TEEN TITANS: Heartache

Raven was sitting in the living room, reading a book as usual. Beast Boy had just walked in but she hadn't noticed. Beast Boy glanced over her shoulder. "What'cha reading?" he asked. Raven turned the other way, shielding the book for him. Beast Boy turned into an octopus and snagged the book. He morphed back and read a few lines. "Since when do you read love novels?" he asked. Raven pulsed. She snagged it back, "And since when do you care what I read?"

Beast Boy just turned around and left. Cyborg ran in, knocking Beast Boy out of the way on accident. "Mail's here!" he shouted. All the Titans gathered around. "Ok, magazine for Robin, letter from Tamaran and…" Cyborg paused, "Dog food?" Beast Boy grabbed it. "It's finally hear!" The other Titans sighed at his stupidity. "And…a letter to all of us?" Cyborg said. "Lemme see." Shockwave said as he swiped it.

It was a gold envelope addressed to all of them. Shockwave opened it as the other Titans read over his shoulder. It read:

Dear Teen Titans,

You have been invited to the Bi-Annual City Dinner this Friday night. The governor of the state will be hosting the event. It is mandatory that every boy must be accompanied by a date. We hope to see you Friday…

The Titans paused. Robin, Beats Boy and Shockwave looked at the girls. Robin was the first to notice. "Wait. Cyborg doesn't have a date for the dinner!" Shockwave got up. "I'm on it!" he said, then ran out of the room. "He scares me a little." Beast Boy remarked.

"It's ok guys." Cyborg said, "You go on and have fun." Terra put her arm around him. "It wouldn't be as much fun without you." Everyone agreed. "Really it's ok." He said. "Are you sure, Cyborg?" Robin asked. Cyborg smiled and nodded. "Ok, if you're sure." Everyone got up to go get ready.

The girls were in Starfire's room getting ready. "Why do you think we were invited to this dinner anyway?" Raven asked. Starfire and Terra shrugged. Raven was trying on a couple dresses, Starfire was painting her nails and Terra was messing with her hair. Starfire just happened to look up at her clock. "Come friends or we will be late." She said. Terra and Raven were ready so they left to get the boys.

"Where's Shockwave?" Beast Boy asked. "He hasn't come out of his room for, like, 3 hours." Robin replied. Raven sighed. "I'll go get 'em." She glided down the halls to Shockwave's door. She noticed he'd burned his insignia into his door. Raven smirked and opened the door. Shockwave was in his outfit for the night but had a smock over it and his goggles over his eyes. "What're you doing?" Raven asked. "Building a girlfriend for Cyborg." Shockwave explained. "You can't do that." Raven told him. "Sure I can!" Shockwave said.

He played with a remote control and made the legs (which was all he had made at the time) walk around. It did 3 circles and then ran at Shockwave and started kicking him in the butt. He pushed the emergency shut-down button. "Still needs work." Raven giggled, took his hand and led him out. "C'mon, we gotta go."

Cyborg had decided to at least drive the other Titans to the dinner. Beast Boy was looking out the window, Robin was doing stuff on the car computer, Starfire and Terra were talking and Raven was messing with Shockwave's head. "Shockwave, take the goggles off!" Raven demanded. "No way!" Shockwave protested, "They are, who I am." Raven gave up. By that time, Cyborg had pulled up to the hall. "Thanks Cyborg." Everyone said as they got out. Robin went up to the window. "You gonna be ok?" he asked. "Yeah, sure." Cyborg said. Robin nodded and joined the others. Cyborg sighed as he drove off.

Inside the hall…

Everyone gazed at all the decorations as they walked in. Practically everything was gold colored. A man in a suit came up to them. "The Teen Titans, how nice of you to show up." The Titans looked a little confused. "Oh, I'm so sorry for my rude manners." The man said, "My name is Samuel and the governor has invited you tonight.". Robin, being the leader and all, confronted Samuel. "Why?" he asked. Samuel paused for a moment the smiled, "To…uh…commemorate you on all you've done for Jump City." He said. The Titans looked a little confused but decided to go along with it.

"It seems a little funny that they'd do this for us." Terra said. "Yes, it is very…freaky." Starfire added. Samuel seated the Titans and left them. Older people were dancing, talking and other sorts of things that old people do. Shockwave's eyes kept shifting from side to side, as if he was watching something. "What're you looking at?" Raven asked when she noticed her boyfriend's strange behavior. He shook his head and continued eying things in the room. Their waiter came back with lobster dinners for the Titans. Shockwave started poking his with a fork. "It's dead, right?" he asked. Raven smiled a little.

Later on…

Shockwave was continuing to look around the room. Their was someone on the upper floor looking over the dinner and Shockwave thought he looked a little suspicious. "I'll be right back." He told the team. He got up and ran to the other side of the room. Shockwave glided up the stairs and found the man who was watching them. He casually walked over to the strange man. "Nice dinner, huh?" Shockwave said.

The strange man didn't even look over. "Yes." He replied, "You're on of the Titans, aren't you?" Shockwave nodded, "Yeah." The strange man laughed a little. "Then I'll start with you first." Shockwave watched as one of the man's arms turned into a giant blade. "Wait a second." Shockwave said. His eyes widened as he realized who he was up against. "It's been a while, hasn't it Shockwave?" the man said, taking off his coat. Underneath was a black teen wearing a black spandex suit and had dred lochs. "Not long enough, Copycat!" Shockwave said as he lunged at the enemy, forcing him off the side of the balcony.

Copycat plummeted towards the floor. Then, giant eagle wings started to grow from his back. The wings flapped and rocketed Copycat back up at Shockwave. The other Titans had taken notice to what was going on. They ran to Shockwave but someone got in their way. Slade stepped in the way, followed by a familiar person.

"Cyborg!" Robin called out. Cyborg didn't even look at him. Slade looked back at Cyborg then back at the Titans. "Yes, I've persuaded your friend to work for me now." Slade said. Robin sneered at Slade. No one had noticed but Raven had fazed into the ground to go help Shockwave. "Cyborg, destroy the Titans!" Slade commanded. "No problem." Cyborg replied. He charged at the Titans.

Copycat flew up and landed on the railing. He transformed his hands into machine guns and started firing. Shockwave put his arm up to shield himself, not that it would've done him any good, but a black barrier engulfed Shockwave just as the bullets were range. Raven fazed out of the ground right next to Shockwave. "You ok?" Raven asked. "Yeah, thanks." Shockwave replied. He leaned over and kissed Raven. Copycat stopped firing and Raven let the barrier down. Shockwave lunged at Copycat, forcing him back off the ledge. Shockwave pounded Copycat's face until the shape-shifter threw him off.

Shockwave rebounded off the ground and into Copycat's stomach. Shockwave shot a fist full of lightning into Copycat. Raven grabbed Shockwave's arm but Copycat feel to the ground. He laid there on the ground. Raven and Shockwave drifted next to him. They stared at him for a second. Copycat morphed his arms into tentacles and wrapped them around the two Titans.

"Raven, you've gotta faze out of him!" Shockwave yelled. Raven tried but nothing was happening. "I can't!" she yelled back.

Shockwave had an idea. He shocked the arm that was holding him and Copycat immediately let go of him but still remained holding Raven. Copycat started laughing. "I was hoping you'd do that." He said. "Why?" Shockwave asked as he got up off the floor. "So I could do this!" Copycat said as he morphed the hand that used to have Shockwave into a energy pistol. He put it to Raven's head.

Robin, Starfire and Beast-boy were fighting Cyborg from the front side while Terra tried from the back. Starfire fired a rain of starbolts but Cyborg just rolled out of the way. Beast Boy morpshed into a giant anaconda and wrapped himself around Cyborg. "Why're doing this?" Robin asked. "I have my reasons!" Cyobrg said. His fired his cannon and Beast Boy was knocked off. Terra flew in rocks from outside and pelted Cyobrg with them. She then had rock come from the ground and encase Cyborg. "Good work Terra." Beast Boy said.

"Ok Cyborg, why are you doing this?" Robin yelled. Cyborg didn't answer. He looked up to see four of the Titans staring at him. Cyobrg sighed. "I'm sorry, it's just that." Cyborg explained. "I've been a little lonely lately, since everyone in the tower had someone." Robin looked a little taken back. "But why go to Slade?" Robin asked. "I don't know, I guess it seemed like a good idea when I was angry earlier." Cyborg told him. Robin lookedover to Terra. Terra understood.

She relinquished the rock from around Cyborg. "Can you guys forgive me?" Cyobrg asked. The Titans smiled. "We already have." Robin said, "Now let's go help Raven and Shockwave" Cyobrg nodded and the Titans ran off to find their friends.

"One move and she's gone." Copycat said. Shockwave was sweating. He needed to stop Copycat but he didn't want Raven to get hurt at the same time. "Just as I thought." Copycat laughed, "Doesn't this remind you of anything?" Shockwave's eyes widened as memories flashed through his head.

"Shockwave, help!" a girl's voice cried out. Copycat had a energy pistol to her head. Shockwave stood there, debating in his head what her was going to do…

"Copycat!" Shockwave yelled, "You pulled this with Shadow, but you're not going to pull this now!" Shockwave said. Then, Raven conjured a energy field around Copycat's hand and pointed the gun to himself. He let Raven go and she flew to Shockwave's side. Copycat sweated as the gun barrel was 2 inches away from his head. Tears started flowing down his face. He knew Raven could fire the gun at any time. Shockwave sighed. "Let 'em go." He said. "But." Raven debated. Shockwave just looked over. Raven nodded and released her energy from his hand.

Copy cat morphed back to normal and fell to the ground. "Now go!" Shockwave yelled. Copycat nodded and crawled off. Raven turned her head towards Shockwave. "May I?" she asked. "Sure." Shockwave replied. Raven sent a dark bolt at Copycat's butt. It hit and he ran away screaming. The two Titans laughed at him as he ran away in pain.

The other 5 Titans showed up right at the end. "Are you alright?" Starfire asked them. "Yeah, we're fine." Raven replied. "Oh, hi Cyborg!" Shockwave said, noticing that Cyborg was with the other Titans. Raven and Shockwave had no idea of what Cyborg had done and Robin decided to keep it that way. It was better that way. The Titans walked outside and drove back to the tower.

Back at Titan's Tower…

Shockwave's laid on Raven's bed as Raven came back and sat down next to him. "What happened back there?" Raven asked. Shockwave gave a confused look. "When Copycat had the gun to my head." She explained. "Oh…that." Shockwave replied. He didn't seem to excited about telling her the truth. He sighed. "It was a long time ago, before I met the Titans." Shockwave explained, "I used to be a leader of a different team."

"Then why did you quit?" Raven asked. Shockwave sat up. "Let's just say something bad happened that made me leave." He explained. "Like?" Raven persisted. "I don't like to talk about it." Shockwave told her. Raven understood. She took Shockwave into her arm's and they sat they sat there for a few more hours.

Authors Note – I just found this out a few days ago. Ron Perlman (the voice actor for Slade) is also the voice for Vice Principal Lancer on Danny Phantom and played Hellboy in Hellboy. I just found that very fascinating.