"Bam! Pow! In your face, booyah wannabe!"

"You keep saying that when I knock your robo butt all the way to Tokyo and back!"

"Oh yeah, well you ain't seen nothin' yet! Turbo blast!"

"You're going to have to try harder, Cy. I've got mad gamer skills, and my thumbs can keep going all night long!"

Kim tapped her boyfriend on the shoulder. "Ron," she said, "you've already played five rounds. Just let the booyah thing go already."

"KP," he said seriously, "that catchphrase is a piece of my essential Ronness. Nobody messes with the Ronness and gets away with it."

Kim looked Cyborg over. "Not even if they're twice your size, half robot, and capable of blowing you to bits in real life if they wanted to?"

Ron shook his head. "Nope." His avatar gave one final punch to Cyborg's, leading Ron to shout, "Yes! That makes three to three! One more game, and the tie will be broken by yours truly. Then we'll see who keeps the epic slogan."

Cyborg put his controller down. "I don't know about that. If we're gonna look for Slade tomorrow, we'll need to get some rest. You kids need it more than I do."

Ron looked Cyborg in the eyes. "One more round. Winner take all."

"By all, you mean the right to say 'booyah'?" Kim clarified, still not believing either of them was taking this so seriously.

"Sure do," Ron replied. "You in, Cyborg?"

Cyborg sighed and picked up his controller. "One more. But just to make sure we're not up too late…" He changed the game mode to a timed match. "This ought to keep us on schedule."

As they began their final round, Kim got up and wandered away from the gamers. When dealing with Ron, it was usually best to allow his stranger habits to just happen.

The Tower phone rang, beeping a familiar pattern. Starfire picked it up. "Greetings," she said. "This is Starfire." A girly voice spoke back to her. "Oh. Beast Boy is right here."

The green boy popped up right beside her. "For me? Thank you!" He took the phone before she could ask any more questions and flopped down on the couch. "Hey, nice to hear from you too," he said to the girl on the other end of the line. "I hope we didn't cause too much trouble at the game. Really? You would? Sweet!"

Robin started getting suspicious. "Beast Boy," he asked, "who are you talking to?"

"Tara." He focused back on the phone. "Okay, I got one. Why did the pelican get kicked out of the restaurant?"

At the infamous name, the three nearest Titans, basically everyone except for Cyborg, froze. Kim observed their faces. Something was definitely wrong here.

Raven spoke first. "You're talking to Terra," she said, processing her own words slowly. "On our phone. She called you on our phone and is talking to you. Terra."

Robin scratched his head. "No way," he said. "There is just no way."

Starfire looked quizzically at her teammates. "But Terra…she does not remember us, correct, Beast Boy?"

Beast Boy finished his punch line. "Because he had such a large bill! Get it?" He then turned to his friends. "No, not that Terra. This is Tara from Middleton. I met her at the football game." He spoke back into the phone. "You really liked it? Great, I have so many more. Okay, so why are ducks so funny?"

"A different Tara?" Starfire repeated. "It must be a very common name on this planet."

Kim realized who Beast Boy meant he was talking to. "Tara's on the cheer squad with me," she explained. "She hangs out in Bonnie's crowd, but she's all right when she's alone. I guess Beast Boy gave her the Tower's phone number. She must have gotten over Jason Morgan pretty quickly if she's already calling Beast Boy."

The three superheroes sighed with relief. "Good," Robin said. "Regardless of how Beast Boy feels, the last thing we need right now is to make the situation with Slade any more complicated."

"Agreed," said Starfire.

"Complicated?" Kim asked, confused. "What's so complicated about Tara? She's probably one of the least complicated people I know."

"It's a long story," Raven said. This did not really explain anything, but Kim got the feeling that the Titans didn't really want to talk about it in detail. Still, she knew she had to find out more about this first Terra they kept referencing.

Raven floated to her own corner to read. Starfire let her thoughts wander back to the battle at the football game. She was calm now, collected. She could tell Robin her story without losing control. After all, when else was she going to do it? And if she didn't tell him, who else would she be able to tell?

She took in a deep breath, preparing to say what she had to about her captivity. "Robin," she said, "there is something I wish to tell you."

Robin put his hand on her shoulder. "Go for it, Star. You can tell me anything."

The memories flooded back all at once. Being held on an alien ship. Torture. Experimentation. Blackfire. Pain. Anger. Power. She didn't know where to start. "Um…well…" she tried to think of the right words, but they wouldn't come. "That is…tonight at the game I…you see I…I…" She froze up, her mouth open with no sound coming out of it.

Robin took his hand off her shoulder and looked concerned. "Are you okay?"

She banished the memories and quickly thought up a different statement that she knew she could deliver. "I…thought that tomorrow we could perhaps give Kim and Ron the tour of Jump City, as they are our guests here. Do you agree?"

Robin thought for a moment about the proposition. "I don't know. Slade is top priority right now, for all of us. We don't have time to fool around."

Cyborg, aware of the conversation, added his two cents while still moving his thumbs over his controller. "Oh come on, Boy Wonder, what are the odds of Slade striking at the exact time we're out?"

"Pretty good if we're out for a long time," Robin pointed out.

"Sure," Cyborg conceded, "but what if we stick together at all times, keep our communicators on, and keep an eye out for clues while we go? You could use a break from obsessing over the bad guys, and Team Possible deserves to see the town. It's not like sulking at home all day is going to get us any closer to solving the mystery. Whoo!" he exclaimed as his robot avatar grabbed a fifty point bonus. "That's what I'm talking about!"

"Well…I suppose it's all right," Robin admitted. "But the moment we hear of any trouble, the break is over. Are you in, Kim?"

Kim nodded. "Of course. I'd love to get to know your city. What do you say, Ron?"

"Huh?" His eyes were glued to the screen by now. "Tour of the town? Sounds badical. Must. Crush. White. Robot."

"Is he okay?" Robin asked. "I don't think he's blinked since the new round started."

"Oh, he's fine," Kim assured him. "He's like this sometimes. As soon as the game ends he'll snap out of it…hopefully."

The screen suddenly froze and big red letters appeared stating the dreaded words: Time's Up. Cyborg and Ron put down their controllers and waited anxiously for the answer to the ultimate question: Who has the right to say "booyah"? The scores were tallied and two numbers appeared on the screen. Both of their jaws dropped.

"A tie?" Cyborg said. "That ain't right!"

"Yeah," Ron agreed. "Tie breakers can't end in ties! That's got to be like breaking some kind of space-time continuum thingy."

"You better believe we'll find the real winner tomorrow, no getting around it," Cyborg stated, standing up. "Until then, y'all better get some sleep." He walked over to the door and scanned his palm on the security system. "Lockdown initiated," he said. "So where are the guests sleeping at?"

Beast Boy, having finally said goodbye to Tara and hung up ever so reluctantly, raised his hand. "Oh! I know! I've got a bunk bed. Ron can stay in my room."

"Sounds great," Ron said. "What about Kim?"

"She could always stay in Raven's room," Beast Boy suggested, winking at the hooded girl to whom it belonged.

"No," Raven said with absolutely zero emotion. "No one goes in my room. Ever."

"I would volunteer my room," Starfire confessed, "but I have the decorations for the annual festival of the Blarthog all over the floor. There is not enough of the space."

Kim shrugged. "I'm fine on the couch if you don't have anywhere else. Really."

Robin thought about all the rooms in the Tower. There was one room no one had mentioned yet. There was a reason no one had mentioned it. He looked directly at Beast Boy. "I suppose there is one more option, if no one minds."

Beast Boy instantly understood what Robin meant. He nodded solemnly. "No one minds, Robin. Someone might as well stay in that room. It's wasting space staying empty."

The rest of the Titans looked at him, trying to analyze how truthful he was being. That room had a special meaning for Beast Boy. Terra had left a long time ago, and with this new Tara he seemed to be moving on, but how moved on was he?

"You're sure about this," Raven checked, being the teammate most aware of the others' emotions.

Beast Boy held up his hands. "What else do you want me to say? Of course I am! It's just a room, right?" He laughed a little bit to reassure his friends.

Robin took charge again. "In that case, Kim, we have a room just for you. Raven, you show her the way. Everyone else, we've got thrity minutes until the lights shut off. Let's go, team."

The Titans split into their respective directions to prepare for bed, with Ron tagging along behind Beast Boy. Kim grabbed her bag and followed Raven's dark form out of the main room and through the hallway until at last reaching a door. It looked just like every other door in the Tower. Kim had expected something else by the way they were all talking about it, though she hadn't been quite sure what.

The automatic door snapped open. Raven floated silently into the darkness, and Kim followed, feeling kind of uneasy. She didn't usually believe in ghosts, but in a tower run by super powered teens, anything was possible.

"So, uh, Raven," she said, feeling her way through the dark. "What's the sitch with this room, exactly?"

Raven flipped the light switch, illuminating a big bed, several shelves, and walls painted to look like a desert sunset with stars on the ceiling. Kim's jaw dropped. "Wow," she said. "This looks…"

"Nice?" Raven suggested.

"Beautiful," Kim finished. "Seriously, did you guys paint the sunset on the walls? That is so cool."

"Glad you like it," Raven said, though her voice didn't seem too glad. "We used to have another girl on this team. This was her room. She used to love camping out under the stars, so we decorated accordingly."

Kim put two and two together. "That girl was named Terra, wasn't she?"

"Yes," Raven replied. "That was her name."

Kim continued to remember and fit together the clues she had heard earlier. "She was the one you lost last time Slade took over the city, wasn't she?" She noticed a large box on a shelf labeled "Rock Collection" and added, "Her powers must have had some connection to the earth. Geomancer?"

Raven was actually surprised that Kim was catching on so quickly. "Yes, she was a geomancer. Are you always this sharp?"

"It pays to have a brain when you're saving the world," Kim explained. "It sounds like she had a thing with Beast Boy, and Tara from my school is his kind of rebound crush. So what's the big about this room, besides the fact that it was hers?"

Raven sat down on the bed cross-legged. Kim joined her. "Terra was a hero," she told the redhead, "but she made a mistake. A terrible mistake. It hurt all of us, Beast Boy most of all. No one's lived in this room since she…well…left. Like I said, it's a really long story."

"I've got time," Kim said, wanting to hear more.

Raven took off her hood to reveal her short purple hair. "All right, here it goes." She waved her hand and a black swirl appeared beside her. On the inside of the swirl was the shape of a small blonde girl wearing a butterfly clip. "This was Terra. She could move the earth. We found her one day and let her stay with us, since she didn't have a home of her own. Beast Boy was particularly taken with her." The image changed to show clips of Terra demonstrating her powers against a giant scorpion, then Beast Boy making her laugh. "However," Raven continued, "we didn't know everything about her. She couldn't fully control her powers. She didn't have a home because she was kicked out of every place where she accidentally caused avalanches or mudslides or worse. She was afraid we'd reject her if we found out." The image showed Terra with her eyes glowing yellow, floating off the ground while dirt and rocks swirled around her in an uncontrollable miniature storm. "Well, of course Robin figured it out. He meant to help her, but she thought Beast Boy had broken his word and told on her. Not wanting to get rejected again, she ran away."

"But there's more," Kim guessed.

"Naturally." The image changed again to Terra talking with Slade, a face Kim actually recognized. "Slade offered to teach Terra to control her powers. She was desperate, so she accepted. And she succeeded. Unfortunately, the deal was for her to betray us and become his apprentice. She rejoined the team, only to let Slade's robot army in here while she and Beast Boy were out on a date. We defeated them, but it wasn't easy. Slade showed up and took Terra away after revealing it all to Beast Boy. He was crushed." The dark swirl now showed an angry Terra in a new battle suit, causing destruction. "Now Slade's full-time apprentice, she returned to help him destroy us and take over the city. We tried to fight her, but we couldn't. Even I couldn't, and I was the last one to trust her. She nearly had us, but we came back. It turned out that Slade had taken complete control over her body and powers, and she couldn't resist if she wanted to. She wanted to stop fighting, but he forced her on." An image appeared of Terra levitating a boulder just above Beast Boy, while he looked pleadingly at her. "In a final change of heart, she was able to break free of his control and destroy him. However, his underground lair had accidentally triggered the magma under the city to explode."

"Wait," Kim stopped her. "You say there's a volcano under this city?"

"Not exactly," Raven clarified. "It's more like a super deep fault line. With all the underground activity and geomancing going around, it was going to blow." The image changed again to a picture of Terra seemingly made of stone. "We all got out, but she volunteered to stay behind. She used her powers to stop the explosion before it reached the surface, and saved the city, but was turned into a stone statue in the process. I looked through all my magic books for a cure, but there was nothing."

"So…she basically died?"

The image changed to a girl who looked just like Terra, but she was wearing a school uniform. "That's what we all thought. One day, Beast Boy claimed to see her at a local high school. The girl denied having any superpowers or being named Terra, but Beast Boy was sure it was her. He tried to bring her back onto the team, but she refused. It seemed like she didn't want anything to do with us, whether she remembered or not. We haven't seen any hint of her since." The black swirl vanished.

Kim pondered the sad story for a moment. "So the last time you brought someone completely new on the team, she betrayed you. That explains why Robin wasn't a huge fan of me at first. He was worried that I would do the same thing."

"Exactly," Raven replied. "I think you won him over, though. He gave you one of our communicators. That makes you an honorary Titan. Powers or no powers, you're one of us now."

Kim took out her Titans communicator and looked at it. "Wow. I didn't realize these meant so much to you guys. I'm honored."

The cloaked girl put her hand over the yellow circle. "Just don't let it fall into the wrong hands. All it takes is one little bug and our locations and conversations could be compromised."

"Of course," Kim said, tucking it deep into her pocket. "You can trust me."

Raven stood up. "I know. My powers allow me to sense inner emotions of others. I've looked into your feelings since you arrived. You have the odd snarky streak, and maybe a rebellious desire here and there, but on the whole you're pretty pure. You're more trustworthy than some of the other Titans even." She pulled her hood back up and walked calmly toward the door. Kim still had one lingering question on her mind.

"Raven!" she called.

"Yes?" the girl responded, sounding like she would rather be somewhere else.

"You said Terra destroyed Slade," Kim pointed out. "How did he come back?"

Raven stood perfectly still. "You don't want to hear it. It gets pretty ugly."

"If I can do anything, I'm sure I can handle it," Kim argued.

Raven still didn't move. "Let's just say I had some…family problems that came up. Story time's over. See you in the morning."

"See you," Kim said, waving at her new friend's back until she disappeared into her own room. Kim walked back into Terra's room and looked over the contents of the shelves, curious. She found a box shaped like a heart, obviously homemade. Picking it up, she saw on the bottom a message written in marker: "To Terra, from BB" with a tiny heart. Carefully, she put the box back in its place. This room may not have been haunted, but after hearing that story, she could tell that there was definitely a serious creepy factor. The silence made her think about the creepiness more, and also the tragic story. She couldn't imagine how Beast Boy must have felt. If anything like that happened to Ron, she didn't know what she would do. She flopped down on the bed and looked up at the painted stars. "You know," she said to the emptiness around her, "sleeping under the stars isn't so bad."