Its me... again...

Just a few things I'd like to mention

1) Last chapter... i spelled Hyden Walsh's name wrong... its Hynden Walsh. Tee hee...

2) I had so much trouble deciding who should give out Kory's award... so i but i let Ashton Kutcher have the honor

3) You will find that Starfire is a little bit OOC... but u have to admit... Starfire is not so innocent when she's angry...

4) The Chapter title... inspired by xox.Annie Potter.xox

And i would like to dedicate this Chapter to April4rmH-town cuz ur the best in Houston Texas... and this isn't the first time you were the first to review...

Wedding Bells

Chapter 6 Damsel so not in Distress

Red X had known Supermodel Kory Anders for who she was the moment he saw her at the Jump City Fashion show. She was one of the disbanded Titan.

Her image was the one that had been burned inside his memory the first time that he had seen the cutie.

He didn't understand it.

Her flaming red hair. Her big, emerald eyes and even the burn from her eye beam.

He remembered it all. Down to the last detail. He remembered the affection in her voice when she spoke to Birdbrain. He remembered the way Birdbrain looked at her, and the way he had said 'Starfire…' when she had tried to comfort him with the mistake of making the suit … and powering it with Xenothium and the way he had shouted 'Starfire!' when she was hit.

Even if Red X wasn't such a genius, he still would've noticed that Robin the Birdbrain and Starfire had something for each other… But that doesn't matter…

When Red X saw her driving away from the Wayne Manor and Richard Grayson, he knew that tonight he could have his fun. Having made his own toys like an exact copy to the original, powering it with Xenothium as well. But his new toys were had improvements. For example, the X that he had thrown at Starfire when she flew out of her car were almost impossible to break away from, unless she broke away with the wall, of course.

She squirmed and she pulled and she tried to use her starbolts, but for some reason she just couldn't break away. Her arms wouldn't move; they were stuck to the X that had bind her securely to the brick wall behind her.

When Red X charged at her and she sent as many eye beams as she could muster at his way. And of course, he dodged them ever so easily. He ran up her and he touched her cheeks, whispering:

"You think you can hide from me when you are a celebrity?" sensing he crossed the line, he leapt away narrowly dodging a pair of eye beams.

"Why do you always have to be so cold?" he did a back flip to dodge another pair, they hit her SUV and the impact made it do two back flips, smashing the back windshield into tiny little bits of glass.

"Why can't you stay out of trouble!" she shrieked so loud Red X was sure it would wake up the whole residential area.

"You are a Titan… trouble is what you live for."

"I'm no longer a Titan." She looked away, daring her tears to fall. "Crime fighting is no longer my thing. It is Robin's."

"You mean Nightwing?"

"Yes."

"You know… you aren't so bad. If you stop blasting maybe you and I could – " a pair of eye beams hit their target right in the chest. How ironic, being blasted right before he could say date. Again.

"You really don't like this date thing do you, cutie?"

"Don't you read the newspaper? I'm dating Richard Grayson."

"Well in that case, I might as well finish off a Titan. The Titian that will get your little Robin most worked up over." He snickered under his mask and he threw 5 x-a-rang at her face. Starfire shot the first one down, and the second, the third, and the fourth. But she was a little too slow on the fifth one, but she managed to move her head a little to the left and the x embedded inside her reddish mane.

"Ha, just practice shot. You know I'll make this nice and clean. So you wont have to live with ugly scars on your face for the rest of your life…" and he threw at least ten more x-a-rang at her face. But this time, before she had a chance to work up her eye beams to shot them down, a shadow dropped down and whirled a bo-staff blocking all of the x-a-rangs.

"Red X." the figure in front of Star spat out the name like a disease. The voice… it sounded just like…

"Nightwing." X looked at the figure in front of him. He may have worked with him to stop Professor Chang, but he still hated the goody-two shoe. Partly because he had taken the utility belt and forced him to make his own toys and partly because the girl he had set his eyes to was all over Nightwing, whether she admitted or not.

"I thought I put an end to you 5 years ago?" Nightwing pulled out a few things from his utility belt. Discs.

"Ha, I'm genius enough to make my own little toys." He jumped backwards and avoided the explosives that were aimed his way. He ran at Nightwing, jumped up, spun around, and kicked him, only to miss and was hit on the back with a pair of eye beams. Damn. He forgot about the helpless girl that was stuck to his x.

Nightwing turned around and looked at the damsel who was certainly not in distress.

"Star – "

"Look, can you just get me out of here, and keep the talking till later?" She certainly didn't look like she wanted to talk to him in any case. Now he really didn't want to know what she would say if she happened to stumble upon his alter-ego… who she just happens to be dating…

Nightwing could only nod dimly. The icy tone she was using unnerved him so much. He had hardly ever heard her use it… never mind using it with him. Boy, she must really hate me… He used the sharp edge of his bird-a-rang and placed it in between the X and the brick and he cut her free. The moment she was not stuck, she flew out into the night sky.

"Starfire! I – " he was cut of yet again when Starfire raised her hand, starbolt ready to be released. His eyes widened. "Star, I know how much you hate me and I don't bl- " a starbolt hurled at him and he ducked at the last minute, missing it by a hair. He was shocked; he knew that she was mad at him, but attack him? That wasn't right… another starbolt that flew past him fueled more shocking thoughts… until a grunt of pain brought him down to earth.

He spun to look behind to see Red X standing just a few paces behind him, a crater on the ground showed where the starbolt had landed after missing him. But the second starbolt it seems hit Red X in the knee. A wave of relief washed over him. So Starfire wasn't aiming for him after all. What if… maybe she –

A x zoomed right passed his ear, nearly cutting it off. Nightwing's mind fell right back to the battle scene, which was a good move since Red X's foot came in contact with the side of his stomach.

Clutching his bruise, Nightwing extended his bo-staff and swung it, which Red X dodged. He kicked X in the shins, but X caught himself and spun around catching Nightwing off guard and sending him sprawling to the ground. He also let go at least 6 of his x-a-rang at Nightwing, who dodged all but one, which cut into the side of his stomach painfully, send a trail of blood after him.

Red X heard a gasp coming from the girl who was floating a foot or two above the ground and turned around to smirk at her, forgetting that she could not see under his mask. And that was the distraction that Nightwing needed. He pulled out 2 of his explosives and flung it at X. Red X who was busy gloating with his back turned, felt something explode on his back, felt himself being flung, headfirst, into the brick wall, narrowly missing the floating Star. X felt the world go black, then he felt (and saw) no more.

Nightwing rolled over and clutched his cut with one hand and his bo-staff with another. It hurt. A lot. He groaned and got up; the blood was running through his fingers, and down his spandex suit. He retracted the bo-staff and put it into a blood-covered pocket on his utility belt.

In front of him, Starfire flew down, and extended a hand to him. Nightwing looked at the hand blankly.

"Well? Do you want my help or not?" Starfire's big green eyes seemed to be fighting the need to hold a grudge and stay angry, with the need to help someone looking as helpless as Nightwing was probably looking right now.

"Wha- what do you mean?"

Starfire sighed with a hint of impatience. "You… you look really bad right now… let me take you to where you live or something… I don't want you dying, ok?

"So… are you still mad at me?"

Nightwing's voice was hopeful, yet Starfire looked at him coldly. "Very. And you don't need my help, I'll go now." She was up a foot or so off the ground when Nightwing caught her wrist.

"Look, Star, I'm real- " Starfire yanked her hand away and backhanded him across the face.

"You left me! You promised you would be there for me always! Never mind! Bye Nightwing." And she took off faster then the speed of sound.

Nightwing watched her go with a hand on his cheek. He acted like an idiot. Five years ago he was an idiot and right now… Lord knows how much he wanted to… he should've just told her. Maybe if he had just told her how much it pained him to watch her go, then maybe he could work up the courage to tell her he was the same Dick Grayson that she's dating.

He walked to where he parked his bike. He couldn't even feel the pain in the side of his stomach, the pain in his chest was probably worse.

The minute he reached the Manor, he remembered that he didn't call the police or tie up Red X. worry washed over him. Damn. So he raced back, but he knew X would've escaped. And sure enough, Red X was no where to be seen. He cursed again under his breath and he drove home. Every minute he got more worried about the escaped criminal. What if he went after Star? His mind just couldn't stop thinking about that.

Alfred greeted him at the door saying that the rough bandaging that he did himself would need changing, and got straight to it. When it was all done, Richard walked absentmindedly to his room, still full of worries for Star. He just couldn't get the thought out of his head. Red X would hurt Star… Red X still walked… Red X was his fault… Red X hurt Star…

And before the Boy Wonder knew it, it was morning.

And the Boy Wonder knew how to solve the problem if Red X hurt Star.

Richard tore his room apart looking for his phone book and dialed numbers with a smile on his face.

WOW another chapter ended...

SO i'd like to thank all the reviewers for last chatper... Ruth, Starbolt, InkBottled Chakra, Catgirl R and S fan, Lavenderpaw, TiTaNsRoCk95, acosta pérez josé ramiro(what does ur name mean in spanish?), Melody of Melodies, MyMonkeyIsOrange, xox.Annie Potter.xox, RobinStarfire, tigerchic121, Anime Chick009, TiTaNsRoCk95(i hope ur story comes out soon), Lavenderpaw(keep up the good work),hilary, Atemu's Lover, ---- Sasscreech(is that really a phobia?), Rae, mr.rogers(m?), Samanthe2121, StarfireClone-Samantha Young, and april4rmH-town.

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