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Chapter 6: Do you still believe in one another? (Part 2)

Fighting over an overly underdeveloped, but still pretty damn amazing, piece of technology wasn't a good idea.

Fighting over the same piece of technology on your own against an entire gang of misfits probably wasn't the best idea either.

Oh, and let's not forget the Titan from Steel City that's also fighting over that technology, honestly RedX just decided to come out to have a good time, it's very heartbreaking how people just don't give you a break whatsoever.

It's not like he truly needed the tech. It just seemed interesting, and it's unique design intrigued the thief/occasional anti-hero.

The criminal underworld had been betting on which gang was able to purchase the most from Queen Industries, so X had to check it out.

Seeing Speedy - or at least he thinks it's Speedy, his suit changed a lot - was unexpected. Jump and Steel were pretty far apart, and though Speedy was a Titan, his city was on the EAST of America. Not here in the West.

But none of that mattered. Because both boys wearing red were hiding behind crates.

"Shit." RedX looked toward his left, where Speedy was restringing his bow. "Out of arrows."

"Don't you have backup bows, Speedy?" Another bullet shot through the crates between the boys.

"That one's out of arrows too." Replied the archer. "And its RED ARROW" he hissed.

RedX furrowed his eyebrows under his mask, he was sure that his temporary ally was Speedy. He sighed as he adjusted his gadgets - there were a lot of gadgets on the suit. He took out his backup gun loaded with xenothium bullets that exploded on impact, and tossed it over to the Titan.

"Don't break it." He ordered.

Speedy raised an eyebrow behind his domino mask, but soon shrugged it off.

They then returned to the battle against about...half the gang? Hopefully just half the gang, because they were not able to hold much longer.

RedX was surprisingly merciful, he shattered a few bones at the very most, but it was hard to control one's strength when such amounts of adrenaline were racing down his veins. Speedy - or Red Arrow for the moment - was less kind. X supposes that his more aggressive fighting style was only to not have anyone make connotations with his...other alter ego, Speedy.

He was doing a terrible job, by the way. After roughly ten minutes give or take because who the hell cares anyway, Red Arrow gathered the abandoned or forcefully taken RoyBots and placed them in a duffel bag.

The gang had either left bleeding (internally AND externally) or had to drag their asses out due to their fractured feet and legs. Or they just lied unconscious on the floor. X made a mental note that he needed to know more about this particular gang if they bragged about being able to buy from Queen Industries.

It was then when X realised Speedy was leaving. "What's your hurry?" He teleported himself towards the exit of the warehouse, effectively stopping Speedy.

"Move, X." Speedy practically growled. "I'm not gonna tell Robin, I'm just gonna take these, dispose them, and return to Steel, okay?"

"I'm not concerned about Robin, kid. I'm concerned about you, Harper."

"Wait how did you-"

"Well, honestly I'm not concerned about anyone other than myself. By the way, you know, just because you changed from using Speedy to Red Arrow, people are still gonna know it's you."

"Who are-"

"I mean, it's a cheap rip off of Green Arrow. You just replaced the first word with another colour, and it's my colour."

Speedy raised an eyebrow. Robin wasn't particularly fond of RedX but he seemed harmless enough to hang out with.

"Didn't know we could own colours now."

"Oh? Tell that to the Bat of Gotham. He practically owns the colour black."

"Look, RedX." Started the Titan, "I came out here to get back what was mine. Now that I'm done, I'm gonna head back. Thanks for the help though."

X scoffed. "Me? Help you?" Speedy rolled his eyes. "I only help myself." Stated the thief, a dangerous tone could be noted in his voice, "which means I share half the profit. So hand it over."

"X, I don't want to hurt you. I'm tired, you're bleeding. Please just let me go home."

"I know we just took on a lot of guys, but I can still take you." Challenged X, who didn't seem to notice a certain speedster circling the area.

"Maybe some other time." And with that, the archer vanished with a Flash of red and yellow.

"Should've known." X grunted, "They're besties after all."

So what he didn't get half the profit? He could potentially just break into the Titans East tower to get them back if he was that desperate - in which he wasn't.

He could just steal from Queen Industries directly. Screw trying to lay low, it wasn't his style anyway.

He hauled himself up buildings with his grappling gun that resembled Robin's personal grappling gun, but just of another shade of colour. Each time he swung, his ribs burned and his right leg would bend a little weirdly.

He expected injuries. It was part of the job.

So was meeting Titans. But perhaps, not two separate Titans on the same day.

Patrol wasn't as bad as Beast Boy tended to think it was. To Starfire, it was a way to clear her head. With the power of flight, she was able to ascend to great heights and admire the city from above.

It was so different compared to Tamaran. Back at home, on the planet far away, their lights were warm and welcoming...until her kingdom was overthrown, and she was taken prisoner and traded to be a slave to suffer and...

Starfire shook her head. She didn't have the means to go on. She didn't want to remember.

She refocused on the city below her feet. The lights here at Jump shone and flickered in the dark of the night was intriguing and dangerous at the same time.

Something in the darkness caught the Titan's eye. A figure sprinting from rooftop to rooftop, occasionally tripping and stopping to take a break. She flew closer to the figure, starbolts at the ready.

To her dismay, it was RedX. She did not want to deal with him today. But she had to stop whatever he was plotting. She swooped down and quickly grabbed X by his suit, and flew upwards once more, giving him nowhere to go.

"Jesus Christ, woman! Put me down!" He yelled, reaching for his belt.

"You will not do harm to this city!" she roared, a starbolt growing in her free hand and her eyes glowing dangerously. The scowl on her face meant business.

"Starfire, please!"

It was only then when the Titan realised that RedX was badly injured. She could smell the iron from his blood. She could even see it slowly seeping through the suit, and staining it. The fresh colour of red was sprawled on her knuckles as well. Deciding that she should make life easier for him today, Starfire gently lowered down to a rooftop, and releasing X at once. X leaned on the edge and panted, occasionally wheezing in pain.

"X'hal…" she muttered under her breath, a little surprised someone as slick as RedX was able to get hurt so badly. "Do you require assistance?"

"Nope, I'm fine. Go back to patrol, or just back to your damned tower." he said, barely audible.

"I'm sure Robin would not mind if you used our wing of the hospital." offered Starfire, feeling a little guilty about jumping to conclusions. She may have made his injuries worse, and though she was not too fond of RedX, he wasn't a chaotic man trying to rule the world. He was more of a royal zorrgnarg in the grebnacks. (translation: royal pain in the ass)

"Don't need your help, Starfire." he said as he limped towards another building, he took out his grappling gun. "Shit." he cursed, as his arm fell limp.

Starfire watched half amusedly and half worrying. She supposed she could always call the police to capture him at his most vulnerable moment.

"I bet you're enjoying this." he growled through the mask.

"I must admit, it is a little interesting."

X finally found his strength again, and shot his gun to the top of the next building. As he swung through the air, he could see Starfire following suit from the corner of his mask. He sighed and hauled himself up, only to see Starfire already on the rooftop waiting.

"Look, I'm not going to steal anything tonight, I just need to get home."

"I am offering my assistance."

"Don't need it. Just need you to fuck off, lady."

Starfire's slight smirk fell. It seemed that no one needed her help in this city. She was nothing but a burden. An alien burden.

"Didn't know that all it took to tear you down was just a bad word." teased X.

Starfire unconsciously crossed her arms and rubbed them.

She's insecure. Figured X, what the hell did Dick do now?

"Look, princess. I'm on a tight schedule here, so I'm going to go." he said, once again limping to the other side of the building.

"X…" she started, X sighed and turned towards her, "do you think I am no use to the Titans?"

"You can't tell, but I'm raising my eyebrows under this mask" he replied. Starfire had the word anxious written all over her. He remembered the time when people had their doubts about him. How the new Robin just couldn't do the job right. He let out a groan of pain, and opened his mouth "look, as long as your intentions are good, you're good enough for the team, okay?"

"But I am nothing but a walking nuclear reactor, am I not?"

"You're dangerous, I'll give you that. But you also have kindness, compassion, and you care way too much for your own good. You're a walking nuclear reactor because you were born that way." he said, "You're a good Titan. You and your friends are a pain in the ass, but at least you guys get the job done."

Starfire didn't understand why she decided to ask him such personal questions, but she was glad she did. Though she didn't understand why he didn't tell her to 'fuck off' again, she was happy that even the most selfish people could have good hearts.

"You know, X. You're a good man. I think that you have a lot of anger in you, Raven always says that you feel angry all hours of an earth day, but I do not think that anger belongs there." X looked at her suspiciously - could she have known?

No way, he hasn't even met her as Jason Todd. She couldn't have figured it out.

"From what you say, I am supposed to have these destructive powers, but you? Yours do not belong there. If you keep all that anger inside of you? Your heart fuelled by rage? It will consume you."

X didn't know what to think. Sure, he was kind of bleeding out halfway to his apartment in Jump, but the things she said…it almost seemed like she made the bleeding stop.

"Um…thanks." With that, he aimed his grappling gun at the next building, and swung away. This time, the Titan didn't follow behind.

X, ran over what she said in his head. She was looking for comfort from someone, and yet he was the one receiving it. He guessed that sometimes we don't choose our teachers in life, sometimes they were crazed vigilantes dressed like a bat pretending to love a son, and birds who obsessed over the finest details, and other times they take form of a space princess who is smarter than anyone gives her credit for.

Garfield's ears perked up when he heard the sound of a door slide.

Good. He wasn't the only one having an issue falling asleep.

The silent movements of the individual leaving the room must be Raven, she was the only one with footsteps so light you could barely acknowledge it. Thankfully for Garfield, his senses were heightened due to his animalistic abilities. He crawled out of bed, and put on a hoodie over his t-shirt, and opened his door, only to catch a glimpse of Raven's hood.

He trailed behind her, wondering what Raven was doing. It wasn't abnormal for Raven to wake up in the middle of the night to get some tea, but she only did it when she was extremely troubled. That was what worried Beast Boy. He already knew Starfire was upset - it wasn't hard to tell - and Cyborg was torn between the Teen Titans and the Justice League. Robin suddenly had to return to Gotham, and though it was a good thing his mentor contacted him, but the brash decision Robin made concerned him.

Raven however, was extremely hard to read. Despite being teammates for so long, he still had difficulty telling her emotions apart.

He found her brewing some herbal tea, as usual, and opening the fridge for some food.

"I'm assuming this is why Vic was concerned about our junk-food intake?" he teased. Raven didn't flinch. She must've sensed him when he followed her out.

"Morning, Gar."

"I'd hardly call it 'morning'" grumbled the changeling, glaring at the clock showing the time to be 03:20 am.

"You're incredibly tense. Mind telling me what's wrong?" she said with a raised eyebrow. Garfield tilted his head sideways like a lost puppy, so Raven explained, "I've miraculously become the team's expert psychologist, I'm sure you've noticed how everyone on the team is suddenly stressed."

"To be perfectly fair, Rae, we've always been stressed." said Garfield, taking a seat on the couch. Raven picked up the newly brewed tea, poured it into her personal mug - the one Dick gave her that said 'Keep Calm and Azarath Metrion Zinthos" - and went to take a seat next to her teammate. "You have noticed the change of atmosphere, right?"

Garfield sighed, and nodded. "Raven?" he earned a hum from the empath, "I know you don't do this kind of talk, but…I'm scared." his head dropped as soon as those words fell from his lips and he clasped his hands together, "Dick might return to Gotham…and if that happens, we're not going to be the Teen Titans, anymore. It's just…Teen Titans minus Robin."

Raven sat her cup down on the table. "I'm scared too." she admitted, her words hung silently in the air. Garfield looked over to her, noticing how her hair seemed more hue than normal, and the way her shoulders slumped just made his heart break a little.

"If we were to break up this team...I wouldn't know where to go. I have no other place on Earth, and Azarath is destroyed..."

The mug on the table stared vibrating. Garfield quickly, but gently, put his hand on her shoulder. "Hey, it's okay. No matter what happens I'm sure we can work it out. We're the Teen Titans, right?" Raven gave him a small smile. "Plus, Star would let Dick abandon us without frying his ass first, amiright?"

Raven's furrowed eyebrows relaxed. "You're a good friend, Gar," Garfield beamed at her, "when you're not being a complete dumbass." his smile didn't falter, instead he stuck out his tongue at her, reminding the girl of a whiny five year old brat.

"You're right Gar. We're just going to have to believe in one another."