To the people that are not new to this story i have to apologize. My other story Paper to Flesh temporarily took precedence over this story. I want to create some sort of continuity between the two stories and so there will be several major changes to Red X's background story in order to create a semi seamless transition between my two stories. I'm sorry if this upsets you or if you prefer the previous storyline more but I believe that these changes will provide better continuity with my other story, the shows and the comics. If you would like to read the original story instead just pm me and I'll send it over to you, but I will no longer continue with the original story line. Truth be told I am taking down the old story line after the start of the new year. I am doing a complete overhaul of this story and getting my beta to help edit this new story. The chapters will be longer, spelling and grammar will be looked after by my beta and this story will merge with my other. Think of this as the prequel to Paper to Flesh. I hope you enjoy the changes and the storyline.

Under a Red Sun

Kiera Embers

Chapter:1

Lazy Sunday

Sundays were usually quite, there was something about them that naturally made people lazy. Even most criminals refused to "work" on Sundays, it just wasn't done. While most people were sleeping in, or trying to survive their hangover Raven was up on the roof meditating, or pretending to. In reality the "Lazy Sunday" even had an effect on the Demoness. Even Raven has her lazy moments. So on Sundays Raven would go up to meditate on the roof as usual but end up napping. This is what she was doing on this particularly sunny Sunday when she woken up by the Tower's alarm. She dropped unceremoniously to the ground and groaned. Her plans for a quiet, calm Sunday were obliterated and it wasn't even 8. She pulled herself off the ground and teleported to the T-car.

"Awww man!"

Raven didn't even bother turning around she already knew that whine. Beast Boy, or The Beast as he now insisted everyone call him, still could not manage to take the passenger seat from Raven. Cyborg refused to intervene because Raven was the only member of the team who wouldn't mess with his buttons.

"Raven come on! You can Teleport!" Garfield whined

"No Time BB get in", yelled their infallible leader.

Garfield groaned and got into the back seat mumbling the entire time about how he was "The Beast" not "Beast Boy". During the Drive over Raven fiddled with her new long hair. She had lost a bet with Starfire during a poker game, surprisingly enough the alien princess was incredibly apt at putting on a poker face, and was forced to grow it out and cut it in whatever style of the winners choosing. Kori had given her blunt bangs and had Ravens hair straightened. It was a pain but even Raven was forced to admit that it looked good, although she would never say this out loud she did wear her hood down more often.

Over the years Raven's uniform had also gotten an upgrade. One day when she got back from a trip to Europe (a coven had asked for her help exorcising a demon) all her leotards had a keyhole cut over her chest in the shape of a flying raven that resembled her soul projection. Needless to say she was livid. She sighed and closed her cloak over her chest. Her team members managed to convince her to keep the alterations and not kill them. Raven turned her head a bit to look at her friends. Beast Boy had grown taller and bulked up a little, his hair had grown out into a shaggy sort of mess atop his head. Raven was pretty sure he was smoking pot on his free time, but she didn't mind, as long as he wasn't impaired during their fights. Kori had grown a little taller but most of her growing occurred in the areas where men's eyes drifted. Last time BB was caught peeping on her in shower Cyborg had to physically hold Richard back. Raven glance out the window and saw Richard zip by on his motorcycle. He had grown the most during the last three years. For a few months during the worst of his growth spurts he had been downright clumsy, but now he was just as agile and comfortable with his height as the rest of them. Two years ago Richard had retired his Robin costume in favor for his new Nightwing persona. Batman had adopted a new protege, Tim Drake, who took on the Robin costume after the untimely death of Jason Todd who had previously worn the cowl.

"So who was it that woke us up at this ungodly hour." Raven grumbled as she rubbed her temples.

"Scanner didn't say, so far all we know is that a storage facility's alarms sounded less than a half an hour ago. First responders haven't answered mine of the cities hails so we will probably be dealing with someone very dangerous. we'll figure it out when we get there." Nightwing's voice rang out from the car's speakers system.

"Ooooh Raven's mad!" Garfield said in an annoying sing song voice.

"Friend Raven, would you like to sing the happy happy song from the TV. It may alleviate you anger"

"Kori, if you sing that song again I will steal your voice like the witch from the Little Mermaid."

Starfire's slapped her hand over her mouth with a scared expression on her face.

"Alright guys we're here." Cyborg said as they

"Titans go!"

"I do not see the bad guy, Robin where do we do the 'Go'?"

"Star I told you it's Nightwing now" The team looked around. They were in a storage facility and the door to one of the rooms had been melted off.

"Who could've done this?" Cyborg asked as he examined the door.

"Miss me?"

The team prepared themselves for a fight when they heard the distinctive distorted voice of

Red X.

"Sorry kiddies had to find a way to get you guys out here."

"What do you want Red X!"

"I have a gift for you guys. Just call this an early Christmas present" Red X jumped off of the rafters tossing a few things their way. A net descended over Nightwing and an electric charge landed on Cyborg's back. While Nightwing tried to cut himself out of the net Cyborg was shooting sparks from his neck and unwillingly firing sonic blast throughout the storage facility. X continued his assault tossing a goo "X" at BB and slamming Starfire into a wall with another X. He slapped something over her eyes and disappeared in the shadows.

Raven was alone, she expanded her senses while she tried to use her powers to free a struggling Nightwing. She was more than a little confused, X generally took his time in taking out the team. He seemed to enjoy embarrassing the team and making Nightwing lose his cool. She was pretty sure that he viewed it as harmless fun. Before she could free Nightwing or come up with an answer for her question she felt a pair of strong arms wrap around her.

"Hey Sunshine, I need your help with something."

Suddenly Raven and Red X weren't in the warehouse anymore, they were on top of the Eiffel tower. Raven spun around and was about to fling X off the tower when he pulled up a chair and motioned for her to sit.

"Sunshine, we need to talk"

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This is a remake of the story Brightest Night which will be taken down soonish. The story will change and with it some of the characters. The first two chapters will remain mostly unchanged. I've already explained my reasons above and would like some feedback. Obviously Red X will have more of a connection with the DC comics. I'm going to try to finish the next chapter before the end of this month and by the new year we should be past the point that I left the original story.