Author Notes: Greetings one and all, and first allow me to thank you for considering reading this piece below. This is my first attempt at a Teen Titans fan fiction, and the first thing I noticed was how difficult it is to try to keep Starfire's mannerisms in character, so I apologize to anyone who is offended should I not have done a good enough job. The second thing I noticed is Raven is no easier, so again my apologies. In any case, I hope for you a pleasant experience, and wish for you to leave your criticism, good or bad, so that I can improve.

The fall of a Hero

It was a beautiful day in Jump City.

"Too beautiful to be stuck at work, behind a desk, writing about the fabulous lives of our teen heroes." Thought a plain looking man, in front of a computer as he typed feverously about the latest exploits of the cities adolescent vigilantes. Push back from his desk a bit with a sigh of boredom and exhaustion he looked out the window at the tiny fragment of blue sky visible from between the two buildings across the street.

"If I finish quickly, maybe my editor will let me off early." He mused, leaning back in his chair even more, and closing his eyes.

With another sigh, sat back up in his chair, sliding back in front of his computer continuing with his work. After a few minutes, the lights above his desk began to flicker and the monitor screen began to fade.

"No, no, no, no, no!" He exclaimed, frantically reaching for his mouse, but knocking it off the desk. "Come on, I haven't saved yet!"

"Hold 'Control' and hit the 'S' key, Mark." His co-worker/neighbor said from the other cubical.

Before he could even register what was said, the screen went black, along with the lights, and the soft hum of the computers fan slowed and stops.

"Did you make it?" Inquired his friend, as he poked his head over the cubical wall.

Mark sat in his chair for a moment, anger and frustration building in as audible words died in his throat. Moments later, the light flickered back on; no doubt do to the backup generators. Finally, after attempting to curb the sudden urge for physical violence, asked "What happened?"

"We just got word that the Titans are fight Overload at the power field." He replied. "Something must have got damaged."

Mark closed his eyes and hung his head; it wasn't all too unusual for most objects within arm's reach of the Titans during a fight to end up as an impromptu weapon. Still, the fact that is was likely to happen didn't overshadow the fact that a days' work just disappeared in cyberspace. As such, Mark couldn't help his next action as he took a deep breath.

"DAMN IT!"

***Meanwhile***

"Okay y'all." Said a hulking half metal teen as he pried his way out of a power generator. "Maybe fighting the electric sucking bad guy in the middle of a power field was a bad idea."

"We might as well try bailing water out of the Titanic with a tea spoon." Commenting a girl float in a blue cloak, her hood casting shadow to conceal her face.

"We don't have a choice." Replied a spiky haired boy in a mask. "It's our duty to protect the city from scum like him."

"I'll get the spoons then." She added sarcasticly.

"Dudes, we can take him." Said a pointy eared green teen.

"Yes. Let us commence in the kicking of the butt." A teen girl with glowing green eyes and orange skin declared.

"Pitiful humans!" A being off pure electricity bellowed from an unseen mouth. "You stand no chance at defeating Overload! Overload is invincible! Overload!"

"Pardon me please," Interrupted the orange skinned girl. "I am not of this planet, thus I am not human." She said meekly, playfully sticking out her tongue.

"Technically I'm a 'gem', but really I'm the half-demon spawn of an inter-dimensional being." Added the cloaked female dryly.

"Dude, I'm more beast than man." The green elfin teen said proudly.

"And I'm only half human." Declared the half metal goliath of a teen, as his right arm changed into a weapon.

Everyone turned to look at the last remaining member of this teen.

"Yeah, so what? I'm human." He said, "Sorry I can't change parts of my body, or just point at the bad guy and send something crashing into him." He then proceeded to point his finger at the 'bad guy' in question.

No sooner had he extended his, did a drop of what appeared to be water hit him on the head. As everyone, bad guy included, looked up at what had been clear blue skies only moments ago replaced by a mass of glowing blue liquid descending rapidly upon them.

"OVERLOAD!" The teens heard the super charged villain cry out, followed by the sound of metal folding in on itself.

Quickly, the adolescences turn there attention back to the villain only to see that the generator seemed to have imploded in on itself, as the mass of liquid crashed down on them, soaking the area in a luminescent blue glow.

"Uh, Robin?" Asked the cloaked figure, turning her attention to the teen in question.

The rest did the same as the Boy Wonder still had his finger pointed at where Overload had stood.

"I didn't do that." He said, quickly withdrawing his finger.

"Whatever dude. Just, uh, don't point that thing at me." The green one said.

"Okay. So, what just happened y'all?" The half metal teen asked, changing his weapon back into a hand.

"I believe that the Overload just participated in getting his butt kick without us." Answered the orange skinned girl.

"Question is what hit him?" Robin asked, walking over to the generator.

The teens each made their way over to the generator, the girls each floating, the half metal teen walking with Robin, and the green teen morphed into a humming bird and flew over. As they each saw the scene, the first thing they saw was the inactive red and black computer chip that is Overload, next to a hole. The boys looked into the hole, then adverted their eyes at the sight, while the two girls looked in and hugged each other tightly smiling broadly, and for as far as the guys could tell, their eyes looked like hearts at the sight of a handsome, white haired boy, no older than 16 or 17 lying unconscious in the hole.

"Oh Raven, he is as handsome as Aqualad, is he not?" Asked the orange skinned one.

The cloaked girl did not answer, at least not with audible words.

"Uh, Starfire, Raven, you may want to look at more than his face." Rodin said, still averting his gaze.

Snapping their minds back to the matter at hand, the girls instantly realized what was wrong. Having crashed into a power generator, the youth's body was screwed with wire and other impassive parts, as well as any internal damage from hitting the metal shell, and the high voltage electricity that had been coursing through it at the time.

"There's no way he could'a survived that." The half metal teen said, in disbelief as he looked at a screen on his forearm.

"What do you mean, Cyborg?" Robin asked, noting that something was off.

"My sensors." He replied; hold up his arm showing everyone his screen. "It's picking up a heartbeat."

"That can't be right." Robin said in disbelief. "If nothing else, the electricity would have instantly…" He dared not finish. Just then, the green teen let out a scream. "Beast boy, what's wrong?"

"This dude's clothes," he replied, pointing to the mysterious boy, "there's something in there."

All the teens leaned in closer, observing something indeed moving under his clothes. Slowly, a green reptilian head poked out from the boys clothes, looking around in what could only be confusion.

"Must be his pet." Raven observed.

"It is most miraculous that it survived." Starfire said.

"He's got better luck than his master." Robin added.

"Yo, BB, what type of lizard is he?" Cyborg asked.

"Dude, I don't think it's a lizard." Beast boy replied.

As if on cue, the reptilian creature seemed to notice the people crowding around and hopped out of its hiding spot. Standing on four legs, forcing the small spikes lining it's spine to stand on end as it arched it back, two scaled wings fully opened as it moved its head at the end of its long neck, hissing at each of the teen, defending its master. The young heroes took a few steps back, so not to upset the tiny dragon too much.

"Poor thing." Cyborg said, "Don't even know his master is…"

"Can you talk to it, Beast boy? Tell it we're not here to harm it?" Robin asked.

"Dude, that thing is a dragon!" Beast boy said. "Dragons aren't animals; they're myth-i-whatever-cal."

"Mythological." Raven said an edge of annoyance to her voice. "What about that time when you turned into that thing from Star's home world?"

"That's different; I didn't know those this existed." Beast boy explained. "Look, I can change into any animal that exists. And out of all the creatures I could try, you don't think Dragons were at the top of the list?"

"Maybe you never tried this type." Cyborg suggested.

"Dude, do you know who you're talking too?" Beast boy replied. There really was no need for further explanations. If there was one thing Beast boy knew better than TV, Gamestation, or Tofu, it was what he could or couldn't transform into.

"I wonder from where this boy is from?" Starfire inquired. "Dragons are not native to our dimension, yes?"

This time, all eyes were on Raven. If any of them were to know anything extra-dimensional it was her.

With a sigh of annoyance, she flipped down her hood, revealing her purple hair and red gem stone placed in the center of her forehead. "Fine, I'll try to talk to it."

Slowly, cautiously, she moved towards the cat-sized dragon, feeling its hostility focus on her as she approached. "Easy now, I'm not going to hurt you." She said, as non-threatening as possible. She slowly extended a hand out to it, as she assumed a crouching position, hovering over the hole. The dragon relaxed slightly as it sniffed, and then licked her hand, and she could feel its hostility melt away.

"Okay, I'll admit, this thing is pretty cute." She said as it nuzzled its head against her hand.

With a flap of its wings, the dragon quickly flew up to Raven's shoulders, laid across the back of her neck, resting its head and watched over its fallen master. The teens said nothing, as they looked from the dragon to the mysterious youth, back to the dragon.

Suddenly, the dragon perked up its head, and Raven could have sworn a smile crossed the dragons face as she looked to the boy as he began to twitch. With a low moan of pain, his body tried to move, unconsciously for all she could tell, but was impeded by the wires and parts protruding from his arms, legs and torso.

The rest of the teens turned their heads at the sound, as Cyborg checked his scanner once more.

"Guys, I'm not getting any life signs from him." He said.

"But he just moved; I saw him." Raven protested.

"We have to get him out of there regardless." Robin stated, as he turned to Cyborg. "Can you turn off the power to this generator?"

"Is tofu disgusting?" He replied.

"Dude!" Beast boy protested.

After switching the power off, Robin, Cyborg, and Beast boy carefully pulled the young man out of the generator; slowly sliding the wires and other bits of generator out of his body. It took them a good fifteen minutes of carful extraction to get the boy out, all the while Starfire and Raven watched over the diminutive dragon.

Just was the boy were climbing out of the generator, a slight tremor could be felt, accompanied by a low, blunt sound; like the beating of a bass drum, only deeper. Off in the distance, a roar could also be heard, deep and gravelly.

"Please tell me that's not who I think it is." Cyborg said, as they all looked towards the direction of the sound. As the sound got louder and louder, the tremor shook more and more, as the teens held their breath, awaiting the only entity that could possibly make such sounds.

"Titans!" Robin called out over what now sounded like a slow, rhythmic rock slide. "Beast boy, Cyborg, we have to get this guy to the T-car, Raven, Starfire, hold him off." Everyone nodded in affirmation. "Okay, Teen Titans! G-!"

Before Robin could finish his battle cry, a generator flew overhead, landing less than twenty feet behind them as a great stone monolith stepped into view from the direction the generator came from, eyes glowing red with fury.

Without any warning, the great stone figure, still as a statue broke into a dead run, charging defiantly as Starfire's hands and eye shone with a bright green light. With strides as heavy as boulders, shaking the ground in his wake, he boldly raised both arm high above his head, ignoring Raven as she pulled up her hood, casting shadow over her face, while eyes radiated a pure white light. As the imposing stone behemoth moved with the momentum of a freight train, and the force of a land side, Starfire drew back one hand, her righteous fury burning as she stood as the last line of defense between the speeding boulder, and the young man and her friends. Still yet to move, Robin, Cyborg, and Beast boy stand frozen, torn between getting their duty to protect a civilian or help their friends. With a thrust of her arm and a flick of the wrist, she loosed the energy, as it sped towards its target.

In the blink of an eye there was a puff of smoke above the great stone statue's head, and a brilliant flash of green far behind him as he stopped dead in his tracks. Starfire was flung to the ground, sending cracks to snake and web through the ground for a couple meters, and it was all Robin, Cyborg and Beast boy could do to not drop the injured teen in their hands. Had it not been a villain before her, Raven also would have frozen in awe of the sight before her as Cinderblock lowered his arms hesitantly from the cloud of dust. To his horror, Cinderblock realized that he had nothing left of his arms past his elbows.

Not to waste the opportunity given, Raven closed her eyes as her mind focused on the five foot square area of dirt beneath Cinderblock's feet. As her hands sheathed this dark energy, she spoke her focus worlds. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!"

Suddenly an area of roughly one hundred feet in diameter was enveloped with dark energy, and before she realized how much area she was effecting Raven flicked her arms up, ripping the mass of dirt and wires out of the ground.

Raven had to admit she was surprised. Not by the fact that she had moved such a mass and the objects atop, holding them at a hover a few feet in the air, but by the fact that her powers were complete control, yet was affecting such an area much larger than the one she intended.

Not that she'd admit it to anyone else, for all they knew, she had meant to do this. "I would suggest you come quietly." She said in the calm controlled voice she always carried.

Defiance a default for the single-minded villain, he took a commanding step forward on instinct alone, a growl forming in its' throat, arms be damned. The tiny inkling of what could be called a brain stopped the monster in its track, as the vision of the orange teen girl, green energy flaming from her eyes, and another glowing green orb of energy, this time about the size of a washer, held effortlessly above her head. However innocent she may have looked before vanished before this vengeful being as a menacing smile crossed her face, raising a single eyebrow, almost daring the stone giant to attack.

Though its intelligence was limited, Cinderblock was no fool. Reeling back a foot, the mobile stone statue kicked into the ground, causing a cloud of dust to erupt between him and his teenaged adversaries.

The heavy footsteps of the hulking rock could be heard as he raced off. Slowly, Raven lowered the mass of land she had been levitating, taking long controlled breathes as she released the dark energies gripping it. Starfire followed suit, descending back to the ground, the flames emanating from her eyes faded back revealing her clear emerald green eyes, and the ball of glowing green energy faded to nothing.

"Starfire? Raven?" Asked Robin, the shock of recent events wearing off. "What happened, why didn't you stop Cinderblock?"

"More importantly. Why'd have ta go and blast his arms off?" Cyborg interrupted.

"Believe me, friend." Starfire said. "It was not my intention to destroy the Cinderblock's arms. I applied no more effort than usual. I do not know what happened."

"Same for me." Raven added. "My concentration was focused on the ground directly under his feet." She turned to Robin, flipping her hood down. "I didn't try to stop Cinderblock because I was unsure I could control my powers well enough not to fatally harm him." She explained in her emotionless, professional tone.

"As I." Starfire said.

"What could'a happened?" Cyborg asked.

"I have an idea." Robin said.

"Dude, can we just get this guy to the T-car?" Beast boy whined.

"Just a second Beast boy." Robin replied, reaching into his utility belt, tossing 2 empty phials to Raven. "Can you get me a sample of this strange blue liquid?" He asked as the boys walked off, carefully with the wounded teen.

"Uh, actually, Star can you do it?" She asked, tossing the phials to Starfire, her eyes still glowing white.

"Raven? May I inquire what it is you are preoccupying yourself with?" The orange alien girl asked.

"I just uprooted a large area of ground containing electrical wires that feed the city." She explained dryly. "I'm attempting to fix the damage."

After a few minutes, Cyborg, Robin, and Beast boy drove up in the T-car, the young man laid across the back seat. Robin told Beast boy to take Overload to the police, Starfire to head to the hospital and tell them to get ready for them, and had Raven ride with them, getting her to use her magic to tend to the boys more serious injuries.

As the T-car raced off towards the hospital, and Beast boy and Starfire disappeared towards the city, an armored figure stepped out from behind a generator, with half a dozen or more phials of the glowing liquid in hand.

"Hurry along Titans." The figure said from behind a black and copper one eyed mask in a voice as calm and tranquil as the sea at the eye. "I'll be in touch." He said as he began to chuckle darkly to himself.

Author's Notes: For those of you who have made it this far, I would like to thank you for your time again. A story unread is an idea dead, so thanks for giving my story life. Again I encourage you to leave a review of what you liked, what you didn't, or anything in between.