Chapter 1

Hive Academy. Two Years in the future.

"And now if you would all step this way for a moment you will see the training room,"

The mob of recruits sidestepped and gazed at the plethora of weights, treadmills, and robot dummies. Today was an important day for them. After all not everyone was given the opportunity to attend the HIVE Academy. You had to be ruthless, strong, and evil. Thus the question running through all of the recruits minds as they furiously took notes was, am I good enough? What if I don't pass my classes?! What if I fail the physical examination!? The last thing any recruit wanted to do was upset the Headmaster. "Moving on now you will see our science labs,"

As the students tinkered with various test tubes and chemicals the Headmistress pushed her hair back. Four hours. Four hours of touring the entire campus and she would have to do it again tomorrow. She massaged her temples and looked at the students. It wouldn't be a bad idea to familiarize herself with their faces. She looked at each recruit and attempted to recall all of their memorable facial features. One student had a red cap covering his face. "Excuse me sir, the HIVE Academy has a strict policy against freshmen wearing caps. Take that off immediately, it will not be toler... ated,"

The recruit was gone. The Headmistress sighed, probably just another recruit playing with their powers.

Crash! Smash! Crash!

Several recruits began to scream as random test tubes and beakers exploded spreading broken glass everywhere. "What the hell!"

"What's going on!"

Smash! Zoom! Crash! Zoom!

While the students continued to panic the Headmistress composed herself and surveyed the room. A yellow blur caught her eye.

Zoom!

She ran out of the classroom and hit the red emergency button on the wall near the door. "Code Red! I repeat Code Red! We have an intruder in the-"

Pow!

The headmistress clutched her stomach. She was now on the ground. Rolling onto her knees she groaned suppressing the urge to vomit.

Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!

Students screamed as desks were instantaneously smashed and the lights above their heads short circuited. A senior student with long orange hair screamed over the chaos, "GIZMO! WYKKYD! SEE-MORE! BILLY! PROTECT THE HEADMASTER!"

The five students rushed to the Headmaster's office. "Ugh!"

The orange-haired student was now on the ground covering his right eye. "JUST GO! PROTECT THE HEADMASTER!"

The student known as See-More replied, "NO! MAMMOTH WE'RE NOT LEAVING YOU!"

Mammoth groaned as a series of lightning fast strikes knocked the wind out of him. "JUST GO!"

The four remaining students sprinted as fast as they could and eventually reached the Headmaster's office. "Headmaster! There's an intruder!"

"I know, my students,"

The Headmaster had his eyes closed. He looked relatively calm. No fear or stress. "Billy guard the door!" commanded Gizmo.

"I'm not doing it you do it!"

"No you do it!" replied Billy to his clone.

Gizmo, See-More, and Kyd Wykkyd surrounded the Headmaster in a protective formation. "Whatever happens, do not break formation," reminded See-More.

Zoom! Crash!

The door of the Headmaster's office burst open scattering Billies everywhere.

Zoom! Smack! Pow! Wham!

Gizmo, See-More, and Kyd Wykkyd fell to the ground unconscious. "YOU!"

The Headmaster smiled. "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! YOU HURT HER! YOU TOOK HER AWAY FROM ME! YOU'RE A MURDERER!" bellowed the young teen.

Lightning coursed through the teen's veins and his body vibrated at a rapid frequency. The Headmaster could feel the pure energy illuminating from the person before him. "Ah, Mr. West. Don't you mean you killed her,"

Tears began to run down the boy's face, "THAT'S A LIE! YOU TOOK CONTROL OF MY MIND! YOU MADE ME... I'LL KILL YOU!"

"Now let's not make a scene here Mr. West. You and I both know you won't kill me. After all, your reputation as a hero wouldn't fare very well if you did," the Headmaster laughed.

"So go ahead. Take me to jail, but you and I both know I'll find a way out. Then, we'll start the whole thing all over again,"

"No, not this time,"

The hero raised his fists above his head and began vibrating them at a speed so fast that visible sparks of electricity were flying off of them.

"If being a hero means letting scum like you continue to make people suffer, then I'm done being a hero,"

He cocked his arms back prepared to deliver the life-taking strike.

A/N: Hello all! First, I disclaim everything. Now for all of you DC fans out there, you may notice that this chapter may be reminiscent of some older DC storylines. That's because it's where I got my inspiration from. So I apologize if anyone disagrees with my putting a twist on old things, but that's my style. Oh yeah, now stuff about the story. So, if you haven't already noticed, I'm pretty in love with writing action sequences. You know, the violent stuff. For this story I'm going to try to focus more on the romance aspect. Wish me luck (I suck at that sort of thing)! As for my other stories, they'll be on hold for awhile. Stay Fresh!