AN: And now, the moment you've all been waiting for, the first chapter adapted from an actual Teen Titans episode, the episode that will rock the Titans to the core. I give you...
THE BETRAYAL
(PS: From now on the story will be told from a third person perspective for completeness.)
A guarded warehouse, outskirts of Jump City
A group of Sladebots carried a large cylindrical device, with more keeping guard as the warehouse guards lay on the ground, unconscious. Aiming their hand blasters, they blew out the back wall in a cloud of dust. As the group made their way out of the new exit, the lead robot was struck with a red and yellow projectile, shredding half of its faceplate to reveal the circuitry beneath the mask. The projectile arched back to its thrower, who said:
"Tell Slade the Titans have a message for him."
"Eat dirt!" another voice finished as Terra hurled the boulders levitating around her. The boulders struck the ground, sending up clouds of dust and throwing any Sladebots not crushed under the rocks to be thrown back.
"Titans Go!" Robin ordered, and the seven Titans, himself, Terra, Beastboy, Cyborg, Raven, Starfire, and their newest addition, Robin's brother, Danny Phantom, charged towards the automatons.
Terra jumped onto another rock as she send the one she had previously used for flight to Robin, who used it to dodge the blasters shot at him, and slamming into the Sladebot in his path.
Starfire alternated between flying between stun blasts and firing eye beams at the ground to scatter the enemies.
"Terra, catch!" Raven shouted as she tossed a large boulder to the geomancer, who grabbed it with her own powers before slamming it into about a dozen Sladebots.
"Thanks a ton." Terra said.
"More like two tons, actually." Raven deadpanned before forming a shield against the robot's ranged attacks. However, the shield was broken and she was sent flying back, while one of the robots snuck up behind Terra and destroyed her support, sending her tumbling to the ground as a pair of Sladebots moved in for the kill, only to be bashed to pieces by a green gorilla, who proceeded to destroy about a half dozen more before picking up Terra bridal style and morphing back to his true form as Beast Boy.
"You saved me." Terra told her savior.
"Yeah, that was cool." The changling said as a blush filled his cheeks.
"Uh, Beast Boy, you can put me down now." Terra said, Beast Boy's face becoming red as he snapped back to reality.
"Yeah, I was just...uh-" Beast Boy was interrupted by a a Sladebot flying past, courtesy of Danny Phantom. Beast Boy then ran back into the fray while Terra looked on, an apologetic look on her face.
Robin knocked down several Sladebots with his BO-staff, before having to throw it like a javelin through the head of a Sladebot that had knocked down Danny and was about to finish him off. Danny hastily thanked his brother before taking into the air again, diving down to intangibly rip out important circuits from a number of the robots, and blasting others with ectoplasm, leaving smoking holes in their chests.
Raven let loose a barrage of magic on the automatons, while Cyborg bashed one down before firing his sonic cannon at others. Simultaneously, Starfire unleashed a hail of star-bolts onto a group, and Beast Boy turned into a ram to charge at one of the robots.
Unbeknownst to the Titans, a figure was watching them fight, analyzing their powers and strategies via a wall-full of monitors.
"Excellent, you've done well, very well." On a table behind him lay several devices, including some of Robin's disk grenades, one of his grappling hooks, a BO-staff, and a disassembled Titans communicator and blueprints for their Tower. "All you're hard work is about to pay off. Tonight, we strike, and by sunrise tomorrow, the Titans will be annihilated." In the shadows, a single blue eye shone.
"And I know exactly how to break Robin." another voice said, pointing to the screen showing Danny blast back a Sladebot. "We bring down Phantom, we destroy Robin."
"And the last slice of pizza goes to...DANNY!" Cyborg proclaimed as he passed the slice to Danny. In the last month he and the Titans had gotten along surprisingly well. Ever since joining the team, Danny had become friends with the others: He could listen to Starfire talk about space all day, Beast Boy was always cracking jokes, Cyborg had helped him with several pieces of Fenton gadgetry, And reminded him of Tucker with his bottomless pit of a stomach for meat. Terra had told her about how she used to not be able to control her powers very well, and had laughed when he brought up the times his pants turned intangible when he got nervous. Raven was something else. Her dark, Gothic nature reminded him of Sam, and she seemed to know more about ghosts than anyone else he had met (aside from the ghosts, but he didn't get a whole lot of chatting with them aside from witty banter.) For some reason he felt like they similar in some way, but was always confused in how. He was half ghost and she was a sorceress with some impressive powers. Between fighting bad guys (he and the Titans laughed when Doctor Light fainted after Danny appeared behind him and went "boo") and hanging with the rest of the team, Robin had been training Danny in martial arts, and had built up some muscle since he left Amity Park.
As the other Titans complimented him for his heroic work, Danny blushed and merely said, "It's nothing really, I'm just doing the same job you guys do, and I wouldn't be here now if it weren't for you guys."
After that, and some flirting between Beast Boy and Terra, Cyborg yawned and activated the Tower security systems, declaring it time to turn in for the night.
Danny changed back to his human form, changed into his pajamas, and landed in his bed with a thud, falling asleep instantly.
Terra was nervously typing on her laptop, and had just hit 'send', when she heard a knock on her door. She opened it and found Beast Boy standing there, hands behind his back.
"Hi" he said nervously, a sweat drop going down the side of his forehead.
After an awkward silence and Terra looking down the hall, she said, "Okay, well, nice talking to you."
As she began to turn around, Beast Boy suddenly pulled out a rock-shaped package covered in tape.
"I made something for you" He said quietly.
"You did?" Terra asked intrigued.
"Yeah, went a little crazy with the glue gun," he said, revealing his other hand stuck to said glue gun before trying to shake it off. Terra ripped off the wrapping paper to reveal a silver heart-shaped box, and opened the lid to reveal it to also be a mirror.
"Beast Boy, it's...I don't know what to say." Terra said.
"You could say yes, 'cause I'm about to ask you out on a date." He said, rubbing his hands nervously.
"Oh, wow" was all Terra could say as she closed the box.
"So, wanna do something tomorrow night?" He asked.
"Tomorrow? I'm sorry Beast Boy, I can't." She replied, holding the box and wrapping paper to hide her face.
"But..."
"I just can't" She said as she turned and closed the door.
"Um, okay, maybe some other time?" Beast Boy asked dejectedly.
In his room, Beast Boy was chewing himself out over how poorly he had asked tried asking Terra out. After going through about five alternate scenarios, he heard a cough, and looked up to see Terra on a rock, floating next to his now open window. "Wanna go out?" She asked.
"Yeah, uh, I mean, that's cool, but why didn't you just knock on my door?" He gestured to the door next to him.
"Do you trust me?" She said as she reached down and offered her hand to Beast Boy.
"More than anyone I've every met." He replied as she helped him up.
"So, you wanna catch a late movie?" he asked as they flew away from the Tower, Cyborg's window lighting up.
Cyborg walked out of his room, and his stomach growled.
"Aw man, I knew I shouldn't have given up that last slice of pizza. *yawn* Oh well, nothing a foot-long ham and beef jerky sandwich won't-" He went silent when he saw nearly a dozen Sladebots around him. He turned around and saw even more, a whole army's worth.
"No." was all he could say.
Outside of Jump City, Beast Boy and Terra were looking back at the city, the former staring in wonder.
"When you asked me out, I didn't know you meant 'out of town'" Beast Boy said to Terra.
"Looks cool, doesn't it. Sometimes you have to leave a place to truly appreciate it." The geomancer said. After a few moments she spoke up and said "You hungry?"
"Always" Beast Boy replied as the went to a diner titled 'Ben's'. A bell rang as they entered, and Beast Boy noticed the people playing pool, and Terra already seated on one of the bar-stools. He looked at the menu and noticed that it was predominantly meat, and asked if they by any chance had a veggie burger. After the waitress gave no answer, Terra said, "We'll just get the usual Pam." and the waitress left.
"So, I take it you've been here before?"
"I've been everywhere before. I was quite the traveler before I became a Titan remember?"
"Okay, what's the coolest place you've ever been?" Beast Boy inquired.
"Don't know, probably Titans Tower." She replied, looking at her reflection in her spoon. "But there's plenty of cool stuff out here, who knows, if you're really nice to me I'll give you the tour."
At that moment the waitress showed up and put two slices of apple pie with ice cream in front of them.
"Dig in" Terra told Beast Boy as she handed him her spoon. Beast Boy gleefully took a bit and then froze. "This, is the greatest pie, in the history of pie."
"There's a place two-hundred miles from Gotham that bakes a mean cherry, but for apple, this is the-" Terra suddenly gasped as she saw Slade in the mirror. She quickly turned around, but Slade wasn't there. Taking some change from her belt pocket and placing it on the counter, before getting and going, "Let's get out of here, night's still young."
leaving his communicator behind, just as it went off.
"Beast Boy, come in!" Robin ordered, just before the window on the main room was blown out by an explosion.
Sladebots were marching down the hallway, laying down continuous fire with their hand blasters.
"Beast Boy, where are you? Answer me!" Robin ducked to avoid a blast at where his head had been a second ago. Charging out of cover, he dodged laser blasts and knocked out robots as he ran to Starfire and Cyborg, who were hiding behind a bulkhead and firing at the invaders.
"He's not responding." Robin said as Raven appeared behind him, saying "And Terra's not in her room."
"Somebody want to explain how two-hundred armed robots got past my security? Cyborg said, aggravated as he blasted the fast approaching soldiers.
Cyborg opened an access panel and tried to get to the main computer, only to get shocked and blasted back.
"Wait, where's Danny?" Robin asked, panicking.
Suddenly, Danny flew through the wall behind them and landed at their feet.
"That's it, Slade has officially become more annoying than Vlad." he deadpanned. At that moment, more robots burst through the wall, and several forced the Titans towards a window. They jumped over the Sladebots, but Danny was shocked by electricity when one of the Sladebots grabbed him, forcing him to turn back to human.
"I am so going to kill Vlad for making that infernal Plasmius Maximus." Danny said angrily as he blew some of his now black hair out of his eyes.
The robot that shocked him began to approach him and the Titans, and its chest plate opened to reveal a timer ticking down.
"It's a BOMB!" Robin yelled.
'If that thing goes off in here, it will kill us all.' Danny thought. 'Unless it's not in the Tower.' he realized what he had to do. Summoning his last reserves of strength. Danny pushed himself to his feet, and charged the Kamikaze Sladebot. Wrapping his arms around its torso, he pushed it closer and closer to the window, until he heard a crash and felt gravity take hold.
5 seconds left on the timer.
'I'm sorry, Robin.'
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'I'm sorry, Mom, Dad, Jazz, Sam, Tucker, Mr. Lancer.'
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'I'm sorry Titans, you were there for me when I needed you most.'
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"Goodbye" he said
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"DANNNYYYY!" he heard the Titans scream.
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And then his world disappeared in a flash of light, and the faint sound of a voice saying something he couldn't hear over the sound of the explosives going off.
"DANNNYYYY!" The Titans all screamed as they saw their friend fall and be consumed in a giant fireball that shook the Tower, and the Titans, to the core.
The rest of the night was blur for the Titans, still in shock from Danny's sacrifice. All they could remember was fighting the Sladebots with everything they had, the floor giving in after Raven turned the walls into weapons, and Beast Boy returning, bruised and heartbroken when he told them that Terra had been working for Slade all along.
When morning came, Titans Tower was a wreck, the busted open remains of Sladebots littering every surface. Cyborg, Starfire, Raven, Robin, and Beast Boy all sat on pieces of rubble.
Cyborg's mechanical eye flashed and he said "Main computer's back online, security codes and passwords reset."
"We trusted her, and she betrayed us, and now friend Danny is...gone." Starfire said, her head dipping down at that last word. They had never lost a member of the Titans before, even when Slade infected them with nanobots they had all made it out in one piece. But now, one teammate was an enemy, and another was dead.
Robin had taken Danny's death the hardest, and was now looking at his hands, tears streaming from under his mask and running down his cheeks to drip into his open palms.
"I...failed." was all the masked hero could say.
Beast Boy was holding the box he had given Terra, and he promptly crushed it in his hands, leaving only a mangled ball.
"She didn't just give Slade codes and passwords, she gave him us. Every power, every weakness, everything." Raven said, anger in her voice.
"Slade." Robin said with a scowl as he picked up the cracked mask of one of the Sladebots, before hurling it out of the hole in the window.
Water lapped up against a figure sprawled across the beach. Slowly, bright blue eyes opened, and the figure sat up, looking at his surroundings. "Where am I?" he spoke, and then he looked at his hands, which seemed familiar, yet he couldn't remember. "Who am I? He asked, looking at his tattered, burned clothes before turning his attention back to his hands. Suddenly, his hands disappeared, and then reappeared after a few seconds. "What am I?" he asked in wonder.
AN: "Gulp" So to the Titans it seems like Danny's been killed in Terra's betrayal, but now a figure in tattered clothing with blue eyes and invisibility has washed up on a beach. And what did Danny hear right before the explosion? I'll leave you to think about that while I go prepare the next chapter, which may or may not answer some questions.