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INT. LARGE ATRIUM
The scene is a large atrium with balconies and paintings on the walls. Robin is sitting in a chair with his wrists and ankles bound. Starfire is nearby in a similar situation, Cyborg is bound by a metal clamp. Raven is bound in a chair with energy rings. Beast Boy is bound by rubber bands. The Teen Titans appear half-unconscious but are slowly coming around with groans.
BEAST BOY
"Huh? Am I the only one who has no idea where we are?"
MAD MOD
"Why, you're right where you belong, my duckies."
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A man standing at an open set of double doors on one balcony.
MAD MOD
"You're in school!"
Mad Mad leaps onto the banister of a nearby staircase and slides down it. Mad Mod twirls his cane topped with a large ruby in one hand.
MAD MOD
"That's right, lads and loveys. You're the only students at Mad Mod's Institute for Bratty Teenage Do-Gooders."
Mad Mod tosses the cane high, to his other hand, and holds it out.
MAD MOD
"And it's high time someone taught you sprogs a lesson."
Mad Mod approaches the camera with his cane.
ROBIN
"Titans! Move!"
The other Teen Titans are unable to break their bonds, including Beast Boy who cycles through lizard and cobra forms. Mad Mod prances around and twirls his cane .
STARFIRE
"My starbolts are useless!"
Mad Mod approaches Starfire, who is bound to a chair.
MAD MOD
"Specially designed chairs, love. Can't have those nasty superpowers disrupting my lecture now, can I?"
ROBIN
"Get away from her!"
Mad Mod thrusts his cane into Robin's face, causing him to recoil.
MAD MOD
"Now don't get your knickers in a twist, my little snot. I didn't go to all the trouble of building this school and filling your tower with knockout gas just to finish you off lickety-split."
RAVEN
"Then what do you want?"
MAD MOD
"Just what I said, dearie. To teach you lot a lesson!"
Mad Mod leans into Raven's face.
MAD MOD
"Yes, I've been watching you children misbehave. And I hate misbehaving children."
Mad Mod turns away and scratches his butt.
MAD MOD
"Fighting crime. Saving lives. Interfering with the plans of hardworking villains."
Mad Mod points his cane at each of the Teen Titans.
MAD MOD
"Why, you lot are nothing but a bunch of troublemakers!"
The Teen Titans react with fury.
MAD MOD
"But you'll learn your place soon enough. You see, I'm older than you, so I'm bigger, badder, and better."
CYBORG
"Say wh--?!"
Mad Mod bashes Cyborg with the cane.
CYBORG
"OW!!"
MAD MOD
"You're in my world now. And you won't be getting out 'til you've learned some proper respect."
ROBIN
"We will get out. And when we do--"
Mad Mod gestures with his cane and a school bell rings.
MAD MOD:
"Oh, dear, there's the bell, my duckies."
MAD MOD (SALUTES)
"Off to class!"
The floor tile under each Teen Titan's chair opens like a trapdoor, dumping them out of sight.
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Robin is landing perfectly on the floor.
SCREEN
"Now how can I teach you anything if you won't sit still and listen?"
ROBIN
"Huh?"
SCREEN
"One of my hypnoscreens ought to get your attention and it'll erase everything in your brain as well."
ROBIN (STRAINING ON EVERY WORD)
"Can't let him hypnotize me...got to stay focused..."
Robin struggles against the hypnosis as the rings flash across the room. Robin manages to fall over onto his side and break the wooden arm of the chair. Robin frees one of his wrists. Robin uses a lockpick to free his other limbs and destroys the hypnoscreen wall.
MAD MOD (V.O)
"Naughty snotty. If you're gonna destroy school property, school property's gonna destroy you."
ROBIN
"Whoa."
An enormous missile ready to launch.
MAD MOD (V.O)
"Right, then. Count along with Moddy."
One of the two busts extends laser muzzles from its eyes and spinning blades on jointed arms from its ears..
MAD MOD (V.O)
"Ten...nine.."
The bust and its identically aimed counterpart move in and fire at Robin.
MAD MOD (V.O)
"Eight...seven..."
Robin rolls across the floor and hurls himself at them.
MAD MOD (V.O)
"Six...five..."
Robin hides behind one and ducks as the other fires and blows its head off.
MAD MOD (V.O)
"Four..."
Robin pushes the remains aside, gives the missile a good long look, and bolts to the ruined wall.
MAD MOD (V.O)
"Three...two...one!"
Finally, on 'one,' Robin dives through the cloth to make his escape.
ROBIN
"There goes my shot at perfect attendance."
MAD MOD (FROM OFF CAMERA, WEARING A BLACK SUIT)
"Don't be so sure, my little duckie. You may be out of the classroom, but class is never dismissed."
Mad Mod goes up the side of the black and white checkered tunnel, so that he is standing upside down on the top surface, and runs at the camera.
MAD MOD
"Next lesson: Physics!"
ROBIN
"Huh?"
MAD MOD
"What goes up, stays up!"
Mad Mod laughs and runs off.
ROBIN
"Until I take it down!"
Side view of Mad Mod passing overhead as Robin jumps up in a vain attempt to grab him.
Robin chases Mad Mod through a field partially filled with checkerboard tiling. Robin and Mad Mod dash along the interface between the two regions, disappearing briefly behind each black stripe. Suddenly, Mad Mod doubles back and descends a staircase hidden among the squares, with Robin hot on his heels. Robin and Mad Mod dash move into an area consisting of two side-by-side sets of concentric squares. Mad Mod runs into the left set, a tunnel, and does a sharp turn into one of the white bands, but Robin runs into a wall when he tries to follow.
ROBIN
"How did he--?"
Mad Mod emerges on the right and runs off-camera. Robin gives chase.
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A closed door and pull back as he opens it and enters. A loud whistle from off-camera draws his attention, Robin sees Mad Mod at the top of that long staircase seen in the prologue. Robin and Mad Mod are back in the main atrium.
MAD MOD (TWIRLING HIS CANE)
"You may as well chuck in the sponge, laddie! You can't catch the likes of me!"
Robin charges toward the stairs and bounds up the banisters. A wave of the cane, and a close-up of Robin, running full tilt, then his feet pounding up the steps. Pull back slightly to frame all of Robin, then back farther to show that the staircases have become long escalators. Robin is on the down escalators. Mad Mod stands at the top, against a black-and-white sunburst, but this soon gives way to the normal wall.
MAD MOD
"Now what did I tell you? Children today won't listen to their betters! Have to learn everything the hard--"
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A close-up of a birdarang thrown by Robin, whirling through the air, then pull back. It ricochets off the railing in front of Mad Mod.
MAD MOD
"Hey, oy! No throwing things while teacher is talking!"
Robin fires a grappling hook that embeds itself in the wall above the doorway as Mad Mod runs out, then reels himself up to the landing.
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The other side of the doors, Robin bursts through and stands up for a look around. One eyebrow jumps in complete surprise.
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Robin has come out in an atrium that looks exactly like the one he just left.
ROBIN (TO HIMSELF)
"What?!? You've gotta be kidding me!"
STARFIRE (FROM OFF CAMERA)
"NOOOO!!"
ROBIN
"Starfire!"
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A set of very tall library shelves, with a ladder set up to reach the topmost levels of one of them. Robin climbs a maze of shelves stretching as far as the eye can see with a checkerboard ceiling overhead.
STARFIRE (FROM OFF CAMERA)
"NOOOOOOOOO!!"
Starfire is at the rear center, thrashing from side to side with her eyes tightly shut, but two thin arms reach from the top of her chair.
STARFIRE
"I will not read your book of meanness and swirls!"
The arms from the chair grab Starfire's head and force her to face front.
MAD MOD
"Now, now, love, it's for your own good. Nothing teaches discipline and respect like a brain-erasing trance."
Starfire closes her eyes on the end of this, but the wooden fingers soon pry them back open. Starfire gasps in shock and looks upward.
TILT UP:
A large section of tiling opens to reveal a giant rubber 'OVERDUE' stamp. The letters are shaped backwards, right to left, so that the word can be properly read after use.
MAD MOD
"Besides, if you won't stop squirming..."
The giant stamp stamps the floor, crushing a few desks to splinters.
MAD MOD
"...I won't stop squashing!"
Robin frees Starfire.
STARFIRE
"Are all the schools on your planet this horrible?"
Books come off the shelves and start flapping toward the two Titans like giant bats.
ROBIN
"Come on!"
Starfire is yanked and some of the books hit her chair and explode, blowing it to bits. Robin is climbing a shelf of books. Books detonate all around them and Robin is jarred loose by the last, falling with a scream. Robin and Starfire leap along the tops of the shelves, avoiding the oncoming books while Starfire blasts two.
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A closed door that reads 'Library: Quiet Please', Starfire and Robin burst out, slam it shut, and lean on it with their full weight. A final, hefty explosion from the other side nearly pushes it open again. Smoke drifts out through the cracks as Robin strides away and Starfire follows
STARFIRE
"Robin! I wish to thank you for rescuing me from-"
ROBIN
"Don't thank me yet."
Robin and Starfire stop.
ROBIN
"Mad Mod still has us right where he wants us. I know we could take him if we could just get our hands on him."
Busts roll up behind Robin and Starfire.
ROBIN
"But every time we get out of one trap..."
Robin and Starfire encounter four sculptures of Mad Mod wearing various types of sunglasses. The sunglasses on one sculpture slide up to reveal a missile, while blades emerge from another's ears. Another sculpture's jaw opens to show a stun gun, and the last one's hair rises to reveal a cannon inside the head. Robin looks angry and frustrated, and his head appears to have grown larger.
ROBIN (THROUGH GRITTED TEETH)
"...there's another one waiting."
The cannon blasts at Robin and Starfire, Starfire yanks Robin away.
MAD MOD
"Run, my duckies!"
OVERHEAD VIEW OF ROBIN AND STARFIRE HEADING LEFT TO RIGHT
MAD MOD
"Run all you like, but you'll never get out!"
Robin and Starfire are thrown off by gravity and end up in a room with white tiles and the periodic table symbols. They fell out of the Zirconium tile and onto the floor. The room is filled with giant beakers and test tubes filled with solutions, as well as a microscope and a Bunsen burner. As Robin and Starfire move through the room, their images distort in different ways as they pass behind containers of chemicals. Robin and Starfire have reached the chemistry lab.
MAD MOD
"It's no good procrastinating, really, because sooner or later, you'll both end up like him."
ROBIN
"Beast Boy!"
Beast Boy is sitting in a chair wearing a dunce cap and drooling while hypnotized by the screen. Robin and Starfire approach Beast Boy.
MAD MOD
"Ah, yeah. A model student, that one. Lovely. Sits there, quietly, never thinks about misbehaving, matter of fact, he never thinks at all!"
Mad Mod laughs.
STARFIRE
"Beast Boy! Awaken!"
Starfire waves in Beast Boy's face and removes the dunce cap. Robin uses his torch to free Beast Boy.
STARFIRE
"Your friends are here."
Starfire snaps her fingers.
Starfire steps to the screen and warms up a starbolt to knock it out, but Robin stops her before she can fire.
ROBIN
"Wait! Trust me."
The test tubes blow their stoppers and chemicals boil over, dissolving desks as the slop spreads across the floor.
ROBIN (HANDS BEAST BOY TO STARFIRE)
"Here's your hall pass. Meet you outside."
Robin leapfrogs along disintegrating desks to approach the door where Starfire has already made it out. Robin vaults to a molecular model and then over to her, then ducks through the door and slams it shut
FADE TO BLACK
STARFIRE
"Beast Boy?"
Beast Boy sits crumpled on the floor, with Robin and Starfire looking down concernedly, and he is now drooling all over his clothes.
STARFIRE
"It is I, Starfire, your friend. Please! Speak to me! Beast Boy? Beast Boy?"
Starfire knocks on his head a couple of times, then sucks in a huge breath. Starfire's head grows too many times normal size, and her next words are delivered with enough force to push the boys' faces back on their skulls. Robin shoves his fingers in his ears.
STARFIRE (YELLING)
"BEEEEEEAAAAAASSSSSSTTTTTT BOOOOOOYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!"
Robin is left a bit stunned when the yell finally dies away, but Beast Boy just drools and babbles some more before keeling over.
ROBIN
"Ah, Star? I don't think that's working."
STARFIRE
"But we must do something or he will remain this way forever."
Beast Boy sits up, wavers a bit, and tumbles against Starfire's midsection. A door is heard opening. Starfire pushes Beast Boy away.
ROBIN
"Mad Mod! Come on!"
The three end up huddled behind the staircase
ROBIN (HUSHED)
"We'll hide here and then take him by surprise."
A little bit of Beast Boy's mumbling gets on Robin's nerves very quickly.
ROBIN
"Any way to keep him quiet?"
STARFIRE (CLAPS A HAND OVER BEAST BOY'S MOUTH)
"But of course!"
Starfire shudders as drool oozes through her fingers.
Robin peeks out from behind the stairs and sees a shadow approaching. Robin ducks back briefly and leaps out with Starfire right behind him. The other Titans are waiting.
ROBIN
"This place is making me crazy!"
CYBORG
"Tell me about it. Mad Mod's wacked-out computer lab nearly crashed my hard drive."
STARFIRE (TO RAVEN)
"Where did our captor send you?"
RAVEN
"Gym."
Raven partially opens her cloak to reveal a white jersey with a large zero on its front. The sound of a basketball game is heard.
CYBORG
"Anybody seen BB?"
Babbling is heard off-camera.
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Beast Boy slithering along like an inchworm, with drool all over.
ROBIN
"Mad Mod's hypnoscreens. We can't snap him out of it. We've tried everything."
CYBORG
"Did you try this?"
Cyborg leans down, pulls one ear wide open, and burps directly into it. Beast Boy laughs, shaken out of his trance.
BEAST BOY
"Nice one!"
Beast Boy's laughter dies.
BEAST BOY
"Uh...how did I get here and why am I covered in drool?"
STARFIRE
"Wonderful! Now we need only to locate an exit."
CYBORG (SHOWING HIS CANNON)
"Or just keep blasting 'til we make one."
ROBIN
"Easy. Last thing I smashed tried to smash me back. I'm sure this whole place is booby-trapped."
Beast Boy pops up nearby and wipes himself clean.
BEAST BOY
"Then how are we supposed to get out?"
RAVEN
"We're not.
Don't you get it? Mad Mod's just gonna keep messing with us until--"
ROBIN
"--We mess with him. That cane of his controls everything in here. We take the cane--"
CYBORG
"--We take control--"
BEAST BOY
"--And take him down!"
Beast Boy crosses the floor.
BEAST BOY
"Oh, I'll find him. That demented doofus is never hypnotizing me again!"
A painting on the wall pops out and swings to face him, showing that hypnotic ring pattern.
Beast Boy is drooling and stumbling to the floor, Starfire catches him.
MAD MOD (OFF CAMERA)
"Come on."
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Mad Mod rises into view through a trick black tile in the floor.
MAD MOD
"Won't you lot ever learn?"
Mad Mod is balancing his cane on one finger, then twirling it.
MAD MOD
"You're in my world, my duckies."
Mad Mod presses the ruby and the doors behind him opens.
MAD MOD
"You can't win."
ROBIN (LEADING CYBORG AND RAVEN AWAY)
"Titans! Go!"
STARFIRE
"But how do I--?"
CYBORG (TALKS OVER HIS SHOULDER)
"Make him laugh!"
Starfire finds herself standing alone, supporting the hypnotized Beast Boy by his armpits. After a moment, Starfire hoists Beast Boy up to look him in the eye and smiles broadly.
STARFIRE
"How many Okaarans does it take to hoegee a morflark?...Finbarr!"
STARFIRE
"Um...boo-gers?"
BEAST BOY (LAUGHING)
"Boogers!"
BEAST BOY (LOOKS DOWN AT HIS DROOL)
"Aw, man!"
The Teen Titans chase after Mad Mod who is zooming along on a motor scooter. The hall is lined with various pictures of Mad Mod. Mad Mod wears goggles, a sheepskin coat, and helmet over his suit while on the vehicle. Mad Mod pulls a quick change and gives them the slip. The Teen Titans pass a picture of Mad Mod in his original outfit.
Mad Mod throws bananas at the Teen Titans and runs off. The Teen Titans chase him down a hall with a statue of Mad Mod's head on David's body and a round Union Jack patch covering the waist. Mad Mod jumps on his scooter and The Teen Titans follow. Mad Mod fires an enormous bazooka at them, sending them back the way they came.
The Titans follow Mad Mod into a room with large holes on the white floor and ceiling. Mad Mod drops out of sight and The Teen Titans try to follow, but the hole solidifies and blocks them. Beast Boy jumps after the villain, while the other Teen Titans start poking their heads everywhere. The Teen Titans then reappear dressed in garish clothes and musical instruments to chase after Mad Mod, who drives past.
Mad Mod reaches a door at the top of a winding staircase and turns the stairs into a slide with his cane. The boys slide down and a hatch opens at the bottom, turning into snapping jaws. Beast Boy becomes an octopus and is caught by Raven and Starfire. Robin collides with Beast Boy and Cyborg collides with Robin. The boys are all hauled towards the camera. Cyborg gives Robin a shrug and a sheepish grin.
The Teen Titans chase Mad Mod through a hall with many doors on either side. Beast Boy switches forms at random such as a gorilla, an ostrich. The doors open and close just as randomly. The Teen Titans gather in one place and pull open five different doors at once, but find nothing. Finally, they try the door nearest the camera, and a colossal reptilian creature pokes its head through and roars at them.
Mad Mod waves at The Teen Titans land walks away as they open the door. The Teen Titans find a knob behind the creature's head and twist it. The screen goes black.
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The Teen Titans looking surprised. The wall behind them has opened up to show a peaceful meadow.
RAVEN
"No way!"
BEAST BOY
"Is that what I think it is?"
ROBIN
"One way to find out."
The Teen Titans start walking towards the meadow.
CYBORG
"Looks like the real deal."
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A white patch of wall, which bulges out at its center-a fabric screen, with them on the other side. It tears open, dumping them onto the floor.
Starfire gasps.
CYBORG
"No!"
Robin grunts in disgust.
ROBIN
"Right back where we started!"
A section of the floor flips over, bringing Mad Mod into the room.
MAD MOD
"Of course you are, my duckies."
Mad Mod taps the tiles with his cane and is promptly carried high into the air..
MAD MOD
"Class is over, and you lot haven't learned a thing. That's a failing grade for each blooming one of you."
A big, red F appears on the underside of the platform on the end of this.
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The very angry Teen Titans.
MAD MOD (FROM OFF CAMERA)
"There's only one thing for it."
Doors swing shut in front of the torn fabric
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MAD MOD
"You'll have to repeat the entire lesson!"
The stairs retract up to the first balcony as he says this, after which all the walls fall outward to expose a curving black-and-white sunburst pattern all around. It is broken only by the doors and paintings, which remain exactly where they were. Many more busts move in, sporting a variety of weapons. Mad Mod starts laughing maniacally, and pulls back to show this scene playing across Beast Boy's corneas. Raven catches Beast Boy. The busts move in to attack.
MAD MOD
"Time for class, my duckies. Everyone back to your seats!"
ROBIN
"Titans! Get that cane!"
Cyborg, Starfire, and Robin in turn give a hearty yell and charge.
RAVEN (HOLDING UP BEAST BOY)
"Um..."
The fronts of several busts open up to reveal small missile launchers. Raven creates a shield to protect herself and Beast Boy. Raven is covered in the explosion but Cyborg runs through them, catches up to Robin, and links his hands. Robin jumps up onto the palms of Cyborg and gets a hefty upward boost. A bust flies in and Cyborg crushes it to gravel with a single punch.
Robin has begun hopping from one airborne bust to another, dodging the occasional laser blast along the way, and finally hurls himself through space. A bust flies in and starts to fire, but is blown apart by a starbolt. Starfire flies past the cloud of dust she has just created.
MAD MOD
"Oy, no roughhousing! Do I have to separate you lot?"
Starfire is on a collision course with Mad Mod, but a column rises in front of her without warning.
STARFIRE
"Eek!"
Starfire tries to swerve around it, but that path is cut off as well. A tile under her feet has reached her level and begun to carry her up. Robin continues hopping on the busts' heads, but his face registers surprise after a huge leap. The busts have gone back to using him for target practice.
ROBIN
"Huh?"
Robin collides head-on with a column. Cyborg is quickly carried toward the ceiling.
CYBORG
"Yo!"
Cyborg and Robin are on a staggered pyramid of steps. Laser shots from above force Robin to start jumping from one level to the next. Robin seizes a passing bust, which carries him toward a floating door. Robin flips clear just before the sculpture crashes into it and explodes. Robin throws a birdarang at Mad Mod, who leaps straight up to avoid it and passes him in midair.
A bust flies by and strafes, just missing Raven and Beast Boy, then doubles back for another pass as two others join it.
RAVEN
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"
Three floor tiles slice attacking busts in half and fall around Raven. Cyborg is blown off his high perch and stands up.
RAVEN
"Little help here?"
CYBORG
"You asked for it."
Cyborg pulls Raven's hood back and gives her a 'wet willie'
BEAST BOY (LAUGHING)
"Awesome!"
BEAST BOY
"Aw, not again!"
Raven, Beast Boy, and Starfire face off against busts with metal spider legs. Beast Boy turns into a rhinoceros and charges, smashing a couple to bits, and Starfire shoots down a few flying ones. Having flipped onto her back to pull this off, she does not see one moving in with two thin metal arms extended from its shoulders. The busts grab Starfire by the wrists.
STARFIRE
"Huh?"
Starfire is hauled up with a scream and put into a half-spreadeagle. A bust approaches and extends a laser chainsaw from its base. A swing of Starfire's legs knocks it away to slice a long gash through the cloth of the giant hypnoscreen that forms the wall.
More busts appear on tall pedestals and tank treads. Cyborg leaps down and incapacitates one with a kick. Cyborg seizes it and throws it with all his might, destroying every oncoming bust. One more bust pops out behind him, stun gun extended from the mouth, and rolls toward him.
The stun gun stuns Cyborg and drops him to the floor.
The place begins to rearrange. The row of tiles Cyborg is lying on moves like a conveyor belt to carry him away.
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Raven, who has been seized by a chair just like the one she was in at the start and is being dragged in.
RAVEN
"No!"
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Cyborg being hauled in by his own chair.
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BEAST BOY (TO HIMSELF)
"Don't look at the screen, don't look at the screen--"
A hypnoscreen pops up right in front of him, reverting him from rhino form to human form, he turns his head and squeezes his eyes shut as a long metal arm reaches up.
BEAST BOY (STRUGGLING AS HE'S GRABBED BY THE HEAD AND TURNED TOWARD THE SCREEN)
"--don't look at the screen, don't look at the screen--"
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Robin is making his way quickly up toward Mad Mod's platform. Mad Mod dodges Robin's attacks.
MAD MOD (STAYING IN MIDAIR)
"Oh, give it a rest, snotty. You've already lost!"
Robin is looking down, he sees Beast Boy sitting before his screen and the other three Teen Titans secured in chairs, then rushes at Mad Mod and leaps.
Robin is reaching out toward the cane.
The fingers reach the wooden shaft and close, but they simply go right through it.
ROBIN
"Huh?"
Robin is tumbling to the edge of the platform and looking at his hand.
ROBIN
"The cane isn't real! Which means Mad Mod is just as fake as everything else in here!"
Mad Mod hops to his feet and does a little brandishing and twirling of his cane. Robin leaps straight at Mad Mod's holographic image and runs right through it.
ROBIN
"Time for a reality check!"
Robin flings himself off the edge with a yell. The holographic Mad Mod swings his cane and sends two busts out after Robin.
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A small service duct as Robin tumbles in through the opening.
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A view of some machinery and pan across on the next line. The voice is that of MAD MOD, but the gray-haired figure that comes into view is very different from the dapper redheaded fellow who has been terrorizing the Titans all the way through. He is sitting in front of a bank of monitors, which show the team from many different angles, and working a complex array of controls.
REAL MAD MOD
"Yeah, this should teach those saucy little ankle-biters some respect."
The real Mad Mod's clothing is the sort you might expect on an old man of retirement age-plain, square glasses, nondescript shirt and suit, with black trousers.
REAL MAD MOD
"Just a tick. I've lost Robin."
The real Mad Mod gasps.
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Robin crawls around in the duct and rips out every handful of wiring he can find.
HOLOGRAPHIC MAD MOD
"Uh...minor technical hitch, my duckies."
HOLOGRAPHIC MAD MOD (TUGS HIS COLLAR)
"Pay no mind, I'll have it fixed in a--"
The holographic Mad Mod disappears.
The Mad Mod image disappears and the hypnotic pattern shuts off. The Teen Titans break out of their chairs. The pictures and busts of Mad Mod fade and crash to the floor. The fabric walls reel up and expose the machinery. Mad Mod's systems short out in a plume of smoke.
REAL MAD MOD
"My machines! That meddling little snot will pay for--"
A small cry of fear escapes the real Mad Mod as he discovers Robin waiting at the back of the room. The real Mad Mod is promptly dragged forward by his collar.
MAD MOD (CLEARING HIS THROAT)
"Hello, guv'nor."
ROBIN
"School's out, Mod. And you're looking at about twenty years of detention."
FADE TO BLACK