The vase's shattered remains were on the floor, the tiny glass shards shimmered like an ocean of diamonds. The twelve roses were strewn over the floor, resting in a puddle of water, wounded like fallen soldiers and there was no one left to call for the medic.

Rachel grimaced at the scene in front of her. It finally dawned on her what had actually happened. She had been played like a fiddle. She closed her eyes and when she reopened them they glowed an eerie black. The debris was engulfed in her obsidian light, which lifted the glass shards and the destroyed flowers, depositing them into the garbage chute.

"You and I need to have a talk, sister." She growled.

Rachel stormed out of the room, only to stop dead in her tracks. She was still wearing her see through nightgown. She did an about face and charged back into the room.

"That would have gone over well in the common room." She chastised herself as she began to dress in her costume, which was still identical to Raven's black and blue ensemble. She looked at herself in the mirror once she was done. She dressed just like Raven, the boots, the cape, the leotard. She even wore her hair long, just like Raven did.

She opened a desk drawer and began to rummage through it. She soon found what she was looking for: a pair of scissors. She walked over to the mirror and grabbing a lock of her violet hair she prepared to cut it, the scissor's blades hungry to do their job. Just as she was about to begin cutting, with the intent of restoring her coiffeur to the classic A-line bob long associated with the dark Titan.

She stopped herself. That look was originally Raven's and restoring it on her head only reaffirmed what was as obvious as the chakra stone on her forehead: that she was Raven's clone.

She returned to the desk and reopened the drawer, where she tossed the scissors. Her eyes scanned Garfield's untidy desk drawer, which unlike his room, still looked liked a battlefield. She quickly found her new target, a large rubber band, which she wrapped around her hair, forming a large, wild, violet colored ponytail.

As she headed for the door she stopped again. She looked down at her ensemble: the leotard and blue boots, wrapped in the signature blue hooded cape.

"What's with her? Who in their right mind dresses like this? I'm not going to the beach!" She grumbled out loud. "And blue? WTH?"

Rachel removed Raven's signature costume, ripping it to shreds with her dark energy. She turned to the spoils of her shopping mall expedition, which were still in the paper bags with string handles that were in the pile where she dropped them earlier. She began to scavenge through them, finding one by one the items she was searching for: a pair of designer jeans, a top that Starfire said had "the high degree of cuteness", and some shoes.

She quickly dressed and an examined the results in a mirror, and she liked what she saw. She turned around to inspect her backside, craning her neck to see.

"Starfire was right; I do have a nice butt." She congratulated herself."Raven can hide hers behind that stupid blue cape if she wants."

She turned around and admired herself from the front. She was pleased with what she saw: the witch was gone and in her place stood a normal girl, well, one with gray skin, a chakra stone on her forehead and long purple hair. But yes, the witch was gone.

"I should have done this sooner." She muttered to herself.

As she headed for the door, she paused a second time. She had forgotten something.

Her old belt, or to be more precise, one of Raven's jeweled belts was laying on the floor in a crumpled pile. She picked it up a snapped it around her waist. And again, she frowned.

"I don't care if it's from Azarath, I'm not from Azarath, and I've never been there. I don't care if Azar gave her the belts. She was Raven's mentor and not mine."

Rachel picked up a small handbag she had purchased at transferred the contents of the belt's compartments to the small purse, tossing the belt aside when she was done. She inspected herself in the mirror one last time. The ponytail was a stop gap measure, though it didn't look bad. She would have Starfire take her to a salon do find her new hairdo, but the ponytail would do for now.

She smiled. She was ready. It was time to strut her stuff.

"Ready or not sister, here I come." She muttered as she walked out of the room with a grin on her face.

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Cyborg was playing a video game with Robin when Raven and Beast Boy entered the common room, about 20 minutes after the changeling had run off chasing his embarrassed girl friend. Cyborg and Robin both turned around and saw them, after which they quickly returned their attention to the screen.

"Yo Rach, why aren't you wearing your new duds that you bought?" Cyborg called out as he tapped furiously on his controller.

"I'm Raven." She replied in a voice that was so cold it might as well have had icicles dangling from it.

"Say what? I though BB went to find Rachel. Why's he hanging with you?"

Raven smiled as she stepped into the kitchen and filled the kettle with water. "Does he need a reason?"

Cyborg shrugged his shoulders and continued playing his videogame. The changeling sat down next to Cyborg.

"So what's the scoop B? What's goin' on?"

"I had a fight with Rachel, a really big fight." He whispered.

Cyborg smiled knowingly. "You lucky dog, you got two of them. Fight with one, hang out with the other one." He whispered back. Robin chuckled upon hearing his remark.

"Dude … it' not funny. Rach is really pissed at me, and I didn't do anything wrong. At least I don't think I did."

"Welcome to my world, Beast Boy." Robin remarked, smiling as he nodded at Starfire who had joined Raven in the kitchen.

The sliding doors opened and Rachel swaggered into the common room. All three guys did a double take when they saw her walking with a clearly flirtatious gait, and Robin even paused the game to get a better look at the shapely sorceress. This wasn't the Raven they were familiar with, she looked like a girl out of a music video.

Rachel looked towards the sofa, and locked eyes with her beau. She glared at him, letting him know that he was most definitely still in the dog house. He didn't seem to notice her glare or at least pretended not to notice.

"Rach, you look … awesome." The changeling remarked.

Rachel ignored him and instead focused on Starfire, who waved at her from the kitchen.

"Rachel, you look most stylish! Did I not tell you that these clothes would look good on you?"

Raven ignored her clone and focused instead on brewing her tea. As Rachel entered the kitchen she stopped at the fridge and grabbed a can of sugary soda pop.

"You know that stuff will ruin your teeth and go straight your hips." Raven calmly remarked. "I just made a pot of our favorite herbal tea."

"Just because you like tea doesn't mean I do." She replied as she popped the can open and took a deep swig.

Raven chuckled softly. "I thought you're just like me."

"I'm nothing like you." She whispered back at Raven, not wishing to draw the boy's attention. "You're trying to steal Gar from me."

"Trying? I think I already did. But you can't steal what belonged to you all along. If anyone here's a thief, it's you, sister."

Rachel frowned. "Witch." She hissed.

"Takes one to know one, loser." Raven whispered back.

"Demon spawn."

"Slut."

Starfire was at the stove and did not overhear the whispered confrontation, and neither did Robin, who suddenly entered the kitchen.

"Raven, Rachel, I'd like to have a word with you."

The two women ceased their stealth bickering and turned to the Teen Wonder, both smiling sweetly.

"Yes, Robin?" They answered in unison.

Robin grinned.

"I have to say I'm really impressed with how the two of you have made up, and I think we can defer for a while the departure to Titans South for a while … of course we still have to determine who will be going. Naturally that means …"

Before he could finish claxons began to blare and the red lights flashed.

"Trouble!" The two gray girls shouted in a single voice. Startled by the duality of their response they turned and glared at each other.

Robin was already checking the mission console.

"A bank robbery, on Claremont Blvd. Titans Go!"

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The Titans sped to the scene of the crime. Robin and Cyborg were in the T-Car, zooming down the city's wide boulevards at breakneck speeds while the others flew overhead. Beast Boy had morphed into a falcon and was flanked on his left by Raven and on his right by Rachel, who was dressed in her civvies, while Starfire flew behind them. The changeling morphed into a parrot and spoke to his girlfriend in a humorous "Polly want a cracker" voice.

"I like your new look, Rach. I guess since Wonder Girl wears jeans, why can't you?" He remarked, referencing the blond bombshell, Cassie Sandsmark, who was the new Wonder Girl and a member of the newly formed Young Justice team on the east coast.

Rachel gave him a quick glare, but did not reply. If parrots could sulk, the changeling would have.

Dude, is she always gonna be mad at me?

Then he had an idea. He landed on her back and morphed into a kitten, ready to use "the face".

Unfortunately Rachel didn't play along. "Get off!" She snarled at him as she rolled over, tossing him into the void.

Using her dark energy, Raven caught him before he had a chance to morph into a bird, and reeled him in until she was holding him in her hands. She smiled and nuzzled noses with him.

"You can ride on my back, any time you want." She cooed him before kissing his furry face and placing him on her shoulder. Rachel glared at her, and Raven responding by sticking her tongue out at her.

Starfire was flying behind them and saw everything. A worried look appeared on her face. It didn't last, as they arrived at the bank, just as Control Freak emerged from the building, holding a pillowcase full of what must have been cash. He immediately saw them and grinned.

"Well, if it isn't my arch-enemies, the Teen Titans!"

He laughed loudly.

"Be prepared to face your greatest fears, for I, your nemesis, Control Freak, have returned."

"You are not our nemesis, Control Freak, you are the dork!" Starfire shouted at him.

The pudgy villain smiled. "You are wrong, my little crumpet!" He then aimed his clicker at some parked cars, which began to morph into robots.

"Transformers? Dude, you need to watch some better TV shows!" Beast Boy shouted before turning into a T-Rex and chomping one of the robots, which exploded with no warning, sending the dinosaur tumbling, as it morphed back into the changeling's human form.

"Garfield!" The two gray witches shrieked as Robin ran to his side.

"He's OK, get Control Freak!" He shouted at the two flying sorceresses.

That was when Control Freak noticed them for the first time.

"There's two of you?" He asked in an incredulous voice. "When did that happen?"

The two girls, who were airborne, swooped down towards him, while the rest of the Titans battled the transformers, destroying them quickly. The poor car owners would never believe what happened to their vehicles, hopefully their insurance companies would.

The two girls landed in front of the geeky villain.

"We're different! We're not the same!" Rachel shouted.

"Are you blind? Can't you see the difference?" Raven howled while waving her arms.

Control Freak looked back and forth between the two girls repeatedly.

"Uh … no, I can't. You look the same to me."

The girls screamed a battle cry and swinging at the same time, they knocked him out with synchronized jabs.

"I could never stand him, he's an idiot!" Raven snarled.

"Tell me about it." Rachel replied as she breathed heavily, clearly containing her anger. "What a dork, can't he tell we're different? I'm way cooler than you are!"

"Excuse me?" Raven replied.

"What, you mean you didn't know that, Miss Leotard and Cape?"

Raven laughed. "You go on a lousy trip to the mall, and now you think you're cooler than me? Especially when we both know that Starfire picked your clothes for you."

"And we both know that Azar picked your clothes, witch. And they're one thousand years out of style."

"At least I don't dress like a whore."

"A whore? You're the one walking around in a bathing suit all day, showing off your legs."

"And what about you? Those jeans look like they were sprayed on. You think you're gonna win Gar back by shaking your butt at him?"

"I don't have to win him back, Raven. In case you forgot, he's my boyfriend, not yours."

"Oh really, is that why you chased him out of your room and into my arms, sister?"

"Whoa, whoa! Timeout!" Beast Boy, who had recovered from the explosion, shouted at them.

The two girls ceased their bickering.

"Gar, is it true? You ran to her after our fight?"

He gulped. "Not exactly …"

"What do you mean, not exactly? Who were you with? And where? And don't lie to me, I might not be a mind reader but I can sense emotions, so I'll be able to tell."

"Well … I was with Raven."

Rachel's eyes narrowed. "Where!?"

He gulped a second time. "Rachel … nothing happened … I swear."

Her eyes narrowed even more. "I asked you a question."

Raven smiled triumphantly. "He was in my room. And I asked him to spend the night, since you kicked him out of his own room."

"I did no such thing. I only told to leave me alone a while. Of course he could come back."

Rachel noticed tears in his eyes. "Rachel, you … you threatened to hurt me."

"Which is why I invited him to move into my room … and he accepted." Raven crowed.

Rachel stared at him in utter disbelief. "Gar, is this true?"

"Well … kinda … Raven said I could stay with her until you and I patched things up."

Now she looked stunned.

"I don't believe this … I should have known … you'd never like me more than her ... I'm an idiot, I'm a fool for believing that you loved me!"

"Rach, it's not what you think. And I do love you."

Rachel turned and began to run, taking flight a moment later."

"Rachel! Come back!" He shouted. She continued to fly away at her top speed, until she was no longer visible to the naked eye.

Raven placed a hand on his shoulder. "Don't worry, Gar, I'm still here, I'll never leave you, you know that, right?"

He turned around and hugged Raven, who kissed him. The other three watched them silently.

"This isn't gonna end well, is it?" Cyborg whispered in a worried tone as Robin hand cuffed Control Freak.

"So much for them getting along." The Teen Wonder remarked. "I guess we're back to having someone leave right away."

"Except this time it looks like it's gonna be BB and Raven." He whispered back.

"I have the bad feeling about this." Starfire remarked. "Something does not seem right with Raven. I feel that I do not know her anymore."

Meanwhile, as Raven smooched the changeling, the Star of Eradon became hot and bright, so much so that had their bodies not been pressed together, it would have been visible through her leotard.

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So … is anyone feeling sorry for Rachel? And if you're wondering about Slade, he'll be back soon.

No mail bag today! Sorry!