My eldest cousins Johns College in Blüdhaven was on their fall break. He had come back to visit the family, even though he hated what they did in their free time, so he spent most of his time with me.
"So Willis, I'm told that you are quite the intelligent student." John wasn't really asking, but suggesting a conversation topic.
"Yeah, I don't have the same extracurricular as the others as the others, so I have more time to study, I was even able to help Crystal get into the fifth grade."
John laughed, for reasons that elude me. "I had just as much time as you, but I never skipped any grades." Again John laughed, laughed like the Joker.
"Why?" John looked up, and just stared at me for a few minutes. He didn't say a thing, so I asked again. "Why?"
John looked at me for a few more minutes, and then made that weird smacking sound that I had come to associate with a smile. "The reason I didn't participate is because I didn't like the way they were doing things." I looked at him for a moment, and then made the same smacking sound.
"My question Willis is, why do you want to join the team?" I looked at John extremely shocked at his question. I had never told him, or anyone for that matter that I wanted to join.
John and I just sat there for a while, in the open space of the Wayne Manor, The soft feel of the furniture under our hands. "I want to join because; I want to make a real difference." John began to talk, but I stopped him by putting my hand up. "Police make a difference, but… they just can't take down the big guys like Joker, or Death Stroke." John released a little breath of air from the back of his throat. "Yes, I figured out that you are studying to become a sheriff, your transcript is riddled with that stuff."
John again released the breath of air. We sat there in silence for a few more minutes, than a silent beep began to come from the clock on the wall. I walked to it, and pulled the pendulum below it. The wall opened up, and an elevator appeared. John and I walked in, and the elevator began to go down.
John walked over to the computer against the cave wall and a buzzing sound filled the room.
"John, is Willis there?" I walked over to the frantic sound of my uncle's voice. "Willis, go into the prototype room, and go to the room with the X on it, and put on the suit inside."
I followed the grooves on the wall as I heard Uncle Damian giving instructions to John. When I found the right door I went inside, and began to follow the left wall feeling the double I, the IV, the VI, the VIII, and the X. when I found that fateful letter I felt a little heat emanating from it.
'Red X, that sounds like a good name to me.' I thought to myself, and then opened the door going inside.
As I walked in I heard the sound of a glass container opening. I walked towards the sound and felt a smooth suit that felt a lot like my family's, the cape, then the groove of an X on the left chest, and the shape of half a skull on the top, a small X over the eye and left temple.
I began to put the suit on, and then grabbed the helmet, putting it over my long ruffled hair. Suddenly I saw something, a bumpy room with a hidden door, and a cylinder at the back right corner. I had absolutely no idea how to react to what I was seeing, I had never seen anything like this before, and I'd never really seen anything at all.
"Willis, calm down, it's just sonar sending pictures into your brain." I looked around to see if Uncle Damian was there. "It's just the calm link, the coordinates to our location has been uploaded to your bike, now please, get here soon."
I ran out the room, and began to go down the hall, as I grew close to the end I saw the door knob, and the hinges of the door, as I flung it open I saw a short bike with an X shaped indent on the front, and on both sides of each wheels.
"Willis, I'll be helping you on some information about the criminal and ways to get at him." I turned my head towards John, his face directed towards the computer screen. John turned his head towards me, and I heard that smack of a smile. "Red, just like Uncle Jason," I felt the X and smiled.
"Red X sounds like a perfect name to me." John's chin went down a bit, at my new metallic voice, and I could only take that as his smile broadening. "I'll be back in a bit John." John turned back to the computer screen as I got onto my bike.
I saw the cave walls flying by as I got closer to the open air. I flew up out of the cave, and into an ally way. I followed the chipped bricked road onto the city streets, following the road to the bay. The ever changing shapes and sounds of the waves splashing against the boats, and poles of the docks.
"Kid, hurry, he's on his way" I jumped off my bike and began to run towards the building where I thought the signal was coming from. "Please, hurr—." Uncle Damian's voice was cut off, and another, slightly muffled one replaced his breathless one.
"Whoever you are kid, your too late to save your friends." I jumped through the window, and thought about creating a whole, because I knew that my family was below, and it happened, an X opened below me, and I flew down as it closed up.
"The name is Red X, and you need to get your hands off of my family." The man jumped back, and I saw straps with ammo packs on theme, a belt with a pistol, and a belt. "Now, who might you be?"
The man laughed for a few seconds then answered. "I'm Deathstroke, nice to meet you read X." I looked at Deathstroke for a few seconds, when Damian told me to grab my bow staff.
I did the same thing I did with the whole in the floor and thought about a bow staff. That exact second an X shaped bow staff appeared in my hand, the two spikes in the middle giving me a nice grip. The other two spikes were long and had sharpened points.
"Deathstroke's real name is Slade Wilson; known children are Rose Wilson, Grant Wilson, and Joseph Wilson. He doesn't have a current wife, and his youngest son Joseph has no contacts with him. His half-brother once tried to kill his whole family as well." I listened to John's advice as I began to swing my staff at Deathstroke. I began to formulate a plan, and then when I was ready to put it into action Deathstroke swung his sword at me, knocking me to the side after he hit my head.
"Did Wade teach you that Slade?" I asked in a mocking metallic tone. "I mean he did almost kill your family, including your daughter Rose, but not Joseph, now why is that." Death stroke lunged at me, and I easily blocked it, a metallic laugh escaping my mouth. "Can't even keep your son from leaving you," I mocked, trying to incite a rage into him.
"ha ha ha haa, you think that your insults will get to me kid." I stared at Deathstroke, extremely confused that he hadn't taken the bate. "I've been at this game a while, and a lot of people have tried to use my family issues against me, but I like to use them in my favour."
As Deathstroke spoke a female figure began to fall behind me, I de energized my bow staff, and brought out two X shaped swords to counter her two Katanas.
I spun around, and blocked her attack, then had to parry Deathstoke's, and I was stuck in a continues battle of never ending onslaught.
"This is my daughter Rose, but you can call her Ravager V." I began to realise the full danger of my situation. Two extremely dangerous criminals were about to kill me, and there was nothing I could do about it, until a green crossbow bolt shot through the window.
The sonar picked up two figures. The first was Huntress, and the second was her son Quick Draw.
When Deathstroke and Ravager V saw this they, began to run, and nobody bothered to chase them.