A/N: I do not own Quantum Leap or Teen Titans.
(Note: Imperative you watch the video below first)
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"The Leap Forward"
by
Somebrother
Chapter One
Blue energy bathes the body and is then swallowed up, revealing the face and body of Dr. Sam Beckett. He is wearing a purple and black jumpsuit complete with gray shoes. Before he can get his bearings a giant yellow tentacle slams the street immediately in front of him. Sam falls backward to see a giant yellow squid before him, tentacles extended. Behind the squid, it's tentacles are grabbing cars and flinging them left and right. The squid retracts the tentacle it just used and thrusts it along with two more directly at him.
Sam throws his hands up in front of his face to protect himself. Nothing. He lowers his hands to find that a mysterious black energy is holding them in place. The black energy throws the tentacles back. To Sam's right, a blue ray shoots past him and hits the squid square in his eye.
A voice shouts from behind Sam. "Now Beast Boy, hit him with all you got!"
"Beast Boy?" Sam wonders. He sees in front of him shattered pieces of a car mirror on the ground in front of him. In it's reflection Sam sees a teenaged kid with green skin and a fang protruding from his lower lip.
"Look out!"
Sam ducks as another tentacle thrusts at a car behind him causing an explosion. "Oh boy!", he shouts.
Just then green bolts of energy from his left, combined with the black energy from above his head, and the blue ray from his right hit the giant squid square on his head. The squid cries in pain and retreats backward.
As he retreats, from each point of the three different energy's origins, Sam sees passing by him a cybernetic human on his right, a teenaged girl on his left in purple shorts and purple tank top, and a girl with a blue cloak and black leotard above his head rushing the creature while maintaining their fire on it.
A teenaged boy in an eye mask, red and yellow outfit with a large yellow letter R on the left side of this chest, lands beside him and lifts Sam up. "You ok?"
Sam watches as the squid enters the ocean and the other three turn around and run towards them.
"My friend, are you injured?"
Sam looks to see that the teenage girl wearing purple has green eyes and unusual eyebrows.
"Great strategy. First run at the squid, then stop and stare." the cloaked girl stated.
The cyborg looked at the display on his left arm. "Maybe he got hit with something."
"I guess, I do feel kinda weird." Sam said.
"Let's get you back to the Tower." the boy holding Sam up said.
Sam is sitting in a room filled with medical computers and diagnostic equipment. The one named Cyborg is looking at computer displays detailing their analysis of Beast Boy's health.
"Heart rate, blood pressure, brain functions, all look good." he said.
"Nothing wrong at all?" the masked teenager asked.
Sam notices a mirror in front of him and stares at the image before him.
"Where am I?" he mutters.
The other four look back at him, raising their eyebrows.
"I mean, how am I?"
"Are you sure he's ok?" the cloaked girl asked.
"Physically there's nothing wrong with him. Maybe he's just in shock?" the cyborg replied.
"Yeah, I think that's it.", Sam said. "I'm just in shock, maybe I just need to go lie down in my room."
"Of all the things we've faced, a giant yellow squid is what sends you into shock? Heaven help us if we face a giant piece of bacon.", the cloaked girl said.
Cyborg shrugged.
"Maybe you should go lie down." the masked teenage said.
Sam got up and exited out of the medical office and looked both ways, trying to figure out where his room was.
"It's this way." the cloaked girl said, leading him down to the right.
"Oh, yeah." Sam followed, leaving three concerned people behind.
She led Sam to "Beast Boy's" room. "Thank you again, uh..."
The holographic door opened and in stepped Al, cigar in his left hand and the handlink in the other. "Raven, her name is Raven.", he said.
"Raven." Sam finished. Her left eyebrow lifted up.
"Sure." Raven said as she walked away.
Sam entered Beast Boy's room and nearly threw up over how disgusting it was.
"Whoa, and I thought that one girl I knew in college was dirty." Al said. Sam closed the door.
"Al, where have you been and what's going on here! I leap then it looks like I'm in Wonderland!"
"You're freaked out? Sam, all of us are freaked out! You've been caught in leap limbo for three months now!"
"What?"
Alarms sounded on Al's handlink. He quickly pressed three buttons on it and data scrawled onto the display.
"Well, after your last leap you were heading to 1964, but then Ziggy says something happened to time."
"Something happened to time? What something happened to time?"
"We don't know, just everything is screwed up. 1964 is now 1835, 1984 is now 1621, time's just been reordered somehow."
"Al, Al that's impossible, how could time possibly be reorganized? It's impossible."
"Ziggy agrees but it doesn't change the fact that it's happened!"
"Well, does he have any theories?"
Al pressed some more keys on his handlink. "Uh, he's still working on that. But the key appears to be that somehow today becomes 0 A.D., the year time revolves around, and that is what starts everything."
"So, I'm here to stop today becoming the center of time? Just how am I supposed to do that, Al? What is today anyway?"
"Well, uh, today is August 24, 2006."
"The future!"
"Like I said, time is all out of whack, the future is now in the past and the past in the future, uh it's all screwy."
"Does Ziggy have any ideas how I'm supposed to stop whatever is supposed to happen?"
"He's so overwhelmed he can't think straight. He's not even sure if He leaped you here to help solve this, or this affected your leap and you can't get out of it."
"Great. Well can Ziggy at least tell me more about myself and my new friends?"
"Oh, yeah! Uh, you are Beast Boy, real name Garfield Logan. You are 14 years old and live in Titan Tower in Jump City."
"Jump City? Wait, wait a minute Al, I remember on television people talking about building that."
"They were, in fact they wanted you to consult them on it, they wanted to try new types of infrastructure never seen, but you were already busy with Quantum Leap. Well, looks like they finished it and it becomes this major metropolis."
"Wow." Sam said as he walked to a window and looked outside, surveying the large city and the body of water that surrounded the tower.
"You're a member of an organization called the 'Teen Titans', a group of teenagers with supernatural abilities that they use to protect the city and fight crime."
"Superheroes?" Sam looked at Al.
"Basically, yeah. Starfire, the girl in the purple, she's a Tam...Tama", Al hits his handlink with his left hand. "Tamaranian. Wow, she's an alien, Sam!"
"Wow, so we really aren't alone!" Sam smiles widely.
"Guess not. She can fly, has super strength, and can shoot energy beams. Then there's Cyborg, a cybernetic human equipped with a sonic ray and various devices. He also helped construct the defenses of Titans Tower and their various gadgets. Robin is the leader of the group, he was trained by Batman in Gotham City."
"Who?"
"Oh, he came after you started leaping. He left Batman and struck it out on his own until he met this group. Then there's Raven, whom you were just with, she's from a planet called Azerath, and her powers are fueled by her emotions. She can move objects and commands dark energy as a weapon as well."
"And what about me? What powers do I have?"
"You? You don't have any powers."
Sam glares at Al.
"Oh, you mean Beast Boy, oh..." Al pushes some more keys. "Beast Boy's DNA is very unstable, but it allows him to change into any animal with the abilities and power of each no matter what shape or size."
Sam walks into Beast Boy's bathroom and looks at himself. "So I'm a hero."
"Well, he's the hero. Remember, you don't have his powers you just look like him. He's got all the stuff."
"Alright. So, if this chaos in time happens today, and Ziggy thinks that's why I ended up here, does he know where it happens?"
Al presses more keys on his handlink. "Uh, well, apparently it happens in the vicinity of the city."
"That's awful vague, Al. Does he know when?"
"Uh, no, that's not very clear either. Ziggy says it's like you're in the outskirts of a hurricane, Sam. You're so close to the source that everything is all stirred up but as you draw closer to the actual event things should clear up to the point where he can pinpoint everything."
"Ok."
An alarm goes off throughout the Tower.
"Titans! Slade's on the move, let's go!"
"Slade?"
Al's handlink beeps and displays new information. "Uh, apparently he's one of the really bad guys they have. Get going, down the elevator to their garage."
"Al, wait! Like you said I don't have superpowers. Just what am I supposed to do?"
"BB! Let's get moving man!", Cyborg shouted from the hallway.
"Ziggy's working on that right now, just get moving, I'll meet you later." Al pushed a key on his handlink and disappeared.
"Great. Of all places to put me, why would You put me here?" Sam looked up at the ceiling, then headed out the door.