Symbiosis - Chapter 4: Dual-Personalities
Talon landed on another rooftop in time to see another crime in progress, what luck.
The criminals? Gizmo, Mammoth and Billy Numerous. The Hive, one name among many that Talon's host had for them.
Gizmo spotted him, "What do you want?" Talon snarled as he stood.
As Talon morphed into a bird and flew down safely, the Hive groaned thinking it was just Beast Boy, how wrong they were.
As Talon morphed back and landed, it was then they noticed something was off.
Gizmo raised an eyebrow, "Hey, you're not that green freak, but you have his powers, you are you supposed to be?"
The Hive grimaced when Talon smiled, "Talon, and the 'green freak' as you so name, he is around, closer than you think…" Gizmo huffed.
"Oh is he gonna try to surprise attack us or something from behind?"
Talon walked closer, "We have a surprise for you alright…"
Mammoth growled, "Back off, freak." Talon didn't stop, tendrils sprouted from his back once more.
"Careful, we don't like that word…"
Billy stepped forward, how foolish, "You heard 'em." Talon stopped.
He could see they were already on edge, "We can smell your fear, and we can assure you, it's well placed…" Without warning Talon attacked.
The Teen Titans soon arrived on the scene and noticed Beast Boy or Talon as he was calling himself, fighting the Hive.
He was definitely winning it seems, Billy tried to dogpile him after multiplying, it was a mistake as Talon almost killed him instantly by ejecting spikes all over his body, allowing an opening and knocking him out, Gizmo tried to shoot him with lasers it seems, they missed, Talon's claws cut through Gizmo's spiderlegs like butter, he tried to get away using his jetpack but Talon's tendrils had gripped his legs and pulled him down to the ground again, knocked out.
Mammoth charged at Talon, but being a lot faster than the villain, Talon easily dodged the attack, Mammoth turned around finding that he had missed his target, only to find said target waving his clawed finger back and forth to taunt him, "Tsk Tsk, not too smart are you?" Talon's joking tone turned dark, "How about some brain surgery?"
"BEAST BOY!" Talon snapped his attention to the one who dared to speak his host's code name, his expression turned softer when it happened to be Raven.
"Dude, that was dark even for you, that thing is messing you up." Cyborg spoke up.
Starfire spoke next, "Friend Beast Boy, is it time for you to do the explaining now, yes?"
Robin had an unreadable expression, "Beast Boy, explain what that thing's doing to you."
Talon seemed to ignore them and focused on Raven for a moment, before a strange tingling sensation welled up in his head, and had the urge to dodge, as he did he had avoided a surprise attack from Mammoth.
Talon growled, "That, was cowardly even for you..." Mammoth was shocked, as were the Titans, they knew BB had enhanced senses, but that was as if he had an extra sense.
Talon noticed this too, or more so Beast Boy did, he whispered not talking to Mammoth or the Titans, "What was that?" There was silence for a few seconds then he spoke to himself again, "I see…" He looked at the Titans, "Talon says that it's genetic, because of previous hosts…" The team raised eyebrows.
"Did you just… Talk to that thing?" Cyborg barely spoke.
Talon slowly nodded, "It's far too complicated to explain." Talon turned sharply to Mammoth, "We didn't forget you." Talon's fist morphed into a hammer and knocked out Mammoth just like that.
The team was shocked, Talon gazed at his hand as it morphed back into a clawed hand from a hammer, "That's handy…"
Before the team could respond, police sirens were heard, cop cars pulled up and surrounded Talon, pointing guns at him.
The chief of police giving orders, "Stand down Titans, we'll take it from here!"
Robin spoke up, "No, you don't understand, Talon, it's - "
Robin couldn't continue as he was cut off by the chief, "'Talon', is a threat to national security, and since you heroes couldn't contain it, we'll take matters into our own hands this time." Robin shook his head.
"Don't do what I think you're going to do…" The people noticed Talon slowly raise his hands in surrender, but the police chief saw it as an attack.
"FIRE!"
"NOOOO!"
Bullets flew at Talon, each one hitting him, when all clips were empty everyone waited and watched, Talon had fallen to his knee, blood seeping from the bullet holes.
What caught everyone off guard, is that the wounds healed in seconds and the Symbiote covered up the holes again as Talon slowly stood, and screeched.