Scene 11: Night- Int. Slade's Warehouse Slade: Reversed pentagram. Negative energy to you, Jonas. My win to me.
(Jonas is collapsed in the center of a large pentagram painted on the ground, spirit point directed south, as to symbolize an upside-down pentacle. This, with candles placed at the points, creates an entrapment field around Jonas. He is writhing in pain.)
Slade: Everyone has their weakness.
(Slade laughed a bit as he watched Jonas approach his doom.)
Slade: This was not your weakness.
(Raven softly lands on the roof and looks and listens through the skylight. She produces the cube from her belt.)
Slade: Your pitfall was your weak heart. Pain and sorrow are reserved for the weak. The strong surpass the weak, and therefore, surpass pain. You, unfortunately, let a woman enter your heart and tear away your soul, your freedom, your strength.
(Raven was outraged at this, but held back.)
Slade: Allowing yourself to be consumed by an insignificant other.
(Raven held back no more. She, outraged by Slade's horrible statements, yelled and flung the cube violently at the field entrapping Jonas.)
Slade: What? YOU!
(The cube stopped in midair when it collided with the field. The cube emitted then a bright light in every direction, and the field shuddered like a great Jell-O mold. Light filled the warehouse. Panoramic Ext. View of the warehouse. Every window screamed with light, the cube a small sun. The roof explodes outward with the intensity of the light, raining garbage and debris everywhere. Raven, through the debris, holds her forearms to her face to protect from the light, wind, and garbage flying at her. Slade braces himself in a similar fashion. Jonas awakens, and all are engulfed in light. The light then subsides, leaving a scarred ember of what used to be a warehouse. Numerous pipes, connecting between two walls that still stood, remain intact. Slade lay on the ground, covered with tattered cardboard boxes. He stands, brushing boxes off as he does. He looked to the area where the reversed pentagram once lay, only to find that the field and pentacle have disappeared. In its stead, Raven and Jonas are floating in a great beam of light piercing the dark night like a dagger. Both wear white versions of their garments, Raven once again wearing her cloak, yet now it is white.)
Jonas: Slade, you are a terrible liar, and I will NOT let you leave this place alive.
(Tiesto's Forever Today at starts at 03:16. Jonas gets into a Shaolin fighting position, and Raven gets into a Keanu Reeves "Matrix" fighting position. Slade backs into a Tae Kwon Do position.)
Slade: Can you honestly say that?
Jonas: Wanna find out?
(Slade is angered and he rushes at Jonas. Raven uplifts a rock and Slade trips.)
Jonas: No, Raven!
Raven: Why?
Jonas: It's between him and me. I need you at the end. I'll tell you when.
(Raven nods and steps back. Jonas Get back into the Shaolin fighting position. Slade stands up.)
Slade: So, you want to go against me alone. Honorable.
Jonas: Quit talking. All that comes out of your mouth is mindless dribble and foolish trickery.
Slade: And who's the one to talk?
(Jonas rushes at Slade and fly-kicks him in the chest. Slade recoils and takes a left jab at Jonas's face, and Jonas stumbles back. Jonas begins to wildly jab at Slade, whose arms are held in a defensive cross over his face, and with every hit he is pushed back a foot. Slade swings around and high-kicks Jonas in the head. Jonas goes flying.)
Jonas: Earth BO!
(A stick of earth appears from the ground and as Jonas flies by, he grabs the earthen pole, regains balance, and lands on his feet. His face is slightly swollen and bleeding from the nose.)
Slade: Stupid tricks!
(Slade snaps a broken pole from the ground and begins his assault. He swipes low, then high, then dead center coming down. Jonas jumps up, ducks, then holds the bar with both hands above his head to block. Slade kicks Jonas in the stomach and he stumbles back. He looks up with ferocity in his eyes.)
Jonas: Earth Bo to Molten Whip Sword!
(A nearby fire roars intensely at the bo, melting the rock into a whip. He swings the whip at Slade, who jumps onto the hanging pipe grid above them. Jonas jumps as well.)
Jonas: Molten Quick Freeze to Sword of Steel!
(A valve on a pipe bursts open and sprays water on the whip. As this occurs, Jonas grabs the molten lava and pulls it into a katana. Yes, his hand IS cut in the process.)
Slade: You're insane.
Jonas: Heh. And who's the one to talk?
(Slade growls and runs toward Jonas from pipe to pipe. Bullet time Slade slams his "bo" into the pipe Jonas stands on and he jumps to avoid this. Jonas front flips and slashes across Slade's back. Slade grabs a pipe Regular Time and gymnast-swings back up. He angrily hisses with pain at the slash on his back, and then begins to spring forward, pipe to pipe, towards Jonas. Jonas strikes Slade on the face with the blunt side of his sword. Slade falls down to the floor.)
Jonas: NOW, Raven!!! Hold him up in the air!
Raven: Azareth Metreon Zinthos!
(It is now at 7:05 in the song. Slade is fighting it, but Raven's powers are supporting him in the air. Jonas walks over to the cube floating in the pillar of light, and floats to face Slade with the cube between them.)
Jonas: Now you shall face a real challenge!
(Jonas grabs the cube with both hands and is instantly surrounded with electrical impulses.)
Jonas: LIVE, LOVE AND DIE!
(All the points on Jonas's pinnacle glow bright green, and the center emits a bright light upon both Slade and Jonas. Seconds later, Slade and Jonas are standing far apart on either edge of a large circular floating platform high up in the clouds. It is bright day.)
Slade: What?
Jonas: Welcome to my mind, Slade. I told you, you would not leave here alive. That was a promise.
(Jonas's face is no longer swollen and bloody. Slade's slash on his back is gone.)
Jonas: It ends now.
(Jonas rushes at Slade. Slade Returns the favor and rushes at Jonas. When they punch each other at the center Bullet time a thunderclap and lightning strike occur, and suddenly, the scene changes to a violent monsoon. Regular Time Slade tries to high kick Jonas several times, but Jonas blocks everyone. Jonas ducks down and roundhouse kicks Slade to the ground.)
Jonas: Get up, damn you!
Slade: GRRAGH!
(Slade jumps up and tries to punch him several times and Jonas blocks every punch. Bullet time Jonas sucker punches him right in the face. Regular Time This sends Slade flying near the edge. Slade jumps back up and rushes Jonas and as he attempts to spear Jonas, he Bullet time "Matrix-leans" and kicks Slade in the stomach. Regular Time Slade flips and lands on his back. Jonas runs to one end of the platform and starts to run back toward Slade.)
Jonas: Flame Tornado Spear!
(A what else? flame tornado spirals around his right arm and he extends his middle and index fingers out toward Slade. Slade stands and sees Jonas running toward him at unimaginable speed.)
Slade: How is that possible?!?
(Jonas slams his fingers into the center of Slade's chest.)
Jonas: (Right in Slade's face) The strong surpass the weak, and therefore, surpass pain.(Pulls out his fingers)
(Back at the ware house, Slade's body falls limp. Jonas lets go of the cube and falls. The pillar of light diminishes.)
Raven: (In the most surprised (bad) voice she has ever spoken in) Jonas, Jonas!
(Raven lets go of Slade, runs to Jonas.)
(Jonas's physical harm from earlier has returned.)
Jonas: Uhh...
(Raven gets to her knees and holds Jonas up.)
Raven: Jonas, are you ok?
Jonas: That ... that, little trick at the end... broke my arm... Heh... training'll have to wait...
Raven: That's ok, I can wait...
Jonas: Of course you could... you just couldn't wait for something like this to happen... how lazy. Smiles
(Sirens are heard.)
Raven: They're here. Let's go.
Jonas: No. It's as it should be.
(A police car with the Titans inside pulls up and all get out. Several cop vans follow.)
Robin: What's going on?
Jonas: Hey guys...
(Robin sees Slade laying facedown on the floor.)
BB: Whoa. What the ...
Starfire: Raven! You are unharmed!
Cyborg: They took out Slade. Before we could find him.
Robin: I'm sorry, Jonas. I should have believed you.
Jonas: No. You did what you thought was right. I would've done the same. I've experienced Slade's evil. I know who he was. He needed closure.
Raven: Closure?
Jonas: He was abused and left to die as a child. People abused his generosity. He went insane with anger. I felt everything he ever felt in a single moment. (Extends his two fingers from his limp arm. They had Slade's blood still on it.)
Raven: So... he...
Jonas: He wanted someone to kill him. To end his suffering.
All: ...
Jonas: Agg! If you don't mind now, my arm is still broken...
Raven: Oh, right.
(Raven helps Jonas to the waiting ambulance.)
(Jonas is collapsed in the center of a large pentagram painted on the ground, spirit point directed south, as to symbolize an upside-down pentacle. This, with candles placed at the points, creates an entrapment field around Jonas. He is writhing in pain.)
Slade: Everyone has their weakness.
(Slade laughed a bit as he watched Jonas approach his doom.)
Slade: This was not your weakness.
(Raven softly lands on the roof and looks and listens through the skylight. She produces the cube from her belt.)
Slade: Your pitfall was your weak heart. Pain and sorrow are reserved for the weak. The strong surpass the weak, and therefore, surpass pain. You, unfortunately, let a woman enter your heart and tear away your soul, your freedom, your strength.
(Raven was outraged at this, but held back.)
Slade: Allowing yourself to be consumed by an insignificant other.
(Raven held back no more. She, outraged by Slade's horrible statements, yelled and flung the cube violently at the field entrapping Jonas.)
Slade: What? YOU!
(The cube stopped in midair when it collided with the field. The cube emitted then a bright light in every direction, and the field shuddered like a great Jell-O mold. Light filled the warehouse. Panoramic Ext. View of the warehouse. Every window screamed with light, the cube a small sun. The roof explodes outward with the intensity of the light, raining garbage and debris everywhere. Raven, through the debris, holds her forearms to her face to protect from the light, wind, and garbage flying at her. Slade braces himself in a similar fashion. Jonas awakens, and all are engulfed in light. The light then subsides, leaving a scarred ember of what used to be a warehouse. Numerous pipes, connecting between two walls that still stood, remain intact. Slade lay on the ground, covered with tattered cardboard boxes. He stands, brushing boxes off as he does. He looked to the area where the reversed pentagram once lay, only to find that the field and pentacle have disappeared. In its stead, Raven and Jonas are floating in a great beam of light piercing the dark night like a dagger. Both wear white versions of their garments, Raven once again wearing her cloak, yet now it is white.)
Jonas: Slade, you are a terrible liar, and I will NOT let you leave this place alive.
(Tiesto's Forever Today at starts at 03:16. Jonas gets into a Shaolin fighting position, and Raven gets into a Keanu Reeves "Matrix" fighting position. Slade backs into a Tae Kwon Do position.)
Slade: Can you honestly say that?
Jonas: Wanna find out?
(Slade is angered and he rushes at Jonas. Raven uplifts a rock and Slade trips.)
Jonas: No, Raven!
Raven: Why?
Jonas: It's between him and me. I need you at the end. I'll tell you when.
(Raven nods and steps back. Jonas Get back into the Shaolin fighting position. Slade stands up.)
Slade: So, you want to go against me alone. Honorable.
Jonas: Quit talking. All that comes out of your mouth is mindless dribble and foolish trickery.
Slade: And who's the one to talk?
(Jonas rushes at Slade and fly-kicks him in the chest. Slade recoils and takes a left jab at Jonas's face, and Jonas stumbles back. Jonas begins to wildly jab at Slade, whose arms are held in a defensive cross over his face, and with every hit he is pushed back a foot. Slade swings around and high-kicks Jonas in the head. Jonas goes flying.)
Jonas: Earth BO!
(A stick of earth appears from the ground and as Jonas flies by, he grabs the earthen pole, regains balance, and lands on his feet. His face is slightly swollen and bleeding from the nose.)
Slade: Stupid tricks!
(Slade snaps a broken pole from the ground and begins his assault. He swipes low, then high, then dead center coming down. Jonas jumps up, ducks, then holds the bar with both hands above his head to block. Slade kicks Jonas in the stomach and he stumbles back. He looks up with ferocity in his eyes.)
Jonas: Earth Bo to Molten Whip Sword!
(A nearby fire roars intensely at the bo, melting the rock into a whip. He swings the whip at Slade, who jumps onto the hanging pipe grid above them. Jonas jumps as well.)
Jonas: Molten Quick Freeze to Sword of Steel!
(A valve on a pipe bursts open and sprays water on the whip. As this occurs, Jonas grabs the molten lava and pulls it into a katana. Yes, his hand IS cut in the process.)
Slade: You're insane.
Jonas: Heh. And who's the one to talk?
(Slade growls and runs toward Jonas from pipe to pipe. Bullet time Slade slams his "bo" into the pipe Jonas stands on and he jumps to avoid this. Jonas front flips and slashes across Slade's back. Slade grabs a pipe Regular Time and gymnast-swings back up. He angrily hisses with pain at the slash on his back, and then begins to spring forward, pipe to pipe, towards Jonas. Jonas strikes Slade on the face with the blunt side of his sword. Slade falls down to the floor.)
Jonas: NOW, Raven!!! Hold him up in the air!
Raven: Azareth Metreon Zinthos!
(It is now at 7:05 in the song. Slade is fighting it, but Raven's powers are supporting him in the air. Jonas walks over to the cube floating in the pillar of light, and floats to face Slade with the cube between them.)
Jonas: Now you shall face a real challenge!
(Jonas grabs the cube with both hands and is instantly surrounded with electrical impulses.)
Jonas: LIVE, LOVE AND DIE!
(All the points on Jonas's pinnacle glow bright green, and the center emits a bright light upon both Slade and Jonas. Seconds later, Slade and Jonas are standing far apart on either edge of a large circular floating platform high up in the clouds. It is bright day.)
Slade: What?
Jonas: Welcome to my mind, Slade. I told you, you would not leave here alive. That was a promise.
(Jonas's face is no longer swollen and bloody. Slade's slash on his back is gone.)
Jonas: It ends now.
(Jonas rushes at Slade. Slade Returns the favor and rushes at Jonas. When they punch each other at the center Bullet time a thunderclap and lightning strike occur, and suddenly, the scene changes to a violent monsoon. Regular Time Slade tries to high kick Jonas several times, but Jonas blocks everyone. Jonas ducks down and roundhouse kicks Slade to the ground.)
Jonas: Get up, damn you!
Slade: GRRAGH!
(Slade jumps up and tries to punch him several times and Jonas blocks every punch. Bullet time Jonas sucker punches him right in the face. Regular Time This sends Slade flying near the edge. Slade jumps back up and rushes Jonas and as he attempts to spear Jonas, he Bullet time "Matrix-leans" and kicks Slade in the stomach. Regular Time Slade flips and lands on his back. Jonas runs to one end of the platform and starts to run back toward Slade.)
Jonas: Flame Tornado Spear!
(A what else? flame tornado spirals around his right arm and he extends his middle and index fingers out toward Slade. Slade stands and sees Jonas running toward him at unimaginable speed.)
Slade: How is that possible?!?
(Jonas slams his fingers into the center of Slade's chest.)
Jonas: (Right in Slade's face) The strong surpass the weak, and therefore, surpass pain.(Pulls out his fingers)
(Back at the ware house, Slade's body falls limp. Jonas lets go of the cube and falls. The pillar of light diminishes.)
Raven: (In the most surprised (bad) voice she has ever spoken in) Jonas, Jonas!
(Raven lets go of Slade, runs to Jonas.)
(Jonas's physical harm from earlier has returned.)
Jonas: Uhh...
(Raven gets to her knees and holds Jonas up.)
Raven: Jonas, are you ok?
Jonas: That ... that, little trick at the end... broke my arm... Heh... training'll have to wait...
Raven: That's ok, I can wait...
Jonas: Of course you could... you just couldn't wait for something like this to happen... how lazy. Smiles
(Sirens are heard.)
Raven: They're here. Let's go.
Jonas: No. It's as it should be.
(A police car with the Titans inside pulls up and all get out. Several cop vans follow.)
Robin: What's going on?
Jonas: Hey guys...
(Robin sees Slade laying facedown on the floor.)
BB: Whoa. What the ...
Starfire: Raven! You are unharmed!
Cyborg: They took out Slade. Before we could find him.
Robin: I'm sorry, Jonas. I should have believed you.
Jonas: No. You did what you thought was right. I would've done the same. I've experienced Slade's evil. I know who he was. He needed closure.
Raven: Closure?
Jonas: He was abused and left to die as a child. People abused his generosity. He went insane with anger. I felt everything he ever felt in a single moment. (Extends his two fingers from his limp arm. They had Slade's blood still on it.)
Raven: So... he...
Jonas: He wanted someone to kill him. To end his suffering.
All: ...
Jonas: Agg! If you don't mind now, my arm is still broken...
Raven: Oh, right.
(Raven helps Jonas to the waiting ambulance.)