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. Gizmo will be Mikron.

And Bumblebee will be Karen and Speedy will be renamed to Roy.

Even though I'll be calling the characters Richard, Victor, etc, some characters, Richard and Tara, still refer to themselves as Robin and Terra.

Please Read and Review.

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Alternate Universe

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Slade entered Phoenix's throne room, carrying Phoenix over one shoulder. He walked across the script-covered floor and dumped her into the throne. The unconscious Phoenix breathing was labored and her skin was paler than normal.

Slade walked up to one of the four pillars that sat in a circle around the throne.

Slade said to himself as he studied the pillar's inscriptions, "My, my, my. Familiar but not. If I were the so-called Advisor, where would I place the activation runes? Ah, yes, there they are."

Slade started to remove his left glove but stopped where he heard the noise of stomping and dragging.

He watched as Mammoth dragged the Advisor into the room. Mammoth howled upon seeing Slade and pointed his free fist at the man. Flames shot out from his closed hand toward Slade.

As Slade dodge to behind one of the pillars, the flames impacted on an invisible shield that surrounded edge circle of script around the throne. Mammoth ran forward, still dragging the Advisor, and plowed into the shield. Electricity arced over him, digging at his flesh. Mammoth roared with pain and backed up.

Slade stepped out from behind a pillar and said, "That was entertaining. Greeting my dear Mammoth or who ever you are. And you must be the Advisor. Nice place you have here. Do you mind if I make use of it?"

The Advisor, still being held by Mammoth, said, "I rather like it. You don't belong here or in this dimension. I think you should leave to a more pleasant place, my friend."

Mammoth frowned at this conversion that didn't include him and said menacing, "Advisor, you will remove this shield. Or you will die a horrible death."

The Advisor said evenly, "So you will give me a quick death, instead? Sounds like a lose-lose situation to me. No deal, Trigon."

While the Advisor and Mammoth/Trigon were talking, Slade removed his left glove and cut his palm.

Mammoth, one handed, lifted the Advisor over his head and his other fist started to burn brightly. Mammoth said, "I have defeated you easily. Your life belongs to me, mortal. Do not think you can make a deal with me. You will do as you are ordered!"

The Advisor responded evenly, "If I die, then you lose, Trigon. There is no way you can breach the barrier."

Slade place his bloody palm on the first pillar. The blood snaked quickly from his palm into the pillar's script. Little bloody threads traveled from rune to rune until all the pillar's scriptures glowed bloody red.

Mammoth head jerked around and glared at Slade. "Stop it, Mortal! You will die ten thousand times; each death more horrible than the last the one."

Slade walked over to the next pillar while saying, "That sounded like a bad line from a worse movie, my friend. By the way, are you attempting to threaten me? How amusing."

He then applied his bloody palm to the next pillar. It started to glow.

"Fool!" Mammoth spitted out. He threw the one the only thing in his hand, the Advisor, at Slade.

The invisible barrier had no effect upon the Advisor as he somersaulted in the air and aimed his feet at Slade. Slade dodged by diving to the ground.

The Advisor flew above him and out the other side of the circle. Both of his feet landed upon the far wall and the Advisor leaped back toward the circle. As he landed, the Advisor reached behind his back and pulled out a small cylinder. It extended into a staff.

Slade also bought out an identical cylinder and it also extended out into an identical staff.

The Advisor remarked, "Nice staff."

Slade responded as he jumped at the Advisor, "I like it."

Mammoth yelled, "Kill!"

Both of the combatants ignored him.

As Slade came down, he swung his staff in an overhead swing, which the Advisor parried. As Slade landed, his opponent kicked out, connecting with Slade's abdomen. Slade was thrown backwards. He reached out and stopped his backward motion with a one-handed grabbed of one of the pillars. His 'grab' was a well place bloody hand on the activation rune on the third pillar. It start glow red.

The Advisor yelled, "No! The inscriptions are not complete yet. There is a chance that Trigon will escape the binding!"

Slade said with a slightly amused voice, "I'll take that chance."

Slade and the Advisor's staffs clanked against each other as the two men resume their fight. Slade faked a kick to the Advisor's knee and instead bought the staff swinging down on the side of his opponent's face. The Advisor's face cracked, but there was no blood.

"Having a bad day?" asked Slade.

As the Advisor parried the next blow, he said, "This is my place!"

The Advisor's fists started to burn. He swung and Slade grunted as he parried the stronger blow.

"And this place contains my power, not your," continued the Advisor.

Slade swung again, but a now flaming staff easily parried the blow.

Slade said, "Careful. You don't want to damage any of your fine work."

The Advisor started attacking and Slade was forced to be defensive.

Roy ran into the room. He quickly scanned the room and spotted the fight and the unconscious Phoenix. Out of the side of his eyes he saw Mammoth. He asked as he watched the fight, "What going on?"

Mammoth said with a growl, "Kill them both."

"What?"

"Both of them are murderers of the worse kind. Kill them quickly."

"And the Phoenix?"

"We will still need her. Keep her alive."

Roy pulled out two arrows and notched them. He puzzled, "It's strange. It's easily for me to… harm… wound… maybe kill other people…"

Mammoth snapped, "Kill them now so they won't kill any more people."

Roy aimed the two arrows.

Slade aimed his next strike of his battered staff straight at the Advisor's throat. The Advisor swung at the incoming staff and snapped it in two. The forced of the blow numbed Slade's hands and the remains of the staff dropped from his hands.

The Advisor said in an amused voice as he raised his staff, "Say goodnight, my friend."

From Slade position, he could see the two arrows aimed in their direction. He dodged the incoming missile, but not the staff's blow. His right arm bent in a direction it wasn't supposes to go. He fell to the ground.

The second arrow took the Advisor completely by surprise. It detonated upon his right shoulder. The Advisor turned towards Roy slightly staggered by the hit. The Advisor's face was shredded. It was a false face and it's remains laid as plastic strips on the floor. What was behind the false of the Advisor was the mask of Slade.

"Hey, big guy", said Roy, "Why are there two of them? Cloning?"

Mammoth frowned and said, "It doesn't matter. Kill them both."

Roy notched two more arrows and fired both at the Advisor.

The Advisor somersaulted backwards; one arrow past below him and the other he grabbed the shaft. He threw it back.

The returning arrow didn't have the speed or the accuracy it had before, but it since detonated hit between Mammoth and Roy. Roy looked ticked. Mammoth looked, well, still pissed off.

During to fight, Slade scooted to the back of the throne where Phoenix laid unconscious. His bloody left hand reached up and leaked onto the top runes on the throne's backrest. The blood did not sink into the throne; it just pooled there, inert.

He started to crawl to the last pillar, grimacing in pain with a unless right arm.

The Advisor asked, "Speedy, why do you assist Trigon in his conquest of all life?"

Speedy notched three arrows. "There is no Trigon! He was just a fiction made up to justify Phoenix conquest of the city."

Mammoth said, "Don't listen to him. Just remove his head."

The Advisor gave a short laugh, saying, "Where do you think you get your powers from? What power make both you and I able to withstand damage and wounds that would have killed us before? Think, Speedy. You can think, can't you?"

Roy was listening to the Advisor speech until the insult about his thinking. Roy's red eyes brightened and he fired off the three arrows. Each arrow was covered in a fiery envelope. The Advisor was only able to dodged one of them this time. Two arrows exploded mightily upon him and he was thrown backwards out of the circle. The Advisor's body impacted into the room's wall. He groaned.

Mammoth changed around the circle and picked up the fallen man with both hands.

"This is what happens to mortals who get in my way!" Mammoth's hands started to burn and the Advisor screamed in pain.

Roy came around the circle, looking uncertain. "Hey, we don't torture people."

Mammoth said, "Quiet Speedy, or you are next."

Speedy notched three arrows and fired at Mammoth. Three explosions later, Mammoth was unaffected. "Speedy", he said, "You will die next."

Slade finished crawling to the last pillar and placed his hand on the last activation rune. His blood spread out, covering the runes and the pillar glowed. The four pillars started to vibrate and hum.

Mammoth still holding the smoking Advisor and yelled, "NO! Speedy, kill him!"

Roy responded, "So you can kill me next? No way."

Mammoth once again threw the Advisor at Slade. Slade couldn't dodge and the Advisor was in too much pain to do anything. The human missile slammed into Slade and both were sent rolling out of the circle.

Mammoth yelled, "I am victorious!" He ran around the circle while receiving two more exploding missiles from Roy. Mammoth burning hands lifted Slade and the Advisor. The dangling men started to burn.

The blood pooling on the back of Phoenix's throne glowed and seeped into the chair's runes. The chair itself glowed blood red. Wisps of red started to come off of Phoenix's body. She grasped.

Mammoth stopped his attempt of turning the two men into burnt toast and said with disbelief, "No… This cannot be happening… I've won."

Wisps of red started to boil off of him and the Advisor.

"What's the hell is happening?" demanded Roy as a red mist started to come off of his skin.

The wisps of red started to flow and pour into Slade.

Mammoth yelled, "I will not allow this to happen. You will die." Mammoth's hand holding Slade started to burn again, but it was weaker.

As the mist continued pour into Slade, his right arm snapped and popped and then Slade reached up with his newly healed right arm and grabbed Mammoth's burning hand. The hand's flames were sucked into Slade.

Slade exclaimed, "Yes. Yes! YES! This is the power I deserve!"

As the last of the red wisps left Mammoth, the Advisor and Roy dropped to the floor as the last of the red wisps left them and the Phoenix.

Suddenly Slade was on fire. He yelled out in pain. His lone eye then narrowed in concentration. He said out aloud, "You mustn't do that, Trigon. You are a guest in my mind, now, and you will do as I say."

The Advisor rolled away from the throne area and scrambled out the door.

As Slade continued to concentrate, the fire covering his body slowly went out.

Slade looked up and said, "Now is the time to remove the last of my problems… Where is the Advisor?"

He looked at Mammoth and Roy.

Mammoth, looking confused, asked, "Where am I? Where is Gizmo and Jinx?"

Roy shook his head and responded to Slade's question, "He ran out of here as you were doing that human torch act of your."

Slade then said evenly, "Then, my friends, you will go out and bring him back to me."

Roy asked, "If we don't, then what happens?"

"Then I will destroy him by burning down the entire city. Everyone, your friend, your enemies, your relatives, everyone will be killed. If that happens it will be your responsibility, not mine."

Roy paled and then nodded. He said to Mammoth, "Come on, big guy. We got to find the Advisor."

They left with Mammoth walking unsteadily.

Slade chuckled and reached into his belt. He pulled out a small box with a button on it. He mused, "It time for me to give my ally his reward."

He pressed down on the button.

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The brick-like objects that Slade spread out into the sewers' waters days before, cracked open. A slightly yellowish gas bubbled out and through the sewage into the air in the tunnels. Then the bricks exploded, causing the gas, now mixed in the air above it, to also explode.

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Mad Mod was once again moving his people, his followers. The last fight on the surface was a disaster and Phoenix's forces will be showing up shortly.

As Mad Mod stood at the solid steel door with five of his robot guards with him, the last of the followers came through it.

"That's the last of them," he remarked. "I hope that Slade fellow is still alive. Nice villain, that bloke."

Then the earth rumbled. Mad Mod frowned, "Sounds like trouble. You blokes, close that door."

As the robot muscled the door, a blast of heated bad air from the explosion came.

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Slade then walked over to the barely breathing Phoenix and picked her up.

He said, "My dear, you mustn't die yet. You will help me to put the last sealed on what Trigon has of his free will."