Author's Notes

Okay, before we begin this new story, understand that this is a completely different story than the ones I've written before. Scratch that, it's slightly similar to some of my previous efforts but for the most part nothing like I've written before.

This story is another alternate scenario fiction (Second Chance). It's about what happens when Slade is the one who first encounters Starfire, not Robin. This changes everything.

As such, the Teen Titans won't exist for the story as Starfire so happened to be the force that was responsible for their creation. As for the individual Titans, Starfire and Robin will be main characters in this story. Raven will be a supporting character (I couldn't resist adding her to the story), but her role will be more prominent later on. Beast Boy and Cyborg don't have roles in this story, as I couldn't find a place for them. They could appear if I find a place for them, but don't count on that.

As well, Slade and Blackfire will be major characters as well in this story, with Slade being a protagonist and Blackfire being an antagonist. This depiction of Slade is certainly different than the cold-hearted mastermind we all love to hate, more akin to Betrayed, Cast Off, Angry.

There will be several love triangles throughout the story – Starfire-Robin-Slade, Robin-Blackfire-Starfire, and Slade-Raven-Starfire being the principal ones. I haven't seen too many Star/Slade stories on this site, and of those, I haven't found one that really is similar to this story, so I can say with some confidence that this story is the first of its kind (a Starfire-focused alternate scenario with Slade being on the good side).

In addition, I had also been toying with the idea of doing a songfic for some time and I decided ultimately to apply that element to this story because I feel it would fit with the story's nature. Expect songs from artists such as Katy Perry, Adele, Skillet, Evanescence, and John Legend.

I had originally intended to post this chapter alongside chapter two, but I doubt I will be able to get the second chapter finished by my deadline to post, so I'm just going to post this chapter and see how you like it.

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Now, let's begin the story.

"Kiss me, k-k-kiss me,
infect me with your loving, fill me with your poison
Take me, t-t-take me,
wanna be a victim ready for affection
You're an alien
your touch so flattering
It's supernatural
Extraterrestrial."
-E.T., Katy Perry

Out far away from Earth, close to half a lightyear away, a spaceship floated past, taking care to elude the Watchtower that they knew was home of the Justice League, who could easily mess up their plans.

This spaceship was not pleasant, as evidenced by the spikes that protruded from the ship's edges. The ship was circular, shaped like a round disc with a tall bridge standing above the core of the ship. Two guns were in the front of the red ship, protected by several of the deadly spikes.

As the ship sailed by the Earth, something was going on inside of the ship. Inside the ship, deep in the core, green lizard-like, red-eyed guards were rushing in, having heard some sort of disturbance. Each guard was soon armed with a spear as they came in, passing by several doors.

One such door, which was barricaded with bars, had some sort of slime creature that was red with yellow eyes. Another had some sort of black, tentacled creature with a loud mouth. Fortunately, there was protective glass so that nobody could hear its screams nor could it break out of its confinement. Yet another door had a spider-like machine that was much bigger than a spider but not entirely mechanical than a machine.

And lastly, there was the door from which the disturbance was coming from. There was heavy pounding on the door, so much so that the supposedly indestructible door was starting to dent.

The guards came out in force to surround the door, intending to keep the occupant locked inside. This door had only one slot for viewing inside, a small window towards the top that allowed the guards to notice two very angry eyes glowing a very bright green.

The first guard inquired, "The door will hold?"

Another guard replied, "It must!" as more banging and clamoring came from the other side.

A third guard noted, "The alien will be delivered on schedule. Lord Trogaar has commanded it."

The door begins to shake even harder as whatever is on the other side of it is starting to break loose, threatening to break the door right off of its hinges.

As the door threatened to come loose, the fourth guard wondered, "And if this thing gets loose?"

The first guard lamented, "Then Zorg help us all."

At last, the door burst out from its hinges, revealing a very angry alien on the other side. She looked human, and could easily pass for one if her eyes weren't visibly glowing green and her skin wasn't quite as tan orange as it was. Her luscious body was covered with armor that ran from her neck to her toes, with what appeared to be a black shirt connecting the pieces together. She had what looked to be a crown/mask around her face, revealing her face and letting free her long red hair. In addition, her arms from her forearms down were encased inside metal cuffs that were connected at both ends.

But most ominously of all, she was very pissed off.

The girl screamed, "Suffer you animals! Feel my wrath!" as she charged at her captors. While she was considerably shorter than her captors (about five and a half feet tall versus eight plus feet tall), that did not affect her fury in the slightest.

She swung her cuffed hands at one of the guards, instantly knocking him into a wall.

Another enemy charged with his spear, trying to impale her, but she delivered a kick that broke the spear in two before knocking him away from her. As another guard lunged towards her, the prisoner performed a backflip and sent two kicks that knocked the guard onto the ground.

The last guard swung his spear, which managed to block a punch that the alien was throwing, but it did nothing to stop her as she broke the spear with another good swing of her arms before she kicked him into the head and he stumbled onto a control panel, which soon caused the floor to open, revealing deep space around them.

She maliciously whispered, "Thank you" and jumped out, soon flying off towards Earth.

Meanwhile, down on Earth, a man wearing armor and a mask was walking down the streets of what the locals called Jump City. His clothing was completely black, aside from his boots, shoulder and knee guards, and belt, which were all gray. His cloth mask was two-tone, one half of it a bright bronze orange with a hole for his eye while the other half was a cold black.

This man was close to a legend, a myth. The only people who had seen him were people he wanted to see him or those he killed. He was a mercenary that the media called Deathstroke. He could kill in the most imaginable ways. His methods could be so severe that his victims would beg to be dead. He was a man that not even the so-called defenders of Earth, the Justice League, could defeat. He had held his own against them several times, even against the likes of Superman.

He was alone again, strolling through the empty streets of the city. Everyone else was probably out inside, having a nice relaxing dinner or banging inside of a club. Nobody to see him, nobody to verify that he officially existed.

In the eyes of the government, this man was legally dead. They launched an airstrike on his house and then sent in a squad of Navy SEALs and Marines to finish him off and make sure he was dead. He could have easily killed them, but he didn't want them to keep on his trail, so he kept hidden until they passed. It both protected him and his kids.

The man had a family - a wife and three children, until the airstrike came in, killing his oldest son and his wife while the other two, his daughter and youngest son, managed to escape, albeit with a number of injuries. To keep them safe, this Deathstroke had to avoid them to ensure that they would not be hunted by the government that wanted him dead.

Now, as for why the government wanted him dead, they had been responsible for his creation, applying a top-secret serum that was originally intended for resisting a lie detector to him. It worked all too well as it not only did what it was intended, but it greatly increased his body function. His reflexes were much stronger and faster than the average man, and he could concentrate much more of his brainpower into a single task, up to ninety percent unlike most people, who could concentrate ten percent. In addition, his body had a rapid regeneration rate, enabling him to heal from near-fatal injuries much faster than normal.

While his body could heal, he couldn't regenerate organs or limbs, explaining why his mask only had one eyehole. Still, he was a considerable soldier, one that the government had employed for many missions across the globe, until they began to believe he had developed megalomaniac tendencies and tried to have him killed.

They first employed a terrorist to abduct his youngest child so he would go after him and then they would kill him. The fact that this failed miserably goes without saying, especially when they began to cut into the kid's throat, which didn't kill him but did render him permanently mute. In the ensuing aftermath, the man's wife supposedly tried to kill him as she was too a government agent, one they didn't let in on the trap, but just took out his eye.

When their first attempt failed, the airstrike was their second try. And now, Deathstroke was listed as Killed in Action, so the government need not worry. However, many still believed that he was still alive, and they were correct.

Walking through the empty streets, Deathstroke now had new plans to go underground and build his influence across this city as he would go exact his revenge on those who attempted to kill him and broke apart his family.

However, his thoughts were interrupted by a flash of green light that rippled through the sky like a comet. The man thought to himself, Comets aren't green, nor do they move that fast.

Realizing it was heading to impact in the city, the man quickly took pursuit, aiming to see where it was going to land and get to it before anyone else could.

Meanwhile, also in Jump City, a criminal ran through the alleyways, but on the other side of the city where the so-called Deathstroke was not currently present. He was holding a burlap sack filled to the brim with money, and now he intended to get away with it.

As he moved through the streets, he began to sense that something was off, that somebody was watching him, following him. When a shadow soon passed by, he grunted, "Huh?" and pulled out a crowbar.

He continued to walk through the alleyways, crowbar readied as he prepared to engage whoever was following him, if anyone was following him. Suddenly, something struck the crowbar and knocked it away from the thief. He immediately stammered, "Look, I don't want trouble, okay?"

As he backed up to the wall, he was suddenly surprised by the presence of a bat that flew towards him. Startled, he held his arms in front of his face in order to protect himself. When the bat passed by, he was shocked by another voice, that of a teenager, confident yet irritated, one who sounded serious about what he was doing. "You should have thought of that before you committed the crime."

Walking out of the shadows was none other than the Boy Wonder himself, Robin. He proceeded to deliver a kick that sent the burglar sliding back. He quickly replied with a bunch of frantic, ill-aimed punches that required little more than a duck to dodge, and Robin kicked him again in the chest before jumping over him and slamming him into the ground.

Dazed, the criminal uttered, "Hey! This isn't your town! Aren't you supposed to be with..."

He was cut off by Robin who remarked, "Just moved here. And from now on, I work alone." He proceeded to handcuff the burglar, preparing to bring him to the police station. In his attention to the criminal, he neglected to see the green beam of light flashing through the sky.

As the man known as Deathstroke strolled towards where he was calculating the mysterious object was moving towards, he was unsure of what exactly it was. Fortunately, nobody else was near, so this was his discovery to make and his gain. However, it could very well be his loss, but seeing how he was already presumed dead, he really didn't have all that much to lose.

He watched as the comet impacted on the street, revealing it not to be a comet, but a person, an alien - the alien who had just broken free from her prison half a lightyear away from Earth.

The alien was angry, remaining in her restraints, as she climbed out of the crater she created. She screamed, "Remove restraints! Remove! Or there will be trouble!"

The man, not knowing what the alien was saying, pulled out a sword and readied himself for combat with her. The alien charged at him, swinging her cuffs towards him to be blocked by the sword. She jumped away from him and soon landed right behind a taxi cab. With one swing, she instantly wrecked it and sent it flying towards the man.

He held his sword up as he ducked from the taxi, slicing the yellow cab in two. Moving away from the man, she continued swinging, striking all sorts of objects - phone booths, streetlights, and a bench, destroying them with ease.

The man, however, was unphased and continued to move forwards towards the alien. Then, she began swinging her restraints at an old, decrepit building, breaking it down after several powerful swings. He was caught right in the middle of the impact but came out relatively unharmed thanks to his healing ability.

She shouted, "Move! Stop! Surrender!" as she continued moving away from the man who continued advancing on her. That did not stop him as he inquired, "Who are you?"

He then swung his sword at the alien, trying to exactly deduce what she was doing. He tried to incapacitate her by cutting her arm with his sword. Unfortunately, when his sword and her skin collided, the skin won, breaking the sword in two. Commenting, "She's stronger than she looks", the man pulled out a hand grenade and lobbed it at the alien.

She had no difficulty moving away from it as it exploded, doing no damage to her nor to her armor. However, the man did not stop as he cooked another grenade, actually a belt of four grenades, and sent it towards the alien. She wasn't fast enough to dodge them and they blew up in her face.

All the while, as the two fought, neither of them noticed that they were being watched by a stoic, blue-cloaked figure whose face was hidden in shadow, hiding in the alleys, intently observing what they were up to.

Falling backwards from the explosion, the alien landed into a parked green car, all but crushing it with a huge indent across the body. She leapt out and proceeded to place her foot under the chassis of the broken car and kicked it towards the man that was following her. He barely avoided getting struck by it as he pulled out a bo-staff.

He aimed the bo-staff at the alien and soon fired it, sending a blast that knocked her off of her feet and sent her to the ground, her furied green eyes staring at the sky.

The man approached her so he could grab her and bring her back to study her. However, she was playing possum as she then swung her legs to knock the man onto the ground as she got up, continuing to move away. She didn't get too far as the man arose and fired again, trying to take her down.

The blast was intercepted by her restraints, of which the top part began to fall off. It was still attached but it was nearing being removed from her restraints, which would free up her hands.

The alien proceeded to jump towards a dumpster, slamming it with her restraints and sending it towards the man, who grabbed it and pushed it to the side.

As the man lunged towards the alien, she struck her cuffs against the ground, soon causing the top part, which covered her hands, to fall right off. While the man dodged the resulting shockwave, he soon realized that the alien now had a new weapon at her disposal.

Instantly, two green orbs began to manifest themselves in her hands and the alien instantly unleashed them, blasting him back into a wooden fence. As his body started to heal the wounds, he continued to study the alien, noticing how she attacked.

Now that her hands were free, she began blasting everything around her in a rampage. How she chose to attack seemed so...random, as if she had no purpose, no method to her madness.

Then, it began to strike him. There was a method to her madness, that she was not the one attacking, it was he. She was merely acting in self-defense, but...why? Why was she destroying everything in sight? What was going on inside of the alien's head?

The man soon thought out loud, "The handcuffs. She's trying to get them off."

Instantly, his perspective on the alien girl warped dramatically. She was trying to be free, but the restraints were interfering. Perhaps that was what she was screaming about. But the question was, how would he get her to let him remove them?

She was very volitaile and would attack if threatened, and much to the man's dislike, she could badly beat him, if not kill him. However, he did have to get close to her, but how?

The man walked up towards the alien girl, trying to get close to her, only to have the ground near him peppered with blasts from the girl. She barked out, "Stay away!"

However, the man calmly remained there, standing his ground. Realizing that she still thought of him as a threat, with the bo-staff he held in his hands, he dropped it on to the ground and began walking up to her.

It was obvious that the girl was confused as to what he was doing. In an attempt to reassure her, he said, "Look, I know you don't understand me. And I'm sure as hell you don't trust me. But listen to me, I'm here to help you. I'm here to remove your restraints."

The man held his hands in the air as he proceeded closer and closer to her, and she held her arms up, ready to attack if she noticed anything malicious in him. However, she couldn't notice his facial expressions behind his mask. She yelled, "Remove your mask!"

Suddenly, the man had reached her and soon moved her arms away from his head so she could not attack him. Holding the restraints in one hand, he pulled out a lock pick from his utility belt and proceeded to unlock the girl's restraints, freeing her arms from them.

The alien soon rubbed her wrists, the constraints that bound her were gone, and she was free. As the man said, "You're welcome", he was suddenly grabbed and then had his mask flipped up as a major kiss was plucked on his lips.

After several seconds, the man found himself flat on the ground as the alien said, "If you do not wish to be destroyed, you will leave me alone!"

Then, without warning, the alien flew away from him and the man soon got up, shaking the dust off of him as he put his mask back on, snarking, "She kisses me, then she threatens me. Very valuable indeed. The search for her has just become a hell of a lot harder."

Grabbing his bo-staff, the man began his search for the alien, trying to find where she had gone.

Meanwhile, back in space, on the very ship that the alien girl had escaped from, a green lizard was on the bridge, waiting for a communication with his "employer".

After several moments, the lizard alien's "employer", a humanoid alien female with long black hair and violet eyes, wearing an outfit similar to the prisoner that had previously escaped the ship, but with a cloak and without any of the restraints, came on screen, asking "Do you have the prisoner?"

He replied, "Yes, we do, Grand Empress. We will have her delivered as promised."

She commented, "I have heard a lot about you and your men, Lord Trogaar. I expect that you will not dissapoint me, especially given the prisoner you are transporting."

"We will bring her, and then you owe me payment for the job."

"If you're as good as your reputation says. End transmission."

The "employer", the so-called Grand Empress, terminated the connection, leaving the lizard, apparently Lord Trogaar, waiting on the bridge of his ship, knowing that the prisoner they were supposed to be escorting was now missing.

Trogaar commanded, "Get this ship to the planet known as Earth immediately. The Empress cannot be disappointed."

With that command, the ship soon began a course for Earth, intending to catch the prisoner that had gone missing.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, the man continued searching for the alien girl that had gotten away from him. Now, she was free and running amok across the city. Then again, she probably wasn't going to cause as much destruction as she did, but she was now much harder to track down, especially since now she can fly.

Or could she always do that? That was one of the many questions the man had for the alien he was tracking. The girl was a complete enigma - she spoke in some bizarre alien language until she kissed him. How could a person learn an entire language with just a kiss? It was more likely that she had learned a phrase, but why wait until after she was freed to say it? Perhaps they learned languages through body contact.

Just another reason why he wanted her. His own alien he could examine and use. If he could find her, wherever she was.

As he searched high and low for her, the gap she had on him could be widening. She sparked off about as fast as, well, light. Even with his enhanced speed, he was nowhere near as fast as her - she would make the Flash seem like a slowpoke.

Just as he began to worry that he wouldn't find her, he spotted her at an empty convienence store. He said to himself, "She must be hungry."

Moving stealthily, the man pulled out a customized Heckler & Koch USP45 as he snuck up on the alien, who was currently ripping through the store shelves, eating everything she could find, from chips to cookies, even the frozen food.

As she ate almost without end, he quietly aimed the USP45 at her, intending to knock her out. Before he could, however, she struck him in the arm, knocking the gun out of his reach as she aimed a powerful green beam at his head.

However, the man kicked her, causing her beam to impact the ceiling as he charged back on her. He was strong, but unfortunately for him, she was stronger and knocked him into a store shelf.

As he struggled to get up from the ground, she held a glowing hand to his throat, growling, "Identify yourself. What is your name?"

The man calmly replied, "Call me Slade."

She commented, "Well then, Slade. I told you to leave me alone! Why did you follow me?"

"You interested me." He then pushed her away from him, which wasn't terribly enough to distract her for long. But it was long enough for Slade as he grabbed the gun and held it to the back of the alien's neck, claiming, "I don't know much about your physiology, whoever you are, but I am sure that you will not survive a forty-five caliber round to the neck. Now, if you desire to live, tell me your name."

The alien choked out, "In my native tongue, my name would be Koriand'r. In your tongue, it would be Star...fire. Starfire."

Okay, I'm willing to bet you weren't expecting this. Like I said, this isn't going to be anything like I had written before. I chose not to introduce the character names until I feel it was absolutely necessary. You probably knew who they were, but I was trying to introduce the characters in a way you would be fairly familiar with. We'll go deeper with Starfire and Slade in the next two chapters or so, and Robin will come along more in a little while. And I'm perfectly willing to bet you know who the Grand Empress and the blue-cloaked girl were.