[I do not own Teen Titans or any characters mentioned in this story. Also Crowe is back upon request~!]
Crowe gracefully leaped from roof to roof in Jump City, he was sick to death of Robin's fat mouth running on about this new artifact in the Jump Museum and how he'd gotten the highest quality security known to the city for it. He wouldn't really steal it, only borrow it for a few days before returning it to give him a good scare and maybe shut him up. Joseph really should stop doing this, but he couldn't help it. This thrill of becoming Crowe was beginning to become much like a drug for him, whenever he needed relief from the stress that was Jericho he'd go back to the villain life for another hit.
Crowe looked down at the beautiful glittering jewel from the glass windowed roof he was crouched on, it was beautiful really. It was a pyramidic stone with a red eerily glowing ruby in the center resembling an eye, 'the all-seeing eye' is what the people of the city had called it. Crowe smirked mischievously as he planned out a scheme in his mind to snatch the jewel from it's place in the cramped glass box it lay in.
What Crowe didn't know, was that he wasn't the only one with his eyes on the precious jewel inside the museum. Kyd Wykkyd glared at the white clad boy from a rooftop not far from his, crouching just low enough for him to hide from the other so called 'villain'. There was no way Kyd was letting that checkered Harley Quinn rip-off steal his prize! He'd already made a fool of him in the bathrooms of one of Jump's clubs, there was no way he'd let Crowe make a fool of him twice. Especially on this. Unlike Crowe, Kyd actually had plans for the mystic jewel once he got a hold of it. It may have been his only chance to ever win Jericho's affections!
Kyd Wykkyd spent many years studying ancient tomes to better understand his demonic DNA, and he had definitely heard of the all seeing eye before. The all seeing eye was a magical relict from ancient Egypt and had many uses when put to the right task. Kyd was going to use it to see into the future, he just needed to know he had just a small chance at getting together with Jericho. If he didn't he could always change it by changing the present, he just needed to get to that relic before the ghostly boy in front of him.
Kyd looked up from his plotting only to find that Crowe was already setting to work to get the glass window of the ceiling open, and teleported quickly towards Crowe before stomping his foot on the glass square he was working on quietly removing. Crowe looked up startled before glaring harshly at the demon, who did he think he was - interrupting his fun? Crowe quickly performed a fighting move he'd learned as a child by swinging from where he was and kicking Kyd Wykkyd's feet out from under him. Kyd Wykkyd barely had time to process the fact that he'd been sprawled on the ground of the roof before Crowe kicked him far away enough to nonchalantly set back to his work. At this point, Kyd was just right out offended.
Kyd Wykkyd stood up and brushed himself of the dirt that had gotten on his cape before marching over to the same glass pane while ignoring the blistering pain in his side. Wow, for someone so small he sure had one hell of a kick. Kyd glared harshly again while crossing his arms, waiting for the outwardly ignoring him boy to at least look up at Kyd. Crowe did no such thing, he honestly didn't really care. Now Kyd was seething, how dare he ignore an opponent! Not even the Titans were so rude!
Finally out of sheer annoyance, Kyd stomped on the glass even harder. Kyd should not have done this. By stomping on the glass, he managed to cause it to shatter into a spiderweb of pieces and let both Crowe and himself fall nearly two stories to the museum's tiled ground. While Crowe did a quick backflip move and landed gracefully and elegantly on the ground, Kyd fell on his side and groaned in pain and humiliation as he saw Crowe trying his hardest not to giggle at him.
Kyd quietly hissed in pain as he stood up, clutching his still throbbing side. He finally mustered the strength to let go and get into his battle position when he noticed the silent Crowe had managed to already make his way to the area surrounding the artifact. Crowe seemed to already be working on a plan to get past all the security lasers and weapons. Oh no, no way! That was his steal! Kyd attempted pulling a sneak attack move on Crowe by lunging at him from behind, only to have Crowe boredly duck down while still staring at the isolated artifact. Kyd soared right over his crouched body, tumbling onto the ground until he hit his hard harshly on the black boxed stand holding the artifact up. He groaned in pain as he tried not to let the 'thump' he heard come from his head echo in unison.
He turned around dizzily, expecting Crowe to be rocking with laughter at his pain and instead found the bombshell blonde to be lazily striding towards the container that held the prized jewel. Crowe smirked victoriously as he held up the all seeing seeing eye to his sneering face. Kyd had never really felt the urge to hiss or snarl at someone before, but he supposed there was a first time for everything. Crowe's victorious smile soon faded though since they both only just now remembered the security lasers Kyd had set off. An array of weapons were now focused on both of their internally panicking bodies, ready to fire if they dared to move even a little until the authorities arrived. Crowe quickly threw the artifact in the air before pointedly kicking it into the open area just outside of the lasers, heaving in a deep breath before holding out a gloved hand for Kyd Wykkyd to shake.
"Oh no! No way in hell! You've humiliated me, mocked me, laughed at me, probably made my lungs and kidneys switch places, and now you expect us to work together?! Never!" Kyd yelled angrily at a now glaring Crowe. That glare stirred something in Kyd, he could've sworn he'd seen it before...a long time ago… But before Wykkyd could go into deep thought about this, a monotonous robotic voice spoke to them through a set of speaker built into the high tech security.
"Please refrain from attempting to escape. The authorities will arrive shortly. Please refrain from attempting to escape. The authorities will arrive shortly." The robotic voice repeated over and over as Crowe angrily gestured towards the speakers. Finally Kyd realized he didn't very well have a choice in the matter.
"Okay, fine. But after we get out of this mess, that artifact is still fair game. The moment we're clear of the lasers, we're enemies again. Got it?" Kyd said sternly, as if he actually had any control over their current situation. Crowe grudgingly rolled his eyes and nodded his head at the demon boy, crossing his arms curtly as Kyd Wykkyd rolled his eyes right back at him.
Kyd glared harshly at the speaker still blaring it's monotone commands, causing the mechanism to glow with black energy and eventually explode. Kyd got into his normal fighting position, facing the armada of weapons aimed at both him and Crowe as Crowe followed suit. One thing Kyd Wykkyd was not good at however, was working in or with a team. At least with the five he could pretty much just follow his own rules, but with this marshmallow disguised stick of dynamite if he tried any such thing he'd most likely be punched in the face.
"Alrighty then Scare-Crowe, what's the plan?" Kyd asked, smirking at the equipment still aimed at them. Crowe winced at the nickname before curtly and roughly stomping on Kyd Wykkyd's toe and signalling for Kyd to simply follow his lead. Kyd hissed in pain and grabbed his foot before nodding and watching as the dainty boy approached the array of equipment and the once again set up laser system.
Crowe closed his eyes and slowly sucked in a deep breath, concentrating hard. He opened his eyes abruptly, almost scarily and then he was off. Crowe did a series of extremely complicated movements, flipping into the air, sliding under lasers on the ground, it was all way too complicated and difficult looking to Kyd. Before Kyd could even attempt such a task though, he noticed that Crowe had missed one laser and now in the line of sight of a tranquilizer dart. Kyd somehow managed to make his way past the previous lasers and blocked the dart from hitting Crowe from behind, to which Crowe gasped in both surprise and disbelief that Kyd had actually saved him. Crowe smiled, and before either of them knew it they were moving together perfectly. They blocked any weapons from ever hitting them, they moved perfectly in sync, and they seemed to expertly cover each other's weaknesses.
When they were finally to the other side of the lasers they'd taken out every weapon built into the system and out of the pure excitement of the moment Crowe jumped up and hugged Kyd Wykkyd by his neck, smiling like a child. Once he finally realized what he was doing, he immediately shoved Kyd away from him and acted like it was Kyd's fault that he did that. Crowe snapped his head towards where he had kicked the relic and the two thieves glanced at each other warily before they were both bolting for the jewel.
They both managed to grab the relic at the same time, starting to do a dance of sorts. They punched and kicked each other, yanking the artifact away from the other but it seemed nearly impossible for one to land a hit on the other. They moved away just in time before they attempted it again. Crowe and Kyd Wykkyd stood both clawing onto the artifact, glaring daggers at each other before Crowe accidentally moved his hand to get a better grip and caused the artifact to start glowing a sickly green color.
Kyd Wykkyd had barely uttered out a 'no don't-!' before a green flame erupted from all sides of the pyramid and consumed them both. They both dropped the artifact and watched in a mixture of anger and awe as their villain clothes melded into strange civilian looking clothes.
Crowe distantly heard Kyd Wykkyd curtly say that the button Crowe pushed melded them both into their 'true forms' as Crowe looked down at the clothes he remembered from his childhood. He wore paint stained blue jeans and a Rob Zombie T-Shirt with all of the dates and venues of his most famous concerts. His mask and make-up for some reason was not removed, and Crowe looked up confusedly at Kyd Wykkyd before he immediately burst into uncontrollable laughter.
The dark emotionless Kyd Wykkyd was a huge nerd as a child apparently. He wore huge thickly framed hipster glasses and wore a purple dress vest. This was paired with a nice looking black undershirt and black skinny jeans with a hilariously ironic pair of Batman sneakers. His cowl was gone and replaced with gelled back ebony hair that was tied harshly behind him. He looked ready for a concert of some sort, a singing competition perhaps? Either way, he looked like an enormous nerd to Crowe, who couldn't dare halt his laughter.
"This. Is what happens. When humans. Mess with artifacts." Kyd said angrily as he delicately picked up the artifact that caused this whole mess and drew a strange design into the side with his finger causing it to reverse it's effects. Soon, both Crowe and Kyd Wykkyd were once again in their uniforms and Kyd held the artifact close to himself. Kyd tucked the artifact under his dark cloak, all he really had to do was teleport it back to the rest of his stash. Kyd made one crucial mistake in this process though, he looked back at Crowe before he teleported the artifact. Crowe seemed to have had admitted defeat and was sadly picking up his bo-staff from the rubble covered ground. He looked absolutely heartbroken that he'd lost to Kyd Wykkyd of all people, all he could really do about it though was leave and not look back. Crowe deeply cared about his combat skills, and yet he'd lost to the person who couldn't fight the Titans for his life. No point in getting caught by the cops for something you hadn't even stolen correctly though right?
Kyd stared down sadly at the artifact, debating his final decision. Finally, Kyd quietly stepped towards where Crowe was looking for his staff through the rubble and held out the golden pyramid to him. Crowe looked up surprisedly before gingerly taking the pyramid from him, blinking confusedly as Kyd smiled at him gently. Crowe watched Kyd as he slowly walked into the middle of the room where the moonlight hit him just perfectly, and prepared to teleport away from the disaster area the duo had created.
"But...why? I...I don't want your pity idiot!...Weren't you stealing it for a reason? You had to have!" Crowe shouted angrily. He couldn't stand the fact that this terrible a-hole of a person had given up their chance with a million dollar steal to him, the guy that had beaten him badly at the beginning of their meeting. Most villains, including Kyd Wykkyd, stole for a reason. Crowe stole for the thrill while Kyd looked like he knew what he was doing with the artifact itself. If it was something important he couldn't just take it! It was his pride that was hurt, not his bank account!
"I was going to use it. But...you looked like you needed it a lot more than I do. My uses for it would have been considered selfish by most anyway." Kyd said quietly as he looked at Crowe with a kind face. Crowe shook his head gently to this.
"What...what were you going to use it for?" Crowe asked softly as he stared down at the pyramid somberly. Kyd's deep chuckle echoed through his head for a bit before he finally spoke.
"I...I was gonna look into the future to see whether or not my stupid school girl crush would ever come true...Pretty dumb huh?...Can you at least do me a favor? When you're done with whatever you're gonna do with the artifact, I want you to give the jewel in the middle to Jericho. It'd look...really nice on him." Kyd said brokenly. He sounded absolutely heartbroken. Crowe couldn't stand that look on his face, he wanted to take all the sadness away and he didn't completely understand why.
"Why Jericho? Why not use it for yourself?" Crowe further interrogated with a confused frown on his face. Kyd turned to face him finally and gave him a small heartbroken smile, that smile was filled with lost hope and those eyes were brimmed with heart aching tears.
"Because...Because I love him." Kyd said simply, his gaze starting to cast down onto the floor as he sighed sadly. Crowe couldn't take this anymore, he'd known for a while now that Kyd Wykkyd liked him but this was too much. Never in his life had he met anyone who cared so deeply about him. Someone who went through such a rough beating and possible jail time just to see if they had a chance, even if slim. Someone who cried heartbroken tears because they were convinced that they would never be loved.
But Kyd Wykkyd was so very wrong. He was very much loved.
Crowe stared blankly at Kyd Wykkyd for a few moments before throwing the artifact to the ground, smashing it into hundred of chucky pieces. Kyd looked startled and confused by the sudden crash, but before he could even react he was being kissed gingerly by Crowe. The kiss lasted about half a second before Crowe pulled back to avoid Kyd pushing him off. Crowe ripped the white domino mask off of his face before rubbing his face against his arms, erasing all the makeup he had on and staring deeply into Kyd's now awestruck eyes.
"I don't need some million dollar artifact to know that you love me moron. I...I love you too and...And...and all I need to know you love me is-" Joseph said before he was cut off by Kyd Wykkyd kissing him deeply. It didn't take long for Joey to relax into the much more prolonged kiss, wrapping his still gloved arms around the black clad demon's neck loosely. Joey finally pulled back and rested their foreheads together.
"You. ...All I need is you." The blonde said breathlessly as Kyd chuckled and quickly grabbed him by the waist as they heard cop cars echoing outside the ruined building. Soon both of the lovestruck boys were on the roof of Titan's Tower, smiling widely.
"Go get changed Jericho. I'm guessing it's been somewhat of a long day for you. You need to get some sleep." Kyd said as he emphasized the Jericho in the sentence, ready to teleport himself home. Crowe smiled and nodded before walking towards the ledge that was right about his room's window. But before he jumped into his room, he bolted towards Kyd Wykkyd and turned him around abruptly to kiss his cheek and blushily rushing through the window.
Kyd smiled and gaped as he slowly reached up to touch his electrified cheek. He silently prayed he wouldn't arrive back home with a black lipstick stain on his face, but he also wouldn't mind all that much. Kyd sighed happily as he looked up at the sky, chuckling as he finally left for his own room.
[...and then Jericho spent the entire night trying not to giggle like a tween girl, lmao. Reviews are highly appreciated! I love you all for them!]