Chapter 19 Battle of the Cyborgs

Now that his leader had been eliminated from the tournament, Cyborg was all the more determined to prove his worth. The other dimension's Cyborg was cool, but nowhere near cool enough to warrant Cyborg (who by all accounts was the REAL Cyborg) getting eliminated. He wanted to show his leader, his team and, most importantly, his tall counterpart that he knew what he was doing. He could beat any interdimensional Cyborg that the Master of Games could throw his way.

Or at the very least, that's what he hoped.

"Nya nya nya nya nya, you can't catch me!" Cyborg yelled toward his counterpart, who was still shooting sonic blasts at him from on the ground. It actually excited Cyborg that he could fly and Cyborg couldn't. In one way, that showed he was more technologically advanced than he was, that his robot body was cooler. Which…come on, nobody could deny that Cyborg's robot exterior was fascinating. Even during the surgery his father did on him to replace his broken human body, Cyborg had been super excited to know that he was being turned into a totally cool and awesome…well, cyborg.

"You know," Cyborg called out from on the ground. "You're lucky you can fly. I myself have been trying to figure out how to put rockets in my boots for years!"

Cyborg grinned. "Well, I'll tell you what, my tall, manly man. After this is over, I will tell you exactly how to put rockets in your boots!"

Cyborg grinned just as brightly as his shorter counterpart. "That sounds great! Thanks!" He smirked, the expression smugger than smug, as his brandished his sonic cannon again. "Just be careful that I don't kill you in the fight before then."

"HA!" Cyborg sent his double a look that he hoped looked patronizing. "If anything, you should be careful that I don't kill you!" With that, he activated his own sonic cannon and sent a blast down toward his counterpart.

For the next few minutes, the Battle of the Cyborgs mostly turned into a game of chase. Cyborg followed from on the ground, trying his best to blast his opponent. Meanwhile, Cyborg just flew idly by. He felt like he wasn't in any danger while in the air. After all, his double still had yet to hit him, the moving target that he was. Because of this, Cyborg became a little giggly. Especially as he sailed past the two Starfires.

"What's up, ladies?" he said with a smirk and a joking tone. "Bet you're jealous of this cool robot body, aren't you?"

Starfire frowned at him. "I have experienced Cyborg's powers before. They are not desirable in the least."

"The besides," Starfire said. "You need to get away from us so we don't get..AHH!" Both of the Tameranian princesses just barely avoided getting hit by Cyborg's sonic blast. Starfire sent him a dirty look. "Hey, watch where you do the shooting of that thing!"

"Sorry!" Cyborg called out. "My bad!"

Cyborg flew past them. These girls might not fully grasp how cool having the body and muscle of a robot was a good thing. Maybe the Beast Boys would see the light on that issue. He flew over to them, all while they had been engaging in…a rather bizarre game of one-ups manship. Beast Boy would turn into an animal, then Beast Boy would turn into his own, bigger version of that same animal. Beast Boy would shriek upon seeing this, then morph into something bigger. Rinse and repeat until both of them went through every creature in the Animal Kingdom.

"Hey, big bad Beasties!" Cyborg said as he sailed past the two Beast Boys in their bee form. "I look super cool with my silver robot skin, don't I?"

Beast Boy grinned at his closest friend. "Yeah! You keep flaunting your shiny silver self, my dude!" In the moment he was distracted, Beast Boy flew at him with his very long, very sharp stinger out. "AHH!" Beast Boy glared at him. "Ohh, that deserves to be punished, Beast Boy!" He flew at him.

Cyborg smiled as he now flew around the perimeter of the arena, so close to the force field that he could almost touch it. Feeling his spirits sailing higher and higher, he figured that there was no other way to properly express his emotion than by doing his third favorite thing after eating and sleeping; singing. He prepared his voice, belting out a song to the tune of his and Beast Boy's infamous "Waffle Song" as he avoided his opponent's blasts.

"I am super cool, man!

The super shiny tin man

I can dodge these blasts, man!

And win this fight oh yes man;

Yes man!"

Cyborg gritted his teeth. Before Cyborg even knew what was happening, the frequency of the sonic blasts became more frequent. He yipped, flying higher to avoid them. He readied his own sonic cannon and sent blasts toward his opponent. The Master of Games, still high and mighty in his chair, smirked.

"Oh, yes! Nothing like the sight of two Cyborgs trying to kill each other to wake you up in the morning!" He shoved some more popcorn into his mouth.

The fire of the sonic blasts grew more intense, more deadly. Cyborg's flight wasn't even fast enough to allow him to dodge, at least not forever. He zipped out of the way of one of the blasts, and before he knew it, another rogue blasts hit him in the back. He shrieked as he fell out of the sky, right onto the arena floor. He groaned when his body made contact with the floor, doing his best to not pass out from the pain.

He sent his double a glare. "Not cool, Cyborg!"

Cyborg wore an apologetic smile as he approached. "Sorry man. But in this arena, everything goes." He ran toward his opponent, still on the ground. As he ran, Cyborg got an idea for how to stop him.

Hehe he, this is going to be fun. He got his sonic cannon ready, making the opening much bigger than it had any right to be. Cyborg, his eyes growing wide, skidded to a halt just before his face made contact with the weapon. At the top of his voice, Cyborg shouted with unbridled enthusiasm…

"GLITTER BOMB!"

POOF! Glitter, as pink as the ponies in the show Raven watched, exploded in Cyborg's face. The half robot stood there, blinking in confusion. He sent his double a flabbergasted look.

"Dude…" He wiped glitter off his face. "Is…is this a joke? No seriously, is this a joke? Because I don't see what the punchline is."

Cyborg grinned as he stood up. "You think that now. But one day, you'll wake up and still be finding glitter in your house. And when that happens, you'll be all like 'Curse that other Cyborg!" He smirked and elbowed his double. "Handsome devil."

Cyborg snorted. "Clever man. Actually very clever." He wiped the glitter off of his shoulders. "But not as clever as…" His hand retracted into his body, and when it reappeared, it held a water balloon. Cyborg gasped just as Cyborg yelled "THIS!"

Before Cyborg could bolt out of the way, the water balloon went SMACK against his chest. Every last inch of Cyborg felt like it was on the fritz. He collapsed to the ground again, seemingly incapacitated.

That is, until Cyborg pulled himself out of the body. Now, he was just a head with a tiny little wire body.

Cyborg's eyes grew wide when he saw that. "What…what…what…" he did a double take. "How did you do that? I can't even do that!"

"Ha HA!" Cyborg felt like he was over the moon. "Then I guess that means you can't do this either!" He jumped up onto Cyborg's shoulders, smacking him across the face again and again.

"Stop it!" Cyborg chuckled. "It feels funny, man!"

"Give up yet!" Cyborg chortled. "Admit that I'm the best Cyborg! ADMIT IT!"

Cyborg shook his head and plucked his double out of the air with his hand. "Not a chance." In a swift, blink and you'll miss it moment, Cyborg loaded his double into the sonic cannon. He shot him toward the force field. Cyborg only barely managed to grab his body before officially beng knocked out.

"LOSER!"

Cyborg sighed once he appeared in the crystal cage. Rearranging himself, he sent Robin by his side a smirk. "That other Teen Titans team. MAN do they have some good combat skills! They just might be better than us!"

Robin just growled.