Salutations to all. Allow me to apologize for the late update. My senior prom was Friday, and the post-prom went on until 6 AM. Saturday was lost to sleep and other basic vital functions, so this chapter's coming up today. This, however, does not explain the incredible dearth of reviews. Let me guess: No one's going to review until I get to new material. Well, I'm pretty sure this is the last chapter I posted last time, so come Wednesday I'm expecting quite a bit of feedback. Well, enough nagging, there's a fight goin' on!

DISCLAIMER: Since the world didn't end on Satan Day (6/6/06), I guess I don't own the Teen Titans or Magic: the Gathering

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Dr. Stone was paralyzed at his console, standing ramrod straight and slightly glowing with a periwinkle aura. Furious, the half-hardware hero faced his adversary. "What," he growled, "have you done to my father?"

"He's not the only one," Raven noted. It was true. Every researcher on Project Thaum was stopped in his or her tracks, standing at attention.

Please, scoffed the Sapphire, do you really think I'd keep those who constructed this shell aware and able to exploit whatever failsafes they put into it? That would be downright silly.

"Oh, and constantly turning me into a chicken isn't?" Beast Boy snapped. A brief crackle of azure lightning later, an indignant indigo rooster was angrily clucking where the changeling stood.

Ahhh, The Sapphire gave a sigh of contentment, that never gets old.

"Enough of this," Raven cried, "we're taking you down." With that, the three charged the Sapphire in one final, desperate gambit. It was do-or-die time, and something would be doing the latter.

Impudent fools. the Sapphire sneered. Its finely crafted fists surged forward, each connecting with Beast Boy or Raven, and sending its respective Titan crashing into the far wall. Cyborg, however, dodged both, and sent his own metallic fist into the gargantuan gizmo's chest armor. Recoiling at this attack, the metallic monster seemed to admire the sizable dent in its plating. Impressive, it mused, you managed to bypass my fists, resist my ambient magnetic field, and strike me. You're hired!

All Cyborg could mange was a "Huh?" before blue tendrils of energy surged through him. Unlike those that had repeatedly transformed Beast Boy, these seemed to enhance the teched out teen, even making him glow with an azure aura like that surrounding each engineer. When Cyborg next opened his eyes, they both glowed the same blue tint as his circuitry. He kneeled before the Mox Sapphire, and in a voice that crackled with magical energy, said "I am at your command, master."

Excellent. If the Sapphire's housing were capable of smirking, it would have. Destroy your former allies.

"Yes, master."

Just after this discourse, Beast Boy managed to regain awareness. "Anyone get the number of that jet?" he moaned. A metal hand presented itself before him, and the changeling flinched away before noticing that the extremity belonged to Cyborg. "Oh," he said, "hey, Cy."

"Need a hand?" The mechanoman oozed innocence.

"Sure!" The trusting shapeshifter grabbed Cyborg's hand, only to be flung toward the opposite wall. Only a quick change to a rhino prevented Beast Boy from crashing into it again. Shifting back, he cried "Dude, what's your problem?"

No problem, the Sapphire explained, he's just had a change of heart.

"Exactly" Cyborg agreed. Suddenly, his human eye lost its bluish glow, and Cyborg croaked out "BB...RUN!" He soon snapped back to fully domineered form, and grinning evilly, fired both sonic cannons at his former teammate.

"Whoa!" Beast Boy barely dodged the blasts, transforming to a hummingbird to flit between the high-frequency beams.

It was then that Raven's eyes fluttered open. "Huh?" She saw Cyborg firing willy-nilly at a green hummingbird that could only be Beast Boy. She gasped. "No!"

The Mox Sapphire fired a familiar sky-tinted discharge at the small creature, transforming it once more into a blue chicken. Now, my pawn! the gem crowed, Finish him!

"I don't think so." boomed a four-eyed Raven. She growled threateningly, and raised her arms. "Any who would threaten Garfield answer to ME."

The now-turquoise chicken's jaw dropped. Cyborg sneered. The Sapphire merely muttered Interesting. The stage was set for a climactic battle the likes of which would never be seen again for a few chapters. The tension neared the breaking point...

...but the door to the hanger broke first. Through it charged a still clearly insane Robin, trailing crazy person drool. Starfire flew after him, followed closely by the weary psychiatrist. "Robin, please stop!" cried the alien princess.

Robin responded only with blabber. "Geheeqerflabingeearginblageblergen!" It his delirium, he spotted the hulking, armored shape of Cyborg, and what few functioning neurons he had left fired. "SLAAAAAADE!" With that, the Boy Wonder leapt on top of Cyborg, and began to gnaw on the larger teen's shoulder. Robin's oozing drool connected with the electrothaumic field covering Cyborg, and both received a huge electrical shock as a result.

"Robin!" Starfire cried in dismay.

Cyborg fell to the ground, power cells drained. Robin, however, stirred after hearing the Tamaranean's voice. "Uhhh...Starfire?" he moaned, singed but otherwise fine.

"Oh, glorious! Robin is Robin again!" With that, Starfire locked her idol in an infamous vicelike embrace. Robin was clearly not entirely recovered, because he didn't seem to mind that his ribs were slowly being ground to powder.

"You see?" cried the psychiatrist, "I told you shock therapy would have worked!" While maintaining her hug, the alien glared at him, eyes ablaze. "Never mind..."

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Silky, still in full Robin regalia, posed for the press in front of the latest batch of bank robbers he had neutralized. While public opinion about Robin's new method of capturing villains (swallowing them whole, then regurgitating them in an inescapable mesh of zorka berry-scented goo) was mixed, people soon warmed up to the Worm Wonder's new persona. Adorable and affectionate even to the criminals he captured, this new personality was a welcome change from the obsessive, borderline creepy figure that some had privately thought was almost as bad as the villains he stopped.

However, even as flashes were firing in press cameras, a cosmic signal of equilibrium flashed through Silkie/Robin's mind. Ignoring the insistent interviewers, Silkie slimed out of the Robin uniform the team had made for him during the original Robin's training, ate it, and slowly creeped back to Titans Tower.

The news media, the approaching mayor, Key to the City in hand, and even the captured criminals all looked at one another, realized they had been interviewing/adoring/stopped by the Titan's larval mascot, all quietly moved away from awkwardness ground zero, an unspoken agreement among them to never mention this moment.

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The Mox Sapphire, annoyed by how the Boy Wonder's regained insanity had upstaged its imminent triumph over the Titans, cleared its nonexistent throat and called to all present. Excuse me? Hate to interject, but we have something of a dramatic showdown to get to here.

"Oh really?" Robin had managed to extract himself from Starfire's hold and entered a combat pose. "Then let's get to it. Titans..."

Robin's battle cry was cut short by a black energy barrier cutting Starfire and him off from the non-teen titan. As Raven turned to her leader, the crimson glow of her eyes shone through even the telekinetic barrier. "I've got this one."

A nervous exaggerated sweatdrop manifested by Robin's head. "OK then. All yours, Raven."

With that, the empath expanded, eldritch tentacles emerging from the depths of her cloak. As she had done with the giant angel formed by the Mox Pearl, she attempted to envelop this foe in her soulself. Unlike that previous attempt, this one worked well. Despite many efforts to the contrary, the Sapphire's body was inexorably dragged into the void. Occasional flashes of blue flared against the inky force, but soon failed. Raven withdrew, leaving a dismantled, corroded, and decrepit remnant of the once-formidable device. In full human form, she triumphantly held up a blue, pentagonal gem on a thin, golden chain and murmured, "Got it." She then fainted into Beast Boy's arms, his mouth still agape from her previous proclamation

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Yay! Two Moxen down! I apologize for the seemingly "too easy" way of dealing with the Sapphire, and the repeated fainting. Still, I tried to add some new content. Now please review, I can't make it better unless I know what to improve!