Part 2

Prologue

The police officer looked around cautiously. She had heard a sound.

She walked around her car and looked down the enormous hole. No sign of life. She grabbed her communicator. "Paillard, vois-tu quelque chose?"

"Non, rien du tout. C'était probablement un chat. Reste sur ton poste."

"Compris. Dis, quand est-ce que ces clochards d'Amérique allaient arriver pour sécuriser cette affaire ici?"

"Aucune idée, mais j'aimerais tant qu'il…"

A bunch of white noise replaced the voice over the communicator. "Paillard?" the policewoman asked. "Paillard? Merde!"

She ran towards her car as fast as possible to ring the alarm bell, but before she could reach it, something struck her and she fell to the ground, arms bound to her body by a wide, red band in an X-shape.

Someone stepped into her sight. An athletic body in a black suit. A skull-shaped mask, with a scar-like X over the right eye.

"Que veux-tu?"

"I want to unleash the beasts," the mysterious person said before throwing another red X over the policewoman's mouth.

Red X walked up to the edge of the hole. Down there was a nearly complete collection of all the Teen Titans' enemies. And he had free access to it.

He smiled underneath his mask. This was going to be interesting.

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Red X looked at the trophy-like statues. It was moments like this where he didn't regret not joining the Brotherhood of Evil. They had asked him, but he had refused.

After all, Red X was no villain.

He was surprised the Teen Titans had left so soon. The Paris police department had taken care of securing the base until the FBI or CIA or JLA or whatever arrived to take care of the villains and probably ship them all to Arkham Asylum. Unfortunately for them, Red X had arrived before them.

He took a close look at the control panel. It was more complicated than a space shuttle. Of course, piece of cake for Red X.

A button appeared on the screen. Thaw all, it said. No, Red X thought. He didn't want to open Pandora's box. He just wanted some help to get him what he wanted.

And he had found his first target.

"Chang," he said after thawing out the mad scientist, "Remember me?"

Chang, still confused after his sudden awakening from the freeze-sleep, looked at the anti-hero, and fear flashed over his expression when he recognized him.

X grabbed Chang by the front of his suit and brought the professor's face close to his mask. "Xenothium, Chang. I'm running a little low on it. You can get me some, can't you? For an old friend?"

"I… I don't… get it anymore! My dealer, he said…"

Red threw Chang down unto the conveyor belt and walked over to the control panel. He held his hand ready on the freeze-button.

"No! Please! I can try," Chang cried. "I'll… I'll see what I can do!"

"Good," X said as he stepped away from the screen and brought his face to Chang's again. "But don't try anything you'll regret."

Red X let the whimpering professor go as he looked around in search of his next subject.

Madame Rouge? No, she was no fun. She took things way too seriously.

Plasmus? No, as soon as he'd wake him up, he'd go berserk all over the place.

Mad Mod? Oh, please no.

His eye fell upon someone. He squinted in thoughts.

This could work.

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A/N: Okay, this was a prologue, but next chapter will be the OFFICIAL start of Part 2.

The freeze-ray really is more complicated than a space shuttle. At least, according to Más and Menos in Titans Together.