Chapter 20: Betrayed?

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We open in a complex of buildings overlooking a rocky ridge. It is early evening.

...

(Slam!)

A guard falls unconscious to the floor, and several of Slade's commando robots, one carrying a large canister, walk past him, and many other guards lie knocked out as well.

A guard falls unconscious to the floor, and several of Slade's commando robots, one carrying a large canister, walk past him, and many other guards lie knocked out as well

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Outside, a section of the wall is blown out and the area fills with dust, which clears to show the robots making their exit.

(Shing-!)

Before any of them could react, a shard of gray crystal flies into view and slices away part of the leader's head; the others stop and look towards the street, where our heroes stand, ready for battle.

Solid Slate: Tell Slade the Titans have a message for him...

Terra floats beside the Petrosapien, and stands on one of several floating boulders.

Terra: Eat dirt!

She sends all the spare rocks across the open area and neatly crushes several robots.

Solid Slate: Let's get to it!

All six move in, Terra bringing a few more rocks along. She changes positions and lowers the one she was standing on so that Morgan can hop aboard. Laser blasts from the surviving robots slash the air, but he blocks each bolt with his forearms. Finally, he leaps off; the stone crashes into one shooter, and he delivers a flying kick to another.

(BLAM! BLAM!)

More shots emerge from farther back, zeroing in on the approaching Starfire. She returns fire with her eye beams, tracing a blazing path through three other robots; it explodes after a moment and throws them in all directions.

Now it's Raven's turn, as she levitates an enormous slab of rock.

Raven: Terra! Catch!

She propels the mass at the blonde, who puts her hands up and gets it under control as Raven lets go. Down it comes like a few dozen loads of bricks to crush a knot of robots to pancakes.

Terra: Hehe, thanks a ton!

Raven: Closer to two tons, actually.

She creates a shield in front of herself; a laser shot immediately blasts it apart and throws her backward. The robot that fired it flies up behind her, using its boot-mounted rockets to stay aloft, and cuts loose with another blast that shatters Terra's stone platform. She tumbles to the ground and very soon finds herself staring up at a couple of the burglars, but Beast Boy, as a large gorilla, jumps down behind her and roars, pounding his chest in fury.

(WHAM!!)

One of the robots gets a huge green smack across the face, then another that is sent spinning through the air. A third runs toward Beast Boy and is swatted away; a fourth jumps on his back, but he picks it off, slams it to the ground, and throws it against a charging fifth. Finally, he roars, scoops Terra up, and returns to human form.

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