The Titans enjoy a training exercise on Titans Island. The game is tag and their objective is to capture their newest member, Jericho.
Jericho keeps the Titans on their toes by alternately taking possession
of each of their bodies and using their unique talents against each
other. In the middle of the exercise, Raven
appears on the scene. In the spirit of fun, Jericho tries to enter
Raven's body. Raven, suffering from her own secret inner turmoil, panics
and teleports away, forcing Jericho out of her body. Jericho's eyes are
wide with terror and he signals to the others about a great darkness
that he senses inside of Raven.
Everyone returns to the Tower to discuss the matter. They want to
help Raven, but unless she elects to confide in them, they don't know
what to do. Raven enters the meeting room and tells them that she is
leaving the team. She is dealing with matters of the soul that the
others could not hope to understand. The Titans plead with her to let
them help, but Raven is adamant. She announces that she will depart the
following morning.
Meanwhile, the citizens of Tamaran celebrate the end of the Citadel War. The Royal family sends a special envoy towards Earth to recover Starfire and return her home.
That evening, Jericho visits Raven's room. Raven thanks him for
her concern, but tells him that there is nothing anyone can do for her.
The journey that she must take is one that she must take alone. After
Raven falls asleep, Joey decides to enter her mind in the hopes of
learning the exact nature of her problem. He finds his spirit displaced
to a nightmarish dream scape made up of bones and tortured souls. At the
center of Raven's soul is the essence of that which has been corrupting
her – her demonic father Trigon.
The essence of Trigon unleashes a psionic attack that forcibly expels
Joey from Raven's body. When he comes to his senses, Raven is gone. The
Titans go to Raven's room and Joey tries his best to describe what he
experienced (using sign language). The sky outside Titans Tower grows
immensely dark and peals of thunder accompanied by an omnipresent
sinister laughter echoes all around them.
Ships Bagged