-This is chapter 8 of "Two Birds and a Burning Sun Part 2"! Since I finished my Eva update (longest chapter I have ever wrote), I can now continue this story. After watching "Aftershock Part 2", well, I didn't feel that "Aftershock Part 2" was terrible like many people believe. Just that it wasn't great either. The ending felt rushed and way too abrupt. Still, I do see where I could incorporate some aspects of said episode into this story. Just that, I hope to do it, well, better then what they did in that episode.

-Now, I am going to write this story in the past tense since so many people seem to complain in my other stories about that. :-/ So I'm not used to writing in the past tense (especially when you learn how to write screenplays where, everything is present tense), so sue me. Well, okay, don't sue me. I'm not that rich as it is.

-Oh, and one last thing, expect updates to come really slowly now (even more so then before!). Why? College work. The school year is turning out to be quite busy.

-Now, with nothing more to say, on with the story!

Titan Tower

Robin was looking at the citywide map. He places a dot in areas where he believed that Slade would launch his strike against the city. If of course, that is what Slade is planning. 'What does Slade have in mind? He is definitely building up and army, it must be against the city, right? Then again, he could try to do what he did last time, and strike us directly.'

While Robin was looking at the map, Raven and Starfire were in the midst of another fight.

"We are going to the mall to shop windows!" Starfire yelled at Raven.

"No, he is going to be meditating with me!" Raven fired back, though at a more subdued voice.

"No, Robin is going to hang out with me!" Starfire with fire in her eyes shot back at Raven.

"No, ME!" Raven responded.

"ME!" Starfire was now in Raven's face.

A vein threatened to pop as Robin hears the fight going on behind him. Robin rushed and separated the two. "Girls! Stop fighting!"

"Robin?" Both Starfire and Raven spoke as they stared at Robin.

"Look girls, if you two don't stop fighting, then I'll...I'll..." Robin turned away from the two. "Then I won't go out with either of you!"

It's as if an atomic bomb exploded between the two girls. "Robin..."

"That's it. If you two don't stop fighting, then I choose NEITHER of you!" Robin crossed his arms.

Raven and Starfire both have their mouths wide open. "But..."

"No butts! If you don't stop fighting, then I won't choose either of you. Understand?" Robin looked at both of them with determination in his eyes.

Starfire and Raven looked at each other, then they nodded at Robin. "Agreed."

Robin smiled. "Good, I hope this means that you're still..."

Starfire and Raven snarled at each other then left the area.

"Friends." Robin sighed. "Well, as long as they are not fighting, I can go back and figure out what Slade is up to."

Cyborg walked into the room. He walked up to Robin and stared at the computer screen. "Nice to know that those two stopped fighting, for now."

Robin nodded his head. "And I hope from here on out."

"Well, if that is what you want." Cyborg smirked. "Though it was entertaining seeing those two fight."

Robin narrowed his eyes, and eyed Cyborg.

Cyborg sweat dropped. "Ehhh...anyways, what do you think Slade is going to do?"

Robin contemplated his answer for a while, before speaking. "We know Slade is building an army."

"An army that could very well kick our butts I might add." Cyborg frowned. "But that still doesn't exactly help us with what he is planning."

"I assume he wants to take over the city. What else could he want?" Robin looked at the map from left to right.

Cyborg frowned even more. "But he can't exactly do that with us around."

Robin nodded. "But he is putting a lot into this plan. With the amount of robots and the Trident clones, he is certainly putting us in a corner."

"That's right." Cyborg took a device out. "But with a number of these, if we can get the robots into one place, we should be able to take out a whole lot of them. Might take time though."

"True." Robin was hit with realization. "But even Slade should know we could figure that out at this moment. He would also know that we would be able to counter his offensive, even as large as it is."

Cyborg couldn't help but agree. "Then what is Slade's ace in the hole to get rid of us?"

Robin shrugged his shoulders. "What ever it is, I bet you it won't be good."

Beast Boy popped his head behind the two. "Hey guys, ummm...mind going to the grocery store? We're kind of..." Beast Boy rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. "Out of food."

Cyborg and Robin looked at each other.

"Well, good time as any other to check out the city." Robin commented.

Both turned back to Beast Boy.

"Okay, time to go for some more cruising." Cyborg smiled. 'We can deal with this situation later. Now it is time to restock the fridge.'

"Okay! I get shotgun!" Beast Boy zoomed out of the room.

"Hey wait, that's MY seat BB!" Robin sprinted after Beast Boy.

Starfire walked in after hearing all the commotion. "The front seat next the driver is named after a projectile weapon?"

Streets of Jump City

Robin was sitting next to Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, and Starfire are all sitting in the back.

Beast Boy grumbled. "I called shotgun."

Robin smirked. "Well, I'm leader so I get first dibs!"

Beast Boy continued to fume.

After a few seconds of silence, Cyborg decided to speak up. "Well, once we get to the grocery store, we'll buy tons of ribs and steaks! Our fridge will be overflowing with meat!"

Beast Boy growled. "Uh hem. Excuse me! Vegetarian in the house!"

"Fine, we will buy some parsley while we're there." Cyborg smirked.

"Oh, so you think you're funny now? Well..." Beast Boy sat back, with his hands on his head. "Check out this joke! Why did the aardvark cross the road?"

BAM! A huge boulder crashed the side of the T-Car. The T-Car rolled a few blocks before coming to a rest, right side up.

With the upgrades to the armor to the T-Car that Cyborg gave, the T-Car did hold up pretty well this time. However, no matter how much armor he could put on it, that still didn't stop the dizziness and headaches that they are all got from the rolling over.

Cyborg, and Starfire were the first to recover. They both opened the door next to them. Robin shook his head in an attempt to get his barring straight. Raven was the next to recover. She exited the car along with Starfire. Robin was the next to get out as he looked around the area.

Beast Boy looked out the window, or where there used to be a window. "What..." Beast Boy saw the boulder. "Terra?"

All the Titans turned to see the figure off in the distance. Terra.

Terra smirked. "Miss me guys?"

Cyborg, Starfire, and Raven got into their fighting stance. Beast Boy exited the T-Car.

Cyborg looked at Terra's suit. "Man, talk about your fashion disaster."

Robin turned to Beast Boy. "Remember, Beast Boy, until you could find a way to get through to Terra..."

Beast Boy nodded. "She is our enemy. And we have to fight back." Beast Boy dropped to his knees, and changed into a wolf. Beast Boy growled.

Terra raised a number of small boulders, and started shooting them toward the Titans. The Titans all dived out of the way. The blunt of the attack hit the T-Car. The T-Car suffered a lot of exterior damage. Huge dents showed up everywhere. However, overall, the T-Car is just fine at the moment.

Cyborg charged his sonic cannon. "Terra, back at ya." Cyborg fired his sonic cannon at Terra.

Terra saw the blast, and summoned a huge rock in front of her. The blast hits the rock, shattering it into a million pieces. Terra ran to the side and launched another volley of boulders at the Titans.

Starfire ducked, from one boulder, she exploded a rock that was coming right at her face using her eyebeams, then shattered another round of rocks with her starbolts.

Beast Boy ran from side to side, avoiding the crashing boulders all around him. Terra turned around and saw the leaping Beast Boy coming at her. She tried to summon a rocky shield, but Beast Boy slammed into her before she can do that.

Beast Boy got into her face. "Terra, stop! We're your friends!"

Terra's eyes started to glow yellow. "I thought I didn't have friends." She slammed Beast Boy off of her, using a kind of rocky force.

Beast Boy is sent flying backwards. Raven caught Beast Boy as he was flying in the air. After placing him down, Raven raced up the road.

Starfire continued to fire starbolts at Terra. Each bolt blocked by rocks created by Terra. Soon, Terra summoned a huge boulder, and slammed it towards Starfire. Starfire hits the boulder dead on. She falls to the road. She shook her head a bit.

Cyborg ran straight at Terra. BOOM! The boulder crashed into him on the side.

Terra brought a huge boulder above Starfire. "You were easiest to fool."

"No!" Raven summoned a lot of her power to make sure the boulder didn't come down on Starfire. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" The boulder began to crack, and it shattered into a million pieces.

The blast knocked Terra off of her feet. Raven came up to her with her eyes glowing black. Terra summoned the road in front of her to cave inward causing Raven to fall back. Terra turned to the side as she saw a flash coming straight at her.

It was Robin. POW!

Terra rolled and stumbled to a nearby alleyway. She held her head. "Ouch."

"Your headaches are about to hurt a lot more." Robin nodded at Cyborg.

Cyborg readied his sonic cannon. "Sorry kid."

Terra looked stunned for a moment, before her eyes glowed again.

Cyborg and Robin looked at each other for a second then they looked at the ground. The ground cracked, and both are sent straight into the air. "Aggggggghhhhhh!" Both fell into nearby buildings.

Terra got up from her position. She cracked her neck and looked at the mess that she created. 'Is this right? Yes, it must be.' Her thoughts were interrupted as a pipe came right towards her. She summoned a rocky ledge and moved just in the nick of time.

After the initial shock wore off, she saw Raven appearing in front of her. Joined by Beast Boy and Starfire. Both Cyborg and Robin eventually got there, after going down a flight of stairs in their respectable buildings.

Robin turned to the group. "If she pushes..."

"We push back harder." Cyborg crackled his knuckles.

"With pleasure." Raven narrowed her eyes.

Beast Boy looked sad for a bit, but looked back up with determination in his eyes. "Yeah."

Terra saw that she was surround. She summoned a number of rocky monsters. 'Monsters?'

Raven, Cyborg, Starfire, Robin, and Beast Boy were stunned.

Raven was the first to comment. "That's a new trick."

Terra looked at the monsters that she just created. She too was stunned. "Whoa. How did I..."

"You didn't." Slade responds through the communicator. "Your new suit is more then a fashion statement. It has a neural interface that gives me direct access to your nervous system. Your power is my power. My power is your power. We fight as one."

Terra blinked in amazement. "Ummm...okay." She summoned the rock monsters to attack the Titans.

Cyborg blasted the first rock monster with his sonic cannon. The rock monster seemed to not be affected. The monster punched Cyborg in the face, launching him into the air.

Robin kicked the monster on the left side, the right. BAM! The monster slammed Robin to a nearby building.

Starfire fired a volley of starbolts at the monster. One of the monsters was destroyed, but one behind it jumped kicked Starfire back.

Beast Boy was in a rhino form and slammed into one of the rock monsters. The rock monster forced Beast Boy back, and then uppercut him sending Beast Boy into the air.

Raven bashed a rock monster with a light pole. The monster grabbed and knocked Raven out instead.

All the Titans recovered from the attack. Robin turned to the others. "Everyone fall back! We need to regroup!"

Cyborg, Raven, Starfire, and Beast Boy all nodded. They all ran back to Titan Tower.

Titan Tower

"So, I guess this means that there is no redemption for her." Raven narrowed her eyes as she nursed a bruise she received from Terra.

Beast Boy hung his head in shame.

Robin turned to Raven. "I don't think so."

The rest of the Titans turned to Robin.

Cyborg looked at Robin. "What do you mean? She did a number on my car. And kicked our butts. I'm just glad the extra armor was enough to survive the attack."

Robin looked at Raven. "Did any of you see her expression when she summoned those monsters?"

Raven shook her head. "No, I was too busy staring at the monsters to notice her expression. Why? Was she gloating?"

"Just the opposite." Robin rubbed his chin. "It was like, she was also stunned that she just did it." He turned to Beast Boy. "Beast Boy, remember the reason why she left us before?"

Beast Boy looked confused at Robin. "She had trouble controlling her powers. Why?"

"That's right. Slade must've promised Terra that he would help her control her powers. In exchange, she would work for him." After Robin received the nods he was expecting, he continued. "Well, if what she just did wasn't what she expected, then that would mean..."

"She is not in control yet?" Starfire added.

Robin shook his head. "Not exactly. It would mean that Slade is, in part, controlling Terra's action."

Cyborg looked at Robin as realization hits him. "It must be that new suit of hers. Slade might literally be controlling Terra's powers. Whether she likes it or not."

Beast Boy brightened up a bit. "So, there's still a chance."

Robin nodded. "However, the fact that she is even wearing the suit, short of her being forced to by Slade, which I doubted happened..."

"Means that she chose to be in that suit." Cyborg finished.

Beast Boy saddened again.

"Unless..." Raven eyed Beast Boy. "Unless you can get through to her one way or the other, she is, and will remain, our enemy."

Beast Boy nodded, and left to his room.

Cyborg looked back at the retreating Beast Boy. "So, do you think this is Slade's plan of offing us?"

Robin nodded. "But given how we were able to thwart all the other plans Slade threw at us, I still think he has another ace up his Slade."

"Good point. Guess I'll start working on a way to neutralize this new threat." Cyborg rubbed his head. "More work for me. If it isn't one thing, it's another. Can't Slade go on vacation or something?"

Robin sighed and exited the room. "Later girls."

"Later Robin!" Starfire and Raven said in unison.

Starfire and Raven were also smiling widely. Or, at the very least attempting to smile as they stared at each other.

"So Raven..." Starfire said without moving her mouth much. Obviously forcing each word out of her mouth. "How are you on this day?"

A back panel shatterd.

"Still having a hard time controlling emotions?" Starfire continued, still with that fake wide smile, and without moving her mouth.

"Why yes Star." Raven replied, also with a huge phony smile, and also, not moving her mouth. "Seemed it was so easy before, when I was beating you up."

"Why Raven, it is nice to know that I had helped." Starfire struggled to keep the smile on her face. "Why not we return to our rooms?"

"Good idea. Before I do something I'm going to regret." Raven, still wearing the fake smile, left the area. Starfire followed suit. After a while, two separate explosions happened. It doesn't seem like they fought each other though. They just seemed to let off a bunch of steam they both built up at an unsuspecting wall.

Cyborg looked at the two from his hiding place. "They're a load of fun, even when they aren't fighting each other." Cyborg chuckled.

Slade's Hideout

"So Terra, proud of your new suit?" Slade looked at Terra, who is knelling in front of him.

"Yes Slade." Terra smirked. "I almost defeated the Titans."

"Correction young apprentice." Slade brings Terra up. "WE almost defeated the Titans."

"Uhhhh..." Terra looked scared for a minute, before returning to her cold demeanor. "That's right master."

"Good." Slade sat down in his chair. "Now Terra, rest up. We have a busy day tomorrow."

"Will do Slade." Terra turned around and left to her quarters.

Once Terra is in her quarters, she began to think back to the events of the day. "I almost defeated the Titans. I..." Terra saddened at the thought. "I almost defeated my friends." Terra shot her head up. "No, they are not my friends...they are..." But slowly, Terra started to realize, they are, at least, were her friends.

-------End of Chapter 8

Well, that's the end of this, semi-exciting chapter. Now, as you can see, the fight scene is VERY similar to that of "Aftershock Part 1". Like I said, I wanted to incorporate the idea of the suit from those episodes, into this story. But as you can see, there are differences. Big ones that will make Terra's fate quite different.

Oh yeah, and we are only a few more chapters left before Part 3! Yeah!

Next chapter... While the Titans prepare, Slade readies the next phase of his plan. As Terra begins to have more doubts about her allegiance to Slade. And can Starfire and Raven stay out of each other's hair? Until then, later.

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