Disclaimer: I don't own the Teen Titans. But I do own The Eight.

Leon sniffs the air with a smile as he sat in a tree next to his house.

The forest had a complex smell. The kind of smell that you had to close your eyes and cover your ears so you wouldn't be distracted.

"LEON! SUPPER TIME!" His mom yelled.

Leon jumped to the ground and ran inside.

The dinner smelled lovely; a combination of spices with wheat that filled the nostrils with a heavenly aroma.

Leon ate with glee as his mother watched with a smile.

"You're such a good boy, Leon." She said.

"Ok everyone listen. I want you to stop following me and head back to the hotel, now hurry up, double-time."

The four went quiet for a second.

"You heard him." Eel said with a smile.

It had been a long time since Owl said the word 'double-time'.

It was code for 'do the opposite of what ever I say'.

Leon walked through the garden that his dad grew with his friends.

The plants smelled funny to him.

"Leon!" his mom yelled, "It's getting dark!"

Leon entered the house with a grin.

"Look at you!" his mom said, "You're filthy. And where are your shoes?"

"Don't like how they feel." Leon said.

His mom shook her head.

"Get in the tub." She ordered.

"Yes mom. I'll get into the tub." Leon said as he went to the bathroom.

As he soaked in the tub he could hear his father and friends through the window.

"I'm telling ya once the crops are finish we'll be rich."

Owl stared at the empty space in front of him with a smile.

"Very interesting." He said.

As soon as he stabbed the target's leg Red X teleported out of there.

Owl looked down at his blade, it was covered in blood.

"All of you," Owl said in his head set, "Get down here."

The four jumped down.

"Why didn't you just stab him in the head?" Barracuda asked.

"I wanted to see what you meant by 'vanished'." Owl said as he brought his bloody blade to his face.

"What is it?" Eel asked.

"That suit he is wearing has a teleporter on it." Owl said, "But not just any teleporter, a very special one."

"What do you mean by special?" Eel asked.

Owl held out his blade for all to see.

"My blade was deep in his leg, but when he teleported the blade didn't go with him. It stayed right here."

Owl was quite for a second.

"I want that suit." He finally said, "Find and kill the target but bring me that suit."

He then held out the blade to Fox.

"Will this help?" Owl asked.

Fox touched the blade and brought the blood to his nose.

As he smelt the blood his eyes went wide.

"Fox knows where to find target."

Leon climbed the tree next to his house and looked at the stars.

They were beautiful, especially when you were far away from the city's lights.

As he started to climb down he smelled gasoline and oil.

When he looked up he saw a truck driving towards him.

Red X was on a building on the other side of the city.

After Owl stabbed him he teleported as far as the suit would let him.

"Alright," he thought as he wrapped a bandage on his leg, "Got to get back to the tower."

As he stood up to get his bearings a gunshot rang out in the distance.

The shot hit Red X on the left side of his mask causing him to fall to the ground.

Luckily for him the mask was made of metal and it defected the bullet.

But it still hurt like hell.

"So," the man from the truck said, "when will they be done?"

"In about a month." Leon's father said, "So are we agreed on the price?"

"Of course, 10 grand a plant right?"

Leon's father looked furious.

"The deal was 15!"

The man laughed.

"15! I never said that!"

An argument broke out.

Then a gunshot.

Owl saw Red X teleport off the building through his sniper scope.

"Fox," Owl said through his headset, "Are you able to tell me where he went?"

Fox stood at the edge of a building with Boa sniffing the air.

"Target is to the left, Owl." Fox said.

"I still have no idea how the hell you do that." Boa said as the two jumped to the next building.

Fox looked at her with a smile.

"Fox could always smell. Fox loves to smell."

"Yeah I shot him." Leon's father said over the phone.

Leon was sitting in a corner of the house.

He was crying.

"Look who gives a f#$ what the man says. Just help me get rid of the body ok. Great see you in a little bit."

As soon as the father hung up the phone he turned to Leon.

"Stop crying." He said.

Leon didn't stop.

"I said." The father said as he walked up to him, "STOP CRYING!"

He kicks Leon in the head.

"YOU'RE A GROWN MAN FOR GOD SAKES! START ACTING LIKE ONE!"

"Stop it!" the mother said as she pushes him out of the way.

Red X was now in an alleyway.

"How the hell did they find me so fast?"

"GOT YA!" Eel yelled as she jumped on his back and stuck her Tasers into him before he could react.

The electricity surged though Red X's body.

He felt his arms going numb and his vision blurring.

"You idiot!" Barracuda yelled as she pulled Eel off of him.

The distraction gave Red X enough time to teleport out of there.

"What the hell?" Eel yelled.

"Owl wants the suit, remember? How do you think he'll feel if you fry the circuits in it moron?"

"Leave him alone!" she yelled

"It's about time you stopped babying him."

"He's our son."

"More like our failure."

"How DARE you call him that!"

"Really? How old is he?"

Leon's mother scowled at him.

"Couldn't go to school because the teachers couldn't handle him."

"Shut up!"

"Couldn't get a special teacher because you were afraid that she might 'corrupt' him."

"SHUT UP!"

"So you kept him here. And now look at him. Just a no good retarded excuse for a son. And you're the reason."

The mother looked down at the floor.

The father smiled.

"I'm right. Am I?"

"You son of a bitch!"

The father slapped the mother across the face.

"Say that again…I dare ya."

The mother stayed quiet.

"That's better." The father said as he walked out.

As soon as his father left Leon walked up to his mother.

"Mom…are you hurt?" He asked.

"I'm fine." She said, "Here…let me get you some ice."

Leon's fist clench and his face turned red.

"No more mom. Next time I'll-"

"No." his mom said, "You're a good boy Leon."

Red X appeared on a table in the middle of a fast food restaurant.

The people eating there screamed in shock as he fell to the ground.

"They're able to tell where I am…but how?" he thought as he tried to stand up.

Before he could get his thought together Boa came running into the restaurant.

"Oh hell." Red X thought as he teleported out of there before she could tackle him.

Leon could smell the dead man as his father's friends loaded it onto the truck.

It was a weird smell.

He couldn't tell if he liked it or not.

Red X appeared in the middle of a busy street.

Before he could react a car hit him sending him flying.

As he rolled on the ground he could hear yelling.

"He's over here!"

He had no choice.

Before they got to him he teleported again.

"Look, don't worry. What are they going to do?" Leon's father said as he talked to his friends.

"What aren't they going to do is more like it!" one of his friends yelled.

"Hey, as long as we got the plants they can't touch us, so relax."

Red X opened his eyes and found himself on a building.

Because he was constantly under attack he couldn't concentrate on where to teleport, so he had no idea where he was.

As he poked his head up he saw a beautiful sight.

It was Titans Tower just a mile or two away.

He was going to make it.

Leon hated the smell of alcohol.

Especially when his father reeks of it.

"You're drunk." The mother said.

"So?" he said as he stood up, "What are ya going to do about it?"

The mother turn away as the father smiled.

"That's what I thought." He said.

Knock! Knock! Knock!

"Who is it?" the father asked

"You know who it is! Now open the door dammit!"

It was one of his father's friends.

As he open the door the friend came running in.

A look of fear covered his face.

"The shit's really hit the fan now!"

"What is it?"

"Terry and Joe are dead!"

"What?"

"There dead man…Joe was found with a knife in his back and Terry was beaten to death in his own house!"

"That don't mean nothing."

"Bullshit! You just had to kill one of his men and now the boss is pissed off!"

"Look just calm down while I make a-"

BANG!

A gunshot rang outside, came through the window, and hit the friend right in the head.

As the friend slump to the floor the mother came in.

"This is your fault!" the mother screamed, "Because of you we're all going to die!"

"Shut up!"

"No! Not this time you no good sack of shit!"

"SHUT UP BITCH!" The father yelled as he shoves her.

What happened next Leon never forgot…no matter how hard he tried.

His mother feel back, and hit the back of her head against their iron fireplace.

As the father ran out of the house Leon when up to his mother, who was lying still on the floor.

"Mom…wake up…please wake up….MOM….DON'T LEAVE ME!"

Fox sniff the air and smiled.

"Target is moving." He said into the headset.

"Do you know where he's headed to?" Owl asked.

Fox sniff the air again.

"To the ocean."

Leon ran out the house, following the scent of his father.

Even though it was nighttime with no moon in the sky he knew exactly were to go.

The thick scent of alcohol was easy to follow.

As he got closer to the scent of his drunken father he could smell the scent of a few other people following him.

It didn't matter.

All that mattered was that he reached his father…and make him pay.

Red X was now doing very short quick teleporting jumps hoping that it would throw of The Eight from pinpointing him.

Because of the numerous jumps the power in his suit was running low.

"Almost there." He thought as he reached the coast line.

"I'll kill you! KILL YOU!" Leon yelled as he reached his father.

His father turned around just as Leon jumped on him.

"KILL YOU!" Leon said as he wrapped his hands around his father's throat.

His father tried to put up a fight.

But Leon's grip was too tight.

After a few minutes Leon's father went limp.

"There you are." Owl said as he spotted Red X though his sniper scope.

His fired his gun right at exactly the same time that Red X teleported.

After he killed his father Leon climbed up his favorite tree.

His entire life was destroyed.

"Well looked at what we have here." A girl's voice in the distance said, "No wonder the employer wanted him dead."

Leon could hear the girl take a few of the plants.

"I can definitely use these in a mixture." She said.

"So is he still up there?" a man's voice said.

"Yes." A second man said.

"What are you thinking?" the first man said.

"I'm thinking on how he found our target in the middle of a forest, at night, with no equipment. While the rest of us had to follow him." The second man said.

Leon then heard the second man climb the tree.

"Hello." The man said as he sat next to him.

Leon didn't say anything.

"What's your name?"

"…Leon."

"Leon. That's a nice name."

"Are you going to kill me?"

"No."

"Why did you kill Dad's friends?"

"We were paid to. We were also paid to kill your father, but it looks like you beat us to it."

"Sorry."

"Don't be. That was very impressive. How would you like to join us?"

"You kill…right?"

"Yes. Yes we do."

"Then if I join…then I will have to kill."

"Yes. Yes you will."

"My mom said I'm a good boy. She would always say that 'You're a good boy Leon'…I can't kill. I was very bad when I killed dad."

The man smiled.

"You can still be a good boy." The man said.

Leon looked at him.

"How?"

"Your mom said Leon is a good boy, right?"

Leon nodded.

"Then be someone else. For example my real name isn't Owl. I'm not paid to kill people. But Owl is."

Leon's eyes went wide.

"So do you have a favorite animal?" the man asked with a smile.

"I like foxes."

"Then you will be fox."

Leon smiled.

"So Fox." The man said, "Would you like to join."

"Fox would love to join Owl." Leon said.

The Five assassins met at the last place that Red X teleported.

"Did he get away?" Eel asked.

Owl searched the ground and smiled.

"Yes and no." he said as he pick up a small metal object that was covered in blood.

"What is it?" Barracuda asked.

"The bullet from my gun," He said, "It looks like it hit him right before he teleported, and just like my sword it didn't teleport with him."

"Where did you hit him?" Eel asked.

"I was aiming for the back of his head." Owl said as he turned to Titans Tower, "They're about to get a nice surprise."

"Owl, come in." Steer's voice came over the headset.

"This is Owl."

"Target is down."

"Excellent." Owl said, "Head back to the hotel. We'll meet you there."

Owl then turned to the four in front of him.

"Five in one day, very good. Especially to you Fox."

"Fox loves to help Owl." Fox said with a grin.

As the five headed back Fox took a big sniff of the sea air.

It smelled wonderful, almost as good as the forest where he used to live.

Leon died that day in the forest when his mother died.

And Fox was born when Owl gave him his new name in the tree.