DISCLAIMER: Nope. Neither a comic book nor DVD do I own. How shameful.

C.C.C.- Hi!

Well, we're coming to the end now, I suppose, but I have decided that writing a sequel would be a…

C.M.: Would you like a drum roll?

C.C.C.: Not really… Good idea. There shall be a sequel! It may not be updated as quickly, though, because school is going to start soon and as this is my last year of mandatory (I will go on to A levels and University hopefully, though) education I have to hit the books.

On with the show.

C.M.: 'drum roll'

C.C.C.: '…'

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Faust

He watched her fall, her eyes trained on his with tears falling behind them. She fell to the side, her long hair tracing her descent. All he heard was the thud of her body hitting the ground, then he was scrambling up towards her, holding her in his arms and looking into her eyes.

The eyes of a child, the girl that he had fallen in love with.

They blinked, the lashes dotted with tears, lashes that had blinked so many times around him, oh gods, she was dying.

Her lips began to move, the red of death trickling down them onto her uniform, the words coming forth in short bursts, 'Soother… Life… I'm sorry…'

He held her closer at this, feeling her heart beat, tears of his own falling. The insanity had claimed her, but that wasn't what had killed her.

Slade had killed her.

He felt her muscles moving in his grasp, and looked at her face once more, watching her eyes, the insanity gone replaced with death's sanity. 'Soother, all have their days to die… But this one is not yours… Slade… He is… evil… I see that… Run, my Soother… Run, and live…'

He felt one last tremble from her body, a shudder of lost life, and then she was still. He looked at her face, the eyes looking at his still, and lifted a hand and closed them. He raised himself upwards, and turned, staring at each robot, feeling an anger that had never coursed through his body before. He saw the robot that had shot the bullet, the robot that had taken commands from The Sladed Man, and charged it, driving his hand through its metal chest and feeling good as the pain coursed through him.

He would avenge Ariko.

The Sladed Man would suffer.

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Beast Boy

Duck and dive, duck and dive. Punch. Avoid the flying metal-y bits that came out of nowhere from the what-ja-ma-call-it. Punch again.

Beast Boy followed the routine until he found a doorway that seemed consumed by the remains of the Sladebots, their metal carcasses glinting beautifully in the moonlight. The robots seemed to be clear of the doorway, as if Slade had programmed allocated parts of the boat into their heads and the ones for the door were all destroyed.

Huh. Funny how a man so smart could create robots so stupid.

Ramming his fist into the skull of a robot, and flinching at the pain, Beast Boy stole another glance at the door. It seemed to be slightly ajar; someone probably hadn't had the time to shut the door properly in their haste.

He couldn't dream of Slade doing something like that (and yet, the robots…), so he guessed it was probably one of the fighter-people that Slade had hired, or someone that was a Titan.

The second possibility made him move with more urgent haste.

After dodging another robot before shifting into a Raptor and biting its head off, Beast Boy ran at the door, fumbling with the knob and pulling it open. He slammed it shut behind him, and looked around for more robots. There weren't any that he could see, and that said it all in one.

One of his team-mates was in here, probably in trouble. He ran down the steps, looking around and not paying all that much attention as he looked for his team-mate. Then he saw him. Robin.

His head was hung over his body, and he was looking at something… Beast Boy turned his head to look and… WHAM!

The fist sent him reeling across the room into Robin, who let go an OOMPH! as Beast Boy hit him. Then he got up, turning into a Raptor and running at Slade, the memory of Terra filling his mind. This man, this monster, was mainly responsible for what had happened to Terra. He needed to be taken in – he needed justice served upon him.

Slade laughed, taking up a bo staff and Beast Boy saw Robin's eyes narrow. He saw something shine in Robin's hand… Was that a piece of scrap metal? And then it was gone again, hidden within the armour of Robin suit, the small sliver of metal no longer within reach of his eyes.

WHAM! the staff smacked (C.C.C.- Whammed! XD) against his midsection, taking the air from his lungs and giving him flight halfway across the room. He landed right next to a computer monitor, the machine blinking on and off as he had collided with it.

He was alive but dazed and looked up across the room at Slade – was that Starfire behind him? The alien princess's head was hanging just like Robin's had been, but he could see her eyes, and knew that they were shut. She was alive. Slade had probably tranquilised her just to use her as blackmail with Robin, the creep.

He got up, becoming a lion and launching himself at Slade, then turning into a hawk and going for his mask. He wouldn't let Slade get away with this, not with everything that he'd done, the man would do his time in jail, he would be sure of it.

Transforming again into a snake and wrapping his body around Slade's head and squeezing, Beast Boy fought.

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Slade

That damned brat. He was over his eye with his Anaconda body, wrapping tight enough to almost break his mask. Well – he wouldn't be doing that for long, Slade would make sure of it.

He felt his mask give a little, and grabbed at the Anaconda's head and squeezing as hard as he could – returning the favour. The snake seemed to shake a lot before he felt the skin begin to move and the animal change, dropping it as it did so. Beast Boy returned, glaring up at Slade with hatred.

'What? Don't you remember your manners, child? Do unto others as you would do unto yourself… Or have them do unto you…' he kicked at the green boy, his boot catching him in the head and drawing red blood. The boy fell back, and Slade leapt forward,

-only to be caught by Robin's jump kick to his head. The boy could interrupt at such annoying times… Wheeling around, he gave Robin an uppercut to the jaw, hearing an ominous Click! as his teeth hit each other. Robin did a flip through the air just from the hit, landing on his stomach on the ground. The green boy was back up again too, helping Robin up and they seemed to be planning on how to bring him down…

Like it would work…

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Robin

Beats Boy was helping him up from what he had to say was one of the hardest punches that Slade had ever dealt to him. And it was a good thing. It meant that Slade was thinking that they had a chance of winning, which gave more confidence to Robin that they could win. It also meant that Slade wasn't playing with them anymore.

'Right, Beast Boy, I want you to go and try to wake up Star while I distract Slade. Slade used some tranquiliser on her, and I think that it was a strong one, but try anyway. It might not've worked well because of her different anatomy,' with that he dodged a punch to his sternum, throwing Beast Boy in Star's direction.

Slade's eye narrowed at him again, 'I see that you're trying to bring the alien back to consciousness… Let me tell you, apprentice, no matter how many people you have fighting with you, you will never win.' He rushed Robin again, not allowing Robin time at all to recover or fight back, punch after punch hitting Robin with him only successful in dodging a few of them.

He saw Beast Boy talking to Star and felt relieved – her beautiful green eyes were open, and that meant that she was safe – for the moment. He dodged another hit, and then lashed out at Slade with a roundhouse kick – and the man caught his foot, going round in a circle then hurling Robin at the stairs. His head whacked against the door, and he saw stars- And then Star.

She was looking at him, her eyes right above his, her mouth right above his- then he felt her warm skin grab his and her lips moved, 'Friend Robin, we must go to the safety. We must leave for the T-Ship and meet Friend Cyborg and Friend Raven. They may be in need of our assistance!'

'We will, Star, we will. But first we have to' – there was a screech as Beast Boy was thrown next to them in his monkey form – 'Get the controller off of Slade's wrist so that he doesn't do anything to compromise the city.' After the last statement Robin was dragged by the scruff of his neck back wards and hurled into a wall by Slade. The man didn't seem to want to play at all anymore, and was out for blood.

He looked Robin in the eye as he said, enunciating every word with power in his voice, 'Robin you will not win. Give up now and swear to be my apprentice and I may spare them and the city – don't and if you lose then those people and your city will suffer and die. This is your one and only warning, young man, and I will not be lenient towards you anymore on the matter.' Slade had picked him up from the front of his uniform this time and was holding him up against the wall forcing him to look him in the eye, with Robin struggling to get free and to beat the living daylights out of the man.

Robin looked up, defiance sparking behind his mask, and something that seemed to close to a smile for comfort formed on his lips, 'We will win, Slade, and you are going to jail. And there's nothing that you can do to stop it. And I don't think that the criminal justice system will be lenient on you.' His smile grew, and he kicked at Slade, caught in the surprise of Robin's statement, sending Slade back a few paces as he released Robin.

The one eye narrowed this time, and Slade cracked his neck as Starfire and Beast Boy joined Robin, prepared to fight.

And win.

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Raven

Whilst their team-mates below deck kept Slade busy, Raven and Cyborg were destroying robot after robot easily. They had one of Slade's accomplice's help, and he had identified himself as Faust. It seemed that he too had a grudge against Slade, and Raven had only to peer into his mind a little bit to realise that he was telling nothing but truth.

He was helping them now, attacking robot with a ferocity that neither Cyborg nor Raven possessed, almost as if he had some sort of grudge against both Slade and each and every one of his robots. He had blades upon his hands, like metal knuckles but with knives instead of rounded ends, and he was using these to slice open robot after robot. Not that it mattered… She supposed that he could do it easily without them, at the rate that he was going…

She raised her hands again, the magic forming a glove around her hands and then spreading around her, pooling at her feet and then becoming like lightning and destroying the heads of three robots in one go. Not that it helped a lot, though. There were always four to fill in the place of the three that she had destroyed, but she knew that Slade's resources would be exhausted if they kept at it.

She just wished that they weren't exhausted before Slade's resources…

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Faust

He slit through the metal man, making his blade destroy it with his hands. He had not used his blades in an expanse of many moons, and it was complicating itself because of it. The image of Ariko kept him going though; he would avenge her.

And the first part of his vengeance were to be the metal men, for one of them had allowed it's blunt knife of speed to slip through her body, and make the blood of death spew. And for that the metal men could not redeem themselves in time to same themselves.

He continued to attack, driving his hands into the machines, feeling their brown blood glisten on his blades and catch fire as their blood of energy slid against it. Yet it didn't stop him, his hands were protected from the Sladed Man's cloth, and it seemed to make the man's light dance and play around it yet never on it.

He kicked upwards at another metal man, driving his boot through it's skull and grimacing as the pain that ran through his body – the pain of vengeance, something that his people had thought was wrong and to never be done, but he knew must be done.

The Sladed Man had to be stopped, even if it took away his life doing so.

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Slade

They were such pests. The alien girl had slammed her foot into his side when he was having his little discussion with Robin, and sent him into the monitors causing to boat's power to switch on and off, and possibly making some of his systems fail. The little brat.

'It would seem that part of a Titan's necessary traits is a disrespect for elders…' he said, standing up and taking up his usual stance as he faced them, the lights continuing to switch on and off as the boat shook. It wasn't something that he had built to take World War III, although he had to say that it was doing quite a good job at the moment.

The green pest charged him next, turning into a wolf and lunging for his throat only to feel Slade's uppercut to the beast's neck, and the green boy emitted a whine as he fell. The alien girl came at him after this, yanking up a chair and charging him with it, he had to say, something that he didn't expect. Her yell of fury alerted him to her presence, and he blocked eat blow with his forearm.

The wait for Robin to join in the fight was not long, and he leapt in with a high kick to Slade's head, right on the top and sending a large crack rippling down to his eye and the second grate on his right side. Robin continued to jump and flip and he was fighting both the alien girl and Robin, when he felt a nip, and the controller on his wrist was gone, gone, in that green pest's jaw. He ha the dog in a death grip a moment later, suffocating it still as the alien girl continued to hit him on the head.

He reached up and grasped her by her hair after he had successfully sent the wolf form of the green pest asleep and dragged her down from the air, ramming her head against the wall many times as Robin continued to attack him until she passed out, her long red hair matted with blood.

He cracked his neck and turned to his disobedient apprentice, his eye narrowing. 'Now, apprentice, they will die, because of your actions. Had you only accepted my offer then they may have lived, but now they will die and it will be your fault.' His eye narrowed and after his speech Robin lunged at him, fighting with everything he had.

Slade fought back, breaking some of Robin's ribs and giving him bruises. Robin wouldn't give up though, something that Slade smiled at behind the crack in his mask.

The door burst open then, and that boy, Faust or whatever his name was came flying across the room, cutting into Slade's arms, trying to kill him. Maybe the order to kill the girl had come too soon…?

Raven and Cyborg were there too, helping their team-mates, all of them severely outnumbering Slade. He sighed behind his mask.

It would seem that Robin had avoided perfection again…

But not for long.

He leapt over the destroyed objects, over his destroyed controller, and went up to the console. Sure, his back up detonator on the bomb to the city was unable to be used because the computers were broken, but, the Titans still didn't know where it was. He could still use it.

He pulled up the computers to the small self destruct device in his boat and pressed the button, running up to the stairs and stopping, 'Robin, you are my apprentice, and I will make you a villain. In due time,' he smiled. 'Until we meet again, apprentice, when you shall serve me forever. But, as for now, I suppose that you must all be on your way to avoid the bomb.'

He was off then, leaping over the boat just as his escape pod lowered itself, and jumping inside. It immediately ejected from the boat, and he caught a glimpse of Robin looking his way, then he was gone.

Until of course, he returned for his apprentice.

And this time there would be no stopping him.

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Robin

He'd seen Slade's pod (black, who would have guessed, but it was shiny enough in the moonlight) just as it had gone out of his sight and he supposed that that was a sign to hurry.

He had escaped again, thankfully with his friends help, and it seemed that the threat of Slade was out in the distance.

Sadly, that was too close when it concerned Slade. The man was a predator, lurking just beyond your vision, and as soon as you got too relaxed, he would come in and destroy you. Or, in Robin's case, 'Perfect'.

They were in the T-Ship again (Now with a considerable dent that Cyborg was harassing Beast Boy about), cruising towards Titan's Tower with the wreck of Slade's boat behind them, smouldering slightly in the water, with half of it probably drifting towards the bottom of the bay to make new fish habitats.

He looked over to Starfire, and saw her eyes looking at him, and smiled. She was safe. It had seemed that her skull was also stronger than a human's, and that she would be fine. In fact, she was once again talking of Tameranian (C.C.C.- Sp?) festivals of being reunited and something about Klumbargs.

Never had he been so happy to hear it. Raven had a smile on her face too, and was just watching the moon shine above the sea, the waves lapping against the T-Ship with soothing sounds. Of course, take BB to ruin the moment and complain about the bathroom after he and Cyborg had just finished their argument and were talking again of All-You-Can-Eat-Breakfast-Explosions.

He laughed, and said into his mike, 'What, is that a Slade Tradition or something? I seem to remember it happening last time, too.' The grin on his face didn't fade as he heard Beast Boy and Cyborg respond in unison, 'Of course!', with a dude added from BB.

He hadn't felt this happy in a long while.

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Faust

He had taken one of the boats, and ridden it to shore. Of course, the Titans had merely told him to not harm people, or he would be 'getting a visit from them soon', or something along the lines of those.

But he knew that the Sladed Man had got away, and that he would have to stop the Sladed Man, and avenge Ariko, or at least aid the Children in bringing him to their so-called 'just-ice', the system that seemed to allow murders life and many freedom.

But if it was what was right, which he couldn't tell when it came to this part of the world's system of morals, and he believed Robin when he had stated it before their departure, then he would help achieve it. He would right his wrongs, for Ariko and for himself.

He sat down upon the shore, and began working the magic that had made him banished from the community. He had healed a killer, a young girl accused of killing her mother. He was born with a talent, to heal wounds. The young girl had called it 'soothing' and he had taken it upon himself to help her even after her banishment, causing him to become banished.

He healed his wounds, and looked up at the moon. Ariko was dead, and he alive.

But it would all be right in the end, the moon's light seemed to tell him so.

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C.C.C.- Good, bad, terrible? Please tell me, all of my reviewers bar two have stopped telling me…

Well, I wrote it, my first multi-chapter fanfic is now over, but I think that there should be a sequel, don't you?

C.M.: That took so long… 'yawns' Can we go now?

C.C.C.: Wait, I need to say thanks to everyone who reviewed and to those who didn't. I hope that you liked it.

C.M.: Uh huh…

C.C.C.: …And this. 17 V 1!!! XD She's away right now, but she texted me (or intended to do so, thank golly for phone delays) at 5 in the morning, so she receives no mercy, especially telling me that she had pancakes… 'grumbles' So they all now know that you didn't update, my friend! XD

C.M.: Cruel.

C.C.C.: Yup!

Robin: Took you long enough to get me out of that situation.

C.C.C.: Sorry, but I put it under angst So I couldn't help it.

Slade: Not angsty enough. Write it better next time, girl.

C.C.C.: Hey, don't treat me like that! I can make your mask pink!

Slade: You wouldn't dare… 'glares'

C.C.C.: 'gulps' Yup, I wouldn't…

Robin: No sequel. It's too angsty.

C.C.C.: Sequel. Not angsty enough. You really need to look more up on fanfic, mate, then you'll see angsty.

C.M.: NO!

C.C.C.: Time to wrap it up. Thanks for everything, all.

ALL (Slade not included for health reasons of the author) : Bye bye!

C.C.C.: Until the sequel.

THE END: FOR NOW