Previously: A face appeared onscreen, glasses and outrageously red hair. "Alright my duckies!" Mad Mod in the flesh… or possibly a hologram. He pulled back from the screen, bizarrely he was wearing an English Royal Navy's officer suit. "You Americans won't join the British Empire peacefully? Then I'll just have to take it by force!"

Cyborg stood before the Main Room's screen, "The local signal booster for the city would be an easy way to transmit his hypno signal to all TV screens in the area." A location on the map was circled, presumably the signal booster. "But I've also found two locations for where Mad Mod himself might be hiding." The Titans rode out from the Tower in three different directions.

Mad Mod sat in his technological cave, "Within a few days, the British Empire will be great once more! Order the attack!"

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Starfire and Cyborg flew to the top of the transmitter tower. The rain poured from the sky, soaking the Titans and the tower itself.

Setting Cyborg down Starfire landed next to him. Cyborg pointed to a innocuous looking dish, "That's the thing we gotta look after, if everything gets too much for us we'll take it out, ok?"

"Why do we not just destroy it now? Then we could join the other teams."

"Destroying it will bring down most of the communications along with all of the satellite television for the area, and we don't want to lose TV do we?"

Starfire smiled, her hands clasped together. "I will do my best, friend Cyborg!"

"I know you will Star."

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Raven and Beast Boy touched down a block away from their target, an abandoned factory on the outskirts of the city. Like most of the area the factory was run down, with a few parts of the outer wall missing and several windows smashed. Other than the two Titans and the rain pelting down on them, the street was deserted

Silently, Raven moved forwards. The changeling beside her morphed into a cat, his heightened sense ready to pick up on trouble.

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A buoy in the Bay, rain pelting down onto the sea.

A dull roar and a wave of seawater crashed over the bobbing marker. Seconds before a red speedboat had almost flown past.

I held onto the passenger seat as the Boy Wonder pushed the R-Speeder to its limits. Suddenly, a blip appeared on the outer part of the radar. Robin slowed the speedboat to check it and sped off in the direction of the newly found object.

I gripped the Jesus bar tightly.

"Scared, rookie?" Robin smirked.

"H-Hardly." I let go of the Jesus bar and returned my hands to my lap.

The blip was getting closer, so Robin slowed down to avoid detection. "This could be it, so be ready."

I cracked my knuckles, "Ready and able."

"Good."

The blip was almost on top of us now. Robin slowed the speeder to an almost stop and gradually, gradually brought us right up to it.

I looked out of the window, to see the front of a huge ship rise out of the darkness. On it's side was written in great, fading letters 'Britannia'.

Without a word Robin stopped the boats engine. Pressing a button on the side the roof slid open. I flew directly up the bow of the ship, past the deck, my suit camouflaging me against the night.

Seconds later a grappling hook fired from the gloom below and wrapped itself around the handrail of the ship. Robin rose out of the darkness, holding onto the handle of his grappling hook.

He pulled himself up onto the deck and I landed next to him. He got out a bird-a-rang and crept towards the doors to the interior of the ship. We crept inside the doors and out of the damned rain.

Inside, the light was barely stronger than outside, the lights only emitted the faintest glow possible without actually being off. After only a minute or so of exploration we almost walked into a man walking around the ship, obviously acting as a guard.

THUD!

Robin took the man out with a well placed chop. The man sank to the floor and we were able to study him for the first time. He was wearing shirt and tie, with a black jacket on. Presumably typical navy-wear, although I'm no expert.

Robin looked at the unconscious guy on the floor and then at me. I raised an eyebrow underneath my mask.

"You know what would be easier? If we could walk round without being interrupted by anyone."

I frowned.

"Okay, you're gonna have to wear his clothes. You look about the right size."

"Why can't you do it?"

"Not the right size."

"I suppose, you are pretty short."

Robin frowned at me. "Just take off the cowl."

"What about my secret identity?"

He raised an eyebrow.

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Cyborg sat on the metal girder, rain pelting down, making little tinkling noises on the steel. Above him, keeping an eye out was Starfire, visible only because of the green glow of her starbolts, ready to fire at any intruder.

Suddenly she fired off her round of starbolts and flew down to Cyborg. "There is a small force of the Mad Mod's androids, coming from the East."

Cyborg leapt to his feet, running carefully along the slippery metal. Skidding to a stop he looked out from the radio tower. Bright red mechanical soldiers were marching up the street towards them. Behind them a tank rumbled along.

"Star, keep moving, don't let them get a lock on you."

"Affirmative!"

Starfire flew up to the skies, charging starbolts as she went. As the robot's heads followed Star's direction, Cyborg took aim with his sonic cannon. PWOOOOOOSH! The cannon fired a long stream of sonic energy down at the automatons.

One was utterly destroyed by the blast, and a few more were thrown into the air.

FLASH! FLASH!

Two orbs of green light flew down, destroying another android.

Cyborg shouted up, "Star! Keep them busy from up there! If any make it to here, take 'em out in any way possible!" Starfire nodded, flinging more Starbolts as Cyborg moved back along the metal girder.

He turned swiftly, and began to run at full pelt along the metal. As he leapt off the radio tower he charged up his sonic cannon.

He fell.

CRASH!

Cyborg landed on one knee, his sonic cannon planted downwards through the chest of one robot and into the chest of a second. There was a second of silence.

BOOOM!

A wave of sonic energy knocked a dozen of the robots off their feet.

Cyborg leapt to his feet, firing his cannon wildly and punching robots away from him.

An automaton took aim behind him and FLASH! A starbolt melted it's head. Several others were brought down by Starfire who flew over head, dodging bullet shots from the androids below.

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Pad. Pad. Pad.

A drenched green cat crept up to the abandoned factory. As it reached the door, it shook itself, morphing into a green elf. He waved towards the shadows by the broken gate. Raven floated over, her feet not touching the ground and a shield of darkness protecting her from the rain.

Raven looked upwards, towards a broken window. Beast Boy nodded, morphed into a monkey and scaled the wall in seconds. He peered through the smashed window, morphed into a rat and slunk in.

Seconds later he reappeared, mouthing to Raven "Come on!" Raven floated upwards towards the green-skinned elf.

They found themselves in a room, now out of the downpour, everywhere there were machines of some sort. But they were all silent, dead.

WHURR! CLUNG!

The machines came to life, swinging arms and pistons jerking in to action. Conveyor belts whirred into suddenly lit furnaces. Metal poured into casts. The factory was alive.

The two Titans crept along the machines, to the end. Here they found newly made robotic soldiers. Unpainted, they came to life and tended to the machines that built them.

"Beast Boy, we have to shut down the factory before we can take out any of the soldiers. If we don't then we'll end up fighting more and more of those damned things."

"Gotcha. B.B. is on the job!" He morphed into a humming bird and flew up to a gantry above the machines. He landed as an elf, looking for a way to destroy the machines below. "One broked factory coming up…" He spied a heavy looking chain. Morphing into a gorilla he waddled over to pick it up.

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I frowned, wearing my newly acquired navy uniform. "Ok, now take off the cowl." Grudgingly, I did so. My black hair fell out, down close to my green eyes. A mess. I tucked my cowl into the back of my costume. The Boy Wonder smirked and winked, "Hello sailor."

"Shut up."

"Heh heh. Don't worry, while you're walking round, I'll be around. So you'll be safe."

"I'm not afraid."

"Of course not…"

I frowned. "Well, how're you gonna sneak about in that?" I asked pointing at his costume.

He covered his red and green costume with his black cape and slinked off to hide in the shadows. I sighed and began walking down the corridor. "Do we even know where we're going?"

There was only silence.

I decided to head for the bridge. Logically that would be high up, so when I spied some stairs I started to climb upwards.

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Cyborg punched an android, throwing it backwards into two others. Changing his fist into a sonic cannon, he blasted the three apart. He turned around. A robot fired its rifle at him, which he managed to block with his wrist, flinging the gun upwards.

His eyes widened as he saw a green comet flying towards him. He ducked and Starfire flew over him and crashed into the soldier directly behind him. As she flew back upwards she unleashed four more starbolts destroying her targets.

"RRAAARRGH!" Cybrog punched his way through another automaton.

CCRRCCH! From around the corner, one of Mad Mod's tanks rumbled its way toward the mechanical teen. It's cannon turned to fire on him.

Starfire threw starbolts down, which impacted on the armour of the tank, but failed to cause any damage. The turret turned and the gun raised up towards the Tamaranian. Starfire snarled, closing her eyes, before unleashing green optic blasts.

The tank fired a shell. Starfire dived, dodging beneath the projectile. Like a green comet she flew down SMASH! crashing into the side of the tank.

A small dent was formed in the armour.

PHWOOSH!

Cyborg fired a sonic blast at the front of the tank. But while it rocked back on its tracks a bit, no damage was actually done. The turret turned to him and fired a shell.

BOOM!

The impact and subsequent explosion sent Cyborg flying backwards, like a ragdoll, and through the wall of a nearby building.

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The green gorilla picked up the chain. He then waddled over to the side of the gantry, above some clanking gears. He held the chain over the barrier.

BLAM!

A net covered the hulking beast, trapping him against the floor. At the end of the gantry, an unpainted mechanical soldier stood, it's rifle still raised and smoking from it's shot.

The gorilla morphed into an elf. "As if this could hold me for a second." Said Beast Boy as he morphed into a rat and slipped between the wires that held him.

He scurried towards the reloading robot, which was changing its ammo to lethal rounds. Just as it had finished with its gun, Beast Boy morphed into a raptor, tearing apart the android's head from it's shoulders.

Spitting out bits of metal from his mouth, he morphed back into his normal green self. He ran over to the chain once more, but as he was getting ready to morph into something big enough to pick up the chain, he saw Raven in trouble.

She was surrounded by Mad Mod's creations, all trying to raise guns. The guns were encased with black telekinesis, but the robots were managing to gradually lift there weapons up to fire at the girl.

Beast Boy made a split decision choice. He morphed into a gorilla, picked up the massive chain and tossed it into three of the soldiers, even as the telekinesis appeared to shatter around the guns. The changeling leapt off the gantry, morphing into a raptor on his way down.

CRASH!

He landed on one soldier, mashing it's mechanical insides into the ground. He turned to another baring his teeth.

Raven use her magic to tear apart three of the robots with metal shards from their deceased companions.

Beast Boy morphed into a huge ape, picking up the chain he had thrown before. He swung it above his head.

CR-CRASH!

He smashed another three of the robots with the gigantic chain.

Raven pointed her hands at the final three soldiers, even as they pulled the triggers on their guns.

BLAM! BLAM! BLAM!

The deadly rounds fired. One into each of the robots.

They crumbled under their own shots.

The two Teen Titans stood in the remains of over a dozen of Mod's creations.

But as soon as Beast Boy cheered, more robots activated as they walked from their 'birthing' chamber.

Raven turned to Beast Boy. "You should have destroyed the factory first."

As she raised herself into the air, her eyes glowing white Beast Boy muttered, "No problem for saving you, Rae. Geez, you should be hero worshipping me, but nooo."

Raven smirked, tendrils of dark magic flying from her fingertips at the newly made automatons.

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I walked down a corridor in the ship, completely lost and feeling like a fool.

Finally, I found a door that lead away from the corridor I felt like I had been stuck in for hours.

I found myself in a room, filled with men and women in British navy uniforms. They all looked up and stared at me. One piped up eventually.

"Alright, guv'nor?" Even for a guy from England, that didn't sound real.

I said the first thing I could think of that I knew how to say with a cockney accent.

"Need a chim-er-nee sweep?"

Bizarrely, this was accepted by the people in the room, as they all returned to what they were doing. Which consisted of standing around staring at various walls.

I raised an eyebrow.

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Cyborg climbed back through the wall. CL-CLACK He transformed his right fist into a sonic cannon. "Star?" A green bolt of energy obliterated one of the mechanical soldiers. "We have to bring down the tank!"

"Affirmative!"

The tank took aim at Cyborg once more. Starfire rocketed in, gripping the tanks cannon-barrel, pulling upwards. The shell fired, missing Cyborg by a few inches.

The robot warriors turned to defend their strongest weapon, one jumped up and landed next to Starfire. PWOOOSH! Cyborg blasted a hole through it's chest.

Another leapt onto the tank, another sonic blast from Cyborg.

The robot force split in two, one half stopping Starfire destroying the tank, the other half stopping Cyborg protecting Starfire.

CLAK-CLAK!

Cyborg transformed his other arm into another sonic cannon. "Best to cover your ears, punks."

PH-PHWOOOSH!

Two streams of sonic energy fired into the mass of robots. The ones that were hit in the chest and head, went straight down, those that got a limb caught stumbled a few more steps before crumbling.

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I waited.

I waited.

Waited for something to happen. "So… some weather we're having, eh?"

They all turned to me.

"It's orl-ways loike this in Jolly ole England!"

"Right…"

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"RRAAAUUGGHH!" Cyborg ran in changing his weapons back into fists. He plunged his arm through a chest of one, elbowed another in the head, kicked one in the knees and then crushed it's head with his hand.

He upper-cutted a robot, sending it sprawling back into one of it's companions, destroying them both. He jumped high into the air, transforming his left arm into his sonic cannon once more.

BOOM!

A stream of sonic energy took out one more. He landed with his one arm smashing into the face of a robot. He turned on the last group of half a dozen automatons and as they ran towards him, he transformed his right arm into a sonic cannon too. CL-CLACK!

PHWOOOOSH!

In a cleansing sonic bathing, he destroyed the remainder of the force attacking him.

Starfire, however was struggling, having to face the majority of the robots she chose to abandon trying to destroy the tank for now, and take to the sky. But as she had to dodge so many bullets, she only had a few opportunities to remove any of the robots.

Seeing Cyborg free she flew over to him. They took cover behind some rubble and tried to quickly formulate a plan.

Beast Boy stood in the form of a gorilla in front of a hovering Raven. As he punched, tore and threw the silver robotic guards, Raven created shields where needed and threw parts of destroyed robots into the mass.

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"Rae…" morph - SMACK!- morph "You said we gotta stop the factory before engaging robots?" morph - CRUNCH! – morph -"Go for it…" morph - CRASH! - morph - "I've got your back!"

SM-SMACK! As an elephant he impaled two separate robots, destroying them both.

Raven nodded, and brought her knees up to her chest, and began to chant. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos… Azarath Metrion Zinthos…"

A robot stood on a gantry above her, took aim. Beast Boy flew up as a humming bird and collided with it as a hippo, smashing it through the gantry crushing it to the floor. He then ran back as a cheetah, in front of Raven.

He morphed into a tiger, diving into combat with the nearest robots.

Raven was still meditating. Black telekinesis enfolded the robot-making machine.

SKRRIIIIII!

Gears scraped against stationery gears, pistons stopped pumping and the conveyor belt ground to a halt. There was a moment when nothing moved and then…

SCRAAAAPE!

BOOOOOM!

Bits of shrapnel flew out, spiking through robots, shattering windows and bringing down the walls.

As the dust cleared a black half sphere appeared, half-covered in rubble.

A second past before it threw the rubble off and dissipated.

A cowering Beast Boy looked around. "Duuude… did you do that?"

And as the rain continued to pour, for the second time that day, Raven smirked.

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"So guys… which way is the bridge?" They looked at me suspiciously. "umm… admiral Mod wants to see me? I, uh," Inspiration struck, "its my first day!"

They nodded and pointed towards a door. I grinned and made my way towards the bridge. As I went through the door, I heard sarcastically whispered in my ear, "Nice work, rookie."

More stairs.

Great.

I looked around, and flew upwards.

"Heh heh!"

I reached the top of the stairs and found myself staring into the barrel of a gun.

"Ah, crap."

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Starfire flew upwards away from the battle, Cyborgs arms in her hands. Flying so that they were directly above the tank. "After I take out the tank, you have to destroy the robots as quickly as possible, and then check on the dish okay?"

Starfire nodded.

She dropped Cyborg.

THWOOOOOSH! Ten stories up, Cyborg tumbled towards the ground. He transformed his right arm into a sonic cannon. With his left hand he pressed a few buttons on the cannon, a few flaps opened and it lengthened.

THWOOSH! A humm filled the air as he began to charge up the blast. His arm began to shine blue brightly and the gun started to vibrate.

THWOOSH! He struggled to keep the cannon on target. As he reached five stories up, he unleashed his fully powered sonic cannon.

SHWOOOOOOM!

A huge beam of sonic energy fired directly down, right into the centre of Mad Mod's forces and into the tank. The sonic blast held Cyborg in the air for a second, Robots being tossed upwards beneath him.

"BOO-YAAH!" Cyborg shouted, before the drain on his power caught up with him and the blue lighting of his circuitry turned black. And he fell into the midst of the ravaged robots and into the middle of a crater.

Thunk.

Starfire gasped and flew down. She landed on her knees next to him and cradled his head. "Cyborg?"

On reserve power only, he only managed a whisper. "Check the dish…"

Starfire nodded and flew up the radio tower.

One robot was soldering something to the dish. SMASH! She caved his head in, with a glowing green hand. She turned to the circuitry, half-attached to the dish. They began to melt as she unleashed an optic beam.

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I pulled my cowl back over my head, falling backwards as I did so. A shot rang out above me, and a bullet embedded itself in the wall.

-My suit can make black holes, but moving them at anything other than a slow speed is a problem. However, I can 'attach' them to my wrists and the edges of the black holes can cut through most things. This gives me a sort of shield as well as an offensive weapon. By doing this my suit is able to move them at a normal speed. –

Attaching black holes to my wrists I flew back up. PHIIIISSHH! And swiped my hand through the robot's head. The body of the robot crumpled to the floor, like a puppet whose strings had been cut.

Four more robots stood aiming at me. Just as they were about to attack, one of them starting sparking and was suddenly dragged into the darkness of the stairwell. Robin, presumably. The remaining robots attentions' were no longer on me, they had turned to see their companion dragged off.

I smiled, and ran forward and span in mid-air. My wrist voids slashed several times into the armour of my opponents, and they fell to the ground, broken.

I looked around for Robin, saw he wasn't appearing out of the darkness, and flew down a corridor, hopefully, towards the bridge.

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Robin had tried to sneak through the door, but the zombified sailors had seen him. He turned, taking up a crouching martial arts position.

A sailor ran at him, fist raised. Robin ducked under the fist and kicked blindly backwards, sending the sailor flying into a metal wall. CLUNG!

"Next."

Three more sailors ran at him. Robin grinned.

Using the middle sailor as a stand, he leap-frogged, kicking the other two in the head, knocking them out. The final one of the trio turned and got a kick to the face, sending him sprawling backwards into a wall.

Robin turned to a wall of sailors ready to attack him. He took up another pose. "Let's make this quick…"

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Starfire held her communicator tightly, listening to Beast Boy talking.

"Our coordinates turned out to be a robot factory, but no sign of Mad Mod. I brought down the place though, so there shouldn't be too many more of the things."

"Beast Boy, I brought down the place…"

"Well sure, technically, but I totally protected your butt while you were doing it!"

"Is that what you call it?"

"Hmph!"

"Have you heard anything of Robin and Void?"

"Zilch."

"Then I will return Cyborg to the Tower and then make my way to the coordinates given to Robin."

"Coolio, Star, we'll meet you there."

"Affirmative."

"Over and out."

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Robin kicked the last sailor in the temple, bringing him down. Abandoning all caution he ran down through the corridor leading to the bridge. Since the sailors had spotted him, the chances were that Mad Mod knew they were there. This meant the only chance for victory would be to get to the control room as soon as possible, while the element of surprise might still be there.

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With the black holes still 'attached' to my wrists I slashed an X through a metal door. I pushed against it with my foot, toppling it.

I entered into a haven of wires and electronic items. 10 robotic soldiers turned to look at me, aiming their guns. Most of the wires, on the ground and ceiling, were leading to a throne in the middle of the room. Surrounded by screens, showing various views of around town and the frigate, a destroyed factory and a radio tower being two.

"Alright chum?" An English accent, it could only be Mad Mod. "You did well to get this far, but I'm gonna have to teach you some respect, you miserable scrot!"

He stood from his throne and turned to face me. He held his stick with a ruby in one end of it in his hand. He pressed the all purpose ruby button.

As he span the stick he seemed to swell up. His body became a sphere with the colours of the British flag on it.

"Lets go, you American moron!"

I flew at him, one arm raised, black hole still ready to slice. But just as I was about to get to him a net collided with me dragging me to the floor. I cut through the thick wire and stood. Three more nets fired at me, but I expanded the holes 'attached' to my arms and swallowed them up.

From nowhere Mod jumped at me, swinging his cane, which connected with my skull. CRACK!

I landed hard on the floor, and skidded a metre or so.

He leapt at me again. SWIPE! Swung his cane but I ducked out of the way.

PHIIIISH! I sliced at his spherical body with my wrist 'blades', but the scratch in his body armour just disappeared moments later.

PH-PH-PHIIIISH!

I swung three more times, this time aiming for his cane, but the jolly old Englander somehow managed to evade, with an amazing set of gymnastics.

As he was out of the way, an opening for his android henchman was available. I had to create a void in front of me to swallow their bullets.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

A shadow flew through the door. Out of its outstretched arms were flung bird-a-rangs, into six of the ten robots. FL-FL-FL-THUNG!

B-B-BOOM!

With five of the robots down, thanks to Robin, I removed my shield. I flew towards the group of four PH-PHIIIISH! I sliced two in half, one falling in two pieces down the middle, the other was sliced at the waist.

Mad Mod was livid and from out of nowhere he produced a missile launcher. He held his stick loosely as he took aim at the Boy Wonder. PFTOOOOM!

WOOOSH! PHIIIISH!

I flew over to the rocket, sliced it in half, which caused it to explode.

Mad Mod peered through the smoke, a great grin on his face. But out of the smog a grappling hook was fired FW-FW-FW! Latched around Mad Mod's walking stick CLANG! And pulled it back into the smoke.

"Shit!"

The smoke cleared and Robin held the stick in two hands before breaking it in half. CRACK!

As his body armour deflated, robots fell to the floor and the screens blinked out one by one Mad Mod ran to a control panel, pressing a button.

"I knew I should have come up with a better way of controlling things, Thankfully, I have one last thing that doesn't rely on my walking stick!"

A wall began to divide the room in two. Robin and I ran towards the division, but only managed to bang or hands against it. After a couple of seconds it opened again.

Mad Mod stormed in, but this time he was wearing an exo-skeleton of armour, bristling with weapons.

"I'll take on America by myself!"

PFTOOOM!

He fired a laser blast at us, before thrusters fired from his back and ankles, he flew upwards, an opening which we hadn't noticed before took him outside.

"Void! Take me out there and try and contact the others. I'll try and slow him down before he gets to the city. Let's go!"

I gripped him under his arms and flew out the same hole Mod did.

As we reached the cold night air, where it had stopped raining, we could see Mod flying towards the city. I dropped Robin, who got a control out of his utility belt, pushing a button. Far below, at sea level the R-Speeder came to life.

Robin performed a swan-dive off the edge of the ship and landed in the speeder below. With a whurr of the engine it sped off in Mad Mod's direction, the roof already closing Robin in against the elements.

I got out my communicator and started to contact the other Titans. "H-Hello? This is Void. Can anyone read me?"

"Sure can nooby." Beast Boy "What took you so long? We're almost at you now!"

"We found Mad Mod, but he escaped in a weird exo-skeleton, robotic suit thing! Robin's chasing him now, but he might need some help."

"I think I see… Ah crap. FFFFT!" Beast Boy broke up. It seemed like Mad Mod had some sort of radio blocker.

I decided that the Titans would probably want me to go and help them, so I set off in the direction of the city.

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By the time I arrived the other Titans had pretty much fought Mod to a standstill. It was only a matter of time before they brought him down. He had already lost the thruster on his back, and the multiple weapons attached to his suit were melted and smoking.

Even as I got close enough to make a difference I saw Starfire launch Beast Boy as a armadillo at Mod. Raven was throwing bits of the mad Englishman's own suit at him, while Robin had a cord wrapped around his ankle.

Beast Boy morphed into a pterodactyl, and gripped Mad Mod's shoulders, Robin pulled down on the cord. Raven used black telekinesis to undo latches that kept Mod attached to his suit.

And then finally the suit fell free of the Brit. Starfire launched a starbolt at the suit, incinerating it.

It was at this time when I realized again how well the Titans worked as a team, and I hoped that one day I would be able to be as good as them. Luckily, I knew that they would be there every step of the way… one way or another…