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You breathe through grit teeth as Unger stomps over to you.

"Did you know?" you ask him. "Gold is an excellent conductor of electricity? VINDAR!"

From your shoulder, Vindar sends 25 HUNDRED VOLTS through the gold spike that then goes into the golden ground the children of Trigon stand on! Those volts then hit Unger, Aurum, Alotta and Lilian, Nora and Yanna secured on the nature side of the island. They all fall over and power down from their Trigon forms. After a moment of stunned silence, the Titans hurry to secure them all.

"They're still breathing," Robin says.

"Of course," Vindar says as he unequips from you. "I would not use fatal force."

"Rorek!" Raven says in concern as she hurries over to you. "Oh no...!"

"I know," you say while she's looking at the gold spike in your arm. "The suit's ruined."

"Don't joke right now!" she says. "There's no way either of us can heal your arm in this state."

"My mother," you say. "She can."

"Someone get Rorek's mother!" Raven shouts towards the tower.

"On it!" Mas y Menos say.

They stack up and speed to the tower. Cyborg uses a laser to cut the gold spike away from the ground, then he holds it up carefully so it doesn't fall right out of the wound. The return trip for the speedster twins is slower since they're not big enough to carry your mother while also going super fast. And as your mother sees what happened to your arm, she almost screams in horror.

"Rory, oh my word. Oh, Rory, what happened?"

"It's a long story," you say. "Just be quick, because... I can't even feel my arm."

"What?!" Raven, your mother and even Cyborg say.

"Three, two, one, now!" your mother says.

Cyborg pulls the spike out, blood spurts but your mother clamps on her most powerful healing magics. You clench your jaw while enduring the pain.

"This can't be happening," Raven says, hands on head. "This can't be happening...! How is he ruining my life even now?! How is he still trying to make my life Hell!?"

"Raven, it's alright," you say. "We won."

"No...!" Unger says, forcing himself to sit up. "We're not done...! We're not done!!"

Unger ignites again, but Captain Cold blasts him with maximum ice! Even so, Unger pushes forward!

"How is he even awake?!" Speedy shouts, aiming arrows.

Speedy shoots the arrows and they're all flashbangs. Unger keeps going?!

"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Raven yells. "What are you not getting about our father being the literal worst being in the known universe?!"

"BECAUSE WE HAVE NO ONE!!" Unger shouts back. "Our mothers hated us! Their families hated us! We were either abandoned or abused! We were living in Hell!!"

"Hell..." Constantine says. "Wait, that's it!"

"What's it, John?" you ask.

"Don't you get it, kid?" he says back. "Trigon, seven children. And just look at their powers."

You think about everything you know about Team Trigon. Lilian biting, eating... Her calling Nora "NV..." Yanna yawning, making everyone sleepy... Alotta using physical attraction as a power source... Aurum making gold... Unger's anger...

"Of course!" you say. "The Deadly Sins!"

"Exactly," Constantine says. "And at the same time, that is how you can reach them."

"What?" Raven says. "Me?"

"You're their sister, and the oldest," Constantine says. "What sin do you think is left over?"

Raven has the realization for herself, same as you. She then turns back to Unger, standing there smoldering in his flames of rage.

"No one was there for you?" Raven asks. "No one loved you? And you think Trigon will change all that because he's your dad? I am your older sister, Trigon's firstborn, so listen to me when I say you are absolutely wrong! He doesn't care about anyone but himself! You bring him back, you're just going to be an afterthought to him, and THEN you'll have nothing in your lives! Do you understand me?!"

Raven looks at Lilian.

"Trigon in control means no food to eat," she tells her.

"NO food?!" Lilian repeats.

"Nope," she says. "Not even a tiny, little piece of bread."

Then Raven looks to Alotta.

"There won't be anyone to look at you with desire in their eyes," she says. "You'll be completely undesirable."

Alotta gasps and clutches her chest.

"That also means there won't be anyone to admire or desire to be like," Raven tells Nora, blindfolded as she is.

Nora herself gasps, doing her best to look in Raven's direction.

"And if there's no one else around, money and gold no longer mean anything," Raven tells Aurum.

Aurum looks around at all the gold he just made out of the island, despairing at the waste.

"And... Well, you'd probably be lying around no matter what, so I'm not even sure why you went along with any of this," Raven says to Yanna.

Yanna thinks about that, then shrugs and says, "Huh. Guess so."

"But you," Raven says to Unger. "You're so angry all the time, what happens if Trigon takes over? What reason do you have to be angry anymore? Who're you gonna be angry at anymore? You'll have won!"

"And if you don't believe her," Robin says. "then believe us."

He, Starfire, Cyborg and Beast Boy step up to be alongside Raven.

"We all saw what Trigon will do to this world," Cyborg says.

"It was nothing but fire and desolation," Starfire says.

"Now that was Hell on Earth," Beast Boy says.

"You don't have to give in to him," Raven says. "You can enjoy the good that this world has to offer. You can choose to have something of your own. You have each other. And, I mean, I'm here. We're here. It's up to you."

The siblings look to each other as they consider the offer. And they seem to see things Raven's way. Lilian, Alotta and Aurum walk over, and Yanna actually stands up on her own! Though, in a floppy manner, so it's oddly worse than her just being a ragdoll...

"Unger," Raven says, holding out a hand.

"Bootsh?" Lilian ask as she looks back.

"Boot?" Nora asks, looking around blindly. "You're not coming?"

"C'mon, Boot," Alotta says. "Raven's got a point."

"Yeah, man," Aurum says. "It's not worth it anymore."

The six keep calling to Unger, but you see the smoldering embers glowing on him.

"No," he says. "No! NO!!"

Unger turns around and runs to the remote control! And he starts punching it!

"Boot, stop!" Aurum shouts.

"NO!!" he shouts. "I NEED HIM! I NEED HIM! WORK, DAMMIT! WORK! WORK!! WORK!!!"

Unger keeps bashing the remote! And the beam starts growing stronger!?