I have recently discovered the wonderfulness that is Teen Titans, and have come to marvel at such technology as the DVR. This comes right after Cartoon Network's ( --means I don't own the Teen Titans characters) "The End," incase you couldn't tell from the title. It's probably after SuperS for Sailor Moon, which isn't mine either. I don't have a set end in mind for this, but I have most of the plotline figured out. A lot of the TT fanfics are a little redundant, so I thought I'd try something new. Also, if I set this up right, I'll have a lead in for a bunch of other stories I have in mind. For those of you who haven't read my profile or the intro to my other story, I'm warning you here that I don't update very often. Guess that means you should put it on the story alert list! ;) I like to finish what I start; it's just that reading boring textbooks takes up most of my time. I already have the first two chapters for this story though, maybe three if I split the next one up. Anyway, enjoy!

The Afterwards
a Teen Titans/SM crossover

Chapter One: After The End

Grass and leaves rustled gently in the cool breeze, and birds chirped happily from their nests. Cherry blossom petals swayed playfully on the serene temple grounds. All in all, it should have been the quintessence of the perfect day.

But all was not well at Hikawa Jinja Shrine. Nor had it been for Tokyo, or the rest of the world for that matter, just a few moments ago.

"Unh…" groaned a prone figure in the main courtyard.

"Is everyone alright?" queried another meekly, tucking a stray strand of golden hair behind their ear.

"Wha…what the hell just happened!" asked another, ignoring the question and getting up to their feet, short dirty-blonde hair teased by the wind.

Another gently placed a hand on their shoulder in response. "Please calm down. We should appreciate the fact that we are alive."

A muffled sob stopped any retort from issuing, and the remaining figures all turned towards the source, their leader, Sailor Moon, hugging her knees to her chest and burying her face in them.

"What's the matter Koneko? Are you hurt?" The aggressive woman asked concernedly, rushing over to her princess' side.

"I…I felt everyone…die. Everyone…" she whispered as she choked back more tears.

Another petite figure had crawled closer to the distraught girl as she pulled out a small blue computer, and proceeded to scan for any injuries they couldn't see, as well as try to figure out what had just happened.

"Mars…!" a heretofore silent figure demanded, getting up to her feet with as much anger as Uranus.

The addressed fighter said nothing, her countenance stony, eyes sad.

"Mars, I know you know what happened. It's why you called us here to begin with, isn't it? How about you explain, unless we've got another interruption coming that you're not telling us about?" continued the green-clad warrior, marching right up to the still silent Mars.

"Jupiter," the blonde known as Venus warned. "There's no need for that. If she has any answers, we won't get them from her with threats."

Jupiter glared at the second-in-command, but backed away, awaiting a response.

"It was…" Mars hesitated, "the End of the World."

"That doesn't make sense, Mars. If it were, we wouldn't be here right now. And Pluto would have told us something," dismissed Uranus.

"It was the End, and you know as well as I do that Pluto doesn't tell us about things she doesn't know about, or that don't concern us."

"I'm inclined to think that the End of the World might concern us a bit," pointed out the blue-haired Mercury, who had by now found that there was nothing wrong with their leader. Not physically anyway.

"Exactly what I was about to say," growled Jupiter.

"Even if Pluto didn't know about this, you did. It's your duty to report anything that might be a threat to the people we protect," said Venus, addressing their resident seer. She paused, and furrowed her brow in thought, suddenly coming to a conclusion. "This isn't just something that just came up, is it? You've known about this for a while, haven't you?" she accused. "That's why you've been so recluse these past couple of weeks."

"I wasn't exactly sure of what would happen," Mars answered stoically.

"It doesn't matter. You didn't know exactly what was going to happen the last time you had nightmares and ill-boding visions. You delayed telling us then too. And it almost cost us an innocent life," Venus returned, referring to the battles that led up to the fight with Mistress 9.

"That wasn't her fault. She wasn't even supposed to know anything about it. What would you have done if you had to see your best friends die, and not know why?" defended the usually silent Saturn.

"I would have told them so that they would have been prepared!" Jupiter yelled.

"Please, stop. Just…stop. I think she can explain herself," spoke a gentle voice, whose force nonetheless commanded everyone's attention once more.

Mars gave Sailor Moon a thankful glance, and sighed. "Look, I know how you must feel. Yes, it's true that I did suspect something like this was going to happen. I didn't know where, or how. I had a nightmare that showed me everything we just saw, and hardly anything more. Not why it was going to happen or…if we could even stop it." She looked down and shut her eyes, trying to block out the images from her mind and the accusing glares from her friends. "I did several fire readings, hoping that I would get answers. And I did, sort of." She raised her head again defiantly, staring straight at Sailor Moon this time. "And it wasn't our fight to fight."

"What?" yelled Jupiter and Uranus, while Neptune merely frowned, and Saturn went to stand beside Mars. Mercury began typing furiously on her computer. Venus ignored the reactions of her fellow scouts, thinking hard once again.

"I know we believe ourselves to be protectors of the world. And many times we have fought for just that. But our main duty is to protect our princess, our future queen, Serenity." Mars looked at Venus now. "There are others out there who help protect the world as well, and who have their own battles to fight."

The others looked at whom she was addressing, as Venus glanced up sharply. It wasn't that she didn't want them to find out. She knew all too well that there were countless other warriors, fighting their own archenemies in their respective parts of the world. She could think of one boy in particular in her old country, London, who had a particularly evil being to deal with. But many of her fellow warriors were a bit…zealous when it came to getting rid of the malevolent. If they knew how many monsters were really out there, they'd insist on fighting every single one of them. Mars was one of those, so Venus was surprised that she had responded to the revelation in such a way. Venus could not let them take on the world. Tokyo needed them; their princess needed them. This is where they belonged.

She nodded slowly at the expectant faces, ensuring them of the truth of Mars' statement. Neither Neptune nor Mercury looked too surprised at this new information.

"But," Uranus faltered, trying hard to grasp the fact that she wasn't to have a hand in kicking every evil being's butt, "this is something that affected us. If there were others to take care of it, why didn't they?"

"We're still alive, so they must have, somehow," Mercury responded, still typing fast.

"So, you're saying that everyone we've fought so far, Beryl, Queen Nehelenia, everyone…they've just been the tip of the iceberg?"

"I wouldn't put down our accomplishments that much, Jupiter," Venus smiled. "We get a lot of the more nasty ones, for some reason. There are those who are more like crime fighters than planetary warriors."

"Besides, didn't you think it a little odd for all of the evil things to come through Tokyo in their plans for world domination?" grinned Neptune, lightening the tension.

"Well…" Uranus said grudgingly.

"Beryl's headquarters weren't here," pointed out Jupiter.

"But, she did attack here, thus becoming our problem. Besides, she had some unfinished business."

"Alright," Jupiter gave in. "So you had a reason not to tell us. But I'd still like to know what the hell just happened, why we were barely able to hold out, and if whatever it was is gone for good."

Many of the others nodded in agreement.

"I believe I can answer that one Mars, if you'll allow me to."

All eyes turned towards the usually absent figure of the enigmatic Pluto walking towards the group, Time Staff in hand. Mars nodded in assent.

"First of all, I must apologize for not giving you prior warning. I knew what could happen, and that there was a chance that it would play out this way. But I also knew there was no way for you to stop it, and if you had attempted it, our princess would have died. Thus I could not have allowed you all to find out about it, though convincing Mars that she should not tell you the little information she did know took a little…persuasion."

Mars said nothing, only de-transformed and started walking back in to the shrine.

"We should take our cue from Rei. It is not a very long story, but any visitors to the shrine would find it odd that the elusive Sailor Scouts are chatting at a Shinto temple in the middle of the day. They did not go through the ordeal as you did. They do not know anything has occurred," she assured their worried glances towards the streets of their beloved city.

Once they had all settled into their usual meeting room, back in their normal guises, Setsuna continued with her narrative.

"As many of you have just found out, there are others in the world who fight for justice as much as yourselves, though in their own way, of course. There are many groups of these heroes. Some are beings from other worlds, even other universes. Some are humans who have been changed by circumstances, with magical abilities they can control with or without a talisman, and some are just plain humans who have extraordinary gifts. Now, the group that concerns us today, for it was their enemy that was able to bring about the End, is the Teen Titans of—"

"Jump City," supplied Ami. She had finished typing, and was now projecting several headshots of what the rest assumed were the 'Titans.' At a nod from Setsuna, she continued. "These are the members of the group of teenage crime fighters who call themselves the Teen Titans. They range from 16 to 19 years of age. Well, Earth years, anyway." At the questioning looks on some of the others' faces, she elaborated.

"Starfire," she explained, as one of the pictures in the lineup was brought forward, "is from a planet called Tamaran. She is actually the princess of her planet. According to records I was able to dig up, she once fought and won a battle for the throne from her corrupt sister, Blackfire. Upon winning, she decided to pass on the throne and its responsibilities to Galfore, who was her caretaker as she was growing up, in order to stay with the Titans. She is still new to many of Earth's customs, but her innocence and naivety belie her extreme physical strength. She can shoot what they've dubbed 'starbolts,' from her eyes and hands, and she can fly.

"Cyborg," she continued, and a picture of a dark-skinned youth with what looked like half a robot mask came into the fore, "is a human/robot hybrid. That means he's part man, part machine," she explained in response to several blank looks, "He had a terrible accident, and it was the only way to save him. He is extremely intelligent, and definitely the brain behind the group, the one who makes most of their gadgets, including their headquarters. His main weapon is a sonic blaster that can rival one of Serena's fits, and his strength is increased twenty fold due to his robot half."

The others blinked at the uncommon joke from their resident genius, and a few chuckled.

"Beast Boy," she went on, addressing the picture now being focused on, "is a Changeling. He can morph into any animal he chooses, be it a beast from land, sea, or air, although he retains his green tint when transformed. He is by far the least serious of the group, though that doesn't make him any less valuable. He had an incident once after a fight with one, Adonis, in which he unwittingly turned into something much like a werewolf. His inner-beast, they called it."

"He's soo cute!" giggled Minako, pointing to a smaller picture which showed him transformed into a kitten. The others sighed. It never ceased to amaze them how different she could be when not transformed.

"Then there's Robin, undisputed leader of the group. Adept at almost every single form of fighting technique known to man, he is the most human of the team. He was once the partner of a…Batman? I'll look more into that later. His preferred weapon is his extendable bo-staff, though he also utilizes many disks and Bird-a-rangs in order to catch his enemies. He's well-endowed in the intelligence area as well, and has a sometimes scary obsession to catch the bad guy."

'Well-endowed' was the only thing many in the room heard as they stared at the Boy Wonder. Makoto and Minako had hearts in their eyes, and were sighing like lovesick puppies. Usagi had to remind herself that she already had a boyfriend, and even Rei was looking at him appreciatively.

"Calm down, guys. According to some side notes I managed to dig up," at this Ami clicked a sequence onto the keypad, "he seems pretty interested in Starfire. At least, she seems to think so."

"Ami, just how exactly are you getting all of this information?" queried an intrigued Rei. She'd never been that interested in computers growing up, but Ami had recently shown her a few of the more 'useful' things you could do with them. The other girls in the room also looked toward their brilliant friend, expecting her to blush. She obviously hadn't gotten this much personal information out of a police database.

Ami's cheeks did tinge a bit, but other than that she did not seem that fazed that they had caught her. "I got it from the source itself, their computer system. I must admit that Cyborg's firewalls and security codes did take me a while to get past."

"Like what, all of five minutes?" laughed Makoto.

"Er, it was my computer that did most of the work," Ami murmured, this time glancing down. "But never mind that. That's not what we should be focusing on…"

"You're right. We need to be focusing in on this wonderful piece of eye candy right here," nodded Minako enthusiastically, as she continued to stare at Robin's photo.

"No, actually this is who we need to focus on," and Ami pulled up another photo, one of a girl whose face was half-concealed by a dark blue hood. She typed something else, and another snapshot came up, this time with the girl's hood down.

"Wow," smirked Haruka. "Some long-lost sister you never told us about Rei?" she asked interestedly as Michiru playfully slapped her arm.

"No," Hotaru finally spoke up from the corner of the room. "Mine."

Aha! I know what you're thinking: "overused connection." Well, it might be something that others have written about but it's not going to be what you think. You'll have to read at least one more chapter before you decide whether or not to skim over this title on the story list in the future. And while you're at it, you could, maybe...write a review! That way I'll know if you do/don't like it, and I'll be able to work with that! As for pairings…um…that's not exactly the main point of this story, and I don't really have any specific ones in mind. But you'll just have to keep reading and find out, huh?

Edited 9/26/2005