"Hello." Lez called to Cyborg, as he entered the room.

"Hi. So... Raven basically explained what she thought of all this and what was happening... I'm guessing she didn't say much?"

"No, just the basics of what she believed that I needed to know," the doctor admitted.

"Ah, don't worry about it. Raven's like that with most people. She'll open up eventually, she's just not very trusting at first. The only ones on the team I think she really trusts are Robin and me."

"Really? Why is that?"

"Well, Star and Rae are close, but they don't talk much they're kinda different. Me and Rae have a lot of differences, but I guess I'm sorta like a brother figure for her. I help her with her problems, she helps me with mine. We just kinda hang out a lot. Don't know how it really started, but now every time I'm fixin the T-Car, she's right there with me, helping. I guess we have an understanding. BB and her kinda clash though, being polar opposites."

"And what about Robin?"

"Well, I'm not sure really. She's always kinda drifted towards him in the begining. Our first fight together, before we were a team. She was reluctant to come with us, saying somthin' like, 'if we knew what she really was, we wouldn't want her arround.' Robin waved her off, basicaly sayin' he knew enough. I think she likes that he doesn't ask questions, that he minds his buisness unlike BB, who's always callin' her out for not tellin us everything. Plus they have this... bond." when he said this, he sounded unsure, like he didn't know if he should've mentioned it or not.

"A bond? As in, a mental link?" she asked. She knew a little bit about these, seeing as she was always working with Metahumans.

"Yea, something like that... You know Robin from before, right?" she nodded. "So, you know about the whole Joker thing?"

She sighed, rubbing her temples. "Yes. I've been working with Batman sort of as a family doctor, since before Nightwing, the first Robin was around. I... helped Robin with the whole thing..." Cyborg nodded, understanding.

"Okay, just checkin before saying anything. I don't want an angry Robin and an angry Raven on my tail at the same time. That's plain old suicide. But yea, when Robin... almost, went crazy, Raven went in his mind, telling him the things he was seeing were just hullucinations. It formed some sort of bond thingy."

"Ah." she said, nodding. "Well, I'll try to earn her trust. So, what about you?"

"My past?" she nodded. "Well, I guess it doesn't matter if I tell you, I'm sure most people know who I really am anyway. My real name's Vic Stone. My parents both worked for Star Labs. They were always using me as an experiment for their intelligent enhansement projects. I dealt with it at first, but as my IQ grew, I started to resent it. So to get back at 'em, I ended becoming friends with this kid, Ron Evers. He ended up leading me into trouble with the law a lot. Well, that started a chain of reactions, and I ended up trying to get away from what my parents wanted to me, and started things they disaproved of. Sports, for example.

"I loved playin' football, soccer, anything. My parents were set on me doing something accidemic. Sports kept me away from the bad stuff, though I still kept bad company. I ended up gettin' hurt once, Ron talkin' me into getting involved in a street gang fight. That was when the city was still run by crime. Besides that, I had a pretty normal life. Ron was still buggin me though, to do the bad things. I tried to get away from it, from him. But it was hard. I ended up ditching him, when he wanted me to help with a racially motivated terrorist act he had come up with.

"I started getting my life back on track, but still I didn't get along with my parents. One day I went with them to Star Labs, cause they wanted me to see one of their experiments. It was a portal, one that could bring things from other dimensions. The experiment went wrong though."

"It didn't work?"

"Oh, it worked alright..." he mumbled. "When we opened the portal, this... this monster thing, came out. It... killed my mom. After that, it turned towards me. It just about ripped me appart. I was sure I was gonna die." he shook his head. "If only...

"My dad forced the monster back through the portal. He couldn't stand to loose both my mom and I, having no one else. He fitted me with experimental prostetics of his own design. When I woke up... I was horrified. I was a monster. I flipped on my dad, asking him why he couldn't have just let me die. Well, eventually I got used to the prostetics, through phisical therapy. I still thought I was a monster though. It didn't help when I got to school.

"I was rejected by everyone. They were all affraid of me. Even my girlfriend, Marcy rejected me. I wasn't allowed to play sports anymore, becuase of the prostetics, and because of bad grades. Well, Ron came back. He tried to mess with my head, to trick me into participating with him in a terrorist attack towards the UN. I ended up stopping him, after a heated battle on top of the UN headquarters.

"Well, after that, I didn't want to go back to my dad. I was still mad at my dad. One night, I was walking around, when Starfire came, started destroying the city."

"Yes, she told me about that. Something with the Gordanians and the Citadel?" he nodded.

"After that, we ended up turning their capsule they sent down into the tower." She nodded in response.

"You've had quite a life so far. Lots of peer pressure," she noted.

"Yea, people tried to use me a lot, thinking that since I was... like this, that I'd be easy to control. And even before this. I was a big guy, pretty strong. They thought I'd be a total meat head, that they could use me. Recruit me into their gangs. But I knew better. My parents had taught me at least that much."

"Do you still keep in touch with your father?"

"Eh. We email back and forth sometimes. Other than that..." he shrugged. "So, you've gotten to all of us but Robin, but you know his past I'm guessing..."

"Yes. If you don't mind, could you tell me where he might be? I'd like to talk to him, catch up. I haven't talked to him in years."

"Yea. he's probably in his room. You know where it is?" she nodded.

"He showed me around earlier. Well, nice to get to know you."

"Likewise." She waved, and went off in search of the boy wonder. They had a LOT of catching up to do.

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