It's been over a month now and I finally got Act 3 up and running. Sorry about the long wait but I got caught up with so many things that it was frustrating. I hope this we'll keep you interested when I'm finishing up the last act. So far I had no reviews and twelve hits, like over a hundred in total. Somehow, I got the feeling that people don't like this story. But don't worry; when I'm done with this, I'll go straight to a story that will really turn heads. Now let us begin with chapter 4, act 3 of LM in Mumboland. With the show started and Mumbo getting closer to the big finally, the Titans have nowhere to go but out of thin air. But LM came up with a plan to get close to Mumbo and delay this final act. Will this plan work or will LM join his friends as another powerless animal?

Disclaimer: I don't own Teen Titans or the episode, "Bunny Raven."

Act 3: The Show Must Go On. Or… Now you see LM, now you don't.

At last, after waiting for long hours in the Mumbo Apollo, the real show has finally begun. The Mumbo band was playing at the lower area of the stage as Mumbo men, women, and children watched on at their seats waiting for the main man to appear. Suddenly, the red curtains started to open up and in the middle of the stage was just a top hat. But after a short few seconds, the hole in the hat exploded and fireworks, flashes of light, colorful streamers, and smoke came out of it. Once the smoke was clear and the fireworks display was over, Mumbo appeared holding his hat in his hand. He then placed the hat on his head and gave a bow to the audience. At the same time, the audience applaud and cheered for the magician. But at one of the balconies, two elderly Mumbos that looked like Big-nose and Wide-mouth form the Muppets applaud and looked at each other to tell a joke.

Big-nose Mumbo: "Hey Wide-mouth, what do you get when you cross a magician with a camera?"

Wide-mouth answered by taking out his wand and waved it in front of Big-nose's face.

Wide-mouth Mumbo: "Hocus Focus!"

With that said, Big-nose's face turned into a camera as the Wide-mouth Mumbo laughed so wildly. Back on the stage, Mumbo approached the mic stand, tapped on it a few times, and began his introductions.

Mumbo: "Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Mumbos of all ages. Welcome one and all to the greatest show in Mumboland!"

Everyone immediately clapped and they heard Mumbo finishing his intro. But Mumbo was able to calm them down and continue with his speech.

Mumbo: "Tonight, prepare to be dazzled by my amazing feats of wonder and a grand finale that you will remember for a long time."

Meanwhile, back at the storage room, LM and the Titanimals were trying to figure out a plan to stop Mumbo and get out of this crazy world. LM was sitting cross-legged and wrote down some plans with a pen and a stack of paper he found while the Titanimals were talking about plans of their own. While they were putting something together, they all heard the crowd cheering for their favorite magician. Upon hearing that, Cyborg lowered his head and sighed.

Bear Cyborg: "Sounds like the show all ready started."

Monkey Robin: "We must think of a way out of this mess before it's too late. LM do have anything that can help us?"

Rob looked at his fellow comrade that had a few plans on the floor.

LM: "Working on it. I've already set up five plans that might work. I don't know if I could make it all happen, but I'm praying that it will."

Bunny Raven: "Just tell us what type of plans you have."

LM looked at the rabbit the looked like Raven and had a sweat drop coming the back of his head. He immediately took one of his pieces of paper off the floor and looked at the first plan.

LM: "Well for starters, in an event of any kidnapping and hostage situations, escaping through the back door maybe the only option. So all I have to do is to put on that lame ass janitor's suit, find some cameras to shut down, knock out a few bunny soldiers and bodyguards while they are busy, and when its all clear, I can carry you all at the same time to make it out of the backstage door. I know this might take long, but with the help of my focusing ability it will take about five to seven minutes top. So what do you think?"

The team of animals listened in on the whole plan and gave it some thought. It was then that Starfire came in and answer.

Cat Starfire: "I think that sounds like a great idea!"

When he heard Starfire's agreement, LM clapped his hands together and rubbed them.

LM: "All right, then let me get started."

Wolf Terra: "You sure that could work?"

LM: "Of course it could work. I mean how hard is it to take out a few cameras and Mumbo freaks and huge bunnies?"

Beast Boy turned into an antique stock telling machine and was typing inside himself while the paper came out of the small slot in the front. Robin looked at the thin long strip of paper, picked it up with his monkey fingers, and read what Beast Boy was typing.

Robin: "Mumbo has everything watching the place instead of cameras and the guards and soldiers are too smart to be attack in the back."

LM stared blankly and Robin and the piece of paper he was holding. After being on that state he was in a matter of seconds, he quickly crumble the paper and through it away.

LM: "Well, so much for that plan. Thanks for ruining it BB."

The green telestock typed in another couple of words as the strip of paper face him with a short sentence that says, "You're Welcome".

Back on the stage, Mumbo started the show off with a few simple tricks to wet the audience's appetites. He started off by ripping his sleeves off, crumpling them up with his hands, closed his hands tightly, and then opened them to reveal doves flying out of the hands and straight to the audience. Then he pulled a deck of cards out of his sleeves and started performing tricks by flipping them left to right, over his head, under his legs, between his legs, and around his body. Suddenly, the cards disappeared while he was flipping them around and everyone wasn't sure what happened to them. But Mumbo waved his magic wand and in an instant, plain cards came out of everyone's sleeves. The audience got startled for a sec, but then laughed and clapped at his performance.
Back to the storage room, the team was trying to figure out what other plans might be perfect. They all heard the spectators laughing and cheering and didn't like the odds of that.

Wolf Terra: "Well they are having a blast out there."

LM: "Yeah, but this is just the warm up act. We have to set up a plan fast before Mumbo gets his grand finale started."

Cat Starfire: "Perhaps if we can work together, we can put an end to his show."

Raven looked at the cat and had an 'Are you serious?' look.

Bunny Raven: "Mumbo made us powerless, we're a bunch of animals and a green lamp, and the only person that still has his powers and is human is LM. How are we suppose to stop him if Mumbo playing all the cards?"

Monkey Robin: "Powers or not we are still the Teen Titans. We have to find a way to stop him. You got anything LM."

LM was frantically going through the papers, looking for the next big thing.

LM: "Working on it."

Meanwhile, Mumbo continued to perform much more amazing tricks on stage before a live audience. This time, he's using a female Mumbo assistant to help him with his work. Firstly, he levitated the woman in mid air while she was hypnotized and used big rings to move them around her body. That made the crowed owed and awed a little, but Mumbo was just warming up. After his act, the blue magician waved his hands and a rectangular box appeared next to him. Suddenly, the door of the box opened itself and the female assistant entered the box. The audience watched on to see what their favorite magician had up his sleeves this time. Mumbo then closed the door, locked it, and pulled out a cartoonish saw out of his sleeves. He then used the saw to cut the box the girl was in in three different sections; the top, the middle, and the bottom. When he was done with that, he pulled one box off the other and lined them up in a straight line facing the crowd.

Mumbo: "As you can see, my assistant seems to be cut in pieces."

He then picked up the boxes, stack them back up to the way they were, and waved his magic wand.

Mumbo: "But with a wave of my wand and… ABRACADABRA!!!"

And just like that, the cut lines the saw went through magically disappeared. Mumbo then unhooked the lock and opened the door as the blue, long nose assistant walked out without any physical harm. Once again, the crowd cheered their magician for another spectacular performance.

Back at storage, LM came up with plan B.

LM: "Alright, here's the deal. I'll get into sniper position up on the ceiling area on stage. I can walk on the support structures that operate the lights and place my self above Mumbo. Once Mumbo gets you guys on stage and does his little magic trick, I'll jump in without him knowing and knock him out completely cold. That way I'll be able to scoop you all up and get out of there before he comes to. So, are we cool about this?"

Most of the team thought that this was a good idea, but Robin intervened.

Monkey Robin: "Though it sounds like a good plan to so a sneak attack, Mumbo has eyes in the back of his hat, not to mention every other place."

LM sighed and rubbed his forehead. He then tossed away his plans and looked at the monkey with stern eyes.

LM: "Well I don't see you making any plans Monkey Wonder."

An anime vein popped out the side of Robin's forehead as he calmed himself down before he could loose it.

Monkey Robin: "Yeah, well it's not easy to come up with one when you're an animal with no powers."

Suddenly, Beast Boy, who was in the shape of an antique record player, came up with one.

Beast Boy: "Oh! I got it!"

But Cyborg knew what his friend was going to say so he said it for him.

Bear Cyborg: "Let me guess. Twenty high powered cannons that fires magician eating sharks."

There was a harsh silence when Robin cranks the lever of the record player he was set next to, as BB was speechless.

Beast Boy: "Uh… I don't got it."

Back on stage, Mumbo was now doing some balancing acts to keep the audience entertained. First he balanced a ball on his feet while holding stacks of glass cups on his arms, and then he did a handstand while holding razor sharp knives with the pointed ends with his feet. Now he is holding long pole sticks with plates spinning around on the top on his hands, shoulders, top hat, and his long nose. He did hold his balance for a bit but then the two sticks fall off his right arm as the plated smashed the floor and scattered in many pieces. It wasn't long until two more plates fell on his other arm and another tipped off his hat. Now he's holding the stick with the spinning plate on his nose while the crowed watched on in suspense.
In storage, LM came up with one more plan.

LM: "How about if I get into my disguise, find the power outlet, and shut off the main power. That way, the crowed would be in a major panic and it will give us enough time to escape without being noticed."

Bunny Raven: "Gee that sounds like a good idea. Unless you come out of the public in your disguise while at the same time, carrying us in your arms would make it quite noticeable."

He looked at Raven and gave her the death glare.

LM: "Well I don't see you trying to help us get out of this situation now can you?"

Raven glared back at him.

Bunny Raven: "If I was, I wouldn't be turned into a stupid rabbit and rendered powerless."

The rest of the team looked on to see the two staring at each other and were confused.

Wolf Terra: "Okay… Just to go off the subject, that is completely weird."

Bear Cyborg: "Yeah… Guess somehow these two look similarly dark in one way or another."

Monkey Robin: "C'mon Titans, focus. We have to come up with a plan fast before our vanishing act. Now think!"

On stage, Mumbo was now on his final tricks and like he said before, he's an escape artist. He first did a buried alive act where he would be in a coffin buried under dirt. He managed to escape that quickly. Then he was in a tank filled with water with a strap jacket on him, hoping to escape in sixty seconds. He was able to remove the jacket and get out of the tank of water before sixty seconds. And now for his final trick, he will be strapped to a metal bed with a sheet covering him while above him a bed of spikes pointed down would come to crush him. Once everything was set up, it was time for the act to begin. He was strapped in with the help of two of his blue Smurf assistances while the third one draped a white sheet over him. When that was all done, the girls then moved the spikes into place with a rope that connects the top part of the spike bed all the way to the bottom the metal floor. A litted candle was then placed below the rope where the flame can touch it. Quickly the girls flee the scene, as the blue magician was strapped on the bed while the candle burned the rope. The crowed watched on and hope to see if Mumbo would get out of this alive. After a few minutes of waiting and the amount of rope burned, the candle cut off the last piece of the rope and the spike bed plummeted to Mumbo. In a second, the bed Mumbo was on crashed and everything was destroyed with a cloud of smoke. Everyone thought the magician was dead, but suddenly, another cloud of purple smoke appeared behind the crash site and Mumbo appeared from the smoke. Once they knew their favorite magician was all right, they all cheered wildly and clapped from their approval. Finally the act was done and the curtain lowered and come to a close for intermission.
Backstage, Mumbo headed to his dressing room to prepare for the big finally while everyone else cleans up the stage from the previous act. The Mumbo Muppet popped out of nowhere and gave everyone the final warning.

Mumbo Muppet: "All right people, let's clean up the set. The grand finally is about to start in fifteen minutes."

In storage, the Titanimals heard the news from the other side of the door and didn't like what they heard.

Bear Cyborg: "You hear that y'all? Fifteen more minutes and we'll be in a poof of smoke."

Monkey Robin: "There's gotta be something we can do to get out of this situation. LM."

The Monkey Wonder turned his head to see his rebel Titan but he saw him laying on his back with a but load of bad plans on his face.

Monkey Robin: "Uh… LM?"

LM spoke even with the papers over his mouth and didn't feel like he's in a good mood to talk.

LM: "Don't… Don't say anything Robin. Cause I don't want to talk about it. All of my plans are nothing but total duds. Hot air balloon, too conspicuous. Giant slingshot, too expensive. Enormous wooden horse, too Greek! I'm all out of ideas. I'm closed. My mind's on empty. Can't think… Can't think…"

The team looked at their friend in a state of a meltdown.

Wolf Terra: "Great… We have officially lost LM. Just when we need him the most."

Bunny Raven: "We can't loose hope now. We have to think of a plan and stay with it if we are able to get out of here."

Monkey Robin: "There's got to be something we can use against Mumbo. The question is, what?"

Beast Boy turned into an antique phone again and started ringing. Robin reached the changeling and used his monkey paw to pick it up and put it on his monkey ear.

Monkey Robin: "What is it now Beast Boy?"

Beast Boy: "You know, this might be me talking but… Maybe all of this is more of Mumbo's mumbo-jumbo. You know, like a big trick."

Starfire heard that and rubbed her nose where Mumbo plucked on of the whiskers.

Cat Starfire: "It all seems awfully real to me."

Bunny Raven: "Starfire's right. No matter how big the trick is, it's really real. Mumbo controls this world he created, so he's the one that's bending all the rules."

Suddenly, a light bulb pop in her head as her eyes grew wide underneath her hood. She finally realized that they had a plan all along and yet they didn't see it coming. If Mumbo is a magician that likes to bend reality at his own will, then they already have a magician that does the same, and a rouge one to be exact.

Bunny Raven: "That's it!"

She then looked at LM who was still in brain dead mode with his face still buried in papers and ask him a couple of questions.

Bunny Raven: "LM?"

LM: "Yeah…"

Bunny Raven: "I just need to know. You ability is to focus enough to slow down time so that you can avoid any flying projectiles. Right?"

LM: "Yeah…"

Bunny Raven: "So how much do you focus?"

LM: "Oh… I don't know. Like enough to avoid even the fastest of bullets. Why did you ask that?"

Bear Cyborg: "Yeah Rae, why are you asking him that?"

Rae looked at Cyborg and explained.

Bunny Raven: "Can't you see. Though Mumbo is a crazy magician, he has the ability to bend all of reality."

Bear Cyborg: "So?"

Bunny Raven: "So, if he can do something like that then we have someone that does the same thing."

Immediately, everyone looked at LM and realized that they have a way out all along.

Monkey Robin: "Of course. That's the plan!"

LM, upon hearing that, sat straight up and papers falling off his face and looked at the caged animals a little confused.

LM: "What's the plan?"

Monkey Robin: "Not what, who. You're the plan. You are going to fight Mumbo Jumbo."

He then got up on his legs and freaked out with eyes wide as saucers.

LM: "I'm what!?!"

Monkey Robin: "You heard me, you have to fight Mumbo and defeat him. See if he can tell us how to get out of here and back to our old selves again."

LM tried to sink this in but don't know if he could do that.

LM: "Wait a second. I know I can take a challenge, but I don't know if I could take on Mumbo myself. I mean you guys tried to fight him and look where it got you. What makes you think I could beat him?"

Monkey Robin: "Because you have something that Mumbo has as well. And that's bending the rules of reality. Though Mumbo uses his magic to change everything, you have your focusing ability to avoid any of Mumbo's attack. That way you won't get hit or turned into another animal like us. Like I said before, you're our only hope left to save us. And if you can't do that, then we'll disappear off the face of the Earth, forever."

LM gave all that some thought, and then he looked around to see his friend's faces with a look of worry. Robin was right for one thing, with the team powerless and are talking animals, he's the only person left to stop Mumbo from making the team vanished. So with determination, he cleared his throat and said…

LM: "I accept."

The team was happy to know that their friend would take the risk and cheered him on.

Bear Cyborg: "Booya! That's what I'm talking about!"

Cat Starfire: "Oh joyous!"

Monkey Robin: "Allright!"

Beast Boy: "Sweet!"

Terra Wolf: "That's our boy!"

LM: "But…"

Everyone quickly stopped when they notice LM being a little concerned.

LM: "But the problem is that I have to get close to Mumbo if I am able to take him head on. Like you guys said before, it's going to be hard for me if he is watching my every move."

He then place his hand on a stack of paint cans, trying to think of a way getting close to him.

LM: "There's got to be a way-"

Suddenly, he jerked away from the can when he felt wet paint on his hand.

LM: "Ah crap. Stupid wet paint. Someone should think of keeping that lid closed."

He then whipped his hand on his pants to get rid of the paint, since his pants are black. But then he noticed something odd. On his thigh part of his pants, the area seems invisible instead of black. He then looked at the palm of his hand noticed that's invisible too, then turned to see his back hand just plain peach. He looked at it again and again and tried to figure out where that came from. Finally, he discovered that it came from the paint cans. He approached the cans to look at the one that he put his hand on. He then took a gander at the front of the can with the sign on it and read it.

LM: "Invisible paint. Colors in one coat. Hmm…"

He then looked back at the Titanimals that were unsure about what he's up to. But he was really looking at was Beast Boy who was still a phone with Robin still holding onto the calling end.

LM: "Beast Boy, I need a favor to ask for you."

Beast Boy: "Um… I'm not going to like this am I?"

LM simply smirked as he had the plan all in his head.

After the next couple of minutes the door of storage opened up and two of Mumbo's bodybuilding henchmen and four female assistances entered the storage and headed to where the team is.

Mumbo Henchman 1: "The boss said that we need to put the animals on stage at once, the show will start any minute now."

Quickly they all picked up the cages and the green lamp and left the storage room. The second henchman who was carrying the cage containing Starfire was about to leave when he spotted a pair of sunglasses resting on a crate. Just as he was trying to figure out where they came from…

Mumbo Henchman 1: "Hey! Get out here with that kitty cat. We need that for the show."

The henchman decided to ignore it and left the storage room. Once the room was empty, the place was completely quiet. That was until a small snicker came our around the room.

LM: "I knew this worked. Those people didn't even see me. This is perfect."

Just then, a pair of brown eyes popped open as they headed straight to the pair of sunglasses. Those eyes belonged to LM. He then lifted up a can of invisible paint and put it on top of the crate. He used the sunglasses to dip them into the can to make them invisible. Once it dried for a few short seconds, he put the glasses on his face and in front of his eyes.

LM: "Time to give Mumbo a show he'll never forget."

He then approached the door, opened it, and left the room. Now the show is really about to begin.

And that was Act 3. Normally it would've been quick, but of course I was busy with a lot of other things so this was hard for me. But still I'm up to one more chapter, one more act, and it is the main event. Who's going to win, Mumbo or LM? You have to wait and find out. Please Review.