Jay

51. Mental Instability

Jays pov

I wake up a couple of hours later. I see raven floating in the air meditating. I tried to reach over to her. And half ways there I changed my mind. I walk out of the room. "He has appeared out of the room" Starfire screams. "Jeez star. Do you need to be so loud? I just woke up." I said. She's so loud. How does anyone handle that? "Seems like raven has rubbed off on you" Robin chucked. Man, what is everyone smoking. First beast boy comes at me. And now robins joking. "I guess so" I mumbled. "Hey, cyborg. You got a garage and a Dyno" I yelled while making my coffee. "Heck yeah, I do. You gotta realize I built myself a car. Let me take you there" cyborg says.

Cyborgs pov

I bring jay down to the garage. I notice there's a cube in his hand. "What's that?" I ask. "You saw my memory file on Sam. This is the true Sam of the showcase" jay said coldly. No way. I didn't realize that Sam has been in one piece that long. "Where's the dyno?" He asks "over there," I say. Jay throws the cube and it turns into a bright blue Kia Soul. "No way" I screamed. Jay looked at me and smiled "prepare to be amazed". He straps up the car to the dyno. "This car is powered by its original power plant. A 4 cylinder engine from the factory. The transmission and turbo aren't factory," he says. I pop the hood. "Didn't this originally make 147 horsepower?" I ask. How is this engine still alive. He beat the living crap out of this thing. "Yep. With the turbo it makes around 600 I believe. It's been a while," jays says. "Imma need you to help push as much as we can out of this engine. I have to prepare before it gets messy here," jay says.

Minutes later.

3rd person pov

Cyborg and jay start working on the car. "Send it in 6th" cyborg screams. Sams engine starts screaming all the way to 6700 rpm. "That was 568 horsepower to the rear wheels. We need to bump those rpm's up" cyborg says. "I don't think the engine can handle it. Oh well, send it" jay screams. Cyborg uses his laptop with his own tuning software to boost the RPMs. "Send it again". Cyborg says. Jay eases into the gas. Flipping all the way to 6th and floors it till it hits limiter at 7500 rpm. The car had a torque twist from all the power. But the engine couldn't handle it. It backfired loudly and started shooting a misfire on cylinder number 3. Cyborg went under the hood pulled the spark plug. Jay got out of the car to examine the situation after cutting ignition. "Seems Sam wanted to eat a spark plug for breakfast," cyborg says. "If I remember correctly. I got an engine swap in the glove box. I put it there when I built the car," jay says. He goes inside the glove box. And pulls out a little cube similar to sams. Jay threw it and it turned in an iron short block by chevy. Jay and cyborg went to work. Put the engine in. And built an adapter plate to keep the old transmission. Cyborg had a set of turbos laying around from his car.  And got them out on the car. That dynoed it again. And it reached 1150 hp. "BOOYAh. That what's I'm talking about" cyborg screams "She's a spicy unit," jay says "thanks man" jay continues. "Oh this is not a problem. Anything with tech. Call me up. I'm your man" cyborg says as he walks out the room. Jay stays back admiring the car when Raven walks in. A flashback hits. This time Raven wasn't there.

Ravens pov

As I walk into the garage jay freezes. "Jay?" I ask. No response. "Jay," I say a little louder. He responds. "Why did you let me live?" Jay says coldly. Before I even could answer. Jay screams. "Answer the damn question raven" what's gotten into him did he have another flashback and I didn't see it. "I uh.." I stuttered. "Doesn't cut it" jay replied. "I could've died happy. But no I gotta face hiro again. Gogo again. I gotta deal with Rakan. And I gotta save amrik. And who knows what next since my life is an absolute ass" jay says. What is Jay rambling about his life is pretty cool. "Jay do this. Jay does that. jay Save me. No me. It's a constant circle" he continued. Jay turned around and his eyes were glowing orange. The anger that he's showing is something that I've never encountered in my life. It's actually.. intimidating. The only way to capture him now is to use my powers against him. He has no way out as he's just like robin. A human with some moves. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos," I scream. I capture him in a ball of blackness. He starts to grin. "Hehe, that's cute that you can use black magic on me." Jay laughs. "But it'll never be enough to overpower me" he continues. "What does he mean overpower him" I begin to think. What's he hiding. He burst into flames. Which broke my spell. "What are you?" I ask. "Your worst nightmare" he laughs. He gets into his car and floors it. And breaks through a wall. All of a sudden I couldn't see him.

Moments later

I run out to the gathering room. Cyborg was playing games with beast boy. Robin was blasting music. And Starfire was taking care of silkie. "Everyone shut up and listen" I scream. Everyone turns to me.  "Jay is suffering another flashback and it's a dangerous one. He could possibly wreck the whole city." I say. "Sucks that he might have to be locked up for that" Robin says. I glare at him. "Good he's gone. Good riddance" beast boy belches. I glare at him and he trips and busts his lips. "Oh no not my lipth" beast Boy cried. "I can get a track on him, let me go pull some locations," cyborg says. "Finally a sensible person" I sighed. "I wouldn't be doing this for anyone else. But for once I have a friend that I can relate to with cars" cyborg says. "And he must be as important to you" he continues. Cyborg has a point. There's some sort of connection with him. He just happened to lose grip. If I recall back to the book. He lost it back on the grid.

Cyborgs pov

I head back into the garage and pull out the laptop. Sam has given me a tracking code for itself as it knew this was going to happen. I pull up the tracking on my laptop. "WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING IN ANTARCTICA" I screamed. "Dude might as well call himself an ice cream cone," I think to myself. "Where is he now," raven asks. "Antarctica, why I don't even know. Dudes on some wack stuff" I continue.

Ravens pov

"Antarctica, hmm," I think to myself. Why would he go to Antarctica? Then a lightbulb hit me. He exploded into flames. The only way he would've been able to cool down is somewhere cold. "Let's get moving cyborg," I say. "Bro my circuit is gonna freeze" cyborg screamed. I just rolled my eyes and walked away.

Days later of dealing with cyborgs complaining later. We found jay. He was lying on an iceberg floating around. All of a sudden I'm sucked into Jay's head. Greeted by two jays. "Come on jay you're me, destroy this place," one says. His eyes are glowing red and are a black and white version of him. We will just call it evil jay. "No get out of my head you fucking bastard," Jay says. At this point, I don't know what's going on.  "Let's be one jay, it's the only way" evil jay says. "I said NO!" Jay screams. Flaming up again with his sword. The two jays went at it. "What the heck is this," I think. All of a thought flew through my head. "This is what I gotta deal with raven. Stay out of the way this is going to get bloody" jay says. Good to know he's somewhat sane. Jay starts floating. "Bring it on bitch" jay screams. "Gladly," the other said. They both clash at it for a while. Jay couldn't keep up the pace. Jay got slammed on the ground. Abs the evil jay put his foot on Jay's face. "Heh you're weak, no wonder the misses over there had to save your ass. Watch as I destroy her too." Evil jay says. He starts walking towards me with a grin on his face. I started backing away as there is no way I can defeat him. "You're just like hiro" jay screams. Struggling to get back up. "Excuse me?" Evil jay says back. "Are you deaf or sum? You. Are. Just. Like. H.I.R.0" jay screams. He becomes a flame again. But this flame is much brighter and is white instead of orange. His swords are blue. "Lay a finger on her. And you're dead". Jay says coldly. The flame was so strong that his hair was moving in the sync with the flame. I could tell he was pissed. Evil jay laughed. And still walked towards me. A ball of flame shot me back far. "I didn't say I was done buddy boy," jay says.  And right before my eyes. Evil jay was slaughtered with blood flying everywhere. Jay stepped on his doubles face. "I wasn't the weak one. You were," jay says. And crushing its skull completely.

Jays pov.

I wake up from my head. "Are you okay raven?" I ask. She doesn't answer. She just looks at me. I notice that she's shivering. As we're in the coldest place on this planet. "Here," I say. Giving her a fireball this should keep you warm. "Let's get the hell out of this icicle of a place," I say. I drove everyone back as it was a fair trade as they tracked me down.  Cyborg sang most of the way. "Child," I thought. "Yes, I know," Raven says in my head. "Listen. What you saw is what happens when I lose grip of myself. I didn't mean for you to see those disturbing scenes. And please. Please don't hate me" I said to her overthought. " I don't hate you. I'm genuinely concerned about you." She said. "We will continue this later focus on the road." She says.

3rd person pov

Once everyone got home. Robin wanted to lock jay up. But raven stopped him. Jay had this craving for a lot of water since he burnt a lot of his fluids out of his body. Later on, jay and raven had a detailed conversation about how to keep control of themselves and realized it's best they have to stick together. At this moment this world is too fragile for two people to explode.