Apex Predator
By Bubbajack
Beta: Grammarly
Disclaimer: I don't own any Marvel, Capcom, or DC characters that appear in this fic.
Ch.4: First Date's and second encounters…
Garfield paced nervously in his room wearing a black suede sports jacket, a white dress shirt with black pants, and a black belt and black leather shoes that were technically meant for hiking but hey he's a hero, and heroes never know when duty might call. As he paced he swept his hands threw his hair, making his already messy green hair even messier.
"You're going to wear a hole in the floor at this rate Young Master." Aloysius said approaching on cat's feet and startling the young teen.
Holding his chest he said breathlessly "Al, dude you almost gave me a heart attack!"
The butler of badass bowed and replied "My apologies sir, but I thought you would like to know it is time for you to be departing for Miss Hardy's estate."
Taking a deep breath before letting it out slowly, Beast Boy nodded. Being naturally curious about the woman he managed to wheedle a date out of, he looked up the address she gave him, and it was the address for the Hardy's, a very influential family in New York. Not that it mattered to him too much. He was after all, raised by Rita Farr and Steve Dayton two of the most rich and influential people ever. If there was one thing he was capable of, it was mingling with high society.
"Right, thanks Al." he replied before shapshifting his hair into something more manageable.
"Impressive Young Master; shall I prepare one of the fleet for your date? The Shelby perhaps?"
Gar thought about it. Originally, he was just going to teleport to the building 'But that might be taken the wrong way.' He thought.
Nodding he said "Yeah Al, go ahead and get the Roadster ready."
The blonde butler bowed and said "It shall be done promptly sir."
After Aloysius left, Gar took one more look in the mirror before the thought 'Showtime.'
Raven couldn't help but blush a little bit within her hood as the changeling came down the stairs. He was dressed sharply and his messy green hair was even slicked back. As he reached her he said "Well, how do I look?"
Straightening his sports coat a bit, she replied, "You look dashing Gar."
Smiling he said "Thanks Rae."
The duo heard a wolf whistle behind them and turned to see both Kitty, Rogue, Jubilee, and Amara. Removing her fingers from her lips, Jubilee said "Damn Gar, you clean up nice."
"That he does, your lookin' good sugar." Rogue complimented while sauntering forward before giving him a peck on the cheek.
"T-thanks Rogue." He said blushing brown due to his complexion.
Sighing Kitty came forward and wiped off the Goth girls lipstick before saying "Like, I know you're happy you can touch him an all Rouge, but are you seriously trying to ruin his date?"
Rogue grinned sheepishly before she said to the changeling "Ah'm sorry bout that sugar."
Gar waved off her apology "Don't worry about it Rogue, its fine." He told her before he heard the brief honk of a horn.
"That's my ride, see you ladies later, I gotta go." He apologized.
They all nodded and after the changeling was out of sight, Kitty turned to Raven and asked "We're so following him, right?"
"Hell yes." The empath replied. It's not that she didn't trust Gar's judgment, it's just that she didn't know anything about this woman other than the fact she was a thief and as such, she was going to follow him from a distance just to make sure this wasn't some kind of frame up.
As soon as they heard the sound of an engine fade in the distance, they too left, via one of Raven's portals.
Despite what Cyborg thought, Garfield did in fact know how to drive…the problem was, he drove like he was a stunt car driver, which is to say hectically but without hurting anyone, often cutting corners and weaving in and out of traffic like a pro, and in the vehicle he was currently driving, getting in a pileup would be costly.
Said vehicle was a cobalt blue and a white racing striped '66 Shelby Cobra 427 S/C. One of only forty-three made for the race track and holding a 427 engine, a small V8 engine capable of hitting speeds of over 165mph, side exhaust pipes, black leather interior, and the number fourteen on the side and on the hood of the car.
Swerving in and out of traffic and receiving several one finger salutes for his trouble, he finally made his way to a lavish building in Queens. It was huge a Victorian style mansion that had several bay windows that he could see lit up from here, numerous acres of land, and was surrounded by a huge gate and likely tons of security. Nothing he wasn't used to after living with Steve and Rita for five years.
Pulling up to the gate, he pressed the intercom and waited. Moments later a nasally oh so holier than thou voice replied "Yes, this is Sebastian Graves, butler of the Hardy family, who is this?"
"Hi, I'm Garfield Logan, I'm Felicia's date. Did she tell you I was coming?" he asked, confused.
He heard a sigh from the other end of the line and then "Of course, just a moment please."
Seconds later, the gate moved aside allowing him to drive his car towards the mansion. Once he got closer he knew the place was nice. The lawn was precisely trimmed, with not a single sign of a weed anywhere, the ancient manor though clearly old looked well cared for, sporting a turret, which if Gar had to guess, was either the attic or someone's room. Parking in front of the massive front doors he got out of his car and was met with a man that set his animal senses on edge.
He had a hawk-like nose and sharp dark eyes beneath slightly bushy brows he was around the same age as Al, and dressed the same too. He currently had a look of distaste on his face as he stared at the changeling. He quickly covered it, not knowing that he had already noticed it and replaced it with a stern demeanor which did little to calm Gar's nerves.
Approaching he said "I shall inform Miss Felicia you have arrived. Please make your way to the lounge while you wait and don't touch anything."
Garfield's eyebrow twitched. 'What the hell is this guy's problem, and how do I get to the lounge?'
His mind preoccupied, he absentmindedly wandered the halls of the Hardy estate occasionally glancing at a statue or a work of art as he walked across the waxed hardwood floor. 'They sure do have an eye for art. I wonder how much of it Felicia stole from museums and how much was actually legitimately paid for.' He thought.
He turned and bumped into someone almost knocking them over, catching his balance and the person in front of him; he came face to face with a twenty some year older version of Felicia, who was wearing a black evening gown.
Helping her to her feet he asked "You ok ma'am?"
Nodding demurely while offering her hand, the woman replied "Yes I am young man thanks to you. You must be Garfield, I'm Felicia's mother, Lydia."
"Pleasure's all mine ma'am." He said placing a kiss on the back of her palm.
Smiling slightly she said "Ah a gentleman, how refreshing in this day and age. Come, I'll show you to the lounge while we wait for Felicia, she's been in her room since last night trying to decide what to wear."
Chuckling slightly he followed the older woman to what was a cocktail lounge mixed with a sitting area, a fully stocked bar taking up the left half of the room, while the right side was covered with armchairs, couches, and loveseats near a huge roaring fireplace.
Sitting on a loveseat, while Gar made himself comfortable in an armchair the two studied each other silently for a moment before Lydia asked the age old question "So young man, what are your intentions for my daughter?"
Raising a hand he asked "Before I answer that, the green skin, hair, pointed ears, and fangs don't bother you at all?"
Shaking her head and smiling Lydia replied "No not at all, in fact I'm a mutant activist."
Gar blinked in surprise "Really, that's cool. Technically speaking though I obtained my powers from a virus cure."
"Oh?" the Hardy Matriarch asked leaning forward in interest.
Nodding Gar said "My story is far from pleasant, you sure you can handle it?"
"I assure you, I'm stronger than many would give me credit for." She replied nodding firmly.
Shrugging Gar said "Alright, if you're sure then; my tale starts in the jungles of the Ivory Coasts of Africa…well that, and a green monkey…"
Gar wasn't sure how long he talked but before he knew it he'd told Ms. Hardy what he called the 'civilian version' of his life story, which consisted of him getting Sakutai, being saved by his parents formula, his parents dying tragically due to their boat being sabotaged and those same men forcing him to steal many priceless objects for them until they were arrested and he was sent to live with Galtry, where he was almost killed several times over the years until he met Steven Dayton who was a patron of his parents work which is how he ended up getting adopted by the man and his wife. He also told her how they both along with their best friends Larry and Cliff died in a tragic explosion caused by a terrorist group while visiting a third world country.
He didn't bother to include any of the more recent events, such as his father actually being alive, the fact that he was vacationing at a school for mutants, or that her daughter was a thief.
By the end Ms. Hardy was in tears, offering her his handkerchief she dabbed at her eyes and said "You poor boy, to have to go through so much and yet to still be able to smile it must be some kind of miracle."
"I agree mother." An equally choked up Felicia said from the side, making both of them turn. When Gar saw her his jaw hit the floor.
She was wearing a little strapless black number, which was cut just enough to teasingly show off her ample cleavage. Around her neck was a wispy silver silk shawl and an emerald and diamond necklace that matched her hair and eyes, which were covered lightly in eye shadow, on her feet were a pair of black high heels.
"I…um-well damn." Gar managed to get out.
Smiling playfully and winking at her mother, Felicia sauntered forward and closed his mouth with a single finger while whispering in his ear "See something you like, Gar?"
Instead of answering he asked "How long were you standing there?"
Felicia's eyes softened and she whispered "Since you started telling your tale to mother. You have my respect Logan, not many people can go through all you did and keep on smiling."
"Well said Felicia, and I quite agree you're a rare breed Mr. Logan. That said, go out and have some fun, but not too much fun, I'm not ready to spoil grandchildren quite yet." Lydia joked making Felicia blush and shout "M-Mother!"
Gar laughed too and reassured the elder of the Hardy women "No need to worry about that Ms. Hardy, as a side effect of my powers, I can't have sex until marriage."
This caused both women to look at him and say "Come again?"
Deciding they had had enough surprises for one night he said simply "Call me old fashioned; but I was raised not to have sex before marriage."
'There is something he's not telling me.' Felicia thought to herself before deciding she could get answers out of the changeling later. She then grabbed his arm and said "C'mon cutie, you need to get your mind and more importantly mine off such morbid thoughts."
Rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment he said "Right, well hang on because the only way we're gonna make our reservations now is if I do something drastic and crazy."
Looking over at Felicia's mother he said "It was a pleasure to meet you Ms. Hardy, and don't worry, I'll have Felicia back by a reasonable hour."
Holding Felicia close he said "Hang on." Before he disappeared in a puff of brimstone scented smoke making a 'bampf' noise as they both vanished.
Looking over at the shocked barkeep Lydia said "Get me a strait whiskey."
As she sipped her drink moments later she thought, 'I do believe I've found my future son-in-law.'
-With Gar and Felicia-
The two reappeared in Gar's Shelby, he fired up the engine before he turned to Felicia and asked "Do you trust me?"
Felicia thought about it and after a moment replied "You haven't given me a reason to distrust you."
"Good enough for me." He replied before he put his hand on her shoulder and then 'bampfed' both her and his car into a parking lot.
Looking around she found they were in the parking lot of Peter Luger's the most famous steak restaurant in Brooklyn New York. Felicia looked from the restaurant to the changeling and then deadpanned "Peter Luger's, don't you need a reservation months in advance to get in here?"
Smirking coyly Gar replied "Have a bit of faith Felicia." Before he got out of the car and opened her door for her.
Smiling she said "Thanks sweetie."
The two entered the establishment arm in arm. Approaching the maître d', Gar said "Hi I have a reservation for two under the name Dayton?"
"Of course sir, right this way." The man replied before leading them past a long wooden bar into a dining room which was lit by several brass electric chandeliers to a corner table and saying "Your waiter shall be with you shortly, thank you for choosing to dine with us this evening Mr. Dayton."
After their waiter left, Felicia turned to him and whispered "Dayton, I thought your name was Logan?"
"Well it is, but around the age of ten or so, I was adopted by Steve and Rita Dayton, at my request however they allowed me to keep my original last name."
Felicia stared at him in gob smacked awe for a moment before she began muttering to herself "I'm on a date with the heir of Dayton Industries, why didn't I pick up on that during your spiel to mother?! She's probably already hearing wedding bells for the two of us." She groaned.
Reaching across the table and placing a hand comfortingly on her shoulder he said "There, there, I'm sure everything will be just fine. Just take a deep breath ok?"
Doing as he suggested Black Cat took a deep breath before calmly letting it out. She then locked eyes with him and said "I noticed you made no mention of any powers during your monologue."
To which he sheepishly replied, "Yeah well I'm pretty sure your mom thinks something is up due to the teleportation and all."
Smirking she said "That's true, nice trick by the way. Is that how you pulled off all of your robberies in the past?"
Shaking his head he replied "No, actually, the teleportation is a new addition. Back then I used…other methods."
"Such as?" Felicia asked curiously, eyebrow raised.
"Much, much smaller versions of what you saw on the roof the other night." He replied cryptically.
The Black Cat blinked owlishly for a moment before she said "You don't mean you-"she stopped talking when Gar motioned towards a snooty looked waiter who was making his way towards their table.
"Good evening madam, what might I get for you and you're…companion?" he asked with clearly thinly veiled distain directed towards the green skinned changeling.
Immediately Felicia's face became stone cold and she said "First off, you can drop the attitude, or both I and my date will leave."
The waiter smirked at this and bowed mockingly, saying "My apologies madam; I am simply used to serving people, not animals."
Next thing anyone knew the waiter was sprawled out in the floor due to Felicia cold cocking him with a right hook.
Moment's later, and elderly man wearing a black suit and tie, with grey smoothed over hair, and sporting a face lined with age but with keen eyes appeared. Both Felicia and Gar immediately recognized him as the "Dean of Damage Control" Howard J. Rubenstein himself. Looking at the waiter, then at the woman, he then glanced at Gar and nodded piecing together what happened before looking down at the stunned waiter and saying "Tony, your fired."
He then turned to Gar and said "Gar, kiddo, if you had told me you were commin' I woulda made sure you were treated right."
Smiling a bit the changeling waved and said "Hey it's been awhile huh Howard?"
Shaking his head the greying elderly man replied "Been awhile he says, been awhile he says! Oi kid, it's been a good five or so years since I seen ya! Look at ya now, on a date wit Felicia Hardy no less! I'll just have the boys take care of the trash here and then we'll get you two a good meal, on the house…no buts!" He said when he saw the changeling open his mouth to protest.
Sighing he nodded as two bulky men carried the still out waiter out of the building. Clapping his hands together, Howard said "Great, I knew you'd see it my way kid, now wait right here, and your server will be right wit ya ok?"
"Yeah sure." Gar replied.
Howard then walked off but not before turning back briefly and saying "Nice hook by the way missy."
Soon after the heavies tossed one Tony Mandela into the back alleyway of Peter Luger's he found himself tossed up against the wall and held there by a black cocoon of energy up to his neck. Soon after he found himself face to face with a blue cloaked grey skinned girl who was currently sporting four glowing crimson eyes that shown from beneath her hood.
"W-w-what do you want?" he stuttered out.
"Ma friends an Ah would like ta know just why you saw fit ta mock the green guy in there." A Goth dressed girl with a southern accent asked.
It was then that a brunette wearing a light pink shirt, blue jeans and flats added "Yeah, and like you might wanna hurry up cause she looks totally po'd." while pointing at the girl with two glowing sets of eyes.
"Alright, alright! I don't like muties ok?! They aren't normal damn it! They're a bunch of carnie freaks and criminals who need to be locked up, there you happy now?"
"Ecstatic." The crimson eyed girl growled before she said three words that would change his life forever "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos."
The energy fully enveloped his body preventing even the sound of his screams of fear from penetrating the night air. Moments later the bubble of magic receded revealing the man to now have snake-like scaly skin.
"W-What did you do to me?!" the man asked.
"Haven't you ever heard the phrase, walk a mile in someone else's shoes? Well I figured you might like to know what it's like to actually be one of these so called freaks you despise so much." Raven replied while smirking evilly, letting a bit of her inner demoness out.
Gathering up his courage the now jobless man demanded "Change me back, do it now damn it! I refuse to live like this!"
To which Raven replied coldly "You don't have a choice, until you can find someone willing to accept you for how you currently look, you're going to be stuck like that."
Looking around frantically the waiter grabbed a broken bottle holding it up to his throat shakily before saying "The hell I'm going to spend one more minute looking like a freak!"
Before either Rogue or Kitty could intervene, the man slit his own throat. Raven however merely smiled. Upon seeing this Rogue turned on her asking "Ya think this is funnah? It isn't funnah damn it you just killed ah guy!"
Raven shook her head and replied "No I didn't you see, in some cultures the snake is a symbol for eternity as the snake sheds its old skin and thus gains new life."
"What da ya-"Rogue stopped talking when she saw the skin of the man molt off his body, leaving him in a completely unharmed state.
"What-how?" the confused man asked.
Still smirking raven replied "You didn't think I'd let you get off with insulting my boyfriend that easily did you? Oh no, you're going to live, and you're going to learn what it's like to suffer like the people you so despise. Who knows? Maybe you'll thank me for this one day."
She then turned to Kitty and Rogue and said "C'mon you two, it's about time we left. Gar and Felicia should be leaving soon." She then opened up a portal and just before stepping through it said "Oh and Garson, you might wanna put some damn clothes on."
The Brooklyn native looked down to see that when he molted he not only shed his skin, but also his clothes…
Finishing there on the house meals Gar and Felicia headed back to the car and soon after they buckled in, Felicia noticed something connected to the dashboard that she just had to comment on "Gar, is that a police scanner?"
"Huh, oh yeah. I have em installed in all my cars. You know what they say, crime never sleeps."
"And neither do the heroes?"
Gar nodded "And neither do the heroes."
They drove down the road silently for a few minutes before Felicia decided to address the elephant in the car "So, why didn't you tell that guy off in there?"
Shrugging he muttered something she couldn't quite make out. "Sorry what was that?"
Sighing, he turned to her and said "Technically, everything he said was true."
Felicia's face bore shocked look for a moment before she donned a neutral expression and asked "Excuse me?"
Holding up a hand he said "Just gimmie a minute we're almost there now."
Felicia was so busy paying attention to the changeling, she hadn't been looking at where he was going. Looking around she, found that they were parked on the uppermost floor of a parking garage. In the distance, the Natural History Museum could be seen. Just as Felicia was going to ask what they were doing there, the changeling spoke up saying "Nice view huh?"
Nodding slowly she replied "Yes, it is. But I don't think you brought me up here just to tell me that did you?"
"Hardly." He scoffed, before smirking, turning to her and saying "I'm gonna show you why, for a brief time I was the best thief their ever was."
Returning his smirk with a small one of her own she replied "That's what I've been waiting on cutie."
"Alright, try not to freak out ok?" he said before he reached inside his own stomach and pulled out several velvet pouches.
Her eyes wide, Felicia asked "How?"
"When I morph, my clothes and things have to go somewhere right?"
Felicia blinked owlishly before she nodded "Right, continue."
Without further preamble he opened each one, and emptied them, showing her their contents. Felicia stared slack jawed as on the dashboard sat not just the Star of India, the Eagle Diamond, the DeLong Star Ruby, the Midnight Star Ruby, and the Lucifer's Heart Red Diamond, but also all three pieces of the Black Orlav Diamond, and the Archon's Dream. All in all, they had a net worth of over half a billion dollars on the black market alone.
Seeing her stunned face, Gar chuckled before whispering in her ear "Those gems you were trying to steal the other day? They were very elaborate fakes."
Felicia finally managed to find her voice "Your-you…you can't be better than me damn it!"
'Huh?' he thought. "Huh?" he said.
Now glaring half-heartedly at her date she said "I've always prided myself on being the best thief ever, one that no one could top and now here I find you, a hero, is actually better than me, it's just a real spirit breaker." She finished glumly.
He awkwardly patted her on the back, and said "Uh, I'm sorry? If it makes you feel any better, I stole all the stuff I did against my will and I was a young kid at the time like seven."
"That's even worse! I didn't pull off my first heist till I was in college and you did all this before ten? I've been totally out classed." Felicia moaned before placing her head in her hands.
"Hey don't feel too bad, in your defense I have an edge no one else has, I'm a shape shifter remember? That's almost cheating compared to how you do things." He said trying to cheer her up.
"You…have a point there." Felicia sniffled.
Thinking she could use some further cheering up, and wanting to have some fun, he said "Hey Felicia, how would you like to watch me work?"
"What do mean?" she asked.
Smiling slyly at her he replied "Well the Avenger's Mansion is nearby, and I have some video equipment in the trunk. What I'm trying to say is, how would you like to help me rob Avenger's Mansion?"
Felicia, her head still in her hands, stiffened before she straightened and looked him the eye silently for a moment before saying "You're serious?"
"Yep." He replied.
A wicked grin adorning her face she asked "What do I need to do?"
Putting the gems away before getting out of the car, the Changeling went to the trunk coming back with a laptop, a video recorder, and two earpieces. Handing the platinum blonde the laptop and an earpiece, he donned video equipment and his own earpiece and said "Ok on that computer are blueprints for Avengers mansion which I went to the trouble of getting for our date tonight."
"Awe, only the first date and you already know how to show me a good time Gar." She cooed while winking at him saucily.
Chuckling a bit he said "Just wait, the real fun is about to begin…By the way Felicia, you wouldn't happen to know how to make YouTube videos would you?"
Confused but nodding she replied "Yeah its easy why?"
"Good, and I hope you like art, because this is gonna be fun." He said before he disappeared.
Avenger's Mansion
Gar reappeared inside the Avenger's Mansion foyer. {Felicia, can you hear me babe?}
{Loud and clear cutie, but babe?} She asked on the other end of the line.
Shrugging he replied {If I'm your cutie, then your my babe.}
{Fair enough, where to first?} She asked.
{Might as well go for Cap first.} The changeling reasoned.
{You'll need to go up the stairs and swing go right and according to your map, it should be the first room on the left once you turn down the hall…how do you know that anyway?} She asked, sounding slightly perturbed that he knew where the Avengers slept.
{I did some recon yesterday.} He replied in a ghost of a whisper as he made his way down the hall. Coming to a stop outside Captain America's door, he turned into an amoeba briefly and slipped under the crack of the door before reforming.
Using his slightly superior night sight he glanced around the room, it had white carpet with blue walls and a red ceiling, and was fairly Spartan featuring only a dresser, desk with a chair and a bed. He found Captain America asleep in bed stiff as a board as if dead.
'Sheesh this guy really is a soldier to sleep like that.' the changeling thought as he continued to look around before he found his prize, resting against the wall next to the original hero's bed.
Captain America's shield a concave discus colored red, white and blue with a star in the middle made out a mysterious lightweight indestructible metal that has to date never been duplicated, only imitated in the form of Adamantium.
Creeping forward carefully he gently removed the shield from its resting place…only for Cap's hand to shoot out and grab the shield. Looking up fearfully he found Rodger's staring at him blankly.
Gar noticed that his breathing pattern was that of someone who was still asleep and realized that the man was still asleep and had acted on reflex. Gently reaching over to a nearby lamp, he put it in place of the shield before storing it within his person and leaving just as he came.
After he was a ways away from the red, white, and blue heroes' room, he let out a sigh of relief and said "Damn that was scary."
{You're telling me. I thought he had you dead to rights there cutie.} Felicia's voice said over the earpiece, startling him.
"You scared me babe." He said while holding his hand to his chest.
Hearing her chuckle over the radio she said {Sorry cutie, didn't know you were so skittish, though it is kinda cute.}
"Yeah, yeah just lead me to Thor's room please." He requested…
In short order Gar had managed to take something valuable from each of the Avengers. Captain America's shield, he pilfered Hawkeye's bow, after decrypting a security system he 'barrowed' one of Tony Starks Iron Man suits- the password was Blkwido4eva-, Thor's mystical hammer Mjolnir which was a hell of a lot lighter than it looked but was slightly difficult to nab because there were busted beer bottles everywhere in the demi-gods room making stealth difficult, Bruce Banner aka the Hulk all of his pants.
The only member left to pilfer was the one Gar secretly fanboy'ed over… the cold hearted redhead the Black Widow.
Entering her room the same way he did the other Avenger's minus Stark, he searched around. The room was completely colored a dull grey from the carpet to the walls to the ceiling. There was a rather large bed in the corner which was currently occupied, and guns and blades of all shapes and sizes adorned the walls.
Carefully checking each and every one for an alarm, he lifted them off the walls and stored them away. He should've left then, but he paused wanting to do one more thing. Quiet as a mouse he crept upon the Black Widow's bed. He looked down with a frown as he noticed she tossed and turned as if having a nightmare.
'With all the shit she's seen and done, I'm not really surprised.' He thought.
Coming to a decision he did something reckless and stupid…he sent his soul self into her subconscious mind…
They were all dead, all except her. The Avengers had finally been defeated, and by their greatest foes. Captain America lost to Red Skull who shot him in the heart with some sort of dart that turned his super soldier serum into poison, Hulk lay crushed under the heel of a mech piloted by The Leader who grinned evilly in the from the cockpit, Hawkeye was gunned down by Crossfire, Thor's head lay crushed under his own hammer while Loki whistled jovially, the Mandarin continually shot energy beams into the flaming wreckage that was the remains of Ironman while laughing manically, and she was forced to watch all of this by her own polar opposite Madam Hydra.
"You Avenger's always did lack resolve to do what was truly necessary, and now you all pay the price." She whispered cruelly as the other villains closed in…
"Hey, hasn't anyone told you that's not how you treat a lady?" an unknown voice asked casually.
Everyone froze before looking over and seeing a green teenage leaning against a mostly destroyed building. Pushing himself off, he walked forward slowly and said calmly "I'm feeling generous, so I'll give you a five minute head start, get to running."
The Leader scoffed from within the confines of his mech and said "Foolish child, you don't actually think you can succeed where Earth's 'Mightiest Heroes' have failed do you?"
The lanky green teen merely smirked and said "Actually, yeah, yeah I do."
He then turned into a green velociraptor and charging in, he quickly took out both Crossfire and Viper mortally wounding Crossfire with a slash to the stomach and killing Viper outright when he bit her head clean off. The Mandarin and The Leader attempted to attack, only to find themselves dwarfed in the shadow of a massive green skinned T-rex, one that bent low eyeballing them hostilely before letting lose an earthshaking roar, and ripping off one of the arms of the Leader's mechs' with its overpowering jaws.
Undeterred, The Leader attempted to use the other arm of his mech which had a mounted laser cannon strong enough to wound the hulk to blast the beast, only for it to disappear in thin air. Both he and the Mandarin looked around in confusion but found nothing
"What happened, where did he go?! Mandarin asked.
"I don't-I don't know." The Leader replied panting slightly.
Looking at the stereotypical martin-like man Mandarin asked "What on earth is wrong with you?"
The Leader looked at his layout screen for a moment before he replied in a labored breath "The air filters for my mech, have been compromised. I need to eject."
Doing just that, the Leader evacuated his mech when moments later it exploded.
The two villains' looked at each other, and Mandarin asked "How did that happen?"
Rubbing his chin in thought, the Leader replied "I am uncertain, but I believe that whatever affected the air filters likely gummed up the cooling unit as well, causing the mech to overheat and thus explode."
"Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!" A very familiar voice called.
The two villains turned energy beams prepared to fire at the Changeling who just smirked at them.
"Give up, you've already lost." He told them.
"You are skilled I admit-"The Mandarin said giving the boy a respectful nod which The Leader replicated and the changeling returned before he continued "But now the element of surprise is lost and you shall fall to our superior combined might."
Natasha merely watched as the green boy shook his head and said "That's where you're wrong; you see, I wasn't kidding when I said you've already lost. You-"He pointed at the Leader "-have been inflicted with a stage four brain tumor that feeds off of radiation."
He then pointed at the Mandarin and said "As for you, it's going to be hard to use those rings when your fingers and thumbs fall off due to necrosis."
The two looked at each other for a moment before laughing and the leader said "There is no possible way you could pull off such an elaborate plan in a matter of-"Suddenly, the Leader dropped dead.
"Seconds?" Gar finished for him "Actually yeah it's not that hard see, when I tore off the arm of your mech, I then changed into a germ multiplied to the point that I clogged up the ventilation and cooling systems. When your mech blew up, you spread me around like an airborne virus, allowing me to affect both you and the Mandarin both." He told the chilling corpse.
The Mandarin raised his fists to destroy this fool, only for his fingers and thumbs to fall off, bones snapping like twigs. Gar allowed him to stare at his now mutilated hands in shock for a moment before he snapped his fingers and teleported the Mandarins own heart into his waiting hand. He stared at it for a moment before simply tossing it away next to the mandarin's now dead body.
Suddenly, everything became a drab and lifeless grey and nothing moved and no sound could be heard, except for the sound of someone clapping. Turning, Gar found himself faced with the one person who did nothing during his assault.
"How come you didn't do anything God of Mischief?"
Loki just continued to smile jovially as he shrugged before saying "A few months back, I just wanted to see my oh-so-perfect-brother defeated, and since I failed that, I thought I could get some entertainment picking on these human friends of his. Never expected to meet someone like myself, someone who would go to such lengths to ruin my fun."
Frowning he said "Torturing a woman in her dreams is your idea of fun? That's messed up dude."
"Coming from someone who just "Killed" four people remorselessly, and quite creatively I might add, bravo, I find that laughable." The Trickster God replied.
"Fuck you Loki." The changeling spat.
Suddenly the trickster god disappeared and a sultry voice from behind him said "That can be arranged, you know?"
"Wah!" Gar said freaking out and spinning around to find a female version of the trickster god, barefoot, and wearing a green dress fringed around the neck and cuffs with black wolf fur her head adorned with a horned circlet behind him.
"Dude, not cool don't even joke like that! I don't swing that way." The changeling promptly rebuffed.
"Oh." The female said before turning back into a male and asking "You're gay then?"
Waving his hands around frantically Gar said "Hell no dude, one-hundred percent the opposite!"
"You do realize when I changed gender I really did change gender right?" Loki asked.
"And you realize that at the end of the day you're still a dude, which means I'm not interested." Gar said firmly.
The trickster God laughed and said "Foolish mortal, the feminine form you see before you is my true form now."
Blinking Gar asked "Uhh, since when?"
"Since Ragnorok." She replied.
Putting his face in his hands, Gar moaned out "Great, I'm being hit on by a transsexual in someone else's dream. Just my luck."
"You make that sound like a bad thing." She pouted.
"This coming from the guy who gave birth to a six-legged horse according to legend." Gar muttered.
Groaning Loki said "Why does everyone even now hold that against me? For the record, I was drunk, and I thought the horse was…an old friend."
Shaking his head in disbelief Gar said "Ok, I did not need to know that dude…tte, in any case, you gonna leave her alone from now on or what?" he asked while nodding towards the frozen Black Widow.
"Well I suppose I could be persuaded to do so…" Loki said "If you make it worth my while…" she finished.
"Not happening." Gar said bluntly.
"Awe, not even a peck on the cheek?" she asked batting her eyelashes at him while saying "Do that, and I'll go." 'She' promised.
Narrowing his eyes Gar asked "Why the hell do you want to get into my pants so badly dude? I am both disturbed and curious, but mostly disturbed."
Chuckling the woman replied "You may not realize it yet but, you are important, as a God I'm allowed to know about prophecies and you, my little green hellion, are at the center of one." She replied with a devious smirk.
Holding up his hand for silence Gar spoke "Ok now I know your bullshitting me, so I'm just gonna leave now before your mouth tries to write a check that my ass can't cash."
He began to walk away stopping only briefly next to Black Widow to say "Rest easy you hear?" before disappearing.
Frowning a bit, Loki muttered to herself "He should've stayed, it would've benefited both of us." She then shrugged and said "No matter, he'll come to realize his own importance, and that of mine and others, soon enough…"
She then looked over at Black Widow, her mischievous eyes softening for a moment before she shuddered and said "He has to, for all our sakes."
Gar woke up to the sound of Felicia near frantically calling his name.
"I'm fine Felicia I'm fine, I just did a little dream diving is all." He said in a dead whisper.
{You are so lucky the Avenger's haven't found you yet!} She snapped before she took a deep breath and continued {you need to get out of there soon, it's almost sunrise.}
Gar nodded before looking at Black Widow once again and seeing she had somehow managed to throw her sheets off herself in her sleep, revealing she slept in only a bra and panties. Very gently, and very, very carefully he picked up her blankets and covered her back up to her stomach.
The read headed Russian spy turned contentedly in her sleep, and her bra fell off in the process. It took all of the shapeshifters' willpower not to pass out right there.
{Gar, you don't have time to be a gentleman, just get out of there!} Felicia yelled through the earpiece.
The changeling nodded jerkily and did just that turning before he made his way out of her room and the Avenger's Mansion. Once he was on their font lawn he said "Ok time to finish this."
{What do you mean?} Felicia asked.
Smirking he said "You'll see…wait, what's this?" he said feeling something stuck on the back of his belt.
Pulling it off, he found it was Black Widow's bra, the very one she was wearing in her room not moments ago…
'Holy shit.' Gar thought. "Felicia, I can explain-"
{Damn…you really are a master thief. To be able to steal the Black Widows bra while she's wearing it, without even me noticing? You really are a pro.} Felicia said in awe, cutting him off.
"Right, well anyway let's finish this." He deadpanned. Before taking out all the things he pilfered from the Avengers mansion and cracking his knuckles.
Twenty minutes later he reappeared in the driver's seat of his car, laughing right alongside Felicia."
"God that was great!" Gar said between laughs.
"Yeah, yeah it was." Felicia replied.
Looking at her through his tears of laughter he asked "Did you upload the video to YouTube?"
To which Felicia nodded and said "I cut out the part where you passed out for an hour and a half." The platinum haired thief sent him a glare and asked "What was that about anyway?"
Huffing Gar replied "Nothing, just a trickster pulling a mean prank and telling lies."
Felicia just nodded deciding she didn't want to know. Cracking his neck Gar said "Anyway, it's about time I got you home."
"Home, but the main event is just about to begin…Garfield." A sinister voice said from behind them, one that sent chills up the changelings' spine.
Slowly he adjusted his car mirror till he was looking right behind him and he found his foster father Steve Dayton standing behind the car, an insane smile on his face.
"Ah Mento, what an unpleasant surprise." Gar said tonelessly.
His face twisting in rage Mento spat "You'll show your better some respect boy!"
Opening the door to his car he replied "Better? Well I'm not too sure about that anymore. But in order to see who the best is, how about we take this somewhere else, hmm?" Gar asked before looking Mento in the eye.
He was still wearing a damn goofy looking helmet, but this one was red. In fact, it looked like Steve got a new suit, this one being black with red boots and gloves to match his helmet. The only similarity the old suit had to the new one was that it still possessed its lightning bolt on the chest and he still wore the silver belt.
Thinking back to his old costume Gar thought 'Damn, I really need a costume change.'
"What did you mean by the main event is about to start Mento?" Gar questioned calmly.
"Over the past year and a half I have found people who were seriously injured and, offering them power if they helped me take you down, I injected them with active promethium giving them powers, and healing their conditions. Right now, there at that boarding school you were staying with the witch. They've probably already taken the place hostage-What's so funny?" Mento asked after he saw the changeling holding his stomach in laughter.
"T-Tell me Mento how large is your team?" Gar asked.
The Hybrid a group of seven promethium powered individuals were currently fighting for their lives against the whole of Xavier's Institute who grossly outnumbered the smaller group almost three to one.
"There are seven of them why?" Mento asked.
One of the Hybrid, a woman with the power to control wind and sand that went by Sirocco cursed as she was struck in the chest from a lightning bolt via Storm.
"They are so boned." Gar said grinning.
"Sirocco!" Another Hybrid, this one a large husky man of Asian descent with a fumanchu mustache who went by Behemoth called out before being lifted off the ground via, Jean's telekinetic powers and thrown into a wall where he was bombarded into unconsciousness via energy blasts from Cyclops, Berserker, and Sunspot.
Mento scoffed "I highly doubt that school students could take on a group of trained meta-humans."
"Dog pile!" Multiple shouted as all of his copies clamored on top of one of the intruders that had a mess of snakes where the upper half of his face should be, only to be throw off by the man's brute force alone.
"I don't know what Crimelord was thinking sending us into this deathtrap, but we're leaving, now! Hybrid, retreat! Prometheus, cover us!"
"Oh, I think you'd be surprised." Gar said knowingly.
A tall man with invulnerable metallic skin and the ability to raise his own internal temperature to thousands of degrees nodded "Understood Gorgon, get Harpi, Touch-n-Go, and Pterodon and get out of here." he said before charging both Wolverine, Jubilee, and Magma once again his metal skin a cherry red.
Jubilee tried blasting him with a firework, to no effect. Magma's powers too had little to no effect on the molten metal man. Then, from out of left field, Iceman froze the so-called Prometheus in a solid block of ice.
Standing beside Logan he said "You better go, that won't hold him for long."
To which Logan nodded and said "Good going kid, c'mon you two."
Shaking his head Mento said "You always were an idealistic fool Gar, it was that same outlook that killed Rita, Cliff, and Larry."
"Fuck you Mento, I didn't kill anyone!" Gar shot back.
"LIES ALL OF IT! YOUR WEAKNESS KILLED MY BEST FRIENDS AND MY WIFE, AND IT WAS MY WIFE'S OWN WEAKNESS THAT I EVEN ADOPTED YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE!" Mento roared, spittle flying from his mouth.
"I'm not weak, you crazy son of a bitch." Gar said lowly.
Narrowing his eyes Mento said "Prove it."
"Gladly." The green teenager growled before disappearing leaving only the smell of sulfur and an odd noise behind, only to reappear behind him moments later and say "But first, let's take this fight someplace else."
Back at the X-mansion the four remaining members of the Hybrid stood back to back as they were surrounded by the combined forces of the X-men and the New Mutants.
"Shit, this isn't looking good." A young athletic looking girl with messy dark hair wearing a leotard and with several ribbons on it muttered as she gazed out at the small army of mutants arrayed against them.
"Language young lady, but true enough. This was doomed from the start." A dark haired woman who was clad in the same outfit, yet she sounded as if she was in some kind of pain, gritted out.
"Pff, I'm no lady Harpi." The younger woman said.
"That's enough Touch-n-Go." Gorgon growled out protectively of his wife, turning several of his eye stalks behind him to glare at the younger woman.
"I hate to break up this little family spat, but perhaps we should consider surrender? Oh, I know let's tie Touchy to a stick and use her as a surrender flag." Pterodon, a half human half pterodactyl that had blue skin and a black speedo besides covering his modesty also covered his vulnerable tail in a flexible metal armor, joked as he stood awkwardly on one leg due to the fact that Nightcrawler 'bamfed' on his back and guided him into a wall.
"Bite me Pet." Touch-n-Go growled out.
Cyclops stepped forward and said "Surrender we have you outnumbered and outgunned, just give up."
"We would if we could boy, but you don't understand the man we work for, the Crimelord…we fail him, and we die plain and simple as that." Harpi bit out through constant pain.
[Perhaps I can be of assistance?]
Looking around frantically Touch-n-Go swore "What the hell was that?"
"Language Miss Lopez." A bald man in a wheel chair said as he rolled forward without touching the wheels.
Looking at Xavier fearfully the youngest of the Hybrid asked "How do you know my name?"
"Clearly it's because he's a telepath and he read your mind." Gorgon grunted out. Locking all of his eye stalks on Xavier he studied the man for a moment and then said carefully "Am I to assume you're the leader of this…group?"
Nodding Professor X introduced himself "Charles Xavier, dean and founder of Xavier's Institute for Gifted Youngsters."
"Uhh, Andonis Bal, Archeologist." Gorgon said awkwardly.
Nodding serenely and steepling his fingers Xavier said "Can you tell me more about this Crimelord person? Perhaps I can assist you."
This surprised the X-group but they didn't say anything, after all he was Professor Xavier.
"Yes well he calls himself Crimelord, but in truth he really is just a madman with too much money that lost his wife by the name of Steven Dayton. He saved us from various accidents using promethium which also gave use our powers. The only thing he asked in return was that we help him get back at his adopted son, Garfield whom he blames for his wife's death."
This caused Wolverine to growl threateningly and stalk forward, only for Xavier to raise a hand halting him in his tracks.
The Paraplegic telepath was about to say something more, when suddenly a 'bampf' was heard and lo and behold Garfield appeared with the person that Xavier could only assume was Steve Dayton aka Mento and Crimelord.
Shoving Dayton away from him Garfield glanced around him and nodded approvingly saying "Good, looks like you guys got shit handled here." He then locked eyes with Mento and said "Now, it's my turn, let's finish things Mento."
Seeing his highly trained group surrounded by school children, Mento scoffed before donning his helmet and saying "Your all even more of a disappointment than the boy, I'll deal with you after I'm finished with him."
Silence descended across the half destroyed lawn of the Xavier Institute, tension was thick in the air as former father and son stared one another down, even Logan knew better than to get involved in this fight no matter how badly he wanted to. His kid needed this, he needed to do this on his own, to put his demons to rest.
'Good luck kid.' Logan thought even as he grit his teeth and clenched his fists on the sidelines.
Suddenly feeling a hand on his shoulder he turned to see Raven, along with Rogue, and Kitty standing next to him. "Don't worry Logan, Gar's got this."
Giving a half-hearted growl he asked "And just where have you three been?"
"Keeping an eye on Gar of course." Raven replied as if it were obvious, her amethyst eyes keenly focused on the fight.
The changeling and the psychokinetic stared down one another, neither moving, both tensed and waiting for the other to make a move. Deciding he needed to get something off his chest Gar said "This will be the last time, this will be the last time I go by Beast Boy. After this, the Doom Patrol is dead."
"The Doom Patrol is dead alright, you killed them a year and a half ago." Mento said as a breeze blew up some dust and debris, making a small dust cloud roll between the two combatants. The moment it passed, as if by some unseen signal, they both charged.
Mento at first attempted to turn the changeling's mind into mush using his telepathy only to find the boy's mind, which was previously so easily accessed, was now an impenetrable mental fortress. Quickly switching gears he shot psi-force blasts at the boy, ones that he easily avoided by turning into a green cheetah and using the animals enhanced speed and reflexes. Upon closing in he turned into a Rhino and gored Mento in the side with his horn slightly but, the older man's years of experience allowed him to roll with the blow, lessening the damage.
'He's not supposed to be able to dodge, he's supposed to be weak and beg me for forgiveness' of Rita's death before I send him to hell for his sins.' Mento thought before he used his powers to rise into the air, and picking up several large chunks of earth as he went.
Not wasting any time, Beast Boy turned into a swallow and nimbly avoided the hunks of earth being thrown his way. He ducked under one, just to be blindsided by another and sent hurtling towards the ground.
*FaBOOM*
Hitting the ground with bone crushing force, the X-men thought that they had just witnessed the end of the last sane Doom Patroller, apparently Mento thought so as well because he began the typical maniacal villainous laugh, gloating above the crater that served as the tombstone for his fallen adopted son.
Wolverine, his adamantium claws bared, was ready to leap up there and tear out his vocal cords, only to be stopped by a smirking Raven who said "There's something you should know about Gar, whenever someone he cares about is in danger, and he's angry enough…well your about to find out." She said nodding to the chunk of earth which was now trembling
*Here comes a new Challenger! The Beast!*
With a massive heave accompanied by a ferocious and primal roar, the werewolf-like form of The Beast tossed aside the two ton chunk of earth before staring up at Mento with feral white eyes.
"Beast…prey…hunt…" the animal hybrid growled out at Mento before leaping toward him at near blinding speed.
Upon seeing the werebeast, Rhea's heart fluttered and she whispered to herself "I think I'm in love."
Having never seen this colossal form before, Mento began to throw the remaining chunks of debris at the were-creature only for it to use them as springboards to reach loftier and loftier heights until he was right next to the deranged telepath.
Deciding to return the favor from earlier, the Beast delivered a vicious double overhead strike to Mento's back, sending him hurtling towards the ground where he impacted and sent up a huge dust cloud.
Landing nimbly on its hind legs the Beast waited, watching the dust cloud intensely to see if its prey survived. So intently was the Beast watching the dust cloud, that it didn't sense anything wrong until it heard its beta shout a warning to it.
"Beast Boy look out!" Raven called, a moment too late as a dart struck the beast in its lower thigh where the tibial artery could be found. Plucking the dart from its hide the Beast sniffed it, it smelt of death.
The Beast let loose a cry of fury as it turned back in to Beast Boy "RAHH-Ahh shit!"
"What happened?" Raven asked worriedly from the sidelines.
"He just Black Hand of Doomed me." Gar replied calmly as he felt his body starting to heat up the first symptom of BHD taking effect.
Looking over where Aloysius stood he said "Al, go get Davie and be quick about it, I don't have much time."
In response, Aloysius turned to Nightcrawler and said "Mr. Wagner, inside my room there is a cylindrical case, bring it here please."
"Jah." Kurt said before bampfing out of sight only to reappear moments later with said case.
Quickly submitting his thumb and retina for scanning the case popped open revealing the missile system that lay within.
It probably looked like a standard RPG to everyone else, but Logan? He could tell that the thing her was looking at was anything but. As sure as he was that he didn't know his real name that was a Davey Crockett armed with a W54 nuclear warhead…
Turning to the others he said "Well, I'm gonna miss you guys it's been fun Chuck."
"What makes you think you're going to survive?" Cyclops asked.
"Healing factor and an unbreakable adamantium skeleton, plus I've survived being nuked before." Logan replied.
"Nobody is dying today, except for me and Mento." Gar said his breathing labored and vision blurry as he took the miniature death maker from Al and turned around looking over his shoulder at Raven and saying "Looks like I won't be finishing that list huh?"
"Sure looks like it." Raven replied in the most flat monotone voice he had ever heard her use even as he saw the tears gathering in her eyes.
"Hey now Rea, Ozzy said it best, No more tears. Besides I've had a good run, and I've lived a hell of a lot longer than I should've. Years instead of days with the Sakutai virus." He said before coughing up some black ichor, he could feel his mutation trying to adapt to the venom running through his veins but it was tearing him apart too quickly.
"Raven, I have a request, live on ok, and dad?" He said making Logan's head snap up an meet his sons gaze "I'm asking you to make sure she does."
"Sure thing…son." Logan said, his voice lacking all pretenses of his gruff nature and holding something akin to warmth for once.
Smiling a little Gar said "Now that's the dad I remember." He then turned around and found Mento dragging himself out of the crater his body made.
"Hey Mento guess what?" he called.
"What?" the deranged man asked.
Gar then bampfed next to him still holding the Davy Crockett and said "You and I are going out with a bang." He told him before he put his free hand on him and disappeared again.
-In space-
Gar reappeared in the atmosphere above New York City. Promptly kicking Mento away from him, he lined up his shot, and just before he pulled the trigger he thought 'Tell Satan I sent you when you see him asshole!'
He then pulled the trigger…
*click*
He thought back to his all his happy times with his friends mainly consisting of Raven, Star, and Cy for the most part Robin was absent.
*FoWHOOSH!* the warhead flew towards Mento's face, which bore a stunned expression even as his lungs failed to find any oxygen for him to breath.
Gar's final thought before the bomb went off was 'Love ya Rae.'
*…Thump…BOOM!* the nuke exploded in the atmosphere destroying everything within a three mile radius.
-Topside-
Back on earth in NYC, several people watched as the night sky was briefly illuminated in a brilliant flash of light. Raven cried openly not caring who or what her powers hurt at the moment. The X-mutants saw the flash and looked away or down, pain etched on their collective faces. Logan felt something wet hit his knuckle and looked down and he realized they were tears. He was crying over the son he hardly knew and he didn't care if anyone saw. He didn't seem to notice when Ororo placed a comforting arm around his shoulder, and no one seemed to notice or care that the Hybrid disappeared from the scene.
On the opposite side town, Felicia Hardy aka the Black Cat was in tears. You see, Gar forgot to turn off the camera he'd been wearing, so she saw the entire fight, from beginning to end.
"See Gar, this is what being a hero gets you, it gets you killed, stupid!" she yelled as she cried sniffling to herself for a moment before she said "You said you were going out with a bang, and that's true, but you deserve to be remembered…heh, usually I steal things like monuments now here I am making one." She said to herself as she got to work typing on the computer…
From Asgard a dark haired with mischievous emerald eyes woman raised her glass at the bright flash and said to herself "He who shall fall six times, only to rise again like a phoenix. With wings of witch enchanted steel, and possessing an undying will that will bat away the darkness. Upon rising the seventh time, he shall cross the threshold betwixt god and man and become something new."
-In space-
The still somehow intact yet lifeless bodies of Mento and Beast Boy floated without purpose, but something larger than both of them saw purpose in them, or at least the changeling. Reaching down with a massive purple covered hand, the changeling's body was plucked gently between two massive delicate looking fingers and brought to the eye level of their owner.
"Huh, it's not often I'm given a free meal, and it seems I have you to thank green one…what's this?"
Beast Boys body was brought closer to the eye of the massive person "Wow, your still alive, barely mind you, but still that's damn impressive for what daddy's told me about the people of this planet."
The mysterious person then shrunk down to human size and stood over BB's prone form before saying "I do suppose I owe you for the free meal as paltry as it was."
Nodding her head as if agreeing with what she just said she spoke aloud "Right that's I'll do then. Besides, I can feel the life energy rolling off him even now and if I'm right, he could be my solution to my hunger pains. Plus, I'm eating for two now." She said touching her still smooth belly.
She then raised a hand over the changelings' corpse and said one word "Live."
There was a brief flash and a small explosion which sent Mento's body careening back towards New York City in the process. When it ended Garfield looked as good as new, his wounds healed, and his clothing fixed. Slowly, began to open his eyes… the first thing he saw were the vibrant square irises of a six foot tall brown haired woman with a body that would put supermodels to shame staring right back at him. She was wearing a purple body suit that showed off her curves and her cleavage as well as an odd horned helmet that covered the upper half of her face.
"Who-who are you?" he asked as his face heated up.
Smiling at his stutter, and finding his blush cute 'Heh, even pregnant I sexy as hell, go me.' She thought before pulling him upright and saying "My names Galacta but you can call me Gali."
Length: 10, 616 – Date completed: 7/1/14
AN: Hey everybody! You may or may not believe this but this, is the fourth chapter of Apex Predator and on top of that, it's my fourth post in a month! Holy shit I'm on a roll. Anyway on with the announcements!
Last chapter: I'm not gonna lie, I'm a bit disappointed in the review count for the last couple of chaps. Only eighteen for both the first chap got 20 or more. Am I doing something wrong or what?
BB eating meat: In the show it's shown that Beast boy is if not a Vegan at least a vegetarian, I however am going more by the comics than anything here and according to them, BB still ate meat even after his change.
The Hybrid: The Hybrid were a DC comic canon group of people from the comics that an insane Mento infected with an unstable comic element known as Promethium giving them various powers. He manipulated them to help him attempt to kill BB. Also in an ironic twist, the Hybrid were a DC mockup of the original team of X-men, of whom they lost against in this chap.
Wolverine's surviving a nuke comment: That's true. He was actually being held in a Japanese prison camp just off shore when the bombs hit.
The prank BB and Black Cat Pulled off: You'll find out next chap.
The timeline for events: To be honest, I can't really find a decent timeline for events that take place in either the Marvel or DC universes'. So I will simply say this and hope someone can help me out: For Marvel, the Dark Phoenix Saga hasn't taken place yet, and for DC Darkest Night has yet to occur.
Anyway, that's all for now everyone, till next time Bubbajack out!