It is nighttime in Jump City. A vehicle can be seen turned on its side in the distance. A figure stands atop it, and a couple of Titans are facing off with her. They are Cyber, Starblaze, and Robyn, and the vehicle is an armored car whose back doors have been broken open. Gold bullion spills out to the pavement.
The helmeted female figure perched on it is clad in a skintight black outfit with a light bulb on the chest, and both hands glow very brightly. This is Dr. Light. "Your pathetic skills can't outshine the brilliance of Dr. Light!" she exclaims.
She brings her hands together; the Titans scatter as a broad beam shoots toward them. Robyn leaps high and flings a birdarang at the super-villainess, who jumps down to avoid both of it and the thrower's lunge. "You're fast," Dr. Light said, "but I doubt you'll enjoy moving at the speed of light!"
She touches the bulb on his chest, causing it to glow and emit a wide-angle blast that propels Robyn over the roof of a nearby building. Beast Girl comes around a corner and charges, turning into a wolf as she runs. The robber easily ducks this rush.
"A wolf is no threat when it's blind as a bat!" Dr. Light exclaimed. She throws several glowing globes at the green lupine heroine. They explode in a series of brilliant flashes and leave her so dazzled that she reverts to human form and claps both hands to her head woozily.
The next one in is Starblaze, who flies overhead and throws a barrage of star-bolts; Dr. Light creates a radiant shield around herself to block them. She drops it after he stops firing, then throws a landmine-like device into the street. Its top opens to emit a wall of radiation that envelops Starblaze and blocks him in.
"Watch yourself, lightweight," Cyber said. She has half of one axle from the car in hand, tire and all, and she moves in for a swing. "Things are about to get heavy!" Cyber exclaimed. She swings the axle down over her head, missing the enemy but creating enough of a tremor upon impact to throw her back a few feet.
Dr. Light concentrates her energy in one hand and projects an intense beam that breaks the makeshift club in half. Laughing, she creates a red projectile and directs it at Cyber; it explodes in a terrific flash and storm of dust. The view clears to show that the Titan is now embedded in stone, with only her head and hands free.
"Uh! Hey!" Cyber exclaimed. "Let me..." she trailed off as Dr. Light approached. "Now if nobody minds, I'll be taking the gold," she said. "I mind," Revan said. He is floating in midair. "Azarath, Metrion, Zin-" Before he can finish the incantation, a beam connects squarely with him and sends him to the street.
Dr. Light walks up behind Revan as he starts to get up. "Bit of advice," Dr. Light said, warming up. "Find shorter magic words." He gets himself ready again; a motorcycle at the curb is levitated and slung at the light-wielding enemy, who easily blows it apart.
Dr. Light nails Revan with another blast and drives him down the block again. Now she takes her time walking up; he has his back to her. "Don't come any closer," Revan said menacingly. Dr. Light stops. "What's the matter?" she asks in a taunting manner. "Afraid of the light?"(1)
Snarling with pure rage, Revan swirls to his feet. His eyes are glowing red rather than the usual white when he uses his powers. He grows to an impossible height, at least three times as tall as Dr. Light, and thick black tendrils shoot toward her from under his cloak. Dr. Light cries out in shock.
"No! No!" She exclaimed, fearfully backing up. Dr. Light is seized and pulled in; sparks fly from her. "My suit!" she cried. "What are you-" a small pause, "no, stop, you win, I surrender!" Too late. Dr. Light is dragged toward the billowing blue hem as Revan smiles viciously down at her. "What's the matter?" He asks; it sounds as like a demonic being is speaking along with him. "Afraid of the dark?"(2)
"I surrender!" Dr. Light screamed as she is pulled in. "NOOOOO!" Robyn rushes over. "REVAN!" She shouted. "STOP!" Revan's eyes return to normal in a snap. He gasps sharply and shrinks back to normal size; his cloak recedes to reveal the beaten enemy curled up in a fetal position on the pavement and shivering in wide-eyed fear. Robyn and Starblaze, out of his trap, run to comfort her.
"It's okay. You're going to be alright," Robyn said. "It was...no...so dark...make it stop...make it stop..." Dr. Light stuttered. Beast Girl and Cyber, free of the pavement, approach Revan. "Dude!" the green teen exclaimed. "Revan, what did you do?" When Revan turns to face her, his eyes have again gone red and he is snarling as before.
Beast Girl backs up behind Cyber with a scream; Revan quickly composes himself and stalks away. "What's his deal?" Beast Girl asked. Revan enters a dark alley and is soon lost to sight.
It is now the next day. "Rise and shine, amigos," Beast Girl says. She is cooking at the kitchen counter while Cyber, Starblaze, and Robyn are at the table. She has donned a chef's hat. "Breakfast is served," she says, carrying a steaming pan over. "Thanks, Beast Girl," Robyn says. "Everything looks great." Beast Girl sets the pan down. "On my planet, such a feast would mark the arrangement of a marriage," Starblaze said. "Tell me, Beast Girl, to whom are you engaged?"(3)
Not quite ready to deal with a curveball like that so early in the day, Beast Girl shouts in surprise and jumps back. She has to catch her hat in order to keep it from flying across the room. Cyber, meanwhile, has started wolfing down a plateful of food. When she finishes, her expression changes to resemble that of a person who has just eaten a skunk(4). She spits the meal out disgustedly.
"That's not eggs!" Cyber shouted. "That's that tofu stuff!" She drains her glass to get the taste out of her mouth-but instead her whole head ends up looking as if it might explode. The drink goes the way of the food. "That's not even real milk!" Cyber exclaimed.
Beast Girl gives her a reproving frown as the door opens and Revan enters the kitchen. He pays no mind to the breakfast table and heads for the counter. "Hey Revan," Robyn said. "Want breakfast?" Revan picked up the coffeepot and poured a cup. Beast Girl popped up behind him with a full plate. "It's good," she said. "Wakey-wakey, tofu eggs and bakey."
"Herbal tea," Revan said. "Come on, just one little taste," Beast Girl urged. "You could use a little food after the way you cooked Dr. Light." Revan then whirls to face her, his eyes blazing red. "NO!" He yelled.
The cook gasps in fear as Revan exerts his powers on the plate she holds. The eggs explode like a volcano, leaving Beast Girl covered with her own cuisine. She makes a strangled little noise and drops the plate; Revan turns away and leaves through the side door, which closes behind him. Beast Girl stands there, holding then pan of food, as a vein throbs in her temple and Robyn eases over.
"Maybe you should go apologize," she suggested. "Me?" Beast Girl asked. "I'm not the one who just turned breakfast into a battlefield!" Cyber joins them carrying her dishes. "Yeah, but after the weirdness that went down last night, you should know better than to go messing with him," she said, heading for the sink.
"I was trying to be nice," Beast Girl said as Starblaze came over. "But no matter how hard I try, he still treats me like tofu eggs!" Cyber begins to wash dishes. "You know, he's never once laughed at any of my jokes."
"'Least he listens," Cyber said. "I just kinda tune you out." A little storm cloud appears briefly over the disgruntled green Titan's head. "Revan is complicated," Starblaze said. "There is much about him we are meant to understand."
"Then how are we supposed to deal with him?" Beast Girl asked. "How can we even trust him? I mean-" "He's our friend," Robyn said, cutting Beast Girl off. "What more do we need to know?" The green teen puts the mental machinery to work trying to sort this one out.
Later that day, Beast Girl stood before a closed door and scratched her head. After a few seconds she gingerly raises one fist, turns her head away as if ready to avoid a sudden explosion, and just barely taps the door. "Oh, well," she said with a shrug, "nobody's home."
She starts away, whistling. Suddenly she runs flat into Cyber, who has come up just behind her, and rubs her hurt nose. "Ow," Beast Girl moans. Cyber glares down at her. "You might want to knock a little louder," the metallic teen says. This is Revan's door, then. The big Titan plants a hand on the little one's shoulder, turns her to face the door, and walks her to it. A little shudder of fear comes from Beast Girl.
Cyber knocks, much louder than her colleague's feeble attempt; on the third and final knock, the entire door falls in, illuminating the view and exposing the girls in the hall. Cyber has smashed the door of the hinges(5). Both faces go slack as a big drop of sweat rolls down Cyber's temple. "Now we both have to apologize," Beast Girl said.
Revan's room proves beyond any doubt that his tastes are about as dark as they come. Shelves filled with old books, four-eyed tragedy and comedy masks on a pedestal, oddly shaped mirror on the wall, chalices and braziers, ancient chests and lamps, a bed partly recessed into the far wall, a large globe in the near corner. The entire place is done in shades of gray and black.
"Uh, Revan?" Cyber called out. "Sorry about the door. Revan?" Beast Girl rolled her eyes. "Dude, he's not here. Come on," she said. She walked in and reached the bookshelves and masks. "Looks like Halloween came early this year," Beast Girl commented. "We're in Revan's room," Cyber whispered, walking in as well. "We should not be in Revan's room(6). He doesn't let anybody in here-ever!"
"So this is our big chance to find out more about him," Beast Girl said. She crosses the room. "For instance..." She laughs and picks up a hand mirror, studying her image. "...check out this vanity mirror. Who woulda thought Revan spends time sprucing? Ah! Is that a zit?(7)"
Beast Girl pokes at a spot on her cheek. Suddenly two pairs of glowing red eyes, one above the other, superimpose themselves on her image in the mirror. They clear to leave her gasping in shock, and she drops the mirror and backs up with a cry of fear.
A red-rimmed swath of black energy shoots straight up from the object, shapes itself into an arm, and grabs Beast Girl. She is shaken back and forth as Cyber pays no mind, having reached the doorway and made ready to leave. "Come on, B," she said, "we should really get out-" Beast Girl is yanked away. "-huh?"
The mirror is on the floor, and the arm protrudes from it. "Yo!" Cyber yells. The arm starts to drag Beast Girl down, but Cyber is there in one swift leap to grab an ankle. Both Titans are yanked through the looking glass, which returns to its normal appearance and gives off a small puff of smoke.
The room changes to a patch of outer space filled with red stars and a few large asteroids; a vortex opens over one of them and dumps the two Titans, screaming, onto its surface. They stand up just in time to watch it close.
"Oh, man!" Cyber said. "I told you we shouldn't have gone in his room," Beast Girl said(8). "Uh...where are we?" She walked around. "You're asking the wrong robot," Cyber said. "My sensors must be on the blink, 'cause they're saying we're in Titans Tower."
"Riiiight," Beast Girl said. "So how do we get back?" There was a pause. "Guess we start walking," Cyber said. "Come on. I'm serious," Beast Girl said. "We're on a rock in the middle of-"
The sound of something large shifting cuts her off. In the middle of the void, several fragments of rock rearrange themselves to form a winding path. "Oh," Beast Girl said. They set out. "If sending us to Weirdsville's Revan's idea of a joke," Beast Girl continued, "I am so not laughing."
"Hey, he didn't send us here," Cyber said. "You're the one who went snooping in his room and popping zits in his magic mirror." A raven sits on a tree branch. Like that strange reflection, it has two pairs of red eyes. Back to the two Titans. "Who booby-traps a mirror?" Beast Girl asked. "Maybe it wasn't a trap," Cyber suggested. "Maybe it's Revan's way home. Maybe this is where he's from."
"Definitely creepy enough," Beast Girl remarked. "Turn back," a voice said. It was masculine and childlike. Both girls pivot for a look behind them, trying to locate the speaker. "Like I was saying..." Beast Girl started again. "Turn back."
Three small black birds are perched on a rocky arch over the path. Each of them have a pair of large red eyes. One at a time, they repeat the two-word instruction. "Sweet!" Beast Girl exclaimed. The birds continue their chant. "Betcha they can tell us how to get home."
Beast Girl passes Cyber. "Careful," the latter says. "How do we know they're not a threat?" Beast Girl reaches the arch. "Hel-lo? Remember me? Beast Girl?" Beast Girl said. "If they were dangerous, I'd know." Cyber is not a bit convinced that this girl knows what she is doing. Said girl turns to the arch and adopts the sort of tone one might use with a small kitten. "Hey, little guys," Beast Girl said. "My buddy and I were wondering if-"
The birds are not on the arch anymore. Then five of them have gathered at Beast Girl's feet. They all repeat "Turn back" over and over again. The beaks suddenly elongate and sprout small sharp teeth, and each eye splits into two smaller ones to match the raven seen earlier.
Their snarls are met with a surprised cry from Beast Girl, who turns and runs smack into Cyber; the former tumbles out of view while the latter crashes down on the stones. The birds, now multiplied into a flock of ravens, fly past Cyber and zero in on the skidding shape-shifter.
She turns into a hippopotamus and opens wide, and three of them perch on her tongue. Snap go the jaws; the prey squirms inside, and after a moment she has to open her mouth again and shake them off-they have clamped their beaks onto the lingual muscle. Cyber, faring no better, shouts as she tries to beat off the attackers.
"Get 'em off me! Get 'em off me!" She runs away; they follow. "Cut it out!" Back and forth they go. Beast Girl, as an ostrich, followed by Cyber, then the flock(9). The flock, dodging a sonic cannon shot, then Cyber riding Beast Girl in llama form and firing away.
One dodges a few shots and buzzes past Cyber; she hunches down over her mount and fires another round. The creature then flies low, and in response Cyber growls and blasts straight down at it. Fractured by the energy, the stone path starts to crumble away; the two Titans trade the 'uh-oh' look and Beast Girl's ears droop sadly just before they drop out of sight.
Cyber has one hand buried in Beast Girl's pelt and the other dug into the broken rock. She starts to haul the green animal up, but a very familiar voice stops her cold-not so much the speaker, but the tone. "Hey, guys," Revan said cheerfully.
On the underside of the path, Revan can be seen from the knees down. However, his boots and cloak are cerise rather than the usual pigment blue, and the cloak does not hang down as it would if a person stood on their head. Revan is hanging upside down with no ill effects whatsoever, and he waved. His wristbands have also gone cerise.
"What's up?" Cerise Revan asked. "I don't know anymore," Cyber said in a small voice. The void turns 180 degrees to put Revan right side up and the two interlopers upside down. "Whoa!" Cyber exclaims as she and Beast Girl slam down onto the path. Cerise Revan laughs as the latter stands up, back in human form. "Revan?!" Beast Girl exclaimed. "How did-where are-what just-" A question mark pops up by her head. "-why are you wearing pink?"
"'Cause it's my favorite color," Cerise Revan said, laughing. "It is?" Beast Girl inquired. Cyber gets up. "Look," the metallic teen said, "I'd love to talk fashion, but I don't suppose you know how to get home." Both girls looked at Cerise Revan. "The Forbidden Door," he said, pointing to the rest of the path, which ran under a couple of other arches and stops at a distant asteroid.
"It's the only way out," Cerise Revan said, "but you don't want to go there." He looks at the two girls. "Not now." Beast Girl and Cyber look at each other, then back at Cerise Revan. "Uh...yeah, we do," they said in unison. "'Kay," CRevan replied. "But don't say I didn't warn you."
Making airplane sounds and stretching his arms out like wings, CRevan ran through the nearest arch and down the path. "Have you ever seen him this happy?" Cyber asked. "Dude, I didn't even know Revan could do happy," Beast Girl replied.
A stone arch springs over a peaceful-looking landscape under a bright yellow sky. The two girls walk under it. "Now where are we?" Cyber asked. A path goes on and on, threading through that arch and bisecting a huge meadow filled with cerise grass and trees.
A small strawberry floats past the two extremely bewildered Titans. "I think this might be where air fresheners come from," Beast Girl said. CRevan then walks over to them, chuckling. "Good one!" he exclaimed. "You're laughing?" Cyber asked. "At one of my jokes?" Beast Girl asked.
"Sure," CRevan replied. "I've always thought you were funny, BG. But hey, looks aren't everything." Laughing even harder now, he takes his leave of them.
Back at Titans' Tower, Robyn and Starblaze are talking to Revan. "Revan..." Robyn says. The pale boy is meditating on the roof. "...you okay?" Robyn asked. "We stopped by your room and the door's been knocked down." She and Starblaze come up behind him.
All of a sudden, Revan's eyes pop open, wide as saucers, and he laughs uncontrollably for a few seconds. The sound scares the other two Titans out of their wits; he cuts it off by clapping both hands over his mouth. "Need to be alone," Revan said, blushing profusely. He stands up and hurries to the door leading to the stairs/elevator. "Many of your Earthly ways are still strange to me," Starblaze said to Robyn, "but that was...just plain freaky. Correct?"
Revan looks in and walks through the wrecked door into his room. He puts the wall back in order with an easy motion of his hand. Walking in a bit further, he stops short at the vanity mirror on the floor. "No," Revan said, horrified.
Back in the pink meadow, a few four-eyed ravens have perched on a tree. Beast Girl and Cyber make their way along the path the runs on and on toward an arch that looks very much like the one the girls started at. "He ditched us!" the former exclaimed. "I can't believe Revan ditched us! Next time I see him, it's not gonna be pretty."
As she says this, the girls find themselves back in the outer-space region they were in before. They are back on the winding stone path. "Hey, I know where we are!" Cyber exclaimed. "We're in that place where I didn't know where we were before!"(10)
Revan suddenly pops up in front of the girls, his back turned to them, and startles the living day lights out of them. His cloak is now dark gray; he has a very sad and fearful facial expression. "Where were you?!" Beast Girl shouted furiously. Her head flushes an angry red, with a vein standing out on her temple. "Shopping for robes?!" Suddenly, DGRevan starts to cry. The two girls are shocked. "Whoa. Easy," Beast Girl said, trying to console him. "I didn't mean it. Please don't-"
"Hey!" Cyber exclaimed, catching the two teens' attentions. She points ahead down the path toward the asteroid at the end; they are closer now. "That's that Forbidden Door, right, Revan?" the cybernetic teen asked. The pale boy nodded worriedly; Cyber starts to run. "Come on, y'all! We're almost-"
Suddenly, a high metal wall springs up from the stone surface to block her rush. "Whoa!" Cyber exclaimed. More walls emerge to box in the trio. A large maze has assembled itself here, filling much of the stretch leading to the asteroid. Beast Girl turns into a hawk and flies up toward the open top of the labyrinth.
Just as she is about to surmount the walls, a force field crackles to life and sends her crashing to the ground. She sits up in human form and rubs her head. "Great," Beast Girl muttered as Cyber breaks out her cannon. "Oh, man," she says, "we gotta get outta here!" Cyber fires a few bursts at the walls, but does not even put a scratch on them.
DGRevan speaks up for the first time; his voice matches his expression perfectly. "It's a maze," he said. "You can't get out. You have to go through. I can show you the way, but when we reach the end, you won't like me anymore." DGRaven looked at Beast Girl. "She already doesn't like me."
"Come on," Beast Girl said. "That's not..." He had already started down the way. The two girls stare after him with a fair bit of irritation. "Gee, Revan," Beast Girl muttered, "moody much?" Cyber nodded. "Yeah, he's like a whole different person," she said.
DGRevan's voice could be heard from around a corner before he walks into view. "And...remember the time I called you both immature pinheads?" he asked the girls. "I'm sorry for that too. And also the-" Beast Girl and Cyber round the corner.
"For the hundredth, millionth time..." they shouted in unison, "...we forgive you!" DGRevan has stopped at a wall. He waves timidly toward it, and it slides open like a pair of interlocking doors to reveal a short path that leads out of the maze. Two tall stone statues positioned to either side. They wear long cloaks and have faces that match the masks in Revan's room. Each has only one arm, on the side toward the wall next to it.
"That's the end," DGRevan said. "Sweet!" Beast Girl exclaimed. "All right, Revan!" Cyber shouted. The girls head for e egress, but DGRevan does not join them. The eyes of the smiling statue glow red, followed by those of the frowning one, and they slam together back to back. Three quick half-turns put the smile in view, then the frown, the the smile again. Long swords materialize in the statues' hands, and the double sculpture has now grown a second set of arms.
"What?!" Cyber yelled. "No way," Beast Girl said. Cyber groaned. "Told you you wouldn't like me when we got here," DGRevan said. He drops out of sight, but the girls have no time to worry about her-the stone giant is advancing towards them.
Robyn is flicking through TV channels. She turns to a monster movie, then to a cooking channel. She lounges on the couch while Starblaze paces behind her. Robyn changes the channel again; a Western starts up. "May we go see if he is feeling better?" the Tamaranean boy asks, referring to Revan. "He said he wanted to be alone," Robyn replied.
Cyber and Beast Girl back nervously along the end of the outer-space path. The sound of swords being drawn is heard, and here comes that sculpture guardian with both blades ready to go. As it bears down on them, Beast Girl becomes a hawk and flies away, and Cyber lets loose a blast from her cannon; that does no damage. A sword clangs down on the stone next to her.
The green hawk swoops down, talons extended, only to be caught in one of the two free hands and squeezed cruelly. It changes back into Beast Girl as Revan's voice is heard once again-but this time, she sounds radically different. "Yo! Eight-Eyes!" Revan launched a flying kick; his cloak is now green. "Hai-yah!" GRevan exclaimed. The kick slashes across the statue's head and sends it toppling to the ground.
"Whoo-hoo!" GRevan exclaimed. "In your faces!" He leaps at the foe, now back on its feet, and dodges one sword slash after another without changing the little smirk on his face. Up he goes, index and middle fingers of one hand extended together, and brings them straight down the length of the rock body, splitting it in half. The two halves drop away, leaving Cyber and Beast Girl staring in pure amazement at this new incarnation of their fellow Titan.
"Hoo-ah!" GRevan exclaimed, holding his hands up. "High fives! Come on!" Beast Girl stares a bit more, her jaw slack, and then shakes her head vigorously to clear it. "What is your deal?!" Beast Girl exclaimed. "First you nuke breakfast, then finally laugh at my jokes, then get all weepy, and now you're a Marine? Make up your mind. Who are you?"
Green Revan directs a quizzical look at Beast Girl as grinning Cerise leaps into sight and glum Dark Gray slinks up. "I'm Revan," all three Revans say in unison. Poleaxed by the sight, the green teen faints. "Happy...timid...brave," Cyber says. "You forgot dopey," Cerise Revan said, pointing at the fallen Beast Girl who is getting up.
He laughs, but Cyber is thinking very hard and starting to figure a few things out. "Different sides of Revan's personality," she said. "We're not in Revan's home." "We're in his head," Beast Girl finished. "And I want you out." Normal Revan drops into view in front of the Cerise, Dark Gray, and Green Revans, who fade away.
"The mirror you found is for meditation," Revan said. "It's a portal into my MIND-NOT A TOY!" The last four words are aimed at Beast Girl and spoken through gritted teeth. A big sweat drop rolls down the green teen's face. "My bad," Beast Girl said, chuckling. The ravens that were watching the three teens fly away in a great commotion of squawking and flapping wings. "You have to go," Revan said, "now."
"Hold up," Cyber said. "What's going on here?" She looked at Revan. "Last night, something...got loose. Something bad," he said. "Oh, no, you don't!" Beast Girl exclaimed. "I've had it with this mystery-boy routine. I want to know exactly what we're talking about here."
Suddenly, the teens heard an unholy roaring above them. A gargantuan black vortex has formed over the horizon; the ravens are flying into it. Out of the vortex comes a super-king-sized humanoid male with red skin, flowing white hair, and four glowing yellow eyes. He is clad in a black gray loincloth, steel wristbands, and a belt similar to the one Revan wears, as well as a jewel on his forehead. There are short, curved black stripes on the arms and chest.
This is Revan's father, the demon Trigon.
"Hatred shall rule," Trigon said. His voice is the same as the one overlaid with Revan's when he snared Dr. Light. Revan and the girls stare up at his sheer size. "Let's just say I have issues with my father," Revan said as all three teens were backing up. Trigon moves steadily ahead, leans down, and roars, throwing a scare into the teens.
Beast Girl and Cyber turn to run, but Revan holds his ground. A quadruple blast from those glowing eyes hits the ground just in front of him, forcing him to jump clear. Those enormous feet stomp down the path after Cyber and Beast Girl, who are making a beeline for a portal set into the base of a rock base of a rock formation-the Forbidden Door. A beam hits just in front of them and brings that plan to an abrupt halt. Revan faces Trigon.
"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" He creates a shield around himself, the girls, and the Door; daddy not-so-dearest unleashes another blast that cuts a long furrow in the stone as it races toward Revan. So much rock and dust is thrown up that no one can see whether Revan's barrier is holding.
Back at Titans' Tower, Robyn is still flipping channels. The TV shows a tropical waterfall, then a man and woman about to kiss. Robyn sits on the couch, remote in hand(11). Starblaze pops up behind her. "May we now go see if Revan is better?" he asked. "He wants to be alone," the Girl Wonder replied(12). Another flip brings jungle sounds from the TV's direction; irked, the Tamaranean teen turned away.
Trigon fires another eye beam. Revan's shield blocks it; it is indeed holding up. "Get out of my mind! Now!" Revan yells with great effort. The Door has now been filled with a whirlpool just like the one that carried the girls into this place to begin with.
"And leave you alone with that?!" Beast Girl yelled back. "Not gonna happen," Cyber said. "It's my problem," Revan said, "I'll deal with it. If I lose, you'll be stuck in here forever." Pulling his hands back, Trigon produces a ball of energy between them and swings it forward to throw a mighty burst at his son. It breaches the shield, and a second shit blows it apart altogether.
There is a great cloud of dust, which clears to show Revan still on his feet, arms crossed to protect his head. He swings one hand behind him in a sudden lash of telekinesis. "Go!" Revan shouts at the girls. Beast Girl and Cyber are flung screaming toward the portal, but skid to a stop just short of its mouth.
Revan flew up toward Trigon's level and fired a black salvo from his hand, annoying Trigon enough to make him start trying to swat the pale boy down. Revan's evasive maneuvers make this a rather tougher prospect than it might seem at first; Trigon's next eye blast also hits nothing. The two girls just watch, then look at the exit, and finally trade a knowing look.
The free-for-all continues. Revan dodges Trigon's attempt to crush him between his palms and lands a shot on his father's chest. Revan prepares a shot behind Trigon's head, but he whirls and scores a direct hit that drops Revan like a rock. Trigon catches him-knocked senseless-in one broad hand. "Rage shall consume you," the red demon said.
"Yo!" Cyber yelled, catching Trigon's attention. She is standing on a mountain ledge and has her cannon locked and loaded. "Sounds like someone needs a time-out." Cyber's blast is blocked when the demon raises a forearm, but with the chest left wide open, a second shot finds its mark.
Trigon stumbles backward, letting go of Revan, and topples over the edge of the asteroid into empty space. Revan tumbles helplessly toward a high-speed hello with a granite slab, but Beast Girl, as a hawk, is diving down at top speed. Her talons close on his shoulder, and he starts to come around with a barely audible moan.
Beast Girl set Revan down safely, leaving him to fall to his knees with a small groan, and drops back next to him in human form. "You stayed?" Revan asked. "I thought you didn't like me." Beast Girl looked at him. "Thought you didn't like me," she replied. Revan smiled.
"Yo, I like both of you," Cyber said, grabbing their attention. "Now get your butts over here!" A growling Trigon rises slowly over the ridge behind her. He raises his arms. "Feel my fury!" Trigon roared. A four-pack of eye blasts blows up the ground at Cyber's feet and sends her diving for cover.
Revan and Beast Girl both take to the air-the latter as a pterodactyl-to continue the offensive and get backup from their partner's cannon. Cyber bobs and weaves through the barren landscape to dodge the blazing bursts and returns fire as she is able. The last round gets Trigon good and mad; he leans down to hit the cybernetic teen point-blank.
Before he can deliver that finishing stroke, though, Trigon yells in surprise as his head is pulled backward. Beast Girl has wrapped her talons around Trigon's mane of white hair and started hauling back with all her strength. Trigon is dragged off balance to crash down among the rocky peaks, but is soon sitting up to shoot at Beast Girl, who flies away.
Back at the Tower, Robyn is still sitting on the couch, and Starblaze is still trying to persuade her to get up to check on Revan. Starblaze once again eases his head up behind the Girl Wonder. The sound of a baseball game comes from the TV's direction. "May we now-" "No!" Robyn shouts, cutting him off. Starblaze leaves with a groan while Robyn continues to flip channels.
Cyber is on the run from Trigon's fusillade. Beast Girl flies overhead and picks her up as Revan passes them both. The scarlet leviathan waves away the dust, looks around a bit, and moves away. The teens are huddled behind a small ridge; Beast Girl is human again. "He's too strong," Revan said. "Even with your help, I cannot defeat him."
"So call for back-up!" Cyber exclaimed. "What about all those other yous?" "Yeah," Beast Girl said, "the green one kinda kicked butt." Revan shook his head. "It still wouldn't be enough," he said. "None of my other sides have the kind of power we need."
"Not alone-but what about together?" Beast Girl asked. Trigon's footsteps approach. "They're all part of who you are, right?" Beast Girl asked. Dust floats down around the trio. Cyber peeks over the ridge and sees the demonic figure nearby. A couple of eye blasts send the Titan ducking back behind the rocks. "Go for it!" Cyber said. "We got your back!"
Beast Girl gives Revan an encouraging nod and runs after Cyber to assist in the diversion. A small smile crosses his face and then disappears as he closes his eyes and begins to concentrate.
Opening his eyes, Revan crosses his arms in front of himself. A sudden gust of wind stirs the dust at his feet, and his duplicates rise from the ground. There are no fewer than six Revans in cloaks of cerise, dark gray, green, yellow, brown, and purple. Yellow Revan wears glasses, perhaps representing his cerebral aspect. Well after the arrival of this group, a seventh alter ego pops up, clad in an orange cloak. He digs something out of his ear(13), opens his eyes sleepily, and burps-Revan's lazy side.
They scatter, forming a large circle around the original Revan. All eight rise into the air and hover several feet above the ground, and the seven doubles start to spin about his center point, faster and faster until they are visible only as colorful blurs. The formation gradually turns white, sucking up a little grit due to the airspeed, and nothing is visible because of the brilliance-except for Revan's form, which can be seen fuzzily in the center.
Meanwhile, Trigon is still fighting Beast Girl and Cyber, the latter firing her cannon at will. Trigon counters with a storm of bird apparitions from his hand; Beast Girl turns into a pterodactyl again and takes to the air. Cyber is quickly beset by the flapping things and loses control of her shots.
The giant smiles evilly down at the cybernetic teen and does not notice Revan rising behind his own head-the boy's tightly wrapped cloak now pure white. Trigon swivels to look Revan full in the face, and the wind blows the latter's garment open to reveal that his outfit is also white instead of its usual black.
White Revan hurls a mass of black energy, which forms itself into a band that encircles Trigon tightly from shoulders to waist. The boy's next words take on a very deep and terrible tone. "You are going back where you belong!" White Revan shouted. "Never!" Trigon exclaimed.
The red demon breaks loose of the empath's binding spell. White Revan rises into the air, arms crossed in front, and his eyes and mouth start to blaze with the same dark force that pours from his hands. Trigon sends two huge beams from his hands toward White Revan. The two energies meet at a point between them and cancel out; it becomes a tug-of-war, with the balance point shifting back and forth between them.
Beast Girl, back in human form, and Cyber have their hands full trying to keep those birds from pecking them to mush, but they disappear.
The standoff between White Revan and Trigon continues, with the former slowly gaining ground. One final groaning effort sends the boy's beam surging into his father's face; there is an incredible flash when it hits, and the view clears to show that Trigon has turned into copy of Revan, with red eyes and a dark red cloak.
Red Revan drops to the ground in front of the white-clad real thing, revealing himself to be perhaps a foot tall, and raises his head to expose two pairs of those glowing eyes. His body disintegrates into a bolt of energy that crackles into White Revan's, throwing him into an unbearable rictus.
One final flash leaves the area filled with smoke, which clears to show only the Titans standing on a rock-back in his normal blue cloak and bowed as if he has just taken the beating of a lifetime. As he straightens up, the wind reveals his black outfit beneath. A moment later, he moans weakly and collapses backwards only to be caught by Cyber and Beast Girl.
"We gotcha," Cyber says. "It's okay," Beast Girl says. They set him on his feet; he blushes. "Thank you...friends," Revan says, rubbing his head. "So...we really are friends?" Beast Girl asks. Revan nods, a small smile on his face. "Mmm-hmm," he replied. "And you really think I'm funny?" She asks. Revan's smile fades. "Don't push it," he says.
Back to the Tower; it is now nighttime. Starblaze has his hand raised, straining toward a door to knock, with Robyn's fingers wrapped around his arm to pull it back. "Please!" he exclaims. "Let us simply-" She pulls him back. "Revan asked us not to disturb him!" she exclaims.
They are outside the door to Revan's room.
"He could be weeping and-"
"I don't want to bother him!"
"But if we merely-"
The door opens. Starblaze relaxes with a gasp and smiles, and Robyn tumbles backward to the floor. Cyber, Beast Girl, and Revan are standing in the doorway. Robyn gets to her feet. "Where have you guys been?" she asks. "Just getting to know each other," Cyber replied. Revan smiles and blushes. "Come, friends," Starblaze said. "We shall prepare a new breakfast feast."
"It's a little late for breakfast, Star," Beast Girl says. "Maybe just some herbal tea."
"Actually, breakfast sounds...nice," Revan says. Beast Girl is caught off guard momentarily by his change of eating habits, but she quickly smiles as stars flash briefly in her eyes. "Breakfast for dinner?" she asked. "Coming up!" She runs off; Cyber goes after her.
"Oh, no!" She said. "I'm cooking this time! We're having real eggs!"
I think I'm cheating since I have this on a different website.
(1): You shouldn't have done that.
(2): Now I am!
(3): Oh god!
(4): That would suck.
(5): Ooooo, you in trouble~!
(6): Then why are you walking in, Cyber?
(7): Really?!
(8): Sure ya did, BG.
(9): What is this, Maximum Ride?
(10): What!?
(11): This scene reminds me of me when I'm laying on my bed, flipping channels.
(12): Translation: For the last flipping time, no!
(13): Which is gross and nasty.
Stay whelmed!
