Chimera
by IronRaven

The Teen Titans and releated characters are the property of DC Comics, not mine.

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Watching the jewelry store from the shadows, Raven waved her hand absently, shooing away a cloud of black flies. She would have used her magics to raise a shield, but based on what Cyborg had learned, Jinx could sense her presence if she did that. Raven frowned- they had been told that the HIVE Five was thinking of robbing this place, but three days of stake outs had been fruitless. But she could feel something, a vague impression. The pink haired one was near, and she was up to no good. Raven just didn't know where- empathy didn't work like that.

She swatted softly at her leg, trying to be quiet, flinching from the soft burning of a bug bite. She really wanted a mug of tea.

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Jinx scowled. Her back itched. It only did that when there was another maagic user was around, a very specific one. It might have been a lingering memory of a kick in the back that had been backed up with Ms Goodie-goodie's magic. Three days in a row, they had aborted the plan because of her instinct. "I'm telling you, they are out there."

Mammoth waved his hand past his face, something that was almost a thought fighting through to his lips. "I think you're just scared."

A delinquently juvenile giggle came from the ceiling. "Fine, we'll do this. Kiss your share good-bye, crud sucker."

You two are idiots. Jinx swatted her arm, missing the bug that had bit her. I'd kill for some coffee.

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The hunched form of a sleeping man balanced precariously on a long legged stool. Lab equipment, chemical works and computers bubbled and hummed around him. In the corner, a large model of a DNA strand coiled around a metal post. Through the open skylight, a single fly buzzed in, circling his head, before landing on a small glass tray. The fly took a drink of nutrient goo, before rubbing it's side against a tiny button.

The chiming of the bell made the mad scientist twitch and mumble, his left arm going out to reach for something that wasn't there. "the blueberries are attacking the bumbleebee pie..."

The fly rubbed against a second button, triggering a loud gong to echo in the lab. The white coated man jumped from being mostly asleep, landing on the floor. "Huh, what? I'm awake, I'm awake." He realized where he was after a moment, and stood, dusting himself off gently. He looked around, but he had no henchmen to see him. He only had a single hench, and it was looking up at him expectantly.

"Ah, Pestus, you've come home. Good fly- show me what you've brought back with you." He held a tiny needle of titanium down to the fly, letting it regurgitate the contents of what had once been a stomach, but with a little bit of genetic tinkering, had become a tiny pocket. The drop of blood filled the eye of the needle, before the Doctor slid it into a genetic analyzer.

Waiting for the computer to finish it's work, Doctor Chang took a short length of wire from his pocket, a slender strand of silk hanging from the end. He sat back down on the stool, and started to tease his pet with it, playing with the fly. Before they could tire of it, the machine chimed, announcing it had completed it's analysis. The man and his fly both went to the screen to see what had been brought in. "Oh, Pestus, you are such a good bug! You brought me two sets of DNA, both from magic users. I am so proud of you!"

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Author's notes:
Kinda hard to take a mad scientist with a pet fly that he genetically engineered as a serious bad guy, isn't it. Trust me, I had to laugh several times writing this.

But what could he do with both Raven and Jinx's DNA? That isn't very funny.