This was it. After all the training and conditioning, I was finally going back. My stomach churned at the idea of living under the same roof as them again. Especially Beast Boy. I had trusted him with my biggest secret, and he had betrayed me. He had exposed my ugliest scars.

But now they were going to pay for that. They were going to see just how in-control I was. I wasn't the helpless, lost little girl I was when I'd left before. A dark kind of pride welled up in me. No, I wasn't helpless anymore. I was honed. I was reshaped. I was dangerous.

"Your mission is clear, apprentice," came Slade's velvety voice.

"Yes," I said flatly.

"Infiltrate the enemy's home. Learn their secrets. Destroy them... From the inside out."

I nodded.

Showtime.