And here is Chapter 2 of Just a Jinx!
Sorry for the delay, I was busy preparing for my ACT. I actually think that I did fairly well, however I guess I'll just have to wait until I get my results back. So let's hope for the best!
Anyways, I'm pretty proud of how this chapter turned out! I made up a little bit of Jinx's past, so I'll try to include little bits and pieces of her past when it fits.
I'm going to state this now, but I currently have very no plans on including the plotline of the Titans. Every now and then I will return to the Titans universe to show how things are going after Jinx vanished. However my plans may change in the future. I only have half of the next chapter written. But right now it will pretty much follow the plot of Young Justice, with the addition of Jinx and a few extra things along the way. I may occassionly bring over characters from the Titans world as well, though it will mostly be villains.
Also I got a review stating that I should have Jinx end up with the Kid Flash from the Titans Universe. Well, I already made a few subtle hints last chapter, but I made even more in this one as to why that is unlikely to happen. So I'm really sorry all Spitfire fans, but hey, they already have a lot of stories so... But since I honestly do like the pairing I might have a slight hint of it, however Flinx will be endgame. But like I said: might. Though I might do a poll for all of the pairings that you want to see in this story otherwise. Tell me what you guys think, it would really help me out a lot. Anyways, I think I've spoke long enough. Like I said, none of this is for certain, I've just been stating a few ideas that I've had.
Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice or Teen Titans in any way, shape, or form, except for in my dreams
9 years ago
Bored eyes skimmed over a magazine, before briefly glancing over at the young girl laying on the floor, coloring in a picture book, carefully trying to stay in the lines but ultimately failing. The girl was no older than six, wearing a purple knit hat, which had cat ears sewn into it. The hat was large on the little girl's head, and kept falling down and covering her eyes, her choppily cut pink locks popping out from beneath it whenever this happened.
Satisfied that the child wasn't getting into any trouble, the woman sitting behind the desk returned to her magazine. It wasn't any more than five minutes later, when she had heard the girl shifting from her place on the ground, and she looked up to find the little girl standing in front of her, pink eyes looking up at the woman, shining with confusion and worry.
"Miss Alexa? How much longer will Mama be?" Miss Alexa glanced at the clock, before looking back at the girl, giving her a slight smile.
"Not much longer now. Go back to coloring." The child frowned.
"But I colored all of it."
"Do you want another color book?" The girl shook her head.
"I'm booooored. I wanna do something else."
"...do you want a magazine or something?" The girl looked at the magazine with a confused expression.
"Why would I want that?"
"To read. It has a lot of stuff about fashion, make-up and hair, maybe we could do something about yours?"
"What's wrong with my hair?!" The little girl self consciously pulled her hat down further to try to hide the rest of her hair.
"Nothing, I just thought we could make it cute or something." The little girl shook her head.
"No, no! Mama said not to take my hat off."
"Well I think pink suits you. But I think purple suits you better." Miss Alexa jokingly pulled the girl's hat down the rest of the way over her face.
While the girl was busy trying to get her hat out of her face, she didn't notice the door open and another woman walked in.
"Hey there." The young girl glanced over at the woman and ran over and engulfed her in a hug.
"Mama!" Although they were mother and daughter, they hardly resembled each other. While the girl, although slim, was a healthy weight for a girl her age, her mother was notably underweight, her cheeks being sunken in and skin seeming to be nothing but a layer of paper over her bones. And unlike the girl, the woman didn't have pink hair- in fact, she had no hair, her head being hidden instead behind a black bobbed wig. "Are you feeling better Mama?"
"I'm afraid not, sweetheart. And in order to get better, I'm going to need to get away for a while."
"What about me?" The little girl looked up at her mom, her eyes starting to get teary.
"Don't worry, we'll find something."
"I don't want you to go."
"I know."
Jinx rolled over on her side, trying to get more comfortable. Her entire body ached, and her bed felt incredibly uncomfortable all of the sudden. When Jinx opened her eyes, she had realized that she was not in her bed. It wasn't even one of those instances when she woke up on the floor in her bedroom. Instead, she found herself laying in a field of grass.
"Ugh…" Jinx sat herself up, and upon closer inspection she realized she was at a park. And it was night. Replaying the events that happened in her head, she stood up. "Stupid spell…"
She wasn't sure how it happened, but somehow she ended up here. She thought it was a locator spell. So why the hell was she here?! She said the spell correctly, at least, she thought she did. Actually, now that she thought about it, she may or may not have said it wrong.
"Dammit…" Jinx cursed. She had to figure out where she was, and considering she knew every block in Jump City and hadn't ever seen this park before, Jinx knew that more than likely she was in another city. One that was hopefully not too far away. She didn't exactly have any cash on her to catch a cab.
As she made her way to the street, she glanced around. All of the signs were in English, so she quickly deducted that it appears as though she hadn't left the United States.
'Unless I'm in the UK or Canada or something…' Jinx reminded herself, but she was still relieved that she was at least somewhere that spoke her native language, she wasn't sure she could handle being in another country that spoke an entirely different language with no money or resources. The only thing that she had was the Titans Communicator, and she was pretty sure that was busted. She spent a good half an hour of her walk trying to get a hold of the team, only to be met with silence in return. She knew that either something was very wrong or her communicator was busted, and she hoped that it was just the later.
Eventually dusk turned into dawn and Jinx could better see her surroundings. Museum followed museum, and if Jinx didn't convert from her villainous ways, she might have been tempted to steal from them (but she totally wasn't now!). Finally she looked ahead and saw the U.S. Capitol building, that she had finally realized that she was indeed, not in Jump City, but instead in Washington D.C. Jinx wanted to smack herself for not realizing sooner, when she had passed the National Gallery.
Looking around, she briefly wondered what she would do next. She could try and track down Titans East, but that was in New York City, to far for her to get with all the resources that she had (which was none). So the teenager continued back to the streets, trying to figure out what to do. It wasn't until her stomach grumbled that she realized that she hadn't eaten anything since lunch the day before. She continued walking along the streets, before she saw a couple of people on the sidewalks gasping and gawking at her, reminding her that the people around here weren't exactly used to her appearance.
'Okay, so I not only need something to eat, but I need a disguise too.' Jinx let out a sigh, she knew what she was going to have to do. It seems like no matter what she did, she'd always connected to her past. She didn't want to draw too much attention to herself; D.C. was not Titan territory, so if she made too big of a scene she might be viewed as a villain again, and she wouldn't have the Titans to back her up this time. Not to mention if they got a hold of her record…
Jinx sighed, just how long had she been walking? The sun was fully visible now, though it was still in the early hours in the morning. She wanted to try to find a disguise before more people were out on the streets, so she didn't cause a commotion.
After what felt like three hours and several miles more, Jinx had finally found a street filled with average-looking houses.
'Perfect.' Jinx smiled slightly. She had found houses before, but all of them looked as though they belonged to wealthy people, who most likely had a good security system on their home. But these houses looked as though they had a much simpler security system, if any at all. And with that Jinx walked around, eyeing up the houses. She knew that she shouldn't be doing this now that she was a hero, but she didn't have much of a choice anymore. Besides, this time, she was only going to take what she needed.
It took about ten minutes before Jinx decided which house she was going to rob. It was the third nicest in the neighborhood, and currently had no cars parked outside it. No lights were on (though it was day so the chances lights were on in the first place were not likely), and there didn't appear to be anyone home. Jinx glanced around to see in anyone was on the street, satisfied to see that no one was, she walked up to the front door, glancing briefly at the security system.
"Heh, how basic." Jinx muttered to herself, and quickly shot a quick hex at the security system, causing it to glitch and turn off. She picked the lock on the door, before slipping inside, locking it behind her. "There's nothing worse than someone coming home with the door unlocked and a stranger inside." She recalled what she had been told back at her days at H.I.V.E Academy.
Jinx's first order of business was to check to see if anyone was home. She scanned through the downstairs, which consisted of a kitchen, the living room, a dining area, and a bathroom. Happy to find that no one was downstairs, she made her way upstairs. The upstairs was kind of bland, it was a lone hall with a 3 doors branching off of it. Jinx opened the first door, which opened up a rather clean bedroom. The bed was neatly made and there wasn't a piece of dirty laundry anywhere. In fact, the only thing that made the room looked lived in were pictures set up on top of the dresser, which showed a middle aged man with kind eyes, with a little boy with a mop of hair on top of head, covering his face, and a beautiful woman standing at his side. There was a notable age difference between the man and the woman, his appearing to be at least a decade her senior, but they seemed happy together nonetheless.
Jinx frowned. She almost felt bad about stealing from these people. Being a hero has given her more empathy for others, and she wasn't sure if that was a good thing or a bad thing. But she knew that she had to do it, like she had to before. But it was for a different reason this time, instead of like it was at HIVE Academy, where she did it to prove herself. Now she's doing it because she has no other options.
She moved onto the next room, which was simply a bathroom. After seeing it her bladder decided to remind her that she hadn't used the bathroom since the day before, however she held it in as she moved onto the next room to make sure no one was there. Luckily for her, it was a bedroom. Though, judging by the mess and the way it was styled, Jinx guessed it belonged to a teenage boy. Finally, she moved onto the last room, was just a study. It was pretty plain, a bookshelf sitting on the adjacent wall to the windows, and a computer desk with a modern desktop computer on it. The desk was otherwise empty, with the exception of a newspaper sitting next to the computer. Under most circumstances, she wouldn't have spared a second glance at the newspaper, however the headline on the paper caught her attention. She walked over and glanced at it, her eyes gaping at the headline: 'Tag-Team Effort Between Batman and Flash, Along with Sidekicks Robin and Kid Flash Save Day.' Though that wasn't the main thing that caught her attention. The thing that Jinx couldn't keep her eyes off of was the date it was published. It was published June 25th, exactly a week before.
"That's impossible…" Jinx shook her head, snapping out of it. She could look more into it later, but right now her main focus was a disguise and food.
Jinx snuck into the kitchen and stole a couple pieces of bread, figuring that the family wouldn't notice if something as simple as bread was missing and plus there wouldn't be any wrappers or packaging left behind. She threw it in the toaster as she went to the restroom, never recalling ever being so relieved to use one in her life.
Afterwards, she glanced at herself in the mirror. She hadn't realize it earlier, but her hair had fallen out of it's usually devil-horn style, and was now laying on her shoulders. Jinx swore under her breath. That meant that she had lost her black hair retainers, a special invention by Gizmo after her request (as well as a few threats) she had him make back at the Academy. While she was wore them, they had a tightened grip on her hair, which secured her hair in any position that it was in when she put the hair retainers. Except now that they were lost, it would now be nearly impossible to recreate that hairstyle without a crap ton of hairspray, but Jinx was not going to subject her hair to that on a daily basis.
She ran her fingers through her hair, attempting to get a few tangles out, before eventually giving up, knowing she'd get no where without using a brush, and she did not want to risk getting pink hair everywhere. However she did steal a couple hair ties (because somehow hair ties always went missing whether someone stole them or not) to put her hair in low pigtail. It wasn't exactly her old hairstyle, but she figured that it was close enough, plus it would keep it out of her face.
Hearing her stomach once again growl, Jinx was reminded of just how hungry she was, and returned to the kitchen, glad to see that her toast didn't burn. She happily grabbed it and ate it, afterwards turning on the sink and drinking straight out of the faucet, as to not dirty any cups.
"Now for a disguise…" Jinx headed back upstairs and entered the teenagers room that she had seen before. Though she wasn't sure how she felt about wearing some weird teenage boys clothes, she knew it would be better to take something out of his messy room where he wouldn't notice right away rather than take it from his parents room, since nothing was out of place there. She saw a pile of backpacks in the corner of his room, most likely backpacks from previous years at school that he kept for travel. After looking through them for one that wasn't in too bad of condition, she settled on a black and white checkered one. Well it was either that or one with a Batman logo on it and there was no way in hell that Jinx was going to walk around with that on her back.
Jinx looked down at her clothes. It was her hero/villain costume (in all honesty she probably should have changed it once she switched sides, but she really liked how it looked. But now that she and the costume were getting older, she wasn't sure how many more fights her costume could take). Jinx contemplated on what she should take for clothes wise, before deciding she would just take a hoodie or something. However, after looking through the unknown teens dresser (because no way in hell she was going to go through his dirty laundry), she only found two hoodies. One was a bright, neon orange zip up hoodie and the other was a light grey pullover hoodie with, once again, the Batman logo on it.
"Seriously, what is with this kid and Batman?!" Jinx growled in annoyance. Why did it have to be her?! As soon as she got back to Jump City Raven was going to get it.
Jinx glanced over at her options again. The orange would clash horribly with her purple striped leggings, plus she did not want to look like a walking jack o'lantern. On the other hand did she ever want to be caught dead in anything Batman related. 'Let's see… Fashion or dignity… Fashion… or dignity…' Jinx sighed as she pulled the Batman hoodie over her head and adjusted her hair so most of it was hidden behind the hood. 'At least this way it makes sense that I wear the hood up.'
Jinx moved back towards the study, taking the backpack with her, turning on the monitor on the computer. She eyed the newspaper once again, curious to get some answers about. When the screen loaded up, Jinx was happy to learn that the computer hadn't properly shut down the last time someone used it, and was still up on the homepage.
Jinx opened up the search engine and started doing her research. First of all, she typed in Kid Flash. She clicked on the news article and hardly saw any articles, however she did see one that said something about 'Flash and Flash Kid'. So Jinx instead searched up Flash and sidekick, seeing a bunch of recent articles about Flash and 'Flash Jr.' or 'Flash Boy'. Hoping she wasn't going crazy. she then searched up 'Robin', knowing full well he had issues with Batman before, and was surprised to find out that, according to at least 200 of recent articles, he was still Batman's sidekick.
"Is it possible…" It didn't seem likely, but somehow, it seemed as though she might have been transferred to another reality. It's not unheard of, Jinx knew that other dimensions existed. She just never really thought much of it until now. Was it possible that somehow the spell Raven taught her somehow transferred her to another dimension?
'Teen Titans' was the next thing she looked up. There was only one way to be sure that this was, in fact, another dimension. However, much to her chagrin, only a few things popped up, but none of it was relevant to her team. Jinx hesitated a moment longer, before looking herself up. But much to her surprise, nothing came up about her. Well, then again 'Jinx' is an actual word, so then she looked up 'Jinx hero', then 'Jinx villain'. And still nothing came up relevant to her. She continued searching things up. HIVE Academy, HIVE Five, and Jump City- which was the only one that popped up, which made Jinx slightly relieved-. But still, everything she searched up was clear: she was no longer in her home universe. So the real question was, where was she? And just why did she end up here of all places?
And there you have it! I just love the fact that no one knows Kid Flash's name in the YJ universe. Next chapter will probably be Independence Day. That seems like good place to start. I was originally going to have Jinx join the circus that the Team infiltrates later on in the series, but that was almost at the end of the first season and I would rather not do that.
The family that Jinx stole from was completly random by the way. I was going to make it a a future hero or something but I couldn't think of anyone so I just made a random family.
Okay, so you really don't have to read this but I had an awesome dream last night (which got me to finish this chapter and part of the next, it got me in a superhero-y mood). I had a dream that the zombie apocalypse started and for some reason Tony Stark was my dad. It was really weird, but really cool. We lost contact with him but I was convinced he was still alive, so me and some random heroes (I can't remember who all was there, I'm pretty sure it was a couple people my mind made up, but I'm pretty sure Captain America and Robin were both there) and I ended up getting separated and found my grandma's house, which was being looted since it was a zombie apocalypse. Anyways, I told the robbers that I didn't care that they were robbing it and I was just trying to find my group, so they left me alone. Anyways I was eventually found by Captain America and then I reunited with my father. I don't remember the rest of the dream though... but it was pretty cool. Still don't get why my dad was Ironman though. But Avengers + Zombie apocalypse... yes.
Please review, for... Dreams?