Disclaimer I don't own the Teen Titans but I do own The Eight
At the same time The Eight were waking up, so were the Titans and the Villains.
As they all sat down the living room to eat Robin spoke up.
"Alright everyone," he said, "I know yesterday wasn't a good day, but we have to keep it together. We can't panic. That is exactly what The Eight want."
Everyone nodded.
Everyone except Gizmo.
"So what's the plan…fearless leader?" Gizmo asked with his normal rude tone.
Robin looked him in the eye.
"I'm going to go outside and try to disable whatever they're using to jam us."
"Then I will go with you." Starfire said as she stood up.
"No." Robin said firmly, "I'm not going to risk anyone of you."
"Ahhh…that gives me a nice warm feeling inside." Gizmo said sarcastically.
"You have a better idea shorty." Cyborg snapped.
Gizmo turned to Cyborg with a grin.
"As a matter of fact, idiot, I do." He said as he pulled out the blueprints for the Tower.
He spread out the plans and pointed to a power line under the Tower.
"Right there is the answer to all our problems." He said looking at Robin.
Cyborg looked at the blueprints and his eyes went wide.
"How did I miss that?" Cyborg said scratching his head.
"What is it?"
Cyborg held up the plans for all to see.
"It's an underground landline that connects to the city's phone line. If we can connect to that we'll be able to talk to the outside."
"Whoa, wait a minute." Beast Boy said, "How do we know that this will work? Our internet doesn't even work."
Cyborg smiled, "That's because all of our phones, TV, computers, and security cameras all work wirelessly. But if we can connect to this with a wire directly then we'll be able to bypass the jammers altogether."
Beast Boy still looked confused.
"It means we'll have to use cable instead of satellite." Raven said.
Beast Boy's eyes lit up, "Oooohhhh, now I get it."
"Ok," Robin said as he looked at the blueprints, "so how do we get down there?"
Gizmo smiled, "We'll have to climb down there though this small opening in the basement. I'm small enough to get down there but I'm going to need some help. Any volunteers?"
Robin didn't even pause.
"I'll help."
Gizmo smiled.
"I'll help too." Bumblebee said.
The smile dropped.
"I'll only need one person." Gizmo said suddenly.
Bumblebee turned to Robin.
"Robin," She said, "Let me go. If it gets too compact I'll be able to shrink down."
Robin nodded.
"Good thinking." He said.
Gizmo just stayed silent.
Outside
There was only one who wasn't inside the Tower.
Red X had been teleporting in and out of the tower ever since he gave the Titans the pictures of The Eight. He never even slept in the tower even when he was offered a room.
Now the right thing to do would be to find the jammers and destroy them.
But instead he was on a roof, looking at Owl crossing a street.
Red X didn't give a damn about the Titans or The Eight.
He was in this for the three trillion dollars that was stolen from The Brotherhood of Evil. However, he had no idea who was the one that did it.
But he knew enough to know that whoever did was the same one who hired The Eight.
At first he wanted to use the Titans to distract The Eight long enough so that their employer would stick his head out.
But this employer was a smart one. He never met The Eight in person. He never talks to them directly. Even The Eight themselves didn't know who it was.
As Red X looked at Owl he started to think that maybe he should try a different approach.
The Tower
The Titans and Villains were in the basement as Robin opens the hatch underground.
"Ready you two." He asked Gizmo and Bumblebee.
They both nodded.
"Ok, remember our communicators aren't working so we're going to have to yell. Also, according to these blueprints the way down isn't straight but slightly crooked so we won't be able to see you when you reach it." Robin said as he handed them two headlamps.
Cyborg then handed Bumblebee a cord.
"Ok," he said, "I've got a hundred foot wire rolled up here. That should be long enough to connect to the landline."
"Thanks sparky." She said as she knelt into the hole.
"Be careful." Cyborg said with a concerned look.
Bumblebee looked at him and rolled her eyes.
"You're not going to get all sappy again like last time are you?" she said as she handed Gizmo the cord.
"No…unless you want me too." Cyborg answered with a smile.
"Oh shut up you two!" Gizmo said as he waited next to the hole, "we don't have time for this."
Bumblebee let out a chuckle.
"For once I agree with him."
As the two entered the hole and turned on their flashlights Gizmo opens up the blueprints.
"Ok," he said, "By the looks of it the landline is about seventy five feet below us."
"Well," Bumblebee said as she shrunk and started to fly down, "let's go."
"Hey wait for me!" Gizmo said as he started to climb down through the narrow passage way with the cord in his hand.
Outside
Owl was walking across the street counting the number of steps it took to cross.
As he did this, he notices that someone was watching him.
He didn't change his movement or his demeanor.
He just kept on walking.
Under the Tower
"This should be the place." Gizmo said as the two climb down a narrow gap.
"Where?" Bumblebee said as she looked around with her flashlight.
"Over to your right." He said.
Gizmo then looked up.
"Hey!" he yelled, "Can you hear us?"
"…just barely." He heard very faintly.
"Hey," Bumblebee said with her back to him, "were is it? I can't see anything that looks like a land line."
Gizmo smiled as he pulled out a wrench from his belt.
"Keep looking." He said as he raised the wrench.
WHACK!
Gizmo slammed the wrench on Bumblebee's head, instantly knocking her out.
As she fell down into the darkness Gizmo started to climb back up.
"Hey!" he yelled, "the landline is covered by a steel plate. We need some help pulling it off."
Up in the basement Robin started to climb down.
"Hey let me do it man." Cyborg said.
"You're too big." Robin said as he climbed down, "Gizmo, it's Robin, I'm on my way."
"We'll be waiting." Gizmo said as he twirls the wrench in his hand.