PRECURSOR
THIS IS THE STORY IN BETWEEN AFTERSHOCK AND TEEN TITANS: THE MOVIE.
(Deep in the cave containing the stone body of Terra, a distant rock-crunching banging is heard. The screen pans past Terra's body to a wall. With several bangs, and cracks are created on the wall. Finally, with a large bang, the wall blows open and a man stumbles out onto the floor. He is breathing deeply, exhausted by the constant slamming into the wall. He stands and starts toward the statue. He comes into the light, and there is a long scar from, in his point of view, a scar running on the left side of the top of the bridge of his nose to the bottom of his left cheek. It is Slade. This is recognizable by the suit he is wearing, slightly charred, yet the mask is missing. He looks at his former apprentice with hatred and disgust. He speaks.)
Slade: Two apprentices gone. One who chose to remain pathetic and one who chose death. Terra, you failed me.
(With one swift swipe, he karate-chops Terra's head off.)
Slade: Now, you will never be able to live to change that. I am done with apprentices. They have all failed me. I will make them pay, even if it kills me.
SCENE TRANSITION TO TITAN'S TOWER Robin: Hey, guys...
BB: What's up?
Robin: There's movement inside Terra's cave. And I'm not getting a read of Terra's signature.
Cyborg: Let's check it out.
SCENE TRANSITION TO TERRA'S CAVE (They enter the cave with Cyborg's light on. They approach what's left of Terra)
Robin: No...
BB: Terra, what... (He breaks down stumbling to the floor, weeping.)
Robin: Look... look over on that wall.
(Scrawled on the wall is a chalk-written cryptic message, "I'm not done with you," signed with an "S.")
Robin: Slade. He can't be still alive! We all saw it.
BB: Well, we don't know anyone else cruel enough to do this.
(Deep in the cave containing the stone body of Terra, a distant rock-crunching banging is heard. The screen pans past Terra's body to a wall. With several bangs, and cracks are created on the wall. Finally, with a large bang, the wall blows open and a man stumbles out onto the floor. He is breathing deeply, exhausted by the constant slamming into the wall. He stands and starts toward the statue. He comes into the light, and there is a long scar from, in his point of view, a scar running on the left side of the top of the bridge of his nose to the bottom of his left cheek. It is Slade. This is recognizable by the suit he is wearing, slightly charred, yet the mask is missing. He looks at his former apprentice with hatred and disgust. He speaks.)
Slade: Two apprentices gone. One who chose to remain pathetic and one who chose death. Terra, you failed me.
(With one swift swipe, he karate-chops Terra's head off.)
Slade: Now, you will never be able to live to change that. I am done with apprentices. They have all failed me. I will make them pay, even if it kills me.
SCENE TRANSITION TO TITAN'S TOWER Robin: Hey, guys...
BB: What's up?
Robin: There's movement inside Terra's cave. And I'm not getting a read of Terra's signature.
Cyborg: Let's check it out.
SCENE TRANSITION TO TERRA'S CAVE (They enter the cave with Cyborg's light on. They approach what's left of Terra)
Robin: No...
BB: Terra, what... (He breaks down stumbling to the floor, weeping.)
Robin: Look... look over on that wall.
(Scrawled on the wall is a chalk-written cryptic message, "I'm not done with you," signed with an "S.")
Robin: Slade. He can't be still alive! We all saw it.
BB: Well, we don't know anyone else cruel enough to do this.