When the Titans had arrived at Tamaran, were they ever surprised! The void was enormous above the planet’s sky; much, much bigger than what could be seen from Earth. In fact, it was so incredibly massive; anyone could look up in the sky and not be able to fit the entire object into a single viewpoint!

Worse than that: horrible earthquakes began to shake around the planet as the void seemed to grow larger by the second.

Fearing for the safety of their lives, most of the Tamaranens had fled; ventured out into space to escape the menacing anomaly, but many more still remained, as some were unable to fly or not quite able to handle being in the void of space like some.

The Titans were just finished hearing all this from Galfore, just when another tremor hit the planet. The vibrations were more violent than ever. “These quakes are growing closer and closer in between pauses!” cried Galfore, “I fear that our planet is doomed!”

Starfire shook her head, “No! I refuse to believe such a fate is true!”

The Titans didn’t wish to believe it either, but the facts were speaking for themselves as they all looked up at the expanding void. “At least now we know what it’s doing,” Robin said. “Yeah, that baby’s destroying everything in its path.” agreed Cyborg, “Planets… stars-- Everything!”

Raven felt so nervous, her insides were quaking with fear and she held her neck in fright, but she tried her best to stay calm. “This IS the work of The Dark Prognosticus.” she cried softly. The others all turned to face her. “Raven, you are certain of this?” Starfire asked. “Well I’m just guessing…” Raven admitted “But what else could explain it? I told you, that book was known for possessing powers and evil prophecies beyond imagination! Even Trigon couldn’t control it, which is why it was sealed off.”

She didn’t have to say much more. All the connections just added up. Galfore felt most concerned, “You mean to say that object of darkness is attempting to destroy not just my home world?”

Raven’s eyes quivered to the point of fearful tears and all she could say was, “…The entire universe!”

Everyone froze in such shock and fear!

…There was even more trouble on the way!

Thanks to their wicked powers, Count Logan’s three minions were able to survive in the vacuum of space! They hovered above Tameran from the opposite side, having a commanding view of both the planet and the void.

“Excellent!” hissed Sir. Elik “The void is ready to consume the Tamaranen world. All we have to do is give it a small speed boost, and the planet will be gone!” he snickered wickedly.

Kamica stared grimly at the planet below, “I don’t get why The Count wants this world to be the first to go. It seems rather pathetic and pitiful if you ask me.”

“Perhaps,” agreed Pyrus “But whatever reasons Count Logan has, we will not question our instructions. We were told to ensure the destruction of this world, and that’s all.”

Knowing their instructions, and edging for a little “fun”, the villains headed down to the planet.

Another tremor hit the planet as the meaning void grew ever larger, getting closer and closer towards the planet! The poor Tamarainans were beginning to panic, but they were still unlike those who were able to fly through space, and their children wouldn’t be able to make the trip either.

Seeing there was no possible way to stop the void given the current circumstances, Galfore decided, “We must evacuate the planet at once!” cried Galfore “I have already ordered the fleet of our ships to be ready.”

“Right…! We’ll help you.” said Robin. “Yes! We shall!” agreed Starfire “We must hurry! We must save our people!” and she flew off in such a panicking hurry. “Star, wait up…!” Cyborg called as he and the others dashed to catch up with her, but Galfore couldn’t help but stop and look up at the void, clenching his fist in anger, but slight fear as well.

As the fleet of spacecraft were prepared. The remaining Tamaranens all gathered in massive lineups with their families, their children, pets, and even close friends.

“My friends, my people…!” Galfore announced to them all, “The time has come. We must flee for our lives. I realize the sadness you must feel, but we must be brave if we are to survive!”

His people did not cheer, as there was no time to waste, but before boarding could even begin… powerful blasts of energy, lightning and fire rained down on all the spacecraft, blowing them all into massive piles of scrap-metal.

“Going somewhere…!” Kamica called, and everyone turned to see her and her comrades standing on a small rocky mound by the launching area. “You three…!” Robin shouted!

The villains were rather surprised to see the Titans there. “Well, well… it’s a small universe after all. Isn’t it…!” Elik mocked and chuckled.

Starfire was infuriated and shouted at them, “How dare you come here, and how dare you disrupt our escape plan!”

Pyrus mockingly yawned, “We can go anywhere that we like, and we also do anything we like as well.”

Her comrades nodded, and Kamica explained, “The powers we gained from The Dark Prognosticus allow us to travel using the speed of darkness, which is far greater than the speed of light. Any of us can get to even the furthers of worlds to another in a matter of seconds!”

Elik hissed at everyone, “No matter where you run, no matter what you may try, the darkness will catch up to you. Your worlds are all doomed, and this pathetic planet shall be the first to go!”

Starfire, Galfore and all the Tamaranens were totally livid by what Elik had just said, but before anyone could say anything, the three villains leapt off the hill and began to brutally attack…!

Wielding her sword, Kamicia slashed multiple waves of energy at the aliens, spewing their blood all over as their corpses fell to the ground.

Pyrus unleash a massive flame burst, hitting the mountains like meteors, melting the rock into ebbing and flowing trails of lava.

Elik, laughing maniacally as he unleashed his lightning bolts to rupture the grounds and kill more Tamaranens; zapping them into ashes!

“NO!!!” Starfire shrieked!

“MY PEOPLE!!” shouted Galfore.

“TITANS GO!!!” screamed Robin. The Titans all rushed into action, and many warrior Tamaranens that hadn’t been slaughtered rushed into action to back them up, but even with all the many fighters waged agonist them, the villains just snickered.

The Tamaranens fired a barrage of star-bolts and rays from their eyes, striking the villains hard. Cyborg fired his missiles, Robin pitched his disc-bombs, and as for Raven, “Azarath, Metrion… ZINTHOS!!” using her powers, she conjured up many blobs of dark light and shaped them into fists, hurling them at the villains.

Not a single blast had missed, and the villains were all hit and caught in such a massive explosion, but when the smoke cleared, much to everyone’s surprise and horrors, the villains were still standing there, smirking at them all, and they had not a scratch on them anywhere.

“No way!” shouted Cyborg “We hit you guys square on!”

Elik snickered, “Poor fool. Hitting your target is not synonymous as actually damaging it. It’ll take far more than that to match our powers! Speaking of which… it’s our turn!”

The three villains leapt up and began to slaughter more Tamaranens, much to Starfire’s horrors.

Suddenly, the planet began to rumble non-stop in the biggest and deadliest quake of them all. The planet’s crust was cracking wide open; the mountains were breaking off the planet and flying off into the void, causing more lava to burst out from the planet’s bowels and spread all over, burning everything in its path.

Worse than that, the void was so close that its powerful currents were actually starting to pull the planet apart. There was absolteuly nothing could be done to stop the destruction, or get the last of the Tamaranens off the planet.

Starfire could not believe this was happening! Everywhere she looked there were massive explosions that burst from the ground, some of which disintegrated more of her people.

The other Titans, realizing the hopelessness of the situation, decided to flee for their lives while they still could. “Starfire…!” Robin called to her, “Come on! We’ve gotta go!”

“I cannot!” Starfire cried “My people…!” but that’s when Galfore grabbed her by the arm, “You must go!” he shouted as he pulled her along. “No! I will not leave you!”

“Silence…!!” Elik thundered, and he and his comrades combined their powers into a huge thunderous blast, and fired it straight at the two. “GO!!” Galfore shouted, and he lifted Starfire over his head and threw her hard towards the Titans and into Cyborg’s arms, just as the blast hit him, disintegrating him into a pile of ash!

The Titans and Starfire gawked in extreme horrors, “…GALFORE!!!!!” Starfire screamed with tears in her eyes.

The three villains laughed at what they had just done. “So much for him.” said Kamica.

The planet was vibrating so violently that everyone shook with it as they spoke. “Let’s get outta here!” shouted Pyrus, and she and her comrades vanished and were gone, while the Titans just managed to make it to the T-Ship. “We’re outta’ here!” shouted Cyborg, and the ship took off, blasting into space and getting far, far away…

…Then… IT HAPPENED!! The planet exploded in a massive bang, and anything that was left of it was sucked into the void and completely gone!

The Titans all gazed through the glass of their pods as the ship flew further and further away from the area. All of them had horrified expersions, but none as deeply as Starfire’s. Her world, her entire home world was gone, as well as a lot of her people, and Galfore too! “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO….!!!”

The Titans all had to remove their headsets that had blown out by Starfire’s scream, but they just couldn’t blame her!

With nothing left to do now, they all agreed to just head back to Earth.

Meanwhile, Count Logan was laughing wickedly within his chambers, rejoicing the destruction of Tameran and the deaths of so many. “Well done, minions!” he said to the trio, “That’s one less world we have to worry about now. We are now well on our way to achieving our ultimate goal!”

“Yep…” said Kamica, “And just imagine, those idiot Titans came at us with all that fire power and didn’t even make us flinch.”

Elik wasn’t so optimistic about it though, “They still escaped with their lives. They are starting to become a great nuisance to us.”

Pyrus felt the same way, “They would dare defy the prophecy, but they will find they cannot succeed.”

“Precisely.” agreed Logan “Now, we have much to do, and I have our next objective.” He held up The Dark Prognosticus, “There is a passage here that tells of two individuals…” he opened the book and read from the text:

He closed the book, “These two sisters, their powers will be very useful to us, as is foretold as well.

Dr. Nekard, you are certain of your calculations?”

Nekard nodded, “Yes, my lord. I have positive findings of the world where these two sisters dwell, and as it seems this would be the very inter-dimensional activity I had seen coming from Earth.”

The trio was amazed. “So there’s a portal to another dimension somewhere on Earth?” asked Pyrus.

“Yes,” replied Nekard, “To be more precise, this portal exists within an area that the three of you previously had attacked on your first visit. Fortunately you didn’t destroy it.”

The trio thought this incredible, but Kamica couldn’t help but wonder, “Just how did you calculate where this portal was, Nekard?”

Nekard held his hand up, “Now, now, is it really necessary to know? The fact remains we know where to go and we can achieve our goals sooner.”

The trio were starting to feel something fishy going on, but Logan called to everyone, “That’s enough! We have much to be done, so all of you, on your way. I want those two sisters found and brought here. I will join you myself when the time comes.”

“Yes, master…” Elik said, bowing to the count, and he and the ladies took their leave, vanishing out of sight, leaving The Count and Nekard alone in the chamber.

Logan reviewed the passage in the book once more, “A world where Friendship and Harmony dwell…” he grumbled, “Bah! Of all things in existence…!”

Nekard could see Logan was starting to seem distraught, “My lord, I am curious as to why you scoff at it so. Did you not once believe in the powers of friendship and love yourself?”

Logan felt a sting of anger clench him from within.

“And what of our goal…?” Nekard continued “Once we obliterate all worlds, we do intend to make peaceful and loving worlds suitable for us. Surely that is an act of Friendship and Harmony as well.”

The Count, wishing to hear no more of this, angrily turned and glared at him sneering, “Has your memory failed you, Nekard? I told you to be off!”

Nekard bowed to him sheepishly, “As you wish.” But then he silently grumbled to himself “…And thank you for proving what I’ve suspected of you all along, Count. Now I know what must be done.”

Logan hadn’t heard him and watched him vanished. Now he was completely alone, and feeling rather agitated as he gripped his cane tightly while breathing deeply yet calmly behind his mask.

“Friendship and Harmony…! They will soon realize what nightmares can befall them, just as all worlds will meet their end. No one can stop me now!”

He then disappeared and took The Dark Progonosticus with him, but even after he had left, his voice seemed to echo softly in the darkness…

“…Just as no one can ease the tempest that rages in my suffering heart! Not even… “Her!”

Meanwhile, it was night in Jump City, wreckage was still everywhere but all the dead bodies had been cleared away by other city-workers and had all been transferred to a safe place to be cremated or buried. It was a still a very devastating time which none would be exempt from, and worse, the void in the sky seemed to have grown a teency bit larger, yet it still seemed so very far off.

Still, there was one person who just wasn’t thinking about any of that that right now…

Terra was still out and wandering in the street. She had made a little money from panhandling, enough to buy a little takeout food as she was starving, and yet she still felt empty inside and looked a little thinner than usual, but she felt more pain in her heart than in her stomach.

All these days, and she still was grieving over Beast Boy-- not knowing what had been happening. She couldn’t deny it anymore. “I miss you…” she muttered to herself, “Beast Boy, I miss you so much, and I’m so sorry for what I put you through!”

Suddenly, she stopped where she was and looked in the window of a goods store, and she couldn’t believe her eyes! There, in the display window was a heart-shaped mirror box. She knew it was the very one Beast Boy had made for her. It couldn’t have been anything else.

What it was doing in the store she had no idea, and at such a pitifully low price of just two-dollars, which amounted to exactly how much money Terra had in her pocket, but seeing that box brought back full blast the memory of the day Beast Boy had given it to her, having made it with his own two hands as a gift of his obvious affections for her.

“Beast Boy…! It’s-- I don’t know what to say!”

“You could say “Yes” ‘Cause I’m about to ask you out on a date.”

“Oh, wow!”

The memory stopped, and she felt very warm remembering all that, and yet she gazed at her reflection through the window and into the mirror of the box and saw what a mess she was!

And she heard Beast Boy’s voice in her head again, from the last time they spoke at her former school.

“Maybe you don’t remember, but I do. You’re my friend! You’re a Teen Titan!”

“You don’t belong here, Terra.”

“It’s who you are! It’s who you are! It’s who you are…!”

A cloud covering the moon suddenly parted and the light shone directly down on Terra, but it might as well have been the light dawning on her. She finally couldn’t do this anymore! Not to herself and not to Beast Boy!

She marched straight into the store and slammed all her money on the counter by the cashier, “Give me that mirror-box!” she practically demanded! “Um… sure…” the lady said as she fulfilled the demand, and then asked, “I don’t know what you’d want that for. It seems rather junky.”

Terra felt livid, “This has more value than you think.” That was all she said and she left the store while gazing at her reflection in the mirror. She then closed the lid and gazed over at Titan’s tower, not knowing the Titans had left.

She was still scared deep down of facing her past again, but finally she realized and admitted, “I’ve got to try…!” then she levitated herself up on a huge rock and flew her way over to the tower where she hoped she could reconcile with the Titans, and maybe organize a search for Beast Boy.

…She was in for one terrible surprise!

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