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“Robin!”

“Terra?” The Boy Wonder stared in awe as the blond who he knew worked for Slade raced up to him, with a half robot man and a floating girl ran over to him.

“Oh thank god you’re here Robin, we need help! Rachel’s being controlled by Trigon, and she’s got Beastboy, and time is running out!” Terra’s words rushed out of her mouth in one rushed breath, her panic written across her face. Robin blinked. “Oh, and that’s Cyborg, and Kori, now hurry, we have to stop Rachel before she accidentally destroys the Earth!”

“We have another problem that we’re going to have to deal with,” Robin spoke in an authoritive voice he didn’t even know he had (he spent too much time with Batman), “we’re standing under a volcano that’s going to explode in less then an hour.” Wide eyes of green, blue and brown stared at him in horror. Robin’s masked eyes met blue, “Terra, do you think you could do anything about it?”

“Me?!” The earthbender’s voice squeaked.

Robin nodded, “Your powers control the Earth, and if this volcano goes off, the whole city will be destroyed!”

“I…I can try.” Terra whispered, taking a deep breath.

Robin nodded, “You’ll have to find the heart of the volcano alone,” he turned to the two strange looking people who clung to his every word, “you two come with me, I’ll need your help.”

Cyborg nodded, “Anything to help Rachel.”

There wasn’t time to ask how he knew Rachel, as the group split into two, one heading towards the devil himself, and the other, one lone warrior, heading to battle the elements.

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Rachel felt power race through her veins, she could see her hands moving as they created a prison out of raw black energy to contain Beastboy.

She heard his pleas, calling out to her, and she longed to respond. She longed to free him, run away from this nightmare that was controlling her life, one she couldn’t wake up from.

“Congratulations daughter, you have done well.” the voice hissed from the walls.

“Always happy to please, father,” she spoke the words, mentally yelling violent curses at the monster who claimed to be her father. Even if his blood ran through her veins, he was not her father. She didn’t have a father.

“Rachel! This isn’t you, I know it isn’t!” Beastboy screamed from his prison.

“Ah, little Garfield Logan, once again in my custody.” Beastboy visibly shuddered at the voice.

Beastboy swallowed his fear, and bellowed, “I don’t know who you are, but I normally don’t listen to creepy voices that come from walls, and my name is BEASTBOY!”

The creepy voice laughed, or chuckled, or whatever evil laughter was. Rachel really didn’t care, she was frustrated with the situation. Unable to do anything on her own free will.

“Fool, I destroyed your memory to create the most powerful weapon in the world, but you escaped me. I deleted your emotions so you wouldn’t be distracted with the pain of your past, but now I can return them to you, in the most painful form of punishment there is!”

Rachel watched as a beam of light shot from the burning wall, hitting Beastboy. For a moment she felt herself free from the monsters control. She watched as her friend’s green eyes blurred, pain that could only come from the heart. She wanted to comfort him, but her mind went blank, and she cursed herself for blacking out at such a time.

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A woman stood in the on the balcony of a golden palace. She watched as her world burned at the hands of the demon, Trigon.

“Rachel,” the woman did not turn to face the girl, but her voice betrayed the tears in her eyes. “My daughter.”

Rachel’s violet eyes widened. “Who are you?”

“You must stop your father, before he does to Earth what he did to Azarath.”

“Azarath?”

The woman still did not turn. “The planet of your birth, call out to it, and you shall be able to channel your powers. Call to the moons that you were born under, Metrion and Zinthos.”

“Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos?”

“Ancient chant,” Slowly the woman turned, “Rachel, my little Raven. Please save Earth, you are the only one who can.”

“Who are you?” Rachel stared into endless seas of blue.

“I am Arella, your mother.”

Blinking, Rachel stared at the woman. Her mother. Questions rushed forward, she wanted to run to her, hug her, demand an explanation, but she couldn’t. The world around her was fading, dragging her back to Earth.

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Terra looked over the ocean of bubbling lava. She could only hope that Robin and the others would be able to stop Trigon. She wouldn’t be able to help them anymore. Not that she had done much to help in the first place. This was her chance to redeem herself.

Her last act, at least it was a selfless one.

Spreading her arms, Terra screamed as her power rushed from her. Solidify all objects in the room. Transforming the lava, and her skin and blood, into solid rock.

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Memories rushed into Beastboy’s mind, attacking him.

His mother’s smile.

His father’s laugh.

It was hard to imagine, something he had wished for all his life, gave him more pain then he had ever experienced

A voice called out to him.

“Beastboy!” it was Rachel.

She yelled something else, but the sound of her voice was overshadowed by the evil laughter.

That laughter.

It had been there the night it happened.

The night he lost his parents, and his past.

It was all his fault.

The demon.

Fists clenched. His nails and fingers stretched, pointing into vicious claws.

Teeth doubled, knifes in his mouth.

He let out a mighty roar as his body twisted and stretched, as he become the Beast.

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Rachel watched in horror as Beastboy transformed into a terrifying monster. He roared, tossing his head like a hungry lion.

“Daughter,” the voice whispered to her, “Release me, he will destroy you. I can help.”

No. She thought firmly. I, I can’t… but her resistance was failing.

“Rachel!” Victor’s voice cut through her father’s spell.

Beastboy’s beastly eyes widened and his body shrunk back to human, “Cyborg?”

Lava was seeping through the ground.

“I shall be released!”

“We have to get out of here!” a redheaded girl who floated next to Robin called (Rachel vaguely remembered seeing her with Terra).

“Not so fast.” A voice called through the chambers.

“Slade.” Robin’s fists clenched.

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