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Whew! Chapter 17!

Chapter 17

Slade's Takeover

Slade paces angrily back and forth in his planning room. Angry at his plan falling apart in front of his eyes, angry that he had once again lost Terra.

"No matter. I will have control of this city soon enough." Slade said to himself. "Gizmo! Jinx! Mammoth! Get your worthless hides in here." Slade barked into the loudspeaker.

Within a minute, the three HIVE members assemble in front of Slade. Looking at them carefully, Slade lays out his new plan.

"You three are to release the Cinderblock, Plasmas and Overload. I shall need them to morph once again for this plan to work. I doubt you will have much trouble with the Titans, seeing as two of them are now dead, and their spirits should be quite low. They realize I can take this city whenever I please, and they are not at full strength. Plus, they must deal with Terra, who will try and make her way back, should she ever wake up."

The three HIVE members nod. They all turn to leave, while Slade issues one final warning.

"Do not fail me on this. If you do, you shall each suffer most painful deaths."

The three HIVE members shudder, then quickly run out the door.

JUMP CITY

The three Titans make their way back to the warehouse, Carcer walking slowly behind them, still trying to catch up. Robin reaches the Warehouse first, and sees Cyborg under a pile of rubble, his left arm gone, his right leg crushed, most of his repaired circuits once again damaged. Robin runs to his fallen friend's side, tears brimming beneath his mask. He begins to throw some of the rubble off of him. Beastboy runs up behind him and starts to help. Raven watches the two teens, all to aware of the tears streaming down her cheeks. After a few minutes, the two boys uncover their friend. Seeing his mangled body was almost too much for them, both finally breaking down sobbing hard. Carcer walks up behind Raven, carrying the limp form of Terra in his arms. He carefully puts her down and walks over to Robin and Beastboy.

"We can't stay here." He said.

Robin looks up at Carcer, his eyes filling with tears and rage.

"Don't you care? Cyborg's gone! Starfire is missing! And it's all Terra's fault!" Robin yelled.

Beastboy looked at Robin, though he didn't say anything, the anger he was feeling plain on his face. Robin stared back at Beastboy, then back at Cyborg. Sitting down next to Cyborg, Robin starts to check his body.

"He can be repaired. His human parts are still in one piece, and I can make the repairs to his mainframe, or enough repairs to get him back online. But we have to hurry and get him hooked to life support for his human parts."

Carcer looked back at Robin.

"Well, we can't do it here. Do you have a place we can go?"

Before Robin could answer, a loud explosion was heard throughout the city, a large cloud of smoke raising over where the prison was.

"We have to get out of here. Now." Came Raven's voice.

"Yeah. There's nothing more we can do right now. We're barely at half strength, Cyborg is down, Starfire is missing, and we have Terra to deal with. Beastboy, do you think you can carry Cyborg?" asked Robin

Beastboy nodded his head, and transformed into a gorilla. Walking over to his fallen friend, Beastboy lifts him gently into his arms.

"Raven, I need you to transport us to Gotham." Robin said, walking up to the dark psychic.

Raven nods, and envelops the whole group in a dark raven-like form, transporting them out of Jump City.

AT THE PRISON

The three HIVE members finish off what was left of the prison guards, as Cinderblock, Plasmas and Overload release all of the other prisoners. Mammoth blocks the exit, forcing all of the prisoners into the exercise yard of the prison. Jinx and Gizmo stand in front of them, Cinderblock, Plasmas and Overload behind them.

"Congratulations, you have all been selected to join Slade's army." Jinx says, looking over the prison population of 87 strong. Each one of them seemingly worse then the last, every single one of them a convicted murderer or worse.

"An' what if we don't wanna join up with this Slade?" came a voice from the back.

"Oh that's easy. You either join, or you can fight one of the three beasts behind me." Jinx replied.

The prisoners began talking amongst themselves, before Gizmo launched a small missile, exploding it above the prison, immediately quieting all of them.

"So what's it gonna be crud munchers?"

The prisoners took one last look at each other, before all of them raising their hands, shouting a chant of "SLADE! SLADE! SLADE!"

Jinx smiled to herself, turning on her heel and walking towards the exit.

"You know what to do Mammoth. Get them ready. Send the three monsters after you are done." Jinx says as she walks out the door, preparing to report to Slade.

Mammoth nods and walks to the center of the yard, issuing orders and Slade patches.

SLADE'S LAIR

Slade watches the prison on his computer screen, smiling beneath his mask at what was taking place. The prisoners chanting his name, Cinderblock Plasmas and Overload standing watch. It was all falling perfectly into place. Within a day the city would be his, and with no Titans around to stop him, the next city he would take would be Gotham, then, he would take Metropolis. And then, he would plan from there what city to take next.

"Slade? I am here to give you a report on the plans condition." Jinx said as she walked up behind him.

"There is no need. I have seen enough to know that everything goes according to the plan. Tell me when Cinderblock and the others get here."

"Yes Sir." Came Jinx's reply.

Jinx walks slowly out of the room, leaving Slade to his thoughts.

"And when this is finished, I shall find and deal with the remaining Titans." Slade thought to himself, leaning back in his chair.

A few hours later, Jinx reported back to Slade, telling him that Cinderblock and the other two were back, and that the his prisoner army, along with a massive movement of Slade Bots were tearing up the city, destroying anybody foolish enough to cross their paths.

"Good. Very good." Was Slade's response, as he watched on the monitors. "Jinx, get the other HIVE members assembled. All of them, not just Gizmo and Mammoth. We have control of 37 percent of the city, but the remaining people and police force are putting up quite a struggle. I assume they do not want their city taken over by me again."

Jinx nods, and begins to walk out of the room before stopping and turning back to Slade.

"Do you want any prisoners?" she asked.

"No. Destroy any who oppose me." Came Slade's response.

Jinx nods once again and walks out of the room, talking into her H-Com as she left, gathering the HIVE members. After a half-hour, the entire HIVE school had gathered in Slade's planning room, all of them talking to each other. Jinx slammed her fist on the table for silence.

"Listen up! Our mission is simple. Take out the remaining population of Jump City. Take no prisoners! And I know all of you hate those little Titans, so keep this in mind: After we take this city, Slade has given me permission to hunt down the Titans and do what I see fit. This will be our grand prize! Now move out and crush any opposition to Slade!" Jinx yelled into the crowd.

A loud cheer went up, hands raised in the air, the HIVE school started a familiar chant of SLADE! SLADE! SLADE! Before leaving the planning room and going out to start their mission, each HIVE member thinking about what they were going to do with the Titans once they were caught.

Out in the city, guerrilla warfare raged between former prisoners, Slade Bots, HIVE members against the remaining population of Jump City and what was left of the police force, each side taking casualties, but the Jump City resistance more then Slade's army.

Starfire watched from the clock tower, tears still running down her cheeks. She was unsure where her friends were, and was still to injured to try and help. She raised her hand and tried to throw a starbolt, but only succeeded in a small, meager green light.

She walked back into the tower, unable to watch the horrible battle rage on the streets of the city she used to help protect. As she slowly sat down, she could feel tears beginning to come out again.

"Don't move, girl." Came a voice from behind her. Starfire turned around and was faced with a girl dressed all in black, with light blond hair and blue eyes, pointing a gun at her head.

"My name is Furry Rose, and you must be Starfire. Funny, everyone said you were killed with Cyborg. Not that it matters anymore. What does matter is that you are now prisoner of HIVE."

Starfire stared at Furry Rose, aware that she could do nothing to save herself. The injuries that she had from the tower attack were too severe. Raven had done well to patch up the outer damages, but not the internal ones. Starfire reluctantly raised her hands in surrender.

"Good. Very good. Now, come with me. And don't try anything, or else."

Starfire nodded, tears streaming down her face as she walked past Furry Rose, her head hung low. Furry Rose jams her gun into Starfire's back, making her yelp in pain.

"Shut up and move." Furry Rose said, jamming and twisting the barrel of her gun, causing Starfire to cry out in pain louder. Furry Rose walks Starfire down the stairs of the clock tower onto the street below. Stopping by the body of a dead police officer, Rose picks up a pair of handcuffs and cuffs Starfire's hands behind her back. A loud cheer went up from the HIVE members as they all turned around and saw Rose pushing Starfire down the street. Tears streaming down Starfire's face came faster and faster as she started to cry. Scared and alone, Starfire was lead down the war-torn streets of Jump City.

SLADE'S PLANNING ROOM

"Jinx Report now." Slade barked into a communicator.

"We have beaten back the resistance, both of the sides have taken casualties. We have lost 89 soldiers. 5 HIVE members, 34 prisoners and the rest of them were robots." Jinx replied.

"Hmmm... we lost a little more on our side then I would have expected. Oh well, it does not matter. How much of Jump City is under my control?"

"We have taken control of 97 percent of the city. Only stragglers remain. They will be dealt with immediately." Jinx said. "And, we have a gift for you, Master. Furry Rose is bringing it to you now."

"A gift?" Slade said, sounding surprised.

"Yes. A gift. And here she is." Furry Rose said walking through the door, Starfire in the lead.

Slade switched off the communicator and walked over to Starfire.

"Very interesting. I see you did not perish in the tower attack. Good. I can use you." Slade said. "Put her in a holding cell. I will deal with her later."

"As you wish, Master." Rose said, grabbing Starfire by her left arm and dragging her into a different room.

"Get in there." Rose snapped, shoving Starfire into a holding cell, causing her to trip over her own feet and fall hard on her left side. Slamming the bar door shut, Rose smirks at Starfire before walking away, leaving Starfire handcuffed and crying softly.

Other Disclaimer: I don't own Furry Rose either, though I did make her up.

NOTE: Yes, Furry Rose is a stupid name, and I chose that because when I saw the "deception"

Episode, I saw how stupid a lot of the HIVE characters looked, so I made one with a stupid name as well.