Teen Titans Presents: The End - Part Omni - Armageddon

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This was NOT to continue story of Raven – apprentice associate team up request from a fan on . Will give new prologue and trying to play this as a "the end rewind" so just keep cool fan kids! It's fiction, we are working on the plot day by day…. So, I give to you Cherrylily from ? The requested fiction you asked for!

Yay! Enjoy and feel free to comment.

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PROLOGUE

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"Oh, yeah !" Cyborg was ready to sport a toast to the heroes for purging the demon Trigon from the home they lived on AND for kicking Slade's can out the door in a single week. The happy – train was real to them at least, yet Raven felt like her body couldn't relax. "It's all true!" BB pranced over and threw a congratulatory crown of meat atop Raven's head until she'd batted it away. "Raven! Why will you not participate in this joyous of merrymaking?" Kori cocked her big green eyes at the empath with a frown.

"Because…" Raven took in a breath as the vision of love, victory and comradery began to slowly fade from all existence. All of it wasn't really there, but one person seemed to exist on this planet of red and stone and ash.

"Trigon won, and I…I failed you…"

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She wandered on, no home to come to while the evil that was her father had deflected her last attack. His power was not even ended by Slade. The blast had blinded her in a way that had eventually healed…. but.

Getting up, she scurried from the eyes of this wasted plane. He'd convinced himself to leave, that it was a worthless risk to try harder. That Earth could burn all on its own, so….so, he'd left it in ruin without anyone left alive to save them.

Or so she'd decoded of this cursed prophecy, that Trigon was here to satisfy his lust for conquests such as this by butchering a society, times the many! She dragged herself on in full shame of her luck running dry, the penny that Beastboy had granted her was lost in the tower. Lost underground where her friends now slept in anguish and always, always she could never face the truth of what she was here to do. To run. Run far, far to the ends as her feet could not float while her pain clung to her cloak. She ripped it from her back and dragged an old tarp to cut it, ragged so the magic would leave her be. She sat in the dirt by the church Slade had ransacked to brand her, to bring back a dead memory of her future as a demon's portal. A thing, as she buried her head into her hands.

"Is it really over?"

She gasped. Had that come from –

Raven looked up, a mess and dusty as this soldier with a torn uniform above her view. He wore a face covering for the dust, to keep himself well….as….

"I knew you'd never stop to wonder what you can still accomplish, to fix this world, Raven."

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CHAPTER 1: A Black Bird and a Timberwolf

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Raven scarfed down a bit of bread that Slade had found while scrounging through the buildings Trigon had avoided. Churches, ones a demon could not touch. "I cannot let you give in, even if all looks bleak now." He leaned into the wall she'd sat against still, a hunk of sourdough filling her up with a sweet relief the girl could cry by. Yet, she was nearly grown. She couldn't let Slade know her powers had been weakened, that her light self, had failed to gain enough power to stop her father – that she didn't know if she'd regain all of it. But of course, he saw right through this. Slade was a tactician and an opportunistic, selfish piece of work. "Raven." He coaxed her to look up with her title, not her name.

"I'm not going to stop him, I lost –

"You didn't gather enough strength to push him out, you still –

"No." She snapped at the merc coldly. "I. Lost." She seethed and bit down on the last crumb, no water to swallow it down with. "This world was ruined because, because I'm no one's real hero. I'm a child of a –

"Stop, or you'll just ruin us both."

A deafening screech sounded over their talk as Raven gasped aloud. Slade's lone eye beneath the cloth bandana he wore narrowed as they both saw the flapping of black winged things.

Ravens with four red eyes a - pop, staring at them from trees only feet apart. Seeing through them as Raven's body shook. She wasn't afraid. No, she wanted to fight back, she had. Yet Slade gripped her arm and tugged the girl, his mind already made up. "Run."

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She was dragged along behind him as they found a low cellar in some part of the destroyed city. Slade dragged the door up with his bare hands as the locks snapped, bolts rocking while Raven's eyes grew wide beside him. "Get in." He told her, a growl in his tone as if this were his life –

"No, tell me why you're helping me. I don –

"Get down there now, or there won't be time to explain. No more, in!" He shoved her through the metal doorway, the man coming in last as the bullet – shaped demons pulverized the door with four sharp beaks, Slade pulling out a strange talisman with an A on it and holding it up to the door. Azar…. he'd had more relics than the rings??

"Slade –

"Be quiet and go. I'll join you once I'm done here."

"But –

" Go !"

She'd seen him hurt her, her friends. Her teammates and Terra who was no longer with them. She saw him now…as an entirely different face in the crowd, fighting demons!

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She went lower, the dark tunnel leading to a long hall as the stone was pushed aside and the thick brick inlay had her feel the cool damp link to another room below her dirtied fingertips. A hidden passage, figures. It had been about a day, and yet it felt too long since the world fell to pieces. She saw a damp, dark mat and a windowless den, one where only a battery powered light and radio sat atop a messy fling of pillows and an inflatable camping bed roll.

She heard a clatter from the exit as the rest made her turn her head back towards the way she'd come. Slamming himself from down the hallway into the sink wall facing her in the door, Slade was looking battered. He was no magi, yet she saw this place fully with clear enough eyes. This was Slade's hide out, complete with a mini cooler and….so lonely, but a bunker?

She realized it. This, was it.

She took a step over to him, her arms beneath her tarp– made into a cloak of a dusty old brown weave. She waited for him to catch his breath. "What's going on?" She demanded to know him. "Why did you and I…" She stopped herself, looking at the man as he dusted off his knees and stood a few feet taller than her. "What…. happened to the Earth, to all of my friends?"

He huffed indignantly at the empath, expecting her to figure it out by now, head cocked to the side in subtle mockery. "Don't you realize what you did, my dear?" She stiffened at his question, feeling insulted by this seeping ire that he withheld. That she certainly felt.

I, lost. Trigon left." She told him again, like before. "But, is everything-

" Destroyed, just how you never wanted it." THAT made her gulp. "Welcome to the apocalypse you allowed to let happen on our world, Raven." Slade's eye glinted back as he pulled the bandana off with a soft yank, barely heard by her ears at all. His face, his skull. Branded forever, by the Mark of her father.

By the mark of scath.

"Yet you didn't know, Trigon was going to make me this world's overseer in his absence. Yet that all has changed, my dear empath." His face was scarred by magic, white hot as she scrambled back, her heart beating in her ribcage beneath a tattered design of what she once had been. "I tried to reason with that demon, but he had other plans. He didn't want this planet, he said it was worthless. Useless to his cause, just as you are now. A shell of the former –

"You tried to sell the earth off…. you did this!!"

Slade…he'd tried to stay alive although cost of billions of lives – including her teammates.

"I was the only one he could call loyal, not after what your friends –

She was not without her magic as her eyes lit up, Slade seeing tendrils of light wrap round his throat as he didn't even beg. "Do…it…. but…. you'll be alone, Raven…no one else… is left…." He gasped through her rages.

"We CULLED this world off, together…"

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