A/N: Ta-da! Another chapter, no long waits! Dosn't that make you feel all warm inside? Ah, whatever. In this chapter the game of chess comes to a close! Read on

FLUFF ALERT!

Checkmate and Escape

'How long had it been?' Raven thought to herself, folding her arms and thinking deeply, 'Thirty minutes? An hour? He still hasn't made his move after this long.'

She glanced across the chessboard, watching each opposing piece intently. No moves had been made from Mad Mod's side for the longest time. Behind Raven, Beast Boy had fallen asleep, slumped against the railing still. Rorek stood beside her, offering occasional advice and strategic moves; Mad Mod had allowed them to work together throughout the entire game. Now it had come to this: Mad Mod had a total of ten pieces left on the board, while the titans had only seven pieces remaining- one pawn, two bishops, one white knight, one rook, the queen, and the king.

Finally, a black queen moved so that Raven's knight was just another square away from it. Mad Mod was being bold moving his queen around this much. Grimacing, Raven studied the screen carefully, and moved her other bishop to a safe spot. There was a brief cackle from the intercom, and a rook took Raven's second bishop, which she had left wide open near the center of the board. 'Six pieces left,' Raven thought to herself, 'and my king hasn't even moved a single square. I can't let him check me.'

Raven sighed. Her head was aching from thinking and doing some math calculations in her head.

"Something the matter?" Rorek asked, looking at her.

"No, it's nothing." Raven said, gazing back at him" I'm fine"

It was her turn again.

'God, I hope the others hurry up and find us,' Raven thought to herself, 'I don't know how long I can play.'


"Where are our friends you meanie?" Starfire bellowed to Mad Mod for the hundredth time, storming back and forth.

"For the last time my love, I have no idea where they are!" He exclaimed, smiling his Cheshire cat smile. The truth was, Mad Mod had eventually figured out where the three titans would have gone, but he wasn't telling. Currently, he was bound to an orange chair in the Titans Tower kitchen, where Starfire had been interrogating him non-stop.

Glaring at him, the alien gave a 'hump' and walked over to the refrigerator. She decided to take matters into her own hands. Opening the refrigerator door, the Tamaranian peered inside, looking for something. Curious, Mad Mod tried to look over her shoulder to see what she was doing, but the ropes limited his movement severely, and so he could only see her backside as she shuffled through the fridge. Finally Starfire said, "Ah-ha! Here it is...," and pulled out a plate with a sickeningly green jell-O-looking substance on it.

"Wha-what is that?" Mad Mod asked nervously, gulping.

Smirking slightly, Starfire walked towards Mad Mod with the plate in hand and said, "It is glorg, my favorite dish from Tamaran." She placed the plate on the nearby counter, causing the glorg to jiggle, and pulled out a humongous spoon. She then scooped out a chunk of the slimy glorg and bent down so that the spoon was directly level with Mad Mod's mouth.

"R-really my dear, ya don't wanna do that!" The British villain cried, trying desperately to squirm away from the spoonful of glorg.

"Open wide," Starfire said firmly, "or tell me where our friends are!"

"For the last time," He snapped angrily, glaring at her, "I don't know a thing!"

Starfire shrugged as if to say "oh well" and yanked Mod's mouth open with her free hand. She then began to move the spoon agonizingly slowly towards his open orifice.

"Awright! Awright!" He screamed at last, just as the glorg was less than an inch away from his lips, "I know where they are, I'll tell ya! Just don't feed 'hat stuff ta me, please!"

Starfire nodded, lowering the spoon, and said, "Much better."

Mad Mod exhaled in relief and said, "Awright….as best I can figure those buggers are at…" Before he could finish the kitchen doors opened suddenly, and Robin rushed in, followed by Cyborg. "They're at Mad Mod's old school," Robin exclaimed to Starfire, "Titans, move out!"


'This is it,' Raven thought to herself, 'I'm going to lose this game, and we're all going to be stuck here forever. There's no possible way we can win.'

Mad Mod had the upper hand this late in the game, and victory seemed out of reach Raven. Her king was about to become incapable of making any moves, and then it would be over. 'No, don't say that Raven,' Rorek thought to Raven, 'we can still do this; we can win if we try our hardest.' Raven nodded at him, and then she heard him say the completely unexpected: 'I love you.'

Somehow, Raven managed to look utterly taken aback at Rorek's confession, even though she had had a deep suspicion all along. Rorek smiled at her and wrapped his arm over her shoulders, and Raven smiled back at him. Beast Boy was still sound asleep behind them.

"Awright my duckies," Mad Mod voice snapped out of the intercom, "Lovey dovey time's over. Make your move Raven, so I can win this game!"

Rorek quickly slid his arm off Raven as Beast Boy awoke with a start at the booming of the voice. "Uhh... what day is it?" The changeling muttered, sitting up drowsily.

Raven ignored his remark and thought to herself, 'No! This isn't right. I love Beast Boy, not Rorek. …Or do I?' She shook her head and tried to focus on the game; she would deal with her rampaging emotions later.

Studying the screen once more, Raven made her next move. There was a slight delay, and then the last black rook was moved to block Raven's queen from nabbing Mod's knight. "Great," Raven muttered to herself.

"So, is that a bad thing?" Beast Boy questioned, now watching the game.

"Yes," Rorek answered for Raven, not sounding at all rude.

"Oh," Beast Boy said, continuing to watch in awe.

After another minute or so of deep thinking, Raven placed her index finger on the white bishop, paused, and attacked his remaining rook. It vanished off the board.

Raven knew, however, that protecting her queen meant a sacrifice. On Mad Mod's turn he used his queen to take Raven's final knight; and that meant one step closer to a checkmating.

'I've got to protect my king,' Raven thought to herself, 'either that, or checkmate his first.'

It was apparent that Mod was going to surround her king with another knight and a couple of pawns. Raven knew this, but she had not done much to stop it; she had another strategy in mind. She picked out her queen and moved it so that it was in the upper left hand region, safe and sound. Mad Mod's king was only two squares to the right. Then, before Raven knew what was happening she had lost her last bishop.

"Didn't see that coming now didja?" Mad Mod chuckled, sounding smirk, "You lot should just give up now, it'll save ya a lot of trouble!"

'He's right,' Raven thought to herself dismally, 'Only one more turn and my king will be checkmated, no matter what.'

Rorek, who had remained silent, observed the touch-screen carefully. Suddenly, his eyes light up. He bent over to Raven and whispered something into her ear.

'That's it!' Raven thought to him, smiling slightly.

He smiled back at her and said, "Go for it Raven."

"Your turn love," Mad Mod chirped, "But I sappose it don't make a bit of difference now does it?"

Raven ignored him and moved her last pawn to the square directly to the bottom left of his king. 'This is it,' Raven thought to herself, restraining her nervousness, 'This will be the finishing move.'

Overhead, the voice chuckled and said, "Raven, oh Raven. Sending this silly pawn after my king? Ha, don't make me laugh." Then, the king moved and took the pawn with the greatest of ease.

But after the move was made, a sudden gasp could be heard from the intercom.

"No!"

"Yes," Raven said with a smile, placing her finger on the queen in the upper left corner, which Mad Mod had apparently forgotten about due to his overconfidence, "This is my move." He had fallen into her trap.

She moved the queen once, and took his king, just like that. Raven's queen could not have been taken, because directly behind it her king stood protecting it.

"Checkmate," Raven said, standing back and folding her arms in triumph.

"Checkmate," the mechanical voice repeated from above, "MAD MOD'S king has been checkmated; THE TEEN TITANS win."

All the hologram chess pieces disappeared off the board.

"NO!" Mad Mod's voice bellowed, "NO! This cannot be! I ALWAYS win at chess, it's my game! It came from England, my country owns it!"

"Sorry dude," Beast Boy said, grinning, "But Raven just kicked your British butt."

Suddenly, there was an explosion, and the right hand wall of the room was blown out. When the dust settled, Robin, Cyborg and Starfire were standing among the rubble.

"Dudes, you found us!" Beast Boy cried, jumping off the platform and hugging Robin's leg mercilessly, "Thank you! Thank you! It was terrible…I didn't understand ANYTHING."

"Uh, Beast Boy," Robin said, trying to shake him off, "it's ok…let me go!"

"Sorry we're late yall, "Cyborg called to Raven and Rorek, who had stepped off the platform, "But we had some digging to do."

"Friends!" Starfire exclaimed, zooming over to Raven and Rorek and hugging them together joyfully.

"Good to see you too," Raven managed to gasp through Starfire's grip, "But…where's Mad Mod?"

"Oh, he is here," Starfire said, releasing her hug of death on the two and pointing outside, where a tide up and gagged Mad Mod looked at them annoyingly.

"….But if he was in captivity this entire time," Rorek managed to say after recovering his breath, "then how did we hear his voice and battle him in chess here?"

Everyone looked at one another questioningly, and then peered through the broken wall at Mad Mod. Suddenly, without warning, his head fell off, and everyone gasped in horror! Beast Boy fainted on the spot. But once the imposter's head had fallen to the ground several layers of circuitry running through his neck could be seen.

"A robot!" Cyborg exclaimed in awe.

"But if that's a robot," Robin said slowly, "Then where's the real Mad Mod?"

Suddenly, a cracked portion of the roof collapsed onto the other platform, demolishing it.

"Ow!" A familiar accented voice yelled, "Blimy that 'urt!"

When the dust settled, the real Mad Mod came crawling out of the debris, looking annoyed. He had been hiding under the other platform the entire time.

Suddenly becoming aware of the titans, the elderly Mad Mod smiled at them and, holding up the peace sign, said "Peace?"

The team looked at one another deviously and charged at Mad Mod.

"Oh no…No! Stop! Please, OW! Not the face!"


Yes, that would be a good ending tothe story, except Beast Boy still has to get the moped! Don't worry, when I said there were only two chapters left I kinda lied, heheh. Actually there's gonna be one more chapter, so to those who were expecting B.B.&Rae fluff check out the last chapter, it'll be worth your time I promise! I won't be able to write the last chappy for awhile, becuz I'm going to swim camp next week; it's gonna be awesome! But have patience and I swear it will be out ASAP. Special thanks to all reviewers! You guys always make my day with positive and helpful reviews.