C12: Define 'Beast'

The meeting was conducted in STAR Labs where Dr. Silas Stone also constructed the said Dilustel Armor capable of probably battling against the Kryptonians. He would totally have Kory's input at this moment especially since she was the only person who had a lot of experiences on the aliens. At this moment, if only one armor could be made out of it, probably a reflex

The jet landed on the airport. Being the rich kid that she is, Mia Queen got her limousine parked just right outside where the Wayne Enterprises jet landed. Expectations were high, especially knowing that Mia brought in some friends from the weirdness happening in Star City, including what she called a human Cyborg.

Julia Pennyworth, being Damian's current assistant at that moment, opened up the door and pushed in the button to get the ladder mechanisms out of the plane and into the landing zone. Damian Wayne went out of the plane first, followed by Garfield, Kory, and then later Julia. Thankfully Mia Queen's limousine was permitted to get around the Star City airport. However, they could only get so far, which made both Mia and Karen to have a little bit of discussion.

"So... that's Damian Wayne?" Karen asked.

"Yup." Mia said. "Never seen him up close before?"

"I... no..." Karen said. "Okay, if there's one thing I have to admit, he does look a lot hotter up close."

"He wears tuxedos. That's his thing." Mia said. "Don't worry. You'll get used to seeing his face."

"He looks like he just wakes up from a long ass beauty sleep." Karen said. "From the money he had, it's probably going to be expensive."

"Well he is technically a businessman, but he only owns things." Mia said. "Kind of like my brother with the whole Queen Consolidated thing, but he's obviously not there anymore."

"Yeah. That Mayor thing must've been tiring." Karen said. "I wonder how he would react when he finds out that his own sister is terrorizing the city."

"I didn't terrorize the city." Mia said. "I saved it from a couple of bad guys."

"Yeah, you keep telling yourself that."

"Mia." Damian finally went in closer and approached her. They both shook hands and kept their eyes sharp. "Nice to meet you again."

"Nice to meet you too." Mia said. "Although the last time we met was not in really normal conditions."

"You tell me." Damian said. "How is Oliver doing?"

"He's a bit stressed, but he's doing alright." Mia said. "Being a businessman is one thing. Being a city Mayor is another one. Oh and this is my friend-"

"Karen Beecher. I know who you are." Damian shook Karen's hands. "Dr. Stone speaks highly of your skills."

"I... I'm surprised that he talked about me." Karen said. "I... I don't know what to say. I'm... very honored Mr. Wayne."

Damian giggled. "Please, it's Damian. Now it's your turn to meet my friends."

##

Star City was located right near the coast of California. The beach is one of the best things that ever happened in the city. The hot and bright sun of California was best seen in Star City. The reason why Star City is named on it is because the stars in the night was one of the brightest in the world. You could be trapped inside a cave and still look at it, and have a little bit of hope that everything is going to be okay.

"So... is there something crazy happening in Star City?" Garfield asked.

"There is something crazy." Mia said. "There's a museum in the local town. A bunch of criminals are attempting to steal some form of an ancient Red Stone. Wait, does everyone know that I'm..."

"Everyone here knows." Damian said. "Don't worry. You can trust them."

"Wait, they know?" Karen said. "They know that you're...?"

"The same way that all of you will know that I'm Robin." Damian said. "Thought that you already told her."

"Hey, I may be a mouthful but I know when to keep my mouth shut." Mia said.

Karen was completely uninformed throughout the whole thing that Damian Wayne was Robin, which caused her to freeze in place for about five seconds.

"Anyway, the thief is looking out for this Red Stone." Mia said. "I found the thief but she gets away with it. Normally if it was just a normal thief, I wouldn't let her go, but she's a wizard."

"A... wizard?" Kory asked.

"Someone who has extraordinary powers." Damian said. "I guess after seeing aliens from outer space who can fly and conjure green energy and someone who can turn into any animal, I'm willing to take anything right now."

"An alien that can conjure green energy?" Karen said. "You've... seen this alien before?"

"He's talking about me."

Kory talked in before she conjured the said green energy right in front of Karen. The energy was very small about the size of a ping pong ball and even then, the bright light managed to suck out every other light in the room. This caused the scientist Karen to crap her pants, thankfully not literally, and just shrieked her soul out of her body. Mia however, was not remotely surprised, and could only give a small grin.

"What the?" Karen said, shrieking. "What the hell is this?"

"A little bit of magic." Damian said. "Either that, or an alien subjected into experiments in how to harness ultraviolet light."

"That's... insane."

"Said the girl wearing a hi-tech shrinking bee suit." Mia said. "Get off of me!"

Karen was clutching on Mia's shoulders and Mia forced her out of it.

"So knowing that you're one of STAR Labs' Lab Rats, I assume you have special abilities too?" Mia asked towards Garfield.

"Yeah, but don't think that it was easy to control this." Garfield said.

"So what's your abilities?" Mia asked. "No seriously. I really want to know. It sounds pretty badass."

"Well, I can do this."

Garfield was able to turn from his normal human skin into his beast form in an instant. He simply thought about it and he would literally transform into a beastly, green furry creature of some form. His hair turned from a blonde into a more contrast dark green, darker than his actual furry skin. The transformation could only startle Karen, and impress someone as weird as Mia.

"That's pretty freaking cool." Mia said.

"Oh my god." Karen said. "What... what are you?"

"I guess you can call me a Changeling... or a Beast Boy." Garfield said. "When the boat fell down, this... beast form emerged from my body. I was drowning and the beast form saved me out of it. However, when I came in ashore, I was permanently green. It took me a while to find out how to control myself so that I can become a human."

"I can't imagine." Mia said. "What can you do with those powers?"

"With this power, I inherit almost every single animal trait that I can think of." Garfield said. "I have the strength of ants that can lift like a hundred times more than their weight. I can communicate with any other animals and even though they didn't look smart, they're actually pretty intelligent. Did you know that Honey Bee knew the world is round way before humans did?"

"Hm..." Mia said. "That's quite interesting."

"What else?" Karen asked.

"My senses are about as strong as dogs." Garfield said. "I have fast metabolism, imitating those of lobsters that is able to repair DNA sequences. I know the direction from this place to the island where I shipwrecked, which now I call Logan Island. It's completely uninhabited and probably uncharted somewhere in the North Pacific Ocean. Now I have my own private island too."

"That's good for you I guess." Damian said.

"Where is it specifically?" Karen asked.

"It's about... 100 miles from Hawaii to the Northwest."

"Wow, you knew that much?" Mia said.

"I know the specifics." Garfield said. "Other than that, I can see what's behind me without turning my head. That's the trait of rabbits. I can sleep while standing up, which is a horse trait. I have the memory of a chicken, and they're incredibly smart by the way. I can swim in the speed of incredibly fast animals like Swordfish. I can roar like a lion. I can have their claws and grow wings on my back. It's any kinds of wings by the way. I'm just about as adaptive as a mouse. I have the lifespan of turtles. I can create very strong spider silks. I can imitate voices. I can imitate yours for example."

Garfield started imitating Damian's voice, causing him to widen his eyes.

"Or maybe your voice." Garfield said in Mia's voice.

This time, Mia had her chance to be genuinely surprised. "Okay, that's freaking cool. What kind of animal trait is that?"

"Mockingbirds, of course." Garfield said. "It can go as far as to imitate car alarms. Do you want to hear it?"

"Try not to laugh." Damian said.

Garfield put both of his hand on his mouth. Quite literally, as soon as he put both of his hand on his mouth, his mouth made a noise. To the astonishment of everyone, it sounded just like the most typical of car alarms and it was so accurate it was almost hilarious. It sounded almost exactly like that. Not only that, but he was able to add in car horns in the middle of it.

"I don't really have to put both of my hands in my mouth, but trust me. It's going to look ridiculous if I do."

"Okay, that was both funny and impressive." Mia said.

"Oh and the best part, I can see in ultraviolet and infrared light like goldfish." Garfield said. "I haven't gone through all of my traits as of yet, but trust me. You don't want to wake up the beast."

"The... beast?" Damian said.

"There's an even bigger beast inside me." Garfield said. "A werewolf-like form that I cannot control. I usually get to him when I'm like really angry, which thankfully wasn't always the case."

"So don't be angry. Don't make Garfield angry. And don't wake the beast up." Mia said. "I got it."

Garfield smirked. "Thanks."

"My spotlight has been stolen by a Beast Boy." Kory said. "I appreciate that."

"Sorry, Kory." Garfield said. "Maybe you're just not that special."

"Oh, we can test that."

Kory got her starbolt out of her hand as Garfield smirked in enjoyment, but Damian gave them warnings before they could even go that far.

"If you both wanted to spar, I don't think now's the right time." Damian said. "I would love to spar with all of you. Starfire, Beast Boy, Speedy, and finally Bumblebee."

That once again got Karen startled. "You... knew?"

"Mia just said something about hi-tech shrinking suit." Damian said. "There's another shrinking suit that Dr. Palmer made and it just happened that he made it for you. I am Robin after all."

"Oh, just because you're a famous vigilante, you can use that as an excuse." Karen said. "Whatever. You're right. I am Bumblebee. I use a hi-tech shrinking suit and can fly. I have enhanced strength and abilities and I can shrink into a very tiny scale but still have enough strength to take you all down."

"Ooh that's interesting." Garfield said. "In a scale of amoebas to ants?"

"Ants."

"You'll lose." Garfield said. "I can shrink into an amoeba and cause your suit to malfunction."

"I want you to try."

"Again, let's do the sparring thing later." Damian said. "Wait, I thought we're going to turn right."

"You go to STAR Labs if you turn right." Mia said. "We're not going there for this moment."

"Where are we going?" Damian said.

"Karen's house. We need to pick something up." Mia said, causing Karen to look at her with sharp eyes. "Okay, pick someone up. Jesus Karen. Your boyfriend is literally a walking Swiss army knife."

"That's not funny, Mia." Karen said.

"Okay it isn't." Mia said. "But you guys need to see him. Then you'll understand why I said that."

"So we're going to see this Cyborg you're talking about." Damian said.

"Cyborg?" Garfield asked. "Oh let me guess. This guy got his hands amputated and he got a prosthetic hand. I won't call that a cyborg. A cyborg is half-human half-robot. That's like one quarter robot and human rest."

"And you are correct, Garfield." Karen said. "Except this time, we have a three quarter robot and a quarter human."

"Oh wow." Garfield said. "That's really rad."

"I don't understand." Kory said. "How can an organic matter join up together with synthetic matters? If you ask me, it would create quite the abomination. An organic-synthetic hybrid is not something that we try in Tamaran. It is an unethical practice that only the Citadelians would use."

"Citadelians?" Karen asked.

"Long story." Damian said. "So we're going to find Victor Stone first and take him to STAR Labs."

"Yes." Mia said. "But the thing is Victor Stone is not an easy person to convince. His daddy issues are a whole lot worse than Luke Skywalker's."

"Oh my god I love that movie!" Garfield said. "I thought Luke is technically a Cyborg too."

"Yes, I have seen this movie." Kory said. "It is fascinating."

"So how about it, Damian?" Mia said. "Can you convince the Cyborg to get his chin up?"

##

"Vic?" Karen knocked on the door. "Vic, open the door."

Victor Stone went on to open the said door for both Karen and the guests. Victor himself didn't look exactly like a Cyborg at that moment, but there definitely was something beyond than just that unusually thick skin and that large physique.

"This is your boyfriend?" Garfield asked. "He's... tall."

"So these are the guys?" Victor asked. "Should I trust them?"

"This is Damian Wayne." Karen said. "He brought in a few friends. You can trust them."

"Yeah, like I don't know who he is." Victor said. "Sorry."

"It's good to see you, Victor." Damian said. "I heard about the incident that happened. I'm surprised that you were able to-"

Damian shook Victor's hands, which was nothing but cybernetics and mechanical parts. This caused him to startle for a bit, and even cause some peoples to slightly jump in to whatever kind of thing that they saw in there.

"I'm sorry." Damian said. "I... didn't know it was that bad."

"You haven't seen my body yet." Victor said. "You thought that you'd be glad that you can get your face fixed, but your body... that's a totally different story."

"Hence the jacket." Damian said. "I understand Victor, but Karen has informed me of everything that you can do. We're going to need you to do something. And of course, that's going to require you to go to STAR Labs."

"I don't want to go there." Victor said. "I don't want to see him."

"Maybe... we should talk inside." Karen interrupted. "Come in. It's my apartment after all."

##

"So... you guys are going to gather up superheroes?" Victor asked. "You gather up superheroes to beat up aliens?"

"And you're a very good candidate." Damian said. "Your powers are going to be more than enough to deal with these aliens that we're going to face."

"What kind of powers do I have?" Victor said. "Are you going to say that I'm capable of throwing it up against the aliens?"

"Your cybernetic parts are going to be useful for fighting the extraterrestrial beings." Damian said. "You were made out of the components of a battle armor. If the world is going to be in danger, the world is going to need someone like you."

"If the world needs saving, I'm going to save it." Victor said. "But the last thing I want to do is to see my dad."

"Wonderful logic there." Mia said. "No wonder your dad dumps you."

Victor stood up from the sofa. He rose up and transformed his right hand into a sonic canon. The canon aimed directly towards Mia, but right in front of the canon already was Kory, who stood up right in front of her and get her green plasma energy ready to fight in the Cyborg. The moment Victor got the glance on the Tamaranean, he startled for a bit.

"What...?" Victor said.

"One more step and you will feel the distaste of the ultraviolet." Kory said.

"Do you like claws or nails?"

Suddenly, Garfield was in the back fully transformed into what could only be described as a werewolf on tight pants. His innocent and playful voice turned into a deep, disturbing, and downright intimidating version of it. To say that Victor was astonished was an understatement. He probably needed a new pants.

"Now that is pretty rad." Mia said.

"Now you see why we came for you."

In the back, Damian Wayne has used up his Palmer Tech molecular storage to bring his Robin costume up and turned himself into the young Gotham City vigilante that he really was. The amount of surprise coming out of his face was unprecendented.

"The world needs your help and you're going to ignore it just because of your father?" Robin said. "I'm all for tolerating some bad peoples, but I cannot tolerate stupidity, especially coming from someone as smart as you."

"Let's make this simple, then." Mia said. "You'll either going to stay here and sit your ass while we're trying to save this world, or you're going to grab some balls and go talk to your dad. If you choose the former, you might as well as live in the moon. You'll love it there. It's not like your dad's going to be there anytime soon, or in fact anyone."