The titans were on their way to a distress signal from the inner city. Raven and Starfire flew overhead while Robin was speeding on his bike next to Cyborg and Beastboy in the T-Car.
"Listen up team," Robin relayed from his communicator, "we've recieved multiple calls about a mad man terrorizing a school in the inner city. Our mission is to take him down with no causalities to the students or faculty of the school. It's a high school with a population of 500 students. So it's going to be a filled with kids ages 13-18 so be extra cautious with your surroundings."
"Right!" The team respond in unison. As they approached the school. Beastboy got a knot in his stomach. He was starting to recognize where they were and, more importantly, he started to realize what school they were headed to.
Please be ok. Beastboy thought to himself. His nervousness for the safety of Terra was causing him to clench his fists.
"Yo! BB!" Cyborg said from the driver's seat, "you hear me?!"
"Huh? What?" Beastboy was so stuck in his head he didn't hear a word his best friend said.
"I said, we really need you on this one. We're counting on you to be smart and work with the team!" Cyborg replied trying to encourage his friend.
"Oh! Right. Got it. Don't worry, I can handle it." But Beastboy had other things on his mind. If it came down to it... he'd save Terra no matter what the cost.
They approached the school to witness something they'd only imagined in horror films. They all pulled in front of the school and came to a halt. All the students and staff we're hypnotized and under the control of someone else. It was almost like a zombie film centered around a middle school.
"O...k. This is creepy even for me." Raven said trying to break the tension.
The schools front side quad had a jumbo screen for announcements and urgent information. The screen had been hijacked and had a giant spiral of black and white spinning slowly on display. Most of the students and staff were starring directly at it completely brain dead and dazed by it. Robin instantly knew who was behind the attack. Before he could say it, the screen changed channels to a display of Mad Mod sitting in the principals chair.
"Ellllllloooo my duckies!" He exclaimed half laughing, "sorry to tell ya's but you've been expelled! Only straight A students allowed in my school!" he laughed.
"Mad Mod," Robin said angrily, "what game are you playing this time?!"
"No games ol' chap! Just teaching my new class all about current events!" He pointed to the new curriculum written on the white board behind him.
It read: Teen Titans: the root of all evil.
"Since I couldn't teach you lot properly, I decided I'd start with the next generation!" Mad Mod declared with confidence.
"Root of all evil? Man, who in their right mind would ever believe that?" Cyborg said half jokingly.
"These people aren't in their right minds anymore," Raven responded, "if Mad Mod has told them we're evil they will believe it even if it's not true."
"Oh... Yeah. I knew that." Cyborg said feeling a little embarrassed.
"Then... How do we prove our innocence?" Starfire asked.
"We have to take down Mad Mod before he gets a chance to make a lasting impression," Robin said angrily.
"Now, now, my duckies," Mad Mod said toying with them, "they also think I'm the greatest thing to happen to the planet earth!" He started laughing hysterically, "they'll defend me to the death if they have to! Do you think you got what it takes to harm this poor lot just to get to me?" He continued laughing.
Robin grit his teeth in rage. He knew Mad Mod thought this out carefully. He put himself at the center of the school surrounded by hundreds of mind controlled slaves that will answer his beckon call. All these people are innocent and there's no way Robin could risk hurting them.
More than that, this was a completely different angle Mad Mod was playing. A lot darker and way more cruel.
"Robin what's the plan?" Cyborg asked with urgency.
Robin sat still for a moment trying to think of a way to resolve this without violence. When an idea finally came to him.
"Alright listen up," he said with confidence, "we need to get everyone to snap out of their hypnosis. The way we do that is by making them laugh. We know this works from all the times Beastboy became hypnotised from Mad Mods last attack."
"Hey! I only got hypnotised because he snuck up on me!" Beastboy said crossing his arms and pouting. His face turned bright read with embarrassment.
"Ok... but how do we get this many people to all laugh at once?" Raven asked.
"How about the screen?" Cyborg said pointing to the jumbo screen, "they're all already fixed on it. If we can just cut the signal from Mad Mod, and patch a new signal with our own reciever we could broadcast something funny and make everyone in the quad laugh all at once."
"Good idea Cyborg," Robin said eager to get started, "Raven and I will cut the signal and set up a reciever on the the jumbo screen. Once we have you patched through be sure you show these people something they can all laugh at."
"Oh... I think I got you covered," Cyborg said menacingly as he looked over at Beastboy with a smirk.
"What?" Beastboy shot back at him with concern. He did not like the sound of that.
"Alright. Let's do it team! Titans, go!" Robin yelled.
Raven and robin were both engulfed in her dark energy and vanished. They quickly reappeared next to the jumbo screen where robin cut the incoming signal and patched a new receiver with a direct link to Cyborgs transmission.
Cyborg got out of the T-Car and pushed a button on the dash that opened a camera on the roof of the T-Car that followed his every move. Whistling to himself the whole time without a care in the world. He motioned to Beastboy to get out of the car. Beastboy being very cautious got out slowly and walked over to where his whistling friend was standing. It was obvious Beastboy was going to be the center of attention.
"Alright the reciever is set! Hurry, the studnets are starting to notice us up here." Robin said desperately as he watched the students move closer and closer towards himself and Raven.
"You got it!" Said Cyborg with a giddy chuckle. He finally stopped whistling and pushed a button on his arm and the camera fired up and began to transmit to the reciever Robin set up. Once he could see himself on the jumbo screen he immedately reached over to Beastboy towards the back of his belt, and pulled up Beastboy's underwear as high as they could go.
A high pitched squeal rang out and resonated for a long moment from the little green hero. Followed by a thunderous uproar of laughter. Everyone in the quad was laughing and were no longer under the control of Mad Mods hypnosis.
"I told you I could make them all laugh!" Cyborg said leaning over his stomach from laughing too hard himself.
Beastboy tucked his underwear away, transformed into a gorilla and smacked Cyborg into the building next to them leaving a sizable dent in the bricks. Cyborg who anticipated this reaction got up dusted himself off and laughed one last time.
"Oh man!" He said wiping tears of joy from his face, "so worth it!"
"Everyone return to your homes immediately!" Robin shouted to the newly freed students, "There's trouble in the school and we're here to take care of it!"
Everyone left the school as they were told, though they were dazed and confused by what just happened.
Beastboy turned into a hawk and flew over to where Raven and Robin were standing next to the jumbo screen of the school. When he landed he resumed his normal body and was still trying to get the wedgie settled back to normal.
Raven couldn't help but chuckle a little as he adjusted himself.
"What's so funny?" Beastboy asked angrily as he gave her a dirty look.
Raven quickly stopped herself and pretend nothing happened. Starfire arrived shortly after carrying Cyborg and they all entered the school through a sky light in the roof behind the jumbo screen. Once they hit the floor of the main hallway they were met with hundreds of students still under Mad Mods control. Robin thought quickly and instead of breaking the hypnosis with jokes he threw down a gadget that made a massive smoke screen that engulfed the entire hall way. This was the best way to get through the hoard of students without hurting them.
"What about them?" Beastboy asked pointing to the students they were about to run past.
"They'll have to wait. We need to get to Mad Mod and reverse the Hypnosis manually." Robin replied quickly.
They ducked through the smoke screen dodging in and out of the students to avoid any damage to them. They passed by without being seen but their presence didn't go unnoticed. The hypnotized students slowly followed behind them like mindless zombies following the sound of footsteps. But Beastboy couldnt help but pick up a very familiar scent as he passed one of the students. He knew instantly his darkest fear had come true.
Terra was in the school... and she was under Mad Mods control.