Gizmo lowered himself through the open window and down to the security panel. His tongue flicked out as his mechanical spider-legs and hands worked madly on the keys. A few moments pasted and the lasers blinked off. He dropped in and the rest of his team followed. It should have been an easy snatch and grab but then, for them nothing was easy.
Red X teleported into the room and saluted "Thanks for deactivating the system squirt," he throw out a hand and a red x burst from it, attaching to a case and opening it. He grabbed an item and as he left he knocked a vase, tripping the alarm.
Gizmo grumbled and his team were already grabbing what they could and leaving. Red X, another thief but one that managed to make everyone else look bad. Seemore, Billy and Mammoth came over with arms loaded and Kyd Wykkyd showed up beside them. His cape was about to flick over them when he was knocked back and his cape trapped inside a case.
Kid Flash stood near the Titans that had come into the room and looked at them. His own team placed the items down and ran at them throwing punches and kicks and elbows to the face. Kyd Wykkyd tried frantically to pull his cape free. There was jingling in his ears and he figured some set off an alarm.
He kept tugged at his cape as Mammoth and Billy where shot back. Mammoth landed in front of him with Billy to the side. They both stood up and stretched their arms – Mammoth rubbed his had with one at the same time.
Billy looked at Kyd Wykkyd and started laughing and a few more clones appeared doing the same. "Kyd you seem a little stuck," the Texan laughed "Maybe Mammoth could give you a hand," A clone said as it placed a hand on his shoulder. Kyd Wykkyd was grinding his teeth and glare which only made the southern boy laugh harder.
"Just ask nicely Kyd and I'll help you out," Mammoth said and the two burst into another fit of laughter. Mammoth smashed the case that was holding him pinned down and run back into the fight. Kyd Wykkyd glared at Billy for a moment before teleporting to the other side of the room.
He appeared behind Kid Flash and swiped his cape. There was a ringing again but he figured the alarm might still be going. Kid Flash ducked back and avoided his cape while making comments. Kyd Wykkyd's cape sliced through pieces of art, vases, pillars and chairs which fell apart – sliding away from each other.
"You know you're going to have to pay for that right?" Kid Flash said moving back again as another swipe hit near him, another perfectly good and expensive painting sliced in half. Kid Flash looked at the painting "You know I don't like much of Vincent's work either but I think this church looked better when it had the bottom half," Kyd Wykkyd sliced again and The Church at Auvers painting lost another half.
Kid Flash turned and grabbed Kyd Wykkyd. The world blurred past him in strikes or colour and before he could even take in where he was a rush of cold swarmed him. Seemore smacked the water hitting Kyd Wykkyd's face. Kid Flash had dropped him in the sea miles away.
Seemore started to swim for the sore as more of his fellow team members where brought into the water and Kyd Wykkyd followed behind Seemore. They reached the sore and once his cape was dry enough they teleported back to their base.
"Well, that damn speedster took all my loot away, what we gonna do now?" Billy asked as he dropped onto the couch. Kyd Wykkyd started to try and remove that water from his cowl and ears. His clothes now clang to his body and his cape weighed him down forcing his shoulders to slump. Seemore dropped down next to Billy eating a bag of potato chips.
"Well we lost this again," Seemore said chopping down a chip. Gizmo mumbled something as he moved back over. Kyd Wykkyd laughed as Gizmo dropped to the couch and started up a link with the other villains.
Over the last few weeks every villain had been saying how they were the best at everything. Each would tell stories that were clearly not true and they try to prove themselves to be the best. Red X pointed out that he was the only one not to be arrested and to actually get away with his crimes and because of this they started up a game.
The game was an item each week that needed to be stolen. At the end of a three month period the winner would be announced. This was what the Hive Five where good at and yet week after week they felt like they were lagging behind. Red X had gotten four items, Adonis had two, Mambo Jumbo had two as well and Kitten had managed to get one – with the help of Kid Whiz – the Hive Five on the other hand hadn't managed a single item.
Red X was in the top corner of the screen and throwing the item he'd stolen today up and down. He stopped for a moment and looked at them with a smirk. "You boys were a little slow," Red X said as he placed the item down. It was some type of ball or sphere or globe with odd markings. It was maybe the size of a baseball and was gold all the way round.
"The Hive Five, greatest thief's of all time," Adonis said laughing and falling back in his chair. "What a joke. You haven't stolen anything," he continued with a smug smile.
Gizmo stood up shaking his fist in Red X's direction "We would have had that thing tonight if you didn't come in, what type of person steals another person's score," Gizmo grumbled.
"The smart kind, have fun with the Titans?" Red X asked and most of the people on the screen faced them.
"We hacked in and watched from the security system. It was so funny," Kitten smiled.
"Yeah, my favourite bit was Billy getting knocked into the coffin or Seemore having that dinosaur body cage him in," Adonis was cracking up. "Or maybe Gizmo falling into that crib and Mammoth getting stack in a case,"
"Kyd you seemed to be the only one not having issues although having your cape caught was funny and the bell," Kitten said and Kyd Wykkyd looked down to see a red collar around his neck with a gold bell. He started pulling at it and it jingled as he struggled giving the screens of villain more reason to laugh.
"He did destroy a lot though," Red X mused but it faded as Kyd Wykkyd fell backwards on Mammoth still straggling with the collar.
"Stop moving Wykkyd," Seemore growled as Kyd Wykkyd still thrashed around. Mammoth and Seemore were now trying to pull the collar off but it wouldn't loosen. Finally Gizmo grabbed a pair of scissors, passing them to Seemore who cut the bell off and held it there. Kyd Wykkyd glared at the item and snatched it from him. He dropped it to the ground and stomped his foot on it before returning his gaze to the monitors.
"Next item will be shown in a few days," The Game Master said. All the screens blanked off and Kyd Wykkyd took what remained of the bell to the bin.
Everyone headed to their own rooms for some well-deserved rest. Kyd Wykkyd walked into his room and grabbed some clothes. Thanks to Jinx the Hive Five had to move locations and now lived in a done up home. They use to all have their own bathrooms back then but now they all shared one.
Kyd Wykkyd walked down the hall, on this side of there was his bedroom in the middle of Seemore's and Billy's with the bathroom on the end. He stepped into the bathroom and locked the door. He looked around the room. Along the end wall was the shower and bathtub and next to that was the sink with the toilet just behind the door. The bath itself was still full and had a yellow-rub-duck that Billy throw in there and the rest of the floor was littered with clothes from his teammates.
He went for a quick hot shower before heading back to his room. His room could resemble something like a Goth's room. The walls were a dark grey – almost black. The ground was the same in colour as the walls but it was the furniture that made it Gothic looking. He'd found a bed that looked somewhat like a coffin and thought it would be fun to pretend to be a vampire, his bookcases that sat either side of his bed, both black and lined with books, his sofa was something you'd probably see in a Gothic mansion which is where he'd borrowed his from and the dress and desk were both from that same mansion.
He moved to his bed and pulled the crimson sheets down before sliding in. His eyes closed and he drifted into a quiet and restless sleep.
When morning sprang he was already in the kitchen fixing himself something. He had cooked a few pancakes for himself and Seemore who'd woken early. After eating he stayed in his room for a bit reading a few books based on magic and flicking through short stories. His friends were in the main room which connected the kitchen, dining and lounge together. He could hear the Billy clones going on and on while they played some racing game. Kyd Wykkyd did like the games and he played a bit when asked to join in but he didn't like the fighting that was involved.
At about lunch time he headed back into the room and ate whatever Mammoth had served. Gizmo was at the T.V and looking over a few of the recent theft attempts. He mumbled something about patterns and clicked on each item. Seemore and Kyd Wykkyd watched with mild interest as he flicked over the items that had been stolen so far. A golden rod, a golden plate, a golden box and the golden sphere from last night. Those were the objects Red X had gotten. Adonis had managed somehow to get a golden weight thing and some type of cloth that also looked golden. Kitten had stolen a golden gem and Mambo had stolen some other weird type of object that looked like a code written on a rock that was gold as well.
"The Games Master sure has a thing for gold doesn't he?" Billy said. Gizmo typed something about Valuable Gold Objects and searched. A few hundred items popped up and he added In Jump City, narrowing it down to a hundred.
"This is stupid, I have no idea how he picks the items," Gizmo said as he dropped back in his chair. You could see the frustration coming off him in waves.
"So were not going to be able to cheat?" Seemore asked as he looked over the items. It was Gizmo's intent to find the next object and get it long before it was even shown but that didn't seem likely.
"No, we have to play it fairly apparently," Gizmo sighed and throw his head back. Seemore on the other hand walked over and tapped on a few keys. He typed in the items stolen so far and looked for a link between them. Of course there was none. Other than the item being gold.
"Anymore bright ideas," Billy asked and the room was silent "Well, what do we do now?" Billy asked and Gizmo lit up with a smile and rolled back to the desk. He typed in a few things and the next thing anyone knew there was blueprints to Kittens, Adonis and Red X's houses on the screen.
"Were just going to have to steal from the thefts," Gizmo said with a smile.
The plan to get Kitten's object was easy. They'd take a window into the house, climb the stairs and find her room. Once in her room they'd go through the stuff till they found the object. All simple and all done correctly. But now they were faced with a new problem.
All the boys stood in the door with a confused look on their faces. They had, had one female live with them and although her hair was pink she was nothing like most girls. Kitten on the other hand was most certainly a girl. Her bedroom was covered in pink fabric with pictures of people she deemed cute on the walls – which meant heaps of pictures of Robin the boy wonder - and stuffed animals. This was the last thing they expected when they'd thought of stealing from her.
They all stepped back and looked at each other for a moment. It was a silent argument that ended in a round of rock, paper and scissors. Billy lost and stepped into the room. He cloned himself a few times and his clones started throwing things around. Toys hit the ground, clothes were pulled from their spots and dumped as they searched through the draws. Eventually after pulling the whole room apart Billy came out empty handed.
"Well this was a waste, if not in her room where would she put the darn thing," he said as he shook his hands. They had pink fluff and glitter on them. Gizmo headed down stairs and started to look through the things down there. Everyone followed and went through objects, CD's, behind frames and Mammoth checked the fridge, a few times.
Seemore leaned on a statues and a passage opened. Gizmo was the first to go down and the others filed in after him. Billy pulled a chain in the room and a light flicked on. Moths, big moths in glass cages all around them and in one of these glass filled case was the object Kitten and Whiz Kid had stolen. Again another round was played and this time Kyd Wykkyd lost. The others run out of the room and closed the door and he found a button that released them.
The buzzing was the first thing he really noticed. It was louder and closer to him. The next thing was all the wings and bodies that collided with him but the thing that really pushed him over the edge was the bitting at his cape and cowl. He started bolting around the room and trying to see through the speedy flapping of wings.
A moth knocked him over and he could see the object. A small golden stone that sat on top of a red pillow. He got to his knees and started to crawl through the crowd of moths. They managed to knock him a few times and bit at him but for the most part he felt nothing. Well nothing but a disturbed feeling of bugs crawling over him and a high buzzing in his ear.
He held one edge of his cape and flung himself forward snatching up the gem and disappearing. He was in the living room again with the gem safely in his hand.
"Well," Billy asked peering down at him. He opened his hand and they smile.
They arrived home with a few treats and smiles on their faces. No one said they couldn't just take the items from the other and now they were actually in the running. Of course there wasn't really a prize even through some argued that there should be.
"Bet Kitten's going to lose it," Mammoth said as he crammed his mouth with chicken.
"I'm pretty sure she'll lose it when she sees here room," Seemore said taking some food off him and plunging into it.
"Yeah, yeah, we still have to get more items so don't start celebrating too fast," Gizmo said as he moved to the fridge. He grabbed a drink and sat down on the couch with his feet up. "All though we did do an excellent job," the smiles returned to the faces of his teammates and they joined him on the couch. Everyone but Kyd Wykkyd who had to go change because of the many bite marks in his clothes.
The night went quickly and after they'd hidden the gem everyone headed off to sleep. Tomorrow it was Adonis' house.