Story idea is by nos482 of adult fan fiction

Disclaimer I do not own Teen Titans, just this version of them. Wait, is that legal? Just to stay safe, I don't own anything. There, now I'm covered.

Three Years. A total of three years to find a way to reverse what happened to Terra. Cyborg couldn't believe that he actually found a way to reverse the process that had done away with the most infamously known and critically thought about Teen Titan. He had thought when starting out with his project that it could be done in a year, but he hadn't estimated how little time he would have to work on the scientific breakdown and experimentation.

Cyborg originally began researching and experimenting on reversing the process of Terra's condition the day after the event. He had plenty of reasons for doing it, but at the moment he couldn't take his eyes off of a clump of Terra's hair in his laboratory.

He had a big decision to make and he didn't know how to proceed, so he made his way to his bed and laid down, hoping it would come to him. Should he tell Beastboy and the team that he could reverse the damage done to the fallen Titan Terra, or just keep it a secret to himself. Things had become much more complicated in Terra's absence. Cyborg began to remind himself mentally for the reason he had attempted to resurrect Terra.

In the simplest of terms, he owed it to her. He owed it to every single one of the titans. And he owed it to his best friend. Terra saved their lives, true, only after putting them in it herself, but he couldn't really blame her. Beastboy had been heartbroken when Terra had betrayed them and then vengeful, and then he fell for her again and forgave her in record time for anyone who has ever been betrayed. His feelings had always been complex. Raven was simply pissed. Terra's sacrifice did little to do away with Raven's feelings of negativity towards her. Cyborg thought that Raven's feelings were just as complex as Beastboy's feelings. That left himself, Robin and Starfire in the middle. The three didn't have as extreme emotions about the whole ordeal as the other two. Probably because they never had major trust issues like Raven, and were not emotionally connected to Terra as Beastboy was. Of course, their feelings and thoughts about it differed considerably among each other because no two people will think and feel exactly the same no matter how similar their orientation is to something.

For Cyborg, he felt that he owed Terra everything that he could possibly do, for no other reason than she was his friend. She gave her life to save their city, to save him and his other friends. What bigger sacrifice can be made for a friend? He felt that if he didn't at least try to find a way to give a friend another chance at living a life that they gave up prematurely, then he really couldn't call himself a friend at all. He also thought that this would cheer up Beastboy considerably because you never forget your first love.

But this was before Cyborg realized that there was no way he could fix Terra in under a year in private. It was his own personal mission and he didn't want to fill anyone, especially BeastBoy with false hope. So he had been working on a cure in some of his spare time. Usually nights because he didn't want to tip anyone off by not doing the things he normally did, so the first thing he did do was invent an alternate power source for himself so that he could work during the time he normally spent charging his gear.

Another thing that set Cyborg back was that he had to find a way to cure Terra that worked, and he found that what he knew just wouldn't cut it. So it took a year alone too study up on his sciences. Working with leading professionals and reading all the books he could get through, he decided that the best chance he had at getting Terra back to normal stood with the surface covering her body. The titans had no idea if Terra was pure volcano like substance or just covered in it like ice. They just accepted that it was over for fear that she might be completely made of the substance or just covered in it and couldn't breathe. Neither thought was comforting. Cyborg first broke off several pieces of rock like structure that were nothing more than pieces of the rock that included parts of her clothing and began testing the properties of the materials. It was 6 months before he concluded that he could separate the rock structure from the clothing and the clothing would still exist, though extremely degraded from the chemicals used to break down the rock. Another problem had also arisen that slowed down Cyborg's production. Beastboy and Raven had begun dating.

Cyborg couldn't believe that it was actually happening that the two should hook up, even if he did know that Beastboy liked Raven. Of course Cy knew that Beastboy was crushing on Raven, he was his best friend and he knew him that well. He just didn't think that Raven would return the feelings. He didn't have the heart to tell his friend of his doubts because it would have crushed him, but he was more than overjoyed to find out he was wrong. This slowed down his work on the cure because, well, he knew that Terra and BB where an item once, and if she were to be resurrected, things would not go smoothly. Not to mention that Raven never really forgave Terra for her betrayal would complicate what was already a very complicated situation.

One thing came to Cyborg's mind though: I owe Terra everything that I can possibly do for her. Cyborg doesn't give up on his friends, though it did slow him down for a few weeks. When Cyborg got back to work, it had been a little more than a year and half since Terra's incident. It would take another year for Cyborg to found the right formula to separate the rock substance from Terra's clothing without the formula harming anything but the rock substance, and Cyborg was hit with another problem. Not a real problem but a problem he found in his head. Though the rock was separated without harming the clothing, the clothing still looked degraded somewhat because it had been a two and half years. His question was, even if he did remove the substance from around Terra, would she still be alive? The clothing had aged and degraded, wouldn't the same apply to Terra? And how did he know that it wouldn't get rid of her skin as well as the rock substance and leave her clothing?

He had decided to get a piece of the rock that had included some of Terra's hair, and amazingly it had worked, but he was still unsure of how it would effect her skin because hair and skin were different in importance because hair could always grow back, skin was another matter entirely. And this is where he was right now.

He couldn't think of a way to test the formula other than just dousing her entire body with the formula and wait and see, which was no test at all, it was pure sink or swim. Everything was on the line. After struggling with himself on his bed, going over everything, he decided that he would take that chance, because if she were already dead then it wouldn't matter, and if she lived, it would be worth it. He had one more problem: how was he going to tell everyone that he had been working on curing Terra for two and half years? Luckily, he had plenty of time to think about it because it would take six months to make enough of the formula to completely cover Terra.

After the six months he had made more than enough to cover Terra and he had decided that the best way to tell his teammates was to tell them directly.

Cyborg awkwardly makes his way into the common room where all of his teammates are resting on the couch. He is telling himself that this is good news that he is about to tell them, but he can't shake that something bad is just bound to happen.

"Guys, I have some news." He says.

He then proceeds to tell them all what he has been doing for the last three years, and he is met with silence. No one can really say anything, it's a lot to take in.

Robin starts, "Cyborg…that's amazing. I had no idea that you could do so much. So are we going to do this now?" Robin is standing up, appearing to be filled with many different emotions. Excited about the idea of Terra being revived, sad because of the memory of loss and the feeling of being useless when compared to how much Cyborg has done. He avoids Raven and BB's expressions because he knows that those two will be feeling the strongest about this.

"Friend Terra will be with us soon?" Star says tentatively. She appears to be more excited than anything else, but with traces of sadness in her voice also. Her actions scream louder than words though as she hugs Cyborg with strength.

Everyone avoids BB and Raven's faces and just wait for them to say something.

"Well, lets go," Beastboy says as he makes his way to the door with Raven in tow.

"I already have everything down where she is. Remember guys, three years have gone by so we have to be careful in how we break things to her. Her first clue will be on how much everyone has changed physically. We have to be slow with how much and how fast we reveal these things to her or she could go in shock," Cy says as they all leave for Terra's resting place.