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robins#1fan: Actually that 'narrows it down to more than half of the males I know' comment probably has me included, after all David's personality is based on mine.

Meiriona: shrugs I figured they would make good friends.

Dante Almassy: Actually it was David's scar not Blackfire's.

Angel among Thieves

Red X was going to break into a place that he knew would get the Titan's attention.

He was going to break into City Hall.

The reason he was going to break into city hall was for two land deeds. Two forged land deeds.

The story went like this: a wealthy real estate company wanted the land that an orphanage sat on. It also wanted the land that a homeless shelter sat on. When the company asked the two places kindly for the land they obviously said no. The company then forged land deeds and bribed city officials to accept the takeover. The Mayor actively opposed the takeover but the company went around him.

Red X knew he couldn't' find any proof of the city official's corruptness, but he could find the land deeds and bring the media into it.

Red X was riding what he called the X-cycle. He personally thought 'if Robin can have one I can too.'

He pulled into and alley and activated the cloaking device.

He then turned to look at city hall.

It was the third tallest in the city. The two taller towers were the Wayne Enterprises building and the Lexcorp building.

And X had to get to the top.

Now Red X isn't very afraid of heights but when you're high enough that if you fell you were going to have a heart attack before you landed and die from that rather then the landing, then you're going to be scared.

When X finally got to the top he literally kissed the roof (took off the mask and everything).

X walked over to an air duct that stuck out of the roof and climbed in.

Okay, technically he had broken into this building before (and without the suit) so he wasn't worried about being caught.

He was worried that they may have upgraded the security systems here.

He figured he was on the right floor so he dropped out of the ventilation shaft. He looked around and thought 'I hope I'm on the right floor'.

He looked at the stairwell. Time to find out.

He walked to the door to the stairwell and tried to open it. Locked, he could fix that.

A couple of minutes later he was standing outside the stairwell door in the lobby of the right floor (which happened to be five floors down).

When Robin made the X suit he didn't equip anything to help with seeing trip wires. He used gas for that.

But Red X lived in the future so he had recently had Gizmo equip a special visor to do just that, see trip wires.

He used the slider on the side of his mask to slide the visor down.

Yep, there were tripwires, sweet Jesus; there were a lot of them.

They had what could simply be called a wall of trip wires. Red X now suspected that the vaults were on this floor as well. The hallway was regular sized, but the trip wires made a grid of tripwires that left squares roughly 1 inch by 1 inch big.

This was going to take a while.

About 1 hour later he had all of the laser tripwires redirected. He calmly slipped through the gap he had made.

He ran through the hallways and eventually got to the place he wanted to be in: The office of Gary McDonnells.

Gary McDonnells was the man who allowed the forgery to go through the system and around the mayor. He was also the man who had the forged documents in his desk.

X quickly picked the lock and got the documents.

X now made his way out the same way he got in.

When he got to the roof he decided to try something new.

After climbing over the side of the building and using a grappling hook to make sure he didn't fall to his death, he lifted his arm to the sky. A single X shot out from his palm.

Red X slid down the side of the building. About half way down he saw what had become of the x he shot. It blew up and made a gigantic red X in the sky. The red x bathed the land below it in red light. Even though it was only going to be there for a couple of minutes it drew a lot of attention.

Particularly from Titans Tower and the Watchtower.

When X reached the bottom he pressed a switch on his belt which called his bike. He waited a couple of minutes and was pleased to see that his bike had reached him by then, because he was sure that the Titans were on their jolly way.

He quickly mounted the bike and drove off. About a block away he activated the cloaking feature on the bike and his belt.

He was home free.

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The owner of the orphanage had just turned off the light in the children's room. She was a woman in her late forties with brown hair.

She was going to get a drink of water before she went to bed.

That was when she heard the voice of one of the greatest thieves in the city. "Hello Ms. Parker. I have something for you."

Ms. Parker was startled. She hadn't even heard him come in. "Wh-What do yo-you have for me?" she asked visibly shaken.

"These are forged land deeds that a local real estate company was trying to use to get this orphanage. Take these and bring them to the Media and try to get the police involved in it." Red X said handing over the documents. He then pressed the x on his belt and disappeared.

Ms. Parker was surprised by this. Maybe she was wrong about thieves. She didn't have long to ponder this because at that moment a 5-year-old girl walked into the kitchen.

"Ms. Parker, who were you speaking to?" the little girl asked.

The woman thought quickly. This little girl had no idea who Red X was and Ms. Parker didn't feel like describing who he was to the girl so she said the first thing that came to mind "It was an angel."

The little girls eyes widened in amazement "It was?"

"Yes, it was an angel among thieves."