Sebastian Trent was having a Very Bad day.
First the death of Number One.
THEN his only G.L.O.V.E. captives vanished off the face of the earth.
This was not a good day by anybody's standards, and yet he had only one thing on his mind.
Revenge.
He quietly sipped his Chi, its silky smoothness usually having a calming effect, but today It only fuelled his rage.
All directed at a single person.
Otto Malapense.
Oddly enough, Otto was also thinking about revenge.
He was thinking about what to do to the person who had sneaked into his dormitory,
and put spray-on superglue onto the soles of his feet, the palms of his hands, and his entire face.
"Hey Nigel", Otto yelled" do you know anything that will dissolve superglue without dissolving my face?
Nigel, it turned out, was an expert on such matters, but unfortunately the treatment involved Otto standing dead still
hand stuck to his face, other hand stuck to his leg with his legs stuck to the floor where he had fallen while Nigel sprayed him all over,
his embarrassment no doubt doubled by H.I.V.E. mind helpfully beaming it live to the cafeteria.
"Is something wrong, my friend?" Wing asked Otto.
"You know exactly what's wrong,my friend," Otto replied,
"and I suppose you had nothing to do with the fact that
I woke up this morning covered in super-glue?"
"Aye, Otto anything wrong?" Laura asked, her face the picture of innocence,
but a slight twitch betraying the smirk that was fruitlessly hoping to make it
onto her face. "Lets be honest guys," Otto said, "my reputation is never really going to recover, is it?"
"Ja," Franz said, "but Mercury is saying humiliation is being good for the ego."
"Well, I suppose at least Shelby wasn't around to see me stuck to the floor in a
modelling posture" Otto said, "I never would have heard the last of it."(Shelby was on a training mission with miss Leon,
something about stealing a painting from the Louvre for Nero to hang on his wall )
'And who's this "Mercury" you keep on talking about' Otto asked?
Mercury,was a new science and technology stream villain who was particularly successful on Ms. Leon's assignments,
and had a knack for getting anywhere he wasn't supposed to be.
Raven had found him wandering dazedly in the streets with 5 Million U.S dollars worth of gold bullion from a local bank in his rucksack,and another boy (who had been placed in the alpha stream) with the same amount.
Needless to say,she soon persuaded them to come to H.I.V.E(with a sleeper pistol)
and the group seemed to have taken them under their collective wing as it were.
Oh, and, the other new villain was called E=MC2, And he had been taken into the alpha stream.
Three months earlier...
The technician nervously huddled into the room clutching his clipboard and said"The subject is fully secured,sir."But...
"But what!",Sebastian yelled, exasperated.
...Are you sure you want to torture a child?
"Of course I'm sure."Sebastian said."H.I.V.E. children are the scum of the earth,
and they deserve every bit of it. "Besides, this particular little rat is the only way I can
get the location of that Blasted volcano" he ranted." And now, little Franz" he said"
Let me show you what I have planned for you..."
"I have a feeling it's not ice-cream and a spa treatment "whispered a petrified Franz as he was led from the room...