Rain: Hello all! I am back with a brand new chapter for A Symbiotic Bond: A Venomous Titan and we last left off on Garfield battling with Red X so let's get down with a sweet battle!

Mario: Here we go!

A Symbiotic Bond: A Venomous Titan
Chapter Ten

Champion City
Roof of Eternal Beauty Diamond Center
Garfield Mark Logan

"Stay still!" Garfield heard Red X shout as he swung around on his web, avoiding the very sharp "X" shurikens that had come his way. Garfield released the strand of web and landed on the wall before he back flipped on it to avoid three more shuriken.

"You may want to get away from those now!" The Symbiote screamed in his head as his spider-sense began to blare. Garfield leapt from the wall just as the shuriken exploded, leaving large shards of ice which stuck out on the wall.

Garfield landed on the with a skid just to bend backwards to avoid a roundhouse kick from Red X. Garfield began to backflip as Red X continued to try and kick him before Garfield landed on his feet, jumped in the air and kicked Red X in the face, which sent the thief backwards onto his back.

Garfield landed on the top of his shoulders and flipped to his feet just as Red X rolled backwards onto his feet and then the two were at a stand-off. It had been ten minutes since Garfield had spotted the thieves and five since he engaged in battle and Red X had to be one of his toughest opponents, outside of Oblivion.

Mostly due to the many gadgets that Red X wielded.

'Thanks Robin for creating this stupid suit for this guy to wield,' Garfield noted sourly.

"It could be worse. He could have created a suit that could battle and defeat all of the Avengers," The symbiote replied, almost as sourly as Garfield.

Garfield nodded and retorted with 'From what you told me of them, anyone that could defeat a Thunder God like Thor or a raging monster like the Hulk with just a different suit terrifies me...'

The Symbiote chuckled softly and said "Get back on guard." Garfield immediately focused on Red X, who now stood upright, which allowed his cape to cover his body.

"What's up X-man? You giving up?" Garfield asked the villain, whose domino mask narrowed in announce. At one time, Garfield had no idea how Robin's mask was so expressive but now that he had Symbiote, he kind of understood.

Maybe those with Domino masks had some sort of technology that allowed such expression?

"Getting off topic again," Symbiote admonished with a small chuckle.

'Sorry, Sorry,' Garfield thought to his partner before he said out loud to his opponent "Oh, we're not talking now? I thought we were on a talking basis."

Red X then let a small chuckle leave his lips as he said "I knew I recognized your voice...It's a bit deeper than before but I know who you are Beastboy."

"Sorry, Beastboy isn't here at the moment, please try again at the beep," Garfield responded before he shot out two webs towards Red X, who quickly shrugged his cape off his right shoulder to reveal a red metal sword and sliced the webbing, which instantly caught fire.

'Oh...' Garfield thought to himself, finding himself extremely terrfied of the flames as he released his hold on the webbing.

"So...Is this a bad time to tell you that fire is one of my biggest weaknesses?" The Symbiote said suddenly, which made Garfield's eyes widen comically.

'I'm sorry, what?!' Garfield screamed inside his head as Red X smirked and dashed towards Garfield with the blade and swung downward at Garfield, who instantly bent backwards to avoid it before he fell to the ground completely and rolled to the left to avoid the blade's tip which had lunged downward to impale him.

Garfield flipped to his feet and twisted his body as he shot hard web balls towards Red X, who instantly sliced through the web balls, each strike of the sword causing the balls to catch fire.

"I tried to tell you during the Oblivion crisis but that kind of resolved itself swiftly enough," the Symbiote said as Garfield manuevered around the lunging and twirling blade of Red X as fast as he possibly could.

'Well at least you told me now,' Garfield replied as he knelt down and swept Red X off his feet with his leg, which sent Red X to the ground but the villian immediately landed on his shoulders and flipped back to his feet.

Garfield returned to his feet as well and was immediately nailed in the head by the hilt of Red X's sword, which made him stagger back just enough to get some distance before he jumped up and kicked Red X in the chest with both feet, which made Red X fall on his back.

But had Garfield been paying attention, he would have seen the open window behind him because due to the force of his kick, Garfield didn't fall on his back, he fell through the window and down into the diamond center.

Garfield shrieked in surprise and quickly shot a strand of web at the ceiling and caught himself just before he hit the ground. "Whew...That was close," Garfield said as he wiped his brow.

When Garfield looked forward however, he found himself face to face with the female thief he had seen kiss Red X. "Oh...hello there," Garfield said with arched eyes.

"Um...Hello...Who the hell are you?" The girl asked with a tilt of her head, her hand dropping the card into the empty display case.

"The guy stopping this robbery," Garfield replied before he added "So hand over the diamond and no one gets hurt."

Her eyes widened in shock before she swung forward and began to swipe her claws at his face but managed to manuever his head to avoid her swipes before he kicked her in the chest, which made her whip backwards into the air.

Garfield watched as she turned around and stuck her claws into the ceiling wall and pulled the hilt of her whip from around her waist and clicked a button, which caused the whip to electrify.

"That is also bad news," The symbiote stated with a bland tone.

"Oh boy," Garfield retorted before he quickly swung to the left to avoid the electrified whip, which slashed through the air.

"Stay still!" The female thief shouted as she swung the whip again, which struck the strand of web, which sent Garfield falling through the air.

Garfield quickly summoned another web and swung to the ceiling and began to run, avoiding the many swipes of the whip. "Man, Red X said the same thing to me a bit ago!" Garfield exclaimed as he leapt off the ceiling towards the thief, where he tackled her hard enough for the rope to snap off of her harness, which sent them both slamming to the ground.

Garfield placed a hand on the ground and pushed off the ground so he landed on his feet just as she flipped to hers and immediately aimed a kick to Garfield's head, which made him stagger backwards into another display where he quickly ducked to avoid the whip, which shattered the glass.

Garfield rolled to the right and popped up to his feet and and shot out a strand of web behind her to steel garbage can and pulled it sharply, which caused it to whip through the air and slammed into her back, which sent her forward to the ground.

But she quickly rolled forward and swept Garfield's legs from beneath him and when he landed, she quickly rolled on top of him as she grabbed his arm and pulled him on top of her, her leg going behind his neck with her right leg hooking down her left ankle, locking his head between her legs while she pulled his arm violently hard.

Garfield grunted in pain as she continued to pull at his arm. He felt as if it was going to snap so he had to get out of it as soon as possible so with all the strength he had, he lifted her up off the ground and ran forward before he leapt into the air and slammed her hand on her back, which stunned her enough to loosen her hold.

And just as he got out of her hold, the window above him shattered, causing glass to fall down on his body as Red X's voice shouted "Get the fuck away from her!"

Champion City
Eternal Beauty Diamon center
Red X

Red X slammed to the ground just after his opponent rolled away from her to avoid the feet as his opponent said "Man, you must be pissed off by dropping the F-Bomb like that."

Red X scowled at the black suited hero before he turned back to his beloved fellow thief and helped her up as he asked "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine honey," she said with a dazed smile up at him. "A little winded but I'm ok."

Red X smiled back down at her before he turn around to face the hero. He knew that the person he was facing was Beastboy of the Teen Titans. He knew this due to the combination of his voice along with some of the body movements he made.

But what didn't make sense was why he wasn't with the Titans and why he was so damned skilled. He wasn't like this before when he trounced all of the Titans but now, he was having trouble with him.

What had changed?

'No matter...He may be harder to take down but I can take him down,' Red X thought to himself. "Black Cat, did you retrieve the diamond?" Red X asked his girlfriend.

"I did," she responded.

"Good. I'll hold him back. Just get to them before they set off these collars and kill us both," Red X said but what he didn't expect was the shocked gasp come from his opponent.

"Wait...Exploding collars?" he asked as his stance relaxed.

"Yes...You think I would be fighting you if it wasn't serious like this?" Red X asked. "I mean, I can beat you any day but time crunch."

"Dude, so not the point," the spider like hero said. "You two are being forced to do this?"

Red X lowered his head and asked "What does it matter if we are?"

"Well...I'm willing to listen," the hero said.

Red X blinked.

Was this fool serious?

"Are you serious?" Black Cat asked from behind him.

"Like a heartattack," the hero replied. "Red X is a thief but admittedly, he saved my ass a long time ago. Besides, I'm not huge on being forced into doing something I don't want to do. So I'm willing to listen."

"Good, because so am I," an unknown female voice said.

A few seconds later, Red X saw the famed Champion City Hero known as Rocket float down into view in uniform with her arms crossed.

Rain: And that where this chapter ends. So what will happen next? Only one way to find out!

Mario: See you next time!