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A week went by with the Titans in this condition. Raven continued to be extremely stoic about the matter. Robin continued to maintain a good cover from Terra. He still thought that there was a good chance that she was dirty. Starfire kept having trouble keeping her cool around Terra. However, she managed. Cyborg kept a decent cover, sometimes feeling weird about lying to her, but knowing that it was for the best.
Beast Boy, however, was a surprise. He held up the best cover against Terra. He acted completely normal around her, but Robin suspected that, when he was alone, BB was an emotional mess. However, BB didn't even speak of the matter to anyone. It was as if he was trying to pretend that this situation didn't exist.
However, just because an inside security breach arose doesn't mean that criminals just stop their actions. The next day, there was a breach in the sewer walls. After Slade attempted to steal several disks using the sewers as cover for escape, Jump City Police Department (JCPD) put sensors and cameras inside the sewers.
"What's going on?" asked Terra as the Titans ran into the sit room. Everyone else seemed fairly quiet, as if they were in silent reflection over the last few weeks.
"Some security sensors were tripped in the sewer system," replied Cyborg. "It could be a glitch, but we should probably check it out to see if there is anything interesting down there."
Robin instantly went into action mode. "Alright. Here's the plan." He went over to the 3-D holographic representation of the sewer systems. "We need to box this thing in. Raven, you and I will go in through this entrance," he said, pointing to an opening in the sewer where the thing seemed to be headed. "Terra, Starfire, you two will come in behind it," he said, pointing to the area where the alarms had first been tripped. "You two," he said, motioning to Cyborg and Beast Boy, "will take this entrance," he said, pointing to a manhole cover which was not too far away from the area where the sensors were tripped.
"Alright. Let's move out," Robin commanded. All of the Titans went out to their assigned areas to catch whoever, or whatever, was out there in the sewers.
All of the Titans began to approach their entry points. To get into the ground in front of the fugitive, Raven used her powers to move the earth in front of the entrance to make it accessible. As soon as the path was cleared, Robin jumped into attack mode, ready for anything that may jump out. Nothing did. Relaxing slightly, Robin put the Birdarangs away and began to walk slowly into the entrance. Raven followed.
At the other end of the sewer corridor where the Titans were trying to trap the fugitive, Starfire and Terra entered through the hole made when the thing, whatever it was, went in. They both gaped in awe at the massive hole left in the street. "What the hell could have done this?" asked Terra in disbelief.
"I do not know, but whatever it is, we must stop it," responded Star, determination in her voice.
Meanwhile, Cyborg and Beast Boy were approaching the centerpoint of the corridor. Cyborg stooped down to lift the manhole cover. As soon as it was up, BB morphed into a rat and went down to look. He scurried down the ladder and into the main sewer area. Looking both ways, he saw nothing.
He went back up the ladder section, demorphed, and said, "I didn't see anything down there. We should probably head in."
Before moving, Cyborg looked directly downward. Using his cybernetic eye, he scanned the area for any abnormal heat signatures. He found none. "I'm not picking up anything on the infrared. Let's go." They both moved cautiously down the ladder.
Suddenly, before any of the Titans could get very far, there was a massive crash that was felt five miles away and was heard throughout all of downtown. All of the Titans got to the surface as fast as they could. BB and Cyborg were the first to reach the surface. As they looked up, they saw a massive dust cloud about five blocks away. It looked as if whole chunks of asphalt, concrete, and pavement had been lifted into the air.
Cyborg instantly tapped his arm, trying to get through to Robin. "Robin, are you there?" Silence greeted him. "Robin!" He looked at Beast Boy in exasperation. "I can't get through to Robin! The signal is blocked or something."
Beast Boy turned and said, "We just have to hope that they heard it and are on their way. We have to find out what just happened."
"Yeah! Let's go!" BB morphed into a pterodactyl, grabbed onto Cyborg's shoulders, and lifted off. Within one minute, they reached the site of the explosion. There, in the center of the street, was Cinderblock, screaming and tearing away at the foundation of a building. The building already had had a substantial portion of its foundation ripped apart by the initial explosion, and it looked like it was about to come down on top of the civilians below.
Looking on in horror, Beast Boy yelled, "Oh my God! He's gonna bring the whole thing down!"
Looking on, Cyborg responded, "We gotta stop him before he takes it all down and kills everyone in there!" BB morphed into a gorilla, ready to take on anything that got in his way. Cyborg's right arm instantly morphed into a sonic cannon. The cannon began to charge, and it was ready to fire.
Meanwhile, at the two ends of the sewer corridor, the other four Titans were trying to get to the explosion as fast as they could. Once they had felt the explosion, Robin and Raven turned around and ran as fast as they could towards the exit. As they continued to run, Robin kept trying to contact Cyborg or Starfire. Nothing got through. Once the two of them got outside the sewers, Robin jumped onto the R-Cycle and revved it so fast that Raven thought it could explode. Raven used her powers to fly towards the source of the explosion. The two of them went as fast as they could towards what they were certain was immediate and immense danger.
At the other end of the sewer, Terra blasted a hole in the roof as soon as she felt the explosion. She knew that the explosion was on the surface from her sense of the earth around her. Once the hole was complete, she levitated a rock, hopped onto it, and flew out of there as fast as she could. Starfire followed suit, flying fast out the whole in the sewer roof. The two of them headed directly for the site of the explosion.
At the city block (Bayside Ave. and Jump Blvd.) that Cinderblock was destroying, Cyborg and Beast Boy had managed to get his attention. No small feat. As Cyborg continued to pummel Cinderblock with sonic blasts, BB began to move in, ready to strike as soon as Cyborg let up on the attack. As soon as there was a pause between blasts longer than half a second, BB had jumped onto Cinderblock and was pounding his head with his fists. Cinderblock, however, began to anticipate the blows and began to block them. As soon as BB stopped to try a new tactic, he was already flying through the air, heading directly for Cyborg. Just before impact, BB managed to demorph, softening the blow on Cyborg.
As Beast Boy and Cyborg tried to pick themselves up, they heard the telltale "Azarath Metrion Zynthos!" coming from Raven. They saw black light envelope a nearby car. The car then lifted off the ground and, with the speed of a hawk in a dive, slammed directly into Cinderblock. A massive explosion followed. There was an audible scream half a second after the car slammed into Cinderblock. Then, coming up from the west, sunset behind his back, Robin drove up on his R-Cycle. As soon as he saw the fires, he immediately jumped off the bike. Utilizing the auto-shutdown system, the bike stopped moving and the engine shut off two seconds after Robin had left the driver's seat. As Robin sailed though the air, he did a forward somersault, pulling out three Birdarangs in each hand as he flew through the air. He landed in a attacking crouch position, hands to the point where they could instantly let the Birdarangs fly.
A rock became visible in the air in the darkening sky of the east. Once the rock got closer, the silhouette of Terra became visible. A green light cast a silhouette over her, a sign that Starfire was directly behind, starbolts at the ready. Both of them landed nearly simultaneously. Everyone still remained in attack posture for about fifteen more seconds.
Terra was the first to let up. "I think you guys got him."
The other five still regarded the burning inferno with suspicion. As soon as they relaxed, a figure suddenly formed on the horizon. The figure was humanoid, average size, his face and clothing not visible. Instantly, the Titans knew who the person was. The way the man stood gave him away.
Slade. Without one word, the figure was suddenly gone. All six of the Titans tensed, preparing for an attack. When none came, they relaxed once again. A great mistake. No sooner had ten seconds passed when an energy beam nearly split Robin in two. The only thing that had saved his life was his ears, as he heard the whine of the laser beam before it had extended to its full range. The beam missed Robin's face by mere millimeters. He felt the heat that was given off by the beam on his face.
Instantly, Slade was upon them. Robin did a backflip before Slade could complete his first punch, and a shower of rocks, starbolts, sonic blasts, dark energy bursts, and Birdarangs were upon him. A large explosion followed. Robin stepped cautiously up to the fire, and was greeted with a roundhouse kick to his jaw that sent him flying backwards about ten feet. A spray of laser beams followed suit aimed directly at the Titans.
"LOOK OUT!" yelled one of them. No one knew who had yelled, but they had no problem following orders. Cyborg went flat on the ground, pressing his stomach to the pavement. Starfire and Raven instantly flew upwards. The beams missed them by several feet. Terra used her powers to levitate the earth on which she was standing. Beast Boy morphed into a bird and flew upwards as fast as he could.
As soon as the beams stopped, all of the Titans attacked at once. Cyborg came in with a punch from the front. Slade deftly sidestepped the blow and stuck his foot out, tripping Cyborg in the process.
"Oh, I'm sorry," he said in a tone even more malevolent than usual. "Let me help you up." He grabbed Cyborg by the chest and threw him directly at the other Titans. Cyborg (turned flying projectile) barely missed the Titans. Raven muttered her chant and sewer pipes broke free from underground, wrapping themselves around Slade. Slade easily and deftly broke free of their grip. He grabbed a rock that was many times heavier than he was. Swinging around in a circle several times, he let go of the rock, and it flew directly toward the Titans.
"Terra!" BB yelled. "Block it!"
Terra's eyes became yellow and her hands began to glow with the strain of her powers. Star, Raven, and BB waited for the rock to slow down. It didn't. Instead, it sped up. It was only a fraction of a second before the Titans figured out that the rock wasn't slowing down. By then, it was too late. The rock had found its target, slamming into Beast Boy, Starfire, and Raven. All three flew backwards nearly twenty feet, knocked out from the blast.
As mysteriously as he had appeared, Slade vanished into the smoke and confusion. Terra, a look of shock and horror on her face, rushed over to the fallen Titans to make sure they were okay.
"Starfire! Raven!" Terra ran to them to make sure they were okay. Then she saw Beast Boy. His right foot and lower leg were pinned by the rock, blood all the way up to his thigh. His eyes were closed, and there was a cut on his head that slowly seeped blood. Turning pale and ashen, she ran to him. "Beast Boy! Are you okay? Say something!" She began to shake him to try and wake him up. His eyes began to flutter. He coughed, and some blood came out.
Robin slowly got up and realized what was happening. He got up and began limping toward Terra and BB. As soon as he had a vague idea of what had happened, he asked her, "What happened?"
"I don't know," she responded, looking at him with tears in her eyes. "He threw a rock at us. I tried to stop it from hitting, but it kept coming. I don't know what happened." Instantly, Robin became mentally suspicious, not letting it show. Slowly, the other Titans began to pick themselves up.
Cyborg took a look at Beast Boy and, using his cybernetic eye, x-rayed BB's body to see what damage had been done. As soon as he had finished, he said, "I'm not reading any broken bones. However, he is losing quite a bit of blood. If we don't stabilize it soon, he'll die." All of the Titans breathed a silent sigh of relief.
Cyborg lifted the rock. As soon as the rock moved, Beast Boy cried out in pain. Robin and Starfire pulled him out from under the rock, and Cyborg let go of the rock. Cyborg grabbed BB and, with Robin's help, started carrying him toward the R-Cycle. The other three Titans helped each other to move in that direction. They all began to fly toward the Tower.
As Robin rode with Beast Boy, he began to become more coherent. When it appeared he was well enough to talk, Robin asked him, "Okay. Terra told me her version. Now what the hell happened out there?"
With great pain, BB responded, "Slade threw a rock. Terra tried to stop it. I saw-" then stopped talking for a moment, coughing up blood. He started again. "I saw her hands glow, but the rock didn't slow. It looked like it sped up." Horror began to dawn on Robin
Then Beast Boy said ten words before passing out. Those ten words were: 'I think you're right. I think Terra is a mole." He then lapsed into unconsciousness. Robin turned around to face the roadway. In his mind, he knew the truth. He knew that Terra was dirty.
He knew that Terra was working for Slade.
Next on Revelations: Shockers abound as Part One concludes with more drama and more intensity. Next chapter: "Enemies Revealed".