This time Nightwing opens up his eyes and sees that they are still trapped , but the mysterious figure is no longer in the chamber and no electric shock. It only takes a few minutes as he quickly gets his bearings before anyone notices that he is awake. He surveys the entire room finding Kory in an orb with red globes above her draining her powers, Donna is in a status field keeping her from moving, Cyborg is in three pieces. Thunder and Lightning were held back to back with large mangles over their hands and feet to keep them from using their powers. Whoever was running HIVE seems to know a lot about the Titans, too much in fact Nightwing thinks.

He puts his mind back on the task at hand of looking for a weakness somewhere that he could exploit to free them. Then they could find Thunder and Lightning's mother the reason the Titans came to here to begin with. He decided that he had to free Donna first, but first he had to get free. The guards watching them are not as alert as their leader , and they still did not know he was conscious. Which gave him the time he needed, when they capture the Titans they must not have considered him a threat because they did not search him. Taking his thumb touching the tip of his glove on his index finger he activates his pen laser that cuts through his constraints as he lands touching the ground a guard sees him and activates the alarm giving Nightwing only seconds to free the rest of the team. He grabs a miniature bat wing and tossing it at the status field destroying its controls then Donna falls free. He catches her before she hits the ground as Wondergirl recoveries Nightwing dispatches the first four guards that responded to the alarm. As Donna recoveries, she frees Starfire, Cyborg and the two brothers. As a full squad of guards enter the chamber they are met with a familiar battle cry "Titans Together", as Donna rolls the ground around a few of the guards, Starfire shoots star bolts take down more of the guards as Cyborg uses a couple thousand decibels of white sound to take more of the guards down where they stood. Thunder and Lightning round up the remaining guards in their own unique way.

Nightwing walks back from the control center just as the last guards fall. "Team I found out where they are keeping Thunder and Lightning's mom down on a sub level deck." The whole team races towards the lower levels of the complex seeking to find HIVE's hostage.

At Titans Tower, the surreal scene as the tower is surrounded by the calm of the evening lake with smooth waves crested above the shore. The Tower is more than a headquarters for a group of super teenagers but a symbol for justice for the city that it is founded. That quiet is interrupted by a thunderous sound as a figure emerges from the sea and crashes into the lower east side of the tower. The figure tries to stand up slowly but falls down. The battered figure belongs to Aqualad, and only three weak word escapes his lips as the darkness claims him, "Titans help me."

On the lower level of the HIVE complex the Titans arrived and are surprise to find no guards trying to block their path. They arrived to what looks like an old airport hanger with a high bay overhead area. Standing in the middle of the room is the figure that Nightwing saw when he first came to.

"Ah, Titans you finally arrived. I was wondering when you were going to grace us with your presence down here in my sanctuary."

"Who are you?" Starfire demands.

"I am the room that sees everything. I have known about you Titans for quite some time, but I never saw any reason to bother you in your fruitless quest for justice. Who could have known that my special guest's two worthless sons would come seeking you for help."

"Where is our mother?" Shouts Thunder.

"Team calm down. What is your game and what did you need their mother for?"

"Always the detective Nightwing, for one I have no game. I am just a seeker of knowledge, and their mother was an ends to that means. Their mother existence proves that there is life other than on earth, you see their mother is an alien."

"No more lies from, I will hear no more!" Thunder charges towards the mysterious figure who uses an null energy ray that snaps Thunder's strength as he falls to the ground weak as a kitten.

"Let that me a lesson to you all, know your betters."

"There are aliens all over from our teammate Starfire to Superman. Aliens are no big news."

"So the robot speaks finally, but your reasoning is false. Since you children want their mother so bad, why don't I introduce you to her. Weapon X74 enter."

Big footsteps could be heard in the chamber as pressure quakes evenly pace approached our heroes as Lightning is trying to help his brother back to his feet. Then slowly emerging from the darkness is a large green figure. With four bones sticking out of its head, its large jaws matching its great white shark like teeth lock in the three rows in its mouth. It stood ten feet high and about as long as a school bus with a long tail and claws on all four paws.

"Titans meet X 74, their mother. Now X 74 kill them all!"

Next chapter will end the Thunder and Lightning storyline and start the Titans undersea adventure. Until then Enjoy!