The titans arrive to the bay, only to find Kurt and Ethan sitting down inside a building-sized empty container, apparently abandoned, and left in the most isolated corner of the bay. A man crouched in between them. His hands and feet tied up.

Both the teams keep their distance from the men, as they do not know if Slade or X are nearby.

"Well, well, well." Kurt took some steps forward. "Looks like our little victims are all better now, right Ethan?"

Ethan smiled viciously. "We´re going to have to hurt them once again I believe. But this time, I don´t think we´ll have any mercy."

The teams took some steps forward from Raven and Starfire.

"You wish you could." The titan leader spat out. "If anybody is leaving hurt today, it´s both of you."

"Oh, and what about our friend?" Ethan walks back and grabs the face of their hostage. His face was disfigured from all the beating he had taken. His clothes were dirty and bloodied, and he didn´t seem to have any energy inside of him no more. His head just plopped back down when Ethan let it go. "Does he get to have fun too?"

The teams concealed their disgust and concern when they saw the man´s state. This only fueled Robin´s anger even more. He almost wished Slade was nearby so he could kill him with his bare hands for making innocent people suffer like this.

"What is it that you want?" He said in a low menacing voice.

"Oh, we already got what we wanted, we´re just doing the last part of our job." Ethan said, while Kurt undid the roped of the hostage's hands and feet. He made him stand up and kicked him forward, making him fall to the floor face first. Raven rushed to him and helped him up silently, and taking him to where she was standing before so she could heal some of his wounds.

Ethan and Kurt smiled. "Too bad we can´t be here for the party. But it sure was fun." Kurt said.

Before Robin could answer, a thick smoke wall exploded between them and the team, and when it dissipated, they were both gone.

But the Titans still weren´t alone.

M´gann and Wally crouched beside Raven to keep an eye on the hostage, but the rest of them stay put to see who else was hiding in the shadows.

"It´s nice to have a proper meeting at last." Robin heard Slade´s familiar voice echo through the container´s walls.

"Raven, take him to the hospital and get back here as soon as you can." Robin spoke without turning around.

"Titans get ready" He said, pulling out his bo-staff and getting into fighting stance. Both teams readied themselves for what was about to come. It was about time to end all this madness.

Out of the shadows stepped Slade and Red X by his side. They just stood there, quietly.

"I´m glad to see the wounded have been recovered. But this still isn´t over." Slade said. "In fact… It has just begun."

As soon as he ended his sentence, X duplicated once, twice, up to four times, right in front of the teams eyes.

"What the…" Beast boy said in a low voice.

"Have fun keeping up." Slade said, just before they all jumped to attack the heroes.

"Titans, Go!" Robin yelled as they all lunged forward to fight. Robin knew who he was going to fight immediately, even if it was the last thing he did.

Red X lunged a kick to M´gann, and she dodged it neatly, throwing a punch and de-stabilizing him for a moment. Superboy took his chance to knock him out but X dodged his every move. Confused, Superboy stopped for a moment, and Red X took the opportunity and grabbed him arm, throwing him against the wall.

M´ganns eyes widened at this, and then narrowed with rage, and she lunged back again at the Red X clone to fight him with her fists. Red X grabbed her arm as well with immense force. Even if M´gann tried to fight it, it was useless. She ended up getting her arm twisted behind her back, hearing a loud crack ash she was pushed to the floor, she let out a scream of pain when she hit the pavement.

Beastboy turned into the lion and jumped on Red X while he looked over the injured martian. When he looked down to see X, he was gone. Frantically, he morphed back into a human form to look for him, but the only thing he saw was a red and black blur before being cut on his arm by a Red X´s weapon, which was as pointy as Robin´s birdarangs. He grunted in pain and turned into a Rhino, roaring with rage, as he lunged back again and Red X.

Meanwhile, Kaldur and Speedy where trying to fight one of the clones, that kept duplicating by the minute. They were getting punched from every angle, and even with the swift gushed of water Aqualad sent, and Speedy´s aim, they just regenerated and kept fighting the heroes.

Wally, the younger Robin, Cyborg and Starfire were closer to their leader, fighting as well, but also keeping a lookout for what was happening between him and Slade, since their fight was also heating up quickly and Robin was already injured.

"You´re going to regret this Slade" Robin said, firing multiple birdarangs in his direction, in which only one landed on his metallic chest, denting him slightly.

"The only one who will regret this will be you, Robin." Slade walked forward and planted a kick on the young heroes' chest. Robin struggled to keep himself up but he did, keeping a menacing expression on his face. "I don´t think you understand how much power I have over you and your little friends. I can get them killed if I want to, in any moment."

Robin didn´t answer and tried to hit Slade with his bo-staff, but every hit was being dodged by the villain.

"Here, let me show you." Slade said darkly.

In a matter of seconds, Slade pressed a button built in his arm armor and a gunshot was heard. It all happened in slow motion for him, Robin´s eyes went wide as the whole place went quiet and Slade disappeared into darkness. He could feel his ear drums ringing from the sound, and then he heard a blood curling scream that made his heart drop.

"ARTEMIS!"

Robin tried to compose himself from the situation that just happened. Turning around he saw Artemis laying on the ground, her eyes wide open in horror, looking down at an open wound in her stomach.

"Raven we need you here, NOW" Robin communicated with the empath using his communicator as he sped up to her.

Wally ran to her side and tried to sit her up, holding her head and her arms.

"It´s okay, you´re okay, you´re going to be fine." He said nervously, grabbing her face to try to keep her with him.

Quickly Speedy took off his shirt and rolled it up, pressing it on the bloody wound to keep any more blood from coming out.

Artemis cried out in pain when he did this, tears started streaming down her face.

Robin looked around for Raven, but the only other ones that were near the entrance of the container were Superboy helping M´gann up, since her arm had been injured. They were slowly walking towards Artemis.

"Artemis don´t close your eyes ok? Stay with me." Wally took off his glove and grabbed her hand, which was cold to the touch, too cold for comfort. Her team huddled together to assist the speedster, as did the titans. They tried to hold her up and stop the blood, but the wound seemed to be very serious.

Her eyes were barely open, and no words came out of her, except for moans of pain.

Starfire hurried to Robin´s side. "She doesn´t have much time Robin."

As soon as she spoke, Raven arrived to the scene and immediately enveloped both of the teams, taking them back to the tower´s medical wing.

Quickly, she and Cyborg started hooking her up to a machine to help her breathe, while Wally, along with Speedy´s help bandaged up the wound properly. M´gann was being assisted by Star and Superboy. She hadn´t really seemed her arm in proper lighting, but now that she could, she was horrified. Her arm was twisted, and needed to be snapped into place properly.

Star looked at her with concern, and M´gann knew what had to be done. She nooded quickly "Do it, Star."

Superbody grabbed her face and enveloped her in a hug, leaving her bad arm on Star´s hand.

"It´ll be fine." He whispered in her ear.

Starfire grabbed her arm, and with great pressure snapped it quickly. Both M´gann and Superboy flinched at the sound, and her cry of pain was muffled a bit from being buried into his chest.

"Conner, help me bandage her." He took the bandage that Star held up for him and started wrapping her arm correctly, while Star applied pain medication. He looked at M´gann, as tears fell from her face. She was looking at the other heroes trying to save her friend. Superboy stood in front of her, blocking the view.

"She´ll be fine ok? You have to believe she´ll be fine." He said, although he wasn´t completely sure about what he was saying. The situation grew worrysome when Artemis´pulse started dropping.

"Everybody move away." Raven said, walking closer to her and placing her hands on her wound. The heroes all huddled together near her bed. Wally squeezed her hand, refusing to let go. They all listened to the monitor beeps as the room went quiet. Raven closed her eyes and her hands began glowing slightly.

Beep.

She muttered her mantra silently, but constantly.

Robin held Starfire´s hand, for the first time in years, feeling pure fear.

Beep.

Speedy and Kaldur looked at each other, worry plastered on their faces. M´gann and Superboy glued their eyes to the monitor.

Cyborg and Beast boy held their breathed.

A single, long beep was heard throughout the room. A single tear rolled down Raven´s cheek from her closed eyes.

"No…" Wally whispered silently.

The beep continued. Raven kept her hands on the wound.

It seemed like eternity until a couple of seconds later, the beeping became short once again, and the monitor found a pulse.

Everybody let out a breath of relief when they heard this, as they sighed in unison.

Raven took her hands off the wound and opened her eyes.

"She´s back." She said simply.

Wally and M´gann quickly stood up and hugged Raven at the same time.

"Raven, thank you so much." He said.

"It´s ok Wally. We are a team." Was all she responded. "She´s stable now, and will be fine in a day or two."

Cyborg looked around the gleeful room and noticed something. He walked closer to Star.

"Star… where´d Robin go?" He asked.