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Eh, the muses haven't been cooperating lately, so I don't really have anything witty to say.

So let's just go on with the story!

Chapter 16

"Well then, Cassius, let's go. I believe we've also got a job to do."

Robin peered around a corner and waved the others forward. Everything had been quiet after they left Ebenezer and Cass. They hadn't even so much as ran into a single guard. But it didn't hurt to be careful.

"This place gives me the bad feeling." Starfire whispered. The cells that lined the hall were all filled, each one with a different prisoner. But not a single one of them stirred when the Titans passed them.

"Totally." Beast Boy agreed. "I mean, why is everyone so quiet? I always thought that prisons were louder." He said, looking into another cell. He narrowed his eyes as he recognized something. He grabbed the bars of the cell and took a closer look.

"Robin!" Beast Boy practically shouted.

Robin turned around and glared at the changeling. "Quiet, Beast Boy." He whispered. "We can't risk getting caught."

"I know that!" Beast Boy shot back. Then he pointed at the cell. "But I think we know this guy."

"What?" His interest caught, he walked over to the cell, along with Raven and Starfire. "How can we possibly know him?"

Robin studied the man in the cell. He was sitting on his knees with his hands tied behind his back. He had a black shirt on, along with a black vest and militia green cargo pants. They couldn't see his face. It was covered by a black mask that had a white crescent moon on the forehead.

"It can't be." Robin said, wide eyed. "Isn't this one of the villains Alistor captured?"

As if their voices roused him, the man started to stir. He opened his eyes and looked up at the Titans. "If it isn't the whelp." He said, sounding slightly amused. "Come to rub it in have you?"

"No." Raven said simply. "We weren't even expecting to see you here."

The man smirked behind his mask. "Where else would I be? My men and I have been here ever since we failed to collect the coward." He chuckled slightly. "Which brings us to why you're here. That coward Alistor."

"How do you know that?" Robin asked suspiciously.

"The entire prison is buzzing with the news." He replied. "They captured Alistor, a traitor to the Observer race." He looked straight at Robin. "They say that he's being held in the very center of this infernal place."

Robin stared at the man. "Why are you telling us this?" He asked slowly. "You have no reason to help us."

The man shrugged. "Who knows. The enemy of my enemy is my friend, perhaps. I hate this place more than I hate you. And maybe I want to get back at the people who have me and my men sitting in a cell."

The two stared at each other for a bit longer and an understanding seemed to pass between them. "Come on, Titans." Robin turned and continued down the hall.

Beast Boy glanced at the man then at Robin. "Uh, shouldn't we help him or something?"

Robin didn't even turn around. "No. He's a criminal and he belongs in jail. He stays. We're only here for Alistor."

Beast Boy, Starfire, and Raven cast one last look at the man before they followed Robin down the hall.

They went in complete silence, not even Beast Boy said anything. Eventually, Starfire said, "Robin. Do you think we have made the right choice?"

"I do." Robin answered shortly. "If we let him out, it would only work against us."

Again, they lapsed into silence. Without realizing it, Beast Boy had grabbed Raven's hand. She didn't seem to mind. In fact, she entwined their fingers and gave him a small squeeze, just to let him know she was there.

As they continued down the hall, they had to hide twice as prison guards walked by and Raven had to use her powers to hide their emotions. Once they were sure they were alone again, they continued down the hall.

After walking for what seemed like hours, Raven held up a hand to tell the others to stop. "Wait." She closed her eyes and concentrated on her senses. "I feel something."

"Is it Alistor?" Robin asked.

Raven opened her eyes. "It's too weak to know for sure. But I think so." She took started forward again and led them around a corner, where they were greeted with a solitary cell. Unlike the other halls, this one was lit with only one candle, which was right outside the cell door. She stepped right up to the cell and looked inside. She was greeted by the sight of a man with pale blue skin and bright yellow hair chained to the back wall. "Alistor."

The others gasped as the saw him. "Al." Beast Boy said sadly.

Starfire covered her mouth with her hands. "Friend."

Robin went up to the bars and called, "Alistor, can you hear us?" There wasn't any answer. Robin stepped aside and motioned at the cell bars. "Star, think you could get us in?"

Starfire nodded with certainty in her eyes. She went over to the bars and, without a grunt of effort, bent them out of place, creating a hole for them to go through.

They all ran into the cell and immediately crouched over their friend. "Alistor, wake up." Robin said, shaking the boy. The chains rattled with the movement.

After a moment, Alistor seemed to stir. He slowly opened his eyes and blearily stared at the Titans. "Well." He said weakly. His voice sounded scratchy, probably because he hadn't used it all that much, but there was a small smile on his face. "I believe this is where I say, 'What took you so long?'"

"Teen Titans, go!"

Still shocked at the appearance of the other Titans, the villains didn't react in time as they were attacked.

Naturally, Kid Flash was the first to get into the action. He quickly ran over to Punk Rocket and spun him around in a circle. "Oi, mate." The villain said as he teetered around dizzily. "Watcha think you're doing."

Kid Flash stopped right in front of him. "Obviously I'm kicking your butt." With a grin, he sped around the rocker and did just that.

"Hey!" Punk shouted as the kick flung him to the ground. "You're gonna pay for that." He growled and pulled out his guitar. But before he could even let out a strum, Kid Flash had grabbed it and was examining it on the other side of the room.

"Hey, this thing is pretty cool. Think I could borrow it for a while?"

Punk fumed. His face was a deep shade of red. "Give back my guitar before I show you a new definition of the word 'pain'."

Kid Flash shrugged. "Okay." Before anyone else realized it he had run out of the room, found some rope, and tied up Punk Rocket with his guitar against his back. "But only because you used such a clichéd villain line." He gloated as he stood over the tied up villain.

Across the room, Jinx stood in front of four of her former teammates. "We really need to stop meeting like this." She said, smiling at the group. Then she raised an eyebrow. "And what happened to Kyd Wykkyd? Did he leave you guys too?"

"Tch." See-More said. He pointed behind him where the teleporter was still paralyzed on the ground. "Fang messed him up a bit, but he's fine." Then he glared at her. "And don't think that we're going to go easy on you, traitor." He changed his eye to laser mode. "Hive Five, attack pattern Beta!" The four villains sprang into action. Mammoth and Billy jumped to the left while See-More and Gizmo jumped to the right.

Jinx's smile never left her face. She just raised her hands and said, "Aren't you forgetting something? Who do you think taught you that move?" She fired a hex at both groups. The first one landed in front of Mammoth's feet which caused him to trip and fall on top of Billy. The other one hit See-More's helmet, making him misfire and shoot a laser directly at Gizmo.

Jinx giggled at the scene. "I guess luck just isn't on your side." While she gloated, she didn't notice Angel fly up to her and hit her with her wings. The sorceress flew across the room and hit the wall with an 'oomph'.

"Don't you think you should go a bit easier on your old team?" She asked with a scowl.

"Don't you think that you should take it a bit easier on my girlfriend?" Before she could do anything, Angel was pushed over to the Hive Five and they all found themselves tied up together with Kid Flash standing in front of them. Without looking at the villains, the speedster ran over to his girlfriend and helped her up. "You okay?" He asked worriedly.

"I'm fine." Jinx said, annoyance showing on her face. She wasn't really hurt, but she wasn't happy. "I should have seen that coming." Kid Flash just shook his head and laughed.

Adonis loomed over Herald with a confident grin on his face. "You are so going down, wimp."

Herald just smirked and brought up his trumpet. "Really? From where I'm standing, you're the one that's going down." Adonis raised an eyebrow in confusion, but Herald didn't give him time to think about it. He blew into his trumpet and a portal went right through the mechanical villain and out the other side.

Adonis let out a scream as his suit was ripped off his body and into the portal. "Not again!" He went to his knees. "What did you do to my suit?"

Herald chuckled and waved his trumpet at him. "You never learn do you? I did the same thing during the Brotherhood of Evil thing."

While Adonis groaned at his own mistake, Jericho was being backed into a corner by Kitten and Fang. The spider headed teen leered at the mute and said, "You're not going to beat me this time." He closed his eyes. "I know how your powers work now. And I don't need my eyes to know where you are." He reached out with his front legs, intending to catch the blonde musician.

Behind him, Kitten shouted, "Woohoo! You get him Fangy-Poo!"

Across the room, Angel turned her head to Billy and said, "Sorry Billy. Looks like they got back together again."

Billy frowned. "Dang! I thought I had her for sure this time."

Fang hesitated at Kitten's words, surprised that she was talking to him again. That gave Jericho a chance to find a way out. He quickly searched around him for something he could use, but he found nothing. But then he looked behind Fang and an idea hit him. Just as Fang struck at him, he ducked and rolled underneath Fang's legs.

Looking up, he found himself in front of Kitten. He wasn't sure if she could understand sign language, but he tried anyway. 'Sorry I have to do this but…' He made eye contact with the girl and phased into her body.

"Where'd you go blondie?" Fang said, searching for the boy with his legs. But while he searched, he didn't notice a whip coming up from behind him and smacking him in the back. "Hey!" He whirled around and risked opening his eyes to look at Kitten. "What did you do that for?" Then he noticed her eyes.

"I don't really like doing this to girls, but you didn't give me much choice." Jericho explained through Kitten's voice. Then he smiled. "But now that I've got your attention…" Unfortunately for Fang, he kept his eyes open as Kitten made eye contact with him, allowing Jericho to phase from Kitten's body into his.

Kitten staggered backwards and rubbed her head. She looked at Fang and asked, "What?" He didn't answer as he shot webbing at her, pinning her to the wall. "Fang!" She yelled angrily. "What do you think you're doing?"

Jericho had Fang walk over to her and say, "I'm sorry, but I'm borrowing your boyfriend for a while. You can have him back after you get out of prison."

Kitten's eyes widened as understanding dawned on her. Then she struggled and started screaming in frustration as she fought to get herself down.

Jericho didn't have time to say anything else as someone shouted, "Jericho!" He whirled around to see Kole go into her crystal form as Private Hive batted at her with his shield. He bounced off of her and took a step backwards. Running over to him, he shot more webbing at him, knocking him to the floor.

"Thanks, Jericho." Kole said, turning back into her normal self. She gave him a bright smile before turning to look at how Cyborg was faring.

He and Johnny Rancid were just underneath where Cyborg had been hanging from the ceiling. They were both breathing hard with sweat running down their faces. Johnny took another swing at Cyborg, a high punch meant to hit him in the face.

Cyborg smirked. This was just what he was waiting for. He ducked underneath the punch and hit Johnny into the air. "Kid, now!" He shouted. Getting the point, the speedster ran up the wall, grabbed the rope hanging there and tied Johnny up with it.

"Get me down from here!" The biker yelled.

Cyborg crossed his arms and smirked at the villain. "Not so fun is it." He laughed and turned to the rest of the Titans. "Nice job everybody! That couldn't have gone better." He looked at Fang. "You can come out now Jericho."

Fang crumpled to the ground as Jericho phased out of his body. The mute smiled and signed, 'Is this everyone?'

Cyborg nodded. "I think so." He said, looking at all the groups. He let out a laugh. "Alright! This calls for a celebration. Who wants pizza?"

"Aren't you forgetting someone?" A mechanical voice said. The Titans turned to find Red X standing in front of the hole the Hive Five had made.

Cyborg pulled out his sonic cannon. "You're right. So are you going to come quietly or is this about to get messy?" He glanced at the tied up villains behind him. "Well, messier."

The thief shrugged. "If you want a fight, go for it. But I'd rather talk. And you know what they say, a picture's worth a thousand words." He held up a photo, which showed Cyborg hanging from the ceiling in his dress.

Cyborg's jaw dropped. "What are you gonna do with that?" He asked worriedly.

Red X laughed. "I'll just keep it in my back pocket and use it when I need it." With an ominous laugh, he jumped into the hole and vanished.

Well guys, the countdown is on. Next chapter is going to be it. I'm kind of sad to see it end, but there you go.

The Titans have found Alistor. But what will they do now? Next time in Chapter 17!

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