Disclaimer: No, I still do not own the Teen Titans. just Nightmare.

Chapter 5

The Return of Terra

When the Titans go to the scene of the quake, they saw nobody, living or dead.

"Well, it looks like nobody got hurt. That's good." Said Robin.

"Nobody except you 5!" Came an all too familiar voice.

A huge boulder crashed into the ground in front of the Titans, the force throwing them all back. Terra landed gracefully on the boulder, dressed in her Slade uniform. Before the Titans could say a thing, Terra threw her arms up and did her signature yell, raising the ground beneath the Titans, scattering them in all directions. The Titans landed painfully on the ground once again; this time each got up and got themselves ready to fight.

"Terra? What are you doing?" Beastboy shouted. "We're your friends!"

"I have new friends. I think you've met them all." Terra said, he voice laced with venom.

Behind her, Jinx, Gizmo, Mammoth and Nightmare stepped out.

The Titans got themselves ready to fight, as their enemies did the same.

"Beastboy is mine." Terra said, her voice filling the air with hatred.

Terra lifted herself onto a boulder and flew at Beastboy, making him dive out of the way. Jinx danced towards Raven, flashing her Hexes and Mammoth rushed Starfire and Gizmo and Cyborg went at it as well.

"Guess that just leaves you and me, Bird-boy." Nightmare taunts, as he slowly walks towards Robin.

"And that's just fine with me." Robin replied, bringing out his staff. "Let's dance."

Nightmare takes his own fighting stance, and readies himself for the fight.

"What, not going to use your powers this time?" Robin asks.

"I've no need for them here. I used them last time to prove to my master that they would work efficiently. And from what I have heard from Slade, you can be one hell of a fighter. And that peaks my interest."

Robin says nothing in reply and charges Nightmare, leading with his staff. Aiming for his head, Robin swings as hard as he can. Nightmare moves swiftly out of the way, causing Robin to miss and run past his target. Nightmare takes advantage of this and grabs Robin's cape and throws him against a nearby building. Robin uses all his agility and flips towards the building, landing on the side of it on his feet. Before he could jump and attack again, he is hit y by a falling Raven. Jinx instantly was upon them, throwing hexes at them as fast as she could. This caused the building to crumble and part of the wall to fall on the both of them, burying them in a heap of rubble.

Starfire heard the disturbance and looked back for her friends, dropping her guard momentarily. This allowed Mammoth the short amount of time he needed to end the fight with the Tameranian girl, launching himself at her and landing a hard punch to the side of the girl's head, knocking her into a nearby bus, and out of the fight.

Cyborg was having problems of his own, trying to keep Gizmo from crashing his system. Gizmo flew around Cyborg's head in circles and launched a small missile at him.

"Let's see how your system likes this one, krud muncher!" Gizmo taunts.

Cyborg sees the missile and tries to shoot it down, and failing. The missile hits Cyborg in the chest, covering him with an electric blanket, crashing his system.

This left the last titan standing on his own, Beastboy. Beastboy dodged as Terra rammed her boulder into the ground where Beastboy had been standing just a second before.

"Terra! What are you doing? I thought you were done being Slade's tool!" Beastboy yelled at her.

"Guess you were wrong, Beastboy. Slade is my life now. But, don't get me wrong. I still like you, I really do. And that's why you are going to join me. Terra said, her eyes glowing with excitement.

"I would never join Slade. Not even for you Terra. Not for anyone or any reason." Beastboy said, his face deadly serious.

"I don't think you really have a choice. Looking around, it seems that you have run out of friends." Terra said as she hopped off the boulder and walked up to Beastboy. "But, as you can see, I still have plenty."

Beastboy stepped back and looked around, realizing that she was right. All of his friends were down and out, while the H.I.V.E. members and Nightmare surrounded him.

"You have two choices Beastboy. Come with me the easy way, or fight and come the hard way. I don't advise taking option two, as I know you know what Nightmare's powers can do. But, then again, it's not up to me which way you chose to come. Hurry now and chose."

Beastboy looked around at his fallen comrades, and tried to figure out a way to get out of his current predicament. Before he could think of anything, there he was again, back in the African Jungle. He saw his parents again. Realizing what was about to happen, Beastboy quickly put his hands up, shouting "Ok ok! I give up. Please, don't do that again."

"Good choice BB. Now then, since our work is done here, Nightmare, you know what to do. Let's go guys." Terra says.

Lifting herself and the three HIVE members and Beastboy on the boulder, they head off to their hideout.

Nightmare stood and watched them go. As soon as they were out of sight, he walks over to the building that Raven and Robin had been buried by. Uncovering them, Nightmare drags their limp bodies to the center of the street. He does the same to Cyborg and Starfire. After they are all together, Nightmare reaches into an armored pocket and pulls out a mini disc. Placing the mini disc inside Starfire's left boot, Nightmare again reaches into his pocket, this time producing the Particle Distorter. Aiming in between all the unconscious Titans, Nightmare shoots the street, dissolving the road beneath them. He watches as the Titans fall into Jump City's sewers. Nightmare turns and walks towards the hideout, satisfied that his job was done, and that his own plan went into motion as well.

gasp! what could Nightmare's plan be? To find out, you will have to wait for Chapter 6! or maybe 7. I dunno. just keep reading dammit.