Victor Stone

Cyborg

Victor Stone

## Biography

### Early Life

Victor Stone was born on October 26th, 1989 to renowned scientist Silas Stone and schoolteacher Elinore Stone. From an early age, it was apparent that Victor was gifted academically and athletically. He maintained a 4.0 GPA all throughout his early education and into high school, where he was a star quarterback on the football team, putting him at odds with other players, especially upperclassmen like Ronald Evers, who took to bullying the boy.

In retaliation, Victor beat up the bully, which would prove to be a choice that would forever alter his life. Elinore picked Victor up, and on the ride home, an alien invasion began in Metropolis. The mother and son found themselves face-to-face with an alien ship. As Elinore raced to get them off the streets, part of a building collapsed, blowing up a gas main. The explosion ravaged half of the car and crushed the other half, destroying one of Elinore’s legs and scarring half of Victor’s body.

He and Elinore were rushed to the hospital. While Elinore was outfitted with a prosthetic, Vic went on life support. When doctors told Silas there was nothing more they could do for him, Silas brought the boy’s body to STAR Labs, where he assembled a think tank including himself, his wife, Sarah Charles, and Thomas Morrow to try to help the boy.

They tried a number of routes first, including a Promethean skin graft, a responsometer courtesy of Will Magnus, energy from Ray Palmer’s Bio-Belt, and even technology that would go on to become the hardware for Anthony Ivo’s AMAZO Android, but nothing worked.

One night, while working late and sleep deprived, Silas collapsed, knocking over lab equipment that activated an alien device Superman had recovered in an Intergang stash house. The device, an Apokoliptan Mother Box, whirred to life and floated to Vic’s body, bonding with him and forming a cocoon-like structure around it.

Silas and Elinore believed they had lost Vic forever. But the cocoon showed vitals, and moreover showed that he was alive. But, for nearly a year, Vic was trapped, unconscious, within the cocoon. He was believed dead and memorialized at his high school.

While working in STAR, a Boom Tube opened and two New Genesians, who are now known to be Orion and Lightray, took the cocoon and disappeared through the Boom Tube. They would return two days later, with Vic alive and well, but half covered in a metal alloy prosthetic. It is still unknown what exactly transpired on those two days, but whatever it was possibly saved Victor’s life.

Vic was initially angry at his father and struck out on his own. Silas got in contact with an old friend, Doctor Niles Caulder, who found Victor and introduced him to the Doom Patrol. Vic got along with the group, especially Beast Boy, and learned a lot of life lessons from Cliff Steele, who was in a similar situation as him.

After a few months spent with them, Victor returned to his parents. Subsequently, he and Beast Boy were offered a spot on the Titans, where Victor found a new purpose as the superhero Cyborg.

### Cyborg

Cyborg quickly became a key figure of the Titans. His signature catchphrase quickly was picked up on by the media, and while they were at first hesitant of the Titans, it made the youth of Jump City rally around them. He also became the team mechanic, constructing the T-Car and designing a number of gadgets for the group.

When his first summer with the Titans ended, Vic returned to his high school, finding an entirely new class awaiting him, with several of his friends gone. This loneliness and disillusionment combined with feeling like a freak prompted him to drop out of high school and get his GED.

He moved to Happy Harbor to be closer to the team’s main base, before it was shut down following the Joker’s infiltration. He continued working in Happy Harbor, opening a mechanic shop, “Big-Rig Mechanics”, which served as a front for perfecting zeta beam technology, as well as running experiments on alien technology before sending it to his father at STAR Labs.

In this time, Cyborg became really close with Red Tornado. He felt very betrayed when Thomas Morrow turned Tornado on the League, eventually destroying him in battle. Vic began focusing most of his time and energy on rebuilding RT’s body and reprogramming his brain without Morrow’s touch upon it.

He also continued participating in Titans missions, such as one that resulted in Superboy being freed from Cadmus and recruited to the Titans. Shortly after this, Brainiac attacked Earth. Cyborg was an instrumental part in bringing down the Collector of Worlds. Afterwards, he helped liberate his crashed ship, where he rescued a number of genetic subjects from the alien’s clutches.

One such was a young woman with pale blue skin. After an analysis at the Fortress of Solitude proved that she was fully android - so they let Cyborg take a look at her in his lab. After a few days of study, he was finally able to awaken her - resulting in an explosion that destroyed the mechanic shop and took out the lower portion of Vic’s body.

The League and Titans mobilized to the spot to find the assailant gone and Vic out of commission. After a series of repairs by his father and Red Tornado, Vic was back in the game and ready to find this mystery woman. She would show up on occasion over the next few months, randomly assaulting members of the League or Titans. Vic constantly pursued her - mesmerized (and perhaps affectionate). On one such appearance, she impulsively kissed Cyborg, before disappearing.

He ended up being the one to save her life. As it turns out, Brainiac-1 didn’t care too much for his creation beginning to develop feelings and planned to scrap her. But the kiss she had planted on Vic had also placed a miniscule communicator, allowing her to plead for help. Vic teleported to Brainiac’s shift, left a sizable hole in the side of it, and made off with Brainiac-8.

He and Miss Martian spent the better part of the next year helping her adopt an identity outside of Brainiac, with her eventually deciding on the name of Indigo. This interest in one another quickly turned into an on-again off-again romance.

The loss of the mechanic shop combined with the Titans' preference to operate out of the Tower, Vic moved to Jump City and became the new leader of the Titans after Dick Grayson surrendered the role. His time in Jump City was productive, as it got him his own protege in the form of Black Narcissus.

He proved himself as the new leader of the Titans and as such was invited to join the Justice League, alongside several other former Titans. Vic accepted and spent almost a year on the League, before tragedy rocked the superhero community when Jason Todd was brutally murdered by the Joker.

During the time off, Vic traveled to Dakota City to properly investigate the Bloodlines Parasite, which put him into direct conflict with the Sivana Syndicate - who ended up kidnapping him, forcing a ragtag group of Leaguers to come together and rescue him.

He would later discover that during that time - Sivana and Doctor Ivo had replicated his AI system and built a new body, creating an android known as Grid, who had full access to Victor’s operating system. Unsure if he could trust his body, Victor contacted the New Genesians for help, who took him to New Genesis and put him in sleep mode so their engineers could hopefully separate Grid from him.

The operation was successful. But, with both of his teams in shutdown on Earth, Victor decided to hang around on New Genesis for a while - where he befriended Mister Miracle and Big Barda and worked with the super-team the Forever People. As a thanks for his service with them, the Forever People gifted Vic with Sphere. When the time came to eventually return to Earth, he did so with many new allies under his belt.

Back on Earth, he found that Nightwing was putting together a new version of the Outsiders - and he wanted Victor on that team. He was more than happy to oblige and stepped down as the Titans’ field leader to focus on his duties with the League and Outsiders.

He was also offered a position with TerrifiTech, where he was an unofficial consultant on the OMAC Project. While he had his doubts about it, Vic ultimately helped design some of the software that would go on to be used in the androids. Although the androids turned on them, Vic was also recruited by Mister Terrific to help destroy Brother Eye - along with several other heroes.

When the dust settled, Vic was left with part of the blame, so he worked with Huntress’ Outsiders to track down the remaining OMACs and dispose of them. When his work there was settled, he decided that it was time to take some time to himself.

He moved to Central City and began working in STAR Labs there as support staff for Team Flash. In fact, he started dabbling his fingers in a number of things - including helping Karen Starr make improvements to StarrWare's O.S., upgrading the inhibitor collars used in Belle Reve, and helping the League raid Intergang stash houses and confiscate Apokoliptian technology.

Now, Victor is one of the most revered assets of the Justice League and Titans alike. He has been working on designing the Metrotower, a new base of operations for all superhero teams alike following the Watchtower’s destruction. It also appears as if he may be regrowing some of his human parts - but the exact degree of the regrowth remains to be seen.