An incessant knocking on the front door of the tower tore everyone from their awed state. A garbled holler drove Raven and Beast Boy down to the front door to let whoever it was in. They came back up seconds later with a very exhausted-looking Danny.
"Where's Kimi?" were the first two words that came from his mouth, as he hunched over and caught his breath. "I was on the phone with her and she screamed, then the line went dead. And this was after the spider incident"
"She was kidnapped," Starfire breathed. Nightwing looked the boy over, tapping his chin in thought.
"We have to save her!" Danny exclaimed. "I'm not going to stand by while my best friend is submitted to all kinds of torture at the hands of a psycho!"
"No, you're not going to stand by. You're going to help us save her," Cyborg announced. Every head in the room snapped to meet his gaze. Nightwing furrowed his brow.
"How?" Danny asked.
"Red X said he would know if any of us tried to go after her. Well, he didn't include Danny in that. If we can successfully get Danny there and into the warehouse at Pier 69, we can tell him how to get to her. It's simple," Cyborg explained, a sure-of-himself look on his face.
"What if he runs into Red X?" Beast Boy asked.
"I'm sure sparring is not a weak spot with powers like his," Nightwing cut in. He turned to face the fourteen-year old. "Are you up to it?"
Danny smiled. "Whatever I can do to help Kimi." And make her see me as a hero.
Nightwing clapped him on the back. "Now we'll need to formulate a plan before sending him off." Nightwing went to the computer, pressed a series of buttons, and suddenly a table sprang from the floor. Lining it were all sorts of rolled up blueprints.
"Well, that's new," Starfire commented, slightly surprised.
Cyborg pulled a certain roll out. It was labeled "DOWNTOWN-WAREHOUSES".
"Ok, so-" Nightwing unrolled the parchment and placed it on the table. "-I believe this is the warehouse by pier 69. According to Cyborg's Xynothium-concentrated signals, that's where Red X is with Moonfire."
Cyborg went back to the computer and pulled up the maps of Red X's signal and Moonfire's communicator signal.
"Red X seems to be in a different room than Moonfire. He's about fifty feet away now, and it looks like he's pacing," Cyborg announced.
The Titans gathered around this round table as Nightwing called Danny over to his side. "Look-ok-here." He pointed to the very middle of the blueprint, in the center of a room in the warehouse. "This is the room Moonfire is in. There's another room over here. That's where Red X is."
"There's a faulty panel of glass in the roof. You should be able to pull it out. You can't use your hands, though, because it will slip and fall through the ceiling, into the room. We can't let Red X know we have someone coming to get Moonfire. That's where your powers come in. Use your control over air currents to gently lift it up," Nightwing continued "You getting all this?"
Danny nodded fervently, standing over the blueprint. "What about Red X?"
"We'll worry about Moonfire, first. Then we'll go after X. I'll consider you lucky if you won't have to go up against him. You sure you want to do this?" Nightwing asked.
"I'm positive," he responded without hesitation.
"Ok. If all goes well, we might just be replaced by a couple of teenagers," Nightwing joked. Danny smiled proudly.
Finally, my chance to play the hero.
TT
Starfire had flown Danny three buildings down of the warehouse. He claimed he could do the rest by himself, so she quickly wished him good luck and flew off.
He conjured a large air ball and sat himself upon it, guiding it towards the roof of the building. He was able to hop off easily and quietly.
Danny squinted to peer through the glass panes on the ceiling. The large room was cluttered with boxes and various instruments, but in the center, was a chair. And that chair held a thin yet strong girl.
"Kimi," he breathed. Her wrists were bound to the chair with glowing blue ropes. Nightwing had explained them as power draining ropes. Hopefully fire would be able to burn right through them. There was a piece of tape over her mouth, as well as a restraint around her middle and ropes around her ankles. A figure he assumed to be Red X walked towards her, sauntering really.
He drawled something inaudible to Danny, and Moonfire struggled more than she had before. Red X came forward and ripped the tape off her mouth. She spat in his face, before screaming as loud as she could.
The masked stranger slapped a hand over her mouth. She bit it fiercely.
Red X let out a disgruntled yell, nursing his wounded hand. "BITCH!" he screamed so loud that Danny was able to hear. Then, he turned and left the large room through a large iron door on the other side of the room.
Danny let out a sigh of relief, unclenching his teeth. He would kill this Red X character no matter what it took.
Slowly, he gathered up enough air to pull up the fault pane of glass. Five to the right and four down, was where Nightwing told him it was. Softly, he set the pane of glass down on the ceiling, before lowering himself with in the building. A cloud of air carried him down to the ground.
Moonfire's head was hung, her eyes closed, and her breathing steady. She was on the verge of sleep.
Danny quickly jogged forward, kneeling down to make eye contact. Once sensing a presence about her, she opened her eyes, which glowed dark blue for three seconds. When she saw Danny, her eyes went back to normal.
The blonde boy surged forward and captured her in a hug, tightly embracing her and never wishing to let go. "Kimi," he whispered. "Oh Thank God you're ok."
"Danny, what are you doing here?" she asked in awe as he pulled away.
"Saving you, of course," he responded, as if the answer were simple.
Moonfire smiled softly. "My hero."
"I try." He conjured a ball of fire and incinerated the ropes off of her wrists. Thankfully, he did it without burning her. He ripped the waist restraint off of her with strength he didn't know he had.
"I'm sorry, but non one will be saved here," Red X drawled as he sauntered forward. Danny whipped around, scrambling up from his kneeling position.
"That's what you think!" Danny retorted. Moonfire leaned over and ripped the restraints off her ankles with powerful force. Danny lended a hand to Moonfire to help her up from her chair. Her hands and eyes began to glow midnight blue. Danny used anger balled up inside of him to unleash two very large fireballs towards Red X. He was caught off guard, but reacted quickly to jump out of the way. Red X extended his arm to shoot two red X's, but Moonfire had dissolved one with a starbolt and Danny had incinerated the other with a fireball.
"This isn't a fair fight. Give up NOW," Moonfire demanded of the villain in front of her.
"Two thirteen year-olds against a twenty-six year-old? Hardly seems fair for you two," he retorted.
"Hey, I'm fourteen!" he countered. Red X suddenly thrust out two of his palms. Two goo-like X's were the result, sticking the two teenagers to the ground.
"Hah. Nice try, kid," Red X sneered. Danny struggled fiercely against it, but he couldn't move. Moonfire tried to use her Starbolts, but they were of no use.
"DAMN IT!" Danny yelled out.
"Watch your tongue, kid," Red X sneered. "Naughty little mouth you have there."
Red X easily bound the two teens to a set of chairs, back-to-to back, before sauntering from the room. Danny hung his head with a sad sigh.
"I'm sorry, Kee," Danny whispered, using his nickname for her.
"No! I'm not giving up yet! We can do something, I know we can!" she exclaimed encouragingly.
"What can we do?" he asked. "We're done for."
"No, we're not." Moonfire shifted her body weight to hop the chair around, allowing her to see Danny who had done the same thing.
"Wait," Danny said, an idea dawning upon him. "Take my hand," he ordered her. Danny had been clever enough to realize that Red X hadn't used power draining ropes on him or Moonfire. "If this works, I'll be able to burn the ropes off of both of us."
Moonfire strained to reach his hand and did so. Danny closed his eyes and bowed his head. A few moments later, he raised his head and opened his eyes, to reveal they had been replaced by glowing white nothingness. He exhaled deeply through his nose, literally blowing out steam.
All of sudden, all of the bounds on them had caught fire, but it was a small flame. It withered into only smoke, making the ropes crumble and fall off.
"Yes!" the pair exclaimed once they had successfully freed themselves. They collided in a hug, jumping up and down.
"Danny you do not know how much I love you right now!" Moonfire exclaimed. "I was five seconds away from killing myself if I had to be in here any longer," she joked.
"Same here," Danny replied with a soft smile. Moonfire didn't know how much of a mouthful she just said. "Now let's go get Red X."
They snuck up to the door they saw him disappear into, and Moonfire busted it open with three of her starbolts. It was hanging from its hinges as Danny and Moonfire ran into the room.
"You are going down!" Danny threatened to Red X, who was standing before a very large computer.
"Not you two again," he responded in a bored tone. Danny wasted no time, conjuring a ball of water the size of his head and sending it to his feet. Immediately after, Moonfire blasted him with three of her starbolts. Before Red X could react, he slipped, banged his head on the table before him, and was on the ground nursing a bleeding head.
"Look's like you just got bested by a couple of teens. How embarrassing," Moonfire taunted him, lifting her foot and digging her heel painfully into his chest. "Danny, grab those ropes," she ordered, pointing to the remaining sections of ropes.
Danny did as he was told, flipping Red X over and tying his hands behind his back. He removed the belt, which Nightwing noted as the source of his power, and attached it to a belt loop in his cargoes.
"You're powerless," Danny taunted him.
"Now let's blow this pop-stand," Moonfire stated, grabbing Red X by the scruff of his neck. The three trekked back into the more open room of the warehouse. Danny pointed out the open roof, and Moonfire nodded. Suddenly, she grabbed Danny's hand, and closed her eyes in absorption.
She concentrated on 'Boundless confidence', as her mother told her was the key to her super-human strength. But, two people was nothing compared to the weight of a Zorka, which she had lifted TWO of before!
Then, she concentrated on her 'Unbridled Joy', the secret to her ability of flight. It wasn't hard, for all she had to think of was the warmth that flowed through her body when her hand was intertwined with Danny's. She smiled faintly before taking off, flying through the missing pane of glass, and soaring into the night.
TT
Reviews:
Pickles12: maybe, my dear friend, maybe.
Tmidge: haha, I don't WANT to get rid of you! I know! I'm glad you approve of my false alarm and then bringing in Red X. I do not know first-hand of how a mother will protect her young, but I can guess…I'm glad you liked!
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Gem W: lol, I like your theory. Thanks for loving y story so much!
EarthGurdian: lol. Ouch, that sounds like it hurt. I'm sorry. I'm bad at taking pain too. My thigh-protectors in lacrosse do nothing, even though they are supposedly Kevlar, and my bruises are quite painful to look at let alone feel. I empathize with ya, buddy.
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