Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to the Teen Titans, except this fanfiction (and a few others that I wrote before this).
Chapter 2: Breakpoint.
Your throat aching from all that singing, you slump back down onto the couch. The episode continues, and the episode title, BEYOND THE FOURTH WALL, flashes across the bottom of the screen.
The scene opened with emergency crews cleaning up the wreckage from Control Freak/Baron Ryang's rampage. Robin anxiously waited outside the tech center Control Freak just robbed, while Cyborg and Raven tended to his wounds.
Starfire and Beast Boy flew in, the former saying "We have escorted the remainder of the wounded to the nearest hospital."
"Good thing to know we don't have anyone we need to worry about." Raven remarked, a slight touch of relief on her face.
"At least, not yet." Cyborg added.
Beast Boy wasn't really focused on what the rest of the team was talking about. Instead, he crawled beside Robin, and asked "Dude, why aren't you kicking yourself for letting the bad guy get away?"
"I have bigger matters to worry about."
And before Beast Boy had a chance to ask the question, Robin answered it: "When I fought him, he said 'Everyone's watching.' And when he left, he said something-I didn't quite catch the full details-to 'Those who are watching.' I'm trying to figure out what he was talking about."
"…you thinking it's Slade?"
"He was speaking in the plural sense. And no one has said anything about the Brotherhood of Evil breaking out of jail."
"Ooh, Foreshadowing!"
Just then, a policeman walked out of the tech center, carrying the full inventory of the missing items. Cyborg took it, put a monocle over his human eye, and looked over the list. What he saw made him jump back in surprise.
"What is it, Friend Cyborg?"
"Metallic Chronium, Nth Metal conductors…"
"How is that even possible? Only the planet Thanagar has a reliable source of Nth Metal!" Starfire stated, shocked.
"Yeah! What kind of suppliers does this place have?"
You ask yourself the same question, since you get the references.
"I'm more concerned with what Control Freak will do with that stuff." said Robin, standing up to look at the list. "I mean, the Nth Metal alone is cause for alarm."
"Ent-metal?" Beast Boy asked, in another characteristic stumble..
Raven answered: "No one really knows all the things that Nth Metal can really do. All we do know is that it's found on the planet Thanagar, where the natives use it in their flight suits."
"It can make you fly? Neat!"
"It's not 'neat' in the hands of a criminal." noted Cyborg. "He could do a ton of things with that stuff. Let's hope we can find him before he does."
Just then, something in Robin's belt beeped, and he pulled out the receiver for the tracking device he placed on Control Freak's car.
"Titans! I've just found Control Freak! I'm sending the coordinates to our communicators now!"
In a matter of a minute, the Titans drove and flew off to apprehend their foe.
The scene changes with a dissolve as the Titans disappear in the distance. You see the pudgy villain surrounded by all manners of sci-fi-esque equipment, including chemistry sets, computers with computer-code streaming down on their screens, a bunch of high-tech stuff with electricity arcing around between them, and the car Control Freak used before the theme song. The villain walks on-screen, giggling to himself as he says:
"Enjoying the show, my loyal fans?"
"GTFO, GEEK!" the guy behind you shouts. (Ironic, as you've always thought of both of them as nerds.)
"Hey! I don't like being called a geek!" the villain said, angered. (Getting a few shocked looks from you and your friends.)
"Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah, right…Enjoying the show, people? Good! You're about to become part of it!"
"OK, I'm seriously creeped out now!"
"Oh, and just in case you're wondering what is going on, you merely need to direct your attention to the mirror I'm now pulling into your viewing area…" And with that, Control Freak pressed a button on his remote, and a robot with a mounted mirror came up to him.
What you see in the mirror is the following: A massive portal-machine with glowing purple orbs, and sparking spikes, at various points all around the circular frame, and a swirling, transparent vortex contained within the circle. Beyond the swirls, various human faces appeared. (one of them looks startlingly like you!)
Just then, the mirror-robot rolled off, and Control Freak continued: "What you have just seen is a dimensional tunneler, by which I'm able to drill through dimensional boundaries! And I intend to make a massive hole in the Fourth Wall. And when I do, I'll-"
CRASH!
Suddenly, a section of ceiling gives in, and the Teen Titans fell through. Beast Boy, morphing out of his gorilla form, laughed. "Figures we'd find you under the old game-store."
"And now I figure you and your bosses won't see you succeed today!" Robin calmly stated.
"Bosses? What are you talking about?" asked Control Freak, sloooowly reaching for his remote…
"Don't play that with us. We heard you talking to 'Those who were watching.' What did they promise you?"
Suddenly, Control Freak pulled his remote in front of them. "I'm really disappointed, Robin;" he said, putting on his best Slade-impression; "is that any way to refer to your fans?"
Then, when Control Freak pressed a button on his remote, a pair of gigantic cyclone-generators (essentially massive fans), mounted on turrets, popped out of the floor! (one of them had a big sign saying 'ROBIN, I'M YOUR BIGGEST FAN!' (upon seeing it you laugh, at the sheer stupidity of that pun.))
Cyborg shouted "CYCLONE GENERATORS! WATCH OU-" but it was too late.
The cyclone generators started blasting torrents of air at the Titans; torrents too strong for Raven to block with her energy-shields, even when she tried. They were all pinned against the wall, with both hands almost unable to move…except for Starfire, who used her eyebeams to blast one of the generators. With less pressure on his arms, Robin was able to pull a birdarang out of his belt, and throw it through the gust of wind right into the second generator.
As soon as it blew up, Robin and the rest of the Titans headed for Control Freak…but he had already hopped into his getaway car, and was driving it to the strange vortex-machine off in the corner!
Just as he was about to drive it through the vortex, though, Raven latched onto it with a birds-talon crafted from her powers, allowing the rest to jump onto the car.
"Wherever that thing goes, you're not going. You're going back to jail-more permamantly this time."
"Ummm….did I see a lampshade being hung somewhere?"
Suddenly, out of the blue, Control Freak asked "I suppose you're curious as to why I wanted Nth Metal?"
And before the Titans could answer, he continued: "Well, here's why: Nth Metal can nullify gravity: and I wanted a dimensional vortex, not a black hole. However, if I take just the teeeeensiest bit out…"
Suddenly, at the press of a button on his remote, a disintegrator pistol appeared on the car's front hood! Raven, who had set herself down on the car with her friends, prepared to shield them from any blasts- only to find that the disintegrator was aimed at one of the sparkling spikes protruding from the portal-machine!
As the spike was turned to dust by the energy beam, the Titans started to feel themselves…pulled into the machine! Raven did her best to hold her teammates out of the spiraling portal…but then a piece of lightweight machinery knocked her in the head, disrupting her focus.
"FOURTH WALL, HERE WE COME! WAH, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…" and the rest of Control Freak's crazed laughter was cut off when him and the rest of the Titans were pulled into the howling dimesnsional portal.
Everyone's skin felt as if it were on fire-except for Control Freak, who said, "By the time they figure out where we're headed, it will be too late for all of them!" in your direction.
"Wow, these guys sure know how to make a creepy episode!" you comment. By then, the ads have started, and you need a bathroom break very badly…and so does everyone else.
SO sorry for the delay. I can't even excuse it!
If you've already figured out where I'm headed, don't spoil! It'll all be made clear in a couple of chapters.
Please review if I'm messing up at all! I welcome constructive criticism.