Disclaimer: I do not own the Teen Titans or any characters or anything, just a work of fiction

This is kind of like an alternate history Teen Titans story, the divergence will occur in the Teen Titans episode 'The End' Part II, you will get the idea, first story, hope you all enjoy chapter I.

Robin's Perspective

I stand in the midst of a ruined building, the sky red, ash and lava everywhere. I am standing among my friends, Starfire, Beast Boy, and Cyborg. My worst enemy Slade is also there, but we are not engaged in a fight, in fact he is there to help. I watch as Slade hands Starfire a ring that is supposed to protect her and the other Titans. They need it for their upcoming battle with the Godlike Trigon, a battle to buy time for me to find our missing teammate Raven. I know exactly what's about to happen, and although I am watching it all unfold with my own eyes, I cannot control my actions or words, but I know everything that is to come.

"I know you can do it," I say as I hold Starfire in a hug, she holds on tightly, not wanting to let go. In all honestly neither do I, such a sweet and innocent girl, so full of curiosity and love, a relationship I never pursued, although I feel we both wanted to.

"May get ugly, but don't worry we will keep him busy," Cyborg says with confidence and a cocky smile. Was it confidence, or was he just trying to ease his own fears, I wonder.

Beastboy jumps on Cyborg's back and adds, "Yeah just wait till Trigon gets slapped with my patented wet-willy maneuver," adding his own special-effects as he gives me his patented goofy smile. Of all the Titans, he had loved life the most no matter what was thrown at him.

I look at them, give them my confident, hope filled smile and say "He won't know what hit him," the real sad part is I actually believed it when I said it.

After a few moments of giving each other re-assuring smiles Slade cuts in, "Your goodbyes are really quite touching…but we have work to do," and with that he begins heading to the stairways that will lead to a type of hell. Starfire and me are now looking face to face, her mouth half open, she has fear in her eyes, she is wondering if we will see each other again. I look at her with my war-face, I cannot show her my own fear or even my own concern that this actually might be it. The Titans need hope and I need to inspire it. God, there was so much more we could have done, so much more we could have been, and she knew it too. That is what her look told me, I should have said something, said anything, maybe even given her a kiss. But no, instead I harden my expression and begin walking confidently and firmly to Hell.

Before I go down, I stop, turn around and tell my friends, "I will bring her back… I promise," and with that I turn my back on them and begin to go down. I will never see them again. God, I kept that promise but I failed to promise they would be ok, was it because deep down I knew I could never make that promise?

Suddenly the dream and perspective shifts to the worst part, I am outside in the ruined landscape. I am powerless and invisible and I watch helplessly, along with Trigon sitting on his throne, while my friends battle their evil forms. Cyborg is the first to fall.

His evil form manages to zap his arm as it turns to a laser weapon, disabling it, before Cyborg can adjust, his evil form grabs him and pushes him into the lava, without his arm to keep him up, I watch helplessly as Cyborg's head is dipped in the lava and to an instant death. He lets out a fear-filled scream, a harrowing scream of a boy not wanting to die.

Beastboy immediately transforms back to normal, "Cyborg!" he screams, but than a grey rhino going at full speed rams into his chest. Beastboy probably died immediately from the shock, but his evil form finished him off by transforming into a raptor and tearing his body apart.

"MY FRIENDS!" Screams Starfire, I see she is shocked and devastated, in a matter of seconds her two closest friends are slain. The Tamaranian warrior had seen much hardship in her life but had found peace on Earth. That peace was shattered as was her own innocence. I see how enraged she is, her powers are influenced by her emotions and her anger is fueling her now. The bolts she powered up were very powerful, I had never seen such bolts before, and she hurled them at the evil form Cyborg. I see the cruel form of our friend could not handle the barrage and the powerful attack forced him back and he lost balanced. By than the storming Starfire reached him and with one punch sent him to his own fiery demise in the lava.

The enraged warrior now turned her attention to the grey Beast Boy who changed into a hawk, aiming to claw out her eyes, he had no chance. I watch as Starfire brutally grabs his head and with a growl she crushes his skull. Right than the evil Starfire slammed into her back and the two continued their titanic battle.

The two forces began battling viciously as Trigon laughed with joy, he had was no doubt enjoying this bloodbath. They exchanged powerful blows, Starfire screaming at her evil half in Tamaranian, the fight continued until both were badly weakened and nearly spent. Finally Starfire landed a crushing blow to her evil side, sending her hurling hard to the ground. It was an awkward fall as I see she has landed on her head at such an angle that it has snapped.

I see Starfire, bleeding, battered, and wounded land on the ground to gather what little strength she had left for a final, yet hopeless assault on Trigon. Saying a final prayer the Tamaranian charged towards Trigon. NO, I screamed, but she could not hear, I knew what would happen. From the ruins I saw myself emerge with a loud grunt with a child-form Raven on my back. Starfire turned around for second, saw me and turned around as she screamed for me, "ROB-!" she never did finish. She never ever does, right then Trigon zaps her and snaps her body in two. While I see myself with a horrified look watch her fall to the ground and I scan the field to find brutally slain bodies.

Robin woke up with a start, the never ending nightmare had returned, once again he lived through his final goodbye, and once again he saw how his friends die. Although he had not seen the final battle in person, this dream told him that was how his friends died. Robin sat up in his bed, sweating intensely, he hated the dream, every damn night he seemed to go through it. He sighed as he began drinking from a cup of water he had next to his bed. He drank quickly and got out of bed, 'Can't go to sleep, might as well go out than,' Robin thought as he grabbed his Nightwing uniform. Dick Grayson had retired Robin immediately after Trigon's defeat and the restoration of Jump City. Raven had restored everyone and everything, but she could not restore or save the Teen Titans.

Nightwing quickly jumped on his bike and began riding out of his underground base, underneath the apartment complex where he lived in downtown Jump City. He listened on the police radio and heard Dr. Light had begun robbing Jump City National Bank. He revved his bike and headed over there.

He entered from the roof and snuck into the main vault room. Dr. Light quickly began filling a bag with gold blocks. Nightwing did not smile, or make any comment; he simply swung down and stood right behind the B rate criminal. Right when Light turned around all he saw was a black gloved fist hit him hard in the face. Dr. Light recovered quickly and began zapping wildly, he missed bad and Nightwing made him pay, he gave him a series of hard punches before giving him a roundhouse kick, sending him flying against a wall.

"I-I-I surrender!" Light screamed, blood gushing, his nose broken, Nightwing responded by punching him in the stomach.

"Should have thought about that before doing that you stupid shit, how many times have you tried to steal in my city! And every damn time you FAIL!" Nightwing growled, kicking Light in the back as he lay in the fetal position on the ground.

"Ppp-plee-ase…stop…" Light groaned.

"No," Nightwing calmly said as he went for another kick, he was surprised to find he kicked the air.

"That is enough," he heard a firm voice behind him, Nightwing turned around to see his addressor, it was Speedy. Speedy stood, his arrow aimed at Nightwing, next to him stood Bumblebee, Jinx, and Kid Flash who was holding Dr. Light on his shoulder.

"This has to stop Robin, you need help," Bee said softly, she was horrified at how scared and violent Robin had become.

Nightwing clenched his fist, "I am Nightwing! Robin is dead, just like the rest of the Titans."

"Bee and these guys may have a soft spot, but I don't give a shit, this has to stop and we will bring you in eventually, just remember that. This violence, this brutality has no place in this city," Kid Flash said angrily and with that he was gone, rushing the badly wounded Dr. Light to the local hospital.

"Hope you guys are enjoying living and sleeping in the house and in the beds of dead heroes," and with that Nightwing dropped a smoke bomb before escaping.

The new Teen Titans simply shook their heads and left, Kid Flash may have been ready to take Nightwing in, but the other Titans were not ready to go that far with their friend, they felt once he got through his grieving he would be fine. But it had been so long and it seemed nothing would change.

Flashback

Mayor's Office

"Robin, I know it has been only been a few weeks but we must talk. The death of so many young heroes, so quickly, and their bodies being seen so publically has shaken this city to its core," the mayor calmly addressed the hero sitting in front of his desk.

"My name is Nightwing now, mr. mayor, I am aware of what occurred I was there if you forgot, what do you need," Nightwing said coldly, he sat in his new black uniform with the blue bird symbol on his chest.

"Um yes, I honestly don't know how to say this or ask this, you have been through so much, and this city has been mourning for so long. People are scared, they are sad, and they want things to go back to normal, children shouldn't die like your friends did," the mayor continued.

"Yes, so what do you request, the time this meeting takes is interfering in my patrol time," Nightwing impatiently replied.

"We need a return to normalcy, I want to reform the Teen Titans, the tower still stands, you can have Raven, you can go back to being Robin, we can rebuild the team around you two. Bumblebee, Kid Flash, Speedy, even Aqualad have all offered to help in that role, the city needs its champions back, it needs its youthful heroes, it needs their hope," the mayor said as he stared out at the now gloomy city.

"No, Robin is dead, Raven is not available, this city needs no Titans, I will protect it! The Tower is a monument to their sacrifice, the Titans cannot be replaced," Nightwing coldly answered, his voice rising.

"I was afraid of that answer, even if you refuse, the plan will continue, the city will have a new team of Teen Titans, believe me I am sorry you will not be a part of it," the mayor sadly stated.

PRESENT

TITANS TOWER

"We have to bring him in," Kid Flash coolly said as he sat at his chair in the Titan war room. His feet were on the table as he sat very relaxed. The war room had been added by the new team, it consisted of giant screens which gave detailed images of the city as well as satellite shots, the center of the room was a large, round table where each of the Titans had their own seat.

"For what, apprehending people before us," Speedy said sarcastically.

"He is brutally beating them, if we had not arrived I doubt Dr. Light would have been alive. I know all you guys have a bond with him, you all knew him better than me. And I know what happened to him and his teammates was awful, but he needs serious help, whether he wants it or not," Kid Flash matter of fact-ally told the team.

"I agree with you believe me, but he is still revered in this city, despite the Mayor calling for his arrest, the people respect him and what he went through, we can't just go smashing into downtown Jump City to capture him," Bumblebee explained.

"So pretty much the only way we can take Nightwing will be the day we arrive too late or he just goes too far or he just gets himself killed?" Speedy said.

"Pretty much," Jinx chipped in, no one said anything to that, she had basically just said what everyone had been thinking.

Unknown Location

"Friend Raven why didn't you save us?" the sweet voice spoke in her mind.

"Azarath metrion zinthos… Azarath metrion zinthos…" Raven repeated as she hovered above her bead, trying to keep the demons out.

"Dude, I had so much I wanted to do, why did it have to be me? Why couldn't you let us help you earlier, maybe we wouldn't have had to die!"

"Please…stop…" Raven muttered as she fought to hold back the tears, the ghosts never letup it seemed.

"You were like a baby sister to me Rae, why couldn't you help your big brother, I tried to be there for you, why weren't you there when I needed you most?

"I…I…I couldn't…save…you…please…I have tried my hardest, but I can't bring you back," Raven croaked as the tears poured down. She wept alone, in her dark room, fighting for her own redemption which she believed would never happen.

This was just an introductory chapter, the dream sequence just explained the divergence in Titans history, it was basically a scene from the Titans episode 'The End' part II. Obviously the violent deaths were what I made up, basically the story will be about this new Titans team, their conflict with an emotionally distraught Robin, and also of course you will have to wait and see what happens with Raven. The main mystery will be how the Titans really did die, and of course what is Slade up everyone enjoys, let me know what you think. Each chapter will begin with short post-Trigon scenes, but they won't be as long or as detailed as this chapter's dream sequence.