Hey guys, this is just preview with another fun cliffie. I just didn't want to leave you guys hanging and let you know that I am still here! This chapter is not finished, the chapters are going to be longer from now on. You will know what happens to Cyborg and his parents and what Cyborg's essence object is. Can anyone guess what it is? I hope to update soon. I'm sorry guys -.-;; I have ADD. I'm actually serious, I do have ADD. I take a pill for it everyday when I have school. It's very hard for me to do something, even something that I love like this story, for longer than fifteen minutes.
"Victor Stone you get out of that Laboratory before you break something or you won't see that filthy piece of leather for a week!"
"C'mon mom! It's not like we're juggling test tubes! We just need a bandaid!"
The silhouette of a woman appeared at the top of the stairs. When she stepped into the amazing light of the laboratory a wave of something else covered the room. Something clean, motherly. Her face was like a stone statue, the only weathering of it was from the wind and rain. Nothing else could break it. Not a hair seemed to escape from the bun she had placed on top of her head. Her glasses had no specks or prints to be seen and looked like new. Her lab coat and shoes shone with a white would rather repel dirt than attract it. Her face was contorted in such a way that Raven was sure that the woman was about to explode.
"I don't care! If you need a bandaid, ask an assistant! I don't trust you in the lab by yourself. Especially with those hooligans you call friends."
The injured boy next to Victor took the opportunity to present a very rude gesture to Victor's mother, which only elevated her anger. Cyborg however did not seem to care that the boy showed any such gesture to his mother. Where's his respect? But as Raven examined his face she realized that this was not Cyborg. This was Victor Stone. Victor was a regular boy, no robotics on him at all. He had an air about him that made others know that he was invincible. Not so true. Raven's attention flew back to his mother in the doorway and her soon to happen explosion. But before she could unleash her wrath on her son she was distracted by footsteps coming down the stairway and a calm, deep voice.
"What are you two young boys doing here?"
This had to be Cyborg's dad. Raven felt a wave of excitement. Victor's father, the man he had only spoken of. Raven knew the influence that this man had as a dad and as a genius scientist. Cyborg had always spoken of some sort of experiment that his father was obsessed with. It had something to do with time travel. But what became of the experiment Raven had never heard because Cyborg always fell silent towards the end. I wonder what happened? It must have been a painful memory, but then again, any memory of Cyborg's parents was painful.
Raven snapped out of her pondering to see that Cyborg's dad was nothing special. He looked like the average Joe. Feeling slightly disappointed, Raven pursued her mission to eavesdrop with even more vigilance.
"We're just looking for a bandage dad, nothing to get all worked up about."
"At our laboratory? Why can't you look at home? We have plenty of bandages."
Raven was shocked. She had been under the assumption that they were in some sort of basement. Cyborg had always said that his parents lived at their work, but she thought he had meant literally. She quickly scoped the room a little bit more and saw several cots in the corner. Ah.
"I'm sorry dad I just wanted to say hi."
Aww.
"Well I'm sorry but you're gonna have to come by another time, it's not safe here today son."
Huh? Safe?
Victor's mom exploded.
"SAFE? OF COURSE IT'S NOT SAFE! HE'S OFF THERE PLAYING THAT DRATTED FOOSEBALL AGAIN, BREAKING HIS ARM, HIS NECK, AND PROBABLY HIS HEAD! DO SOMETHING SILAS BEFORE HE DIES!"
Silas Stone simply looked at Victor with a worried face, and Victor stared back with a stubborn glare before replying to his mother's sweet comment.
"I'm not defected. You can't fix me old man. All you do is make it worse. Safe? I'm fine old man. I got me, myself, and I. I don't need you."
And as if to prove his point Victor tossed the football that he had been gripping into the air in one graceful gesture. He then caught it perfectly, as though he had been practicing for weeks.
Both of Victor's parents showed faces of absolute horror, which pleased Victor to no end. Eleanor Stone exploded again, or imploded, Raven could not decide which.
"VICTOR STONE YOU GET OUT OF THIS LABORATORY RIGHT NOW OR I'M GONNA-"
In the middle of her speech Cyborg chuckled and tossed the ball into the air again to prove his point a second time.
Only this time, he didn't catch it.