The three Titan vehicles skidded to a stop in front of a smoking warehouse; the entire side of it was completely destroyed, but there was no sign of trouble.

Cyborg stood up from his car, looking around, "So, did we miss the party?"

Flash…BOOM!

A huge ball of energy slammed into the ground in the middle of us.

The explosion threw all six Titans apart into various buildings, before any of us could recover, massive robots burst through the buildings, grabbing each of us.

I looked at the attacking machines and had to do a double take, they were dressed like………Wind-up British soldiers?

I quickly looked around at my teammates and saw them all being restrained in some way.

Robin, Beast Boy, and the girls were being held by robots.

The machine holding Cyborg had giant steel clamps in place of its hands.

I looked down at myself to see a robot like Cyborg's holding me down, I struggled against it, but couldn't move.

Raven closed her eyes and concentrated, "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" ……nothing happened

Star seemed to be trying to break free, or use star bolts, or something…nothing happened.

And for some reason, Beast Boy couldn't shape shift.

"Not these things again," Beast Boy groaned.

"ello my duckies," trilled an annoyingly whiney voice.

Our restraining robots turned us to face the speaker, a slightly tall, man with vibrant red hair, a union jack t-shirt, and a jeweled cane.

"Mad Mod," Robin spat.

The psychedelic criminal twirled his cane, then leaned on it, "You lot 'ave been quite naughty lately, you've done mussed up my last few plans, and I'm quite annoyed! I tried reeducatin' you, then I tried reeducatin' your ci'y, but both times you've gotten in the way, So's I'm just gonna destroy ya first."

He smirked happily at the thought, "Ya see, neither of me first plans worked out right, but they were all effective in some way, I realized that it was your powers that were able to beat me robots, so's I done come up with a nice way to make them not work. You'll all meet your end from my li'l firing squad 'ere then I'll be free to put this disobedient colony back under Bri'ish control where it belongs."

Robin looked at him boredly, "Not that your little monologue wasn't fascinating, but we have more important things to do than get shot." the Boy Wonder looked straight at me, "Shadow NOW!"

Mod spun to look at me, "Who what?"

Emerald energy flared behind my shades, and gravity went into flux behind my back, creating a micro-sized black hole in the workings of my robot.

The machine's power core collapsed, and it fell backwards, releasing me, in rapid succession I cast the same spell five times, wrecking the robots holding my teammates.

The machines collapsed as the Titans stood ready to fight.

I watched as Beast Boy concentrated, trying to morph…nothing happened.

"Great," he muttered, "My powers still don't work"

"Mine neither," stated Raven, her usual monotone tinged with a bit of concern

"I am regretful to say that mine are, how do you say, 'on the fritz',"

"All my parts seem to be working, but I can't get my arm into cannon mode."

Robin glanced around, "Then we do this old fashioned style."

Mod finally recovered from his shock and shouted, "Attack my soldiers, attack!"

Countless numbers of the redcoat machines poured out from around a corner, guns at the ready.

"Raven, Star, BB," Robin ordered, "Get back, without your powers you can't fight there things."

"But…" started Starfire.

"No buts, get back."

"Robin," stated Raven, "Not possible."

"Huh?" he started.

She just pointed, more of the robotic soldiers were pouring into area from every direction, cutting off all routes of escape.

"Dang," yelled Cyborg, "Any bright ideas?"

"I'm workin' on it, I'm workin' on it." Robin said, his mind scrambling for options.

The machines took up positions all the way around us, and raised their guns.

"Ready!" yelled Mod.

"Robin!"

"Take Aim!"

A thought hit me, and I quickly concentrated.

"FIRE!"

My eyes opened blazing with green fire as I cast barrier on each Titan just as the machines fired.

The bolts skipped harmlessly off the magical armor.

The Titans all stopped flinching to find that they were uninjured.

Beast Boy looked over at me, "Dude, that you?"

"Yeah," I said, panting slightly, "You have ten minutes before that shield wears off, until then, it'll deflect their shots, and cushion impacts."

"Alright," Robin stated, "You heard him, ten minutes, make it count, Titans…GO!"

Robin and Cyborg blitzed the war machines fearlessly, while the rest of us prepared to attack at a slightly slower pace.

With barrier to protect them, even the powerless Titans had a chance, so they armed themselves with anything they could find.

Beast Boy had found a good bit of wood to use as a club, so he too charged the robot army.

Star and Raven were still looking for something when I got another idea.

I stepped over and hefted the energy rifle from one of the fallen machines, "Star, Raven, over here!"

The two girls ran over to me, without their powers, it would take both of them to use this gun, but it would work.

Beast Boy yelled, "Hey everybody, a little help here!"

We looked to see him standing alone against a veritable wall of british marching straight at him.

I charged the army while the two girls, Star aiming and Raven firing began to blast away at the advancing robots.

"RRauuuggh," I brought my sword down at the first robot, leaving a gash in it's chest, I swung again, cutting even further into it's plating, my third slice finally pierced it's armor, and with a final stab, I wrecked its power core.

The machine fell to the ground, and I looked up, 'Great, one down, about three million to go, gotta be a faster way to take these things down.'

I glanced around quickly, then gave my sword an electronic charge. I fluxed gravity and launched into the air.

My eyes narrowed as I came down at one of the robot's head, it, in turn looked up to see my sparking blade coming straight for its face.

CLAMP

My eyes went wide as the machine caught the blade between it's hands, lightning sparked across it's body, and harmlessly diffused into the ground.

It turned slightly, then slammed me into the ground.

I lost hold of the hilt, seeing stars.

My vision cleared just in time to see Mod's robot toss my sword away, the blade embedded itself into the side of a building fifteen stories up.

The British machine turned to face me and brought it's white gloved fists at me.

I rolled to the side as the cement I had been laying on was powdered.

I fluxed gravity slightly, kicking myself into a back flip that landed me in a crouch a few feet away.

I was immediately grabbed from behind by yet another robot, as the first drew its rifle to blast me.

Glancing down I saw that the barrier spell held the machine's arms a half foot away from my skin,

Acting on pure reflex, I dispelled my barrier spell, dropped through the machine's arms, sliding between its legs. I kicked off the ground, coming up it's back.

The machine staggered forward as I pulled the rifle from its back mount

Blam! I fired point-blank into the other robot's chest, it slumped to the ground. I instantly rolled to the side to dodge the other machine's fists, then fired up into it, it too fell.

Bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-blam,

A small group of robots fired at me in a scatter pattern.

Diving to the side, I returned fire, I got three of them, then hit the ground rolling, I came to a stop behind the cover of a downed robot.

Taking the chance I had, I glanced around to check on the team

Beast Boy was being ping-ponged around by a few machines, but Cyborg were headed over to help him.

Robin was flipping around everywhere, being his usual badass self.

I looked around franticly for the two girls, hoping they hadn't been recaptured,

There, they were pinned up against a wall, the barrier spell was protecting them for now, but they needed help.

I raised the rifle, holding it vertically in front of my face, took one breath, then broke cover, charging the robots around Raven and Starfire, firing like mad.

Quickly reaching the back line of machines, I ran right up its back, and kicked off with an added flux of gravity.

Mid-flight, I inverted myself and opened fire on the machines passing under me, several went down.

I came down landing perched on the shoulders of a robot that was winding up to punch at Starfire's barrier again. It looked up at me, and down the barrel of my gun.

"Now that's not very nice. And here I thought British were supposed to be gentlemen." Blam

I rode the smoking machine to the ground, and whirled quickly blasting all the other machines that were overly close.

Grabbing both girls by the arms, I pulled them out of the wall they had been indented into.

"You two ok?"

Raven looked at me flatly, "For the moment."

"EEP!" Starfire shrieked, I twirled quickly and blasted another machine that was charging us.

On an unspoken cue, the girls ran forward and picked up it's rifle.

I smirked, "Alright ladies, lets clear a path!"

The three of us opened up on the advancing ranks, blasting away at anything that was tall, robotic, and British.

Bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-blam!

Dozens of the killer machines fell to our volley of energy bolts.

Still firing, Raven looked over at me, "We can't keep this up, no matter how many of them go down, they just keep coming!"

I didn't look back, "Then just keep shooting."

Blam-Blam, Bl-bl-bl-bl-bl-click…..cl-click.

"I'm out!" I yelled.

"Oh, we are also experiencing a lack of projectiles remaining in our weapon," returned Starfire.

"Ok, well, all else just failed. Lightning doesn't seem to do much, so we'll se what fire can do."

My eyes flickered and the girl's gun began to glow slightly red.

As my eyes returned to normal, I exhaled heavily, "There, let 'er rip. That's a Fire 3 spell, watch where you aim it."

Raven's eyes narrowed, then she squeezed off a shot.

PHOOM!

An brilliant fireball erupted from the barrel, and burned through several machines in a row before it stopped. An evil smirk spread across her face, "I like it."

PHOOM!

A sudden thought hit me… 'hmm, I wonder…' A flicker of my eyes left me panting, as well as a bizarre warbling field around my gun…Ultima

Ch-tunk…..wizzzz……BOOM! The massive explosion ripped nearly two dozen machines to shreds

"Oh HELL YES!" I took aim at another group of machines.

Ch-Ch-tunk….wizzz-wizz…BA-BOOM!

PHOOM, PHOOM!

The constant blasts from our enchanted guns slowly drove the advancing army back.

Suddenly, the machines stopped their advance, and backed off

PHOOM! Raven and Starfire cut loose one last shot into their ranks

Starfire looked around, "…have we won?"

Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy ran up beside us.

"Did you get Mod?" asked Robin.

"No," stated Raven.

"Then, why are they backing…"

He was cut off as the ground began to shake under our feet, with a heavy rumbling, a good number of tanks rolled up, Mad Mod sitting cockily in the top of one, a stupid little helmet on his head.

"Hello duckies, you can't stop ol' Moddy."

Robin snarled, "Titans…"

I quickly leaned over to our leader, "Robin, we only have a few moments left on the barrier, and I can't risk recasting it, it'll probably knock you all out."

"Understood, Titans…get ready to make a run for it."

Beast Boy looked at him, "Uh…where? In case you haven't noticed……WE'RE SURROUNDED! AND UP AGAINST A BUILDING!"

With a shuddering flicker, the barrier spell wore off.

Mad Mod laughed insanely from atop his tank, "So much for your li'l shields, ya naugh'y kiddies." He looked at his army, "Ready!"

They raised their rifles vertically

Beast Boy looked around at all the guns nervously, "Uh, guys?" backing up against the building.

"Take Aim……FIRE!"

BLAM!