Mike 'X' Grayson

Summery: It's the story of the big brother Robin forgot he had, who became one of the greatest thieves in the world. This the story of how Mike Grayson became Red X and a member of the ever so criminal Chaos Crew. Chapter 1: Karma's blessings.

Disclaimer: (If you're smart and not a lawyer you don't have to read) Oh come on. Have you ever met someone on here who actually owns the show? It doesn't take a genius to realize I DON"T OWN THEM. Even a lawyer should know this even if they gotta read this anyway because of law or whatever. For the rest of you, you guys are THICK! Ok done ranting.

Claimer: I do own Xavier and most of the other characters you don't recognize.

As I'm sure your tiered of hearing (reading) me rant lets get on with this story.

New Life
aka
Xavier Christian

"MOM! DAD!" Mike yelled running over to the center of the ring as everyone rushed to get out of the tent. It had been the final act and they hadn't used the net in this. Mike knew something had gone wrong even as tears fell from his eyes. Something had felt wrong, like a warning signal, and then the ropes had broke and his parents were left here... dead. He had lost them but he wasn't gonna let that happen to his little brother, Richard. Wait were was Richard. Again Mike felt that tingly sensation warning him that something was wrong. Mike looked up and suddenly realized how hot and hard to breath it was. The tent, the stands, everything was on fire and he were in the center of it. There was nothing he could do for his parents now.

Mike wiped the tears away from his eyes and then tore his fathers necklace of his neck. He should up. Now it was time to leave. But as he ran threw the fire and out of the tent, everything seemed to blur.

The surroundings were different. Now Mike lay in an ally in the most criminal of alleys in Gotham. It was Cal's alleys. Cal's alleys were the best and worst place to hide. On one hand unless your enemy was Cal and he was looking for you, no one looked for you there. But on the other if one of Cal's men caught you there you were dead. Shot without questions. That was why Mike avoided his men like the plague. The only time the went near them was when he had to steal from them. For food he would go into the most dangerous place for an uninvited guest to be. Cal's club. He would sneak in the kitchen and steal anything useful he could find. After a wile he had gotten better at this. What had surprised him thought was how much he knew. It had taken a while, but he finally remembered his visits to his uncle James when he was younger. James had been the one to teach him the art of thievery. Why he hadn't remembered it till the he didn't know. Among the things he had stolen was also a gun with one thing of ammunition. This was for one and one thing only. Emergency. If forced to he would shoot, but only if his life depended on it. After all, he didn't like the idea of being a murderer.

As usual the alley he had chosen to sleep in tonight was empty. This area wouldn't be controlled for about 11 or so more-

"HEY! WHO THE HELL YOU!" said a voice said from the end of the alley. Mike looked up to see a 18 year old guy running toward him. "What are you doing here kid? Do you even know were you are?"

"Are you stupid?"

"Who you callin' stupid brat! I was going to let you live, but now I don't think-"

"Leave him alone Jordan. He's with me."

"Your not s'pose to be here X. Come out so you can get what's coming! Or are you afraid?" Jordan asked as he stupidly grinned. Before Jordan could laugh at his own remark 2 weird looking knifes came out of the darkness and cut, yes cut, the gun Jordan was holding in two. Mike could only gape.

"Jorry, you really are too annoying for you own good." The mysterious X said stepping out of the darkness. X resembled a superhero even though he was more like a super thief. His hair was about chin length and a golden blond. A mask covered his nose and mouth and he also wear a head band. Thus only he eyes and hair were visible. Speaking of his eyes, they were gray and black. With a black cape swinging behind him, X walked over to Jordan or Jorry as X had called him, and knocked him out with a punch to the head. The guy had been too frozen with fear to do anything.

"Hey Red" X said as if it were normal to slice a mans gun in half, walk out of the shadows, and knock a thug out before speaking to a kid who hadn't bathed properly in over a year.

Some how Mike found the courage to look at this super thief without fear. "So you're the great X. One of the greatest thieves of the world who just happens to be residing in Gotham City. It's said the dark knight himself hasn't even seen you. Now your here to see me? What's in it for you?"

"Besides being interrogated by a 13 year old you mean. Well I was looking for a partner. Baty's got one and rumor has it he's just instated another one. Some little kid in red green and yellow calling himself Robin. Personally I don't feel like being defeated by two kids and a grown man in a bat suit. If he can train two kids to fight crime, I can certainly train a teen to be a thief."

"Who said I would become a thief."

"Who said you ever had a chose? A fire takes you family and you get left in the streets. You already steal from others, or did someone just decide to give you a red hoody and a pair of overlarge jeans. And I'm pretty sure those sneakers couldn't be brought from a store by a kid with no money. Face it, you're already a thief."

"What if I am. I only steal what I need to survive. You steal for the fun of it."

"So you admit its fun."

"I never said that."

"You said, 'You steal for the fun of it' meaning I steal cause its fun. Meaning you agree that is fun."

"Yeah but-"

"Admit it. There's a thrill to it. A certain high you can't get anywhere else."

"Fine I admit it. I find if fun. Its full of thrills and it makes you feel alive. There is nothing like it. But... do you actually ecpect me to just go with you and become a thief. I don't even know you! You could be out to kill me or man rape me or something!"

X just looked at Mike. His face looked like it was try to suppress something before he burst out laughing. "Man rape you... (laughs) You think I'm a gay perve (laughs) Thats rich. Man rape...(laughs) ok ok (suppressed laugher) Ok kid. Liston up... I'm not gay, and what you said is the stupids thing I've ever been accused of. Honestly, Man rape? Thats creepy and funny all at the same time. All I want, is a friend to hang out will in my lonely mansion. As in a brother. Being rich is very lonely especially when you can't talk to you butler, you're only companion, about being a thief. Now, I'm giving you the opportunity to do something with your life. You can go to The Academy. Have you ever heard of the Chaos Crew? Angel, the most wanted thief in the world and greatest in history, has started it up. You have the chance to it and everything you could ever want."

"The only thing I want is my life back. A life at least. Living of the streets sucks. But if I joined you, in this... mansion, I'd feel guilty. My brothers still alive. I can ... feel it. If I joined you I'd be betraying him. He's still out there. And I won't leave him on the streets while I sleep in a four poster bed in an overlarge bedroom with a balcony and like a hundred cars and luxuries I can't even imagine. I would do it. I really would, but I can't. I wont betray him. He's all I have left."

"Red, you don't know do you. You have been out here for almost a year. I found you a week ago. I watched you, and you have potential. A year Red and entire year by yourself on the streets and you're still alive. I bet your brothers in some orphanage. We can find him together if you come with me. Then he can come home with up too. You'll be together and I won't be so lonely. Just think, you can have everything you ever wanted. Everything."

END DREAM

Mike shot up. That dream. That night, X found him had been two weeks ago. X took him to Christian manor on the west side of Gotham. It turned out X was none other than multimillionaire Xavier Christian of Swordcross Games. The company that specialized in creating some of the most entertaining video games on the planet and X Gamer the system that had the best graphics on the marked. Supposedly before its time it left the Playstation and the Nintendo 64 in the dust. Anyway, the day after when Mike had woken up we had eaten breakfast together. His first real breakfast in over a year it had been. X or Chris as he had asked Mike to call him had asked for my name. He had told him, "I'm Mike, Mike Grayson." And then Chris's face fall. He had then taken the TV controller and turned it one. Mike would never forget the words that news caster had said.

"In further news Dick Grayson, the new heir to the Wayne Enterprises, has taken after his surrogate father, multimillionaire Bruce Wayne. Its seems he's inherited more that just the Wayne fortune, but also the playboy lifestyle the millionaire has as well."

Those words had stung. All Mike could say was "Dick, he always hated being called Dick..." The rest of the day had been a blur until dinner when Chris asked him "So what do you think we should do about you brother."

Mike then replied, "What do you mean. Your my only brother."

Now Mike James Grayson was here. In a Queen size, four poster bed with red silk curtain and sheets in an gigantic bedroom, waking up in the middle of the night because of some stupid memory dream. He pushed the curtain back a bit and looked at the clock on the bedside table. The numbers 4:48 blinked back at him in red. Looks like he was staring the day early. Mike stretched a bit before heading down to the gym.

XXXXXXXXXX

"Good morning Mike." Chris said walking in with his bed hair and black silk pj's still on. Mike was wearing a red dress shirt and black slacks. Sometimes the rich life could be just grand. But then again he was one of those people who liked the lifestyle unlike my brother who preferred normality. "Why ya luk' like 'at?"(Why do you look like that?) Chris said stifling a yawn.

"Unlike you I happen to have remembered the opening of Swordcrossing."

"Wha?"Chris said still very groggy.

"Honestly Chris sometimes I wonder how you can even remember you name with that hole in you head. Today's the grand opening of the new Game Shop in the middle of the city. We're supposed to be there to open it as August is in Tokyo for the next month."

"Dad's in... oh yeah must have slipped my mind."

"As slippery as you mind is can you at least remember how to get back up to you're room and what a shower it. We need to be there by 1 and you're still in your PJ's at ... 12:10. You have 30 minuets, 40 at the most to get ready and in the car."

"How are you more like dad than I am when you're not even related to him? Live a little." And with that Chris when up the stairs back to his room. "ouch!"

"Its pull you moron. Wake up!"

"Shut up!"

"How bout you act your age X"

"Sure, as soon as you act yours Red." Mike heard the bathroom door close and shook his head. Sometimes it was hard to believe he was the 13 year old and Chris was the 19 year old. But that was the way things were now. It was a better life. He had money, he had food, he hand somewhere comfortably and dry to life, but most importantly, he had a family. In a month he would be initiate into that family. It was the family called Chaos Crew."

TO BE CONTINUED...

Ok the Karma's blessing thing, if you haven't figured it out yet is basicaly. After Mike suffered the streets and the haunting memories of loosing his family, he gets rewarded by getting a new better life than he had before. He's rich and can have the time of his life as a thief. The same thing (even though your not told) happens to Richard, but he doesn't like being rich like Mike does. It just makes him feel guilty. Mike feels a bit guilty too but nowhere near as much as Richard does.

NOW FOR A LITTLE CHAOS CREW...

Phoenix: Don't you just love this part of the story... I DO! (starts crying)

Hope: Yeah sniff HE FINALLY HAS A FAMILY! (starts crying too

Stryker: Oh joy. He finally has a family. (roles eyes, girls cry louder) Um... Stop crying... Phoenix, Hope, Stop crying... um Lionheart?

Lionheart: Stryke when dealing with a histarical female Chaos Crew operatives there are a few things you need to do. (Puts on a cheery face and act like a cheerleader) Laura, Ruby, like guess what! I like scored to tickets to a Conner McJanny Concert!

Phoenix: WHAT! Tickets to a Jessy McCartney Concert! WHERE! GIMMY! GIMMY! GIMMY!

Lionheart: You want 'em! There in the weapons vault.

Hope: Really! TO THE WEAPONS FALT

Stryker: Its vault... hey what up! (Stryker chases after Lionheart as she chases after Phoenix and Hope to the weapons vault)

Lionheart: (Giggling girls run into weapons vault) SLAM (Lionheart slams and locks door to weapons vault) -sigh- Well that gets rid of 'em for a couple hours.

Stryker: Thank got they're only that horable after watching something sad. Wanna go play mindless video games?

Lionheart: And rot our brains out?

Stryker: YEAH!

Lionheart: Count me in.

2 HOURS LATER

Red X: (walks up and opens weapons vault... frowns) Hey, what are you 2 doing in here?... Why are you looking at me like that?... What are you doing with that?... Girls?... Is that loaded?... Your not going to- (BOOM!)

LIVING ROOM OF CC BASE (UNDERNEATH THE ACADEMY)

Lionheart: Did you hear that?

Stryker: Sounds like some poor idiot just opened the weapons vault

Lionheart: You think there mad?

Stryker: Yeah, most likely. Wanna run for our lives while they chase us for locking them in there?

Lionheart: Sound fun.We didmakea death wish after all. You think 2 hours was to long?

Stryker: Oh yeah.

Phoenix and Hope: ROOKS! (Phoenix and Hope chase after Lionheart and Stryker)

Red X: Did I miss some- (Looks at gigantic TV screen) hey is that really how I looked when I was 13?

END SIDE STORY

OK chapter one is done. By the way what do you think of my Chaos Crew insert. If you have any ideas on what I should may them (and me) do next tell me.

If you wanna join CC remember its a (fake) group of criminals who enjoy popping into stories or side stories as shown above and torturing characters we don't like. We're also RobinStar and BBRae shippers. We don't have to like Terra but we don't have to hate her ether. We do however have to respect the fact that some of us like her while others of us hate her. You can also find us at www. fanfiction. net/ ft/ 815223/13289/1/

Anyway, this really this doesn't have a romance in it except for mentions (and setting up in some cases) of RobStar and the TerraBBRaeRedX thing is still a coin toss.(because last time I wrote this, before it was so rudely deleted by my friend, I had some one wanting RaeRedX) I maybe a BBRae shipper, but if the majority of the audience, which I doubt cause I invited the CC to read, wants RaeRedX then I guess thats what I'll give them. But remember even if there is any there would only be hints of it (I think) in the story. Anyway heres the pole.

It could be:

a)Terra BB,

b)Rae RedX,

c)BB Rae,

d)Terra Red X,

or any combination of them. So for that you gotta vote. Poles will be open until I say they close which wont be for a long time. Please only vote once and I'll try to remember to tell you the score at the bottom every time.

By the way, don't always expect such quick updates. I can be a bit unpridictable about puting them up sometimes. But if I do wait too long (one fortnight) start flaming me. Man, I just asked you to flame me, I must be insain. Review!

Till next time,

Lionheart wb23