A girl with long blonde hair sat on the roof of the old library. It was a sunny day, which she despised. The sun was too warm, too inviting. Too… normal. She scowled down at the civilians below her. Her blue eyes browsed the square, searching for her target. Sure, she had lived in Jump City since she was thirteen, but she still had to look for her target buildings when her employer sent her out. She kicked her legs back and forth, admiring her black, knee-high boots every time they came into her view.

The black and yellow headphones she wore sparked to life as her partner spoke to her. "EJ, why haven't you made any moves yet? Stop thinking about shopping and get to work," his whispery voice said.

She scowled. "I told you not to call me that. Only Pyraine was allowed to called me that, you dipwad," she snapped. "My name is ElectroJinx, get it? Got it? Good. Moving on." She could practically hear him rolling his eyes. She stood up. "Make it dark, Eclipse."

Her partner, Eclipse, sighed. ElectroJinx kept an eye on the light of the sun. She noticed it dimming as Eclipse's power kicked in. As the city's primary light source dimmed, she jumped off the roof and landed neatly. She approached the target, an owner-run electronics store. Her mission was the same as pretty much every day: steal the electrical force from non-Cyberwave supplied stores, homes, etcetera, and cause an override on all the electrical items in the target location.

'Not like I can override anything related to Cyberwave anyway,' she thought somewhat sulkily. 'It always manages to block me out.'

She kneeled in front of the small shop and bowed her head, focusing her power. She drained the shop of its electrical power first – it was her favorite part, since she got an energy boost from it. She absolutely hated the next part: overriding the electronics called for her sending out all the electrical power she had stored into each electronic in the store, causing them to break.

She stood up breathily. Before she knew it, Eclipse was helping her get back to their home, the United Evils Tower.

Raven sat in her room, hovering over her black-sheeted bed. After the commotion Dove had caused, she'd felt the need to cleanse her emotions. It would be her first meditation on Earth since around five years ago.

Though she had wanted to be alone, she'd allowed Dove to sit in her room.

"Keep quiet. Don't break my trance. Got it?" she'd ordered her younger sister.

"Yes ma'am! I just want to see how it's done correctly," Dove had assured her.

Raven took a deep breath in through her nose, held it in, then let is out slowly through her mouth. She let her mind drift as she repeated this action over and over. Soon she was alone in the middle of outer space. She focused her mind on healing the barriers that held back most of her emotional responses. She noticed that the barriers around Love and Anger were particularly weak. Anger due to Dove and Terra's interferences, but why love? Simply because she was with her family again? That had never been enough to weaken the barrier before.

She steered away from her thoughts, feeling them dragging her down to her body. She released the curiosity and floated back up into the stars. She was perfectly content in the solitude of the stars, but apparently someone else had different plans for her. Before she knew what was happening, her spirit was pulled into a portal.

When her spirit opened its eyes, she found herself on top of a mountain. There was an alter at the top. Dove was tied to it, yet she wasn't struggling. She seemed to be perfectly aware of what was happening, and she showed no signs of trying to fight her way out of the bonds. Three more figures appeared, all masked. One she recognized: Slade. The other two were strangers to her.

A voice she knew all too well spoke: "This is the future, prideful one."

Her spirit's eyes narrowed. "Trigon. I destroyed you. You shouldn't be able to speak to me."

"Destruction and banishment are separate effects, daughter. You've merely trapped me in a dimensional prison."

She turned around to find herself looking right into her father's eyes. There was a whisper on the wind:

'The Envious Bird will betray her sister

The prideful one can only watch

The destruction of the youngest girl

Will return the All-Powerful One

To His throne

Nothing can stop him…'

There seemed to be more to the prophetic whisper, but it was cut off by Raven being awakened back on Earth.

Raven lay flat on her back. Dove stood pressed against the wall nearest her door, cowering. Raven sat up, glaring at Dove. "What did you do?" she asked.

Dove shook her head. "I didn't do anything! All of a sudden you had four red eyes and then these black tentacles, like, started coming out of your robe. It was like Princess Clara's you-know-what from Drawn Together, but waaaaay scarier," she said, still pressed against the wall, but having no fear in her voice.

Raven's eyebrows puckered. Drawn Together? What the hell was that? She shook her head, debating silently if she should tell Dove about her vision. When she opened her eyes, she decided against it.

ElectroJinx sat in her room with the lights on, pulling energy from them. Since her room was connected to Eclipse's by a bathroom that was in the middle of the two rooms, she could hear him showering. She picked up her brush and pulled it through her long, straight blonde locks. She'd taken off her headset and her cloak, so she was just in her bandeau, skirt, and boots. As she breathed in, she pulled more power from her lights. They were the only electronics that weren't Cyberwave, and it was just for the purpose of replenishing her energy.

The water in Eclipse's shower shut off. A few minutes later, he walked into ElectroJinx's room, his lower body wrapped in a towel. "How're you feeling?" he asked bluntly.

"Better. It helps that X let me have these lamps," she answered.

He nodded and disappeared back into his room. "Don't take too long," she called after him, admiring his muscular back. "X wants us to call him."

Several minutes later, the duo sat on EJ's bed, awaiting the call from X. EJ couldn't deny that she was attracted to Eclipse – he had a hot body and a solid metalcore look going on with his hair and clothing. At this very moment, he was wearing black skinny jeans and a Falling In Reverse t-shirt – but she knew that she wouldn't do anything about it. Not unless he made the first move.

The flat screen TV on her black wall – her room had alternating black and yellow walls – lit up. A black 'X' filled up the picture, with a sound wave bar underneath it.

"Report," came the electronic voice from the other end of the call.

Eclipse shifted while EJ responded, "Mission was a success and the target was neutralized."

"Good." The tone of the computer almost sounded approving, but not entirely. "Soon there will be no places in Jump City without Cyberwave technology."

EJ rolled her eyes. "Why exactly do we care about Cyberwave taking over Jump City? What do we gain from it?" she asked. Eclipse threw her a panicked look, shocked that she had actually questioned their employer.

There was a silence on the other end. After what seemed like forever, X finally spoke. "You two have been patient. I suppose I can reward you with this small amount of insight: spyware, dear ElectroJinx. I've attached a spyware system in every electronic device that Cyberwave sells."

EJ's eyebrows drew together. What the hell did spying on every person in Jump City gain?

"Good work today. I expect the same success tomorrow," X said. The TV switched off, leaving the two super villains alone.

Nightwing frowned at the monitor. He'd been watching Cyborg try to fix it since they'd returned from seeing Mr. Cyber, which had been about five hours ago.

"I don't think this old junk is ever going to work again," Cyborg announced from inside the wall that the computer was attached to.

Nightwing's frown turned into a scowl. He saw movement from the corner of his eye. He looked over to see Raven walk into the room, hood pulled up, with Dove bouncing along behind her. If it were possible for clouds to follow a person around, Raven would have had a very impressive doom cloud looming over her head. As she got closer to him, he noticed that her eyes were bloodshot, her skin was just barely noticeably paler, and she had circles under her eyes that were just a little bit darker that her natural skin tone.

"I sent Terra and Starfire to get food," he said, not sure why Raven would care, aside from Terra not being in the Tower. He glanced at Dove. "They probably don't know what you like, Dove, so why don't you go join them?" he asked.

The green-eyed teen smiled brightly before fazing into a dark green portal in the ground that was probably being used to take her to the exact location of Star and Terra.

Nightwing returned his attention to Raven. "You okay? You don't look so good."

Raven met his gaze warily. "I'm just not used to… Earth," she murmured. He raised an eyebrow as she quickly looked away from him. He knew her well enough to know when she wasn't telling the whole truth, but he didn't push the issue.

"Maybe you can help BB do a damage check in the rooms upstairs," he suggested, returning his attention to the broken computer.

He didn't hear her go, but when he glanced back over, she was gone.

Beast Boy stood in the hallway upstairs. The ceiling was falling apart, the walls were crumbling, the floor was disgusting. Even living in the forests had been better than this. He jumped when he noticed Raven standing next to him.

"Rae, when did you get here?" he asked nervously.

"Just now. Nightwing sent me up to check out the damage."

Beast Boy stared at her. She looked and sounded so tired. He knew she'd kill him if he brought it up, though, so he left it alone.

"Amazing what five years can do to a place that never gets taken care of, huh?" he said, trying to make small talk.

Raven shrugged. "It could've been worse. Just look at the Aztec ruins in South America."

Beast Boy nodded. He had lived in a forest near there for a while. It was… creepy.

"Still. Crazy that Jump City still needs us. You'd think new heroes would've come," he commented.

"Maybe they didn't think the city needed saving," Raven responded. She pulled down her hood and fluffed out her hair. Beast Boy watched the beautiful, violet locks as they shone in a light coming through a crack in the ceiling.

"You let your hair grow it. It's nice," he commented bluntly, trying not to sound too interested.

A slight pink shade just barely marked Raven's skin. "Thank you. I would've cut it when I arrived here, but I'm used to having long hair now, so I figured I'd just leave it."

She still sounded tired, but she seemed to have just a fraction more life in her.

They walked down the hall, to the old training room. The computer was in total disrepair, the weights skewed around the room. The training mat had so many holes in it that it was a shock that there were any pieces left of it. Random parts of what Beast Boy assumed had been part of the sound system, computer, and other various electronics in the room were all over the floor, some hanging from the ceiling by their wires.

BB watched as Raven floated over the items that littered the floor. He followed after her, looking up at the ceiling, at the walls, basically everywhere but his feet. As he caught up to Raven, it only seemed natural that he would trip over something. Raven had been facing his direction, so she could have caught him, theoretically. However, she was paying more attention to the ceiling and walls as well.

They both ended up on the holey mat, Beast Boy on top of Raven.