Chapter 6: The Test


Well everybody here is Ch. 6

Cyborg: You know none of these chapters are in order

DR: So, some of them are not going to be.

Beast Boy: Dudes can we start now

DR: BB do the Disclaimer first

BB: but why me

DR: I am sorry you some cheese with that whine

BB: *Sigh* DR Does NOT own the Teen Titans or anything else that may appear in this fanfic they belong to their original creators,

Blitz: but he does own me.


Ch. 6 The Test

In a flash of static, a school crest suddenly appeared on the monitor. The field was hexagonal, black-and-white checkered within a golden border, with a large H superimposed on it in gold script. Across the bottom was a white banner that read H.A.E.Y.P. Behind the crest, a square corridor could be seen, the walls, ceiling, and floor made of honeycomb-shaped tiles.

"The HIVE Academy for Extraordinary Young People is proud to introduce..." a cool female voice narrated as a platform rose up into view in front of the crest, three individuals now standing before it. One was a very short bald boy in a black jumpsuit, a pair of goggles propped on his forehead and an assorted array of controls mounted at chest and waist level. Behind him was a very tall beefy fellow with collar-length brown hair and a small beard. His sleeveless shirt and pants were black and studded with gold bands across his chest and ran around his shoulders, as well as studded gold wristbands and golden-cast shoes like an elephant's. Off to the right of the two or the viewer's left was a slim girl in an off-the-shoulder black dress trimmed with blue ruffles, black-and-blue striped stockings, and black platform shoes with blue soles. Her pink hair was bound into two large horn-like tufts that stuck up from her ears and matching her cat-like eyes. Her skin was a light grey shade, and she had a small pendant hung from a black ribbon around her throat. "This year's top graduates..." the female voice narrated as the three leapt from the platform, the big one and the girl leaving the frame to the sides as the camera zoomed in on the runt. "Gizmo- The boy genius whose intellect can conquer any problem with an inventive solution," the voice narrated as Gizmo pressed a button on his chest, a pair of large steel wings sprouting from the pack on his back as he took flight. As laser cannons popped out of the tiles on the walls, the boy genius easily dodged them before pressing another button, the disk making up the back of his pack releasing a salvo of missiles that destroyed all their targets with remarkable efficiency. "Jinx- The enchanting sorceress whose powerful hexes mean bad luck for her enemies," the voice stated as the girl now came into the frame's view, the girl extending her arms to both sides and did a 360 twirl, four large panels from the walls falling out and crushing a quarter of white and black-trimmed robots that were coming for her, the sorceress backflipping down the corridor a short distance. As three large laser cannons rose out from the floor, the giant suddenly dropped down and bent the barrel as though it were nothing but a piece of taffy. "And Mammoth- The genetically enhanced giant whose unstoppable strength speaks for itself," the woman spoke as he tore the laser cannon from its morring and performed an Olympic-style hammer throw, the laser cannon skidding down the hall and wrecking the other two. A robot like the one form before then caught the huge man in its hands, but Gizmo leapt onto its back and attacked a small metal unit, which screwed itself down. Leaping away, sparks began to fly across the robot's frame before it fell over. "Well-organized, highly trained, and combat equipped..." the voice narrated as Jinx ran to Mammoth and sprung off his hands as she began to perform a series of flips down the corridor. "These new HAEYP agents are the perfect fighting force," she narrated, pronouncing the word "Hype" as a battery of lasers emerged from the walls and began to cut loose at Jinx, the sorceress gymnastically advancing forward, all of the laser cannons hitting one another in an attempt to hit her. Surveying the damage in triumph, she then faced the front as Gizmo and Mammoth slid to either side of her. "And for the right price, this ideal team can be yours," the narrator finished, the screen giving way to static before a gray-haired woman stepped in front of the monitor, wearing a view-sever dark outfit with a hexagonal gold patch on her right sleeve.

"Well, Mr. Slade?" the woman asked.

"Impressive. Truly," the man spoke from the shadows. "However, robots and obstacle courses only prove so much. My plans demand operatives who can function in the real world," he said getting up from his seat, the woman following him as he made his way across the catwalk behind his shadowed throne. "If your students are going to serve me, they will have to pass one final exam," he said as he ascended to a platform overlooking the gray-haired woman under one spotlight, while Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth all stood on the other. "Destroy the Teen Titans, and then we'll talk."

"Will that be all?" the woman asked.

"This one," he said pointing to a monitor showing Blitzkrieg. "Bring him to me alive; consider it as part of the primary objective. If you do this you'll receive triple the payment." Slade said in a tone that left no room for any mistakes. With a bow the woman and her three students left, the light sources shutting off as the two factions went their separate ways. Slade turns towards the monitors that shown all of Jump at different angles, Slade Presses a button on his chair, and a girl shows up from the shadow.

She was dress exactly like Slade except her mask which has an orange circle and two eye holes. "You summoned my Master," the girl said bowing. "Yes agent Zero I want you to observed the Titian called Blitzkrieg," Slade said pointing at video of Blitz fighting some criminals. Agent Zero looks up her eyes widen, "Is that...," "Yes," Slade said cutting her off, "I want you to observe him only make no contact what so ever. Am I clear."

"Yes master," Zero said with a little disappointed.

"Don't worry," Slade said picking up on the disappointment in his agents voice, "he will join us, eventually. Right now I wish to see if that experiment had work, contrary on what I had originally thought." With that Zero nodded and disappeared Slade turn his attention back to his observation,"Let's see if you pass my little test, Sean Wilson.".


(Titans Tower)

"Aw man, come on!" Cy groaned as he looked around the living room for something, the entire place trashed and the counter piled high with dirty dishes, garbage strewn across the floor. "It's gotta be around her someplace!" he said as he looked behind the couch, Beast Boy looking around in bloodhound form as the cyborg hoisted the couch and shook it as though whatever he was looking for were on the underside. "I don't believe this! How could you lose the remote?"

"What makes you so sure I lost it?" Beast Boy whined under the accusation.

"Uh... 'cause you're you."

"Hey! Just because I lost that video game-"

"-and the toothpaste, and my football, and the waffle iron," he counted off.

"Things disappear. How am I supposed to know where they go?" he asked, the two's mindless conversation made Raven to lower her book, an annoyed look in her eyes as a vein started to throb in her temple.

"Well how am I supposed to watch TV without a remote?" Cy demanded.

"Simple. You get off your ass, and change the channel," Raven said in an icy tone as she slammed her book shut. Azar it's too early in the morning for this.

"Don't even joke like that," Cy said in a completely serious tone Beast Boy looking serious too.

"I wasn't joking," Raven growled.

"Good, 'cause it wasn't funny! Now either help us look for the remote, or go back to your nasty old book and-"

"This is a pointless argument over an equally useless device. You are wasting your energy, and disrupting my concentration" the mage growled in return.

"I'm telling you, I didn't lose it! You were the one watching TV last!" BB cried at Cy, the sliding doors in the back of the room opening at that moment.

Blitz walk in and surveyed the room, "You know guys if you clean up some I bet you could find whatever your trying to find," he said the mage nodding in agreement, 'at least somebody is using their head' she thought. Cy and BB look at Blitz like he had lost his mind "What."

"And that is the secret to traveling faster than light," Starfire finished as she, and Robin came into the room, which was full of arguing.

"Woah! Take it easy Titans! Combat practice is this afternoon," Robin said trying to defuse the situation, whereas he was thinking. 'I tell these guys again and again, clean up when the mess is small. Not wait until everything gets like this,' he thought looking around the messy room.

If anyone saw their living area like this, they'd never hear the end of it. God forbid Bats saw it- The man kept his HQ absolutely spotless, but as the Tower command center was now, it was hardly fit to live in, let alone give out orders from.

"We must mend your dispute by sharing the unhealthy junk foods. I shall fetch them," Starfire said heading to the kitchen.

"I don't need food! I just need help finding the remote!" Cy cried as Star looked into the fridge. Looking into the fridge where everything was caked in blue fuzz. A portion of the moldy, blue-furred mass suddenly rose up, forming a sloppily-made maw and screeched at them.

"AHHHH!" Starfire cried before she fired a starbolt into the fridge, the resultant explosion nearly covering the entire living room in blue furry mold.

"Okay that is not, normal!" Blitz said now caked in blue mold.

"... Maybe we should just go out for pizza," Robin stated as a bit of furry blue food sloughed off one of his spiky locks, which he swore shrieked when it hit the floor, as he stood frozen in the midst of the other three as they tried to kill one another. Stomping it down for good measure, he called for the tower's cleanup crew to deal with the... mess, in the tower, while they went out to eat. After they got cleaned up of course.


After their little... incident, in the kitchen, the Titans headed out to the Pizza Corner restaurant, the very same place that Star had nearly wrecked completely when she arrived at planet Earth. They'd called in the biohazard squad later since blue furry food that moved was definitely not normal, and they didn't have the qualifications to handle potentially dangerous materials. At the moment the majority were arguing about what to get.

"Double pepperoni!" Cy cried out as Raven rubbed her temples, vein were popping all over Blitz's head. Blitz decided to keep his hood down in public and only put it up when he was in combat, in hopes that he would get less weird looks from the local population.

"I'm not eating meat!" Beast Boy cried in protest.

"ENOUGH," Blitz yelled slamming a fist down onto the table, catching the entire restaurants attention, "Look, how about we get three medium pizzas and split them in half, that way everybody gets what they want."

"Uh okay" Cy said, not knowing that at that very moment, a person looking at them through a scanner was placing green crosshairs over their heads, the words INITIATE MISSION flashing red from the bottom.

"Gizmo to Jinx. Begin Phase One," Gizmo said to Jinx who was cupping her ear, receiving the transmission via hidden radio and carelessly tossing a hex bolt at the bus, causing it to roll downhill. The horn going off, the Titans stood up, the sound of a baby crying from the ground level at the crosswalk eliciting a shocked gasp from Beast Boy.

"Titans! Go!" Robin shouted as the Titans immediately sprang into action, Starfire pushing the carriage out of the way while Cyborg and Raven, planted themselves in the vehicle's path. Reaching him, Cy held the bus back with his massive while Raven's magic pulling the gearshift lever into Park from Neutral. At that moment the bus' tires screeched as it slowed, the group finally bringing the bus to a stop with only a foot of space between them, Blitz's body relaxing from potentially pulling Raven and Cy out of the way.

"Um... Don't buses normally have drivers?" Cy said looking inside to find that the bus was empty.

"And don't baby carriages normally have babies?" Robin asked pulling a dark green-furred teddy bear with light green eyes out from said baby's typical occupancy.

"Are you pit-sniffers normally this stupid?" a condescending voice suddenly asked from the bear as its head swiveled around, laser beams from its eyes sending Robin, Beast Boy, and Starfire sent flying into an alleyway with a trail of smoke behind them. Meanwhile at the bus, the mode of mass transit suddenly seemed to tilt back on its rear wheels, Cy was completely flabbergasted before the thing came down on top of them, Blitz manage to dodge but watch in horror as Raven and Cyborg were crushed by the bus. "And then there were one," the same voice from the teddy bear said in the form of a short bald midget as Blitz got into a fighting stance as Robin and Starfire joined them.

"This isn't over yet!" Robin returned, Cy's sonic cannon sending the bus flying to one side as he and Raven climbed out.

"We're just getting started," the cyborg said with a clenched fist as he leapt out of the hole.

"Who are these guys?" Beast Boy asked tossing a banana peel off his forehead.

"We are the HIVE!" Gizmo answered.

"You're worst night-!" Mammoth was interrupted by a shock card to the face, "Word of advice make your introductions shorter." Blitz said.

"Attack Pattern: Alpha," the pinkette yelled.

The midget took to the air and started firing laser rounds at him, which he and the others dodged as they split off to fight their own enemies.

"What do you call an idiot with a rocket on his back?" Mammoth asked as he grappled Cy in equal strength earning a- "Huh?" -in return

"Doomed!" Gizmo cackled as he slapped a large grey rocket onto Cy's back, which ignited and sent him careening to the sky. Calling out his name, Star suddenly took off into the sky after him, the rocket changing direction and heading north too fast for her to catch it initially, effectively taking her out of the fight. At the same time, Jinx came at Raven with a jumping spin kick, the mage dodging two more strikes before countering with a backhand.

"You fight like a boy," she smirked as she blocked the attack.

"Then you're going to love me," Blitz said asked getting between both her and Raven from above with only inches to spare, a compressed ball of electricity in his hands as he released the attack on her stomach and sent the pink-haired sorceress flying straight into Gizmo, but not before he nailed Robin in the chest sending him to the ground as he and BB rushed them from down the street. Transforming into an elephant mid-stride, Beast Boy rushed at them only for Mammoth to suddenly hoist the transformed changeling into the air over his shoulders.

"Mammoth's gonna make you extinct!" the large teen laughed as he suddenly chucked the pachyderm at the mage and the electro-kinetic the prior returning the favor for earlier at the carnival, a few weeks ago, by pulling him out of the way, Beast Boy rolling across the ground after returning to normal, Robin running up and helping him up while the other three gained some distance.

"Is it just me, or are we getting our butts kicked?" Beast Boy asked.

"It's just you," Blitz and Raven replied.

"Listen up team, I have a plan," Robin said helping the changeling up. At that moment however, two blasts from Gizmo suddenly sent Beast Boy and Raven flying, leaving Robin and Blitz to face the three HIVE students on their own.

"Gee scum-buffer. Sure hope your fancy plan includes getting fried!" Gizmo cackled as his laser cannon leveled itself at Robin and Blitz, the two standing their ground and sharing looks that were only separated by the prior's domino mask.

"You'll just have to find out the hard way," Robin said holding a hand out to the trio, making a "bring it on" motion.

Blitz only smirked pulled out his staff and assumed a fighting stance with his back to Robin's. At that moment Gizmo's weapon tilted down and impacted the street, a long crack appearing on the asphalt as Jinx landed on her knees and threw a spell that widened the fissure, Mammoth leaping through the air with a mighty yell and bringing all his weight down on the fault line, the three-way combo causing the road to be blasted open into a wide chasm. While Blitz was able to leap into the air and take flight before the ground was taken out from under him, Robin wasn't as fortunate, tumbling into the darkness beneath Jump City.

"Robin!" Beast Boy cried out before falling to the ground and holding his knee. Something that wasn't missed by electro-kinetic.

"Raven, take Beast Boy to the tower. I'll watch your backs and meet up with you later," Blitz said as he began to launch his attack against the three, Raven helping the injured changeling off the street as Blitz faced off against the three of them.

"Hello there hotty," the pinkette said winking at him,

"Why is it that the bad girls are always hitting on me?" Blitz said putting a hand to his head shaking.

"We'll if that true maybe you should join us, we could use someone with your talents." The girl with the power said flirtatiously.

"Can it Jinx, he wants him," Gizmo bark.

"He? Who's he?" Blitz asked.

"Let us take you in and you'll find out barf-brain," the midget cackled as he readies his pack.

"Fine then, so who do I fight first? The girl with the power of pink, the kid whose backpack defies the law of conservation of mass, or the Juggernaut and Sabertooth's bastard love child." he asked trying to egg any of the three on into making a mistake. While the two prior didn't take it that way, the second actually taking his statement as a compliment, the third's reaction was-

"HRAAAH!" he cried charging at the electro-kinetic. Blitz took a golfers position, when Mammoth was in range he swung yelling, "PARRR," hitting Mammoth in the family jewels. It was safe to say that he was out of the fight as he fell into the hole that they had created.

"Or is far, oh well, one down tow to go," Blitz said condescendingly as he got into a boxer stance, "move like a butterfly sting, Blitz said as he launched a lightbolt making both Jinx and Gizmo dive for cover, "like a bee," Blitz finished. The one called Jinx growled, firing a salvo of hexbolts at the black clade teen avoided the attack, the water beneath him began to gurgle upwards before Mammoth shot out of the sewer water, completely drenched as he lunged at Blitz, jump forward using his head as a springboard before kicking off him and leaping over to Jinx and Gizmo, delivering a shock power punch into onto the latter's backpack.

"Ah! Hey! Look at what you did cludge-head!" Gizmo cried as he flew around

Jinx fired hexbolts into a nearby window scattering shards of glass all over Blitz, who moved out of the way. Jinx continued to fire hexbolts, all of them missing their target

"Oooogh. My head," Mammoth groaned as he finally pulled himself onto the street. "What the-" his eyes widening when the screaming Gizmo was sent flying right at him with the force of a missile, unable to control his course as the electro-kinetic had fried his pack, sending the two falling down into the sewers once again.

"Next," Blitz said.

'Damn he good,' Jinx found herself thinking, 'he completely trounced both Mammoth and Gizmo.' Given, she was more skilled than the both of them, but that was still impressive even for her. "Alright tough guy, let's see you fight me now!" she said as she lunged at him and opened with a plethora of punches and kicks, all her moves releasing hexbolts in an attempt to give him a little bad luck, only for each blow to be redirected by the electro-kinetic hands, elbows, and knees. "You know it a real shame that you didn't join HIVE," Jinx said, "you would make an excellent villain."

"Sorry I don't do bad," Blitz said lighting crackling around his hand, "CHIDORI BLAST," he yelled as he hand palm Jinx's stomach sending her flying back.

When Jinx pulled herself up she say that Blitz was gone, "Uh, he got away," Mammoth stated finally pulling himself up.

"I CAN SEE THAT!" Jinx hissed. "Still, this battle isn't over yet. After all…" she said turning to the left, Titans Tower visible in the distance. "We know where they live."


"That didn't just happen..." Beast Boy said as Raven lead him towards one of the chairs in the main entrance of Titans Tower. "Tell me that didn't just happen," he repeated as she sat him down, the changeling rubbing his sore leg.

"It did happen. We cannot change the truth, no matter how much we dislike it," Raven said as her hands were enveloped in blue and white-laced healing energy, waves of energy rolling into his leg and healing the damage.

"Who knew we had a doctor in the house? Thanks," Beast Boy returned with a smile.

"No problem," Raven returned as she got up and dusted off her robe. "Blitzkrieg. Blitz are you there?" she asked into her T-Communicator.

"Yea peachy," Blitz said on the other end. "I... found something at the plaza. When the others get back, have them meet up at the entrance. I need to speak to everyone together."

"That doesn't sound good," Raven said shutting the comm. device.

"Maybe y'all should call me Flyborg," Cyborg said as he and Starfire then entered the lobby. "I was halfway to Gotham City before Star zapped that thing off my back. So what'd I miss?" he asked, the mage unable to meet his eyes. "Tell me how we kicked their butts. Come on. I gotta have the play-by-play," he said itching for the story.

"Where is Robin?" Starfire asked looking around. "Where is Blitz?"

"Blitz is... on his way back," Beast Boy answered. "As for Robin... We're not sure," he said scratching the back of his head.

"Not sure?" Star gaped. "Why are you not-"

"I searched everywhere. After the fight," Blitz said as he entered the lobby, having just gotten back from looking for Robin after the HIVE kids left. "This was all I was able to find," he said reverently as he held out Robin's utility belt, Starfire gasping in horror while Cyborg groaned and clapped his hands to his forehead.

"I shoulda been there. I let that kid sneak up on me and-what was I-? It was a trap, and I-I shoulda known," Cy groaned out.

"I do not understand. How could you not find him?" Starfire demanded of him. "People do not just vanish! He has to be someplace, so go back there and look!" she shouted with voice raising as she pointed electro-kinetic out the door.

"I will, but I thought that maybe you would like to help," Blitz stated evenly.

"Easy guys. Come on, this is Robin we're talking about," Beast Boy said stepping between her and Blitz. "I'm sure he's fine. He'll probably turn up any second," he said before the door mechanism began to kick in. "Awesome timing."

"Robin!" Starfire cheered as she flew towards the door before landing, ready to welcome Robin back with open arms only for a sudden explosion to send her flying back. When the dust cleared, the Titan's eyes widened as Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth, the latter two looking a bit soggy, entered the base.

"Oh no," Beast Boy gaped.

"Oh yes," Jinx said with a smirk.

"You guys got lucky last time, but you're in our house now!" Cy growled up as he and the others formed up to meet the advancing trio.

"Yeah, nice place. We'll take it!" Gizmo smirked, Raven throwing a trio of chairs in the HIVE's direction while Starfire tossed several starbolts from overhead.

"Split up!" Cy said firing his cannon, knowing that even if they could beat the more team-coordinated group, that a fight in there may cause irreparable damage to the tower. While Cy went off on his own with Blitz and Starfire offering suppression fire, Raven and Starfire headed up the stairs, whereas Blitz followed Beast Boy.


"Damn it damn it damn it damn it damn it damn it! Move move move move" Blitz ordered as he and Beast Boy ran down the hallway they'd led Jinx towards firing shock cards and lightbolts behind them, the prior firing shock cards and lightbolts behind them then leaping out of the way of the falling architecture with his natural agility while the latter had assumed the form of a bobcat and leapt around each slab of metal.

"Here kitty kitty. What's the matter? Afraid of a little bad luck?" Jinx asked as wall panels blew out as they fought.

Raven and Starfire had just flown into the gym and closed the door behind them, the latter welding the door shut. Looking back to one another with a nervous look, wondering if the barricade would hold, they suddenly whirled round when the wall blew out behind them, throwing them to the floor. Looking up, they found Mammoth's head protruding from a freshly-made hole after delivering the mother of all headbutts.

"Hello, ladies," the veritable juggernaut taunted before lunging at them.

Cy had found his way into one of the storage rooms of the Tower. Things were mostly dark, but the tiny terror had begun talking to him from the electronic screens, foreboding words of taking him apart leaving the little brat's lips before he descended towards him.

Elsewhere in the tower, things had finally settled down as Beast Boy and Blitz had retreated into one of the higher tiers, wall and ceiling panels having remained where they were for the past few minutes.

"Phew. Lost her," BB said catching his breath.

Blitz gave Beast Boy a slap to the back of his head, "Dammit Beast Boy you just had to say-"

"Hi guys."

"Shit," he said before whirling around to face Jinx, who had just made her presence known. "This just isn't your lucky day," she said shucking a hexbolt at the ceiling.

A tile hit him and Beast Boy over the head. Rubbing his head, Beast Boy then growled before transforming into a T-Rex, roaring with enough force to shake the entire building as Jinx back flipped out of the way. Tossing a glowing glance at the two, a ring of pink fire then went off in a circled around the two, a loud cracking sound signifying the eventual collapse of the floor, which Beast Boy was unable to get out of as he dropped below the floor level.

"Well now, looks like you're on your own," Jinx noted once Beast Boy had left sight, "You should come with us while you still have a chance."

"Heh just who in the hell do you think I am," Blitz returned. 'I still need to find out what they were talking about earlier. Until then I'll need to play it smart until we can regroup' he thought before dropping smoke pellets from Robin's utility belt. Jinx pushes her way out only to find her target gone again.

Cy and Gizmo's fight seemed to turn one-sided when the metal teen suddenly tore two of the kid's spider legs off and grounded him, ripping off his backpack and crushing it sending the little midget running behind some crates. Lifting it up and smirking as he found him, Cy's eyes widened when he stepped on a hologram projector that had been placed there, the tiny terror leaping onto his back and hacking into his systems, using a set of analog controls that were there for some reason, taking the larger teen for a carnival ride before ejecting his right arm.

If you were watching from the bay as the sun set, you could practically taste the conflict as Cyborg, Beast Boy, Raven, and Starfire were suddenly ejected from the tower as though it were a cannon. The absence of the lightening user in their presence as they landed in the bay signified he was hiding out in the Tower for some reason, the HIVE kids seeming to ignore him for more pressing matters.


"Have a nice afterlife, you snot-eating losers!" Gizmo cackled as Jinx sent a wide-spraying hexbolt into the bay, causing a tidal wave to rise up before sweeping the Titans under the current. "By the way, where's that electric freak?" he then asked as the four Titans left their line of sight.

"Don't know. He disappeared before we took over, and I haven't seen him since," Jinx sighed. "Are you sure he's still in the tower?"

"Yeah. Before I took out the scuz-muncher I put a feeler into the building's systems. If the guy tries to escape, I'll know," he muttered as he held up one of his controllers. "However, if that guy manages to get out of even one hole and into the open air, and we may as well kiss that payment goodbye," he said with an angry huff.

"Why would Slade want him anyway?" Mammoth asked as he dusted off his hands.

"Who knows. Cloning, brainwashing, genetic experimentation. Don't know, don't care, just as long as I can get paid," the diminutive genius muttered.


Meanwhile at the north side of Jump City Bay, which at the moment was deserted, Beast Boy, Cyborg, Raven, and Starfire had somehow been able to avoid being swept into the undertow, having made their way to the shoreline after being taken from their home. The three who were wearing clothing took the time to wring the water out of it, the silence ended when Beast Boy decided to try and brighten up the situation.

"So uh... Who else never wants to go surfing again?" Beast Boy asked.

"Not now man," Cy said in an annoyed tone.

"Hey, I was just trying to-" he said in self-defense, the mage putting a hand on his shoulder to cut him off as Cy extended a small acetylene torch from his left forefinger. Panels on his thighs opening, the teen began to tend to his shorted out circuits caused by both the battle damage by the joyride and the recent swim.

"Perhaps I could be of some assistance?" Starfire asked coming up behind him.

"I got it."

"But you are so damaged and-"

"I said I got it!" Cy growled as he rounded on her, causing the Tamaranian to gasp.

"Hey! She only wanted to help! What is your problem?" Beast Boy demanded.

"What do you think?" Cy demanded. "We got kicked out of our house, a pint-sized Poindexter took me for a joyride, we still got a friend behind enemy lines where they're doing who-knows what to him, and in case you hadn't noticed, I just became left-handed!" he growled holding up his right bicep, one of the few pieces of his original body back in the tower leaving him with only two chunks left.

"Enough!" Raven shouted out. "We need to control our emotions."

"Or what? Our bad vibes will keep you from meditating?" Cy growled at her.

"I wish Robin were here," Star said worriedly.

"Well he's not!" Cy growled. "Don't you guys get it? They won, we lost. IT'S OVER!"

"It isn't just that," Raven said worriedly. "Blitz... It isn't much, but I was able to piece something together that may explain his some of his behavior," she said getting their attention. "The five of us... It's possible we're the only thing close to a family he has ever had, and with Robin missing and all of us defeated, I honestly fear what he might do."

"Then we go there and back him up," a familiar voice said from the dune, the others looking up to see Robin standing on the hillside, seemingly having a ray from heaven casting itself upon him, only his belt was missing, still in Blitz's hands. "Come on. Let's go get our tower, and our friend back," he said rallying the group together.


The following evening, the Tower's exterior had undergone an extensive renovation in the Titan's absence. One of the vertical bars on the T had been extended, the lights on the south half had been put out, and a vertical portion had been build up to join the half still lit and coming to the same height at the central extension. The entire effect made the lighted tower look like a giant H for HIVE, a honeycomb pattern applied to the add-ons. With the Titans "gone", it was unlikely that anyone would bug them in "their new home". At the same time inside, a pair of spherical robots held an oval-shaped wooden plaque in their "mouths", Cy's arm mounted on it like a stuffed fish.

"Higher... A little to the left... A little more... and... Perfect!" he said once the plaque was in place. "Slade's gonna have kittens when he finds out we whipped the Titans and took their stinkin' tower," he then laughed heading towards the front consoles.

"What about Blitzkrieg? Didn't Slade say he wanted them alive?" Mammoth asked.

"If we need money we can just rob a bank or somethin'," Gizmo huffed.

"In the meantime, we still have their favorite fashion statement," Jinx said coming into the room, one of Robin's yellow belts hanging loosely over her hips before she looked at the blue cloak that she was also wearing in contempt. "But that's the only thing fashionable around here."

"Tell me about it," Mammoth said pulling a moldy hamburger out of the fridge. "Hmph. All their food is way out of date," he said before tossing it into his mouth, the concept apparently not dissuading him in the slightest.

"You think that stuff's rotten? Wait 'til you see their music," he said as he began chucking CDs off the case with mutterings of "crud", "snot", "mega-crud", and other like-wise terms.

"Hey Mammoth, you find that Blitzkrieg kid yet? If he's still in the tower, then he might get the jump on us at an inopportune moment, God forbid he finds us alone and starts picking us off," Jinx stated with crossed arms. After taking over the tower, the first place she went was the guy's room, and after checking everywhere she only knew the guy kept his stuff in order, not enough to tell if he'd been through there recently. There wasn't anything her size in his closet and it was all guy's clothing, so that was why aside from one of Robin's belts from his room, she had gone to Raven's room and picked herself out a nice cloak considering all of Starfire's clothing would be too big for her.

"Nah, didn't find him," he said pigging out on furry blue food for a few minutes, the fights earlier having tired him out. "Hey Gizmo, can't you just use the tower's security to find him?" he asked munching on a furry blue drumstick.

"I searched for him already, but he must be hiding in a blindspot somewhere," Gizmo said chucking another few CDs to the side that were "garbage".

"Well, I'm all fueled up, so I guess I'll go look one more time. Kid may have some moves, but in closed spaces I own the battlefield," he said.

"BATER UP," a voice yelled behind Jinx, she turned and was met with an end of a quarterstaff. Jinx was thrown into Mammoth knocking them down. Blitz rush over to Gizmo and pick him up by the head, he was then given a small shock and a swift kick, "SITH PUNT."

"That it,"

Blitz turned his head just to see Mammoth rushing at him. He was tackled and sent flying in to the wall. With a grunt Blitz pick himself up and was hit by Gizmo's cannon and Jinx hexbolt. Mammoth tackled Blitz though multiple walls. It was at this moment that Cy had remotely taken control of his arm, the end of his middle finger flipping out with a camera inside. Wide eye he turned to the others, "We need to move now Blitz is taking them all them on and he getting his ass handed to him," he turn back to his arm which began moving towards one of the consoles at the front of the room. After scuttling onto one of the chairs, a set of thin tentacles acting as connectors to his limb pressed several keys, a schematic of the Tower's security measures coming into view before the green turned to red. At the moment the screen winked out, alarms and buzzers began going off, Blitz was thrown into the Spec Ops computer controls. Backing towards one of the nearby chairs the electro-kinetic turn towards the chair as it swiveled around

"What the hell taking you guys so long," he cried seeing Cyborg's arm standing on the seat by its fingers with a red eye glaring from the inside of the tip of the middle finger, he then collapse in a heap. The next moment the bionic limb suddenly jumped down before speeding across the floor, a couple of jet thrusters folding out of the forearm and ignited, carrying the two into the air. The next moment the arm balled its hand into a fist, punching through a round ceiling duct after grabbing Gizmo taking him up with it.

Jinx who walk back into the room only to hit head-first into a black shadowy hand that had sprouted from the ceiling, the girl gasping in shock before it receded into the ceiling and took her into the darkness. Mammoth began to sweat slightly as he saw his teammate taken away, before a starbolt suddenly slammed into him and sending him flying out of the room. Flying into the room, Starfire landed on the carpet and approached Blitz.

"*Gasp* Friend Blitz are okay," she said kneeling.

"Yea….I 'am…okay…..don't worry….about me….. get them first…..I'll be fine." Blitz said though pain breath giving her Robin's belt, "Give this to…. Boy Wonder…and kick their ass for me."

Starfire gave a nod and flew off her hand glowing with righteous fury. She headed into the corridor that she shot Mammoth into. At that moment on the roof a large black raven emerged before depositing Jinx and dropping her to her knees. Behind her, Cyborg's arm burst through the vent pipe and carried the screaming Gizmo higher and higher before careening towards his classmate, the girl's eyes widening before the inevitable head-on collision which sent them both rolling across the roof. When the elevator door slid open, a green flash of light accompanied the ejection of Mammoth from the metal shaft, the larger teen landing right in front of the other two.

"Sorry to interrupt the victory celebration. But like I said, this isn't over," Robin said making his presence known attaching his belt back on; Cyborg reattaching his arm after it flew back to him.

"It's just getting started," he said as the three stood up.

"Attack Patern Alpha!" Jinx called out, Gizmo and Mammoth scattering to the side as she threw a hexbolt forward. In response the Titans scrambled when the panel they were standing on suddenly swelled up and exploded. The mammoth teen's attack merely sent an attack toward Cyborg. Landing behind him, Jinx vaulted over his shoulders and hurled a spell at some of the scaffolding as she sailed through the air, the water tank falling over and toppling towards Cyborg, who ran just in time to get out of the way as a second tank collapsed hear him. While Starfire launch projectiles at Jinx, whose projectiles caused them to have to dodge as well, Cyborg looked around for the all-clear when Gizmo suddenly leapt onto his back.

"Hey Robo-Wimp. Feel like getting hacked?" he asked pulling out a metal cylindrical tool, which separated into four prongs and sparked menacingly.

"Nope. How 'bout you? Robin! Now!" he cried as Robin suddenly leapt into the air from behind the water tank and chucking a small yellow device towards Gizmo's pack, attaching to it and causing it to spark madly, the midget crying out in pain and frustration as Robin landed on the roof behind him.

"Ahhh! Cut it out! It's gonna crash my whole system!" Gizmo cried as he ripped off his shoulder-mounted laser. "Get it off me! Get it off-WAH!" he cried as his jetback suddenly forced him to take to the air. Elsewhere, Jinx ran madly to dodge Star's salvo of starbolts, finding herself funder the scaffolding for the vertical attachment to the tower.

"Beast Boy! Go!" Star cried to BB who was crouching overhead. Flipping a hand sign, the changeling dove off his perch before transforming into a monkey and attached itself squarely to the pinkette's face; the girl firing spells in all directions before finally yanking him off with her own two hands and chucked him across the roof.

"Your luck just ran out!" Beast Boy said with a mock salute as he got a running start, transforming into a hawk as he left Jinx behind with a confused expression. Looking up, her eyes widened when the framework overhead began to collapse around her as joints popped and pipes burst. Shuddering nervously as the pipework collapsed around her.

Mammoth charged straight at Raven, his fist pulled back only for her to fly over it and avoid it as she dropped down behind him. Turning to charge again, Cy came out of nowhere and rammed his shoulder into him, the mammoth teen sent flying through the air and tumbling a few times before he finally stopped skidding. Looking up, Mammoth saw Beast Boy transformed into a T-Rex, roaring loudly and causing him to completely freak out and run for his life. Firing a mighty starbolt at the fleeing teen, Starfire then nailed Mammoth dead center in the gut, the hit leaving him spinning in the air as Robin ran towards him giving him a flying roundhouse kick with his right shin sending him rolling across the ground before he crashed into his teammates, all arranged in a groaning pile after Gizmo had finally come down off his high.

"Cram it. I'm calling Slade," Gizmo said pulling out a transmitter, which was flicked on as Robin yanked him up to eye level.

"Who is Slade?"

"Wouldn't you like to know, barf-brain?" he asked with a grin, his expression clear that he wasn't going to talk.


A while later back in Slade's darkened lair, Slade sat on his throne and looked down at HIVE's Headmistress, who at the moment had come to apologize for her student's failure after they were taken in by the authorities.

"I assure you, such failures are not tolerated within the HIVE. Once the agents have been retrieved from the authorities, they will be disciplined. Strictly disciplined," she said bringing her fist down onto her palm.

"Actually, your agents served my plans quite well," Slade stated, "I never expected them to succeed. They were merely messengers. And the message... has been delivered," he said as Robin's likeness appeared on the monitor, captured on film by Gizmo and asking "Who is Slade?" over and over again, an entire row of screens lighting up.

With that the headmistress disappeared.

'Well done Sean you and Robin both will make good apprentices,' Slade thought to himself. Agent Zero appeared in front of him.

"Excellent work Zero," Slade said calling out into the shadows.

"What should we do now master?" Zero asked revealing herself in front of her master, "I think it is time to move our plans into motion," Slade said turning towards the computer screens.

"What about HIM?" Zero said pointing to the picture of Blitz.

"We will plant doubt into his mind and reveal his secrets, the Titans will shun him away immediately. And when they do we will accept him with open arms." Slade said opening his arms invitingly.

"And Robin sir?"

"He would make an excellent apprentice, but my main goal is Sean," Slade looks at Zero, "continue to watch him and the others, report everything to me, the more information we have against him the better it will be to turn him."

"Of course master," Zero said disappearing into the shadows.


The next morning after the HIVE's additions to the tower had been taken down, the massive spires and tiles of metal scheduled to be taken off the island via barge within the next week-

"NOOOOO! This is the worst thing that could ever happen!" Beast Boy cried. "My tunes! They've been... alphabetized," he said as though saying the word itself was sacrilege. "How am I ever going to find anything?" he cried as he began tossing the CDs over his shoulder, whereas Cy continued to search high and low for what he'd been searching for the previous morning.

"They went... into my room," Raven said icily as she came in holding one of her cloaks. "No one should ever go into my room."

"*Gasp* They have disposed of all our furry blue food!" Starfire gasped.

"That thing hisses at us and you're upset that it's gone?" Blitz asked from the counter having his wounds heal by Raven last night. Raven was secretly proud at his detached attitude for the loss of the sinful abomination called food.

"You gotta be kidding me!" Cy cried as he lifted up the couch. "The whole place gets cleaned and I still can't find the-" he said before Robin whistled to get his attention, pointing past the couch to the coffee table where the remote lay waiting in plain sight. "Ha!" he laughed as he dropped the couch and sat down, Robin flipping through the channels as the others joined in. "I guess we really oughta be training for battles, tracking down clues, and trying to find out who Slade is, huh?" Cy asked, whereas in the corner Blitz was wondering why Slade wanted him.

"We will. But right now, I'm just happy to be part of the team," Robin returned.


Blitz P.O.V

"I am finding it odd, that Slade wanted me," I told Light, "and I have this feeling every time we go out that I am being watch."

"Me too," Light said.

'Oh well, Robin is right we'll find out later, but right now let's just relax with my...…family.' I thought with a small smile. I made my way over to the others and sat down next to Raven who was reading a book.


OOOOO Slade know Blitz real name, what else does he know. What secrets will he reveal?

Tune in to find out.