Reborn Cyborg, Commander of the Flagship!

The laboratory fell silent.

Harley Quinn stared wide-eyed, baseball bat still raised for a home run swing. Disbelief was written all over her face.

She had been sure that thing was about to explode with enough force to blow half of Metropolis sky-high. But Link had merely reached out, and then... that was it? The huge glowing thing had turned into a black cube?

"Wow, Puddin', what kind of magic trick was that? Even David Copperfield would get on his knees and call you Daddy!"

Victor Stone lay on the floor, still reeling from the shock of surviving.

He slowly raised his hands. They were flesh and blood. He could feel the air's temperature and the cold floor beneath his fingers. He touched his face. It felt real and warm.

He was no longer a monster, half human and half machine.

He hurriedly tried to connect to the network in his mind.

Buzz!

The world's online information still flooded into his mind. From the Pentagon's deepest secrets to a photo of someone's dinner posted moments ago, everything was clear to him.

But it felt different.

Before, the connection had been passive. The Mother Box's mechanical will had been like a cold, unfeeling monitor, forcing information into his mind until he could no longer tell where he ended and the machine began.

Now, he felt as though he sat in a perfectly quiet control room with countless screens before him. He could call up any information he wanted, or shut down every connection with a single command and return to the peace of his own mind.

He had become the true master of that ocean of information.

And the man before him had given him all of it.

Link had not only saved his life and preserved his humanity. He had