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The battle was intensifying. At first the Titans caught the combined Brotherhood teams off guard as they leaped out of the now vanquished bubbles.

Robin and Nightwing tackled one of the Mallahs and were quickly overwhelming them. The gorilla had superhuman strength and was quick, his reflexes were lighting fast. The two Richard Graysons worked in tandem, almost as if of one mind as they repeatedly struck the simian, either with lightning fast kicks or with powerful bo-staff strikes, which more than once shattered the pole like weapons. Mallah lashed out at his tormentors but they were too agile and were able to easily evade his ham fisted strikes. The gorilla knew he was in trouble and looked to his twin for help.

Meanwhile Mammoth engaged the other gorilla genius in what was clearly a battle of brute strength. The other Mallah was resorting to cunning and speed to fend off the one man platoon whose tactics were the opposite of those used by the onetime acrobats. The gorilla and the muscle man were evenly matched in their battle, which was waged without concern for what was happening around them. Their tactics were similar: brutal punches and wrestling. They were clearly in a stalemate.

Starfire and Blackfire took on the two Madam Rouges, who had decided to band together in their fight. A single Madam Rouge was as formidable adversary under any circumstance as she combined brute force with finesse, cunning was matched with raw power in a yin-yang fashion, complementing each other perfectly. The Tamaranians however, while not friends were still proud warriors of Tamaran, and princesses to boot. They fought as a single unit, even though they were technically strangers, and clearly had the upper hand over the two shape-shifters who fought aggressively and without honor as they avoided the deadly starbolts and eyebeams the two women wielded. One of them made the mistake of wrapping herself around Starfire in a foolhardy attempt to smother the princess. For all her trouble she was rewarded with a giant star bolt which Starfire formed around her body, sending the elastic woman reeling.

The remaining heroes, namely the two Cyborgs, Terra, Jinx and Gizmo engaged the combined robotic army that the ancient generals commanded. The droids had initially focused on the two Ravens and Beast Boy but soon had to reposition their focus as they suddenly found themselves on the receiving end of sonic cannons, thermal blasters, bad luck hexes, flying chunks of concrete and Gizmo's arsenal. The robots fired back, but their clumsy and poorly aimed shots missed their mark time and time again as the heroes deftly dodged their attacks while counterattacking, steadily decimating their mechanical antagonists.

The distraction was welcomed by the two sorceresses who continued to heal Beast Boy, who was lying on his side, still in the same position he had been in since he collapsed after morphing into a gorilla. Raptor was by far the least skilled of the healers, being the neophyte she focused more on the less harmful wounds while Raven continued with her triage.

Raven was examining Beast Boy's gunshot wound in his back and was alarmed with what she saw. The bullet's entry point was close to his spine and it appeared that the bullet was lodged near his heart. Also, having morphed into a gorilla and back into his human form had shifted the bullet around, further complicating matters. The wound was bleeding profusely and Raven knew that he had already lost a lot of blood as her own blood stained hands attested to. She also knew that the bullet had to be removed before she could begin to heal the hideous wound, but she dared not attempt to remove it with her powers as she feared that she might cause even more harm to her beloved.

But Raven knew that time was of the essence and that the bullet would have to be removed as soon as possible. She paused for a moment and scanned the room until she saw what she was looking for: he was huddled in a corner, staying out of harm's way.

While pointing at the young man with the gift of supervision she shouted at her doppelganger.

"Raptor! Bring See-more here! I need him!"

Raptor stared dumbly at Raven.

"What for? He's useless; he can't cover for us while we heal Gar."

"Just do it, there's no time to explain!" Raven snapped at her.

Raptor scowled at Raven but obeyed her. She phased into the ground and reappeared next to See-More. She grabbed his arm and phased back into the ground, reappearing next to Raven who shouted at him.

"See-More, I need you to tell me where the bullet is lodged in his torso!"

The young man nodded in understanding, intimidated by the two sorceresses. He had replaced Raptor on the Titans and had always associated her persona with being a villain. Two Raptors were almost too much for the wimpy hero to bear and he shivered imperceptibly as Raven addressed him. He then turned towards Beast Boy and focused his gaze upon the changeling. With his right hand he flipped through the various filters in his visor which helped him refine and focus his gift of super vision. As he did this he focused intently on Beast Boy and his expression soon turned into a frown.

"This is bad." He muttered. "Very bad. The bullet is lodged between his heart and his aorta. If you aren't careful when removing it you could kill him."

Raven's expression turned grim before she ducked instinctively, dodging another stray round of bullets from the raging battle around them. See-more flinched and let out a girlish yelp, even though the bullets didn't even come close to him. Raven grabbed his arm with her blood drenched hand.

"See-More, I need to enter your mind. I need to be able to see what you see so I can save Gar. Do you understand?"

The cyclops nodded.

"Go ahead Raven, he's needs that bullet removed immediately. I'm ready."

Raven acknowledged him with a nod and her eyes began to glow black with her dark energy and See-more felt her presence surround him, seeking an entryway into his psyche, which it quickly found. At first he instinctively pushed back at foreign presence but quickly regained control, dropping his mental guard and allowed her into his mind.

Raven was sitting in the lotus position and her body gave a slight jerk as she settled into See-More's mind. He blinked and in the same fashion as when she had entered Robin's mind when he was having Slade hallucinations years before his single eye changed color, matching Raven's own amethyst orbs.

Raven's own eyes continued to glow black as she extended her hand out with the palm face up. A thin tendril emerged from her palm, no thicker than a sewing thread. Raven could now see where the bullet was lodged and she guided the thin tendril into the gunshot wound. She watched as she led it to the bullet and gently wrapped it around the deformed piece of lead. The tendril then squeezed the bullet, reshaping it to facilitate its removal. Once the potentially life ending lump of lead had been reshaped into a smooth ovoid shape Raven began the delicate process of extricating it. She was completely focused on the task and was unaware of the battle that was still being waged around her. Raptor once again raised her shields to protect Raven, Beast Boy and See-more from any stray bullets.

As Raptor turned she could see the sweat form on Raven's brow as she delicately and precisely began to remove the bullet from its resting place between Beast Boy's beating heart and his aorta, using extreme caution to not nick any of the precious blood vessels on his heart. After about a minute she heaved a sigh of relief as she held the offending bullet in her hand.

"Are you OK?" Raptor asked her, dropping her shields. "If you want, I can take over with the healing." She offered eagerly. "It looks like the battle is winding down.

"I'm OK." Raven replied as she released See-more from her link. The one eyed boy jerked violently as he regained full control of his nervous system.

"Man, that was weird." He commented breathlessly.

Raven's blue light appeared and the wound slowly began to close.

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The combined team of superheroes and superhero wannabes were fighting with the coordination usually found in a symphony orchestra. They switched fighting partners and opponents seamlessly. The Brotherhood team was at a loss on how to counter the heroes who not only outnumbered them but were fighting with grace and confidence. The Brotherhood increasingly had to rely on brute force to keep the Titans at bay but were quickly growing tired while the heroes relied on cunning and skill to tire the villains. Jinx threw hexes at opportune moments while Terra pummeled them with pieces of rock and concrete that seemed to appear out of nowhere. Gizmo fired miniature missiles.

The two Generals were the only ones who had been able to successfully inflict some pain on the Titans as their troops managed to connect a few shots on the two Cyborgs who were merely inconvenienced as the salvos ricocheted off their armor.

As the Titans methodically mowed down the droids one of the Generals saw an opportunity. Raven had just extracted the bullet from Beast Boy's back and was healing the wound. At this point Raptor dropped her guard to watch Raven heal her former lover. What Immortus really wanted was to snuff out the changeling but Raptor was blocking the changeling from a clean shot as she knelt down next to Beast Boy. Immortus knew that beggars couldn't be choosers and consoled himself with the satisfaction that he would be able to add Raptor to his list of illustrious kills.

With a grin on his face he tapped on his data pad. With the greatest stealth a dozen droids broke away from the main fight and aimed their weapons at the sorceress who remained unaware of the great peril she was in.

A sound of thunder was heard and the two demonesses turned at the same in its direction. They couldn't see the droids that fired upon then as they were blocked by a large stegosaurus, which deflected most of the bullets with its scaly armor, absorbing a few into its thick hide. The dinosaur then swung around and knocked the offending droids down with its powerful tail. He morphed back into his human form and limped to Raptor's side.

The gray girl was wide eyed as was Raven, who continued to heal Beast Boy.

"Gar, you saved me." Raptor croaked as she tried to recover her voice.

The changeling grinned a smile that was very familiar to Raven. It was softer and more innocent than any smile Raven had ever seen on the young man's face and reminded her of another smile, one that she loved more than life itself.

The changeling wrapped his arms around Raptor.

"Are you OK Baby?"

Raptor returned his embrace and grimaced as she felt his pain.

"You're hurt!"

"It's just a flesh wound." He answered nonchalantly. Raptor was able to locate the 4 bullets that had wounded him, all of which were lodged in his torso.

"Lie down!" She barked at him and he complied with her order. She ripped his shirt off and examined his wounds. Fortunately the bullets had not penetrated far into his body and taking a cue from Raven she also used a thin tendril of dark energy to remove the bullets.

"Thank you." She whispered to him. "You saved us."

"Well I can't let him be the only heroic changeling here, can I?" He replied between grunts of pain.

"I didn't know you could do a stegosaurus." She whispered into his ear.

"Neither did I, but I couldn't let those wind up soldiers shoot you."

"Gar." Raptor began to sob quietly. "They could have killed you if you failed."

"I guess it's a good thing I didn't."

She took his hand and kissed his palm.

"It's a good thing you didn't." She agreed as a tear worked its way down her face. The moment did not go unnoticed by Raven who turned her focus back to Beast Boy's almost healed wound and smiled.

Immortus saw his plan foiled and quickly retreated away, using his remaining droids as a shield to protect himself from the Titans. Meanwhile one of the Madam Rouges fell as a purple star bolt hit her square in the chest. The other Rouge fled, joining Immortus behind his robotic shield.

At nearly the same time the two Graysons were able to overwhelm one of the Mallahs who succumbed to one of Nightwing's spinning heel kicks. As the leviathan collapsed Robin turned to his twin.

"Not bad for Hive 5." Robin congratulated him.

"Not bad for a Titan." Nightwing replied.

The other Mallah tossed Mammoth aside before the Graysons could join him and also fled, joining the others along with the Brain next to a console.

"There. Is. Nothing. To. Be. Gained. By. Remaining. Here. Farewell. Titans. Until. We. Meet. Again."

Mallah flipped a switch on the console and the four villains were engulfed in an energy field, just like the one that had brought Beast Boy to this dimension and they slowly faded away while the other Immortus yelled. "Cowards, you're nothing but cowards! We never should have trusted you."

The energy field had dissipated and there was no trace left of the second Brotherhood team.

"You should know better than to trust the Brotherhood of Evil Immortus." Robin chided him. "If anyone should know that it would be the Brotherhood of Evil."

Nightwing laughed. "They ditched you! They went back to their dimension and left you holding the bag."

By this point Immortus only had a few droids left. He tapped on his datapad and deactivated them. He then walked up to Terra and after unsheathing his sword he handed it to her.

"We surrender."

Meanwhile Cyborg and Gizmo were examining Beast Boy.

"Nice work Raven, his wound is closed." Cyborg congratulated her.

"He's lost a lot of blood." Gizmo added. "He's in shock. We need to get him back to the Tower infirmary; we have some of his blood stockpiled there."

"Raven, are you strong enough right now to teleport him there? You don't look too good."

Raven felt as exhausted as she looked.

"I can do it." Raptor volunteered as she spread her arms. A black hemisphere appeared and enveloped the group, teleporting them to the infirmary.