"Where are BB and Cy?" Robin asked after embracing Raven. Starfire released Abel and answered.

"I believe they are in the living room, playing the Station of Games." For some reason this made Abel smirk. Robin looked at him.

"This can't be good," he said with a smirk of his own. Abel's smirk grew into a mischievous grin.

"I have an idea," he said with a chuckle.

TT

"Aw, yer goin' down, man! Way down!" Cyborg shouted as he stood up and continued to mash the buttons on his controller. Beast Boy shot up and pressed some of Cyborg's buttons while managing to stay in control of his. Theyfocusedon the screen as their characters beat the pixilated snot out of each other. Beast Boy gained the upper hand by executing a special move on accident.

"I'm winning! I'm winning!" Beast Boy shouted and started jumping up and down. Cyborg stopped his celebration by executing a special move of his own, but on purpose. Beast Boy's character flew threw the air and landed on the ground, shattering it. Before any of them could continue, the screen went black and the Gamestation disassembled in front of their eyes. Their jaws went through the floor, through the next floor below them, and all the way into the garage.

"I win." They spun at the voice and saw Abel and Robin with Raven and Starfire draped over their shoulders. They weren't moving, but Cyborgfigured they were unconscious. "Hi, guys, it's good to see you." Abel's free hand glowed black, as did Robin's. Cyborg immediately readied his cannon.

"We don't want to hurt you, man," he said as Beast Boy took the form of a tiger. Abel and Robin glared and readied they're hands to fight, "Seriously, dude! We don't want to hurt you!" Abel suddenly smiled and unclenched his fist.

"Okay," he said as he set Starfire on her feet, "We didn't actually come to fight anyway." Cyborg and Beast Boy gawked as Robin did the same with Raven. Beast boy reverted back to his original form and scratched his head.

"What's going on?"

"We escaped. We'll tell you how later. Slade infected Raven and Starfire with probes. We need to get them out," Robin responded. Cyborg chuckled.

"Actually, no we don't. We checked them after they woke up. There were never any probes in them in the first place," Cyborg laughed Abel and Robin's shocked faces," So, how 'bout that escape Houdini?"

"Well, okay. We escaped through my mind," he said as if it was common knowledge. The others still didn't get how he did that.

"Details?" Beast Boy asked.

"I woke up and decided to try to escape. I entered my mind and found a way to get into Raven's mind. I wound up in her room. I assume Robin did the same."

"You went through Raven's mind?" Beast Boy asked.

"We went through Raven's mind," Abel repeated.

"How exactly?" Cyborg asked, annoyed at his vagueness.

"Our minds are connected. I could probably do the same with Robin."

"Oh, yeah, I hadn't thought of that!" Robin said as it dawned on him.

"Wait a minute… won't Slade know you're gone?"

"Nope. We found tracking devices in our badges earlier, so we removed them. Speaking of tracking devices! I need to get my rosary back!"

"What's that got to do with tracking devices?" Beast Boy asked.

"Absolutely nothing." Abel stated with a shrug.

"Will Slade be able to get into your mind?" Cyborg asked.

"No, it requires the use of my powers to enter it. Besides he thinks it's just at rosary,"

"Huh, Raven's is just a mirror. Cy and I got into it," Beast Boy said. He shuddered a little at the memory.

"Her mind must have been unstable, then." Everyone looked at Raven. She nodded and went to make tea for herself and Abel.

"What happens if Slade destroys the rosary?"

"He dies. That rosary is the only thing I have left of my mother."

"Okay…" Beast Boy drew out, "I think Cy meant what would happen to you."

"Oh… nothing really."

"Your mind wouldn't be… I dunno… destroyed along with it?" Cyborg asked.

"No, it's a portal into my mind; it doesn't contain it," he paused as Raven gave him a cup of tea, "thanks. Any other questions?" Cyborg and Beast Boy shook their heads, "good, I'm going to get my rosary back."

"Must you go back there?" Starfire asked worriedly.

"No, if it's right where I left it, I should be able to open a portal underneath it and it will simply fall through."

"And if it's not?" Raven asked.

"I'll seek it out." Waving his hand to indicate the conversation was over, he folded his legs under him and closed his eyes, focusing on the position of his rosary, he opened a horizontal portal in front of him and the rosary fell through.

TT

Slade stood from his desk. He had been pouring over blueprints of a zenothium fueled mining robot. The robot's mining laser was designed to tear through anything that got in its way. He had constructed one of his own, but modified his to be more destructive. He requiredthree cells more than the original, which required four. He knew that Robin had powered his Red X suit with zenothium, so he would know where to find it. As he came upon the door to their cell, he heard silence.

'They must be asleep. Weaklings!' he thought as he entered the code that unlocked the door. As he entered the room he saw the covers pulled over their heads, "Get up," he said. When they didn't move he said it again but louder. Still no reaction, so he moved to cot nearest him and pulled the cover off. He gasped to find it empty, except for Abel's rosary, which then disappeared through a portal. Slade moved to catch it, but the portal had already closed. He rose and cursed in anger. He slammed his fists into the cot, breaking in half. He turned and threw the other one against the wall.

'I will get them back. They can count on that!'