Story: "Trial By Fire" (22 Pages)

Credits:

Jay Faerber (plot, script)
Barry Kitson (pencils)
Rich Faber (inks)
John Costanza (letters)
Gregory Wright (colors)
Heroic Age (color separations)
Harvey Richards and Andrew Helfer (edits)

Feature Characters:

Nightwing
Jesse Quick
Arsenal IV
Tempest II
Argent
Troia

Supporting Characters:

Zeke
Eli, Scrap
Nikki
Grace
Kevin Tanaka
Lian Harper
Dakota Jamison
Rose Wilson

Villains:

Epsilon

Other Characters:

Garrett Donovan
David (one of the Favoured, metahumans whose powers are brought out through the use of Donovan's Apex drug)

Synopsis:

The D.E.O. kids aren't overly impressed that the Titans are insisting they go to school, but are very excited when Chsngeling sends them a package containing costumes. The Titans, unaware of this delivery, are asked to meet Dakota Jamison at the D.E.O. orphanage. Jamison is concerned for Kevin, the kids' friend who did not leave the orphanage. He can take over others bodies, and seems to be lost in whatever body he's currently inhabiting. The kids encounter a young man whom Garrett Donovan helps to control his powers, and when they return to the Tower, they meet with Epsilon, who is actually Kevin. They ask him why he stays in the body, and he says that Epsilon is a bad man who doesn't deserve the body. Just then, his real body goes into cardiac arrest and the efforts to revive him boot him out of Epsilon's body. Epsilon immediately turns on the kids and the Titans, destroying Titans tower.