Raven stretched high, the first one awake in the tower besides Robin. She wasn't even entirely sure he went to sleep.

Weaver was still passed out, his mouth open and one arm hanging off the side of the couch. She took a moment to laugh at him before going and making her tea, trying to stay quiet. He needed his sleep.

She decided that, while he was still asleep, she may as well do something nice for him. She went and woke up Cyborg, yanking his charging cord out and smacking him around a little.

"Ow!... Yo, Rae, what's up with you? You don't usually want to talk or anything."

"I need something."

"Define 'something'."

"I'd need to show you. Come on." They worked on her project for hours before it was finally complete, welding and soldering pieces of alloy together.

Weaver had woken up, but was still laying there like he was asleep.

Beast Boy's head poked up over the back of the couch. Weaver kept his eyes closed, knowing that BB wanted revenge for the marble prank. The changeling laughed and ran off, loudly getting something from the fridge. He took his chance to move.

Several minutes of silence went by before he spotted BB again; he was behind the couch with the same can of marbles. Amateur.

He poured the marbles over the back of the couch, spilling them onto the cushions where Weaver had been. He laughed to himself as Weaver snuck around the couch, silently stepping up next to him. Beast Boy, puzzled looked over the couch and saw that Weaver was nowhere to be found. Weaver quickly tied his shoelaces together and darted off, making sure that he wasn't spotted.

Beast Boy tried to walk away and find him and tripped immediately, falling flat on his face. Weaver laughed at him loudly, much to BB's embarrassment.

"Bull! You were... You were right there! How did you dodge that?!"

"Uhh... Life hacks." Raven entered the room and saw Beast Boy flat on the floor with Weaver laughing at him and smiled.

"Simon, Cyborg and I got something together for you. Come on." He followed her down the halls.

"What is it?"

"Wait and see."

"What isssssss ittttttt?"

"Wait."

"What is it what is it what is it what is it what is it WHAT IS IT?!"

"Wait!" she said, laughing at his immaturity. She stopped in front of her door. "Close your eyes."

"Uhhh... No."

"Please? Just do it."

"Fine." He shut his eyes and she led him in. He felt her lay him down on some kind of diagonal platform, almost like an operating table but nearly standing up.

"Can I open them now?"

"Afraid not. Just wait." He felt something wrap around his legs and had to resist the extreme temptation to snap his eyes open.

"This. Is weird. Very weird."

"You'll like it, trust me." She removed his grappling hooks, the two wrist blasters coming off with the click of a lock. He felt her slide some kind of gauntlet onto his hand. It extended all the way up his forearm, and stopped just short of the elbow. His fingers felt exposed to the air, however.

Finally, she placed something over his face. It went from his chin to his nose, angling down just short of his eyes. It was killing him that he couldn't look.

"Please?" he asked.

"Yeah, I'm done." He opened his eyes; she was standing in front of him with a mirror. He took it and looked himself over.

"I look pretty badass, actually!" His greaves were very much like Batman's, but each armor plate had a faint, blood red trim around it. His chest was still largely unguarded; typically, if he got hit in the chest, he was going to hurt, armor or not. His gauntlets did, as he suspected, extend up to his elbows. His hooks had been compacted and made more space-efficient, and now packed six tasers for each hand.

His facemask went up to the nose and sloped down, like one would expect from a ninja's face wrap. It, too, had blood red lining, and it fit perfectly with his hood.

"Where'd you get all this?"

"Cyborg helped me. He has a lot of spare metal. And he can practically bend it into shape."

"Thanks. Seriously, I mean it. This is an upgrade that I needed. Long overdue. Now I need to find something to do for you."

"Well... No, nevermind. Not now. But look, you don't need to do anything. When the time comes, I'll let you know." He smiled at her, not used to having a mask on.

"Only problem with masks. No facial expressions."

"Want to see something really cool?"

"Hmm?" She grabbed his right hand and tapped a button on it that blended in with the armor. He hadn't even noticed it. The mask slid into three different parts, moving down and to the side to reveal his face.

"That's pretty cool. That's really cool, actually. Now I can eat and... Other stuff." He smiled awkwardly.

"Yeah. Other stuff." They awkwardly left her room, stepping out into the hall.

"Seriously, thanks. I need to do something for you. Anything you want, you know I've got your back."

"Sure."

"Until the day I die."

"Again?" she said, a slight smile spread across her face.

"Yeah. And then if you save me again I'll owe you again, so it's kinda like a neverending cycle."

"This is going too deep."

"Fine. So what now?"

"Just find something to do and relax. We just swept pretty much everybody off of the map."

"Can never be too sure, Raven."

"We're gonna be fine." The alarm went off as she said that, causing her face to flush.

"Okay, I guess not." They ran to the common room and arrived at nearly the same time as the others. Robin was already in there, having analyzed everything.

"Red X. He's in the industrial district."

The heroes arrived there quickly; Robin and Cyborg had both gone in their vehicles, Starfire and Raven flew, Beast Boy had turned into a cheetah and was running, and Weaver was swinging his way through the city. Robin arrived first, skidding to a stop and turning his motorcycle sideways and jumping off. He spotted Red X immediately, entering a warehouse calmly and not paying any attention to the six teenagers.

"Titans! Go!" he yelled. Weaver zipped to the door and stuck to the wall above the door. Flipping upside down, he poked his head in and looked around. He heard some grunts, what sounded like two men fighting, but couldn't see anything. Robin rushed in under him, prompting him to swing into the building. Jumping past several containers, he landed right where the action was happening. Red X was kneeling on top of a security guard, hitting him in the chin. When he was satisfied the man wasn't going to interfere, he got up.

"Nice to meet you. Can't stay." He tried to rush out, but Weaver heard Cyborg's cannon. He checked on the officer.

"Are you alright, sir?"

"Yeah... I'll be fine."

"Thanks for holding him, uhh...?"

"Terry. Terry McGinnis."

"Thanks, Officer McGinnis. Just relax. Help is here." He arched his back and pulled himself over the containers. Red X had retreated outside, near some racks filled with building materials. Cyborg jammed a metal rod into the ground, narrowly missing X. The thief grabbed it and used it to swing himself around and kick Cyborg in the face. He landed as Beast Boy tried to capture him as a T-Rex and jumped onto his head, running up his back. Weaver fired both of his grappling hooks at him, but two large X's grew out of his gloves. He swung down with one hand and up with the other, knocking both of them off course.

Cyborg had stood and fired his cannon, narrowly missing Red X. Robin jumped high and threw three discs at him, which all exploded into smoke. The battle stopped for a second.

"Did... you get him?" Beast Boy asked, transforming back into a human. X leapt out of the smoke and kicked him in the stomach.

"I'm not that easy, kid!" He slapped an X onto BB's chest, which erupted into goo that stuck him in place. Robin swung at him with a birdarang, which X blocked by crossing his katars. He kicked Robin in the stomach and ducked as Cyborg fired another volley at him, narrowly dodging him again. Raven threw two steel rods at him and he dove over them, rolling and coming all the way up right in front of her.

"Hey, sunshine. Been a while. I was worried about you." He slapped an X onto her mouth and ran off, only to be stopped by Starfire.

"Uh oh. Both my girls. Man, am I in trouble." She fired her starbolts at him, and he jumped side to side to avoid. Running under her, he threw another X up and stuck her hands together, effectively halving her firepower. Running on a wall, he passed behind Cyborg and threw another X at him; it exploded into electricity, shutting down the metal man's systems. Weaver shot his hooks at him yet again, but X weaved between them and stuck them to the ground. He stood between them, smirking.

"You're new. I'm Red X, and you're the guys who get their butts whooped every time we fight."

"Not this time." He drew his cords in as fast as possible, yanking himself towards the villain. He kicked him in the chest and landed on top of him, his knee in his sternum.

"Nice move. Gotta go." He vanished out from under Weaver, re-appearing several feet away. Before he could move, X shot his feet and stuck him to the ground.

"Good try, kids. Keep trying, maybe one day you'll make me break a sweat." Robin got up, the last one still fully capable.

"I'm going after him! You guys get yourselves free!" Raven glared at him as he ran off, wondering how exactly he intended for them to do that.

"You left us to fend for ourselves!" Cyborg yelled at Robin.

"He was getting away!" Robin responded. The two had been bickering for over an hour in the common room while everybody else tried to just relax.

"If you had freed all of us, we coulda caught his scrawny ass!"

"If I had taken the time to, he'd have gotten away!"

"He DID get away, you moron!"

"I was TRYING to capture him! Maybe if you weren't so dependent on your electronic side you could have been too!"

"Sorry that there was a damn lab accident that I had no control over!" Dark energy surrounded both of their mouths; Raven had gotten sick of the yelling.

"Robin, you're wrong. You already know you can't beat X on your own. Cyborg, don't threaten to quit again." She released them and left, stalking off to her room. Robin looked at Weaver.

"Well, aren't you going to follow your girlfriend?" he said, his voice dripping with hate.

"Don't blame me because you're an asshole. And she isn't my girlfriend."

"Fine. Follow your master, lapdog."

"Says the sidekick."

"I'm not just Batman's sidekick anymore."

"No, you're also an angry little bitch that can't stand the fact that he screwed up."

"Friends, can we please stop the fighting?" Starfire asked, sad that everybody was angry.

"It's not a fight, Star. It's a man taking shit from a boy." Robin walked off, and Starfire followed him, trying to calm him down. Weaver huffed and put his head in his hands. Cyborg walked up behind him and put a large hand on his shoulder.

"It's cool, dude. He gets irritated whenever we lose a criminal, and especially if he screwed up. He'll apologize at some point."

"Good. I probably should, too. I wasn't exactly nice."

"Don't worry about it. He pushed you around, you just pushed back."

"Yeah, I guess."

"Go on, get to Raven. I know you want to." He looked at Cyborg oddly, then got up and went to her door. He knocked on it, hoping she wasn't too angry.

"What?"

"Rae, it's me."

"Fine." He entered and saw her on her bed, her knees up and leaning against the headboard. She had her hood up, still, and he'd learned that she used it somewhat as a mask to protect herself.

"You alright?"

"I just hate it when they fight like that. I'm fine."

"He went off on me after you left, too. He can be a real jerk sometimes."

"Tell me about it. I mean, he's a good leader for the most part, but sometimes he really oversteps his boundaries."

"Really shouldn't have said that about Cyborg. That was just wrong."

"Somebody needs to remind him we don't have to be here. Remind him that we're his friends, not his puppets."

"Problem is, he won't take it from any of us."

"I know one person he will take it from, though."