In this chapter, Beast Boy is going to fight Dr. Animo. If you've watched Ben 10, you're likely familiar with the character. He's actually appeared a lot more often than Zombozo has, even though I decided to feature him first.
I'm also going to feature Lucy since even though she's not exactly a main character I find her to be entertaining. She actually appeared in the original series as well as Omniverse.
Maybe she'll appear in the reboot? I don't know.
Chapter 9: Animosity
"Today is a special day, Ben." said Max.
"Is the new Sumo Slammer game out yet?" asked Ben. He was hoping so.
"That's next week." answered Ben's paternal grandfather.
"Then why is it special?" inquired Ben.
"It's your cousin-in-law Lucy. She's coming to Jump City to pay us a visit." explained Max.
"Cousin Lucy?" asked the boy. That was rather nice of her. He enjoyed her company though he didn't like going to a wedding.
Personally he thought she was awfully fun to hang out with.
On the other hand, Gwen seemed rather annoyed by her antics. She was reminded more than once of her cousin Ben whenever she hung out with her.
She had a habit of impersonating people and yelling "Psyche!" when they fell for her ruse.
In addition, she liked to play practical jokes on people.
At least she enjoyed visiting Joel Tennyson and his wife Camille.
Personally, Ben enjoyed it but Gwen, not so much.
Maybe she just needed to loosen up a bit.
They heard knocking on the door.
"I guess she's here." said Max.
Max opened the door.
"Hili!" exclaimed Lucy, waving her hand.
"You know, with those whisker marks on her face, she reminds me of an anime character." noted Ben.
Although, now that he thought of it,each of the Teen Titans reminded him of anime characters as well.
"I'm glad you came to pay us a visit." remarked Max.
Lucy went to talk to Ben.
"Hi!" exclaimed Ben.
"Hello!" shouted Lucy.
"It's nice you could pay us a visit." said Ben. He had tried dancing with her once. Lucy ended up making him lose his balance as one of her many practical jokes.
"How are you? Have you been fighting evil?" asked the Lenopan.
Ben always seemed to fight evil during his previous summer vacation.
"I have, actually." nodded Ben.
"Cool! What supervillains did you fight?" inquired Lucy.
"Well, I fought against a giant robot, a Tamaranean exile, Kevin 11, and yesterday I fought against an evil teacher..." explained the boy.
"An evil teacher? That's a new one!" exclaimed the Lenopan.
"I know..." nodded Ben. Even JT and Cash would have trembled before him.
"I was the one who took out the evil teacher!" exclaimed Gwen.
"Really? That's very impressive!" shouted Lucy.
"I know..." nodded Ben. Thank goodness Mad Mod was in the asylum now.
"By the way, have you made any friends during your trip to Jump City?" asked Lucy.
"Actually, I have." said the boy. Five of them.
Ben pulled out a poster of the Teen Titans.
Lucy's eyes widened with astonishment.
"You're friends with the Teen Titans? You are so lucky!" exclaimed Lucy. They were famous throughout Jump City. People wouldn't stop talking about them and their heroics.
"I know. You can consider me a honorary titan!" shouted Ben. He was a superhero himself, after all.
He in fact had obtained a new alien form from one of them. He decided to call him Starblazer.
"Don't forget me." answered Gwen.
Suddenly, Lucy had an idea.
"Can you take me to the Teen Titans so I can get their autographs? I'm a big fan of their work!" exclaimed Lucy. It would make her very happy.
"Sounds fair to me." nodded Ben.
Immediately, he and Lucy went to the Titans Tower.
Meanwhile...
Starfire's Omnitrix was acting strange. It was glowing, for one thing.
"What's going on with my Omnitrix?" asked Starfire.
"Is something the matter, Star?" inquired Robin. He could tell that she was confused about something.
"Nothing much, I'm just wondering what is happening with my Omnitrix! Something is off about it!" exclaimed the Tamaranean.
"Really? I hope it's nothing serious." answered the leader of the Teen Titans. Starfire hadn't tampered with the Omnitrix recently so it looked as if nothing negative would happen.
Now that she thought of it, it always seemed to happen whenever she was around the rest of the Teen Titans, not when she was alone with Silkie.
Suddenly, the Omnitrix flashed.
She began to transform.
As it turned out, she had transformed...into a human.
"Starfire? Did you just turn into a human?" asked Robin.
Considering that she had the ability to transform into different races from across the galaxy, that wouldn't surprise him.
Starfire scratched her head.
She decided to look into the mirror to confirm what Robin had said.
As it turned out, she had indeed turned into a human. While she still greatly resembled her normal self, she no longer had orange skin, and her eyes had changed aside from her eye color.
"I guess I really am human." noted Starfire.
She had to admit, she always wondered what it would be like to be a normal human being like Robin was. It looked like she had just found out.
Well, it was time to go shopping.
She opened up a window and attempted to fly.
"Starfire, wait!" exclaimed Robin.
"Huh?" asked Starfire.
"Humans can't fly!" shouted the boy.
"Aaaahhhh!" screamed the transformed alien as she began to fall.
As it turned out, Ben and Lucy had arrived outside the tower in that moment.
"Do you mind being on this island, Lucy? I know that you're a Lenopan and this place happens to be surrounded with water..." asked Ben.
"I'll be fine as long as I'm in my human form!" exclaimed Lucy.
Ben sighed in relief. He didn't want anything happening to his cousin-in-law just so she could do some autograph hunting.
Suddenly, Starfire landed on him.
Ben's cheeks turned red.
"You alright, Starfire?" asked Ben.
Starfire nodded. Unfortunately, she couldn't use her powers while in her human state. At least Robin was still able to fight evil without using superpowers.
However, combining her Tamaranean DNA with human DNA probably gave her unique abilities.
Starfire helped Ben to his feet.
"Whose your friend?" asked Starfire.
"This is my cousin Lucy." explained Ben.
"I thought you were a Tamaranean!" exclaimed Lucy.
"I...got the ability to shapeshift." answered Starfire.
Lucy raised an eyebrow.
"I thought Ben was the only one to have an Omnitrix!" shouted the girl.
"Not anymore, apparently.": answered Ben.
Suddenly, Starfire's Omnitrix timed out.
She was a Tamaranean again.
"Can I get your autograph?" asked Lucy.
Starfire nodded. She was glad that there were people that appreciated their work. It was what kept them going as a team of superheroes.
"Yes!" cheered the Lenopan.
Starfire signed a piece of paper for Lucy.
"Now for the rest of the Teen Titans!" exclaimed the alien.
Lucy went to see Cyborg.
"Can I help you?" asked Cyborg. Currently, he was doing some mechanic work on his car. It was good to check on it every now and then to make sure that it wouldn't break down while he was on the road.
"Yes! I want an autograph please!" exclaimed Lucy.
"Anything for my fans!" shouted Cyborg.
Lucy cheered.
She then went to visit Robin.
"Is there a friend of yours, Ben?" asked Robin.
"She's my cousin-in-law, actually." answered Ben.
"Alright then. I take it you're one of my fans that want an autograph? People ask me that a lot." noted Robin.
Lucy nodded.
Robin gave Lucy his autograph.
"Now for Raven!" exclaimed Lucy.
Currently, Raven was meditating.
"Ah, peace and quiet..." thought Raven.
"Excuse me!" shouted the girl.
The daughter of a demon lord let out a sigh.
"Do you mind? I'm meditating." explained Raven, opening her left eye. She needed to do those every now and then so that her powers stayed in control.
"I just wanted your autograph!" exclaimed Lucy.
"My autograph? Sure, whatever." noted the daughter of Trigon The Terrible.
Raven gave Lucy her autograph.
"Can you take me to Beast Boy next?" asked Lucy. Hanging out with him sounded like it would be awfully fun.
"Why n-"
Raven suddenly grabbed Ben by the arm.
"Wha-" exclaimed Ben.
"Um, Ben, I don't think we should introduce Lucy to Beast Boy." said Raven.
"Huh?" asked Raven.
"It'd be like Starfire launching a starbolt at a gas station..." explained the female Teen Titan.
"A big boom?" questioned Ben.
"Yes, a big boom." nodded Raven.
At that very moment, Lucy approached Beast Boy.
"Hello!" exclaimed Lucy.
"Oh no..." said Raven.
"Hey!" exclaimed Beast Boy.
"I'm a big fan of yours! I hear that you like to play pranks!" shouted Lucy.
"I sure do!" answered Beast Boy.
"So do i!" exclaimed the Lenopan.
"Something tells me that we're going to get along then!" remarked the green shapeshifter.
"Uh-huh!" nodded Ben's cousin-in-law.
"This isn't going to end well." remarked Raven.
"Relax! What's the worst that could happen?" asked Ben.
He would find out shortly.
Later that day...
Lucy and Beast Boy built a sign saying "P" right next to the Teen Titans Tower.
"What's going on out there?" asked Starfire.
"Beast Boy and his new friend are up to something..." remarked Raven.
"If you put T and P together, you get...hey!" exclaimed Robin.
Lucy and Beast Boy both began to laugh.
"That actually gives me another idea..." remarked Beast Boy.
Later still...
Brother Blood was at his office. Monitoring the security cameras, he noticed that everything seemed to be going fine.
Suddenly, he noticed Beast Boy approaching the H.I.V.E Academy.
"What is he up to?" asked Brother Blood.
His friend was somebody he did not recognize.
Suddenly, Beast Boy and Lucy pulled out some toilet paper.
"What is he doing with that toilet paper?" inquired the headmaster of the academy.
Beast Boy and Lucy then began to wrap the H.I.V.E Academy in TP.
Brother Blood screamed in rage.
They then left before the security guards could apprehend them.
Later that day...
Starfire went to pay Silkie a visit. Every now and then she liked to check on him to see if the silkworm was in good health...which he was.
Currently, Silkie was sleeping.
Suddenly, two more silkworms appeared. One of them happened to be green.
"Silkie? You didn't tell me you were bringing friends!" exclaimed Starfire.
Silkie suddenly woke up.
He looked around.
The silkworm was rather confused.
"Wait, these aren't friends of yours? Then how did they get into the tower?" asked the Tamaranean.
"Psyche!" exclaimed Lucy and Beast Boy in unison.
Lucy and Beast Boy transformed back into their regular forms.
Silkie thought seeing Beast Boy was a pleasant surprise.
Although, he didn't recognize his friend.
Now that he thought of it, he seemed to recall Starfire once transforming into a shapeshifting alien.
Was that what Beast Boy's friend was? A shapeshifting alien?
"Gee, every since you met your new friend you two have been pranking people like crazy." noted Starfire.
"It's fun!" shouted Lucy.
"You should probably tone it down a bit more." answered the Tamaranean.
"Fine..." nodded Beast Boy.
Suddenly, the alarm went off.
Apparently, for some strange reason, there was a bunch of animals attacking the city.
However, these animals seemed to be mutated.
"This seems like a job for you, Beast Boy." said Robin. Who better to send than someone who could transform into animals?
"You got it!" exclaimed Beast Boy.
He turned into a bird and flew away.
Sure enough, there were multiple animals attacking the city.
One of them was a giant frog.
"Ribbit!" shouted the giant frog.
"I know how to take care of this one..." noted Beast Boy.
Beast Boy transformed into a snake.
The giant frog panicked and hopped away.
The animal shapeshifter laughed.
He then moved on to a different animal.
This one happened to be a bird.
He shapeshifted into a cat.
The giant bird flew away.
"This is too easy, really." remarked Beast Boy.
However, he was being secretly monitored.
As it turned out, this animal attack was the work of Dr. Animo. He had just been dying to test out the animals he experimented on on a city. Jump City seemed like the best target.
Besides, he heard that Ben 10 was there. He wanted revenge on him for always thwarting his schemes of world domination.
However, seeing this mysterious superhero gave him ideas. Evil ones.
Apparently, he could shapeshift into any animal he pleased. It didn't matter the size of whether they were warm-blooded or cold-blooded. There weren't any limits to what animals he could transform into.
However, he didn't seem to have the ability to transform into fantasy creatures such as a dragon for instance.
The more he thought about it, the more he wanted this power for himself.
Perhaps if he captured this superhero, maybe he could use his DNA to obtain this power.
He just needed to find a way to capture this Teen Titan.
Fortunately, he had an idea.
"I'll just hit him with this tranquilizer dart." nodded Dr. Animo. It was very useful for capturing animal specimens.
Perhaps it would be useful for capturing this superhero as well.
According to the newspapers, his name was Beast Boy.
"Why doesn't that surprise me?" remarked the evil scientist. The other superheroes were named Raven, Cyborg, and Starfire...the odd one out was Robin even though he was the sidekick of Batman.
He set out to capture the boy.
A short while later...
"OK, I think I scared off all the animals." remarked Beast Boy.
Fortunately, there had only been a minimal amount of damage to the city.
At that very moment, Lucy approached Beast Boy.
"Did you take down all the animals?" asked Lucy.
"I scared them off." remarked Beast Boy. It was good that he could transform into so many predatory animals.
"Great job!" cheered the blonde.
Beast Boy smiled.
Suddenly, Beast Boy took a tranquilizer dart to the neck.
"Oof!" exclaimed Beast Boy.
He began to feel rather...woozy.
"I think I'll take a nap now." noted the boy. Nothing like a well-deserved rest after a hard day of work.
Beast Boy then fell to the ground, sleeping like a lamb.
Suddenly, Beast Boy transformed into a lamb.
Smirking with satisfaction, Dr. Animo then picked up Beast Boy and put him in a bag.
He then flew away on a giant falcon.
Lucy gasped in surprise.
She had to inform the rest of the Teen Titans!
Quickly, she transformed into a bird and began to fly there.
A short while later...
"Dang, they sure performed a lot of pranks, didn't they?" noted Ben.
"Don't say I didn't warn you." answered Raven.
Suddenly, Lucy approached the Teen Titans.
"Is something the matter?" asked Robin.
"It's Beast Boy! He got captured by a mad scientist!" exclaimed Lucy.
"Is this another one of your pranks?" asked Raven. She was pretty much all pranked out at this point.
Although, she actually found the prank that they had pulled on the H.I.V.E Academy to be funny.
"It's not!" shouted the Lenopan.
"Why don't you describe the mad scientist for us, then?" asked Raven.
Lucy nodded.
"He had green skin, and was wearing orange glasses! He was also wearing a strange helmet. He had black boots and gloves! He was also riding a giant falcon..." noted Lucy.
Now that she thought about it, it was likely that this mad scientist was responsible for the attack on Jump City. She couldn't think of anyone else who could be responsible.
Ben's eyes widened in surprise.
"Ben?" asked Raven.
"I think I know who that is!" exclaimed Ben.
"You do?" asked Starfire.
"It's Dr. Animo! He's been one of the members of my rogues gallery since forever and ever..." noted Ben.
"Didn't you tell me about how you fought him once?" asked Lucy.
"Yeah...I think we should send him to the same place we sent Mad Mod..." nodded the boy.
"Good idea." agreed Cyborg.
"If that's the case, we should find him. He's probably going to conduct all sorts of nasty experiments on him..." noted Raven.
Robin nodded in agreement.
However, there was one problem. They didn't know where Dr. Animo had taken him.
Ben then remembered something.
Wasn't Gwen a good tracker?
Chances are that she could use a possession of his in order to locate him.
That was how she found Mad Mod's hideout, after all.
Perhaps she could help them locate Beast Boy.
Meanwhile, in a test tube...
"Where am I?" asked Beast Boy.
He found himself in some sort of laboratory.
"Oh great, I've been kidnapped by some sort of mad scientist!" exclaimed the boy.
"How observant." remarked Dr. Animo.
"You know, my friends are going to find out I'm missing!" shouted Beast Boy.
"Go on..." said the scientist.
"And then they're going to come looking for me!" shouted the superhero.
"How will they find you? We're in the middle of an ocean on a small deserted island!" exclaimed Dr. Animo.
"Oh yeah...that sounds like a problem." remarked Beast Boy.
"Now then, where were we? Let's run a few tests..." said the scientist.
Suddenly, a scanner appeared.
It began to analyze Beast Boy's DNA.
The results appeared on a nearby computer screen.
"Interesting...I'll have to take a look at this..." remarked Dr. Animo.
Beast Boy wondered how he was going to get out of the glass tube.
He tried transforming into a gorilla and punching the glass...
...but all he did was produce a small crack.
That glass tube certainly was resilient.
"How am I going to get out of here?" asked Beast Boy.
Although, maybe that small crack was all he needed.
He suddenly had an idea.
Meanwhile...
"Gwen, can you help us?" asked Ben, holding one of Beast Boy's comic books.
"Are you looking for something?" inquired Gwen.
"We're looking for someone..." answered Ben.
"Is it Beast Boy?" asked the mage.
"How'd you guess?" stated the boy.
Gwen used her mana readings to investigate.
"Apparently he's at a top secret laboratory across the sea..." stated Gwen.
"Then I guess we're going to need a boat..." noted Ben.
"Or you could just transform into one of your aliens." answered the girl.
"Oh, right." nodded the boy. Sometimes he forget about his Omnitrix.
He decided to bring some of his friends, just to make sure that the mission to rescue Beast Boy would be a success.
Those friends were Starfire and his cousin-in-law Lucy.
"Are you ready?" nodded Ben.
Starfire and Lucy nodded.
The latter transformed into a bird.
Likewise, Starfire used her Omnitrix.
This time, she decided to transform into an alien resembling a mermaid. They were known as Undinians.
They were from the same planet as Piscciss Volanns, Ripjaw's alien race.
She had to admit, transforming into a new alien was always exciting...though the seashell bikini she wore was a bit skimpy for her tastes.
Together, the two of them entered the water and began to swim towards Dr. Animo's island.
However, it was guarded by sharks...mutated ones.
Getting to the island wasn't going to be a small feat.
Since Dr. Animo has been in all four shows of Ben 10 (as well as the reboot), I figured I should include him in this story sooner or later. Though I have to admit, he fits every mad scientist trope in the book. At least they gave him character development in the reboot to make him more believable.
And yes, I might make Brother Blood fight Ben Tennyson eventually.