Chapter 6: Into the Research Facility
It was quite quiet for poor Raven who could barely move a muscle, as she finally woke up she found herself in some sort of a strange chamber. She then noticed some strange creatures observing her in the outside of the chamber.
"Aw, she's finally awake" said a DNAlien, "I suppose you must be wondering why you are here."
"Just what the heck are you?" asked Raven to the DNAlien.
"We're known by your kind as DNAliens, but we're really workers for our Highbreed masters whom will soon rule this planet thanks to your powers" replied the DNAlien.
"Why are you telling me your plans to me?" asked Raven.
"Because we know you won't be able to stop us, as we have built this special chamber just for you, to ensure that you won't be able to use your powers, and what's more we can absorb some of those powers to be used in our research weapons department" replied the other DNAlien right next to the first one.
"You'll never get away with this" said Raven.
"Oh, but I'm afraid we already have" replied the first DNAlien as he began to laugh at Raven.
But suddenly, the DNAlien's laughter would have to stop, as suddenly an alarm began to sound off throughout the research facility. Where then, several other DNAliens came into the scene.
"Sir, we got problems here, it's the Tennysons, and the other former Titans that our Forever Knight clients encountered!" cried the DNAlien.
"Let them try to make their way through here" replied the first DNAlien.
Meanwhile, outside the research facility, the other DNAliens were gearing up what seemed like was going to be a full frontal attack. Cyborg, Nightwing and Beast Boy came in as the first wave of attack, giving enough time for Ben to change himself on his Omnitrix to turn into the alien known as Brainstorm. Beast Boy had changed himself into a large triceratops, charging at the DNAliens, knocking them all done as if they were simply dominos. Nightwing was quite well busy fighting off the other DNAliens with using his usual fighting rod, knocking each one of them out, while Cyborg employed his usual sonic cannon.
"Just like old times, doesn't it seem like so?" asked Cyborg to Nightwing whom knocked out a DNAlien.
"Sure feels like that" replied Nightwing as he knocked out a DNAlien.
"Leave some for us" said Kevin as he along with Gwen and Ben got into the battle.
But while that was going on, Beast Boy had finally reached the entrance of the research facility which was quite a large metal door. He first tried to ram it down, while he was still a triceratops, but it was with no luck, where Kevin came into the scene and noticed Beast Boy's failed attempt.
"Think you can smash down that door?" asked Kevin as he then changed himself into the substance the metal door was made of, "Try this then."
With several smashes from Kevin's fist, the metal door immediately broke down, only to have the two be disappointed to see more DNAliens ready for battle.
"Aw man, don't these guys ever quit!" cried Beast Boy.
Beast Boy then changed himself into a rhinoceros and began to charge at the DNAliens, sending each one of them flying all over the place. Eventually clearing the way for the others. Back in the room where Raven was being kept in a special chamber. She then noticed that some of the DNAliens instead of guarding her, were heading toward the door which was busted right down by Kevin, right on the poor DNAliens.
"Cyborg, Beast Boy, Robin, er I mean Nightwing?" asked Raven as she was astonished to see her our Titan teammates ready to rescue her.
"We're busting you out of here" replied Cyborg.
"I think I can be able to help out" said Ben who was still in his Brainstorm mode.
Ben then charged up Brainstorm's powers and then began to short-circuit the special chamber which was preventing Raven from using her powers. The system then overloaded, and Raven finally was able to use her powers to break through the glass of the chamber.
"We have to destroy this research facility, my powers were being used to test new weapons for whatever these DNAliens are" said Raven.
"I can help find out where they're doing the testing" said Gwen as she then began to meditate to try to find out where the weapons testing section of the facility was located, "found it."
"And that's our cue to move out" said Cyborg as he readied his sonic cannon again.
As the remaining reunited Titans, and also Ben, Gwen and Kevin traveled throughout the facility, and fighting off any DNAliens that were coming their way. They then finally reached the area where the DNAliens were testing the new weapons that absorbed Raven's powers.
"Looks like this seems to be the place" said Nightwing.
"Let's get rid of these weapons before they are ever used" said Gwen.
"Way ahead of you" said Cyborg as he took out his sonic cannon and began to blast away at the prototypes of the weapons which absorbed Raven's powers.
"We need to know where one more member of my old Titan group is before we can finish this mission" said Nightwing, "can you try to find her?"
"Well, I can give you a hint" replied Raven to which everyone turned to her, "when I was knocked out while I was doing my usual meditation, I heard these creatures talking about Starfire being taken to one of these Highbreed commanders for entertainment purposes."
"Figures" said Nightwing, "is it possible for you and Gwen to search for her whereabouts?"
"Just give us a few minutes, and I think we'll be able to have her as good as found" replied Gwen.
"In the mean time" said Cyborg as he readied his sonic cannon and began to blast away at some DNAliens, "we'll keep you covered."
But as Raven and Gwen were ready to search for Starfire, they were quite unaware that the Highbreed commander which had apprehended her, was also the same scout that was sent by the Highbreed whom they had fought previously five years ago.