Teen Titans: Season Six, Episode 5
"Origin Story Part 2: Beast Boy"
Interior: Titans Tower, day.
Kid Flash walks into the living room after the Titans have just left.
Kid Flash: Alright, the tower's all mine this weekend, man what to do what to do? I know, there's a marathon of my favourite show on TV.
Kid Flash speeds over to the couch and begins watching. He hears his stomach growling.
Kid Flash: Hmm, hungry.
Kid Flash blasts through the kitchen and then back on to the couch with a sandwich in less than a few seconds.
Kid Flash: Yeah who needs camping, I've got everything I need right here.
Caption: 5 hours later.
Kid Flash is asleep on the couch in the same position he was in five hours ago. Outside the tower a small sphere flies toward the window. Kid Flash is violently awakened when the sphere busts through the TV.
Kid Flash: Ah crap, how am I going to explain this?
Theme Song.
Exterior: Camping country, night.
The Titans are sitting around the campfire roasting marshmallows.
Starfire: What exactly are the marshmallows?
Cyborg: (Eating) I don't know, but they are good!
Raven: You don't want to know.
Robin: I agree with Raven, sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Starfire: Is this like the discussion we had on how gelatine is made from the bones of cows.
Beast Boy: What!? Gelatine is made from cow bones, COW BONES, man I'll never be able to eat gum drops or gummy worms or jello ever again.
Beast Boy removes a toasted marshmallow from his stick and throws it into his mouth.
Raven: Or marshmallows?
Beast Boy stops chewing and gags on the marshmallow, his face turns white and he spits the marshmallow in to the fire.
Beast Boy: Blah! Dude that's so nasty!
Cyborg: (Laughing) Oh my god, you ate like twenty of those today!
Beast Boy: Quit laughing it's not funny, man it's so unfair. How could something so delicious be tainted?
Raven: You weren't complaining when you went through half the bag on the car ride here.
Robin: Just like I said Beast Boy, ignorance is bliss.
Beast Boy: I think I'll roast a tofu dog instead, at least I know what they're made of.
Suddenly the metal sphere flies in from the bushes and abruptly stops in front of the Titans fire. Starfire is scared by the sudden surprise.
Starfire: (Shriek) What is it?!
Cyborg: Maybe it's the vegetarian police, here to take BB away?
Beast Boy: No, it's a message from the Doom Patrol!
Beast Boy runs over to the sphere and it scans him. The sphere opens up and a monitor reveals Mento and Elasti-Girl.
Beast Boy: Mento, Elasti-Girl, what's wrong.
Elasti-Girl: Nothing's wrong Garfield.
Mento: We just wanted to wish you a happy birthday sport.
Beast Boy: Phew…I thought I had to cut my trip short.
Starfire: Greetings Patrol of Doom.
Elasti-Girl: Sorry about intruding on your fun, we would have messaged you earlier but you had already left.
Mento: Yes, you're teammate Kid Flash gave us your location.
Beast Boy: Well that's okay, but why bring the Eye-bot, couldn't you have just messaged my communicator.
Elasti-Girl: We sent presents!
Beast Boy: Presents!?
Beast Boy gets a glimmer in his wide starry eyes.
Mento: Yeah, we all pitched in and got you something.
The sphere lowers and opens a hatch on top filled with gifts. Beast Boy reaches in and starts opening presents.
Beast Boy: Alright!
Elasti-Girl: I made you a new mask, I hope it fits.
Beast Boy puts on the mask, the mask looks similar to his old mask but the top is open to expose his green hair.
Beast Boy: Breezy, I like. Hey, what's this?
Beast Boy pulls out a piece of paper
Mento: That's a voter registration card. You're eighteen Beast Boy, which means you're an adult now, and you have to give back to your country.
Beast Boy: Umm…Yes sir. (Salutes.)
Elasti-Girl: There's someone else here who wants to say hello too.
Robot Man and Negative Man appear on the screen.
Beast Boy: Cliff, Larry!
Robot Man: Happy birthday sprout. Go ahead open your present.
Beast Boy: Mega Monkeys vs. the Bubble Bots, I've wanted this game for months!
Robot Man: Do I know you or what?
Beast Boy: Thanks Cliff. What's this Larry?
Negative Man: It's a very special gift. I searched the internet for days and I finally got one of the last surviving copies of Space Trek: 2022.
Beast Boy: No way, I thought all the tapes were destroyed.
Negative Man: Not all of them.
Beast Boy: Hey what's this list?
Negative Man: Oh, Cliff put that in there.
Robot Man: It's a list of new names, you're eighteen, you can't be Beast "Boy" for the rest of your life.
Mento: Well we can't talk forever; The Brotherhood has been stepping up its presents in the country. It was good talking to you Beast Boy.
Beast Boy: Thanks for everything guys, really it's all great, thanks.
Elasti-Girl: Stay safe.
Mento: …And keep vigilant, Doom Patrol out.
The Eye-bot closes up and flies off.
Raven: Well that was nice of your parents to send you presents…
Beast Boy: Oh, Steve and Rita aren't my parents; they're only my adoptive parents.
Starfire: But why do you never speak of your birth parents?
Cyborg: Yeah I'm your best friend and I still haven't heard you mention them once.
Beast Boy: Well its cause its personnel.
Robin: Aren't you forgetting something Beast Boy?
Beast Boy: Umm…maybe?
Robin: You said that if I told my life story you would tell us how you became green.
Beast Boy: Oh…yeah…I did say that.
Cyborg: Yeah c'mon B, there's not much else to do out here.
Beast Boy: Okay, okay, get settled in, I'm about to tell the greatest story you've ever heard!
Beast Boy picks up a flashlight and points it at his face while he removes his mask
Beast Boy: The story of how the boy, became the beast!
Flashbacks show visions of Beast Boy's life while he narrates.
Beast Boy: (Narrated) It all started when me and my folks moved to Africa. I was really young at the time, I knew they were scientists but I didn't know exactly what my parents did. It had something to do with animals, that's why we moved to Africa, I remember being so excited to see all the animals.
Exterior: African plains, flashback, day.
Young Garfield Logan and his parents are on a safari riding in a jeep with a tour guide.
Marie Logan: Oh god, Mark, isn't it all just so beautiful.
Mark places his hand on Marie's lap.
Mark Logan: Not as beautiful as you.
Mark and Marie share a kiss.
Tour Guide: And now if you look to your left you will see the African Lion.
Mark Logan: Look son, Lions.
Garfield Logan: Lions, RAWR.
Mark Logan: Yes son, Lions go "rawr".
Exterior: Near the watering hole, flashback, later that day.
Tour Guide: We'll be stopping for a while near the watering hole, now is the time to stretch your legs and see the sights.
Mark: Marie could you grab Gar?
Marie: Come along Garfield.
Later on the Logan's are walking around the area.
Marie: Don't wander off too far Gar… (Sigh) are you sure it was a good idea to bring him here? Everything here is so dangerous, I even fear for my own safety sometimes.
Mark: We're all the family this kid's got Marie, I know Africa's gonna take some getting used to, but the best place for this boy is with his parents.
Marie: But why the rush, couldn't we have waited until he was older?
Mark: But I'm about to make a huge breakthrough, this discovery could change the world honey.
Beast Boy: (Narrated) It's still a mystery today how I got sick, but I remember how it felt like it was yesterday.
A mosquito bites a green Monkey in the jungle and makes its way to the watering hole near the Logan's. The mosquito then bites Garfield on the back of the neck, unaware the whole time the mosquito then flies off Gar. The boy's parents catch up to him as he stares off at a flock of flamingos.
Garfield: Silly birds!
Beast Boy: (Narrated) I remember getting really light headed…
Marie: Come here Garfield (Slowed down) Hold…Mommy's…Hand.
Beast Boy: (Narrated) I started tripping man, I had no idea what was going on! Last thing I remembered was my legs going numb and then darkness.
Gar collapses to the ground.
Marie: No!
Mark: Garfield, Gar, son please, no!
Mark picks up his son and begins running and carrying him franticly.
Mark: We have to find the guide; he can drive us to the lab.
Marie: The Lab!? Mark he needs to go to a hospital!
Mark: We're closer to the lab, the nearest qualified hospital is hundreds of miles away!
Tour Guide: What is wrong?!
Marie: Our son is very ill, we need your help please! Do you know where to find a doctor?!
Tour Guide: The closest village has a witch doctor, he knows a lot about jungle illnesses so he could be helpful.
Mark: Good, we need you to find him and drive all of us to our lab.
Tour Guide: Yes, yes!
Interior: Logan Research Lab, flashback, day.
Beast Boy: (Narrated) I faded in and out on a cold laboratory table for hours.
The Witch Doctor finishes examining Gar and approaches the Tour Guide. He talks to the Tour Guide in an African language.
Tour Guide: I'm afraid he has bad news; your son has contracted Sakutia, in English it means "The Green Fever".
Mark: Is there a cure, is there anything we can do!
The Witch Doctor talks to the Guide.
Tour Guide: Little is known about the virus, it is very rare, and it typically affects animals instead.
The Doctor continues to talk to the Guide.
Tour Guide: He says he's sorry, but you're son will be dead in less than two days.
Marie breaks down to her knees.
Marie: No…oh God no!
Mark tries to console his wife.
Mark: Honey I will find a cure, if it's the last thing I do, I will save our son.
Marie: I didn't want him to come here, and now look at him, look at what you've done!
Mark: Marie please, don't say such things.
Marie: No, our son is dead and it's your fault!
Mark: Damn it Marie, don't lose hope so quickly! I'm going to fix our son, and I'll do it with or with out you!
Mark performs dozen of tests on Gar. Later that night…
Mark: It's truly shocking Marie, this virus has attached it's self to Garfield's DNA. The virus is bending his DNA structure to its will.
Marie: But is there anyway we can save him?
Mark: It would be a gamble, but I'm willing to do whatever it takes if you are too.
Marie: Definatly.
Beast Boy: (Narrated) People said it was a miracle, but in the nick of time my parents developed a cure.
The Logan's fire a beam of radiation that stabilized Gar's DNA.
Marie: I can't believe it, he's awake, he's alive, we did it!
Mark: It worked, his DNA has stabilized, he's going to live!
Beast Boy: (Narrated) But the process did have its side effects.
Exterior: African Plains, flashback, day.
Marie: You said it would go away Mark, but our son is still green.
Mark: Hey, the boy's lucky to even be alive.
Marie: But what happened to his ears?
Mark: The disease really twisted his genes, I'm glad he's still human.
Suddenly a pack of hyenas approach the Logan's.
Marie: Mark what do we do?!
Mark: I don't know, stay back, maybe I can scare them off.
Garfield: Doggies!
Gar then runs toward the pack, Marie desperately reaches for him.
Marie: Garfield! NO!
As Marie reaches for Gar he transforms into a hyena and begins barking at the pack. The other hyenas are frightened by his green complexion and run off.
Mark: Oh my lord?!
Garfield pants with pride then transforms back into a human.
Garfield: Doggy!
Beast Boy: (Narrated) At first my folks were really freaked out, but after some time they got used to my powers. Well at least they tried. For years I felt so different than everyone around me, my green skin made me stand out…well…like a green thumb. But all of that changed, that was the day I met the Doom Patrol. They needed a place to rest for the night while they were searching for a criminal on the loose.
Interior: Logan Research Lab, flashback, night.
Negative Man: Thanks for the hospitality mam.
Marie: Oh of course, there's nothing for miles out there.
Mark: So what brings you folks all the way out here?
Mento: Maybe you can help us Mr. Logan, the man were looking for is also a biologist, Swedish born Sven Larson.
Mark: I'm sorry the name doesn't sound familiar.
Mento: Well be careful, Larson is unstable; he's known to attack on site.
Garfield begins poking at Robot Man from behind.
Garfield: Beep boop beep.
Robot Man: Hey quit that!
Garfield: Whoa, a talking robot, cool!
Robot Man: What tha…Why is this kid green?
Mark: This is my son Garfield; a rare disease changed his DNA, now he can alter his shape at his own will.
Gar turns into a snake, a monkey and then a bird and lands on Elasti-girl's finger.
Mark: Cleary he loves animals.
Elasti-Girl: Fascinating.
Gar transforms human again.
Garfield: You guys are super heroes just like me, right?
Robot Man: You're no hero squirt, you're only a kid.
Garfield: But I have powers.
Negative Man: It takes more than powers to be a hero.
Garfield: But…
An alarm interrupts the discussion.
Elasti-Girl: What is that?!
Mark: Something has broken through the fence.
Mark examines a computer.
Mark: Something Big!
Mento: It must be Larson, Doom Patrol head out!
The Doom Patrol rush out of the laboratory.
Marie: Mark, what do we do?
Mark: We just have to stay here in the lab and wait it out I guess. But wait…Where's Gar?!
Marie: Damn it I think he snuck off again.
Exterior: Outside the lab, night.
Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man is face to face with the Doom Patrol in the shape of a t-rex. Half of his face morphs into his human face as he begins to talk.
Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man: Doom Patrol, bring me the Chief or suffer the consequences!
Elasti-Girl: Sven, It doesn't have to be like this! We can help you, we can find a cure!
AVM Man: A cure, a cure, I don't need a cure! I am Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, I am better than any mortal man; I can be whatever I imagine.
He then begins to grow tree limbs on one side of his body and crystal limbs on the other.
AVM Man: But I still demand Revenge!
Mento: Maybe I can incapacitate him by putting his mind in submission.
Mento uses his helmet against Larson, at first he is repelled by the brain waves but then he swings around and whips Mento away with his tail.
Robot Man: Looks like I have to do this the old fashioned way.
Robot Man lunges forward and punches AVM Man's crystal leg with so much force he shatters his own arm under the pressure.
Robot Man: What kind of ice is this…?
AVM Man grabs him and lifts him off the ground.
AVM Man: Not ice, unbreakable diamond.
Elasti-Girl: Put him down, now!
He throws Robot Man at Elasti-Girl, she enlarges herself just in time to catch him and place him back on the ground.
Robot Man: Thanks!
Elasti-Girl goes up against Larson hand-to-hand, the two grapple but Larson tries to attack her face with his t-rex mouth. Larson gets a hand free and with one expert blow knocks Rita back with a punch from his diamond fist. The blow was powerful enough to cause her to revert to her normal size; Larson picks her up and starts to squeeze the life from her. Negative Man sends out his soul self in a rage.
Negative Man: Rita, don't you dare hurt her!
AVM Man turns his tree limbs into vines and whips them at Negative Man's body. The vines constrict Larry's body and his soul self returns due to the pain. Robot Man finds Mento and helps him to his feet.
Robot Man: Steve, there has to be something you can do to this guy?!
Mento: I can't, my helmet could harm Rita and Larry. We have to get them away from him.
Robot Man: What, with one arm behind my back…What the hell is this?
A green Eagle flies out and attacks AVM Man. The Eagle starts violently pecking and pawing at Larson's human eye.
AVM Man: My eye, I can't see from my eye!
Larson drops Rita and Larry while he tries to swat away Gar.
Mento: I can blast him, but the kid is in the way.
Robot Man: Kid, pullback, get out of there.
Garfield soars up in the air out of Larson's reach as Mento blasts him with his helmet. The waves from the helmet cause Larson to black out; as he falls to the ground he reverts to his natural state. As the Doom Patrol surround Sven Larson's body Garfield lands and reverts to human form. He stands in front of them with a look of pride on his face, but he is only greeted by stern looks.
Garfield: What, I did good right?
Mento: What in the hell is your problem brat, do you have some sort of death wish!
Garfield: But I…I helped?
Mento: We didn't ask for your help and we sure as hell didn't need it! You could have gotten yourself killed!
Elasti-Girl: Steve, he's only a little boy.
Robot Man: Yeah go easy on the kid, he only wanted to help.
Mento: What we do is not kid stuff Cliff, its best you remember that. And for you, why aren't you with your parents, they're probably worried sick about you.
Garfield: But I…I…I just wanted to be a hero, like you.
Rita, Cliff and Larry are all emotionally moved by what he said but Mento is still angered by the boy's behaviour. The boy's parents run out toward the child.
Marie: Garfield, oh thank god you're alive, what happened out here?!
Mento: Your son almost jeopardized our mission!
Negative Man: Actually, he helped us fight off this mad man.
Robot Man: Yeah, your boy's actually…a hero.
Garfield: A Hero?!
Negative Man: Ignore what Mento said, we couldn't have done it with you kid.
Garfield: Really, No Way?!
Beast Boy: (Narrated) My parents kept in touch with the Doom Patrol for years, whenever we were in trouble they were always there to help, except the day my parents died in the flood…that time they…they.
Exterior: Camp fire, present day, night.
A Silence falls over the Titans as they see their light hearted friend open up emotionally.
Beast Boy: If you guys don't mind, I'd like to skip that part of the story.
Cyborg: Its okay man, you said it was personnel.
Beast Boy: Okay well then after that the Doom Patrol found me, they tried to help me find some family, but they found out that my parents fell in love because they were both orphans. After they stopped searching they just took me under their wing.
Flashbacks show visions of Beast Boy's life while he narrates.
Beast Boy: (Narrated) The Doom Patrol would use me for recon missions; my specialty was the green gecko.
Exterior: Desert fortress, flashback, night.
Beast Boy sneaks into the fortress as a gecko and finds Cliff's prison cell. He reverts back to human form and relays the Doom Patrol on his walkie-talkie wrist watch.
Young Beast Boy: Beast Boy to Doom Patrol, I have found Robot Man, over.
Elasti-Girl: Good Work Beast Boy, we were able to track your location, we'll be there soon.
Beast Boy: (Narrated) After awhile Steve and Rita got married and adopted me as their own. They told me they thought it was the right thing to do. Everything was going fine until the Doom Patrol's old leader "The Chief" died, after that Mento became an arrogant and stubborn leader.
Interior: Dayton Estates, flashback, day.
Mento: Damn it Beast Boy, thanks to your shenanigans the Brotherhood is on the loose again and we have absolutely no leads on there whereabouts.
Young Beast Boy: But if it wasn't for me we'd all be goners.
Mento: If you talk back like that one more time I'll…
Young Beast Boy: You'll what, fire me?! I've had enough of you Mento, you're a terrible leader, and everyone else misses the Chief.
Mento: That's it, I've had enough. I'm boycotting you from all missions until you learn some respect.
Young Beast Boy: You can't boycott me, I quit!
Beast Boy storms off in anger. Rita goes to talk to Beast boy but Mento stops her.
Mento: No, let him go, he'll be back.
Beast Boy: (Narrated) Living with Steve and Rita became unbearable, so I decided to run away and fight crime solo. Sadly I spent most of my time getting my butt kicked and running away, my dreams of being a superhero were crushed so I went off to Hollywood to make it big as an actor. My complexion made it hard to find work but my with my personality I was able to land a role as a sidekick on a sci-fi TV show called Space Trek 2022.
Exterior: Camp fire, present day, night.
Cyborg: Wait, hold up, stop the story. You are telling me this disc contains a TV show starring child star Beast Boy.
Cyborg bursts into a fit of uncontrollable laughter.
Cyborg: (Laughing) Why aren't we watching this!
Beast Boy: You would need a DVD player.
Cyborg: Not when I am DVD player.
He pops the disc into his chest and watches on a monitor on his arm. The other Titans gather around to watch.
Announcer: Space Trek 2022, featuring the adventures of captain Spiff McCool and his young apprentice Scotty.
Garfield: (As Scotty) Golly jee whiz captain McCool that sure sounds spiffy!
Cyborg: (Laughing) Wow this is so cheesy.
Raven: It's even cheesier than I thought it would be.
Robin: (Laughing) I think it's the cheesiest thing I've ever seen in my life.
Beast Boy blocks the screen.
Beast Boy: Excuse me; I believe I was telling a story. Now as I was saying, I landed a role on the show and everything was going good for a while.
Flashbacks show visions of Beast Boy's life while he narrates.
Beast Boy: (Narrated) I had money, fans, my own apartment, everything. But then one day the producers announced we were cancelled. I was on my way into the studio to pick up my last pay cheque when something crazy happened. An insane fan took one of my fellow cast members hostage.
Interior: TV studio, flashback, day.
Young Control Freak: Okay this is how it's going to work, either you renew Space Trek or I blast her with my home made phaser. And this thing isn't tested yet so trust me you don't want to see that.
Writer: We can't do that, were only writers, not executives.
Young Control Freak: Well then find them, or else. Tell them this thing is set on kill.
Young Beast Boy: Let her go!
Young Control Freak: And who's gonna make me, little ol' Scotty. I'm so scared.
Young Beast Boy: I warned you.
Beast Boy transforms into a rhino and charges at Control Freak. He is frightened by the sudden transformation and begins firing at Beast Boy.
Young Control Freak: What the Hell!
Beast Boy goes from a rhino to a humming bird and dodges all the laser blasts. He then morphs to a small monkey and lands on Control Freak's arm, knocking the gun out of his hand. Control Freak waves his arms around trying to get Beast Boy off of him. He flies off and then changes to a donkey to kick Control Freak with both hind legs. The kick leaves him incapacitated.
Young Control Freak: I think…I think…I think I need my inhaler.
Beast Boy: (Narrated) My career as an actor was over, but saving the day reminded me how awesome being a hero was. So I packed up my things and I left Hollywood for the first city that needed my help, and that's when I met you guys.
Exterior: Camp fire, present day, night.
Beast Boy: Guys…Guys?
The other Titans have continued to watch Space Trek 2022 instead of listening to the story.
Scotty: Jinkees Captain McCool!
All the Titans laugh at how cheesy the show is.
Cyborg: (Laughing) Did he just say "Jinkees"?
Beast Boy: Well I guess if you can't beat'em, join'em. Hey if you guys wanna see something funny put on episode seven.
The camera pans up and shows the starry night and full moon.
To be continued…
The Titans return in... "Origin Story Part 3: Raven"
Author's note to the readers:
I Demand more reveiws! What do you like about my writing, what do you want to see in my next chapters? I want to know.