Robin fell as he took a step forward. Pain shooting through his leg. he glanced up and saw Ternion's fat foot coming down on him, before he was whisked away quickly. Mas y Meno's carried him to safety. He smiled as Speedy's arrows flew to the Roof's, destroying each of the remaining bots. BumbleBee flew next to Robin. "Hey Bird Boy. Need us to unclip your wings?" Robin rolled his eyes as she flew off after making the comment. He saw Cyborg fly away from his spot as the ground he was on caved in, part of it going up quickly. It acted as a catapult and he landed roughly near Robin.

"Ternion miss you?"

"No, Jinx showed up and is fighting as well. She handed some of them drones a large can of butt woop in an alley." Despite the situation and that now the Titans East were finishing up Ternion, he smiled. Both Jinx and Bumble Bee were here fighting with them.

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"Cyborg, tell me what's on this dart!" Robin tossed a somewhat repaired Cyborg the poisoned dart he was hit with. After the Titans East and Kid Flash had shown up, defeating Ternion became easy. They were now sitting in the middle of the ruined street licking their wounds. Cyborg grabbed the dart and his red eye scanned it.

"Slade sure did a number on us Rob. These darts hit all of us, minus the Titans East and Flash. They won't kill us, but they will keep us out of commision for a few days. Well, maybe not Raven." Robin crushed a rock in his fist. He could feel a fever growing on his forehead, along with a cold sweat. He could already tell this wouldn't be fun.

"All right Titans, we need to head back to the Tower and check with Beast Boy and Shaman. Now that we've dealt with Ternion, we need to keep Slade from getting Shaman at all costs." Each Titan nodded. Having been briefed on what Slade was doing, All of them knew what was going on.

Kid Flash zoomed towards the Tower ahead of them. As Starfire was helping Robin up, Kid Flash's blur came right back to them. But when he was slow enough for them to see his facial expression, it was clear that something bad had happened. "Guys! The Tower! It's bad!"

"What's bad?" Aqua Lad asked with annoyance. Despite his respect for other Titans, he was annoyed when there was something important that needed to be said, and they never said it. Kid Flash didn't answer. He just grabbed Aqua Lad and pulled him. In 5 seconds they had come back, and Aqua Lad looked scared. Even then all he said was, "We need to get there as soon as possible.

The Tship had to be called to carry them as Starfire, Cyborg, and Robin were growing more and more ill by the minute. Raven's systems weren't as bad as the others, but the signs were there with sweat. Or the 79 degree weather could have something to do it. As the Tower came into sight, Robin's face fell. A little over a quarter of the top of the T had been blown away, every window was broken, the water and the island was littered with Slade Bots. Hundreds of them.

They even had to force the door open, using both Cyborg's strength and Starfire's strength. Eventually after forcing open three doors, Raven teleported all of them to the Main room. Every room they had been through was littered with Slade Bots, claw marks, burns, indentations, and water damage. But the common room was the worst. Thousands of small robotic parts filled the room, as well as dozens of Slade Bots. There was a huge whole in the floor, and the room below was filled with even more Bots.

"We should've left more of us here." Robin said while on his knees. Cyborg punched a hole in the badly charred couch.

"I should've known Slade would attack the Tower."

Bumble Bee hovered in the air above the hole. "Hey Sparky! There's no way you could've known. Don't blame yourself."

Jinx looked into the hall. "Don't worry Stone. Slade will be stopped. It'll all work out." And as she finished talking she glared at Bee who glared back. Robin, Speedy, and Aqualad raised eyebrows, as well as smirks. That was until some debris from the ceiling fell on Speedy's and Aqualad's heads. Everyone looked up to see legs coming out of a whole in the ceiling, as well as a green hand, which soon fell all the way through landing on top of Cyborg. Raven flew over quickly to help her green friend up.

"Beast Boy, are you all...right?" The teen she had helped up wasn't Beast Boy, but Shaman. His eyes were wide, and he had several burns. "They took Beast Boy."

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They all sat in the infirmary, Robin, Cyborg, Starfire, and Shaman were in blankets on the beds. They had also found a poisoned dart in Shaman's neck. Same thing as the others had. "They swarmed all over us. Too many to count. The security wiped out the majority of Slade's drones but more kept coming. Beast Boy and I were fighting them, but their numbers were too many. Beast Boy told me that our only chance of winning was to spread the fight over as much as the Tower as we could. That way the Security would be on our side. So that's what we did. But for every drone we destroyed, another 20 rose from the wreckage. But still, we fought on. Beast Boy and I were separated early in the battle. He went down the floors and I went up. Soon I couldn't go up any further as I was on the roof. There were about 3 dozen other bots fighting me there. Soon I fell, and a bomb from the floor beneath me blew and I fell down again. The good news is I survived and most of the bots on the upper levels were destroyed. The bad news is that it took out the security.

They swarmed us again, their numbers too many to count. But just as suddenly as they appeared again, they left. They made no effort to take me prisoner. I looked out a window and saw them take an unconscious Beast Boy on a boat. I went after to rescue him, but more bots were waiting in an ambush. I don't think it was me Slade wanted."

Raven felt her pulse quicken as she listened. And she remembered something Shaman once told her.

"Raven, as an old saying goes, 'You don't know what good thing's you have until they're gone.'

And now she knew he was right. She didn't know what Slade wanted with Beast Boy. But Azar help her, if Beast Boy was harmed in anyway. Well, Slade would be paying her father a little visit.

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Beast Boy woke up feeling very groggy. The first thing he noticed was that he was in no way bound, nor had he any clue where he was, and that Slade was only a few feet away from him.

"Don't try to morph Beast Boy. I gave you a sedative so you can talk and listen, but other than that your movement is limited." Beast Boy heard and didn't listen. He tried morphing and found he couldn't. He couldn't move his fingers, he couldn't move at all. Slade was right. "Now Beast Boy, you probably didn't listen to me and still tried to morph."

"What do you want Slade!"

Slade's eye narrowed as he gazed down towards Beast Boy. "I want my new apprentice to be quiet." He picked up Beast Boy and positioned him to see a very large screen. On the screen was the bloodstreams of several people, in fact it was the blood streams of Shaman, Robin, Raven, Cyborg, and Starfire. And there was nothing but the blood.

"It's blood, big deal." Beast Boy stated sarcastically, before seeing a metal case in one flow through the screen quickly, other soon followed in the others.

"Each of those cases hold a virus. A virus that is very familiar to you. That is, if you can remember Sakutia." The only response Beast Boy gave was his eyes widening. "There's only a few hundred that I had placed on the darts. The poison will make the Titans believe that the poison was meant to slow them down, completely unaware of them. And since there are so few cases of the virus, the chances of finding them are even less likely than the probes I had used before. And unlike Robin, there is no turning it off. I do not have a cure."

Beast Boy could feel himself sweating with worry for his friends now. He remembered the seizures, the convulsions, the sky high fevers, it was a nightmare. A nightmare he did not want to place on anyone...well, he could think of a few people. Some deserved it. But his friends were completely innocent. "What about the elemental enhancer?"

A small chuckle was all that Beast Boy heard for a few minutes. "That was bait for a much larger trap. It was to separate you from the others. You are the logical choice to stick with Shaman. Beast Boy, I tell you this. IF you do not follow every single command from me. The smallest request, the tiniest of favors, then your friends will suffer what you've suffered. And there is no turning back once they do. All I have to do is push the button and your friends will be infected." He held out a button connected to his gloved hand. "And I will make you watch. Do we have a deal?"