Thanks for all the kind reviews! I'm really happy that people appreciate the fact that I try really hard to keep both the characters in character according to the show. I'm still in need of a beta reader so if anyone is interested please message me! Also please continue to review! Thanks those of you that did, and to those who are wondering, they will have some romantic tension real soon!
Jinx had the van in her sights. She leapt gracefully from one building top to the other feeling the cold exhale of air through her lungs. She felt powerful again ever since the clunky bracelet was removed from her wrist. Her eyes glowed a pink aura and the tips of her fingers cracked with sparks. There were some surprised civilians that saw her run by. A man taking a smoke break on the rooftop gave a shrill scream and dropped his cigarette.
She was almost not fast enough, but thankfully the van stopped at a red light. She hunched her shoulders and caught her breath. Sometimes, super speed didn't seem like that bad a superpower. She slid down a drainage pipe on the side of a motel building. The driver of the van was texting on his phone while the car was at the intersection. Next to him sat two guards with guns in their hands. They didn't notice when she went by the car. A small smile formed on the corners of her pale face. With a flash of pink, the tires of the car deflated.
"Woah!" the van shook as the tires deflated. The driver put his phone down and opened the car door, little did he know a certain witch was waiting outside for him. As he stepped a foot outside, he saw a flash of pink and then black. The driver was unconscious on the ground.
The two guards saw her and ran out with their guns. With one flip, Jinx landed on the top of the car. The two men shot at her with the gun in their hands.
"Okay, you're really beginning to bug me." Jinx said and shot a pink wave at the guards. They leaped to the side and narrowly avoided the attack. They kept shooting at her; bullets whizzed past her hair as she narrowly avoided a slice next to her ear. She was done messing around with these guards.
"You're about to get a lot of bad luck." Jinx smirked and shot a hex at a light pole on the street. Immediately, a crack formed at the base of the pole and it collapsed and fell. It landed directly on one of the guards, effectively knocking him out and pinning him to the ground. The other guard narrowly missed the pole but while he was distracted with his fellow teammate, Jinx shot her beam of energy at the gun in his hand. It fizzed with pink electricity and blew up into a million pieces. The guard was frazzled for a moment before a black boot met his face and he too collapsed, unconscious.
Thankfully there were no cars behind the van. It was a vacant street, not the normal time for people to drive around. Jinx commemorated herself on the little good luck she had as she took the keys from the unconscious driver. She went to the back of the van and unlocked the doors, inside sat four handcuffed criminals.
Two of them were the bank robbers from earlier. They looked at her with fear and cowered in their seats. One of the criminals appeared to be a teenage boy; he had a lanky build and couldn't have been more than eighteen. However, covering the boy's face was a white mask that resembled a skull with a red scar slashed across. His hands were handcuffed behind him and he didn't even bother to face her direction.
The last man was the one she was looking for. He no longer had his high tech weapons. He didn't even have his costume. Dr. Light was dressed in civilian clothes with his hands handcuffed behind his back. He looked pathetic. The moment he saw the pink haired witch he slunk in his seat and refused to look at her. She swear she even heard a little whimpering from the doctor.
"Alright convicts, I only need to talk to the doctor here. By now more police are already on their way and if anyone tries anything funny, I'll knock you out now to save myself the trouble of catching you again. Are we clear?" Jinx used her best villain voice to intimidate her prey.
The two robbers nodded quickly and both muttered a chorus of "yes ma'am"s. The man in the mask acted bored but didn't move. Dr. Light looked at her with fear.
"Please! You already took everything from me! What more do you want?" Dr. Light pleaded.
"When you hit Kid Flash with that light, it blinded him." Jinx grabbed the collar of his shirt and raised him up. Her eyes glowed dangerously. "I want to know how to fix him."
Dr. Light whimpered some more. He closed his eyes and turned his head away from Jinx's glaze.
"Please don't hurt me anymore!" Dr. Light begged, "I have a cure!"
"GIve it to me and I'll let you go without a scratch." Jinx threatened, "Or else." Jinx raised her other hand and pink electricity danced from it. Dr. Light's eyes followed the movement of the pink sparks. He gulped.
"I hid it inside my shirt. It'll only take a second!" he was on the verge of crying.
The masked boy looked at the pair with amusement while the robbers held each other in their seats.
Dr. Light reached inside his shirt into a hidden pocket and produced a tiny unmarked bottle of eye drops. Jinx quickly swiped it from his hands.
"You better not be lying to me." Jinx tugged on Dr. Light's collar tighter. Her eyes were almost as bright as the sun.
"No! I promise! This will bring back his vision!" he was practically sobbing, "Just please don't hurt me anymore!"
Jinx looked at the man that was reduced to tears. He really was pathetic and a waste of time.
"If this antidote doesn't work, I don't care where they lock you up Light," Jinx growled in a low voice, "I will break in and break you."
"It'll cure him!" Dr. Light hiccupped between his words.
Jinx let go of the man's collar and wiped her hands on her dress. These were really the worse of villain scum. In the distance, not too far down the street, Jinx started hearing the blare of police sirens. She stepped out of the van and was about to run back up to the building tops when she felt an impact on the back of her head. She fell onto her hands and her vision turned hazy. She looked back at her attacker, it was the masked boy. His hands were free from the handcuffs and he had his fists in a threatening pose.
"Don't make me hurt you!" Jinx yelled and shot a hex in the man's direction. He turned his head a little to the left and the hex shot past him into a distant building.
Jinx growled in anger and shot another series of pink hexes at the boy. He avoided each attack with ease. The boy was amused. He was having fun watching Jinx exhaust herself. The smug look in his eyes only fueled Jinx's anger more.
"You know, you're pretty cute when you're angry." the boy teased.
"If I were you I would get back into that van." Jinx gave her most menacing look she could muster, "Pretty soon you'll see just how cute I can get."
She shot a pink wave of energy around her. The boy leaped and avoided the attack.
"Aren't you supposed to be a villain?" The masked boy asked, "Why are you fighting me?"
"I'm not on your side." Jinx growled and sent debris flying towards him with a hex.
Jinx heard a deep chuckle from her opponent.
"I like it, you're not on a specific side." He smirked. "It's not easy being neutral. I've managed on my own for a while now. It's hard not having any real friends or teammates to trust. In fact you can never trust anyone, both sides hate you. It gets a little lonely." He looked distant.
"I bet you won't be so lonely once you arrive at jail." Jinx spat at him bitterly. She ran up to the masked boy and sliced her hand across his face in a karate chop, but the boy was too quick. He stepped away with impossible speed and caught her hand in midair. He squeezed. His grip was cold. It was like his body lacked any warmth.
"Tell you what, if you ever need help, come find me." The boy smirked again.
Using his other hand, he produced a small card from his sleeve. He opened her palm up forcefully and dropped the white card in her hand. Then, the boy loosened his grip and broke away from her, stepping away from Jinx and the van. Jinx looked down at the card. It was a plain, business card-sized piece of paper with a small red x insignia on it.
"What am I supposed to do with this?"
Somehow, the boy produced a small black ball in his hand. Jinx had no idea where he managed to hide that before. He threw it at the ground and a cloud of black smoke erupted around him. Jinx jumped back to avoid the smokescreen. She shot pink hexes into the smoke in an attempt to hit the boy. However, her attacks shot only through air. By the time the smoke cleared, the boy with the red x on his mask was no wear to be found.
"No!" Jinx screamed. It was too late. He left no trail and the sirens were getting closer and closer. Jinx cursed and ran off of the street. She shimmied up the drain pipe of the motel and got back on the roof. From on top of the building, she saw the police surround the spot she was at a few moments ago. An ambulance got to the scene soon afterwards. The injured guards were lifted onto gurneys and carried into the car. Jinx didn't want to see the rest. She flipped herself onto the next building top and started making her way back to where she came from.
"Where were you!" An concerned or angry Kid Flash asked in a loud voice. Jinx couldn't tell.
"I needed some air." Jinx said truthfully.
The apartment was a wreck. Half of the furniture was on the ground. There was glass scattered on the carpet from broken lights. Even the walls appeared to have human sized dents in them.
"What happened in here?" Jinx asked incredulously.
"I was worried." Kid answered, not looking at her, "You could have at least told me you were going out! I just sat there talking to air for ten minutes!" He had a blush creeping onto his face. "But you didn't hear what I said right?"
"Not really, was it important?"
"Don't worry about it."
"Alright." Jinx muttered, "Come here, I have some medicine for your eyes."
"Medicine?"
"Yes I picked it up from the pharmacy, now don't move."
Jinx grabbed Kid Flash and sat him down on the couch. She tilted his head back on the couch and held the bottle over his eyes.
"Don't move, I don't want to miss your eyes." Jinx commanded.
Whenever she got the bottle close to his eyes, Kid Flash kept blinking. It was impossible to drop the precious amount of medicine in his fidgeting eye.
"Kid Flash stop blinking!" Jinx insisted.
"I'm not!" He answered.
"Kid Flash this is impossible!" Jinx exclaimed.
"Hang on!" Kid Flash soothed her. He reached around his head with his hands and felt around the edge of the mask around his head. He pushed up the yellow mask and it came off smoothly, gliding over his fire-red hair. Underneath the yellow mask, small red freckles dotted like stars scattered around his face. Jinx finally saw for the first time the skin around his eyes and nose. Above those perfect blue orbs were a pair of neatly groomed eyebrows. The mask came off and revealed his fiery red hair line. It was the first time Jinx had seen Wally West, not Kid Flash. She was mesmerized for a second, before she realized what he had done.
"What are you doing!" Jinx screamed and covered her eyes, "I can't see your real identity!"
Wally West laughed.
"It's alright, I trust you." The cute redhead answered, "Go ahead, use the medicine."
Jinx hesitated but listened to him nonetheless.
She pulled her thin fingers delicately around Wally's eyes and held them open. She made sure he couldn't blink against her fingers. With her other hand, the carefully squeezed the small bottle and down dropped a tiny amount of a clear liquid into blue eyes. Wally struggled his eyes against Jinx's fingers, but she succeeded in keeping them open until the liquid seeped through. She did the same thing with his other eye until the bottle was empty. The redhead sat there blinking. Jinx was worried. What if Dr. Light gave her the wrong medicine just to spite her? What if this ends up killing Wally? She could have just poisoned him. She looked at the boy in front of him with worry.
Wally West kept blinking at an inhuman speed. The darkness seemed opaque and unmoving. At first nothing happened, but as he gradually rubbed his eyes, a ray of pink shot through the black. Soon after, other colors followed. Everything was blurry to him. He saw a vague outline of pink hair and a thin face. He waved a hand in front of his face and he saw the red gloves. With a few more minutes, Wally was looking directly into worried pink eyes. He smiled at Jinx.
"Aren't you a sight for sore eyes." He laughed at his own joke.
In response the worried but angry girl threw a punch at his arm which the speedster, now with his vision, simply moved to the side to avoid in a few mere milliseconds.
"Ah sorry Jinx! I had to say it" he laughed as she chased him around the room, trying to hit him.
She laughed. Jinx had a beautiful laugh. It was like a bell chiming, and it made Wally feel like a million roses were blooming all at the pit of his stomach. He was sure glad to be able to see her face laughing again.
Wally turned around and faced her. Jinx noticed his serious expression and stopped trying to hit him. She crashed into him with a small thud and both of them toppled to the ground laughing. There were some moments that were worth slowing down for. Jinx smiled at Wally and he reached out a hand and helped her up.
"It's nice to finally meet you, I'm Wally West." He smiled.
