Chapter 4: Cyborg's Captivity

Nightwing, along with Kevin, Ben and Gwen had arrived at the location which Slade had given instructions to find. As the four entered what seemed like a dark cavern not far from Jump City, it seemed an all too similar situation Ben, Kevin, and Gwen had faced when they ran into a Highbreed commander.

"So is this the right place?" asked Ben as he was looking at the instructions with a flashlight.

"I think so" replied Nightwing, "but since Slade might be still dealing with the aliens your grandfather is investigating, I think we should be on our toes that this could be a trap."

"Nothing" said Kevin as he took a flashlight and shined it at the end of the dark cavern, "we were being led on a goose chase by your old nemesis."

"I think I can step in here" said Gwen as she pushed Kevin aside and began to look around.

"Nothing's there" said Kevin, to which he didn't know Gwen was meditating to see if there was any sort of hidden passageway of some sort.

"Oh really?" asked Gwen as she turned around to Kevin, "Smash through that wall."

"What, you're giving me orders?" replied Kevin.

"Just do as what she says" said Ben.

As Kevin went closer to the area where Gwen believed there was a secret passageway, he began to feel the area of the wall and noticed that some parts of it were really could hard metal steel being panted over to look like it was part of the dark cavern. He then used his powers to obtain the steel substance, and grabbed the door and took it right off from its foundation and threw it to the side, where it hit the rock wall pretty hard, and also quite loud.

"Careful" said Nightwing as he whispered to Kevin, "you don't want whoever is in there to know that we're here."

"Well excuse me" replied Kevin, as he and the three others then began to head into what seem like either a secret Forever Knights base, or another sort of structure where the Highbreed could do their operations on Earth in secret.

But as the four entered the secret passageway, they were unaware of some of the hidden cameras that were watching them. The scene then switches to the main computer console, where a shadowy Forever Knights leader was watching them enter the base.

"So, Nightwing, you wish to try to rescue your friend Cyborg, have you?" asked the Forever Knights leader, "I doubt you'll be able to survive this one, even with the new weapons we have added, thanks to using the sort of technology your Cyborg friend has been forced to give us."

Back in the secret passageway, Gwen was continuing to meditate by using her powers to try to find where Cyborg might be located.

"Have you managed to find where Cyborg is located?" asked Nightwing to Gwen.

"I think he might be on a lower floor level" replied Gwen.

But as the four were about to head what seemed like the main room, Gwen could feel there was something quite not right here. As the four entered the room, Nightwing above all was shocked to see that there were many versions of his friend Cyborg whom noticed that they were intruding.

"Yeah, I think he's here" said Nightwing as he was preparing his fighting rod.

"Ah, I'm so glad you four could drop by" said an unfamiliar voice being shouted throughout the base, "yes, your friend Cyborg is indeed here being held captive, and we have happily acquired what his suit uses to build our Forever Cyborg army! Now, dispose of them if you will."

"This could be trouble" said Ben as he was trying to change his Omnitrix to Swampfire.

As Gwen, Kevin, and Nightwing began to fight the army of Forever Cyborgs, Ben had managed to change himself not into what he had expected to be Swampfire, but really Cromastone.

"I didn't want this guy!" cried Ben to which a laser from a sonic cannon on a Forever Cyborg was deflected right off of him, hitting the Forever Cyborg and destroying it instead, "But I guess he'll have to do."

While Ben joined the others in fighting the Forever Cyborgs, the real Cyborg was down below within one of the chambers where he was quite well tied up. Poor Cyborg was quite well deactivated, until he had managed to come back up on-line.

"What the heck is going on" said Cyborg to himself as he was quite disorientated.

"Well my friend" said the Forever Knight leader who came into the scene, "your suit provided us with quite a useful weapon to copy."

"How the heck did I get here?" asked Cyborg as he turned to the Forever Knight leader.

"You mean you don't seem to remember?" asked the Forever Knight leader as he began to circle around Cyborg who was quite well strapped down to a table, "Your old Teen Titan friends have gone off on your own ways, after you fought a mysterious creature which was able to obtain any substances it wished to be nearly invincible."

"Wait a second, were you the guys who sent that thing five years ago?!" cried Cyborg.

"No, not us" replied the Forever Knight leader, "but our clients had sent a scot five years ago to your planet to make contact with us to begin these secret operations while Max Tennyson seemed to be not interested in investigating them. Your team known as the Teen Titans disrupted the scout's activities before he could meet up with us."

But before the Forever Knight leader could go any further, a Forever Cyborg was thrown right through the metal door, busting it down completely revealing Ben still in his Chromastone form, along with Gwen, Kevin and Nightwing.

"Don't you guys ever learn?" asked Ben.

"Cyborg!" cried Nightwing.

"Robin, I mean, Nightwing is that you?" asked Cyborg.

"You fools, stay back!" said the Forever Knight leader as he readied a hi-tech weapon, "I have a hostage here, which I can use."

"That's what you think" replied Gwen as she used her powers to subdue the Forever Knight leader and knocking the weapon from his hand.

"Can one of you help me out here!" cried Cyborg, "I'm sort of tied up at the moment!"

"Don't worry, we're coming" replied Kevin as he and Ben then began to help release Cyborg.

"Ah, it's good to be free" said Cyborg as he was stretching his muscles.

"We need to know what happen to the others" said Nightwing.

"Don't worry" said Gwen as she continued to hold the Forever Knight leader with her powers, "I think we can be able to try to get some info out of him."

"Oh, I don't like where this is heading" sighed the Forever Knight leader.