what I am now. You guys can do it; I see it in you. *BOOM* Goodbye..."
The rest had reunited with the others of Titans X and fled to where they were a mile away from the lab. They turned back and saw the massive explosion, taking the Sentinels along with it. It was certain that they, and Ernie, were no more. Titans X mourned in their loss of a comrade. Max and Marvin heard Ernie's final thought, and kept it in their minds for the times to come.
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Part 3 is coming soon.