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Terra stared down the darkened hallway, her eyes straining to see as she moved her puny flashlight around, scanning for any sign of her missing teammate.

"See-more!" She shouted repeatedly but he did not answer.

"Gizmo! I need some light here, now!" Terra howled.

The bald genius turned around, the long mechanical spider legs that had grown from his backpack clicking on the concrete floor. A second flood light popped out of his metallic backpack and lit up the hallway. The Titans quickly scanned the corridor. There was no sign of a struggle or of See-more.

"Anything on your scanners Gizmo?"

The young midget examined a monitor that had popped out of his pack.

"Too much interference, I'm not picking up anything."

It was then that Terra noticed something was missing.

"The tires!" She screeched. "The tires are gone!"

"What are you talking about?" Jinx asked. "What tires?"

"They were over there." Terra responded as she pointed at the empty space they used to occupy.

"Sludge! She's right! That can only mean one thing…"

"Madam Rouge" Mammoth concluded.

Terra gritted her teeth in frustration.

"We'll rescue him, but we have a mission to complete. And we know that the Brotherhood is here." Terra sighed.

"And we know that we walked into a trap." Jinx added.

"She's right." Gizmo agreed. "We need to get out of here."

Terra balled her fists.

"We can't, the city is counting on us. We have to stop them."

"I knew you were going to say that." Jinx moaned. "But you're right, we have to move forward."

Terra led her team down the stairwell to the next level, which was strewn with debris. Storage cabinets had been ripped to shreds and their contents littered the floor, a veritable minefield of junk. The 4 remaining heroes cautiously made their way around the sixth level, checking each room one by one. There was no one to be found anywhere.

"OK team, it's on to the next level." The geomancer whispered.

"They're watching us, I just know it." Gizmo moaned. "We're walking into a trap."

"I thought we had already established that." Terra said crossly as she opened the stairwell door.

"In that case you can go first!" Gizmo snapped at her while he pointed at the dark stairwell.

Terra harrumphed and plunged into the dark stairwell, illuminating it with her flashlight. She was followed promptly by Jinx and Mammoth and they made their way down to the next level. It was then that Jinx noticed that Gizmo was missing.

"Terra, where's Gizmo?"

Terra gritted her teeth.

"That no good coward!" She grumbled as she made her way back up to level 6. "I'm going to give him a piece of my mind!"

"You and me both!" Jinx howled as she ran after Terra. Mammoth stayed behind while aiming his flashlight down towards the bottom level.

Terra and Jinx burst out of the stairwell, both ready to give the cowardly genius a tongue lashing. But he was nowhere to be found.

"Gizmo! This isn't funny!" Jinx called out to him.

Terra's face went pale.

"They got him."

"What?" Jinx howled.

"You heard me, they captured Gizmo." She replied as she headed back to the stairwell.

"Where the hell are you going Terra?"

"Where else? We have to find that black hole generator. Mammoth is waiting for us."

Jinx followed Terra back into the stairwell.

There was no sign of Mammoth.

"Great! Just great!" Jinx moaned. "What the hell is happening? We're the Teen Titans! We're getting picked off one by one."

"Not anymore!" Terra snarled as she balled her fists. Her eyes glowed yellow and the remaining stairs crumbled, leaving an unobstructed path to the bottom level. Terra gestured with her hand and a large slab of concrete floated in front of them. The two Titans hopped on board and Terra began their descent.

"We're getting to the bottom of this!" The geomancer growled.

Terra guided their perch to the bottom level, landing in front of the door. The two stepped off and Terra grabbed the door's handle, preparing to open it.

"I hope you know what you're doing Terra."

"So do I Jinx."

Terra pulled the door open and the Titanic pair stormed into the bottom level.


"Cyborg! How are we doing?" Robin shouted as he finished deactivating one of the seismic charges.

"Not good man! We're already a minute behind schedule and we only have five minutes left!"

Robin clenched his teeth. There were too many bombs to defuse and it was taking longer than they had hoped. The memory of the other cave, seething in lava and crumbling as it prepared to erupt came flashing back to him. The smell of sulphur and the trembling earth almost seemed to be present. And to make matters worse Terra was not there to stop it.

"We have to work faster! We can't allow this to happen!"

Without looking up from his current bomb Beast Boy shouted: "Cyborg! What's the minimum number of charges needed to trigger the volcano?"

"Ten!" He shouted back.

"Then why did they set so many of them?" Raven shouted as she defused a bomb and quickly moved on to the next one. "Isn't this overkill?"

Beast Boy leaped to his feet.

"You know what that means? We're meant to be kept busy! We just …"

"…fell into a trap." An old voice finished his sentence. "A very old trap, but when you are as old as I am you've seen them all.'

Starfire gasped.

"General Immortus!"

The ancient warrior chuckled as he was flanked by his robotic soldiers.

"We can take him!" Robin shouted.

Immortus chuckled.

"Perhaps you can Robin, but who will defuse the charges if you do?"

Robin stared down at the charge he was working on. The timer indicated that 4 minutes and 23 seconds remained.

"You fiend! You're going to kill everyone in the city!"

Immortus grinned. "Such are the spoils of war. Collateral damage is an acceptable price for victory."

Robin turned his back on the General.

"Titans! Continue defusing and do it fast!"

The five heroes ignored Immortus's presence and went back to work.

"Your heroism is heartwarming, if futile." He said as he pressed a button on control pad in his hand. The phalanx of mechanical soldiers around him parted and second set of robots made their way to the front. Unlike the other droids they were armed not with rifles but with strange futuristic weapons which they aimed at the Titans. Robin saw them first and jumped to his feet.

"Titans! Keep defusing, I'll stop the soldiers."

Robin threw a volley of his exploding disks at the leading soldiers, destroying them. Unfortunately even more appeared. The Boy Wonder attacked them as he bombarded them with bird-a-rangs, freezing disks and other weapons, but they kept coming. He quickly exhausted his weapons and drew his bo-staff and engaged the robots in hand to hand combat.

"Cyborg! Time?" He shouted as he smashed a droid's head open with his staff.

"Three minutes! We're not gonna make it!"

"You have to! Failure is not an option!"

The other four Titans picked up the pace as Robin continued to battle the droids. He was gaining the upper hand as Immortus finally appeared to be running out of his metallic warriors but his luck finally ran out. Once of the droids he had smashed earlier was still partially functional. It lay on the ground and raised its one good arm taking aim at Robin. The rifle vomited its energy discharge and hit the Boy Wonder point blank.

Much to his surprise Robin was neither dead nor injured but he fell to the ground. He was fully conscious but was paralyzed from the neck down. He then heard more discharges and heard each of his teammates, one by one, fall to the ground as well.

"Cyborg, how many are left?"

"Twenty five." The fallen tin man replied. "And there's less than a minute left."

"We have failed." Starfire cried as she too was crumpled into a heap on the ground.

"Aren't you going to escape Immortus?" Raven yelled. The General's only response was a chuckle.

With a monumental effort Raven turned her head so she was facing Beast Boy. At that moment the remaining charge timers began their final countdown in mechanical electronic voice.

"20, 19, 18 …"

"Do you love me Gar?"

"14, 13, 12…"

"I do Raven. Do you love me?"

"9, 8, 7…"

With tears in her eyes she replied.

"Yes Gar, I love you. I'm sorry I didn't tell you that more often."

"It's OK Rae, it's OK." He replied in a soothing voice. She could hear the calm in his voice. They were going to die together. Her only regret was that she couldn't embrace him as the end approached.

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1…"

There were no explosions.

Immortus laughed.

"Like I said, I've seen every trick in the book! Sergeant! Take them into custody!"

He then turned to Raven.

"That was very touching sorceress and very informative. You know what they say my dear: knowledge is power."

A platoon of robots stepped forward and picked up the 5 paralyzed heroes. Raven struggled to summon her dark energy but was too weak to succeed. The robots carried them away, followed by Immortus, as his self satisfied laugher was echoing throughout that cave.


Terra and Jinx charged into the dark hallway, their calamitous footfalls echoing throughout the bottom level. Unlike the previous levels this one was a single large room and was completely empty. There were no boxes, no cabinets, nothing. All there was to be seen were the large columns that supported the ceiling above, which were evenly distributed throughout the level.

"We've been had." Jinx complained. "There's nothing here."

"We could explore the levels we skipped." Terra volunteered.

Jinx shook her head. "If they were to set up shop, it would be here. They were planning on ambushing us and it worked. Now were 10 stories underground and the only way out is through that stairwell. We'll be sitting ducks!"

Terra bit her lip in frustration. Beast Boy had warned her to not underestimate the Brotherhood of Evil, and she had failed to heed his advice and was now paying for it. Half her team and been captured and they were trapped in the bowels of the bunker.

"We can tunnel our way out. They aren't expecting that. We'll get out and regroup with the others. Hopefully they've been more successful than we were."

Jinx kept looking over her shoulder, as if expecting yet another ambush to materialize in the obviously empty room.

"Sounds good to me Terra, let's get the hell out of here."

The geomancer nodded and her eyes began to glow yellow. She aimed her palms at the heavily fortified concrete wall which began to crumble, revealing a bed rock of solid granite. The tunneling proceeded at a slow pace and Jinx watched as the granite slowly crumbled and fell away. Soon the tunnel was deep enough for them to enter and they did, while Terra changed the direction upwards towards the surface. The tunneling generated a great deal of noise and Jinx kept looking over her shoulder, expecting to see someone there.

The tunnel's upward slope slowly increased and they would soon not be able to see its entrance. Jinx looked back one more time and gasped. Mallah was standing at the tunnel's entrance and he was holding a strange cannon like weapon in his arms which was aimed straight at them.

"Now that was very rude of you trying to escape like this, not to mention not very sporting. But it is of no matter now, as you cannot escape!"

Terra spun around, ready to launch a barrage of rocks at the gorilla. Jinx was also casting a hex to throw at him. But they were too slow and there was nowhere to run. Mallah fired the weapon and the two Titans fell to the ground unconscious.

Madam Rouge appeared and entered the tunnel to retrieve the two Titans. She quickly emerged with a girl under each arm.

"That was easy." Mallah grunted with satisfaction.

"And entertaining." Rouge added. "They were the last ones. The Brain will be pleased."

Mallah chuckled. "Yes, yes he will be. Evil has prevailed."