Disclaimer: Just like everybody else on this damn website, I don't own Teen Titans.

It was a beautiful day in Jump city. The birds were chirping, the sun was shining, the house smelled like fresh lilacs… and Cyborg had just installed the Titan's new Waffle Maker 2.0 into their kitchen appliance area.

"All done!" Cyborg exclaimed with a huge smile painted across his face. "What first? Blueberry, Chocolate chip, Strawberry, Classic?!"

"Mustard!" Starfire cried happily. Her smile slightly diminished as she noticed the rest of her team give her awkward look. You could see a tear down the side of Cyborg's face. "Or… possibly not."

"Well, team," Robin began, "let's let Cyborg choose. He did make it. We can fight for choice next time."

Raven rolled her eyes. "It's just waffles. I highly doubt that anybody has a specific preference to the type of pastry we digest."

Beast Boy immediately interrupted Raven by jumping in front of her face. Their was an unnecessary twinkle in his eye. "But dude! This is the first time ever to use the waffle maker! It's an esteemed honor and privilege!"

Suddenly the Titan's alarm went off.

"Trouble!" Robin yelled, looking at the screen. (As if somehow the rest of the Titans could overlook the flashing red lights and screeching sound)

"Aww, man." Cyborg muttered as he put down his mixing bowl, already full of batter.

"It's Red X." Robin growled.

"Where is his location?" Starfire pondered.

"I'm going to guess looking for zenothium." Raven responded as she walked up behind Robin.

"Exactly." Robin said. "He's on the corner of 6th avenue, headed towards the… Swanson Bakery?"

"Well, that's ironic."

"No time to figure out why!" Cyborg yelled as he pulled off his Chef's hat and apron, though oddly enough no one ever noticed him put these articles of clothing on. "Let's go!"

On his mark and dash, the team headed out. Cyborg and Beast Boy to Cyborg's baby, Robin to the R-cycle and Raven and Starfire in the air. When the team arrived to 5th avenue and were closing in on the bakery, Starfire asked Raven a question.

"Why could Red X want to raid a bakery? Those are places of sugar and goodness. They have nothing to do with the evil chemicals of which he desires!"

"I don't know, Starfire." Raven said, trying to focus more on her flying then on petty conversation. "I guess we'll have to find out."

Down below the two ladies, the two automotive vehicles came to a stop. Raven and Starfire landed, and then peered into the bakery now in front of them.

"Team," Robin said while noticing the broken glass (obviously of Red X's entrance), "Be careful. We don't know what's in here."

"I do," Cyborg interrupted him. He was clicking buttons on his left arm. "Turns out this bakery radiates zenothium energy. It must have a secret laboratory hidden underneath it."

"Shit." Robin muttered under his breath. After this quick bit of profanity, Beast Boy turned himself into a dog and began sniffing out the perimeter. He entered through the broken glass, and the rest of the team followed behind him. The team noticed how ordinary the bakery looked, other then the obvious broken glass. Beast Boy re transformed into his himself.

"It's right below us." He said. "I smell it."

"And how should we plan to get down there?" Raven asked, slightly annoyed by the amount of time it was taking for them to infiltrate this hide out.

Cyborg responded by turning his left arm into his sonic cannon. "I know how," he said.

"Wait!" Robin yelled, putting his hand on Cyborg's arm. "We don't know how far below us that zenothuium is. If your sonic cannon shoots it, we could blow up the entire city." Cyborg turned his arm back to normal.

Without any more question, Raven said her "Azarath, metrion, zinthos." Suddenly, pieces of the floor boards were surrounded by black orbs and being picked up and placed on top of the counter.

"Well," muttered Cyborg, "that's one way to do things."

Starfire lifted up her left hand, having it glow with the lights of her star bolts. She leaned over, and placed her hand through the now boardless hole in the floor.

"I don't see anything," she said. "My light is unable to reach that far... the ground is very far below us."

"I wonder how this building is standing here, then..." Robin said quietly to himself.

Cyborg's flashlight immediately popped out of his left shoulder blade. He bent over and peered down into the hole as Starfire had. "I don't see anything, either…"

"Starfire, Raven." Robin said, as the team looked out of the hole to face him. "You two infiltrate down below. Beast Boy, go with them- sniff out Red X. Cyborg, your coming with me. We're looking around up here. If we don't find anything, we'll be right below soon."

"Titans, go!" Cyborg yelled, as he ran off to the pantry room. Robin quickly followed. Beast Boy used that as his sign and turned into a pigeon. He then proceeded to fly through the hole in the ground. Starfire took his lead and dove in behind him. Raven just took a step over the hole and fell; right before she hit the ground, she caught herself with gravitation. It felt like it took her way to long to fall… Something extremely weird was going on. And it wasn't just the fact that their was a secret laboratory that produced zenothium located right underneath a bakery.

Starfire re-lit her left arm to create some light."I still don't see anything!" Starfire exclaimed in her seemingly perky voice.

Beast Boy stood on the ground, peering through the dark. "Me neither, dude. Did we ever think up the possibility that this could be a trap…?"

Raven was too busy floating around the room, trying to use her physic ability to find zenothium, to listen to her teammates.

"Why hello, beautiful girl."

"What? Who's the-" Raven was immediately interrupted by a giant X wrapped around her body, holding her to the ground. She tried to free himself from the horrid technology, but couldn't find the strength.

"Starfire! Beast Boy! Red X is in here!" Raven yelled as loud as she could.

"Where?" Starfire said, trying to locate where Raven's voice was coming from. She spun around several times. Raven could see the green light, but all the sudden couldn't yell. There was a hand over her mouth, and it was oddly tight.

"Oh, come on, Raven," the voice cooed. "Three's a crowd."

Raven began feeling faint. Was that… knock out gas? Classic, Raven thought, before passing out to a deep sleep.

Only three feet away, Beast Boy stood firm. He drew his hands into fists and growled.

"I don't see-" Beast Boy began, before being kicked in the jaw. The force of the kick spun him around for him to land flat on his face."What the…" he muttered, as he then received another kick to his middle back. He grimaced in pain. He couldn't even see his opponent! He crawled a bit, and then transformed into a rhino. He looked around frantically through his animal eyes, still only seeing pitch black, until suddenly he felt a sticky mixture wrapped around his body holding his limbs together. He mutated back into his natural state. "Starfire!" he yelled. "I've been caught!"

"Yes you have." whispered that unmistakable voice.

"Red X." Beast Boy growled.

"Who else would it be?" the voice responded.

"Beast Boy!" Starfire yelled, as she soon was at his side. She tried to rip off the X, but even her alien strength wasn't enough for the tough chemicals.

"Oh, doll. You never learn."

"What are you-" Starfire fell back. Her left arm was in pain. She arose, hovered, and began to growl. Her eyes glowed the deep green. Star bolts radiated at her arms as she looked around. Her alien vision located Red X, a foot in front of her, midair, coming in for a punch. She shot out her star lasers from her eyes and hit him in the left shoulder where she had been hit. An eye for an eye, a term she lived by.

You could hear an "oof" as Red X hit the ground. She yelled her war cry, and shot out star bolts. She gave it a moment… then two… then three… no sound.

"UGH!" she cried. She fell back to the ground. Her arms were tied to her sides by the same sticky gunk that had been on Raven and Beast Boy.

Suddenly, the lights in the room turned on. You could see Beast Boy still trying to transform into an animal strong, big or small enough to be freed from his personal prison. He stopped.

Robin and Cyborg stood a foot behind Starfire. Robin smirked.

"Game's over, X."

And there he was, in all his glory. Red X stood right underneath the light in the center of the room. You could tell by his belt that he had required some fresh zenothium on his escapade, but considering he was wearing a mask, you saw no emotion.

"The game is never over." He said.

Cyborg pulled out his sonic cannon to shoot, and it began to glow with energy…

"WAIT!" Red X yelled. Cyborg kept his arm up, but didn't shoot. X took a step to the right, and behind him the team saw Raven laying on the ground.

The Titans all gasped. "Raven…" Starfire whispered.

Beast Boy, though unable to move his arms, stood up. "Leave her the fuck alone." He said. The team, and Red X, all turned to face him. The anger in his face was too great to be suppressed.

"Well, Skipper," Red X said as he picked up the demon girl, who lay lifeless in his arms. "I would love to stay and use more profanity, but I've got places to go, people to see." He jumped crooked into the air, and pressed a button on his belt. And as in the way Red X usually works, he completely disappeared.

"No!" Beast Boy yelled, as he ripped through his chemical confinement. The team's eyes grew large as they saw his true strength shine. He hadn't used it in at least a year, since his incident including the wanna-be villain Adonis. "Where did they go?!" He yelled.

The team was distraught on the emotion showed by Beast Boy for a fellow teammate. Starfire floated over to him and put her hand on his shoulder. "Do not fret, friend Beast Boy. We shall find the location of this Red X and exploit him!"

He shook off her comforting touch. "But how?! This douche bag always shows up and fucks things up!"

"Well for starters," Cyborg said, looking at his left arm. It had a red glow beeping on it. "I have a lock."

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Heh. I thought it was a nice beginning, but maybe I'm just being polite to myself.

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