The Sixth Titan

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Cinderblock chuckles to himself and starts to cross the area, but Robin jumps onto his neck and tries to put him in a headlock. Stumbling about at random, the stone behemoth tears a girder loose from the wall. A chunk of concrete from the floor goes with it.

Robin: Thrashing only makes me hold tighter!

Cinderblock raises the girder for a swing back over his shoulder to hit Robin, but misses when the Boy Wonder jumps away just in time; he only clocks himself in the head. Cyborg looks at another girder.

Cyborg: Now there's an idea.

He rips it free and charges. Letterbox: he and Cinderblock, in silhouette, swing at each other, the entire screen flashing blue every time their makeshift clubs collide. Cyborg steadily gains ground on the enemy. Fullscreen: they struggle at close quarters, and Cinderblock pushes Cyborg back in preparation for a mighty swing. It connects, sending the Titan and his girder skidding across the floor. Starfire floats down from above; Cinderblock gets ready to let her have it, but the quick flash of a starbolt causes the steel to heat and soften in his hands. He grunts in surprise, and she laughs as Raven looks on. Taskmaster flips and dives underneath and over Cinderblock's attacks and stas a small knife into his knee. Raven looks impressed. Cinderblock grunts and runs off down the corridor, heading deeper into the prison. Cyborg is still flat on his back, but gets up with a helping hand from Robin and dusts himself off.

Robin: Want to give this guy the Sonic Boom? 

Cyborg smiles and converts his arm to sonic cannon mode.

Cyborg: I got the Sonic if you got the Boom.

Their three teammates regroup and look off down the corridor. Cut to Cinderblock, still heading farther in.

Cyborg: Yo, Rockhead!

He stops and turns around to find Robin, Taskmaster and Cyborg running straight at him. They peel off to opposite sides and go up the walls, then jump toward each other as the cannon warms up. Whatever they were planning goes badly wrong, however, as Cyborg and Robin's feet get tangled up and they are left spinning out of control in midair. Finally they fly apart and Cyborg crashes into the wall. His cannon goes off, producing a blast of sound that engulfs Beast Boy and Starfire. Robin slams against the other wall; a disc in his hand slides away and detonates at Raven's feet. Cinderblock is completely unscathed by the fireworks but doesn't anticipate Taskmaster throwing some more flash bangs at him. In his disoriented state, Cinderblock loses the advantage and Taskmaster goes to town. However, like all human, Taskmaster eventually runs out of energy and the behemoth bats him away before clumping off, smashing straight through one wall after another in his path. Prisoners step out to look after the lumbering colossus, then start to sprint out the same way he came in.

Various prisoners: Hey, hey, look at this. It's freedom!... let's do it!... let's get outta here!... yeah!

Other voices are heard among these words. Cut to Robin, on his feet and rubbing his head; the commotion reaches him from around the corner, and soon a throng of escaping prisoners is coming straight at him. He whips out his fighting staff and extends it to full length, and he, Raven, Beast Boy, and Starfire get ready to throw down. Letterbox: silhouettes of the four Titans and the prisoners against a red background. As the latter are caught by surprise, the former let them have it. Beast Boy resumes his T-rex form to scare the living bejesus out of them. Fullscreen: close-up of a sign on a cell door. "Prisoner 385901-Absolute Silence!" Cinderblock's footsteps rumble and his shadow appears over the sign. Inside the cell, which is extremely large, a cylindrical glass tank of liquid is suspended from the ceiling. Within it is the figure of a man, floating erect and clad only in a pair of underwear. The door is smashed off its hinges, and Cinderblock enters and approaches the tank. In close-up, the man is seen to be perhaps in his thirties, very thin, with a shaved head. He is asleep and snoring loudly. Cinderblock rips the entire tank away from the ceiling-mounted apparatus that holds it; broken hoses spew liquid and gases about the cell. He then punches a hole in the floor and jumps through it to make his escape, pulling the tank after himself. Even though the container gets briefly stuck and has to be yanked forcibly through the hole, 385901 does not so much as stir in his sleep. Wipe to just outside the entrance of the cellblock as two prisoners run out in a bid for freedom.

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