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To put it shortly, Damian was pissed.

He had been punished the last few nights for disobeying orders and almost getting Drake killed.

His punishment. Filling in for Oracle while she was sick.

Basically he just scanned the city for trouble through cameras(which he still thought was moronic)and telling people where to go and their status. You know, everything Damian despised doing. He trained to kill people, and now he was just talking to people and watching things go down. He thought it was quite an honorless and stupid job.

While this had been going on though, he had seen a grey streak appear at two crime scenes, one a simple theft of Kryptonite, and the other something just happening not to be their. A special metal that could hold a lot of radiation. Dangerous amounts of radiation.

As soon as Damian had been able to go on patrol, he convinced Grayson to let him go alone(Grayson was always a sucker for him). He immediately started searching for this thief.

And that's where it went wrong. Damian was just coming back into the cave, his pride wounded. The thief had been more...skilled in fighting then he thought he would. And apparently, Drake had known about him, but kept it a secret.

Since Damian knew it would be weird if he just pulled up a file of this 'Red X' person, he knew he would have to ask Drake. The thought of Drake being superior at anything other than him wanted to make him gag.

He sucked it up though and went to him, who was still in his Red Robin suit, cowless. He typed quickly and coffee cups littered the computer. Damian wrinkled his nose in disgust. The only thing Damian liked about Drake's habit with coffee was either he might die of too much caffeine or too less sleep. Nevertheless, he walked over next to him.

Now, Tim had heard Damian arrive back into the cave. He could practically feel their animosity towards each other. But it surprised him when Damian came over and said,"Drake, I need you to do something for me."

Tim turned his head and looked at him like he just exploded. Damian never asked him for things. He was a little entitled independent assassin, whose mother ran the league of assassins and father who was the Batman. So the thought that he would ask Tim something was just so weird. Especially since they hated each other.

After a moment, Damian said,"Well?"

Tim, now very interested and seeing potential blackmail, replied,"What do you need exactly?"

Damian rolled his eyes,"Its not need, it was I just ran into a thief I have been….watching. He said you two have encountered recently. And that he has not been seen for years, so I knew Father would think it suspicious if I just looked him up in the files."

Tim turned back around and started typing. He knew who Damian was talking about. Red X. He brought up the surprisingly small page. Tim brought out some paper lying around and started writing it down. It would be good to study the anti-hero on his own.

Damian skimmed over the information. He then turned to the other and said,"So what do we do? He could be doing something very bad."

"Well," Tim said, clearly not liking what he was about to say,"I think we should work together to keep it a secret. I honestly don't think he's really dangerous. Actually, I don't even think its the same person."

"What?"

"Well, he looks smaller than the last Red x. I'm pretty sure he younger, too. And I don't think he would just randomly show up. Though, I do think he personally knew the last Red x because of the info he knows. But, until he does something really bad, I think we should just both quietly research him. Apparently he used to only steal things."

Damian after a few moments huffed,"Fine. But if Father finds out, you will take the fall."

With that, the younger went to change out of his suit. Red Robin looked at Red x's file once more before closing it and deleting the history of the computer so no one would know which file they were looking at. He turned off the computer and went to change, bringing the paper. As he walked over to the showers, the file kept picturing in his head.

Name:Red X

Height:unknown

Weight:unknown

Date of birth:unknown

Age:unknown

MMO:thievery

People killed: 1

Okay sorry if these chapters have been short, I'll try to make the next one longer. Also, I plan on introducing Nightwing soon but not yet. So if anyone has any ideas on how the two should meet, either leave a review or PM me. Thanks for reading.