1x10: Masks

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Opening shot: a pure white screen. After a moment, an image appears at its center and resolves into a red microchip rotating slowly in the light.

Pull back a bit and pan to one side to show darkness beyond this spot. A large figure stands up into view; it is clad in black armor, with additional steel plating to reinforce key areas, and wears a mask that hides the entire face.

This is black, with a red-orange circle in the center whose edges touch both eyes. The figure reaches toward the chip, revealing a steel-gloved hand, and cocks one eyebrow in surprise.

Cut to the other side of the suspension field. Robin is hanging upside down.

Robin: Tell Slade if he wants this, he can come get it himself!

He drops from his perch and delivers a kick that sends the thief tumbling across the darkened area.

All the lights now come on; cut to a close-up of Robin and dissolve to a longer shot, pulling back to put the rest of the Titans in frame as well.

The place is a chamber stuffed with supercomputers. A laser beam lances down from above, forcing Robin to jump out of its way; cut to the ceiling, where a section is being cut away from above. The piece falls in a cloud of dust, and several more intruders leap in.

Robin does a few backflips to stay ahead of the next laser blast and soon has one of the new arrivals coming right for him.

He blocks or dodges several blows, then tries a counter-kick that is deflected.

The masked figure whips out a blaster, something like a set of brass knuckles with a muzzle on the front edge, and opens fire.

A few acrobatic tricks carry Robin out of danger; he retaliates with a jumping roundhouse kick that sends the attacker crashing into the far wall.

Starfire, just above, backs quickly across the screen to evade the shots from a squad member who jumps up after her.

She gathers herself and puts a starbolt right where it belongs; her attacker is sent skidding across the floor.

The next one jumps even higher, up to the level of the large ceiling-mounted spotlights that illuminate the place, and blasts at her.

The lens of one light is struck and begins to fall loose; she is directly underneath and about to be crushed, but Robin leaps across and plows her away just in time. The lens crashes to the ground.

The dust thrown up from the impact clears to give a close-up of Robin, who has set Starfire down. She is a bit dazed, but soon snaps to with a gasp.

Robin: Huh?

Across the room, several squad members level their weapons, but before they can shoot, a computer cabinet slides across and bulldozes them.

Loud crash from o.c. after it has passed; pan quickly in the opposite direction to Cyborg, who is wiping his hands; he pushed it at them.

Cyborg: Amazing what you can do with computers these days.

He runs toward the heart of the battle as Raven floats backward into view, staying just ahead of a laser beam.

Another one is fired from midair; she creates a shield around herself, and both it and the beam disintegrate when they make contact.

The enemy runs toward her and starts throwing punches, which she stops by forming small barriers in front of herself as she slowly backs up.

A low kick cuts her legs out from under her; the blaster is aimed at point-blank range, but before it can be fired, Beast Boy, as a bighorn sheep, rams its wielder into the wall.

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