The Hive 5 crashing the club

As the two of you approach the door you motion for Blackfire to stand on one side as you move to the other. She nods her understanding and the two of you take up position and peer out onto the main dance floor. What you see makes you swear under your breath.

Out on the main floor are Jinx's former teammates the "H.I.V.E. Five": Mammoth, Gizmo, Kid Wykkyd, Billy Numerous, and the kid with the eye powers, you can never remember his name.

"All right you crud munching freaks", Gizmo bellows from the center of the room as his teammates take up positions around the main area to cover all the exits but their sloppy about it and you can make out several gaps in their coverage, "handover all your cash and jewelry, and we might not fuck ya up any more than ya already are." As he's barking out orders Billy's clones appear around the room holding bags for people to drop their valuables in. Kid Wykkyd suddenly disappears through the door behind the bar, only to reemerge with the safe.

"Hey umm, Giz", one of the Billy close drawls, "are we taking their body piercings to?"

"Yeah ya fucking hick", Gizmo sneers at him, "some of these freaks spend top dollar on that shit. Don't worry, the bags are lined with antibacterial crap, so you ain't gonna catch nothing."

"Fuck," you mutter ducking back behind the door before one of the bad guys can see you, "of all that night for these idiots to show up here…"

"They could've at least waited another half-hour or so", Blackfire says, sounding annoyed. Suddenly her expression changes and she’s grinning like the Cheshire cat. “On the other hand this could work to our advantage.”

"Work to our advantage how exactly?" You ask, not sure you want to know where she's going with this.

"Simple, if I help you take down these five idiots it'll help prove to the other Titans that I'm looking to go legit", she says still grinning. "Besides, somebody needs to teach them to work on their timing”, she says through gritted teeth. Apparently you’re not the only one feeling frustrated at being interrupted just as things were about to get good.

You barely manage to suppress a grin as you try to reason with her, "Look, Blackfire were seriously outnumbered. Let me call in the rest of the Titan’s, I'll let them know you're looking to help and then…" You trail off as you realize after searching all your pockets your communicator is missing. Then you remember dropping it back at the Tower when she jumped you. "Aww fuck!!! We're in trouble."

"No, this is better", Blackfire says her grin widening, "I’ll distract them, then we take them down, somebody calls the cops, and by the time the Titans get here we’ll totally be the heroes."

“Seriously, Blackfire we need a better plan, then…” but whatever you were about to say next is lost as Blackfire goes flying into the room.

"All I wanted was a snack before I went to bed that too much to ask?" You think spying a bottle of whiskey sitting on the table. “Eh, screw it. I’m gonna get chewed out by Robin anyway”, you say as you grab the bottle and take a big pull, “might as well go down in style.” That settled you take the bottle with you as you sneak into the room as the H.I.V.E. guys are distracted by Blackfires’ appearance.