Hey y'all! Here it is... Chapter eleven! Thank you, reviewers!

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Regardless of warnings,

The future doesn't scare me at all

Nothing's like before

-Utada Hikaru, "Simple and Clean"

Chapter 11

"Mas? Menos?" Speedy's eyes were wide as saucers from his place in the cage. "Mas y Menos!" he yelled. But they stared blankly ahead, eyes red and lifeless.

Speedy swore under his breath and glanced over at Lora. "They're under mind control," he said. The redhead grimaced, remembering the Brother Blood issues. Mind control? Not pleasant. "We have to get out of here and help them, now."

Terra's eyes glowed yellow, and some of the steel, mixed in with rock and soil, shot at the twins and some of the robot henchmen. Mas y Menos sidestepped it quickly, but a good chunk of the onslaught was unconscious from Terra's attack. Bumblebee shrank, flitting around and trying to snatch the chip from Mas or Menos; they were, however, much too fast, and so she grew once more and helped take out the Sladebots.

Robin, though he was defeating every opponent against him, wished for his bostaff. He watched as Aqualad took out another bot with more water.

'Where are you getting all this water from?" he yelled.

"No clue!" the Atlantian replied.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven broke apart the cage that Speedy and Lora were in. Speedy grabbed Lora's hand and he jumped out of the cage, and onto a rock that Terra was flinging around. Then they landed safely on the ground and Speedy started punching out any Sladebot that came within twenty feet of him.

However, even with all these small victories happening, Mas y Menos were still on the loose...and they had plenty of rope with them. First, like a lightning flash, they had Raven, Sarasim, and Aqualad tied up. Then Terra, and after quite a fight, Bumblebee.

But Robin, Lora, and Speedy were nowhere to be found.

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"We have to go back! Mas and Menos...and now they have everyone else too!" Speedy struggled against Robin's iron grip on his arm.

"Look, if we hadn't slipped away we all would have been caught. And we still haven't found Starfire or Cyborg or Beast Boy," the Boy Wonder argued.

"Or Lann," Lora added. She gave Speedy a small smirk. "They'll find us now too if you don't be quiet and..act your age."

Speedy, for the second time that hour, stuck his tongue out at her, but he relaxed and followed Robin and Lora.

"So where are we going?" asked Lora.

"You tell me, Miss Prophet," Speedy muttered to himself with a small grin. After Robin turned a corner, Lora whirled around and was about to give him a smack on the head when he grabbed her wrist and kissed her suddenly.

"Just in case I don't get to later," he whispered in her ear. It was all he managed to say; that had been better than he thought.

Lora's chocolate eyes were wide, looking at him. That was better than the grin.

"Don't be silly,"she whispered fiercly in reply, blushing. He smiled and pulled her around the corner to catch up with Robin.

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No matter how much Raven squirmed, the ropes held tight. But it wasn't so bad, being this close to Aqualad, one of her inner Ravens whispered. Raven ignored that comment and continued trying to free herself, trying to channel the strong Brave Raven.

The Clock of Azarath sat upon a small crystal table between the two thrones elevated in the center of the room. Raven gritted her teeth and squirmed even harder.

"We need to get that clock," she said to her two close companions.

Where was everyone else? Terra and Bumblebee were plopped onto the ground gracelessly next to her, and Bumblebee was, surprisingly enough, given back her weapons. Though she had the common sense not to try and escape. Robin and them, however, had escaped...

Aqualad was sitting still as a rock, and Sarasim was doing her best to help out Raven until the four villains entered the room.

Slade of the Future walked past each bundle of prisoners in turn, sneering at them. "Where is Robin and the girl? And the alien? Where are all of them?'

Heringard- the younger one- replied, "The alien and the robot are on their way as we speak...but the other three got away."

"That is not good," Young Slade said. "We should send someone to look for them."

The Heringard lounging on the giant throne pointed lazily at a shadow in the corner. "Boy," he said to Lann,"Go find your sister and her friends." Lann stepped out from the shadows and left the room.

"And you, green one," Heringard added, "Kill them."

Beast Boy stepped out of the shadows, normally bright eyes a dark shade of red. The chip on the back of his head gleamed.

"Beast Boy!" Terra gasped. "It's me!" He didn't seem to hear her.

Some henchmen cut the ropes on Terra and Bumblebee and watched as the changeling charged at them. The two dove out of the way just in time and stood, back to back, watching for any moving green thing.

'We have to get rid of that chip," Bumblebee said. "Can you distract him for me? I'm gonna shrink and snatch that thing off of him."

"Right!" Terra ran forward towards the green tiger. "Beast Boy, come and get me!" She threw a handful of rocks at him- gently, but enough to tick him off. She nimbly dodged out of the way as he leapt at her as a gorilla.

Her eyes glowed yellow and she blew another gust of rocks at him, leading him away from attacking the tiny Bumblebee.

Some part of Terra wanted to cry. So this was how he felt when she had been on the wrong side...never again. She would save him.

"Beast Boy, over here!" she taunted.

The changeling went running towards her and changed from a leopard into human form, tackling her to the ground. Bumblebee hovered behind him as he pinned Terra, but she was getting constantly swatted away.

"Terra, I need a serious distraction here!" she yelled. Terra, before thinking, lunged forward and kissed him, hard.

"That was her grand distraction?" Raven said sarcastically from the sidelines. Aqualad glanced over at her and gave a low chuckle.

'Well," he said as Bumblebee pried the chip off, "it worked."

Beast Boy blinked a few times and looked down at Terra beneath him. "Where am I and why do I feel all nice inside?" he asked. Sarasim started smiling until the older Slade stood and yelled, "Get them!"

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Lora and Speedy trailed a few feet behind him, but Robin didn't care that much. They rounded another corner, and another, until they realized that they had been going in circles. Then they took a different hallway, leading them into what appeared to be some sort of basement, with four steel holes in the wall.

"Where are we now?" Speedy asked.

Everything was the same steel like all the other empty rooms, but this time there were four oddly shaped lumps in the corner. Robin cautiously lifted the blankets off to reveal steel spheres, about as tall as Raven and very big around. There was a button on the outside of each, and Speedy had the initiative- or pure curiosity- to press one.

A door popped open out of the sphere-like thing. Lora put her head inside and climbed in. "Guys," she said, "Come look at this."

Speedy and Robin crawled in beside her and looked around in amazement. They were sitting on a small semi-circular seat, big enough to fit four people. In front of them were several buttons, each in different colors and with different words written in bold on each one.

"Launch, Submerge, Surface, Shut Door..." Robin read aloud. He looked out the door and noticed grooves in the steel floor, leading to the four holes in the wall.

"It's an escape pod," Speedy exclaimed.

"This could be useful," Robin said. He wasn't very enthused, though; he needed to find Starfire. Lora's words echoed in his head. He needed to find her before anything could happen...

"Why would they need and escape pod? What about a door?" Lora asked.

Speedy thought about the leaky pipes, and Aqualad's surplus of water to fight with..."Maybe this can't have a door," he mused. "Maybe it's not above water."

"We must be under the ocean!" Lora exclaimed. "That would explain the leaks and the steel everywhere."

They heard footsteps outside.

"Come on," Robin hissed, and they climbed out of the pod, sneaking stealthily over to the door.

"Hey," one of the guards said,"Look what Master Slade gave me to hang on to." The talking Sladebot proudly held up a set of bows and magic arrows. Speedy's face immediately grew furious.

"Those are mine," he growled quietly through gritted teeth.

"And that's mine," Robin muttered. The other guard had his utilitly belt...and his bo-staff too. Just when the two angry Titans were about to all out assault the guards, two more guards came forward...with Cyborg and Starfire tied up in metal cords behind them.

"We got some prisoners to take to the Grand Hall," they said. "Shame he's gonna kill a pretty little alien like her, though."

Robin's eyes flashed behind his mask, and he leapt out of hiding without a second thought. Speedy and Lora soon followed, and one guard was quickly thrown into oblivion by Lora. Speedy grabbed his bow and arrows and shot a second guard, and Robin took out the third with his martial arts, grabbing his utility belt and clasping it around his waist once more. Lora sent the final guard into oblivion with the first.

"Friends!" Starfire exclaimed. Robin and Speedy untied them as Lora kept watch for more enemies. Starfire wrapped her arms around Robin in a hug.

"H-hey Star," Robin said. She was safe, and the relief was blowing him away. He glared at Cyborg and Speedy, who were makingkissy faces at him. His glare was replaced with surprise when Lora joined in. But seeing Lora only reminded him of what she had told him...and he frowned.

Starfire went and hugged everyone else as well, and though Robin was tempted to make a silly face as revenge, he still could only frown when Starfire hugged Speedy. But, he declared to himself, she hugged him the longest.

"Yo, I'm happy to see you guys too, but we need to move it," Cyborg said.

"Right." Speedy proceeded to fill them all in as they made their way back towards the Grand hall, where the other Titans were. Robin left a birdarang stuck in the wall by the entry to the escape pods and followed after them.

They rounded a corner and were stopped short by a familiar face.

"Lann!" Lora gasped. She tried to run forward, but Speedy held her back.

"Wait," he said. Lann's eyes were the same color as Mas y Menos'. "Lora, can Lann do anything special?"

Lann's eyes glowed a red-orange and he shot a bolt of red lightning at Speedy and Lora, the redhead quickly turning so that the bast didn't hit Lora.

"That answers that question..." he said with a wince. Lora reached out and healed him quickly, giving him a special smile before she turned her attention back towards her brother.

"It should be easy enough to get the chip," Robin said as he dodged more lightning. "We need a distraction and someone to get behind him and snatch it."

Starfire immediately flew around behind him and tried to grab at the chip, but lightning was coming ou from all over the young boy and she was blasted too. Cyborg was blocking lightning with little blasts of his own, and Robin was dodging them nimbly, bostaff in hand.

"Someone calm him down," he yelled. Lora looked at Speedy. "Try an ice arrow," she said. Speedy shot one of his arrows at the ground and Lann's feet were encased with ice.

"Now another one on his hands," she said, and Speedy shot again, but the arrow was destroyed before it got there. Robin, seeing Speedy's plan, threw his own ice disc and Lann's hands were frozen.

Lora ran forward and snatched the chip from the back of Lann's head.

"Lora?" The ice quickly melted off of his hands.

Lann looked around at the Titans surrounding him. "What happened?" he asked.

"I'll explain on the way, kid," Speedy said. "Can you get us to the Grand Hall?"

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The hall was filled with countless Sladebots, surrounding Terra, Beast Boy, and Bumblebee. They were in some deep mud here. Aqualad looked around, trying to find anything to use. He felt Raven and Sarasim squirming beside him. Why wasn't he helping them? Aqualad knew he should be helping, but there was something his brain was trying to tell him, and it all kept leading back to those leaky pipes.

But there were bigger issues at hand here, and with his help the ropes were quickly loosened as a group of guards ran forward to attack the three others.

"Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" Those guards were flung into a wall. But there were even more taking their place. Sarasim ran forward to join the surrounded group, knocking out Sladebots left and right, kicking anyone who came near her. Beast Boy fought hard, and Terra was flinging rock all over the place, and Bumblebee was slicing people through with her blades.

Aqualad was washing away guards all over the place, feeling the water everywhere around him...and then he realized what his subconsious was saying. He ran over to Raven, dodging attacks and washing away the attacking henchmen.

"We're underwater," he gasped. Raven flung a pice of the steel floor at an approaching Sladebot.

"What?"

Then suddenly a blue beam filled the doorway and blasted away a good half of the attacking Bots. Green starbolts joined it, and soon another chunk of the enemy was gone. All around Raven and Aqualad, more Sladebots simply disappeared, and some were skewered by arrows, and familiar cries of "hyah!" echoed through the hall. Orange lightning illuminated every corner of the Grand Hall, including the resting place of the Clock of Azerath.

The rest of the team had arrived. But, they realized as a strong gust flew by, so had Mas y Menos.

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More next chapter, folks! Stay tuned :)
-Silver Miracles