This is my first hive fanfic so tell me if I should continue with it. Please review it makes my day.
Disclaimer: all the characters belong to mark walden
Nero was sitting in his office feeling very content with himself, he had just cleared up a small matter of bother and now the Fab Four were in detention.
"A call from Mr Darkdoom, sir" a technician called,
"would you like me to put it through to your private communication panel?".
"Yes" Nero replied and turned himself towards the desk mounted screen. The glove symbol of a fist smashing a globe appeared briefly before fading into Nero's greatest friend's face. "Hello Max" Darkdoom said "how's Nigel" Nero chose his words carefully,
"he's doing great" he said mentally visualising the incident where Darkdoom had blown up his private lab in the hydroponics dome by mating some very...radioactive plants.
"Excellent" Darkdoom replied "I'm so glad he's doing well"
"I take it this isn't a social call though is it" Nero said raising and eyebrow.
"When is it ever" said Darkdoom with a grin "I was going to ask whether I could borrow Raven for a few days, a little...matter has arisen amongst one of our informants. I want him eliminated before he can cause real damage."
"No problem, I'll prepare a shroud to send her over".
"Thanks, Max" he said "it's useful that I can rely on you"
"and I you" Nero replied "I should go" Darkdoom said,
"I'm sure you have business to attend to". Darkdoom cut off the call.
Raven sighed as she watched the Fab Four writing lines,
'I must not convince hivemind to redecorate our quarters' Nero had asked her to supervise this detention personally, they had a reputation for being somewhat difficult.
"Raven" Otto started
"you are in detention, Mr Malpense, you are not permitted to speak" she said not looking up.
"Raven, did Nero order you to do this" Raven looked up
"yes he asked me to and it's Doctor Nero to you, now be quiet". Shelby piped up
"we were discussing something earlier, Raven, and I wanted to ask, are you obedient". Raven turned to Shelby shocked by her audacity
"there will be silence in detention miss Trinity"
"but.."
"silence" raven said sharply drawing a kantana from her back to emphasise her point. Unsurprisingly there was complete silence, Raven sighed with relief and switched her kantanna to its lowest setting. Bored she ran her finger along its surface and it made an eerie ring, after doing this several times it lost its novelty and she gazed around the classroom at the students.
"Raven" it was Wing this time
"quiet Mr Fanchu, I would have expected better from you" now even her own student.
"Does Nero call you his pet assassin" this was the limit
"if another one of you speaks you will spend every evening for the rest of your hive career in detention". The rest of the hour continued similarly, by the end of this she was so narked she almost yelled in Nero's face when he called her blackbox.
"Nero" she said in a carefully measured voice sucking are in through her teeth
"Natalya I want you to come to my office now please"
"one my way in a few minutes" she replied she felt like a shower before going on another assignment,
"no, now please, Natalya" he replied his voice a little forceful,
"just coming" she said grudgingly.
The Fab Four were gathered round the monitor in Otto and Wing's room,
"this is classic" Otto grinned as they watched the jerky movements of the camera Wing had attached to Raven's jumpsuit a few minutes earlier.
"Aye, that's my device that is" Laura noted as Raven rounded the corner to Nero's office.
"I helped" said Otto sounding offended, he was part of the pinhead sized cameras creation.
"Oi, you wouldn't have been able to do anything if I hadn't found the bits in the first place, and monomolecular titanium shards are notoriously hard to get, especially when they are is a high security vault." Said Shelby
"Gees calm down and watch the show guys" Otto said and they turned back to the screen.
Nero spun in his chair as Raven entered the room,
"Natalya" he said gesturing to the chair opposite his desk.
"I agreed to send you on an assignment for Diabolus, I am not sure of the exact nature of the task but I believe it involves dealing with one of glove's informants who got too big for his boots. There is a shroud waiting for you in the landing crater." Nero watched Ravens face carefully when she didn't respond, he saw the briefest moment of indecision and then her eyes narrowed and her jaw set slightly and she smiled and evil smile
"no" she said.
"What?" Replied Nero "I said to Diabolus, there is a shroud waiting for you..." He trailed off when he saw her expressing, she was deadly serious, and in Ravens sense the 'deadly' part of the phrase held most of the emphasis.
"You see Nero", the enjoyment was clear on her face "I know your my employer, but when have you ever paid me" Nero gulped and tried to speak but for once found that he could muster no words.
"I let you stay at hive...food and stuff" he trailed off Raven tilted her head on one side and spoke sarcastically "I could make millions, Nero, from any employer, do you have any reason why I would choose you?" He stared at his shoes, he had a reason but he was hardly going to say it in case he was wrong.
"And please before you say it, I do not under any circumstances want to be your girlfriend" Nero felt as though he'd been punched in the chest but then reminded himself that Raven could easily refresh the memory of that particular sensation. Then Raven walked out of the room.
Otto cut off the sound recorder,
"the school is going to love this" he grinned "maybe we should burn it onto a CD's and sell them, we'd make a fortune" this was so much better than they had hoped for. Wing frowned slightly and looked confused
"I am questioning the morality of the final stage of the plan, Raven has saved our lives many times and we are going to do this?" He question
"aw, come on" said Shelby pushing Wing playfully "how many times have we saved her life"
"I still think it is cruel to undermine her reputation like this" Wing said "Look" Otto chipped in,
"firstly, she will still be the worlds deadliest assassin and nothing we do with ever change that, and secondly I promise once you see this you will not have any doubts ever again"
"Aye" said Laura with a grin "I think someone has the hots for Raven" Wing went red
"of course not, she is my teacher, we share a student-master bond, that is all",
"if you say so" Laura said .
"Mind you" Otto mused sarcastically
"you might have a chance now Nero's definitely out of the deal".
"Er guys I think we should sever the connection now". They turned to the screen to see Raven walking into the bathroom,
"I thinks that's what you call too much information" he said as he tapped a few keys and the image dissolved into static.
"Now for the second part of the plan" Otto said rubbing his hands together.
About an hour later...
"Malpense what on earth do you think you are doing" said Raven moving her blade away from his neck slightly,
"I was..." He stuttered eyes focused on the crackling purple sword inches from his flesh. Raven snatched the CD out of his hand
"I'll be confiscating that, I think with the proximity to the controls for the whole school public address system it can hardly be good." Otto looked at his shoes and smiled to himself,
"Lucky I always made a back up."
Raven paced the school corridors rapidly on her route back to her quarters, any student who looked at her got a slightly crazed smile, most backed off. When she arrived she sat down at her monitor and inserted the disk into the drive, she drummed her fingers impatiently as it booted up. She clicked on the file and realised with utter horror that it a film of the conversation between her and Nero several hours ago, but the more she watched it the more she realised that she was right; when had Nero ever done anything remotely devious for the last twenty—no forty years. She smiled as a truly brilliant idea came into her head, Malpense had been right about one thing, the only way to get your opinion out was through the public address system.
Otto walked to the public address system control room for the second time that day, but this time he carried about twelve disks hidden in about twelve places around his body. The others had taken it upon themselves to enlist Franz's help with this, Otto was sure this was only for their own entertainment rather than actual necessity. Franz had got rather over enthusiastic with the disk replicas until Otto looked like a walking robot wearing clothes with disks underneath, Franz's finished with
"see now you look like a real man". He was just about to push open the door to the control room when Raven pipped him to the post, he just about managed to jump behind a wall before she rounded the corner. To Otto's astonishment, she carried a disk, the very same disk she had confiscated from him a few minutes ago. Raven hummed tunelessly as Otto watched in wonder debating internally whether Shelby had tried to hypnotise her again. Raven inserted the disk, pressed a few buttons and a few seconds later, every screen and speaker was playing
"Natalya, I agreed to send you on an assignment for Diabolus..." Raven grinned, this was by far the most villainous thing she had ever done.
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