Mina and Chief O'Law rushed down the steps to the mess caused by the runaway bed mattress. Trudy and Winona were sprawled out on the sandbags. Both looked slightly out of it, but alive and breathing.

"Heeeeey," Trudy exclaimed. "Two Mina's have come to see us!"

Winona smiled even more groggy. "I see 666 Mina's! Blessed Satan has a cloning machine!"

Mina rolled her eyes, but smiled all the same "I am sooo glad to see you guys! How the heck did you get here?!"

Trudy smiled and stifled a grasp towards her. "Turns out this is a race car bed! We busted out of Raven's evil wife's mansion and rolled all the way down the boulevards!"

"Birdbrain!" Chief O'Law cried as Raven still lay sprawled on the mattress, completely unconscious.

His frizzy mop of black hair hung limp over his face and his mouth hung open. "Oh lawd!" Mina cried with her hands to her mouth. "Is he…d…"

"SNOOOOOORE!" the birdbrain answered, still lying limp but his nose now blowing a snot bubble.

"Phew!" Mina exclaimed, wiping her head.

Chief O'Law had tears in her eyes. Mina could have sworn the tough lady cop had said her tear ducts shriveled up, but no, they were clearly moist with concern and sadness.

Even if he was just sleeping, Raven looked bad. His pajamas were torn and his body was unnaturally sprawled out. He was deeply unconscious from the hypnosis. Chief O'Law gave her a nod. "Please. Do something for him."

Mina took a deep breath. Doing this in front of her friends and the police chief would be deeply embarrassing and even she wasn't sure it would work due to the level of ridiculousness.

Still, it was the only shot she had at saving her poor traumatized and bedraggled friend and mentor.

Mina started to wiggle her hips and clap her hands. She twirled in a perfectly choreographic dance mirroring a long forgotten meme from 2013. She had achieved cringeworthy K-Pop perfection when she spun around perfectly and held out her hands shouting, "DeHypno Style!"

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Suddenly, the catatonic Raven opened his eyes. He was wordless but for once his eyes were full of life. She looked towards O'Law who continued to leak tears like a burst dam. She nodded. "Say her name, Mina."

"Raven," Mina said, her eyes shimmering too. "I promise to you. I will save Anna Banana."

Like he was hit with a brick, Raven slumped back over like he was dead. Mina and Rita both screamed his name. Had he suffered some kind of fatal migraine from the shock of hearing his long lost daughter's name?"

But then, when he hit the pillow, he kicked his legs up in the air and flipped right to his feet. With a gallant but goofy grin, he swiped his dark curly locks of hair out of his eyes. He lifted his hands in a disco pose and suddenly, he belted the altered lyrics to the Hee Bee Gee Bee's tune. "HA HA HA HA! Attorney at law! Attorney at law!"

Everyone's jaw dropped, they were awestruck into silence as Raven started dry humping the air and changing his tune to a Slick Shifty number.

"Guess who's back? Back again! Raven's back! Tell a friend…ackkkk!"

Immediately, he was dogpiled into a hug as Mina, her friends and the police chief all glomped on him in a massive hug. Raven was indeed back, and he didn't need to tell Mina and her friends, because well, they were there to witness his revival at long last!

"Raven!" Mina cried. "Promise you'll never get hypnotized again by a sinister wife from an evil organization ever again!"

"Sure…kiddo," Raven said, struggling to breathe. "That's oddly specific, but consider that done! What have I missed?"

"Exactly that!" Mina said, nuzzling him tight. "Oh and my hiney getting absolutely trounced in a court of law. Probably an indomitable prison sentence too where I'm gonna meet a lot of muscle women like Star, only not so nice!"

"Wait!" Raven said. "Are you serious? For what?"

Mina released Raven. "For my friends and I breaking and entering into your house to save you from Devillia!"

The normally jovial Raven balled up his fists. He furrowed his brow in anger. "We can't have that kiddo! Unless you're really into muscle ladies now! Ol' Raven always had a hunch you we…"

"Er… umm…no comment!" Mina exclaimed, turning bright red. "I'm still young and finding myself. But I don't want to go to prison!"

Raven offered her a thumbs up so close to her button nose she saw his swirly thumbprint. "Luckily, you came to the right place, kiddo! I got a hot date with the law…and it's courting time!"

Mina smiled. He had hijacked her catchphrase, but never once was she more happy to finally have the master bird brain, Raven Lockwood, attorney at law, back on her side.