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Times have changed, people have changed, and a new life has befallen the students at the HIVE academy. After Stone revealed himself to be none other then Cyborg of the Teen Titans, the HIVE academy was forced to relocate. Cyborg used the school's top secret weapon, the ion amplifier, to destroy the wicked academy. The school was demolished and Brother Blood, along with the rest of the students had to evacuate and escape.
A couple weeks later, Brother Blood had decided to go under the sea and create a new HIVE base down there. Blood knew the Titans would never think to look for him under the water. Now Jinx, Gizmo, Mammoth, Julius and the countless super villain students lay silently at the bottom of the ocean. Brother Blood was secretly plotting his revenge against the Teen Titans, "And this time the Teen Titans shall fall at my feet" Blood said.
Meanwhile……
The brimming, blue metallic chrome of the aquatic HIVE base gleamed brightly in the deep, dark, murky waters of the ocean floor. Sea creatures of all shapes and sizes frantically scurried their flippers and fins in full retreat. All forms of life seemed terror stricken by this abomination of science and steel, no doubt by the darkness that loomed inside it's occupant's hearts. At the base of the underwater base, Brother Blood sat upon a mighty throne.
Hundreds of students and masked HIVE soldiers worked their hands into the metallic floor, installing computers, weapons, defense systems, and other deadly devices of destruction. The dark haired boy known as Julius could be seen at the master computer. Wild sparks riveted from Julius purple gloves, using his electronic stun gloves as circuit breakers against the computer's complex systems. The headmaster smiled at Julius dedicated devotion.
"Students, students, can I please have you're attention, Brother Blood has something to say" Blood announced. All students and soldiers ceased their daily jobs and turned their curious eyes towards their wicked headmaster. Blood smirked "I want to thank you all for staying loyal to the cause of the HIVE academy, and working so hard on this new underwater base. I assure you, the Teen Titans will not escape us so easily the next time we meet.
Oh yes, I have a feeling our return will be quite a surprise for our young meddlesome friends. And to think we all have our dear friend Cyborg to thank for all of this". Brother Blood burst with maniacal laughter, the other students and soldiers all eagerly joined in on the dark chuckle. Julius however, remained dead to the world, dead even to his own praise. Blood added "I especially want to thank young Julius for all his brilliant work".
But Julius ears did not respond, neither did his face, it simply remained dead, silent, and locked forever in a sad frown of stone. A dark skinned girl working beside Julius curiously took notice to the boy's stone silence. "I trust you properly installed all the sonic gyros in Cyborg's super sized sonic cannon Bumblebee?" a voice called out. The dark girl turned and smiled willingly to Brother Blood, nodding and replying "Of course head master".
The teacher grinned wickedly, chuckling at his own ironic cruelty. Using Cyborg's own technology to help rebuild the HIVE base was a stroke of genius, Blood thought. Julius finished his work and silently headed back to his room, seemingly unnoticed except to the eyes of Bumblebee. A HIVE soldier took over Julius's station and the girl quickly looked away. Thoughts raced through Bumblebee's mind, silently examining Cyborg's tech data.
Bumblebee's thoughts
I can't believe Brother Blood got a hold of this; it's a full print out of Cyborg's biological schematics. Everything from his memory banks to his advanced weapons systems. I can't let Brother Blood use these plans for evil.
I just hope he hasn't caught onto my trail like he did with Stone; I've worked too hard to get caught now. Something tells me that weird kid was the one that helped Blood create that super sized sonic cannon, god only knows what else he can do. Better keep an eye on him from now on.
"INTRUDER ALERT, INTRUDER ALERT" a loud voice boomed. Flashing red lights blinded the entire room, hundreds of computer monitors flashed with surveillance camera images. A dark haired boy in a blue, unitard like outfit was seen. Bumblebee gasped as she recognized him. Brother Blood frowned "Aqualad, finally the guppy returns to the hook. This time fish boy won't be troubling us. Kid Wicked, fire the sonic disruptors".
A dark, pale, white faced, devil like student nodded and pressed a blue button. The aqua base's defense systems began to launch gigantic, satellite dishes and aiming them towards Aqualad. The young aquatic warrior had a legion of whales, sharks, and other sea creatures charging right along his side. Sonic pulses violently blasted Aqualad and disrupted his aquatic telepathy. The creatures moaned and squirmed, swimming uncontrollably.
Bumblebee sighed as she watched her fellow titan retreating. Blood and the other students clapped and cheered, happy to see the heroic teen vacating the area. Through out the rest of the HIVE academy, students were doing whatever they could to escape boredom on the armored aquatic prison. No a lot of places to go when you're under countless gallons of sea water. Wolfsbane snarled as he sliced a robot drone in half, growling in utter fury.
The wolf skinned warrior viciously plowed his way through sentry robot after sentry robot, dodging lasers, net launchers, and high explosives. Wolfsbane eagerly embraced the roaring rush of intense combat, passing the time by enhancing and sharpening his already seemingly perfect fighting skills. Webs toiled in his bedroom, dabbling chemicals and toxins into test tubes. The spider boy smirked as he injected them into his web blasters.
SPLAT! A corrosive acid web spray splattered inside a trash can, holes started to seep into the rotting metal around the can. "That'll come in handy one of these days" Webs said with a proud smile on his young face. Everyone seemed to be busy, everyone seemed to be happy, everyone except for one, gray, heart broken little sorceress. Jinx sighed miserably into her hands. The girl wept "You really know how to pick em, don't you Jinx?".
Jinx felt so disgusted with herself over what she said to Julius, he called it dead on and she still blew him off. "I should go apologize" Jinx said to herself. The girl clicked her large, dark shoes across the metallic chrome floors of the deep sea base. Fortunately for her, Jinx had a way with getting what she wanted and she managed to charm the information out of a few students. A large, heavily armored door slowly appeared before Jinx's eyes.
Cautiously raising her hand to the door, Jinx was about to knock until she heard something from inside. There were 2 voices inside that room. One of them was Julius, the other was unknown to her, and both sounded quite angry. Jinx couldn't deny her curious instincts and leaned her ear against the cool metal of the door, silently listening.
Meanwhile……
Julius repeated "Agent 329X come in, dammit, I know you can hear me. Respond. Agent 329X, have you acquired the object or not?".
The dark scientist was bickering with a static covered television monitor, it sparked wild, blurry imagery before finally materializing into a solid image. The image was that of a masked young man. The suit was black, a was skull face printed on the mask, and a red X was designed on the mask's forehead.
The dark agent replied "Mission accomplished chief, oh and by the way, it's RED X from now on".
Julius smiled "I'm glad to hear that. I take it you made it inside undetected?".
"Not a soul around doc, just like we planned" Red X answered.
Julius raised an eager eyebrow "I trust you have what I asked you for as well?".
The skull faced warrior raised up a small yellow disc like device, examining it curiously in his dark hands.
Red X shrugged "Still don't have a clue what you could want with this tinker toy".
Dodging the question, Julius said "That's for me to know and you to find out".
Red X smirked "You know, I could just snatch and run chief. Leave you hanging high and dry and all that jazz".
"You WHAT?" Julius shouted.
Red X added "Be a real snap. I got what I wanted, and there's not a whole lot you can from over there, can you?".
Julius snarled "Don't screw with me X. We had a deal, I gave you the tools you needed to break into Titans tower and steal Robin's Red X suit. And in return, you bring me Warp's vortex regulator. That was the bargain".
Angrily removing a small floppy disc from his coat pocket, Julius raised it to the screen.
The dark boy hissed "And just for the record, I can do plenty damage once I broadcast you're real identity across the net for every cop, crook, and hacker to see. I've got it all right here in my hands".
Red X replied "Chill chief, you're taking this way too seriously. You'll get your little toy just as I promised, it'll be there in less then 24 hours, Red X out".
The monitor flashed off and Julius rubbed his fingers together as he sat in his chair, deeply embedded in his thoughts.
Julius frowned "Activate security program delta".
The front door to Julius room suddenly vanished, and Jinx gasped as hundreds of mechanical hands and steel wires suddenly grabbed her. The girl was sucked into the room as the door quickly shut behind her. Steel cords wrapped over Jinx's lips and hands, stopping her from attacking or even speaking. Hundreds of large, laser cannons emerged from the ceiling and locked their beady, red dot targeting systems right onto Jinx's forehead.
The helpless girl squeaked in fear as she sweat dropped, staring at the large guns completely surrounding her. Julius turned around in his chair to face her. The boy looked at her with an annoyed, scowling look on his face.
Julius smirked evilly "Well, well, well, what do we have here?".
To be continued……