It looked like the city had shut down for the night. Businesses had closed for the evening. The night was as dark and calm and unsuspecting as could be.
In the hallways of the labs, the security was on, ready to catch anyone who came. One person did come. That dark shadow that people can never see; that figure people tell tales about. He was there. The security didn't go off.
It was that time again. Red X was running short on his fuel and the gas prices were going up. He was out to get more xynothium. The security was tight and tricky but it meant nothing to him. He swiftly dodged past the laser lights. He made himself invisible to the cameras. He had all the gadgets he needed to break down the locks to where he was going.
It didn't take him to long. He finally reached the vault to the xynothium. The vault had been moved to a bigger room on an upper level of the building that looked like a typical old storage room made to confuse possible robbers, but under it all was the xynothium and plenty of hardware to protect it. But Red X was to smart to be fooled.
He managed to unlock one of the casesthat had just some of the tubes of the xynothium. He tookone out and had what he needed. "This gets more fun everytime!" he told himself. "Another successful night!"
"Is that so?" a voice from nowhere came.
Red X suddenly turned around and saw a bright arrow flying his way. The arrow hit the floor and the blast knocked him back and threw the xynothium in the air. It was about to hit the ground when two little guys quickly zoomed up and caught it.
Red X got up and saw five guys standing in the entrance. The Titans East!
"SUCCESS!" Mas and Menos both yelled.
"Sorry smokey" BumbleBee said. "But we think you've had enough fun for one night!"
X stared at them for a moment. "Well! This is a surprise! I would've expected the Titans, but instead I get the Titan wannabes Titans East! What are you doing here?"
"What do you think?" Speedy said. "What we do best!"
"Take him down!" Aqualad yelled.
The Titans East all charged after him. Red X quickly jumped up and threw his X's at them. They quickly got out of the way and dodged them. Speedy tried firing a bunch of his arrows at him but X dodged them all. "Come on big man! X marks the spot!" he taunted him.
BumbleBee chased after him with her shockers as X dodged the blasts. He then turned around and fired his own energy blasts bouncing of the wall like an X and hitting her.
Mas and Menos charged after him with their super-speed to try and take him out, but X kept dodging them doing his little disappearing trick just as quickly. Then they tried againbut this timeRed X kicked Mas, causing them to separate; then did the same to Menos. "The faster they go, the harder the crash!" he said.
Aqualad tried to take X on hand-to-hand. "Come on tough guy! Show me what you got!" he said to Red X. X blocked all his kicks and punches, then fired a giant X from his hand that took him and pinned him to the wall. "You seriously need to cool off."
"Yeah!" Speedy yelled. "I think you do to!" X turned around and saw him fire another arrow. X dodged it but didn't realize it was a heat seeker. BumbleBee came back and both her and Speedy fired their weapons at X while he dodged all their shots. But then they suddenly stopped. Red X was confused wondering why. Then Speedy smiled."X marks the spot!"
He turned around and saw the heat seeker. Red X tried to block it with a big X but the impact knocked him back and he skidded on the ground.
Then Aqualad broke free and made water come out from the sprinklers in the ceiling. X tried to get up but Aqualad showered him with the flood of water. "Looks like you're all washed up know!" he said. He stopped. X tried to get back up again but then saw Mas and Menos speeding up to him and they kicked him away and up against the wall.
Speedy then fired a massive arrow at him! X managed to jump over it and the arrow blew a hole in the wall to the outside of the building. But then X was hit by the blasts from BumbleBee's stingers and he fell out the hole! "Arrrggghh!" he yelled as he fell.
It looked the Titans East had won; the bad guy had been defeated and the mission was over. They could all go home now. But then Speedy's communicator beeped. Suddenly their eyes all glowed red as Speedy answered!
"What taking so long?" a voice yelled! "Did you get the xynothium for me yet?"
Brother Blood!
"Forgive us headmaster" a brainwashed Speedy replied. "We encountered an intruder trying to steal the xynothium for himself!"
"Really" Blood replied.
"Don't worry headmaster!" BumbleBee said. "We took care good of him! We're on our way back."
Then suddenly a bunch some of Blood's Cyborg like robots came in. They unloaded the cases of xynothium and began to carry them out. The Titans East led them all out. "Another successful mission!" BumbleBee said! "Looks like we hit the jackpot! Won't Brother Blood be pleased!"
Then suddenly Red X jumped out and in front of them all. "Going somewhere?"
"I'd back off if I were you!" Speedy threatened. "You're outnumbered here! We've got the xynothium! I don't think you want to fight us and have all the xynothium trigger and bring the place down!"
"Come on!" Red X told them. "I'm just trying to be friendly. For a while I thought you were the good guys! You didn't really think I was gonna steal all the xynothium for myself did you? I'm not some crazy villain who wants to destroy the world!"
"We don't care!" Aqualad told him. "You're just a wannabe thief compared to us! We're taking the xynothium for a real leader and real bad guy! Our headmaster Brother Blood!"
Red X just stared at them. "You're stealing xynothium for a preacher?" he said sarcastically. "That is clever!"
"That's enough!" BumbleBee shouted. She took out her stingers and blasted X, knocking him down. They began to leave again "We're finished! And I suggest you keep out if you know what's good for you."
They left with the xynothium as Red X lied down on the floor in defeat. There was nothing he could do at the moment to stop those guys. He wanted to take some serious revenge, but he couldn't help but wonder, what could they want with that much xynothium? And who was this "Brother Blood" they were talking about?
Down a lone dark street in the late of that night a metal glowing blue car was driving by. Cyborg was driving the T-Car back to the Titans Tower after going out for a late night drive and some food. "Sweet Home Alabama dun dun da-da da da-da Where the skies aree…" he was singing along to the radio. "Sweet Home Alabama dun dun da-da da da-da Lord I'm coming home to…"
He kept driving when he heard a loud POP all the sudden. "What the…" Cyborg stopped the car and pulled over to the side.
He got out of the car to see what happened. He went around and saw his back right tire had been blown out. "Aww man!" he said. But it was no big deal to him. He quickly fixed the tire with some weird gadgets he had and was ready to take off. He stopped and looked back down the road to see what it was he hit. But he didn't see anything at all. Weird he thought. "Hmm I'll worry about it later."
He got back into the car and shut the door. He was fixing to but his seat belt back on. He stopped and froze, as he noticed something out of the corner of his eye. A dark figure seating right there in the passenger seat!
"Nice car!" Red X said. "Is it yours?"
TO BE CONTINUED
Disclaimer: I am not associated with Teen Titans at all in any way.
