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An alarm sounded throughout the Titans Tower. Red lights flashed and every so often a voice would say 'Intruder Alert'. Albatross stumbled out of bed and ran as fast as she could at that time in the morning towards the computer room. On the way she met up with Flex. She took one look at him and started giggling. His usually perfect hair was all over the place and he was wearing only a pair of boxers. What's more, they were bright pink! She would have made a comment about them, but, at 3 in the morning, she couldn't be bothered. Suddenly Flex fell to the ground and smacked his head on the floor. Albatross went over to help him and noticed a small man standing on top of him.

"Hey!" She shouted and summoned a torrent of water from the nearby toilet. The little man dodged and dived at her.

Barb, Hawk and Splurge raced round the corner determined to catch the intruder. Robin had told them where the intruder was meant to be and they had rushed off straight away. Hawk peered into the gloom of the tower's corridors. At first he saw nothing, but then his enhanced senses caught movement from somewhere in the corner of his eye. Suddenly Barb let out a loud, shrill cry. Hawk and Splurge spun round and saw what appeared to be a puppet on Barbs head. Barb collapsed as Hawk leapt at the strange thing. It moved jerkily away from his lunge and latched onto Splurge. Just like Barb she collapsed and, before he knew it, the thing lunged at Hawk. He dodged as best he could, but he tired soon because of lack of sleep. The thing clutched his leg and he felt a sharp pain as something imbedded itself in his leg. Just before he collapsed he noticed the thing holding a strange object with five glowing circles on it. Then his world went dark.

Barb groaned and rubbed her eyes. She looked around as she remembered the intruder. She found that she was in a bed in the infirmary. She noticed Hawk, Splurge, Flex and Albatross all in separate beds beside her. They all seemed not to know what had happened either.

"Oh joy! You are awake," It was Starfire. She had flown in so silently that Barb hadn't noticed her. She pulled out a communicator and spoke into it, "Robin! They are awake! May I do the explaining of the situation now?" Barb guessed he had said yes because Starfire put the communicator away and started talking to the new Titans, "You were waylaid by the villainous Puppet King. When we found you all had strange wire's attached to you. Raven made with the haste and got you to the infirmary. Cyborg did the removing of the wires and you've have done the resting since then. Fortunately we found you before the Puppet King could do the switching of your bodies." Barb was baffled, but just nodded and smiled. She had no doubt that they'd get a better explanation later.

Splurge wiped the sweat off her forehead and hacked her way through another bush. Not long after they'd woken up, criminal activity had been reported deep in the Brazilian rainforest. Apparently it was a team of young villains known as the Hive Five. One of its members, Billy Numerous, had already had his butt kicked by the new Titans and they were ready to do it again. Whilst they were on this mission the older Titans had gone searching for Beast Boy. It had been three days since he'd disappeared and so far they'd had no luck in finding him. As the Titans reached a clearing in the rainforest, sunlight flooded through the trees and revealed the destruction that Hive Five had been causing. An entire native Brazilian village had been razed to the ground. The smoking remains of wooden huts lay everywhere. The Titans moved into the centre of the clearing when Splurge suddenly noticed the rustling of the bushes nearby. On five sides of the Titans came the rustling. They knew that whatever it was, it wouldn't be friendly. They looked at each other and prepared for battle.

Flex snarled at the sight of what stepped out from the undergrowth. In front of him stepped the first foe he'd faced as a Titan. Billy Numerous. Hate bubbled through him as he remembered the insults that he'd taken when last they'd fought. He also noticed a huge beast of a man facing Albatross, whilst a mysterious cloaked figure stared silently at Barb. They must be Mammoth and Kid Wicked. He looked to his other side and saw Hawk facing a small slight guy with one eye, he figured that it must be SeeMore, and Splurge glaring at the final member of Hive Five, a tiny kid named Gizmo. Almost as one the Titans leapt at Hive Five and as each of their blows connected their was a blinding flash of brilliant sky blue light and the Hive Five member and the Titan lay on the floor, unconscious. Flex growled as his punch connected with Billy Numerous' stomach. Suddenly he felt light headed. He seemed to be flying. Then he collapsed on the dusty ground.


So, the new Titans have had their butts kicked by the puppet King and then by Hive Five. Or have they? You'll have to read chapter 9 to find out…