Josh: yo peeps! Im fillin in for CI since the hand incident.

CI: -- just type.

Josh: can I sign your cast?

CI: You already sighned it you dope!

Josh: again?

CI:L (sigh)

Disclaimer: I dont own them! ... well, atleast i dont own them now but maybe later.

Chapter 4: Unexpected.

Red X smirked as he saw the guard's eye lids close and silently made his way into the building.

Good help was so hard to find these days...

He snuck in without any difficulty and was now sneaking around the dust-filled air vents, siletly cursing himself for letting steal his belt.

Well, Robin made it but he stole it so technically, it was his belt.

But the belt wasent the only thing motivating him, he was also here because of the zinothium they had stored in it's vaults, he needed that Zinothium to power the suit or else he might as well serve himself on a silver platter to the titans.

He rolled his eyes at that last thought, as if that was going to happen.

Finally, after spending pointless hours wriggling in the vent he finally found what he was looking for.

A completely white room waited below him with small cylinders filled with Zinothium on the far side of the wall.

Zinothium, sweet Zinothium.

He quickly dropped from the vent and carefully walked towards the Zinothium cylinders along the wall.

Suprisingly, there were no laser grids, no guards, not even a motion sensor in the room. Red X wasent dumb, something was wrong and he just knew it.

Please let me be wrong.

'Zinothium again? dont you get tired with this?'

He hated it when he was right.

He turned around to find the five teenage heroes behind him with confident looks on thier faces.

'Dont you get tired with all those wise-ass remarks kid?' he retorted at Robin who had a small smirk on his face.

'Please surrender, I donot wish to engage in battle' said Starfire, the brightness in her eyes dimmer than usual as Raven's hands crackled with black energy.

'Sure I will' said Red X and reached inside his pocket for a few smoke bombs 'as soon as hell freezes over' and started backing away.

Unfortunately, Robin noticed what he was doing and yelled his famous two words just as Red X raised his arm to throw them.

But his arm never made it halfway up as Raven's black magic had his limb immobelised.

Isint she a peach?

'I hate it when she does that' he mumbled under his breath and with his free arm, sent a few explosives towards her, trying to break her concentration.

The explosives blew up in Raven's face and she released his hold on him and before anyone could move, he threw the smoke bombs on the ground.

Smoke filled the air, making it impossible to see but Red X's mask made him an exception and he looked for a way to escape.

'hya!' a green starbolt threw him to the side but he shifted himself in mid-air and vaulted of the wall as Stargire flew towards him at break-neck speed.

He quickly dodged her and flipped over the Mechanical teen who had his sonic cannon pointed at his face.

'What the?' but Red X kicked him into the tameranian princess and both went tumbling to the ground.

He smirked and turned his attention towards the green rhino charging towards him and easily flipped over the animal but failed to see Robin freeze his feet to the spot with an ice disk.

'Damn' he muttered just as all the titans turned towards him, including Raven, who had a slightly ashened face and a deadly look in her eyes.

But Red X wasent stupid, he had a backup plan.

As quick as lightning, he took a small bomb (the size of a fist) from his belt and threw it to thr ground.

The impact was immediate, the bomb sent the five teens hard into the wall and blew that part of the building, providing him with an easy escape.

'Later Kidz' he said and ran past the dazed teenagers, Forgetting the Zinothium containers for the moment.

OhNoOhNo

He swooped in through his apartment window with the grace of a bird and quickly whipped around to see if anyone was following him.

But thankfully, noone was.

Or so he thought.

Tearing the skull mask from his face, he looked at himself in the full length mirror to inspect the damage the titans had done.

A thin, battered body looked back at him from the mirror. The face almost identical to Robin's but with spiked blond hair and peircing blue-green eyes which seemed to stare accusingly at him.

He a few scratches but that was all, he had been lucky this time.

Red X sighed and flopped down on the couch, Being a bad guy isint easy as some people think he thought not while some annoying little teenagers chase you around when youre stealing something.

'That was an admirable display of skills X, I must say you gave the titans a run for thier money'

Red X's eyes widened and he slowly turned around to see a big man with one eye staring at him with mild intrest and he recognized him at once.

Slade, his face had been all over town after the little 'Apprentice' incident the guy had dragged Robin through.

'What are you doing here?' he asked angirly as he placed his mask back on his face.

'Just dropped by to say hello' he answered casually.

'Then goodbye, now leave' he retorted and picked up a battle stance.

Slade chuckled 'You honestly think you can defeat me when five super heroes can not?'

'Ill take my chances' he hissed.

'I am not here to fight you X'

'Chicken?'

Slade ignored him 'Im here to offer you a deal'

Red X raised an eyebrow behind his mask 'What kind of a deal?'

'Eager now are we Jason?' Red X cringed at his name being spoken by another...This guy was definately pushing his buttons right now.

'You just have to steal something for me'

Jason almost laughed 'Why dont you get one of your robot lackies to steal it from you?'

'They are not sufficient enough' he answered, his one eye settling on the thief 'and I assure you, you will be handosmly rewarded'

Now he was speaking his language 'What kind of a reward?' he asked, trying to hide his curiosity.

Slade showed him a long black material with a red X in front 'I beleive you are intrested in a certain belt' he said as the teenager stared at it 'This one is better than the one Robin made, a lot better'

Jason eyed the belt with wide eyes, he wanted it so much yet there was something inside him which told him not to accept the offer.

'So do we have a deal?'

Jason ignored the voice inside him and looked at Slade 'yes'

OhNoOhNoOhNoOhNoOhNoOhNoOhNoOhNo

'You guys look beat' Sara commented as the teenagers walked in with cuts and bruises covering thier forms 'what happened? run in with the hurricane?'

'We had a blast' said Raven dryly and teleported herself to her room while the others trudged towards the infirmary. They just had a few cuts and bruises from the stunt Red X had pulled, nothing serious.

Well, everyone save for Robin that is who was unfortunately having another temper tantrum and instead of going to the infirmary, walked towards the gym to punch the non-existing daylights out of the punching bag.

'Oakay' said Sara and followed Robin in the gym, trying to cheer him up, I mean, he looked just like the grim reaper for Pete's sake! 'Sooo, did you find anything about Slade?'

'Nothing special' he answered plainly.

'Oh' she looked at him and gave a wry smile 'err...so...how are you doing?'

He raised a masked eyebrow 'Are you trying to cheer me up?'

Was it THAT obvious? she blushed 'That depends...is it working?'

Robin smiled and gave her a wry smile 'yeah, you could say that...'

'Atleast im not completely useless then' she said.

'You gave us all the information on Slade, thats not ''useless'' in our books' he replied with a hint of sternness in his voice.

She gave him a goofy smile 'Thanks, you dont know how much that means to me'

OhNoOhNo

Beast boy walked down the corridor towards the gym, or 'Robin's favorite hangout' as he had renamed it.

Cyborg had already bandaged his arm and cleaned his wounds, they were not that serious, just a few minor scratches so he wasent worried.

He was going to enter the gym when he heard sounds of laughter coming from inside.

Wait, did I just say laughter?

Stop. Rewind. Play

He placed his pointed ear on the smooth door and listened, sure enough, sounds of laughter were coming from inside. He recognized one of the voices, that was Sara's but the other one...was vaguely familiar...

Wait, it couldnt be...

Could it?

He pressed his ear further into the door and listened again and to his utter suprise, He heard his leader laughing along with Sara.

His face relaxed into a soft smile, it had been ages since he had heard thier leader laugh, ofcourse he would laugh at his jokes but this sounded more real.

He was beginning to like Sara, she was like the big sister he never had, laughing with him, goofing around, understanding and cheering them up.

He badly wanted to trust her.

And for once, prove Raven wrong.

OhNoOhNoOhNoOhNoOhNoOhNo

Josh: All finished...

CI: er...Josh, BB seems a little bit out of character.

Josh: (hehe) the ending was my own thing, just thought of it...I hope you like it, dont get mad at me CI...

CI: Ofcourse im not mad at you dummy! ... I cant be mad at such a good freind like you, thanks for fillin in for me dude...

Josh: what are freinds for:)

Laterzzzzzzz

Josh