Dante Almassy: X isn't a pussy he just thinks ahead.
robins#1fan: Things are about to get both hazier and clearer in this chapter.
Isa Lumitus: I vouched for a different restraint. One that will be explored in this story quite a bit.
BladeSBird: He's a X. does that count?
Disclaimer: I do not own Kid Devil (DC Comics), Carnage (Marvel Comics), or Agony (Marvel Comics). I do however own the characters Knives and Sinister.
The Demon
A man by the name of Jonathon Stacy was walking out of his favorite bar.
Roughly a week ago he had been released from the mental hospital.
You see, he had been arrested for two accounts of murder. He didn't want to go to jail so he bribed a bunch of people so that they would say that he was insane. He was found innocent on account of insanity and was sent to a mental hospital where he spent three weeks because he was never actually insane.
He decided to take a short cut to his house by cutting through an alley. He had taken this route before and was not scared of it at all.
He turned a corner on the route and found himself face to face with a ten year old boy.
The ten year old boy looked up at him and glared at him.
Now Jonathon was officially scared out of his friggan' mind, this kid had seemingly just appeared out of nowhere and was glaring at him.
He turned to take a different route but when he started to walk away the kid slashed the Achilles tendon on his left leg.
Jonathon fell to the ground in pain. He rolled onto his back and pulled out a knife.
He slashed out of desperation at the kid.
The knife made contact under the kid's left eye. A bloody line formed under the eye in a curved way. It immediately began to bleed heavily.
The kid stabbed his knife into Jonathon's arm and pulled another knife from his pocket.
Using that knife he slashed Jonathon's throat.
The kid stepped back to let Jonathon die.
A few minutes later he grabbed Jonathon's leg and proceeded to pull the lifeless corpse away.
That was the day that Jonathon Stacy disappeared, never to be seen again.
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Exactly Eight years later
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David leaned on the wall of his room.
He had been practicing with his new found powers quite a bit and had discovered something odd.
When he teleported or used his x's at too fast of a velocity (like teleporting one place, then another, and another in under a minute) his body heat would begin to build.
He also discovered that when he transformed into Red X that it was still a costume and that he could pull things like the mask off at any time, although if he did do that the mask (now unattached to him) would turn to dust in a matter of minutes.
David had a theory and later he would research it.
He would now but it was still 4 in the morning.
He sighed and looked at a picture on his bedside table.
It was one of the few pictures he had of his adopted parents.
He sighed, today was the anniversary of the night that he got revenge.
More then likely his adopted parents were turning in their graves.
Well they could turn all they liked, because David had a mission in his life, a mission against corruption. That was a mission that not even the Titans (even with that Ghost chick) could stop him from completing.
He sighed again and turned on the TV.
He lay there flipping channels for the next couple of hours.
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Ghost walked back and forth in the airport terminal.
It was 3 pm and it was near time for the flight to Metropolis.
She decided to stop and take a look at who was going on the flight, maybe she could see someone she knew.
She scanned the room once and noticed someone immediately, a man with brown hair and green eyes.
He had an X shaped scar on his face and a smaller scar under his left eye.
It was the guy she saw at the hotel.
Could he be- her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of:
"Flight 167 Departing for Metropolis is now boarding" the speaker said.
That's my flight Ghost thought as she boarded the flight.
When she got on the plane she followed her ticket to a seat in the third row in between a man and his daughter.
After getting them set up so that they would be sitting together. She settled in for the three hour flight that was to come.
After a long three hours she was getting off the plane not once had she seen the brown haired man since she was back in Jump City.
She was about to think that he may not be Red X when she saw him yet again: this time walking to subway to the downtown area of Metropolis.
She decided to follow him.
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David knew he was being followed.
He noticed her earlier at the Jump city airport, again on the plane, and now in the subway.
He was currently in a subway car headed straight for downtown Metropolis and she was following him.
Well, she could try following him, because he couldn't be followed.
David waited until there was a stop where most of the people got off at.
He decided to follow the crowd.
David ducked a little in the crowd so that he wouldn't be noticed as much and proceeded out of the subway. He then moved to am alley where he checked to see if she was following him.
Damn it this girl won't give up! David thought.
He ran down the length of the alley before teleporting to the roof.
There he hid and waited until she was in the alley before turning and swiftly walking to the other side of the building and teleporting into that alley.
From there he walked to a hotel using alleys.
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Elisa walked over to the alley where she saw the man hiding.
She looked in and…… there was no one there.
Elisa walked further in and still she couldn't find him.
She sighed and slumped against the wall of one of the buildings.
After a few minutes she got up.
Well I better find a place to stay at. She thought.
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It was nearing midnight in Metropolis.
Most people were sleeping or sitting boredly at their jobs because they were stupid enough to work the graveyard shift.
Of course Red X wasn't most people. He was sitting in the edge of a rooftop near the Lexcorp building.
X shot a grappling hook up the side of the Lexcorp building and began to ascend.
It took a couple of minutes but he was finally at the top.
At the top he looked for any access to the bottom floors.
Let's see, two vents and a stairwell. Hmmmmm, well I am getting tired of those chutes. X thought as he looked around.
After descending one floor he decided to get out since he heard that Lex Luthor's office was on the top floor.
X picked the lock and found himself in a very decorated hallway. He ran through the hallway and opened the door to what X hoped was Lex's office.
As he quietly opened the door he heard the voice of the very man he wanted to hear.
"Well General, it's been nice talking to you." Lex spat, obviously royally pissed, right before slamming the phone down onto the receiver.
Lex looked up to see Red X standing over his desk.
"Hello Lex" Red X began "It has come to my attention that you recently sold an installation in the mountains of Jump city. The people who bought that installation may have hired someone to kill me, now who bought that installation?" Red X asked him.
Lex, who was very surprised by X (although he didn't show it), smiled at him. "Well actually I just got off the phone with one of the people who bought the place."
"One of the people?"
"Yes, they didn't really buy it from me; more like hostily took over the installation. And I would be most happy if you were to 'bring down' the people who took it over." He said smiling.
"Okay, first off: what was the installation for?"
"It was a research facility built for the research and development of strength enhancers." Lex said. "Of course that was three years ago. After that it was taken over and I have no idea what it's used for now."
Red X stood there for a moment, and then he noticed something.
"Lex, I know you have a silent alarm button under that desk, I want you to press it right now." X said noticing a small red dot that appeared on the ceiling. It moved closer and closer to Red X's head.
Lex looked confused for a second then noticed the dot too he quickly moved his hand and pressed the silent alarm.
At that very moment X ducked. Right when he ducked a bullet hole appeared in the ceiling. After he ducked he felt a small envelope hit his foot. X took the envelope and put it in his pocket.
The glass window that the bullet passed through shattered causing the activation of the loud alarm anyway.
X turned and shot an X that shattered the window on the other side of the room. He then used that open window to jump out of.
Half way down the side of the building he teleported to a nearby roof top, there someone was waiting for him.
Ghost looked straight at him.
"Hello Red X." She said.
"Is it just me or is your rack getting bigger and bigger each time I see you?" X said.
Ghost blushed slightly and lunged at him.
X dodged the charge and tried to hit her in the back, unfortunately she teleported before he could hit her.
She teleported right behind him and tried to kick him in the back of the head.
However X teleported and kicked her in the back.
"It feels nice to be able to give someone some of their own medicine." X said.
"What the hell?" Ghost said under her breath.
She teleported to rush him with her fist.
X teleported before she could make contact.
X reappeared behind her and shot an x that wrapped around her body.
"Son of a-"she started.
"Why are you following me?" X asked right in her face.
"You're a criminal"
"No, I mean, why are you-"his question was cut short by a bullet whizzing by his face.
X looked to the left to see a familiar figure.
The Shooter had a rifle aimed at him.
X grabbed Ghost and ran behind a couple of metal barrels.
There X looked Ghost straight in the eye "If I let you go, will you help me take this guy out?"
She only nodded in agreement.
X cut the bindings holding her arms together and ran out of the cover…………only to find that the Shooter had already been taken care of by a man in a blue costume with a cape and a S logo on the front.
"Superman…… fuck" X breathed.
The man of steel in question turned to look at Red X.
"So this is the thief that the Teen Titans haven't been able to catch." Superman said with some interest.
Red X looked at Superman with horror.
OOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTT! Red X thought.
"I'm pretty sure that's him alright. The next Robin Hood looks kind of scrawny if you ask me." A female voice came from the right.
The form of Supergirl appeared from the right.
"He's a thief not a fighter, but I never knew that he was a babe magnet, I mean look at his ally man, it's a friggin' babe!" the voice of Superboy came from the other side of the rooftop.
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT! Red X mentally screamed. However he said "You're not going to be able to catch me or my friend here. Isn't that right Ghost?"
Ghost was too shocked to speak. Here she was, trying to catch the same criminal that she had so suddenly been accused of being buddy-buddy with, and now she was going to get her ass kicked by the 'super' family.
Red X on the other hand snickered. This was (in his opinion) payback for her following him. Although he was about to lobotomized he was still going to put up a fight.
Red X got into a fighting position and used the one bit of sign language that he knew.
He flicked them off. That effectively made Superman, Supergirl, and Superboy charge.
This was going to be a long night.
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Meanwhile (In the Lexcorp installation in the mountains of Jump City)
Sinister stood in the same cave with the steaming green lake.
Sinister looked to the soldier in the crane. "Bring him out"
The soldier merely nodded. He pushed the lever for the crane to begin lifting.
Slowly the crane lifted the coffin out of the water. Inside of the coffin (remember the front was taken off) a boy. He appeared to be sleeping.
The general who was behind Sinister asked "Is he alive"
Sinister looked at him and said "yes he is. He's just sleeping. It's time to wake him"
Sinister walked closer to the boy and held his hand out. A faint red aura surrounded it.
A small tear of blood slipped from his left eye.
Immediately he awoke and his eyes snapped open. His left eye appeared to be splitting in half inside the socket.
Jason immediately began screaming in pain.
With him now awake Sinister laughed "Lets fix that eye up"
Jason's left eye seemed to repair itself. He stopped screaming and began gasping for breath.
Sinister looked at the two soldiers on the left and right of him. "Let's get the coffin to the lab. Be careful not to get within grabbing distance of the boy. The pit usually makes people insane after being restored. More then likely he'll try to strangle you so I would suggest getting close."
They nodded warily and proceeded to lower the coffin onto a dolly.
Neither of them noticed the smirk that appeared on the boy's face.
Sinister looked at the general "I have a few things to check up on, please make sure that these soldiers don't get killed by the boy."
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Sinister walked along a row of large glass tubes.
In two of these tubes were the bodies of a girl and a boy.
The girl had dark skin and was wearing jeans and a t-shirt. She had long black hair. The name on the bottom of the tube said Agony.
The boy had red skin and somewhat large black horns. His hair was white, his ears were pointed, and he had a tail. He was rather muscular. All he wore was a pair of black pants. The name on the bottom of his tube said Kid Devil.
Sinister stepped around the tubes to check something on the back of their necks.
Yep the barcodes are in place Sinister thought as he moved back to the front and pressed a button on the top of both tubes.
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Knives Mortvas was watching the soldiers hook a heavily drugged Jason Todd into a suit.
The suit was similar to the Red X suit. However the suit only came down to the knees, the sleeves only came down to the elbows, there was no front to the suit and the helmet (not a mask) was missing a mouth portion, and finally there was no cape.
In all honesty it was one of the creepiest things that the old man had seen.
Knives Mortvas was well over 100 years old. The old African American man wore a red suit, a whit undershirt, and a blue tie that he really liked.
Knives looked to his right at the general who was watching quite intently.
The elevator door opened and Sinister stepped in.
Knives' face immediately brightened. "Ah Sinister long time no see." He said walking over to greet his old friend.
"Nice to see you too." Sinister said shaking the old man's hand "I see you got a new metal hand. I'm curious, where is Void. I thought she'd be here."
"No she couldn't come." Knives said. Though secretly he was glad that Void had not been able to make it, she creeped him out….
"We're ready to activate the suit." A voice called from the lab down below.
Sinister looked directly at Knives and nodded.
Knives then proceeded to get into the elevator and hold the open door button.
Down in the lab a technician flipped a switch on a computer counsel activating the suit.
A gel like substance ran down the length of the arms and legs and chest where the suit ended. It immediately turned red. His fingers turned to long talon like fingers. A jaw came to form and large sharp teeth formed as well
Then suddenly all the monitors started flashing the words: Weep! Death is Nigh!
The technician screamed "the cybernetic control chip is failing. The symbiote has full control over the suit!"
Jason (now in the suit) arched his back and screamed "Carnage is free!" in a evil high pitched voice.
The general gasped and watched in horror as the technicians and soldiers that were trying to restrain Jason (now Carnage) were getting slaughtered.
One of the techs decided to turn and run but his feet were stuck together by some sort of web like substance.
Carnage leaped forward and curled his talons into a fist and formed a black x on the top of his hand. The x expanded into a razor sharp x: an x that carnage used to slash the tech's neck.
The general suddenly felt something on the back of his head.
The man turned around to find himself looking down the barrel of a German Lugar held by none other then Sinister
"Now general, I believe you are familiar with the expression 'dead men tell no tales'. Heh heh good by general" Sinister said pulling the trigger.
The general's head exploded in a blast of blood.
Sinister turned around and walked forward, the blood spatters on his undershirt and suit literally floating off. "I do hate doing the dirty work."
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Back at the tubes where the boy (Kid Devil) and the girl (Agony) were still asleep.
Or at least, they were but currently they were awakening.
The tubes rose quickly and Kid Devil and Agony fell to the floor.
A strange purple and black slime like creature came from Agony's body and covered her body creating a black and purple costume like second skin (complete with mouth).
Kid Devil on the other hand, simply fell to the floor.
Agony lay there unconscious. Kid Devil looked at her. He quickly picked her up and ran down the hallway.
At the end of the hallway several soldiers ran in each of them mounting their weapons.
Kid Devil quickly charged them, beat them to near death, and escaped (with Agony)
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Sinister and Knives stood in the elevator.
Eventually the door opened with a ding.
When the door opened they found themselves face to face with a squad of soldiers, all of whom had their weapons mounted.
Sinister turned his head at Knives "I believe this is your department"
Knives glared at Sinister before stepping forward.
The soldiers tried to fire their weapons but found that the safety switches were set on each of their weapons.
Knives raised his arm forward and a silver glow emanated from his hand.
Suddenly all of their weapons flew out of their hands and pointed back at them.
There was a long silence as all of the soldiers stared down the barrels of their own weapons. Knives turned his head away and winced.
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Author's note
If you want to see what the characters Agony and Kid Devil look like then go to and enter Agony (Comics) for Agony and Kid Devil for Kid Devil. You can also find Kid Devil on Titans Also the person under the Agony costume is a character that I created.
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