Epilogue

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All five Titans stand dumbfounded near the monitors, which have all gone blank, Beastboy returns to human form. The light goes red and begins to fade in and out, blacking out the lair every time it goes. Robin runs forward as the entire place starts to shake and crumble-Slade has set off a self-destruct sequence. Gears start to fall off their axles, first one and then many more. The biggest tumbles toward Robin. He runs at top speed to stay ahead as it rolls along and tears up the platform, finally Starfire flies past and carries him off. Cyborg strains at the core of the probe system and tears it loose. Raven flies up, towing Beastboy, as Cyborg makes a mad dash along the crumbling deck plates and is thrown into the air when one flips.

After following this last shot, a door opens and white light pours in from outside. Robin is there, having opened it.

"Let's go home." Robin walks along with the rest of the titans.

***
The sun began to rise as it shined tire the glass of the Titans Tower. It is now the following morning. A computer console in the operations center. On its screen, a bar graph is quickly filling up, to show that the core of Slade's probe system has been wired up. put Beastboy in view-seated, tubes and cables hooked to every square inch of him, a mask clamped over his face.

"Am I done yet?" Beastboy muffled, annoyingly.

Robin, dressed in his proper outfit, and the other three Titans are watching a magnified view of Beastboy's blood on the screen. Not a probe in sight.

"That's it, y'all. The Teen Titans are officially probe-free." Cyborg said in joy.

Beastboy on the end of this. He jumps out of the chair with a boisterous laugh and starts to dance-with assorted hardware still connected to his body.

"Go, Beastboy! You're probe-less! No probes now! Go, Beastboy! Go, Beastboy! Get fun-kay! Uh! Yeah! Uh, uh, that's right." He began to moonwalk.

"Um...I know this isn't my style, but we just kicked Slade's butt. Shouldn't we celebrate or something?" Raven states at the titans.

Robin and Cyborg stare incredulously at her, but Beastboy jumps into view and lands on Cyborg's shoulders. The green goofball has shed all the equipment he pulled along with him.

"Yeah!" Beastboy leans forward to stare Cyborg upside-down in the face.

"All-you-can-eat..." Cyborg let's the party animal to continue.

"...free-form... Beastboy," Beastboy continues.

"...breakfast explosion!" Cyborg ends the last sentence.

On the last two words, they pull apart and a shower of breakfast foods flies out from behind them.

"Sorry I asked." Raven said looking at the two goofballs.

The two laughing cooks run past and haul her toward the kitchen, leaving Robin and Starfire alone at the couch. Some bacon and a couple of eggs fly back. He sits down next to her, she cannot raise her eyes to him.

"Everything okay?" Robin sat beside Starfire.

"I am sorry." Starfire said deeply as she looks away.

"You're sorry? For what?" Robin said confused.

"When things were bad, there was a moment where I truly believed that you were...like Slade. I doubted you. And for that, I am sorry." Starfire clears the tear which rolled to her cheeks.

"I doubted myself, Star. Focused, serious, determined...as much as I hate to admit it, he and I are kind of alike. But there's one big difference between me and Slade. He doesn't have any friends." Robin smiling at Starfire.

This lifts her spirits in an instant. Both look toward the kitchen, to a truly irked Raven at the counter. Behind her, on its other side, Cyborg is flinging food every which way. Beastboy pops up, one hand a crab claw and the other a tentacle, with a waffle in each.

"Who wants tofu waffles?" Beastboy yelled.

Cyborg stops throwing and leans in his face, throbbing vein on temple. Beastboy drops the waffles and returns his hands to normal.

"Man, nobody wants tofu waffles." Cyborg said sadly.

"I do. Pass me the soy milk!" Beastboy scoffed.

Beastboy jumps after him, and a scuffle breaks out as Robin and Starfire cross to Raven.

"I'm telling you, you're not getting anywhere near the soy milk." Cyborg flips the waffle.

"Man, pass me the soy milk!" Beastboy yelled.

"Is there any meat in the tofu?" Cyborg asked.

"No, there's no meat in the tofu, it's tofu!" Beastboy yelled as the sun rised higher.

"Nobody wants it." Cyborg drops the last Waffle on the dinner.

***
HEY!!! WHAT'S NOT TO LIKE AT THE END OF A BOOK? I LOVE HAPPY ENDINGS, ROBIN IS FINALLY FREE FROM SLADE'S HOLD AND IN NOW THE TITANS WILL SOON BE SET ON A NEW JOURNEY THAT CAN RENDER THE TIME COSMO AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A SUPER-VILLAIN JOINS THE PARTY.

***THE NEXT SEQUEL WILL BE UPDATED SOON***

***THE NEXT SEQUEL WILL BE UPDATED SOON***

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