Chapter Six
Kyd Wykkyd stared at See-More, exchanging confused glances with his best friend.
What was that about? Kyd Wykkyd signed, breaking (not quite literally) the silence.
The green-and-white clad villain shrugged. "Beats me," he said. "But I know one thing for sure!" His face was excited as he said this. "I absolutely, cannot wait to figure this out. You agreeing with me Kyd?"
The blue-skinned villain nodded, his face an unreadable mask. What should we do now? He signed.
See-More looked at his best friend, and replied, "I dunno. Oh, hey! You wanna go rob a bank with me? I heard the Banking Museum up north had some newbies employed, and on the job now for security! It'll be a breeze!"
Just us?
"Sure, why not?"
OK, Kyd Wykkyd signed, hoping that robbing a bank would take See-More's mind off of Trigon, but knowing that it probably wouldn't. He lifted the side of his cloak up and See-More walked over to him, teleporting the two away when the cloth was brought down.
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"Hey." A tall young woman dressed in a soft green long-sleeved T-shirt with long white pants walked into the room casually, her long, loose black hair swishing slightly behind her.
"Well, if it isn't Jade!" This cheerful comment came from a teenage girl with a pink headband on her short blond-hair, clad in a pink-colored pajama who grinned at the taller woman from where she lay on her stomach on the bed.
"Oh, Kaitlynn." Jade stopped observing the blond on the bed. "I see you're doing well."
"As ever!" Kaitlynn now sat up, and then turned her head to the left, now facing the bathroom hallway inside of the bedroom.
"Angelica! Jade's here!" she announced, loudly, and soon, a person walked out from the bathroom hallway.
"Jade!" The taller blond gave a positively joyous smile at the older ebony-haired woman. "Glad to see you could make it!"
Jade returned the smile before glancing back around. "So Komi isn't here yet? That is, if she's coming."
"Uh-huh." Kaitlynn examined her fingernails. "What time is it anyways?"
"Time to go party, that's what." A new voice spoke from the doorway, startling them. She stood, tall and casual against the doorframe, her blue-purple eyes looking at the other three in the room, with long and glossy black hair down her back.
"Well, speak of the devil and she shall appear!" Kaitlynn giggled gleefully.
"Right." Komi closed the door and stalked over to them. "So, what are we supposed to do? My opinion is that we go party."
Angelica shook her head. "I should've known that you would want to do that from the get-go. But, it's far too early for that sort of thing. Maybe later. I was actually thinking of us just hanging out and talk for a while. You know, since it's been ages since we've seen each other. Jade, you were off in the Southern region of Asia; Komi, you were in who-knows-where-space; and even though Kaitlynn and I were somewhat close in terms of location, I went to France two years back. As you can see, we were all very far away for a long time. It would be nice to catch up civilly, without any of the boys interrupting, don't you agree?"
The other three contemplated this, finally nodding with agreement and a smirk.
"I say you're totally right." Kaitlynn gushed. "The boys are blithering idiots, and you honestly cannot have a decent conversation with them unless a: it's a subject they want to talk about, or b: it's something that interests them."
"Well, it has been a while since I've had a decent conversation. All I've had to talk to out in the black skies out there were alien gibberish, some technologically behind, others advanced." Komi said.
The other three swiveled their heads to look at Jade, and she shrugged, her lips shaping themselves into a perfect smile, not unlike that of a happy feline. "Well why not?"
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"So, how've you all been?" They were lying on the floor in a small circle, something that could be called a diamond since there were only four of them, on their stomachs. The speaker was the older blonde of the group, Angelica.
"Good."
"Great."
The responses were unanimous until the alien's turn came up.
"Ugh. Bored as hell." Komi announced, rolling her eyes. "It was just so—ugh." She mimicked a 'shudder' to help express herself.
"You said it!" The younger blonde chimed in agreement.
"Well, despite my interesting job, I sadly am not liking it, nor am I doing much of it lately." Jade, the other ebony-haired female in the room stated.
Komi laughed, and the others joined in. Regaining herself, the Tamaranian drawled out royally, "Trust me. If you started liking your job, then we're going to have some issues."
Jade smirked. "Wouldn't dream of that happening."
The four laughed some more, quite comfortable with each other.
"So, back on discussion, what have you guys been up too?" Angelica asked, taking charge of the conversation topics once more.
"Well, I've been flying around the galaxy." Komi offered.
"I've recently been setting up a shop along the border, and maybe I'll quit my job." Jade said.
"I've been at France with the kids and James—we've just been hanging around." Angelica said.
"And I've been studying on my education for about two years now." Kaitlynn commented offhandedly.
"Really? That's great!" Angelica sat up and gave the youngest female a hug. "What are you studying in and where?"
"Um, Teesa College, Law and Psychology." Kaitlynn said.
". . ." Komi burst out laughing. "Are you serious?"
"Surprisingly yes." Kaitlynn countered, sitting up, effectively stopping Komi in mid-laugh.
The Tamaranian sat up, and the assassin followed suit seeing as how everyone else was now up.
"Really, though. Law and Psychology?" Komi leaned forward. "Tell me, does daddy-dearest know?"
"Not only does he know, but he sooo approves it." Kaitlynn retorted.
"No kidding?"
"Waaay."
"Girls, it's no problem if Kaitlynn wants to study Law and Psychology." Angelica said.
"No problem with it. Just surprising, considering what we're surrounded by, is all." Jade replied.
Komi leaned back on a nearby bean-bag. "Yeah, so chill alright? It's fine if you want to study Law and Psychology. Heck, you might even be able find loopholes in the fine print for us." She smirked at the last statement.
Kaitlynn shrugged. "Maybe."
"Ok, let's go to a lighter topic. What kind of shop are you setting up?" Komi asked, turning to Jade.
"An herbal store." Jade replied smoothly.
"Illegal or legal?" Komi asked.
"Both, depending." Jade responded.
"I see. Angelica, dear, anything interesting in France?"
"The view is rather exciting, and slightly better than other places. I think you guys will have to visit me sometime to get the feel of what I'm saying."
"What's up with H.I.V.E. lately? Anyone know?" Komi stared directly at Kaitlynn, inquiringly.
"Although I'm studying they do often barge into Daddy's house on more than one occasion. And Fang drops by too, sometimes. Um, I haven't keep track of them much, but Seymour pretty much calls everyone or several some ones if something ever happens, so I just pretty much focus on my studies." Kaitlynn admitted.
"Angelica?"
The three turned heads to the other blonde.
"As Kaitlynn says, Seymour usually rings if anything's up, and I do every two weekly calls. But, not much has happened with them recently."
"I see. Well," Komi started to stand. "Sleep over plus girls' bonding time is great and all that, but we've talked for a while, and its eleven now. Can we go party now?"
The others began to laugh at Komi's request.
"Seriously. I've just got back on Earth and to waste a grand night like this just talking can not do. Sleepovers are meant to be fun, not boring, so let's party!" Seeing Angelica's face, Komi quickly added, "Hey, chill! We'll stay only two hours or so. And if anything happens, we'll leave, okay?"
Angelica sighed. "Oh, fine. Let's check out the closet then!"
The four left the building five minutes later, headed towards a local club.
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Red X spun around in his chair. In front of him was his laptop, its screen glowing bluish-white, bright in the dark room. Oh sure, he could have all the lights on and pretended he was a normal person who needed the lights. However, he was too used to having the room dark when he was typing away at his laptop, especially for doing villain work. That and the switch for the light bulbs were on the other side of the room, and Red X was just really lazy to bother with moving from his position behind the desk.
After he had talked to Robin, Red X had proceeded to search around the darker and lesser known parts of the Internet. Something as classified as true information about Trigon was only certain to be shady. On the other hand, looking for a weird book wasn't as tricky, but also hard to find.
As promised, the Titan had sent Red X a picture of Trigon's missing object and a closer picture of the symbols on the book's spine once the villain had confirmed his agreement to the Titan's offer.
The book was forest green with yellow symbols on the spine, two horizontal bars evenly spaced about half an inch above the top-most symbol. On the bottom of the spine were two yellow bars identical to those at the top.
The front of the book had symbols like the one on the spine, but different. For one thing, the coloring was red, outlined heavily in black. Also, Red X had noticed the symbols looked different from each other. It was a strange, weird book. As far as Red X knew, it wasn't any of the languages here on Earth, which would make sense seeing that Trigon had owned it, after all. It was probably some weird space language.
He frowned. A weird space language. That meant asking either Blackfire or X.L. Terrestrial if they knew something, since both of them were aliens. Sadly, this also meant that the Titans would be able to work on it faster due to the fact that a large number of them were born on other planets. For example, Superman.
Of course, he could always see what his green-outfitted one-eyed friend had found out. That kid was one major socialist that just about everyone who was anyone or no one at all in the world knew in the villainy network. It was most likely that See-More had already figured out that the language was alien, contacted half his network's people, somehow managing to ask about their space language without telling them the truth, and narrowing down as many languages he could.
That is, if he had even started. He could, after all, still be standing there in shock or something.
Red X chuckled at the thought. It was not a likely thing.
The tall male stood up and stretched his body. It was time for a break. He briefly considered calling Blackfire and asking her about it, just casually, but decided against it. Robin, after sending the picture to him, had said, "Remember. This is confidential information, so don't go blurting it around." He also hadn't let Red X go without the older male swearing he wouldn't blurt around the information.
Besides, Blackfire might be irritated at him if he called her, because he was, quote on quote, "interrupting their [little] girl time".
Red X left the room and headed into the kitchen to make a light snack.
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A/N: Sorry for the late chapter! And thanks to moonkitty717, Alicia Roth, GIRLYGIRL222, DARKNESSbleeding, Sallychan-Stories, and Maei13 for the reviews from the last chapter! I know I'm kinda really slow on updates, but believe me, I am trying my best!