A/N: Sorry, I tried to update as fast as possible, (if you were waiting), but with things always piling up… You know how it is. (Btw, I DO NOT believe that war is a good thing. Just making sure).
So anyways:

"WHAT THE BLOODY H*LL?" Cyborg yelled out loudly, shattering the silence of the night. Before he had even fully realized what he had done, a paranoid Robin burst through Cyborg's doors with his staff at the ready.

"All right bring it on punks! It may be 4 am but Robins don't sleep!"

"What about Beast Boys?" Asked a sleepy green titan, with a cartoon sleepy hat on his head. He yawned with the might of a whale and struggled to open his eyes.

Cyborg put the laptop away and got out of his bed.

"Whoops." Cyborg said, trying to repair the damage. "I guess I must have had a nightmare." He said.

"The only nightmare here is Slade," Said Robin, eyeing Cyborg's room suspiciously. He paced the room carefully with a fighting stance.

"Robin I'm pretty sure Slade's not here," Cyborg said, "if he was, I'd make him pay rent!" He added to calm Robin.

Cyborg tried to usher the anti-villain hero out of his room but he wouldn't budge.

"Wait a second… Why are you so eager to get me out of here?" asked Robin, looking at the many computers. He turned around and looked up at Cyborg.

"You're Slade aren't you?" whispered Robin, sounding like an actor in a dramatic scene of a movie.

Cyborg slapped his forehead in frustration. He placed a broad gloved hand on Robin's shoulder. Robin looked at it with narrowed eyes.

"I swear Robin, if I have to, I will literally pick you up and haul you all the way out of my room."

"I'd like to see you try Slade! I see you've chosen a new wardrobe!" Robin was now convinced that Cyborg was Slade.

By now Raven was at the door passing a green elephant that was sleeping on it's legs. Beast Boy had tried his best to remain awake but he couldn't.

She looked at Beast Boy. "I thought you said you were 'beast' at staying up late." No one noticed her little joke.

"What's going on here?" Raven asked with her usual tone.

"Slade's invaded Cybo-"

"Slade is not here!" Cyborg yelled, pushing everybody out of his room. Raven stayed behind as the door closed.

"What were you doing?" She asked him.

"Huh?"

"You know, what were you doing before Robin came? I sensed a lot of anticipation for good coming from your room. It woke me up."

Cyborg had forgotten that Raven was an empath.

"I was just waiting for Christmas and New Year's! It's October, just a little while before 1999. And then one more year and happy new millennium!"

"That's a good lie." Said Raven. "But it's obvious that that's not what you were waiting for."

"I wasn't looking forward to anything, ok?" Cyborg said while escorting her out. "Now please get out and come again!" He spoke like Apu from the Simpsons.

He sighed and fell on his bed.

"What a night."

***The next day***

He sipped his coffee and looked outside a large window. He was sitting in the middle of a busy internet café. He looked at the street just outside and watched as people rushed everywhere. It was a Saturday but everybody seemed to have something to do.

Sitting in the café, he knew that he was getting a lot of stares from people. He knew why this was happening. It wasn't a normal thing to see a half-man in a café. Knowing that this would revive a lot of painful emotions, he turned his focus on other things.

He looked back at his laptop that was sitting in front of him on a low table. He looked at his Chess Stats:

4 games played

2 games won

50% of games won

A few hours ago he had logged on to find out that the website administrators had fixed a certain issue after receiving a few complaints. Some users had grown tired of players exiting the game just before they were about to lose. Cyborg considered himself unlucky. If only they had fixed that problem before his first game.

He went back to the lobby to find at least 30 players all chatting.

He challenged someone and waited for their reply.

The table loaded and he was now starting another game.

Chessm4starr101: hi

Cyborg noticed how his opponent had said "hi" so quickly.

Ignoring it, he replied with a greeting.

Just as soon as he had clicked enter on his reply, chess4starr101 blurted out:

Chessm4starr101: your turn!

Cyborg began to plan his offensive strategies, reflecting on the lessons he had gathered from his previous games. He slowly inched his army forward, eliminating 2 pawns on his way.

Chessm4starr101: nice move!

TheKnightofRight: thx

Chessm4starr101: you're welcome

"What the…" Cyborg thought. "How does he type so fast?" Cyborg had just finished typing when chessm4starr would reply.

As the game progressed and the chess pieces fell one after the other, Cyborg tried to concentrate harder. But it was a bit difficult over the chatter of the café's customers. Someone laughed in the background.

Chessm4starr101: I like chess

TheKnightofRight: yeah me to

Chessm4starr101: where did you learn to play it?

TheKnightofRight: a friend taught me

Cyborg turned his attention back towards the game.

Chessm4starr101: I learned by myself, they say you learn a lot more when you teach yourself

TheKnightofRight: yeah…

Cyborg tried to give chessm4starr a hint that he didn't want to talk at the moment. But chessm4ster couldn't stop. He had somehow turned the 1 way conversation to his favorite tv shows.

Chessm4starr101: omg did you see the last episode it was so cool!

TheKnightofRight: no…

Chessm4starr: and Kevin was all like

Cyborg tried to stop the conversation by not replying anymore, but this only made the problem worse.

Chessm4starr: are you still there? Hello?

The talk kept going, it evolved into the subject of astronomy, and then gossip, (even though Cyborg knew none of chessm4starr101's friends), and then to psychology.

Cyborg wondered whether chessm4starr101 was trying to psychologically drive him nuts with his talking.
He would have left but he wanted a bigger win percentage. But he couldn't exit the game without giving up the game. (Thanks to the new upgrade to the site.) Cyborg groaned and tried his best to tell the kid to shut up.

"You're not called TheKnightofRight for nothing Cyborg." He thought. Pulling back his hands from what they were about to write. Anything with at least 5 swearwords in it…

Finally, finally, after a whole game of struggling with a chatter box and dangling on his last circuit/nerve, he won the game. Halfway through he had the considered the option of giving up.

He remembered his words, "I'll never give up" , but he hadn't met chessm4starr101 yet.

Moving on, he played 2 more players, one of which was very good. After a long and hard match, he went to the lobby just to be in the lobby, to take a break and relax. Watching all the players come in and go out, starting matches, chatting, he realized what he was doing. He was interacting with people from all over the world. Even if it was a small website with a 300 players, these were people.

Real people out there in the real world. People he might never meet, who are a combination of their own, thoughts, interests, personality. These were beings… He looked up absent-mindedly out the window and saw clouds. He stared at them. He just sat there, in the middle of a buzzing and loud café, just thinking, amazed at all that was around him. He'd never thought of a human that way, a sum of many emotions and feelings, capable of hurting and restoring.

He looked at the people around him, and just observed, like he never had before. He watched people as they engaged in conversations, as they laughed, ate, drank. He felt pretty awkward, what was hefeeling? He looked back up at the blue sky with just a few clouds and thought of the billions of people that inhabited the earth. He felt so small… But at the same time big, able to impact and change the world in his own special way. His thoughts just wandered around, until they came to Jump City.

"Maybe there are players in Jump." He thought. He went to the filter area of the lobby very doubtfully. With only 300 players, it was highly unlikely that anybody would be there. But to his surprise, there were at least 5. But only 2 were online at the moment.

He clicked one of them, shaking out of his deep sea of his 7th game of the day, he wondered what his opponent would be like.

swordsofjustice: hey

TheKnightofRight: yo

They played normally, adding some comments every now and then. In the middle of the game:

Swordsofjustice: *sigh* I've been playing for 6 hours straight now

TheKnightofRight: I've been playing for half the time you have

Swordsofjustice: *groan* (he added a frustrated smiley face), it's the weekend stop trying to make me do math X(

TheKnightofRight: lol :P

Cyborg attacked one of the tense areas of the board with his knight, which triggered an enormous conflict. Each chess piece ate the next as they all focused on that one area. Finally Cyborg managed to fool his opponent and capture his queen.

Swordsofjustice: you're good

TheKnightofRight: thx

TheKnightofRight: there aren't many people on this site are there?

Swordsofjustice: no

TheKnightofRight: only 300 ppl? What is this?

Swordsofjustice: THIS! IS! SPARTA! *kicks into hole *

TheKnightofRight: hahaha you saw that movie?

Swordsofjustice: yup it was great! ^^

TheKnightofRight: I know!

Cyborg remembered when he saw it with everybody at home. He had to cover Starfire's eyes with his hands during the whole movie.

"Friend, why are they doing the "battle of strength"?" She asked him with her sweet voice.

"No reason Star, it's just a movie." He tried to assure her, trying to catch all the fighting scenes.

Cyborg's mind returned to the chess game. He fought furiously, and in the end, he won again.

Swordsofjustice: hail the victor! :) good game

TheKnightofRight: haha thx

Swordsofjustice: add me

TheKnightofRight: how?

Swordsofjustice: just double-click m' name

TheKnightofRight: ah I see

Swordsofjustice: btw, I'm right behind you

TheKnightofRight: huh?

TheKnightofRight: oh right, "those" jokes

Cyborg thought of all the times he would be on the internet and he would just find someone writing that they were right behind you just to scare you. But they were just trying to creep you out.

Swordsofjustice: no seriously, I'm right behind you

Knowing that he would feel silly in the future, Cyborg turned around and saw a 15 year old kid giving him a thumbs up. He was a few tables down the Café, his laptop sitting behind him on a table.

Swordsofjustice: good coffee, huh?

TheKnightofRight: :p

***Later***

Sitting in the common room at the T tower, Cyborg was playing chess again. Beast Boy was sitting on his left, playing his favorite video game with Robin again. Starfire was on one of the stools drawing, while Raven was sitting beside her reading in a lotus position.

Beast Boy and Robin were talking and having fun.

" I can't wait for 1999."

"Yeah, me to..." Robin eyed Cyborg suspiciously. The half-man didn't have to look up to know.

"I'm not Slade Robin." Cyborg muttered, not taking his eyes of his laptop screen, he had just won another game.

Everybody laughed, even Raven's lips curved a millimeter. She had now come to sit as the Cyborg got off the couch and headed towards his room.

"Cy! Where the heck are you going?" Beast Boy said. "We were just about to watch a movie."

"Yeah, I'm just gonna go to my room and do some stuff…"

"Awwww, boooooo. Don't be a party pooper!"

Cyborg just chuckled and left the common room. He was walking down the hall when to his surprise, the door opened again. Raven was walking behind him. He looked at her and decided to ignore this. He turned around and kept walking his path. And then the door opened again. This time to a green titan with a smug little smile.

Cyborg thought this was really awkward and kept walking to his room. Then the door opened again, with the last two titans coming out of the common room.

The half-man half-machine decided to just play dumb and act like nothing was happening. Upon his arrival, the doors opened up for him and closed after he had entered. He sat on his bed and opened up his laptop.

Then the doors opened up and revealed 4 teenage friends bursting into his room. They all laughed hysterically. Cyborg couldn't help but smiling.

"What are you guys doing in my room?"

They just kept laughing hard.

"Well as team leader, I suggested that if you didn't come to the party, the party would come to you." Robin said.

Starfire took a cd and put it into Cyborg's computer.

"Come friends, let us watch the movie together and enjoy each other's company."

They all jumped on Cyborg's bed and got comfortable, waiting for the movie to start. The computer that was just beside Cyborg's bed was now playing the trailers that came before the movie.

Beast Boy took out a cartoon popcorn out of nowhere.

The atmosphere was now very friendly. They were all lying on his bed, laughing and talking while Beast Boy complained about the number of ads.

Finally when the movie started they were all quiet. Cyborg still had his laptop in front of him, and he was still playing Chess.

Raven, who was beside him, stared at the screen.

"What have I created?" She said.

"A disturbance in the cinema. Shhh!" Robin motioned for her to be silent. They turned their attention back to the movie.

Cyborg was now back in the lobby. He set up the filter to show only players in Jump City.

"Good ole Jump City."

As part of the Teen Titans, Cyborg felt proud, to be a protective angel of the huge city. Even though the citizens would look at him like just a machine, or some sort of freak, he still wanted to protect Jump City, he still cared for it. But he hadn't guarded it by himself, he had some help. He turned toward his friends that were lying on his bed, watching the movie attentively.

He remembered all the times he fought beside his friends, saving the city again and again.
Sure the Titans had their times… but they appreciated each other, and they would always stick with each other… until they were old and gray-haired. They would be great legends and heroes.

Cyborg observed his friends as they watched the movie. The lights were off and everybody was looking at the computer screen. He watched them as they shared popcorn and reacted to the movie. Raven took the bowl and pushed it to Cyborg, offering him some.

He took some and she turned away. For a second, when he looked at them, he saw his family and friends. And he realized how important they were to him.

"I'm really getting emotional today…" He thought, chuckling very silently.

He scanned the players very quickly. Only one out of five players was online.

He challenged him and the table loaded up as usual.

SugarPlum: The two armies stand facing each other. Two countries, two enemies, two opposing forces. They stare each other out, a fierce glare being shot in every direction. The wind howls in the background, unheard by the furious soldiers, ready to stand up for their territory, for their homeland, their pride. Ready to fight!
The wind blew hard against every single soldier, but it was only felt by one.
In the middle of the field, noticed again by only one out of thousands on the field, falls a single pure snowy, light, Sugar Plum.
The war has begun.

Cyborg just looked at the chat log. Somewhere, deep inside him, he knew that his opponent was not like others, that there was something special about him.

He looked at his friends on his bed and back at his laptop screen. He decided to play along his opponent's game.

TheKnightofRight: "Prepare for battle!" the general bellowed at his army. He paced in front of them, turning his horse this way and that. The danger of the war now found its way into the hearts of Leap's soldiers. (Cyborg decided to give his army the name of "leap"). Their horses snorted.
And at once, they charged. Just like the chill that ran down their spine, they ran down the field with battle cries exploding out of their mouths, accompanied by the sound of thunderous hooves pounding against the ground. The air was now filled with anticipation and excitement.
This meant war.
Running alongside allies, the hearts of Leap's soldiers was filled with courage and determination.

That being said, (or written), Cyborg advanced his pawn forward. To his surprise, the movie that was being watched in his room started to play a dramatic kind of music. The only thing this did to Cyborg was make the battle more vivid in his mind. SugarPlum countered his move with his own pawn, meeting him at the middle of the board.

SugarPlum: Leap's soldiers were now charging at the enemy's army. But the A4's were not afraid. They sped across to meet them leaning forward on their majestic horses. The beat of a drum playing in every particle of their minds. It's rhythm pounding through their veins. They raised up their swords and shields and yelled out their own special battle cries, together, as one pack.
With every landing of their horse's leg, and spring, their heart jumped. The impact would soon be there.

Our teenage superhero didn't feel the same way about the chess game he was playing with SugarPlum as he did with his other games. He had now gotten the image of a huge war playing out. He needed to plan his attacks wisely, and defend his troops from the onslaught of the brave A4's, because it seemed so real, as if he cared for his soldiers.

The A4's seemed powerful and strong … Cyborg noted.

"No! Don't start thinking that way. That's what he wants you to think. Don't allow him to convince you into believing he's better at this game than you are… It's all in the head Cyborg… It's all in the head…"

Cyborg sensed that someone was watching him and looked beside him.

"You mind?" Raven asked him.

"Sorry." He smiled, a bit embarrassed. He had forgotten that Raven was capable of feeling other people's emotions.

She turned back to the movie and Cyborg back to his game.

Everybody laughed a couple of times while watching the movie. But Cyborg's attention would not stay off the task at hand.

He and SugarPlum were now in the middle of the game, and Cyborg was losing. He was losing all his pieces, one by one. His king would soon be in checkmate. Before he had finished his thought, Cyborg's king was in a corner, about to be checkmated.

SugarPlum: The A4's general had now located The leap's king. He focused on him and ordered all units to trap him. Trap him until there was no escape.
The Knights of A4 leaped over enemy soldiers and sped to TheKnightofRight's King. They trapped him in a corner. He knocked the king hard down on the floor.

Cyborg knew he was losing. But he wasn't about to let some kid in Jump City defeat him this way.

"Fiction is fiction. There can be two authors in one book."

TheKnightofRight: One of the leap's brave archers hid behind a boulder and loaded his bow with an arrow. With the light of speed, he shot at the Knight that was cornering the leap's King. The arrows sped at the Knight's head.

SugarPlum: Only to be blocked off by his shield that had been raised at the last moment.

"Darn it!"

Cyborg was now moments away from being checkmated.

SugarPlum: The Knight took out a single silver arrow and loaded his bow. Before the leap army's king could even react, the Knight let go of the arrow and shot…

Not at the King's head, but at the ground just next to it.

He got off his horse and stretched out his hand to the King's.

"Draw?" Asked the Knight.

"Draw?" The website's chess table indicated that Cyborg's opponent was offering a draw.

TheKnightofRight: You can't do that. Armies would have no mercy on their enemies.

SugarPlum: This is fiction, our imagination. We can do anything we please.

Cyborg accepted. He decided to continue their little game.

TheKnightofRight: The leap's King took the Knight's hand. Getting up, he shook the Knight's hand. This represented a draw.

SugarPlum: They looked at each other for a while. The knight gave him a little smile. It was little, but it was noticed by the King.

The A4's left the battle ground in peace.

"SugarPlum has left the table."

Cyborg just stared at the screen for a while. Then he smiled.

"Sweeeet!"

A/N: I do not believe that war is a good thing. And I'm definitely not saying that I like it.

Omg you don't know how much times I had to edit thislike crazy! So if you see some mistakes or repetitive parts, or just some sentences that don't make sense that's because in the end I got so annoyed and tired of editing it to make it perfect that I just published it already. *takes a deep breath* My that was a long sentence. But I don't care cause I'm through with editing!

If you didn't notice, when the Knight was leaping over the soldiers, that was suppose to resemble a real chess knight, (in the real game), jumping over pawns and other pieces. Sorry it took so long.
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