Chapter 2: Waking Up to Hell, and Reunion
Disclaimer (again): I don't own the Teen Titans. Warner Bros. Does.
Icarus woke, cramped in his capsule… 'Wait, capsule? I don't remember being in a capsule!' He thought, 'Damn! I have to find a way out.' Tapping on all sides of the capsule he felt glass right in front of his face. Punching it as hard as he could it shattered outwards, depressurizing the capsule so that he could get out. Of course what he woke to was not what he expected. 'What happened to this place?' He thought. The room was full of broken glass and there was dust floating everywhere. Turning around he saw two swords. 'Perfect,' He thought 'these may come in handy.' Needing to get out side to find out what was happening, he saw desolate waste lands, grayish matter falling from the sky being blown around by winds of 30 mph or more. "What in the hell happened to this place?" He murmured.
Hearing something the beast sped towards its prey.
Hearing something running towards him he unsheathed his swords and made quick filet of his stalker. He turned to look at his attacker, beholding a hell hound (If you've ever seen Hell Boy) looking thing; the difference though is this thing, unlike hell hounds, died. Looking to his left he saw a destroyed Titans Tower, his long auburn hair shaking the gray matter out of it. 'I have to find out what happened here!' He thought speeding off to the remains of the once great Tower.
He climbed into the skylight and made his way to the basement. (Hey, if you thought a nuclear war happened what would you do?) Finding it mostly intact he walked slowly in the darkness knowing that anything, particularly something that wanted to kill him, could easily do so if he was not careful. Looking around he made his way to the only door he could find. Turning the handle slowly sword at ready he pushed it open to find a room with everything he needed and more. Quickly moving in he shut the door. Only to be greeted by a blade to his neck.
"You have thirty seconds to tell me who you are and how you got here." The blade holder said.
"My name is Icarus Regen; I came here because it was the only other building standing after I got out of the science lab." He said with a quaver of nervousness in his voice.
"Icarus?" The blade holder said, "You're fine then, come sit down and have some food."
Mildly surprised, Icarus said, "Thank you, but what is your name?"
Turning on the light the speaker said, "It's me, Robin."
"Robin," Icarus said, "Thank God I found a familiar face!"
"I'm glad you weren't a killer or a mutant." Robin said relieved.
Sitting down and grabbing a rather petite banana Icarus began to eat. When he was finished he asked, "I need to know what caused that… Hell, out there to happen."
Robin sighed, "It was half a year after you went away, around 1:00 in the afternoon an earthquake began, the difference between this quakes an others is this one kept getting worse. The Titans were deployed to find out the cause and after an hour the earth split down about one and a half miles and IT came out…"
Icarus was very interested now; it was similar to what happened in his friends planet. "What was… it?"
Robin sighed again, "We don't know, we still don't…"
"Describe it then."
"It looked like some sort of parasitic insect though obviously much bigger. It had and unearthly screech, that struck fear into everyone's hearts. Its defining feature though was its three mouth-parts that had a single blue "eye" inside of it… So do you know what it is?"
Icarus was stunned. That description Robin gave matched that Lavos'. "Lavos…" Icarus said, almost inaudibly.
"What?" Robin asked
"The being you have described to me reminds me of a friend who fought it with his friends on another world; I believe they called it Lavos." Icarus said slowly.
"Lavos, huh?" Robin said, "Well how did your friend beat it?"
"I don't remember, I just remember the communication he left me almost a year ago, which was, 'I can't believe it's finally over, we have beaten Lavos.'" Icarus told Robin, "I have one more question what happened to the rest of the Titans?"
Robin shook his head sadly, "I don't know what happened to Raven, Beast Boy, and Cyborg. They disappeared into black holes when Lavos appeared; I have no idea where they ended up."
Icarus was sorry to hear about the other Titans he was more worried, though, about Starfire as he and she were very close, "What about Starfire?"
"She's with me… I think she went out to find some food," Robin said, "She missed you greatly, you know."
Icarus frowned, "Yes, I'm sure she did but…"
Before Icarus was able to complete his statement, there was a noise at the door.
"Should I?" Icarus asked.
"Yes you should." Robin said nodding.
Icarus walked over to the door and opened it very carefully, expecting anything, though he was able to sigh in relief as he saw Starfire standing in front of him. There was but a moment of stillness before Starfire ran up and hugged him, crying in his shoulder…
Robin looked on the proceeding a bit happier; maybe, with Icarus' fore-knowledge of Lavos they might be able to save the world.
End Chapter 2
Cyril: Look at Icarus,
Starfire crying on him. He's the only hope that world's got for
now.
Entity: crying that's such a sad and touching chapter…
Cyril: Who are you anyway?
Entity: You will find out eventually.
Cyril: Whatever…
Narrator: Will Cyril stop being such a prick? (Hey!) Will Icarus be the new hope for the Titans planet, or will they fail miserably? Find out in Chapter 3 of Chrono Trigger: Other World!
