Disclaimer: All characters, names, etc. of Teen Titans are the intellectual property of its respective owners. I do not own the Teen Titans or anything within it.

This is a story that includes characters from an Alternate Universe, Alternate Titans.

To make the story easier to follow, I will use the following names for the Alternate Titans:

Robin name will be Richard. Starfire will be Kori. Cyborg will be Victor.

Raven will be Rachel and Phoenix. Beastboy will Garfield and Beast.

Jinx will be Jinxie. Terra will be Tara.

Even though I'll be calling the characters Richard, Kori, Victor, etc, they still will be calling each other Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, etc.

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Alternate Universe: 10 Months later.

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It was a moon lit night in Jump city. A dark and dirty city it was. A slight smell of smoke was in the air, from fires that burnt themselves out just a few days ago.

The Titan's isle in the once contained a proud 'T' shaped tower, now only contained its wreckage.

Shadowy shapes in red cloaks stood still on the island. On a piece of rubble, a torn poster rested. It had the picture of Robin and written under it were the words "Reward for Robin. 2 Million dollars."

Downtown, people walked with eyes adverted downward, past one of the red cloaked ones. The cloak's hood's shadow hid part of a face, but it couldn't hide the two glowing red eyes. The form of the watcher is mostly hidden within the cloak, but a medallion clasp can be seen. On it is a picture of a black bird with wings extended and surrounded by fire.

Down the street, came a green leopard, bowling over people as it went. It leaped and changed into a green eagle, its wing beating strongly as it climbed into the air.

Far above it were flashes of green, pink, red and white. The sounds of explosions echoed. Out of the sky, one of the red-cloaked ones fell, hitting the ground with a crash. No blood is seen, but it's head bounced off to one side. Wires hung out of base of the skull. It had a robotic face that looked like Raven.

High in the sky were four teens. Riding upon a flying chunk of earth were Richard, Jinxie and Tara. Wearing a beaten up backpack, Kori flew next to them. All of them were dirty, sweaty and bruised, with small cuts and rips in their filthy costumes. Jinxie had a massive facial bruise, swollen eye and a nasty cut in her upper lip.

Tara was standing at the front of the rocky platform, with a look of concentration as they flew forward. Richard and Jinxie stood behind her, each with a hand grabbed onto each of Tara's shoulders. Jinxie used her free hand for throw pink cursed bolts at distant enemies. Kori breathed heavily as she threw her green energy bolts.

Richard glanced left and right, then looked upward and frowned. "Dodge Now!" he commanded.

Tara banked the rocky platform to the left and Kori swerve to the right. A pair of red fiery beams lanced down from above. It missed the four and exploded upon a building in the city far below. The distant screams of people could be heard.

Jinxie said, "Not good, not good."

Richard yelled, "Eyes down!" as he hurled a small round object upwards. As the four adverted their eyes downwards, the object blew up in a huge ball of blinding light.

Jinxie yelled, "We have to fight somewhere else! People are getting hurt!"

Richard said, "I know! Terra, head to Titan Island."

Tara yelled, "Three in front!"

Richard responded, "I see them. Starfire, get one above us."

Kori swerved upwards. A blinded red cloaked one, floated 80 feet up. It was firing fiery energy blasts from her eyes down towards where targets were once, but missed. Those blasts rained down upon the city.

Kori face twisted in rage, losing all expression of exhaustion. She threw her green bolts of energy at the cloaked one, and the cloaked one started to blindly fire back toward Kori.

Three of Kori's bolts hit the target while she grimaced in pain as she was hit in the left shoulder.

Kori's hand glows green as she quickened her flight toward the target, dodging new weaker energy blasts.

Like a spear, Kori shoved her hand into and through the stomach of the cloaked one. It exploded as Kori flew pass. Pieces of metal, circuits and cloth filled the air.

Kori suddenly slowed and her flight faltered, exhaustion returned to her face as she rubbed her left shoulder.

She said, "That is one less Phoenix-bot that can hurt my friends." She started to fly after her friends.

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Jinxie started to throw her cursed bolts while Richard prepared another small object.

Because of Tara's control, part of the rocky flying platform broke off, flew up and formed into a small round earthen shield in front of the three.

They were no longer above the city, but now they were above the bay.

Jinxie said exasperatedly, "They're not charging, just dodging."

Suddenly, the rocky platform flipped and broke up, as something big and green flew up from below and slammed into it.

The green pterodactyl continued to climb as Richard, Tara and Jinxie fell. As the pterodactyl turned to dive, several green energy blasts slammed into it. It tumbled off away. Then Kori dived towards her friends. Quickly, she grabbed Richard, helped him onto her back and then snatched up Jinxie and Tara, one in each arm.

Richard said, "Head to the island."

Kori said exhaustedly, "I will try."

The green pterodactyl and three red cloaked ones spread out and started to circle the four at a distance.

Richard frowned, "What are they planning?"

Above the city appeared a red ring. The ring was thirty feet across and made of fire. It accelerated towards the four. As it flew, it slowly flipped. Within the circle of the ring, the scene of a hellish landscape is shown: A barren land with molten lava lakes and streams. The land itself had creatures that inhabited it. They are twisted creatures with feathers, and scales, with hair and horns.

Richard grimaced, "Phoenix's newest little toy."

The ring slowed. It followed below the four and it's opening waited for any of them to fall.

Jinxie said nervously, "Ahh, Starfire, faster please. That's a gate to hell below us. You really, really want to go faster."

"I will try," repeated Starfire as she tensed up.

They sped up heading toward the island, leaving the flying ring behind. They quickly approached one of the circling red-cloaked ones. The phoenix-bot fire a pair of eyes at the four while Jinxie threw a one-handed curse bolt in return. The robot sparked briefly then fell apart.

Jinxie cheered, "Score one for the Hive… I meant for the Titans!"

Richard congratulated, "Good shot, Jinx."

Kori still concentrated to keep their velocity up.

Tara said in pain, "Ugh, I've been hit."

Kori concentrated harder and they flew a little faster.

Richard said, "Hit where? Are you alright?"

As Jinxie looked on in concern, Tara grasped out, "In the leg... I'm ok."

The ring accelerated towards the four.

Jinxie started throwing cursed bolts at the ring hitting it. She screamed out, "How dare you hurt my friend!?! She had enough problems with flat thin hair and no sense of fashion."

Tara growled out with a weak smile, "Who are you… to talk... about hair. I'll… get you back for… that one."

Jinxie returned the smile.

Richard exclaimed, "Starfire, keep going. We're going beat it."

The fire around the edge of the ring took on the color of pink: the color of Jinxie's cursed bolts. The hellish scene is replaced that of bay water. It continued to chase the four.

Over the city behind them, a ghostly figure of a forty-foot tall flaming bird appeared.

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Titan's Universe

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Raven was mediating in her room. Floating above the floor, crossed legged; she continuously repeated the phrase, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos."

Suddenly, her eyes shot open and she reached for her communicator. With a touch it started to flash red in alarm and beeping.

She said, "Robin, everyone, I sensed massive mystical disturbance is occurring outside the tower. South side."

The she flew out through the nearest wall.

Outside of the tower, it was a moon lit night. Raven floated out though the Tower's walls and into the air, 15 stories above the ground. Raven looked out into the bay and spotted a large pink colored fiery ring approaching the tower.

Raven chanted the phrase, "Azarath Metrion ZINTHOS," as she raised her hands. From each hand, a beam of darkness leaped out. The beams curved and headed towards the ring. At the tip of each beam, a large bird like dark claw formed. The claws seized the sides of the huge ring and pulled it quickly toward Raven. The ring was coming in below Raven, and at the last instance, the claws turned the ring and pulled the ring up in front of Raven.

Raven stared into the dimensional gate formed by the ring. She said softly, "Starfire".

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Alternate Universe

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Richard, with one arm wrapped around Kori's waist, looked back. As he watched, a bright red point appeared next to the image of the giant red bird.

Richard yelled, "Left, Starfire! Dodge left!"

As Kori struggled flying to the left, from the bright point came a large fiery beam, which just missed to the four's right.

Tara yelled, "Who?"

Richard shouted back, "Phoenix came out."

Both Jinxie and Terra tried to look back. From the red bird, a red claw stretched out across the city and towards the four.

No one noticed that nails of two huge black claws came out of the ring and curled around the edges. The ring sped up, passed under the four and headed toward the island. It leaped up in front of Kori.

As Kori desperately slowed her flight to keep flying through the ring, she spotted a cloaked figure that floated on the other side of the gate.

She screamed out, "Phoenix!"

Jinxie is throwing several curse bolts at the approaching red claw without much effect. She yelled back, "Yea, I know!"

From the figure on the other side of the gate, a black beam lashed out. It narrowly missed the four, striking the oncoming red claw. The red claw was knocked off to one side.

Richard demanded, "Where did THAT come from?"

Kori looked on in shock as a huge black claw came from the ring. Kori, burdened with both her hands were still carrying two people and Richard on her back was unable to dodge as the black claw grabbed all four of them.

It pulled them through the ring.