Al: (no objection to that statement.
Jynx sighed as she scanned the headlines on the paper she had plucked out of a newsstand when
the owner wasn't looking, more of the same stories.
A picture on the first page of the mayor donating a fountain in the park, no big whoop, in
the next section was a picture of the Titans walking away while the police led Gizmo and
Mammoth away in cuffs.
This drew a smirk from Jynx, two days ago Gizmo had called her, after the Hive had been
rebuilt the three had decided they didn't need to attend it any further and set upon their
ways, and two days ago Gizmo had called her for the first time, asking she help them break
into a lab, she would have helped save for the lack of loot that she was interested in (all
Gizmo wanted was a new computer piece not on the market yet) and Gizmo had made fun of her
hair.
Jynx hated it when people made fun of her hair.
She sipped a cup of overpriced coffee and her eyes slid down the article, she stopped and
re-read the last bit.
According to the paper half the titans were going on missions cross country and that left
some to speculate why they left behind Raven, Beastboy and the newly reinstated titan Terra.
Terra had been reborn two weeks ago, rumors had it that Cyborg had mixed up a solution to
negate her powers, but it had seemingly failed, but that night the blond titan, confused and
scared, had knocked on Beastboy's window, unsure of if the other titans would accept her
after what she had done.
Like the goody goods they were the titans let her back in, cyborg removed the implants Slade
had grafted to her body, and they seemed like one big happy sappy super family.
It was enough to make Jynx hurl.
"You'd think the titans would want to keep it quiet that the city's defenses are gonna be cut
in half, we villains might try to take advantage of it." She muttered with a sly smile as
her eyes found their way to an advertisement for a new art collection to be unveiled
tomorrow.
"One way coming through!" A loud girl yelled.
Jynx held the paper up to cover her face as Terra flew by on a rock, fallowed By Raven and
Beastboy, each in flight behind her.
"What's all that about?" Jynx asked a man coming from the direction the titans were heading
in.
"The banks being robbed, lots of hostages." The man said watching the titans pass, not
recognizing Jinx from the posters at the post office with the "Wanted" sign under them.
"Really?" Jinx's mind snapped back to a lesson from the Hive, if the heroes are distracted it
gives villains time to pull up stakes and leave with what they can, "Or in my case..."Jynx
lept to her feet and dashed after the titans, "It gives me a chance to grab the loot while
their dealing with the robbers."
"You sure you kids can't call Robin or Cyborg back?" The police chief asked Beastboy looking
skeptical.
"Hey, I'm just a strong or fast as either of them when I change!" B.B growled.
"Look kid, all I'm saying is in there is a big time bad guy, you've heard of the Joker
right?"
"Yes I've heard of him, who hasn't? It doesn't matter, we're tough enough to take him down."
"It's fine sir, We can handle him." Raven said without emotion having slid up behind B.B.
"Well...alright, just get the hostages out, we can send in backup after that."
The pair walked back over to where the police line ended, where Terra was sitting on her
rock trying to ignore the crowd, some still looked upon her as a monster for what she had
done, while others saw her as a hero.
"I coulda handled him."B.B grumbled.
"Yes, but it would have taken more time, and we don't have very much."
"But now he thinks I'm just the sidekick to you!"
"I thought you were my sidekick." Terra teased.
"We don't have time for your complexes, we need a plan."
The three titans took to the sky, B.B on Terra's rock, Raven flying of her own power, "Now
that we have some privacy." Terra said looking down at the crowd below, far enough away they
couldn't be overheard.
Jynx was silent as a ninja as she crept around the desks and peeked out the door into the
main portion of the bank.
She almost gasped seeing the tall pale figure only feet away, his hair was green and he was
pale as a ghost, she knew him instantly, HIVE students were trained to know heroes and
villains but anyone who didn't know him had to be blind and deaf.
The joker.
He was busy "entertaining" the hostages by juggling a group of bombs with clown skulls on
them, Jynx assumed this was his famous "Laughing gas" which would cause people to laugh
uncontrollably till they died with a smile on their face.
"Maybe this wasn't such a good idea..." She whispered.
"Oh lookie here Mr. J!" Came a high pitched load voice, the door was thrown open and before
Jynx knew it she was lifted by her arm into the room by a woman in a jesters costume. "I
found myself a toy!"
"Now now Harley, are you supposed to be playing?" He spoke like a father scolding a child
while he continued his juggling.
"No." The woman looked disappointed.
"Besides, I bet this girl isn't much fun, her kid catch." Joker hurled a bomb at Jynx and
the startled girl only barely caught it with her one free hand, thanking her being brought
up by carnival workers.
"oh ho! We have a player, Harley if you and the boys clean out the safe you can keep this
one." Joker threw two more and Jynx instinctively began juggling.
"That's good, don't let em drop kid, if they hit the ground then they go off, you've heard
of what my gas does haven't you?" The Joker cackled.
"Uh...Mr. J?" Harley was staring, Jynx fallowed her gaze, the hostages were gone, and all
Jynx saw was a flash and flutter of a blue cape turning black and vanishing into the floor.
Joker turned his head and stared slack jawed at the lack of people trussed on the floor,
"Well that's not good."
A crash and the sound of glass shattering and Terra and Beastboy exploded onto the scene,
Terra through a window and Beastboy through a wall as a rino.
"Well this isn't a total loss, I did so want to meet the famous Teen Titans, but wait,
theirs only two of you." Joker looked disappointed.
"Two's more then enough for you clown." Terra laughed at the easy joke.
"you think that's funny, check this out." Joker opened a can and a large snake shot from it
at Terra.
B.B changed into a kangaroo and slapped the snake with his tail, sending it spinning behind
the desks.
Terra retaliated by throwing a large rock at Joker who simply yawned as a large burly man
stood tween them and smashed the rock.
"Kiddies, meet my friends, Punch and Judy." Two large men in tights and clown makeup stepped
out from the safe and growled at the titans.
"I am so out of here." Jynx tossed the bombs to Harley who yelped and caught them, before the
pink haired girl began dashing for the door.
"OH no you don't." Raven appeared in front of Jynx, causing the gypsy to stop short, "I'm
not even with them goth girl, I was just here to withdraw some cash." Jynx protested.
"Yeah, right." The indigo haired girl refused to move.
Jynx did a swift back flip and shot a short pink blast of magic at Raven who easily deflected
it.
Harley's eyes went wide as Punch and Judy began fighting with B.B and Terra, "M...Mr. J, you
don't think...?"
"Not sure babe, let's see, HEY KID!" Joker called to Jynx who was punching at Raven with
pink glowing fists, who was blocking with her black magic with ease.
"WHAT?" Jynx yelled, and in that split second of distraction to a hard shot to the chin by a
magic blast and fell back wards, rolling comically on the floor.
"What's your name kid?" Joker asked casually, ignoring the fact that his henchmen were
being pummeled.
"Jynx!" She yelled and lept up, performing an elaborate back kick at the clown prince of
crime.
"Jynx?" He asked catching her foot with his hand.
"Must be a secret identity." Harley mused looking at the girl closely.
"We're gonna take you with us kid, we need to talk." Joker said letting go of her foot and
digging around in his jacket.
"I ain't going no where!" Jynx threw a pink curse above her and a light fixture broke,
falling twords the three of them.
All three got out of the way and Joker threw down some smoke bombs, "Sorry Titans but I
gotta fly, say hi to Robbie for me!"
Jynx felt two hands grab her arms and pull in separate directions, one was gloved and had
long girls fingers, and the other was large and had fingers the size of sausages.
Jynx aimed another kick in the direction of the slender fingered hand and she felt something
soft connect with her foot and heard a satisfying "OOF!"
The pale girl felt her body yanked twords the stronger arm and before she knew it she was
outside, coughing on the fresh air.
She looked about and blushed to see she was being cradled in the arms of a large green
gorilla, held against his chest like a baby as he loped down the street.
"Why are you brining her?" Terra asked flying overhead as the looked for Joker trying to
escape.
Beastboy would have spoke but that would have meant changing back, and he wasn't gonna let
go of Jynx, Joker wanted something with her and he was gonna find out what, that mad man had
killed hundreds in Gotham and he wasn't gonna let the Joker do that to the people of Jump
City.
Jynx felt herself carried roughly and couldn't help but think that life had just gotten much
more complicated.
And there we are, this story is loosely based upon a concept I developed with a teen titans
RPG group, if you are interested in joining we need dedicated members to play as starfire or
robin (Someone with a decent excuse as to why both partys have been gone for weeks) We also
have positions open for players who wish to play as members of the Teen Titans comics, such
as Kid Flash or wondergirl.
Go on, check us out, I play Beastboy, Jynx, red X, and unfortunatly about fifty other
characters cause of our lack of players.
http/digidragon844. always, Read and Review, flames welcome.