TEEN TITANS:
EMBODIMENT FRONTIER

Four Years Later...

In a drunken men's bar, a sixteen-year old girl walked inside. She had a very, athletic build around her body. She wore waist-hugging blue jeans, an indigo-like shirt that covered her upper body build, and a silver silk , short-sleeve, shirt that matched her white shoes. She also wore a white detective's hat on top of her red hair and wore indigo-like biker gloves.

The teenager's emerald-like eyes searched stealthly as she walked calmly and sat at the bar. Seconds later, the bartender came over to her and asked, "What can I do for you, "Doll Face'' ?" The girl quietly pulled down her hat over her eyes and replied, "I am seeking information." Then she pulled out a photograph and slid it towards the bartender, so he could get a good look. "Do you know or hear anything about this guy?" Even though looking at it more than once, the bartender shook his head and said, "Can't help you there." "I thought you couldn't."

Without thinking twice, the girl left the bar and was about to leave when somebody stopped her. "Hey, Sweethaeart!" one of the drunken men said, "Maybe I can be some of help!" "Your suggestion is not dependable!" the girl said throwing the photograph at the drunken man, "But, could you have any chance of you knowing where I can find this guy?" "Maybe you can stay a while and see!" "If you don't know, then return the picture back to me, please!" "Let's not and say I did!" Then the girl's emerald eyes started to glow even brighter.

"That was not a question!" she said in a calm, yet cold manner.

"Then why don't you take from me, by force!" the drunken man replied. Then the girl pulled down her hat and replied,

"Don't you worry! I plan on it!"

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"REUNIONS: PART I"

The girl ran towards the drunken man with a serious look. "You made a big mistake!" the drunken man throwing a punch at her. The girl ducked underneath, grabbed his arm with her left hand, and catching him with an elbow to the stomach. Leaving him in pain for at least a second, she grabbed the photograph from his hand.

"Why you!" the man said trying to gain an offense, but was stopped when the girl spun around and put a weapon in his face; between his eyes. "My name is not YOU!" she replied, "My name is Starfire." "Well, little missy! You have some nerve sticking a loaded gun in my face!" Suddenly, the drunken man was kicked backward to the jukebox, which was now broken. Appearing in front of Starfire, was a teenage boy, same age as her. His clothes was mostly black as he wore silky-black pants, a dark red shirt, and a black-and-white, short-sleeve jacket with metal shoulder pads on the outside.

"Maybe, but would a foot in your face be a pain?" he said as his black-rimmed eye-mask stared at the knocked out drunken man. "Glad you could make it, Robin!" Starfire replied smiling. "Good to be here, Starfire!" Robin said.

Exiting the door to the bar, Starfire replied, "Sorry, I couldn't get any info. It's been a dead end again!" "So, it looks like it's back to Square One!" Robin said, "Finding him is a lot tougher than it was back then. One week, we caught up with him; the next, he lose trace of him. "Perhaps, it was not best to split up the team," Starfire said sadly, "Maybe we should stop our investigation and..."

Robin just shook his head and said, "Even if we wanted to, we can't. Everyone of us had our reasons for leaving. There's nothing we can do now. Let's just continue our investigation." With Starfire nodding off silently, they went off.

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The World of Azarath

Azarath was very quiet. The destroyed building was the first and only thing that two people were seeing. One was wearing a long, white robe. "Nothing has changed in a long time, has it Raven?" the woman in white said. Raven was wearing the same outfit, except she wore black shoulder pads with blue gems encased in each on her blue cloak. She wore long gray boots, and long blue-striped battle gloves. "No, Mother," Raven replied pulling back her hooded from over her head, "I never thought when my father...Trigon would wipe out his entire people like this!" "Then why did you decide to come back even though, that you knew, that there no one would be there?"

Raven stopped walking turned around and stared at her mother. "Because, this is my birth place," she said with very little emotion, "When I...broke off any indication of my friends...I came back here to be a sage. That was a long time ago." "And you've been meditating ever since," Raven's mother said, "And now, that you're an Azarathian sage, you hoped to recreate your world. But, you know that can never be possible."

"I know," Raven said.

An hour later, Raven and her mother were in the main temple; Raven was searching over former messiah readings, while her mother was looking out the windows. "I never realized that being a sage means knowing over five-hundred years of knowledge," Raven replied, "I just wonder how long..."

Raven stopped speaking after she heard a huge ringing in her mind. Thirty seconds later, the ringing had stopped. Raven's mother ran over to check up on her. "Are you okay, my child?" she asked. "I...I...don't know!" Raven replied, "...Just a second...my senses created a vision in my head!" "A vision?" After Raven got up, her mother quickly replied, "I didn't know that you would advance so far in your training." "What do you mean, Mother?" "You have received...The Sight! Now, you have the ability to see places far beyond your reach. It took the former sages, nearly eighty years to perfect it! Tell me, Raven. What did you see?"

Closing her eyes, Raven replied very slowly to what she saw. "I saw the Earth; it is in great danger! " she said, "That's all I can tell you." "You've must have looked into the future," her mother said, "Such an advanced version of the Sight! At this rate, you'll master it in a much faster time than your ancestors!" "Then I know where to put this power to good use."

Saying that, Raven walked out of the temple with her mother watching. "I know where you're going, my daughter," her mother said. "Yes, Mother," Raven said stopping, "I'm going back to Earth, my home. I'm sorry to leave again after all these years." "I also know that you won't be coming back. I understand. All I want to tell you is...be brave as you can be!" "Thank you, Mother," Raven said sheding a single tear, "I will never forget you, nor Azarath."

As she flew away, her mother said on more thing before she faded away: "I Love you...My Daughter."

Reaching the entrance point, Raven's eyes began to glow a black color. "Goodbye, Azerath," she said, "Now and Forever! Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Saying her incantion, she fired a beam causing a vortex to open. With no time to spare, she entered into the vortex.

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Planet Earth: Gotham City

A vortex opened up on top of a building and Raven appeared out of it. She noticed that it was night time, but she also noticed one more thing. "I'm home," she said softly, "Huh?" Her reaction caused her to look down to see someone walking in the dead of night.

The teenager looked somewhere around fifteen to sixteen years of age. He was wearing a long-sleeved, black jacket with a hood over his head covering his eyes. He also wore thick, black pants with purple-and-white sneakers. Underneath the silver zipper, it notices that he wearing a t-shirt. Seconds later, sprinkles of rain started to fall. The teenager heard nothing, but drops of water tapping on windows and puddles.

He stopped after he heard a noise and swiftly cocked his head to see in front of him. A tiger came out and roared in front of the teenager. Instead of running away, he cleneched his fists tightly, then raising his right fist saying two words. "Let's go!" he said silently, then with a blink of an eye, all ten of his fingertips turned into claws. Then showing a growl, his mouth revealed a powerful set of fangs. Before he could attack, a beam came out of nowhere injuring the tiger. Then he attacked and the tiger was clearly decapitated.

"Are you okay!" a voice said. The teenager turned around and saw Raven descend beside him. "Raven?" the teenager asked. Raven pulled back her hood and revealed a questionable look. "Do you know me?" she asked, "Who are you?" "Raven, it's me!" Then he pulled back his own hood to reveal a very familiar, green face. "Beast Boy?" Raven said shockingly.

"It's been a while, hasn't it?" Beast Boy said making Raven see his big, violet-like eyes. "It sure has!" Raven replied looking up and down at the changling, "Wow! Beast Boy, I have to say that you look very...cute!" Beast Boy turned to the side blushing. "Well, I guess you've been in extreme training yourself," he replied looking at her new gear, "Azarath, must have made you even stronger than before! Me? Well, ever since the titans broke off, I've been teaming up with Cyborg."

"And thanks to you two, you completely destroyed one of my training exercise!" a voice that made Beast Boy and Raven see near an alley corner. Out came the blue-lighted robot himself. There was nothing different about him except he was wearing a big brown cloak he wore around his shoulders. "You mean that this was just a training exercise?" Raven said looking at Beast Boy. "But, there's one thing I have to say about your team attack..."

Beast Boy and Raven was nervous trying to absorb the worse of Cyborg until he said...

"BOO-YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

They, both, fell over in Cyborg's stupidity.

"Cy?" Beast Boy replied, "Don't you think the Boo-Ya is kinda overkilling moments like this!" "Finally, Beast Boy!" Raven said plain as day, "Welcome to my worldly grief!"

"By the way, Raven," Cyborg began, "What are you doing out of your world of Azarath?" "During my training to be an Azarathian sage," Raven began, "I saw a vision. I think the earth is in danger. So, I came back to help." "Did you actually know who's threatening it?" Raven shook her head and replied, "No." "Then all we have do now, is to find Robin!" Beast Boy replied. "Like how, B-man?" Cyborg said, "He and Starfire took off after all of us split up!"

"Oh yeah," Beast Boy replied. "Don't worry, you two!" Raven replied, "I've been doing a lot of mind training on Azarath. If Robin and Starfire are nearby, I'll sense them." "All right!" Cyborg shouted, "Looks like we're teaming up again! Just like old times!" "I hate to admit it," Raven said, "but I would love to hang out with you again!" "Okay, then!" Beast Boy said, "Let's go!"

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Over the Pacific Ocean...

Piloting a Navel Aviator's plane, Robin was flying directly towards the center of the Pacific Ocean. Starfire was his co-pilot searching on the radar.

"Starfire," Robin began, "What do you see on the radar?" "We're nearly there, Robin!" Starfire replied, "Almost 50 Kilometers." "I see it!" The object that they were looking for was a secret underground base; it nearly looked like an oil refinery.

Seconds later, they landed. Reaching for the opening, Robin noticed something big right beside the refinery. "Woah!" he breathed. "I've never seen anything big before!" Starfire replied nearly about to scream, "What is it?" "It's a giant Mechaniloid!" Robin said, "I've heard about this machines! But, it looks very rusted. C'mon, we better keep moving!"

Entering inside, they noticed something very repulsive. Everything inside was slimey; bugs, cockroaches, and unprecidented objects were crawling about. "Disgusting!" Starfire said, "And I thought the things I eat were..." "Trust me," Robin replied, "I've seen something just as ugly as this!" Although disgusted, Starfire created a starbolt for light. Moments later, Robin came up upon a computer system. Pressing a button, it uploaded infomation on a wide-screen monitor.

"What is it exactly that we are looking for?" Starfire replied. "Whatever he's doing," Robin said, "I'd say we're searching for a needle in haystack." Suddenly, something growled behind him. "Geez, Star!" he said, "I know you're nervous, but you don't have to breath down my neck!" "Starfire to Robin!" Starfire replied nervously, "That's not me!" As both of them turned around, they saw a giant metal head floating around. "Remember? That haystack I was talking about?" Robin replied, "I think we've found the needle!"

Suddenly, the metal head fired two powerful beams; luckily, Robin and Starfire moved out the way. "It must be guarding the computer!" Robin suggested, "Separate and attack!" Going on one side of it, Robin threw three disks at the metal head and they exploded. "It's not even damaged!" he said. "What do you expect, Robin!" Starfire said, "IT'S MADE OF METAL!" Yelling, she fired twin star beams pushing the metal head backwards into rusted wall that broke in on contact. Unfortunately, not a dent was made.

"Robin," Starfire began talking, "It seems that this thing is too indestructable to break!" Robin, still looking at it, noticed something different. "No," he said softly, "I did damaged it! The metal might be indestructable, but it's not durable!" "Any suggestions?" "I'll try to bring it over here to you, when you see an opening, blast it with your Star Blazer!" With Starfire agreeing, she took off her detective's hat as Robin took out his staff.

As the metal head saw Robin running towards it, it fired some kind of bomb; three of them. The Boy Wonder moved side-to-side until it was right behind it. "Gotcha!" he shouted as he used the staff to bat the metal head towards Starfire. With a gleam in his eye, Starfire grabbed her gun, the Star Blazer, from behind her. And then, in a slow-motion movement, she raised her gun at the metal head as it fired two beams from its eyes. Fortunately, it only made a slit in her silk shirt. Still, at a slow-motion movement, Starfire shot lasers from her Star Blazer making a couple of dents. Then, at a fast pace, her Blazer started destroying the metal, piece by piece!

Minutes later, smoke was appearing by the shots. "Did it work?" Starfire replied. Suddenly, the metal head appeared out of the smoke when Robin said, "Damn, only pieces of it fell off!" "Maybe, you just need some more firepower!" a voice said as a blue laser came out of nowhere as blasted the metal head. Robin and Starfire turned to the side as sombody said, "I've said before and I'll say it again! BOO-YAAH!" "CYBORG!" Starfire said said running towards him. "It's good to see you again, Buddy!" Robin said, "It's been a while!" "A long while!" Cyborg said, "Now, how many times did I say, "You can't start without me!" ?" "Fortunately, not enough!" a voice said senting a metal pole to and through the metal head. Seconds later, a black entity and appeared as a person.

"RAVEN!" Starfire said hugging her. "You're hugging me!" Raven said. "Oops!" Star said letting go. "I'm just kidding, Starfire! I'm glad to see you, too!" "Hey, I'm the one with the jokes!" another voice said as two slashes came out of nowhere. Moving towards the team and away from the metal head, was their favorite green kid. "Hey, BEAST BOY!" Robin said, "What's happening!" "Dude!" Beast Boy said suddenly, "That is so unfair!" "What is...?" "You're wearing my colors!"

Before the changeling could argue more, the metal head appeared out of the smoke again. Except it was nothing but a brown, anatomy structure.

"Wow!" Beast Boy said, "I didn't know it had a brain!" The metal head had become a giant-size brain with electric pulses circling around it. "Those don't look like ordinary electromagnetic pulses for your brain!" "No," Raven said looking at the controls, "I think that the computer is giving off energy waves; that brain is just a machine, hooked up to that computer. If we can take that thing out, it may destroy the computer!"

"Okay!" Robin said sweating, "Since we're all here, I've got a plan: Beast Boy and I will try to hold it, while you guys get ready to fire! If we can overload it, we may have a chance to get out of here!" "Way ahead of you, Robin!" Beast Boy said. Seconds later, the changeling and the Boy Wonder moved so fast, that they made their way behind the brain. "Now!" Robin shouted as Starfire, Raven, and Cyborg got ready to fire. As they got ready, the mechanical brain opened up its lower half and started to fire a beam at them.

"They say that a mind is a terrible thing to waste!" Cyborg said. "But, in this case," Raven began. "We'll make an exception!" Starfire finished.

All three of them fired their attacks as the mechanical brain fired its own beam. But, before the brain's beam made it to them, Starfire, Raven, and Cyborg beams made it first overloading it. As it exploded, the computer exploded as well. "Uh, that doesn't look good!" Beast Boy said. "It's gonna start a chain reaction!" Robin shouted, "We have to get out of here!" "Not a problem!" Raven said confidentally, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Saying those words, Raven teleported herself and her friends out of the refinery.

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Gotham City: Titans Tower

Back at the tower, everything seem to be the same as it was.

"Wow!" Cyborg said, "Feels good be back here!" "No argument here!" Beast Boy replied, "I wonder if my room is clean." "For my sake as well," Raven began, "I do hope your room is clean!" "I wonder if my Gamestation is still operational!" Cyborg asked in retrospect.

"It is glorious to be back here again!" Starfire replied spinning around in the air. "I wonder if there's any food in the frige!" Beast Boy replied.

"As much as I love the group being back together again," Robin replied, "Starfire and I have work to do!" "Hey! No problem, Robin!" Cyborg replied, "You know for a fact that you can count on me, BB, and Raven!" "Right!" Raven said, "We each had our reasons for leaving, but now, we're back and ready for action!"

As the five of them as down on the couch, Beast Boy said, "Raven's right! We're more than ready to kick butt again!" "I was hoping you wouldn't say that!" Starfire insisted. "Why? Who are you guys chasing?" Starfire took the photograph from her jacket and took gave it to Cyborg. "No way!" Cyborg said looking at the picture. "You've got to be kidding!" Raven said looking at it as well. "Ditto," Beast Boy said.

"That's right!" Robin said, "Even after all these years, we're still chasing after..."

SLADE!

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