Part 1: Rockin around, the Christmas Tree
"So? Ready to play?" Red X crossed his arms again, the two blades glinting in the bright light of the Christmas trees.
Cyborg had jumped over the counter now, turning his arm into a cannon as he landed on the floor, while Starfire and Raven both flanked the team, their energy beams already charging in their hands.
"What are you up to X?" Robin's voice was anything but friendly as he took out his Bird-A-rangs, three in each hand.
Red X grinned. "Well, its been so long since our last rumble, so I thought I'd drop by for a nice holiday visit." He lowered his stance now, as if ready to charge.
"You've all been very naughty this year titans….." He said darkly, then turned to Starfire with a flirtatious tone. "Well…maybe except you cutie, you're on the top of my nice list." He shot her a wink.
"Titans! Go!" Robin shouted now, and the five heroes ran at Red X.
X curled his arms now, then in a split second, produced two more blades in each hand, folding them out as seamlessly as a poker player would when he folds out his cards.
"look out!" Robin stopped dead in his tracks, throwing his six bird-a-rangs at the villain, starfire and Raven swerved to the sides, avoiding Red X's blades as he threw them at Robin. The blades made a sickening sound as it sliced through the air, spinning like a saw blade as they flew at the boy wonder.
Each blade met one of Robin's bird-a-rangs however, and the objects collided in mid air, causing sparks as metal clanged against metal. It did not matter of course, since Red X's blades cut through Robin's bird-a-rangs like a hot knife through butter.
"Duck!" Beast Boy yelled, transforming into a turtle while Cyborg dove out of the way. The six Red X's dug themselves deeply into the wall behind the titans.
A much relieved Beast Boy got up. "HAH! You must be losing your touch dude, you just missed us."
Red X smirked. "Think again kid."
Each blade exploded now, causing the entire section of the wall behind Beast Boy to collapse into a gigantic avalanche of rock and rubble. Beast Boy stood there, dumbfounded until he saw the section of the wall fall through the smoke.
"Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven chanted, and the rocks stopped just inches above a much relieved Beast Boy's head.
Red X however, was fast, and he suddenly appeared behind Raven, attaching an X onto her back which shocked her in red energy.
Raven fell down in pain, but not as much pain as Beast Boy, who was suddenly buried under a mountain of concrete as Raven lost control of her powers. The dust from the collapse obscured the whole room now, blanketing it in a sort of greyish white mist.
"Robin?!" Starfire coughed through the smoke, "Where are-"
A series of Red X's flew at her now, pinning her to the wall. She saw through the smoke, the villain's silhouette.
Starfire charged her laser eyes now, but X was quicker, and he pointed both his palms at the Tamaranian girl's face, shooting two smaller X's that quickly covered both her eyes, a third one sealed her mouth shut.
"Tsk Tsk." Red X waved a taunting finger in front of the disabled Starfire. "No peeking until Christmas day."
A grunt came from behind X, and he somersaulted backwards, avoiding two bird-a-rangs that were thrown right beside him. Just as he was in mid air however, a swift kick contacted him in the ribs.
X was sent flying back, right at Cyborg whose cannon was already charging. The Android fired, letting loose a stream of plasma energy at him. Red X however, simply planted a hand on the ground while he was flying backwards, and avoided the beam with another backflip as he touched ground, landing a swift kick in the head to Cyborg.
Robin rushed through the smoke now, bo staff already out, and X barely had enough time to parry it with the X-shaped blades on his wrists.
"What are you trying to do?" Robin said with strain as he forced X back slowly.
"Just…." Red X said with strain as he pushed against Robin, the two were evenly matched in strength. "trying to make my holiday a little more interesting, that's all."
He was not interested in a test of strengths, and instead ducked down, throwing robin off balance, and quickly gave a sweeping kick, tripping Robin on his back. The bo staff fell harmlessly on the floor.
X stood up now, retracting his blades, and quickly scanned the room. Cyborg was out, an imprint of a foot still on his right cheek. Raven was still smoking from that huge shock he gave her, Beast Boy was presumably under that pile of rubble, Starfire and Robin were both immobilized.
It was Payback. Short and sweet.
He walked to the window now, ignoring the sounds the Titans were making as they recovered. Beast Boy had transformed into an elephant, throwing the concrete pieces around the room as he erupted from his stone prison. Starfire charged her eyes at full power, quickly frying the Synothium goo he gagged her with.
X turned around now, and gave the reassembling titans a smirk. "Well that was a nice party wouldn't you say?" The villain spread his arms now, his black tattered cape flowed violently in the wind as he backed away to the window's edge. "Oh and thanks for all the great gifts. Have a good one." He leaned back, falling out of the window and disappearing into the cold stormy night.
"Aw man…" Cyborg groaned, "What do you think that was for? And what did he mean by gifts?"
"I think I know already." Robin said, pointing to the empty spot in the corner under the Christmas tree, which moments ago had contained five separate presents.
Beast Boy was the first one to shout with outrage.
"Dude! We've been ripped off!"