My Season 4 - VOL. III

Reunion, Part 6

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 TWO

The stone-encased Titans Tower, hanging in midair, smashed down on top of Starfire, Cyborg, and Terra.

"STARFIRE!" Robin screamed.

"TERRA! CYBORG!" Beast Boy cried.

Trigon just laughed. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

The dust thrown out by the Tower's impact settled.

There was no movement from the huge pile of rubble.

"Oh, you did NOT just do that!" said Beast Boy.

He transformed — into Godzilla!...or in this case, a similar but cheap knockoff of Godzilla.

"Well, um... that's new," said Robin.

Trigon looked at the morphed Beast Boy. "I WILL HONOR THE FACT THAT YOU AT LEAST TRIED TO MATCH ME - BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE THE POWER THAT I DO, GREEN CHILD!"

"Godzilla" Beast Boy roared and spit his radioactive breath at Trigon - but Trigon simply blocked it with his open palm.

"A LAST FUTILE RESISTANCE. HOW DROLL."

With a flick of his wrist, he forced Beast Boy to morph back to his human self - then smashed the green-skinned Titan into the ground with the butt of his staff!

Robin hurled his explosive discs up at Trigon. They hit the demon about halfway up his chest.

"BEGONE, INSECT!" Trigon buried Robin into the ground with the butt of his staff.

The Demon Kinglooked at Jinx. "YOUR TEAMMATES ARE GONE, CHILD. AND THEIR SOULS HAVE FLED WITH THEIR LIVES."

Jinx's eyes started crackling with purple energy.

Trigon continued ranting. "STILL, IT MATTERS LITTLE. THEIR SOULS ARE NOT NEEDED FOR MY FINAL PLANS."

Jinx summoned her soul-self and transports her, Arella, and Raven to somewhere within the middle of downtown Jump City.

Trigon slowly walked over to where Jinx teleported to.

"THIS WORLD HAS BREATHED ITS LAST. IT HAS SEEN ITS FINAL GLORY. BUT BEFORE IT IS GONE - IT WILL, FOR AN INSTANT, AGAIN BURN BRIGHT."

He stopped walking, looked up, and sighed.

"AHHHH, RAVEN - THE GLORY COULD HAVE BEEN YOURS, TOO."

He resumed his walking.

"I HAD SUCH HOPES FOR US, DAUGHTER. BUT THEN YOUR MOTHER WAS TAKEN IN BY AZAR - SHE WHO HAS FOLLOWED ME IN ALL MY DISGUISES FROM WORLD TO WORLD." Even Trigon seemed to be holding back his clear hatred. "AZAR ANTICIPATED MY NEXT MOVE. SHE TOOK MY WIFE AND MY DAUGHTER TO THE SACRILEGIOUS TEMPLE SHE BUILT ON EARTH."

Trigon stood directly overhead Arella and Jinx. The two women were so small compared to him, they almost seemed to blend in with the rest of the stone-encased buildings that surrounded them. Trigon looked at the lifeless Evil Raven being cradled in Jinx's arms. Jinx refused to look up at Trigon.

"AZAR TOOK HER TO AZARATH AND FED HER LIES! SHE TRIED TO DISPEL MY BLOOD FROM HER VEINS...BUT SHE FAILED, MISERABLY."

Arella's teeth ground in anger as she looked up, glaring at the TOWERING Trigon through her tears for her daughter.

"AZAR, AS YOUR OWN WORLD WAS DESTROYED, SO, TOO, SHALL THE MORTALS' WORLD BE SOON ENDED. FOR THIS WORLD, ESPECIALLY, HAS BEEN NOTHING BUT A NUISANCE FOR ME FOR THE LONGEST TIME. THIS WORLD, THIS INSIGNIFICANT THREAD OF LIGHT IN THE WOVEN TAPESTRY OF DEEP SPACE – HAS RESISTED MY POWER FOR FAR TOO LONG."

Trigon paused. "FROM HERE CAME THE WARRIORS AND SORCERERS WHO SOMEHOW MANAGED TO TRAP ME IN THE NETHERVERSE."

He paused again. "AS LONG AS EARTH EXISTS, IT REMAINS A SYMBOL OF DEFIANCE FOR THE REST OF THE WORLDS AND A REMINDER THAT I, TRIGON, HAVE BEEN DEFEATED. THUS, ARELLA, YOU AND THIS SORCERESS CHILD YOU STAY BY SHALL NOW WATCH AS IT PERISHES!"

"Why?" asked Arella. "Why Raven? Why my daughter? I LOVED her."

Her remark sparked a light in Trigon's eyes. They narrowed.

Arella continued. "You were never her father, Trigon. You never cared for her. You never loved She was mine. And you took her away from me!"

Trigon was taken aback. "HOW DARE YOU SAY I DID NOT LOVE MY DAUGHTER WHEN, TO ESCAPE THE NETHERVERSE, I SIPHONED THE ENERGIES FROM ONE HUNDRED BILLION SOULS OF MY UNIVERSE IN HER NAME! THOSE SOULS GAVE ME THE POWER TO COME HERE - TO CLAIM MY DAUGHTER. NOW, I WILL USE THE ENERGIES FROM THE FOUR BILLION SOULS OF YOUR FELLOW MORTALS TO RECLAIM THOSE SOULS WHICH I SACRIFICED AND RETURN TO MY HOME - THE UNIVERSE OF MY BIRTH!"

Jinx narrowed her eyes.

Trigon paid her no heed. "THIS DIMENSION SHALL CEASE TO BE. BUT MINE, ARELLA — MINE SHALL LIVE AGAIN!"

The huge winged creatures that breathed fire suddenly flew by in a huge flock. Trigon smiled sinisterly.

"AH. EVEN NOW, MY WINGED CREATURES OBEY MY COMMANDS... EVEN NOW THEY PREPARE MY PATH, THE ONE I SHALL TAKE TO GET HOME."

Jinx's body began to crackle with purple energy.

Trigon continued gloating. "DESPITE RAVEN'S PASSING, I HAVE SUCCEEDED, ARELLA, DESPITE YOUR PRECIOUS AZAR, DESPITE THE CHILDREN WHO RESISTED MY POWER... DESPITE THAT GENERAL OF MINE TURNING & BETRAYING ME!"

Jinx was just about to attack—

WHAM! A wave of fire about four hundred feet high crashed into Trigon from behind him, burning his cape to nothing.

Slade flew up from behind the buildings, the fierce fire burning in a car below him making the masked man seemingly appear to rise like a phoenix out from under the ashes.

"You didn't think you could get rid of me that easily, could you, Trigon?" Slade growled.

"YOU! HOW DID YOU-"

"I'm your General, remember?"

"YOU ARE NOT MY GENERAL ANYMORE. YOU ARE NO MORE THAN A GREATLY SHAMED TRAITOR!"

Slade threw up a fire shield to block the blast from Trigon's staff. Trigon tried to grab Slade out of midair, but Slade morphed into a bird and dodged the demon's attempts until Trigon grew frustrated and gave up on that method.

Slade landed on a building and threw up a fire shield as he morphed back to human form.

"Quite right. I'm not your General anymore. I shouldn't be here. But yet I am here. I retain the powers you gave me, and subsequently sought to take away from me. I don't know how or why this happened, but I know I am here, - and that I will destroy you this time."

"HAHHAHHAHHAH!" Trigon laughed. "YOU FOOL! YOU CHALLENGE ME WHEN I CAN SQUASH YOU LIKE AN ANT?"

"Then go ahead."

Slade offered himself with no resistance.

"Squash me."

Trigon refused to take him up on his offer. "NO. I AM FINDING ALL OF THIS HIGHLY AMUSING. I SHALL MAKE YOU SUFFER FIRST BEFORE I SQUASH YOU, BETRAYER. NOW, WHAT MAKES YOU SO PREPOSTEROUSLY SURE OF YOUR CLAIM THAT YOU CAN DEFEAT ME?"

"Nothing makes me sure 100 percent."

"WISE WORDS - FROM A FOOLISH MAN."

"Foolish?" Slade asked. "No. Not foolish. Human."

"YOU ARE NOT HUMAN, THOUGH, TRAITOR."

"Quite true," Slade noted. "I am not human. But that does not mean I do not respect them."

"DO NOT TELL ME YOU HAVE FEELINGS FOR THIS PATHETIC MORTAL RACE, BETRAYER?"

Jinx was surprised to hear that. She took her eyes off of Raven for a moment to look at Slade, curious for his answer.

Slade looked at Trigon. "I have lived around them long enough to understand what it means to be one."

"HO! SO BY LIVING AMONGST THEM, YOU HAVE BECOME ONE OF THEM - AN UTTER COWARD?" Trigon laughed in his own amusement.

Slade was angered by the suggestion. "I have the courage to stand before you after betraying you and ordering your daughter's extermination. I would watch one's tongue in calling that cowardice!"

"HMMM..." Trigon thought it over. "YOU MAKE A GOOD POINT. BUT YOU HAVE STILL BECOME QUITE WEAK IN YOUR TIME SPENT ON THIS PLANET."

"I have not become weak. I have learned."

"OH? AND WHAT IS THIS THAT YOU HAVE LEARNED, PRAY TELL?"

"A great many things," said Slade.

This elicited a belly laugh from Trigon.

""A GREAT MANY THINGS?" "A GREAT MANY THINGS?" HAH! WHATEVER HAS BECOME OF YOU? YOU WERE ONCE MY MOST TRUSTED ASSISTANT. NOW YOU ARE A WEAKLING A WEAKLING WHO HAS CHOSEN TO BETRAY ME!"

"Don't try to hide it, Trigon. I can see right through you. You're scared. You won't admit it, but I can sense it in your soul. You're scared of me. You're scared that the children you believe that you just got rid of actually survived somehow and are now in hiding somewhere, building up their plans in secret - their plans to destroy you and return this world back to the way it belongs to be. They can yet win, and you are afraid of this."

Trigon didn't respond.

"No answer?" asked Slade. "Then I do speak the truth?" He sighed. "Well, to accuse one of cowardice, the accuser has to be a coward himself, no?"

The wrong thing to say.

BLAM! Trigon caught Slade with a tremendous punch!

Slade smashed through about half of all the buildings in the city. Red lightning crashed as he slammed into the ground.

"I AM NO COWARD!" Trigon roared. "I AM TRIGON! I FEAR NOTHING! HOW DARE YOU ACCUSE ME OF COWARDICE! NOW YOU SHALL PAY THE PRICE!"

Trigon sprinted after his former General. He found him—

—when Slade launched two ropes of fire that wrapped around Trigon's feet, then lurched back at Slade—

—tripping up the giant demon and sending him plowing through many windows of buildings spanning many blocks.

While his former superior officer was down, Slade conjured a huge blade of fire and slashed and slashed at Trigon's back.

Trigon quickly got up and tried to snatch Slade up again - but Slade disappeared in a CRACK! of red lightning.

"YOU RUN! LET THIS BE A LESSON, COWARD!" Trigon cackled.

"A LESSON IN NOTHING?"

"WHAT?"

Red lighting CRACKED! - and Slade appeared. He punched Trigon in the face with a gigantic fist of fire, sending the demon reeling backwards and crashing through some more buildings.

"Or a lesson in defeat?" Slade asked.

END ACT TWO