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"Dude we're gonna die, we're gonna die, we are so gonna die. I'm serious; we are totally, totally, going to-Ow!" Beast Boy rubbed the back of his head to dull the pain of Raven's smack.

"Enough," she told him sternly. "Worrying isn't going to get us out of here."

"Yea, neither are any of our weapons," Cyborg called over, inspecting their prison walls. "This stuff is nearly indestructible. It could take days to break free."

"We don't have a few days," Robin snapped, glaring at the ground. "Trogaar could be torturing Starfire as we speak."

"No, he won't," said a voice from a part of the dungeon, its suddenness startling the other Titans.

"Who's there?" Robin asked cautiously, automatically going into a battle stance, the other Titans mimicking his position.

"It's me," the voice said again, and after a few sounds of clattering chains, a slumped over and very haggard looking Speedy was revealed from the dim light of a lantern.

"Speedy!" the four all said at once, rushing over to the wounded red-head.

"Aw, man are you okay?" Beast Boy asked, his eye bulging as he took in his friend's state. "What did they do to you?"

"Well stand back green bean and let me get a closer look," Cyborg said, brushing the changeling away roughly. He knelt down beside Speedy and began inspecting his wounds, some of which were still bleeding. The Titans East member stared blankly ahead as if he could barely even register that his friends were here.

"Speedy, where are the others?" Robin questioned, his tone of voice not betraying the worry he felt.

"We're here too," someone in the shadows responded for him. It took a few moments, and a few more rattles of chains before four other figures emerged from the gloom, and turned out to be none other than Bumble Bee, Aqualad, Jinx, and Kid Flash.

"No way, they got you too, Flash?" Cyborg asked in shock.

Kid Flash gave a tired smirk then jerked his head over to Jinx. "They black-mailed me, otherwise I would have gotten away." Despite her current state, the pink haired Titan still managed to roll her eyes in her usual annoyed way. She then gave a wince as she felt a sharp sting from a particularly bad cut on her arm.

"Here, let me," Raven offered, crouching down beside her and placing her hands over the wound. Her eyes closed in concentration and her hands began to glow with a faint blue shadow.

At first Jinx shied away. "It's cold," she complained.

"You might want to get used to it," the empath advised, as she placed he hands over the injured spot once more. As the cut reduced to a small, thin, red line, she moved on to the other wounds that had left its vicious mark on Jinx's body.

Robin who could never just sit still and watch for any amount of time was on them in an instant. "They tortured you. Why? What use do you have to them?"

"Hey, I can be very useful," Speedy interjected.

"Yeah, right," Bee fired back. "Since when was the last time you did anything around the Tower exactly?"

Speedy seemed to think about this for a moment, and when he came up empty-handed, he indignantly snapped, "Yeah, well I do more than Aqualad!"

"Maybe I would be more inclined to help if you would stop bringing fish tacos inside!" the Atlantean defended.

"Guys," Robin said impatiently, rubbing his forehead. "We can discuss your chore list later. But right now we need to stay focused if we're going to get out of here, and we are going to get out of here." He punched his fist in his hand as if to prove his point.

"We've already tried that a million times," Kid Flash explained. "I can't even move my particles through these stupid walls. It's like they've thought of everything."

"But the question is, why?" Raven thought out loud as she finished tending to Jinx and moved onto Aqualad. "Why would the Gordanians even target the Titans East?"

"And Flash and I," Jinx added.

"Speaking of Titans East, where are the little dudes at?" BB asked, glancing around for the speedy twins.

"Mexico," Speedy, Aqualad, and Bumble Bee answered together.

"But back to the whole capturing thing," Bee continued, scrunching up her eyebrows at the slightly uncomfortable feeling of Raven's healing powers. "We were probably just used as bait. To black-mail you guys. Although why they would need to capture all of us is beyond me."

"Not to mention they can just dispose of us at any time," Aqualad continued. "If we've played our part then there isn't any use keeping us around any longer."

"It must be some sort of freaky plan that Trogaar has planned out for all of us. He's the nasty lizard king by the way," he added after noting the others' confused faces.

Robin was currently deep in thought, but his head snapped up as he remembered something. "Speedy," he said urgently. "You said something about how the Gordanians won't hurt Starfire. Why is that?"

To his surprise, Speedy, as well as Kid Flash let out an aggravated sigh. "Because Trogog, or whatever the heck his name is, tells every five minutes. He goes on, and on, and on about how he's going to take us all to the Citadel and sell her to the leader for some major mula. It's honestly getting on my nerves."

"And who's this new leader?" Raven inquired, although she received nothing more than shrugs for an answer.

"He won't tell us," Aqualad explained. "It's like some sort of big secret or-"

The dungeon door flew open with great force suddenly, cutting off anything Aqualad was planning to say. Immediately two large and quite unappealing looking Gordanian guards entered with malicious expressions on their faces.

"Earthling scum," one rasped, clutching his glaive tightly. "We require the female prisoners at once."

No one moved a muscle. No one knew what to make of the situation.

"That is an order!" the other nearly yelled, banging the end of his glaive on the stone floors. However before anyone could even think, he snapped something in his native language and suddenly four more guards appeared, their teeth bared.

Instantly Jinx, Bumble Bee, and Raven were hauled to their feet and were brutally hit if they dared resist.

"Do not feel left out," the one holding onto Robin jeered. "You will be of just as much use to us as your woman."

And then he smacked the Boy Wonder's head against the ground and everything went black.

~0~0~0~

"At least tell me what you have done with my friends," Starfire protested, her eyes pleading, although she tried desperately to calm to growing anger deep inside her chest. "You simply cannot keep us separated forever!"

"Silence Troq," one guard snapped at her, his tongue wiping around his teeth and over his lips. "You will see your friends shortly, but perhaps you will not like what you find."

Starfire's head snapped up, her eyes instantly taking on a fiery green glow. "What do you mean?! Answer me!"

Her head snapped back as a giant green hand swung down, making harsh contact with her cheek. "That will teach you to obey," he seethed.

"Do not harm her too much, Glorthar, our new ruler must decide her fate," Trogaar ordered from his commanding chair boredley. "In the meantime make yourself useful and bring in the others. You know which ones I mean."

"Yes, Lord Trogaar," Glorthar answered, immediately withdrawing himself from the room.

"You will let me see my friends?" Starfire asked hopefully, her hand cupping her cheek gingerly.

"I did not say that," he returned coldly, his eyes narrowing. "But for the moment they will serve a purpose to us, just as you will."

The doors to the commanding room slid open abruptly, causing Starfire to whip around in surprise. She winced at the sudden movement for the restraints she wore dug into her forearms painfully. She craned her neck as the sound of a familiar voice reached her ears, and then a wide smile drew across her face as she recognized Raven, Bumble Bee, and Jinx being carted into the room. Although they were being roughly handled, they seemed unharmed for the moment. Jinx seemed to be the most peeved at her captors, for she was using foul language and tossing her head every which way and that.

She stopped for a moment as all three of them were forced to their knees before Trogaar who had risen from his throne and was surveying the female prisoners with an unreadable expression.

"I suppose," he said finally, "that they will have to do. It is not every day that the Citadel stumbles upon creatures as unusual and different as metahumans. Although I have seen better, nevertheless they shall make fine additions to the harem.

"You've got to be kidding," Raven mumbled.

"Just let us go, you big fat, chameleon!" Jinx shouted, her eyes glowing with pink fury. "Or you just might find that luck is not on your side!" She thrashed wildly, sending pink bolts of magic every which way and that, one narrowly missing Trogaar himself.

"Well?" he demanded, irritated at his guards. "What are you standing around for? Restrain her!"

Six guards were on the rebelling heroine as quick as lightening. Jinx disappeared from sight as they surrounded her, piling on top, their joints moving it what could only be considered as brutal beatings.

"Don't hurt her!" Bumble Bee cried desperately, her eyes filled with horror, the same time Starfire screamed "stop!"

Jinx's cry filled the air, silencing the onlookers and proving as evidence that the beating was enough. Slowly, an perhaps unwillingly, the Gordanians stepped aside to reveal a newly bruised and beating Jinx, an bronze collar strapped tightly around her neck. Her eyes were filled with tears, mixing with the blood that ran down her face. Her sobs were muffled and quiet, her eyes glanced at the floor in defeat.

Starfire's eyes were wide with horror. She had never felt so powerless, so weak, so…so…rutha. She opened her mouth to speak, although she wasn't sure as to what she could say. Before she could even utter a sound though, she was grabbed roughly around the neck by Trogaar and forced down to her knees as well. Her chin was forced up to look into the eyes of the monster and she glared back at him in pure hatred.

Trogaar's lips curled up in what could have been considered a smile, but otherwise looked like he was in immense pain. His eyes flicked up and landed on Raven and Bumble Bee, who were still busy watching Jinx. Guards surrounded them as well, but instead of bruises being left on the other Titan's skin, there were similar bronze collars clenched tightly around each of their necks.

"Now try to rebel," Trogaar rasped menacingly. "Take them to Prison Block Number 84. They need to be cleaned and prepared for their new duties."

As they were hauled away once more, Raven made eye contact with Starfire as she stood up again, communicating all the pain and misery and understanding in that single glance. It made the poor Tamaranian Princess want to curl up in a ball and cry for hours and hours, but she was still feeling too numb to do that now. She could barely feel a thing as the steel doors slid closed again, however the unpleasant touch of a scaly skinned hand gliding slowly up her back jerked her out of her faze.

"Do not touch me," she said in a mixture of disgust and desperation.

"Koriand'r," he replied, speaking her real name for the first time since their encounter. He paused, walking slowly over to his control panel and pressing a series of buttons. A little case sprang up and he opened it carefully, revealing the crown worn by a member of royalty from Tamaran. He took it between his hands and walked back over to Starfire, placing the crown on her head, then stepping back to admire how perfectly it fit.

"It is against my orders from our ruler to brutally harm or harass you in any kind of way upon arriving to the Citadel," he told her stepping around her and continuing back to his throne. Suddenly he stopped in his tracks and turned around once more, pressing his body up against her backside and inhaling her scent. "However, I suppose I can make an exception. Just this once."

He stepped away from her side abruptly, before she could think too much about what he had just said. With one final look at her, he stepped into his private captain's quarters, leaving the Princess alone for the first time in a long time.

However she welcomed the isolation, because it was right then that she collapsed to the ground and let the tears come.