After their fight with Cinderblock the Titans were back at the tower trying to relax and gather their thoughts. Could it really have been Slade who broke Cinderblock out of prison they all wondered? All they could think about was how in the world he could be alive after their last encounter with them. "There's something to this we're not seeing right now." Robin mentioned. "We need to find out."
Meanwhile back in the city, it was late at night. Some of the businesses had closed down for the evening. But Blackfire was still anxious to find the guys who tried to attack her. And she knew just where to go.
She snuck into a business building, just right across from where Titans Tower was and snuck onto a computer. It didn't take her too long to crack the codes to get in. She knew quite a bit how to hack computers for an alien. She had managed to connect and hack into the mainframe at Titans Tower. They had to know something about the guys who attacked but she didn't know any of these guys they'd fought with.
She went to where they had the list of criminals the Titans had fought and were still searching for. It was a long list, so she went to the search link and typed in the word "Rock" and hit enter. It brought up a shorter list. Then she noticed the name with the picture of Cinderblock as she recognized him. She clicked on his profile.
She read his profile: "Cinderblock- A huge mammoth made of cement rock, Cinderblock has attempted to rob several stores and hurt anyone who gets in his way. His has also joined forces with Slade on occasions to carry out certain missions……"
Slade she stopped. His name had a link attached to it. It must lead to his profile she thought. She stopped and clicked Slade's profile.
She read: "Slade- Has been a long time rival with the Teen Titans; on many occasions has attempted to destroy the city, and had once forced Robin to serve as his apprentice" hehe that'd be an interesting idea she thought to herself. She read on. "After Robin escaped and failed to stop him, Slade later came across Terra, the blonde girl with the ability to control rock. Slade would then convince her to come to him and serve him….."
She stopped again! Ability to control rock? Terra's name also had a link on it. She remembered fighting that mysterious girl and how she made all those boulders fly and shape-shifted all the rocks into different things. She then she remembered hearing that voice. That man's voice. "Apprentice! Come! Now!" This had to be her! She had to be that girl who attacked her and tried to destroy her! She immediately clicked Terra's profile!
She read: "Terra- When the Titans first met her she was a lost lonely little girl with the awesome power to telekinetically control rock. The Titans offered her to join the team, but she ran away afraid since she couldn't control her powers. She went to Slade, who trained her to control her powers and forced her to be his loyal apprentice…." This was her! Blackfire had found who she was after. "…However, Terra realized what she was doing was wrong and turned on Slade……. Was then turned into stone…." Blackfire read on. She went back to Slade's profile and re-read everything about him. He did the same with Terra.
Back at Titans Tower Robin was still trying to figure everything out as Cyborg and BeastBoy played the Gamestation and Raven and Starfire did their own thing. Then suddenly there was a bang on the door! The Titans all stopped what they were doing as they went and answered.
It was Aqualad.
"Aqualad?" Robin said. "What are you doing here?"
"Something's wrong." Aqualad said.
Moments later they were looking at the big screen in the living room. "I just found this at the bottom of the ocean, just a couple miles away from here" he explained to the Titans. "I don't know what it is, but I don't trust it! Maybe you can help me figure out what it is."
Aqualad showed the Titans a picture of it
"Huh?" Robin said.
"Dude!" BeastBoy replied.
"What the heck is that thing?" Cyborg said.
The Titans were looking at the wreckage of what appeared to be a sunken alien spacecraft, lying at the bottom of the sea.
Starfire gasped. "I… I think I know what that is!" she said. "You do?" Robin replied.
"That looks just like one of the transportation vehicles used by the cops! Well, the cops of the universe. They track down and capture criminals from several planets and take them into jail!" she told them.
"But what's it doing out here?" Cyborg asked.
"There aren't any aliens here on earth….. are there?" Raven asked.
"Maybe the criminals just like to come and hide on earth" BeastBoy was saying "cause it's such a cool planet!"
"Wait a minute" Robin said. "Unless….." but then the alarm in the tower went off. Trouble.
Blackfire was flying through the darkness in a cave as she glowed her hands for light. She was still after Slade and Terra. Supposedly she was in the cave where Slade and Terra had their little climatic battle and where Slade supposedly fell into lava and Terra ended up sacrificing her self and turned to stone. Slade must have somehow survived and brought Terra back to life if these were really the ones who attacked her. If they had come back from the dead there had to be some sort of clue about them and there whereabouts in this cave she thought!
She made it to the end of the cave and into the big area where everything happened. She looked around. There was some old broken machinery, and all the ground had become igneous cooled lava. Then she looked up as the light from her glowing hand reflecting of something. It was the metal plague with Terra's name on it that the Titans had put in her honor. Then she looked above it. There was Terra, a still and motionless stone; a statue of a true friend that was no more!
But wait a minute she thought! This isn't right! If Terra is still alive why is she still here a statue? Terra had to be the one who attacked her earlier that night! It had to be her…… unless, she thought…
Finally Blackfire turned around with an amused look on her face. "Oh Terra!" she called out loud. "You're a funny little girl!" she yelled. "You almost had me fooled for a second here, making this little statue of yourself here to confuse me! It does look just like you!" Terra must be hiding in the darkness of the cave having waited for Blackfire to come find her she thought. "You don't have to hide from me you know! I know all about you!" her fist began to glow. "Why don't you come out so we can chat face to face?"
But there was no answer. Nothing after Blackfire stopped. Just a moment of silence.
Blackfire was getting angry. "Ter-RA!" she yelled out loud again. "I know you're here you little coward! Why don't you come out here and let's finish what we started! You really think you can get away with trying to crush me like that?"
"Actually" a voice came from nowhere! "It wasn't Terra who tried to fight you back there!" a man suddenly appeared from the darkness. "It was me, Blackfire!"
She looked at the man. It was him! It was indeed SLADE!
"Slade" she said in complete shock. "Wait a minute? How do you know who I am?"
"The same way you found out about me!" he said! "I've been dying to met you for some time now!"
"Where is she?" Blackfire yelled.
"Who?" Slade said.
"That little bitch! Terra!" Blackfire yelled. "Me and her have a little score to settle here!"
"Why she's standing right behind you!" Slade suddenly answered.
Blackfire looked behind and saw Terra had walked out of the darkness. She was standing pale like a rock. "Relax" Slade said. "She's not going to try to fight you."
"I don't care!" Blackfire immediately launched out at her but suddenly Terra floated up on a rock out of the way at to Slade.
"Enough" he yelled to Blackfire. "Terra isn't going to fight you. I won't let her."
Blackfire looked up again at the Terra statue. Now she knew it was a fake.
"In fact she can't fight you. Because I'm controlling her every move" he said as he lifted his hand up. Terra did the exact as Slade did it.
"Huh?" Blackfire said in shock. But then she stopped and remembered reading Terra's profile: how Slade was able to control Terra with the suit she was wearing.
"Wait so it was you who tried to attack me wasn't it?" she yelled.
"I wasn't necessarily trying to destroy you Blackfire. But merely I was testing your ability, your strength, your power! Don't you think if I really wanted to destroy you, you wouldn't be here right now?" he said in a sort of sadistic way. "A dark little girl like you? With tremendous power?"
"What do you want from me?" she asked.
"You're an amazing little girl Blackfire. You're one of the biggest criminals in the universe!" Slade began to say. "You're gifted with extreme power! Yet no one seems to understand you! You're just different from everyone around you. And you were even banished from your own home planet by your own sister. You're one of the most wanted and hated and misunderstood people out there, even the Teen Titans want to stop you. But I can help dear child!"
"Huh?" Blackfire said. She didn't trust him.
"Join me!" he said aloud to her. "Join me Blackfire! Me and Terra. I can help get what you've always wanted; together we'll destroy the Teen Titans once and for all, along with your sister. And then the three of us shall rule this entire planet, together!"
"Join you? Destroy the Teen Titans?" Blackfire said. "How crazy do you think I am?" she yelled back.
"What do you mean?" Slade whispered.
"I have my own issues with the Titans, but I don't have any intention to try and destroy them!" she said. "Besides, do you really think I would join with someone as crazy and psychotic as you? Especially after what you did trying to kill me?"
"What other choice do you have?" Slade said angrily. "Where else will you go? You can't go back to you're home planet! You're already the most wanted criminal out there. And here, you'll only be the most wanted criminal on the Titans list! Trust me! I know you would!"
"Forget it!" she shouted to him. "I'm not coming with you, no matter what you do!"
Then Terra lifted her arm up. "Wrong answer!" she suddenly said. Then all the sudden Blackfire was blasted as Terra made the ground explode in front of her and as she hurled a boulder towards her. Blackfire immediately blasted it with her starbolts. Then Slade and Terra floated up on a rock and began to fly away. "You have no where else to go! No other choice!" Slade called out to her. Terra opened up a tunnel as she and Slade disappeared into it. "I'll be waiting!" Slade said to her.
Blackfire tried to chase after them but Terra closed up the tunnel. They had gotten away, AGAIN!
Blackfire was as angry as she could be. She eyed the fake statue of Terra. With all her anger she glowed her eyes and her hands and fired at it and watched it blowup and crumble to dust!
All the sudden, "GASP"
"NO" a voice whispered.
"What did you do?" Robin said.
Blackfire suddenly turned around in shock and terror. There standing in the opening of the cave were none other than the Teen Titans!
TO BE CONTINUED
Disclaimer: I am not associated with Teen Titans in any way at all.