Calling All Titans!
Calling All Titans! is the 63rd episode of the Teen Titans series and the 11th episode of season 5.
Synopsis
The Titans are riding back to the Tower in the T-Ship when Robin announces, to Beast Boy's disappointment, that they have one last mission to execute: In order to protect other young heroes worldwide more efficiently, Robin has decided to establish a communication network by sharing out Titan Communicators. despite Beast Boy's misgivings, the Titans split up and go on their separate missions, unaware that the Brain is using the captured communicator to monitor their progress to intitiate the end-game.
Beast Boy climbs a tall mountain to contact Jericho, while Starfire aids Argent in repairing a leaking dam in New Zealand. Robin contacts Bushido, who is fighting a group of ninjas, while Cyborg goes to a wrestling arena where Pantha is battling. She grabs Cyborg, thinking he’s a wrestler, and they fight briefly until Cyborg manages to inform her of Wildebeest's grim fate at the Brotherhood's hands, leaving her with a communicator. In another dimension, Raven meets with Herald and hands him a communicator.
Robin heads back and initiates a test of the communications network, contacting all the members from around the globe, but this only helps the Brain to pinpoint his targets more precisely. Immortus and his soldiers attack Argent while the Titans attempt to rejoin, and Robin sends Starfire to help her, but then more emergency calls come in. The Brain has initiated a simultaneous sequence of coordinated attachs against the Titans and their allies, who are currently spread too thin to aid each other effectively and thus make easy targets:
- Gnarrk and Kole fight Gizmo and Billy Numerous at the Arctic, and Mammoth intercepts Cyborg when he arrives to the duo's aid;
- Más y Menos fight Johnny Rancid and Cinderblock. Raven comes to help, but is forced to engage Psimon and Kyd Wykkyd;
- Trident and Plasmus battle Aqualad under the sea, while Kardiac intercepts Beast Boy when he is sent to aid Aqualad;
- Bumblebee is ambushed by Punk Rocket and Angel;
- Starfire arrives to find Argent gone and Kitten and Killer Moth waiting for her;
- Robin sends Tramm to help Aqualad, but he’s hindered by XL Terrestrial;
- Bushido fights Katarou in Japan;
- Speedy is pursued and tackled by Cheshire;
- Pantha is taken on by Atlas and Adonis;
- Jericho evades Fang and Private H.I.V.E;
- Herald is attacked by Warp and See-More in his own dimension;
- Killowat fights Control Freak and the Puppet King;
- Lightning duels Overload, and Thunder tries to repel Steamroller and I.N.S.T.I.G.A.T.O.R..
Robin is helpless and despondent when Hot Spot arrives, but "Hot Spot" brutally attacks Robin, revealing himself to be Madame Rouge. When she gloats about the success of the Brotherhood's plans, Robin deduces that the Brain has tapped the communicators, and manages to slow Rouge down long enough to warn the others and rig his communicator to self-destrcut, short-curcuting the rest, before he is captured.
While many of the Titans have proved triumphant in their individual battles, Rouge brings Robin back to the Brotherhood’s lair where he, Aqualad, Speedy, Argent, and Menos are all added to the villains' collection, with the Brain gloating: "I have captured the king. Your pawns cannot save you. You have lost."
Quotes
- Beast Boy: [to Jericho, rapidly] I told Robin we shouldn't separate, but he sent me up here and I just climbed up this big mountain and so here's your stupid communicator, and if bad guys come, you know what to do! [collapses in exhaustion]
- Beast Boy: Great idea, Robin, giving communicators to everyone. Could this Jericho guy live any farther away?
- Robin: Madame Rouge, I thought Hot Spot took care of you.
Madame Rouge: You thought wrong. - Monsieur Mallah: We can no longer follow the Titans every move.
Brain: We no longer need to.