"This is where you live?" Beast Boy squeaked.

"Yup. Our parents might have given us a nice inheritance…" Skyler sheepishly replied.

"And the pay people give you." Cyborg huffed.

"That too…"

"Well, come in." Beth led the way into the mansion.

"Recognized: BP327, ST814, EHR930. Recognized: Teen Titans: Koriand'r, Victor Stone, Garfield Logan,…"

"OK! We know who's here! Thank you nosy computer!" Robin cut off, before his secret identity could be revealed.

"Wait, so they don't know about…."

"So, please don't tell them." Robin said, an evil glare in his mask eyes.

"Ok, ok."

"Cool, huh?" Beth bragged, changing the topic.

Cyborg's eyes sparkled.

"I need one of those." He drooled.

"I'll hook it up for you." Hyo Rim offered.

"Really? Thanks!" Cyborg began to vigorously shake her hand up and down.

"Yeah. Just pay me in advance, mkay?"

Cyborg instantly let go and stared shocked at the innocent girl. His eyes began to water as he realized Robin would never give him the money for it. He glanced at Robin.

"You know the answer, right? Why bother looking at me?"

Cyborg sulked quietly.

"Let's go into the kitchen."

"X'hal! Perhaps you may allow me to make usage of your kitchen?" Starfire begged.

"Sure. And for free." Beth winked.

"-ehm- I'm sorry to be the exact opposite of all coolness, but there's a reason we're here." Beast Boy crossed his arms.

"Ughhhhhhh, you are soooo not fun anymore, Logan." Beth pouted.

For two seconds, Beast Boy felt his heart race and give him a minor heart pain. However, he shook it off as indigestion.

"Look. This is slowly killing me, no pun intended, to tell you…about a year and a half ago, I was going out with this guy, Alex. At the time, I was in America on a solo recon mission when I met him. We started hanging out a little more when we realized we both needed each other for secret missions. Of course, I didn't ask him what his mission was and he didn't ask me, so we assumed we were on the same side. After a couple weeks, we started to really bond and then we just started going out.

Beth paused to steady her emotions.

"After a month or so, things got a little more difficult as my mission and his increased in importance. The JLU had hired me to find Slade and stop his plans. I hadn't realized that Slade's plans deeply involved not only me, but Alex as well. Slade knew exactly who I was and he had used Alex to trick me. The plan was simple enough: trick the girl, kidnap her, kill her. Send a message to all heroes that he wasn't a force to be reckoned with."

The Titans sat silent listening to Beth and hanging onto her every word.

"As much as I was falling for Alex, my natural instinct didn't allow me to trust him for a second. I knew there were secrets but I hadn't realized they were that big. He took me to a concert and when we were going backstage, I was knocked unconscious. When I came to, I was tied down to a table but my vision and hearing were slightly impaired. Instincts from my past took over and I…well, let's say I was mercilessly. Slade was smart, he had a plan B. He took Alex and planned to sacrifice him to this monster creature thing. Alex called out to me to help but I…" Beth began to choke up. She took a deep breath and continued.

"I didn't help him. I couldn't help him because I couldn't even move. I felt betrayed and hurt and lost. Maybe even scared too. All I could do was watch as he was killed in front of me. I didn't cry because my boyfriend died. I cried because I was the one who almost put the entire world at risk because I let my emotions cloud my judgment…I….I don't want to talk about this anymore." Beth knocked her chair over and stormed out.

The gang sat silent as they absorbed this new information. Each person thinking of their thoughts and experiences. However, the Titans seemed to all have the same main thought: It was such a similar story to Beast Boy and Terra. Said changeling, nevertheless, was thinking about everything but that. He wondered how she had the strength to ever smile or use her powers in public. He was, to an extent, inspired by her.

"Hungry?" Skyler quickly asked, a smile plastered onto her face.

"Starved." Beast Boy exaggerated.

"What would you Titans like to eat?" Hyo Rim politely asked.

Still slightly fazed, the Titans allowed Beast Boy to pick.

"WOOHOO. All you can eat four-bean burritos with jalapenos and….and…tofu and cheese and mustard and barbecue sauce and noodles!" He declared.

"Recognized: NacoTaco XtraSupremo. Meal size: 8. Is this correct?" The kitchen's computer asked.

"Yes!" Beast Boy drooled.

Beast Boy, Skyler, and Hyo Rim exchanged glances as they looked at still fazed heroes. Beth had not returned and something smelled down right awful.

"What is that smell?" Hyo Rim asked horrified.

"Isn't it amazing?" Beast Boy giggled.

"Hey. Kid. You're a boy, why are you giggling?" Skyler teased.

"Good food makes me giggle. Is that a crime?" Beast Boy defended.

"Not yet." Skyler laughed.

"The food is ready."

"Let's eat!" Beast Boy dove for two burritos and started munching on them ravenously. "We have to feed them."

Hyo Rim took parts of the burrito and forced the other Titans to eat the slop.

"Well, this stuff has two uses." Skyler told Beast Boy.

"Really? What?"

"One is that it could kill and enemy on impact and two is that it can snap them out of a daze."

As she said this, the Titans came to and started turning queasy.

"Eww….bean burritos with…is that mustard? And eww, tofu!"

"Beast Boy!" Robin shot Beast Boy a dirty look.

"You said I could pick!"

"So, moron, you think it's okay to pick something nobody else except you would enjoy?" Raven scowled.

"Sorry."

"Do not feel bad, Beast Boy. I for one, truly enjoy the taste of this concoction. I only hope I shall die within this month rather than this week." Starfire tried to compliment.

Beast Boy sat in a corner of sadness and fungi as the Titans and the girls watched TV.

"We should be looking for Slade. Not chilling." Cyborg realized.

"Don't get your wires in a bunch. Beth will get this whole mess figured out. She just needs a breather." Skyler reassured.

While they tried to settle down, it seemed as though many thoughts were pulsing through all the teens minds. Everyone had personal thoughts, however, they all ended at the same point: With Alex around, how are they going to stop Slade? They wanted to end this, even more so because of Beth's anguish.

Beth was upstairs hiding in the safety of her room. Being in a huge house, in an enormous room in the pitch dark was not the ideal place to be when you had a villain and a dead guy's clone chasing after you. However, Beth had no where else to go. She suddenly how hard it was going to be to stop Slade and save the Titans. To get her money of course, she reassured herself.

Beth sighed and closed her eyes, losing the sight of her green and red room, with clothes all over the floor. The leader had realized she needed to see things from Slade's point of view and not the heroes.

"If I was a pro villain, why would I come to Japan knowing that my enemies also resided here? Think Beth, what's so special about this country to a villain?" She talked to herself. In the end, though, her efforts proved futile. She had no idea what Slade would want to do here. "Wait a second…maybe…"

Beth's eyes shot open as her mind began to process some ideas. She jumped up and ran downstairs. As she ran through the kitchen into the room filled with teens, she wondered why she hadn't just levitated down there.

"Beth! You…how do you feel?" Skyler awkwardly asked.

"Never mind that. Look, I don't know much about other crimes Slade has committed, but one thing I do know is that the guy has no actual abilities, so how could he have made or brought back or whatever that Alex clone thing?" Beth rushed, wanting her ideas to stay fresh before she forgot them.

"Well, maybe he worked with somebody." Cyborg tentatively answered.

"Precisely! And I am 98 percent sure that Slade wouldn't work with anyone unless it reeeeeeeeeaaaaally benefited him, right?"

"Are you saying there's someone else in this calling shots?" Robin asked.

"Maybe. Someone who could grant him a wish in exchange for…well, I don't know Alex or something. A way to stop heroes or something like that." Beth hurried, impatience on every period as if she couldn't even wait to finish her own sentence.

"Trigon!" Starfire yelled.

"What?" Beast Boy and Raven exclaimed.

"Did not Slade do the deal with Trigon in order to gain power. In exchange was not Raven needed as a portal?" Starfire explained.

"So, Trigon, he's who?" Hyo Rim asked.

"My demon father." Raven muttered.

"'Demon'?…Tragic!" Beth shouted almost causing the oxygen in the room to disappear.

As the Titans tried to catch their breaths and slow their heart rates down, Raven glared at Beth. For the life of her, she couldn't understood why the heck this girl yelled tragic. And frankly, she didn't like it.

"I'm sorry to scare you, it's my adrenaline. It's possible Slade's working with another villain to take over the world again. For the third time." Beth counted.

Robin corrected, "Fourth time."

"What-Ev-Er!" She hissed.

"But why work with a villain after being betrayed by one?" Robin asked dumbfounded.

Beth's shoulders drooped slightly. She had figured that once she told the Titans they would figure out the rest, but now they were all back to square one. Slade was up to something, but why couldn't they figure out what?

"Slade…Slade…what's his overall goal?" Beth finally broke the silence.

"To…well, actually, he never has had one. Once it was to control the Titans through Robin, take over the world through Terra, gain his body back through Trigon…and now this…whatever the guy wants, it seems to be temporary needs." Cyborg realized.

"'Temporary'? Hmm…Slade's actions reflect his wants and/or needs. They're never consistent because his wants change like any human's. So what does Slade want this time? Why come to Japan and make a deal with an ex-ally demon?" SKyler asked, looking to her leader.

"What if that EX-ally demon betrayed Slade and he wanted revenge?" Raven finally spoke.

"What makes you think that?" Hyo Rim asked.

"Oh yeah! When Trigon betrayed Slade, the dude got mad and helped us kick his fire-y demon butt. Maybe the Alex demon dude didn't hold up his end of the bargain and Slade never got a chance to get revenge." Beast Boy pointed out.

"So, all of this is for revenge?" Beth doubtfully asked.

"Yeah, he likes to go all out." Cyborg answered.

"So now we know his reason. How will this help us stop Slade?" Robin angrily asked. He obviously doubted what Beast Boy said and was almost furious that he hadn't thought of it.

"Simple.