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A/N: Hey guys it's been awhile thank you for reviewing the story and marking it as favorite/alerting. I seriously apologize about it taking so long to update I hope you accept my apology. Also thanks for so many reviews I mean I'm amazed that you all like the story I didn't know how good it'd be at the beginning and that also reminds me that this chapter may be a little off since I lost where I was going….again….. They may also be a little OOC.
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Fun in the City
Team POV
The team had decided where they were going to meet up at and the time now all they had to do was decide who wanted to go where or with whom.
"I want to go with Artemis." Zatanna had said quickly since the team had already figured who most of them were going to go with. The only reason why they had to say who they would be with was so that there would be two people in each group that the team could contact.
"Yeah I'm going with Zatanna." Artemis said with a grin.
"Hey sugar why don't me and you be a pair?" Wally said quickly but was shot down by Connor in an instant.
"Me and M'gann are going to be a pair." Connor said bluntly.
"Yeah sorry Wally me and Connor already planned to be a group." M'gann said apologizing to Wally.
"Then that leaves you and me." Kaldurr said to Wally.
"Yeah I guess so." Wally said slightly deflating his mood for a second, but he snapped right back when he smelled something delicious.
"Okay so we all meet back here at the arranged time. Have fun everyone, but remember if trouble comes just send a signal through the com link." Kaldurr said as each of the pairs split off into different directions.
Zatanna and Artemis
"So where do you want to go?" Asked Zatanna already knowing where it would be.
"You know I want to go to that bike shop, but where do you want to go?" Artemis asked.
"I don't know why not just walk around after we go to the shop?" Zatanna replied
"Okay. Do you know where you want to go?" Artemis asked.
"No not yet we could just walk around or something after we go to the shop." Zatanna answered.
Connor and M'gann
"So where do you want go?" Connor asked M'gann.
"I would like to go to a book store for some cook books."M'gann answered with a grin.
"Okay let's find one then." Connor replied.
Kaldurr and Wally
"So where would you like to go?" Kaldurr asked as they were walking through the city.
"Why don't we explore?" Wally asked.
"Nice recommendation I agree that would be fun."Kaldurr said with a grin.
Zatanna and Artemis
Zatanna and Artemis had been searching for a little while, but hadn't been able to find it.
"Dang it's pretty hard to find this place." Artemis said frustrated.
"Yeah, but why don't we just ask someone if they know?" Zatanna suggested.
"Sure." Artemis replied.
They walked for a little bit longer and they saw a man dressed up in just a casual red jacket with some blue jeans on. The man also had light brown hair and was wearing some sun glasses.
"Hi mister can we ask you something?" Zatanna said as they walked up to him.
"Um sure." The man said slightly hesitant.
"Do you know where a bike shop in this area would be?" Artemis said bluntly.
"There was one at one point not too many blocks away from here. I'm not sure if it's still there, but if it is then you would have to go that way." The man said pointing. "Then take a left at the street and then a right and follow that until you see a sign or the shop."
"Okay thank you." Zatanna said with a smile.
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"Hey look there is the sign for the shop." Zatanna said as she pointed to the bike shop sign that was ahead of them. The sign said that the shop was a little more north. They kept walking and the gravel road turned into a finely packed dirt road.
"Why wouldn't it be like a regular building in the city?" Artemis asked.
"Maybe they like privacy." Zatanna offered as an answer. "Plus it is still pretty close to the city."
"Yeah, but it is a bit of a walk." Artemis said.
Red X POV
Red X had just returned to his shop and changed back into his civilian clothes, for now. He was now himself again and was planning on gathering any information he could on this new phenomenon 'Slade.'
He had to admit he was really curious about what Slade wanted. He was sitting on a chair at his desk gathering his information when his senses told him something was going to happen. He put away all of his blueprints, which were left on the table, and anything that remained that could give any hint of who he really was, Red X/ Richard Grayson. Then he checked a little monitor that showed him that there were two people coming to or close to the shop.
"That was a close call I don't want anyone finding out." Dick said as he also went to cover anything that could reveal either of his identities.
When he came back and looked again that's when he noticed.
"It's Zatanna and Artemis." Dick said with a slight grin, but also slightly nervous.
Zatanna and Artemis
Zatanna and Artemis had been walking for a short little while then the shop finally came into picture.
"Hey there it is." Zatanna said pointing to the shop.
"Yeah we're almost there." Artemis said happily.
Richard
Dick had everything hidden and now they were an eye shot away from the shop so he changed the channel that the monitor was on the local news channel.
A couple minutes after he switched the channel that it was looking at Zatanna and Artemis walked through into the store.
"Hey you're that guy we raced!" Artemis said as soon as she noticed.
"Yep. How've you been?" Richard asked with a small grin.
"We've been good." Zatanna replied.
"So I'm going to assume you want to check what I have, right?" Dick asked.
"Of course!" Artemis said with a smirk.
"Okay well they're back here." Dick said walking them into the back room.
The girls followed and on the news there was mention of cinder block escaping prison.
"So you work here? Where's your boss?" Artemis asked.
"I actually own it and I'm my own boss." Dick answered grinning at Artemis's stunned face.
"That's awesome." Zatanna said.
Artemis was going to ask him how he could afford it, but he cut her off and said "So which one would you like to look at?" as they were now in the back room with a lot of models on display.
"Hmm." Artemis said as she thought. Then she saw a pure dark green motor cycle with parts of lighter green and was the same color as her Artemis hero suit and all it was missing was a light green arrow on the sides.
"I think I like that one." Artemis said as she pointed to the green motor cycle.
"Nice choice." Dick said as he walked up and went to the box of keys to get the one that belongs to the green motor cycle.
"Hey what's your name?" Zatanna said out of nowhere.
"Okay I guess I'll tell you now." Dick said hoping his false persona would work. "My name is Noah. Noah Schultz (A/N: Thank you Shadowtail43 and Fiji-Fruit9000 I combined your offered names.)" Dick said with a genuine smile to them.
"That's a nice name." Zatanna said to him as Artemis was inspecting the bike.
In the front room on the TV screen there was a story about the recently escaped Cinderblock.
Kaldurr and Wally
They had been just wondering around and filling Wally's constantly hungry stomach every little bit. They were walking through the city center and they had seen a thing on the TV that had happen to pop up out of nowhere.
"The criminal known as Cinderblock who was put into police custody by Red X has broken out of the prison and his whereabouts are currently unknown. Caution of civilians and police is recommended. Cinderblock is considered dangerous." Said a female news anchor on the local Jump City news channel.
"We should be on the lookout for this Cinderblock." Kaldurr said while thinking to himself.
"Yeah maybe we even get to team up with Red X to beat this guy down!" Wally said enthusiastically but in a somewhat hushed tone so that no one there would hear what he said other than Kaldurr.
"So are we going to call the rest of the team or should we just wait and search for him on our own?" Wally asked curious.
"For now we shall go it on our own and if we find him we shall call the team in." Kaldurr said believing that there wasn't much point calling the team away from what they were doing if the criminal's whereabouts were not known yet.
"So should we get going them?" Wally asked ready to go nuts.
"Yes I believe we should." Kaldurr answered as they both began walking down to the places that they believe a criminal may go.
Unknown Location
Cinderblock was standing having just been given orders by the mysterious Slade. He was to test that new hero Red X to see exactly how much this hero could handle. He was told to fight Red X and he definitely had the motivation to deal with him for stopping his other mission.
Connor and M'gann
M'gann and Connor had been inside a book store for the majority of the time they had been away from the others. M'gann had a huge amount of books in Connor's hands while she just kept flipping through pages of cook books like an insane person. She was also looking at other types of books, but Connor couldn't really tell what ones she was searching through since she just kept grabbing a bunch at a time.
"So do you know what you would like to do now?" M'gann said with a cheerful voice as she was looking through the books.
"I don't know." Connor said plainly as he went to take a seat by a nearby chair.
The library was an interesting one. It had many varied color chairs with metal shelves containing hundreds of multiple books. The room had different colored walls on different areas blue by the calming books and videos, red by the more action themed books, yellow by the cook books, and they even had a small café in the cook book area. Plus their motto was interesting being "Just jump in." Not too far from them there were two children talking about the new mysterious hero, Red X.
Apparently the kids had been by the fire that had happened the other day and they were talking about how cool Red X looked doing his heroics to help the firemen.
"Did you see when he shot those X's to help the lady get down?" one of the kids asked the other.
"Yeah and remember when –" the other one started going on as Connor stopped paying attention, because both events had been on the news channel his friends were watching the other day.
"Seems like Red X is a big thing here doesn't it?" M'gann happily as she had finished grabbing books and was now deciding which ones she would get out of the dozens she put into Connors arms.
"Yeah he's pretty popular with them." Connor said nudging his head towards the children who he had overheard talking.
"That's so nice!" M'gann said as she finally decided the two books that she would buy.
"Why don't we buy these two and go over to the café?" M'gann asked Connor.
Connor nodded his approval and they went to purchase some lunch and the books.
Wally and Kaldurr
Wally and Kaldurr had been searching for Cinderblock and then out of nowhere he just comes and starts bashing stuff.
"Found him." Wally said as he saw Cinderblock burst through a wall.
Cinderblock didn't notice their presence as he was simply trying to lure Red X into a fight.
"Time to call the team." Kaldurr said calmly.
Kaldurr pressed his com link so that he could talk to the full team "'Team come in"' Kaldurr spoke "'We've found the escaped Cinderblock he is on a rampage by a local pizza restaurant."'
"'We'll be right there."' Came M'ganns voice over the com link.
"'We'll be there too."' Came the whispered reply from Zatanna.
"'Is something wrong Zatanna?"' Wally asked, because of the quietness of her response.
"'No it's just that me and Artemis are in a quiet bike shop and yeah we'll get there as soon as we can."' Zatanna said as quiet as before.
Artemis and Zatanna
"Noah can we take this for a test drive?" Artemis asked so that they'd have quicker transportation to where the team is and an excuse to leave the shop.
"Sure I guess it couldn't hurt, but be careful out there, there's this guy called Cinderblock causing a real mess out there." 'Noah' said to them as he gave them the key to the motor cycle Artemis was checking out earlier.
"Will do." Zatanna said with a smile as Noah opened the garage for them to leave.
Then they zipped off out the open garage and onto the dirt road back into the city. They pulled into the trees and Zatanna worked her magic (literally.)
"Egnahc sehtolc otni ruo smrofinu!" Zatanna chanted and was then followed by it taking effect and changing their civilian outfits into their hero clothes.
"'Okay we're on our way now."' Zatanna said as they zoomed off into town on the green motor cycle.
Noah Schultz
Noah/Dick waited until he knew for sure that there was no longer a chance of them discovering his identity and got changed into his Red X suit. He put his mask on finalizing his change into Red X and he went down into his HQ and jumped onto his motor cycle.
"That was a close one I thought I would've had to make an excuse myself." Red X said to himself as he floored his motor cycle out the secret exit which closed itself after he went through.
Red X was traveling fast and he could see the city and it wasn't going to be long until he reached Cinderblock.
Team
The team was all fighting Cinderblock but it was hard to do that without causing much collateral damage. Cinderblock was like a living cause of collateral damage. Artemis shot a net arrow towards Cinderblock to try and snare him but it didn't work!
"He's too big for the net!" Artemis said as she reloaded her bow.
Superboy was fighting fist to fist with Cinderblock and Superboy was winning! That's when Superboy saw both of those kids from the library. They were both right there if he kept fighting like this they'd be crushed. Superboy sent an upper cut punch at Cinderblock.
""The children are going to be crushed."" Superboy heard coming from M'gann.
Superboy's eyes bolted to the children when he heard that.
""Oh no!"" Superboy said regret in his mental voice.
That's when the team saw it. In an instant the children were there and the next Red X was there holding one under each arm and leaping into the air to dodge Cinderblocks falling body.
"OH MY GOD ITS RED X!"One of the children shouted.
Red X placed the children down on the side walk "You're not hurt right?" Red X asked eyes focused on Cinderblock.
"We're both fine." Both the children said to Red X.
"Good then get out of here as fast as you can!" Red X said with urgency in his voice.
"But-" Both of them started trying to decline what he said.
"No buts this is dangerous!" Red X said as he teleported to where all of the other heroes were standing as Cinderblock was getting up.
"Hey welcome to the party." Kid Flash said smiling big.
"So what brings you guys to Jump City?" Red X said as he dodged a pillar thrown by Cinderblock.
"We were just checking out things over here." Superboy said.
"Well what do you think about city so far?"Red X said as he teleported behind Cinderblock.
"It's a pretty nice city." Zatanna said as Aqualad hit Cinderblock hard into Superboy's punch which knocked him into three of Artemis's explosive arrows and three explosive X's.
The hits disoriented Cinderblock and M'gann used her telekinesis to keep him from getting up long enough for Red X to shoot a couple adhesive X's and for Artemis to shoot several net arrows and Zatanna to chant a spell that would keep him out cold long enough for the police to return him to a new stronger sell for him to be held in.
"Hey Red want to come over to the cave sometime?" Kid Flash asked in a blink of an eye.
"Maybe some time." Red X answered in that unusual monotone metallic voice that comes out of his mouth.
"We cooperated well together." Aqualad said as he looked from one to another.
"You guys are a good team." Red X said as he noticed that familiar shadow hanging around on one of the undamaged roves. The shadow disappeared before he could do anything.
"Is something wrong?" M'gann asked seeing Red X focus on something in the distance.
"No, but I do have to go. I hope you guys have fun if you choose to stay in the city." Red X said suddenly as he disappeared from the sight of the team.
"What was that about?" Artemis questioned.
"I don't know, but at least he isn't rude." Zatanna said.
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A/N: Thanks again for giving me the name for the secret ID both of you it's really helpful and also another I'm sorry for making you wait so long but at least this was(I believe) my longest chapter yet. Well I hope you guys have enjoyed it and will review this chapter for me.