Teen Titans (2003 TV series) Episode: Snowblind

***Snowblind** is an episode of season 5 of Teen Titans. It premiered on October 29, 2005.*

## Appearing in "Snowblind"

**Featured Characters:**

* Teen Titans
	+ Beast Boy
	+ Cyborg
	+ Raven
	+ Robin
	+ Starfire

**Supporting Characters:**

* Red Star ***(First full appearance)***

**Antagonists:**

* Raskov
* Radiation Monster
* Professor Chang

**Locations:**

* Russia

## Synopsis

The Teen Titans arrive in Russia to protect the survivors of a destroyed city from a monster made of pure radiation. After battling the creature however, Starfire ends up becoming separated from the others in the midst of a terrible blizzard. A mysterious outcast however, named Red Star, finds her and rescues her. But, is Red Star Starfire’s savior or her captor?

## Plot

Somewhere in the snow covered landscape of Northern Russia, a man cloaked in a green parka, his face hidden by the shadows of his hood, approaches a large black bear caught in a poachers trap. Though at first frightened, the bear allows him to remove the trap and it runs off. The poachers responsible for the trap arrive just in time to see this and give chase to the mysterious figure. He attempts to flee but comes to a dead end in the form of an edge of a cliff. Cornered, the stranger warns the poachers that he doesn't want to hurt them and that they should stay back.

The poachers ignore his warning and make ready to attack him. Urging them to run, a bright red glow resonates from the stranger’s hood, causing the poachers to fearfully recognize who he is. As they run away, a hurl of red energy surrounds the stranger and he releases a massive explosion from his body.

Sometime later, the Teen Titans come to Russia in their T-Ship after responding to a distress signal. They eventually find a city in ruins and search for survivors. Soon enough, they find them hiding underneath the rubble. The leader of the survivors, a former Soviet general named Raskov, reveals that an outcast from the city, an "abomination", is responsible for the city’s destruction. Some of the locals are wary of the alien Starfire, who assures them the one responsible will stopped. Before Raskov can give the Titans more info on the outcast, a glowing red energy-burst suddenly appears in the distance and they rush there to investigate. Their journey proves difficult though, as a blizzard moves in, making it hard for them to fly the T-Ship accordingly. Then from out of nowhere, a red energy-beam strikes the ship, sending it crashing to the ground.

They spot the attacking figure in a snowstorm and prepare for battle. The figure is shown to some sort of energized entity, having humanoid form, glowing liquid like skin, and without a face. They soon attack the creature, but despite their initial best efforts, the creature blasts them aside effortlessly. Raven then uses her magic to enshroud them in a black dome to shield them, winning the Titans a brief respite. The figure however blasts the dome apart simply by touching it. Before they can attack it again, Cyborg tells the others not to touch it as he is picking up radiation levels that are off the scale. The creature then fires yet another energy blast towards Robin and Cyborg, but Starfire intercepts it. She is left unscathed by the blast, due to her species’s physiology, which makes her immune to radiation.

Seeing that it’s radiation isn’t affecting her, the creature flees into a nearby forest. Starfire pursues the fleeing monster, against Robin’s wishes, and goes deeper into the blizzard. She attempts to follow it into the forest, but looses sight of it. Though she attempts to follow its tracks before the storm covers them, it becomes clear that she is struggling against the growing winds, one of which briefly slams her into a tree. Back at the remains of the T-ship, Robin decides to go after her, but Raven and Cyborg convince him to stay, as he won’t survive the storm’s bitter tempts.

Meanwhile, Starfire has managed to make it out of the forest, but the storm has already filled up the creature’s tracks. What’s worse, though the storm continues to worsen as well. It’s powerful winds force Starfire to the ground, as the freezing temperatures start to take their toll on her. Though Starfire’s physiology protects her from the cold of space, the water droplets from the storm’s snow, enter through her skin, making her feel the freezing temperature. With no where else to go, she gets to feet and trudges forward hoping to find some shelter, shivering the whole time. This only lasts a few minutes however, as the temperature falls and her strength wanes. Eventually, she trips and lands face first in the snow. Unable to get and barley able to move, Starfire uses the last of her strength to mutter one final word: Robin.

Immediately after, Starfire faints and her face falls directly into the snow, with body being buried by the snow falling from the sky. Before she is completely buried however, a shadow is cast upon her; belonging to the stranger that helped the bear from before. Seemingly coming to save her, the stranger reaches down into the snow with his gloved right hand and grabs Starfire by her left wrist. He then pulls the unconscious tameranian girl out of the snow and lifts her up into the air before dropping her on his left shoulder with his left hand holding her by her back midriff. With the girl secured atop his shoulder, the mysterious figure then turns around and begin walking deeper into the storm. As Starfire rests atop the stranger’s shoulder, her long beautiful red hair blowing into the wind, another mysterious red light shines from her mysterious abductor’s hood.

After a long walk through the storm, the stranger brings her to a factory-like complex, where he gently lays her on the floor before entering a small room surrounded by glass windows. When Starfire eventually awakens she tries to contact the others with her communicator, but cannot get a signal. After pondering on her current location, the man who carried her out of the storm appears. Starfire initially believes him to be a kidnapper, but the stranger puts her worries to rest before introducing himself as Red Star. He also informs her that she is free to leave any time she wishes. Red Star however, has to confine himself to a glass-lined radiation chamber and is trapped there.

Back with the other Titans, now that the storm has died down some, they can search the area. Cyborg picks up a radiation signal and they track the signal to its source. They soon at a stream full of green radioactive isotopes. Knowing that the radioactive isotopes will lead them to Starfire, the Titans follow the stream back to its source.

Red Star warns that he is filled with radiation, but Starfire assures him she is immune to radiation, so he invites her in. Starfire tells him that she and the others were sent to find the creature, but Red Star reveals he is the creature, although he hasn't been out of his complex.

Starfire is skeptical of this and leaves to find the Titans, but she can't make out anything in the storm. She returns to the complex, where she and Red Star share a dinner together. During their meal, they are interrupted by a proximity signal. Red Star advises them to stay inside and he seals down the complex rather then go out and face the dangers outside. Starfire confronts him over his cowardice and Red Star reacts, then runs off to a containment chamber to release his energy into two storage jars.

Red Star decides to release her and opens the complex, where the Titans are waiting outside. They come in and share a meal, where Red Star explains how he was a soldier chosen as part of an experiment to create perfect soldiers. The experiment succeeded, giving him increased stamina and musculature, but he soon began to glow with radiation and he had to contain himself in the facility. Red Star reveals that he has stored all of his excess energy into jars and that there is a chamber filled with storage jars in the complex.

They're interrupted by the proximity alert and the radiation creature breaks into the facility. All of them attack but the creature is resistant to their long-range powers and they can’t touch it without harming themselves. Starfire pleads to Red Star to help them and when the creature goes for Beast Boy, Red Star attacks it. However he is overcome with pain while his energy builds up again, and goes into the containment chamber to bleed off the radiation. The radiation creature feeds off the storage jars, growing even larger and renewing itself. The creature then flees into the night, with Robin revealing to the others that there is a leak in the complex and the creature was created in the green isotope stream.

Red Star regrets his causing the situation but Starfire suggests that he needn't worry but instead embrace his power and become what he was meant to be. Red Star directs them to some of his snow mobiles he had built and they head off into the storm to catch the creature. The radioactive monster is attacking the nearby town but Red Star is reluctant to proceed. Starfire convinces him to go in, although the villagers are afraid of him, General Raskov tells him to leave, but Starfire defends her friend and reminds the general it was him to authorized the experiment that made Red Star what he is. General Raskov reluctantly accepts Red Star's help as the creature heads for their power plant. Red Star engages the creature while the other Titans hit it from a distance, but the creature sends them flying with an attack. Red Star tries to hold the creature off but it begins to go critical – Starfire manages to grab it, shattering its outer body and causing a massive release of energy.

Red Star destroys the creature but he is altered, overflowing with energy. Starfire has no choice but to take him into space and launch him out into the cosmos. A few seconds later Red Star, happy that he has finally found brief companionship, explodes with the energy trapped inside his body. Starfire returns to the village and hopes that Red Star may return one day.