Teen Titans Fan Fiction "Legacy of Slade"

Teaser:

In dark cavern deep under the city two figures were holding each other.

Around them the cavern had opened up and now lava was slowly filling the chamber.

Both were of equal height, one was green and wore a black and purple skin suit. His friends called him Beast Boy, referring to his ability to change into any animal; fish, mammals, birds, even extinct dinosaurs and alien creatures. The other was a girl with long blonde hair named Terra; she wore unique body armour, which linked, into her nerve system, giving control of her awesome power to manipulate and control rock and soil to her one-time master, a criminal, named Slade.

Slade had only just a few minutes ago been hurled into the lava. All that was left was Slade's mask, slowly sinking below the lava. Half orange with an eyehole cut into it, the other half was completely black.

Unknown to Beast Boy, Terra and the other Teen Titans, when Slade fell into the lava, a small machine built into his mask, detected abnormal life signs coming from the wearer. The signs were consist with severe injuries that would lead to death. Following a program that the machine had been specifically made to follow, it began to broadcast a simple radio signal, capable of penetrating even the deepest underground bunker with even the most sophisticated electronic countermeasures.

Many, many, miles away in an underground bunker filled with electronic security and spread under several mountains, a computer, the only computer in the whole facility that had been activated during the past few years, picked up the signal. And in precisely .076 seconds of receiving the signal it wasn't the only computer that was active…

Prologue

Part 1 Graduation

Incident minus 24 days 6 hours 3 minutes

'Students of the Hive Academy for exceptional young people, this year has been a terrible year!' shouted a man standing on a podium facing an audience of young students, each trained in all the necessary skills required to be a super-villain, forging a criminal empire and attempting to rule the entire world.

The man on the podium continued 'we have no students graduating with honours this year, or for that matter any students graduating at all. This school has the best facilities, the best teachers, the best curricular. And the stupidest pieces of dog poo for students. Do you hear ME?" he said, as he reached the end of the speech, his skin started to glow blue and a pair of bat-like wings unfolded from under the man's robe.

"Yes Vice-principal Marntok the Mighty." All the students chorused at once.

'The Principal himself is so disgusted, that he's going to address you all now…'

Every single student started gossiping, no one had ever heard of the principal speaking to the whole student body, only a few glimpses of the current principal is all that students would get, unless they were being punished, and even then they were sworn never to tell anybody, not even the teachers at the academy about what had happened. Marntok The Mighty stood down from the podium and sat on a chair against the back wall.

Almost immediately a hexagon shaped door opened in the wall behind the podium. A figure walked through the door in a black robe, with a hood completely concealing his face. As he walked to the podium the door silently, slid shut behind him. Every step he took echoed in the silence of the auditorium. All eyes were watching him. Fear was everywhere.

'As the vice-principal just said, you're all terrible students. I've invited you into this school; I've sheltered you, taught you to control your powers. Role-modelled for you. Developed sophisticated technology to aid you. AND YOU REPAY ME WITH THIS!' the principal shouted.

'All I've done for you dunder heads and yet you still fail even the most basic exams.' In the auditorium, fear settled into the hearts of all present, many of the students were focusing their attention onto preventing any further embarrassment from stained clothing, so were several of the teachers.

'In order for you to comprehend the education I gave you and that you then flushed down the toilet I'm going to reveal a little about my self…' the figure said, he then raised both his hands to his hood and slowly, ceremonially pulled the hood back to reveal his head.

The teachers and students gasped as one. Even the Vice-principal was shocked.

When the principal's hands were by his side, his head was fully visible.

It was protected by a helmet, which surrounded his entire head.

The face was split in half. The left side was orange; it had an eyehole cut into it. The other side was black and had no hole for the Principal's right eye. In the minds of the students, one thought occurred: "How?"

'And before you start panicking, let me answer the most obvious questions first. I am Slade, and yes I did survive the Teen titans, how, because I used my training, the same training that you've all chosen to ignore.' He yelled to the assembled crowd.

Clapping came from the back of the room, every single person, including Slade turned to see the cause of the disturbance.

'Well done former master…' said a sarcastic voice. Walking from the back of the room a tall pale skinned boy strode, with all the arrogance of a tomcat. 'I see that nasty lava flow didn't keep you down,' he commented. The crowd parted around, all of the students had the good sense to give him a wide berth. The academy's faculty just stared, open-mouthed.

'Ahh, a former student of mine who actually knows the value of the education I gave him,' said Slade. Heads were now looking from Slade on the Podium and the newcomer, standing in the middle of the floor with his hands in the pockets of a long grey trench coat.

'I see you've got yourself I nice school here, thought I'd drop by see how things a going,' replied the boy. 'Thought I'd see if you were going to keep your promise,' he continued.

'I think I will,' said Slade.

Pointing at the newcomer he announced, 'Any body who can kill him graduates and will be my new apprentice!'

Immediately every student took up a fighting stance, charged up whatever energy they used, armed whatever weapons they had and slowly started advancing on the boy.

With a smile not normally seen on people about to be killed, the boy pulled a device out of his coat, brandishing it like a weapon. It looked like a mobile phone, but instead of an earpiece there was a big red button. To anyone with experience with military explosives it was fairly obvious that it was a makeshift remote detonation device, built so the user didn't have to sit at a wire connection, allowing them to detonate explosives that had been tuned to a certain frequency.

One of the Hive students, a girl with pink hair and pink eyes, raised her hand and pointed at the device, pink waves flew from her hand, the waves hit the remote detonator, it sparked and the boy dropped it.

The detonator hit the floor and shattered.

'Bad luck for you,' said the girl, her name was Jinx, and she had the power to make bad luck affect her adversaries.

The students of Hive academy advanced on him…