She had been given one chance, the opportunity to leave everything behind. Strangely, the opportunity came in the form of her former employer, Slade.
He came to her in a vision, one of many hallucinations that visited her. She had thought she was hallucinating, the feverish pounding of her brain telling her to run, to flee. Her long legs hit the concrete hard, pain shooting from her ankles. The pink-haired girl heaved, her lungs constricting, an inner voice keeping her from drawing air. She ran and he pursued the chase until she stumbled, collapsed in a dark alley. The man approached, raising the crow bar.
She heard the cracking of her skull, the wetness trickling down. And then Slade yanked her, seizing her hair in his hands. 'This is insanity,' she thought, squeezing her catlike eyes closed. Her limbs felt numb, her vision obscuring. Why was he doing this?
And then nothing.
"You have one chance, jinx. One chance to change everything. One chance to make the correct decision." He stepped over her, looking down. "What do you say?"
She strained to hear the indistinct voice as her strength was flooding out. She looked into his face and then wished she hadn't. He was going to kill her, she didn't doubt that now. His bo-staff was pointed at her, the look of a man driven over the edge. She could barely open her eye, the cut above it obscured her vision.
"Yes," she whispered, "Yes. Change it. Change it all. Everything. Please. Just make it stop." Only then did the metal stop and then she was on fire, before everything vanished.
"Jinx, now!" Robin screamed, jumping from the robot, his disks blasting a hole in its chest. It holds out a laser, dodging his projectiles and pointing the laser gun towards him as Cyborg charges directly. He punches fiercely, landing a blow before his hands rip apart the robot's circuitry, tearing the wires from its chest as it exploded.
The pink-haired girl's boot slips as another robot grabbed her ankle, swings her towards the edge of the roof. Her eyes widen in shock as she crashes from the building in freefall. Robin shoots a grappling hook, the metal claws digging into the side of a building as he swings and catches the sorceress. The limp girl is handed over to Beast Boy, who carries her with care away from the battle.
Her eyesight is indistinct, as darkness slowly consumes her once more.
Jinx moaned, allowing a shaky gasp. Her lungs are incinerated as she inhales, burning with pain. Slowly she eases herself from the bed, her stomach lurching with panic. Taking a few steps, she collapses and steadies herself as footsteps approach. Her form leans over the metal frame of the bed, looking at sliding door.
The door opens and the Titans approach. Jinx's eyes ripple purple, her hands flashing waves of light, "Back off Titans." Pieces of ceiling crack, erupting in flaming violet, slamming into Beast Boy as she fires a super-hex. The purple surge of energy abandons its host, her eyes dilate as Jinx crumbles. Robin catches her with a worried look, "But Jinx. You're a Titan too."
"Shut up, bird brain." Her hands trickle with purple power, trembling as her fingers twisted around the skin of his arm. "You couldn't pay me to join your stupid team."
Starfire's green eyes are confused, "Oh! Friend Jinx, why are you saying the mean words to Robin? Has he the brain of a bird? But we are your friends and merely wish to help! Please, will you not at least allow us to give you the proper medication for your ailment? Perhaps the reciting of Tamaranian poetry will make you well. I shall fetch the pudding and deliver to you all 14971 verses."
"Yeah, dark girl. I know B.B. poured pancake syrup all over your room—which he wasn't supposed to be in—but did you really need to blast him with your hex thingy?" Cyborg asked quizzically. "Man, that's like a bazillion years of bad luck."
Jinx slowly digested the information, "What do you mean my room? How did Beast Boy get into my room? The H.I.V.E headmistress just reset the security system. Even Gizmo couldn't hack it."
"The H.I.V.E. headmistress? Jinx, what are you talking about? Your room is next to Starfire's." Robin asked, his voice concerned, "I think you need some rest."
"That's silly. You're silly. You looked like a giant stoplight. You know that, Boy Blunder?" Strangely fixed in her apathetic state, Jinx giggled. Her chest eased itself into a regular pace, raising and falling with her intake of air. The absorption of her thoughts steadily increases, as her mind is blank. The tired girl murmured before slowly losing consciousness, "I'm sleepy."
"Bird Boy here's right. You get some sleep while I run a diagnostics scan on you." Cyborg mentioned, pulling out a series of machines. Attaching the apparatuses the main computer, he initiated a basic check-up when the Titans alarm went off.
"Oh man, not again." Cyborg exclaimed as a screen popped up showing the crime scene. A dark figure was shown, hurling cars at the police.
"Dude, last time we fought her, she totally whooped us."
Robin narrowed his eyes. "It won't happen again."
"Yes, I agree. This time, we shall do the kicking of the butt and send that villainous girl to prison!" Starfire's eyes glowed with righteous green fury.
Jinx's eyes fluttered open in confusion, looking up at the Titans. She felt more alert, as if she sensed something was extremely off in the universe. There were only four Titans, where was—Her eyes widened as she saw the computer screen displaying the impossible. The fifth Titan was breaking into the tech sector of Wayne Enterprises. Jinx frowned, but if Raven wasn't here and she was, then that meant—
Suddenly, she remembered her strange vision with Slade. She had told him to change everything and he did. Now, she was the good guy and Raven had become evil. But what had she agreed to and what was the purpose of this?
Slade bowed before his master, in the recesses of a dim cave. His approaching footsteps echoed, sending a chill up his spine. Candles flickered, revealing a strange enigma on the rock. Stepping within the circle of light, he started the ritual. Glowing scarlet, a wind swept up, blowing away the flames. A demonic, inhuman growled, "How you accomplished your task?"
"Yes master. The girl has agreed to switch places and the spell is complete. Raven is now a villain and the pink-haired sorceress has become of one the Titans. All is going according to the plan," he answered.
"Very good. I want you to create as many disruptions as possible in the City. Use my unwilling daughter as long as the spell will hold. Let her feel the taste of evil so that she may never be without it again." Trigon laughed, as Slade faded into the darkness once more. Soon, very soon, her daughter's demonic half would awaken and when it did, the world would tremble with fear.