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A Story Behind Every Art (A.S.B.E.A.) based on pictures I found on deviantart. I do not own any of the following arts in this story, unless I claim them. Anyways I will provide images for each part here. This is a 6 part story, but it is unrelated with any other story of this project. Enjoy! :D

Genre: Friendship/Angst

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"I was like any other ordinary teenager who went to high school before I joined this team. I guess you could say I was the star jock at school. Football and track were my favorite sports. My coach supported me and always pushed me to do 110% in everything. He was like a real dad. My parents were alive and well, but they were cyber mechanic scientists. Sometimes they supported me in my sports and academics, but majority of the time they were always at work. When I was little, they didn't treat me like any other child. They got me toys and took care of me, but they never gave me the attention that I wanted from them… love… Sometimes I even questioned if they ever acknowledged my existence. Being the best in school didn't have any significance unless it pleased my parents. It was the only thing they ever acknowledged in me. My parents were rarely home, so I had to teach myself how to cook."

"Cyborg…" Beast Boy said.

"It's cool, B. I got this," the half robot smiled lightly. "'Sides, after hearing your story, I thought I oughtta be grateful for some things…"

Beast Boy nodded.

"My parents treated me like any ordinary objective. I was just a minor job to them, nothing else. Then there came a day when I had to leave to a track meet. Mom was willing to drive me over since she had finished her work for the day." Cyborg's voice softened and took a shaky breath before continuing.

"I didn't know that this would be the last time, I'd see her… We were on our way to the event when a car suddenly collided into ours. It was a head on collision. Mom died from the impact," Cyborg's human eye overflowed with tears. He blinked back angrily, resisting the urge to let it out. "Mom and I weren't close, but I still loved her. She was important to me…."

"Here, here, Cyborg," Starfire said as she got up from her seat and gave him a hug. Cyborg accepted his little sister's embrace willingly, as the sadness overwhelmed him. After breaking away, Beast Boy bumped his fist to Cyborg's mechanic shoulder.

"I oughtta be thankful for having a mom like her. If not for her hard work in the lab, I wouldn't be here today."

"So she created this?" Raven asked.

Everyone was surprised for a second. It was the first time Raven had spoken for the last several hours. It almost seemed that she wasn't there.

"Yeah," Cyborg replied after he had recovered. "Mom and Dad were working on this thing," Cyborg thumped one hand over his chest, "the last seventeen years of my life. It was suppose to be used in their S.T.A.R. Lab project, but they sacrificed it to save me… Dad told me that it was Mom's last request. So he did it. Afterwards, Dad wasn't the same, not that he ever did change from the start, but uh, he was more involved with S.T.A.R. Lab projects after she had passed away. I rarely saw him… It's almost been a year since I last saw him."

Cyborg peered at his teammates. Each had such a sad look on their faces. "C'mon ya'll, the worst is over! S'all good! I survived…" he said, hoping to lighten the mood.

"So, there's more to it?" Beast Boy asked.

"'Course, B. I'm just getting started. Anyways, after the accident, I woke up to see myself as I am now. And lemme tell ya, I was horrified with my appearance," he chuckled at the memory. "I knew at that moment that nothing could ever be the same. Ya'll remember my get up when we first met, right?"

"Wait, let me get this straight? You wore the same get up every day?" Beast Boy had huge blank, twitching eyes when he had interrupted the half-robot. Everyone glared at the boy, but he paid no mind to it.

"DUDE THAT IS SO GROSS!" Beast Boy exclaimed.

Cyborg couldn't help but guffaw at his best friend's exclamation.

"I'm so glad those giant lizard aliens blew that thing off you."

"Well I had to use that to cover myself, B," Cyborg chuckled.

"You weren't kidding?" Robin asked while Starfire and Raven stared at him with weird looks.

Cyborg laughed again, "Well I am part robot. I don't really need showers, just recharge and the occasional polishing."

He wiped a tear of mirth from his eye before becoming serious and continued his story.

"I remember the look on everyone's face at school, especially coach's. I could remember the fear and disgust in each of their eyes when they uncovered my hood. Worst of all, I faced it alone… the pain… the rejection… I came to accept myself as a monster, a freak. So I dropped out of school. I lived at home and continued to educate myself until I met you guys," Cyborg was chirpier when he had reached the end of his story.

"This lil' lady made me realize how I should be grateful for what my parents did for me that day. I never knew how my parents sacrificed their project to save my life and I viewed it as a monstrous device. Now, I see it in a different view, thanks to you, Star."

He patted the girl's head over Beast Boy's head. The he rubbed the green boy's hair with a big grin on his face.

Cyborg was grateful for Starfire's encounter on Earth, because now he has no more reason to feel insecure about his half mechanic body. He was glad that Starfire pushed them to tell their stories. It felt good to let it out. Now he knew that he wasn't truly alone to go through a rough past.

"So whose turn is it now?" Cyborg asked.

"I guess that would be me," the dark girl answered.

So finally part 4!

This is mainly Cyborg's past. I know it sounds kinda funky, but I'm not really good when I wrote about him. I'm still grasping his personality concept here!

But hopefully it was enough! I had to throw in some comic relief, because he and BB have that sort of relationship (:

So I hope that was perfect

And I was really iffy about which sport Cyborg was into, so I put both. It was mentioned in the links below that he was in football OR track. They didn't say both, but I did in this story.

Lastly, I had to change some of his parents' personality.

rant:
It was mentioned in the comic that his parents strongly disapproved of him being an athlete, but it would throw off about his mother's death in my story. You see in the comic his mom died during a lab experiment at the STAR Labs, and Cyborg was also injured at the lab.

In the cartoons, his mom died from a car accident, so I had to say that they cared of his status in school which meant he had to be an all-rounded person. So they were willing to take him to his sport activities.

I made up the STAR Lab project that his parents sacrificed to save his life. I thought it would be heartfelt, and Cyborg would finally realize that his parents didn't fully neglected him.