1
"Aargh! They're gone.", condemned Robin.
"Oh no, this is horrible.", lamented Starfire.
"Ah, ma-yan! Why did this have to happen?", questioned Beast Boy.
"Maybe if, no...what about, no...", Cyborg fell in and out of ideas.
"Hnmph.", Raven shrugged apathetically. "If anyone needs me to talk to the police, I'll be across the street. Let me know if there's something I can actually do."
2
Outside one of the building's across the street store fronts, a thin, pale, dark haired boy set a flower arrangement outside of the plant store he worked at. Aptly named, Goth, looked up at the cloaked and hooded girl that was floating down to him.
When she landed, she said, "We just had a major duping at the bank across the street." Just as the protectors of the peace arrived to late to protect the peace, Goth replied.
"Most every institution is a major duping. Wanna go somewhere and talk about it?"
It was met with the merest of interested smiles.
"I'm off at five."
3
"See, he's for real." Jinx stated.
The three were back at the decrepit basement they were using as a hide out after their escapes from the authorities and destruction of their previous school, H.I.V.E. Its leaky walls constantly irritated Gizmo who had his (the entire team's actually) gear on milk crates and other improvized supports. Mammoth's spine was only straight when he sat. Even Jinx' loud pink hair failed to brighten up the place.
"So he had an escape. So what?", asked a visibly irked Gizmo. "This 'The Red X' guy's not that smart if you asked me. I'm way smarter than him!"
"And that's why you used a simple gieger counter to see if a liquid radioactive isotope tagged you when you used the escape I provided.", the Red X said as his suit's optic camoflauge deactivated.
Mammoth had previously been bouncing his attention from the arguing Jinx to the complaining Gizmo. Surprised that someone had sneaked up on him, but resigned to such things as the damp moldy air wrecked havok with his sense of smell, he slammed the Red X to a wall with one huge, talonned hand holding his head. The Red X wrapped his whole right arm around Mammoth's wrist. Grabbing Mammoth's pinky with his right and left hands and using his entire weight. the Red X twisted Mammoth's arm and stood on his palm. This effectively held the giant subdued.
"Now do you have an appropriate reply, Gizmo?", the Red X asked. Gizmo's eyes were still bulging from the Red X's display of dominance. "No? Then I am 'on board' aren't I?"
"Not so fast.", Jinx demanded. "Say we want to work you into our way of doing things. What do you want?"
"Your way of doing things seems to fail often.", the Red X stated plainly. "You'll be working into MY way of doing things. As for what I want..."
By the time Mammoth turned to face the Red X after his arm was released, the newcommer was already across the room. The Red X had planted his hands against the wall. This sudden motion had scooped up Jinx who now had her hands resting on his shoulders, her legs trying to gain purchase on his hips and her face directly in the face of her new commander.
"...I think you'll be able to easily figure that out.", the Red X said as he, seemingly absent mindedly, fiddled with the oversized collar of her dress.