Wassup, guys?
I know you guys (at least some of you)
have been wanting this episode for a while.
I hope I meet your expectations.
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Previously, on Teen Titans...
Ravager, the daughter of Slade, attacked the Titans Tower a few weeks ago.
She seriously hurt Beast Boy. She stabbed him very close to his heart.
Thankfully, he survived, and is finally better.
Also a few weeks ago, Terra, now going by Sarah, admits to Beast Boy that she remembers everything.
She chooses to remain a student and not to use her powers.
However, we still do not know how she is still alive.
Also, in a dark lab...
Slade came to new villain, Psychopath, and offered him a job...
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"Oh, I'm so glad you're better!" Sarah, smiling her mouth off, hugged Beast Boy. He was standing in the center of ops, with the other Titans and Sarah surrounding him. There were balloons and decorations everywhere.
"Gkk...Szarah..." Beast Boy gasped. He was being crushed in Sarah's hug! "If you dun't stup soon, I won't be!"
"Whoops!" Sarah let him go quickly. She chuckled, embarrased, "Sorry..."
Cyborg laughed. "Ha! No, Sarah! Keep going! Maybe you'll eventually knock the wind out of him!" Robin and Starfire laughed too.
Sarah blushed.
"Alright, Alright!" Robin chuckled. He raised his soda. "We should just be glad that everything and everyone," He looked at Starfire and Beast Boy, "Is safe," He raised his can. So did everyone else.
"To Beast Boy."
"TO BEAST BOY!" Soda cans clinked everywhere.
"Yeah, to me!" Beast Boy held his breath, then he took a chance. "Anybody wanna hear a joke?"
"Ugh!" Everyone, even Sarah, groaned.
"Okay, Okay! Geez..."
"Well..." Raven looked at Robin, "I guess that's what you get when you toast to a glory hound..."
Robin looked at Raven, annoyed, then sighed. "Yeah..."
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The party at the Tower had been going on for a while, and after a while, Robin left to the evidence room. And at 9:00, Sarah looked at the clock.
"Yikes! I better get goin'!" Sarah quickly got up from the couch, and grabbed her stuff.
"Aw, Sarah! It's Friday! Can't you stay for a while longer?" Beast Boy rose when she did, and took her hand. He smiled the grin that Sarah just loved...but she had to turn him down.
"Oh, Beast Boy. I'm sorry...I gotta go. My mom, you know...but hey, you can walk me home!"
Beast Boy inched his way to Cyborg, who was sitting on the edge of the couch. "Or I can you her home!" He made his eyebrows go up and down, like he thought he could get away with it.
Cyborg raised a single eyebrow. It showed plainly what was in his mind: Are you kidding me with that? He turned him around to face his girlfriend. "Or you can walk her home!"
"Hrmf." Beast Boy slowly walked toward the door with Sarah.
Starfire floated around them. "Oh, what a most romantic occasion! To walk her home in the dark! However, I believe the thing to say is: Don't get up to Nanna Gin's shin!"
Sarah chuckled, "It's 'shenannagins', Star. And don't worry. We won't!"
"Oh, wonderful! Have a most glorious time on your walk!" Starfire's joy was starting to make her head explode...
"You know, this isn't cheering me up! I still wanna drive!" Beast Boy yelled, snapping Starfire out of it. Her head went back to normal.
"Just close the door, you whiny baby," Raven walked out of the room, with a huff.
"What's her problem?" Sarah asked.
"She's Raven. That's pretty normal," and with that, Beast Boy closed the door.
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After a half-hour walk filled with their normal, joyous talk, Beast Boy and Sarah arrived at her house.
"So, can I meet your parents yet?" Beast Boy asked. Some guys wouldn't want to, but the couple had been dating for so long, Beast Boy figured he should.
"Uh...I don't know, Beast Boy," Sarah wouldn't look him in the eye. When she did look at him straight, she said, "Besides, they're not home yet!"
"Oh, Okay! Guess I'll...talk to you tomorrow, then!"
"Guess so..."
The two stood on the porch, and after a minute of hugging, Beast Boy slowly and gently kissed her, softly on the lips.
"G'night!" Beast Boy said, happily.
"Good night."
Sarah walked inside her door, closed it, fell on her couch, and sighed in ultimate content.
"Oh, its so good to be alive!" She yelled, to no one.
"Too bad your entire life is a lie," Someone had heard.
Sarah gasped. She sat up on her couch, and looked around faster than lightning.
"Why, hello Terra..." It was him.
"BEAST BOY!"
It was Slade.
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GASP!
Terra's eyes moved. She looked around her. She was still in the cave. Her arms were very sore, but she managed to put them down. Then she stretched them. After that, she stretched her neck. It cracked.
'Oh, my Gosh!' She thought. 'I needed that!'
After that, she stretched her legs and, with a little difficulty, she stepped down from her rock. Down on the ground, she looked around some more. The only real thing of notice was a little pedestal on the ground. She picked it up.
"Terra," Her eyes immediately watered. "A Teen Titan...A True Friend," She sniffed. They still cared about her! After all she had done!
Suddenly it occurred to her: 'I thought I was dead.'
She looked at her body. No rock! She took a few steps back, afraid of her own body. She wanted to shriek, but didn't when she heard something.
"The day has arrived," Her heart stopped. She stood straight, and looked around faster than lighting. She looked around a corner of the cave. It was him. It was Slade.
Her eyes narrowed. She wasn't sure if she should fight him, or run away. Instead, she just listened.
"So to whom do I have the honor of thanking?"
In a deep, ominous, nightmarish voice, Terra heard, "NO THANKS WILL BE NEEDED."
"Oh, come now," Slade always kept his cool. Terra hated that. "I've been resurrected! This calls for some champaign! I'd offer you some, but,as you can see, my house is a mess...!"
"QUIET, HUMAN!" Whatever the voice was, it had its grip on Slade, literally. Terra saw Slade choking.
"Gkk! F...Fine!" Slade was put down. Panting, Slade said, "What do you want?"
"I WANT YOU TO HELP ME DESTROY THE WORLD."
Terra's mouth dropped. What should she do?
Slade straightened. "Fun," Terra could almost see the smile under his mask.
Suddenly, the voice turned to her! "AND DON'T THINK FOR A SECOND I OVERLOOKED YOU, TERRA."
Terra's heart stopped. Again.
Suddenly, a force which she could never fight, made her walk toward Slade. Next to him, her body locked, and floated in the air.
"Terra! What a...pleasant surprise," Slade said with gritted teeth. He was still in control, or so he thought.
"I'LL LEAVE HER TO YOU. HOWEVER, BEFORE THE NIGHT IS OVER, I WANT YOU TO FIND THE KEY."
"Oh," Slade's eyes widened. Terra didn't know it, but he had a horrifying vision. He loved it.
The voice was gone.
"Well, Terra, Looks like its just you and me."
"What do you want?"
"Its not what I want, Terra. Its what you want."
"What I want is for you to go to Hell!" All Terra could do was spit. So she did.
"Sorry. Already did that. Anything else?"
Stubbornly, she said, "How about not to destroy the world?"
"Sorry. Can't do that either. There's a prophecy in the way. You understand. Anything else?" Terra could feel the smile under his mask again.
She turned her head away from him. "No,"
Slade turned her head back toward him. Then his voice grew just a bit gentler, like a devil tempting you.
"Come now, Terra. We both know that there's something you want..."
Terra's eyes glared at him.
"I can see in your past now," Suddenly, Terra noticed a strange mark on his forehead.
"I can see Markovia." Terra's heart stopped. Again. "I can see your family, your brother. I can see the horrible night you received your power. I can see the war," He paused for a moment. "I can see you running away from your responsibiliy."
Terra screamed, "Stop it!"
"I can see you running from place to place. Never settling down. There were many loving parents, but you always ran. You didn't want to take the time!That is, until you met him."
"Stop it!"
"You met the Titans, and when they betrayed your trust, you came to me. But you may never have really been on my side. When you went back to them, you still loved the boy. That is, until you betrayed him. When it got too complicated, that's when you left."
"Stop it!"
"And then, you helped me destroy the city. Together, we would have killed the Teen Titans, but you refused. You loved them. You loved him. You didn't want to listen to me anymore. And by the time your actions caught up with you, you killed me, and yourself!"
"STOP IT!"
"Don't you see, Terra?" Slade let her come to the ground. "You don't want to be a hero. This life was never cut out for you. You just want to live in peace, with no responsibilities..."
Terra, ashamed, turned her eyes to the ground. She stopped fighting.
"I'm right, aren't I? And now, even with the entire planet at risk, you don't want to stop me! You just want a happy life before the world is over," Slade offered a hand to her. "I can give that to you, child!"
Terra looked at the hand. She never once trusted that hand. But Slade was right, all she wanted to do was escape. Slade had powers now. He could do whatever she wanted! She wouldn't have to be a hero, she wouldn't have to face the Titans. She wouldn't have to face Beast Boy...did she really want that?
"Come now, Terra. Do hurry. I have an appointment that I really must keep."
Terra, accepting the truth, took his hand.
"Sarah!" Sarah came out of her day dream with a jolt.
"Sarah, snap out it!" Sarah looked around. She was in class, but no one else was around!
"Where is everyone?" She said. She had the weirdest day dream...
"Going to lunch! And you'd better go too. I just hope you're ready for the test on Wednesday..."
Her teacher said, worried. Sometimes, Sarah day dreamed a little too much.
"Oh! Right! Sorry, Mrs. Ander!" Sarah took her bag, and left the room.
"There you are, Sarah!"
"We were worried!" Her friends teased.
"Oh, yeah right!"
"So what'd you dream about this time?"
"Hmm...I don't really remember!"
"Well that was productive!"
"Ha!" Sarah and her friends moved on. Sarah smiled with content.
Her life was perfect.
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That's it for today, guys!
Expect the next chapter on Wednesday (hopefully!)
Oh, and the first chapter of
Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 4
is finally ready! Its up right now! Go! Read it! HURRY!
So what'd you guys think?
Too much flashback? Finally, an explanation? Terra's a jerk? Terra's so tragic?
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Peace in Christ, and imagine on!