Outside, Clark's turn is interrupted by a short yelp followed by a large splash, making most of the people look up even though Raven had mentioned the possibility of the event happening.
"Wager on it was Richard again?" Tim asks Raven.
"I'd be cheating." She replies before slinging her mallet over her shoulder and walks down to the pool.
"Beastboy, most likely." Bruce shrugs.
"And there you killed the mystery." Tim sighs before striking a menacing pose with his mallet over his head in one hand while pointing at Bruce. "It was the Bat that did it!" He croaks.
"Actually you should remember the amount of times Richard told you about how many attempts he tried getting into her room in the tower." Bruce continues, ignoring the antics and lines up for his shot.
"Garfield." Raven says quietly as she plants the handle of her mallet on the edge of the pool and begins drumming her fingers on its head. While a Beastboy has thrown his arms over the ledge, giving the appearance of a drowned mouse as he looks up.
"Yikes!" He says weakly before shrinking under her stare.
"Still as attracted to my living quarters as ever I see." She continues as a window opens in the façade of the manor behind her, she however notices something else. "You ok?"
"Bellyflop, swallowed some water." He admits.
"Right, up you go." She replies before bending down and grabs the collar of his shirt with one hand and hoists him out of the pool and puts him down on the edge. "How much? Does it hurt?"
"Surprised me that's all." He says, waving her off before getting to his feet. "But it does give me the chance to do this!" He says quickly before turning into a Rough Collie before shaking himself viciously. Turning back be is met by the penetrating stare and the stone face of Raven that is now dripping wet and is covered in long green hair.
"Ok, maybe that wasn't such a bright idea." He says while Raven doesn't flinch, the part of his instinctive brain is screaming at him to run before becoming part of the scenery, a part he wholeheartedly agrees with. "Sorry!" He peeps before fleeing the scene.
Raven stares after him for two seconds before running after him, discarding her slippers at first opportunity, changing shape half way to the mansion. In the lead she can hear the dog shaped Beastboy muttering prayers and hopes about living through the next five minutes as she gets closer. She can predict where he is going as he heads into the house, to the one person that was always left with calming her down; Richard.
"My word." She hears Alfred exclaim as she passes him in the main hall and takes two steps up the stair, ending the chase in her doorway, finding Beastboy lying collapsed against her closets and the other three by her window. Starfire and Victor look worried while Richard looks amused.
"Beastboy." Raven says in a warning tone as she moves towards him.
"Arg! Sorry! Sorry!" He almost yells he covers him self with his arms as she reaches forwards. "Huh?" He looks up in confusion as he is hit on the back of the head as she opens the closet behind him.
"My towels are in here." She says flatly as she shifts back and retrieves a towel for herself before turning to the others, Starfire and Victor now look surprised instead of worried and Richard is suppressing his laugh. "So what brings you guys in here?"
"Ah… him?" Victor tries as he points at Beastboy.
"Well, he better get dried up. So how do you like it?" She shrugs as she dries her face and arms.
"Wah? Aren't you mad we are in here?" Beastboy exclaims in disbelief.
"It's just a room and I had three years of solitude and two weeks of loud people in my head. Besides all my books and personal items went down with the Tower. But now I am going to have to insist on leaving." They take on a surprised look at this. "I am covered in green hair and I need a change of clothes."
"Hey Raven! We are waiting for your turn!" Tim yells from the garden outside.
"One minute!" Raven yells back as she opens another closet and begins rummaging through the selections inside. "You guys mind?" She asks without looking at them.
"But…" Victor continues.
"Richard has a few things you be interested in." Richards laugh dies away instantly as Cyborg races off before following him while Starfire helps Beastboy off the floor. "Star, you can take Cerberus with you. He seems a little too fond of my bed." It is first at this that they notice the dog lying on the bed regarding them with half open eyes.
"Glorious!" Starfire exclaims as the dogs look's up with a sudden worry on its face.
"That was two minutes." Tim says as Raven returns to the game, wearing the pants Sam made for her and a black T-shirt with another band name imprinted over a background of three triangles and a peculiar silhouette of a man riding a horse with eight legs while holding a horn in one hand.
"Uhh, I see someone is retaliating for closet raiding." Shayera says as she recognizes the image.
"Just a T-shirt." Diana shrugs with a smirk, the two had come across it before making their choices, Diana had recognized the image as well, Raven on the other hand had recognized the name as one of the providers of the stuff she had to sing.
"That it is." She agrees. "And I did have to get my mallet back."
"Don't worry, I needed a break anyways." Helena cuts in.
"Oh jeez, I'm sorry Helena. I forgot about you, I never got to finish up." Raven almost drops her mallet and crosses over to the woman.
"Don't mind me, will remind me to cover my backside." Helena waves her off before Raven can summon her healing powers.
"You sure? This isn't just because of what I am?" Raven asks, having noted during her absence minded stay with the Birds that Huntress always wore a cross, under her costume when needed and she actually prayed before going to bed.
"I…" She starts. "Well… Yeah, that's part of it I am afraid." She sighs. "I'm catholic and I don't know what your tricks will do to me in the long run." Raven just nods and backs away while the others look mildly surprised at Helena.
"I understand, but I can promise that I don't gain anything from healing others, other than peace of mind." Raven says, internally she is a little wounded but she had for a long time known that she could come across something like this. "But I can, under some pain, enter then St. Peter's Basilica." This gets Helena's attention.
"We had to go get Zauriel who had been holed up there since Jump City." Bruce adds, but decides not to say anything about what Raven told them about Apollyon. "Etrigan almost passed out from being there."
"And you didn't?" Helena asks.
"I didn't and both Zauriel and Michael was kind enough not to smite me." Raven continues, though she has suspecting Zauriel for bringing her into the basilica so Michael wouldn't risk a fight. "But I did get second degree burns from getting too close to Peter's tomb."
"Michael? The angel?" Helena continues, seemingly growing more confused by the tale.
"He was an angel, and a presumptuous one at that." John continues as he takes his shot, and knocks Bruce's off its current path. "Thought we and the Azerathian's were being held against our will, quite a few did that."
"Hemon wasn't too fond of having his ceremony interrupted." Hawkgirl continues as she takes her shot, ending up on the wrong side of one of the arch's. "Blast."
"Think us lowly mortals need a simpler explanation." Barbara says noticing Helena is beginning to sport that look that wants that.
"I will show you later if you want to." Raven says. "It's probably easier than trying to explain it."
"Good, because I feel like when I had to teach physics." Helena sighs and takes her shot.
The rest of the game continues with more trivial matters being talked about, past glories and a few memorable defeats. Only getting interrupted once when Cerberus thought the wooden balls getting knocked around was for him to play with. After the game ends with Lois' victory, the group retires to the garden tables before breaking apart. As Bruce wants a private chat with Barbara, while J'onn wants a game of chess with Raven and the others wanting to have a few words with the other Titans.
After a narrow victory over J'onn, Raven asks for Barbara and Helena to join her in the study closest to the garden, quickly followed by Lois who wanted to see the place Clark had spent his time in.
"Whoa, kinda dark isn't it?" Lois asks as they appear in Raven's mindscape.
"Where are we?" Helena asks. "And why have I changed clothes?" She notes as she is in full costume.
"We are in Raven's mind." Barbara says as she finds herself on the ground and oddly enough, dressed as Batgirl. "Where's my chair?"
"Oh sorry, I should probably have mentioned this before we went in. In here you are how you see yourself." Raven says as she appears besides the others.
"You mean this is like virtual reality?" Barbara asks.
"I wouldn't know." Raven shrugs. "But I don't think you need your chair in here." Barbara just stares at her for several seconds before she get's to her feet, staring in disbelief down herself.
"This… this is amazing." She manages before thinking of something. "If you don't mind, I'd like my chair here, I don't think I want to be surprised when we get out again."
"Of course." Raven says as she conjures a wheelchair for the redhead. "Well this is my mind, here I can do anything like you can inside yours." She says to Lois. "Now, since we don't have the time for the full tour that J'onn took, I think you should see Azarath. Allow me." Raven says as she has the rock they are standing on float upwards to the city.
"Can I ask why it's so dark in here?" Lois begins.
"And cold?" Helena adds.
"As Hemon once put it, it's tranquil." Raven replies. "Since I have to maintain a calm mind at all time, my mind has to be this way. Like comparing fire to ice, one is cold, unmoving and calm, the other is hot, active and wild."
"So this isn't the same for everyone?" Helena asks.
"No, the Flash's minds are probably the opposite of mine, because of the speeds they work at."
"Pity he never seems to use it that much." Lois adds.
"He does actually, but he doesn't want anything more from life than what he has at the moment. And he has to put up with us, to him we move at a snails pace." Raven replies, it had been one of the things that had come up during the final night. "And here we are." She continues as the rock levels itself to the rock under Azerath.
"Are those… ghosts?" Lois asks as they see the first of the inhabitants in the market J'onn first arrived at.
"Yes. Like I said, these are the people that raised me, Trigon destroyed the city five years ago. But he cursed them to remain in the dimension they resided in, I showed up later in search of aid and they sought refuge inside of me." Raven explains as they head into the city.
"Can I ask what Trigon really was?" Helena asks.
"Really? He was demon overlord. A ruler of one of Hells many provinces, considered by some of the other leaders a dangerous one, and far too powerful to be bullied into place, which sadly speaks volumes of how powerful they thought he was."
"So Hell does exist?" Barbara adds.
"Of course, Zauriel and Etrigan are in the League after all." Raven replies while wondering how she doubted that.
"So is there an actual… Satan?" Helena continues.
"Yes, but how I understand it is that is a title down there, one of several given to the ruler of the Greater Hell. See Hell is divided into countless minor provinces, one each for a deity of the underworld's in various religions. As I saw it, as religions has more followers, the bigger the province as more believers end down there. Most of this universes' religions seem to have merged into the Greater Hell along with Christianity's version. There are exceptions of course, with atypical realms being kept apart from the rest. "
"So all the smaller fry follow the big guy in the center?" Lois asks.
"If he or she tells them to, but otherwise they are always warring between one another, something Satan actually encourages, since it keeps them from plotting against them. Trigon however has few mortal followers in this universe, but he dragged the one he was born in down to hell and formed his own province, one he kept fiercely independent from the rest of hell. From what I have been told, the other rulers down there would dearly have liked to remove or diminish him if he didn't have as many minions as he had."
"So who follows him here on Earth?" Helena continues.
"The Church of Blood is the most well known, it's the state religion in Zandia, but mostly it is through secret cults he receives worship. But he may have taken other names, Scath is one."
"So let me get this straight, Satan isn't an actual person, but someone is in charge down there and there was a Michael?" Lois continues. "So correct me if I am wrong, there is a Lucifer too?"
"There is, but the guy currently in charge down there is called Neron. Lucifer does exist however and did rule Hell for millennia before he got bored and vacated the seat, he runs a bar in New Orleans now." Raven shrugs.
"Whoa, he's here?!" Helena almost shouts.
"He is, trying to run his bar in relative peace. Had to go persuade him to let us have one of his feathers for the ritual, believe me, he isn't like anything you might think, other than he presses every button you might have just to see what you'll do." Raven explains as they pass through the statue square, while Hope regards them from a corner.
"So he's a barkeeper and… an asshole?" Lois surmises.
"That he is." Raven agrees. "They made this to commemorate the day Trigon fell." She says as she motions at the statue of herself.
"Cute." Lois notes. "You know, this isn't what I expected from the mind of a half-demon?"
"You should have seen Anger's place before she redecorated." Raven replies with a smirk. "Come, you need to see this before I say anything further." She says before forming a disk under them and flies to the council tower. "This is my mother; Arealla." Raven points out as the land outside, spotting the ghost feeding the pigeons.
"Your mother?" Lois asks in surprise.
"That I am Ms. Lane." Arella says quietly without looking up. "I will not burden you with my story, but I am closer now to my daughter than ever before."
"She wasn't allowed to be even near me when I was a child." Raven adds. "Now observe." She says before the double doors swing open. "Tell me what you see." She says as they enter.
"Umm, lots of you's?" Lois starts.
"Your closet?" Helena continues.
"Your emotions." Barbara concludes.
"Precisely." Raven says with a smirk. "In order for me to ease my control over my emotions, I fractured them into representatives like this. When Azerath moved in, I was advised to set up a council like this to make it easier to govern them all. Outside of Azerath there are places where these hold sway, while also being here. Everything I do pass through here and voted on for before it is acted on, normally I never notice it and it happens at the speed of thought."
"So we are like this really?" Lois reasons.
"Basically you are, you just don't have the hassle of being a risk if you can't manage them all." Raven replies. "And yes, even with all of this, it happens that I lose control."
"Let me guess, the one with the red cloak?" Barbara points out.
"In the past, I was not myself, my colleague next to me was very much in control of me." The red cloaked emotion says, elbowing the red-skin next to her.
"That was the demonic side of me, still is, but I am in control of it now." Raven says as Carnage remains motionless.
"So if it got out, you would be like Etrigan?" Huntress asks.
"Very, possibly worse since Jason is always reigning him in when he is out." Raven replies. "Anyways, I think it's time we get back, unless you want to see more?"
"I'd want my camera along." Lois adds.
"So just to recap, you are a demon, but it is your human side that runs the show?" Helena asks.
"Indeed." Raven agrees.
"Hmm good enough for me, these wounds of mine is killing me." Helena says with a smirk, getting a chuckle out of Barbara.
Later in the evening they are all summoned to the main dining hall, where Alfred had prepared a feast worthy of royalty. The man himself admitted he had recruited suitable aid to prepare it all, the others guess he had been out and borrowed some of the finest chefs in Gotham. But before they are seated, they go change into the evening dinner wear. The men change into black suits, except for J'onn who changes into a white one and change into his green self, and the women change into fine dresses, Starfire and Shayera into light pink ones that share the same design only in varying in length, Starfire's goes down to her feet, while Shayera's go down to her knees. Lois changes into one similar to Starfire's only black and Linda into a long flowing red one, she insisted on wearing this since she had never visited Wayne Manor before but knew of its gallant reputation. While Diana and Raven change into the ones they arrived in. The only two not having redressed is Helena and Barbara.
"Nice dress Raven." Richard comments as the two Amazons appear.
"Thank you, Richard."
"I am almost scared to ask for the tailor, Themysciran?" Linda asks.
"They are, we didn't have time to have new ones made, so these are copies of the ones from the ball." Diana says while admiring her own dress.
"They are nice." Starfire agrees.
"Agreed." Bruce adds. "But it's the people that wear them that make it so." He says while smiling slightly at Diana, Raven is actually a bit surprised that she picks up an iota of nervousness from him before hearing a polite cough behind them.
"Dinner is served." Alfred announces proudly as he pushes in a serving trolley.
The group quickly have themselves seated, at a grand round table with the couples seated next to each other. And the more unofficial couples suspiciously seated next to each other as well. Meaning Bruce had Diana on his right with Raven on his left. Raven has Richard at her side while Diana has J'onn, while they have Victor and the Kent's next to them. Next to Clark is Tim and Shayera and John sit next to Victor. Tim has Barbara next to him. While Starfire and Beastboy complete the circle with the West's and a freshly healed Helena in between.
As Alfred is making his round of handing out the appetizers, salmon, Bruce rises from his seat and lightly taps one of his three glasses with the butt of his knife, the table almost immediately falls silent.
"First of all, I would once again thank you all for coming today. And I promise to keep this short, as I can hear belly's rumble. Safe to say, a few of us here have had quite an extraordinary experience over these last few weeks. And some of us had to endure being a place where we could not do what comes natural to us in our line of work and had to sit on the sideline. But with that said, our experience will seem as nothing when compared to the trials our host had to go through for us to have his dinner here. If you will raise your glass with me." He says as he picks up the glass of water already provided to everyone. "And lets all thank Raven for our return." He says before raising his glass in Raven's direction followed by the others.
"Thank you." They all say before taking a mouthful, while Raven blushes madly before she gets up as Bruce sits down.
"I… well thank you, but I was only doing my job and I am glad it all worked out." She admits, getting a bunch of snickers as she sits down again.
"And with our lively speakers quieting down again, I do hope no one leaves tonights table with a sense of hunger. Bon appetite." Alfred says.
Richard's greatest fear of this dinner is immediately dispelled when Starfire does not leap across the table like she did the time the Titans visited Tamaran. While Beastboy quietly swaps his salmon for her vegetables, while J'onn and Wally manage a similar arrangement.
Following the appetizer Alfred wheels in a large assortment of different foods and politely asks what they each prefer, even supplying Starfire with a jar of mustard, much to the surprise of the others after she drinks it like water. Beastboy is quick to support her with a glass of water when she discovers the mustard to be much stronger flavor than the sweet kind she used to drink, Victor wins a hard fought battle against his own amusement and keep it to a snicker at the look she wore at the experience.
After Alfred makes his round with the meal, he makes a second pass with a cart of drinks. Bruce has water as usual, as does J'onn and Helena, while Tim and Garfield have soda. The rest settle for a single glass of wine, even Raven who braves a glass of red wine. While they eat, they talk, swapping stories again adding the various adventures of the Titans.
The now infamous Tofu-newspaper is brought up again, as is an incident when Beastboy had replaced Richard's hair gel with superglue, the virus incident that sent Victor into a feeding frenzy, Starfire's attempt at cooking metal screws and Raven's haunting the tower. Bruce again settles for adding the darker story of the evening, one where he jumped a mob hit man who promptly threw up over Bruce's boots out of fright. Diana continues with the story of a certain redhead that decided to wake her squad in the middle of the night for an orientation exercise in the nearby forest, only for her to be the only one that got lost. Clark adds his first encounter with the dimensional jumping Mr. Mxyzptlk and the chaos that followed. Wally adds a strange story of the Trickster that once tried to bomb him, only to have all his own clothes blown off in the middle of a shopping mall. At around half past nine Alfred begins collecting the dishes and the party begins stretching legs, preparing for the dessert. Bruce sends Barbara a look, one that she nods shortly at before wheeling herself out. Bruce waits a few moments before getting up and instructs Alfred to serve the dessert at his pleasure, before walking back to Raven.
"Raven, there is something I need you to see." He says to the woman, who looks at him in surprise before quickly nodding and follows him out, which does not go unnoticed by Richard.
"I suspect I am not going to get anything more out of you before we get there?" She asks as they head down to the study.
"No, but it is important." He says as he dials the clock face to the time that opens the passageway, the time of his parent's murder, letting Raven enter before he follows and closes the entryway. "Here, even Clark can't hear us." He says as they make their way down the stairs and into the cave.
"So what is it?" Raven asks, getting slightly worried, Bruce taps her shoulder with a case. Which Raven takes and opens, finding a silver necklace lined with diamonds.
"Do you think she will like it?" He asks, as Raven studies the accessory.
"Diana? She would adore this." Raven replies as she closes the case and hands it back to him as they enter the cave for him to sit down in front of the computer, internally she is even more confused he took her down here for that alone. "But she would prefer you." She adds.
"I know." He says as he pockets the case. "Long ago I studied human behaviour and I still stand by what I learned, one of those lessons was that relationships within a team will always lead to problems, always."
"But…?" Raven says, urging him to continue.
"You know how long I spent in Happy's realm after we encountered the doubles." He continues.
"Yes, it became the third most visited realm for you, after Wisdom and Bravery." She replies remaining silent for a second. "What is this really about?"
"Our time in your mind it… it got me thinking, if I should one day retire or be forced to. What was I going to do then? And more importantly, am I going to be alone when this happens?" He explains.
"It was a bit of a revelation that you were stuck in a place with no need for a Batman and you caught a glimpse of another life, one that, in one form or another, is actually possible?" Raven asks.
"Exactly, the problem is that I wonder if I will lose her respect if I try? Or if I prove to be something she didn't want." He says while boring holes in the wall with his eyes as Raven just stares at him in disbelief.
"Try as I might, I cannot tell you how such a relationship would work out, since I have never been in a real one. But I can say that, until an incident on Themyscira, I was scared of each new day, because they all held the possibility of me finally falling to my other side. After taking a good long look at myself and my actions that day and decided, I couldn't live like that any more, I didn't want to. I'm not the scared girl that fled Azerath any more, not entirely at least, I try to be the Amazon that Hippolyta and Diana decided to make me and I have found it to be better than hiding away in a dark room pouring over possible doomsday prophesies that could be tagged on me. To make a long tale short, I took a chance and won, so far. You can win as well by taking a chance, if you won't take the risk it you won't lose anything, but you won't gain anything either."
"Would it have been worth it if you lost?" He asks.
"I am not sure, my biggest worry was that Azerath would leave me in outrage over it, but Hemon said that I had taken the responsibility of my own life and destiny into my own hands the night I left Azerath and that deep down I knew what accepting Hippolyta's offer could bring. But had they announced their departure, I would have stood my ground over my choice."
"What was the incident?" He asks.
"A training exercise, a General Philipus wanted to test me and tasked the six of us to retrieve a box from a guarded clearing, what no one expected was that a Cyclops decided to show up. Antiope, who I trained with, blinded it while everyone else was without proper weapons to drive it away, the thing was the size of a three story building. I was told that the eye could never be restored and the creature was doomed, with Diana out of armor, I was asked to end its suffering." She sighs. "I asked it if what I was told was true, which it confirmed, it died without further pain." She explains as she sees he had drifted into Batman while he stares at her intimately. "Are you disappointed?"
"No, I am not, I took a vow to save all human life, and I have seen what a Cyclops is capable of." He says. "And you are right, if I don't take the chance, I won't win anything." He continues. "But that was not all the reason why I asked you down here."
"Go on?" Raven says as she notices he is pausing for effect.
"I am going to ask for starters; what was it like for you to have Terra completely at your mercy?"
Raven is taken aback at the question for a second before replying. "You gave me an order and I carried it out. But I will admit; it felt good seeing her that scared, first at me, then at where she got dumped."
"But I did give you a sufficient amount of leniency to inflict a great amount of harm on her, why didn't you? She would have deserved every bit of it."
"That she would have. But I had an order of bringing her alive and without permanent injury from A to B and I will not spend a second longer than I have to in her presence." Raven says wondering if he was about to criticize her for not mauling the blond.
"And beside the fist in the stomach, you did nothing?"
"I only used words, what she took them as, is her problem." Raven replies flatly. "But if she gets out, then she is just another murderous psychotic that needs putting in her place. My kids deserve justice, they believed in that and I will make sure that is what they get, vengeance in this case will lead to nothing." She continues as Bruce continues to regard her intently before getting out of his seat to stand right in front of her, oddly reminding her of when she first appeared in the cave while they meet each others eyes.
"That is what I hoped to hear from you. Follow me." He says before turning around and heads over to the platform near the chemical lab and down the stairs. "Coming?" He asks as he knows she is still standing that the computer.
Quickly she hurries after him, wondering what the man is hiding and why her stomach is acting like a roller coaster all of a sudden. She catches up with him as he heads down another level, noting that wheel chair ramps had been added to the insides of the stairs, passing the small trophy collection housed here, down to the level where a more sophisticated crime lab than the one at the computer is housed before leading into a section Raven had not seen before, since the steel doors were always closed. Bruce heads towards this door that opens after a laser grid scan him.
"This is my R&D lab, where I cook up my inventions or modify those of others so they cant be traced." He says without turning as the doors part and allows them into a well lit room, with blueprints and basic drawings on the wall of various gadgets and vehicles, Raven notes in particular something that looks like an attack helicopter. "It's an old idea I have yet to find a proper application for. But in case we have another gang war like the one that took Tim's parents, its presence may deter many of them."
"None of the Leaguers know about this place?" Raven asks feeling strangely honored to have been admitted into this place.
"They know I make most of my equipment, but they don't know this lab is here and for a certain reason, see here." He says as he walks over to what looks like the door to a small bank vault and opens it by turning the circular handle and pushes. Inside stand piled boxes of glowing green crystals and of other varieties and other seemingly random items.
"Kryptonite?" Raven asks as she recognizes the crystals as having the same glow as the piece she saw in Metallo's chest and in Terra's lair.
"Yes, this is where I keep the last resorts. I began having this storage after Clark was brainwashed by Darksied and he entrusted me with a piece of Kryptonite in case he ever became lost again. I knew then as I do now, that single piece he gave me would never be enough to stop him completely so I collected more, finding other strains than the green. But I also began to wonder, what if Clark was not the only one it could happen to? What if it was Diana or John that lost it? What would happen if J'onn decided to purge the globe of people he didn't like?"
"These are countermeasures against your friends and allies?" Raven says, wondering how the same people would take it if they don't know. "Do they know?"
"No, but they suspect it, because of the favour Clark asked of me being well known. If the worst scenario happens, they will look to me for an answer, but they will have exhausted every other option before that, and I will mourn the day I am forced to use even one of these."
"And if it is you who cross the line?" Raven asks.
"I am only human, and not all of these are of any use in a straight up fight." Bruce replies flatly.
"But why are you showing me this? This could prove disastrous to you in case I one day lose it?"
"It could prove the same with Tim, Dick and Barbara who also know of this place. The boys could use it themselves, Barbara could tell the world of its existence. But I am confident in that you are only in the same risk as the rest of us." He says as he closes the door again and walks to another vault-like door. "Now before I show you what's on the other side, I want you to know it is a genuine offer and that I was considering to offer something like it even before you left for Themyscira the first time."
Raven is almost loosing control over her powers as Bruce opens the door, while blocking the view as he enters and stands aside, letting the interior show. Revealing a mostly dark room, only lit by a single cone of light in the center. Raven is speechless as she enters, staring wide-eyed at the object suspected in the cone of light.
Author's Notes: Evil cliffy :)