Chapter 3:
Far from the bright lights of Las Vegas, lurking in an alternate dimension was the Temple of Azarath. Long ago had forces of Trigon lay waste to the temple. Nearly a decade past, the temple was since rebuilt by a new age cult known as "The White Ravens" lead by Raven, herself. With the revival of her home, Raven became the administrator of a new religion in which she taught the members of her cult the practices she had learned through out her life to control her powers.
As chief priestess of her temple, Raven established her home within the temple. She still processed several of her childhood items, including her Titan communicator, which she kept in her bedroom, awaiting the fateful night that she may once again receive word from the Titans. It was on this night that the long anticipated call of duty finally arrived. In the middle of the night, Raven was awoken to a nostalgic alarm as her communicator began beeping. She was so surprised by this that the excitement that was wound up within her caused a release of her powers nearly destroying the ceiling of her room.
A bit hesitant at first, Raven finally answered her communicator. "…Hello?" she said into the device. She was answered with a booming reply. "RAVEN!" A voice shrieked. Had this been a world of anime, the force of the sound waves coming out of the phone would have been personified with white lines causing Raven's face to lift as if they were G forces, however that was not the case. The voice on the other end of the phone was undoubtedly Starfire's, but she was speaking strangely, or perhaps better said for Starfire's case, her tone was strange, shifting emotion in words. Strange of all, her syntax was almost perfect English. Raven inferred that this could have come to be in the last twenty years, but to hear Starfire speaking this way was very odd.
"Yes. This is Raven." She replied. "Raven…my….old…FRIEND…how….GOOD…it is…to…hear. from…YOU…AGAIN!" Raven was a bit confused. "Indeed, it is good to hear from you too Starfire." Raven replied slowly. "Why are you suddenly calling me early in the morning?" Starfire's voice began again. "There…is…NO…time…YOU…MUST…travel…to….loss..ve…gas….the…OTHER.. three….will…MEET…YOU…there." and with that the call ended, leaving Raven both confused and alarmed. She was assured that any call made on the Titan communicator was legitimate and wasted no time gathering her things. She quickly ordered one of her pages to taxi her to the dimension's exit which brought her back to Earth in an area near Nepal.
Back in Vegas, Cyborg was sitting in a chair in his hotel room in front of one of his laptops. Beast Boy and Robin were watching from behind. Cyborg leaned back, "She is going to pull some of that psychic crap and make my brain explode from the inside when she gets down here." Cyborg detached his communicator from his laptop he had used a voice software to create a digital imitation of Starfire's voice using the various sound records he had stored in his memory.
"Why would we need Starfire to get Raven's attention?" Robin asked. "Why couldn't I have just contacted her myself?" Beast Boy explained "Raven can't know anything yet, if she knew Terra was involved her emotions would get to her, contacting her like this leaves her confused and eager to get down here and find answers." Cyborg rolled his eyes.
"Between you and me BB, I'm thinking you're the only person in this whole damn casino who would be talking about Terra, now are you sure you saw her?" Cyborg asked. "YES! I know I saw her!" Beast Boy screamed. "Beast Boy, we're not trying to make you mad, but this would be the second time you claimed to have seen Terra and once again, there are no witnesses to prove it." Beast Boy could take no more. "I know I saw her here, I saw her twenty years ago, and I just saw her twenty minutes ago, Terra is alive and she is in this casino, and if you don't believe me, I'll just have to go and find her myself!" On that note Beast Boy stormed out the room. "Beast Boy!" Cyborg said as he began to stand up. Robin put his hand on Cyborg's chest causing him to sit back down. "Let him go, he needs to vent." Cyborg chuckled to himself. "Still the leader huh?" Robin smiled. "You know it."
Beast Boy walked through the hallways of the hotel level and made his way to the empty snack bar. He was seconds away from turning into a gorilla and taking his frustration out on a drink machine, but his attention was lost to the sound of an elevator bell ringing across the hall. Beast Boy peered out into the halls and noticed that the man getting off the elevator was the man in the dark suit from the blackjack table. Beast Boy changed his form into a mouse to track the man.
He followed the man across the halls until the man stopped in front of a door with the number "522" on it. The man knocked on the door. Beast Boy returned to human form and his behind a corner at the end of the hallway. The door soon opened and he noticed that another figured was walking out of the room, but he couldn't get a good look at whoever the second figure was. He approached closer as the man started to enter the room and discovered that his roommate was a woman. The woman's face was now covered, for she and the dark suit man were now kissing passionately in the doorway. Beast Boy approached even closer to get one last look at the woman's face before she closed the door.
It was all he needed, the woman's identity had been revealed to him. Nothing made sense anymore. Things never made sense in his chaotic life, but Beast Boy had reached a new perplexing level. He was perplexed…and dejected. Perhaps the most depressed he had been in years. Beast Boy slowly returned to the snack bar to collect a bucket of ice and returned to his room with nothing more on his mind then the urge to get into bed and never wake up again. For so long he had been thinking of this day, but never once did he think another man would be involved. For the man in the dark suit's roommate, was Terra.
