As Raven's soul-self travelled through Flash's mind, she saw some of Flash's memories.
Flash's childhood, attending CHS for the first time, meeting Princess Twilight and attending Camp Everfree with Sunset and the rest of CHS.
Then finally she arrived at Flash's mindspace, it was coloured red and shrouded in fog.
"Flash Sentry?" Raven said, "where are you?"
"Why are you here?" Flash's voice answered, "Who are you?!"
"My name is Raven," Raven replied, "Sunset's worried about you."
"Sunset sent you?" Flash's voice responded, "great, another privileged super-powered teen to show me up."
"No, Flash..." Raven begin to reply.
"Well, not anymore," Flash's voice continued, "now that I've got this power, everyone who has ever crossed me will pay."
"Flash," Raven pleaded, "you need to listen, the ring is corrupting you, you need to fight it."
And why should he do that?
"Who's there?" Raven asked.
From out of the red mist, stepped Flash but what accompanied him was something else entirely.
It was the Butcher, the emotional entity of Rage.
The creature was a monstrous and shook Raven to her core a little
"Flash," Raven said, trying to recover, "that thing is corrupting you."
"Silence!" the Butcher roared, "there is great rage in this one's heart."
"For weeks I was a weak, powerless human," Flash carried on, "but now I have the power, I make the rules! This whole world will obey me!"
"Flash, thats not you," Raven replied, "thats the ring talking, Sunset told me about you, you would never really hurt another person."
"You really think so?" Flash asked, "I was born powerless in a world with Supermen, Gods of Thunder and Martian Manhunters."
"Flash..." Raven said, again.
"But now," Flash continued, ignoring her, "I'm on the same level, which means I can do this."
Before Raven could react, Flash summon a red fist construct and hit Raven with a mighty blow, knocking her out of the mindspace.
"Well," Madame Rouge said, "its time to test your combat prowess."
"OK," Midnight replied, "one of my friends, Rainbow Dash, is captain of the karate and boxing clubs she taught me a few things," she demonstrated some kicks and punches.
"Impressive," Madame Rouge commented, "but there is room for improvement."
"What happened?" Sunset asked, as Raven recovered from being punched out of the mindspace, "did you managed to get through to Flash?"
"He's angry," Raven replied, as she got to her feet, "very angry and blinded by rage," she, Laura, Sunset and Rose gathered around the still struggling Flash, "the rage is destroying him," she stated, grimly.
"We have to help him," Sunset said, "his life depends on it."
"Alright," Raven nodded, "I can try to block most the rage so he will be able regain control of himself."
She looked at Rainbow and Sunset, "ready your lantern rings," she instructed.
Sunset and Rainbow Dash complied, their rings lighting up with the lights of life and hope.
Pointing them at Flash, Rainbow and Sunset let the white and blue light from their rings washed over him.
He winced and thrashed about as the two lantern's respective emotional energies enveloped his body.
"Alright," Raven said, after a while, "that's enough."
Rainbow Dash and Sunset Shimmer obeyed, the glow from their rings subsiding.
Flash had stopped thrashing and now looked weak and drained.
"Flash," Sunset uttered, hardly daring to breath.
Raven knew what she had to do, again, she placed her hands on either side of Flash's head, her eyes glowed white like before.
For a moment, Flash lay still, then he suddenly jerked awake, gasping for air.
"Flash," Sunset cried, with tears in her eyes, "you're alright."
"Yeah," Flash replied, "I'm...okay?"
Suddenly, he noticed the predicament he was in.
"Arrr," Flash said, "anyone what to fill me in on why I'm tied to a table?"
"Hiya!" Midnight said, as she smashed through a wooden board.
She and Madame Rouge had moved out of the classroom and into the gym.
"Good," Madame Rouge smiled, clapping, "very good."
"You know," Midnight remarked, "I do feel a lot more confident about my powers."
"Thats good to hear," Madame Rouge replied, as she setup another board, "but now you must try and break this board using that yellow ring of yours."
"But I have no idea how to control this ring," Midnight responded, "I can't even turn it on."
"Then how do you explain what you did to Manchester and his pet thugs?" Madame Rouge asked.
"I don't know," Midnight insisted, "I remember saying some words and a voice in my head."
"Well," Madame Rouge said, calmly, "what do can you remember?"
"I remember," Midnight answered, "when they were afraid of me, my ring's power felt like it was rising."
"Then that means," Madame Rouge said, after some thinking, "that your ring, is fuelled by your ability to install fear in others and other people's fear."
"So?" Midnight asked.
"So," Madame Rouge continued, "you need to embrace fear and use it against your enemies."
"But," Midnight replied, reluctantly, "where do I even start?"
"I understand the fear and worry you have, Midnight," Madame Rouge answered, "one of my closest friends, who was a mutant like myself, was taken from me when we were just children by mutant haters."
"I'm so sorry," Midnight replied, "I didn't know."
Madame Rouge smiled, "thank you," she said, "fortunately for me, Professor X found me and took me to his school for the gifted and through his X-men I was taught that failure, fear and the life of a hero these things are inevitable, how we deal with them, that is the true test of who we are, what defines us."
"Wow," Midnight replied, "that was a pretty good speech."
"Even though I have moved on," Madame Rouge said, "the memory of my friend still lingers and even since I have had trouble making another friend."
"Well," Midnight smiled, "you've got another friend, right here."
"I'm your friend?" Madame Rouge asked.
"Of course," Midnight continued, still smiling, "you've given me confidence and a better understanding of my powers, I never could have done on my own."
"It was nothing," Madame Rouge replied, "I just saw someone in need of help."
Before anything else could be said, Midnight gave Madame Rouge a hug.
As Madame Rouge leaned in for the hug, Midnight couldn't see her face stretch into a sinister smile.