Author's note:

Sorry this took so long! Had a lot of stuff to do! I won't be talking much as not to ruin the finale. WARNING THIS CHAPTER IS QUITE A SHOCKER!

To Grievous Shakar: HE WILL GET ANOTHER SCENE I PROMISE! And no, I haven't seen Ep III… yet!

To Pakkrat: Just to let you know, I will redeem Pakkrat using his good self, just in case you feel a little uncomfortable with all this evilness.

To Starofnights: I find it ironic how Robin's real name can also be said as Rich… I hope the end of this chapter doesn't upset you too much…

To Neon Prodigy: Synn and Icarus will be redeemed! The ones you see now are only… well… you'll find out later.

To Shadow49: Still there?

To Rose: If you're reading this, please send me a NO or OK to use Jackalobe (Real world Jackalobe that you know).

To Shokz: Well, it's too late to add any more characters sorry, but Shekron may use your name in his dialogue. Thanks for the appreciation.

Almost Insane: So few words, still great support

Neon wind: Gone like the wind?

…: I hope this chapter doesn't harm your expectations.

A Teenage Girl: I hope this will explain Raven's apparent drifting…

Pakkrat's gun flies out of his hand as Raven's eyes glow, not in red, or white, but they just glow out in their violet shine and deep vision. Rich and Pakkrat step back snarling and a little afraid, Shadow is speechless and his body shakes…

"Ha! You try to fight it, but it is all over!" says Pakkrat, trying to stand his ground. "Evil has consumed you in fiction! Lust, greed, spite, avarice and other demonic manifestations have been inflicted upon you! Turn to us! Defeat the writers! They did this to you! Your pain! Your life wasted on them! You embody soullessness, loss and helplessness! Take REVENGE!"

Raven's sheer presence sends a chill up their spines. "No... Everything you have told me , all the visions you have planted in my mind, though it may have been true in some stories, does not cloud who I really am! No one writer has control over a character, it is a decision by all imagination. A person is not defined by how others see him, but for what is inside them, and I know I am a hero! A person who has triumphed and will triumph over evil in its many forms. You have only said half the story Pakkrat; I see places, I see stories that ARE good, where my soul is as clean, my character is not warped by the fantasies of the writers, where I have a life devoted into the lighting of the world. I am more than just a lost girl crying in the dark. I am not subdued, I have overcome! You have truly lost …" says Raven, not angry, or happy but at peace, she stands. "No more lies can hinder me. No more shadows shall befall me. There is something worth fighting for. For evil; it is over…"

Pakkrat's eyes flame as he stumbles back.

"I thought you said you had her!" says Rich, drawing his pistols.

"My imagination can only go so far!" shouts Pakkrat annoyed, also drawing two guns. "He didn't want this one anyway! KILL HER!"

They fire point blank, emptying the cartridges but the bullets are caught by the white light that emanates from Raven. Shadow covers his face and yells as his power shrinks. Pakkrat and Rich also shield themselves as Raven rises in brightness.

As Shadow stumbles away, Beastboy launches himself out of the earth from mole form to Gorilla form, picking the mage by his leg and swinging him around before throwing him at the bewildered Rich.

"NO! It can't be! It's too #$ impossible! NOT AGAIN!" shouts Pakkrat enraged! "WHY CAN'T YOU JUST DIE?" and he reaches up his shell launcher.

Beastboy slaps it from his hand and proceeds to pick him up in one great fist. Pakkrat sweats as he sees the mighty jaws of the animal. Roaring aloud and drawing his large fanged mouth close to his head, he opens it and…

"I LIKE GORILLAS!" he shouts and boots him on top of the groggy Shadow.

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"You're mine!" smiles Icarus, stepping on the badly beaten Cyborg. Cyborg's arms twitched with fuses hanging loosely where his hands had been. The angel of heresy fixed his shades. Casually, he prepared to stab him in the head with his tonfa's… but he cries out as two metal hands twist the weapons from him. "H… How did you…?"

But he is silenced by an earth shattering punch as Cyborg gets up.

"Hey! What kind of a hero would I be if I only had one pair of these?" he smiles, flexing his new set of hands. "Hey Star!" he yells, and the Tonfa's are thrown to the sky.

"Enough games!" says Icarus, with blood on his lips. A round of blue blasts fly from his hands, but Cyborg produces his light-sabre arms again to deflect them, some hitting the foe hard, forming a large cloud of black smoke.

"Boo-yah! Time to start turning the tables!" and he blocks Icarus's energy coated Tonfa's as the spirit flies out from the smoke with eyes a blazing.

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"Wha…?" says Synn, and she just has enough time to let go of the semi-conscious Starfire as she ducks to avoid the flying Tonfa's.

Starfire catches a glimpse of the metal and spurs on energy to grab them like a professional, striking out at Synn with her own brother's weapons.

"An all out approach?" smiles Synn, clashing her glaive against the alien. "I didn't think you had it in you?" but her smile is cut short as Starfire gets close enough to swipe the blade right in front of her face. Synn kicks her back and swings the spear weapon around in an arc to try and catch Starfire, but she in turn counter's with the tonfas and both adversaries fly back.

Starfire stances determined, despite her injuries. Her eyes gleamed as she twirled the tonfas and posed ready.

Synn does likewise with her glaive, but she soon notices that her shades are a bit off centre. The bridge of the shades falls cleanly in two, followed by a very fine scratch right down her nose that glows red.

'What? How did you do that! You little…!" she says, throwing her glasses away and glaring with her beautiful but deadly eyes filled with hate.

"I am Starfire!" says her opponent with a new aura shinning from her, "Daughter of the monarchs of Tamaran, the planet of warriors, trained in the arts of both defence and attack. No fear daunts me and before no enemy do I run. Wrong I fight and my honour I defend… as do my friends."

Synn growls then shouts as they clash together again. Starfire's cool and precise moves soon are creeping over Synn, who is getting more aggravated and more afraid of the fighter. The Tamarean's grace, speed and dexterity proved the better as the metal began sparking out in heat. The fallen angel's long weapon proving very difficult in such close combat.

One great slash and Synn's weapon falls in half to her horror. Starfire boots her tremendously in the gut and does a forward flip to bring her heel upon Synn's head. The angel of blaspheme grunts and opens her wings to break her fall, but her eyes go out of focus as she sees the melee of Starbolts that smash her into the ground, returning the favour she had bestowed.

The smoke clears and Synn groans with a battered body, barely able to get up from the large crater.

Starfire salutes and brushes her hair aside…

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"YOU DUMB APE!" shouts Rich, leaping from a rock and trying to twist Beastboy's neck, but the ape proves too strong and Beastboy uses him as a bat to slam Pakkrat away. Rich manages to pull out a dagger to stab at Beastboy, he yells, dropping him.

Rich backs down in order for Shadow to take his turn. Black bolts fly like javelins from the dark wizard, but shatter away by Raven's beam. Shadow snarls.

"Your light will never defeat the shadow!" he shouts, spurting wings and launching forward with his shadow sword. "Fate bending strike!" he calls, but he never reaches Raven.

"Be gone spirit of darkness!" says Raven, holding her palms out. "Sink to the emptiness that you have made!" a brilliant dazzle of light springs out at Shadow who flails in mid air. The mage chants and sucks up the shadows on the floor at the light like a wave with inhuman ferocity, but to no avail. The light breaks through like fire on tissue paper. Shadow hits the ground, his suit flickering from its dark red to dark blue, but only for a second.

"I see good still in you! Shekron has not defeated you yet, there is still a chance! Be free of the evil Yami!" says Raven, talking to the good alter ego. "Fight it!"

"YOU SHALL FIGHT ME!" yells Shadow in dragon form. Raven stretches herself out and forms great wings and a huge body of light in her form. Shadow only beats at the light with his massive wings and they soon grapple and blast at each other; Raven using her eyes and hands in blasts, and Shadow doing his black flamethrower and shadow tail.

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Icarus tries to defend himself, but it is practically hopeless. Cyborg's lightsabres were just too long for him to get close, his blasts being deflected and his superhuman strength being matched by Cyborg's robotic enhancements.

"Darn you!" says Icarus, pushing at the light-sabres with his tonfas. "How is this possible? I should be a hundred fold greater than you! I will not lose to a tin can!"

"Then lose to ME!" says Cyborg, and he boots Icarus below the belt with a spring loaded kick.

Icarus sprawls and the energy of the Tonfas dissipates so Cyborg can break the blades, but not his hands.

"I KNOW you Icarus! I remember you!" says Cyborg, remembering the glimpses of the guy in Neon Prodgidy's stories. He relinquishes his attack and Icarus takes time to recover. "You weren't evil! You were a good guy! You were like us! What happened?"

"Things have changed Cyborg!" says Icarus, still bent over. "Shekron has bent the rules. He has gone beyond imagination. He is everywhere! Even in US!"

"Then take him out!" says Cyborg. "You're one of the strongest characters of fiction! Your power should be a heck of a lot better than Shekron! You can blow that Octari away! Don't let him control you!"

"Sorry 'friend'." smiles Icarus. "But it is much too late for that!" and his nails form claws of blue energy and electricity that grapple the light sabres and start to suck energy from Cyborg.

"It's never too late!" says Victor Stone, and he shoots the lightsabre bolts so Icarus is pushed back, still holding the lasers. A sweeping low kick sends the guy off balance, but his wings kept him up. In speed superhuman, Cyborg gets behind him and swings him by his wings.

Yelling out helplessly, Icarus waves his arms in distress as he is twirled around Cyborg's head and is finally let go into the pile of crumpled villains in a dizzy state.

Cyborg leaps over to help Raven…

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Icarus bumps along the dirt and over the form of Pakkrat and almost hitting Rich who is quite groggy. Pakkrat smiles and laughs, still on the ground, battered and bruised.

"What the heck are you on?" says Rich, trying to get his bearings. "We're losing!"

The villain remains on the ground staring into space before he finally answers. "Not for long!" says Pakkrat getting up. "I just wanted to see them in full potential before we obliterate them!" he dusts off his black trench coat.

"If you haven't noticed, we're getting flattened!" says Icarus, flapping his wings to get up. He wipes blood with his sleeve. Synn teleports to them in an instant, before Starfire can pound her like a fillet of fish again. "Some more so than others!"

"Hmm… Nice trick." remarks Pakkrat. "Want to see another one?"

"You have a plan?" says Synn, getting another pair of shades from her brother.

"It better be a good one!" says Rich.

"But of course!" says Pakkrat with a gleam behind his sunglasses. "Pakkrat created me, what about you?"

"Neon Prodigy."

"Same here."

"Star of nights."

There is a general feeling of evil amongst them. Icarus observes his duplicates and smiles. "Nice."

"Thankyou." says the other two.

"Well then, what are we waiting for?" says Rich.

"Let us go and get them…" say the other Rich's cracking their knuckles…

Synn leads with her other forms with Glaive's poised, Pakkrat smiles patting their crowbars.

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Shadow is no match for Raven. He is blasted back by a sweeping fist, fracturing his armour and breaking his claws. Screeching, his voice is cut by a large boulder thrown by Beastboy, smacking him squarely in the jaw of his dragon form so the whole shadow 'suit' diminishes. This is followed by Cyborg's sonic cannon and Starfire's starbolts that pluck him from the air.

Shadow grunts as he emerges from the crater. His powers ebbing from the glare of Raven's light. Raven hovers above the ground with Starfire beside her. Beastboy and Cyborg stand ready below them… they see the others.

"Surprised Titans?" says Pakkrat, almost drooling. "Thought you had gotten the better of us eh?"

"Well think again!" says another Pakkrat. Four forms of Shadow climb out of the crater with their powers revitalised. Their hands form claws with flame like whips.

The Titans do not reply, lest they falter in words… This was too much, even for them.

"Ah! Doubt!" smiles Icarus. "I can smell it from here!"

"Really? I think it's more like fear!" says Synn, and her band snickers.

"What are you waiting for?" says Beastboy finally. "Or are you too afraid?"

Rich laughs. "Oh, we're not afraid. We're just waiting for you to die!"

The Synn's leap at Starfire who dodges the blades and deflects another two with her tonfas. Getting close, she boots one Synn in the air and follows through with a smashing boosted head butt while holding off her glaive with her weapons. The other Synn's follow skywards.

Cyborg turns around and blasts at the other set of duplicates (There are the versions of Pakkrat, Starofnights, Neon prodigy, Shadow49 and Shekron. Five all together) that had snuck up behind them, catching Pakkrat full force, his lightsabres fend off Icarus. Beastboy goes T-rex and swings his tail to take out two Rich's, and Icarus and tripping a Pakkrat. His jaws snap one of the Synn's glaives.

Raven immediately charged into the horde of Shadow mages, crashing into them like dynamite. Three of the forms are blasted away, while the other two face Raven. Too exhausted from the last fight, she cannot form her giant light being again. With white blades from her hands, Raven battles the clawed masters of dark arts. One beam of light catches one and sends him down, but the other three replace him. Raven is forced to perform bladed attacks, blasting attacks, shield and kicks to prevent them all from overwhelming her.

Starfire tries desperately to fight against the Synn but it is hopeless. Many gashes form on her despite her best efforts. For every Synn she kicked down, another one flew up. For every Synn that she deflected with her blades, another two flew in. For every Synn she pummelled with blasts, another three came up.

Feathers flew and Glaives snapped in the battle until the Synn's gathered around in Blaspheme Rhapsody. The many blasts from their wings hit Starfire and explode, forming a great ball of energy, confined by the shielding powers of the fallen angels. On the verge of death Starfire started to descend, her lungs had stopped and her heart was stopping. She could hardly see or hear, nor feel the butcher knife sized blades passing into her midsection from all around. Blood spurts and the body goes limp like a doll. The corpse falls into the lava.

Beastboy stomps, thrashes and stampedes in many forms, many bodies fly in his wrath, but they are strong and filled with hate that spurred them. Soon he was weary of the bullets from Rich and crowbars of Pakkrat, despite his colossal size. With one last punch in gorilla form, he sends one Rich toppling over another two and a Pakkrat, before his brains are literally blown out close range. His body, pale eyed, goes back into its human form, weak, pathetic, lifeless and soulless. It is kicked into a crevice…

Cyborg nails Icarus with a stomp, but is blasted off by another two. Slashing blades with three of the Icarus's he is soon stabbed in the back by another and he roars in pain. His sabres fly around and clip some wings. A sonic cannon smacks two in the face. One lightsabre almost catches one in the gut, but manages to take one tonfa.

No less than six tonfas from three enter his back and Cyborg is reeling. The other two disable his lightsabres but get two massive knuckle sandwiches for it.

With their weapons still in his back, they lift him up still struggling and roaring and fly straight down into a crevice of lava, like diving falcons disappearing from view in the smoke. A great column of fire and smoke pillars from the crack with molten metal raining down as death; Cyborg is no more. The two Icarus's that remained above stare pleased. The other three soon teleport next to them and they shake on a bad job well done.

Raven spins and a wave of energy buckles the Shadows. Flying at them, she slashes the claws apart of a Shadow, and boots another into him. A shield ricochet a blast into one and a beam of light sends one hurtling down. But they are too many. Five great black dragons fly up with purple smoke trailing from their nostrils.

Raven fires and one backs down…

Raven fires and another is sent head over tail…

Raven fires and two falter but head on…

Raven fires and the Dragon bears it with scars…

Raven fires and her light is engulfed in black flame…

"No… not like this… wh…?"

The black energy wraps around her and blots out her light. Great spikes of shadow fly in like giant arrows and screams pierce back out. Beams of darkness spurt from their claws and all of them shed their scales and fly in with swords drawn out. There is a sickening rip and penetrating sound. A massive ball of sinister power echoes the sky and sparks ferociously. A sound resounds but fades with the force. Great masses of smoke drift down to plague the land with deep grey mist. Shadows watch with swords in front of their faces as a tattered, blood stained cloak drops down… black as coal…

"So… that was it?" says Synn in the gloom. "Was that why we were called?"

"It WAS fun." laughs Icarus. The smoke outlines their dark shapes. "Wasn't it?"

"What do we do now?" says Rich, looking into the mist. "Is that all there is?"

"I think there is still something to be done…" says Shadow, blending in. "But what?"

"I thought so…" smiles Pakkrat, turning around. The mist blows back a little, revealing a silhouette of something… someone… somewhere… standing up and head bowed, maybe in deep thought… or tremendous grief… "Well?"

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"Why me…?"