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Red X may be a thief, but he can play the hero role from time to time if he sees as it fit. It would be confusing to see him changing sides, but it's him. I hopped off the bed and stood in front of each other.
"Um, how do I…um…hold onto you?" Red X shuttered.
I shrugged and my arms made its connection to wrap around his neck.
"Grip my waists," I instructed, "The suit is more familiar if you held onto a person or an object."
Red X nodded and does so. He was a bit shaky with his hold onto me, but I didn't understand why. His breathing became heavy, nothing made sense why or how, and I waited.
"Is this good?" Red X asked.
I nodded, "Yeah. Go ahead and teleport us out of this crappy place." I insisted…letting the escape to thrill me more.
Red X worked things out with the suit, which was based on natural mind connection, and…nothing. Absolutely nothing was happening.
"Kid, I can't teleport us out. Is the suit malfunctioned?" He questioned me.
My head shook. I refused to let this suit to even malfunction; I had all the suit's flaws and worked it all out before I exposed myself over to Slade in that situation. I was careful and knew that much.
"No. It should be fine. Try again." It could have been a fluke, at least.
Red X took deep breathe, "Um, yeah."
All I could ever imagine was back in Jump City. Right back to my friends and not have them worry about me too much.
"Robin…I can't teleport for some reason." He admitted, I can always tell by his voice of honesty.
I sighed, "Great, I can't believe I worked up over nothin-"
The door slid and my arms hurried off. I felt loosen around my waists as I turned around to face the kidnapper. He ducked his head in and saw us…
"I'm locking the door for the night." Slade confirmed.
His head slipped out and shut the door anyway. What the? My head spun around and found myself alone. It made sense now. Slade held his confident up over to the fact I cannot teleport easily. He knew the chemical I had put into that suit, I wouldn't blame him thinking it was done on this clothes or something, and how could he prevent it just for me?
"Geesh, that was close." He popped up to my side.
I glanced over to him, "It was, but gave me an understanding Slade might have some sort of ways for me not to teleport." I crossed my arms, not pleased at all.
"Oh," Red X felt disappointed, "…any other ideas?"
I sighed and sat down on the bed to think at least. Red X dropped his arms to his sides, seemingly disappointed in succeeding a goal here, and something more to it as well.
"…I would need another chemical to support the Xinothiam's teleportation at least." I said quietly.
His head bounced up, "I'll get it. If it meant getting you out, I'll do it."
My head shook, "No! It's dangerous! You'd need to keep them in negative ten degrees and any touch with it would decrease your life span down to less than a month to live. The equipment is rather needed over that to obtain."
He crossed his arms tightly, "Come on, let me help! If this is going to make you free, I'm in for it. I'll get the equipment, you just keep that Halloween pumpkin man out of this room. There's no camera in this room."
Red X was set on determining goals of his own, but why did he even care? I never thought Red X would be interested in getting me out of this prison here. Or whatever it was. Red X held himself together, but he did make a point. I sighed…I was involuntary a criminal activity and there wasn't a choice. Slade must have somehow block anyway of my team finding me, but Red X was more capable of making it happen.
"I don't have the proper knowledge, but it might take a few weeks." I warned him, "Hiding this from Slade isn't easy as it seems."
Red X marched up to me, face to face, his arms blocked my way, and tension built up more and more. I could sense he was angry.
"I don't care, kid. You back with your team are all it matters. Hell, Slade hasn't met me and I sure haven't damn well met him. So dammit, let me steal the things you need. You keep Slade out, tell me what to get, and make the modification for the suit." He growled.
My eyes widen at his bizarre behavior. This was a side I never knew before. Red X was willing to do commit an actual crime risk all for setting me free.
"What benefit will this give you?" I questioned him, "Red X, I don't understand. Isn't this every villain's dream to kidnap a hero and just do whatever pleases them?"
He scoffed, "Maybe I'm not a villain. Maybe I'm not a hero. But the thing is, everything we do is different, kid. What can I do to earn your trust?"
To earn my trust? It was startling, yet, new to discover his best motive. He lingered onto me because I was the creator of the suit. Everything I poured into that special uniform was to go against Slade. It was a whole purpose to win Slade's trust and be stronger than the man could ever wish to hope. More than my team could ever deal with such power, but not enough. It wasn't enough for the world and at its protection.
"Nothing. There's no way of earning my trust, Red X. It's dangerous."
He hissed and pushed the bed off to bounce off to gain our space between us. We were different, not what we did was different. He looked over at me and stood facing me.
"How about this? You can turn me into jail or use me as a personal bodyguard or something! Anything! My identity for fucking I care! Anything!" Red X's hands curled tighter.
That there has shocked me to no end. He was willing to sacrifice his decision or promise to gain my trust. My feet met the floor and supported me up to level our face.
"Get the protection gloves, goggles, and special thong holder for extreme chemical usage. They're usually in popular companies like Wayne or something. Remain invisible, you won't get suspected easily." I told him…allowed him.
Red X nodded, "Of course, I'll get them. Give me a day." He nodded straight away willingly.
I agreed and understood him. Red X hugged me, but I had no idea why he did that at all. He let go of me and transported himself to wherever he believed he needed to go to. If Red X returns, then it was going to be a few weeks to make it possible. It was Slade I needed to deal with the most. I placed myself back onto the bed and thought of things to carefully think about. If fooling Slade was to keep him out of this room, it would save trouble for what I plan on working with. Every little thing I do must be a different act and that meant…being a kid before I became Robin.
My eyes closed and pictured the times as a kid. The things my parents had me doing for fun and it ached my heart knowing that would never be the same for me. But, I pictured my life with my friends. Everything I did was work. Nothing but work after another. I hardly slept in for any reason, I don't waste my time in anything, and pushed my limits overboard. It was rare I ever thought of myself and it's always someone else or the criminals.
But this wasn't the way to do it. Kidnapping me would cause several problems and trust issues. It's exactly what's Slade caused me to be like this. Slade did explain, but there's more to it than just making sure I don't overboard every little thing I do in my crime fighting.
I sat up against the wall and thought about it for a while.
"If Slade wants me to actually relax, I can do that. Once I come into this room, I can focus on getting the teleportation for bed time." I nodded, "But, why does Red X wants to help me this time? And he was acting strange when we held onto each other." I mumbled to myself, but it was natural to think like this.
We were in the position to escape, but somehow, it's just me I cannot go anywhere. Why would Slade place an anti-xinothiam? Did he do something to put it inside my vein? Could he fused it into my clothes and I somehow breathed it in? It was too many questions to think about, but it if is the solution of the problem, Slade will know I was capable of outsmarting him.
"I'll make it work, but…what about X?" I sighed, "Was he truly going to keep his words? Why would he simply give up his identity? It would be too easy to nab a discovery, but why?" My head shook.
Nothing has made sense at all. Right now, sleeping in was a better mission to start off. I grabbed the pillow and joined back to bed to rest.
Next chapter, maybe by tomorrow (5/26/12) if I'm not under the heat too much, I might end up hanging out in my bedroom to stay cool. xD That I don't know what is happening with my parents' anniversary and all. It might be moved down to Sunday, might not be an issue really. Blame Economic! xP Anyway, please REVIEW! Thank you and have a great day!