My Season 4 - VOL. II

A Firma Line

The 4th Teen Titans Fanscript – Fanfic Adaptation

By RavenStar

Author's Note: The plot of "A Firma Line" is as follows: With Jinx now on the team, the Titans' number is even at 6 members. But 6 may not be enough to defeat the new villain OneLine. Can an old friend help to be the unlucky number 7 and tip the balance in the Titans' favor?

NOTE: OneLine is a character made up by me.


ACT ONE

Two days after Jinx joined the Titans, the sun rose over Titans Tower. It was a bright, sunny, happy day—


—or perhaps just a just a bright and sunny day, according to the scene inside the Tower.

Cyborg was pacing the room, upset about something.

Raven and Jinx were drinking herbal tea at the counter. Beast Boy, Robin, and Starfire were watching Cyborg from the couch.

Cyborg was in the middle of a rant. "I can't believe Slade got away from us again. We had him unconscious, we came out of Raven's mirror - WE HAD HIM IN OUR TOWER, and AGAIN he disappears-"

"Dude, Cyborg?" Beast Boy asked. "You know much you sound like how much Robin used to sound like?"

Cyborg was caught off guard. "Uh..."

"What he means is," Robin clarified, "you're obsessing over Slade."

"Yeah, Cyborg," Raven piped in. "You didn't even want to go after Brother Blood this badly."

"I know, but-" Cyborg stopped pacing and sighed. "We had him right we wanted him to be. And yet - he still got away from us."

Robin got up and went to his room. "Now you know how I felt about him."

"Now what's that supposed to mean?" Cyborg asked, watching Robin leave. Starfire watched Robin leave too. She turned back to everyone else after he had left the room.

"I am not privy to what Robin is thinking, but if I were to make a guess, I would conjecture that he may simply be trying to avoid a situation similar to that of the one where he threatened to endanger all of our lives in his pursuit of that imaginary Slade."

"That would be reasonable," said Raven.

"I don't really find it that hard to believe that Slade escaped again," said Jinx. "He's so slimy, no wonder he got away."

"Yeah, that guy's such a slug, man," added Beast Boy.

Cyborg pounded his fist into his other palm. "A slug that needs to be salted..."

"We shall capture Slade one day," Starfire reassured. "Though he is a most highly elusive adversary, he simply cannot hide from us forever."

"Starfire's right, Cy," Jinx chimed in. "Let it go."

"Besides," said Raven, "there are other criminals besides Slade we need to worry about right now.

BRANKK! BRANKK! The alarms went off. Beast Boy looked at Raven.

"How'd you know that was gonna happen?"

Jinx grinned at Raven. "She's magic, remember?"

"It's happening at the park!" Robin rushed in. "Titans, GO!"

They rushed out of the Tower.


Alongside the streets of Jump City, Starfire flew alongside a hawk Beast Boy. Robin drove on the R-Cycle. Cyborg, Jinx, and Raven were in the T-Car.

Inside the T-Car, Raven had a question. "So, who are we up against today?"


"Someone new," Robin replied, racing down the streets.


"New villains to replace the old..." Jinx muttered.

"Natural balance, eh?" Cyborg quipped.

Jinx nodded.


Robin added some more info. "All reports say his name is "OneLine.""


Beast Boy changes to human as the Titans reached the park. ""OneLine?" Why'd he call himself that?"

The Titans STOPPED as they stumble upon OneLine. They all gasped.

"Because that's what he is-" noted Cyborg-

"-one line!" Robin finished.

Indeed, OneLine was just that - one line. No limbs, no face - just one solid, straight line.

Raven groaned. "Please tell me this is a joke..."

"Oh, it's no joke when you're up against ONELINE! AHAHAHAHAHAHAH!" the villain cackled, sounding more insane than Mumbo and Mad Mod combined." He attackec by turning into a horizontal "U" and throwing his edges out at the Titans. Beast Boy saw the edges coming down upon him and turned into a jackrabbit, leaping out of the way as the edges slammed into the ground in front of him.

"Hey, what's with that jazz?" OneLine whined.

"All of it!" Cyborg replied, firing his sonic cannon at the villain.

When the dust clears, OneLine was still there - though he was in the shape of a circle now.

"Oh, you're going to have to do better than that, my friend!"

Robin wrapped up OneLine around his bo staff. "Who says he's your friend?" the Boy Wonder asked the villain

"Why, I do, of course!" OneLine rapidly unwrapped himself from the bo staff, shooting straight into the air. Robin spun in place like a yo-yo until OneLine fully escaped—

—then slammed into the ground.

"Sorry to clip your wings, Bird Boy!" OneLine taunted, soaring up into the air

Raven helps Robin up.

"If there's one thing I know," said Robin, "it's cheesy one-liners - and that was just moldy."

"Well, he's about to become yogurt," Raven said, looking up. "Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!"

A dark energy grappling hook shot up into the sky and snagged itself on the retreating OneLine. "Gah! What?" exclaimed the stunned villain.

"Get over here!" Raven commanded. "She yanked down, and OneLine immediately plummeted, screaming during the fall. "AHHHHH!"

"Anddd he who rises..." said Jinx, watching.

"AHHHHH!" OneLine was still falling.

"…must fall." Robin said, also watching.

OneLine slammed into the ground.

"For that is the balance of things," Raven added.

"Uh, refresh my memory - when did this become a yoga class?" Cyborg asked.

"Yeah-" Beast Boy added, "I thought we were fighting here, peoples!"

WHAM! OneLine suddenly broke free of Raven's dark energy hook and split into four edges which crashed into Robin, Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy, pinning them on the ground.

Jinx backed up, her eyes now glowing purple. "You missed one."

She sent hexes like scissors. They sliced and diced their way through OneLine, freeing the pinned Titans. OneLine only laughed. "I may have forgotten one, but you just made many!"

Like hydras, the many pieces of OneLine suddenly shot out tendrils. They all tried to capture Jinx, but she was too gymnastic and dodged all of the attacks.

"'Well, you're just a regular rubber maid, aren't you, my dear?" The pieces of OneLine re-formed into a whole line again.

"At least I'm not twist-twied!" Jinx answered. OneLine tried to wrap around her, but she backflipped, and in mid-flip, grabbed his two edges and tied them into a knot.

Jinx delicately stuck the landing on her flip.

"Sealed and tied."

"Ziplocked..." Beast Boy started.

"Ok, yeah - that ends now," Cyborg said.

"Uh...guys?" Raven tapped them on the shoulder.

"Huh?" asked Robin – then saw what she was pointing out.

OneLine's edges were slowly backtracking the intricate knot Jinx just tied him up in.

They snapped free and OneLine attacked again - but a bit slow, so all the Titans easily dodged him.

SCHING!SCHING!SCHING!SCHING!SCHING!SCHING!SCHING!SCHING!

Like alien daggers stabbing their moving prey, OneLine's edges repeatedly stabbed at the Titans. However, still lethargic from being tied up in a knot, each edge completely missed their mark and ended up eating dirt.

"Enjoy the soil dinner!" said Cyborg

BLAM! OneLine once again dodged the sonic cannon. The sonic cannon was followed by a barrage of starbolts from Starfire. But OneLine had regained strength, and managed to avoid them.

Robin stepped forward "My turn again."

He sents a kicks OneLine's way- only to have his foot grabbed and him thrown into the air. "WHOAHAOAH!" he cried as he rocketed skyward.

"ROBIN!" shrieked Starfire, soaring into the air after him.

"Eee hee! Have a nice FLIGHT, Bird Boy!" OneLine taunted.

"Now!" Raven said.

"Say cheese!" OneLine cackled

As the remaining Titans bumrushed OneLine, he turned into a cheesecloth-like grid - and all the Titans ran into it!

Starfire returned shortly with Robin - but OneLine caught the two completely off guard, trapping them as well.

"It seems I've got you trapped! AHAHAH-"

FOOOOOM! A column of rock burst out of the ground right underneath OneLine. As it streaked into the air, branches of rock extended outward around it, then curled inward and over top of OneLine, fusing with the rock around it – cementing OneLine to the rock. The column retreated, and fused with the ground when it crashed into it, sending up a huge cloud of debris.

"And it seems I have you pinned," said Terra as the dust cloud cleared.

END ACT ONE