Light slowly filtered though thick eyelashes. Robin blinked against the lights blazing above. Not quite remembering what had happened, he sat up dazed and a bit confused.

Get it together, he told himself. He went to run his hands through his hair, but was unsuccessful. After trying several more times, his hands immediately went to his face. Oh… Oh no! My mask! He sat upright, unrestrained by straps. Looking to his hands, he was startled to see metallic limbs instead. "Aah!"

The door to the room was now open, and his fellow Titans were all free of restraints.

And Slade was still there.

"You maniac!" Robin cried. He hopped onto wobbly legs, then started toward his arch nemesis. "You beast! What have you done! Change us back this instant, or you'll…"

Slade's visible eye popped open as Robin, who was now trapped inside of Cyborg, rang his neck. "Dude, what are you doing? Cy, let me go!"

"Let you go?" he repeated incredulously. "You've got to be kidding."

"That's a cool trick Cyborg," he laughed in a voice that wasn't his. "You sound just like Robin. Now, how to we get out of here?"

"Beast Boy?"

"Yeah, who else has green skin and a killer smile like mine?" He blinked. "What? Why are you looking at me like that? Cy, you're scaring me."

"I'm not Cyborg. And you're not Beast Boy."

"Huh? Of course I'm me. Who else could I be?"

Robin motioned toward one of the reflective walls.

Beast Boy let out an ear-piercing scream.

Robin's body lurched awake. "What? What! Beast Boy, where-?"

"I'm a monster!" he cried. He stumbled to his feet and grabbed onto Slade's face. "No! How could this happen? I've turned into the man who ruined me life!"

"What's going on?" Raven asked. She felt her face, or rather Robin's face. "Oh… not again."

"Raven?" Robin asked. A part of him relaxed knowing that Raven was in possession of his body. He knew that she'd leave the mask on and keep that part of his life private. "Good… That's good."

"That's not good," she said, hoping up. She went directly to her body. With a slap, she said, "Whoever's in there, wake up. Starfire, please be Starfire-"

"Whoa… what is going on? Why do I feel so… unmanly?"

Raven grimaced in Robin's body. "I think I'm gonna be sick."

"Me too," Beast Boy muttered, dropping to the floor as Slade.

"Yo Robin, why are your hands on your hips?" Cyborg asked, sitting up. "Is there something you're not telling us?"

"I'm not Robin."

"Raven? Hahaha! That's pretty good, Robin. I didn't know you did impressions."

"I don't," Raven said. "Take a look in the makeshift mirror."

"Oh my God!"

"No! Don't get upset. You'll loose control of my powers!"

"Ooh, right! Sorry."

"No, don't be sorry-"

"Friends, why is everyone so distressed?"

Robin spun, hoping to see Starfire as her normal, pretty self. Instead, he was nose to nose with Beast Boy. "Starfire, we've been switched."

She turned so she could see. A slow smile spread across Beast Boy's face. "Marvelous! I can turn into any sort of creature I desire! This is a most welcome evil scheme!"

"Then if you're Beast Boy… Slade must be-"

Raven glanced around. "Starfire's body's missing."

"Great," Robin muttered. He sighed. "He must have slipped out while I was choking his body." He paused. "Okay team. Let's not panic. We'll find Slade in Starfire's body, give Red X whatever he wants. Once the switch is made, we'll track him down and beat the unholy crap out of him for doing this. Then, we'll let Slade have him."

"Sounds like a plan," Cyborg said. He stood and drew up Raven's cloak. "Okay, so Raven, you're in Robin's body?"

She nodded.

"You stick with me," he demanded. He looped Raven's arm through Robin's. "I confess that I love too much, so you need to keep me from doing all the things that I normally do to keep your… whatever under control."

She nodded.

Starfire frowned in Beast Boy's body, not liking the picture before her at all.

"Now, why don't we head back to the tower, and see if we can get a lock on Starfire's body," Robin suggested. "She should be fairly easy to find."

"And what is your meaning?"

Robin cleared Cyborg's throat. "Let's move Titans."

"Come on, Beast Boy," Raven urged. She shook Slade's shoulder. "It's not that bad. You could be stuck in my body." When nothing but silence came from him, Raven frowned slightly. "It was a joke."

"Believe me, being you would me a million times better than being Slade," he muttered.

"We know it is not Slade inside," Starfire said. She focused inwardly until she turned into a puppy. With a squeak, she turned back into Beast Boy. "Did you see that? Did that make you cheerful?"

He shook Slade's head.

Raven reached Robin's hand down and looped it under Slade's arm. "Come on. Starfire, I'll hoist him on if you'll carry him."

She nodded. After a moment, she changed into a pony.

"Aww… Beast Boy, you make one sexy pony."

Slade's eye narrowed at Cyborg in Raven's body.

"No jokes while you're me," Raven reminded him as they headed out the door and down the hallway toward the exit.

"Right, right. Dang girl, it's gonna be hard being you."

"It's a full time job," Raven muttered. She then sighed. "I hope this doesn't take long."

"Me neither," Cyborg said. He smiled over at Robin. "I think you have to pee."

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Can you imagine Cyborg's distress? That would traumatize me, I don't know about everyone else… So Robin's Cyborg, Starfire's Beast Boy, Cyborg's Raven, Beast Boy's Slade, Raven's Robin, and Slade's stuck in Starfire's body… What evil shall he conjure while stuck in her shoes?