The season has officially begun! This story is gonna be intense which is why we're starting off with some lighthearted humor before we get to the good stuff.

Huge HUGE thanks to Adrinsanne who gave me the idea for this story, by introducing the Teen Titans to the Deadspace universe. I hope I can do the source material justice and you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy writing it.

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On with the show.

Chapter 1: Unwanted Visitor.

"Titans GO!"

The Boy Wonder revved the engine of his R Cycle, peeling off down the road towards the luxury sports car as it sped down the busy streets of Jump City. Starfire flew ahead, making sure the path was clear of civilians as the car reached dangerous speeds, and with it being a Friday night in August, the streets were plenty busy. With the windows of the car rolled down, Starfire could hear the mad cackling of the duo inside.

She placed a young woman on the ground before tapping a device inside of her ear. "Robin, Fang and Kitten are getting —" His motorcycle zoomed past her, " —away."

"I see them Star. Don't worry, we won't lose them again." He pulled up as close to their car as he was able before addressing his passenger. "Rose, get ready!"

Rose removed her arms from around his waist and got to a standing position on the tail end of his motorcycle. Removing a blade from her belt she leapt onto the speeding car, piercing the roof with her blade.

Robin was now eye level with the driver side of the car, giving him a good look at the spider-headed, Fang. With a hiss he spat his paralyzing venom at Robin while using his legs to try to impale, or push Rose off of the roof.

"Stupid Titans!" Kitten shrieked from the passenger side, "Your ruining date night!" Amidst the chaos, she was busy trying to stuff the jewelry that they had stolen into her purse while Fang began swerving the car to shake their unwanted passenger off.

Robin weaved through the traffic clicking a button on the side of his helmet to reveal a screen on the glass divider. "Cyborg, you've got the blockade ready?"

His bionic teammate appeared on the small screen, appearing apprehensive. "Eh, we kinda ran into a situation." Behind him, Robin could see a swarm of moths ripping apart cars, buildings and attacking civilians.

Robin growled, "Any way you can heard the moths to our location?"

BOOM!

Behind him, Robin could see their newest teammate, Drake, burn away a handful of the monstrous moths, while a green Eagle flew into the sky, shifting into a whale and free falling on top of another group. Cyborg flinched at the sickening sounds of crunching and squashing insects before gagging.

"I'll, uh get back to you." And he cut the feed.

—/0/—

Cyborg turned back to the carnage taking place behind him once the screen cut out on his team leader. While Kitten and Fang where busy with their "date night", her father, Killer Moth, had been using his mutant insects to devour the city building by building. The ring master himself stood atop and enormous half a mile long moth, a red hot electric whip in his hand cracking the air as he shouted commands. With the sky beginning to darken by the wings of giant moths, Drake took to the sky weaving through the beasts to bring them down.

Killer Moth cracked his whip again. "Get that flying lizard!" He snarled.

Drake flew into the mouth of one of the moths, emerging on the other side, slimy and grumpy. "He did not just call me lizard." With flames lapping from his jaws, his attack intensified.

A giant triceratops barreled down another group of moths before shifting back to Cyborgs green-skinned teammate.

"What Robin say?"

Cyborg shot down a handful of moths that attempted to swarm them. "Any way we can corral these things towards Fang and Kitten?"

Beast Boy scratched his green head of hair. "Uh . . ." Drake, in his dragon form, landed behind them with a thundering boom, slime and gunk dripping from his armor. "Ew."

Drake shrugged, "I've had worse."

Beast Boy shuddered, "Hey, any way we can get these things towards Robin?"

Drake swiped at a moth with his tail. "Not unless you can shift into a giant net."

Beast Boy scratched his chin. Cyborg and Drake returned to the battle just as a lightbulb went off over his head. "Drake!" He shouted, "I have an idea!"

—/0/—

Kitten laughed excitedly as she fastened the diamond necklace around her neck, at least until Rose's knife stabbed the top of her car again.

"My CAR! Fang get rid of her."

"I'm trying to baby —"

"— no your not!" She screamed, "You could have ended this if you would have just done as I said back at the bank."

Fang growled in frustration, his legs working as if having a mind of their own to get the Titan off of the roof of their car. All the while he swerved the car around the Jump City traffic. "Am I the only one who remembers what happened to the villains over the past year? Adonis is a vegetable, Dr. Light vanished, and Gizmo will never walk again —"

" —that little twerp never walked anyway."

Fang took a sharp left, causing their hitchhiker atop their car to cry out, but not fall. "My point is, things are weird now with the Titans, I don't know how or why, but it seems like I'm the only one that cares. Hell do you know who's on our roof now?"

Kitten rolled her eyes, "Slade's kid, and so what? He's gone too."

"Exactly! Slade! Freaking SLADE is gone! The only reason we're doing this tonight is 'cuz the witch hasn't been seen in months." Fang jerked the wheel, making one last attempt to shake off the Titan on the roof, and much to his surprise, Rose rolled off their car and onto the back Boy wonders bike.

They both began hollering excitedly. "I don't know about you," Kitten sang, "but — holy shit!"

Fang followed her line of sight to the sky directly in front of them, specifically the dragon dragging along an enormous green, net looking creature filled with her father's moths. In the center of the "net" and angry, roaring Killer Moth.

"Freaking Titans, they knew this thing was coming. They traded a witch for a Dragon?!. Fang stop the car!"

He didn't need his girlfriend screaming in his ear for him to slam on the breaks, but it was to late. The dragon swung the bulging net into the air until it came crashing down onto the pair effectively ending "date night".

—/0/—

The Titans assisted in the usual "After battle" process of cleaning, damage control, paperwork, and helping place the villains into the police cars, but once that was all said and done Robin gathered his team.

"Beast Boy, What was that thing you turned into?" He asked.

The changeling rubbed his nails against his puffed out chest. "A Lions Mane jellyfish. Over a hundred feet long with a seven foot bell. Perfect animal for a net. OW!"

Rose gave him a playful punch to the arm, "Gotta admit, that was pretty slick thinking." He smiled weakly as he massaged his sore spot. "But aren't jellyfish venomous though?"

He shrugged, "Yeah, but the lions mane isn't as bad. It's the little guys you have to look out for."

"Well I was referring to dragon boy here," Rose motioned to the other side of the street where Drake, back in his human form, was picking dead skin off of his hands, "he was hanging on for quite a while there."

"I'm fine," he groaned, "I've had worse."

"Here Drake," Beast Boy walked over to him with his hand on the fly of his pants, "I'll help you out."

He screamed pushing the changeling away from him, "What the hell!?"

"What?" He genuinely appeared confused by Drakes outburst, "I was just gonna pee on your hands. Everyone knows that pee is the best thing for jellyfish stings."

Drake examined him, trying to figure out if he was being serious, and when he found no signs of his usual sense of humor, looked at him as if he had gone insane. "I don't care if I bathed in jellyfish, you're not pissing on me!"

Beast Boy suddenly grew a devious grin. "C'mon you'll feel better."

Drake backed away, "Come within an inch of me and your never having kids."

"Beast Boy, leave him alone." Robin chided. "He'll heal soon enough."

Drake glared daggers at the changeling who backed away, but still maintained a devious gleam to his emerald eyes. "Well this was fun," Cyborg announced, "who wants pizza?"

Everyone shouted happily, considering they had to abandon dinner earlier that evening, all except for their team leader who let out an audible groan. "It's Friday isn't it?"

—/0/—

"Isn't it wonderful to be here as friends after the butt whoop." Starfire clapped.

"I guess," Rose shrugged, "I still don't know why they made me take my swords off." She kicked her swords that had been placed under the table. "Robin still has his belt on and I'm pretty sure he has a submarine in there." They glanced at the Boy Wonder who for some reason was hiding behind his menu, but before they could address the matter they turned their attention to the others. Cyborg was drooling into a bucket watching the kitchen while Drake and Beast Boy were typing away on their communicators.

"Who are you turky's texting?" Rose asked.

"I'm texting Beast Boy actually." Drake said without looking up.

"I'm texting — damn it Drake you took my joke."

Drake set his communicator down, "No, I SAVED your joke."

"Lemme guess," Rose leaned forward, stopping the arguing, and eyeing the two of them. She pointed at Beast Boy, "Your texting Raven, telling her all about your 'brilliant plan' with the jellyfish."

He scoffed, "Ugh! N-No I'm not." He shuffled his shoulders and went back to his communicator.

Feeling confident she turned to the other who wore a challenging grin. "You . . are texting . . . Kole!"

His smirk never left, "That's not how this game is played. What am I saying to her?"

Maintaining eye contact she tapped her chin, "Your telling her that Beast Boy is telling Raven about jellyfish thing."

Drake made a buzzing noise with his mouth, "Guess again, Tia."

He suddenly went rigid, but it was too late now. "Whose Tia?" Starfire asked, "This is Rose."

Mixture of embarrassment and sadness swelled inside of him. "Tia is what I used to call my sister. It's short for Cynthia." He chuckled at his slip of the tongue, "Rose just reminds me a lot of her."

Rose was about to burst into laughter, but she slapped a hand over her mouth allowing only a loud giggle. "So basically you made —"

"—Robin why you hiding?!"

Starfire eyed the two oddly, picking up on the silent communication passing between them, but couldn't figure out what it was they were "talking" about. She shrugged it off and brought herself back into the conversation which was now filled with snickers at the Boy Wonders expense.

"Our fearless leader —"

Robin slammed his menu down and pointed a finger at Cyborg, "—No!"

Cyborg pushed his finger away and continued, "— A few weeks ago a server started working here named Greg. Awesome kid, working his way through college, but he has a little bit of a crush on our Robi-poo."

The snickering increased in volume while Robin turned a deep shade of red. "Sorry Starfire." He moaned, but she waved him off.

"Worry not. You are a wonderful earth specimen of manliness. It makes the sense that both sexes find you attractive." She hooked her arm around his, "As long as you know that you are my Earth specimen."

"Ugh, get a room," Beast Boy groaned.

"How 'bout you get a, uh, on second thought no, don't do that." Cyborg shuddered, remembering that Beast Boy was now alone with his thoughts while Raven served out her time in San Francisco. And the very idea of Beast Boy —

"Pizza time!"

A young man, blonde haired, tanned skin, and a wide toothy grin, stepped from the restaurant with three pizzas in his arms.

"One extra meaty," he set the pizza in front of a hungry an anxious Cyborg, "one veggie," he placed another, smaller pizza in front of Beast Boy who was still staring at his communicator, "and one plain cheese." He placed the last one in front of Robin making sure to place himself between him and his girlfriend as he set it down.

With his face as red as the tomato sauce, he tried to avoid eye contact, but also wanted to nip this in the bud as soon as he could.

"Hey Robin,"

Everyone but Robin seemed to notice that Greg's usual greeting was less lively towards the Boy Wonder than usual. "Hey Greg. Look—"

"And you, Mister new Titan, what's your name?" He suddenly brushed past him and extended his hand towards Drake.

"Drake," he greeted with a firm handshake, "Greg right? The designated Titan server?"

"That's me," he smiled putting his now free hand on Drake's shoulder, "If you need anything just let me know."

"Will do bud," With a quick caress, Greg left the Titans to their meal, but made sure to spare a glance over his shoulder before disappearing into the restaurant.

"Oh wow."

Drake already had a slice of pizza in hand, "What?"

"Dude, he's got it bad for you." Beast Boy laughed, but amazingly Drake just shrugged it off much to the confusion of everyone.

"So?"

They looked to each other. "But I thought you were 'old fashioned'?" Said Rose, "You still blush when someone says 'sex' out loud."

Blushing, he responded, "Well I guess I had to accept it sooner. My older brother was attracted to men and yeah it was a bit shocking at first, but he's my brother. Nothing changed. In the end we all bleed the same color." He finished off his slice between breathes, "It's ironic though. My father was more accepting of my brother then he was of me marrying a queen."

With a wisecrack at the ready, Beast Boy grew a large grin which quickly earned him a kick to the shin under the table by Rose.

Robin went for a slice of pizza and ripped into it like an angry animal, "Well, at least I know Batman."

—/0/—

Beast Boy felt a sharp elbow to his ribs, bringing him from his stupor to address the young woman who was attempting to get his attention.

"You okay BB?" Rose asked, "and don't tell me nothing cuz I can see the tiny gears moving in your head." He chuckled before turning his attention to the world going by outside the car window. "Awe You missing your lil' bird."

"Duh, but I've actually been thinking about what Drake said. About taking away my ability to have kids." The aforementioned Knight was flying back to the tower seeing as there was no room in the car for him.

"Well in his defense, you were trying to piss on him. I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it."

"I know Cy, but kids, and my ability to have them, has always been in my mind. My unstable DNA doesn't make it easy."

"Well if Drake can have children so can you." Everyone noticed that usual bite to Starfires tone when she spoke about the Dragon Knight was getting better, but still heavy.

"Drake is different. He shifts with sorcery, not biology like our Beastie Boo."

"Anyways," Beast Boy felt the tips of his ears burn telling him he had to move the conversation along, "What if Rae wants kids and I can't give them to her."

"I would imagine kids might be a tender subject for her, considering the whole Trigon thing." Robin commented from the front passenger seat. "Maybe you should talk to Raven about it."

He shrugged, the cars and buildings going by becoming increasingly more interesting, "I don't know, we haven't been dating long enough to start talking about kids."

A sense of dejection snuck into his tone that was starting to weigh on the occupants of the T-Car. "Hey cheer up BB," He winced when Rose elbowed him in the ribs, "nothing definite yet, but if you need any comfort you wouldn't be the only one who can't have kids."

"Yeah, I can't," Cyborg waved from the driver side, "but who needs kids when I have your green butt to worry about." Beast Boy playfully punched his best friend eliciting light hearted laughter from the car.

"Yeah that too," Rose continued, "but I was talking about me."

The tension returned, "Friend, you cannot bear children? Why not?"

Her shoulders sagged, but she was still able to manage a small shrug, "Trained by an assassin remember, kids tend to complicate things so he made sure I wouldn't have any . . " she swallowed a growing lump, "complications." The silence dragged for a moment before she sniffled and slapped a smile onto her face. "But hey, I've come to terms with it all. Won't have to worry about losing a kid or nothin', I mean what more could I lose right?"

The silence fell like a hammer, Cyborg in particular glanced at the Boy Wonder beside him who appeared affected by what Rose had said. Sure she was the daughter of their most hated enemy, but at the end of the day she was still a human being, and their new team mate.

The T-Car suddenly turned a shade of red when an alarm began blaring from the dashboard.

"What is it?" Like a switch Robin was back in leader mode.

Cyborg was already busy pressing buttons to figure out the situation. "I've got something big headed for Titans Tower. From the sky."

"Space?"

Cyborg typed again, "Yup."

"Dude!" Beast Boy pointed out the car window towards the Tower in the distance and a red hot object headed right for it.

Robin tapped the small communications device in his ear, "Drake —!"

"— I see it." From the car they could see their dragonic teammate take off faster towards the tower.

"Cyborg, step on it."

"Oh yeah!" He slammed his metal foot against the accelerator, "buckle up y'all!" The Titans didn't take their eyes off the falling object that was still heading for their home when something slammed into the side of it, knocking it off course and towards the forest.

"Cyborg —!"

"Dude I got it!" He jerked the wheel to the left, throwing Robin against the window and those in the back seat against each other.

"Watch the hands Beast Boy!" He threw his hands against the ceiling of the car and far away from the swordswoman that had been thrown against him. Fortunately the crash sight wasn't much farther, so he may just live to see another day.

The T-Car ripped through the forest, heading for the flames that began licking at the surrounding woodlands. A spaceship, as big as at least two school buses and dented with battle wear, sat tipped to the side from the crash. Both engines had been ripped off the sides, but luckily it didn't appear to have any holes in the haul or the cockpit at the top of the ship.

"Dude another crash landing?"

"It's been a few years Beast Boy, let's just make sure their —" His eyes widened behind his mask as a mixture of surprise and anger suddenly swelled inside of him. His grit his teeth, the others in the T-Car quickly coming to the same conclusion.

Noticing the change in atmosphere, and the fact that the car came to a sudden halt, far from the crash, Rose spoke up. "Uh, am I missing something?"

"We recognize that ship." Cyborg spoke with venom as he stared pointedly at the down spacecraft.

"Class A douchebag owns it." Beast Boy added, "I say we drive home and pretend we never saw it."

"I'm with grass stain." He turned around waiting for the others to agree with him.

"Uh, I have no idea what's going on so —"

"We must see if someone is injured." Without another word Starfire stepped out from the car and headed flew for the crash sight, Robin right behind her.

"I'm still super lost."

Cyborg sighed, "It's a long story. If we're lucky though this isn't his ship." He exited the car, followed shortly by Beast Boy and Rose.

Debris smoked along the path of the ship as Starfire worked to put out the small fires. Robin was by the ship tending to the human Drake who was cradling his left arm.

"Ready?" Robin positioned himself by his arm, placing his hands by his dislocated shoulder.

"Hit me."

Robin braced, "One—"

POP!

"SWEET GOD IN HEAVEN!"

"You'll love ya big baby," Cyborg patted him on the back and began looking over the ship, "Any chance this is a different ship then the one from last time?"

Drake rotated his shoulder to get some movement back. "You've seen this thing before?"

Starfire, Rose and Beast Boy stood back, "A few years ago." Starfire gave as a short answer.

Robin stood beside Cyborg, "Anyway you can get this thing open?"

He nodded, turned his hand into a buzz saw and began to cut away at the ships steel.

A sharp hissing startled the team followed by the lowering of a large metal door and the appearance of a wide shouldered, sharp chinned, silver skinned man. The Titans stood back, Robin stepping in front of his girlfriend, whose eyes burned a bright green at the sight. It was clear to Rose and Drake that the older members were familiar with the alien visitor. He staggered from the ship before landing face first into the dirt.

All the while he was muttering something incoherent.

"Drake, Beast Boy What's he saying?" Robin demanded.

Both trained their sharp ears, but were unable to discern anything from his ramblings. Cyborg took it upon himself to lean in closer to try and hear what he was muttering.

"Val-Yor? Yo! Why you back?"

With incredible reflexes Val-Yor leapt from the ground and grabbed Cyborg by the throat and pinning him against the side of the ship with a slam. Frightening, but also gave the Titans a good look at their former ally. Val-Yor's eyes were wide with terror and pure madness. His muttering quickly turned into terrified screams, screams that sent a chill through the Titans as they attempted to pull him off of Cyborg.

They managed to hear three words amidst the screams.

"Titan. Troq. Marker."