The rally base

Inside the castle, everything was made out of marble, there were torches, letting out a weary light of green, the stairs to the upper floor were endless, and the hallways stretched out into darkness. She woke up.

"You awake?" a voice asked.

"R-Raven?" Starfire asked.

"Yeah." She said.

"What is this place?" she asked.

"In their castle." Raven said, pointing at an alien guard with her eyes.

The guard had a shape of a man but had some kind of tentacles on it's back, but they stuck strong to his back.

"W-What are they?" Starfire asked.

"I don't know, but I think they're not good company." Raven said.

"Yes."

Then, a door opened and another one of the creatures came in, but this one was different, instead of tentacles on it's back, he had six claws on his back. And had a weird mask on.

"He looks like the leader." Raven said.

"Yes." Starfire said.

"Welcome to my humble home, are you comfortable?" the leader asked.

Starfire looked around her, she was stuck to a circular panel, she had no chains on, but she was stuck. Raven was next to her, stuck on the same kind of panel.

"Do you like our new ultra-gravity panel?" he asked

"What do you want with us?" Raven asked.

"Oh! I have some use of you two!" he said

"What?" Raven asked

"You'll just have to see." He said.

He approached them and took out a needle from his pocket, as he got closer and closer to them, they got scared. The needle contained some green liquid and he held two tubes, which had the same liquid, but there was something like a frog's egg inside, but was twice the size.

"Wh-What is that?" Starfire asked.

"It is your medicine." He said with an evil grin

He got right in front of Starfire.

"Enjoy." He said with a huge smile.

"What…"

He injected the liquid on her arm, and force-opened her mouth and made her drink the weird egg-shaped material.

Starfire looked grim and scared. Suddenly, she felt a feeling like her heart could burst, and her head ached like never before, she suddenly felt a pang of pain. Her back arched in pain, and she stated sweating, she groaned loudly. She gasped.

"R-Raven" she said between gasps.

Raven was looking at her worriedly. Then looked at the alien leader.

"What have you done to her!" she asked.

"I have made her my general." He said.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"Look beside you." He said.

Starfire had stopped, but she looked strange, she wasn't mad, but she had a weird purple light on her eyes.

"S-Star?" Raven asked.

Then, the alien leader said, "I am your master, the great Zarom, and you, are my loyal general of my army."

Starfire looked up at Zarom.

"What should I do O great one?" she asked.

"You shall lead half of my army to conquer the world!" he said.

"As you wish, master." She said.

"Turn it off." Zarom said.

The panel stopped, and Starfire started floating.

"What have you done to her!" Raven said.

"I have made her a general of my army, to lead my army against the world!" Zarom said. "And now, it's your turn!"

Raven struggled to get off the panel, and then, as if it was a miracle, her powers grew back, and she broke the panel into pieces with her black power.

"What is happening? I thought I said to eliminate their powers!" he said in fury. "Get her!" he said.

But before they could get her she teleported herself.

"No!"

Robin woke up.

"W-Where?" he remembered the other day, when he saw his home city fall and.. Starfire and Raven and Cyborg, Beastboy disappear!"

Just then, he saw a black hole appear right next to him, then, Raven appeared, she didn't seem to be hurt, but she did seem weak.

"Raven?"

"R-Robin" she fell down, but Robin caught her, and laid her on the ground.

"What happened?" he asked.

"S-Star…" she fainted

"Wh-Where am I?" Cyborg said.

"You are in our machine factory." Said a voice.

"Machine…Factory?"

He looked up, and couldn't believe what he saw, he was in a huge war factory, they were making some kind of robots, which he seemed familiar with. He looked around him, his arms were bound with plugs and he couldn't get himself up, he got his energy back, he tried to get his sonic canon out, but couldn't.

"We have replaced you and got rid of your weapons system." Said the voice.

"What do you want with me?" Cyborg asked

"We want you to build our weapons." The voice said.

"What if I don't want to?" he asked.

"Well then we'll have no choice but to do this the hard way, his voice was ancient and deep."

"Wh-What?"

Cyborg felt a strong electric current then, he felt himself being overcharged, his red eye began to turn purple, then, he gave up and he became another one.

"Yes master."

"Excellent." The voice said.

Beastboy woke up.

"Where the heck am I?" he asked.

"In our animal maintenance section." Said the voice.

"Why am I here?" he asked.

"Because.. Well, we don't have any use for you, but we should keep you so you don't rebel.

"Hey..! How come I'm useless?" Beastboy asked, frustrated by the voice's speech.

"Because we already have your skills." He said.

"Well.. That's not very nice!" he said

"Well, bye." The voice said.

Raven woke up, finding Robin by her side, "Wh-What happened?"

"You just came out of nowhere and fainted." Said Robin.

"Oh."

"Now, what were you gonna say about Star?" asked Robin.

Raven suddenly remembered about Starfire. She told Robin about the incident inside the castle.

"Star…." He looked at Raven. "So, does that mean you have your powers back?" he asked

"Yeah."

Just then, the wall blew open, and a shape floated through the hole.

"S-Star?" Robin asked.

"Robin! How nice it is to see you!" She said.

They hugged each other. Raven was surprised to see Starfire.

(Starfire…. HERE?) She suddenly panicked.

"Robin! Get away from her!" she shouted.

"What?" Robin said.

"Stupid little earthling!" Starfire said, her eyes grew dark-purple, and a purple starbolt formed on her hand.

Robin's eyes grew wide.

"Robin!" Raven threw some needles made out of power to Starfire, it hit her, and she flew off through another wall and stopped. Her eyes were now glowing fiercely.

"You will pay for this!" she shouted, but Raven teleported herself and Robin.

They arrived at a train station, "How could this be?" Robin said.

"She's been totally brainwashed." Raven said.

"I wouldn't be sure of that." A voice said.

"What? Who's there?"

"It is I….. Slade."

"Slade!"

"Why are you here?" Asked Robin.

"Oh, temper.. Temper."

"Did you come here for trouble?" Raven asked

"Not likely, I'm another one of the survivors." He thought for a moment "Pity that you two lived." He joked.

"Now, what do you want?"

"You know, you might want to calm yourself down." He said.

"And why would that be?"

"Right now, I don't feel like doing criminal business, so I'm rallying up the survivors in the city." He said.

"For what?" Robin asked.

"Well, I don't know, I just thought that we might have a better chance of surviving." He said.

"Can you take us there?" Robin asked.

"Yes, but if you can keep up my pace." He said.

"Okay."

"Then quickly follow me." He said.

They went on, Slade leading them into the sewers, Raven and Robin following him. And then, they came to a dead end.

"What's the meaning of this?" Robin asked.

"Just wait." He knocked on the wall weirdly, then, the wall suddenly disappeared with a sizzle, and the passage was open. They went in, and got surprised. The room had high-tech devices, and a wide screen T.V.

"What is this place?" Robin asked.

"It's one of my underground bases, built a long time ago." Slade said.

"And, where are the people you've rallied up?" Robin asked.

"You can come out, it's just the two birds of the titans." Slade said.

Then, the sides on the walls disappeared, showing some dormitories.

Robin and Raven saw almost all the villains except for Billy Numerous and Jinx. But there were allies too, such as Hotspot.

"Why are there guys missing?" Robin asked.

"From what I know, the invaders are using them for something." Slade said.

"And, for what?" Robin asked.

"World domination." Raven said.

Slade looked surprised.

"World domination! Where the heck did you hear that kind of stuff?" Robin asked

"I was captured! Remember?" She said.

Slade's eyes turned wide.

"How did you get out?" he asked.

"Well, I got my powers back by miracle I guess."

"You got your powers back?" Slade asked.

"Yeah."

"Hmm… That might be useful, anyways, you two should be tired, now go to sleep in you dormitories."

"Which is?"

"Yours is on the right and the one on the left is Robin's."

"Thanks."

They went inside their dormitories; there was a bed in the room, and an oil lamp.

Night. Raven said through Robin's mind.

Night. Robin answered.