Raven jolted awake, and she felt a hard pounding at the back of her skull that made her grimace as she tried to shake her head to get rid of the grogginess. She tried to remember what had happened when it came to her suddenly. Her head popped up quickly, making her vision swim, but she tried to focus. She let out a sigh of relief as she saw all the other members of the team together, waking from various states of unconsciousness. Since Raven had woken first, she was the first on her feet and helping the others up. She strode to Cyborg and offered a hand up.

"Is everyone alright?" Multiple groans and sighs answered her, letting her know that they were all hurt, but nothing too serious. Raven looked over at Starfire as the alien princess rubbed her arms.

"Does anyone remember what happened?" the Tamaranian asked.

"Yeah" replied Cyborg,"I do. We got ambushed by Adonis in the old paper mill, and he was waaaaay more powerful than normal. I don't know how he managed to upgrade like that"

"Gizmo helped him" stated Raven "I sensed his presence just before Adonis knocked us all out with whatever that green light was."

Nightwing stood with his hands on his hips, looking down while he thought. "It almost looked like that prototype you came up with a year or so ago, Cy. Remember? The Neural Subduing Pulse?"

Cyborg snapped his metal fingers and cursed under his breath.

"The little freak must have gotten his hands on the schematic when he took control of my robotics a few months ago!"

Raven glanced at Cyborg and asked what the rest of them were thinking.

"I can infer that this device was intended to render us unconscious?"

"Yeah," nodded Cyborg, "it broadcasts an Alpha wave pulse that temporarily shuts down the conscious part of the brain. No damage is done, but it leaves you with a hell of headache, as we can all see."

He looked over to Nightwing "So what's the plan, boss-man?"

"Titans, I'll be honest with you, this doesn't look good. Whatever Adonis and Gizmo have planned probably has something to do with this cage." Grimaced Nightwing as they all looked around their confinement. It appeared to be a rather large cage made of metal bars about 8 inches apart. Now while that normally wouldn't be a problem for the Titan's to get out of, there were undoubtedly other defensive measures in place.

Starfire stated "It might also have to do with that large menacing device suspended over there" she gestured towards the far end of the room. Raven saw Cyborg look in that direction and realized his robotic eye had begun to glow green, and she realized he had activated his night-vision.

"That looks like...no, it can't be.." she heard him mutter to himself.

"What is it, Cyborg?" asked Nightwing.

"If I'm right, and I really hope I'm not, that looks like an enlarged weapon emplacement, based on my shock cannon technology. But it looks as though it's been seriously modified. It's got a massive power supply, which would drive the destructive force of the beam way up, but there, at the tip! That looks like an incredibly refined focusing laser modulator."

Raven heard Beast Boy clear his throat and she turned to look at him as he spoke.

"Uhhh...Cy? Could you repeat that in English?"

The half metal man sighed and looked at Beast Boy and said, "What that means, is that THAT device," he pointed at the beam assemblage, "would essentially be able to cut through anything with barely any effort. I don't think even your power would be able to stop it, Raven." They all grew much more grim with that discovery as they each thought of what the evil pair had planned for them.

'Well,' thought Raven 'I should just be able to bend the bars apart and we can walk out.' So she tried to grab the bars with her obsidian energy. But her powers just seemed to slide right off the bars like nothing had touched them. 'Dammit...'"It would appear that I cannot bend these bars apart. They are made of solid iron. My power can't touch them." She said with resignation.

Raven heard Beast Boy chuckle and turned to look at him.

"Well, it's simple then! Watch this!" And with that, he proceeded to morph into a mouse and run for the empty gap between the bars, only to end up back in the middle of the cage, smoking and groaning in pain. Raven rushed over to Beast Boy's side to see if she could heal him, but he seemed to be just slightly singed.

"Ah ah ah" Raven heard a high pitched voice titter, "I wouldn't do that if I were you, Snotball." She looked up from her kneeling position to see Gizmo come crawling down from the ceiling on that creepy spider-like apparatus he was so fond of. "That there is a highly volatile plasmic containment field. You shouldn't touch it, else you get, well, you've seen what it can do." Raven helped Beast Boy back onto his feet as he gave Gizmo the finger, then they heard rhythmic thuds coming from behind the tiny villain. It was Adonis. And he was in a massive mech, bigger than they had seen him build before, and looked more advanced in every way.

"Well, look at the Twerp-ans now. Not so high and mighty when we got you trapped, are you?" Adonis cackled.

"Ok" Nightwing said,"you got us here, you trapped us, now what?"

"You really think we would reveal to you our plan now that we have you where we want you?" Raven rolled her eyes at that.

"Of course you would, you titanic imbecile. It's what you do every time you have us cornered." She could not have poured more disgust into her voice.

"Ooh, Gizmo, I think she likes me. I think I might have to open that cage for a second so I can pull her out and get to know her better. Might have to take awhile doing it too, to make sure she really enjoys the experience" Adonis rasped as he winked at Raven.

Raven pulled back in revulsion and looked around the at the other Titans. They were each preparing in their own way. She saw Starfire's hands begin to glow as she readied bolts of green fire, and she watched as Nightwing prepared several wingdings. She saw movement out of the corner of her eye as Beast Boy shifted into a green wolf, prepared to pounce, and she noticed Cyborg's arm reconfigure into his shock cannon. She cleared her mind and readied for the fight that would begin momentarily. All they could do now was wait for him to open the cage. As Adonis thudded toward the cage to open it, Raven hear the sound of a window shattering, making the Mech-Man jump and take several steps back, turning away from the cage, spinning to look at Gizmo as his eyes narrowed.