Xynthonium. Why did I have to put that blasted element in the suit? Robin continuously asked himself blaming himself for the criminal master mind.
Later that night Robin had another dream. Robin was in an enclosed dark room full of red fog everywhere. The only thing he saw was a distant figure. The body started to walk over to Robin. Soon a face could be seen through the thickness of the smoke. It was Red X.
"You again!" Robin yelled over to Red X.
Red X ignored the words and continued walking toward Robin. He stopped ten feet away from Robin and smirked, "Yes, me again."
Robin took his short staff and extended it to about his height. He grabbed onto it and lunged toward Red X. With a powerful movement of his arms, Robin struck Red X right in the neck. Robin blankly stared as the pole slowly dented into the neck, as if he was hollow, full of air.
Red X smiled and with a quick shift of his hand grabbed the staff and swung it at Robin. Being stricken in the ribs, Robin flew a couple yards away. Blood leaked his skin and stained his shirt.
Robin glanced up at Red X and saw that he was walking away.
"Wait!" Robin shouted, "Who are you?"
"I am Red X." Red X jumped into the air and faded into the atmosphere.
Later that morning, Robin awoke in bed at a decent time. He got out of bed and walked into the living room and saw Cyborg and BB playing video games and Raven and Starfire meditating.
As he walked a few more steps in, Starfire opened one eye to inspect the noise. Seeing Robin, she glared at him and closed her eye, then quickly opened both. She flew toward him and looked confusingly at him.
Robin watched her and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Why," Starfire answered with another question. "Why is there blood all over your shirt?"
Robin quickly looked down to see blood had stained all over his shirt, around the rib area. He remembered in his dream that Red X had stricken him in the rib.
"I'm not sure," Robin answered Starfire denying the fact that it could be his dream. "Let me change, I'll be right back." Robin left the room to change uniforms from his stained one.
"Something bothers friend Robin," Starfire stated being ignored by the other Titans.
Cyborg paused the game in which he was currently beating Beast Boy and turned back to look at Starfire, "He's just acting like he always does. Give him a day and he will return to normal."
Walking through the corridors of the tower, Robin's attention was caught by the evidence room. In interest, he walked inside and observed all of the remains of villains they had faced in the past, he most eager to reach the end of the room where the patch of suit from Red X was taken. He walked up to the display of the suit and looked at the writing under it, Red X's torn suit piece. After reading the encrypted words, Robin looked up at the cloth.
It was gone.
Robin shattered the display case with a punch of his hand, and grabbed the pole it would have been resting on. After inspecting it he threw it on the ground and ran into the main living room of the tower which the other Titans were occupying.
He put his fist in the air and alerted, "We have an intruder!"
The other Titans quickly reacted, Raven and Starfire flew over to Robin and BB and Cyborg ran over to him.
"Who?" Beast Boy asked.
"Most likely Red X, his patch is missing," Robin said while grinding his teeth. "Let's split up!"
Starfire took the western section of the tower, Raven took the east, and Beast Boy and Cyborg took the southern area. Robin headed upwards in search of Red X.
Robin walked around reactive to any sound. The slightest twitch would be made on any change of motion of shadow.
"Do you fear me?" A mockingly said remark was asked.
Robin looked up to the air in search of the words source, "Where are you, Red X!"
For a moment no sound was made but soon a reply was heard, "You didn't answer the question. Do you fear me?"
Robin grabbed his staff and grasped it in the tightest matter, "Don't play games with me!" In frustration Robin started kicking every door in the hallway that he passed by in search of Red X.
"You'll never find me at this rate, Robin," Red X told Robin.
"What do you want?" Robin asked calming down as if giving up a little.
"I wanted to repair my suit, so I took the portion torn off," Red X answered.
Robin stomped on the ground and shouted, "You mean my suit! I created it, but now I regret it!"
No other sound came from Red X. Robin grabbed his communicator and shouted out to all the Titans, "I found him report to floor-" Robin's words were interrupted by a slamming kick in the face. He soared halfway across the hallway and flipped to balance on his two feet. He looked up at the source of the kick and saw Red X standing holding onto the communicator.
"Robin, where are-" The sound of Raven's words had suddenly stopped when Red X crushed the communicator in a swift crush of his fists.
Red X released the shattered pieces and smiled up at Robin, "I'm sorry did I break that?"
Robin's sweat had dominated his face as he yelled, "I'm gonna kill you for good!"
Robin leaped off the ground and in a quick motion managed to reach up close to Red X. He pulled his fist back and with a powerful stroke, pushed it into Red X's face. In contact with his face, Robin's arm sank into the suit, like in his dream, where Red X was hollow.
"This doesn't make sense," The confused Robin stated. "This happened in my dream, this, this is real life!"
Red X grabbed Robin's right arm and tossed him into the wall. Debris and dust slowly fell down due to the blast of the contact Robin made with the wall.
Red X chuckled and started running down the hallway and shouted back to Robin, "I do what ever suits me!…"