"Aw, man, come on!" Cyborg groaned as he looked around the kitchen. The sink and counter are piled high with dirty dishes, and the floor is strewn with garbage. "It's gotta be around here someplace!"

A bloodhounded Beast Boy sniffs at some of the trash.

"I don't believe this!" Cyborg hoists the couch and shakes it in search of the remote "How could you lose the remote?"

"What makes you so sure I lost it?" Beast Boy asked offended morphing back to his human form.

"Uh...'cause you're you."

"Hey! Just because I lost that video game-" "And the toothpaste, and my football, and the waffle iron" Cyborg names the items that he had lost.

"Things disappear. How am I supposed to know where they go?" Beast Boy shrugged.

Raven who was in the room reading lowers the book with an annoyed look on her face.

"Well, how am I supposed to watch TV without a remote?" Cyborg inquired as he pointed to the screen on the window.

"Simple." Raven said icily, "You just get up and change the channel." She answered as she slammed her book shut and stood up from the table.

This answer caused the two squabbling boys to give her and each other a very long and puzzled look. "Don't even joke like that." Cyborg said back to the mage.

"I wasn't joking." She growled evenly. "Good, 'cause it wasn't funny!" The larger teen yelled, "Now either help us look for the remote," Raven grimaced at the idea as an angry spark flew from her head, "or go back to your nasty old book and-"

"This is a pointless argument over a useless device. You are wasting your energy and disrupting my concentration." Raven growled as the doors behind her slid open.

Crystal walked in to the two friends arguing

"What are they arguing about now?" Crystal sighed asking Raven.

"The Remote." Raven rolled her eyes "As stupid as it sounds."

"Guys! Guys!" Crystal got in between them "Is it really worth it to fight over a remote?"

The two at each other for a moment.

"Yes!"

Crystal yelped in fear as she walks backwards towards the kitchen.

The sliding doors in the back of the room opened to admit Robin and Starfire.

"And that is the secret to travelling faster than light." Starfire said as she and Robin entered the room. The two of them turned and gasped when they noticed the condition of the room.

"Whoa! Take it easy, Titans! Combat practice is this afternoon." The masked teen said, trying to ease the tense situation that was happening in the room.

Crystal opens the fridge and screams in fear as she quickly slams the door.

"What is it friend Crystal?" Starfire flew over to her shy friend, Crystal couldn't get the words out of her mouth as she babbles while pointing to the fridge shaking.

"Is just the food of fridges." Starfire went over to open it "There is nothing to be afraid of." When she looked inside the fridge, she noticed a jumble of half-eaten leftovers, all covered with a thick layer of blue mold, She looked to the top shelf and saw the growth on a wheel of cheese start to move and screech.

"EEEEEEKKK!" Starfire shrieked as she threw a starbolt at the contents in the fridge, blowing up everything inside and splattering blue crud throughout the operations center, covering each Titan as a result.

"Maybe we should just go out for pizza." Robin offered as a bit of the furry blue mold slid off one of his spiky locks, the other Titans agreeing with a nod before darting out of the room.

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At the heart of Jump City, the Titans decided to have lunch at the pizza joint. The sound of four Titans arguing could be heard as inside the restaurant.

"Can we please just order something?" Raven asked in an annoyed tone as the arguing stopped for a brief moment.

"As long as it's vegetarian." Beast Boy pouted as he folded his arms in front of him.

"Come on, man, how can you deny me the all-meat experience?" Cyborg asked, as he looked the menu over.

"Dude, I've been most of those animals!" the changeling returned, offended at his teammates question.

"I suggest a large pizza with pickles, bananas, and mint frosting." Starfire suggested in her usual innocent and cheery tone. Beast Boy shot the Tamaranean a repulsed look as he stuck his tongue out in disgust, Cyborg and Raven thought just as little of it as they looked over at her with wide-eyed expressions.

Robin leaned over to her, "Uh, Starfire? Not everything on the menu is a pizza topping." He explained. "Oh!" She blushed over the gaffe she made.

The green and bionic teen continued arguing, "Double pepperoni!" Cyborg shouted.

"I'm not eating meat!" Beast Boy returned.

"There's no meat in pepperoni!"

"U-Um are we able to get a frozen pizza too?" Crystal shyly asked.

Cyborg looked at her in disgust sticking out his tongue "Ugh why would you want to eat a frozen pizza?"

"I can't eat foods that are too hot in temperature remember?" Crystal reminded him.

"Why can't you just get a regular pizza and blow on it?" Cyborg said aggravated.

Crystal was trying to find an answer but couldn't find an answer.

"Don't worry Cryst we'll ask and see." Robin smiled giving her a comforted hugged receiving a smile in return.

Outside the restaurant, someone watched the argument between the green and the metallic teens begin anew through a scanner, marking crosshairs on each of the Titan's heads. At the bottom of the view, the words "INITIATE MISSION" flashed red.

"Gizmo to Jinx." A childish voice said over a communicator, "Begin Phase One." The pink-haired charm caster was cupping her ear as the orders rang via hidden radio. With a nod, the cat-eyed girl carelessly tossed a hex bolt at a bus, causing the vehicle to roll downhill.

Back inside the pizza joint, the vehicle's horn blaring from down the street caused the Titans to stand up from the table, stopping their argument. The sound of a baby crying from ground level elicited a shocked gasp from Crystal as they all looked out the window to see a carriage in the crosswalk, directly in the way of the speeding bus.

"Titans! GO!" Robin shouted as the rest of the team immediately sprang into action. Crystal pushed the carriage out of the way.

"Don't worry little one your safe now." Crystal grabs the baby out of the carriage and rocks the still crying baby wrapped in a blanket. Cyborg planted himself in front of Raven, when the bus reached the two of them, Cyborg pushed back against the front fender to slow it down.

However, the momentum of the vehicle was enough to cause Cybrog's feet to grind against the pavement. Raven then summoned her magic to move the gearshift lever from Neutral to Park. The bus' tires screeched as it slowed into a tearing skid, finally stopping with only a foot or two to spare.

"Um... don't buses normally have drivers?" Cyborg asked as he glanced inside to find the vehicle was empty.

"And don't baby carriages normally have babies?" Crystal unwraps the blanket Beast Boy and Starfire glanced at her as she holds out a dark green-furred teddy bear with light green eyes out,

"What the-" Robin looked over her shoulder confused.

"Are you pit-sniffers normally this stupid?" a condescending voice suddenly asked from the bear before the head swiveled around and fired laser beams from its' eyes at the four Titans looking at it. The force of the impact projected Robin, Beast Boy, Crystal and Starfire screaming through the air into a nearby alleyway as a result, with smoke trailing behind them.

Suddenly, the mode of mass transit tilted back onto its rear wheels, seemingly of its own volition. Cyborg and Raven looked up, completely flabbergasted as the shadow fell over them. They looked down and saw that a large brown-haired villain had seized the rear bumper and levered the vehicle into the air and then bringing it down on the two.

"That was too easy." Gizmo cackled, "You guys wanna get some pizza?"

Cyborg and Raven readied themselves to attack when Robin and Starfire emerged from the alley.

"This isn't over!" The masked teen returned as he dusted some garbage off. Beast Boy jumped up next to them.

"Who are these guys?" Beast Boy asked, tossing a banana peel off his head.

"We are the HIVE!" The midget known as Gizmo answered.

"You're worst nightmare!" The hulking teen known as Mammoth added.

"And this is Attack Pattern Alpha!" The pinkette known as Jinx finished.

After Jinx spoke, she and Mammoth charged the group while Gizmo's back transformed into a jet that carried him into the air. The midget fired a volley of laser shots at the alley, chipping loose large chunks of masonry so that they fell on the three teens.

"Who are these guys?" Beast Boy asked, tossing a banana peel off his head.

"We are the HIVE!" The midget known as Gizmo answered.

"You're worst nightmare!" The hulking teen known as Mammoth added.

"And this is Attack Pattern Alpha!" The pinkette known as Jinx finished.

After Jinx spoke, she and Mammoth charged the group while Gizmo's back transformed into a jet that carried him into the air. The midget fired a volley of laser shots at the alley, chipping loose large chunks of masonry so that they fell on the four teens.

"Cyborg!" The orange-skinned teen shouted as she took off into the sky after him. However, once she got close, the rocket changed direction and gained speed as it carried the cyborg further and further from the fight. Starfire flew after it, resulting in her removal from the fight as well.

At the same time the pink-haired sorceress came at the mage with a jumping spin kick, only for her attack to miss when Raven ducked out of the way. Dodging two more strikes, the gray-skinned Titan counter with a backhand, only for it to get blocked easily. "You fight like a boy." Jinx smirked as Raven jumped away from her.

"And you're gonna croak like a frog!" The bald genius shouted from above. Raven looked up to see Gizmo balanced on four tall spider-like legs that came from his back and a small cannon over his shoulder. As he readied a blast, an arc of purplish-black energy sailed by and cut through the inventors' robotic legs, causing him to fall to the ground and disrupting his aim. "WHAAAA!" He cried as the blast went off, sailing over the mages' head and hitting Robin squarely in the chest, knocking him to the ground.

Crystal while flying brings her hands back and shots a powerful ice beam at Jinx but it was suddenly melted by a red fire source. "Huh?" Crystal looked confused.

"Took ya long enough Inferno!" Jinx rolled her eyes as a teenage boy walks from behind her. He wore a orange shirt under a bright red jacket, with dark red pants with spiky red hair.

"Hey you can't rush the heat pinky." He smirked as he looked up at Crystal before shooting up and tackling her back to the ground.

"HAH!" Beast Boy howled as he rushed past the Boy Wonder and transformed into an elephant. However, his charge was stopped short when the sound of grunting caught his attention. The next thing the changeling knew, the big lummox of a man lifted him clean off his feet.

"Mammoth's gonna make you extinct!" the large teen laughed as he chucked the mammal at the mage and aura manipulator, the masked teen grabbing his teammate and flying off to the side as the green elephant changed back into its human form knocking into him.

"Is it me, or are we getting our butts kicked?" Beast Boy asked after he skidded to a stop near his two comrades.

"It's just you." Raven and Robin replied in unison.

"Listen up, team. I have a plan." Robin said as he helped the green teen to his feet. Before he could explain, two laser blasts caught Raven and Beast Boy in the chest and sent them flying, leaving the Boy Wonder to face the threat.

"Gee, scum-buffer." Gizmo taunted as the three HIVE students approached the duo, the midgets shoulder mounted laser leveling itself at the Titan leader, "Sure hope your fancy plan includes getting fried!"

"You'll just have to find out the hard way." The masked teen said as he took up a fighting stance, holding one hand out with its back to their opponents, flicking his fingers towards himself.

"Get off of me!!!" Crystal struggled as Inferno held her down by her wrists.

"Looks like your about to be an angel without your wings." Inferno gave a smug smile as he eyes glowed red.

Crystal eyes widened as her eye reflects the fire from his eyes.

Star lowered Cyborg to the ground stopping him from his flight lesson.

They both suddenly heard their white haired friend let out a blood curdling scream.

"Crystal!!!" They ran over to her. Starfire flew fast as a bullet to Inferno punching him directly in the face with all her might. "Unhand my friend!!"

"Crystal are you injured?" She crouched down to her as Crystal was at a lost of words before finally saying.

"I-I can't feel my left wing I can't feel my left wing! Star I can't feel my left wing!" Crystal held on to her orange haired friend as she started to sob in pain.

Starfire looked as saw her pure white left wing with burnt marks on it as a few feathers have been burned and fallen off.

"Cyborg!!!" Starfire screamed for help for their injured friend as she held her close.

Back to Robin the shoulder-mounted laser zeroed in and fired a shot at the street, a long crack opened in the asphalt ahead of the point of impact. Jinx leapt backwards and landed on her knees as she threw a spell that broke the fissure wider. With a final follow-up, Mammoth leapt in with a mighty yell and brought all his weight down on the fault line.

The net effect of the three-way combo caused a very wide chasm to run straight down the middle of the road towards Robin. Just as the road split beneath him, he quickly began falling.

"Robin!" Beast Boy cried out before falling to the ground and holding his knee.

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On the ground floor of the Tower, the main entrance opened to admit Raven and Beast Boy, the latter limping and leaning against the former for support. The doors behind them shut as they continued walking down the entrance hall, both walls lined with armchairs.

"That didn't just happen." The green Titan said as the mage helped him into a chair, "Tell me that didn't just happen." He began rubbing his injured leg.

Raven knelt in front of her teammate as she held her hands near the injured leg, "It did happen. We cannot change the truth, no matter how much we dislike it." She said as her hands gave off a blue and white-trimmed energy, healing the changelings knee as the energy rolled into him.

"Who knew we had a doctor in the house?" Beast Boy asked with a smile, "Thanks." "

"No problem." The mage returned as she stood up and dusted her robe off. The sound of the main doors opening caught their attention. The two Titans traded a very nervous look before turning to see who entered; breathing a sigh of relief when they saw Cyborg and Starfire but it then got scared as they saw Cyborg and Starfire running in with Crystal in his arms.

"What happened?!" Beast Boy got up from his seat.

"That inferno psycho gave Crystal a second degree burn!" Cyborg carries Crystal bridal style.

"Turn her over." Raven instructs as Cyborg turns her over still holding her in place so she won't fall , revealing her injured wing as the others looked in shocked.

Raven takes her hands and placing it on her wing as her hands glow blue.

Crystal whimpers in pain as Beast Boy holds her hand in comfort as she squeezes from the pain.

"I healed it as much as I could but she'll still need bandages." Raven tells Cyborg who nods a carries Crystal to the medic lab.

"Is she gonna be ok?" Beast Boy asked very worried. "Her body has gonna into shock." Raven tells him "She's needs rest. Starfire looked around the room with worry, "Where is Robin?"

"Um, Star?" Beast Boy said hesitantly, getting the auburn-haired Titan's attention, "We're not sure."

"Not sure?" Starfire gaped, "Why are you not-"

"We searched everywhere." Raven cut her off And all we found was this." She produces his utility belt from beneath her cloak Starfire gasped in horror

Cyborg walks out to the others from the lab "When Robin sees what they done to Crystal he's gonna want their head." He suddenly saw the others sad "Where is Robin anyway?"

"Cyborg the high gotta him." Beast Boy sighed.

Cyborg clapped both of his hands to his forehead, "I shoulda been there." The bionic teen groaned, "I let that kid sneak up on me and-what was I-? It was a trap, and I-I shoulda known."

The auburn-haired alien shook her head before speaking, "I do not understand. How could you not save all of him?" Her voice rising as she leaned in towards the brunette, "People do not just vanish! He has to be someplace, so go there and look!" She pointed towards the door

Beast Boy quickly jumped in between the two taller Titans to keep things from getting ugly, "Easy, Star. Come on. This is Robin we're talking about." Beast Boy said, holding his hands up to her, "I'm sure he's fine. He'll probably turn up any second." The sound of the door mechanism kicking into gear one more time caught their attention again, "Awesome timing!"

"Robin!" Starfire cheered as she flew towards the door. Once she landed in front of it, she walked toward the threshold to see who had arrived.

A moment later, the whole entrance disappeared in a mighty crash that threw her backwards, past the rest of team. The Titans' eyes went wide as they saw the HIVE team walking in as the dust cleared; Gizmo had fixed his mechanical spider legs and was using them to stand.

"We're home!!!" Inferno smirked walking.

"Oh no." Beast Boy cried as Mammoth cracked his knuckles with a mischievous grin.

"Oh yes." Jinx returned with a smirk.

"You guys got lucky last time, but you're in our house now!" Cyborg growled as he and the other Titans got ready to fight,

"Yeah, nice place." The bald midget chuckled as the trio advanced, "We'll take it!" Quickly, the Titans jumped back to avoid an explosion from one of the cat-eyed sorceress' hexes, causing dust to fill the corridor. When the view cleared, Raven levitated chairs and sent them in the HIVE's direction, while Starfire tossed off some starbolts from overhead.

Beast Boy tumbled across the floor before clambering away from laser shots fired from the whiz kid, leaving room for Cyborg "Split up!" The robotic Titan shouted, firing his cannon at the trio while the brunette chucked aura spheres.

As Raven flew to a landing on the stairs, with Starfire flying past her, she projected a couple of nearby fire extinguishers toward the brown-haired meathead. Unfortunately, the attack had no effect as he merely swatted them away as he charged the girls.

Beast Boy runs down the hallway and sees Inferno entering the lab.

Inferno walked down the hallway and peeks his head in the medic lab and sees Crystal laying in the hospital bed, her wing wrapped in a bandage as she laid sleeping. Inferno smirks as he gets closer cracking his knuckles, coming close to her bed side "This is gonna too easy." He smiled until he turned over the blanket to see a dummy in the bed.

"What the-" Inferno look confused but grunts in pain as a blast hit his back.

Crystal comes from darkness leaning on crutches as her eyes fade back to normal from blasting him with crystallizing.

"I might be injured but I can still hold my own weight." Crystal narrows her eyes as she feels a sharp pain in her back but has enough strength herself leaning on the crutches as she exit the room.

Inside the Tower gym, Raven and Starfire burst through the closed doors before slamming them shut again, hoping to keep their pursuer at bay for the time being. The auburn-haired alien fired a beam of her energy against the frame of the door, welding it shut.

The two girls took a step back and traded a very nervous look, wondering whether the barricade would hold. It proved to be a moot point when the wall behind them blew out, throwing them to the floor. Looking back, they found Mammoth's head protruding from a fresh hole he just made by delivering a mother of a head-butt.

"Hello, ladies." The juggernaut said calmly before bursting through the wall with the rest of his body at the two females.

Things on the bionic Titans side seemed to be going much better as he was actually chasing the genius runt through the halls. Gizmo was fleeing from the African teen by using his long metal legs to keep distance between them.

As he passed a door, Gizmo opened it and quickly scurried in as the doors shut behind him. Cyborg peeked out from around a corner across the hall to scout the area, only to find no one there.

When he got to the door Gizmo hid behind, the metallic teen opened it and peered in carefully before boldly stepping inside. Except for the light spilling from the hall, the room was completely dark. The blackness became total when the door slid shut without warning.

"Hey!" Cyborg shouted in response, however his attention was drawn to a wall of TV screens that came to life, every one showing a close-up of the bald runts' grinning visage.

"So, Tin Man, you got a heart under all that outdated crud-ware?" Gizmos' faces asked through all the screens. With a growl, the African teen turned his back to the wall, only to be greeted by a single giant screen, which also projected the midgets' face. "Not telling? Guess I'll have to take you apart and find out!" At the last words, Cyborg heard the whirring of metal as he turned around and saw the whiz kid's spider legs carry him into the light cast from the screens and lower the runt steadily towards him.

Beast Boy was running for his life down an empty hall. Back in his human form, the green changeling had retreated into the higher floors of the tower. Rounding a corner of the hallway before looking behind him, he stopped to catch his breath when he saw no one in sight.

"Lost her." He said through measured breaths. Unfortunately, the young Titan spoke too soon as a couple of pink waves of energy flew by his head and crashed into the ceiling above him. A panel swung loose and cracked him dead in the face, causing his head to rattle on his neck for a moment before collapsing to the ground.

"This just isn't your lucky day." The HIVE sorceress said as she approached him from behind. Beast Boy quickly sat up and rubbed his head before transforming into a tyrannosaurus rex. Jinx performed a few backflips to space herself from the dinosaur who roared with enough force to shake the entire building.

When she landed, she stared at him with glowing pink eyes. Around the green reptile, a ring of pink fire flared up briefly and floated towards his head before disappearing. A loud crackling from the floor could be heard before the section beneath Beast Boy collapsed, causing the dinosaur to morph back into the green teen and scream as he dropped from sight.

Crystal hopped down another hallway trying to move as fast as she could until she hears a voice behind her.

"Nice try snowflake." She turned to see inferno slamming his arm on wall freeing himself from her crystal "But I don't go down that easily." Crystal throws ice bolts at him but he just melts him away with a second thought.

Elsewhere, a large circular hatchway was smashed off its hinges by a large metallic teen as he entered the storage area the door blocked, a large dust of smoke behind him as he walked. However, he was not alone as a bald midget walking on metal spider legs came out of the dust and approached him. Cyborg steadily retreated as his opponent came closer and closer. Gizmo swung one of his metal legs at the Titan when he was close enough, only for the bionic teen to catch the end with both hands.

"Gotcha!" Cyborg smirked as he pulled the runt closer to him. Gizmo only returned that smirk as he swung another metal leg at him. The Titan shifted his grip to free up one hand and catch the other leg as well, and with a good strong wrenching motion, he threw the little jerk off balance and sent him to the floor. When he hit, sparks flew from the central unit on his back before his metal legs were yanked free and then held aloft by the chuckling Titan as he pulled the backpack off.

"Let me go, you scuzz-muching zit!" Gizmo yelled angrily as he swung at the air in front of his opponent.

At the order, Cyborg put the small kid down as he crushed the device. The big guy tossed the remains aside like a candy wrapper as Gizmo ran off among the crates and boxes, "How you gonna fight me without your tech?" the African Titan taunted as he walked after him at a leisurely pace.

A small, shadowy figure passed in front of him, and he went after it. Cyborg seemed very pleased as he hoisted a panel from a crate and saw the bald runt beneath him, however that happy look quickly disappeared as he looked down in surprise at the sound of a crunch. "Huh?" On the floor, Cyborgs' foot came down on a flashlight-like unit and damaged it somewhat. Looking up again, he saw Gizmo's image grin and then flicker out, revealing it to be a hologram projection. The metallic Titan backed away cautiously, only for the real Gizmo to perch himself on his back and bring a screwdriver on his back. "Yo, what are you-"

The sound of a panel popping open cut him off as the gadget genius went to work on the circuitry underneath. "Get out of my systems! Nobody hacks my systems!" Cyborg cried through strained grunts as he ran back and forth against his will due to the hotwiring. Suddenly, he stopped running around and raised his right arm horizontally.

"Ooh, ejector arm. Cool!" The tiny hacker eagerly cheered as he tampered with more wiring. In the next second Cyborgs' arm shot off; hand, forearm, and half the upper arm.

"My arm!" The metallic teen cried as he watched his separated appendage roll uselessly away across the floor.

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From the exterior of the Tower, one could see the building shake and bend as the fighting from each of the groups raged on. What could be heard next was the screaming from Cyborg as he flew off the roof as if shot from a cannon and falling down in the middle of Jump City Bay. Another set of yells and four more splashes marked the forcible eviction of Beast Boy, Crystal, Raven, and Starfire. Inside the Tower, the HIVE team could be seen looking out from the top-floor window of the operations center.

"Have a nice afterlife, you snot-eating losers!" The gadget-using midget called out as his pink-haired teammate threw a spell at the water in front of their defeated targets. The hex stirred up a huge tidal wave that left the five some completely motionless as they watched it come over them, eventually crashing down on them and sweeping them into the current. The HIVE operatives only smiled smugly before walking away from the window.

On the north side of Jump City Bay, two seagulls were perched on pilings next to a deserted rock that rose from the water.Beast Boy leapt out of the bay, carrying Crystal bridal-style, and landed on the rock, causing the birds to fly away.

"Are you ok?" He asked with heavy breathing.

"Yeah I'm fine." Crystal coughed up water as everyone was coming from the water she turns to move but feels a sharp pain in her back as she leans on her crutches

"Sit You are still injured." Starfire sat her down gently.

"Guys w-where's Robin?" Crystal looked around for their leader since she doesn't know what happened.

"The Hive Five t-they-" Starfire couldn't get the words out as she looked like she was about to cry. Crystal understood bringing her down with her as she hugs her.

"It's gonna be ok Star." Crystal wiped her tears away.

"So, uh... who else never wants to go surfing again?" Beast Boy asked as he wrung some of the water out of his magenta and black jumpsuit.

""Not now, man." Cyborg replied in a really annoyed tone as he removed his arm from the brunette and sat on the rock

"Hey, I was just trying to-" The green teen tried to defend himself, only for Raven to put a hand on his shoulder to cut him off.

Cyborg extended a small acetylene torch from his left forefinger as a panel on his left thigh opened to reveal a plethora of sparks and short circuits.

"Perhaps I could be of some assistance." Starfire got up as she approached the damaged cyborg.

"I got it." He replied evenly as he sparks flew from his thigh as he brought the torch to the circuitry.

"But you are so damaged and-"

"I got it!" The African bionic rounded on her, causing the orange-skinned Titan to gasp.

"Hey! She only wanted to help!" Beast Boy yelled back in Starfire's defense, "What is your problem?"

Cyborg stood up and turned to face the shorter changeling, "What do you think?" He asked angrily as he leaned over his teammate, "We got kicked out of our house, a pint-sized Poindexter took me for a joyride, and in case you haven't noticed, I just became left-handed!" He gestured to his right nub.

"Cyborg calm down yelling at people isn't gonna solve anything." Crystal got up trying to put a comfort hand on his shoulder.

"You come talk to me about calming down when you don't have a broken wing!!" Cyborg pointed his finger in her face as she looked a little hurt.

"Enough!" Raven yelled, trying to ease the tension, "We need to control our emotions."

"Or what? Our bad vibes will keep you from meditating?" Cyborg returned.

"I wish Robin were here." Starfire sighed sadly.

"Well, he's not!" Cyborg yelled as he looked back to the large ruined T in the distance, "Don't you guys get it? They won, we lost. IT'S OVER!" He shouted as he walked to the edge of the rock.

At the bionic Titans words, the other four heroes slumped in defeat as they joined their fifth teammate in staring at their captured home. "Then... the Teen Titans are finished?" Beast Boy asked with a tone of despair in his voice. "No, not yet."

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The following evening, the new occupants started extensive renovations of the Tower, as follows. One, the vertical bar of the T had been extended. Two, the lights in one half of the crossbar top floor had been put out. Three, a second vertical portion had been built to join with the half that was still lit, reaching the same height as the central extension.

The entire effect of the changes was to make the lighted Tower portions and new construction look like a giant H for HIVE, and the honeycomb pattern had been applied to the add-ons as well.

Inside the Tower, two small spherical robots whizzed across the wall in the Ops Center, holding an oval-shaped wooden plaque with Cyborg's detached right arm mounted on it like a fish. "Higher... a little to the left... a little more... and..." Gizmo was ordering the robots before he held both of his thumbs up, "...perfect!" He smiled cheekily as he looked at the mounting on the wall. "Slade's gonna have kittens when he hears we whipped the Titans and took their stinking Tower!" He cheered as he walked away.

Among him, inside the Main Operations Center, Mammoth was looking in the fridge in the kitchen, while the sliding doors opened to admit Jinx into the room. "Look at this dorky drawings." Jinx laughed as she ripped though the pages of Crystal's notebook. "What Dorks!"

"Tell me about it." The genetically enhanced giant said as he pulled out a moldy hamburger from the fridge, "Hmph. All their food is way out of date." This realization did not stop him from tossing said food into his mouth and swallowing it in one gulp.

"You think that stuff's rotten?" Gizmo said holding up a CD, "Wait 'til you see their music." He tossed the disk aside before continuing his review of the music in a case, "Crud... snot... mega-crud... snot..." He muttered between tosses of CDs.

At this moment, the middle finger of Cyborg's bionic arm pulled loose of the hand, remaining connected to it by two thin jointed armatures. It swiveled around to show a tiny camera lens inside, and with a brief change in focus, continued swiveling as it scanned the room.

It fixed itself on the pink-haired HIVE operative, who had put on Raven's cloak. "Does she have anything that's not blue?" She asked as she inspected herself with a hand mirror, the spear she was holding now propped against the wall. Continuing its scan, the finger panned to see Mammoth gorging himself on the spoiled food in the fridge and Gizmo at the CD rack tossing disks he didn't like behind him before stopping its scan at one of the computer consoles.

The bionic armed hopped off the wall and scuttled across the ground when it landed, using its remaining fingers as its mode of transportation. Weaving between and around the HIVE operatives before stopping near one of the consoles, the arm jumped into the seat in front of the screen. Once it situated itself, thin tentacles flew out from the joint where the limb connected to the stump of Cyborg's natural arm.

The extensions quickly went to work on the keyboard and pulled up schematics for the Tower on the screen as it tapped the keys. Piece by piece, the diagram went red. When the entire picture went red, the screen winked out and alarms and buzzers started to sound, accompanied by red flashing lights throughout the operations center.

Jinx gasped as she threw the cloak aside while Mammoth stood up from the fridge. All the cabinet doors in the kitchen started opening and closing at random. The next thing that surprised them was the CD rack ejecting disks, one right after the other, towards the bald runt at high speeds.

"Hey!" Gizmo cried as each disk flew past him. However, this was the only intelligible word he could utter before trailing off into surprised yells suddenly the floor became covered in cold ice making him losing his balance, causing him to tumble on the floor.

He slid backwards as the rack continued its impression of a skeet-shooting target launcher. When he crawled back more, he bumped into the back of the chair in front of the console, which swiveled around to face him. He looked up to see Cyborgs' robotic arm glare at him from up on the chair, "What the hairball?" The mini gadget genius cried as tentacles shot forth from the arm and wrapped around his arms and legs.

The bionic limb humped down from the chair and sped across the floor dragging one very surprised pipsqueak as he struggled to get free, and popped a couple of small jet thrusters out from its forearm.

These ignited and carried it into the air as the hand balled into a fist as it aimed itself toward the ceiling and carried Gizmo with it.

Jinx and Mammoth could hear their teammates' cries grow weaker and weaker as he was dragged away through the tower to who knows where. However, they soon realized they were in trouble as well when a large shadowy hand reached down behind Jinx and seized her. The charm caster only had time for one startled cry before the hand receded into the ceiling and disappearing from sight, taking her with it.

The only one left was the muscular bruiser standing in the kitchen. He noticed the sliding doors opening and looked around the room nervously before he was caught by surprise by a starbolt rocketed towards him and struck the big lug through the open door before closing behind him.

"Hey guys check out this goofy mask!" Inferno came from the hallway wearing one of the Robins masks seeing that no one was there.

"What the-" He couldn't finish the sentence as the ice on the floor started to slow freeze to his feet and move up to his body. He struggled to move as it freezes him solid.

The ice moves him making him going out the front door.

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On the roof of the Tower, a large black raven emerged from the surface and rose into the air after dropping the pink-haired teen on her knees. Behind her, Cyborg's arm burst out of a vent pipe and carried the screaming midget higher and higher before veering back towards his classmate.

Jinx gasped in shock while her eyes widened before Gizmo crashed into her, sending both rolling across the roof and the wooden music box flying away from her. Having released the tiny teen, the arm flew away, and the closed door of the stairs leading up to the roof slid open. Inferno slides up towards falling forward being free of the ice prison. With a green flash from inside, Mammoth flew out from the door, sliding across the roof before stopping where the other two HIVE agents were.

"Sorry to interrupt the victory celebration." The four villains heard a voice come from behind them. They turned around to see Robin standing with his arms crossed, "But like I said, this isn't over." Robin finished.

"And Like I said before." Crystal appears "We dont disappear easily."

The other Titans soon arrived to join the two, Cyborg reattaching his arm when it flew back to him.

"Attack Pattern Alpha!" Jinx ordered as the trio stood up. When she finished, Gizmo, Inferno, and Mammoth scattered while she threw a spell. The Titans scrambled to avoid the explosion caused when the hex struck the rooftop.

Beast Boy came down from his jump only to find Mammoth coming straight at him with his arms raised in a double axe handle. He jumped away again and turned into a hawk as the giant slammed his fists onto the roof, send a shockwave towards Cyborg.

Jinx landed behind the metallic teen and vaulted high over his shoulders, hurling a spell down at him as she sailed through the air. The spell knocked out the base of a water tank and caused the whole thing to topple down towards him, only for him to dive out of the way just in time before a second tank collapsed nearby.

In midair, Starfire threw a few starbolts at the HIVE sorceress, who nimbly dodged them and ducked out of sight behind part of the new construction while the Tamaranean flew after her.

Cyborg stood up next to the debris of the tower and looked around himself a bit, realizing everything was clear around him. But that changed quickly when Gizmo jumped down from the fallen water tank and landed on his back.

"Hey, Robo-Wimp." The bald midget cackled as he pulled out a screwdriver, "Feel like getting hacked?"

"Nope. How 'bout you? Robin! Now!" Cyborg called out, confusing the tiny hacker on his back. In mid-leap, Robin threw a small device that attached itself to the machinery on the device on Gizmos' back, causing sparks to fly from it.

"Cut it out!" The runt yelled in pain and frustration, "It's gonna crash my whole system!" He ripped off his shoulder-mounted laser as he ran around the roof, "Get if off me! Get it off me!" As he continued scrambling about, Robin's device triggered the jet pack setting, igniting and carrying the poor kid high into the sky.

Inside the renovated enhancements to the tower, Jinx was running like made between the scaffolding to avoid getting fried by Starfire's continued bombardment. "

"Beast Boy! Go!" The alien Titan called out when Jinx was in the perfect position under the scaffolding.

Crouching on an overhead girder, the green teen gave his friend a toothy grin and a two fingered salute before diving from his perch and transforming into a monkey that attached itself squarely on the face of the fleeing girl when she made it into a framework of pipes. Unable to see, the villainess fired spells in all directions in an attempt to get him off. Finally, she yanked him off her face and threw him across the roof.

"Your luck just ran out!" Beast Boy smirked when he reverted back to human form before touching down. Getting a running start, he became a hawk again and flew into the open sky, leaving a very puzzled pink-haired HIVE agent.

"Huh?" Was the only thing Jinx could mutter before creaks and groans from the pipework caught her attention. Looking around, she noticed, one by one, the of the pipes started popping as a result of getting hit by the spells she threw around carelessly. The sound of a nervous little shudder was all she could manage as the pipes began bursting and collapsing around her.

Crystal stood in fighting stance as Inferno smirked, he throws fire balls at her but she managed to move out of the way. Crystal jumps on, taking her fists as she lets a lot a yell slams her fist down causing a large block of ice formed into a wall making him slide back.

Crystal takes a very deep breath and lets out a massive scream blowing Inferno back who admittedly lets out of yell of agony as he covers his ears in pain.

He pushed back under an constructed wall, the power of her scream makes the pipes start to fall, Inferno looks up letting out a scream as it all collapsed on him.

"Looks like this angel just gained her wings back." Crystal smirked as turned her back walking away.

Back on the main roof, Mammoth was sprinting across the Tower as he advanced on Raven. He aimed a colossal punch at her, but missed as she flew into the air to avoid the attack, landing a good distance behind him.

Crystal forms a hard block of ice as she twirls in the air and throws it as hard as she could, hitting Mammoth directly in the face. Mammoth gets up from the headache and starts to run towards her.

When he turned to charge again, The brunette then followed the attack with jump kick that sent the enhanced giant skidding across the roof. Once he stopped and stood back up, he turned around to come face to face with Beast Boy... as a T-rex.

One snarl was all it took to make the overgrown villain completely freak out and run for his life. As he ran, Starfire gathered all her strength for a starbolt and released it, hitting Mammoth dead center in the gut. The hit left the juggernaut spinning in the air as Robin made a mad dash towards him.

Robin leapt from his back like a platform as he sent one mighty flying kick that connected with Mammoth's face, driving him back into Jinx. Soon after, Gizmo fell from the sky and landed on top of the big lummox, all four of them in a weary, groaning pile.

"Cram it." The kid cried as he pulled out a transmitter, "I'm calling Slade."

Robin grabbed the small midget by the collar, or at least the part of the jumpsuit around his collar, "Who is Slade?" The masked Titan demanded as he yanked him to eye level.

"Wouldn't you like to know, barf-brain?" Gizmo chuckled, the look on his face made it clear he was not going to answer.

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Inside a darkened lair, the shadowy figure sat on a black throne, looking down at the HIVE's Headmistress as she approached.

"I assure you, such failures are not tolerated within the HIVE." The aging woman began, "Once the agents have been retrieved from the authorities, they will be disciplined." She socked her right fist into her left palm, "Strictly disciplined."

The figure stood from its throne and walked onto a platform that lowered itself to the Headmistress' level, "Actually, your agents served my plans quite well." The shadow said when it reached her, "I never expected them to succeed. They were merely messengers. And the message..."

The shadow held up its left hand to reveal a transmitter similar to the one Gizmo carried, "...has been received."

Activating the transmitter, the monitor behind the Headmistress turned on and projected an image of Robin. "Who is Slade?" The image repeated over and over. Soon after, more and more images of different sizes slowly

appeared around the previous image. That three-word question was repeated countless times by every image.

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"NOOOO! This is the worst thing that could ever happen!" Beast Boy cried with his hands on his head, ready to pull his green hair out, "My tunes! They've been... alphabetized!" He cringed at the word as he began tossing CDs around the Ops Center.

"How am I ever gonna find anything?" The green teen added as he continued rearranging his disks. Robin was standing behind the couch, watching the two as they scurried around the Common Room.

The doors to the room slid open as Raven entered, carrying the cloak Jinx 'borrowed.' "They went into my room. No one should ever go into my room." The mage hissed icily as her grip on the cloak tightened.

Crystal flys into the room, she lands a few feet before let a squeak of pain.

"Careful Crystal." Robin puts a hand on her shoulder gently making her go back towards the ground. "Your wing won't heal if you can using it."

"Aww man they torn up my drawings." Crystal grumped as she looked though the ripped pages "Jerks." She pouts

"Someone has disposed of all our blue furry food!" Starfire gasped as she looked into the fridge.

"Don't worry Star, we could always grow more if we wanted to." Crystal laughed at her alien friend.

"You gotta be kidding me!" Cyborg groaned as he lifted the couch, "The whole place gets cleaned and I still can't find the-" A whistle from Robin stopped him short.

He glanced back to see the Boy Wonder pointed down towards the couch. Looking in the direction he pointed, Cyborg saw what he had been searching for, the missing remote lying on the coffee table. "Ha!"

The bionic Titan cheered as he dropped the couch and sat down on it with Robin as he began flipping through channels.

"I guess we really oughta be training for battles, tracking down clues, and trying to figure out who Slade is, huh?" He asked as the other Titans gathered around the couch.

"We will. But right now, I'm just happy to be part of the team." Robin said with a smile.

With smiles and nods from the others, Robin continued scanning through channels as they all enjoyed the peace and some well earned rest.