The New TEEN TITANS! (IC)

"Red X," he replied to Kaine without looking back at him. His hands danced across the keys, the main screen flashing in and out of windows as he perused what had already been unlocked. He paused after moment, turning his head to the side and saying, "You mind, dollface? Kinda crowding me here." He turned back to the sreen and saw it asking for security clearance. "Alright, time to see if that old timer really knew what he was talking about." His fingers tapped out a rhythm as he typed something, the screen flashing asterisks to mask his inputs, and then he casually leaned back and hit "Enter". The supercomputer seemed to pause, then words flashed across the screen.

WELCOME BACK, TITANS.

(have to react to that xD)

Snow said nothing to the person, Red X, as he called himself, though her brow nitted slightly and for only a moment at being called Dollface. As she turned away to leave there was a crackling sound. She smiled softly as she left back to her own room leaving Red X alone.. with his cape frozen solid to the back of the chair.

The obstacle course seems dull a moment but after a few seconds it begins to start up. It moves slowly at first, something that should be fixed by one of the techies around the place. Ignoring the lack of intensity in the course, the set up itself seemed to have changed from the classic one in more then a few ways. There were moving platforms, multiple enemy boards, fire traps, electric fences, walls, and strangely enough a car drop. The obstacle course was a bit more tedious then expected.

At the beginning of the field stood a girl who appeared to lack a certain drive about her. Her clothing was something of a fashion break, wearing things that might appear as if she got dressed with her eyes closed. A thick cotton skirt, a skirt that didn't match, even black stockings up her legs. She wears a strange style of dark jacket with red details over it. To top it off, the girl wore a red scarf with a symbol on it similar to a star. A girl like this running the titans obstacle course would seem strange, she lacks the look of a hero or villain.

As the obstacle course starts up, a timer begins to count down from 03. The second that the first beep to signal the 03 came, the girls ears twitched. One of her feet tapped the ground. The timer dropped again. 02. Her foot dropped. Anticipation burned through her body as she waits for the last beep... 01. The words "Go!" appear on a board and the girl was off. The coarse first came at her with two walls rushing from her on both her left and right, as they slammed closed, her body had pushed away in front of them. Her feet pressed to the ground and she jumped into the air. The girl leaped from there to a platform, jumping across them to move to the other side. The speed that she executed these jumps proved her agility itself was well tuned. She had a strong sense for combat. The girl landed on the other side and as she landed, four target boards pop out of no where. The girl didn't waste time stopping after she landed and made a straight rush for them. She had swung her arms in a punching strike, hitting each target at the center to take them out. With her fist striking the last one, her foot had pressed to throw herself into the air in a flip overhead. She landed on the other side of the collapsed target and proceeded swiftly. Walls began rushing from all sides at her again-- from above, she slid forward and avoided it. From her left-- the girl jumped up and rotated around the edge. From below-- the girl jumped off it just as it rose. She landed on the ground and stumbled forward into the center of what appeared to be a firing range. Projectiles began firing at her from every which direction. She had spun, ducked, flipped, she was dodging them well at first. They seemed relentless as the girl was held down, her body singed with flames. Suddenly, she tucked in and with a violent roar her arms thrust out in both directs. A violent flame roars from her body, seeming to first burn then overheat the firing canisters. The projectiles stopped and the girl took off toward the end. The floor let go underneath her feet and she gasped, seeming to fall. Her arms were brought back and she seem to pull a newly formed fire from her arms, shooting it off at a downward angle behind her. This shot off like jets and she was lifted into the air, enough to avoid the fall she began. She touched back onto the ground in time for a car to drop from the sky and land on top of her, she seemed to have been crushed by the car.

After a few seconds, the center of the car from the hood to the trunk split open and both halves of the car fell apart. The girl who ran the coarse stood up and looked between the two. She was no longer wearing her casual outfit, but rather a set of strange yet powerful looking red armor. In her right hand, she held a sword. The blade itself was a sharp, almost regular looking one. The rest of the sword; the hilt, the guard, the pommel. It matched her armor. The girl shook her head and ignored her transformation, proceeding to walk to the end of the obstacle coarse. When she reached the end, short embers tore from her armor and it disappeared, revealing her as she was in casual clothing. She looked back at the timer to see how long she took. Her time qualified her, but to her was not impressive. Above average was the only acceptable time. Knowing this, she turned from the course and proceeded to the staircase to enter the towers structure and exit the roof.

Athena looked up at the woman who seemed to be in charge, the psychic didn't care for her attitude but ignored it, she couldn't blame her since her work place was robbed and the security was thrashed. "I'm Athena leader of the Titans." Athena was getting used to introducing herself as the new leader of the Titans and dealing with the disbelief that usually followed, after all she just looked like a regular teenage girl, she didn't wear a mask or costume with a giant T on it. "You must be Mrs. Meaux, directer of Star Labs," she says reading her mind to save time then explains to her about the break in and the thief named Ghost but leaves out Katarina's real name, there was no reason for a civilian to know that information. "In any case we'll be working with Jump Cities PD to get what was stolen back to you." Athena says waiting for the questions sure to follow, she didn't feel obligated to answer and she didn't need anymore information that she did not already take but the titans were newly reformed and she didn't want to damage their reputation already by leaving before seeming to be corroborative.

Matthew had a look of confusion as Snow asked a question then walked away before letting him answer, he steps out of his room and looks down the hall to see some masked guy sitting at his chair which makes him even more confused. The tech walks over to see what was going on and his eyes widen as the security systems are turned on, suddenly a red light scans the room and most likely the whole tower then is followed by a loud alarm "INTRUDER ALERT INTRUDER ALERT". Matthew screams and runs over to the computer nearly tripping over his own feet, laser guns appear to come out of the walls and take aim, Matthew quickly taps the keys and shuts the system down again and lets out a sigh of relief, "That was a close one," he says with a nervous smile then remembers the guy with the mask and jumps back, "Who the heck are you and how and why and what?" he stumbles over his words then looks at Vex and Kaine for an explanation.

Katarina took the bag from the floor of the abandon building and teleported out and appeared in what seemed to be a penthouse apartment, crime indeed paid well allowing her to live how she thought she deserved. After all she did come from a rich family before her parents died and she did miss the life style of the wealthy, it was just too bad Athena and Matthew had to be so goody goody or they could be live the life as well, she often thought as she lounged alone in her beautiful apartment. Everything was paid in cash and people were paid not to ask question about how a teenager could live alone and pay for a very expensive apartment.

The girl from the obstacle coarse stands in a hallway opposite the staircase. The entire hall appears singed in black. Security systems, monitors, anything that seemed in plain sight was utterly and completely blackened and burned. The girl brushes her hands against each other, as if to cleanse them of the smoke fuming from them. Though this did not damage every security system in the tower, in that hall it seemed to shut down if not destroy all the systems. The girl turns and walks to a door that opens as she approaches it. The door leads her to a room, some what blunt. The room had a bed, a desk, a chair, and a mirror.
The bed was laid with black flame resistant sheets and a soft yet abundant amount of pillows. There is no blanket laid over it. Upon the bed, over the sheets, there was a set of swords. They begin basic and small, working their way up to more complex and detailed larger swords.
The desk and chair were together. The chair was a simple one, meant for computer use. The floor in the room was hard, so the chair was easily moved. The desk had documents laid across it. These documents seem to detail information of several people. There is a pile of documents that are neatly stacked on the right side of the desk.
The mirror cast a reflection of the edge of the desk and the bed, as it stood to the right of the desk but at the center of the wall. There was a strangeness about it.

As the girl entered the room, she exhaled. The irritation that was the loud obnoxious noise was dealt with but it would only cause someone to later fix it. The girl hoped only that she would not be here when they were doing repairs. She glanced at the files and approached her desk to go over them. She then thought back to an earlier date, to the idea of how repairing seemed to work around the tower. The thought made her punch her desk before pulling the chair back and taking a seat. With the chair rolling back in and the door to the room shutting, she looked over the files again. She brushes the files aside to a paper laying flat on the desk. The title on the top of the paper reads... 'What is a Teen Titan'.

As the alarms sounded Kaine shot up and out of his seat, a look of excitement barely contained on his face as the low hum of his gauntlet roared in hostility for a instant unleashing a tether of energy. Crackling he whips at the nearest laser guns gauging out a portion of the wall along with a fun or two. Regrettably the action only lasted what felt like s instant as the loud alarm came to a abrupt end. Kaine fixated his stare on red X but acknowledged Matthew's question with a playful tone "Ah, he said his name is Red X.. just walked threw the door and started tinkering around.. Kinda sorta thought he was the new tech guy" he trails off a laugh to try and not hurt his feelings.
"this seems very sloppy X, what's your aim here?"
He sized up Red X and he came across as a dangerous individual friend or foe. If he was a enemy.. Or should I call them villains? Never mind that If he was a enemy why would he throw himself into the lions den? Interesting fellow.

Matthew ignores most of what Kaine says as his attention is back on the computer, he stares astonished before rapping at the keys, "How did you know what to do?" Tech's eyes moved frantically taking in the new information, "I've been working on this for months now...I hope your a tall flat chested girl under that mask cause I could kiss you!" Matthew says still typing with a huge smile.

Snow came to a stop at the hallway entrance and then seemed to hardly move at the sound of Alarms. Her eyes only reacted to each movement as guns and Defenses abound come to life and took aim before it was all deactivated. Her expression seemed... bored of it all and she didnt seem to bothered by the idea of being nearly blasted to bits. She slowly turned and looked back to them all, from Kaine and his over exciting need to do damage, to Matthew who seems happy enough to want to kiss a boy... which was kind of strange but she didnt judge.. and then to Red X who seemed to fix the Tower. It was obvious this person wasnt one of the usual Titans since even Matthew didnt know who he or she was. So instead of returning to her room she sets her back to the wall inside the hallway just out of sight of the others. Was this Red X friend or Foe?

Mrs. Meaux was not quelled. "With all of the security here, I'm not too sure how this "Ghost" was even able to get in here iin the first place." The guard next to the raging woman appeared to shrink, to Olli as the Director got more angry.

"And there is no form of communication," she was ranting. "I don't even know what was stolen, yet these...children managed to chase this crook away. WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT OUR REPUTATION?!?"

Olli was doing his best to stifle a laugh as his father often mentioned how this woman could blow up at the slightest mistake. Although, he admitted to himself, this isn't just some small mistake. What if what was stolen was some dangerous hi-tech weapon. That thought instantly knocked the wind out of Olli's chest. He looked to the self-proclaimed psychic and willed his thoughts into her head. He could almost hear himself mind-screaming.

*You have to find out what was stolen! There are some pretty dangerous things made here and if some super-powered thief stole something like that, it can't be good!*

Kaine's eyes lost all life listening to Matthew. 'He helped? Skull guy helped? Seriously? Eh.' he relaxed out of his battle ready stance and sighed heavily.
"oh this is totally not suspicious at all.." his words obviously sarcastic as he began to walk away and leave the room. Hopefully they would forget the damage he did by the time they bothered to call on him.
It was obviously not a good idea to not let him near anything important but who was Kaine to say anything? As long as his armor was uncompromised he was fine. no way he didn't do something or plan to do something..

He continued to walk out of the room and into the maze like hallways. Perhaps he would meet someone interesting in this place if he just floated around. This place was like a giant 'T' shaped piñata full of super powered teens with issues.
He turned a corner and the smell of something burning filled his nose, soon the blackened walls came into clear view "this is new"
He walked cautiously threw the hall curious if anyone was near by, maybe someone fun? He spoke loudly "anybody here?" he softly knocked on the wall then door with his gauntlet.

Athena didn't even bat an eye lash as the woman gets louder, screaming adults was something she was used to. "Ghost has the ability to walk through walls and teleportation, she would be hard for anyone to pin down." She explains almost feeling bad for the men. "Well if you find out anything let us know, it may help us get your property back" Athena says doubting her corroboration.

~Yes it is very important that we do...but don't worry we find Ghost.~ Athena telepathically says to Oliver.

*I want to do whatever I can to help,* Olli mind-spoke. He was feeling guilty that he wasn't able to do much and wanted to rectify this in anyway he could. He didn't mind doing some reaseach into what was stolen and why. But he didn't knwo how to go about doing that. It was a good thing that the psychic invited him to train with the Titans. He was sure that they had some kind of sophisticated comupter equipment he could try to work with. But what he really wanted all of a sudden was to learn how to use his power willingly. He didn't want to be seen as useless anymore.

*Just tell me what I can do.*

The girl had been sitting at her desk for some time. She was inspecting all of the files that laid upon it. The names went through her head, each one lit a spark, each spark caught fire, each fire blazed with a thought that burned into her mind as a memory. Names were spoken lightly, traced with her mind. Robin. Starfire. Cyborg. Beastboy. Raven. The titans who previously owned the tower that they now inhabited. Her mind could not be tricked so easily by fancy words or thoughts. They were like vigilantes. The tower was not theirs, the previous Titans did not give it to them. They scavenged the gear of great people and used it to continue their work. The girl had read over the files for hours, memorizing information about them. She was not a computer genius, she could not tell you the technical information of anything, she couldn't even cook. No, where she specialized was in tactic. By discovering the past, she had hoped to unlock a better path for the future. Her mind was crossed on this topic. She placed the files onto the desk and took up another group of files.

The files she picked up now were not about the previous Titans, but about people the Titans kept files on. Enemies, allies, people who in some way were deemed important by the Titans. There was a large list. The girl began to think. Should she try to understand this all on her own, she would get no where. Even if she did find out anything, what good would it do her to keep the information to herself. The girl began to settle on the idea of taking the information she scavenged to Athena or Matthew-- when suddenly an irritating pounding noise came to her door. The girl ignored it and went back to reading her files quietly, as if to give the appearance that nobody were home.

"No offense, Ms. Athena," Mrs. Meaux grimaced, "but regardless of your title, we will not require your services. My people can use this opportunity to redeem themselves of such a pitiful display."

Turning around to leave, she eyed Olli with an air of suspicion. "Now that the excitement is over, Mr. Sabel, you can return to your desk." And with that, Mrs. Meaux and the guards with her left Olli and Athena to themselves.

Originally posted by Scarlet Fox
(have to react to that xD)

Snow said nothing to the person, Red X, as he called himself, though her brow nitted slightly and for only a moment at being called Dollface. As she turned away to leave there was a crackling sound. She smiled softly as she left back to her own room leaving Red X alone.. with his cape frozen solid to the back of the chair.

Originally posted by starryknight
Matthew had a look of confusion as Snow asked a question then walked away before letting him answer, he steps out of his room and looks down the hall to see some masked guy sitting at his chair which makes him even more confused. The tech walks over to see what was going on and his eyes widen as the security systems are turned on, suddenly a red light scans the room and most likely the whole tower then is followed by a loud alarm "INTRUDER ALERT INTRUDER ALERT". Matthew screams and runs over to the computer nearly tripping over his own feet, laser guns appear to come out of the walls and take aim, Matthew quickly taps the keys and shuts the system down again and lets out a sigh of relief, "That was a close one," he says with a nervous smile then remembers the guy with the mask and jumps back, "Who the heck are you and how and why and what?" he stumbles over his words then looks at Vex and Kaine for an explanation.

"Might wanna take a breath, kid," X says as he watches Matthew from the seat while sitting casually, as if his cape being frozen to chairs was a common occurrence, "Pretty quick on your feet when you need to be, though. Not bad. The name's Red X, and I'm here to help you guys get the Titans up and running again." He moved his hands across the keys again, and a new window pops up.

TITANS ROSTER

BEAST BOY
CYBORG
RAVEN
ROBIN: LEADER
STARFIRE
TERRA

He stares at the screen for a moment, then performs a few more button presses, the screen reflecting his actions.

TITANS ROSTER

BEAST BOY
CYBORG
RAVEN
RED X: LEADER
ROBIN
STARFIRE
TERRA

Leaning back into the seat again, he gestures with his right hand to the screen. "Starting by adding yourselves to the roster, so the security system doesn't try to blow us all up again."

Athena didn't say anything as the woman and the others left, she annoyed her the way she talked to her underlings. The titan starts to levitate herself off the ground, "Just keep your eyes open, I'll be in touch" Athena says before turning to exit the building. She had to get back soon before there was no tower to come back to, everyone was still introverted and not yet used to being a team, she had to admit to herself that she still only thought of Matthew and herself and knew that things would have to change quickly or else things would start to fall apart. Athena flew over the city but wasn't in a rush she had so much to think about, Katarina mostly, Athena knew she stole to get by but this was different, she was walking a dangerous path and she knew that this was not the last time they'd run into each other.

Athena flew into the main entrance of the tower and was soon in the common room and noticed Vex and Matt and knew Snow was some where near but there was someone she didn't recognize. Athena levitated silently over to Tech and RedX, "Matthew who is this?" she says having trouble reading the boys mind.

"I see I see," Matthew says registering everyone and adding their bio signatures (DNA, finger prints) that he collected with or without them knowing. "Wait a sec...this must be a typo," he said deleting the leader from his name and adding it to Athena's name. Suddenly her heard Athena's voice and jumped a bit, "Why are the girls here so darn sneaky..." Matthew said before thinking about Athena's question then looked at Red X, "I don't know I thought you recruited him..." he says confused.

Athena looks at the masked boy unable to invade his mind, she looks at Matthew and as telepathic conversation with him getting everything Matt knew about Red X, "How did you activate the security system and why do you wish to help us?" Athena questions, she didn't like the fact that she wasn't able to hear his thoughts and didn't trust the masked mystery guys sudden appearance just after Katarina's burglary.

The girl had stood and pressed the back of her chair to the wall. Gathering a few of the files, she moved to exit her room. The door opened for her and she walked on down the hall, heading toward the main room of the tower. She ignored any and every body in the way there, it was clear she was not the type to enjoy small talk and only looked at the bigger picture. As the girl walked, she thought to herself about what to say. She also wanted to ensure that she was close to Athena when she managed to relay the information, but only past experience of the two would give any hint toward why. Her steps seem rather meaningful, not slouched but rather moving with a sense of purpose.

The girl passed into the living quarters of Titan's Tower and her left hand had pressed to the wall, almost as if to use it as leverage to swing herself around inside of the room. She walked toward the computer where Red X, Tech, and Athena all waited. She ignores anyone else on the way there, as if she cared little for their existence. The moment she reached the desk, her right hand came down with a sudden 'thud' sound. She slapped a pile of files onto the nearest solid platform such as a desk to show it to them. The second she does, her lips part and for the first time for many, she speaks. Her voice is not vicious, nor is it soft. It is a light voice, one of a young girl but perhaps with maturity in her. There is a strong heated sensation, as if determination burned in her words even the most simple of them.

"His name IS Red X." The girl says with a certainty, holding the file open to show images of the masked man in the tower. It has photographs of known equipment and notes on the previous Titan's encounters with him. "The original Titan's knew him, the one that got away. His true identity is a complete secret." The girls words seemed to come smoothly off her lips, she showed no hesitation in any of her words and spoke with a certainty. Her eyes glance to X, ensuring her claim. Then she turned her eyes to Athena, then to Tech. She awaited a response and as she did, her hands became fists that pressed to the file. There were certain... habits. Ones that the new "Titans" had that this girl didn't like at all. Both Athena and Tech had habits that drove her mad, but none more then Athena. She had no problem with the girl personally, but her instantaneous anger always came tearing out the moment that habit emerged in the girls face.

Before Olli had the chance to ask when he could come train at Titan's Tower, Athena left him saying that she'd be in touch. And just like that, the day was back to normal. All the guards that were taken down by Kat were out of sight somewhere; the alarms had been shut off for a while now, as were the flashing lights; and everyone else was going about their business as if nothing had happened.

It stunned the boy. He was standing in the middle of the hall, dirt stains on the customary white Star Labs lab coat, trying to figure out if what he saw with his own two eyes really happened. He walked back to his desk at the entrance of the lad in a sort of daze.

Had he really met a girl who could fly and read minds? Had a thief who could teleport from one place to another really steal something from the hi-tech lad he was employed at? Was he really invited to the Titan's giant T-shaped based to learn how to use his power? He shook his head to clear it.

Looking down at his lab coat again and seeing the dirt smears from when he dodged out of the way of an attacking Titan, he knew it was true. And just before everything happened, he had been complaining to himself how boring his life was. He began to chuckle to himself at the ironic thoughts and felt his kidneys about to burst. He remembered that he was on his way to the restroom when everything started. He got back up and headed that way again. He was pretty sure that time around, he was going to be able to go in peace.

Kaine went to his room. Things were boring here and he better related to things that didn't have the capacity to talk and simply made silent things that could. He sighed at the failed venture which was his 'hero life'.. Despite the difficulty the others managed to keep going.. He drifted into thoughts of a time far from the present.. The admiration of the people, free pizza.. Beating villains alongside guys like superman and maybe even animal man.. Wow that would be cool. He shook his head as if trying to dislodge such a dream form his head. Screw it.
Being social was too hard. Being 'good' was too hard. It was much easier just blowing warlords out of their bunkers, instigating revolutions..or crushing them. He also thought about the money he used to get..damn he missed the money.
Kaine spoke in a low voice "hello...I'm going to leave if anyone wants to stop me..no?...okay."
His armor opened up letting out a high pitch humming sound until he jumped inside. It hugged every inch of his body until fully closed. It felt like another layer of skin. "well off I go!" the back of his suit started to glow before a loud 'Boom' shook the room, the wall now missing and portions of the room now on fire. 'eh if someone can set fire to the hallway then I can burn my room' he took off flying into the city.
"I wonder what Gotham is like.."

Snows eyes looked to Nova as she passed in silence. Only her eyes followed Nova into the main room to the others, remaining silent herself. She did not wish to talk to Snow so why bother speaking first? There was no real reason to. Snow pondered a moment on Novas lack of verbal communication when it did not need to be there and it made her smile just a bit. Nova was like her. At least in that aspect. She did not talk much unless to answer direct questions or say something she felt needed to be said. The whole 'Speak when spoken too' aspect of her youth forever present in her mind.

As Nova began to speak to Athena about Red X Snow pushes off the wall of the Hallway and walks over to stand behind and to the side of Nova, remaining silent as always. Perhaps Nova would make an interesting Friend. Someone who did not bother with pointless banter. She had nothing against the girl nor did she think Nova had anything against her in return. Snow stepped forward a bit, careful not to touch Nova as she leaned around her to see the files. So this guy was once with the Titans? No it seemed more complicated than that. Snow looked from the Files to Athena, then Matthew, Red X, then Nova. Nova seemed Hotter then the rest of them. Literal heat. Being so close made her slightly uncomfortable but her curiosity made her look back to the files.

Snow was reading what she could of the open files until a loud Boom shook the Tower, making her look from the files and down the hallway from which she and Nova just came from moments ago. A bomb? An attack? Was that Ghost woman back to torment them again? Snow moved around Nova again to look down the hallway. She stopped just short of leaving the room and looked to Athena as if waiting for an order.