AN: Sorry guys for the late update. Internet was down since last night, and I just got it back.

Astrid's POV

I slowly wake up again, and see the gang hovering over my bed. "Hey, guys." I said. "I had the weirdest dream. I thought Hiccup was Phantom." I chuckled out.

My friends were casting me uncertain glances. "Eh... Astrid. It wasn't a dream." Fishlegs says timidly while twiddling his thumbs.

My eyes shoot open, and I glance around the room. My gaze rests on Hiccup tied to a chair, and fuming, while the Night Fury gave me a 'what-the-hell' look.

"Guys why is my boyfriend tied to a chair?" I ask.

"That's what I want to know!" Hiccup grumbled from his spot.

"Well... he did say that he chose the villain path himself." Tuffnut answers. "We couldn't take any chance."

"Yeah, he might even have gotten close to you to infiltrate the tower." Ruffnut elaborated.

"Oh for crying out loud. If I wanted to get into your tower I could have done that at any time! I did design your security, and computer systems!" Hiccup yelled frustrated.

"WHAT!!!" Came from all of us at his statement.

"Hmmm... I was actually wondering about that. I noticed when I first got here that your computer's operating system was an advanced version of ours." Fishlegs says pensively while undoing Hiccup's bonds

"Dude, what if he's lying about that?" Tuffnut asks.

"Well I don't think he is. I saw those computers Tuff. It's more like our tower's computer system is five years out of date." Fishlegs answers back.

"Look, everybody sit down so that I can explain." Hiccup said. "This may take a while."

"Wait. Before you explain, I want to know how Fishlegs found you since none of us could dig up anything. Even with Ruffnut's hacking." Snotlout asked.

"Fine. Fishlegs if you will." Hiccup gestures for Fishlegs to explain.

"Well guys I figured if I couldn't find any information through the computer I'd have to do it the old fashioned way. So I asked Mr. Eretson if he had any idea." Fishlegs explains.

"He's the guy who actually got some interviews with the villains so I figured he'd know something. Sure enough after explaining why I wanted to find Phantom he was more than happy to direct me to 'Mala's tavern'." Fishlegs tells us, and the rest of us groan.

"Fishlegs please tell me you didn't step into a seedy pub that crooks, and villains like to frequent." I groan.

"Of course he did." Hiccup chimes in chuckling.

"You're not helping you know." Fishlegs states while shooting Hiccup a glare. "Why do you hang out there anyway?"

"I like the anonymity, and it's not like any of those guys would want to pick a fight with me." Hiccup shrugs nonchalantly.

"Anyway, so I walk into the pub all the way up to the bar, but before I could ask the lady behind the counter anything I'm suddenly grabbed by the back of my jacket, and come face to face with Treacherous, and his gang the Outcasts." Fishlegs tells us.

"He exposed me as a superhero, and then every crook, and villain in the place was after my blood." Fishlegs exclaims waving his hands around for emphasis. "If it wasn't for Hiccup showing up, and scaring the living daylights out of those guys, I'd be a goner. Afterwards he took me back here where I've been helping him with his plans to take down the Red Death."

"Although even I didn't know who you were until just now. You told me you trusted me enough, so why didn't you reveal your identity a lot sooner?" Fishlegs turns to Hiccup and asks.

"Force of habit. I've been hiding Toothless for five years." Hiccup tells Fishlegs.

"Okay, I think we need a bit of clarification here." I say aloud turning to Hiccup. "How can you be bonded to a Night Fury, and a Terror?"

"I'm not." Hiccup said, and continues before I could interject. "I introduced Sharpshot to you as just a Terror. I never said that he was my Terror. He just likes to hang around." Hiccup answers. "Toothless is my actual bonded dragon."

"Cuz, I'm guessing there is more to you leaving the family five years ago." Snotlout states.

"Yeah, dad played a major part in me leaving, but that wasn't the only reason." Hiccup says, and then goes on to tell us his story.

"I was always considered the runt in the family, and didn't get much respect. Before I met Toothless I designed that security system you guys use, but dad would only look at it after I asked Gobber to say that he made it. My work was always dismissed as irrelevant. So the day I bonded with Toothless, I was ecstatic. Dad would finally show me some respect, because I bonded with the strongest, and rarest dragon of all, because in that family special bonded dragons are everything, at least that was what I thought at the time." Hiccup tells us sadly.

"On my way back home Toothless, and I came across Sharpshot who was being harassed by other dragons. I managed to save him, and he followed me home. When I walked through the front door, and dad saw the Terror he immediately began berating me that all his plans of sending me off to the hero academy were ruined, because I was ordinary." Hiccup practically spits out.

"He even said that a superhero was something that I'll never be, and ignored me afterwards." So I thought if I couldn't be a hero, why not a villain.

"I want to kick your dad's behind. I really do." I tell Hiccup. "But that doesn't explain about how you uncovered the Red Death's plan."

"Ah, yes. I had at that point given up on pleasing my father, and I kept Toothless a secret. We were on a night flight when we must have been spotted, because I overheard some of dad's aides mention the return of the Night Fury, and how they needed to get their hands on it for the plan to work. I did some digging which led to that cult, and decided Toothless's location was better kept secret." Hiccup finished explaining.

"We know the members of the Red Death want to be the only ones to control the dragons, so am I right in assuming they want to get rid of you so that they can use the Night Fury as a symbol that the strongest dragon would bow to them?" I ask.

"That isn't the whole reason why they want Toothless. He is in fact an Alpha, meaning he can control other dragons. One is born every 300 years. They get Toothless, and the other dragons bonded or not would follow his command." Hiccup explains with a sad look in his eyes.

"I have a question." Ruffnut suddenly asks. "Where exactly are we?"

I see a smirk appear on Hiccup's face. "In the abandoned subway tunnels right underneath Police headquarters."

We were all slack-jawed by his response, and Hiccup begins to laugh. "Would you ever expect the frequent kidnapping victim of a super villain to be one himself, and then hide his lair right under the noses of the police."

"Well we certainly didn't see any of this coming." Tuffnut states.

"But it is brilliant. No one would think to look here." Ruffnut comments, and then claps Hiccup on the back. "You certainly weren't on any of our suspect lists."

"Now we have some work cut out for us." Hiccup states. "Communications have been down since martial law was declared. I need to reconfigure your communicators so that they will work on my network."

"Wait, you have your own communications network." I asked astonished.

"Yes, you guys caught me setting up the last array on the day of the bridge incident." Hiccup states as he motions for us to hand him our communicators.

"What exactly are you planning cuz?" Snotlout asked, apparently not liking the smirk which adorned Hiccups face.

"Oh, just a little ally gathering, and Mayor kidnapping." Hiccup replies while heading over to his workbench.