Important: Rating might change to M in further chapters (because of sexual content and maybe even detailed violence in fighting scenes).
People want me to talk, but there is no point in it.
People are bad listeners anyway.
Kyd Wykkyd
"Since there isn't much to do for us at the moment because the crime rate is quite low, I came up with an idea," Robin announced.
His teammates raised their heads and they didn't look happy at all about his statement. "Come on, dude!" Beast Boy whined but Robin's face stayed as stoic as ever.
"Since we formed this team I wanted to update our villain data files," Robin added ignoring Beast Boy. "And now seems to be a good time to do so. I will allocate a certain villain to all of you and you'll have to have a look through the file you'll get and find out more about said villain to complete the file." "Umpf," Raven stated demotivated. "Do we have to do this now friend Robin?" Starfire asked but Robin just sighed. "C'mon guys, this is necessary! When did my team become so lazy?"
"Yo, who is lazy round here, huh? I just repaired your damn R-Cycle, Boy Blunder!" Cyborg exclaimed filled with indignation but instead of continuing he stepped forward and grabbed the file from the table that had a post-it with his name on it.
"There are also some ideas for information we need and some kind of formprofile to fill out for you," Robin went on while Starfire took the file with her name written on the post-it.
"Uh … I do not like to observe the Punk Rocket," she said voice filled with aversion after having a glance inside.
"Sorry, Star," Robin mumbled but was distracted by Cyborg who seemed to wake up from some kind of trance right now. "Man, you can't be serious! Gizmo? Why him? This little freakin' idiot is the most annoying villain I know!"
Again Robin sighed. He felt like sighing a lot today. "Cyborg, you're the only one who'll understand all this techstuff. None of us has enough technical knowledge to keep up with Gizmo."
Grumbling Cyborg went through the file when Raven spoke up in her usual monotone, "What about me?"
Robin handed her a file before waving his own. "I will take Red X by the way so don't complain, guys."
Raven opened the file, put the empty profile form Robin printed out aside and stared at the page in front of her. "Are you serious, Robin? There is just a name on it!"
"Oh no, look down here!" Robin replied quickly pointing almost proudly at the bottom of the file in her hands. "There is also a small description of his powers!"
"…which is incomplete!"
Robin shrugged. "We just don't have more information about him. And that's why we need to find out more about him."
"He's still just a minor villain, so is Punk Rocket. Why do we put effort and precious time in finding out more about unimportant characters like this?" she uttered.
"Because," Robin hold his index finger up like a teacher in front of his class, "even a minor villain can become a danger. You can never know enough about your enemy, even if he might seem unimportant to you. We can't judge the dangerousness of a villain without fully knowing him and his abilities. What I try to say is: Don't underestimate your opponent. Never."
"Sorry I asked," Raven deadpanned and - staring at the name in front of her - she phased through the floor to appear in her room.
"Why did I get Kyd Wykkyd? Why not someone who does at least talk or could become a true danger?" she murmured to herself before throwing the file on her bed and walking over to her bookshelf.
"I have to warn you, Beast Boy. Be careful when it comes to Cheshire. She is dangerous and after what I've heard she doesn't hesitate to kill. The claws she uses in a fight are really sharp and she is trained well in hand-to-hand-combat."
Beast Boy made a wishy-washy-gesture with his hand and rolled his eyes. "Dude, I fought the Brotherhood of Evil my whole life and we dealt with guys like Trigon and Slade. I'm sure I can handle it."
Robin didn't look convinced. "Uhuh. Just don't treat it too lightly."
"No worries, Rob."
Robin nodded. "Alright. If we're already here: Do you think you can also handle the cleaning of the fridge? Because it's your turn and it looks disgusting."
"No fair, dude! I'm sure it's Cyborg's turn!"
"It was his so called 'turn' the last week friend Beast Boy," Starfire threw in smiling.
Before Beast Boy could start a dramatic act, Robin cut him off.
"It's an order Beast Boy. And it IS your turn."
With that Starfire and Robin exited the room, leaving a grumpy Beast Boy behind.
Beast Boy threw a glance at the list lying on the counter and sighed deeply.
'Take expired food out of the fridge and put it in the bin' was the first point and a look into the fridge proofed him right in his assumption that it was rather hard to find something that wasn't expired yet.
Starting with some foul-smelling sodas, he went on with all kinds of mushy fruits. On some point he found something green-blue with hairs that he identified as an old piece of cheese after his nose had denied to keep working and the only still eatable thing was eaten by Silkie who went by in between.
After cleaning and disinfecting every inch of the monster they called their fridge (Raven had joined him at some point to make sure he would work thoroughly and blast him off the roof if he didn't) , Beast Boy went off to talk to Cyborg about some kind of self-cleaningthingy for the fridge they were in need for urgently.
"This is pointless," Raven deadpanned.
Cyborg sighed and let his face sink onto his folded arms. They were sitting on a hidden bench near the Hive Five's home, staring at an iPadsized screen in Cyborg's hands.
He had somehow managed to install a small camera in the Hive Five's common room to do some 'observation' of their targets – Gizmo and Kyd Wykkyd – but it turned out to be even more boring than they had expected.
The camera device Cyborg had installed inside the Hive Five's headquarters had a limited reaching area, which was why they were sitting on this near bench, staring up in the grey sky over Jump City and hoping it wouldn't start raining soon.
The only thing Cyborg had found out so far was that Gizmo seemed to be allergic against pears and Kyd Wykkyd didn't even appeared yet.
"You know that Gizmo and you have many similiarities, right?"
"Oh, c'mon Raven!" Cyborg exclaimed.
"It's true," she went on. "Both of you are technical geniuses, both of you are very competitive and both of you use technology to fight other people or creatures. He is bald, you are bald. Both of you have a massive arsenal of high-tech weapons I suppose. Both of you are brave and intelligent – even if you don't like me saying that and both of you don't like each other. Oh, and both of you like to play the boss if necessary. Besides-"
"This little freakin guy is rude, nasty and has no respect at all!"
"True. But still."
Cyborg didn't answer. He knew what she meant so there was no necessity to deepen the topic. Gizmo and him were kind of alike but they were also very, very different and he hoped that Raven knew that.
Before he could say anything else Kyd Wykkyd entered the screen, went to the fridge and took out an avocado.
Then he went to the couch, took a bite of the avocado without even peeling it and started to meditate while chewing.
Raven looked quite grossed out just imagining the taste of a plain unpeeled avocado and Cyborg couldn't help but to feel the same. "He would be a good match for Star," he just commented shuddering.
Nodding, Raven got up. "Let's head back. This won't give us much information. We need a better plan."
Welcome to my first English written story. This is a big deal for me and the story is really important to me, mainly because of the language change.
My first language is German and I learned English in school and spent some time in the UK, which is why there is certainly muuuch room for improvement in this story (and my English in general). Apart from that I TRY to use American English but am more comfortable with British English which is why there could be some ehm... Bitish words or expressions in it. :D Sorry for that.
If you find mistakes or have suggestions how things might sound "better" or more natural: Tell me please! I WANT to improve my english and I hope for useful critizism!
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