Cyborg and Beast Boy found themselves at the entrance of the convoluted maze. They waited for the grey Raven to appear, but she did not come, as neither did the pink Raven.
"Let's just try and get through ourselves," Cyborg suggested.
"Are you crazy? Last time she showed us the way and I still felt lost!" Beast Boy reminded him.
"Don't worry. I probably have a map stored somewhere in my databank. if I could just find it in this mess of old unsorted junk."
"So you're gonna search through a maze for a solution to a maze? Let's just try and get through ourselves."
As soon as they entered the maze, the wall closed in behind them. They gulped, knowing now they had no choice but to move forward. After running from gawking ravens, walking in circles, falling down several trap doors, running from perched ravens, walking into walls, running from imaginary ravens, and resting because they were too tired from running from imaginary ravens, Cyborg finally found the map and they were successfully able to escape.
They passed by the broken pieces of the guardian statue, expecting to green Raven that had destroyed it last time to appear, but again, she did not come.
"This is where we fought Trigon last time," Beast Boy remembered, "well, last, last time."
"Yeah, don't remind me," Cyborg said grumpily. Neither of his encounters with Trigon were enjoyable ones to say the least. "Let's keep moving, the exit was around here last time."
Cyborg walked forward, but ended up trampling over Beast Boy who hadn't moved a muscle. He hadn't moved because in front of him he saw the red Raven. He quickly transformed into a raven and dived, but he flew through her, as did Cyborg's sonic cannon.
"It's a fake!" he announced.
"It can't even hurt us," Beast Boy said. "What's it doing here?"
Without words, his question was answered as the red Raven summoned all of her other personalities, only for all of them to vanish.
"So you are not the real Raven?" asked Starfire. "You are a phantom of the Raven, who is also not the real Raven?"
"That is correct," the phantom answered, "but soon I will be. My true form is sealed in this castle. I escaped once but I was attacked and banished again. Do you pity me? Won't you free me?"
"I am not so sure."
"But it will benefit you. You came here because you wanted to know of Raven's feelings for your Robin, correct? I will tell you. The Raven you know has been planning all along to take him from you. She despises you. If I am released, I can restrain her and then Robin will be all yours. Now, here is the seal."
Starfire found herself staring into deep darkness. She found herself entranced, falling deeper and deeper into the darkness, until she was frightened by two pairs of leering red eyes. Her mood was different, somehow affected by the environment of Raven's mind. She did not want to do anything that could potentially hurt any of her friends, but then she seeing Raven hug her Robin after the battle with the Trigon, and seeing them laughing together that morning, and seeing them washing dishes together, and seeing many occasions of them together (some of them weren't even real).
Raven and Robin had just crossed the bridge leading to the castle. As they entered, Raven began a conversation: "I just wanted to tell you, that I really appreciate everything you've been doing and everything you've done for me. It's been fun, but I think Starfire might be jealous. That's probably why she came here."
"What? Jealous? Why would she be jealous? There's no reason for her to be jealous! You don't know what you're talking about!" Robin was now gasping for air, having said all that and more (all to the same effect) in one breath.
"Things between me and her have been weird lately. I think you should talk to her."
"You're right, I will. I've been avoiding her as of late since I've been preparing a special evening for her tonight. It's the anniversary of the day we first met."
"Sounds nice."
"I remember the day we first met too. I didn't do anything because I thought you might get mad, but was I wrong?"
"No, you've done enough. You were right. I would have gotten mad. But I do remember that day too."
They were silent, until Raven stopped and cautioned, "Beyond this point things might be strange. Try to focus on protecting your mind; don't let thoughts from the outside penetrate."
She began to walk more slowly, her eyes closed and her hands in a chakra formation. Robin tried to copy her but he ended up walking into a wall and cracking his fingers. He did his best to focus but he couldn't stop the thoughts from intruding into his head. He first saw Raven becoming the portal, and then Raven as a child, and then he saw things he had either never seen before or chosen to ignore: he saw Raven, wearing a black cloak, with red markings covering her body, and a sword levitating in front of her. At first her eyes emanated darkness, but on more careful inspection she was actually crying.
Robin suddenly began to convulse, but Raven held him gently and managed to calm him. Just then, a red pillar of light emerged from the castle, as the red Raven was freed. The other colours appeared, and fused with the red Raven to form Black Raven.
"We can't let her escape," Raven informed Robin, as they rushed in to battle.
Black Raven attacked first with a flow of dark energy. Raven was able to dodge and advance further, but Robin was halted as he blocked the attack by spinning his staff. When the attack finally ceased, he noticed Starfire standing near him.
Because of the situation, he either did not notice or chose to ignore the fact that she seemed awkward, and told her to help seal Dark Raven, but she did not listen. Raven was having difficulties fighting her dark counterpart, as it seemed the spells of darkness were stronger. In hand-to-hand combat she had the advantage, and was able to land a blow to her gut, but Dark Raven only laughed and trapped the other within a sphere of dark energy.
She then opened a portal, and using her powers, began levitating Starfire. Robin threw an explosive at Dark Raven, but she shielded herself and countered by surrounding him with dark energy. He felt as though his energy was flying from his body. With the last of his fading strength, he shouted Starfire's name as she was sent through the portal, but she did not answer. Dark Raven exited after, and the portal disappeared. Raven was able to escape from the sphere, but it was too late.
Robin used his contactor to call Starfire, but there was interference, no doubt, Dark Raven's doing. He then called Cyborg and Beast Boy, and told them what happened. They had already returned to the tower, and they quickly went to the main computer (Beast Boy cheered from the sidelines as Cyborg manned the computer). They were able to track Starfire's device, following its signal until it stopped moving and landed on a planet in the Draconis Nebula. Preparations for outer space travel were made immediately.
Upon arrival at the new planet, Starfire was greeted by an unexpected accquaintance: "Hello sister dear. It is good to see you again."
