The Coolest Thing To Happen:

The Teen Titans/DragonBall Z Crossover

By

Teen Tyrant

Chapter 2

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Z World

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Trunks, Goten and Marron all stood in what was considered the front yard of the Capsule Corporation, staring at the sky with their mouths hanging open in a rather cute way. The blue light of the vortex shined down on them as they stared up at it. Trunks knew that neither of his grandparents had noticed the light coming from whatever this was. His grandmother was crazy and was probably baking sweets in the kitchen right next to a window without noticing a change in lighting, while his grandfather was getting senile and was working on yet a new invention to boot, so he wouldn't notice an earthquake, let alone a shining blue light from the sky.

As they continued to stare up at the portal, Goten leaned a little closer to Trunks and whispered the question that was on all of their minds.

"What do you think it is, Trunks?" he asked his life-long friend.

Trunks shrugged. "How should I know, Goten? Do I look like an information center to you?" he asked in his sarcastic tone. Such remarks had often resulted in Trunks being wrongly thought of as a spoiled, smart-mouthed brat. In reality, he was unconsciously mimicking his father's tough attitude and his mothers sharp tongue.

Goten, having received such comments from Trunks since forever and knowing that he meant no insult by it, leaned over to Marron.

"How about you, Marron? Ever heard of anything like this?" he asked, never taking his black eyes off of the sky. Marron shook her head, not taking her own blue eyes off of the spectacle.

"Only in science fiction movies." she answered in her sweet, young girl's voice.

Trunks tilted his head, trying to see the anomaly from a different angle, but it looked the same no matter how you looked at it.

"It looks kind of like a whirlpool, or a tunnel. Like a… a portal or something, I dunno." Trunks said, trying to describe how it appeared to him. His friends both silently agreed with his assessment.

As the three unnaturally gifted children watched, something appeared in the black portion in the center of the vortex. A colored dot, like something was coming from far away and was heading for the mouth of the portal. Deciding to take a closer look, Trunks lifted himself off of the ground with his power, his yellow boots leaving the ground slowly. He began to raise himself faster after a few seconds, and seeing that he was going to go up and look at this whole thing, Goten and Marron also began to fly after him.

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Starfire continued to struggle with the giant mutated dragonfly that held her, its pincer claws clamped over her arms.

Although Starfire was not very well informed in terms of human culture, she was quite adept at understanding the concept of physics and the space-time continuum. She knew that this thing had just pulled her through some sort of wormhole in space-time, and that she had emerged somewhere else.

Whether this was a different part of her universe or a different universe altogether made no difference to her. All she wanted to do was break free of this insect's grasp and fly back through that weird tunnel of blue energy and time fabric before it closed, cutting her off from her friends for good. And although she could not be sure, she thought she had seen someone pass by her going the other way through the portal… going to the end she had come from.

Starfire kicked at the thorax of the twelve foot long dragonfly, her distress keeping her from summoning up the boundless confidence that allowed her strength to increase to the necessary level.

The dragonfly's wings continued to beat nosily as it tightened its grip on her. As Starfire stared up at the creature, which held her beneath its body, she saw the portal she had just come through become smaller and smaller. In a momentary flash of blue light, the swirling in the sky came to a halt, and the dark hole in the center of it was gone.

Starfired gasped when she realized that her chance to pass back through the portal was gone. She was cut off from her home, stuck here in… wherever this place was.

My friends! Robin! NO! she shrieked in her mind, the thought of being stranded away from the other Titans unbearable to her.

Her eyes glowed brighter green with righteous fury and she fired her eyebolts at the dragonfly. However, she did not aim properly, and the blast merely struck a glancing blow on the beast's head that ricocheted off of its exoskeleton.

The monstrous bug became even more enraged at her attack, and lowered its dripping mandibles towards her face. Starfire cringed back as its inhuman mouth drew closer and closer, preparing to bite the flesh of her beautiful face right off her skull. Starfire struggled in its grip even more frantically, but her panic made her emotions even more chaotic, and her strength only decreased.

Starfire screamed in horror as the insect's mouth was only inches from her face and she turned away, closing her eyes and expecting a vicious pain to consume her cheek at any moment… when a sudden swish sound filled her ears and she felt the mutated bug's claws pried from her arms.

She opened her eyes and saw the dragonfly being hurled through the air away from her. It spun through the air until it was about two thousand feet away, before it finally righted itself and turned around to begin flying back towards her, its flimsy-looking wings beating hundreds of time per second.

The dragonfly had been thrown that great distance by a young boy, who was now hovering in the air five feet away on Starfire's right. Starfire looked at the child in amazement, not only at the feat he had just performed, but at his appearance.

The boy's hair was a shade of very light purple, cut, combed and parted in a presentable way, a few strands of it waving in the air from the lightly blowing wind. He had blue eyes that matched the sky perfectly. He was wearing a green outfit that seemed similar in design to what she had seen humans wear when they were performing martial arts combat, and he wore a pair of yellow and black boots. He appeared to be several years younger than her; twelve years old she guessed, maybe younger. Despite this, he was incredibly well muscled, with a build that was even greater than Robin's, although on a smaller scale.

The boy turned and looked at her, while she stared in disbelief at this child who had just saved her life. He cocked his head to one side, the frown on his face relaxing into a look of concern that she found to be adorably cute on the youngster.

"Are you okay?" he asked her. Starfire could only nod as she was still processing what had just happened. Then, two more children flew up next to the purple-haired boy, both looking at her, then off at the dragonfly still making its way back towards them, then finally at the boy who had saved her.

One of these children was another boy, with black hair that spiked out in all directions, although most of it seemed to curve to one particular side, like the blades of a power saw. He had black eyes, an innocent-looking face, and an orange outfit similar in design to the other boy, with black boots on his feet. Although he wore a blue shirt under the orange outfit, covering his arms and chest, he appeared to be about as muscular as the first boy.

The other child was a girl, looking younger than either of the boys. She wore a denim vest and skirt over a black shirt and pants, with small brown boots on her feet. The girl had pretty blonde hair that was done up in what Starfire recognized as "pigtails" that were tied up with red ribbons, and eyes that were blue, but seemed darker if she did not look closely enough. The strangest thing was, the girl had no nose at all. There was only smooth skin where the nose would be on a normal human.

The boy with black hair spoke to the boy with purple hair. "Wow, that is one ugly bug. Nice throw, Trunks." he said to him.

The other boy, "Trunks" apparently, nodded, but did not look away from Starfire, still scanning her for any injury.

The little girl looked at Starfire and also gained a concerned expression. "Are you hurt?" she asked in the sweet, high-pitched voice a child of her age would have. Starfire shook her head, finally getting over her speechlessness of this strange turn of events.

"I have not sustained any serious injury, although my arms hurt from where the monster grabbed me." she said, rubbing her arms where the dragonfly had latched on to her. The purple-haired boy flew closer to her, pointing a finger at the now empty sky.

"Did you come out of that hole in the sky? You and that thing over there?" he asked her.

Starfire nodded. "Yes. I was taken from my friends by the creature, and it flew into the portal, carrying me along with it." she said sadly. Finally, the significance of three children hovering so high up in the sky with her, dawned on Starfire. Clearly, these children were not human, or if they were, they were not normal. Starfire drifted closer to them, smiling brightly at the three cute youngsters.

"My name is Starfire. I am with the Teen Titans. Who are you?" she asked them.

The purple-haired boy smiled back at her, quite brightly. He floated back a little until he was hovering between the other two.

"My name is Trunks. This is Goten, and this is Marron." he said, pointing his thumbs at the boy and girl next to him, respectively.

Starfire giggled. "You are all so cute! Tell me, how are you capable of flying, and of showing such remarkable strength? And how old are you? You appear to be so young!" she said in excitement and wonder.

The three kids blushed at her compliments and her inquisitiveness. The boy named Goten laughed and put his hand behind his head.

"Well, I'm ten. Trunks is eleven, and Marron is nine. But we're not too young to have our powers. We've been able to fly and fight for years." he said, a huge smile on his face as he seemed to be bragging innocently.

Starfire was surprised that they were so young, yet capable of such abilities. She floated closer still, curiosity peaked.

"But, how did you obtain these pow-" Starfire was cut off as something smacked her hard on the side of the head. The world instantly went black.

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Trunks dashed forward and caught the falling teenager in his powerful arms, seeming somewhat awkward to be cradling someone twice his height in such a way.

He looked up to see that Goten and Marron were wrestling with the bug, which had flown back to them much faster than they thought it could. The thing had come out of nowhere and smacked the girl in the head when she wasn't looking. They had not gotten the whole story from her yet, so they didn't know if they should kill the bug or not. As it was, Goten was holding on to its claws easily, while Marron flew around its head, poking it as hard as she could here and there to keep it distracted.

Seeing that they'd be able to hold the creature for some time, Trunks began to descend to the ground to see if this girl he was holding was alright.

Trunks touched down in his front yard and set Starfire on the grass, laying her on her back. He kneeled down beside her on one knee.

Be okay. Please be okay, he silently begged.

Although he had only met this girl a minute ago, he had already developed an attachment to her, and knew that Goten and Marron had too. She seemed incredibly nice, and he had been sorry to hear that she had been pulled from her own world against her will by that ugly flying freak. He could tell by the looks on their faces that Goten and Marron had felt the same feeling. It was as if they knew right away that this girl was someone who they could absolutely trust, who had never harmed anyone in her life, and that anything bad that happened to her in even the slightest way was completely undeserved.

Although he was young, Trunks' mother had shown him the basic ways of checking for life signs and first aid, just in case he or someone he knew should become hurt. He had a chance to put that knowledge to use right now.

Trunks lifted the unconscious girl's (Starfire, she said that her name was Starfire) arm in his hand and felt her wrist for a pulse. He did find her pulse, steady and strong. Setting her arm back down, he saw that she was breathing regularly. Turing her head, he looked at the spot where she had been hit. The skin there was reddened, but nothing else seemed wrong.

She seemed to be okay, just knocked out from that bug. Sighing in relief, Trunks decided to check one last thing. He reached towards her left eye and pulled up her eyelid. Immediately he let go and pulled back, from astonishment rather than fear. He pulled her eyelid up again and stared. Her eye was vacant, but vibrant, another, although now unnecessary, sign that she was just unconscious, not dead. But what had shocked Trunks so much was the color of her eyes.

So his vision had not been deceiving him a minute ago when he had been talking to her. He had seen what he thought he had seen after all. Her eyes were a bright emerald green color, but not just her irises. Everything in her eye socket was emerald green. He supposed that it had something to do with that green blast of energy he thought he had seen her fire from her eyes, before he had arrived and plucked the monster from her.

Trunks let go of her eyelid and leaned back. Now that he knew she would be alright, and that Goten and Marron had the giant dragonfly busy, his mind began to focus on the girl herself. While they had been talking up above, there had been the little bit of shyness that there always was when meeting someone new. Plus there had been the distant but not forgotten warning going on in his head that the dragonfly was coming back even as they spoke, so Trunks had not been able to really look at her, to focus on her, and he did so now. And the more he looked at her, the more he took her into his vision, the more his fascination and curiosity grew.

He could tell now that she was not human. He had suspected it before, but had not taken enough notice to tell. Although there were humans who could fly and fire energy from their bodies, Marron's father Krillin being a perfect example, most people he knew who could do those things were not human, or not entirely human. This girl, this Starfire, was not human at all. It was very subtle, as whatever species she was greatly resembled a human girl, but Trunks was skilled enough to see past that subtlety. Having lived his life around other Saiyans and half Saiyans, all of whom greatly resembled humans when they did not have their tails, allowed Trunks to make the distinction between humans and beings that merely looked like humans.

Trunks looked along Starfire's still body, noting every feature, taking in her uniqueness to this world. Her hair was bright red, it ran down to the middle of her back, and was very shiny. He didn't know if it was like that naturally or if she used a really good shampoo, but it was very shiny indeed and very soft when he touched it.

He stared at her odd-looking eyebrows for a moment, before looking at her whole face. Although she had been violently knocked out, she seemed as though she were just resting peacefully, the curves of her face relaxed, her breath easing out of her nose and mouth gently.

Her body was thin, but not painfully so. She was not anorexic. In fact, looking closer and gently touching her arm, Trunks could now see and feel that she had a good deal of muscle on her. It wasn't noticeably large, but that meant very little. Trunks' own muscles looked the same size as those of any other earth boy who worked out regularly; but he was capable of lifting several tons with no effort at all. It seemed that this girl was capable of the same thing, although her muscles didn't seem dense enough to be able to lift the same amount of weight he could. But she was certainly very strong indeed, by human standards.

She was wearing an outfit that was mostly purple. The top, miniskirt and boots that went clear to her thighs were all purple. Her collar bone was covered by a grey material that had a green jewel at the very top of her chest. She wore strange grey gloves that seemed meant to cover her forearms rather than her hands, and she had a green jewel on the back of both of them. She had a grey armband on her right arm and a grey belt at the top of her miniskirt.

Trunks ran his hand along the fabric at her shoulder, curiously. He then looked at her bare midsection, between her top and her skirt. That was when he noticed the color of her skin. It was very tanned, so much so that her skin almost appeared orange. He looked at her face, surprised that he had not noticed that before, but her face also had that unusual color. Looking back to her bare stomach, Trunks wondered if that really was her skin color, or if she was coated with something that made it look that way.

Reaching out, he touched her flat belly with the tip of his index finger, running it along her smooth skin for a moment, trying to see if he would rub anything off of her skin and onto his finger. Nothing. That was indeed her true skin color.

Starfire's eyes opened while Trunks was inspecting her. She was coming around now and fought off the darkness that had consumed her so suddenly. Blinking a few times, she looked around, noticing that she was on the ground, and that the boy named Trunks was staring at various parts of her body, his eyes slightly widened, looking as though he had discovered an amazing new species of flower. She felt him touch her midsection for a moment and saw him tilt his head in curiosity at whatever conclusion he had just reached. He continued to look her over, fascinated.

"Trunks," she spoke, "this is not an appropriate time to be admiring my appearance." she said, half-joking.

Trunks jumped back from her, startled at her voice, and fell on his backside. He looked at her in surprise and shook his head back and forth, holding his hands out in front of her, palms first.

"Gah! No! No, no. I was… I was making sure you were okay and I… I just noticed that, um, you're not human, are you?" he said, trying to explain that he was only curious about who and what she was, and had meant no offense by examining her. Starfire stood up.

"You are correct."she informed him. "I am a Tamaranian, from the planet Tamaran."

Trunks rubbed the side of his head. "Sorry. I've never heard of it." he said apologetically.

Starfire tilted her own head in curiosity. "You do not seem to be a human either. What are you, Trunks?" she asked him.

Trunks stood up from the ground and looked up at her. "I'm half human and half Saiyan. I was born here on Earth, but my Saiyan ancestry is from planet Vegeta." he told her.

Starfire shook her head. "I am sorry, but I have not heard of your world either."

Trunks was about to say more, but before he could speak, there was a shout from Marron, still up in the sky.

"Hey Trunks! If you two are done chitchatting, Goten and I could use some help up here!" she yelled down to him.

Realizing that he had forgotten about his friends completely while talking with Starfire, Trunks immediately took to the sky, Starfire following him. Trunks turned his head to speak to her.

"Starfire, is this bug just trying to attack you, or do you need it for something?" he asked.

Starfire shook her head. "No. It was created by one of the enemies of the Titans. It is trying to destroy me. We must destroy it instead."

Trunks nodded. "Okay then." He flew up until he was just as high as the insect, which was still trying pull its own claws from Goten's unbreakable grip, while trying to dodge Marron, who was still flying around its head, poking at it.

"Hey guys, move away!" he said out loud to them. Goten and Marron broke away from the dragonfly and moved back. Trunks raised his hand and leveled it at the dragonfly, before firing a small and relatively weak blast of blue energy from his palm. As the insect turned towards Starfire, its intended target, the blast hit it in the center of its body. The giant bug exploded outward with a gush of yellowish slime and gunk, with pieces of its wings, claws and exoskeleton flying every which way.

Starfire was again astonished. She had blasted at the creature with her own energies, but with her aim being off, it had merely bounced away from it. Trunks had shot it with only a small bit of energy and he had destroyed it completely, and she had no doubt that the result would have been the same if he had hit it dead center or a glancing blow.

Trunks lowered his hand and crossed his arms in unconscious imitation of his father, then turned his head and grinned at Starfire, clearly trying to look as cool as possible in front of the newcomer.

"Trunks." he heard Goten and Marron both say in an irritated tone. Trunks looked over at his two friends and saw that Goten's shirt and Marron's vest had been splashed with a bit of the dragonfly's yellow fluids. They were both glaring at him. Trunks blushed in embarrassment and hung his arms at his sides.

"Oops! Sorry guys. Guess I should have blown it up from another direction." he said, putting one hand behind his head.

Goten and Marron both shook their heads, then looked over at Starfire, who was scanning the sky around them. It seemed she was looking for any sign of the anomaly that the dragonfly had dragged her through, but there was no trace of the portal anywhere.

Suddenly gaining a saddened expression on her face, Starfire lowered herself towards the ground. The children did the same, Goten and Marron trying to brush the yellow slime off of themselves as they went.

As Starfire touched down on the ground, she looked around at the three youngsters.

"I thank you all for your assistance. But now it seems that I am trapped here in this place, wherever this is."

The kids gathered around her, looking up at her with sympathy. Goten spoke.

"I wish there was something we could do to help you, but we don't know what that big hole was either."

Trunks crossed his arms again, frowning and trying to think. "I wish we knew where it came from, where it led to, and how we could open it again."

"I believe that I can give you all the answers to those questions, Trunks." said a pleasant voice. The three children and one teenager looked across the yard and towards the front door of the Capsule Corp. dome. Standing in front of the entrance to Trunks' home was a green skinned young man, with pointy ears and two antenna sprouting from his forehead. He wore a white and brown robe and held a wooden staff in his hand.

Trunks, Goten, and Marron's mouths all fell open in surprise, while Starfire simply stared in curiosity, wondering who this was and if he could help her.

"Dende!" the three kids said at once.

The Earth's guardian nodded his head, the pleasant smile dropping off of his face, to be replaced by a look of concern and worry.

"I know what that portal was and how it got here. But I'm afraid getting young Miss Starfire back home is only one of the problems we face right now. If we could all go inside, I will explain.

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Titan World

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Robin watched as the police enforcers loaded Killer Moth into the back of the security van in restraints. After slamming the doors on him, the two officers saluted Robin and the other Titans, hopped into the van, and drove away.

Robin looked around the area of the intersection. Some torn up asphalt and a few street lights and road signs had been torn out of the cement by Raven and Cyborg, but beyond that, the only thing out of place were the bodies of the three dead mutated dragonflies lying around. Cyborg had turned his left hand into a chainsaw and sliced his opponent in two. Raven had wrapped a bubble of her black colored energy around one dragonfly's head and crushed it to a pulp. Beast Boy, in the form of a Pteranodon, had ripped the dragonfly he had been fighting apart with his beak. Robin, after seeing that Starfire had gone through whatever portal had opened in the sky, had attack Killer Moth like a wild man, not letting up until the insectoid criminal had fallen defeated to the concrete sidewalk.

Now that the threat had been dealt with, he and the others could deal with their greatest concern; finding out whatever had happened in the sky, and how they could get Starfire back from it.

He turned to his team. "We need to know what happened to Starfire." he said, absolutely serious. Raven, who had been levitating a few feet above the ground, now lowered herself to it.

"I did sense some unusual energies coming from that wormhole. Some of it felt like magic, while the rest of it felt like some kind of electromagnetic disturbance." she said in her usual monotone, although secretly she was just as worried for her alien friend as the others were.

Cyborg looked down at the panel on his arm. "Yeah, I'm picking up some weird readings lingering around too. Like the flux of the electrons in the atmosphere over the city have shifted somehow. I think the temporal stability of this area has been alter slightly."

Beast Boy scratched his head with one finger, raising an eyebrow. "Um, yeah, that's what I was thinking too." he said, clearly not having a clue what Cyborg was talking about, but willing to take his word for it.

Robin looked back up at the clear sky, then at Cyborg. "What can we do?" he asked.

Cyborg continued to scan readings on his arm. "I think I might be able to open that portal up again, if I can find the right frequency and magnitude of energy to do it. I think the required energy changed slightly from whatever opened it the first time. It might take awhile before I find the exact amount of fired electrons that will open it. But I think I can do it, and when I do, we can go to wherever it leads to and get Starfire." he said, trying to sound as optimistic as he could, knowing that Robin was secretly going out of his mind with worry about Starfire's well-being.

Robin was about to order them all back to the tower so that Cyborg could get to work on finding the frequency, when a huge explosion erupted a few blocks away. The Titans all looked in the direction of the blast, and saw smoke and a large cloud of dust plume up into the air. They knew what the dust signified; a building had collapsed.

"We'll have to wait a little longer to go after Starfire. Let's go see what's up." he ordered.

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Frieza laughed loudly, feeling better than he had in nearly fifteen years, since his first defeat on planet Namek. He had flown down into the city he had arrived over after entering this dimension, and the first thing he did was target a small building that seemed to be some kind of shop. Pointing a finger at it, he fired a very weak blast of energy at the building, causing its top to explode and the rest of it to crumble in on itself.

He could have caused much greater damage than that. Hell, he could have blasted this whole sorry planet to smithereens in an instant. But he wanted to savor his return to life. Cause little bits of damage, spread fear and panic, watch the inhabitants of this world run for their miserable lives and spread the word of his arrival. Let them all know that he was here, let them all know that their lives as they had known them had now ended and that he was taking over.

And it felt good. He had not been able to cause random havoc in quite some time. And with no Saiyans around to ruin it this time, he'd be able to do anything he wanted. For now, he'd be quite content to start small, with this one city here, and bring it to its knees. Then he'd spread out, taking one city after another, until this whole planet groveled before him. Then he'd pick up the pace a little, take some more planets, build up his armies again, spread out across the universe and make a new empire, every bit as glorious as the one he'd lost in his home universe.

Laughing once again, Frieza lowered himself to the middle of the street, in front of the building he'd just blasted. Crossing his arms, he looked to his left, seeing a group of people he recognized as humans. Some were running from him, while others were standing and gawking in fear, pointing at him. He smiled, liking the smell of fear emanating from them. Oh yes, he was going to enjoy every minute of his second chance.

"Who are you!" shouted a young voice from his right. Turning his head the other way and still grinning, Frieza looked upon four young people who looked more or less human. One was about as tall as he was, with black hair that was spiked back (like a Saiyan, he noted irritably), and wearing a uniform of red, green, yellow and black. He had a mask covering his eyes.

On his right side stood a boy even smaller than Frieza, who's skin was entirely green. The boy had pointy ears, and seemed to have fangs in his mouth (like a Namek, he noted irritably). He was wearing a black and purple spandex suit.

On the leading boy's left stood a female who wore a skin tight black outfit and a blue cloak that had a hood which covered her face. Two purplish/bluish eyes stared out from the shadows of the hood.

Behind them all, towering over them, stood a dark skinned boy who was half flesh, half robotic implants. Arms, legs, shoulders, torso, and half of his head all held metal plating and some parts that glowed blue with circuitry underneath plastic covering. A cyborg. Having been one himself for a brief period of time before his mortal demise, Frieza actually felt a moment's sympathy, but only for a moment.

The four youths stood in a clear battle pattern. So, these were the defenders of this world. Frieza turned to face them, a smirk spreading across his black lips. He'd have fun knocking them down from whatever pedestals they'd placed themselves on. He'd even let them live and walk away from this encounter. If they thought they could step in and stop him, then he'd show them otherwise, and let them live to think about it, to wallow in the reality of defeat.

"Well," he began, chuckling lightly. "It seems that I have some company."

The Titans beheld this strange being, ready for the fight that they could tell was coming. This was one weird looking dude, they all silently agreed on that. He was about Robin's height, with skin that was mostly pure white, with some purple at the chest, shoulders and on top of his head, which was smooth, hairless, and round. Two "ears" that looked like cups turned outward stuck out from his egg-like head. He had three toes on delicate looking feet, and a long, sinewy tail, giving him a bit of a reptilian look. He had black lips, and red eyes that seemed to pierce them all. His voice carried both a masculine and feminine quality, making them unsure if he was even a "he" at all, or if it was some kind of unisexual being. The smirk on his face, set of his shoulders, and tone of voice, gave an air of confidence, arrogance, and malevolence.

Robin pulled out his staff and extended it. "We're the Teen Titans. You seem to be new here, so let me warn you, you do not want to mess with us. Especially not today." Robin said, eager to finish this up and get to opening the portal again to go after Starfire.

Frieza's tail tip flopped this way and that on the ground as he stared back at them. "Well, so nice to meet you. My name is Frieza, and I am your new master." he said to them, grinning evilly.

Cyborg charged up his sonic cannon, feeling like he was going to need to use it soon. "Man, you obviously aren't from around here. Otherwise, you'd know that you ain't the first one to tell us something like that." he said, scanning the guy with his electronic eye, confused and a bit concerned about the energy readings he was getting from him.

Frieza chuckled again. "Correct. I am not from here. I just arrived in this universe through a portal opened by a friend."

Robin gritted his teeth. "You mean, you came through that hole that opened in the sky a while ago?" Robin asked, wondering if he could beat some info on reopening it out of this guy. The sooner he could get Starfire back and know that she was okay, the better he'd feel.

Frieza nodded. "Yes, I did come through that portal. And I am looking to make this place my new home." he said, sweeping his hands around the area, indicating the whole of this reality.

Raven frowned and lowered her head a little. "Did you see anyone going through the wormhole as you were coming through it? One of our friends was dragged into it by a monster." she said, hoping that this "Frieza" could give them some information on what happened to Starfire.

Frieza seemed to think about it for a moment, then he answered. "Actually, yes. I did see a young female with red hair being carried passed me by a large insect. I take it that she was the friend you lost?" he said. Frieza then formed his hands into fists, tired of talking. "The universe that I come from is full of very powerful beings, my young friends. And for a long time, I was the greatest of them all. I warn you, I intend to make that right my own once again, by any means necessary." He then bent his knees slightly, taking a fighting stance, his tail curling up over his head.

Robin also took a fighting stance, Cyborg aimed his cannon forward, Raven's eyes began to glow white, and Beast Boy transformed himself into a rhinoceros.

"If it's a fight you want, then that's what you'll get!" Robin said to him, centering his opponent up with his staff. "Titans, go!" he shouted, and as one, the Titans rushed forward.

Frieza braced himself as the Titans came for him. Robin was in the lead, and he struck first. Swinging his staff around as hard as he could, Robin slammed the staff into Frieza's torso… where it bent against his body, almost wrapping around him as it did so. Robin's eyes widened so much that his mask seemed to widen with them. Smirking, Frieza lifted his fingers in front of Robin's stunned face and flicked his finger against Robin's forehead. Robin went sailing a good fifty feet at the very least, landing far down the street, out cold when he hit the ground.

This happened in the space of four seconds, and Frieza turned to Beast Boy, who had seen what happened to Robin, but had not been able to slow down his rhino's charge in time. Frieza reached out and grabbed Beast Boy's horn in one hand, then grabbed the side of his face with the other. He swung the green rhino to his right and let go, letting the animal fly through the air, only to smash into the first floor of an office building across the street. Beast Boy's rhino form slid along the floor inside the building, plowing through desks and office furniture The people inside, watching the battle through the widows, scrambled frantically to get out of his way.

Seeing Robin and Beast Boy defeated so easily, Cyborg was enraged. He aimed his sonic cannon right at Frieza's face and fired. The blast of supersonic vibration was deflected with one swing of Frieza's arm, flying harmlessly into the air. Frieza then flew right at Cyborg, covering the distance between them in less than a second. He struck with the flat of his palm against Cyborg's chest. Cyborg was picked up by the force of the impact and sent flying through the air, only to come down a moment later along the sidewalk and tear a twenty foot long trench right through the solid concrete, as if it was as yielding as water.

A car encased in dark energy came down on Frieza's head, but the metal of the vehicle crumpled and gave in as it came down on him, and instead of squashing him flat, Frieza's body tore a hole right through the car. When the car met the street again, Frieza stood exactly as he had before, like nothing had happened, his head sticking out of the roof of the car.

Sweeping his arms out, the car shattered to pieces that were flung from his white and purple body in all directions. Turning his attention to Raven, Frieza smirked as the astonished empath stared at him, unable to believe her eyes. Lifting a finger, Frieza fired a mild blast of energy at her.

"Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!" Raven chanted frantically, encasing herself in a bubble of black energy. The blast met the shield, and although it did not penetrate, the bubble immediately cracked along its entire surface, her energy defusing a moment later as the bubble shattered. Suddenly, Frieza was simply there. He was standing in front of her in less than a second. He thrust his knee up casually, hitting Raven in the stomach.

Raven's eyes widened in sudden pain, and as Frieza pulled his knee away, Raven clutched her abdominal region, squeezed her eyes shut, and collapsed onto the hard asphalt.

Smirking down at her, Frieza softly said, "Until next time." Then he took to the air and began to fly towards the heart of the city, not really caring about where he was going or what he would do next, but knowing that it was going to be fun.

While Cyborg was pulling himself out of the sidewalk in disbelief, Beast Boy reverting to human form and shaking his stunned head, and Raven still holding her pained stomach, none of them were paying too much attention to the spot where Robin had landed unconscious.

From the rooftop of a building beside the street, leaped two humanoid figures. They looked like ninjas; dressed in all black, with some silver lining on their legs, arms and shoulders. Their heads were black and round, but an orange circle sat in the middle of their faces. Their eyes were white slits. Had any of the three conscious Titans seen these beings, they would immediately have recognized them. After all, they had fought them many times before.

The two minions reached down, one grabbing hold of Robin's arms, the other grabbing his legs. Making sure no one was watching, the two slipped into a nearby alley, taking the unconscious Boy Wonder with them.

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As Frieza flew above the rooftops of Jump City's business district, he thought he saw suspicious movement down on one of the rooftops. Perhaps he was being followed. Smiling at the thought of some fool trying to track him down and attempt to defeat him, Frieza decided to let whoever it was meet him face to face.

Lowering himself down onto the building's roof, Frieza stood facing the far edge, which was hidden in the shadow of the building right next to this one, which was much taller. Whoever it was could conceal themselves in the shadows very well, as Frieza could not see anyone in them. However, he was certain that he had seen something move in them before.

Crossing his arms, Frieza smirked and stared into the shadows. "Well? You've come so far to follow me, don't you want to meet me now." He said arrogantly. A deep, calm, somewhat sinister voice answered back.

"I was quite impressed with the little show you put on. I've never seen anyone defeat the Titans so easily. You should be commended for your achievement."

Frieza's eyes narrowed, but his smirk turned into a full grin. "Is that right?" he asked.

Then, he could see the owner of the voice moving in the shadows, stepping towards the light.

"Absolutely. Even for a being from another realty, it should be no easy task to defeat the Teen Titans. And yet you did, in a rather satisfying way." The man then stepped out of the shadows for Frieza to see him. Nearly two feet taller than Frieza, the man was dressed in black, with a sort of utility belt running from his shoulder on one side, down to his hip on the other. He wore a metal mask, the right side being black in color and having no eyehole, the left side a dark orange color and a narrowed eyehole that revealed a cunning, gray-colored eye. There were vertical slits in the mask where a mouth would be, presumable for breathing and allowing speech to carry through the mask.

The man held his hands behind his back, but there was an air of menace about him that Frieza could detect quite well, having been in the presence of many such people before. While he was certain that he could defeat this man if he proved to be a threat, he wasn't quite sure what the man had up his sleeve. Even at a glance, he came across as a man who had several backup plans for every situation, and was very good at casting a deceptive appearance of humility about him. He was dangerous, that much was clear.

"Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Slade. And you are… Frieza, I believe is the name you gave to the Titans."

Frieza's hands became fists, ready for a fight if it looked like one was coming, although at this point, he could not tell.

"Yes. And to what do I owe the pleasure, Mr. Slade?" he said, somewhat mockingly.

Slade's eye narrowed, although in malice or delight was unknown. "I wish to help you." he said plainly.

Frieza blinked, unsure what to make of that. "Help me? Why would I require your help?"

Slade took a few steps towards Frieza, lowering his arms to his sides. "Because, you think you have won already. I assure you, that is a great mistake. While I am certain that your strength and level of power is greater than any other being here in this world, that will not be enough. The Titans underestimated you back there, but they will not make such a grave mistake again. And they are not the only defenders of this world. There are many, many others. And they have not lived as long as they have, survived against people like you and I as long as they have, simply by being stronger than their enemies. Many of them are in fact much weaker than their enemies are. I do not know what kind of battles you may have fought in your own universe, but in this one, many of the battles fought and won are done so by the mind, not the sword."

Slade began to walk in a circle around Frieza, his single cold eye never leaving the alien reptile.

"In order to defeat the defenders of this world, you will need to outsmart them. I can tell you, from my own experience, that having greater power than your enemies will not lead you to victory. You will need to think better, plan better, and strategize better than this world's heroes. That is why I wish to help you. I know the heroes of this planet. And a few that are not from this planet. I know their weaknesses, how they think, and how they fight. I am willing to aid you in your desire for conquest. All I would ask in return is allowing me to rule over this planet once you have established your empire. Such a small planet compared to many others in the cosmos, and with a dominion of many worlds, you would not really miss this one, would you?"

Frieza leaned back on his tail like a kickstand, listening intently to Slade's offer as the man continued.

"I am willing to offer my knowledge and my equipment to help you defeat the Titans and the other defenders of this world. And I ask nothing more than this one planet. I am proposing an alliance." Slade stopped in front of Frieza, staring right at him. He slowly put out his right hand. "What do you say, Frieza? Do we have a deal?" He kept his single cold eye on Frieza's piercing red ones.

Frieza stared at Slade's hand for a moment. What the man said did make sense. He knew nothing about this universe. Even if there were no Saiyans to surpass his power, he still might have some great challenges here. If this "Slade" was willing to offer assistance and knowledge to help his conquest along, why should he not take it? And then, once the resistance of this planet had been dealt with…

Frieza looked up into Slade's eye and his face broke out into a grin of pure evil. He took Slade's hand and shook it, matching the man's powerful grip. "I accept." he said in his raspy, unigender voice.

Frieza continued to grin, and behind his mask, Slade grinned evilly as well. Both suspected that in the other's mind, a plot for treachery had already begun to hatch. They were both right.

That's it for now. With Chapter 3, Starfire and the young Z-Warriors will make plans to head back over to her world and stop Frieza. Meanwhile, after the Titans recover themselves and try to figure out what happened to Robin, they'll be faced with Frieza and a whole army of supercharged Slade minions under his command. Things are starting to heat up, and it won't be long before the Teen Titans and the children of the Z-Warriors will be fighting side by side. And about time someone made it happen too, as these two shows are so popular, they are just begging to be crossed over. See you guys at the next chapter, coming fairly soon, although exaclty when, who knows.