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Off in the dark void of limbo Terra floated between life and death; between consciousness and sleep. She had been this way for a very long time, since her last battle against Slade. As the magma congealed around her body her unconscious mind made one last attempt to save her life. With a release of all of her energy she had created a small barrier around herself but in the process had been put into a coma. Years had passed and she had remained in the state she was still in. But now something different was happening, she was waking up. She could feel life being breathed back into her body, but she was still tabbed within the stone. Suddenly she felt completely recharged, she felt better and stronger than she had ever felt before. She focused on the stone around her and pushed; with very little force the stone shattered and she was free.

As she entered the living world again she gasped for breath and fell to her knees. Everything that had happened to her before she was trapped within the stone flashed before her and as she remembered what she had done tears came to her eyes. She had betrayed her friends, and for what, a misunderstanding? It wasn't fair...

But now she had a chance to repent. She could make it up to them by coming to their aid. All she had to do was open her eyes and get up. So she did, and what she found was a little boy looking at her, eyes wide and innocent. The boy had a smile so wide that it was almost like he had just gotten the best present ever.

"Who are you?" Terra asked.

Terra suddenly felt as though this was not the proper question to ask. Instead she should ask, "Where are the titans?"

The boy took her hand and pulled her along as he ran out of the cave and up a passage way that hadn't been there when she had been alive before. As they moved through the tunnel Terra realized that they were moving towards the ocean, and probably the tower. She realized that the titans must have built the tunnel to be able to visit her easily.

Suddenly they were out of the tower and in the basement of Titans Tower. The boy dragged her up the stairs and finally into the common room of the tower. The television was on but it was full of static. The boy pulled her across the room but halfway there he fell to the floor and put his hands over his head. Terra stopped running and looked at the little boy. The way he was lying it was almost as if he had suddenly become very dizzy.

The boy, still suffering, began dragging himself across the floor towards the television screen. Suddenly Terra understood: the titans were somehow 'on the other side' of the screen and the boy and Terra had to get to them. Terra shook her head clearing it and wondering how she knew this, but she knew it and there was no time to ask questions. She grabbed the boy and jumped into the screen, completely expecting to smash through the glass and fall out the other side. Instead there was a jolt and a rush and when Terra opened her eyes she found herself in a world like no other.

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The titans had followed Control Freak through the portal of the screen and back into what they expected to be television land. What they found was something far more frightening. The world they appeared in was a mix of warped physics and twisted reality. Everything on television, or anything else for that matter, was here. Videos, movies, video games, even books had come to life in this world. But such control of stories was obviously dangerous as rips, tears, and cracks in space, time and reality as the titans knew it flowed through this space like wheat in a wheat field. There wasn't a single place where the ground was stable for more than ten feet and as the worlds of stories collided they created small shockwaves that rippled through all space around them.

"What on earth?" Robin asked.

"I don't think we're on earth any more Toto." Raven said as Beast Boy turned into a small dog.

"You can say that again." Cyborg said. "Even I can't tell where we are. My sensors say one place one second and then change the next."

"Please, what is going on?" Starfire asked looking at their surroundings. "The last time the Control Freak brought us into the 'T' 'V' we moved through it more regularly, but this... this is unlike anything I have ever seen... what is this?"

"I wish I knew." Robin said. "But I know someone we can beat the answers out of. Come on!"

The titans set off through the 'maze' of stories, each one of them 'flying' because physics really didn't mean anything in this place. They passed through many different stories, some books, some movies, a few video games... until they finally reached a place where there was a large mass of stories crushed together, and there, obviously in the center and waiting, was Control Freak.

"He's been waiting for us." Cyborg said.

"That's fine by me." Robin said as he landed on the ground.

As the titans approached Control Freak turned around grinning like a mad man. As he spoke his voice rippled through the space and hit each titan full force. "Welcome titans, to my domain. Here I control everything, even your very existence is as I wish it. Come and battle me, not as the simple nerd that I was but as the god that I have become."

"You may think of yourself as a god but we have taken down things bigger than you!" Robin yelled picking himself up from the ground.

"Ah, yes, Trigon." Control Freak answered. "But not even he could do this." as he finished his sentence he moved a glittering crystalline remote and pointed it at the titans. As he pressed it a bolt of lightening shot out and a shockwave followed, the lightening and shockwave split through the air and hit each titan. As they shook and writhed in pain they felt their bodies being weakened and suddenly four shadow entities ripped out of them. The shadows were not like the ones that Trigon had created but instead were completely consumed in burning shadow. As Raven looked at them she remembered the last time she had fought against something like this...

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As Terra pulled Timothy through the portal into the other world he felt the nausea worsen and a shockwave of pain ripple through his body. He gasped and shook violently and as Terra landed on the ground he fell from her arms. She tried to pick him up but his body was shaking too violently. Finally she moved the earth beneath him into a bowl shape and they were off, ironically in the same direction the titans had taken.

As she flew through the air Timothy continued to struggle against the pain and nausea. Slowly a shadow crept over his body and he phased through the rock he was being held in. As he fell through the space of that world the shadow crept over his body and began to take control. Screaming silently, because his voice had left him, he fought against the shadow's control. Finally he couldn't hold on any longer and blacked out.

Then something not quite expected happened. A golden ring shot out from Timothy's body followed by a blue and green one. The rings moved so that the golden one was horizontal to his body, the blue was diagonal in one direction and the green was diagonal in the other. The shadow stopped consuming him and a golden red light caught around his hands. As the fire spread up around him fighting back the shadow his body began to grow older. Slowly he became a teenager of about sixteen and his cloths, the tunic and cape became a shining silver. His hair grew longer rapidly and as the color was drained from them a golden tint took hold making his hair appear blond.

Timothy's eyes opened and he straightened himself. Slowly he scanned the area around him, his eyes distant and searching. Then he found what he was looking for and slapping his hands together he opened a rift. He quickly slipped through the rift and was gone...

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Cyborg dodged and tried to use his sonic cannon again but, even though he was still able to move, he seemed to be out of power. He closed the cannon and tried to punch the burning shadow but simply fell through it felling its cold fire rip through him as he passed through. He tried again and the same happened, but as he fell out the other side the shadow grabbed him and threw him into the air. As he passed Starfire the shadow appeared again above him and stretched out its arm directly at his chest. He slid through the arm and felt a burning cold stab through his heart. He was thrown down and as he fell he glimpsed a small ball of light in the shadow's hand.

Robin dodged left, then right, then left again and heard a thud behind him as Cyborg slammed into the ground. He didn't have time to see if Cyborg was alright as the shadow punched him in the chest sending him flying. The shadow appeared behind him and grabbed his arm, threw him, sending him flying down into the ground and as he was released Robin tried to grab onto the shadow's hand but all he got was a icy burn. As he landed on the hard ground he bounced and was caught by the shadow. He felt a freezing pain as the shadow sliced its arm into his chest and felt the burning grip rip through his heart. As he was thrown to the side he could just barely see a small ball of light in the shadow's hand.

Beast Boy shifted into a raptor and charged the shadow biting it with his razor teeth. He expected to feel something as he bit down but all he got was a flash of cold fire down his throat and felt a hot starbolt hit him on the head. He backed off and changed into ram and again charged the shadow but he passed straight through. Again and again he tried different animals but each time all he got was a cold burning whip of dark fire. Finally, exhausted he fell to the ground as Robin flew over him, and gasped in pain as a burst of cutting cold fire ripped through his chest and tore at his heart. As he rolled over, clutching his chest he saw the shadow gripping a ball of light as it walked away.

Starfire was only able to dodge as Cyborg flew into the air next to her. She charged her starbolts and shot at the shadow but they simply passed through it. The shadow flew at her as she was charging another bolt and she released it at the ground as the shadow ripped through her. She turned, shaking the pain off as she charged another bolt and again the shadow tore through her. She began turning again but felt a cold burning claw rip through her back and the hand of the shadow ripped out the front of her chest, a small glowing ball in it.

Raven watched, helpless as her friends were tortured and fell one by one. She could do nothing to help them because all of the other shadows were holding her down. Tears dripped from her eyes as she saw what she could only assume was each of her friends dying. She pulled and yanked her arms and legs trying to free herself so that she could save her friends but she only got burns and rips in her skin and cloths.

"NO, Beast Boy!" Someone yelled.

Raven opened her eyes and looked to the voice. It was Terra, Terra! She had somehow returned just when they needed her most, or... was it just a cruel illusion? Raven dropped her head again, tears falling from her face and hitting the soft ground. There was a thud as a piece of stone landed on the ground and she heard Terra say, "How dare you! How dare you do this to my friends!"

"Oh, but they aren't your friends are they?" Control Freak asked, his voice mocking. "I can see into your mind, your heart. You betrayed them once, and you will do it again."

"NO!" Terra yelled. "I won't betray them again! Not again!"

Raven looked up, her vision blurred by the tears and screamed as a shadow appeared behind Terra and ripped its clawed arm through her back. Terra gasped and fell to her knees, the arm still through her. A ball of light was in the shadow's hand as it pulled it back through and Terra fell to the ground...

"NO!" Raven screamed in agony and misery.

She felt a hand on her face and fully expected to see Control Freak's snarling face as she opened her eyes but instead she saw the teen. The teen who had died to save her when she was being attacked by the man in white. He was still alive, he was here... he was too late.

"Don't worry." The teen whispered moving his head closer to hers. "Hope is always with you, Raven."

Timothy released her face and turned to look at the shadows. He began walking forward and Raven screamed, "But they will kill you!"

"Dear Raven, I do not intend to die today." The teen replied and moved his right arm up and to his left. One quick thrust down and right and a sward appeared in his hand. He held the sward up and a dazzling white light appeared around the sward. It was then that Raven noticed the three rings around the teen's body and only as they moved around the sward forming a flame of deep blue, pure white and pure leaf green.

The teen disappeared momentarily and reappeared behind one of the shadows that were holding the balls. One quick slice and the shadow split in two; he reached his left hand out, flexed and the shadow disappeared in a brisk wind. The ball of light remained where it had been held and continued floating there as the teen sliced through the second shadow. He continued this until all of the shadows holding balls were gone and only the orbs of light remained. Then he turned to face Control Freak.

"It isn't your time to die yet." The teen said. "So why do you insist on killing yourself?"

"I am not killing myself, it is you, the teen titans, and anyone who wishes to oppose me who will die!" Control Freak, who was now becoming shrouded in shadow flame yelled. "Now DIE!" he pointed the remote, which had also become shadow-like at the teen and pressed the button.

As the flash and shockwave rippled outward the teen sheathed his sward in a sheath that hadn't been there. He placed his right hand forward and blocked the blast, which ripped the ground apart. Raven watched in utter disbelief as this happened, she had honestly expected the teen to die long before now.

The teen swept the blast away and Control Freak grimaced. He pointed his remote again and pressed a series of buttons. This time the blast altered the very fabric of space and time around the teen but again the teen swept the attack away. Frustrated Control Freak squeezed the remote and finally sneered looking over at Raven.

"If I can't kill you I can kill what you came here for." Control Freak said.

"If you even try..." the teen started but he never got the chance to finish as Raven felt a flame stab of ice rip through her body. She looked down in shock and saw not one but six arms through her. The ball was completely covered and she couldn't see any but a splinter of light from it.

"NO!" The teen yelled and rushed over to Raven. "No... it can't be."

Raven slid down the arms as they were pulled backward. She fell into the teen's arms and he held her. As he looked down into her eyes tears fell from his. A sob ripped through his body as he placed his right hand over her chest. "I'm sorry... you were right. I was too late."

"I... it's alright." Raven coughed. "Even if you can't save us stop him."

Raven's eyes closed and the teen gently placed her on the ground...

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The teen stood up and clutched his hand around an invisible ball. The shadows holding Raven's ball shattered and disappeared leaving the ball where it was. The teen walked over and put his hands gently around the ball; then walked it back over to Raven and gently placed it just above her chest. Then he walked ten steps away from Raven and looked at the laughing Control Freak.

"Death is too good for you." The teen said. "So what I shall give will be far worse."

The teen stretched his arms out and a ring of light appeared at his feet. A sigil flickered in the center but faded and left the circle empty. As the teen stretched the light around his body grew and became a shadow flame engulfed in light. Slowly two stubs appeared in his back and suddenly two wings burst out sending the cape flying into the air. The right wing was feathered on the top and furred on the bottom and the right one was furred on the top and feathered on the bottom. Golden red flame illuminated the teen's eyes and he clapped his hands together.

Control Freak, finally sensing true danger held his remote up to protect him but nothing could block what was to come. A blast equal only to a supernova but focused into a beam three feet in diameter shot at Control Freak and the remote shattered spewing shadow flame over Control Freak. The flame consumed his body and he screamed as his form was reduced to a darkened ring on the ground.

The teen walked over to the ring and placed his hand on it pulling out two crystals. The first was shaded gray but the second one was darker than space. The second crystal the teen thrust back into the ring but the first he cracked and it shattered into thousands of tiny pieces. The pieces became light and flew into the teen but also into the orbs of light floating near the titans.

Finally the teen walked back to the titans and one after another pushed the orbs back into their bodies. As he finished with Raven he stepped back and drew his sward again. One quick slash created a rift within the world they were in. The rift expanded and began to consume the entire space. As it passed over the titans they fell back out of the screen and into their world. Everyone landed comfortably in the common room of Titans Tower, everyone except for Timothy...