A/N: Yeah... summer has really thrown off my writing schedule. Sorry for the late update again! Please don't hate me!
Disclaimer: Still not mine, etc, etc, as per usual.
"The crown jewels of England," Jinx repeated after the police commissioner. "Someone broke into the Tower of London, moved all of the crown jewels, didn't take anything, and then just… left. Without being caught on security cameras."
"Yes," the man said, rubbing his head. "It makes no sense."
"Is it just me," Argent began, looking at Jinx, "Or does this just scream, 'distraction?'"
"It screams 'distraction,'" Jinx said flatly. "Hot Spot, you getting anything off the readings?"
"Yep," Hot Spot said, looking up from his scanner. "Xenothium."
Argent groaned. "Red X. Brilliant."
"Who?" The police commissioner looked confused.
"Red X. He's a thief," Kid Flash said, looking interested.
"So…" Argent said. "If this was the distraction…"
"Where's he now?" Jinx said, looking up.
"I can run a xenothium scan over the city from here," Hot Spot said, pressing buttons on his scanner.
"Wait, if you can do that, why don't we, you know, know where he lives?" Kid Flash asked.
"It has to be active xenothium," Hot Spot said, rolling his eyes.
"Oh. Right."
"He's at Lex Corp!" Hot Spot declared. They all exchanged glances.
"Titans, go!" Jinx declared, after deciding that they had a job to do, even if it was Lex Luthor.
"Do we have to do this?" Argent asked as they rushed towards the nearby lab.
"Yes," Jinx said, rolling her eyes. "We have a job to do, and we can't just drop it because—"
"The guy's a super villain?" Hot Spot suggested innocently. "Not to mention, a colossal di—"
"Yes, we help him anyway. He's not the only person who would be hurt by this anyway," Jinx said, steamrolling Hot Spot.
"For all we know," Argent grumbled, swinging open the door of the safe, "He hired X himself for the insurance money or something."
"Actually, I think he's planning on framing this on Wayne Enterprises," Red X said, appearing in front of them, tossing what appeared to be an extremely valuable miniature computer from hand to hand. "Or was it Drake Industries? I forget."
"You mean Luthor actually did hire you," Jinx said flatly, signaling for her teammates to get into position to fight.
"Well, through a dummy company and six aliases," Red X said, nodding. "But it didn't take too much digging to figure it out."
"Why'd you even bother?" Jinx asked, twitching her hands.
"I like to know who pays me, cutie," Red X said, winking.
Jinx wrinkled her nose at him. "Seriously?" She fired her hexes at him, one after another.
Laughing, the thief leapt into the air, eyes widening slightly as Argent attempted to smash him with a hammer made of plasma. He pressed his belt, flickering out of existence, but the short-range teleport wasn't enough to get him out of the (freaking enormous) vault. He re-materialized behind Hot Spot, firing off two large, sticky xs out of his hands, attaching the pyrokenetic to the floor.
Hot Spot growled, and started to cut his way through the sticky xenothium with his super-heated hands.
"Sorry kid," Red X said with a jaunty salute, before leaping towards the door, stolen bounty still in hand. He then spun around as Jericho attempted to rabbit-punch him from behind, slapping a gigantic x over Jericho's eyes, before kicking the blonde to the ground. "You know, I almost feel bad about that one…"
"INCOMING!" Kid Flash yelled, colliding with the thief in his typical flying mess of limbs, red hair, and bright yellow spandex. "Ouch, ouch, ouch!"
Red X teleported away from the speedster, but Kid Flash's collision had succeeded in its job; separating Red X from his prize. Red X pulled out a handful of his X shaped shruikens, aiming for Kid Flash, but Jinx leapt into the air, twisting as she threw her hands out, releasing wave after wave of bad luck energy.
The first one actually hit the criminal, sending him skidding, but he recovered and successfully fired off two electric X's towards the pink-haired girl. Jinx went low to the ground, still turning, her foot stretching out as she did so, releasing another burst of her energy.
"Gotta say," Red X called as he leapt over the wave, throwing more X-blades at Argent as he went, "You've got some great moves, Rose-Eyes."
Jinx rolled said rose-eyes, and threw herself into a backflip to avoid a sticky-x that he fired at her. "Get a life," she groused.
"Hey, I'm making my living here!" He protested, dodging an incoming Hot Spot, firing off two more sticky-xs, sticking her hot-tempered team mate's feet to the floor. Glowering, Hot Spot took no heed, firing off a series of fireballs and firewhips at the thief. "Hey, watch it! Ol' Lexie won't be too happy about you lot trashing his vault!"
"I hate it when the villains have points," Jinx muttered, watching as Kid Flash returned the computer to its holding case. "Argent, you and Kid Flash tag-team him."
"On it," Argent said, flicking her wrists, summoning two long, narrow bursts of plasma energy, and twisting them, trying to ensnare the thief. Kid Flash started racing around Red X, trying to hit him, but the villain kept teleporting away just in time.
After a little while, Red X managed to pin Kid Flash to the ground (with much greater success than when he had attempted the same trick with Hot Spot), and Argent to the ceiling. Glowering, Argent struggled against the xenothium. Red X blew her a kiss. "So long, cutie!"
He then waltzed up to the case, reaching for it…
And his hand went right through the device.
"Oops," Jinx said, throwing a wave of energy at Red X, sending him flying through the air, "Did I move that?"
"A hologram," Red X said, ruefully rubbing his head. "Rose Eyes, you are so wasted with the good guys." He then teleported away.
"I'll take that as a compliment," Jinx said, rolling her eyes again. "That guy is so annoying."
Prompt: Scarlet Letter
A/N: Eh, I didn't write Red X very well. *sighs* Please review anyways?
Hinn-Raven