Sorry about the wait! I've just been busy. Anyway, enjoy!

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Arfenhaus Drive; Chapter 3: Gerbils, Gerbils, Gerbils (get the reference, win a prize!)

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-in three easy steps!

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-ou tired of muscle cramps?

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Ehehehehe… doody…Eheheheheh… diarrhea…

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Then add the nutmeg…

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"For God's sake, Rob, pick a channel and stay with it."

"No! I can't believe this! We've got over two hundred channels, and not ONE with the news on!"

"Go back to Family Guy, that was a good episode."

"NO!"

Ryan looked up from his car magazine and elbowed Beast Boy.

"Dude, what's the deal with him?"

"Aw, he's just cranky 'cuz we lost froggy. He always gets like this when there's nothing to do."

"Jeez, somebody find this boy a girlfriend…"

"I've GOT a girlfriend, thank you very much!" Robin roared without turning around.

"Oh yeah, what's her name?"

"Er… CINDY! GO AWAY!"

Ryan and Beast Boy sniggered behind their hands.

"Okay, what's her last name?"

"I- Robin! I mean, er- Bob! CINDY! John! Johna…thon- stan- burg… Yeah."

Ryan and Beast Boy were cracking up by this point.

"Robinbobcindyjohn-john-athonstanburg?"

"HAHAHAHAHA!"

"Shut up! Hey, SHUT UP! That's not funny! And I'll tell you another thing! She's… um… very sensitive about her last name!"

"HAHAHAHAHA!"

The doors to the boys' rooms hallway opened, and Cyborg stepped out. He chuckled as he walked up to the fuming Robin.

"One, what's going on? And two, do I get a turn?"

Beast Boy wheezed between laughs.

"Sure, go ahead."

Bebebebebeeeppp…

Cyborg looked at his arm.

"Whoops, no time. Robin! We got a live one!"

"Where are Raven and Starfire?"

"On the roof, meditating!"

"Okay, where are we headed?"

"We're close. It's the mall."

"Theives?"

"Vandals."

"They called US for vandals?"

"Er… sez here they've got weird powers, and… Whoa! It's Mumbo and Bad-Man!"

"Working together?"

"That's what it looks like."

"Alright then, we'll need the full team for this one. Cy, let's take the T-car. Beast Boy, get Raven and Star on your way out."

"Gotcha." He ran over to a window, slid it open, and flew up towards the roof as a hawk.

As he and Robin headed for the elevator, Cyborg stopped to talk to Ryan.

"Ey man, you want a chance to kick some bad dude ass? We could use the help too."

"Can't. Sorry."

"Later, then."

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Down at the shopping center, Mumbo and Bad-Man were using their Arfenhaus controls to smash, blow up, and generally obliterate everything they saw. The blue magician was having the time of his life.

He waltzed into a clothing store, eyes locking on to a rack of hats. 25 off.

"Ooo! Hat trick! Ha ha ha!"

The hats suddenly grew fangs and began eating everything else in the store.

Meanwhile, Dr. Bad-Man was chasing an innocent bystander, shouting constantly into his Arfenhaus remote.

"Giant bee! Apple tree! Bobby Lee! Two times three!"

The man he was chasing turned into an insect, a tree, an Asian guy, and the number six.

"Applesauce!"

The man turned into a giant puddle of applesauce, which several other running people slipped in.

"WHOO-HOO! Surf's up, DOOD!"

The front of the clothing store exploded outward, and Mumbo, perched atop a coatrack, and garbed only in ridiculous happy-face boxer shorts, rode an enormous wave of grape soda out of the store. He slid to a stop in front of Bad-Man.

"Whee! Ha ha ha! This is the greatest thing ever!"

"Yes, but remember the purpose of this exercise. If we cannot draw out the Titans, then this whole plan will be for naught."

"Hmm… yes. Where are those menaces? They're usually here by now…"

THOOM

A nearby wall erupted outward and Cyborg came thundering through, closely followed by Robin. Cyborg craned his neck and looked about the trashed shopping center.

"No sign of the others. Guess they're not here yet."

"Doesn't matter! Let's go!"

Robin pulled his staff and leapt at Doctor Bad-Man, swinging his staff straight down at the villain's head.

There was a resounding crash as Robin's staff connected. However, the staff did not connect with the evil doctor's head as Robin had planned, rather it hit a toilet bowl which had suddenly appeared where Bad-Man was standing but a moment before.

Robin snarled as he was pelted with bits of porcelain. Powder filled the air, blocking the hero's view. Robin swirled his cape about him, effectively clearing the cloud of powdered ceramic. As his vision cleared, Robin took a quick look around him and was instantly puzzled: the villain was gone. How did Bad-Man do that? Did he have some sort of magical toilet power? And where was Mumbo?

His question was answered as a giant rubber Mumbo-ball smashed into his back.

"Muhahaha! Feel the wrath of… The Amazing Mumbo! Thank'ya, thank'yaverymuch, ladies and gennelme- WHOOF!"

Cyborg's sonic cannon blew him through a wall.

"You okay Robin?"

"I'm fine! Where's Bad-Man?"

"Gone. Dunno where though…"

"Oh jeez."

"What?"

"Turn around."

A stampede of various wild animals was charging down the corridor at them. Snorts, growls, and the occasional "moo" echoed down the chamber.

"Pattern Epsilon twelve!" Robin shouted.

"Roger!"

Two panels on Cyborg's chest slid open, revealing two rows of small missiles.

"Locked and LOADED!" He roared.

"What the heck are you doing?!" Robin shouted.

"Um, pattern Epsilon twelve?"

"That's not Epsilon twelve! That's Delta fourteen!"

"No, Delta fourteen is the Flying Armadillo Cannon!"

"NO, that's Gamma two!"

"Fine, then what do YOU think Epsilon twelve is?"

"RUN LIKE HELL!"

And then the elephant hit him.

Or it might have, had Starfire not snatched him into the air at the last moment. Robin stared at the sea of animals thundering by below him.

"Cyborg!"

"Right here!" Cyborg yelled from the back of a green pterodactyl.

Raven levitated up between the two.

"Where are Mumbo and Bad-Man?"

"Right here, you FOOLS!" Doctor Bad-Man roared at the Titans from his position on the back of a water buffalo.

"And now, we'll finish you!" Shouted Mumbo from atop an ox.

"Y'know," said Cyborg, "if you two didn't look so ridiculous, that might've actually been dramatic."

"CAN IT!" Bellowed Bad-Man.

Cyborg's head turned into a can of peaches.

Starfire screamed.

"EEEEEEKK!"

Robin screamed.

"GET HIS ASS!"

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Bwoowoowoowoowoowoo-fzzt-fzzt-zzt…

"For Goraan'a's sake! This is where you should run! Why are people in these horror movies all so STUPID?!"

Ryan, bored and left with nothing to do, had raided Cyborg's DVD collection, selecting The Ring from the massive archive of movies. In retrospect, it was a poor choice, as he'd already seen the movie twice, and the terror and disturbing-ness of it all sort of wears off by the third time. Safe to say, he was pretty bored.

Unbeknownst to him, he was about to have some very unpleasant company.

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A chubby, disturbing, familiar looking little man with spiky green hair stood at the base of the giant T, little black box in hand. He spoke.

"M3 g0 Up n0uu! G3t In5Id3!"

A bright flash of light, and L33t was streaking off towards the roof. He hit the bottom of the T's crossbar and phased through, passing out of view.

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Ryan sighed. The movie was almost over. Suddenly he jolted upright.

"Whoa! What the heck?"

The movie had blipped out, and the "ring video" was playing again. Ryan gave this a moment's consideration and glanced suspiciously at the elevator doors.

"Ha ha. Very funny, guys. You can come out now."

No one came.

He looked down at the couch. The remote was still there. He cocked an eyebrow and looked back at the TV. The well scene. Except… there was something crawling out of the well.

"I don't remember THAT happening the last two times…"

The thing emerged from the well and began slowly walking towards him, the black and white scenery a stark contrast to its neon green hair and yellow jumpsuit…

Ryan just stared blankly at the thing for several seconds before realizing what he was doing.

Nothing.

He considered simply destroying the TV, but that would just land him a heavy bill to foot. He gave a little thought to the situation, and walked over to the electrical plug for the television. He looked back at the screen. A second passed. Two. Three.

And then L33t's hideous head emerged from out of the screen.

And Ryan pulled the plug. The TV blipped out and the head… well… it fell off. Ryan smirked and picked up the head by its pointy hair.

"TAKE THAT YOU FROG-FACED BASTARD!!!"

There was a pause of several seconds as Ryan silently stared at the head. Then…

"j00 Di3z0rZ n0uu CU2 I KI11Z j00!"

"GAHH!"

Ryan flung the head over his shoulder, upon which it slammed into the kitchen counter, went into a backspin, and crashed into the fridge.

"BOO-YAH! Eat it froggy!"

All of a sudden, L33t's decapitated body exploded from the fridge, throwing food everywhere.

"Whoo, didn't see that coming…"

The headless flesh golem picked up its head and literally screwed it back onto its shoulders. L33t coughed and spoke into his Arfenhaus control.

"R48iD g3r8i1 c4nn0n!"

A massive launcher materialized on L33t's shoulder.

"Oh Jeebus."

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Ka-BOOOM!

"GUAGH!"

Robin was thrown backwards by the explosion as the clown detonated in his face.

Ka-BOOOM!

"WAAAA!!!"

Thud.

A flying, smoking green thing came smashing into the ground alongside Robin.

A dazed Beast Boy sat up and shook his head violently.

"Sooo… Robin, how's it hangin'?"

"Not so hot. Move for the fountain! We can regroup there!"

"Okay! But, um, how do we get there? There's exploding clowns everywhere."

Robin jumped onto Beast Boy's shoulders.

"Turn into something big!"

"Gotcha!"

Suddenly, Robin was sitting atop a rhinoceros. The green beast charged towards the large fountain in the middle of the plaza, but was intercepted by Arfenhaus-generated, suicide bombing clowns, which proceeded to throw themselves against the rhino's thick hide.

Meanwhile, Bad-Man and Mumbo were huddled behind the counter of a shoe store, getting pelted by starbolts and potted plants.

"Make more clowns! We've got to get out of here!"

"I can't! The signal isn't strong enough!"

"What?!"

"Can you hear me now?" Bad-Man spoke into his control with no avail.

"That's it! I can't be hiding behind a counter! It's bad for my "evil" image! I've got a reputation to uphold! Time for some Mumbo magic! AlakaNOOCH!"

FOOMP

A cloud of smoke rose from behind the counter, and the two evildoers were gone.

FOOMP

Bad-Man suddenly found himself in a restroom stall.

FOOMP

Mumbo appeared beside him.

"Are you getting a signal now?"

"Let's see… YES!"

"Let's make some clowns!"

They both simultaneously pressed the buttons on their controls.

"Exploding clowns!"

There was a popping sound as a clown appeared before them… then another, then another, then another. Before long, the entire restroom was filled with clowns: drooling, staring, gnashing, exploding clowns.

The villains smiled triumphantly.

"Exxxcelentttt…"

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Raven and Starfire crouched outside the door to the men's restroom.

"I hear voices."

"Do you think it could be the Man of the Bad and the Mumbo of the Amazing?

"Umm, sure…"

"Perhaps then we should investigate?"

"I dunno. It is a men's restroom."

"Agreed. Resting men are not an entirely pleasant sight. I once saw Beast Boy sleeping on the couch. He was drooling all over the-"

"Not what I meant, Starfire. Okay, I'm gonna open it. You ready?"

Starfire nodded, eyes glowing.

"Here goes nothing…"

Raven's eyes glowed a dull white as she thrust out her hands, encasing the door in black energy and throwing it right off its hinges.

Raven stared.

Starfire stared.

Thirty-seven pairs of glowing eyes and painted faces stared.

And the chase was on.

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"GAHH! Not cool, not cool, not cool, not cool, not cool!"

Thoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoop!

"SKREEE!!!"

Thud

"LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!1!"

Ryan dove, leapt, ducked and rolled to avoid the rapidly firing projectiles from L33t's cannon. Dodging flying objects and energy beams was a common undertaking for any Tamaranian soldier, and was usually done with a smile and a wave, but this time, Ryan was slightly unnerved, to say the least. Beams he could handle. Bullets? No problem. Knives, glaives, chains, swords, punches, kicks, Blacktrinian slag catapults, and other such things of the "deadly" persuasion were of no qualms to Ryan. Flying rabid gerbils, on the other hand…

Thoop

"SKREEE!!"

Thud.

The insane little hairball that L33t had just shot from his gerbil cannon had embedded its razor sharp teeth into the wall where Ryan had been standing just a millisecond before, as the alien sped off in the opposite direction.

This psychotic dance of fur and flight had been going on for a good five minutes, the room was covered floor to ceiling with crazy mammals, and L33t was showing no signs of running out of ammo.

Ryan sweated bullets.

"This is getting me nowhere. Time to fight back, Anders…"

The Tamaranian pulled out his trusty metal stick, extended it, and went to work. A flying gerbil got the business end of Ryan's staff and went flying through a window. L33t redoubled his assault, conjuring another cannon onto his left shoulder.

Thooopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoopthoop! Thwokthwokthwokthwokthwokthwokthwokthwokthwokthwokthwokthwokthwokthwok!

Squeek-eek-eek-eek-eek-eek-eek-eek-eek-eek-eek-eek-eek-eek-eek-eek-eek-eek-eek!

Ryan charged the kitchen counter, twirling his staff in front of him like a killer fan. Gerbils hitting the staff no longer flew; they simply exploded. Several got through the swinging pole of doom and latched onto Ryan's arm, biting through the shirt and drawing blood. He was glad he wasn't wearing his jacket. He liked that jacket.

Ryan hit the couch at full speed and jumped off the back, gerbils flying off him as he soared through the air. L33t opened fire on the aerial target as time seemed to slow down.

Thooppp…thooppp…thooppp…

Swoooshhhh…woooshhh…wooshhh…

K-thud…k-thud…k- thud… Whoooshhh…

CLANG!

Ryan's staff jammed down the barrel of L33t's right gerbil cannon as time returned to normal. L33t fired, and there was a momentary silence before a sickening crunch and the explosion of the gerbil cannon. Both combatants were thrown backwards by the force, gerbil parts and cannon pieces flying everywhere.

Ryan rose to his feet, what remained of the TV he had just plowed into sparking wildly around him.

"Did I… win?"

"GUUUGHHHHGRRRRGG!!!"

L33t flew out from behind the kitchen counter in a mad dash straight for our hero.

…Upon which Ryan deftly sidestepped and back-kicked L33t through the sixth story window.

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Robin and Beast Boy had managed to reach the fountain and were now crouched behind it, out of sight of the marauding clowns.

Robin peered cautiously out from the corner.

"Okay, I don't see the others anywhere. I'll try to contact them with the communicators," he whispered.

"HERE???" Beast Boy asked incredulously. "Shouldn't we get to cover first? Hate to say it, but this fountain isn't exactly too much protection, and my insurance doesn't cover clown attacks."

"It's a central position. Easier to regroup here than some obscure location." Robin replied.

The Boy Wonder flipped open his communicator.

"Raven are you there? Where are you? Raven?"

"Uhh… Robbinnnnn…."

"Not now, Beast Boy! Raven! Come in! This is Robin! Repeat, this is Robin! Do you copy?"

"ROBIN!" Beast Boy shouted.

"Okay, okay! What?"

"That." Beast Boy pointed.

Robin looked.

"Ah, crap."

Flying straight at them were Raven and Starfire, followed by a horde of evil exploding clowns.

"Er, Epsilon twelve?" Beast Boy asked.

"MOVE!" Robin shoved Beast Boy out of the way and drew a handful of explosive discs from his utility belt, flinging them past Raven and Starfire and hitting the first wave of clowns, causing a massive clown-chain-reaction.

THOOMMMM!!!

"Raven! Shield now!" Robin roared.

"Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!" Raven cried, throwing up an orb of obsidian energy just as the expanding eruption hit them. The sorceress struggled to keep her arms steady as wave after burning wave of orange flame washed over the barrier. Raven grit her teeth. Seconds passed. Hours, it seemed. She dropped to one knee, pushing with all her might. The shield wavered. Beads of sweat fell. Robin was yelling something. She closed her

eyes. The sky was falling… The sky was falling… And then nothing.

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Ryan lackadaisically walked up to the gaping hole in the tower window, hands held behind his back. He peered downwards at the crashing surf below. Nothing there.

"EEEYAHHH!!!"

Ryan looked up as L33t's boot plowed into his head.

The two spiraled towards the waves and jagged rocks below, engaged in an insane struggle for control. Ryan grabbed onto the leg L33t had kicked him with and started spinning himself around using his flight powers. As the Earth zoomed up to meet them, Ryan heaved L33t's body over his shoulder and threw him downwards towards the bay.

"f1Y!" L33t screamed, sprouting tiny bumblebee wings from his back and zooming up to the tower roof, leaving a trail of pixie dust behind him.

Ryan jerked his head upward after him.

"Dammit, just DIE already!" He shook his head and blasted off after L33t.

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Raven?

Raaavennnn…

RAVEN!

"Hunh? What? Am I dead?"

No, no! It was all a dream! You're not REALLY a demon sorceress from another universe! You're actually a stupid, dumpy, teenager passed out in a public restroom after getting high on CRACK!

"WHAT?! NO!"

Yes! This isn't Jump City! This is Las Vegas! In a Carl's Jr.! You don't have any powers! Hell, superheroes don't even exist! Your real name is Pricilla A. Pimplepick, and you live in a run-down trailer park with your abusive mother! And it's about time you woke uppppppp…

"AAAAAAHHGHHHHHH!!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

Everything in a fifty-foot radius exploded.

"Raven! What happened? Are you okay? Speak to us!"

Raven panted heavily, one hand clutched to her chest.

"All. A dream. All. A dream. Okay… I'm still here, right?"

A green head loomed over her.

"Dude, Raven, what the heck are you talking abou- accckk!"

Raven suddenly reached up and grabbed Beast Boy's face with one hand.

"Ack! Raven! Stop feeling my face! OW!"

Raven sat up and removed her hand. Fuzzy.

"Okay. This is real. So, what happened?"

Robin knelt down beside her.

"You passed out after shielding us. Are you sure you're okay? You were acting like you were hallucinating or something."

"No, it was nothing. I'm fine. Really. …Where are Mumbo and Bad-Man? I need to pay them back."

"Gone, it would seem. Heat scanners and motion sensors are zee-ro." Cyborg said, looking at a readout on his arm.

"Cyborg. You're not a can."

"Another reason why I think they're gone. I believe the devices they were carrying, the same ones that the frog was carrying, I might add, only work within a certain radius. After leaving that radius, the effects of the device cease."

"That's a relief," chuckled Beast Boy, "I thought I would have to spend the rest of my life spoon-feeding you through your can."

"Man, that just sounded WRONG. And this could be a potential problem, too. With a timed range of effect, the things the device did would always wear off eventually. But with an area of effect, they could easily keep the device within the vicinity as long as they wanted…"

"…Permanently incapacitating us…" Robin's brow furrowed.

"Mm-hmm. Not good, eh? It's too bad, if we had managed to take one of those things, I might have been able to get a bit more solid info, and… Robin?"

"Hmm?" Robin turned around. "Sorry, I was just thinking. We have to be more careful. Though the sheer absurdity of their methods may distract us, we're still dealing with three villains, almost certainly working together, who can bend the very fabric of reality with the touch of a button. We may not realize it, but this might very well be the most deadly situation we've faced thus far."

A chorus of nodding and mumbling followed.

"Okay, let's go back to the tower and do some research. I want everything you can find on reality-bending devices."

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Ryan peered over the edge of the tower roof. L33t had his back to him. Good. The black box thing was clenched in his right hand.

Ryan took a deep breath.

"…Okay! Here goes nothing."

He blasted silently over the edge and flew across the roof, hand outstretched. L33t didn't even notice until the two were side by side. Ryan snatched at the control, knocking it out of L33t's gloved grasp. The control clattered across the roof and eventually settled in a corner.

L33t glared for a moment, then dashed madly for the control. In split second Ryan had pulled his metal rod, still un-extended, and flung it at the speeding frog-man. It spun wildly and struck L33t in the back of the knee and he fell backwards in an awkward position. As he rose to his feet, Ryan was suddenly in front of him.

He drew back his fist.

"Lights out froggy."

The blow smashed into L33t's face, shattering his glasses and making him stumble. Suddenly, Ryan was behind him, jamming his knee into L33t's back. As L33t wheeled around wildly, Ryan jumped straight up and onto L33t's shoulders, then jumped again, forcefully plowing him into the ground.

Ryan kneeled in front of L33t's face.

"Ready to give up?"

L33t snarled and bit Ryan's hand with his disgusting teeth.

"Wrong answer."

Ryan's hand closed around L33t's face as he lifted him up by his head and plowed him up to his neck in the roof, sending dust and debris flying.

Still conscious, through some miracle, L33t began flailing wildly, attempting to pull his head out from the floor. After several minutes of this, L33t finally gave up and went limp. Ryan strode up, grabbed an ankle, and yanked L33t's head out of its imprisonment.

"So, are we done yet?"

L33t responded by kicking back with his leg, breaking Ryan's hold.

"What the-? How can he be that strong? …YIKES!"

A black-booted foot swung at his head. Ryan dropped down and rose up quickly, coming up with L33t's foot resting on his shoulder, with his right arm holding it in place.

L33t used his great lower body strength to tear his leg out of Ryan's grasp yet again, this time making a quick counter that connected with Ryan's stomach. Unfazed, Ryan wrapped both arms around L33t's kicking leg and hiked it between his legs like a football, bringing the reptilian man to his back. He finished by simply falling elbow-first into L33t's giant gut. L33t's uttered something that sounded like "gwoohpp" and went still.

Ryan got off of L33t's prone form, gagging.

"Ack, Goraan'a! Do you ever shower?!" He shouted at the body, "You smell like a bloated corpse! Ug!"

Ryan kicked L33t in the stomach again, just for the hell of it, and walked over to the Arfenhaus control. He brought it to his mouth.

"Handcuffs!"

Suddenly, he found his wrists chained together.

"Not for ME, you stupid thing! For HIM!"

The handcuffs popped off his hands, sprouted legs, and walked over to L33t, jumping onto his wrists and locking.

"Better."

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The silvery T-Car pulled up in the Titan's underground garage, the titans getting out and getting into the elevator.

"Lost another one."

"It happens."

"…"

"…"

The tinny elevator music was prevalent in the Titan's silence.

Ding!

"Took long enough…" Robin commented, "I should have a look at the- WHOA!"

The living room and kitchen area were trashed. Glass, steel, chunks of the walls and ceiling, couch fluff, food, and the refrigerator were just a few of the things littering the floor of Titans Tower.

On top of all that, what looked like gerbils were gnawing their way through various spots on the walls and furniture.

Beast Boy opened his mouth to say something, but he was shoved out of the way by Starfire, who looked about ready to cry.

"Ryand'r?! Brother, are you here? Where are you?! WHERE ARE YOU?!"

And then Ryan flew in through the window, unconscious frog dude in tow.

"Geez, I'm fine Kory."

"Oh, tanyk-en Goraan'a!" Starfire ran up and hugged him, and for once someone could one of her hugs without almost being crushed to death.She almost laughed. "I had thought for a moment…"

"What, that I might have been killed? C'mon, I'm the Pride of Tamaran, the greatest warrior in a billion years or more. I'm not gonna get beat by a FROG." He laughed. "Oh, and Rob, I brought you guys a present." Ryan threw the criminal onto the floor in front of him and shoved him toward Robin with his foot.

"We'll cherish it forever," Raven drawled sarcastically.

"What, you thought I meant that? Nah, that's just a bonus. I was talking about THIS." Ryan tossed L33t's Arfenhaus control to Robin.

"Ha ha! That's it! This is the device!"

"Well, this make things a whole lot easier," said Cyborg, looking the thing over. "I'll take it down to the lab and examine it. I should be able to find some way to counter it."

Robin smiled at Ryan.

"Looks like we owe you one yet again."

"No problem, man. You guys gave me a place to stay, and that's enough. I could live with fighting a few frog men for free room and board."

Raven glanced at Ryan's injured arm, and at the blood running down his shirt.

"Ouch. Did he get you?"

"No, I bit myself in the shoulder just to see what would happen," Ryan jeered sarcastically.

"Here, I can take care of that for you," Raven said, her hand glowing a dull bluish color.

"No thanks. This is nothing. I'll just clean it and let it heal on its own. Well, I'm gonna go take a shower. Later."

All five Titans stared after Ryan as the hallway door shut behind him.

Cyborg turned to Starfire.

"He's not fazed by much, is he?"

"No…" Replied Starfire. "He's just… like that."

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At the Arfen-warehouse, Mumbo and Bad-Man were discussing their plans of conquest.

Bad-Man smiled.

"L33t has not returned."

"Aaandd… this is a GOOD thing?"

"Yes. It means my plan is going perfectly."

"How's that?"

"Well, after I instructed L33t to attack the tower while we distracted the Titans, I figured on the defenses taking him out. When the Titans return, they'll find my unconscious toady, lock him up, and take his Arfenhaus control."

"Well how the heck is that good for us?!"

"First of all, I never really like L33t… But more importantly, those brats will trace the signal of the device to this location."

"Into the permanent-effect radius of the drive itself…"

"Precisely."

"That means…"

"Yes. We'll be rid of those meddlesome Titans. For good this time."

"MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!"

End Chapter

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Next up: Final Battle! Axis' Fall, Rising Up Again!

Gundam Fight all set? ReadyGO!!! Wait… that's not right… CUE THE THEME SONG!

T-E-E-N T-I-UG!

Ryan: (dusting knuckles) I hate that song.

Well… how 'bout this?

Chad Kroeger: They say that a Heeeeeeroo could sav-UG!

Ryan: I hate that one too.

Well then you do better! Before the pile of unconscious morons gets any bigger…

Hey you! Yes, I am referring to you, the person reading this. Pick a song and put it in your review. I'llchoose my favorite and stick it in the next chapter as the ending theme. Try to make it somewhat theme-related. Quick… before he kills someone…

Chad: Help meeee!

Ryan: (wielding a 200 pound axe) I'M GONNA CHOP OFF YOUR-

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(See you next time!)