The New Exiles

Chapter 25: The Terror of Trigon

By

The Uncanny R-Man And Agent-G

Notes- The Teen Titans featured here are from the comics, not the cartoon show.

Aaron: Glad you liked the fights, and this fic does give you lots of stuff for us to work with.

Ruby631: Yeah I can see those two getting along

X-Over: It would be suicide to take them all on head on, so don't count on it.

Thanks to: Red Witch, TheLegendaryManHimself

Exiles Complex-

As usual, the Exiles were all gathered in the briefing room so Guardian could give them the low-down on their latest mission. Dare and April were still away doing their own thing and James was in the city taking in the science community hoping to learn a few things. The doors swished open as Guardian walked into the room.

"I'm afraid that I must get down to business." Guardian said walking over to the control panel. "You are needed most urgently."

The Exiles watched intently as Guardian activated the hologram projector and an image of an island near New York appeared. One distinguishing thing about the island was the building that stood in the middle of the island.

"No way!" Morph grinned. "You can't seriously tell me that we're gonna meet the Teen Titans!"

"Yes way, Morph." Guardian replied. "For those of you that don't know of the Teen Titans, here is a brief introduction of the team's members…"

The image then changed to that of several costumed heroes. The image zoomed into a guy wearing a black bodysuit with a blue bird emblem on the chest. "This is the Teen Titan's leader, Nightwing," Guardian explained. "He used to be Batman's protégé but went off to make it on his own."

The image changed to that of a tall orange-skinned woman with waist-length red hair.

"This is Princess Koriand'r of Tameran, also know as Starfire," Guardian said. "She has the ability to fly and shoot beams of energy form her hands. She is also quick to anger so you'd better be careful there."

The image changed once more to show a tall, muscular African-American guy with numerous cybernetic parts on his body.

"This is Victor Stone, also know as Cyborg." Guardian said. "His body was horrifically damaged in a laboratory explosion and the only way for him to survive was to have those cybernetic parts grafted onto his body. Next up is Wonder Girl, real name Donna Troy. She is the younger sister of Wonder Woman and has the same powers also, not to mention an unbreakable lasso and bulletproof bracelets. The green-skinned young man is Garfield Logan, also known as Beast Boy. He has the ability to change into any creature that he wishes."

The next image that popped up was of a pale young woman wearing a flowing purple cloak.

"This young woman is only known as Raven." Guardian explained. "She is the one that you must help. Hardly anything is known about her, only that she has certain empathic and telekinetic powers, as well as a healing touch."

The final image that appeared was of a huge red-skinned demon with a head full of horns and six evil yellow eyes.

"This is Trigon, he is Raven's father. He has tried to exert his control over his daughter several times but the Teen Titans have always thwarted his plans. Unfortunately, all this pressure was too much for Raven and she is due to snap."

"So long story short, we have to stop this Trigon guy from manifesting, right?" Vincent asked. "Great, more demons."

"Tell me about it." August muttered.

Titans Tower, New York-

Starfire and Wonder Girl were having an impromptu duel with staffs atop a bridge over a small pond while Beast Boy and Cyborg looked on.

"Betcha five bucks Kory ends up in the pond again." Beast Boy challenged.

"Geez BB, you never give up, do ya?" Cyborg sighed. "You're lucky that Kory can't hear you, you know how bad that temper of hers is."

"Meh, I like to live dangerously." Beast Boy shrugged. "But can you blame me? A hottie like Kory plus water, you know what I'm saying?"

Cyborg just shook his head and turned to watch the two Titans duel.

Starfire tried to sweep Wonder Girl's legs form under her but the Amazon jumped over the staff and hit Starfire on the chin. Wonder Girl then tried to follow that up with a blow to the gut but Starfire blocked that with her own staff and then hit Wonder Girl on the chin. Wonder Girl merely smiled evilly and brought her staff down in a sword swing. Starfire blocked that too and used Wonder Girl's own momentum against her and threw her on her butt.

"Do you submit?" Starfire asked as she placed a booted foot upon the Amazon's chest.

"Never!" Wonder Girl replied as she grabbed Starfire's leg and pulled her down. Starfire swore out loud in her native language and ended up in the pond, splashing Wonder Girl with water.

"Oh for X'Hal's sake!" Starfire hissed as she slapped the pond's surface. "I'll never master fighting with a staff."

"Oh well, there's always next time." Wonder Girl replied, barely restraining her laughter at the sight of the drenched alien. "Here, I'll help you up."

Wonder Girl knelt down to help her friend up. An evil grin spread across Starfire's face as she grabbed Wonder Girl's arm and pulled her into the pond.

Wonder Girl popped back up, her long raven locks plastered to her face. "I guess I should have seen that coming." Wonder Girl sighed as she flicked her hair out of her face.

"You should never turn your back on your opponent." Nightwing said from his position leant against a tree. "You'll never know what to expect from them." Everyone jumped at the sound of the voice, not seeing the person who had said it arrive.

"And just how long have you been standing there?" Wonder Girl asked, slightly peeved. "Don't you know it's rude to sneak?"

"Hey, it's what I do." Nightwing replied with a smile, shrugging a little. "I sneak, just as Beast Boy pervs."

"I heard that!" Beast Boy replied form his seat several feet away.

Nightwing was about to make a witty retort when several unfamiliar figures appeared in a flash of light. "Heads up people, we've got company!" Nightwing said as he dropped into a fighting stance.

"These guys don't look like HIVE's usual recruits." Cyborg said a she got his sonic cannon ready. "Just who are you guys anyway?"

"We're the Exiles." One of the strangers, a young woman with purply-pink skin and strange markings on her face replied.

"I don't believe a word of it!" Starfire hissed as he eyes glowed green with anger. "I say we fight them here and now."

"Man, when Guardian said Starfire had a temper, he wasn't kidding." Vince said. "She makes Wolverine look like a Buddhist monk!"

"How do you know my name?" Starfire asked, her eyes narrowing judging the strange man with dark hair. "Who are you people?"

"As I said before, we're the Exiles." Blink replied. "We were originally brought together to fix distortions in the fabric of reality…"

Later-

After Blink had given the Teen Titans the low-down, they had been more than less welcomed into the Tower. The both teams were presently in the briefing room, trying to come up with a battle plan.

"Man, I can't believe we have to do this again!" Beast Boy groaned from his spot on the couch. He leaned back and covered his face with both hands and groaned before putting his hands down. "We just beat Trigon for the umpteenth time last month. How many times is it now?"

"Five." Nightwing replied.

"Shouldn't we include Raven in this?" August asked them all looking around for her. "Y'know, it is her father we're going to fight."

"Well, the thing is that we haven't seen any sign of Raven since the last time we fought Trigon." Wonder Girl replied, she was feeling a little worried about her friend now that she thought about how they hadn't seen her since then. "She just up and left after the battle, she said that she was a danger to the team."

Morph looked over from his perch on the windowsill. He blinked a few times hoping that was he saw outside wasn't real but decided what he was seeing was real. "Umm, since when did the Hudson River ever run red with blood?" Morph asked them all not taking his eyes off the screen that looked like it was out of the Ten Commandments. "Call me paranoid but, since when is that a good thing?"

"This is exactly how the last attack started!" Nightwing said seeing the river. He knew things were going to get serious now and it was time to rally the others. "Titans, go!"

The rest of the Titans jumped off their seats and charged out of the room.

"Man, we really need our own battle cry." Chamber said to his teammates. "The Avengers have 'Avengers Assemble' and the Things has 'It's clobberin' time!' But what have we got? Bugger all!"

"Jono, I don't think now is the time for jokes." Heather told him moving on to the exit with the others.

"I just thought I'd get in there before Morph did, is all." Chamber shrugged, while Morph scowled mainly because he wanted to make that remark then the joke Chamber made at his expense. "But I am right though, right?"

Manhattan-

The Exiles teleported over to Manhattan thanks to Blink and found the Titans already starting their battle against a hoard of demons. Add to that Trigon standing atop a nearby skyscraper observing the battle. What took the Exiles by surprise was the fact that he was joined by a purple-cloaked woman.

"Aww man, that looks like Raven." Morph said. "But she's got red skin and six eyes, just like her Daddy." He had to admit she was really creepy looking at the moment.

"Demons." August hissed in disgust. "I hate demons!" She still had nightmares of being trapped in Limbo to this day and she knew that time of her life would haunt her for the rest of her life. Although taking her anger out on demons did help a bit for her to get over that time too.

With that, the Exiles leapt in to the fight. Blink threw her lances at the demons, teleporting them away while Vince used his powers to fly in the air dodging the flying demons whilst he blasted them with his energy blasts. He was joined in with Starfire and Wonder Girl.

Heather changed to her Sasquatch form and battered the demons with her furry fists while Morph changed his hands into orange rocks and battered more. Chamber blasted more demons with blast form his chest while August threw fireballs about and battered the demons with her super strength. The Titans helped out with Beast Boy turning into a T-Rex and going Jurassic Park on the demonic army, Cyborg blasting away with his sonic gun.

Nigthtwing was fighting to the best of his abilities and seeing his team fight along side the Exiles he had to admit that things were going easier then it would have been without them.

Up above their heads, Raven turned to her father with a worried expression. "Father, your demons are being beaten."

"Do not worry, daughter." The large red demon replied with an evil chuckle. "This is merely a start to the chaos that shall inevitably reign!"

Back down on the streets below, Vince looked up at the demon and his half-breed daughter. "Why aren't they taken us themselves?" He thought out loud. "Why send and army of demons against us when you could just roast everybody with a burst of fiery breath? That's it, I'm going up there to take him down myself!"

Blink saw this and yelled out to stop her boyfriend from doing something foolhardy. "Vince, no! You can't take him on your own!"

But it was too late, Vince was too high up to hear Blink's pleas as he started to fly around Trigon, blasting him with energy blasts. Unfortunately, these didn't seem to be having any affect, apart form a mild annoyance. Trigon snarled in annoyance and tried to swat the Canadian mutant out of the sky, but Vince was too quick and dodged out of the way.

"Enough!" Trigon bellowed as he opened his mouth.

Vince tried to dodge the incoming blast of fire but was too slow and was knocked out of the sky. Instead of letting him fall to his death, Trigon plucked the mutant out of the sky.

"You shall pay for this transgression, mortal."

Vince tried to struggle out of Trigon's grip but his super strength was no match for the colossal demon.

Down below, Blink watched in horror as Trigon shovelled Vince into his mouth and swallowed him whole. "NO!" She screamed. "You bastard!" She had already lost too much in her life and seeing her latest love seemingly to die just there made her go cold inside.

Blink teleported up to the top of the skyscraper and started pelting Trigon with her teleportation lances out of anger and fury, but the demon's magics were too strong.

Raven stepped in and clutched Blink in her hand. "None shall lay their hands upon Trigon the Terrible!" She snarled as she threw Blink away. Just as Blink was about to splatter against the opposite building, Starfire flew up and caught her just in time.

"No more deaths." Starfire said simply. "This has gone on for far too long!"

"You are correct, alien," Trigon replied with a grin showing his multitude of sharp teeth. "Now it is time for me to make my move!"

Down below, the Exiles and Teen Titans who had just finished mopping up the demons now watched on powerless as Trigon jumped down form his perch atop the skyscraper. "That mortal was most appetising. Hmm, I wonder who shall be next? Ah, how about you, the fire-wielder?"

August got a fireball ready to defend herself but found that Trigon never got a chance to lay his hands on her. Trigon let out a grunt of pain as he clutched his chest. "No… What?" He groaned out, feeling like his insides were burning up.

"What the bloody hell is going on?" Chamber asked Cyborg next to him who only shrugged as they returned their attention back to Trigon who was kneeling on the ground in pain.

"It looks like Trigon's got a spot of indigestion." Beast Boy replied happily.

Trigon then let out a terrible scream of pain as something burst from his chest in a powerful explosion of crimson energy and Vince emerged from the gaping hole.

"Man, now I know what that guy felt like in the first Alien movie." The Canadian winced as he was covered in demon guts and was close to throwing up from it all. Having seen the inside of a giant demon was something he could have lived without and unfortunately was something he would never forget.

"Okay guys, with Trigon's weak, let's take him down!" Nightwing commanded.

"Exiles, let's do it!" Blink added.

Both the Exiles and the Teen Titans poured it on, battering the wounded Trigon with their respective powers. Sonic blasts, fireballs, Starbolts, teleportation lances, both teams used their whole arsenal until the demon lord was down.

"Father, no!" Raven howled. "Noooo…" Raven gave a scream of terror as she began to fall to the ground, her father's influence forcibly purged form her body.

"Hold on Rae, I've got you!" Beast Boy said as he turned into a pterodactyl and caught her in his talons.

Upon landing back on the ground, the Exiles and Teen Titans gathered around the barely conscious empathy. "Careful, don't get too close!" August warned them all. "She could still be under Trigon's control!"

"No, he has gone…" Raven replied weakly coming around to her senses as she rose up on shaky legs. "Trigon no longer has any control over me…"

"Permanently?" Nightwing asked sceptically. "He's come back before."

"He has gone…" Raven repeated. "I now feel… pure." For the first time in her life that dark part of her soul that she always fought against seemed to no longer be there in her.

"We'd better get you back to the Tower." Wonder Girl said placing a gentle hand on her shoulder. "You're barely conscious as it is."

"But… why?" Raven asked. "After all I have put you through…"

"We've forgiven you before, and we'll forgive you again." Cyborg replied. "You're not only our friend Raven, you're family."

For the first time in her life, Raven actually smiled! Perhaps she could enjoy a normal life now that Trigon was finally gone. A normal life that included hanging out with her friends, shopping, even dating! Beast Boy always seemed friendly enough, when she was strong enough; perhaps she could ask him out…

The other Exiles watched as the other team was happily getting along and to have their old friend back. Vince was wiping off some of the demon guts off him wondering if he would have to burn these clothes when Blink suddenly hugged him tightly.

"I thought you were dead you jerk." She said to him both in anger, relief and happiness.

He hugged her back. "Sorry about that, didn't mean to give you a scare like that." He said honestly. "You do know that I'm still covered in Demon guts right?"

"I know and I don't care," She pulled back her front now covered in the red mess and then poked him in the chest. "But if you ever do something stupid like that again then I…I…"

"Do what?" Morph asked with a smile. "It's not like you can hurt him."

Blink glared at Morph for a bit and then crossed her arms looking at Vince with a stern gaze. "Then you won't see me naked again for a whole week!"

Vince's face fell at that they both pretty much spent almost every night together now and to be honest he found a type of peace and serenity in her arms at night and he rarely got his nightmares with her and the idea of not having her presence again next to him wasn't something he wanted to go without.

"Alright, and you're right about that sorry." He said to her honestly.

She sighed. "Well consider this a warning," Then turned to the others. "Not to mention to the rest of you, I lost too many friends as it is and I don't want anymore stupid moves."

"You got it boss lady." Morph said while looking like an army private.

Blink just rolled her eyes, well to the best of her ability since her eyes were pure green, and then whispered to Vincent as she pulled out the PADD to get them home. "You can make up for scaring me while we clean up in the shower when we get back." That got a smile on the Canadian's face.

They disappeared in a flash of light just as Nightwing turned to them and was about to offer them to come back with them for a celebration but the Exiles had just left. "Guess they had to run out and help others." He said to himself.

"Nice guys, I wonder if we'll see them again?" Beast Boy asked the team leader.

He just shrugged. "Don't know, but if things get really messed up I'm sure we will."

TBC…

Next: Meeting Mr. Creed

Blink finds the reality where she left Creed the man that was like a father to her and wants to see him again and for him to meet her new love, but how will Sabertooth feel towards the Canadian boy?