Hey guys! FriendlyMushroom here with yet another new project. I seem to have more and more of those lately, especially of the Teen Titans. The truth is, the more time I spend without Wally as the Flash, the more I miss him, so I can't help but write about him more and more. But since I already have an unfinished project about Kid Flash named: "Those who ride the Lighting", I decided to write something different and more Jinx/Kid Flash inclined than "Those who ride the Lighting".
Anyway, I'm sure you people have seen tons of these stories before, but it is something I can't help but write, and AU (Alternative Universe), more AE (Alternative Earth) though. This is the story of the H.I.V.E. of Earth-03, an Earth where all heroes are villains and villains are heroes. So basically, Jinx is the hero here and Kid Flash is the villain. At any rate, this time it is Jinx the one trying to convince Kid Flash into turning into a hero, so their personalities were changed somehow to fit their respective roles.
This story promises to be challenging and funny to write for me, and if things go right, enjoyable for you to read as well. And remember, since it is Earth-03, the bad guys are the good guys and the good guys are the bad guys. Have fun reading.
Prologue:
Jump City, San Francisco. May 08, year 2004.
"Well Gizmo." There is more than one universe. And on each universe there is an Earth. So, if there is an unlimited number of universes in the multiverse, there is also an unlimited number of Earths. Infinite Earths. Inside the multiverse, there is a particular Earth, known simply as Earth-03 by the natives of Earth-01 who discovered the multiverse. Earth-03 is an Earth where the forces of good and evil switched places. Those who were great heroes in their universe were great villains in this one. It is a darker and confusing Earth, an Earth where the Justice League is known simply as the Crime Syndicate, and the Teen Titans are known as the Teen Tyrants. An Earth where the hierarchy of international vengeance and extermination, also known as the H.I.V.E. is known by a different acronymic definition as the heroic integration of volunteer enforcers.
"Piece of cake! Security system stinks!" On this Earth. The H.I.V.E. were a group of heroes, trying to overthrown the Teen Tyrants. Lead by Jinx, the sorcerer of chaos, who forged it with the help of Mammoth and Gizmo, and recruited in their way others like See-More, Kyd Wykkyd and more recently, Billy Numerous. "Door's open!" And today, they were invading the Teen Tyrants headquarters at Jump City. "Look at that, Billy is scaaaaareeeeed." Gizmo pointed out while making fun of his new teammate. Different to his villainous counterpart, this Gizmo was a little taller and actually had messy black hair. He still enjoyed moving around using his mechanical spider-legs though, and wore the usual green outfit. "Chill out man? The Teen Tyrants are out on Europe fighting against the Brotherhood of Justice. There is nothing to worry about."
"There is everything to be worried about." The Jinx of Earth-03 mentioned. She was grey skinned just as her other Earths self, but wore a black leotard and a pink cloak, which she mostly wore without the hood, revealing her long and silky pink hair adorned in a ponytail, far different from her horned counterpart. "The Brotherhood of Justice needs the data of the Teen Tyrants communicators inside this building. Without it, they won't be able to defeat the Teen Tyrant's forces all around the globe. The Teen Tyrants are awfully armed and well organized. We need to bring their communicators down in this attack to their base while they are away, and we only have one chance." She explained, and then faced her teammates, especially Billy Numerous, the new member of the group. "Billy… everything will be fine." She tried to explain.
Since Billy was the new recruit, assigned to the H.I.V.E. only recently, this was his first mission, and the red-costumed multiplier was hugging himself, his copy-self to be precise, out of fear. The difference between this Billy and the villainous one of other Earths was he didn't wear a division symbol as logo, but a multiplier one. Also, his mask revealed his spiky black hair.
"Wha ya mean everything will be fine? This isn't just a headquarters, it is THE headquarters." Billy mentioned. "Billy is right. We didn't enter the pay role to be torn apart." A second Billy mentioned, and then a third one arrived. "They don't pay us Billy." And then a fourth one. "They don't? Then why are we here then?" And Jinx just rolled her eyes. "Social service." The last Billy mentioned, and all others slapped their foreheads hard.
"Ha! This is mission is like a stroll in the park man." Mammoth was the one calming Billy down. This Mammoth was well shaved, different to his primal counterpart. His costume was mostly the same, there were no changes. The major change was his personality. "We will stay by the door. We don't need your boyfriend here to keep an eye on us." And Jinx blushed madly at that last.
"Mammoth! He is not… well… he is but you don't have to yell it around!" Jinx complained and then stormed inside while ignoring See-More's smirk. See-More was Jinx's boyfriend at the moment, and second in command. "Seriously, he got some nerve! Let's go! Take care of Billy, Mammoth." And the giant between men nodded in agreement.
"You don't have to be this angry, Lucky. He is just joking." See-More tried to explain. See-More in this reality actually had the valor to ask Jinx out, and Jinx, luckily for him, didn't have the valor of rejecting him. Other differences between him and his villainous self were mostly in his costume. He wore blue armor instead of green, and black clothing instead of white. Also, attached to his back he wore a mechanical and rounded backpack, where he kept most of his own creation's Gadgets, since this See-More was smarter than his other self. "Eye don't see anything wrong with the new guy knowing we are a couple."
"It bothers me! It's embarrassing! I'm not a born leader as you are… and Mammoth making fun of me isn't helping the others to know I'm the leader here…" And See-More blinked twice, while Gizmo just held his laughter. "I heard you!" And Gizmo covered his mouth out of fear. "If they don't respect me… how am I to lead this team?" She wondered in depression.
"They can hear you." See-More mentioned, and Jinx frowned and lowered her head. "Well, Eye am not worried about Kyd Wykkyd though, he is mute." And Jinx smacked the back of See-More's head hard. "Ouch! You didn't hit me that hard since eye asked you out!"
"Do you mind quitting it? And don't make fun of Kyd Wykkyd." And Jinx then made a reverence toward Kyd Wykkyd, who just smiled and moved his head in negation. Kyd Wykkyd was the mute member of the group, and his costume, compared to his other self's one, was only color-reversed, with his cloak been grey and his costume being black. "Don't let my idiotic boyfriend bother you. There is nothing wrong with being mute. You are actually funny like that!" And Kyd Wykkyd nodded in agreement several times. The other major difference was his mood, he was more cheerful than his costume would suggest. "Behave, Seymour." She pointed out his real name in a whisper, and the teen blushed. "And by the way, I hate being called Lucky… call me that again and everyone will know your real one."
"Not fun! Mine is my secret identity!" He complained. And the group continued their way toward the elevator, which Gizmo hacked, and the group made it inside. "Everything is too calm. eye thought the Teen Tyrants would have a better defense system." See-More mentioned, and suddenly he freaked out. "Eye see with my big eye. Someone coming from the west! He is running on top of the water."
"Eye think you need contacts." Jinx mentioned, and then flinched. "Now I'm talking like you! What are you seeing?" And See-More took some visors from out of his backpack, which were attached to cables to his back, and delivered them to the group, allowing them to see what his special eye could see. "What is that?" Jinx wondered upon placing her visor on and seeing a blur of yellow light running on top of water thanks to See-More's X-ray and heat-trail visions combined. "Call Mammoth and Billy! Whatever it is, it moves so fast he even runs on water!"
"Too late! He is fighting them already! He is one of the Teen Tytans!" See-More mentioned, and the group made it out of the elevator and inside of the main room. "Hack into their system, quick! Kyd Wykkyd! Hide in the shadows! We will stop him!" See-More mentioned, taking over the role of the leader.
"Well, excuse me! I'm the leader here!" Jinx complained. "And we didn't come here to hack the Teen Tyrant's communicators only. I'm going to her room." And See-More's eye almost feel from his mask. "You are coming or not?" She asked her boyfriend, and See-More faced his teammates, who then gave him a thumb-up while Gizmo readied the computer and hacked into the Teen Tyrant's one. "We got no time to waste. We are not losing the Brotherhood of Justice."
Teen Titans – Spin-Off Series: The H.I.V.E.
Volume One: Speed Demon.
"Oh man! Here he comes!" Yelled Billy while facing every possible direction as a blur of green and black light ran all around the place. "There! He was there Billy!" One Billy mentioned. "Where, Billy?" Another Billy spoke out. "Not you Billy, he is talking to Billy!" Another Billy mentioned. "I'm Billy!" He complained.
"Reduce yourself to less Billies!" Mammoth complained, and Billy flinched and did what he was told while they kept an eye on the blur of light. "You heard Mr. Wilson. The more you multiply yourself, the stupider you are! The maximum you should ever multiply is five Billies, you hear me?" And Billy nodded in agreement. "Now! I'm going to knock this guy down!" Mammoth yelled, and then slammed his fist hard against the ground, forcing the whole island to shake a little and the blur to reduce his speed thanks to the vibrations. "I'm going to squash ya, fella!"
"I don't think so, fella." The blur mentioned and then speed-kicked Mammoth's face hard, and Mammoth didn't see him coming and ended by the ground confused and dazzled. "You shouldn't have come here." The blur stopped, and Mammoth tried to stare at it, only to notice the blur was vibrating and was confusing his eyes, preventing Mammoth or anyone from seeing his face. "Sweat dreams!" The blur yelled and punched Mammoth hard in the face, launching Mammoth several meters away thanks to the force of the impact.
"He beat Mammoth! He… he beat Mammoth!" One Billy complained. "I saw it! But I didn't see him at the same time! What is he?" And another Billy continued. "Where does he come from?" And the blur faced the three Billies, who were freaked out but suddenly grew some spine. "You won't catch me!" He mentioned and multiplied, creating a giant maze. And the blur began running around searching for an exit. "Run, run, run as fast as you can! You won't catch me… catch you… I'm Billy Numerous!" He mentioned already losing his ability to think straight thanks to the many multiplications.
"I will break your bones then." And the blur began spinning, creating a tornado, and trapping all the Billies inside before launching them toward the sky. Then he stopped his spinning, allowing the Billies to fall down and then speed-kicked them hard before they could hit the floor with his incredible skills, and ended breaking some of their bones. "Funny, I thought you were going to be tougher." The blur mentioned, and all Billies returned to one who complained about his many broken bones. "Don't worry, I don't kill. Since killing is no fun at all. I enjoy seeing the pain in your faces when I run over you. But you can never see mine. I'm a blur. Non-existent. A whisper of the wind. Fear the wind, Billy! You will never know if I'm close!" And Billy freaked out as the blur ran inside of the tower. "The elevator is hacked? I need no elevator!" And the blur ran using the stairs, and made it to the main room in the blink of an eye. He then found Gizmo there and extracting the data of the communicators. "You touch my stuff. I hurt you." The blur mentioned, and then he was attacked by Kyd Wykkyd, who tried to cut him with his cape and used shadows to attack him. "Someone should put a bell on you. Let's see if you scream in pain!" And the blur punched Kyd Wykkyd several times at his stomach, knocking him down and leaving him in pain. "Not even a single sound… how boring. I want you to scream!"
"Leave him alone! He is mute!" Gizmo mentioned and then tried to blast the blur with his glove's guns, which threw pink jelly trying to catch the blur. "Are you with the Teen Tyrants? Who are you?" Gizmo wondered, and then saw his whole equipment exploding all around the place. "You are tearing my stuff apart!" Gizmo complained. "Enough, bugger-brain! I'm going to take your stinking person out!" And then Gizmo activated his spider-legs, which were cut by the blur in the blink of an eye. "Woah! Heeeeelp!" He yelled while falling, and the blur caught him by the collar of his costume and left him suspended in midair while the blur stared at him. "What are you going to do to me?"
"What does bullies do to nerds?" And Gizmo flinched. "That's right." And in the blink of an eye, Gizmo got his underwear pulled up and he yelled hard and in pain. "I love that sound. Way better than knocking you out in my opinion. But I'm not done with you. I need to cause you pain first." And the blur spun him around and threw him toward a wall, which crumbled and trapped Gizmo inside the destroyed boulders. "Armored wall broken. He surely got more than just a couple of bruises. Hope he breaks his bones." And then the blur ran toward the rooms section. And in the blink of an eye he was in front of See-More. "Lights out!" He yelled, but his punch was stopped by See-More. "What?" The blur mentioned.
"I have been tracking your heat trail, dummy." See-More mentioned and tried to punch the blur's face. "Jinx! He is here! Hurry!" But he was punched several times in the face by the blur, but See-More actually managed to punch it once in vengeance. "I can't hold him!" See-More continued, and Jinx was freaked out and continued searching all around the room.
"Red Raven hates it when someone enters her room." The blur mentioned. "Whatever punishment I give to you isn't compared to hers." And the blur kicked See-More's face and knocked him unconscious. "Now… time to have some fun. I love fighting girls. Their yells of pain are truly enjoyable." And the blur tried to walk inside of Red Raven's room, but See-More took the blur's boot, and his hand was burned. "No touching when I'm vibrating. It could burn ya." And the blur kicked his face once again. "Come kitty, kitty, kitty, kitty. I'm not going to hurt ya… much." And the blur entered the room. "Woah!" He mentioned upon his arrival, and saw many books flying around the place. "What… are you doing?" He questioned while seeing Jinx in trance and giving her back to the door while she looked for more books, threw them to the air, and trapped the books inside fields of pink energy, which would open them and flip their pages. "You ran out of luck, lady."
"It's only a myth!" Jinx complained, but then she noticed who she was talking with. "…Ow…" she mentioned and backed off. Red Raven's room was full with books and vicious artifacts of torture, but what Jinx was looking for was inside of the books, and she was spell-reading them with her powers, memorizing their scripts with each page that was flipped, so she knew she had to win some time in order to find what she was looking for, which was difficult considering who she was facing. "Who are you?" And the blur began laughing, and he returned his molecules to normal.
"Kid Flash." He mentioned. And then in the blink of an eye he rushed in front of her, scaring the hell out of her and forcing her to trip with her own feet. "Fastest Boy Alive." The red-headed teen wore a green and black outfit, far different from his heroic contra-part, and different than his heroic self, this Kid Flash was evil. His eyes were even crimson red.
"Are you… well… supposed to be one of the bad guys…?" Jinx added playfully, trying desperately to win some time. And she only ended with Kid Flash pulling her up from her cloak and forcing her to stare at him. "One of the worse there are… right?" And he nodded in agreement. "Don't you want to get to know me better before you knock me out?" She added teasingly, trying to use her charms to win some time.
"I don't like wasting my time!" But her charms weren't enough. Kid Flash then rudely threw her toward Red Raven's bed. "What are you looking for? What do you want?" He mentioned while closing all the books at high speed, breaking her spell. "Speak before I hurt you, witch!" And Jinx clasped her fingers, and Kid Flash tripped once trying to approach to her and ended falling and hitting his face hard with the corner of the bed.
"That was rude!" She yelled while opening all the books with her magic. "My name is Jinx. My powers are bad luck! And I'm no witch. Excuse yourself!" She mentioned and then faced one of the books, which began shinning with furious pink energy. "I found it!" She yelled and then tried to take the book, but Kid Flash beat her to it thanks to his speed. "Ow… not good…" And Kid Flash grabbed her from the neck. "Ouch! Stop it!"
"Bad luck, eh?" Kid Flash mentioned while facing her and rubbing his nose hard after the horrible impact. "Why is a cute girl like you, with the power of giving bad luck to others, hanging around with these losers?" And Jinx smiled, but Kid Flash erased her smile by pressing her neck hard. "We could use someone with your powers with the Teen Tyrants! What do you say? You join us, or I hurt you badly?" And the girl bit her lips hard. "Well? Will you reject me?"
"Reject…? Wait… was that a confession…?" And Kid Flash smiled. "Ow… that was a clever way of confessing your interest in me… but… well… I'm taken…" She mentioned while facing her boyfriend by the floor. "We can be friends." She offered, but Kid Flash just smiled evilly.
"I don't have friends." And he continued strangling her. "Now… what were you looking for?" And Kid Flash faced the book and raised an eyebrow upon trying to read it. "What is this? I can't read this stuff." And Jinx smiled, trying to convince him to let her go once again with her charms.
"I can translate it for you!" And Kid Flash threw her away and toward the wall. "Ouch! That wasn't nice!" She complained, and then saw Kid Flash throwing the book away and walking toward her with deadly intentions. "Wait! You need to hear what I have to say! It is really important!" And Kid Flash stopped next to her, actually closer than what she was expecting. "Listen…" She added a little intimidated. "The information inside this book is more important than defeating the Teen Tyrants or the Crime Syndicate… we are talking about the end of the world. That's the book of Azar… we are talking about hell on Earth…" And then Jinx noticed, much to her surprise, that Kid Flash had placed his lips against hers, stealing from her a kiss and filling her chest with the sensation. Jinx even instinctively returned the kiss, and allowed Kid Flash to touch her legs affectionately. She was totally driven by the kiss. A kiss Kid Flash broke, disappointing Jinx a little while doing it so. "…Wow…" She mentioned, enamored by the sensation. "That was my first kiss." She admitted out of embarrassment, and then Kid Flash touched her chin gently, and got ready for a second kiss, when he was suddenly knocked unconscious after being hit at the back of his head hard by a more than annoyed See-More. "I didn't enjoy it!" Jinx mentioned, freaked out after understanding what was going on, and how weak she was against Kid Flash's approaches.
"This fool kissed you!" See-More complained. He had silently approached Kid Flash while he was distracted and knocked him down after hitting him with his mechanical backpack. "And don't tell me you didn't enjoy it! Eye saw you returning the kiss!" And Jinx crossed her arms in annoyance. "Lucky…" He began, but Jinx grew a vein at her forehead and didn't allow him to finish.
"Don't call me Lucky! And I didn't want it!" She complained back. "Listen… forget about the kiss…" And See-More was about to complain, when Jinx placed her hand in front of his face, shutting him up. "I found the book of Azar." And See-More relaxed when hearing that last, and smiled at Jinx's own smile. "We can save the world!" And See-More nodded, but then he kicked Kid Flash's unconscious body revealing he was still annoyed. "Don't do that! We need him!" And See-More blinked twice. "He likes me, so maybe I can convince this evil-doer into turning into a do-gooder! Mr. Wilson always said there is always something good in everyone. I think he can do different."
"What? Lucky! Don't tell me you actually fell in love with him! Eye am your boyfriend!" See-More complained, and Jinx crossed her arms in annoyance. "You are not serious. Eye don't see the point in helping him!" And Jinx gave him a teary-eye stare. "Don't use eye tricks on me. Eye am not buying it!" And Jinx sobbed gently. "Fine! Eye am doing it! Jezz! But eye am going to keep an eye on him all the time!" And Jinx suddenly smiled cheerfully. "Eye don't get you sometimes." And See-More began carrying the unconscious Kid Flash and followed his girlfriend out of Red Raven's room, only to find outside the beaten up group of H.I.V.E. members.
"Is everyone all right?" Jinx asked once noticing their bruises. The H.I.V.E. had arrived to her aid only to notice it was too late. "You all look beat." She informed and then rubbed Gizmo's head softly. "Did you hack the communicators? Please tell me you did." And Gizmo moved his head in negation. "No… then that means." She began, and Gizmo lowered his head.
"The Brotherhood of Justice is alone against the Teen Tyrants." Gizmo added. "Baron Mallah, Madam Elastic, and the Great Thinker are on their own against the Teen Tyrants… and the Tyrants already know they are in Paris." And Jinx flinched. "It is only a matter of time. The Teen Tyrants will reach them."
"…There is nothing we can do about it…" Jinx mentioned. "…But have hope…" And she continued her way toward Billy Numerous, who Mammoth was carrying in his arms, and Jinx then rubbed his hair, helping him ignore the pain of his ribs. "Kyd Wykkyd… teleport us back home… we need to place Kid Flash under our custody before he wakes up… if he does, we are doomed." And the mute boy nodded and trapped them all inside a shadow veil, transporting them all toward their Headquarters.
Unknown Location. The H.I.V.E. Headquarters.
"Seems like you got me." Kid Flash mentioned upon waking up a couple of hours after Kyd Wykkyd had transported them all toward the H.I.V.E. headquarters. "Nice place you got here. Very, secret-lair." Kid Flash began while smiling toward the group of wounded and bandaged heroes, as if knowing this was nothing to him.
"That's right! And when we are done with you, we are gonna…" Billy numerous began. "We are gonna… what are we going to do with him again?" Billy faced Jinx, and all the members of the H.I.V.E. faced her as well.
"We are going to give him membership." And Billy smiled and faced Kid Flash, but suddenly he noticed what Jinx just said, same as everyone else, and they all faced Jinx with disapproval. "What? He can't be that bad." And everyone pointed at their bruises and broken bones and complained while doing it so. "Aw, come on. He truly can't be that bad." She mentioned while approaching to his imprisonment. "How many of you only wished someone was there to comprehend you? Remember? We got a helping hand. Someone to help us find a way. Someone who trusted in us, who thought we were better than this. Maybe he didn't get that chance."
"He is different." See-More mentioned, and Jinx faced him in disapproval. "That guy got evil labeled all around his fake smile. Even now he is thinking about how to torture us." And Kid Flash smiled evilly toward Jinx, who blushed at such gesture while remembering their kiss, and See-More then placed himself in front of her and defied Kid Flash. "We should turn him in."
"No! I say we take him apart and see what makes him tick!" Gizmo complained. He was actually really annoyed for Kid Flash throwing him through a wall. And Kid Flash just rushed out of the cell during the distraction, and stole some food from their fridge.
"Don't I have anything to say about this you airheads?" Kid Flash pointed out while eating his potato chips. Everyone then faced him in hatred, and Mammoth placed special attention on his potato chips being stolen and eaten.
"Hey… how'd you get… those are mine!" Mammoth complained and tried to take the potato chips, only for Kid Flash to grab his arm into a wrestling grab, launch himself backwards, and slam Mammoth's head against the metal bars, hurting him badly. "Ouch!"
"Mammoth!" Jinx yelled, worried about her teammate, and then she stared in annoyance toward Kid Flash, who just laughed hard and rolled around his imprisonment while thinking about how easily he tricked Mammoth. "Quit it!" She yelled, but of course Kid Flash didn't listen to her. "Kyd Wykkyd, take Mammoth to the infirmary. Everyone else, rest, I will interrogate our guest here." She ordered while facing Kid Flash.
"Then we are going to watch some wrestling!" Billy added, and multiplied into more Billies and ran out toward the main hall. The others then exchanged looks and ran after the Billies, in fear of them taking all the sofa. See-More also went with them, trusting his girlfriend knew what she was doing.
"Not much of an attention span, do they?" Kid Flash mentioned, and Jinx stared at him with interest. "What? Aren't you going to question me, interview girl?" He made fun of her, and Jinx lowered her head.
"They may not be that smart… but they are my friends… my team…" She mentioned, and Kid Flash crossed his arms in annoyance, already feeling disgusted by the conversation. "You know how that feels… right…? To be a part of a team… who do you work with?"
"I work alone these days." He added, more in annoyance than in his usual teasing way. "I know what you are trying to do. You are wasting your time. There is nothing good in me. I'm pure evil. I could tear you apart in a second if I wanted to."
"But you haven't." Jinx mentioned, and Kid Flash bit his lips in hatred. "And you didn't back at Tyrant's Tower. If it were any other Tyrant, there would have been no mercy. We would all be in the hospital, or worse. They are not afraid of killing." And she approached the metal bars, facing Kid Flash directly. "You can break free… can't you?" And Kid Flash smiled. Jinx then took her H-communicator out and dialed Gizmo's frequency. "Jinx to Gizmo… I need a level four containment field." She mentioned and then faced Kid Flash. "You are not running away." She pointed out and then cut the transmission before hearing Gizmo's complaints.
"And what tells you I'm even going to give you the time to prepare that containment field?" Kid Flash mentioned, grabbing Jinx from her cloak and forcing her to stare directly at his maniac-like face. "I need no help! You beat me only because I was careless. And now you bring me to your secret-lair. I can destroy you all."
"Why are you so obsessed with destruction? What happened to you? Speak to me. I will help you, we all will." She mentioned, and Kid Flash stared at her with interest. "When I was hurt and in need, I had a caring ear to place my pains upon… if it weren't for him, I would have become a villain just like you… I swore to him I would save someone as he saved me… I want to save you." And Kid Flash smiled.
"Slade Wilson? The Leader of the Brotherhood of Justice?" And Jinx nodded in agreement. "So you know him, eh? Interesting." And an evil smile appeared on his lips. "You know. I always wondered how he could elude us for so long. Is this his headquarters?"
"I know what you are trying to do. I won't take you to him unless I know I can trust you." She informed, and Kid Flash crossed his arms in annoyance. "Slade Wilson saved me… I will save you too… Mr. Wilson helped me out when no one else did… it is hard to be born with pink hair and grey skin, you know? I was a monster."
"I don't want to hear it." Kid Flash mentioned and sat by the metal-made floor. "You are wasting your time. I can tell. Time moves different to me. I don't want to hear it." But Jinx sat by the floor as well, and Kid Flash knew he was going to be lectured. "What? Seriously? Stupid heroes. Nothing you say can change my mind."
"I won't know unless I try." Jinx mentioned. "I was born on India… and the day I was born, the priests of a church of India called me a bad omen. My parents were disgusted. I was a shame to them. I grew up bullied and hated. I was nothing to them, I was… alone…" She explained, and Kid Flash made a mockery, but he then noticed Jinx cleaning her tears. "This is something I haven't shared with anyone. That's how important this is to me. Not even See-More knows." And Kid Flash, for some reason, listened to her. "Everything went from bad to worse when some kids from the markets of India came to me with sticks in their hands when I was only ten years old. They hit me with them… strongly… there was hate in their eyes… and no one cared… I was nothing to anyone… I was so… alone… I desperately wanted to hurt them back… all I knew was hatred… it was then when I discovered the chaos energy, the force to bring bad luck and pain… and I used it." And Kid Flash was surprised. "I didn't kill them… regardless if I turned evil or not… I'm sure I wouldn't have killed them… but people feared me now… it was then when I was approached by Slade Wilson… he saw the whole thing… with him was Brother Sebastian, a traveler just like Mr. Wilson. Together they took me in… they said… that there was always a different way… They taught me to be good… they taught me to use my powers wisely… they taught me… that bad luck could be my good luck and the good luck of many… they turned something evil… and turned it into something good… they saved me."
"Ow, you are going to make me cry." Kid Flash mentioned, and Jinx just cleaned her tears away while remembering the hard days of her childhood. "Poor baby. You know what your problem is? You didn't grow some spine when that happened to you! They were wrong and deserved to be punished! They were weak! You were stronger! If I were you, I would have hurt them badly… I would have hurt them all badly! So they knew not to mess with me!"
"But you are not me… are you…?" And Kid Flash bit his lips in annoyance. "And Mr. Wilson and Brother Sebastian weren't there to save you… you were alone… what happened to you…? Why did you become… this…" She mentioned while pointing at his black-lighting. "Lighting is light… the way of the lighting isn't what you are doing… your power, it could be used for good… what happened to you…?"
"What happened to me?" Kid Flash added in annoyance. "I will tell you what happened! I was a boy, whose hopes and dreams were shattered beyond repair by my idiotic parents!" And Jinx placed her whole attention in him. "Since I was a kid… I wished I had super powers… I wished I had speed." And Jinx nodded. "I was watching the morning news. They had captured the Flash, you know, the one with the yellow costume, the criminal." And Jinx approached his imprisonment even more, interested in knowing why Kid Flash had fallen so low. "I told myself: why is he using his powers for evil? His powers are great! I wish I had super-speed too!" And Jinx began drawing a pattern. "My dreams, of course, were always shattered by my parents. Dad said I was an embarrassment, for looking up to a criminal. All I wanted was his powers, I wanted to do good, I wanted to be a hero. But my parents never understood it… and they sent me away, to my aunt, thinking she would change me… she didn't of course." And Jinx then noticed Kid Flash was lowering his face. "My parents wanted me out of their lives, enough for them to send me away… but that trip, those little forced vacations, were enough… my aunt was dating a man, his name is not of your business. But he was a detective working in favor of the Crime Syndicate, that as much is true. And he wanted my aunt so badly that he actually tried to kill me once to keep me away from her." And Jinx widened her eyes. "He did this to me… he tried to kill me in a lab explosion, and only ended giving me my powers… and you know what the funny part was? He was the Flash. The Flash tried to kill me!" And Jinx grew worried at his words. "Now you understand? The Flash gave me my powers, the Flash knew my family, the Flash took me under his wing because he saw use in me. That old fool died not long ago. He can't control me anymore, but I still like being a villain. Way funnier than being a hero. I am the fastest boy alive. No one can catch me. Neither can you!" And he vibrated his molecules through the metal made-bars and out of the cell. "You did know I could vibrate myself out, didn't you?" He yelled and got ready to beat Jinx up, and then noticed she was crying. "Why are you… why are you crying…?" He wondered out of surprise.
"I'm sorry… I just… didn't know your story… and now that I know… I pity you…" And Kid Flash grabbed her from the cloak once again in hatred, and soon, See-More entered the room. He had been keeping an eye on Kid Flash the whole time. After all, he was alone with his girlfriend. "Not now See-More! Stay put!" She commanded, and everyone else arrived to witness what was going on. "Kid Flash… they shattered your hopes… but it is not too late… it is never too late… I know that deep inside of your heart, there is a kid… wishing he could use his powers for good… you can do better than this… I know you can…"
"You know nothing about me!" Kid Flash yelled, and rudely pushed her back to the floor. See-More and her team then ran toward Kid Flash, but Jinx clasped her fingers and everyone tripped with their own feet. "I don't need your help! I am my own villain! I don't need you, or your pity! I'm fine the way I am!" He yelled hard, and Jinx faced him with determination.
"No you are not… you are not all right… you are crying…" And Kid Flash widened his eyes, and then approached his hand to them and noticed the tears. "I noticed… you know… when you attacked us… you were nothing but a blur of green light… you were hiding your face… ashamed of your actions… you only revealed yourself to me…" And Kid Flash yelled furiously, rushed toward her side, tackled her, slammed her at the wall, and then readied his hand to punch her face. He even launched the punch. Everyone was freaked out, See-More even more than anyone. But the only one who wasn't worried was Jinx, who stood defiant, even when Kid Flash's hand buried itself next to her head after tearing the wall apart. "I'm not going to give up on you… never… I believe in you… I have hopes in you… you are better than this." And Kid Flash once again cried, and this time he fell to his knees in defeat. Jinx then faced her teammates, and when she did, she began shaking and her eyes began drawing weak tears of fear. "It's ok… I'm fine… I… I wasn't scared… really… I'm strong, you know I am…" And Jinx then had to clean the betraying tears. "I think I got something in my eye." And See-More quickly ran to her side and hugged her. Helping her to calm down after the shock.
"Gizmo… place our guest under custody… I will take Jinx to her room." And Gizmo did as he was told and trapped Kid Flash inside of a level four containment field he had just finished. Now Kid Flash had no way of escaping. "Good job distracting him until the machine was functional, babe." See-More tried to cheer her up, and only ended annoying Jinx.
"I wasn't distracting him!" Jinx complained. "I was being honest with him… for the first time ever… I confessed it to someone who wasn't Mr. Wilson or Brother Sebastian… I opened my heart to him…" And then she faced Kid Flash, much to See-More's dislike. "And I'm sure he will open his heart to me too." But Kid Flash just faced her with rage-filled eyes. "I'm hungry! Who wants pizza?" She added cheerfully, and everyone cheered her. "It's Mammoth's turn to pay by the way." She pointed out, and Mammoth flinched.
"What? Why do I have to pay for that?" He complained. "Fine, I want seven pizzas, how many you guys want?" And everyone exchanged looks. "If you are on a diet I will order two for each, three if you are hungry."
"I will take care of the order." Gizmo mentioned. "But you are paying!" And Mammoth showed him his empty pockets. "Wha? Really! Your name isn't just Mammoth! You got a mammoth-stomach as well! Fine! I'm paying! But this is the last time you sasquatch!"
"Didn't he say it was the last time last time?" One Billy asked. "I don't know Billy, I'm not the Billy with the brains, he is the Billy with the brains." Another Billy added and pointed at a third Billy. "With this it is the seventh time Gizmo pays for Mammoth, Billy." The Billy with the brains mentioned. "I'm hungry Billy, who else is hungry?" A fourth Billy mentioned. "I'm hungry!" A fifth one added and then multiplied. "I'm hungry!" And both multiplied as well. "We are hungry!" The other four mentioned. "What he said!" A last one added.
"Billy, we are only feeding one Billy." Jinx mentioned, and then See-More placed his arm around her waist and walked her out and toward the living room. "I want Hawaiian pizza! I like sweet things! Oh, and someone order some for Kid Flash too, I'm not sure he likes my tastes. And he only got Mammoth's potato chips in his stomach." And Kid Flash heard them all complaining. "What? We are the good guys! We don't torture our prisoners!" And everyone followed the couple out of the room, leaving Kid Flash alone, and able to communicate with the Teen Tyrants since they didn't find his gadgets.
"Kid Flash to Red Robin… you copy me, Red Robin?" Kid Flash spoke through his gadget's communicator, the ones attached to his mask in the form of lighting. "Can you track my location? I was captured by the H.I.V.E." And Kid Flash waited for an answer. "What do you mean my gadgets are too complex? Dude! You are Owlman's protégée! Track me down and free me! I'm inside their headquarters!" And then he waited. "I don't know how they managed to capture me… they just knocked me out… and listen to this man. Jinx, the leader of their group thinks she can convert me. Help me out before she sermons me again! I don't think I can resist her charms for much longer." And then Kid Flash's eyes widened. "Insider?" Kid Flash whispered. "You are not serious! I got a reputation to keep! Why should I play good guy?" And Kid Flash waited. "I knew that already, I was trying to convince her into taking me toward Slade, but she discovered me." And once again there was silence. "Earn their trust? I will do something better than that, Red Robin… I'm going to make her fall in love with me, and her team to lose their trust in one another. I'm going to weaken them from the inside." And then, Kid Flash smiled. "Nah, don't tell them. Let the other Tyrants think I betrayed them, it will be fun." And Kid Flash began laughing hard.
"Mammoth! Don't eat without washing your hands! What are you, a pig?" Jinx complained by the living room a couple of hours later and after the pizzas had arrived. The group was now getting ready for having dinner. "Gizmo! No videogames at the table! That's disrespectful!" And as usual, she was playing the role of a mother. "Billy, quit picking your nose, its gross! And go wash your hands!" And Billy multiplied and sent his clone to wash his hands. "Very funny! Now go wash your hands yourself!" And the other Billy stood up and followed his clone. "Why can't you guys be more like Kyd Wykkyd? At least he got manners." She complained, and then turned around and faced See-More, who was making fun of Jinx's motherly side. "You too, behave, I'm about to deliver your slices, we don't have that much money right now, so we need to reduce the slices." And everyone complained. "Three for Gizmo, three for Billy, 12 for Mammoth and no complaining, you eat more than anyone, three for Billy, three with no corners for Kyd Wykkyd, another three for Billy…" And then she stopped upon noticing what was going on and then faced the multiplied teen. "Billy!" She complained, and Billy returned to normal and ran with his slices of pizza. "Hey! That's cheating! Come back here! And you don't start eating until I divide them!" She pointed at See-More, who was already picking a slice. "We need to leave some for Kid Flash!" She informed, and See-More crossed his arms in annoyance.
"If you feed him, he will have energy to run away." See-More complained. "Eye say we starve him and see what happens. It seems to be the best course of action eye presume." See-More continued, and Jinx moved her face in negation.
"I can't believe you! How can you be so selfish and cold?" She mentioned. "And your eye-puns aren't funny, they actually make me sick." And See-More laughed at her and just continued eating. "You know… if none of you want to share their food with him, I will share mine with him. Now I know why we never defeat the Teen Tyrants, none of you know how to be a team player." And Jinx rudely walked away. "And if you call me Lucky I'm gonna blast ya, See-More!" She mentioned upon seeing her boyfriend opening his mouth. "I can't believe it! He is so arrogant and inconsiderate sometimes! Let's starve him and see what happens, he said. Yeah right, as if we were that cold hearted. Can you believe him asking me to starve you?" And then Jinx flinched when reaching the cell block and noticing Kid Flash by the floor and grabbing his stomach while his eyes were shaped as spirals. "Kid Flash?" She yelled and ran toward him, then took the controller of the level four containment field out and turned it off. "Hey? What is wrong with you? Did they torture you?"
"…Hungry…" He added weakly, and then she heard his growling stomach. "Hyper metabolism… need food… tons of food… I'm hungry…" He begged, and Jinx nodded in agreement and then helped him inside of his cell and afterwards she placed some slices of pizza inside. "That's not even enough as to fuel me you cheap!" He complained, and Jinx felt a vein popping at her forehead.
"It's all I can share with you. We don't have that much money at the moment. We don't get paid yet. Mr. Wilson is working on something big and the government doesn't want to help at all." And Kid Flash began eating his pizza in silence. "Mr. Wilson is the owner of Wilson's enterprise, but he is having some financial problems. Wayne Tech doesn't want to cooperate with him, so he is forced to approach Lex Corp. They are in the middle of negotiations. Problem is, Mr. Wilson needs to sell a good project to Lex Corp for them to invest in the H.I.V.E. So he cut our pay-roles." And Kid Flash made a mockery. "Anything wrong?"
"I don't care about the story of your life." Kid Flash admitted, and Jinx took a deep breathe. "If you stole some money, you would have enough to feed your team, and they would easily stand a chance against the Teen Tyrants." And Jinx moved her head in negation. "Here we go again." He complained and covered his ears.
"We don't steal. We are heroes. The world is already too corrupted to even think about it as a joke. We need to stay together and think of a way to make of this world a better place." And then she noticed Kid Flash covering his ears. "I apologize for this." She mentioned, clasped her fingers, and a hex of pink light blasted his face and knocked him down. "I don't like being ignored."
"And I don't like having my face blasted!" Kid Flash complained. But he suddenly calmed down, which was suspicious, but Jinx still gave him the benefit of the doubt. "Listen… I have been thinking…" Kid Flash began, and Jinx placed her whole attention in him as was now usual. "Maybe… just maybe… I bought all that stuff you said about there being good in me…" And Jinx smiled. "Let's say I believe you… let's say I want to try to be good… how would you be certain of me not betraying you people?" And Jinx rubbed her chin with interest. And Kid Flash sweat dropped at that last gesture. "What? You never actually thought about it?"
"I'm thinking." She mentioned. "That's right! I can always use that!" She suddenly mentioned, and Kid Flash sweat dropped. Jinx then began reuniting hexes of pink energy around her hands and chanting one of her spells. "Chaos is my domain. Bad luck my terrain. Lords of Chaos, hear my plight, give me the power, it is my right." And Kid Flash flinched and backed off. "Curse this soul you soulless ghoul. Mark your luck. The mark of bad luck!" She mentioned, and Kid Flash's hand began burning, and so did hers. "Ow… it really hurts!" And Kid Flash took his glove off and saw a mark drawing itself at his hand in the form of a three curved lines like edges forming a triangle. "Now our lucks are tied together." She informed, and Kid Flash stared at his hand and then at Jinx's one, which reflected the same mark. "This is the mark of bad luck. Three curved edges forming a triangle. This spell will allow me to tie my luck to yours." And Kid Flash backed off in fear. "I got the power to control other's lucks, but only momentarily, and not in great proportion, because if I abuse the powers of bad luck, I will give myself bad luck. These marks are strong spells, if I activate them, something bad is going to happen. Each spell is also stronger than the previous one. So after each usage, the danger will be double or triple." And Kid Flash flinched, while Jinx opened the door for him to be free. "Problem is… if I use these spells, I give myself tons of bad luck as well… so it is a two edged sword. The good news is, each time I active a spell something bad first happens to you and then to me, so I know how bad it is going to be for me and can get ready in anticipation."
"What kind of sick spell is that one, woman?" But she ignored him and insisted in inviting him out. "You are certain this works?" And she nodded. "How do I erase this spell?" And Jinx thought about it, being curious as well, and then took one of her books out and began reading, and when finding her spell, she flinched. "What, now what?" Kid Flash added a little altered.
"Upon casting it… there is no way of erasing it, the spell must be finished." And Jinx sweat dropped at that last. "Seems like I will end using the spells anyway, but if you misbehave I will be forced to use them without the needed precautions. Your choice."
"What kind of bad luck will this thing give me?" He complained, and Jinx moved her shoulders up and down. "Seriously? Bad luck can go from a simple tripping to dying! You got any idea of the chaotic spell you placed upon me?"
"I do, and it is a risk I'm willing to take if it means turning you good. This spell reflects just how much it means to me for you to find your right path. It isn't only a selfish wish, it is my mission." And Kid Flash faced her in disbelief. "Remember, your bad luck will be equivalent to mine, so don't force me to use this spell without the needed precautions. We don't know what will happen. The Lords of Chaos are never easy to read or to trust, you said so perfectly yourself, it can go from tripping to worse. We are together in this one." And Kid Flash moved his head in negation and got ready to run away. "You run and I will test the first of the three marks before time!" And Kid Flash stopped there. "I'm not going to give up on you. I really and truly won't give up on you. I'm going to save you, even if it kills me using these marks!"
"That will kill me too!" Kid Flash complained, and Jinx smiled and nodded in agreement. "Do-do-doesn't this troubles you?" Kid Flash complained, and she moved her head in negation. "For the love of the Lords of Chaos! What did I get myself involved into? Maybe I should cut your hand off." And Jinx forced the marks to shine while smiling oddly at him. And his marks also began shinning. "Ah! Ok, fine! I'm a good guy! What are your orders, brave leader?"
"Ow! I love how that sounds!" Jinx mentioned while jumping a couple of times out of excitement, which disturbed Kid Flash a lot. "Let's see… first we will fix you a room to stay at. And we are going for a costume change for you. Emerald Green and deep black doesn't suit you. Lightings are shiny and bright! Maybe you can go for yellow and white!" And Kid Flash sweat dropped and lowered his head. "Yellow symbolizes the force of the lighting! So you will definitively wear yellow! And white represents the purity of your soul!" And Kid Flash faced her oddly. "Right… doesn't sound good yet… how about red? It represents bravery and determination! That's it! You are going for a yellow and red costume! Yellow instead of green, and red instead of black! Perfect!"
"What am I? A forced hero, or a street-light?" And Jinx just smiled. "Red and yellow will only make me a target!" But Jinx was already doing plans and worrying Kid Flash more and more. "This is not cool! Definitively not cool! Calm down Kid Flash, calm down! Soon, you will have your revenge." He spoke to himself, and a smile was drawn on his face.
I hope you liked this first delivery of the Teen Tyrants. There will be more chapters soon. I am planning on updating each Friday, and no, I'm not going to fail with my other projects. I like writing and write even at work. My boss is in front of me right now and hadn't noticed, I swear… maybe I need to be more careful, lol, have fun and see you next time!