Xavier was, unlike most boys, a morning person and that morning was no different. He had woken up early only to be greeted by a surprise. There was Kori sleeping contently in his arms with a smile on her face. The sunlight coming from the adjacent window went marvellously well with her red flaming hair and gave her a heavenly glow.

Red X smiled as he looked at her and then started thinking about last night. They had kissed and damn it felt so good! After that he had very selfishly asked her to spend the night with him which she, being the nice person she was, had complied to easily. They slept together that night, literally. They did not take the kissing any further than it should have been taken. Yesterday was neither the time nor the place to have been doing that. Last night he had found out that Tamaranians showed love by touching and he resolved to never wear a shirt again ever while sleeping.

A sleepy voice had broken his trail of thoughts. "Umm X" said Kori as she placed her hand on the side of his face. X leened into her touch. "Morning Sunshine. Slept well?" he asked her after kissing her forehead. Her face broke into a smile as she responded, "indeed. I had a very pleasant Shnorvak."

"Well that's very nice. Now then go get ready. I'll make you breakfast." Said X as he got up from bed. Kori too got up from bed. She looked at X who had already started cleaning his room. She smiled. Kissed his cheek and walked out, leaving behind a very shocked and probably blushing X.

However, the promise of breakfast could not be fulfilled as slade had decided that it would be very nice to give the titans a wake up call.

"Titans there is trouble in the town square. It's a gordaninan attack. Slade might be there too. Titans go!" came Robin's voice soon after the attack news. All the titans including a very sleepy beast boy headed out.

At the town square

"Stop what ever you are doing and-" but Robin did not get to finish that sentence as the Gordanians already started attacking them. "Looks like even Aliens don't like your nonsense" chided X as they engaged in battle.

Robin punched a gordanian and Red X electrocuted them. He seemed stronger than before, probably because his power core had changed. "Azarath Metrion Zynthos" chanted Raven as two buses came and sandwitched a gordanian. BB turned into a bird, took Cyborg and threw him at the gordaninans. "Booya!" came the victory chant. Starfire was throwing starbolt after starbolt at them swearing in Tamaranian. Batgirl kept punching and kicking before joining Robin in throwing bat-a–rangs.

They thought they were winning. What they didn't realise was that the gordaninans had their own particular targets. Two Gordanians somehow Climbed over Cyborg and messed up his circuits, making him immobile.

Three gordaninans had cornered Starfire. One of them jumped over her and pinned her to the ground. The other somehow managed to handcuff her. "X!" came her scream. Mere seconds later the one handcuffing her was stuck to the ground with an X. The one standing next to her was brutally punched and cut with sharp X shurikens. When the one pinning her was distracted, she pushed him off of her with her alien strength. That was all X needed. He held that lizard by the neck and said, "Stay. Away. From. Her." Before throwing him and pinning him to a lamppost with his X.

X helped Starfire get up and broke her handcuffs with one of his Xs. They looked around. Except for these 2 that were pinned to various places, the other gordanians had escaped. However no one had any major injuries.

"Dudes where's cyborg"? questioned Beast Boy. "last thing I remember was that they were trying to mess up his systems." Said Batgirl. "Seems like their objective was not only to kidnap Kori…" Started X, "But also to kidnap cyborg." Finished Robin.

"Can't we investigate them?" asked Raven as she pointed at the two gordanians who were now awake and struggling to break free. But no matter what they asked, all they did was hiss and speak in a language no one understood.

"How are we to get anything out of them if we don't understand them?" asked Batgirl. "Ummm maybe Starfire could…" started Beast boy but Starfire went and hid behind X. "I do not wish to." She said. "Wish to what? What's happening here?" asked X who had lost track of the conversation. "Star can learn new languages by kissing people" said Robin. X didn't reply but his brain was running at 50m/s speed.

"Hey you!" said X as he looked straight at one of them. "If you don't answer my question, I'll kill you. I will only ask once. What do you want and why are you working with Slade?"

When he got gibberish for an answer, he threw a X shuriken really close to the gordanian's head, just barely missing the skin. "We…We are going to use his technology against you. Slade said that if we helped him we could get the girl back." Came the answered in a trembling voice.

"Right. Batgirl, go with the police and take them away." Said X as he noticed the arrival of the police.

"How did you know?" asked Raven as he walked past her. "Well how else did they communicate with Slade?" said X. Raven smirked.

The gordaninans were taken away. Starfire was safe. So now the only thing left to do was to find Slade and get Cyborg back.