Well, I'm here at last. Sorry it took so long but there were things that I had to do. One of them is that I was in Miami last week and I didn't have a computer to continue updating. Now I'm heading out to California next week and I'm going to stay there for two weeks. So you won't be getting any updates until I get back. Another thing is that I revamped three chapters of this story and changed the name Time Transporter to The Ark. The reason why is because the name came from the Doom movie and I thought that maybe it would be a better name then Time Transporter since it sounded a little obvious. You will know it by the change of chapter five title on the scroll menu. Now for the updates, I got one review from Rahkshi500 and have 69 hits on the last chapter. Let's hope this one we'll bring the excitement up for y'all. Here's chapter seventeen of Doomed Titans. Alex and the Teen Titans made it to Communications Transfer and were about to take a car to reach to Communications quicker. But when they get there, they meet up with a group chainsaw driving maniacs. With them getting close to Communications, will the team get there in one piece or will the they be ripped to shreds.

Chapter Note

The Chainsaw Zombies will make their first appearance on this chapter, as well as a quickie from the Main Marine.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans or Doom 3

Chapter Seventeen: The UAC Chainsaw Massacre

Communications Transfer, Docking Zone: November 15, 2145, 6:03 P.M.

At the docking zone of Communications Transfer, a big mess had been created after a horrific ambush. Four of the Marines were lying dead on both the metal floor on the docking station and on the driveway, with pools of blood around their lifeless bodies and their weapons and ammo scattered. But there's one Marine that's still alive, barely. He was breathing hard with blood coming down a few exposed parts of his body, his helmet was still attached, and he was still holding his Grabber gun. He pointed it at the last two creatures that were looking at him, an Imp and a Maggot. The two screeched and snarled at the wounded soldier, ready to tear his body apart. The Marine looked to the right and spotted a red flammable barrel near his position. Once he locked it in on the screen, he pulled the trigger and a thin line of fading green light came out of the gun and grabbed the barrel. It lifted off the ground and levitated in mid air with flames seeping out of the metal cylinder. He turned to look at the two creatures and let go of the trigger, launching the barrel at the two. The Imp swiftly avoided the flying barrel but the Maggot didn't had time to dodge it as it hit the being and exploded, sending the Maggot flying and letting it's ashes raining down in the air. The marine then slumped on one knee feeling his legs are getting weak and realized that he loosing a lot of blood and is starting to feel fatigue. He slowly looked up and saw the Imp screaming for battle as it starts charging up a fireball. The marine slowly stood up and used the last bit of his strength to take care of the last monster. The Imp fired the fireball at him as the wounded soldier aimed his Grabber at the fireball, locked it in, and fired at it. Within a second, the fireball was caught by the green light line from the Grabber. The Imp stared in amazement at the fireball floating in mid air. But with one last attempt, he lowered the fireball at the creature and launched it towards the monster. It hit the Imp as the creature screamed in pain as it disintegrated to nothing. The Marine sighed in relief but slumped on the metal dock with his back on the wall waiting to die. Just as he thought all is lost, he spotted and lift heading up to the Warehousing District lowering to this floor and a bunch of people were on it. So he waited for them to give them the word about what he and Omega were suppose to do. Meanwhile, Alex and the Teen Titans finally got to Communications Transfer and entered the docking area. They looked around and spotted five dead bodies on the floor and a bunch of bullet holes and burns on the walls and ceiling. They couldn't help but to turn their heads in disgust at the war within the room.

Starfire: "Ugrh… So horrible. Why would these abominations do something like this?"

Alex: "I have no clue Star, looks like they were at a war zone, or to be more precise, a massacre. Search the area, see if there's a way to get to Communications."

They all agreed as Cyborg turned on his shoulder flashlight and was the first to walk out of the lift and scan the docking room. As soon as the rest of the Titans split up and searched the room, Alex and Robin approached what was suppose to be Lieutenant Daniels with his face ripped apart and his left arm torn off. Alex bent down and took out two clips from two of the machine guns and gathered the rest of the clips he desperately needed while Robin kept looking at the chaos that happened.

Robin: "Man this place looks so gruesome. I've seen my shares of fill in the old days with Batman, but this is ridiculous."

Alex: "It's a vicious cycle we're living in Rob. As soon as you're born, you'll start dying."

Robin: "So what do you think happened here?"

Alex: "Looks like a Squad was trying to get out of here. Apparently there was and ambush and they were caught by surprise. None of them didn't make it."

Robin: "You think they must be the team your father said that was brining the transmission card to Communications?"

Alex looked at the shoulder blade of the armor and looked at the name, "Omega Team" underneath the UAC logo.

Alex: "Naw, the squad dad said was Bravo Team. This is Omega Team."

He stood up and walked to another dead marine that had a couple of plasma cells, including the one in the plasma gun itself. He bent down and grabbed the necessities he needs to place them on the ammo belt that is strapped around his body. Robin followed his guardian and kept looking at the place one more time.

Robin: "So, where are we anyways?"

Alex: "Well by the way this place looks, I'm guessing that we're in the docking area. That means that there's got to be a service tunnel around here."

Robin looked around and spotted a small door at the end of the wall. He then pointed to it.

Robin: "Why don't we take that door?"

Alex, upon finishing up gathering cells, looked at the door the Boy Wonder pointed at and sighed.

Alex: "That door leads to maintenance, which means that it's the opposite way to Communications."

Robin: "I see. Well we have to find a way to Communications and protect the Main Comm. until the squad gets here."

Beast Boy: "Hey guys!"

Both Robin and LM turned their heads to look at Beast Boy and Raven gathered around the wounded marine resting on the docking floor.

Beast Boy: "We found a survivor! He's still breathing, sort of."

The two of them left the dead carcass behind and headed to where the two Titans were standing. Once they are on the docking station, Alex bent down and looked at the marine and examined his condition.

Alex: "Ah shit! He's loosing a lot of blood! Somebody find a med kit and a shot of adrenaline, fast!"

The marine coughed a few times and looked at Alex underneath his helmet.

Marine Soldier 14: "No, forget about me kid. It's too late for me." cough… cough… "You should take care of yourself while you still have a chance."

Alex shook his head and kept looking at him, wondering what caused this mess.

Alex: "What happened?"

Marine Soldier 14: "We were going throughout the entire complex, trying to survive this living Hell. Then we got a tip from someone that there's a jeep in the service tunnels not far from here, in the storage sector." couch… cough… "When we were about to get there, Lieutenant Daniels contacted Sarge about our progress. But he gave us the order to remain here until someone comes with a transmission card."

Robin: "Bravo Team…"

Marine Soldier 14: "While we were waiting, we were suddenly ambushed by those creeps. They all came out of nowhere."

Alex listened in on the whole story and then thought of something not right. He then looked at Robin for an explanation.

Alex: "I don't get it. If dad knew that those monsters were dangerous, then why who he tell Omega Team to stay put?"

Robin: "Don't know. Maybe he didn't know how sneaky they are."

Alex: "Hmm… Maybe you're right."

Marine Soldier 14: "Please…"

The wounded marine coughed a little as both Robin and Alex looked at him.

Marine Soldier 14: "Get to the jeep, wait for the marine to come, then get to communications and send that transmission to the Earth fleet." cough… cough… "Don't let them kill that Marine or our chance of survival will be diminished."

Alex kept looking at him with serious eyes and nodded.

Alex: "Don't worry, we'll make sure that the Marine gets to Communications and send that transmission card before its too late."

The soldier smiled underneath his helmet and coughed a little more.

Marine Soldier 14: "That's great news. Be careful out there." cough… cough… "But before you go, take my weapon. It's right over there."

The Marine pointed to where his weapon is. Alex looked to his left and saw a Grabber next to his wounded body.

Marine Soldier 14: "I know it's not much but it's more useful then you think. I grabbed a fireball from one of the creatures in mid air and launched it back to it." cough… cough… "It can give you a good advantage against them. Take it if you want, but use it carefully. The hold itself won't last too long. Good luck, and whatever you do, don't… trust… Swan…"

The Marine coughed a few more times until his head slumped down and died, since he was finished at what he was going to say. Alex looked at the gun the now dead soldier had, took the weapon, and stood up inspecting it. Robin looked at the gun too then looked back at Alex who was still observing it.

Robin: "You think that weapon is useful?"

Alex: "If you can defy the term useful. This gun isn't a weapon; it's called the Ionized Plasma Levitator, or Grabber for short. It's only a tool useful for UAC commercial distribution. Its purpose is to lift and project small and median objects from one area to another. Of course the power it holds can last a few moments so it shuts down and recharges itself pretty quick. Only maintenance personnel use this to carry hazardous materials that could be a threat to them in close range. But if what the Marine said is true, that he caught a fireball from an Imp and fired it back at it, then this gives us a good advantage."

Beast Boy: "Dude, you have enough weapons on you already. Think you can give that weapon to someone else?"

Alex turned his head to Beast Boy with a questionable look, then looked back at the Grabber. After making a double take, he came up with an idea.

Alex: "As a matter of fact Beast Boy, you're right. I seem to have enough weapons at my disposal and I don't think I can use this weapon. But I know someone who can."

He walked directly to the changeling and gave the Grabber to him.

Alex: "Congratulations BB, make me proud."

Beast Boy looked at the gun and looked back at Alex. He then realizes what Alex just did.

Beast Boy: "Whoa whoa! Wait a second! There's no way I'm using this thing to fight off monsters."

Alex: "Beast Boy, if I remember correctly you said to me once that you're the only one on this team that doesn't have anything to fire back. So I think this weapon would be suitable for you."

Robin: "I hate to say this, but Alex is right for once. Most of your powers involve close combat and with the way those creatures move and after what happened up there, you won't stand a chance. If I were you, I would take this weapon and use it to take them on."

The changeling looked at the gun one more time with a worried expression then looked at Robin.

Beast Boy: "But I can't use weapons like this. I'm sixteen! I don't know how to handle guns!"

Alex: "C'mon Beast Boy, it's so simple. Once the screen says that you locked on to an item, pull the trigger."

The guardian patted the changeling shoulder as Beast Boy swallowed a hard lump in his throat. Alex then looked around the area and was missing two more Titans.

Alex: "Has anyone seen Starfire and Cyborg?"

Raven pointed to where the two are the same time Alex turned his head to the direction the telepath was pointing at. There he saw Starfire and Cyborg looking at the garage door that seems to be sealed up tight. Soon, all four of the team members walked off the docking floor and approached the two looking at the garage door as well.

Alex: "So, what you two got."

Starfire was the first to look at her guardian and answered his question.

Starfire: "It appears to be an entryway for transport vehicles to go in, but it seems to be locked up."

Alex: "Explain."

Cyborg pointed to the panel next to the door that appears to be cracked and offline with a bullet hole in the middle. Upon that, he told Alex what happened.

Cyborg: "The panel that's suppose to operate the door is completely busted. My guess is that while these Marines were trying to fend off those monsters, some idiot was foolish enough to fire a dumb shot at the screen and shut it down permanently. Chances of bringing it back online are impossible."

Alex: "Shouldn't you two use your combine strength to lift this garage door up?"

Cyborg: "We're getting to that. The problem is that we don't know how heavy it is, let alone tell how long we should hold it up for."

Alex: "Only one way to find out. Lift."

Both Star and Cy looked at each other and decided to give this a shot. They walked to the garage door, looked at each other, and nodded. They then bent down, firmly placed their hands underneath the garage door, and used their combine strength to lift the door up in mid way. After a few minutes of getting it up, they succeeded. Alex smirked as the two Titans kept holding the doorway up and then turned to look at the rest of the team for the order.

Alex: "All right guys, we got our way in. Everyone should just get in at once."

Cyborg: "Yeah, and make it snappy. I don't know if the two of us can hold on for much longer!"

Soon enough, everyone entered the garage airlock and after that, Cyborg and Starfire entered the airlock and let go of the garage door, letting it fall to the ground with a loud thud. Everyone jumped to scardom and turned to see the now shut door. After a moment of silence, Beast Boy was the one to speak first.

Beast Boy: "O.K., that would give a way our position."

Alex: "Looks that way BB, lets get out of here before someone or something finds us."

He turned around a spotted a garage door that seems to be opened partly and slanted a little.

Alex: "And lucky for us, we won't have to open another garage door."

They all crouched through the broken garage door and they all entered the service tunnel. The team walked up a set of steps to a catwalk to the right side of the tunnel road. Once walking, they arrived what appeared to be a storage area that had metal shelves filled with steel crates, maintenance tools, and a few cells scattered, a couple of more steel crates, and two access doors, one leading to PRC Support Area and another that goes to Service Room 2A. But parked close to the storage area is a brown jeep with the tire on the back with the UAC logo printed on it.

Alex: "Boy, the Marine wasn't kidding. There's our ride."

Beast Boy: "That's it. Of all the high tech gizmos you got in the future, you have a jeep? I thought we're suppose to ride in a light hovercraft spaceship or something."

Alex: "Well I would like that but the Mars surface is kind of rough with hard winds and red sand flying everywhere. Would you like a ship to flying all over the place and hit straight into a wall, or do you want a land cruiser to remain on the ground and withstand all those hard conditions?"

Beast Boy: "Uh… Good point."

They all made it to the storage area as Cyborg headed to the driver seat of the jeep to see if it runs and possibly find some keys. Luckily for him, the driver seat door was unlocked, so he entered the car with no problem and searched for the keys. He then founded the keys to glove compartment at the passenger side and inserted them into the ignition. Robin approached the hybrid wondering if the car would work.

Robin: "Well Cyborg."

After a couple of tries, Cy was able start the car as the engines started to hum and the headlights were turned on.

Cyborg: "Booya! We have ignition!"

Robin: "Great! Everyone get into the car. Once we reach to the Comm. facility, we'll-"

Alex: "No Robin, we have to stay here."

The Boy Wonder looked at Alex with a confused look on his face.

Robin: "What?"

Alex: "The Marine said that someone's coming with the transmission card. It could be possible that Bravo Team is coming, or perhaps some of the survivors. Either way we have to wait until someone gets here with the card."

Robin understood his guardian's plan and nodded.

Robin: "All right, we'll stay here until Bravo Team comes, then we'll get to Communications."

Just like that, the team was waiting for this Marine to come. Starfire was sitting on a metal crate swinging her legs back and forth, Raven was meditating over another crate, Cyborg was in the driver seat of the jeep with the door opened, Robin was leaning on a metal wall, Alex was pacing back and forth and Beast Boy was looking around the storage area. Just as they were waiting patiently, Robin thought of something the dead marine said then looked at Alex that was passing him over and over again.

Robin: "Hey Alex."

Alex stopped pacing and looked at Robin.

Alex: "What is it Robin."

Robin: "Back at the docking zone, before the Marine died, he said not to trust Swan. What does that suppose to mean?"

Alex: "Hmmm… Maybe he was talking about Counselor Swan."

Robin: "You mean that bald guy with the tough body guard, Jack Campbell on his side?"

Alex: "Yeah, that's him all right. But this doesn't make sense. He's suppose to investigate the strange happenings all across the facility."

Robin: "Perhaps he found out what happened and is trying to survive this place, with the help of Campbell of course."

Alex: "Yeah. And by the way the place looks, he seems to be getting his hands full. But the part I don't get is why did the Marine said to not trust Swan?"

Robin: "I don't know, maybe…"

Beast Boy: "Hey Alex, check this out!"

Alex turned his head to see Beast Boy looking at an open crate. He then sighed and walked directly to Beast Boy's position.

Alex: "What is it Beast Boy."

Beast Boy: "Check this out."

Alex looked at him curiously and then looked at what the changeling was looking at. What he discovered in the open crate was a bunch of rectangular cardboard boxes with the words, "BEAVERTOOTH Industrial Chainsaw" and a picture of a chainsaw on the sides. Alex picked up one of them and inspected the boxes. Beast Boy looked at the rest of the boxes then looked at the one Alex was holding.

Beast Boy: "So… You guys play Lumberjack here?"

Alex: "Not likely, these are just plain old chainsaws."

Soon enough, every Titan, except Cyborg, left their spots and walked to Alex and Beast Boy, where they looked at the chainsaw boxes.

Starfire: "Please, what use does chainsaw have on Mars?"

Alex: "No use what so ever. These chainsaws were mistakenly shipped by the Mixom Corporation. Normally, this company was supposed to have jackhammers for the caverns below us. But instead we keep on getting these. So the UAC store them here for Mixom to return. They haven't returned, and we're neck deep in chainsaws. If they don't come and get them real soon, then the employees will have no choice but to bury them underground."

Looking at the boxes, Robin turned his head to see Alex.

Robin: "How do you know about this?"

Alex: "I've seen an employee get pissed off on this mistaken delivery yesterday. Not only that, but I checked the log in Office Operations at the Warehousing District that they didn't want them filling up the storage areas."

Robin: "You know that even if Mixom arrives, they won't stand a chance."

Alex: "I know, but lets hope that they realize it when they won't get a response from the UAC."

Raven then took another box out of the crate and opened the box to see the chainsaw inside. But when she looked inside, something wasn't right.

Raven: "Hey Alex, should these boxes be filled with chainsaws?"

Alex: "Yes, that's the reason why the boxes have pictures of chainsaws on the sides."

Raven: "Then why are the boxes empty?"

Al looked at Rae and was shocked for words.

Alex: "What?"

Raven: "See for yourself."

Alex looked back at the box and quickly opened it. What he saw was a complete shocker. Instead of chainsaws, there's only an empty box with the instruction booklet in there.

Alex: "No…"

He immediately opened the other two boxes and they were empty. He immediately checked the other boxes on the shelves and floor and they were empty as well. After searching, he started to panic.

Alex: "Oh sweet lord, where the HELL ARE THOSE CHAINSAWS! They were supposed to be in the boxes for return and now they're gone! Where are they?"

Beast Boy: "Chill out dude, I'm pretty sure that they were misplaced or something."

He looked at the changeling and was completely aggravated.

Alex: "Oh yeah, like the chainsaws immediately sprouted a couple of legs and walk by themselves. We have to find them quick before someone gets their hands on them and do who knows what!"

But just as things couldn't get any worse, they all heard a strange, yet familiar noise. That noise was an engine from a mechanical tool starting up.

Starfire: "What's that noise?"

Robin: "That sounds like someone using a tool, a very loud tool. But where's it coming from?"

The changeling picked up the sound with his pointy sensitive ears. He slowly looked around and spotted where the noise was coming from. It was then that he spotted a door leading into Service Room 2A.

Beast Boy: "The sound must be coming from in there."

The rest of the team looked at what Beast Boy's pointing as Alex nodded and was about to approach the door. But just as he was going to, the door itself automatically opened and someone stumbled backwards out of the room. Alex started to back up as well as he looked at the guy. It appears that the guy's top half was bare but he left his combat pants and his boots on. Though you can't see his face from behind but you can tell that his hair was thinning and the top part of his head was bald. He was trying to start something by pulling a cord with one of his strong arms. Though a little confused, Alex slowly approaches the guy and was about to talk to him.

Alex: "Sir, are you all right?"

The guy didn't say anything; he was just starting some kind of tool in his hands. After a couple of tries, this person finally was able to activate his tool. Curious to what this guy is doing, Alex tapped on his shoulder and gets his attention.

Alex: "Excuse me sir…"

But when he made a couple of taps on the shoulder, the guy turned around and shoved him to the ground. Alex got startled from the fall but when he looked at his face he got the shock of his life, the same shock that each of the Titans has. This guy that he was trying to help wasn't a guy at all, hell, he isn't alive in the first place. He, or it, was a zombie with a butt ugly face and it was holding one of the chainsaws that have been missing. The zombie looked at his down victim and had an evil smirk on its face. It then raised the chainsaw up in the air and pressed the trigger that made the chainsaw sound louder. Alex knew what this undead being's going to do; it's going to cut him in half. The zombie was going to bring his cutting device down and turned Alex into the next main course while the Titan's guardian closed his eyes, realizing what the results are going to be. But just as the zombie was going to cut to the chase, a green circular shell of an armadillo came out of no where and hit the undead being straight in the face. As the zombie stumble backwards a little and had a small case of head trauma, a metal crate covered in black obsidian energy was levitating to the undead with full speed and pushed it straight to a wall and knocked it off its feet. Alex opened one of his eyes after hearing what happened and instead of the chainsaw zombie, it was Beast Boy in his human form, holding the Grabber with one hand, and offering Alex his other hand to get him up.

Beast Boy: "Need a hand there Al?"

Alex looked at Beast Boy's hand and sighed in relief. He took the changeling's hand and got up. After dusting himself up, he looked at Beast Boy and smiled.

Alex: "Thanks."

Beast Boy: "Heh… Don't mention it."

Starfire: "Friends. I hate to interfere with this feeling of touchiness, be we still have a threat to deal with."

The two looked at Star then peered their heads to see the zombie coming to its feet and had its chainsaw in hand. Beast Boy and Alex backed away and joined the team as the others prepared themselves for battle.

Robin: "O.K. team, get ready! We don't know what we're up against."

Alex, who was positioning his machine gun for firing, smirked at what Robin said.

Alex: "Chill Robin, it's just some crazed zombie with a chainsaw. It'll be taken care of shortly."

Alex aimed his machine gun at the moving corpse, waiting for the right moment to fire. But just then, Raven sensed something that doesn't seem right. She turned her head to the right and spotted trouble, real trouble.

Raven: "Don't be so sure about it Alex."

Alex looked at what Raven saw and couldn't believe it. Two zombies came out of their hiding places with chainsaws roaring in their hands. Beast Boy looked to the left and saw a chainsaw zombie walking on the metal catwalk, heading towards them. Starfire looked behind and saw a chainsaw zombie knocking metal crates, big and small, out of the way and was lumbering to them.

Starfire: "Um… I think we have found the chain of saws."

Beast Boy: "You mean the chainsaws found us!"

While they were surrounded by chainsaw wielding zombies, Cyborg watched the whole thing from outside the jeep and realized they're in deep trouble. He quickly activated his sonic cannon and was about to head to them.

Cyborg: "Hang on guys, I'm coming to get you out of there!"

Alex looked at Cyborg and stopped him from rescuing them.

Alex: "No Cy! I want you to stay there and protect that jeep!"

The hybrid was a little confused at what Al said and tried to reason with him.

Cyborg: "But-"

Alex: "That's an order!"

Cyborg nodded and headed back to the jeep. Beast Boy looked at his hybrid friend running back and turned his worried head to see Alex.

Beast Boy: "Shouldn't Cy just back us up or something? His cannon is powerful enough to take them down in one blow."

Alex: "Look, Cyborg has to stay there and protect that jeep at all costs. He can't leave it behind. If these zombies or those creatures get their hands on it and destroy it, then it's going to take a while to get to the Comm. Facility."

Robin: "You're right on that mark Alex. The last thing we want is to walk in this place with swarms of monsters following us everywhere."

Beast Boy: "O.K. so if Cyborg's going to stay where he is then what are we going to do with these creeps!"

Alex took a good look at the chainsaw zombies walking closer to them. He noticed they were five of them and there's five of the Titans, including himself. He smirked and came up with a plan that seems fair to the others.

Alex: "Pick a partner and dance."

BB looked at Alex again and was quite speechless for words.

Beast Boy: "What!"

Alex: "I mean we split up and take on these corpses, one on one."

Robin: "That sounds like a great idea Alex. Fight them separate and make things fair on our account. But before we can do that, I think we need some elbow room around here."

And there's a reason for that too. The zombies wielding chainsaws are a few feet closer to them with their weapons ready for slicing and dicing. Raven walked to the middle of the group and cracked her knuckles.

Raven: "Leave that to me."

She floated off the ground with her eyes glowing white and waving her hands covered in black orbs of magic.

Raven: "Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!"

Upon saying those words, the floor grew a wide circle of crimson black and purple and five pillars of black energy came up underneath the zombies. All five of them flew off from the blasts and smashed to either the walls, shelves, or crates. After the impact, the Titans had the opening they need.

Robin: "It's now or never team! Titans, Go!"

Quickly, the team split up and takes on the chainsaw zombies as the undead quickly got up and swung their weapons at them. Robin avoided the chainsaw slashes by ducking low and jumping high. Then he jumped up, planted his feet on the wall, jumped off, and kicked its chin with his metal boot. Starfire was firing another chainsaw zombie with her star bolts but the zombie took immediate refuge behind a stack of metal crates. Beast Boy backed away slowly from the next zombie with its chainsaw blazing. Once he was up against the wall, the zombie charged in and raises its weapon up to slice the changeling in half. Fortunately, BB ducked, turned into a mouse, and scurried underneath the undead's legs while the zombie connected its chainsaw to the wall. Beast Boy then shape shift into a snake and wrapped his thin body around the zombie's ankles. The undead being jumped around to get the slithering creature off of it but in the process just tripped and fell flat on its face. Raven protected herself from the fourth chainsaw zombie with a shield she created to defend herself. It seems to be working quite well for a moment but the shield suddenly started to crack. This kept on going for a few more seconds until the black shield started to shatter in a thousand pieces. The zombie was going to make a clear-cut when just like that, Raven disappeared in a flash. The zombie looked around to find the telepath but only found nothing. What it didn't know is that behind it, a black hole appeared on the floor and popping out of it was a tall black shaped bird. The bird then transformed into Raven as she opened her cape and black spikes came out of it, flying straight at the undead creep. Alex was having his own fun dealing with the final chainsaw zombie. He fires his machine gun at it, but with the undead's muscle size and mass, it was impossible to take it down. He immediately took action as he jump on a crate, jumped off it, and flipped over the zombie with ease. He landed on his feet and fired the undead's back to get a good advantage. The zombie quickly turned around and swung its chainsaw around, hoping to get a slash or a slice but Alex swiftly avoided them. Meanwhile, Cyborg was waiting at the jeep, watching the battle.

Cyborg: "Man, I can't believe this! Here I am waiting next to a car while the others are out there kicking zombie butt! Oh well, at least it's better then getting into danger."

As he was watching, he then heard some low but sinister voices speaking strange language around him. The hybrid looked to his left at the long stretch of roadway within the service tunnel and saw four red clouds floating close to the ceiling. It was then that four orange lightning bolts came out of the clouds and four Cacodemons materialized where the clouds were. They spat out fire blasts from their mouths, wanting to melt the hybrid's metal. Cyborg, thankfully, ducked down on the floor as the blasts hit the jeep, but didn't damage it after the impact, yet. He quickly armed his cannon and aimed it at one of the floating monsters.

Cyborg: "Then again, getting into danger is a whole lot better!"

He quickly fired his cannon and a streak of blue light hit the bodiless beast, disintegrating it completely. Back at the battle, Robin was finishing up his battle with the chainsaw wielding zombie, holding tight to a piece of pipe he took from one of the metal shelves and spinned it around. He quickly swings his pipe the same time the zombie swung its chainsaw. As the two connected, the pipe got slashed as the chainsaw ripped it off. The Boy Wonder quickly turned it to the longer end of the pipe and swings it again. The zombie swung its chainsaw again and torn off the other end of the pipe, leaving Robin with nothing but a small cylinder piece of lead. The zombie smirked at the useless weapon Robin was holding, but the Boy Wonder smirked himself because he intended to do it. The zombie charged in and was going to slice him diagonally but Robin jumped over the chainsaw, flipped over the zombie itself, and threw the piece of pipe at it, forcing the pipe into the back of its head. The zombie stumbled a little until it fell to the floor and remained there motionless for a long time. Robin looked at the corpse and had a wide grin on his face. But just as he thought it was all over, two Imps materialized from the farther end of the storage area and threw fireballs at him. Robin made a side duck the same time he took out two exploding disks and threw them at the creatures. At the other side of the storage area, Alex was avoiding chainsaw swings from the other zombie. But what he was doing was waiting for the right moment to get the chainsaw off the undead's hand. Once he saw the zombie raising its chainsaw arm up in the air, he aimed his machine gun he was holding the whole time and fired. The bullets hit the corpse's hand that was holding the chainsaw as it and fell limply on the floor. The zombie looked at its severed arm with blood coming out of it and looked at Alex and groaned in anger. It lumbered in a fast pace and heads to Alex with both arms flaring in many directions, wanting to club him to death. But Alex fires his weapon at the zombie's kneecaps and rips them apart. The zombie fell face first on the floor and used it's arms to crawl to him but it was too slow and it doesn't have enough strength to keep moving since it lost a lot of blood from the opened wounds. Alex took out his double barrel shotgun from his holster behind his back and held it with his left hand while holding his machine gun with his right hand. He aimed the shotgun at the zombie's head and fired, letting the brains and blood splatter on the floor and crates. But before he could relax, two metal ceiling tiles fell to the floor above him. When he looked up, he saw two Maggots crawling out of the ceiling holes. Alex dropped his shotgun and started blasting them with the machine gun. But just as he took out the first one, the gun made a click noise, meaning that it's empty. He quickly searched for another clip, but the second Maggot pounced on him and pinned him to the ground. It licked his face and savored the moment before it could tear him apart. Still pinned, Alex looked for the closet weapon he can find, but the only thing he could see is the chainsaw the zombie had. He reached for it as far as his arm can stretch. He successfully touched it by the tips of his fingers and pulled it to himself as fast as he can. Just as the Maggot lengthens its claws for slashing, Alex was able to grab the chainsaw that was still on and swing it at the arm that was going to slice him. The chainsaw cut the creature's arm as it flew in the air and the open wound started squirting blood. The Maggot held its severed limb and laid on the floor shrieking in agony, freeing Alex from its hold. He quickly got up and used the chainsaw to rip the Maggot apart piece by piece. It suddenly disintegrated and left behind a pile of ash. Alex stood up from his slaughter with blood covering his arms and waist and looked at the blood soaked chainsaw.

Alex: "Well I'll be damned. Looks like this chainsaw is more useful then I thought."

As he was observing the chainsaw, and Imp appeared in front of him and threw a fireball at him. Alex saw it coming, made a swift dodge, and threw the chainsaw at it, knocking it off its feet and letting the weapon cut its shoulder. He picked up Matilda, loaded it with two shells, and aimed it at the Imp's head.

Alex: "But as much as I like to cut beasts like you flesh by flesh, I prefer to use guns better."

He pulled the trigger and fired at the creature. Back with Beast Boy, he was handling his own business with the third zombie. He was in his gorilla form holding a large piece of metal, not keeping his eyes away from the chainsaw wielding zombie. The zombie rushed towards him with its chainsaw raised high up in the air for the kill. The changeling swung the piece of metal like a baseball bat and knocked the zombie out of its wits, letting it fly a few feet away from him and landed on the floor with its face planted on the cold surface. The zombie lifted its head up and saw its chainsaw lying on the floor in front of it. Just as it was about to make a grab for it, the green gorilla jumped on it and gave it a chock hold-wrestling move. The undead being tried it's best to let go of the hold but it was to no avail. The changeling tightens his grip until he heard a snap. He then let go of the hold and changed back to his human self, looking at the zombie with it's neck snapped in two and its body completely lifeless. Beast Boy chuckled to himself with his hand rubbing the back of his head and an anime sweat drop coming down the side.

Beast Boy: "Oopse, guess I overdid it a little."

Just as the changeling thought that he was done, more trouble started brewing. A ceiling tile fell above and an Imp came out of the hole. It screeched and formed a fireball out of its hand, ready to throw it at him. Beast Boy didn't know what to do until he looked at the grabber strapped to his back, took it out quickly, and held it in position. He gulped as he watched the Imp charged its fireball to full power.

Beast Boy: "Well, here goes nothing."

The Imp tossed its fireball at the changeling while Beast Boy looked at the screen that locked onto the target. He pulled the trigger and a line of green energy came out of it and grabbed the fireball with ease. Both the Imp and Beast Boy stared at it floating in mid air until the green elf shook it off and move the fireball directly at the creature. Once he let go of the trigger, the grabber threw the fireball back and it hit the Imp, letting it cream and dissolves into ash. Beast Boy looked at the gun, back at the ash, and smiled.

Beast Boy: "Oh yeah! Now we're talking!"

A Cacodemon floated away from Cyborg's cannon fire and headed to Beast Boy's direction. The green elf saw it coming and pointed the grabber at it.

Beast Boy: "All right you freak, come and get me!"

The Cacodemon fired a blast from its mouth as Beast Boy grabbed the blast with his gun and fired it back to the creature. Back to the girls, Starfire kept on shooting her star bolts at the chainsaw zombie that was running around and taking cover with whatever was still standing. It did have a few burns on its body; it's still moving and hiding from the barrage of attacks. Star kept firing as much as she can but she was unaware of two Z-Secs coming out from the catwalk area with their machine guns in hand. They spotted the Tamaranean trying to take out the zombie and aimed their weapons at her. Beast Boy, after taking out the Cacodemon, saw the security zombies with their rifles pointing at Starfire. He quickly looked around and spotted a flammable barrel. He pointed the Grabber at it and fired, levitating the barrel in the air as small flames seeped out of the inner casing. He launched it at the guards and it exploded on the impact. The Z-Secs bursted in flames as Starfire heard the explosion and looked behind her to see the cooked zombies lying on the ground. Just as she was wondering how did that happen, the chainsaw zombie jumped out of nowhere and screamed as it swung its chainsaw around. But before it can kill Star, multiple sharp objects, including a chainsaw, flew at it and pierced the undead's body. Star turned around and saw the chainsaw zombie dead with sharp objects covering its body and a chainsaw implanted to its head. She scanned the area to see who threw them and saw Raven floating next to the last chainsaw zombie slumped on the crate with a whole lot of punctured wounds and then saw Beast Boy not far from her holding his grabber.

Beast Boy: "Thought you needed some help."

Raven: "Or two."

Starfire smiled and was going to thank them when she spotted two Imps behind the two Titans and shrieked. Star quickly load up on two star bolts and yelled to her teammates.

Starfire: "Duck!"

They did that as Raven and Beast Boy moved out of the way as Starfire blasted her star bolts at the creatures. Heading back to the jeep, Cyborg was taking out Cacodemons with his cannon one by one.

Cyborg: "C'mon you sacks of hot air, show me everything you got!"

When he killed off the last of them, five more Cacodemons appeared in a row in front of the car, ready to blow it up. Cyborg turned his head to the left and saw them getting ready to fire.

Cyborg: "Oh, you wanna play rough huh? Well then it's time to bring out the big guns!"

The hybrids shoulder blades were opened and six rockets came out of it. They flew straight to the Cacodemons and exploded, causing them to fly all over the place and disintegrated into ash. Back at the storage area, the rest of the Titans and Alex were finishing up disposing the zombies and monsters. Robin was using his R-Sword to cut a Maggot in front of him and slice an Imp in back. Starfire shot down two more Imps and a Z-Sec with an array of star bolts. Beast Boy got a hold of one of her bolts with his Grabber and launched it at a Maggot. He then caught a fireball an Imp threw from the right and launched it back at it. Raven levitated a few lead pipes from the ground and threw them at the three Z-Secs, impaling their bodies and turning them into Swiss cheese. Alex was firing his shotgun at a Maggot that came out of small alcove in the wall. Upon reloading the gun, an Imp scurried out of hiding and launched a fireball. Alex ducked and fired his shotgun in a crouching position. Once the Imp was dead, Al stood up and looked around the place and noticed that the battle was finally over.

Alex: "Well, that was fun."

Beast Boy: "To you it is, but to us, it's a complete nightmare!"

Starfire: "Indeed, I never experience battles like this since Tamaran was at war with an army of Glershkags."

Raven: "You know this might sound strange but do you think that these monsters are growing by the minute?"

Robin: "Yes, you do have a point. And don't forget about those creatures that have the power of stealth and sneak attacks, not to mention that their getting stronger. Hey Alex, do you think they know we're going to the Comm. Facility?"

Alex looked at Robin and answered his question.

Alex: "If they knew about us heading down there, they would've killed us in an instant. And even if they knew that there's a Communication Center, they would destroy it in a second. Still, there's something that's still bothering me…"

But just as Alex was going say something, there was a crackle on the radio frequency the dead Z-Sec had. From what he heard was a strange language they keep on hearing from them. And whatever they're talking about, it isn't good.

Alex: "Sounds like we're going to get company. Everyone in the jeep, NOW!"

Starfire: "But what about the Marine?"

Alex: "As of right now, my possible guess is that he's already dead. Now c'mon!"

Alex put his shotgun away and they all hurried to the jeep, where Cyborg was already in the driver's seat upon hearing Alex's orders. With all of them in, with the four Titans in the back seat and Alex in the front passenger seat, Alex looked at Cyborg at the steering wheel.

Alex: "Are you sure you know how to drive this thing?"

Cyborg: "Just like driving the T-Car."

Cy pressed on the gas petal and watched as the airlock garage door opened up.

Just outside the service tunnel, as the jeep the Titans were in left the area, a Marine was running on the catwalk trying to get the driver's attention.

Main Marine: "Hey wait! I'm over here! Stop the car!"

But it was too late; the jeep just left and disappeared through the airlock. The Marine bended down to take a breath then looked at the area that has no jeep.

Main Marine: "God damn it! Can this get any worse?"

Just as he said it, two Cacodemons appear from the ceiling and growled. The Marine looked at them and sighed.

Main Marine: "Sorry I asked."

He aimed his plasma gun at the creatures and fired.

End of Chapter Seventeen. Sorry about the long delay, but I promised after my trip to California is over, I'll update this story quicker. Oh, and if you wondering how Beast Boy changed into different animals with the Grabber still with him, let me tell you. See, when Beast Boy change, his uniform morphs with him. So I was thinking, "Hey maybe the grabber can change when he turns into an animal and it will still be attached to him." I know it sounds confusing but I was just wondering about it. On the next chapter, the Titans are in for the ride of their lives, as they travel through the Mars surface and the service tunnels in the jeep. With monsters surrounding them, obstacles in their way, and taking drastic shortcuts, we'll they be able to get to Communications in time or is this their last stop. Please Review.