Episode 0: Pilot
On the planet Earth was Jump City, a city located in the West Coast of the United States, population reaching millions. A home constantly attacked and invaded by vicious criminals and supervillains day after day without rest.
Thankfully they have the protection of the TEEN TITANS, a group of five teenage superheroes who have dedicated themselves to protecting their city, but also the world. They are Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, Raven, and Cyborg. Each having their own unique powers and abilities they work off one another as a team. Tested again and again by villain after villain the Titans have always proved victorious in the end.
However, this particular adventure would be quite unique, as they would face off with foes... and join forces with allies... From a Galaxy FAR FAR AWAY.
*CLONE WARS THEME: A GALAXY DIVIDED PLAYS*
Uncharted paths need not be feared, they can open the door to new worlds and opportunities
Total Warfare! The Confederacy of Independent Systems has launched a new major offensive in the outer rims of the galaxy. Pushing the Republic on the retreat into the unknown regions, the Separatist Droid Armies have managed to take entire planets within mere days. The Grand Army of the Republic has deployed some of their finest officers to the front: Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano, who are currently in a dire situation…
The burning Republic Star Destroyer and its sister Light Cruiser had no choice but to move on the retreat into the unknown regions. They had been pursued by the Separatist's fleet of three dreadnaughts and decided they had to make a stand or risk becoming lost in the unknown regions.
Currently they sat far above the planet Earth, beyond detection range from its satellite's, raging a battle beyond anything the planets inhabitants could ever truly comprehend.
PEW PEW!
BAM BOOM!
Several smaller Republic fighters engaged Vulture Droid fighters as the larger ships' blaster each other apart. One of the Separatist cruisers was partly damaged but the other two were still in ideal condition and laying heavy fire to the two Republic ships.
BOOOOMMM!
The Republic cruiser was hit, and multiple explosions began to rock it as it began to 'sink' and stop returning fire.
The main battleship of the Grand Army Republic: a star destroyer named The Warrior, was also hit badly. Aboard this ship resided Anakin Skywalker and his padawan Ahsoka Tano.
The two Jedi and the crew on the bridge of The Warrior watched as their sister ship was destroyed.
Clone Officers and Technicians scurried about in response. Outside several C-999 Landing Ships launched from the Separatist dreadnaughts, heading straight for the Republic Ventalator with one goal in mind; landing and deploying Battle Droids on the ship to either capture or destroy it.
"General Skywalker, droid landing parties are arriving! Should we commence evacuation of the ship?" Yelled a Clone Pilot looking over to the Jedi and his apprentice…
Anakin was a young man, in his early to mid-20's. He wore a combination of dark brown robes and armor. His two arms had gloves on them, one concealing his robotic arm he had gained in battle. Meanwhile his apprentice Ashoka, was a much different entity. She was a teenage Tortugan, humaoids that have Lakku's rather than hair. Her outfit consisted of a top, with cutouts in the front and back, alongside matching leggings and combat boots.
Next to them as well was the astromech droid R2-D2. Astromech Droid's were primarily used for maintenance and repair. R2 had attached itself to Anakin over various campaigns in his Jedi career and was typically around him on missions.
R2 let out a nervous beep as Anakin took notice of the situation and began to think of a plan, his eyes squinting as he thought.
"Yes, sound the alarm!" Anakin then looked over at Ahsoka: "Come on Snips, we're getting out of here."
Ahsoka picked up on a hint of concern in her master's voice. However, without question, Ahsoka nodded and followed her master, as they ran to exit the bridge, R2 rolling after the two.
The two Jedi ran through the halls of the doomed Republic Cruiser. The ship shook and debris occasionally fell showing how badly damaged it was. Despite the interferences they had their priority set: getting to the escape pods, and off this ship.
"Master, are you sure running away is a good idea, I mean we have no idea where we are running too!" Spoke Ahsoka as the two continued down the halls of the doomed ship.
"No time to care, it beats staying here by a long shot, let's find Rex and get out of..." Responded Anakin before getting cut off
Turning the halls was a small fire-team sized element of B1 Battle Droids.
"Jedi! Blast 'em!" Said one of the Droids as they took aim with their E-5 Blasters.
Instinctively, Anakin and Ahsoka went for their lightsabers, the weapons of the Jedi. Anakin had his singular blue blade while Ahsoka had two dual green blades.
WOOOOOSSSHHH!
Their sabers activated as the Droids began to fire their blasters at them. Deflecting the blaster bolts back at some of the droids, hitting and destroying them instantly. The two Jedi took the initiative and moved toward the remaining droids, slicing them down with their sabers with ease.
"Right…I guess a plan is better than no plan…" admitted Ahsoka as they holstered their sabers. Sparks flew as once again the ship rocked about…showing it won't hold much longer.
"Come on…it's not too far now…" said Anakin as they began to run again.
While the Separatists had their Battle Droid armies, the Republic had their Clone Army; soldiers that were created from the DNA and cells of a bounty hunter. The Clones were stronger and more efficient than droids, and they had their own identities and personalities…
Currently Clone Troopers of the 501st Legion, who were distinguished by their blue marked painted armor, were held up in a large bay of The Warrior, holding off Droid onslaughts from the landing bay who were swarming through various doors. The Clones had used several crates to form fighting positions around the escape pod bay and were holding the droids off there.
Leading the Clones and waiting at the escape pods was Captain Rex, clone trooper, honorable military leader, and loyal friend to Anakin Skywalker. He was beginning to get impatient and nervous, maybe they were caught or killed?
His fears were put to rest when two cut up droids went flying through the nearby door behind the clones fighting position, and outran the two Jedi.
"General Skywalker! I was starting to get worried…the droids are overwhelming the ship, and our little "surprise" of explosives for them is set." Said the Clone captain as he holstered his signature dual blaster pistols.
Anakin smirked as he and Ahsoka began to walk over
"Good job Rex lets get out of...AHHHH!"
Anakin was shot from behind by an approaching Battle Droid, a raiding party had already overwhelmed the clone position and took them all off guard.
"MASTER!" Screamed Ahsoka as she used the force to push back the closest Droids into one another.
Various clone troopers and personnel were killed as they began to evacuate now as the Droids continued their advance. Pod after pod launched until there was one left…which another unmarked Clone Trooper, Rex, and Ahsoka barley managed to pull Anakin in the pod as R2 rolled in behind them, blaster bolt after blaster bolt pelting towards them as the door shut and it launched off!
Rex peered back up at the ship and began to count to himself as they flew off and hurdled through space.
"Ten…nine…eight…". The ship then burst into flames and fire as it exploded, destroying ALL the Droids on it…
Watching the scene of The Warrior exploding from the bridge of one of the Separatist Dreadnaughts was a Tactical Droid, who was acting as the commander of the Separatist forces.
"As predicted…my stratagem worked perfectly…" droned the Droid to itself as it sat back down in the commander's chair of the ship.
"But sir, we lost hundreds of Droids aboard that ship." Said one of the B1 Battle Droid technicians to the Tactical Droid.
"I don't care. Their ship is destroyed, and their soldiers terminated." Retorted the Tactical Droid, actually standing back up and waving its arms as if to emphasize a point.
"Roger Roger…" said the one battle droid as it looked back to its screen it was working on.
Another one perked up and walked over with a computer tablet. "Uh sir…"
"WHAT IS IT!?" Demanded the Tactical Droid.
"It appears several escape pods were ejected from the Republic ship; we believe that their leaders may have survived and…"
"Begin scans and find where they could have landed…" interrupted the Tactical Droid " "If they survived, WE SHALL HUNT THEM DOWN AND DESTROY THEM!"
Zooming down to Earth, the guaranteed destination of all of the escape pods, all focus now turns to the North American continent. Zooming further west on it, the camera now zooms into Jump City, but more specifically .the body of water, which inside of that rested an island with a large T-Shaped Tower. This was Titans Tower, home of the Teen Titans.
On Titans Island we now focus to the outside where we see our five heroes up to something…
Dodging and sprinting was all Cyborg was doing. Sweat ran down the skin and metal of his face as he jumped over several manmade obstacles.
WOOOSSSHHH!
Several small rockets flew by and exploded right next to him.
"GAHHH!" Went the tinman as he regained his balance, only resuming his sprint after that. A few more seconds…five…four…three…two…one…
Cyborg stopped and panted as he stepped through two metal posts, glancing at the built in watch on the side of his arm.
"HA! BOO-YAH, new course record! Try and beat that one BB!" He said looking to his comrades who were watching him. The Titans were currently running training drills on their home based obstacle course. Starfire and Beast Boy stood on the sideline ready to go next as Robin and Raven manned the control panel.
Beast Boy smirked as he walked over to the starting line. "Alright, Robin you heard the man! Time for two course records in one day!"
Robin nodded pushed a few buttons on the console and was about to start it. "All right counting down in 3…2…"
Beast Boy was in the mood, standing at a track starting stance…
"On-…" Robin suddenly cut off and looked up at the sky and around. He pressed the button to cancel the training module run. This set off a quick alarm to signal it was canceled.
However, that sound told a different signal to Beast Boy…who quickly flung over the starting line in a sprint…jumping over where one of the would be obstacles would pop up really high, which quickly turned into him flying out of control and…
"EEEEEEEEE!" Letting out a girly squeal as he hit the ground, which comically left a cloud of dust and sand as Beast Boy laid there letting out an "Ouch…"
Beast Boy wasn't down for long looked up, a small anger icon glowing on his ahead. "AHEMMM! It's my turn! WHATS THE BIG DEAL WITH THE FALSE START AND…"
"SHUT UP…and listen" Snarked Raven at him, which did get him to stop and indeed listen.
The Titans all looked around, trying to find the source of the approaching sound. They then saw it, what looked like several falling stars were approaching.
"Oh my, it's truly wonderful! Look at the beautiful stars plummeting to it's demise!" commented Starfire in her usual cheerful manner.
"Those ain't no stars…" began Cyborg as he scanned them "I'm detecting several heartbeats and technology, there's lifeforms on those things!" stated Cyborg as all five of them watched the objects fall to the Earth…
The escape pods began to go their separate paths and diverge from one another as they entered the Earths atmosphere more and more. Going all over the planet we now focus on one pod, it diverting away from the center North America and to the West Coast.
We now get a nice landscape of the forests on the other side of the Jump City Bay, even seeing Titans Tower in the bay as the various 'stars' plummeted to the ground behind and far away.
BOOOOOMMMM!
Out of all of them one crashed directly in the large forest across the bay from Jump City. Torn up earth surrounded it as it was dug in with a small trail behind it where it crashed.
Steam shot out as the door wooshed open…R2 comically rolled out and fell over
"WEEEHOOOO!" The Droid beeped.
Rex soon followed and picked up R2 and helped reposition him, so he was standing upright.
"There you go." Said Rex as he looked around the area.
"See anything Rex?" Asked Ahsoka as she stepped out of the pod and began to look about as well.
"Nothing Commander, no droids, no natives, nothing" Said Rex as he looked back to the escape pod now "How is he doing though?" said the clone officer motioning to Anakin who was currently out cold and being checked after by the unmarked Clone.
"Not well sir…that blaster bolt hit him hard, mixed with the crash…he needs help beyond what is in the escape pod's medical kit" Said the trooper as he looked back to him.
Ahsoka looked out to the horizon, crossing her arms and putting on a look of worry. This feeling was all to familiar of a previous adventure her and Rex had been on where Anakin had gotten injured in a crash landing. However, this time Master Secura and Commander Bly weren't here to help them, and they were far away from the front lines and in the unknown region.
R2 began to roll about, a small radar of sorts emitting from one of the blue panels on his head dome. He suddenly began to beep at the two.
"Electronic signals? Are you sure?" Asked Ahsoka as she walked over to the astromech.
R2 simply beeped back, indicating 'affirmative'
"So there are natives…" Began Rex before all four stopped dead in their tracks…the cracking of a branch in the distance…
The Titans had left Titans Island as soon as the objects had started hitting the ground. Cyborg led the group, looking at the table on his arm which had a map and a marked location on it. The team moved casually but cautious, not sure of what they would find.
Starfire floated next to them "oh how wonderous, more people from the stars like me coming to Earth!" She said.
"You think their Tamereanan's?" Asked Robin to Starfire.
Starfire stopped and thought for a second "most likely not, from the scans and shapes of these objects Cyborg has shown us…the technology seems unfamiliar to me" She admitted.
"Wait you mean that we could be dealing with UNKNOWN and maybe illegal ALIENS?" Asked Beast Boy stopping dead in his tracks, a look of shock and somewhat excitement on his face.
"Oh brother…" droned Raven, who now had her hood up to indicate she was ready for battle as she looked forward "Please tell me we don't have much further to go."
"We don't. Just beyond these bushes now…" explained Robin as he pushed some leaves, and they came face to face with the object from the stars…the crashed escape pod open and emptied.
This is incredible, the craftmanship, the simplicity of this pod…" Said Cyborg examining it "No way this is from Earth…this stuff is more advanced than anything we'll have in this century alone."
"This looks like something straight outta Spaceballs…" admitted Beast Boy, to which Raven rolled her eyes.
"Leave it to Beast Boy to somehow connect this crashed UFO to some movie he watched…" snarked Raven as Beast Boy took on a cartoony form to reach into an oversized pocket and pull out a tinfoil hat.
"There we go! First Encounters prepared me for this." He said standing very confident and walking over to the crashed pod, Raven facepalming at this.
Starfire floated next to Beast Boy as the two now took a closer look into it "This pod was designed to transport people" she stated, literally using her finger to point out the seats…"
"That raises one question then..." Began Robin
"Where did the travelers go?" Finished Cyborg for him.
Ahsoka and the two troopers had managed to carry Anakin over and away from the pod as soon as they heard voices from off in the distance.
They managed to reach a rock face along an inclined hill, setting Anakin down there in an upright position where he winced a bit but was still out cold.
"Don't worry Skyguy, we'll find you help…" she reassured him, arguably trying to do the same for herself.
"We're not going to have much time before whatever is following us catches up, what's the plan Commander?" Asked Rex.
Ahsoka sat on it for a second "You two, go back towards the pod stealthily and do some reconnaissance. If they're friendlies get them over here to help out, if their droids or natives come back here ASAP as quietly as possible" She said firmly.
The two troopers nodded and stepped off to conduct recon while Ahsoka looked back to Anakin with worried and a hint of stress in her face.
The two clones walked next to each other with their blasters ready, the standard trooper having a simple DC-15A blaster and Rex sporting his signature dual blasters.
"So you have a name yet troop?" Asked Rex, finally getting a chance to get to know his comrade in arms here a bit more.
"Yes sir, CT-1776" Replied the trooper.
"Heh, still got your ID code. Fresh out of training I'm guessing?"
CT-1776 simply nodded back.
"You seen any action yet trooper?" Asked Rex as they pushed through some briars.
"No sir, this was going to be my first tour of action before we were ambushed…"
"I get it, when you see enough action like me you get your actual or nickname from your squad and…HOLD IT" The two Clone Troopers looked forward and they were face to face with the people examining their pod: the Teen Titans, who had heard them coming and were now staring directly at them.
Awkward silence ensured as the two factions looked at each other, looking like a scene straight out of a spaghetti western moive.
"Oh my…VISITORS!" Gleefully said Starfire "WELCOME!" she began to float over at them.
"Woah woah! Hold on!" Said Rex as the two troopers pointed up their blasters "we're armed!"
"So I see…" Said Starfire quickly stopping in mid air and noticing their weapons "But I can see you are not dangerous."
"How do you know that for sure?" Asked Rex as he continued to point his blasters at her.
"Because if you were you would have shot me on sight" she said with the most outright biggest smile.
"Yeah. Please forgive Starfire's excitableness" apologized Robin.
"She really likes to meet new people" added Raven.
"I can tell…" said Rex lowering his blasters and holstering it and looking at CT-1776 "their friendly, set your blaster to safe."
Robin approached them now and stuck out a hand to shake "I'm Robin, you've already met Starfire. But here are Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Raven" each Titan waved and greeted in their own unique way.
Rex nodded back and removed his helmet, showing his human features to them, and to look overall less hostile and intimidating and more negotiable.
"Rex. Captain Rex, 501st Legion Grand Army of the Republic. With me is CT-1776, and not too far away are more of our colleagues. As you can tell, we arrived to your world a bit accidentally, how we can talk about later as there are some more pressing matters at hand…"
Ahsoka kept by Anakin and wrapped up where he had gotten hit at as well as she could. Her attention turned to the forest where she saw Rex emerge with the Titans. She began to go for her lightsaber…
"Don't worry Commander, their friendly. They think they can help us with General Skywalker and his injuries" explained Rex.
Ahsoka stood up and looked at them, making her own quick analysis before responding to the Clone Captain.
"Thank you Rex" She now turned to the Titans "My name is Ahsoka Tano" she did a little bow before looking up to them.
"We're the Teen Titans, the defenders of this city and area" replied Robin pointing out Jump City in the distance.
"And not to brag but, heh heh" Beast Boy chuckled and did a little pose "we're pretty good at it."
"As I can see…" she said acknowledging the city was still seemingly intact and functioning "I'm sure Rex told you, but we're in need of…help right now" She admitted.
The Titan's eyes turned to Anakin now, who was still out cold and looking a bit worse and needing help desperately now as his wounds worsened…
