A/N: I don't own Kim Possible, Jinx, or any of the characters from any of the shows. This story idea came to me while watching too much TV as I recovered from surgery. This story takes place instead of Dimension Twist at that time in the Kim Possible TV Show and after The Brotherhood of Evil season finale for Teen Titans TV Show.
There are people I talked to about to 'Jinx' idea and I'd like to thank them but my notes are at home and I can't remember to whom I talked. Anyway, thank you all.
A special Thank You goes to captainkodak1 for beta reading/proof reading this for me. ("You're a braver man than I am, Gunga Din.")
This is my first short story (I hope! They, the stories just kept growing like that bio-thingy in KP's 'Mother's Day'.)
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1. JINX! YOU OWE ME A SODA!
Gizmo was understandably upset; The Brain had it all and BLEW IT! Still it wasn't a total waste; he had managed to get himself placed in the lenient JV rehabilitation program.
'Breaking Rockhead out was a piece of cake. With the man-mountain's assistance, I'm sure that I can build another Dimensional Gateway, now if only I knew out how The Brain had opened a gateway between dimensions to begin with. It might take time, but think how many alternate Fort Knox' worth of gold I'd be able to steal? That's why I broke Mammoth out of prison, to fetch and carry for me. All that gold, more gold than his limited brain could imagine.' thought Gizmo.
After all, if time was the only holdup then Mammoth would continue with the hold ups at the research labs until Gizmo found what he was looking for to make the Pan Dimensional Gateway (the PDG as Gizmo liked to call it) work. Then he, Gizmo, would be rich, Rich, RIch, RICh, VERY RICH! Mammoth could have Canada or something like that…...
It annoyed Jinx that the green-eyed redhead, Starfire, just wouldn't stay down, it seemed like every time Jinx turned around, there Starfire was, bare midriff and all. Kicking and punching for the heroine was worth, all the while she was admonishing her opponent to surrender to the forces of justice.
'Life just wasn't fair!' The semi-retired Villainess thought bitterly. 'All I wanted was a lousy can of pop and that stupid 8-12 Convenience Store clerk had to start yelling 'thief' at the top of his pimpled lungs just because I shortchanged him a few cents for practice. Heck I had less of a reaction when I robbed a bank.'
Some sort of hairless animal charged at Jinx, which meant that backup for the redhead would soon be here. The villainess fired a hex bolt and ran down the street away from the convenience store and towards Middleton's Star Labs & Spaceport.
Meanwhile Gizmo had found and assembled everything he thought he needed to open a Pan Dimensional Gateway. Now all they had to do was make their getaway from this one-horse-burg before the Justice League or the Teen Titans showed up.
Mammoth stopped with a grunt, when a familiar teen-aged girl sprawled on the sidewalk after she had run into him. Near by was a small can of soda-pop that she had dropped. As the man-mountain bent over and scooped her up, Mammoth also grabbed and tossed the 6 ounce can of carbonated pink lemonade soda-pop to Gizmo, as the huge villain heard the sound of pounding feet; Mammoth looked down the street and quickly said, "Oops!" To warn his partner-in-crime as the heroes charged in.
The rough handling shook Jinx awake. Although blurry, she was able to recognize her former H.I.V.E. teammates. "Hi Mammoth, hi Seymour."
"I told you not to call me by that name." Gizmo said hurriedly as eyed the charging Teen Titans.
Gizmo had seconds to act; he pulled the tab on the can of pop and threw it at the heroes as he shouted "GRENADE!" The heroes' reacted instinctively, star bolts, dark soul shield, and sonic cannon all lashed out at the small missile and the backlash splashed the sticky, pink liquid back over on Mammoth and the girl. Gizmo dropped his backpack and the Pan Dimensional Gateway; which accidentally turned on or did something, Gizmo wasn't sure what. But he had no intention of being caught by these super freaks just so he could find out either.
Seymour glared at his giant companion, once they were safely away and could stop to catch their breath. "So where is she Rockhead?"
Mammoth shrugged, "I dropped her in that black hole you made in the sidewalk. I thought that's what you wanted me to do with that traitor."
It was dark, but there was a light at the end of the tunnel, in fact there were several lights in different colors. As it grew larger and brighter, she could also hear sounds, voices. (Got closer?)
"See Shego!" All he needed was some proper motivation!" Doctor Drakken cackled madly as the TV cable guy ran out of the lair.
The green and black clad villainess rolled her eyes at her employer's latest display of childish temper.
From Shego's peripheral vision, she saw an odd looking teenaged girl literally come out of the television set. Odd was right, she seemed to have grey skin like she had come from one of the old NICK at NITE™ TV Shows except that her short hair was bright bubblegum pink of all colors!
While Doctor Drakken aimed his latest ray at the 'X' painted on the floor, Shego readied herself to meet this unexpected threat and to Shogo anything unexpected was a potential threat.
"So girlie, who are you? And what are you doing coming out Drakken's cable TV set?" Shego snarled.
"See, I told you that cable was a fad and now it turns out to be a dangerous one at that." Doctor Drakken whined.
"Zip it! D!" Shego ordered as she continued to face her new potential foe.
Jinx was confused, everything was moving too fast. Who was this older woman in the bizarre green and black body suit and what was with the weird green skin color? Could she be related to Beast Boy?
'Nice hair though, I wonder what she uses as her hair conditioner?' Jinx thought a bit enviously.
What's with the guy, blue and black clothes and blue skin? Did these two have a thing going or something? The blue dude looked like an egotistical adult version of Gizmo but with more hair and maybe something of a dolt. Maybe he was Blueberryman.
The Green Granny looked like she could be dangerous, if given a chance, and if it was one thing the H.I.V.E. taught Jinx; it was never give a sucker an even chance.
"Well Granny, let's see what's ya got!" Jinx launched a high kick as she tossed an underhanded hex bolt curse at Shego's feet.
Shego lit both hands only to slip and blowup one of Doctor Drakken's hovorcars by accident.
The sounds of explosions, screams, and falling debris could be heard by Team Possible; even outside the massive doors to Doctor Drakken's latest lair.
Rufus listened for a moment, shook his tiny head and ducked back into the Ron's cargo pocket.
"I gotta agree with you there little buddy. Either Shego got tired of waitin' an' decided to start the fight without us or she's mad at Doctor D. again." Ron said as he listened to sounds coming through the thick doors. "Why don't we come back later after Shego has worked through her anger management problems and she's in a more receptive mood…?"
Kim shook her 'no', "Wade said that Doctor Drakken has stole the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer, again…."
"Man, can't this guy ever do anything original, what's this? The third time somebody stole the thing? You would think that they would spend money on better security, or leave it with Global Justice, or something?" Ron asked.
"Even I can come up with a better scheme than something this lame and predictable." Ron's voice slowly trailed off as one red eyebrow slowly crept up Kim's forehead.
Kim arched her lifted eyebrow and asked softly, "Ron, what did we agree on about giving helpful ideas to villains?"
"No more suggestions about Spinning Tops of Doom, Piranha filled moats, or other antihero weapons and/or devices that could hurt, kill, maim, or stop us." Ron quoted.
"But Senor Senior Senior wasn't even a villain then." Ron grumbled quietly to himself.
"A little out of sequence but basically right, now let's go get the Bad Guys." As she walked up to one of the massive doors, Kim reached into her belt pouch for her lock pick...
Ron walked up to the other massive door and pushed it open.
Now it was Kim's turn to roll her eyes, as she pocketed her lock pick tools, and followed Ron into the gloomy interior. The sounds of fighting echoed through the hallway, not sure what the sounds meant, the two teens trotted down the cavernous, ill lit hallway.
As he looked around, Ron just had to ask Kim. "Uh, KP, in a lot of Doctor's D.s lairs, the doors and gates are, well they're huge, ginormous even! Even inside the lairs they have tall ceilings, towers, power lines, and stuff. Not the best way to have a secret lair, I'm thinking."
"Well Ron I think it has something to do with his megalomania." Kim answered thoughtfully.
Ron stopped and looked at Kim in the dim light. "Hello, KP, school word."
Kim sighed to herself; she just knew that Ron was better than this, it only he would try. "Ron, think if it as a villain's big-headiness."
"Okay, gotcha." Ron nodded.
The heroic duo crept up to the corner and peeked around. It was a pretty typical layout for one of Doctor Drakken's lairs except for the underground stream running through it or the arched foot bridge over the stream.
Kim glanced around, "I don't see any of Drakken's red suited henchmen lazing about. It looks like we might actually luck out on this one Ron."
Ron asked as he pointed to the two women fighting on the other side of the stream. "Kim, who's that pink haired girl fighting Shego?"
"I don't know but if she's fighting Shego then she's on our side." Kim stated with certainty.
"Look Pinky! I AM NOT YOUR GRANNY!" Shouted a visibly upset Shego. As she threw two more green plasma bolts at Jinx, who dodged with practiced ease.
'How did she know to do that? I haven't seen her on any missions with Kimmy and the Villain's Digest didn't have any new heroes/foes listed for this month.'
"YOU MAY NOT BE MY GRANNY BUT YOU ARE CERTAINLY OLD ENOUGH AND LOOK MOLDY ENOUGH!" Jinx shouted back.
Ron cringed, "Owww. That last remark hurt. I wouldn't want to be in that new girl's shoes right now. Shego is going to be so ticked off…"
"Shush." Kim slid her gloved left hand over Ron's mouth to keep him quiet and pull him back around the corner.
Ron decided to take a chance that Kim was too absorbed in the fight between Shego and 'Who-Ever' to notice.
To notice that Ron held on to Kim's waist for 'balance'; no big there, he had done the same on other missions over the years.
But this time there was a difference; Kim was not just the Team Leader and Best Friend. Kim was different. There was something about her that Ron could feel but couldn't pinpoint. It made him feel uneasy to be around his best friend but he didn't want to leave her side either. Ron looked down at his small pink buddy and confident. "Rufus ol' buddy, I'm just so confused."
"Hic. Like her?" the mole rat asked.
"Ah, yah. What's not to like?"
"Hic. Like-like her?"
Ron ceased his brow in thought, "Hummmm. Don' know."
Rufus slapped his paw to his forehead, "Oh no." The little mole rat sank out of sight in Ron's cargo pants' pocket at the denseness of his owner/big buddy.
Doctor Drakken saw his red suited henchmen scatter to the four winds to get away from the two women as they battled fiercely and thought that leaving was not such a bad idea.
"But if I left now my grand plan will come to nothing." Doctor Drakken mused. "And after I went and had Shego steal the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer and I had this trap setup and everything."
While he thought about, it, Doctor Drakken happened to see Kim's trademark red hair at the entrance to his laboratory.
The blue clad mad scientist turned and cried out in surprise. "KIM POSSIBLE!'
Shego stopped in her battle with Jinx and placed one hand over the other to form the letter'T' as she called, "TIME OUT!" to her teenaged opponent.
When Shego saw that Jinx had stopped her attacks, she turned and asked Doctor Drakken in a bored voice. "Why is it you are always so surprised?"
Doctor Drakken put his index finger to his mouth, thought for a moment and said, "You know, I really don't know. But it really doesn't matter now does it? GET HER!"
Shego couldn't believe what she just heard. "And what about Pinky over here, you know that weird girl who came out of your television set. You want me to stop fighting her and fight the Princess and the Buffoon instead?"
Doctor Drakken glared at his insubordinate sidekick. "Ignore the girl and get Possible and the buffoon, whose name I forget! They're the ones who always foil my 'take over the world schemes'."
Ron stood up, "Hey I heard that. The name's Stoppable, Ron Stoppable."
With graceful leaps the two arch foes battled one another with a single minded intensity seldom seen on this planet, or in it.
Jinx was stunned by the sudden reversal. First Granny here calls for a time-out, of all things, then Blueberryboy was yelling about Somebody-or-other and off she goes to fight this new person and left Jinx alone. Jinx was not used to being ignored. Her eyes started to glow and the vending machine in the henchmen's lounge area blew up in a cloud of pink energy.
At the sound of the explosion, Doctor Drakken turned to face a slight teenaged girl whose pink aura throbbed with menace.
"Eeepppp!" Was all the mad scientist could manage before he turned and ran to his latest 'doomsday weapon' and turned it towards this newest threat.
Shego looked down from her rocky ledge, lashed out one last time at Kim Possible as the heroine tried to swing in on the line from her grapple gun. "See you later Princess! I gotta go save the boss. AGAIN!"
Jinx saw Shego jump down towards her as she ran at Blueberryboy. Who was trying to turn his thing-of-a-ma-jig and aim it at her. (Jinx assumed it was a weapon, probably a ray gun of some kind. After all, that's what Gizmo would build.) With a high kick Jinx forced the barrel up at an angle and the black ray it fired barely missed Shego as she swung down.
Kim's ears turned fire engine red as she dodged out of the way of Shego's unexpected maneuver while Shego was swearing like a trooper in at least three different languages.
Shego stood on another ledge. "YOU! PINKY! WHAT THE &#$&#!&# DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?" Shego was so preoccupied with her tirade at Jinx that she never noticed that her rock ledge glowed pink.
However, Kim Possible, the ever vigilant heroine, did notice and swung across the open space and grabbed a surprised Shego by the waist.
Shego twisted in Kim's grip ready to fight when her rock ledge was destroyed in a pink explosion. The two pairs of green eyes met.
Shego's black lips twitched, "Well, this is awkward."
Kim blushed furiously, "It's not like you think…..."
"It's a hero thing….."
"It's what I do….."
"I save people….."
"Even You……"
Kim looked for something other than the hard rock floor but nothing presented itself. While Kim searched, Shego made her move.
Shego squirmed out of Kim's grasp and dropped the last ten feet or so into the icy cold waters of the underground spring that meandered through Doctor Drakken's lair. It wasn't long before the cold water started to bubble from the bright green glow in the water around a wet, upset Shego. "DRAKKEN!"
Ron saw that the new girl almost hit Kim with the black ray as she rescued Shego, of all people.
That made up his mind. Reaching into his cargo pants' pocket, he pulled out his littlest best bud, Rufus. "Okay, little friend I need you to go find Doctor Drakken's Big Red Self Destruct Button and push it, so KP and I can get out of here with Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer."
Ron's next big decision was to safeguard the one he cared about more that he knew how to admit. Cute pink hair or not, gargoyle face was going down hard, she almost hurt Kim.
With a wild war cry of, "WHAT AM I DOING?" Ron charged forward only to see Jinx turn and hurl two pink energy bolts in his general direction. Ron's natural clumsiness, (or was it MMP?), caused Ron to trip forward, over an unseen electrical cable. He fell forward on Jinx as she hit the floor with Ron on top of her, the two pink hex bolts struck the wall and the power supply unit for Doctor Drakken's whacked out plans and inventions.
Soft brown eyes stared into a pair of dangerously flashing pink eyes.
Nose to nose, so to speak, finally Ron just had to ask; "So come here often?"
"NO."
"Kim's probably got some hottie all lined up. Wanna go to The Dance with me?"
"NO!"
"Then I guess you're my prisoner."
"NO! Now get off of me." Jinx grabbed one arm and leg on a side and spun, the next thing Ron knew, was that he had received a peck on the cheek along with a whispered, "Thanks for the asking, a girl likes to know she still has it."
Kim lowered herself down the grapple line and ran over to Ron. He had that dopy dazed look that Kim had seen before, usually after Ron had been with Tara, Zita, or Yori.
Kim turned her head to stare as Jinx backed flipped away from her and towards the TV set.
'Who is she and what has she done to her Ron?' Kim stood up and clenched both fists.
Shego stood up in the icy water and stalked Doctor Drakken. Her sodden hair lashed about her lower thighs and knees, her discomfort fueled her anger to even higher levels.
Doctor Drakken saw his irate sidekick as she slowly closed in on him, green flames flickered ominously. Doctor Drakken saw the danger but seemed helpless as her temper grew and she stormed towards him closer, ever closer. The water steamed as she left a watery trail behind her.
Jinx stood by the television console and watched as the hex bolts that she had thrown at the boy had missed and now caused unforeseen damage, this could present a danger, even to her.
Cracks grew in the far wall where a hex bolt curse hit. The erratic power discharges from the power supply unit after it was hit with the second hex bolt that gave the power unit a pink aura.
These pink power surges made Doctor Drakken's ray gun fire where and when it wanted to. Doctor Drakken gave up on his attempts to control the weapon and cowered on all fours.
Shego dodged a pink and black ray as she dove back into the icy water of the underground stream. As Shego sat up in the cold water, she shook her fist at Doctor Drakken and threatened. "DRAKKEN! WHEN I GET OUTA HERE I'M GONNA KICK THAT BLUE TUCHIS OF YOUR'S FROM HERE TO NEXT WEEK AND BACK AGAIN."
"This is going to be an owie. I can tell." Doctor Drakken said to himself as he ran past the confused Jinx and climbed into the last hovercraft.
Shego ran after Doctor Drakken, ignoring the black and pink rays that fired at random in all directions and at unexpected times. Once there, the villainess jumped in the hovercraft. The sounds of a fight followed shortly by Doctor Drakken's cries for mercy from his employee soon followed as the aircraft rose in the air and got away.
Kim stood near the arched footbridge and helped Ron to his feet. "Well, it look's like they got away again."
"Yeah, but we stopped whatever dastardly plan they had planed, and we get to retrieve the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer, and we had a chance to foil a brand new villain. By the way what is her name?" Ron asked.
Kim frowned, "We haven't retrieved the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer yet and won't unless we can get it out of Doctor Drakken's ray gun."
As Kim and Ron stepped forward, the pink haired girl stood in front of them, near the TV set, and told Team Possible. "If you two don't back off, I'll show you what these hexes can do. I don't know what this Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer is but it must be valuable, to have so many people fighting over it. As long as I'm here, I might as well make a living at what I'm good at."
While Jinx talked about her plans, Rufus scampered over to Kim and tossed a large (for him) rock up as high Kim's waist. The auburn haired heroine palmed the small stone in her right hand. Kim whispered to Ron, "Distract her."
Ron stepped forward and to the side, away from Kim. "You know, I never did ask your name. I mean that I figure that the real reason you turned me down for The Dance was because I didn't ask for your name first."
Kim whipped the rock around like a pitcher as she threw a fast ball. Kim's head continued to turn as she stared at Ron. "You asked a villainess to the school dance?"
The thrown rock went wide if it's intended target, Jinx, and hit the barrel of Doctor Drakken's ray gun, and made it spin about on its tripod stand.
One of the random pink and black rays struck Jinx and she felt herself fall back into that dark tunnel. One of her last actions was to cast hex bolts at the heroes who did this to her, where they struck the heroes' belts.
Jinx' last thought before she lost consciousness was, 'I hate redheads!'
Rufus trotted off to retrieve the Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer from the burned out ray gun.
Kim and Ron stood there a moment and asked each other, "What happened to her?"
"JINX! YOU OWE ME A SODA!"
Ron felt a draft, and sure enough, his cargo pants had fallen and his Fearless Ferret boxers were showing, again. As he pulled them up, Ron looked for Kim and couldn't see her. Until he felt a tug on his pant's leg from Rufus.
He was stood on his hind legs with the charred Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer by his side and pointed at Kim, who was crouched down with her arms wrapped around her bare knees.
Kim looked sternly at Rufus, "Traitor. No grandee sized Naco for you."
Ron looked closely at Kim as he tried to figure out what was wrong.
Kim continued to blush various shades of red while she wondered just how dumb Ron could be. Some of the girls on the Cheer Squad said that some boys liked to 'play dumb' on purpose just to see what they could get away with.
Finally Kim couldn't take it anymore and asked Ron to turn around rather than wait for him to get the idea, if ever. As much as she liked him as her Best Friend, there were some traits, like his inexplicable denseness, that drove her to distraction at times. This was one reason she was not sure that he was boy-friend material.
As requested Ron turned away from Kim and faced the ruin of Doctor Drakken's lair. Behind him Ron could hear the sound of Kim's cargo pants as they were pulled up. Ron felt that he had to say something; this silence was getting on his nerves.
"So Kim I guess we're even. Although to tell the truth I never figured you for a satin bow on pink panties. But now I know. Just like you know about my Fearless Ferret boxers."
As they turned and walked out of the mad doctor's lair and towards their waiting Global Justice ride back to nearby Middleton.
Kim warned Ron. "We are so NOT even and don't you mention this to anyone, anyone, at all, understand!"
As he walked out of the massive doors, Ron scratched the back of his neck, "Understood."
Kim smiled at her Best Friend and asked, ""So have you asked anyone to The Dance yet?"
"Yes, and I've been shot down in flames every time." Ron hung his head as they walked to the waiting helicopter.
Kim laid an arm on her friend's shoulder and said, "Keep trying, my friend, somewhere out there is a girl for you, even if she doesn't know it."
"Thanks Kim. I'll keep looking."
CONTINUED