Crossing the Line

by ShadowHexx771

What if Brother Blood had defeated the Titans? Cyborg is dead, the other Titans are now brainwashed, tied to the HIVE and Blood. All the Titans except Robin and Starfire. What happens when two superheros cross the line that separates good and evil?

2. Prologue: Starfire

Prologue: Starfire

When Brother Blood decided to take over, he really took over. It wasn't the normal hunger for money, which is what most of the criminals are after, no... it was a hunger for power. He wanted total control. And that's what he got. Every other week a new city or town would fall to its knees. Jump City was the first. Without the Teen Titans keeping him under control, he was free to do what he wanted. You may ask, why didn't Robin and I try to fight him? We knew we'd get beaten, that's why. Robin never told me how he planned to free our friends or how he planned to take Blood down. The only thing he'd say was, "We must keep our friends close, but our enemies closer." I was never really able to comprehend the meaning of that, because I was so confused on who our friends and enemies were.

Over the two years that we had escaped the HIVE, we had to lay low and work our way up. Robin led me through every plan, even if I didn't completely understand the purpose of it. He was patient with me, and the reward we both gained from that was that I finally had a better grasp on grammar and some of the deeper meanings to things on Earth. And I finally understood what Robin was doing.

We had found a new hideout, new clothes, and a new mission. We wouldn't be the good, save-the-day heros anymore. We'd be quite the opposite. We'd be the outcasts; the criminals. If you know how to be the hero, you know how to be the felon. It required basically all the same skills, but just different views. Instead, you'd be the one people were trying to catch, not the one trying to capture. Robin would tell me, "Once you step over the line that separates good and evil, you can't go back to being the hero." But I think he's wrong. I think you can go back, because he has proved before that you can. You may just hold regret for doing what you did, like I know he does. But we can't regret what we are doing now, we mustn't. We've gone "bad" to restore good to the world, if that makes much sense.

Our plan? Pose a threat to Blood, then he'll be begging for our companionship... you strike them when they're down, right? We just hoped that what we were doing would be enough.

I truly do miss our friends...

Winning them back is what will be hard.