"Are you done yet? It's been five minutes," Jinx whines. "I thought this stuff was easy"
"Well it ain't my fault these idiots finally upgraded the damn security," Gizmo said through gritted teeth. "And if you think you can do it faster then go ahead, give it a try."
"What? By using my hexes? No way, that could set off the alarm rather than take it out," Jinx said.
"Then shut up and let me take my damn time!"
Mammoth chuckles lowly from where he was leaning against the building. "So what's the plan when the Titans show up?"
"If they show up," Jinx said, "This will be a piece of cake. A small time jewelry store like this only has one guard and about three cameras. We'll be in, out, and back to the hideout before you know it."
Mammoth shrugs his shoulders. "Yeah, but the Titans always seem to know when a crime is going on. You got to admit that's pretty weird."
Gizmo grins as he disconnects his hand-held computer from the power box that's up on the roof. "That's because most businesses have a silent alarm set up for the Teen Titans, but that should be no trouble now that the power is cut off. That guard should be coming soon to check out what's going on. Stop him, or her."
"We're on it," Jinx said. She holds up a hand and a few sparks of pink leap from her fingertips and onto the hinges of the door; the hinges rapidly rust and weaken to where the door gives away and falls. Mammoth quickly catches the door and gently leans it against the side of the building, they share a nod and make their way inside.
They move to the security room, and just as they got outside of the door it opens up. Jinx ducks down, Mammoth punches the guard in the face, and the guard hits the floor with a heavy thud. Jinx chuckles as she stands up straight again, she gives Mammoth a thumbs up as she moves toward display cases.
"The guard has been taken care of, we'll be out in five minutes," Jinx said into her earpiece.
"Alright I'll keep watch for anything coming our way," Gizmo said.
Jinx walks past the display cases, running her hands over them and watching as the glass cracks and falls apart. "Time to clean house Mammoth."
Mammoth grins as he eagerly starts to grab fists full of jewelry and stuff it into a bag hanging from his waist. Jinx hums softly as she look through some rings when one catches her eye; a thin band of silver lined with heart-shaped amethysts. Jinx picks it up and puts it on her ring finger.
"Jinx! We got trouble!" Gizmo screeches in Jinx's and Mammoth's ear.
"Ouch! What do you mean?!" Jinx hisses, gesturing for Mammoth to keep collecting the jewelry.
"A silent alarm was set off, you two have to go now!"
Jinx curses, and she starts to help Mammoth with collecting the jewelry. "Give us a minute."
"You don't have a minute!" Gizmo yells. "The Titans are on their way."
Jinx curses again. "We barely got the bag a quarter filled."
Mammoth grunts as he just picks up a display case and dump everything from it into the bag, not caring one bit about the pieces of glass. "She's right Gizmo, we just need a minute."
"Well I don't know what you expect me to do!"
"Can't you, like, hack anything?" Mammoth questions as he grabs another display case.
Gizmo sighs heavily, and Jinx swears she heard him face-palm. "We're all gonna end up in jail."
The display case in Mammoth's hands is suddenly encased in a dark energy. Mammoth quickly lets go of the display case, but it stays suspended in mid-air; the display case then flies at Mammoth. Mammoth rolls out of the way, and the case hits against the wall, the dark energy disappears allowing the display case to fall. Jinx looks wildly around the room before a flicker of black from the corner of her eye gets her attention; she looks just in time to see Raven floating out from a inky black portal on the wall.
"That's so fucking cool," Jinx mutters to herself as she backs up toward Mammoth. "Gizmo, they're here...Gizmo? Gizmo, are you okay? Shit! Mammoth get to the roof, I'll handle her."
"But Gizmo said-"
"I'm pretty sure that doesn't matter right now! Go help Giz!"
Mammoth sighs, but runs off to the door that leads up to the roof. "Fine, but don't come complaining to me when Gizmo yells at you!"
Jinx rolls her eyes. "I'm sure he'll be thanking me for sending you to save his ass," Jinx said.
Raven's eyes flare white, a display case becomes covered in her soul-self and floats up. "You have one chance to surrender."
"Sounds tempting coming from you, but I'm gonna have to say no," Jinx said, "sorry, but hey, what do you expect from a thief like me?"
"Trouble," Raven said as she throws out her hand. The display case flies at Jinx, but barely makes half way before a pink hex hits it; the display case ends up in pieces at Jinx's feet.
Jinx lets out a loud gasp looking shock for a only second before a smirk stretches out across her face, her hands cackling with pink sparks. "Oops. Do you want to give that another try?"
Two more cases are surrounded in darkness and then thrown at Jinx. Jinx holds out her hand, and when the display case hits her hand it simply splits in half, the halves kept on flying and hit the wall behind Jinx. Jinx roundhouse kick the second display case shattering it into pieces; Raven's eyes widen just the tiniest bit seeing Jinx's foot was covered with her pink magic.
"I see you've learned a new trick," Raven said, watching in interest at the magic travels back up to Jinx's hands.
"Like it?" Jinx asks with a tilt of her head. "It took some time to get a handle on it, but that's not the only I've learned."
A pink glow encases Jinx's body causing Raven to frown in confusion, but that confusion quickly changes to alarm as the glow starts to rapidly grow in size and brightness. Raven just has enough time to put a shield around herself when the large hex explosions outward without sound or force. It's quiet except for Jinx's heavy panting; just as Raven lets her shield fall the walls suddenly start to crack. The whole building groans, bits of the ceiling fall as more cracks appear in the walls.
"Ah shit," Jinx said breathless. "That wasn't...very smart." Jinx goes to run, but her body feels like lead, she ends up tripping over her feet and falling to the floor with a thud. "Fuck, nice going Jinx, getting killed for showing off. I thought I would go out with a bang, not a squish."
"Calm down." An arm wraps around Jinx's waist, and then Jinx's arm is thrown over Raven's shoulders. "I wouldn't be much of a hero if I left you here."
Raven flies them out of the back door just as a quarter of the jewelry store crumbles inward, the rest would follow soon. Jinx can't help but smile because not only did she just bring down a building all on her own, but Raven is holding her; something Jinx had believe would never happen while just being herself.
'She has saved my ass once again,' Jinx thought with a small giggle. Raven flies across the street into an alleyway, she sits Jinx down against a wall. "Thanks Raven, can't believe this is your second time saving me."
"Second?"
Jinx's eyes widen in horror at realizing what she said. "I-I meant your second time saving someone today! Ha ha! Wow, that move must've really made me tired, messing up my words like that. Or I'm just that big of an idiot!" Jinx laughs nervously while avoiding eye contact with Raven.
Raven narrows her eyes, and she goes to speak but a voice suddenly yells in Jinx's ear. "Jinx? Jinx! Tell me you're alive, me and Mammoth just saw the store fall apart!"
Jinx reaches up and turns on the earpiece. "Damn Giz! No need to shout I'm still breathing air," Jinx said.
Gizmo lets out a sigh of relief. "Don't ever do something like that again."
Jinx giggles. "Trust me Giz, I won't be doing that again any time soon. You and Mammoth okay?"
"Yeah, we got away when the building started to shake and break apart. Where are you? We'll come get you."
Jinx looks up at Raven, who is still floating there with her arms crossed. "Um, don't worry about it we'll meet back up at base."
"Are you sure?" Mammoth speaks this time making Jinx smile softly.
"Positive."
"Alright," Gizmo said, "and Jinx, we're having a talk when we get back."
The line goes silent, and Jinx sighs as she turns off her earpiece. "Of course we are." Silent takes over, and Jinx is doing her best to look at any that isn't Raven. "So um, is it too stupid to hope you'll let me go?" Jinx questions quietly, nervously turning her eyes toward Raven.
Raven narrows her eyes.
"Yeah, that's what I thought," Jinx said with a sigh, she holds out her wrists. "Well, I can't do anything really so you might as well get this over with."
"I could let you go."
"Seriously?!" Jinx grins widely, but it quickly melts away into a cautious frown. "Wait, what's the catch? There's no way you'll let me go for free."
Raven floats down, her feet touching the ground without a sound. "I am letting you go for free. You said it yourself, you can't do anything to defeat yourself so, you are no longer a threat."
Jinx's eyes widen. "Thanks, I guess? What about bird brain though? Won't he ask where I went?"
"You escaped as the building was coming down and I was too busy getting the security guard out to chase you," Raven said.
"Oh shit! The guard, I forgot about him!" Jinx said with horror.
Raven smiles a little. "Don't worry, I had removed him before fighting you."
Jinx visibly relaxes letting out a loud sigh of relief. "Man I'm a damn idiot, I almost killed that dude with my forgetfulness. I really owe you one."
"It seems you owe me a few favors," Raven points out, a tiny smirk on her lips when she hears Jinx mutter a curse.
"This is gonna bite me in the ass...but yeah I owe you, like, two favors," Jinx said crossing her arms over her chest. "You better not use them for shit like ratting other villains! I don't need someone coming after my ass."
Raven nods. "Understandable. How will I get to you if I want to use one of these favors?"
Jinx is silent for a moment, a pout on her lips, but she lets out a dramatic sigh and holds out her hand, her other hand digging in her pocket. "Give me ya hand."
Raven hesitates, but with Jinx's impatience gesturing of fingers she finally puts her hand in Jinx's. Jinx pulls out a tube of lipstick, takes the cap off with her teeth, and twists the tube to reveal hot pink lipstick. Raven's nose wrinkles and her brows furrow as Jinx writes on the back of her hand with the lipstick. Jinx lets go of Raven's hand once she's done and recaps the lipstick with a satisfied smirk.
"There you go! The phone number of the one and only Jinx!"
Raven looks down at the numbers with a slightly raised eyebrow. "Really?"
"Well, the number to my communicator, but you get the idea," Jinx said. "So when you want to check in those favors just ring me up."
Raven studies the number before nodding once, and then floating off of the ground. "Can you stand up?"
Jinx grins, and without much reason but beside showing off, she pushes herself up into a handstand. "Don't need legs when I can just do this."
"And for how long can you do that?"
"...five minutes."
"Just call Gizmo, Jinx."
"Okay."
