Prologue
A figure stepped out of the shadows and into the light of the dimly lit office. The man was bald, with dark rimmed glasses framing his head. The man at the desk was stooped over, intently focusing on his work. The bald man cleared his throat and the man directed his attention to the bald man.
"What is it Nigel?" asked the man. Nigel, the bald man, shuffled the files in his hand nervously.
"Have you heard of the security shutdown at the Pentagon?" the man at the desk nodded, "Well, look who's to blame." Nigel shoved a picture of a white haired man and a redheaded woman into the man's face.
"G.L.O.V.E. operatives Otto Malpense and Laura Brand-Malpense. Unsurprising." Nigel Darkdoom shook his head and pointed to the pictures of a white haired girl, her hair tied into a ponytail. She had a petite face and green eyes with a cute, upturned smile, nearly the spitting image of her mother. In the next picture, there was a red haired boy with blue eyes and a square, arrogant face. His blue eyes and taunting smile suggested he was the kind who didn't mind stealing your wallet while you weren't looking.
"No. The lockdown was merely the fault of two thirteen year old identical twins: Kylie Malpense and Dexter Malpense. What should we do Dr. Nero? Arrange them for a pickup?"
"Their children must be even more mischievous than their parents to do such a feat at such a young age. If BOTH are to come here, as well the Fanchu siblings, and your children too, I might as well stop taking the Age-Prevention pills that you invented for me, Nigel." Nigel chuckled with the doctor.
"However, since we have installed a new program where previous Alphas may come back and teach, we can invite Otto and Laura to teach Technology, and Shelby and Wing can teach Tactical Education. Also, if the twins are mischievous enough, their parents can control them." Nero continued.
"It's agreed then?" Darkdoom asked," The Malpenses are coming to H.I.V.E."
Chapter 1
Kylie was busy hacking into the F.B.I database when she heard three taps, which was the signal from her twin brother, Dexter, that someone was coming their way. She had just finished what they were here for anyways: to find out the location of the president's vacation. Her parents were away for the time being, and Kylie found no reason to spend the nights at home alone. She and her brother were planning to go there to embarrass President Nideon in front of the United Nations council. Why? Well, President Nideon had focused on military strength instead of intellectual strength, which had turned most Americans against him. But the government refused to impeach him still. So that's why Kylie hacked into F.B.I. database.
Then she heard a zapping sound right behind her. What the-? F.B.I. agents never tasered suspects. Unless. This wasn't F.B.I. The realization hit her just before the world turned black.
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"Ugh…." Kylie heard a voice moan next to her ear and felt the heavy weight of her brother on her shoulder. Groggily, she pushed the body onto the floor. Thunk! Kylie shot strait up. A thunk? The floor of a building shouldn't go thunk, that would mean they were in an air craft. Looking around, she saw that the person she shoved off was not, in fact, her brother. He was an Asian boy, and by his features, he was about 13, the same age as she. He had a cute face framed by dark, ruffled hair. Her brother, Dexter, was examining the 'cell' they were in, searching frantically for an exit route.
"Give it up, Dex," Kylie called over to her brother, who was totally oblivious to his surroundings. She had scanned the perimeters but found no exits. Dexter sighed and kicked the cell angrily. Since the hold had no windows, she decided to improvise one. She pulled out the blacksmith tools her mother gave to her for her eleventh birthday and began blowtorching a square in the metal. Then, she felt around the heel of her shoe and pulled out a secret compartment that contained lock picks she had gotten from her mysterious godmother and father. Supposedly, the locks were custom made, and Kylie was okay with that. The locks had helped her break into the Pentagon.
Dexter glowed when he saw the locks, suddenly remembering that he too, had a secret compartment where a minicomputer was stored. Kylie shook her head at her brother.
"Seriously? You totally forgot that we had our stuff with us?" Dexter gave her a sheepish grin and nodded. Then he stared at the limp body of the boy and then stared back at me.
"What do you want ME to do? I'm not going to carry him all the way outta here?" Kylie snapped. Dexter smiled in that quiet way of his, the smile that was creepy only to Kylie, the smile that everyone simply loved.
"I think you will," he spoke softly. Kylie opened her mouth to argue, but Dexter began again, "He must be in the same situation as us. Well, sort of the same anyway. I mean, it's not everyday you meet kids who hack into government systems. Plus, I think I've seen him somewhere before, but I can't place it. Maybe in one of Mom's totally encrypted emails. I was only able to catch a glimpse of a picture of a little kid that kinda looked like him. You won't need to carry him anyway. He's waking up." Dex was right. Again. As always. Kylie sighed and began to approach the slumped kid.
As she neared the kid, her gut was telling her to jump. And usually, when her gut told her to do something, it was right. Like that time when Anna, the school queen bee and drama queen, was about to scratch Kylie with her deadly pedicure. Or that time where a guy was about to run over her brother with a car, and Kylie pushed him over to the other side of the road. The instinct to jump now was irresistible.
Kylie couldn't resist- the instinct was too strong. She guessed that her instinct was clairvoyant or something, the kid lashed out his foot at Kylie. Getting up, he punched Kylie over and over, trying to knock her out. Her instincts took over, and she dodged the boy's attacks, which were slowing down by the minute. Finally, the boy decided to end the match and used a move that Kylie recognized- the Dragon Scale. He scaled the wall and began to unleash a torrent of kicks while falling. She knew his every move because she had a private tutor named Natalya who had taught her the same moves. She sort of hated the training (it was hard), but it was very useful. Apparently, Natalya owed her parents something for something her dad did years before. Breathing hard, the boy prowled around, looking suspiciously at Kylie.
"Who are you?" he darted his eyes around the cargo and spotted Dexter.
"Not your enemy!" Kylie hissed," Seriously? We're trying to escape here. I am Kylie, and that is my brother Dexter. Our last name is Malpense. And you are?"
" I am Jason Fanchu. I was captured with my sisters Skylar and Natalie. And how did you know Dragon Scale? I thought only-" Jason was cut off by Kylie.
"-Natalya's students knew that move?" she grinned. Finally someone understood how cool fighting was! Jason nodded in appreciation. They started chatting about the moves that Natalya had taught them.
"Earth to you lovebirds," Jason blushed at this," but we gotta escape here." Dexter. Ever so blunt. Nodding, Kylie picked up her lock set and began to pick at the door. With a small click, the door opened. Jason gaped at her, but Dexter just walked on by like it was normal. Which it was. As Dexter walked out of the cell, alarms screamed and screeched as if their lives depended on it.
"Damn!" Dexter hissed," I totally forgot about that!" Kylie groaned. Whatever chance they had of escaping was now… reduced to a 0.001 percentage. Kylie's brain was weird like that. Whenever she was presented with a challenging situation, her brain would just come up with percentages of chances (in this case, survival). Since Dex knew that she could do that, he glanced in her direction.
"Any chance we had before, which was 85% by the way, is now 0.001%. The alarms have most likely triggered a system where everything is shutdown to prevent prisoners from escaping. Whoever sent these guys REALLY don't want us to escape. I'll even bet you this is even the first time it has happened." Jason looked surprised that Kylie could have that logistically down in less than a minute. She winked at him. Kylie usually never let anyone in on her secret, except her family. But this guy seemed different from all the people at her old school, so she supposed it was okay. Then, something nagged her. Something about that kid wasn't right, like her brother had said. She couldn't place her finger on it; there was something that triggered her curiosity. Kylie put it to the back of her mind and began planning a way to shut off the alarms. Then she heard the woman.
Jason had never seen a girl quite like Kylie before. White hair, green eyes, everything about her was weird. Especially when she dodged his dad's favorite move, the one where the user appeared to be sleeping and then would lash out at an attacker. And she also surprised him by picking the lock of their cell with what looked like a kit she kept in her shoe. He had to admit, she was pretty cute, but she looked nothing like her twin Dexter. Dexter had come off as a friendly guy, but as a thief as well. Jason would probably get along quite well with him and his sister. Maybe Kylie could be more than a friend, a voice nagged at the back of his head.
Jason shook his head and tried to focus on the blaring problem. The alarm Dexter had triggered was still at the top of their priority. As fast as it began, the alarms stopped.
"I see the birds have escaped from their cage. You know, I could've taken away your tools, Ms. Malpense, but I wanted to see how you would fare with them. I see you have meet Mr. Fanchu. I believe I don't have to introduce myself. I think you will see that we have already met, " spoke a voice right behind Jason, which made all three of them jump in surprise. Whirling around, Kylie began rapid-firing questions at the voice. But something made her falter. Meanwhile, Jason processed the voice in his mind. It sounded slightly familiar, the soft lilt, the slight accent. Wait a minute!
He spun around. Could it be? His eyes confirmed his suspicions. The woman was no other than their tutor , Natalya.
"Natalya?" Kylie asked, confused and angry at the same time," Why are you doing this? I thought you were a good guy!"
"I'm terribly sorry to do this, but you'll learn later." She pulled out a tranquilizer (?) gun and shot Kylie in the chest. Surprised, she fell down into a pile at Dexter's feet. Angry, Dexter charged at the black-clad woman. Jason wanted to shout out no, but before he could do that, a fire from her gun shot him in the back. He was falling, falling into darkness.
Shelby Trinity-Fanchu paced across the room, anxiously waiting. An Asian man sat down on the bed, meditating, opposite Shelby.
"Give it a break, Shel. Raven's probably got them under control by now," Laura Brand-Malpense said to the pacing blonde.
"Then WHY is it taking so long, dammit!" the blonde yelled back. Laura walked over to her best friend and tried to comfort her.
"I know you are worried, Shelby, but you have to trust me on this one. Raven's got it all under control. Plus, she's got a sleeper. That would be her last resort," At this, a spiky- white haired man sat next to Laura and rubbed her shoulders.
"Knowing you, Laura, Kylie and Dexter are going to be a handful," everyone chuckled at this. Laura smiled at this.
"Aye, but knowing you, those twins are going to try and escape H.I.V.E. God help Raven if they're stuck in the same cell as Jason, Skylar, or Natalie. There's a reason we kept them apart. Combined with our deadly hacker skills and their-" at this, Laura pointed at Shelby and Wing" – deadly assassin/ninja skills, they would've taken over the White House. Seriously. I mean, with just Dex and Kylie alone, they took over the Pentagon! What else cold they have done if we all went on a 'trip', and they were left alone to their own devices!" Everyone burst into laughter at the note of seriousness in Laura's voice. A beeping noise from their Blackboxes announced the arrival everyone was waiting for. The new stream of Alphas.
Jason groaned. The last thing he remembered was watching Kylie getting shot just right before he did. Opening his eyelids, he saw Kylie's lips near his. GAAH! His mind screamed. He backed away quickly before Kylie could wake up and find them in that position. That would have been SUPER awkward.
So yeah. I didn't really know how to end it, so I ended it pretty awkwardly. If I get enough reviews (maybe two or three), I'll publish another chapter. I got this idea while thinking. How else? ;D JK. I got while reading a fanfic. This is my first one, so I hope you guys like it. Thank you for reading!
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