My Season 4 - VOL. III

Reunion, Part 1

The 6th Teen Titans Fanscript – Fanfic Adaptation

By RavenStar

Author's Note: The plot of "Reunion" is as follows: Jinx has switched sides. Slade has returned. Terra's back. What could possibly happen to the Titans next? Then Raven gets a visitor. Let the nightmare begin.

Note #1: OneLine appears briefly in Part 3, as well as do four other fancharacters I created for my first fanscript – villains called The Writer, The Director, The Cameraman, and The Producer. The fanscript those three characters has been adapted and posted up here – it is my story "Behind The Scenes."

Note #2: "Reunion" draws HEAVILY from the 80's comics. ALL of Reunion, Part 1 is dialogue, with no fight scenes – the only fights in Part 1 are arguments. It might seem boring for some people, but trust, all of it will pay off in the end.


ACT THREE

Jinx and Raven were still on Raven's bed. They had pretty much not moved since the night - nor did it seem that they had had any sleep at all. Raven's head was still being cradled by Jinx, and Raven - save for her wide-open eyes - looked almost calmed down. However, some tear stains remained.

"Jinx?" Raven asked.

"Yeah, Raven?"

"I-I'm sorry. I should have told you-"

Jinx cut her off. "But you didn't. That was your choice. I can see why you didn't, now. I wouldn't want to tell anyone about something that awful, either. If I had gone through something like that - so young –"

Raven looked at Jinx. "But now you know, Jinx." Hmph. For some reason, I thought you knowing – it would drive us further apart. But I guess - I guess it hasn't, has it?"

"No. It hasn't. We're closer now."

Raven looked off, as if in a daze. "Closer..."

"R-Raven?" asked Jinx, suddenly concerned.

Raven looked directly into her eyes. "It's time, Jinx."

Jinx smiled through watered eyes.


Starfire, Robin, Beast Boy, Terra, and Cyborg were all sitting on the couch, all seemingly talking at once.

The double doors opened.

All the conversation stopped.

In the doorway stood Jinx, Arella, and Raven.

Raven looked at Arella, who nodded, then looked at the Titans on the couch. "My daughter has something she wishes to tell you all." She looked back at Raven again. Raven's eyes told her something was missed. Arella turned back to the rest of the Titans. "But first, she requests that I share with you what knowledge about herself she does not possess or remember for being far too young of age."

Raven nodded. Arella was relieved.

"Well, don't just stand there, you know. Beast Boy grinned. "Cyborg's warmin' the seats for ya'."

"Yeah, you three - come on, siddown..." Cyborg patted the seats.

The three in the doorway looked at each other. Jinx shrugged her shoulders and they headed for the couch.

"Whatever knowledge you wish us to possess, Raven, I assure you we shall keep it to ourselves," Starfire promised.

Raven smirked, blushing. "Thanks, Star. I appreciate it."

"That's what friends are for," said Robin.

She sat down alongside Jinx, and looked at Arella.

"Mother, you go first."

Arella sat down between Raven and Beast Boy. "Alright."

All the Titans leaned in to hear the story.

"It all began when I was young—"


"YOUR ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES!"

The man's voice rang out into the night as a young girl with black hair dropped out of an open window, carrying a stuffed duffel bag. A huge black crow cawed outside the window. "Quiet, you stupid bird!" the girl hissed

"I lived in Gotham City. Back then, my name was Angela Roth. My family - let's just say they weren't the greatest."

Angela started running down the dark city streets.

"I ran away from home. I didn't even think my parents realized I was gone - or if they did - they didn't care."


Having reached a highway, Angela was still running.

She passed a sign that read "LEAVING GOTHAM CITY."

Angela just kept on running.


Angela came to rest outside an abandoned church, exhausted. The huge crow landed nearby Angela's position and cawed once more. "STOP FOLLOWING ME, YOU STUPID BIRD!" she yelled at it again.

"I fled to this city. I was so exhausted when I arrived... I was so thirsty..."

Underneath the bird's flapping wings, Angela saw a jug of water with four markings on it that looked like red eyes. It was in the old abandoned church. She immediately went up to it and started chugging.

"Can I help you?"

Angela turned. A woman in a green cloak & gold dress stood a few metres away.

"I'm sorry," said Angela, startled, "I was just thirst - oh, jeez. Did I just drink, like, sacred water?"

The woman shook her head. "No, young girl. Not exactly. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tala."

Angela realized she was surrounded by green-cloaked people.

"And all are welcome within these walls." Tala looked at one of the men surrounding Angela. "Isn't that right, Buzz?"

Buzz nodded. "All are welcome."

The group closed around Angela.

"All."

"Stay." Tala looked at Angela. "You are tired. Let us grace you with our hospitality for the night."

Angela had no way out.


A few months later, Angela was with the group in the church again—

—wearing a green cloak and a gold dress.

"It wasn't that I had no choice. It was just...they were the first people who accepted me. I had never been accepted before."

Angela was in the middle of everyone, who were in a circle around her. She was standing on a slightly elevated platform.

"They said they had all suddenly woken up with the realization that they were not truly part of this world, that this was not their true place of origin... They told me that they had discovered there was another One - and that I was that One. I was to be the One who would bridge the gap between this world and the dimension they claimed to be from. I was to be married to a King from the other side - and by my doing so, I would allow all of them to return home."

The group chanted something in unison. A dimensional portal opened in front of Angela. An insanely handsome man appeared.

"When he first appeared to me, he was so handsome - his eyes were flecked with gold and danced with sunlight..."

The man took Angela's hand. He lead her through the portal, back to the dimension on the other side.

"It seemed that time had come to a complete stop in the dimension of his. But I didn't care about that. I had just gotten married. I had a husband. I - I, who had never known love before - O', was I ever in love with this man! Until I told him I was going to have a child. The moment he learned I was going to have a baby, did he show his true form to me - did he show me the demon that he really was: Trigon."

Angela stood in horror, looking at a bright red, antlered, four-eyed demon - known better as TRIGON THE TERRIBLE.

"Whoah whoah whoah whoah whoah! Hold up!"


"Bright red?" asked Beast Boy. "Four eyes? Wasn't he the dude that we helped Raven fight when we uh, accidentally found that mirror that's, like, a portal into her mind?"

"That was all my Anger manifested as Trigon," Raven growled. "It was NOT the real him. Now shut up and let mother tell the story!"

Beast Boy instantly slammed his clapper shut. Raven looked at Arella. "Go on, mother."

"Thank you, Raven," said Arella.


Trigon was laughing viciously at Angela. He grabbed her by her hair as she screamed, and leaned down to her face. "I'll be back for my daughter later, when the time comes for her to join me!" the demon snarled.

He hurled Angela back through the still-open portal to Earth.

Outside the abandoned church, everyone had left. The four-eyed water jar was smashed.


The Titans looked at Arella as she struggled to say what came next.

Finally, Arella did it:

"I had been abandoned. Again. I wished for the strength to destroy myself."


A pregnant Angela was weeping in the alley behind the church.

"But as I was about to - I was saved."

Another dimensional portal opened. A man in a cloak exactly resembling Raven's, save its grey colour, appeared in it. Angela was hesitant to go with him, but soon she obliged, and after taking the man's hand, was bathed in golden light.

"I was taken to Azarath," Arella told the Titans, "the dimension that exists between all dimensions. It was the last time I ever set foot on Earth - until I arrived yesterday. It is now Azarath, not Earth, that I call home. It is where Raven was born – and where I was informed of the prophecy."


"Prophecy?" asked Cyborg.

Arella started in - but Raven waved her hand, cutting her off.

Then Raven explained it. "Trigon's trapped in his Netherverse right now. That's where mother was taken when he appeared to her. The prophecy decrees that "When the time is nigh, Trigon's offspring shall succumb to His evil influence which exists inside them deep," and merge with him in his Netherverse - allowing him to cross dimensions - and into this world."

All the Titans, except for Jinx and Raven, were aghast.

"Raven," asked Starfire, "when the Puppet King switched our bodies and we had to learn of each other, you told a different tale. Why?"

Raven blushed guiltily. "I didn't trust you as much, Starfire. We'd barely been a team back then."

Raven looked at her friends. Jinx quietly took her hand. Raven smiled hesitantly. "But even though I fear that the time is drawing nearer, I trust all of you now."

TO BE CONTINUED...

END ACT THREE