A/N: Please enjoy this action-packed chapter.
Disclaimer: Teen Titans are NOT mine.
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Nightwing and Starfire were the first to react. Starfire started flying with all the unbridled joy she could muster at the moment, and Nightwing ran with the agility of a cheetah. The three other Titans followed very closely behind. Suddenly, there was a loud bang and a "TAKE THAT!"
They arrived at her room to see Moonfire cowering on her bed, a cell phone pressed to her ear.. "Danny! There was this huge-ass spider in my room!" she wailed.
Starfire sighed in relief. "You scared the Zinorka out of me, Moonfire!" her mother reprimanded her. "We thought you were dying."
"But the spider was soo big and ugly! Ew," she whined. Nightwing nodded his head in disbelief.
"It's better now? You took care of it?" he asked, as the five Titans began to evade the room. Moonfire nodded happily, returning to her former position on her bed.
"Ok, where were we?" Moonfire asked jubilantly. Her voice was cut off as the door to her room clicked closed with a soft whoosh.
"I swear to X'hal, the arachnophobia on that girl," Starfire sighed as they returned themselves to the main room.
"Ok, you realize this is going to be a long day, Titans," Cyborg murmured. "We need to find out where Red X wants to strike, and hopefully prevent it."
"Well, our thoughts were focused on him trying to kidnap Moonfire. If that hasn't happened by now, perhaps that is not his goal," Starfire commented, shrugging.
Cyborg rubbed the back of his bald head. Another shrill, terrified, blood-curdling scream came from the direction of Moonfire's room.
"Not another spider!" Nightwing groaned.
Starfire's breath quickened. "No. She's in trouble. I swear this sounds weird, but I can tell from her scream. Starfire began flying towards the door. "My daughter is in trouble!" The five Titans ran from the room.
There were three BANGS coupled with another terrified scream.
"HELP!" Moonfire screamed, with another bang. Then, dead silence.
"No!" Starfire screamed, flying fasted than she had ever flown before. She ripped Moonfire's door open to reveal a battlefield. Her sheets and comforter were scrambled, her lap top had fallen off her desk which was now broken in two. There were six scorch marks on the wall. A large red X was on her wall, though ripped down the middle. It seems as if he tried to trap her in it, but she cut right through it.
Her dark blue curtains were torn and her window was shattered into three thousand shards of glass.
And there, in the window, was Red X.
He had his arm around her waist, and a red x had been pasted to her mouth. She seemed to have been knocked unconscious, for her eyes were closed and she lay very still. Normally, she would've thrashed, but there was not a single movement.
"See you another time, Titans," he quipped. Starfire leapt forward, catching Red X by the ankle. He easily kicked her off and jumped out the window, fading into thin air with the struggling girl.
"No!" Starfire screamed. "We have to go after him! We have to find him!"
Nightwing growled dangerously. "Cyborg, track him! I don't care how, get a lock on any sort of signal! And get a lock on Moonfire! I gave her a communicator later last night, if she's still carrying it, we can get a lock on NGHTWNG03.
"I can concentrate the large amount of Xynothium he's carrying in the suit. It's possible with the amazing technology we have today," Cyborg stated with a smirk. "I can have him tracked in thirty seconds flat, just let me-" he fiddled with the computer in his arm "-I need to go upstairs to the larger computer to get a map of the city. I can't get one big enough on my arm."
He rushed back up to the living room, flanked by Raven and Beast Boy. Nightwing looked swiftly about the room. "I don't see her communicator. She must have it with her. Good. We'll track her and have her in a matter of minutes."
Starfire dropped to her knees and buried her face in her hands, sobbing softly. Nightwing's features softened as his heart broke in two watching her cry. He fell to his knees next to her and wrapped his arms around her hunched shoulders. The girl turned into his warmth and cried quietly into his shoulder.
"I can't believe it. Why would he kidnap our daughter? Why Moonfire?" Starfire sobbed.
"It's ok. We'll find her. We'll bring her back, safe. Red X may be dense, but he's not violent," Nightwing cooed, almost imperceptibly rocking her back and forth.
"I guess you're right," she sniffed. "I just-I can't even fathom what I would do if he were to harm her. I can't think of it."
"Neither can I, Star. Neither can I."
Nightwing pulled his communicator from his belt. Cyborg's face appeared. "I have a lock. Get up here, now."
Nightwing scrambled up and helped Starfire to her feet. She hastily brushed away the tears and began flying fast towards her destination, Nightwing running swiftly by her side.
"Report," Nightwing demanded when they entered the living room.
"His Xynothium signals are concentrated downtown, a desolate part of the city, in a warehouse not far from Pier 69. Moonfire's communicator frequency is online, and she's not moving. She's about thirty feet from Red X. I assume he's in a different room than her," Beast Boy told them.
"I suppose sneaking in to retrieve the girl then taking him down with all six of us would be the easiest," Raven suggested.
"Sounds like a good idea. Be wary, though. Red X could've set up all sorts of traps for us. He expects us to come after her," Nightwing told them.
"Of course he does. He-" but they were interrupted by the large window screen fizzling from it's map tracking Red X, to a picture of Red X himself.
"Don't bother, Titans," Red X sneered. "You come after her, and you'll wish you never did. And trust me, I have many ways of knowing if you're coming after her or not. One wrong move, and BAD things will happen. I'll bring her back, safe, under my demands."
"What do you want?" Nightwing snarled.
"I shall be granted with all of the possessions that are rightly mine," Red X demanded, slamming his fist on the table he was standing before. He seemed to be in a white room, with no one around. They couldn't even see Moonfire.
"Your spare parts for the suit? Those aren't rightly yours! They're my property, I made the suit!" Nightwing stated angrily.
"Not those, you dunce!" Red X retorted with a sneer. "You really are as stupid as those tights you insist on wearing, aren't you?"
"Hey, when I bought these they said PANTS not TIGHTS!" he responded, a venom dripping from his voice with every word.
Red X laughed maniacally. "Whatever you tell yourself to sleep at night, buddy."
The four Titans watched this display with mild interest.
"What do you want with Moonfire?" Nightwing demanded. "Why did you take her? Why not one of us?"
"Because, you were far too smart to escape from anything I had set up for you. I needed young bait. Someone to touch the heart of Nightwing, to break him down. I knew you knocked up that fine broad over there." he nodded to Starfire who gritted her teeth together, her eyes beginning to glow a ferocious green. She clenched and unclenched her fists. "And I knew her daughter would be a perfect distraction. I could threaten anything, and you would fall at my command. Admit it. You've only known this girl has existed for two weeks, and yet you feel like you've known and loved her your whole life."
"How do you know so much?" Nightwing asked.
"I have been taught by the best."
"Where's Moonfire?" Nightwing snarled. "Nothing is going to be done until we know she's safe."
Red X reached over, off to the right side of the television to what could not be seen. He produced a rather frightened and angry Moonfire.
"Mom?" she called, her voice quivering. "Dad? Please, help!"
Nightwing noted that a glowing blue rope bound her hands: power-draining ropes.
"It's ok, babe. I promise it'll all be ok," Starfire cooed softly to her daughter, who looked frightened like a young deer caught in a car's headlights.
"Remember, I shall be returned my rightful possessions."
"What rightful possessions?" Nightwing demanded.
"My father's possessions. He left them to me in his will. I inherited them after you killed him," Red X spat maliciously.
The five Titans gasped. "No…" Nightwing breathed. "But that would mean…"
"Right again, bird man. I'm Slade's son."
Suddenly, it all fell into place for Nightwing. "That's why you took our daughter," he started. "You want revenge for the death of your father, so you think you'll get it by hurting our daughter!"
"Lighten up, Nighty," Red X sneered. "I'm not going to hurt your precious progeny."
"Ooh, someone's been studying a dictionary," Raven murmured scathingly.
Red X sneered behind his mask. "Goodbye, Titans."
And the screen went blank.
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