Note: It's been years since I started this fanfic, and I've gotten enough emails asking me to continue it that I decided to do so. My sincere apologies for being lazy and not doing so. For all those of you who loved it: thank you.
SomeBrother
Chapter Two
A group of girls are fleeing their classroom. Five push through the exit just as the floor bends and then breaks, separating the sixth girl from the exit. She turns to see a red and black waves randomly striking different sections of the hallway, steadily heading towards her.
She looks towards the gap between her and the exit. "Rawr!" a voice cries out. She turns to see the red and black waves converging together into a larger form. She takes a step back, then runs and leaps over the gap and reaches toward the other side. Her arm stretches toward the edge but can't reach it. She begins falling into the crevice when…
Whoosh! Starfire catches her and flies her up and out of the crevice and drops her off at the exit, where the rest of the Titans are standing. "Please escape to the safety of your friends." Starfire said. "Yeah, don't worry, we'll take it from here." Cybord adds. "Titans, move!" Robin orders.
The team moved toward the gap only for a red and black light to shine at them and a powerful wind throwing them to the floor. Sam looks up and sees the energy converging into a form.
"What the heck is going on here!?" Sam shouts. "It's a concentration of enormous energy, it's off all of my charts!" Cyborg responded. "Raven, can you contain it?!" Robin asks. Raven tries to raise her hands amid the violent winds and a loose blanket of black energy forms around the red and black convergence, only to be ripped apart.
"It's too strong…" Raven says. "I can't…" The wind threw Raven back into the air where Sam reached out and caught her. "Al…Al, where the heck are you?!" Sam shouts.
"Titans!" A voice from the energy shouted. The convergence spins together into a ball then forms into a human form revealing itself to be….Slade.
Or at least it should be Slade. One third of his body, from head to toe, looks like that of a young man. The second third of his body, head to toe, looks like the Slade the Titans are all familiar with. The last third of his body looks like Slade far in the future, with scars and rust covering his outfit and mask, and long grey hair reaching out of his head. He looks straight at the Titans. "Pain….FOCUS!"
"Slade, what's going on here!?" Robin demands. "I'm getting weird readings from him, Robin. There's all kinds of weird energy around him and through him." Cyborg analyzes.
Sam walks over and looks at Cyborg's wrist display. "This is impossible. It's his body from three different time periods bound into one." He looks up at Slade and waves his hand at the hallway. "That's what's caused all of the disturbances. Three different periods of time bound in one time and place, it's a wonder there isn't a crater here instead of this school!" The Titans all look at Sam.
"This is a parting gift from my unfortunate alliance with that girl's father." Trigon grumbles. "He has merged different parts of me together, keeping me in, AGH, agony!"
Raven's jaw dropped. "No, no, how could he be back. You're lying, my father is gone!" She shot a beam of dark energy straight at him, only to be dissipated by his unstable form.
"Cursed…with…eternal…life…in this hell! Trigon is a sick benefactor." Slade grumbles.
"Trigon?" Sam mutters to himself. "Raven's father." Starfire whispers into Sam's ear.
"What's the game, Slade? What're Trigon and you doing back?" Robin demands.
"Trigon is trying to reenter this reality, Robin. He's experimenting…AGH…with my body to test it." Slade's body shuddered and he fell to his knees. "AGH!"
Robin and Sam start to run toward him until Cyborg intervenes. "Wait! Those readings are fluctuating even more, now." Sam grabs Cyborg's wrist and checks the display. "I think we're about to have that explosion I talked about earlier. We gotta move, now!"
Robin looks at Cyborg, who nods in agreement. "Let's haul butt!" Robin points at the exit. "Titans, move!" Raven looks at Slade.
"You…had…better stop him. He's furious, Raven. He…ugh…he's….AGH!" Sam tries to grab Raven, but feels a strange pulse that forces him away from her skin just as she feels a loud ringing in her head. They quickly shake it off and run together towards the exit just as Slade's kneeling form explodes in a burst of energy, throwing all the Titans a few yards out into the street. Cyborg and Starfire collide head on with a Fire Truck while the rest land on the concrete road.
Sam lifts his head and looks towards the crater where the school just was. "Oh, boy." He turns to Raven, who is far more pale than normal. "Raven?" Sam asks. Robin walks up and puts his hand on her back. "Raven, it's going to be ok. You beat him before." Raven just sits there. Silent.