My very first HIVE fanfic, dedicated to Reensie17 who waited very very very very VERY patiently for this fic :) Reensie, this one's for you.

This was MEANT to be a one shot…but it ended up wa-a-ay too long and I didn't know where to cut it from. So I made it a two-shot.

DISCLAIMER: I could say that I own HIVE…but I'm scared of what Raven would do to me :) This switches between third person, and Otto's POV.

"Where's Otto?" Laura asked, looking slightly worried.

"Honestly, I'm sorry to say that I can't tell you that, Laura, because I am not aware about his precise location myself."

"Wing means, 'I dunno'," Shelby said in a stage whisper, before continuing in a normal voice, "Why?"

"Because I asked him earlier if he wanted to meet up at the lab later today. He said he had 'business', and he couldn't tell me where he was going because he wanted to make sure no one could find him. This is more than enough to make anyone who knows Otto worried."

"Oh, I believe he's working on that plan he was going to execute in response to Dr Nero's putting him in detention," Wing said matter-of-factly.

"Nero put Otto in detention?" Shelby immediately sat up a bit straighter and shook her head. "I told him it was a bad idea to create a highly radioactive nuke in Pike's lab, but no, he won't listen, will he? 'Shelby, don't worry, I know what I'm doing,' blah blah blah. He's only going to listen after he gets detention, right? Idiot. Well, I'm not gonna be nice and spare him a barrage of 'I told you so's for sure," she said with a huge grin, but she fell silent when she noticed everyone staring at her.

"Um, highly radioactive nuke in Professor Pike's lab?" Laura asked nervously.

"Nero put him in detention for interrupting him every two seconds during Villainy Studies, Shel. I do not believe there was a nuclear bomb involved," Wing said, looking plenty nervous himself.

"Oh…can you just forget whatever I said? No? Too much to ask for?"

"He won't be stupid enough to detonate a nuke to get back at Nero, right?" the redheaded Alpha was distinctly jittery now.

"Nah, he's an idiot, sure, but not thatbig an idiot," Shelby said dismissively. "Besides, I'll kill him before he can kill me, don't you worry about that."

"No, I think his plan is slightly more hazardous than detonating a bomb in the school," Wing said in an undertone. "Did either of you know HIVE has a Public Address System?"

"Yeah…" Shelby looked puzzled. "What about it?"

"Well, I think he plan on…you know…hijacking it."

Laura's elbow slipped on the table, and she narrowly missed crashing into her pasta. Shelby looked like she had just heard Wing say he liked Metallica.

"He what? You're not serious, are you? You didn't suddenly develop a really, really twisted sense of humour, right?"

Wing shook his head.

"God save us all."

Everything had to be perfect. I'd worked so long on this, and now it was almost ready.

I made a few final adjustments on my makeshift microphone; the very same device which had been connected to the main server, giving me complete access to and control over the PA System of HIVE. My lips curled into and evil grin and I laughed, hearing the evil sound echo in the empty, isolated room.

~~~(a little unbiased viewpoint of the above paragraph by the author)~~~

The white haired boy was tinkering with a strange device which looked…well, strange. Actually, it looked like a mike and a foghorn had made out and created this weird looking thing. But said albino seemed to positively glow as he looked at it, which made me think that he was the creator. Hm. Best not to comment on it when he was in earshot.

He grinned like he had escaped from an asylum, and began to laugh an evil laugh. At least, he seemed to thinkit was evil. It just sounded like he had a hair stuck in his throat, or he was choking on his gum, or…well, you get the idea. I hoped he would shut up soon. HIVE really needed to have 'Evil Laugh Class', and I'm sure that, if Dr Nero heard Otto's pitiful attempt at a 'laugh', he would have started one in a heartbeat.

"So wait, let me get this straight; Otto is hijacking the PA System? To get back at Nero?"

"Apparently."

"I feel sorry for him."

"I know, when Nero finds Otto, he's dead."

"No, I meant I feel sorry for Dr Nero."

The worrying state of affairs was being discussed at the lunch table in the cafeteria. While Laura was expressing her concern, Shelby was busy trying to remember anything particularly bad she did to Otto recently. You tend to worry about that when a person you may or may not have annoyed at some point has the power to declare all sorts of embarrassing (and not necessarily false) things to the entire school.

"Wait, he just told you he was planning to do this?" Shelby asked, incredulous.

"Um..." Wing looked slightly sheepish. "He was talking…in his sleep."

Shelby's incredulous face didn't drop. "People talk in their sleep when they're nervous. Why on earth would he be nervous?"

Uncharacteristically, I was nervous. It had been a harrowing time as I neared completion. I was getting nightmares about having the system on and not knowing what to say, because I couldn't find the speech I'd written. Instead, the only paper I do find is one which has the Nazi pledge to Hitler on written on it. Which is ridiculous on two counts: a) I don't need a speech and b) I wouldn't have had the Nazi pledge written down (1). I already knew it-I could pledge myself to Hitler by heart (2).

Wait, that didn't come out right.

"So," Wing concluded, "That's how I'd been able to piece together Otto's plan. Every now and then he'd recite some sort of pledge that would confuse me, something about 'In the presence of this blood banner which represents out Fuhrer I swear to devote all my energies…' or something like that, and that seemed rather inconsistent…" he trailed off as he saw the common expression on the girls' faces.

"…"

"…"

"…"

"…yeah, let's just pretend we didn't hear that."

"Agreed."

(1) All those who thought Otto might have had a really morbid attraction to Hitler can sigh with relief.
(2) Ok, I take that back :)

The Nazi pledge is written in our History text book. It says, 'In the presence of this blood banner which represents out Fuhrer I swear to devote all my energies and my strength to the savior of our country, Adolf Hitler. I am willing to and ready to give up my life for him, so help me God.' Page 67, Source C.

I really don't like Hitler…You wouldn't either, if you had to learn 36 pages on him for your exam :)

I'm sorry you couldn't see Otto actually hijack it in this one…but I didn't want to make a break in the middle of his grand scheme, so…Don't worry, I'll put up the next installment as soon as I'm done editing and re-reading. Reviews inspire me. Inspiration makes me work faster. Ya get the hint, people? Do I really need to say it? I'll say it anyways: review!