H.I.V.E. Five #1
Issue One: Teenage Dirtbags part 1
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When Lucy Widlett came into work today, she thought that it would be another boring day in Keystone City of serving over-weight people at a fast-food restaurant she hated for eight hours straight for low-wages, she did not assume that today she would be pinned face down on the counter with some strange goth girl and her four cohorts holding up the place she worked. The goth's companions were currently going around the restaurant, snatching up the customers wallets jewels and in the case of their largest thief their food.
Jinx: I swear, if any of you so much as blink in a way I don't like you'll regret it, you got that?!
Billy Numerous: wait so what's counts as a bad blink? People blink all the same don't they?
Jinx: *sighs angrily* thanks for ruining my threat Billy
Billy Numerous: oops, my bad Jinx
Jinx: Just tell me what you want and get back to robbing these people
Billy Numerous: uh let's see...give me a chicken sandwich combo with a large cherry coke
Billy Clone #1, 2 and 3: better triple that order Billy
Billy Numerous: Good call Billy *to Jinx* what they said
Jinx: fine, See-More?
See-More: *creates a '?' with his visor* hmmm...I'll have a cheeseburger with large fries and a medium diet cola
Jinx: Mammoth?
Mammoth: *while eating a person's burger* I could go for five super deluxe bacon cheeseburgers and a large root beer float
Jinx: Kid Wicked?
Kid Wicked:...
Jinx: He'll just have some fries, now let's see... *to Lucy* hey what's on here with the lowest calories?
Lucy: *confused*w-what?
Jinx: *twist her arm* Did I %^&%ing stutter bitch?! I said what's on this menu that has the lowest mother $%^%ing calories?!
Lucy: *scared* T-the chi-chicken s-s-salad!
Jinx: if this wasn't a hold up would you recommend it? WOULD YOU?!
Lucy: *in tears* Y-yes!
Jinx: *happily* Well I know what I'm getting-oh also I need a kid's meal to *aggressively* get you get all that?
Lucy: yes! Please don't kill me!
Jinx: good, we'll take it all to go and one more thing *snaps her finger*
The second she snapped her fingers, the cash register's slot flung open, making all of money spill out of it as it did.
Jinx: We'll take of the money to go as well
With a watchful eye, the super-powered teenager made sure that both their orders were correctly made as well as given all the money from the cash register which was put into a paper bag.
Lucy: *still scared* H-Here's your order m-ma'am
Jinx: Thanks and if there's just one fry missing I'll come back here and twist your head off!
Lucy: *starts crying hysterically*
See-More: *hears police sirens and creates a '!' with his visor* crap, Jinx we gotta go!
Jinx: *grabs the food and money* let's go! *to the people in the restaurant* we'll ladies and gentleman we must take our leave, but now you'll have a story to tell of the day you where robbed by the H.I.V.E Five!
Man #1: I've never heard of you guy's
Woman #1: And aren't there six of you? Why do you call yourselves that if there aren't five of you?
Woman #2: Didn't you used to hang out with the Joker?
Man #2: That's not Harley Quinn...or is it? *to Jinx* hey are you Harley Quinn?
Jinx: *growls in frustration and runs out of the restaurant*
The group ran out into the parking lot where their getaway driver/tech guy Gizmo in a car he hot-wired while he waited for his companions outside in the parking lot via remote control, however when he pulled up to his friends in their newest getaway car, the gang was less than thrilled by his choice of transportation.
Gizmo: *roll's down the window* so what do you think guys?
Jinx: Really Gizmo, a mini-van? Does it look like we're going to soccer practice?
Gizmo: Hey you try finding a car that'll hold all of us and be fuel efficient in a fast-food parking lot!
Billy: Dude are you using a booster seat to see over the dashboard?
Gizmo: No! *softly* I'm using a stack of books...*opens the back doors* look just get in already will y'a!
Mammoth: I call shotgun!
Jinx: You don't fit in the front seat! *climbs into the passenger side*
Everyone scrambled into the van, however it became quickly to Billy's clones that there wasn't enough space for the trio.
Billy Clone #1: hey you can't just leave us here!
Billy Clones #2 and 3: Yeah!
Jinx: Sucks to be you! *to Gizmo* floor it!
With that the young evil genius hit the gas with the push of a button on his remote control and shot out the parking lot as fast as the van could go, leaving the three clones to be caught by the police.
Billy Numerous: *sticks his out of car as they drive away* I'll
always remember y'all!
See-More: *to Kid Wicked* He's not gonna remember them
Kid Wicked: *nods in agreement*
Gizmo: *to Jinx* did you remember to get me something to?
Jinx: I got you a kid's meal
Gizmo: A kid's meal?! I'm not an eight year old!
Jinx: Well you didn't finish that cheeseburger I stole for you last time
Gizmo: because I wasn't hungry!
Jinx: Whatever, just drive
Mammoth: speaking of food, can we eat now?
Jinx: Not until we reach the hideout
Mammoth: *whines* aw, but I'm hungry now!
Jinx: well tough, I don't want all our food spilling everywhere
Mammoth: *crosses his arms and pouts* fine...
See-More: Hey can we listen to the radio?
Jinx: Yeah sure *turns on the radio*
The young super-villainess flipped through several stations before she heard not only one her favorite song's, but also the rest of the group's as well.
Jinx: *stunned* Oh my god...it's *in unison with the rest of the
group except Kid Wicked* Everybody!
Gizmo: I feel a group song coming on
Jinx: Damn right *to the group* ready guy's?
Everyone except Kid Wicked: Hell Yeah!
Whole group: Everybody, yeah Rock your body, yeah everybody, yeah rock your body right HIVE Five's back, alright!
Jinx: Hey, yeah Oh my God, we're back again brothers, sisters, everybody sing Gonna bring the flavor, show you how Gotta question for you better answer now, yeah
Billy Numerous: Am I original?
Whole Group except Kid Wicked: Yeah
Mammoth: Am I the only one?
Whole Group except Kid Wicked: Yeah
See-More: Am I sexual?
Whole Group except Kid Wicked: Yeah
Gizmo: Am I everything you need? You better rock your body now!
Whole Group except well, you know: everybody yeah rock your body yeah everybody rock your body right HIVE Five's back, alright!
The super-villains sudden musical number was cut short when a bullet came crashing through the back window of the car and out of the front, which of course was obviously surprising for everyone in the getaway car. Jinx looked into the rearview mirror and saw two police cars behind them with one of officers leaning out of the passenger's side, aiming his pistol at their vehicle's tires.
Jinx: Heads up guys, we've got company!
See-More: *sees the cop hanging out of car* get a load of this guy; someone must've watched too much Starkey and Hutch as kid
Jinx: Wicked you take out the car on the right, See-More you handle the one the left
See-More: Got it!
Kid Wicked: *nods*
In an instant, the dark clad boy shadow traveled out of the van and right into the police car's backseat he then phased his hands through the glass and grabbed both cops by the back of their shirts and proceeded to phase both himself and the two officers out of their vehicle, leaving them stranded on the street as their car skidded out of control before crashing into a tree. Wicked then took this opportunity to knocked both stunned men's heads together, knocking them out in unison.
The young villain then shadow-traveled back to his seat in the van as if it weren't a hassle at all, leaving his compatriots amazed at his prowess.
Billy Numerous: Shoot Wicked, you make it look easy!
Kid Wicked:...
Mammoth: How you doing See-More?
See-More: Could be better!
The optic villain was currently hanging out of an open window in the van and shooting optic blasts out of his visor at the other police car has the policeman who was hanging out of his partner's car shooting back.
See-More: *at Gizmo* can you keep this freaking van steady for like two seconds?!
Gizmo: Don't tell me how to drive!
See-More: Well I can't get a clean shot!
Gizmo: Just use a different setting stupid!
See-More switched from his optic blast to his gravity beam and fired it directly at the car, lifting it high into the air before setting it down unto a nearby office building, leaving policeman stranded there until further notice. While boys cheered at their clean getaway, their leader however let out a heavy dejected sigh and silently looked out of the window the rest of the way to the gang's hang-out.
...
The young evil-doers hideout in question was nothing more than an abandoned steel mill on the outskirts of Keystone City. It was an old, dilapidated building that was once used to make steel for the war effort, now it had became a place where teens would come to smoke pot or be a place where the homeless would come to rest their heads for a bit. It wasn't much for the six teenagers, but for them it was home sweet home for now until they moved on. The team parked their new form of transpiration in the back of the mill before heading inside to count their loot and have lunch. Jinx passed out everyone's respective orders before they all spilled their stolen goods from today's robbery.
Jinx: so what have we got Gizmo?
Gizmo: Well adding the worth of the jewelry we snatched with the three-hundred and seventy-five dollars we took as well, I'd say we got about six-hundred dollars
Billy Numerous: Woo-We! Now that's what I'm talking about!
Jinx: *angrily* what are you so happy about? That's chump-change compared to what we used to steal!
Gizmo: But that was when we used to run with the rest of H.I.V.E before we split to do our own thing
Mammoth: *while eating two burgers once* which was totality your idea by the way *get's a glare from Jinx* what I'm just saying
Billy Numerous: Besides Captain Cold warned to us stay away from the banks or the Rouges would kick us out of the city faster than a Democrat getting thrown outta Texas
See-More: Hey I'm just glad we didn't get busted by the Flash or the rest of those speedsters
Billy Numerous: At least we would've been taken to jail by a big name super-hero; remember the time we got beat by Ambush Bug?
Mammoth: I thought we agreed never to bring that up again!
Gizmo: *looks slyly over to Jinx* I bet you were upset that Kid Flash didn't show up huh?
Jinx: *embarrassed* w-what are you talking about?!
Gizmo: Come on Jinx, why else would you convince us to drag ourselves all the way out here, besides I've been reading your diary so know you've got a crush on me
Jinx: *enraged* YOU DID WHAT?! *eyes glow a bright pink*
Rest of group: *mocking* Jinx and Kid Flash sitting in a tree, K-
Jinx: *eyes glow a bright pink* finish that song, I dare you
Rest of the group: *shuts up*
Jinx: Good, now let's divide up the money and then get some rest
?: I'm sorry to say, but rest is something you won't be getting anytime soon
Gizmo: Who said that?
?: I did
Just then an image of a man materialized before the team, making them all jump to their feet in surprise at the newcomer. The man wore a light brown suit and a bowler hat as well as a pair of thick framed glasses with clock hands on them, the stranger also had a large wrist watch on and a pocket watch tucked away in his vest pocket. The stranger carefully observed the gang of young villains and nodded to himself, as if he was having a conversation with himself in his head.
?: yes, you'll do nicely
See-More: Uh, nicely for what?
Mammoth: who the hell is this guy?
?: Oh where are my manners? Allow me to introduce myself my name is William Tockman, but you would know me better as-
Jinx: The Clock King, we've heard about you; now how'd you get into our base and what do you want?
Clock King: I'm sorry, but did you just call this your base? Do pardon my french, but this is a bit to...rustic for my taste
Mammoth: I don't know what that word means, but I bet it was an insult to our base and nobody gets to do that but us!
The team's strong arm swung his fist at the time themed villain's face, however instead of hitting him, the brute's fist passed through him and hit Billy instead, sending him flying into a wall.
Mammoth: What the-?
Jinx: It's a hologram you moron!
Clock King: Very good my dear, I can see why you're the leader of this band of lost boys
Billy Numerous: *from far away* oh yeah don't worry about me, I just got smacked into a wall at high speed
Jinx: I'll ask again, why are you here and what do you want?
Clock King: I'll get right to the point then, there is a building in Metropolis that has something I want inside of it and I've come to ask for your help in stealing it
Gizmo: Why us?
Billy Numerous: Hey y'all I think I got a concussion, is it a bad sigh when you taste almonds and everything looks like it's underwater?
Clock King: I needed a group that had certain talents I required for this theft and after seventeen hours, thirty-eight minutes and seven seconds I concluded that you we're the best people to help me
Jinx: Everyone else you asked said no, didn't they?
Clock King: ...yes, but I believe fate has brought us together, with my mind and your...uniqueness, we shall become a force that all shall truly fear!
Jinx: Yeah no that's not happening
Clock King: and why not my child?
Billy Numerous: Guy's I think there's blood leaking out of my ears!
Jinx: Because we make our owns rules now
See-More: Well actuality you make the rules now and we just follow them
Jinx: shut up!
See-More: Yes ma'am!
Clock King: aren't you all tired of getting of the scarps while the all-stars get to live like kings and queens? Join me and I can help you unlock your true potential
Mammoth: It would be nice to make some better money
Gizmo: yeah, I'm tired of these little jobs!
Jinx: Do you guys all feel like this?
See-More: Well...yeah
Kid Wicked: *nods*
Jinx: Even you Billy?
Billy Numerous: I'm blacking out!
The young villainess was completely out voted in this matter and truth be told maybe it was for the best, all her leadership had lead the group was to robbing gas stations and fast food restaurants and perhaps with Clock King's guidance they could really become a force truly to be reckoned with.
Jinx: alight Tockman, I guess we're all in, so what are we stealing?
Clock King: Well I can't tell you what exactly we're stealing just yet, but I can tell you were your stealing it from
Jinx: And where's that?
Clock King: *grins darkly* why Lexcorp of course...