Meh, two, close enough.

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Shades Of X

Chapter 2

Snakes And Dragons

That afternoon things were almost back to normal. Beast Boy and Cyborg fighting, Raven reading, Robin and Starfire talking. Then. Beeeeeppp. Beeeepppp. Beeeppp. It was the phone. They settled down as Robin answered the call.

"Hello. I presume this is the Teen Titans." Came a smooth voice from a face onscreen. It was a woman of uncertain age.

She had dark green hair falling lusciously across her face. One cool green eye was visible above a red mouth. A black suit coated her body and a dagger sat in shining state at the side of each breast. A three-headed dragon in a circle reposed on her suit, the suits of her bodyguards, and on the wall behind her. She sat in an obviously very comfortable chair surrounded by bodyguards.

"That would be us, Miss...?" Robin said.

"Viper. Lady Viper."

"Why have you contacted us, Lady Viper?"

"I believe you know of the villian Red X and his accomplice?" She inquired smoothly.

"Yes, we do. We fought them earlier today." Cyborg spoke up. He reached back and whacked Beast Boy, who was drooling over the, as he would put it, 'vision of hottness'. "His partner sliced me up like butter."

"It is his partner I need to speak to you about." She steepled her fingers. "I am the leader of a top-secret government organization called Hydra. I had young Project X-24 contained here. She has escaped and seems to blame myself and all of Hydra for the death of her family and the gain of her...abilities." She leaned forward, hands on the arms of her chair. "She is very dangerous, a professional assassin. We need your help in capturing her and returning her to holding. The lives of innocent citizens are in danger as long as she is at large. Will you help me?"

"Of course. If we capture her, how will we contact you?" Robin said, blinking under his mask at the onscreen woman.

"Oh, I'll know. Don't worry, I'll know. I will be sending one of our scientists that worked with her for a time over to you to assist with the details of her powers. Thank you Titans. Have a good day." She leaned back as her chair turned around and the transmission ended. Robin turned and looked at the Titans. All of them were slightly stunned at the fact that the scrawny little girl they had seen that morning was a deadly criminal.

"Well Titans, looks like we're going to need just a bit more training."

WHIRRRRRR! came from the roof. They rushed up and saw a helicopter landing on the heli-pad with a symbol like that on Lady Viper's suit on the side. A blond person dismounted with a suitcase. The helicopter took off again. The person turned and hurried towards them. It was a blond, blue-eyed woman in a whiter-than-snow lab coat, also with the Hydra symbol on it.

"Hello, I am Dr. Eileen Reisman. I am the Hydra specialist on X-24. You are the Teen Titans?" She said, quickly in a business-like tone. Robin merely nodded, suprised at Lady Viper's speed. "Well come along, we haven't got all day." She strode towards the door on the roof.

Raven yawned and whorled away, bored with it all. Cy cuffed BB again, since he was drooling over Dr. Reisman. Then they followed the good doctor, showing her to the lab so they could have a nice friendly little chat about X-24.

Star blinked. 'This is a most suprising change of events.' Then she, too, flew away to quarters unknown.

T-E-E-N T-I-T-A-N-S! T-E-E-N T-I-T-A-N-S! T-E-E-N T-I-T-A-N-S! T-E-E-N T-I-T-A-N-S!

Tada! PART of the plot is revealed.

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