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Beast Boy woke up with a dull pain in his head. His bed was lumpy and uncomfortable. He carefully opened his eyes, shielding them from the ambient light. As he sat up he remembered what had happened.

Raven! He recalled her helpless form lying on the ground, unconscious with a gun pressed to her head.

How dare they? If they did anything to her …

He sat up on his bed and surveyed his surroundings. It looked like it was a cell, except one wall was missing. He carefully walked up to the where the missing wall would have been and reached out with his hand. He recoiled instantly, as the force field packed a wallop. He examined his lightly burnt finger tips. He wouldn't be getting out that way.

He spent the next hour examining the cell with a fine toothed comb. The toilet was a chemical device, a fancy porta-potty, so he couldn't flush himself away to freedom. There was also no sink, just a crate full of bottled water. He saw two vents on the ceiling and turning into a spider he explored the ventilation system, which to his disappointment led to a carbon dioxide scrubber and then straight back into the cell.

His last hope was whatever powered the light panel on the ceiling. The panel itself was tightly sealed and he had to morph into a protozoa to get past the imperfect seal. This led into a larger chamber above the room. He morphed back into his human form and examined the second room, which was full of large batteries that powered the light. After 20 minutes of exploration he learned that the room was also sealed and wasn't ventilated as he noticed the air was beginning to get stale.

He returned to the cell below and gave it a final look over, already knowing the outcome. He was trapped. Not even The Beast could break out of this cell.

Now he knew why no move had been made against him all these past weeks, his captors had been busy building this containment cell, and they had done a good job.

Beast Boy stood in front of the force field and shouted.

"What do you want with me, Terra?!"

The Titans had returned to the Tower and were going over the evidence. And it didn't tell them anything they didn't already know.

Cyborg had examined Harley's mallet, which she left behind and found nothing special or unusual about it. Other than that all they had was the footage from the security cameras in the theme park.

Robin kept cycling through the scenes, beginning with the little girl having her picture taken with Raven and Beast Boy to the end where one of Ivy's topiaries picked up Beast Boy's unconscious form and carried him away.

Raven watched the footage with a grim face. Robin was currently reviewing when Harley appeared out of nowhere walloped Raven in the face with her mallet.

"How could I have been so stupid?" Raven castigated her herself as she watched Harley knock her out, over and over. "She's just a stupid clown."

"Don't be too hard on yourself Raven." Robin consoled her. "Don't let her costume and shtick fool you. She's one of Gotham's most dangerous villains. She was trained by the Joker himself."

"She doesn't even have powers." Raven lamented, clearly embarrassed and infuriated over her quick defeat at the harlequin's hand.

"If it's any consolation Raven, Harley almost did Batman in once."

Robin fast forwarded the video. Now it was at the part where Harley and Ivy where threatening to kill Raven if Beast Boy didn't cooperate.

Robin stroked his chin, humming in puzzlement.

"What is it Robin?"

"I'm still wondering why they didn't kill you. Apparently Harley couldn't or wouldn't do it. For some reason she took pity on you."

"And what about Poison Ivy?"

"She's a lot harsher than Harley. Harley can be sentimental, and that might be why she spared you. But Ivy, she's a cold blooded killer."

"But why would they want to kill me? I wasn't a threat at the time and I have no past quarrels with them."

Robin began to pace around the room nervously, shuffling his feet.

"I owe you an apology Raven."

"Terra! Of course! She's behind all this! She probably hired them to kidnap Garfield and murder me."

"And for some reason they had second thoughts and spared your life."

Raven then gave Robin a murderous look.

"If we don't recover Garfield safe and sound I won't have second thoughts regarding what I'll do to you!"

"She won't hurt him Raven. He's her most precious prize. If anything time is on our side."

"You'd better be right about this Robin."

"I'm positive, Terra won't hurt him. If anything she might threaten to hurt us, especially you, to coerce him into a romantic relationship with her."

Raven shook her head in disgust.

"Just you wait until I get my hands on her!" She growled, her eyes glowing black. "She'll wish she had never been born."

The ops console beeped, signaling an incoming call on the secure video channel. Robin punched a button and redirected the call to the large screen. When the caller's face appeared the two birds gasped.

It was Slade.

It had been hours since Beast Boy woke up and so far there had been no signs whatsoever of his captors. He knew that he was being watched and that didn't bother him, except now he needed to use the toilet, and he couldn't put it off any longer.

The chemical toilet offered no privacy, so he decided to make his own. He walked up to the bed and yanked a sheet off of it and carried it over to the toilet, draping it over himself before he sat down to do his business.

"Wassamater kid? Ya shy or sumthin'?" Harley's voice called out, taunting him.

"So you wanna watch me take a crap?" He barked back at her. "Robin was right, you are a sicko!"

"Hey! Shuddup ya green punk! Ya owe me kid, ya owe me big time!"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Beast Boy shouted, still hidden under the sheet.

"We was supposed to kill yer sweetie, but we didn't. So no back talkin', ya hear!"

Raven! She's OK! A wave of relief swept over the changeling as he emerged from his improvised tent.

"Where's Raven?" he demanded.

"Calm down kid. We left her behind at Disneyland. Just don't forget ya owe us."

"Whatever." He replied. "So where's Terra?"

"Who's Terra? I don't know no Terra." The clown replied. "And just so ya know, we left 20 million on the table when we spared yer little witch girlfriend. I don't get it kid, why her? She's creepy."

"Shut up, damn you! Just shut up!"

"That's gratitude for ya. Our boss chewed us out for not doing her in, and now I'm thinkin' maybe we made a mistake."

"Who hired you? Tell me dammit! Was it Poison Ivy?"

Harley laughed. "What? Ya think she's gotta crush on ya just cuz yer green?"

"Tell me!" he shouted. "Who hired you? And why?"

Beast Boy heard steps approaching his cell with his sensitive ears. He peered into the darkness beyond the force field, and was able to discern a silhouette approaching his cell. As the figure got closer he recognized him.

"Bane!" Beast Boy hissed. "Why? What have I ever done to you?"

"I have my reasons, amigo."

"Terra hired you. I know she did. How much did she pay you to do this?"

"At this point my friend I am not at liberty to divulge my reasons. But you will know soon enough."

"Where are we?"

Bane chuckled. "I will indulge you my friend. We are not very far from where you were captured."

"What do you mean? Am I still in Disneyland?"

"Now that would take some cojones, mi amigo." The masked man replied with a laugh. "But no, not that close. Are you hungry my green friend?"

Beast Boy didn't feel like eating, but knew he had to keep up his strength for an eventual escape.

"I don't eat meat."

Harley appeared with a pizza box and a two liter root beer, which she slid through the force field. Beast Boy made a mental note that the force field was a one way field as he opened the box.

"I see you did your homework." He commented dryly as he pulled out a slice of the veggie lover's pie from the box. Harley slid another box through the field. Beast Boy opened it and saw it was full of brand new comic books.

"Any chance I could get a game station?"

"You won't be here that long my friend."

You got that right!

"Slade!" Robin hissed. "What do you want?!"

"Greetings Robin. What do I want? I want nothing. I come bearing gifts."

Raven's face took its demonic form.

"What have you done with Garfield?" she asked in her otherworldly, guttural voice. "You'll return him immediately, or so help me Slade I'll…"

Robin placed a calming hand on Raven's shoulder.

"He's telling the truth Raven, he doesn't have Beast Boy."

Raven shrank back down to her human form.

"Robin, are you sure?" She asked.

"Very good, Robin!" Slade taunted the Boy Wonder. "I see that Batman's training hasn't been a complete waste on you."

The two birds glared at Slade as Cyborg and Starfire came charging into the common room.

"Robin!" Starfire shrieked. "Something strange is happening!"

"My sensors are picking up some strange activity. It's weird, like a power surge, and I've never seen one like it!"

The whole tower began to shake as huge vines crashed through the common room windows, breaking the view screen, shattering Slade's face.

Starfire screamed and began to pummel the animated vines with her star bolts, but new vines appeared faster than she could destroy them. Soon she was trapped and began to scream in panic.

Cyborg fared no better with his sonic cannon as the vines appeared everywhere; soon he was trapped as well.

Robin fought valiantly, converting two of his birdarangs into a sword, and hacked away at the invading vegetation. But soon fatigue set in and the vines kept coming and he too was trapped.

Raven was the only Titan left standing, using her dark energy to fend off the vines, which now where all attacking her. Fatigue also began to set in with her and she was starting to lose her edge.

"Run Raven!" Robin shouted. "Don't let them capture you."

Raven debated whether or not to follow Robin's order.

"You can't save BB if you're captured!" Cyborg hollered. "Just get outta here!"

Raven saw the logic in Cyborg's remark and was preparing to flee when several loud explosions were heard outside the Tower. Raven looked outside and saw a strange looking purple colored gas wafting around the outside of the Tower. As she saw the gas floating in the air the vines turned brown and died. As Starfire, Cyborg and Robin broke free from the dead vines a black aircraft pulled up in front of the common room and hovered while its canopy popped open.

Much to their surprise Batman emerged from the cockpit and leaped into the common room through the now missing windows.

"I heard through the grape vine that you needed some help." The Dark Knight remarked in his deep deadpan voice.

Robin lifted himself from the floor, unwrapping the last remaining bits of dead vegetation from his torso.

"Thanks." He replied. "I can't believe that Poison Ivy had the gall to attack the Tower."

"She was ordered to attack you." Batman replied. "She's working for Bane."

"Very good Bats, very good. I see that unlike Robin you can figure things out." A disembodied voice called out from the ops console.

"Slade!" Raven growled as she rushed to the console. Slade's connection had not been lost during the attack, and he had witnessed everything from the ops console. He masked face was still visible on the console monitor.

"I must say Titans that I'm very disappointed with you. Had it not been for Batman's timely arrival Poison Ivy would have captured you."

By this point Batman approached the console, glaring at Slade. Raven stared in awe at the caped crusader.

"It's been a long time, Deathstroke."

"It has been Batman, it has. But I don't go by that name anymore. Just call me Slade."

"You were saying you had something for us." Raven interjected.

"Yes, I was." Slade confirmed. "Batman beat me to the punch with Bane I'm afraid, but I do have more goodies for you."

"Why would you want to help us Slade?" Starfire shouted. "You are our enemy!"

"That is true Starfire, but right now we have a common enemy."

"Bane!" Robin howled.

"Very good Robin, very good. You aren't half as dense as Raven thinks you are!"

The birds both scowled at the monitor as the Dark Knight placed a soothing hand on their shoulders.

"What do you want in exchange for your information, Deathstroke?"

"Since you insist on calling me by my old name, how about you return my sword to me, Batman?"

"I don't think so."

"It was worth a try." Slade chuckled to himself. "But you already know that I'll give the information to you anyway."

"Well, spill the beans Slade. We're gettin' old waiting for you."

"Patience Cyborg. You could learn a lesson or two from Bats. Trust me, you'll be thanking me soon enough."

"Terra is behind all this, isn't she?" Raven continued scowling at the monitor, her arms crossed.

"Indeed she is Raven, but that was all too obvious. The good news is that she won't harm your little green boyfriend. But I know where they're keeping him."

Raven eyes grew wide. "Where is he Slade? Tell me now!"

Slade chuckled. "I will child, I will. But all of you must promise me something."

"No deals Slade!" Robin thundered.

Batman calmly replied. "Let me guess. You want us to capture Bane and his associates and send them all back to Arkham Asylum? Consider it done."

"Very good Batman. Very good. It's fortunate for me that Robin was a poor student of yours. Unlike you he is utterly unable to keep his emotions in check."

"You will not insult Robin!" Starfire roared.

Slade once again chuckled, his self satisfaction reeking like cheap perfume.

"How do you know where Bane's hideout is?" Raven inquired in her monotone.

"Ah Raven, so logical, so emotionless. I can only imagine how boring your honeymoon will be when you marry the green elf."

"Just get to the point Slade." She replied deadpan.

"Very well, seeing that I've had my fun I will now get down to business. I know the location of the hide out because I built the containment cell they're keeping Beast Boy in."

"I thought you didn't collaborate with them?" Robin remarked icily.

"I don't. I had to investigate who my "mystery customer" was. Of course Bane has no idea that he bought the cell from me."

"Where is he, Slade?" Raven said impatiently.

"Calm down Raven. You'll get your boyfriend back soon enough. Bane's hide out is in the basement of a condemned hotel that's just a few blocks away from the theme park."

Robin typed away furiously on the console.

"The old Hyatt. It was damaged during last year's earthquake; apparently the building contractors used substandard materials."

"Very good, Robin. And before I go, he also hired Firefly to help him."

"What about Terra?" Raven asked.

"You have some unfinished business with her I believe. Unfortunately I am unaware of her whereabouts. I will now take my leave. Good luck Titans."

The screen went blank as the connection was terminated.