Author's Notes: Typos are bound to happen, I guess. I try to edit everything before I send it in, but sometimes I miss things. Oh well. Some people may be disappointed with this chapter, since it's basically all talk, no action. This fanfic should be over by the end of the week at the latest, especially with the speed I've been writing this at. Ah, well, anyway, criticize as you please.
Disclaimer: "Teen Titans" does not belong to me, and it does not make me very happy that I must repeat this to remind myself of that fact.
It was late in the afternoon the following day, and Jinx had the blueprints of the Jump City Scientific Research Facilities laid out on the coffee table in the common room of the Hive Five headquarters. She had called another team meeting to discuss a certain robbery. She was explaining her plan to her teammates, most of whom were scratching their heads in confusion (seven Billy Numerouses, Mammoth, and See-More, to be exact).
"So wait," Gizmo interrupted, his temper getting worse by the second. "We can't even rob a bank, but you want to rob some science place? Are you out of your crud-munching mind?"
"Don't you see the value of this?" Jinx asked impatiently, pointing to a room on the blueprints labeled "Section 12". "In this room, there's an unstable chemical that's still being tested, but has proven to at least contain the energy of a medium-scale nuclear explosion in a single drop. If we stole this and presented it to the Brotherhood of Evil, don't you see how close we could come to gaining membership?"
"Them again?" one of the Billys whined. "They ain't worth my time."
"Well, they're worth mine, and if you want to stop being so immature, you would see the brilliance behind this. We could actually become more famous as the Hive Five if we pulled this off!"
"I thought you gave up on them," See-More added, confusion still written on his face.
"I…just hadn't been thinking about them much," Jinx said, blushing and stroking her upper arm.
"Where did you find out about this chemical?" Kyd Wykkyd asked.
"Oh, I was reading the newspaper," Jinx responded. "It was on the front page of the science section of The Jump City Times."
"They have that?" Mammoth asked, laughing. "Wow, who'd read that?"
Jinx rolled her eyes. What did Mammoth know? He never even read the flavors of potato chips on the bags he wolfed down, let alone the newspaper.
"Listen, this is going to be the plan. At the entrance here, there are two security guards. A small explosion about fifty feet away should be enough to get their attention, so Gizmo, we'll need a time-bomb over here," Jinx said, pointing at a spot on the blueprints outside the research center. "I know we could just easily barge in there, steal it, and be on our merry way, but if we do this in style, the Brotherhood might see it as more of a well-planned crime instead of an amateur's attempt at robbing." Jinx smiled at the idea of turning thievery into an art.
"Then," she continued, glancing at Kyd Wykkyd and See-More, "Kyd Wykkyd and See-More will enter the building, and then find and put all security devices out of commission. Once that's finished, Mammoth, Gizmo, and I will enter the building. Billy, you'll be distracting the cops outside. If the time bomb doesn't do it…well…improvise. We don't want them in the building, since they guard the main entrance and exit. If there are security cops within the building, well, we know what to do about that. I believe Section 12 is on the third floor of the building, and so we'll be heading there. Before the time bomb even goes off, I'll sever the telephone wires. Remember, we want to cut off all communication this place has to the outside world. I don't even want the Titans to know about it. We'll pull off this robbery right under their noses."
"This place got a satellite?" Gizmo asked.
"I don't…actually, yes it does," Jinx said, surprised someone on her team had actually asked a question other than "What's for lunch?" She pointed to the roof of the building. "Nevermind following me and Mammoth into the building. Just head up to the roof and disable the satellite. If the security guards try communicating with each other, then it doesn't matter all too much. They don't pose as too much of a threat."
"Hey, can I trash the building?" Mammoth asked.
"No," Jinx sighed, rolling her eyes. "We're just going for the chemical. No more. No less. Now, once we actually enter the section, it's going to be a problem. Their security devices are active from the time the building is supposed to close to the time the building is supposed to open. It's controlled by a panel in the center of the section, very close to where the chemical is stored at night. The section itself is top-notch security, believe it or not. Something about terrorist meta-humans made the designer of the section very paranoid, and so he equipped the area with a material that dark energy cannot pass through, as well as drills." She looked at Gizmo's mouth, which was open in shock and she said, "Yeah, it's a really strong material. The control panel itself has that same barrier, and so I can't break it to shut off the security system in the room. There are motion sensor beams everywhere, and coming through the ceiling won't work, and so Mammoth should remove the door. I'll go in and navigate around the beams, take the chemical somehow, and then we'll get out of there as quickly as possible."
The guys of the Hive Five looked at their leader as though she was a hydra. "What?" she said. "This is doable. It's difficult, but it can be done. I've already assigned you guys your positions and I think you only need to worry about that. They're not very difficult assignments. The room's just got you spooked, I think, and I'll take care of that."
She thought to herself how perfect the crime would be if the building was left perfectly intact (save some wires here and there from security cameras and such), the security guards said a bunch of hoodlums did it, and the only thing missing would be the chemical. The world would be frightened. Who were these kids working for and were the public's lives at stake? See-More asked a question and snapped Jinx out of her daydream.
"I'm sorry," Jinx said, blinking rapidly a few times to register that she was at the Hive headquarters and talking to See-More. "Could you repeat that?"
"I said, what time?"
"I think eleven o'clock should work," Jinx replied.
"Eh, do we have to?" one Billy asked.
"Yes, you have to," Jinx said, glaring her teammate down for the second time that week.
"What's gonna happen if we don't?" Mammoth asked.
"You don't want to know what happens if you don't," Jinx said menacingly, her eyes glowing a fierce pink. The boys of the Hive Five didn't object to her plan after that statement. She walked out of the room and yelled, "Eleven o'clock! Don't forget!"
The guys of the Hive Five waited until she had left the room. "Wow," See-More said. "I never thought we'd actually be planning out these robberies."
"Same," Gizmo replied. "Usually we just go in and rob the place. Probably because security stinks at the mall. Now this science place, wait a minute. Why'd she tell you blockheads to cut the security in the building, and not me?"
"I can see the wires through the walls," See-More said. "And Kyd Wykkyd can get me there."
"Do you even know what to cut once you're there?" Gizmo asked with one eyebrow raised.
"Um…no…" See-More said, a question-mark replacing his eye.
Gizmo laughed and clutched his ribs. "You guys are stupid! You can't even cut a wire!"
See-More wanted to punch Gizmo in the face, but he restrained himself and asked the small genius, "Well, do you know how?"
"Duh!" Gizmo responded. "What moron doesn't know how to do that?" He looked at See-More in the eye and yelled, "Oh yeah!" He stroked his chin as if there was a beard there. "I guess I could teach you now," he said. "After all, if you blow it, Jinx won't kill me for it."
See-More knew Gizmo was right. He didn't want to let Jinx down. "Okay, then. Teach me."
Author's Notes: Yes, they have to pull off the robbery...with style! So complicated, though. Funny, though, I should know what's going to happen, but it's all kind of fuzzy for me. I'll think of something! I hope -knocks on wood-.
