H.I.V.E

H.I.V.E is the sixth episode of Rise of The Teen Titans.

### Plot

The super-villain training academy known as H.I.V.E. Academy presenting three of its finest graduates for their first mission:

* "Gizmo: The genius whose intellect can conquer any problem with an inventive solution"
* "Jinx: The enchanting sorceress whose powerful hexes mean bad luck for her enemies"
* "Mammoth: The genetically enhanced giant whose unstoppable strength speaks for itself"

When the showcase is over, the H.I.V.E. Headmistress talks business with one of the organization's clients – "Slade". Slade is impressed with their abilities but remains unconvinced since robots and obstacle courses only prove so much. So, he decides that for their final exam, they need to fulfill one simple task if her agents are going to serve him – destroy the Teen Titans.

### Titans Tower

At Titans Tower, the teenage superheroes engage in their everyday lives. While the living room is a cluttered mess, Cyborg and Beast Boy argue about the location of the TV remote. Robin and Starfire are having a discussion about lightspeed travel when they walk in to find the boys bickering while the curmudgeon Raven grimaces perpetually, especially after being disturbed from her book by all the yelling. Starfire decides to mend the dispute by sharing junk food and heads to the kitchen to see what she can find while Robin tries to resolve the conflict himself. Starfire opens the fridge to discover all the food (in fact, over half the inside of the fridge itself) is covered in moldy blue fuzz that actually somehow comes to life. When it awakens and growls at Starfire, she blasts her starbolt cannon at the fridge out of fright and splatters the "monster" to the ends of the living room. Now covered in moldy blue fuzz dripping from the ceiling, Robin decides their best bet at this point would be to just go into town for pizza.

### The First Encounter With H.I.V.E

While at the pizza parlor, they are completely conflicted as to what they should order since their different tastes pose a bit of problem. Beast Boy's ability to transform into animals is also a curse since it makes him a vegetarian, thereby categorically forbidding pepperoni and other meat, much to Cyborg's dismay. Starfire, on the other hand, suggests unusual toppings such as pickles, bananas, and mint frosting. Unaware to the Titans, the three students of the H.I.V.E Academy have set up a stage for their trap. Jinx starts by hexing a bus to start and sending on a collision course with a baby carriage in the middle of a crosswalk, which the Titans spring into action to stop. Once Cyborg and Raven stop the bus, Robin, Starfire, and Beast Boy are blindsided by the exploding teddy bear which was in the carriage and Mammoth apparently squashes Cyborg and Raven with the bus.

The three of them believe to have claimed easy victory in their mission, only for the Titans to get back up and proceed with a proper battle. Set upon by the H.I.V.E, the battle is fairly one-sided; Cyborg is knocked out early as he has a rocket attached to his back and is sent flying by Gizmo and Starfire rushes after him, taking them both out. Robin, Raven and Beast Boy put up a spirited yet futile fight as they are well defeated by Gizmo and Jinx. With Robin the only Titan standing, challenges the three of them to a standoff and lets them have the first strike. The H.I.V.E. combines their attacks and finishes the battle with a catastrophic earthshattering power strike that cracks the ground beneath him and Robin falls into a sewer and presumed missing.

### The Fight Against H.I.V.E

Raven and an injured Beast Boy manage to escape back to the tower. Cyborg and Starfire return, but are dismayed, Starfire especially, to hear of the defeat and Robin's disappearance. Raven and Beast Boy have searched the whole city and all they were able to find was Robin's utility belt. However, they continue to have hope that he will eventually return, as he does have a way of turning up when needed the most. Just then, they hear a knock at the door and immediately assume it is him. However, the door is blown down, revealing it to be the H.I.V.E., who have arrived to finish their mission in destroying the Teen Titans. The H.I.V.E. invades the Titans Tower and decides to take control of their headquarters.

The Titans split up to take on a different opponent; Beast Boy fights Jinx, Cyborg deals with Gizmo, and Starfire and Raven hold off Mammoth. The Titans seem to have decent odds this time around. However, once again the fight is quick and decisive in the H.I.V.E's favor and the Titans are kicked out of the tower into the bay. Cyborg even loses his right arm to Gizmo. The H.I.V.E. takes victory once and for all when Jinx uses her magic to conjure a tsunami that finishes them off.

### The Argument

When the Titans make it back to the mainland, they can do nothing except squabble with each other about how they were no match for three teenage supervillains and question if the Teen Titans are finished. Just then Robin finally appears and declares that the Teen Titans are not finished as long as he can help it, and comes up with a plan to take back the Tower.

### The Final Fight With H.I.V.E

Claiming it as their new home, the H.I.V.E. immediately begins renovating the Tower, transforming it into from a letter "T" to an "H". Gizmo has Cyborg's right arm mounted on the wall above the door in the living room as a trophy, Jinx moves into Raven's room and tries on her cloak and Robin's utility belt, while Mammoth gorges himself on the strange blue food that he finds in the refrigerator. While the H.I.V.E. are not looking, Cyborg activates the electronic linkup to his arm to be used as a spy drone. The arm removes itself from the wall and sneaks past the H.I.V.E. until it arrives at one of the computer consoles. There, it plugs itself in to the Titans mainframe whereupon it makes the Tower’s security systems go haywire as a distraction and the Titans are able to drag the H.I.V.E. out of the Ops room one by one to the roof. Robin takes back his utility belt and declares that the battle is not over, but rather just getting started. The Titans engage in a final battle with the young supervillains and the Titans manage to keep the H.I.V.E. on the ropes. For instance, just when Gizmo attempts to pull the same hacking trick on Cyborg again, Robin defeats him by doing the same thing with an EMP disc that shorts out his tech pack. Beast Boy manages to outsmart Jinx by tricking her into blasting wayward hexes all around her inside one of the newly constructed towers, which makes the whole thing collapse around her ears. The rest of the Titans use their combined efforts to take down Mammoth and the rest of the H.I.V.E along with him. When Gizmo attempts to call Slade, Robin grabs him by the neck and interrogates him, demanding to know is Slade's plan.

### Rebuilding Titans Tower

By the time the Titans finish the repairs to the Tower, Beast Boy suffers the most traumatic revelation as he discovers that all of his compact disks have been categorized alphabetically while Raven is irritated that the H.I.V.E. went into her bedroom, citing that "No one should ever go into my room". Starfire is surprised to see all the rotten food in the fridge has been disposed of and Cyborg expresses irritation that he still cannot find the TV remote even after the whole place gets cleaned up before Robin points to it on the coffee table. Now that everything is back in order, Cyborg admits that the five of them should be preparing for missions and investigating Slade's plan. Robin agrees that they will in due time, but for now, he just wants to enjoy being part of the team.

### Slade's Bigger Plan

Later, back at his hidden subterranean lair, the Headmistress expresses her deepest condolences to Slade for the warriors' failure, which is not tolerated at the H.I.V.E. Academy and promises the strictest of discipline when they are retrieved from the police. However, all evidence to the contrary, Slade explains that the agents performed quite well. The truth is, he never expected them to succeed, but rather, to serve as messengers. And according to the recordings of the battle, he can gladly say that the message has indeed been delivered.

## Cast

* **Zach Callison** as the voice of **Dick Grayson/ Robin.**
* **Kari Wahlgren** as the voice of **Koriand'r/ Kory/ Starfire.**
* **Tara Strong** as the voice of **Rachel Roth/ Raven.**
* **Greg Cipes** as the voice of **Garfield Mark Logan/Beast Boy.**
* **Khary Payton** as the voice of **Victor Stone/ Cyborg.**
* **Kevin Michael Richardson** as the voice of **Baran Flinders/ Mammoth.**
* **Lisa Ambalavanar** as the voice of **Jinx.**
* **Dov Tiefenbach** as the voice of **Mikron O'Jeneus/ Gizmo.**
* **Tara Strong** as the voice of **the H.I.V.E. Headmistress.**
* **Kevin Michael Richardson** as the voice of **Slade Wilson.**