Just before I started this chapter, I got a request for me to kill
Terra....There are some sick people in this world, aren't there? Don't
worry; death will not come for any of the titans.
Chapter 6, Cyborg's will. (part1)
Midday in the tower. Some of the titans were out for the day. Raven and Starfire were at the city mall doing some shopping, and Terra and Beast Boy were on a pizza date. Asura, Robin, and Cyborg were doing what each of them usually does. Asura was going through his usual routine of cleaning and cooking, Robin was reviewing the newspaper looking for signs of Slade activity, and Cyborg was testing out the new processing chip that Asura gave him.
He was outside on the obstacle course. With the new chip, Cyborg was able to change his blasts from a constant beam to a pulse of shots. He could even charge the intensity of the blasts. He kneeled down on shot at moving targets with incredible accuracy. "BOOYA!!" Cyborg yelled. "I'm loving this new processing chip!"
Around the obstacle course were the remnants of the slade-machines that attacked the tower a few weeks ago. Some of them were still barely active. None of them were able to move, but their optical processors were still barely glowing an eerie red glow. Cyborg decided to do a little clean up around the tower. He began to go around and blast the remaining parts and scraps of slade bots.
As he did, he noticed that a small, bug like machine was escaping his blasts. Cyborg chased after it. "hold still you little piece of scrap metal!" he yelled. The small machine then jumped into a small ventilation vent that leads to the tower's basement. "Oh great, now I gotta go after you. Man, and I wasn't finished with my blaster yet." He said with an annoyed groan.
Cyborg went inside the tower and headed down the stairs into the dark depths of the basement. One of the rooms of the basement was the tower's fuse box, so Cyborg knew he had to find it quickly. Cyborg's shoulder lamp popped up and lit the surrounding area. He walked around for a little while without seeing anything. Then, he saw a red light streak across his path. Cyborg rushed to catch it, but it was gone. Then out of the corner of his eye he saw another red light streak down the hall way of the tower. The hall the little machine ran down was a dead end eventually, Cyborg ran down the hall to meet the machine. "You ain't getting away from me now!" Cyborg yelled. As he rushed down the hall, he could faintly see the machine's red glow. It wasn't moving, but it was clearly taking a defensive position. "Lights out little guy" said Cyborg. Just as Cyborg took aim, the machine charged at him, zigzagging at incredible speed. It was climbing the walls and ceiling. Cyborg tried his best to blast at it but couldn't hit it. Cyborg started to back away from the tiny, yet ferocious machine that was charging at him. Until it looked like he had a clear shot at it, Cyborg took aim and fired. The machine jumped up and latched itself on Cyborg's face. "YAAAAH!!! GET IT OFF ME!!!" he yelled. Cyborg tried to tear the small legs of the machine off its face, but it maintained a solid grip. Cyborg ran all over the room, blinded by the machine, until he hit his head on a pipe and fell on the ground unconscious.
When Cyborg awoke, he was in his room on his recharge table with an ice pack on his head. "Oh man, what the hell happened?" he asked himself. Just then his door opened and Asura came inside. He was carrying assorted medical supplies along with a tool box.
"Oh good, you're awake. That was some hit you took, any idea what happened?" he asked.
"Well, I was just doing some clean-up around the tower, until I saw a small robot run inside the tower's basement. When I went to go catch it, it attacked me." explained Cyborg. When Asura heard this, he noticed that Cyborg's voice seemed to be somewhat monotone, as if there was another voice under his.
"Cyborg, are you okay?" asked Asura
"Yeah, other than the bump on the head, I feel fine."
"Then what's wrong with your voice?"
"My voice? What do you mean?"
"It sounds like someone else is repeating you under your voice." When Cyborg heard this, his face went about as pale as it could get.
"Oh no, get Robin in here, quick!" ordered Cyborg with a sort of urgency in his voice. Asura dropped the supplies and ran to Robin's room. When he came back, Robin asked, "what's the matter Cyborg?"
"I think that machine that attacked me corrupted my systems. I need you to check it out for me." Cyborg's monotone voice startled Robin.
"Cyborg, why do you sound a little like Slade?" he asked.
"Damn, I knew there was something fishy about that machine. Looks like you are going to have to do a virtual de-bug, Robin."
"What's a virtual de-bug?" asked Asura
"It means that I'm going to have to act as anti-virus software by using a program that allows me to take a virtual form, go inside Cyborg's systems and get rid of any viruses from the inside." explained Robin. Robin then went to Cyborg's computer terminal and started to type in commands. After a few seconds, snake like wires came out from Cyborg's recharge pad and inserted themselves into the plugs in his arms, legs, and head. After another few seconds, five large mechanical columns came out from the floor.
"Do you need help, Robin?" asked Asura
"No, I need you here, incase the other titans get here. If they do, press these keys to make the other pods activate." he said as he pointed to a set of five numbered computer keys. "I should be able to do this by myself though, so don't bother calling them." Robin then opened the door to one of the columns. As soon as he did, it lit up with electronic lights and sounds.
"Asura, you can monitor Robin through that computer monitor next to my recharge unit" said Cyborg. Asura sat down in front of the monitor. Automatically, the monitor turned on. The image was a virtual representation of Cyborg's systems. It looked like a huge city that spanned hundreds of miles. The buildings looked similar to Cyborg's cybernetic parts. The monitor then zoomed in on the center complex of the city. There was a pixilated formation of what looked like Robin. Gradually his detail became better. From 8-bit, to 16-bit, to 32-bit, to 64-bit, constantly doubling in detail. A few minutes later, he looked almost photo-realistic.
"Asura, put on the head set so I can talk to you." said Robin. Asura looked around and saw a headset and microphone hanging from the computer monitor and put it on. "Can you hear me?" asked Asura.
"Loud and clear. I need you to activate my anti-virus software. Say, 'command, option, anti-virus, R-1'" Asura repeated Robin. What looked like futuristic armor appeared on Robin's body. He also was equipped with assorted weapons. "Okay, now say 'command, option, full-map'" Asura repeated Robin, the monitor then showed a picture of what looked like Cyborg's body, minus his organic components. Some of the sections around his head were highlighted in red, and in big red letters the word 'INFECTION' appeared near the highlighted area. "Where is the virus, Asura?" asked Robin.
"it looks like it's in his head" said Asura.
"Great, just where I want it to be" said Robin sarcastically.
"That would explain my headache" noted Cyborg
"Asura, say 'command, move target, neck'" Asura repeated Robin, he then disappeared and reappeared in Cyborg's neck. The virtual city inside Cyborg's neck looked fine, but up ahead, Robin could see large red explosions in the distance. Robin started to run toward the explosions. There he saw virtual Slade-bots attacking Cyborg's own natural defense systems and components. Robin counter attacked the mechs by throwing birdarangs into the heads of the larger machines. Any machines that approached him were sliced in half by a virtual katana that Robin had in his hand. A few flying mechs dive- bombed Robin, he responded by throwing birdarangs into their heads. "Good going, Robin, looks like you are really doing damage to the virus" said Asura.
"These things aren't the virus, these are its defenses. The real virus is probably deeper within Cyborg's head somewhere." He said as he continued to hack and slash his way farther into the infected areas of Cyborg's head. As he continued through, he could see the infected components starting to degrade. "I must be getting close." Robin said to himself. As he approached the central processing center inside Cyborg's head, he could see what looked like a large red leaf-less tree implanted in the processing hub. Robin lunged at it tried to swing his katana at it. The tree responded by knocking Robin away with a large swipe of one of its branches. Robin was thrown away and bounced on the ground a couple of times. Robin got to his feet and pulled out a small cyber-pistol from his belt. "let's try a long range attack" Robin squeezed the trigger and shot at the tree a few times. The tree quickly responded by knocking away the bullets with its branches. "Alright, lets try the heavy artillery" Robin pressed a few buttons on the pistol and it changed shape into a large rocket launcher. "Eat this!" Robin shot at the tree with three large missiles. The missiles hit the tree dead on; they exploded with a thunderous "BOOM". When the fire and smoke cleared, the tree appeared to start to melt away. "Yeah! That got it!" Cheered Robin.
But when he looked again, he could see a figure in the mucky mess. It looked like a human, but its arms were long and skinny, it had huge claws, and it wore the most bizarre looking armor. But the one tell tale sign that got Robin on the defensive was the Slade mask it wore. "Oh great, looks like I've got more to deal with." The virus then jumped up onto the side of a building, and started to bounce around the cityscape. Robin was not going to be able to catch him without flying. Luckily the virus entered a section of Cyborg where gravity is non-existent. Robin followed the virus and as soon as he entered, a large claw swiped at his face. Robin responded by blocking the claw with his katana. The two exchanged a flurry of swipes and slashes. Robin managed to land a hit on the face of the virus. It flew back and grabbed the wall. It seemed to stay still, Robin charged at him, just then, a dark hole appeared in the armor of the virus, and it started to shoot lasers out of it. Robin dodged the first few, but was then hit by the next three and was knocked out for a few seconds.
"Robin! Are you alright?" asked Asura. Robin awoke and rubbed his head
"Yeah, I'm okay" Robin looked around but couldn't find the virus anywhere. "Asura, where did the virus go?" Asura looked around the Cyborg- map.
"The main infection is still in his chest, but the virus looks like its heading to Cyborg's left arm."
"My left arm?! Robin, hurry the hell up! If it gets control of my sonic blaster, it could do some major damage!" Yelled Cyborg.
"It looks like the room I'm in can take me to any part of your body really quickly. I can already see a way into your arm. But man, I really wish I had some help here" said Robin. Just then two figures entered the room.
"Robin!" it was Starfire and Raven. They too were dressed in their anti-virus armor. Starfire looked like a futuristic warrior, and Raven looked a little like a female angel of death, complete with a cyber scythe.
"Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, Raven and Starfire arrived just as you were knocked out by the virus." noted Asura.
"Awesome, listen up guys, you aren't able to use your powers in this place, you'll have to rely on your anti-virus weapons." Explained Robin. Raven took a look at her cyber-scythe and said, "No problem" with an evil- toothy smile.
"Alright, let's go!" said Robin, and the three of them headed into the electric tunnels leading to Cyborg's arm.
WOOT my first 2-parter! Hope you all liked this one, I got big plans for the conclusion.
Chapter 6, Cyborg's will. (part1)
Midday in the tower. Some of the titans were out for the day. Raven and Starfire were at the city mall doing some shopping, and Terra and Beast Boy were on a pizza date. Asura, Robin, and Cyborg were doing what each of them usually does. Asura was going through his usual routine of cleaning and cooking, Robin was reviewing the newspaper looking for signs of Slade activity, and Cyborg was testing out the new processing chip that Asura gave him.
He was outside on the obstacle course. With the new chip, Cyborg was able to change his blasts from a constant beam to a pulse of shots. He could even charge the intensity of the blasts. He kneeled down on shot at moving targets with incredible accuracy. "BOOYA!!" Cyborg yelled. "I'm loving this new processing chip!"
Around the obstacle course were the remnants of the slade-machines that attacked the tower a few weeks ago. Some of them were still barely active. None of them were able to move, but their optical processors were still barely glowing an eerie red glow. Cyborg decided to do a little clean up around the tower. He began to go around and blast the remaining parts and scraps of slade bots.
As he did, he noticed that a small, bug like machine was escaping his blasts. Cyborg chased after it. "hold still you little piece of scrap metal!" he yelled. The small machine then jumped into a small ventilation vent that leads to the tower's basement. "Oh great, now I gotta go after you. Man, and I wasn't finished with my blaster yet." He said with an annoyed groan.
Cyborg went inside the tower and headed down the stairs into the dark depths of the basement. One of the rooms of the basement was the tower's fuse box, so Cyborg knew he had to find it quickly. Cyborg's shoulder lamp popped up and lit the surrounding area. He walked around for a little while without seeing anything. Then, he saw a red light streak across his path. Cyborg rushed to catch it, but it was gone. Then out of the corner of his eye he saw another red light streak down the hall way of the tower. The hall the little machine ran down was a dead end eventually, Cyborg ran down the hall to meet the machine. "You ain't getting away from me now!" Cyborg yelled. As he rushed down the hall, he could faintly see the machine's red glow. It wasn't moving, but it was clearly taking a defensive position. "Lights out little guy" said Cyborg. Just as Cyborg took aim, the machine charged at him, zigzagging at incredible speed. It was climbing the walls and ceiling. Cyborg tried his best to blast at it but couldn't hit it. Cyborg started to back away from the tiny, yet ferocious machine that was charging at him. Until it looked like he had a clear shot at it, Cyborg took aim and fired. The machine jumped up and latched itself on Cyborg's face. "YAAAAH!!! GET IT OFF ME!!!" he yelled. Cyborg tried to tear the small legs of the machine off its face, but it maintained a solid grip. Cyborg ran all over the room, blinded by the machine, until he hit his head on a pipe and fell on the ground unconscious.
When Cyborg awoke, he was in his room on his recharge table with an ice pack on his head. "Oh man, what the hell happened?" he asked himself. Just then his door opened and Asura came inside. He was carrying assorted medical supplies along with a tool box.
"Oh good, you're awake. That was some hit you took, any idea what happened?" he asked.
"Well, I was just doing some clean-up around the tower, until I saw a small robot run inside the tower's basement. When I went to go catch it, it attacked me." explained Cyborg. When Asura heard this, he noticed that Cyborg's voice seemed to be somewhat monotone, as if there was another voice under his.
"Cyborg, are you okay?" asked Asura
"Yeah, other than the bump on the head, I feel fine."
"Then what's wrong with your voice?"
"My voice? What do you mean?"
"It sounds like someone else is repeating you under your voice." When Cyborg heard this, his face went about as pale as it could get.
"Oh no, get Robin in here, quick!" ordered Cyborg with a sort of urgency in his voice. Asura dropped the supplies and ran to Robin's room. When he came back, Robin asked, "what's the matter Cyborg?"
"I think that machine that attacked me corrupted my systems. I need you to check it out for me." Cyborg's monotone voice startled Robin.
"Cyborg, why do you sound a little like Slade?" he asked.
"Damn, I knew there was something fishy about that machine. Looks like you are going to have to do a virtual de-bug, Robin."
"What's a virtual de-bug?" asked Asura
"It means that I'm going to have to act as anti-virus software by using a program that allows me to take a virtual form, go inside Cyborg's systems and get rid of any viruses from the inside." explained Robin. Robin then went to Cyborg's computer terminal and started to type in commands. After a few seconds, snake like wires came out from Cyborg's recharge pad and inserted themselves into the plugs in his arms, legs, and head. After another few seconds, five large mechanical columns came out from the floor.
"Do you need help, Robin?" asked Asura
"No, I need you here, incase the other titans get here. If they do, press these keys to make the other pods activate." he said as he pointed to a set of five numbered computer keys. "I should be able to do this by myself though, so don't bother calling them." Robin then opened the door to one of the columns. As soon as he did, it lit up with electronic lights and sounds.
"Asura, you can monitor Robin through that computer monitor next to my recharge unit" said Cyborg. Asura sat down in front of the monitor. Automatically, the monitor turned on. The image was a virtual representation of Cyborg's systems. It looked like a huge city that spanned hundreds of miles. The buildings looked similar to Cyborg's cybernetic parts. The monitor then zoomed in on the center complex of the city. There was a pixilated formation of what looked like Robin. Gradually his detail became better. From 8-bit, to 16-bit, to 32-bit, to 64-bit, constantly doubling in detail. A few minutes later, he looked almost photo-realistic.
"Asura, put on the head set so I can talk to you." said Robin. Asura looked around and saw a headset and microphone hanging from the computer monitor and put it on. "Can you hear me?" asked Asura.
"Loud and clear. I need you to activate my anti-virus software. Say, 'command, option, anti-virus, R-1'" Asura repeated Robin. What looked like futuristic armor appeared on Robin's body. He also was equipped with assorted weapons. "Okay, now say 'command, option, full-map'" Asura repeated Robin, the monitor then showed a picture of what looked like Cyborg's body, minus his organic components. Some of the sections around his head were highlighted in red, and in big red letters the word 'INFECTION' appeared near the highlighted area. "Where is the virus, Asura?" asked Robin.
"it looks like it's in his head" said Asura.
"Great, just where I want it to be" said Robin sarcastically.
"That would explain my headache" noted Cyborg
"Asura, say 'command, move target, neck'" Asura repeated Robin, he then disappeared and reappeared in Cyborg's neck. The virtual city inside Cyborg's neck looked fine, but up ahead, Robin could see large red explosions in the distance. Robin started to run toward the explosions. There he saw virtual Slade-bots attacking Cyborg's own natural defense systems and components. Robin counter attacked the mechs by throwing birdarangs into the heads of the larger machines. Any machines that approached him were sliced in half by a virtual katana that Robin had in his hand. A few flying mechs dive- bombed Robin, he responded by throwing birdarangs into their heads. "Good going, Robin, looks like you are really doing damage to the virus" said Asura.
"These things aren't the virus, these are its defenses. The real virus is probably deeper within Cyborg's head somewhere." He said as he continued to hack and slash his way farther into the infected areas of Cyborg's head. As he continued through, he could see the infected components starting to degrade. "I must be getting close." Robin said to himself. As he approached the central processing center inside Cyborg's head, he could see what looked like a large red leaf-less tree implanted in the processing hub. Robin lunged at it tried to swing his katana at it. The tree responded by knocking Robin away with a large swipe of one of its branches. Robin was thrown away and bounced on the ground a couple of times. Robin got to his feet and pulled out a small cyber-pistol from his belt. "let's try a long range attack" Robin squeezed the trigger and shot at the tree a few times. The tree quickly responded by knocking away the bullets with its branches. "Alright, lets try the heavy artillery" Robin pressed a few buttons on the pistol and it changed shape into a large rocket launcher. "Eat this!" Robin shot at the tree with three large missiles. The missiles hit the tree dead on; they exploded with a thunderous "BOOM". When the fire and smoke cleared, the tree appeared to start to melt away. "Yeah! That got it!" Cheered Robin.
But when he looked again, he could see a figure in the mucky mess. It looked like a human, but its arms were long and skinny, it had huge claws, and it wore the most bizarre looking armor. But the one tell tale sign that got Robin on the defensive was the Slade mask it wore. "Oh great, looks like I've got more to deal with." The virus then jumped up onto the side of a building, and started to bounce around the cityscape. Robin was not going to be able to catch him without flying. Luckily the virus entered a section of Cyborg where gravity is non-existent. Robin followed the virus and as soon as he entered, a large claw swiped at his face. Robin responded by blocking the claw with his katana. The two exchanged a flurry of swipes and slashes. Robin managed to land a hit on the face of the virus. It flew back and grabbed the wall. It seemed to stay still, Robin charged at him, just then, a dark hole appeared in the armor of the virus, and it started to shoot lasers out of it. Robin dodged the first few, but was then hit by the next three and was knocked out for a few seconds.
"Robin! Are you alright?" asked Asura. Robin awoke and rubbed his head
"Yeah, I'm okay" Robin looked around but couldn't find the virus anywhere. "Asura, where did the virus go?" Asura looked around the Cyborg- map.
"The main infection is still in his chest, but the virus looks like its heading to Cyborg's left arm."
"My left arm?! Robin, hurry the hell up! If it gets control of my sonic blaster, it could do some major damage!" Yelled Cyborg.
"It looks like the room I'm in can take me to any part of your body really quickly. I can already see a way into your arm. But man, I really wish I had some help here" said Robin. Just then two figures entered the room.
"Robin!" it was Starfire and Raven. They too were dressed in their anti-virus armor. Starfire looked like a futuristic warrior, and Raven looked a little like a female angel of death, complete with a cyber scythe.
"Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, Raven and Starfire arrived just as you were knocked out by the virus." noted Asura.
"Awesome, listen up guys, you aren't able to use your powers in this place, you'll have to rely on your anti-virus weapons." Explained Robin. Raven took a look at her cyber-scythe and said, "No problem" with an evil- toothy smile.
"Alright, let's go!" said Robin, and the three of them headed into the electric tunnels leading to Cyborg's arm.
WOOT my first 2-parter! Hope you all liked this one, I got big plans for the conclusion.