8. Red X

Erika woke to find herself lying in a strange room. She couldn't identify anything, but it didn't help that her vision was extremely blurred and her head was still pounding. She couldn't recall what had happened or how she ended up here. Erika sat up and then quickly lay back down. She was hoping that sitting up would help her headache but it only seemed to make it worse. She shut her eyes again. "What am I going to do?" Just then she heard the doors to the room slide open. She turned to see what it was. Mistake, a jolt of extreme pain rushed to her head. Robin had entered the room. He walked over to where Erika was lying, and realized that she was awake.

"I see you're up. How do you feel?"

"Not to good, my head's killing me."

"I can imagine. You crashed really hard on the floor yesterday. What happened?"

"I don't really remember, all I know is that what ever did happen it's giving me a serious headache."

"Well I won't keep you up then; if you're going to get better you need to rest."

"Yeah I suppose you're right." Robin turned and walked towards the exit. Erika couldn't believe that he was actually making sure she was all right. Even though there was pain she turned and looked towards the door. "Hey Robin."

"Yeah?"

"Thanks."

"Yeah anytime."

Robin left and Erika was left alone in the room once again. "What am I going to do? I can't spend the next few days just lying here. I have a job to do, and if I don't, well it wouldn't be good." She decided after a few more minutes of laying there that she had to get up no matter how much it hurt. Slowly she sat up. Her head felt like someone had dropped a bowling ball on it. She stood up her legs felt like Jell-O; they could barely hold her weight. Erika slowly walked towards the door, and the she started down the hallway. She'd never been in this part of the tower so she had no clue where she was going. The father down the hallway she went the stranger she felt. This wasn't like the rest of the tower. Nobody had been down here in awhile and she could tell. Finally she reached the end of the hallway. At the very end she found a door. She stopped in front of it. Erika tried to use her powers to see what was inside but when she tried her head began throbbing and she fell to the ground. "Ok I guess I'm just going to have to look inside for myself." She muttered as she got back on her feet. She opened the door and stepped inside.

The door closed behind her. There weren't any windows so she couldn't see a thing. She found the light switch and turned it on. The room was very dusty. It looked foggy and the air was hard to breathe. Other than being extremely dusty the room was perfectly normal. There was nothing strange about it. She wondered why someone would put a room at the end of a hallway with no other rooms if they didn't have something to hide. Erika's head began receiving jolts of pain. She shut her eyes and saw an image of someone opening a hidden door on the wall. She walked over to the wall from her vision. She found the button on the wall that opened the door. She walked in side the secret room. It was amazing. There were loads of small square safes on the wall. At the end of the room there was a container that looked to be the outline of a person. Erika figured she'd check out what was in the small containers. Each container had a DNA scanner for the lock. Erika wouldn't have been able to get in except she'd picked up a special something on her way here.

She pulled out one of Robin's gloves and placed it on her hand. Then she placed her hand on the scanner. It glowed as it scanned her hand. Then the container popped open. She pulled it the rest of the way open. The box was empty. "Hm, that's a shame." Then she moved on to the next box. Finally she found something that amused her. "What's this?" She said in reference to the weapon she'd found. It was like a ninja-throwing star but in the shape of an X. The next container had black gloves with the same style X's on the palm of them. However the item that interested her most was in the next box. She opened it to find a belt with the same symbol on it as the gloves. The belt had many capsules on it. She was half tempted to mess with them but she didn't want to cause an explosion. She took the belt out of the safe, then she realized that the belt belonged to Red X. "Ah, so Robin is the mysterious Red X. That's very interesting. She paused to recall a memory from her past. Wait a second if Robin was Red X he should have known who I was. Hmm if I recall correctly Red X was trying to locate his belt. That means Robin took it from him. This item could become very useful. I think I'll take it with me."

Erika closed the safe that once had contained the belt. And walked of towards the room she'd been left to recover in. It was about time she checked in.