A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry for the long wait. I struggled on this chapter so it might not be as good as I hoped. Just trying to get to where my ideas are is proving quite the challenge but we'll get there eventually! I hope you're all staying safe during these crazy times and I hope I am giving you something worth doing while we're stuck inside. As always drop a fav/follow and leave me a review with your thoughts, ideas, and let me know how i can improve! Enjoy!

Starfire held a blank look on her face as she stared at the man who had just given her horrifying news. She couldn't figure out what disturbed her more... That she was just told by her rescuer that she was being hunted or that someone loathed her enough to want to cause her harm. She couldn't think of anyone that could have any reason to want her to suffer.

Richard saw the blank look on her face. Even though she wasn't showing it... he could sense the fear coming from her. This wasn't a common thing for her and it scared him just knowing she was this frightened.

"Stsr?" Richard said softly trying to ease of the silence that had fell over the room.

Starfire looked from X to Richard with her blank stare. She could see the worry in his eyes and it snapped her out of her trance.

"Apologies," she said softly, "I... I need a moment."

She walked towards the doorway she had come out of earlier where she had dropped her shoes to stop the battle between the two boys and picked them up without turning back around to face them.

Richard and X both watched her closely taking in every second of the moment that Starfire had requested. After a while Richard looked at X and grew angry once more.

"What do you mean hunted?" He said with detest in his voice, "why? By who?"

"Listen kid," the robotic voice replied, "if you don't know that she's being tracked down by every able-bodied villain in Jump City right now, then you're the one I would be questioning right now."

Dick thought about that. He was right. He should have known. He should have at least heard rumors. How was this so sudden to him?

"But why...?" A soft and fragile voice broke the air between them from across the room, "what have I done to acquire such a fate?" Starfire sounded like she was fighting back her emotions.

"No one knows," X replied honestly, "the job was from an anonymous source with a massive bounty." He reached into his suit and pulled out a small disk. With the push of a button, a hologram projected out of it showing Starfire's face and reward of $500,000.

"Where did you get this?" Richard asked with the same detest in his voice.

Starfire turned around to see the hologram of her and walked towards them. As she approached, X looked at Richard and answered his question.

"Don't know where it came from," he responded, "I came home yesterday from doing whatever I want, like usual, and this was sitting on my bed." He looked back to Starfire who's eyes glistened like she was trying to contain her tears. "Who ever is after you is smart, wealthy, and mostly likely has unlimited resources. I can only assume these were given to anyone they thought capable of accomplishing such a job."

"But why did you get one?" Dick said with the anger growing steadily in his voice, "for all we know you're hunting her too."

"C'mon kid," X said defensively, "if I wanted that bounty, I'd already have it." He sounded like he had the upmost confidence as if he knew exactly how to beat them and take her for himself.

"No way," Richard shot back, "I don't buy it."

"Dick," Starfire said sternly, "I believe he is telling the truth. Why would he save me if he were trying to deceive us?"

Dick's eyes never left his enemy though he couldn't deny the logic behind Starfire's words. She was right. There was no reason for him to lie after doing everything he did this past evening.

"Fine," Richard said with frustration, "but I'm not letting my guard down again. If you try anything, I'll make sure you can never do anything you want ever again."

"Oooooo. Big guy with big words," X taunted, "we'll see if you can back those words up some day."

Dick grit his teeth. He was getting really annoyed with the constant taunting from his foe. It reminded him of when he was Robin fighting Slade. The insults and bad mouthing never ended with him. Even as Nightwing they still continued and it was driving him crazy.

"I wish to go home," Starfire said to them both. She had her head down as she wrapped her arms around herself, "I... do not feel well."

Richard's eyes softened and his gaze settled on Starfire's expression. He couldn't imagine what was going through her head right now. This was a lot to take in even for him. What must it be like for the person this whole thing revolves around? Either way, Richard couldn't wait to get out of there as well. He had enough fun for one date. He stepped towards Starfire and reached out to her before she stepped back from his arms silently avoiding his touch. It stopped him and his heart in their tracks.

"C'mon Star," He said softly, "let's get out of here."

"You might want to travel in numbers," X suggested, "like I said, it's most likely that every villain in Jump City is looking for you. No offense, but if they came after you in mass, I doubt you could hold them off."

"We'll take our chances," Dick spat back.

"No," Starfire immediately followed his words, "the Red X is right. We should increase our forces to ensure safe passage."

Richard heard the insistent urgency in her voice. It made him realize he was letting his frustration and jealousy cloud his judgement.

"You're right," he admit, "I'll call Cyborg. He can pick us up in the T-Ship."

"And paint a giant target on your back?" X respond insulting his intelligence, "use your brain, kid. A bounty like that probably has the best villains waiting on rooftops for the chance to shoot you down. Then what? She's probably the only one strong enough who could survive something like that. Even so... you think anyone could fight off even a low level villain after something like that?"

Dick narrowed his eyes at him as if trying to attack him with a stare. What else could they do then? This was starting to annoy him even more.

"Then what are we supposed to do?" Dick argued turning his body towards X in a defensive stance, "just sit here and wait for them to find us?" Richard's frustration could easily be heard in his voice.

Red X reached for his belt, forcing Richard to ready his staff for an attack. But to Richard's surprise Red X didn't draw a weapon but simply pushed a button on his belt and the entire building softly shook as the sounds of mahcinery and engines started wirring forcing Starfire to look up from her clouded thoughts.

Behind X, a platform rose to the rail with an extremely nice car sitting atop it. It looked a lot like a black Lamborghini however it had a giant red "X" painted on the hood along with some obvious modifications making it well equipped for anything... including combat.

Robin and Starfire both went wide-eyed at the sight of this immaculate car. They hadn't seen anything like it, yet something about it seemed familiar Richard...

X pulled keys from his belt next to the button he just pushed. He raised them to his shoulder and pointed them back behind him towards the vehicle. With a push of a button the car let out an attractive beeping as it unlocked.

"I'll drive," he said with a quirky tone as if he were showing off.

They all got in and the engine roared to life as Red X turned the key. As they took off down the road it was awkwardly quiet. The three of them didn't know what to say to each other. The entire situation seemed completely unheard of. Heroes getting saved by villain AND escorted home? What on earth was happening?

The only thing that seemed to ease the tension was the car itself. It was impressively fast. Much faster than an actual Lamborghini but X seemed to have complete control over where he was going with little worry about the speed of his car. It was now late at night leaving the roads more or less empty giving him plenty of room to use the horsepower he wanted.

Dick was in the passenger seat while Starfire sat in the back. She was visibly distraught as her arms still held herself like a comforting blanket. Dick couldn't help but feel like this was his fault. If he hadn't lashed out at her maybe she wouldn't have been captured in an ambush.

He shuffled around in his seat wriggling his jacket off before turning to the backseat and reaching his arms around Starfire's neck and drapping it around her.

Starfire looked up from her blind stare at the floor of the car to meet Richards gaze. In silence, she gave a tiny smile indicating she was grateful for the gesture but immediately went back into a blank stare at the floor as her mind raced faster than the car she was in.

Richard watched her carefully before he sighed and turned back to face forward. He pulled out his communicator to tell the other Titans about their situation but found he had no signal what-so-ever and it worried him.

"Don't bother," Red X said seeing Richard trying to contact his friends, "I have a signal jammer installed on this car." He sounded like he was well prepared for anything, "I also have one back at my lab. I try to stay off of everyone's map."

Dick didn't like that. But after everything that just happened he felt he had no choice but to trust the shady person driving.

"Don't even think about double crossing me," Dick threatened, "I won't let anything happen to her."

"Like you did tonight?" X said rubbing it in.

Dick bit his tongue. He wanted to say something back but nothing came to mind. After all X was right. He sighed and leaned back in his seat staring out the window. The reflection of car in the building windows looked like they were racing a shadow duplicate as the buildings passed by. Something about the way the car was built and how it looked seemed all to familiar to him.

"Where did you learn to do all this?" Dick asked softly. He was genuinely curious.

"You're not the only one with a good teacher, kid," X said as if putting a period at the end of the sentence and finishing the conversation.

The car engine roared as it flew through the streets unopposed.

At the Tower, the rest of the Titans were all in the living room patiently waiting for any news to surface on their friend's where abouts and situation. Beastboy was uneasy and nervous as he stared at the massive screen showing a blank map. He was sitting on the couch leaning forward with his elbows on his knees as his right foot continuously bounced up and down from the heel creating a constant tapping on the floor. Terra sat next to him also staring at the screen just as nervous. Raven stood behind Cyborg as he continuously tried to make contact with the other two after losing both signals in a specific location on the blank map.

"Oh come on! Pick up!" Cyborg said getting frustrated.

"Try them again," Raven urged trying to help however she could.

"Its no use. If they were gonna answer they would have by now," Cyborgs emotions were bouncing all over the place. He was getting worried.

"Then what are we doing waiting around for?!" Beastboy said angrily as he stood up from the couch. It was as if he just exploded from frustration, "let's go find them!"

His outburst caught Terra off guard and she jumped from his reaction. When she recovered she joined him in his outburst.

"We should split up," she suggested, "we'll go to the last place they were seen on the map and fan out from there." This kind of confidence was slowly growing with every day for Terra. She was quickly becoming a dependable ally for the Titans in any situation.

"That might be our only choice at this point," Cyborg said agreeing, "if we don't do something soon it might be too late."

"Everyone needs to calm. Down." Raven said sharply, "panicking isn't going to help. We don't know what happened or where they are. If we rush in head first without thinking we might end up in the same situation they are. Who will save them then?"

"We can figure out a plan on the way there," Cyborg said urgently as he pressed a button on his arm, "let's g-"

Cyborg was interrupted by the giant screen. Two blips on the map began blinking indicating his friends locations. To his surprise... they were right outside the Tower. Utter confusion came over his face...

They were all about to head to the garage where the T-Ship was firing up from Cyborg's signal when the map began to produce this image, stopping them dead where they stood. After a moment they heard the front door unlock and the massive doors slid open.

Starfire stood in the doorway holding her shoes in her right hand with her gorgeous dress tattered and roughed up underneath the jacket that Richard had put around her. Yet she still had her arms wrapped around herself as if she was still trying to nurture herself. Without a word she lift off the ground and hovered past everyone down the hallway towards her room.

Behind her was Dick. He had a look of defeat on his face as all the Titans stared at him begging for answers.

"Uh..." Beastboy began trying to break the tension, "rough date huh?" He chuckled nervously.

Richard looked up at Beastboy as if he was trying to burn a hole in Beastboy's forehead with his gaze.

"You don't know the half of it," Richard said with a heavy amount of irritation as he walked into the Tower relvealing the person standing behind him.

"Hey there, Titans," X said half jokingly. He stood up straight with his arms lazily crossed in front of his chest, "long time no see."