Chang in his giant armored robot-like vehicle leaped out to Red X. He looked to punch him into the ground with one of his giant metal fists. Red X quickly jumped out of the way, but the impact sent a shock through the ground and knocked him down. And at the same moment Professor Chang's henchmen were coming. X fired one of his X's to hit Chang in the face and blind him.

X quickly jumped up. "Who's ready to party?" he taunted.

The men had the red laser beams. They fired and blasted at X but he dodged the blasts. He ran to them and punched and kicked them out one by one with his martial arts kicks. One of the henchmen however manged to kick X down himself. He got up and saw some of the guys with the red foam guns. They fired them at X but X disappeared and then reappeared behind one of them and then kicked his foam box spilling out and covering him all up.

Red X jumped up as he fired his energy blasts at the guys. He hit a few of them and knocked them out. The men kept firing the laser and missed and smoked parts of the room. Professor Chang had gotten off the big X that stuck to his face. He charged after him, but Red X leaped over him and went after the rest of the henchmen. He fired an giant X shaped restrainer to catch a group of them. Another guy fired the foam at X but he dodged it and the foam caught the henchmen while X sliced the back of the foam gun taking him out.

Just about all the henchmen were out. Chang lifted the arms in his vehicle that had machine guns on it. He fired rapidly at Red X. X ran and dodged the shots like crazy while Chang rocked the house trying to get him. "Come and get me boy wonder!" Chang taunted him. Then X leaped over him. He placed a big X on the back of Chang. It exploded and knocked him down, but the robotic machine was still strong enough as he got back up. Chang tried punching the ground again as it knocked Red X back. But he recovered and leaped back up.

Angrily Chang fired the machines guns at him again. Red X ran to him as he disappeared back and forth the dodge the shots. Then he jumped up and spun multiple times around as he threw his X chinese stars at Chang. They pierced through the armor and into the machinery and began to pick it apart. "No! What's happening?" Chang shouted. The machines guns quit. X made the X-shaped saws come from the back of his hands as the y whirred around and he punched and cut through the rest of the machinery. Chang was falling back. Finally Red X leaped up and kicked out Professor Chang in the driver's seat. The impact knocked him and the machine down as it crashed down and finally broke apart and Chang layed down in defeat.

"Sorry old man!" Red X taunted.

But then all the sudden the silence went away. There was clapping above him! Red X, confused and puzzled, turned around and looked up on top the balcony. There was Brother Blood looming down on him and clapping!

"Well! That was quiet a show there!" Brother Blood said to him. "Well done there!"

Red X looked at him in shock. "Huh? What the hell is this?" He recognized Blood.

Brother Blood suddenly floated down from the balcony on a platform and floated down to X. "So you're Red X!" he said in amazement. "I've heard so much about you kid: The mysterios thief in Jump City no one can ever catch! Neither the good guy or the bad guy! The story Professor Chang told me about you was quiet a story indeed!"

"Oh brother!" Red X sighed.

"Brother Blood to be exact" he said.

"Yea I know about you!" X said. "That psychotic preacher that became a Cyborg and tries to…. what…. brainwash or control everyone make them "students"? While at the same time trying to destroy the city? Man! You guys really need to get a new hobby!"

"Hhmph" Blood went. "I would've said the same thing about you! You're such a gifted talent and expert criminal! Yet all that talent of yours just seems so wasted! Don't you think? You only use your power and ability to steal the things necessary to keep going when you could be showing true ability doing so much better things! Why, you could become a super-criminal and a top student if you joined my academy!"

"Pleeaasee tell me you're joking!" Red X said to him. "You're even more ridiculous than I thought!"

But this struck a nerve with Blood. "Is that so?" he said. His smile turned evil. "Because I have a feeling I have an offer for you that you simply can't refuse!"

"If you wanna give me anything, I'll take back what I came for freak: the xynothium you and your posies took from me!" Red X said with a sincere voice.

"Sorry!" Brother Blood said. "But I've got something much better for you!" his eyes began to glow and then, so did Red X's. X grabbed his head and shook it as Blood tried to brainwash him. But then, he just stood up for Blood. "I see a bright future for you young one, as my new top student. I'll make a true warrior out of you and make you what you truly want to be! Something no one else could give you!" X just looked at him brainwashed. "Yes, master." He said to him.

"Follow me." Blood said. "Let me introduce you around to what I'm doing."

Brother Blood walked on down the halls. Red X walked and followed behind him. He followed him alright. The red glow in his eyes faded away as his eyebrows went down. He was gonna play along.

Brother Blood walked into a room with X following him. There the brainwashed Titans East where there with tools in their hands as they were working another "class project" as Blood would put it. They all stopped for a moment and looked up at Red X in surprise.

"Students" Blood told them. "Meet your new classmate, Red X. I know ya'll had sort off a rough start in getting to know each other last time ya'll met, but now he's ready to join us!"

"That's right." X said with his eyes still glowing red. "Well I'll be damned!" Speedy said as the other were just as shocked. But then it didn't matter to them.

Red X looked around though. There they were. There were the vaults of xynothium that they stole. His saw the Titans East putting together missiles. They were loading them with some of the xynothium. He looked up at the wall and saw a big screen with the blueprints of a train and some track on it. The train had Bloods red Cyborg-like tech built in it.

"Allow me to introduce our class project." Brother Blood said to X. "The xynothium you see around you, it's the perfect weapon and firepower for me to make everyone tremble in my awakening!" he said sadistically. "With the help of my students I've built a one of a kind freight-train and secret track that will speed its way all through the area! Then with the new xynothium missiles my students have built" he paused as he looked again at them "and from the looks of things are now being finished, I'll load them into the train, and set the train and the missiles on a course roar through the cities and to launch them at numerous targets I plan on destroying once and for all! And starting with none other than," he said as his smile turned into a frown "the Teen Titans, at their little precious, Titans Tower!"

Then the Titans East were done with the missiles. They began to lift them up and carry them away. "Ah yes! Why don't I show you my train!" Blood said. He walked with them as X followed.

Soon there were down under the basement of the Tower in a subway-like tunnel. There was the big red train Blood had built. The Titans East loaded the missiles in their launching compartment. "Well, well! It looks like you got here at the right time X. My train is just about now ready to take of and do its business!" Blood said as he smiled. Red X looked at him with his red eyes. "Ingénues plan you put together Brother Blood." "Oh but this is only the begging X!" Blood said. "With all the xynothium I now have we're only getting started! I can see it now! Together: You & Me! Brother Blood & Red X! Together nothing will be able to stop us! Nothing!"

Blood then turned around to X. He held his hand out. "So what do you say?" Blood asked. "Are you ready to join us? And become what you were destined to be, Red X?"

X with his glowing red eyes, "Yes! I am ready!" he held his hand out and shook Brother Blood's hand in a show of alliance.

And then…

The glow in his eyes vanished! His eyebrows went down!

"Sucker!" Red X still shaking his hand made Blood's hand burn as he had the energy beams come out slowly! "Ahhhhh. Ahhhhhhh….." Brother Blood yelled! And Red X took Blood and yanked his arm and threw him with all his might at the Titans East, knocking them all down!

Stunned and shocked, Brother Blood lifted himself up. He had that sadistic frown now. "What?" he yelled! "You didn't really think that mind-control trick would work on me, did you?" Red X said as he smiled behind his mask.

"You, Imbasule!" Brother Blood yelled angry.

"Thanks, Brother-Dork!" Red X replied.

"You're gonna regret that kid!" Blood growled!

"Oh yeah…" a voice from nowhere said. "Well you're gonna regret ever show up in here again!"

Suddenly Blood looked up. Everyone looked up in shock as Cyborg leaped out from behind the train and fired a huge blast from his sonic cannon at Brother Blood! He saw it coming a quickly blocked the blast with his forcefield. The impact slid Blood back through the door to the other room.

And then Robin, BeastBoy, Starfire, and Raven all jumped down from the train. "Nice train you got here Blood!" Robin said with a smile. "I hope you're not planning on taking it for a joy-ride!"

"Yea" BeastBoy said. "It does look pretty cool with all the red…"

"SILENCE!" Blood yelled as he fired his forcefield knocking them all back. "Students!" he yelled. "Destroy them all!" then Blood suddenly disappeared.

Then suddenly a giant red hot gate came down from the ceiling closing off the train.

The brainwashed Titans East got up ready to fight. The Teen Titans, along with Red X as it appeared, were ready to fight back. Robin looked at him. "Don't do anything tricky on us!" Red X just looked back. "Why would I?"

Then Red X suddenly leaped up as he tossed his X chinese stars at Titans East. They managed to dodge them and then Speedy fired an arrow at him. X held out an X-shaped shield to block it but the impact knocked him back.

Then the other Titans charged after. "Bring them down!" Robin yelled. They all charged after each other.

Aqualad went after Robin as he tried to take him on hand-to-hand, but Robin blocked all his punches and kicks and managed to knock him back with his own kick.
Starfire took to the air as Speedy rapidly fired arrows at her while she fire back with her starbolts.
BumbleBee came after BeastBoy trying to blast him but he, with his animal forms dodged all the blasts and charged after her turning into a bull. She leaped over him, but just as quickly he turned into a raptor and whacked her with his tale.
Mas and Menos charged after Cyborg and kicked him back. Then they came after Raven but she teleported back and forth to dodge them.

Then suddenly they all heard the engine to Brother Blood's train fire up. It then began to drive away out through the subway tunnel and into the city.

"Brother Blood's train!" Robin yelled. "It's getting away!"

But then he was blasted from behind by BumbleBee. "What about it? You've got bigger problems to worry about!" she said as she stood over Robin.

Then Cyborg looked around the area and realized something. "Hey! Where's Red X?" But then he was taken down by Aqualad as their fight continued. Unable to get to the train with the Titans East in their way, the train disappeared.

Brother Blood laughed as he sat in the driver's seat of his train. "Hehehehehe" he laughed.

The train speeded through the rest of the tunnel! Then it came out outside speeding on the tracks into the night.

The red train was ready to do its business.

And holding on to the back of Blood's speeding train, was Red X!

TO BE CONTINUED

Disclaimer: I am not associated with Teen Titans at all in any way.