Alien(open)

THUD....BANG!!!!...CRASH!!!!

Xeno crashed in to the streets of jump city bouncing a few times as he hit the ground or rather the top of a store. He slowly got up, a few hours later. He had been thrown from his ship and directly into a flat spin which had knocked him out after about 30 seconds. The trail of smoke his craft would have left was now long gone and he was left on the new planet, in the middle of a highly populated area alone. No guide, not even his freind from the ship.

He crawled down the wall of the shop to the street, directly under a spotlight. His oval shaped head cast a glare off and after a few moments his tail raised up and struck the bulb, breaking it and stopping the light immediately, making him barely visible.

That was to much for the pedestrian behind him, who had been frozen in fear for as long as xeno had been sitting, but after momentarily losing sight of the creature had finnally built up enough spirit to let out a scream, a female scream, extremely shrill and loud. Xeno quickly silenced the noise, his tail wrapping around her waist and pulling her to him. He then grabbed her neck and lifted her up. He looked at her for a few moments then dropped her and let her run away still yelling. But not quite as highly.

Xeno let her go, she was unpleasant and loud. Not to mention a bit plump. No one else was around yet. He wondered why, it was nice and cool out. He let out a rough purring sound though it sounded more like a sustained repeated clicking. The tempature was so pleasant here, more so than his overly cold glass tubular cage and it was so roomy.

He hadn't ever really been out side and was almost stunned by how large it was. His head slowly swiveled From side to side, hissing the whole time. He then would look far down the street and raise himself to his hind two legs. Someone was interested in him too and they were ahead of him next to one of the street lights at the end of the street.

The man standing under the street lamp was wearing a full plate of steel plate armor, complete with a horned helmet. The eyes of the man were hidden by the shadows of the night. The man held a huge, 100 pound great axe over his shoulder.

Mr. Slaughter smiled under his helmet. He was a little proud of the fact that the bosses had sent him to deal with this situation. Also, he was glad to see a fellow alien. Although the strange creature didn't look anything like Slaughter, or even humanoid for that matter, he had come from the stars and was now in a new world. They had a lot in common.

Slaughter wondered if the alien could tell him what the stars were like. He himself could remember none of it.

He held his free hand out to the alien as he approached it. "Come with me. I know some people that would be very happy to meet you. I can give you a home." The Double-Man Project would give this alien a good home indeed. Scientists would train the beast to follow government orders and kill whoever they wanted. It would have a purpose in life, just as Mr. Slaughter did.

Slaughter wondered if the alien could understand him, or if he would have to pummel it into submission.

A man made of lava appeared on the scene, lighting up the area. Slaughter had never seen anything like it, at least not that he could remember.

Lava-Man accused him of breaking the law by carrying his axe around at night. Slaughter laughed at Lava-Man's comment. He was the law, or rather, the L.A.W. "I'm pretty sure that there's a law against being made of lava, too. I'm a government agent sent here to investigate my little friend here. It's my job to make sure he doesn't get taken down the wrong path by freaks like you. I'm not going to let you meta-humans hurt him."

Dar was very suspicious of this Lava-Man. All the meta-humans he had encountered or learned about so far had been terrorists. He wasn't willing to let one of those monsters hurt his cousin from the stars.

"As for my name, you can call me Mr. Slaughter."

Xeno Stared at Mr. Slaughter, the hiss still floating through the air, the metal armor made him extremely defined, exact and resonant. Xeno continued seeing him with his echolocation even between hisses as the armor kept vibrating, unnoticeably to most but Xeno saw it easily. He was large, and had an unusually large...... thing with him, which wasn't hollow like his armor. It was solid...and probably heavy. He, still lethargic from his fall and not willing to put much effort into just about anything, waited for the man to come. Once the halfway mark was reached Xeno went back down onto all fours. He was much more comfortable that way. Once the stranger reached 5 feet away Xeno put his tail against his chest, telling him to stop.

Xeno also hadn't understood a word he said. Having only been here for a few seconds he had t had the chance to learn the language or much at all really. He looked over the mans body, with his actual sight this time. Metal, that was for sure now and the large item he was holding was also sharp, probably dangerous, maybe even a weapon, though it seemed ineffective to actually use a melee weapon that large.

Xeno suddenly would turn, lightning fast to a new source of heat. As Ben finished his monologue Xeno hissed viciously, he hated fire, extreme heat and anything like it. Which made this creature the bane of his existence. He didn't bother getting any closer and instead adopted a more offensive position his tail raised above him like a snake...he had no idea what Ben had said either, but the fire was more than enough to make xeno feel threatened.

The alien put the tip of his tail up to Slaughter's chest, and he took that as a signal to stop advancing. Slaughter understood. This alien had only been on the planet for a few hours tops. It probably wasn't willing to trust people yet.

The Lava-Man changed form into a teenage boy, not too much younger than Slaughter himself. The boy was Ben Tennyson, a Teen Titan. Slaughter couldn't help thinking that he had seen the youth before. He looked familiar, but he couldn't remember anyone from his life before the Double-Man Project. He had knowledge to the boy. His training had included basic information on all the current Teen Titans.

A strange concept: that nobody could claim ownership to an alien. Truthfully, nobody could claim ownership of anything until they had the power to defend it. The government definitely had the power to own an alien, so they deserved this one. They owned Slaughter, after all.

Prove himself? Very well. Slaughter pulled a dogtag out from underneath his armor and tossed it to Ben. The dogtag said:

Mr. Slaughter
Special Forces
Double-Man Project

"I have no more proof but physical force. You don't need to like my name, but it should serve you as a warning. The Double-Man Project is not to be messed with. Now tell me, if nobody can claim ownership of this alien, then why are you here? You might claim it to be friendship, or mentorship, but in either case you will end up restricting this creature's actions. You don't have the facilities to help it get used to life on this planet. For the safety of this alien, I must bring it to a government facility. Now, boy, are you going to continue to annoy me, or are you going to get back where you belong?"

Xeno was gradually beginning to grab bits of the language. Only nouns though; such as Ben Tennyson and mr. slaughter. But he also cane to an understanding that he himself was being referred to as "it", "creature" and "alien". All of which he technically was but still had no idea what they meant. Or what they were arguing about and they were definitely arguing. He had grown used to the, rather long, process of arguing. Where the people arguing people would alternately talk for longer periods of time than in a normal conversation.

He was also a bit more interested in Ben now that he wasn't on fire, or hot at all in fact. He walked up to Ben his tail relaxing and instead of looking like it was about to strike was no just barely off the ground. He was on all fours now and shorter therefor shorter than Ben, he was smaller than the other person, and wasn't surrounded by metal. It looked like that was normal though, since Mr. Slaughter was the only person out of three he had seen that was so large and had armor on.

Xeno had also caught the name of where he was, jump...Jump city. Xeno let out a loud hiss and reached out with his tail, wrapping it around his waist gently and lifting him, at the same time Xeno would stand up to his full height, towering above even "Mr. Slaugter" he lifted Ben to what would be eye level, if xeno had visible eyes and then let Ben down after taking a deep breath. He smelled...odd. Plenty of artificial flavoring and....stuff. He then lightly poked Ben's fore head, allowing them to talk. ("Xeno") he said pointing to himself, who once again was on all fours. Of course Mr slaughter wouldn't be able to hear him, even if Xeno wanted to there was no where to actually make contact with him with all that armor on.

Toji blurred onto the scene."Yo,Ben,who're these guys?"Jumping in place,he grinned,waving,"Yo,we ain't gonna have to fight,right?I would hate to have to use Wolf Roar on you two.Names Toji Okami,a.k.a Lightning Wolf,Teen Titan East Section,or whatever.Who are you two?"

The government didn't protect this city? The Teen Titans did? That sounded like treason. Had the Titans claimed rule over Jump City? If so, they were to be considered terrorists and revolutionists. Mr. Slaughter put a finger to his ear to speak directly to headquarters. "Did you hear that, boss?"

As Ben got picked up and played with by the alien, Slaughter listened to the response from his superiors. "We did hear that, Slaughter. It seems that the Titans don't know when to quit. We already cut them slack for this once. This time, we'll have to destroy them. We are sending backup. Heavy backup. Do not let the alien fall into the hands of the Teen Titans until help arrives. Understood?"

"Understood." Heavy backup could only really apply to one person. As much as Dar hated having someone else steal the show, he had no choice in the matter. At least he would have a few minutes before that backup arrived. They would have to wake the man up, after all.

Another Titan appeared, this one looking like some sort of punk. Dar took a step forward and addressed the two Titans. "Mr. Ben Tennyson. You have just declared war on the United States Military. I hope you have life insurance. In a few minutes, a man is going to arrive here. If you are still here by that time, you will die. I don't care about you in the least, but I've been trained to warn you that everyone you know and love will die if you resort to violence. And if I resort to violence, then everyone will assume you did. So I'm giving you 5 seconds to run away before I pound your face into the cement. The same goes for that little kid. 5...4..."

Something was talking inside the big guys helmet, Xenoncoild make the words out well and cocked his head at the voice. It was different than Mr. Slaughter's voice but still came from his head. It was odd. Why would he be talking to people like that? Why did they sound so serious?

Xeno would then look at Dar as he took the step forward. He hissed loudly, indicating how he didn't like his proximity. His tail waved irratedly, scraping against the sidewalk, repeatedly, causing several scratches in the cement. He also sounded a bit hostile, his voice targeted at Ben.

Then came the countdown, numbers, Xeno liked numbers they were easy to understand and find. He turned away from Ben once again. For a second he reached, with his tail, out to darthelegolas. Meaning to pick him up but was distracted by yet another Person, this one much faster than the other two. His head would snap to the side, staring at the new person his legs tensed. He quickly forgot about Mr. Slaughter once again and approached Toji in a small jump, looking at him closely. He felt a large amount of energy came from him making him easy to see with his electric sensory system. His name was especially easy to catch, Toji. There were so much things on this new planet.

He finnally would jump a good twenty feet up onto a building. He was less interested in them now, at the thought of a whole world of new things three people suddenly seemed so much less important. He was ready to go somewhere it was just a question of where to go.

Xenon wouldn't go to the top ofthe building he had jumped to, as most would expect, instead he would climb around to the side, his body parrallel to the ground as he inadvertently took the long route giving his would be captor and chaser a bit more time to think or chase him down, whichever.

But if one watched closely they would that xeno was searching for something. His head looked from side to side as he crawled along the wall, reaching the next road over and looking up and down it before dropping from the building and slowly breathing in deep breaths. After a few moments Xeno walked a few steps forward and found a fare with three small holes in the top. He looked at Ben and nodded, a bit late, confirming that his name was indeed xeno.

He than walked to the next care forward three cars and stopped at one with a large dent untie front, xeno looked down down and took an odd piece of metal out of the dent. The search for his ship was going well, though this definately was not where he was supposed to he dropped off. The piece of metal was from his ship. He wanted to find it and free his freind or let her in, depending on what she was doin