DC Gothic – Red-X 2

Part 2

Titan Tower – Jump City

While Raven hadn't had the longest of evil fighting careers her life hadn't been lacking in struggles both big and small. But what she was facing now was on a whole different level.

"I can't believe this is happening why me why does this have to happen to me what am I going to do how am I suppose to tell the others that I'm pregnant with Red X's baby?" she asked her own reflection in the bathroom mirror "How am I suppose to tell X about this and what if he doesn't want to be a father?".

A lot more questions ran through the part demon's mind, a few included wondering how exactly she'd gotten pregnant given that she wasn't even the same species as the guy who had knocked her up.

Also she wondered how long the pregnancy was going to take because when it came to demons and part demons it was never going to be the expected nine months.

Thinking that led to her wondering what exactly it was she would give birth to given that only one of the parents of the child was a human being. However finding out stuff like that was going to have to wait. She had other issues to deal with first, like telling her friends that she was up the duff.

At least she now remembered the father thanks to a crystal she'd gotten from Red-X. As instructed she'd broken it, in fact she'd done so without thinking. Which in retrospect had been rather foolish, but she'd known who it was from and she'd badly wanted her memories back.

Oddly she wasn't mad about having her recollections altered. She understood why because the note the crystal had come with had explained it all. Mostly she was just happy to have her mind restored. Still she figured she'd owed Red-X at least a slap or maybe a couple of kicks to the shins.

As Raven was going to the main room to tell the other Teen Titans that she was pregnant. She decided to tell Starfire the news first as the alien princess was the closest thing she had to a best friend and she was another female and therefore might have some helpful advice to offer.

She would also measure Star's reaction, and depending on how the alien reacted she would then decide if telling the others was the right thing to do or if she should wait awhile.

"Hello friend Raven I am very surprise that you knocked on my door. What has brought you here?" asked Starfire once she had opened her bedroom's door.

For the super powered babe that had actually been rather normal sounding.

"Well Star I actually want to tell you something important" said Raven

Right now she was hoping to get an invite inside the room as this wasn't exactly something she wanted to discuss while standing in the corridor.

"Of course friend Raven why won't you come in and you then you can speak of the important matter you wish to discuss" invited Starfire.

The daughter of Trigon resisted the urge to remark on the fact that was most people would just said something like 'come on in' or even just 'take a load off'. Instead the emo girl simply took a seat

"Now friend Raven what matter do you wish to speak of" asked Starfire her voice full of curiosity.

Since this wasn't going to be easy the magic user didn't just come out and say what was on her mind.

"Star promise me that you won't tell the other's about this" said Raven, who was suffering from understandable anxiety at this point.

"But Raven why do you wish not tell our friend's about his matter" inquired Starfire.

She wasn't one for lying so the alien would need a good reason to keep her mouth shut.

"This is one of those things we have keep between us girls" explained Raven "At least for now. I will tell everyone when I'm ready".

That was the best she could do.

"I understand Friend Raven" said Starfire "If you would like me to I will not tell the others"

Star wasn't great at keep secrets, but when she made a promise she fought hard to keep it. Besides she wouldn't have to keep it for very long as this wasn't something Raven would be able to hide forever.

"Thanks Star I really appreciate that" replied Raven

Which was an understatement really.

"Now Friend Raven please tell me your important news" said Starfire rather impatiently.

She was practically vibrating with anticipation at this point.

"I'm pregnant" Raven blurted out.

She hadn't been able to hold it in any longer.

"Friend Raven I am very happy for you" said Starfire as she hugged the knocked up young woman.

Lucky for the unborn demon spawn the alien princess had been able to restrain from hugging her friend too hard. Starfire often forgot how strong she was and in the past Raven's rib had suffered because of that.

"Star I'm glad you happy but please let me go" said Raven with urgency "I need to breathe".

Upon realising what she was going Starfire let go of her friend.

"Forgive me friend Raven I am so full of happiness for you" the orange coloured alien told her team mate.

Then Starfire frowned as a thought crossed her mind.

"Is the Red-X the father?" she questioned.

There was next to no chance of it being anyone else as Raven wasn't exactly the type of girl to hook up with some random guy so Koriand'r hadn't really needed to ask.

When Raven nodded there was only one thing Starfire could say.

"Robin will not be overjoyed by this news".

That was pretty much the understatement of the century.

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H.I.V.E Tower - Jump City.

After yet another disastrous meeting with the Teen Titans the group known as the H.I.V.E Five had decided that they needed to change the way they did things.

To be more accurate the females in the group had decided that things needed to be done a different way and part of their planning had led them to agreeing that they would do better if they had a leader.

A leader who could not only come up with good plans, but also led the H.I.V.E to victory over the Teeb Titans, or at the very least led them on a single successful job so that they would stop being the laughing stock of the criminal underworld.

There had really only been one choice. The thief known as Red-X. Not only was he a master criminal, he had also successfully stolen many things even though the Teen Titans kept trying to stop him.

The heroes had never been able to catch Red-X and given that both Jinx and Blackfire, who were currently the joint leaders of the H.I.V.E Five, had been involved with the super crook they weren't opposed to having him in charge. In fact there had been times when they had very much enjoyed having him in charge.

"We need something he can't resist" Jinx said to Blackfire as they discussed their strategy "Something that will make him not only want to take charge of the group, but also to do a good job of being leader".

Mammoth, Gizmo, and Kyd Wyykd, the male members of the group hadn't been asked for their input, but that didn't matter as Mammoth didn't care very, Gizmo actually liked Red-X anyway, and Kyd couldn't talk.

"Why?" asked Blackfire "He'll be leader if we offer it to him. He wouldn't turn it down".

Jinx wasn't so sure about that. She had been Red-X's girlfriend back when they'd all been in at H.I.V.E academy and he was a lone wolf by nature, so being offered the role of team leader wouldn't be that appealing to the master thief. They would need something to sweeten the deal.

"Look, we just need something, okay" Jinx argued "We can't afford to pay him so we have to offer him an insentive".

In they could haved afforded to hire him for the job then they wouldn't need him as they already be rich. Sadly they didn't have that kind of cash.

Which was partly why they were so desperate for new leadership. Another reason why they needed a new commander was that neither Jinx or Blackfire would let the other boss them around even during a fight.

This was because they were two alpha females and unless something changed they'd end up doing what always happened when a group had two alpha females. They would either fight to the death or spilt the group in half and go their own way.

Neither outcome would be good because they couldn't defeat the Titans with the numbers they had so dividing their forces or even just lessening their membership by one would just make thing worse.

"I can be a lure for Red-X!" Blackfire readily volunteered.

The alien princess was quite willing to spread her legs for the thief, she'd rather enjoyed it the last time and perhaps she wouldn't have stopped if not for the fact that she needed to leave Earth in a hurry.

She would have tried tracking him down before now, but until Jinx had smashed a crystal in front of the whole group none of them had really remembered Red-X much.

"No, no." Jinx replied dismissively "We need someone attractive."

She had actually been hinting that she should be the one to tempt Red-X with her body. It had been a while since she'd gotten any and her prospects weren't good. She knew a few guys, the problem was that they weren't exactly suitable boyfriend material.

Gizmo not only had the body of a child he had the mind of one too, even that mind was one that could come up with devices that defied physics. As for Mammoth while he was very much grown up in body he also all the maturity of an irate toddler. That left Kyd Wyykd and Jinx wasn't even sure he was human, never mind male. So no one would blame her for using this situation to try to snag her old boyfriend back.

"Oh what if we offer him both of us" Blackfire suggested "There's no way he would turn down having two girls to go to bed with".

It was at times like these that Jinx was reminded that the evil princess was an alien. That idea was not one a human woman would have suggested, at least not so bluntly.

The grey skinned girl's gut reaction was to shoot the idea down, but when she thought about it she realised that her comrade in crime was right. No guy would say no to that, and it would avoid a lot of heated discussion.

"Would we have to do stuff with each other or just him?" Jinx asked.

Blackfire spent a few moments pondering that question before finally offering an answer.

"I guess that would be up to him" she said "I mean that's kind of the point of making him the leader".

Jinx then realised that the prospect of having a threesome wasn't as odd as she might have thought. Blackfire was pretty and while they were both straight doing things with each other wouldn't make them lesbians because they would be doing it for a guy. Which was logic that made sense to her.

Besides all guys like that sort of thing so there was no Red-X would resist.

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H.I.V.E Tower - Jump City.

I'd been a way from this town for quite some time and I hadn't really intended on staying as there was a whole world out there.

Then I'd gotten an email form an old girlfriend of mine who had asked me to met her at a set of map coordinates.

Now that I was here I was wondering why I'd agreed to stick around even long enough for this meeting. This city was after Slade's stomping ground, but he was suppose to be dead now. Although I suspected that he had taken Rose away somewhere in order to train her.

As far as I knew nothing important had happened in this city in a while, and in some ways that unsettled me. It was almost as if something should have happened, only it hadn't and that was bothering me for some reason.

"I'm here" I said as I looked around what seemed to be a normal looking building "You there Jinx?".

The place I was in now was just that, a place. There were two unused buildings on this street for some reason. To me it seemed like total a waste of space.

"You kept us waiting, handsome" said a voice.

I almost reached for my gun when I heard that voice. It had been some time since I'd seen Komand'r, and we hadn't exactly parted on the best terms. I hadn't even known she was back on Earth, not that I should have as I had been in another dimension.

Blackfire walked into the dim light before speaking. Which gave me a chance to note that while she was wearing her armour her stance was relaxed.

Which meant she hadn't come here looking for a fight. In fact if anything it looked as if she was going to ask me for something, but I could have been wrong about that as her expressions and movements didn't always mean the same thing as a human woman's would.

"I.. that is we have a proposition to make" she then told me.

If not for my mask she would have been able to see how nervous I was right now. I'd come here expecting to met Jinx, and for a second I'd forgotten that but now that Blackfire had said 'we' I was suddenly thinking that we might not be alone. This could be a trap.

"The last time I spent any time with you I got shot in the back" I reminded the criminally insane alien.

It had been more insulting than the time she had stabbed in the stomach despite it having hurt less the second time she had tried to kil me.

Thankfully I was immortal so she couldn't do more than hurt me. Still that didn't mean that I was foolish enough to lower my guard around someone as dangerous as her.

"Come to think of it I owe you a death" I said to Komand'r.

She was fast, but I was faster and my pistol was no mere slugthrower it was a high tech energy weapon that could kill even her, so if she made a move she would die.

Not that I really wanted to kill her, but there was only so many times a man could put with seeing his own blood pooling on the floor.

"Go ahead and try something" Blackfire taunted "I have a back up and all it will take is one..."

As soon as she mentioned back up I started to ignore her and blinked a number of times in the right pattern. Which switched my vision to infra red. Now I could see four other figures and I could guess who they were. I also knew how to take each of them down with next to no effort.

"Okay. I'll try something" I told Blackfire who had stopped talking by now.

I made four moves. The first was encase Mammoth in a giant X that turned into something like chewing gum upon impact. The second was to disable Jinx, using two smaller Xs I pinned to arms to her side The third move was to also cover Kyd Wykkyd red goo so that he couldn't move either. The last move was to pin Gizmo to the wall.

Blackfire swore, it wasn't anything in English but given her tone of voice she couldn't have been saying anything nice.

"Now then, about this deal" I said in a perfectly relaxed tone of voice.

The alien princess wasn't ready to tell me everything just yet.

"Have you ever taken on the Teen Titans?" she asked me "By yourself I mean"

If they were trying to hire for me a job then they had gone about it in a very silly way.

"Once or twice" was all I had to say on the matter.

Truthfully I'd tangled with those punks a few times and while I'd never really harmed any of them they'd never been able to capture me. In fact most of the time they'd just been annoying.

Robin aka the Boy Wonder, was the only Titan I actually worried about and the only reason he even noticed my existence was because I wore what had been his suit.

I wasn't sure how the Titans would react to be being back in town given that I'd shagged Raven a few times during the tournament and she had positive feelings towards me. However that had been some time ago, and given what I'd done she might never want to see me again.

"I've been having some trouble with them" Blackfire confessed.

It wasn't hard to imagine that they kept getting in the way every time Komand'r tried to kill her sister, they could be annoying like that.

"Hmm, I assume that these idiots aren't much help" I then said.

I'd seen them in action enough to know that despite their powers they weren't much of a threat to the Titans.

"Hey!" Mammoth yelled from within the pile of goo holding him in place "I can still hear you!"

Given how stuck he was his opinion hardly mattered.

"I know" I told him before turning my attention back to Blackfire "What does that have to do with me?".

Now she was getting close to the point of all this. I could sense it.

"Well we need someone" Blackfire explained "Someone who can actually take on the Titans and not get their ass kicked".

Mostly I'd only been able to escape the Titans, but that was more than many crooks could say.

"Which is where I come in" I realised

Now things were starting to make sense. This little group of criminals had everything they needed to make it big, super powers, muscle and even a tech guy but they didn't have a guy to come up with the plans.

"Yes. That's were you come in" the alien princess confirmed.

I was already turning around intending to leave when Jinx spoke.

"We want you to be the leader" she said.

Hearing that made me stop in my tracks, but not for long as I had no desire to be tied down.

"Oh and you get both of us as your girlfriends if you agree" Blackfire added "Jinx and me in your bed doing what you want".

Now that was tempting. I could steal anything I wanted and I was smart enough to get away with what I took, but no amount of robbery could get me two willing sexual partners.

"I'm in" I decided "At least for now. We can see how things go".

My intention was to leave without delay if things didn't work out.

"Great" said Jinx "Now could you free us?"

Jinx's arms were bound so she couldn't use her powers to free herself. As for Mammoth, he was straining against the red goo, but that wouldn't help him. Gizmo he was just wiggling about. As for Kyd he was already free and was just leaning on a wall looking as if he didn't have a care in the world. I knew I'd have to keep a keen eye on that one.

"Does he ever speak?" I asked Blackfire while pointing at Wyykd.

Already I was getting a creepy vibe off this guy.

"Nope" the alien princess replied. "He's a mute"

Yeah he was going to be trouble. The silent types always were.

"So do you guys have a evil lair?" I then asked as I used a solvent to dissolve the glue keeping Mammoth in place.

"You're standing in it" Gizmo told me.

Needless to say I was not impressed.

"I'll give you the tour" offered Jinx once I cut her lose "Our towers pretty neat".

Since I hadn't noticed any tower from the outside I had to inquire on this subject.

"Is it invisible?" I asked.

Jinx shook her head as she took her arm in mine.

"No its underground" she explained "This is the top floor".

That actually sounded rather cool. I couldn't wait too see the rest.

"Then I'll show you your bedroom" offered Blackfire.

I had in fact been looking for somewhere to stay.

"We'll show you your bedroom" Jinx corrected.

I said nothing and under my mask I was smiling. I got the feeling that leading this team could be a lot of fun.