Titans Strong --- Prologue

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The following is set in a parallel world where the Earth barely survived Darkseid's attack. The survivors of this world may or may not be the same as their Earth-1 counterparts and there are also brand new heroes and villianes popping up every which way.

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Manhatten was over run with Parademons. Every where Cyborg turned the fightsuit harnessed, oversized gremlins swarmed, crawled, punched and even bit whatever they could find. As if things weren't bad enough the Apokoliptian general Steppenwolf had unleashed his vicious giant-dog mounted troops to sow even more terror amoung the human population and keep the superhuman defenders so busy that rest was not even close to an option.

One of the dog troopers bared his massive mount down on Cyborg's position. There goal was written on both there faces, the dog entended to make the cybernatic human a snack and the rider planned on letting him. A massive blast from the hero's sonic disruptor discouraged the notion and rendered the dog asleep crushing the legs of it's rider.

"All Task Force X members," squawked Cyborg's radio earpiece, "Push Steppenwolf's forces back towards New York Harbor, Mr. Miracle is creating a huge boom tube to send the invaders back to Apokolips! Once we break this push, we've won. I repeate once we beat this push back we win!"

"Titans copy that, Batman," Cyborg answered tapping the radio then shouted over to two of his teammates Robin and Troia, "You heard the man! Push 'em back hard, Titans!"

He did not wait for a response. Instead he charged one of the enemy dragonheaded tanks. Straining his advanced tech muscles, Cyborg lifted the tank onto it's back axle before firing his blaster into it's vulnerable underbelly causing the top to explode off much like an erupting volcano. Throwing off the tank, he turned and quickly fended off two Parademons with a blast to the head each.

"Plan of saving any for us?" Troia smirked as she plowed into another two and slammed them into another approaching tank taking all three out.

"You waiting on me your backin' up!" Cyborg shouted back.

Before Troia could say anything smart back, she shouted, "Cyborg!!! Behind you!!"

Cyborg turned just in time to see Steppenwolf's energized battle-ax bury itself deep inside his chest plates. A powerful energy charge flowing though the weapon into the wound and spent spasms of pain through the hero. Having lost most of his body in the most excruitating manner possible, Victor Stone was no stranger to pain. But this was nothing he felt before and it took everything he had to dislodge the ax and stay standing against his foe. "Th-that all ya got?" Cyborg managed to spit out.

Steppenwolf through his head back and laughed, "Very good! I was beginning to think that the metal of this word was not even worth forging into chainlinks after I managed to easily chopped though your so-called Rocket Red Brigade. But you...you remind me of Superman."

"I'll take that as a compliment,"

"Your kind would," snarled Steppenwolf, "All he is to me is a fool. All the power you and he have at your fingertips and yet you do not rule this world." He lunged forward and hacked off Cyborg's limb which his sonic blaster fit on, Cyborg's nerve receptors registered the pain and forced him to scream in agony. "I, on the otherhand, rule on my world."

"R-r-r-really," Cyborg gritted his teeth, "I h-heard your nephew kept his boot on yer neck,"

Again the battle-ax bit into Cyborg's chest, only deeper this time, "My nephew Darkseid is indeed my Lord but I have his ear." Steppenwolf pulled back the ax to get ready to swing again.

This time however, Cyborg managed to catch the blade, "And I have your ax!" With a swift snap the ax head clattered to the ground in pieces. "Go home, Steppenwolf, this is our world,:

"I may go home, " Steppenwolf said quickly pulling his sword and burying it deep in Cyborg's chest, "But not before I give you an honorable warrior's death."

Cyborg fell to his knees after the evil general removed his sword. He could see Troia flying to him screaming something that he could not hear due to the sounds of mech-fluid rushing in his ears and the diagonostic computer telling him he was severlly wounded. He fell to the ground as Troia joined by Starfire and Bumblebee flew past to drive Steppenwolf off as Robin knelt down and was in his face.

The last thing he saw was a flash of static then darkness.