Chapter 2 'Captured'

"This has got to be some sick joke Slade's pulling to make us come out of the tower right ya'll?" Cyborg suggested seeming slightly confused by everything that had just happened.

Beast Boy let out a small cheerful laugh as he looked up at his robotic friend. "Hey, yeah! I bet he didn't even advertize that commercial anywhere else than Titans tower!"

"As if he could really get the citizens to hate us without brainwashing them!" Cyborg joined in with Beast Boy's brainstorming.

"I bet if we went down to the city we'd see for ourselves that-."

"ENOUGH!" The empath's voice sliced through the air, instantly silencing the two boys. "If you would take a look outside our window for one second you would see that Slade's army is very real and happens to have us very surrounded."

Beast Boy and Cyborg's smiles instantly fell from their faces as they glanced towards the giant window across the main room of titan's tower, only to confirm that Raven had indeed been right.

"So what are we supposed to do?" Robin asked in a venomous tone from the couch. "Just turn ourselves in to be slaughtered by Slade and his band of villains?"

"But…Robin it was insinuated that there would be more of us…was it not?" Starfire asked. "Perhaps we should contact Titan's East or perhaps more of the honorary titans to see if…"

Starfire's voice quickly drifted off as the TV flicked back on, obviously the work of Slade's master control panel that he had rerouted to control their tower. This time a crew of villains flashed across the screen just before switching over to a clip of the HIVE's Gizmo and Mammoth practically leering in front of the camera.

"We're going to show those crud munching Titans who calls the shots around here!" Gizmo yelled.

"Yeah, and smash them around while we're at it too," Mammoth added.

"You know one of your old teammates has been recruited to play in these 'games' as well don't you?" the interviewer who sounded an awful lot like the Master of Games questioned the two.

"Oh you mean Kyd Wykkyd?" Gizmo asked as if he were brushing the thought off his shoulder. "What's that have to do with us, pea brain?"

The camera swerved to show the speaker which clarified to the Titans that the Master of Games did have some hand in this whole psychotic death match. "I was talking about the female counterpart you used to have, Jinx? She'll be fighting for the Titans now I've heard."

At this comment the two villains seemed to register a tiny bit of emotion on their faces but quickly covered it up with matching scowls.

"That traitor?" Gizmo scoffed. "She's dead to us, figuratively and literally speaking."

The two HIVE members cackled at their pun as the camera faded out and began broadcasting that ungodly commercial again of how the teen titan's were traitors.

"Whoa," Cyborg mumbled, his enthusiasm about the whole situation being a ploy seemed to crumble at the seams of the HIVE's interview.

"Well…" Beast Boy added quickly, "At least we know we have Jinx on our side right?"

"Don't you get it?" Raven practically hissed at the green teen. "If what Slade's saying is true and we're going to be forced into combat with these idiots," Raven gestured to the television, "Only one person is allowed out of the games. People are going to resort to all kinds of things in there and you're choosing to trust Jinx of all people? Jinx, who used to be a member of the HIVE and could easily play both sides of the alliances to win?"

Beast Boy paused, mouth slightly ajar, staring up at the dark girl unsure of what to say. It baffled him how she could say these things so calmly, yet manage to scare him to death with what she was implying as well.

"What?" Raven snapped.

"…depressing much?" Beast Boy replied expecting Raven to throw a lamp at him or crush his gamestation for revenge or something along the normal lines. What he didn't expect was for the main door to the tower to open and what seemed to Beast Boy to look like giant smoke bombs to come rolling in spewing a nauseous gas throughout the room.


"Oh, I feel like the inside of a flornian-thorp worm!" Starfire moaned as she sat up and straightened her back.

"Yeah, what Star said, florninio-thorp-a-whattie," Beast Boy squinting at the rest of his teammates sprawled around him on matching hospital beds. "Hey…where are we?"

"Looks like some kind of medical bay," Cyborg stated. "But none I've ever been in before."

"I'm guessing Slade brought us here," Robin responded finally waking up as well.

"But why would Slade put us in the medical center?" Raven asked in her monotone. "When he could have just finished us off after he gassed us at the tower?"

"Because that wouldn't fit into his plans for these 'games' he has us all entered in," Robin answered reaching up to smooth back his hair but it was at that moment that he realized there was something restricting his hands from moving. "I should have known," the boy wonder hissed as he pulled at the handcuffs that were binding him to his bed.

"How are you all enjoying your stay?" The large flat screen placed in the front of the room turned on to reveal Slade's masked face. "Your dear friend Mad Mod helped me out with the cuffs, thought they'd be a nice touch to keep you titans from running away."

"So you're rounding up all of these villains to help destroy us?" Robin asked. "Don't you think they're going to have a problem with you being in charge of all of them at some point?"

"On the contrary Robin, most of these villains will be in the area with you. I think it's safe to say that there won't be too many left to deal with after the games."

"Perhaps you should join us in the area," Starfire snapped from her seated position.

All four heads swerved to look at the alien girl who was normally the perfect picture of innocence and all things joyful. It couldn't be denied that she was losing her will to keep up the happy act when there was nothing joyful about their situation.

"My, my, looks like we have a fighter here," Slade commented with a laugh. "Perhaps if you win I'll spare your life and let you join my army."

Starfire's eyes lit up in a brilliant green color as if she was going to zap the screen with Slade's face on it, Robin quickly broke her concentration from the stare down, "So why don't you just throw us into the area and let it begin Slade?" Robin questioned.

"Oh, but don't you want to see who your opponents are? Wouldn't you like to take a few days to sort things out with your teammates and say your goodbyes? After all, it's not likely you'll all be able to stay together in the area."

"No, I'd just like to get this over with!" Robin yelled trying to free his wrist's grip from the handcuffs.

"…Uh…I think I'd like some time," Cyborg said looking at their leader with a sheepish grin.

"Yeah, dude, I'm with Cy," Beast Boy agreed.

"Good, you have four days till the games begin." And with that the monitor snapped off.

"What was that about," Robin asked looking at his two male friends.

"Does fight to the death mean anything to you dude?" Beast Boy asked. "Cause I'd totally like to postpone that as long as I can."

"He does have a point Robin," Raven added.

"See even Raven's agreeing with me! I've gotta be right!" Beast Boy joked.

"Shut up," Raven said to the changeling. "What I mean is, the more time we have, the longer we have to plan some kind of strategy."

"And the easier it will be to take Slade down," Robin said seeming to perk up.

"Now all we have to do is figure out how to get out of here," Cyborg said looking around for some device to set them free.

It was at that moment that the door to the medical bay swished open.


Ta Da! New chapter for you all…I should be working on my million essays before finals but I couldn't help myself. So I hope you enjoy and I give a HUGE Thank you to those who have reviewed for the last chapter. I love hearing from you guys!

Oh! I also wanted to ask if you had any much wanted villains that will take part in the games, I know I already gave it completely away about Gizmo and Mammoth and I'm thinking about throwing Kyd Wykkyd in too, but if you have any recommendations I'll see what I can do. ;)

Xoxo-Megz