OH MY GOD I FORGOT THE DISCLAIMER!!!! I own absolutely nothing in this entire story. All these characters were the creation of someone else.
Author's note: The numbers are actually an allusion to the Cartoon Network game, where the Titans' names are arranged in this order: Robin, Raven, Cyborg, Starfire, Beast Boy. So the fourth mirror would be Blackfire, and the fifth would be Plasmus.
Another author's note: Have you noticed how the Titans fight better when they don't gang up on one enemy? Example: All five Titans couldn't capture Cinderblock, while just Robin and Starfire together can defeat Cinderblock, and Cyborg can win all by himself. Four Titans together were defeated by Plasmus in the first episode on Cartoon Network, yet Cyborg and Beast Boy alone are able to fight him successfully. Overload falls as easily to Raven alone as he does to the combination of all five Titans. Robin alone defeats the Master of Games, who has the powers of seven superheroes.
Anyway, this is Chapter 4:
Chapter 4: Rules of the Game
"Trouble!" shouted Robin. "We have four different villains destroying different areas of—"suddenly, Robin stopped, and looked very suspiciously at the other Titans.
"Wait a minute! Slade is only using half his villains here. That must mean..."
"That the others are being held in reserve for something?" finished Cyborg.
"No, these attacks are only a ploy to draw us away from the tower, which will allow the other half of Slade's group to take over our tower. Cyborg, you should stay here to operate the tower defenses. Beast Boy will take Blackfire, Raven you get Overload, Starfire take Plasmus, and I will go for Terra. Are we clear? Let's go!"
Robin gave the orders, and the four Titans spread out for their respective targets. Cyborg sat in the situation room.
Robin rode his R-cycle down the street. He saw Terra at the same time that she saw him. Suddenly the ground opened a wide crack right under him. He jumped off the R-cycle as it fell into the crack, drawing his staff as he did. An unceasing barrage of rocks and pebbles flew towards him. He blocked them all with the staff, advancing through the rocks. He threw a freeze disk, then some explosive disks, all of which Terra blocked using mud or rocks. While she did that, Robin came down from above her in a flying kick. Robin landed his foot squarely on her head, forcing her unconscious to the ground.
Blackfire finished off a group of police cars, ignoring the green hawk circling in the sky. It was a severe mistake, as the hawk hovered over her head for an instant and then transformed into a dinosaur, crushing her underneath as they both fell into the ground. The dinosaur transformed into Beast Boy and got up. A lone police survivor stepped forward and thanked him.
Raven had a very difficult time fighting Overload, because there were no obvious sources of water nearby. Just to her good fortune, however, one of Overload's electric attacks set fire to the roof of a nearby house. A fire truck arrived to put out the blaze and was promptly destroyed by Overload. Raven was close enough to grab the water hose with her bare hands and spray Overload back into a small card. Overload cried out in pain as he shrank away.
Starfire flew down another street and saw Plasmus. Plasmus looked back and raised his hands (as much as they were hands) in the air as if to surrender. Then he raised one of his sludge-formed arms and appeared to point behind her, drawing her attention to Gizmo and Mammoth stood in the middle of the street. Gizmo fired a missile. Although Starfire tried to dodge, she ran into an enormous stone fist and was thrown against the wall of a nearby high-rise building. As she fell down along the side of the building, she recovered just quickly enough to see a wave of pink energy strike the wall right under her feet. The glass window shattered.
Cyborg, having nothing to do, started to play video games on the large screen. After a few minutes, he was very close to beating Beast Boy's top score. However, his communicator sounded:
"Cyborg, please help me! The tower is safe. Please help me!" A sequence of gunfire, explosions, and splashes followed.
Cyborg's attention to the video game was broken and he failed to beat Beast Boy's top score. "What's wrong Starfire? How do you know the tower is safe?" he inquired into the communicator.
"There's no one left to attack the tower. All the villains are here with me!" Starfire's reply came back through the communicator, followed by a burst of gunfire, shattering glass, an explosion, more gunfire and a scream. Cyborg jumped off the couch and ran down the stairs, while simultaneously contacting all the other Titans. "Free Titans need to hurry to Starfire's location immediately," he announced. Beast Boy's voice came back through the communicator: "Why? What is it?" "More villains to tackle," Cyborg replied succinctly.
Beast Boy morphed into a green falcon and flew off. Cyborg jumped into the T-car. They happened to start traveling down the same street. Neither one noticed.
Slade watched from a distant rooftop (using binoculars) as Starfire back-flipped under a missile, cartwheeled aside of a glob of sludge, then somersaulted over a wave of pink energy. He was truly impressed watching her hold off five of his villains, and at the same time puzzled as to how she had become that fast. The battle continued for what seemed to him to be an eternity, but was really only two minutes. He drew out a special heat-seeking explosive disk and threw it from his distance of one mile away. The disk traveled slowly towards the battle as Slade watched with binoculars. It was an easy hit; all the combatants were concentrated on the battle at hand; even the villains were momentarily puzzled as to where the disk had come from. But they recovered faster, and Gizmo managed to get off a last shot with his machine gun before Starfire fell behind a large trash can.
All five villains advanced cautiously forward. "You fought well today. We are all impressed with your skill in battle," complimented Jinx sincerely. "However," broke in Mammoth, "you were not fast enough..."
"Neither are you..." said a voice behind them. They all turned around. Jinx found herself face-to-chest with a green gorilla, and before anyone could react, she was pounded down into the pavement. The concrete pavement cracked and dented under the force of the gorilla's fists. Jinx's body was flat against the dent in the pavement. The gorilla transformed back into Beast Boy. The villains belatedly reacted, Gizmo shooting off a missile, Plasmus throwing a piece of sewage, Mammoth and Cinderblock both charging towards him. Beast Boy simply turned into a snake and ducked the shots. The blue beam of a sonic cannon impacted Gizmo, throwing him down the street. The beam was quickly traced to the T-car. The three remaining villains, Plasmus, Cinderblock, and Mammoth, turned and ran for the T-car.
Beast Boy ran back to the trash can and was met by Starfire. She looked mostly okay, except for the blood dripping from a single bullet hole in her leg. "Star, are you okay?" he asked. "I'm fine," said Starfire. She raised her hand to shoot at the villains that were fighting the T-car. Beast Boy stopped her. "You're injured," he pointed out. "We have to get you back to the tower." "I am okay," she said. "Tamaranians heal much faster than humans." Beast Boy looked again. The blood had stopped flowing already, and the bullet hole was slightly smaller now. He was convinced and decided to take her word for it that she was okay.
Robin arrived just then. He saw that Starfire was wounded. "What happened?" he asked, pointing to the wound. "Starfire was shot," responded Beast Boy. Robin appeared agitated. "What is it?" Starfire asked.
Robin started slowly. "Well, normally Gizmo isn't supposed to use real bullets. That machine gun of his was supposed to shoot flak shells. Here in the world of heroes we have an unspoken understanding with all superhero villains. No one ever, ever uses lethal ammunition. My explosive disks, for example, are actually just painful. It is illegal to actually
A block down the street, Gizmo came to after being hit by the sonic cannon. He silently advanced towards Beast Boy and Starfire. Just as he was about to fire a missile, a nearby truck suddenly rose up and crashed onto him from behind, trapping him under its wreckage. Raven hovered over the truck towards the three villains, who had managed to destroy the T-car and pin Cyborg under the wreckage.
Beast Boy turned into a rhinoceros and charged down the street at Cinderblock. He was stopped by a big glob of sludge. Cyborg had succeeded in blowing away the remains of his T-car with his sonic cannon, and he was wrestling Mammoth. Raven appeared behind Mammoth. "Azarath metreon zinthos!" she shouted, and a black halo surrounded Mammoth. He struggled to avoid being lifted off the ground, to no avail, then found himself unwillingly flying towards the glass wall of the skyscraper that had earlier been damaged by Jinx. He crashed through the glass painfully and landed unconscious on the floor of someone's office.
Cinderblock and Plasmus, now outnumbered, fled the scene, pursued by the five Titans. The chase continued for about two miles before Cinderblock and Plasmus turned a corner. When Robin led his team around the same corner, he suddenly ran right into a wall of dirt. When the dirt subsided, Cinderblock and Plasmus had disappeared. The Titans looked around and saw, in the distance, Terra running away. She disappeared over the horizon.