A/N: I know, it's been way too long since I updated. Sorry 'bout that. Feel free to read the entire story again from the beginning to remember everything that happened. (I'm kidding of course, but I do reference past events a lot)

Part 2

Chapter 2: Chained

"Come on, bunch of snot-crunchers! They'll be here any second!"

"It would go much faster if you would give us a hand," Mammoth told Gizmo as he transported a gargantuan safe across the jewelry store the H.I.V.E. Five were robbing.

Kyd stood silently as he shoved diamonds into a bag, failing to get excited over the huge amount. He had this strange feeling of emptiness he had been feeling ever since he had been frozen. It had been multiple days, but there was still a coldness inside of him. A coldness which no diamond or ruby could melt. Robbing no longer made him feel good. Fighting no longer excited him. Was this really all because he had lost Angel again? Or had the flash-freezing really frozen something deep inside him?

"Come on, Kyd," he heard See-More say. He looked up and saw the other eight (there were five Billies) waiting at the door. Kyd shoved the last couple of gems into his bag and slung it over his shoulder before joining the rest of the Five.

"Alright!" Billy exclaimed as they walked out. "We sure got a lot of them goodies this time, Billy!"

"We sure did, Billy!"

"You might want to rethink that, Numerous," it sounded. The H.I.V.E. Five looked up surprised and found the Teen Titans awaiting them outside the store. Robin stood first, his arms crossed. "Because I'm afraid we'll have to take those back."

When Kyd's gaze crossed Raven's, there was a visible change in Raven's expression. Visible only to Kyd. She looked sad. Sad that it had to be this way. But there was no other way. She was good and he was evil. Wicked.

"Yeah well you'll have to take 'em yourself!" Gizmo shouted.

"Titans, go!"

"H.I.V.E. Five, eat 'em alive!"

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"Right, let's move on…"

Commissioner Gordon looked up from the file to look at the gallery of frozen villains that had finally been transported to Gotham. He had received a list of who had to go where, and he was trying to create a little bit of order.

"Start by separating those that will stay frozen for now. That's Madame Rouge, Plasmus, the Brain, Monsiour Mallah…" The villains that were too dangerous to be thawed out (yet) were taken away. "Excellent. Now… Andre Le Blanc… Blackgate. Punk Rocket… Blackgate. Mumbo… Arkham Asylum. Angel… Angel?"

He looked up, and there she was. The winged girl. He looked at her for a second. He then chuckled while shaking his head as he whipped out his flip phone. "… Can I speak to commissioner Henry Parkinson, please? … Henry! You'll never guess what I just found… It's the strangest thing; I keep coming across her. Do you want her back? After all, she was in your jail until she escaped… Well, otherwise, she's going to Blackgate, but… Hold on… Blackgate, don't we already have a certain Roberts in there?"

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Kyd Wykkyd swung his cape at Cyborg and quickly teleported to dodge a starbolt. He deflected a birdarang with his cape and dematerialized right in front of the charging green rhino. But throughout the entire fight, Kyd and Raven kept avoiding attacking each other.

The H.I.V.E. Five were holding up against the Teen Titans, for now. But with Jinx gone, and Kyd failing to put his heart and soul into the battle as he usually did, it wouldn't be long before they either had to flee, leaving their loot behind, or be captured.

The Five regrouped. "What are we gonna do?" See-More asked as they took a defensive position.

"I say we make a run for it!" Billy suggested.

"I agree, Billy!" another Billy replied.

"And leave all this stuff behind?! Forget it!" Gizmo screamed.

"We can take 'em," Mammoth said, balling his fists.

The Titans came charging their way and the Five prepared for the impact, but they never reached them. Instead, a giant, elastic red X suddenly appeared between two lampposts, the Titans running into it and being sent flying back like birds in a cell phone game.

"What the-" Gizmo started, before his mouth was covered by another red X.

A black figure landed on the street in front of them. As he turned around, he revealed his white skull mask with the scar over the eye.

"You again!" See-More exclaimed. "What do you want from us?"

"I put a lot of effort into getting you free," Red X replied. "I had hoped the 'distraction' for the Teen Titans would do a better job at keeping them busy."

"But we are keepin' 'em busy!" Billy protested.

"Without my help, you'd have been caught by now." He grabbed three of the bags the H.I.V.E. Five had carried out of the jewelry store. "I think it's safer if I take care of these," he said before stealthily jumping away.

"Hey, that's ours!" Gizmo moved to fly after him, but was stopped in his tracks by the Titans.

"You take the H.I.V.E. Five," Robin said to Cyborg, Beast Boy and Raven, "Star and I will go after Red X." With that, he went after the thief, and the H.I.V.E. Five were left with only three of the Titans.

"Well," See-More said to his teammates, "Now that the loot is gone, I don't see what's keeping us from running."

The H.I.V.E. Five fled into the night, defeated, while sonic blasts and enchanted trashcans were hurled after them.

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Angel sat in the dark. It felt strange to be… alive again. At first she had felt like she had resurfaced after days, maybe weeks underwater. But she had had little time to recover, as she had quickly been blindfolded, handcuffed and led to this room. This dark, cold room. Cold. So cold.

The blindfolds were off now, but the handcuffs remained where they were. She expected someone to walk in at any moment to shine a lamp in her face and do the good old 'good cop/bad cop' routine, but the door stayed shut. The mirror on her left didn't show the secrets hiding on the other side, and neither did the door on the right side of the room. She didn't even know what country, let alone what city she was in. Was she still in Paris? What happened to the rest of the Brotherhood of Evil?

What happened to Kyd?

"What do you want from me?" Angel asked the empty room, speaking for the first time in God knows how much time. There was no answer, but she could vaguely hear steps behind the door.

There was a buzzing sound and the door opened. It opened in her direction, so she couldn't see who was behind it. "Ten minutes – no more," a voice said. A man stepped in and the door closed behind him.

Angel looked at the man. His orange jumpsuit and cuffed hands. His half-long black hair and unshaven chin. The pair of black wings on his back. The pair of tired blue eyes that laid deep in their sockets and locked their gazes in a long stare. There was a long moment of silence.

"… Dad?"

The man said nothing at first. His mouth opened a little bit and his eyes softened, almost forming a tear in the corner. "Angelina?"

Had her wings not been tied together, Angel would have flown over the table, but instead she got up, her chair falling over, and she ran towards her father to close him into a tight embrace. When she reached him, she simply pressed herself against his chest, not being able to wrap her arms around him. He lifted his arms over her head and pressed her against him even more, the handcuffs locking them together. "My little angel…"

On the other side of the mirror, Jim Gordon watched in silence. He watched how the two villains held each other. Like father and daughter.

During times like this, it was hard to keep thinking of them as 'villains'.

The embrace could've gone on forever, if Angel's legs hadn't suddenly started shaking. Her time in the ice had left her with very little energy. Her father guided her towards the table and helped her sit down on the chair before taking place on the other side.

"Tell me everything, angel," Gordon heard the man say. His daughter started talking. About the H.I.V.E. Academy. About how she and that 'Kyd Wykkyd' fellow broke into Crown Tower. How she was freed from Grandgate Prison to join the Brotherhood of evil. The father didn't take his eyes off his daughter, and when she was finished, he smiled. "I'm so proud, Angelina."

Proud. He said it like she had just gotten her degree. Or won first place in the school's swimming competition.

"You know, sometimes we really seem to forget that, at the end of the day, these villains are people too," Gordon said to no one in particular.

The young officer that stood behind him in the dark room looked up from the file he was reading. "What was that, sir?"

"Nothing, Marx, nothing. Just thinking out loud."

The officer checked his watch. "It's been ten minutes. Should we separate them again?"

Gordon didn't look away from the two inside the interrogation room. "… Let's give them another five minutes."

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Kyd heard the door to his room open. He looked up from his book to see See-More walk in. "Hey buddy," he said as he approached the bed where Kyd was sitting, wrapped in multiple blankets with his book laid down in front of him. "We're all a bit upset about what happened earlier, I just wanted to check in on you to see if you're okay."

Kyd shrugged and looked to the letters on the pages again.

"Uh, Kyd… Why the blankets? It's not that cold in here, is it?"

Kyd squeezed his eyes shut. See-More was right. It wasn't cold in his room. It was cold inside him. He hoped to get rid of that icy feeling by putting himself in a little cocoon, like he used to do whenever he was scared or upset.

"If there's anything I can do, just tell me," See-More said as he walked to the door. "And Kyd," he added as he turned around again just before closing the door, "Try to turn that frown upside down every once in a while."

As his door closed, Kyd got up from his bed. He left the blankets there. They weren't helping anyway. He walked to the mirror that hung on the wall. He took off his cowl and tried to smile. No matter how he tried, he couldn't get it to look natural. He just saw those red demonic eyes staring at him. He fought the urge to destroy the mirror, like he did with the one in the Brotherhood of Evil base. He shook his head and his eyes became half covered by his messy raven hair.

Raven.

Why couldn't he keep her out of his head? Her words kept haunting his thoughts. There is always a choice.

Was there?

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Angel was alone again. She had known she could only see her father for a limited time, but when he had to go, she still felt a sting in her heart.

Don't worry about me, his last words had been. Just make sure you turn out fine.

Now she was looking at the mustache of commissioner James Gordon. She didn't want to look him in the eyes.

"Miss Roberts, is there really nothing you can tell me?"

"What can I say? You already rounded up the entire Brotherhood."

"Not all of them. These villains were reported 'missing' from the collection."

Gordon handed her a list. She glanced at it shortly, but her gaze stuck to one name: Kyd Wykkyd. He was 'missing'. What did that mean? Was he free? Dead? Recruited by another evil organization?

"I see you're interested," Gordon said. "It's him, isn't it?" He placed his index finger next to Kyd's name.

"What do you mean?" Angel asked, forcing herself to take her eyes off the list.

"He perfectly matches the description of your accomplice during your little tower heist from a couple of months ago. I assume the two of you like working together?"

"What do you want from me?"

"Tell me everything you know about this… 'Kyd Wykkyd'. We have plenty of data about most of the other members of the Brotherhood, but he's still a big mystery."

"What do you know already?"

"We know he goes by the name 'Kyd Wykkyd' and that he is able to teleport. We know he went to the H.I.V.E. Academy… like you."

Angel chuckled. "Well, then you know about as much about him as I do."

"Well, any extra information would help us a lot – and it would help you, too."

"He barely talks, he sleeps until noon and he loves chocolate," Angel said, trying to ignore everything Kyd told her about him being banished from Azarath – she had sworn to keep that a secret.

Gordon smiled. "Well, that's very nice but of little use to us. Anything else? His real name, for example?"

Angel frowned. "Real name? What do you mean?"

"Don't tell me you think 'Kyd Wykkyd' is his real name?"

Angel stayed silent while she thought about the commissioner's words. She had never known Kyd to have any other name than the one she knew, but… now that she thought of it, it was a bit strange. She had just never given it much thought.

"Any ideas where he might be hanging out?"

Angel shook her head. Her head was spinning. How did he escape the flash-freezing? Could he have rescued her, and if so, why didn't he? Where was he now? And most of all… what was his real name?

As Angel was thinking, Gordon's cell phone rung. He mumbled a couple of affirmative answers before hanging up and looking at her again. "It seems we have found the answer to at least one of our questions. Your friend was sighted by the Teen Titans with the rest of that 'H.I.V.E. Five' group. Thank you for your cooperation, Miss Roberts."

"What will happen to me now?" Angel asked as Gordon prepared to leave the room.

"You'll probably be transferred back to Crown City," Gordon answered.

Angel looked at her tied hands. Kyd was safe. For now. Unless those Teen Titans got to him.

She had to find him. She had seen what it had done to him when she was first caught. He wouldn't survive without her.

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A/N: I am really sorry this took so long to write, but school… ugh.

Reviews are appreciated, as always!