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Kyd couldn't believe he was getting more abuse from his team than he had gotten from the security gaurds of the holding prison he had to busted them out of. Not even the sound of the struggling stolen car was loud enough to be heard over Gizmo's high-pitch complaining in the front seat.
"Lot of useless snot-buckets! Can't even freaking get there on time!" He yells, turning around and fixing Kyd with a menacing glare and finger point "All ya had to freaking do was jump! Couldn' do that, could ya? What? Got scared and started crying like the little cry baby you are?" He snarled.
The Wykkyd's kids hands tightened on what remained of his cape to control his rising urge to snap out and throttle their young leader. He had never had such the urgency to scream out his reasons, he didn't want his team to think of him as a failure. He wanted to do his best for the team. Couldn't they see that was why he came and rescued them from being transported to a high end security prison?
"Heh, cry baby" Billy Numerous chuckled beside Kyd in the back seat "Look, he's even got a baby blanket" A roar of laughter came from Gizmo and Billy as the southener reached over to grab Kyd's ripped cape, much to the mutes boys annoyance.
Mammoth remained silent as he drove, his hands tightening on the steering wheel, turning them even whiter and the grinding of his teeth was getting louder with every outburst from both team mate or their unsatisfactory choice of transport. The reason for his angered silence was because Mammoth's truck had been parked outside the holding prison, destined from the scrap heap the next morning. When Kyd had teleported them all out of the temporary prison, he knew he would not have the energy to teleport them all back to base along with the truck. To Mammoth's dismay, they would not be able to drive his truck back as it would catch too much attention, even at this time in the morning and they could do with as much head start as they could get from the police when they found out they had disappeared from their cells. So stealing the ancient family car that hardly looked road worthy seemed the best bet to get away unnoticed.
Seymore also remained out of the teasing and yelling, instead continuing to look out the window on Kyd's other side. He friends silently guessed he was still suffering from a concussion from being hit over the head by Starfire.
"Even fricking sludge-face Private H.I.V.E. would have done it! With that sludge-face on our team we would have crushed those butt-kissers. But no! He wanted to be on his own little sucky team, his own sucky leader." Once again Gizmo's stubby finger pointed at Kyd "And we get a stupid, mute, cry baby as a replacement."
At the mention of the mute boy being a dissapointing replacement made Kyd's composure and his normally large immunity to his teams harsh words snap, causing him to lunge forward with his arms out stretched, dispite his aching, tired body saying otherwise. A chaos of shouts and yells went up in the small car, and the already cramped space was made worse when Billy multiplied in an attempt to pull Kyd off of Gizmo. Wykkyds efforts of trying to kill their leader was rewarded with a massive whack on the head by Mammoth, who himself looked ready to kill everyone in the car.
"SHUT UP!" His voice itself sent shockwaves and covered everyone in spit, making Kyd's now growing headache worse. Silence filled in after Mammoth's outburst as Kyd sluggishly slumped back between Billy and Seemore, his head feeling very much lighter.
The silence stayed for a few more agonizing moments, filled with death glares from Gizmo. It was only broken when Seemore spoke in a low, quiet voice.
"Where do you think we would be if we weren't villians?" He asked casually, not taking his gaze from the window.
Everyone, even Mammoth looked over in stunned silence. Before anyone could reply, Seemore spoke again in a uncharacteristic monotone.
"You know, not being in a stolen car, running from the police. To have a family, school friends, to be able to walk down the street without fear of being arrested, to belong somewhere, to have a purpo-"
"Looks like ya go' a big ol' knock on yer head there, Seemore" Billy inturrupted with a nervous laugh, scratching his neck in a nervous fashion. Everyone was relieved Billy had lightened the mood and everyone laughed with him.
Silence set in for the rest of the trip and Seemore didn't look up from the window.
By the time they arrived at their base, the sun was already beginning to rise. Not even bothering to attempt to hide their stolen car, H.I.V.E. five piled out and made the decent down to their underground base.
About half an hour later everyone was in the main hub, as this was where the T.V., painkillers and food could be found, essentials for after hiests. Billy and Mammoth sat at the table eating cold fried chicken from the night before, continuously mumbling about how the holding prison hadn't given them supper. Gizmo had gone into his own mind set trying to remake his lost rucksack by touching up on one of his prototypes, everyone on the team knew not to disturb him as this was his way of putting his pent up anger into productivity. Meanwhile, Kyd and Seemore sat in front of the televison, neither watching it as Seemore was trying to figure out how many painkillers he should take and Kyd was trying to thread a needle, which was becoming fustrating for the mute as it was beginning to become difficult to think and see straight.
Another silent growl came from Kyd as the thread continued not to go through the needle. Sewing was not one of his strong points and right now he would rather be curled up in bed catching up with lost sleep than sewing his cape back together. But the growing nervousness of not having it on his back at all times was starting to annoy him.
It became apparent that Gizmo was also having something annoying him in his mind as hd he threw his work down in anger and leapt up onto the sofa
"I will not go down as the worst leader in villian history because of you snot-munchers" His random outburst not that much of a surprise to the rest of the team who continued with what they were doing. Since Gizmo had become leader, these random outbursts of speeches became a regular as the team knew he felt a urge to be better than Jinx had been as leader. Kyd didn't know why Gizmo thought repeating what everyone already knew would help anything. "We are going to get back at thoses good-doing poop-eaters and we are going to go down in history as the villians who brought down the Titans!"
Huffing in fustration Kyd opted to give up and try sewing again once Mammoth's punch side effects had worn off and Gizmo had stopped shouting. However as Gizmo showed no signs of giving up on trying to give a inspirational speech of how they would 'go down in history', Kyd plugged his headphones into his Ipod he had left on the table before going to rob the bank the day before and turned up the music.
The first song Kyd didn't recognise at first, and he didn't want to find out as the lyrics started bringing back bad memories of the day before.
'Falling from high places, falling through lost spaces,
Now that we're lonely, now that there's nowhere to go-' (The Wolves - Ben Howard)
Kyd immediately changed the song.
Music was one of the mute boy's way of escaping his hectic lifestyle, he could spend hours sitting on his bed with his radio played on full volume, much to the annoyance of the rest of his team mates who did not appreciate the dark boy's choice of music. Sam Smith was often heard at the dead of night in the H.I.V.E base.
He must have fallen asleep as someone nudged him awake. 'Keep on lying' by Jessie Ware was playing was the first thing Kyd realised. The low music made him notice the second thing, that the rest of the normally loud room was silent. Sitting up from his slumber on the sofa, he sent a confused look at Seemore, who didn't see and continued to nudge him without realising what he was doing. His team mates eyes were fixed not in his direction but towards the door behind the sofa. Stifling a yawn, Kyd's red eyes flickered over to whatever had whole teams attention.
"Hello boys" Jinx said in a causal voice. She stood at the door, her voice level and no signs of being nervous or anything. She was acting as normal as if she hadn't betrayed them all those months ago and hadn't helped the Titans freeze them in a frozen prison. When no one showed any signs of replying, she huffed in annoyance "Look, we haven't got time so I need you to trust m-"
"Trust you!" Gizmo suddenly yelled, momentarily regaining his voice. "I would rather trust a lion not to fricking eat! Get the fuck out of here!" His rage was clearly seen over his now crimson face
"Gizmo, I'm trying to warn you to leave as quickly as possible. I had to tell them" Jinx voice remained level and she did not rise her voice to level that of Gizmo's.
"Tell tem' what?" Billy asked, his face still not losing its surprised look to see their defected leader standing before them.
"Where the base is" Jinx said quickly, even quicker moving on. "You guys could of stayed out, you could have gotten away. Why did you come ba-"
"YOU TOLD THEM WHERE WE LIVE?" Gizmo's voice raised even further. Kyd scooted a little further away on the sofa from the rage boiled child.
"I had to, Gizmo! I'm already in their bad books and now with you ba-" Jinx's voice was quickly wavering and Kyd could see she was struggling to hold onto her calm composure.
Mammoth was the first to move. Due to his huge size, his movements where hardly subtle. He walked towards Jinx, looking past her.
"Mammoth, please believe me. I never wanted to tell them. I never wanted to snipe on you guys" Jinx voice now becoming more of a plea. "They will be here any min-"
Mammoth just pushed past her into the corridor, not even giving her a second look.
"I don't want to see you guys in prison..." Jinx said under her voice. As quick as a light switch, her face looked unsympathetic towards them again. "I won't be helping you again. We're even now"
One by one, the rest of the team left to gather their things. As Seemore passed by Jinx, he avoided eye contact and Kyd could see the blush on his cheeks "T-than-ks Jinx" Giving her a weak smile but quickly leaving to his room.
An idea struck Kyd. Grabbing the two halves of his cape he brought it up to Jinx and held it out to her.
"Wykkyd, we don't have time. I can't be caught helping you escape and Kid Flash is waiting outside" Jinx said pushing the cape back towards her former team mate.
Kyd continued to hold out his cape, he knew her magic would do a much better job than his sewing skills. Huffing in defeat, Jinx waved her hand over the material and pink magic seeped into the fabric, individually moving the threads back together. Once done, Kyd gave her a quick hug, the only way he could show his appreciations before teleporting to his room.
Kyd knew he could only take the necessary as there would be no way they would be able to come back after the Titans arrive. So he settled on his Ipod, a few batman posters and drawings, his nintendo DS and his unreplacable books. In all their safe houses there would be spare clothes and common nessecities such as food and water. When he teleported back into the common room, Jinx was gone and the rest of the team was starting to return with their own valuables. Variable amounts of valuables spanning from Gizmo having a big pile of blueprints and gadgets he would sooner die than let the titans get hold of, to Mammoth only having a single photo album tucked under his arm away from view. When Gizmo finished deleting everything from the base's database, he jumped down and turned to Kyd Wykkyd.
"Listen up, cry baby. Have you been to the closed down army base on the edge of Jump?"
Kyd shock his head in confusion, why was he intrested in a abandoned army base when they should be going to one of the safe houses.
"Which safe house are we going to, Gizmo?" Seemore said, voicing Kyd's thoughts and probably everyone else's.
"None of them, you empty-headed slug" Gizmo shot back, clearly not in the best of moods. "The traitor would have told the Titans about them all too. So we are going to have to improvise" Gizmo rubbed his chin in thought. Turning back to Wykkyd, he asked "Been to Jump park?"
It took an hour walk from Jump park to reach the deserted army base. None of the team had questioned how Gizmo had known about the place, instead all piling into the closest barrack. Mammoth fell asleep the moment his head hit the closest bunk, uncovered and with no pillow. Gizmo silently lay on the bunk above him, not speaking or acknowledging anyone. Seemore and Billy went exploring and much to everyones dismay found that were was no running hot water in the shower room or internet connection.
The sun was fully up now but this didn't deterred any of them from falling asleep. Dispite it not being his own bed, pillow or blanket, Kyd found he was still able to curl up in his cape on the hard mattress and finally have undisturbed sleep after such an eventful day.
I know, no Raven today. More of just an insight into the H.I.V.E five. Like, not like? Say what you feel about this story, I love to hear feedback.