Teen Titans Fan Fiction

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Sacrifice

As the young female has a close encounter with Joker, everything seems to be going according to plan. Who was that mysterious girl, and could a chance encounter, somehow have effect the outcome of our story?

Chapter 11 - Nightmares

Slade stood ready. He held a metallic bo-staff at his side, and watched as two his two adversaries prepared to charge. His surroundings make for the perfect combat field. It was a very large building, old processing plants stood all around him on every side, allowing him easy access to use anything as a weapon or for cover.

"Slade!!! We've come to stop this, right here and right now!" the young man identified as Robin held up a fist at him. Behind him, Starfire's eyes and hands glowed green, she hovered right behind him also poised to finish what should have ended long ago.

"Silly boy, have you not learned anything from our last encounter? You can't even touch me..." Slade still stood as confident as he ever did. He never took an offensive or defensive pose unless he saw fit. He never made the first move, he made it for you. Slade's left hand reached into his utility belt and pulled out what looked like a small electronic device. He pointed it at the wall and pressed a button.

"By now, the entire city is prepared with Joker's laughing gas. Soon, your entire city will be at its knees and I shall be in control. You can't stop it, because you don't even know where the main remote control is. I've taken everything into consideration this time, Robin, you can't win..." Slade took a step not forward or backwards, but to his left side, showing off his golden part of his mask.

"We shall see about that, Slade!!" Starfire had seen the need to speak up. "What you have done to my friends is unforgiveable. You have tormented their hearts and made them think things that were never really true. Today, we are going to kick the butt!"

Robin half smiled as he listened to Starfire's words. Yes, it is time we finished this, once and for all. "Slade! Enough talk, now it's time to fight..." Robin took those words as his own individual go signal. He charge pulling out his own bo-staff, Starfire followed close behind, throwing starbolts at their common foe.

Slade jumped towards the both of them, as he did, he reached into his own utility belt and threw an disc that exploded as soon as it hit Starfire, throwing her backwards into the nearby wall. Slade, still in midair, came down at Robin with a kick. Robin used his bo-staff to block Slade's kick, but the staff could not hold the pressure and force from Slade's weighted foot and it snapped in two. Jumping backwards, he used the momentum to spring himself forward and spun around, doing several swinging whirlwind kicks. The first two Slade blocked easily, he had not expected Robin to come down at the angle of the third and the last one hit him. Stunned for a brief moment, Robin landed and sprung forward once more. A right uppercut, followed by a left hook, grapple and throw! All his attacks caused Slade to shout in pain as they connected.

Robin leaped up into the air, lifted up his right leg up to his head and came down vertically onto the head of Slade. Slade caught Robin's foot, glancing, he was still trying to dig his foot into his head. Slade spun his back around, using his right leg to knock Robin's left leg up into the air. Robin used the momentum to spring backwards, doing several back flips. Slade laughed.

"Robin..." Slade had stood up straight once more as he spoke, "when will you ever learn? I can not be defeated." Slade had no sooner finished speaking when he was escorted forcibly from his spot by a shining green starbolt. Starfire had recovered and was now back at the scene.

"Futile." Slade pushed a button on his wrist and the ground started to shake. Robin and Starfire were stunned as the ground gradually gave way. Slade demonstrated his speed by taking advantage of the situation. He started to run towards the couple. As the ground beneath them started to fall deeper into the abyss below, Robin fell, with Starfire catching him. They shared a smile, but it was brief as Slade had used a running jump kick to seperate the two of them. He hit Starfire in her right forearm, where she was holding onto Robin. Robin fell deep into the abyss, his last words were him screaming, "STARFIRE!!!!"

Starfire shouted "Robin!" and began to dive down where he was. I will catch you. Starfire saw Robin falling. He was reaching up with his grapling hook, but it was empty from previous use. Starfire reached out her arm for him. Robin, finally seeing her, reached out for her as well. Their hands were getting closer, closer, almost... Slade had taken the opportunity as well, a metallic wire shot from the top, wrapped around Starfire's waist. Slade pushed the button located on the device, and large amounts of electricity shot through it to her body. Starfire shrieked in pain as Robin was forced to watch. The pain was overwhelming. Starfire passed out as both of them fell deeper into darkness.

"Star...Star! Calling all Starfire's!!! Wake up Already!!!"

Beast Boy was poking her face trying to get her to wake up. Starfire sat up quickly as she awoke. Beast Boy, shocked by his results, fell backwards and landed on his arse. Starfire was breathing quickly. She was warm, and sweat was starting to form on her forehead. Confused, she looked around to see where she was. All 4 Titans were outside of Titans Tower, on the island where the main building resided.

"You swallowed some water, and passed out, are ya ok, Star?" Beast Boy stood up and looked at his friend.

Taking a few deep breaths, Starfire regained her composure and stood up. "Yes, Beast Boy, I am undamaged."

Beast Boy smiled and looked at Cyborg and Raven. Cyborg was sitting down, he had taken off one of his legs and shook out the leftover water that remained. Raven had her clock off and was wringing it out like a cloth with her power to get the same effect.

"Raven managed to get us out of there just in the nick of time. All of us woke up here, from what we can tell, we lost a lot of time. All of us were asleep for hours." Cyborg explained. He was right, the sun was now halfway down into the sky.

"Sitting here feeling bad isn't going to help anything." Raven had also spoken up, but never looked at any of the others, she was still trying to get all the sea water out.

"Right, we've got a lot of work to do, I took some pictures when we were inside the tower and downloaded them. From what I can tell, Joker's planning to do something big today. We need to find out what it is and fast." Cyborg was now running diagnostic checks on all of his systems.

Starfire shook her head very quickly as a lot of leftover water was removed from her head. Something landed hard behind her, startled she went "Eeeep!" as she turned around to see what it was. A small boulder, twice the size of a bowling ball landed right behind her. The 4 Titans looked puzzled and went over to examine it. There was nothing special about the rock, except that it was large. Beast Boy couldn't move it as hard as he tried and Cyborg's arm ran a scan on it. Raven confirmed that there was nothing magical about it, it was just a big rock. Starfire saw what looked like etching on the other side. Using one hand, she rolled the boulder over revealing 3 words: "Joker...parade...destination"

The words engraved were made remarkably skillfully and precise. It was legible enough to read, even to those who couldn't read as well.

Starfire spoke up, "Friends...what does this mean?"

Cyborg next related his feelings, "It could be another trap."

Raven was hovering and meditating, she was chanting "Azerath, Metrion, Zinthos...Azerath, Metrion, Zinthos..." She did this for a couple minutes, hovered back down and answered Cyborg, "I don't know, something about this doesn't seem like a trap at all to me."

Beast Boy looked at the rock intently. Could be another one of Slade's tricks. Beast Boy didn't often think. He didn't have a lot of practice in the area and this was really being a stretch. Slade...if I ever see him again, I'm gonna pound him into the earth so that he never comes back! Beast Boy's eyes opened up a little bit wider as an idea came into his head. pound...earth...pound...earth...earth...who controls the earth?

Beast Boy ran to the edge of the cliff, "I gotta go, it's not a trap, it's genuine." Beast Boy's sudden surge of confidence took everyone else by surprise.

"Cyborg, I'm almost all done with my newspaper clippings, criss cross those with the pictures you took earlier." Beast Boy gave an inverted military salute, changed into a bird and flew off towards the city.

Cyborg was puzzled by what just unfolded before hand, but he knew what Beast Boy meant. He wanted him to cross reference the data from the submarine and see if anything matched. Not a bad idea, B. B. Just make sure you come back, we're gonna need ya.

Meanwhile, inside the new lair of Slade...

Robin tossed and turned and woke up suddenly. His breathing erratic, balls of water forming on his cheeks. What was that just now? I was fighting Slade and then I fell into that abyss and then Starfire...

Robin sighed, as he realized what had happened. Another nightmare. Well I guess being able to have them still means that there's still hope.

His mind hadn't given up completely yet, but his body told of a different story. Robin had electric burn marks all across his body. Scars from whip attacks on his back, burns from a cattle prod, he was being tortured, enough to where he was in constant physical pain, but always just enough to where he wasn't killed.

Slade tapped his foot lightly on the ground. Robin looked over to see what he was doing now. Slade was sitting on his new throne. He was watching the last fight between himself and Robin, the last fight Robin was involved with as a Titan. Robin sighed. I hope you guys are having better luck than I am.

Slade's eye's looked up at the clock, in twelve hours, a brand new world would exist...

As the deadline draws closer to the Parade, what fate awaits Robin? How does he fit into Slade's plans? Beast Boy seems to know the identify of their anonymous informer, can the others put the pieces together?

Next time: Chapter 12 - The Challenge

Slade finally breaks his silence code and issues an ultimatum to the remaining Titans, leaving Beast Boy to shoulder the fate of the entire city...alone.