Jinx fell on the ground exhausted and a little sore as she huffed for air. The sun was high above her and so bright she couldn't even see the blue sky as the heat fell on her in waves.
Margaret suddenly materialized above her looking down at Jinx. "Here." Margaret handed Jinx a glass of cold water and the first thing that Jinx did was take it and splash it over her head with a sigh. Her pink hair fell in wet ringlets as her tongue went searching for the water droplets that fell down her face and around her lips quenching her thirst.
Margaret laughed. "You should have drank that, I was just about to take you to the showers anyways."
Jinx nodded as she got to her feet, her head dizzy. She hadn't had a work out like that in a long time. She followed Margaret with her muscles burning, her greyish shoulders getting the suns impact and her legs wobbly.
Margrete went over her clipboard glancing at Jinx between her statistics. "You have great agility but you need to bulk up on one on one combat."
"Yeah, I know." Jinx said. "I've been working on that for years. Headmast Blood always said-" Jinx said without thinking before she realized what she had done.
"You have?" Margaret looked at her oddly. "How would you know to do that if you've been on your own for so long."
Jinx walked quickly ahead as she saw the door in the huge facility known as Cadmus. "I never said I was on my own." Jinx said quickly cursing herself. They didn't need to know who she really was.
The door opened right before Jinx could reach for it and a plump woman with chocolate brown skin, her hair cut around her head and dark eyes stood in front of Jinx. There was a flash of the woman looking down at her from a observing window right before Jinx was to be experimented on that went flying by the pink haired girls eyes.
She instantly jumped back in instinct, her hands literally cracking with pink electricity. "What are you doing here?" She said forcefully.
"Isn't that what I'm suppose to ask you?" Amanda Waller said as the two guards who had been standing behind the woman came around holding these staffs that crackled on the end with electricity. Amanda nodded her head and the guards pulled back from attacking Jinx as the girl hadn't moved, just defending herself. "I'm surprised you remember me."
"How could I forget? Your the one who let Donivan torture me." Jinx's voice wavered as her anger and fright washed over her body sending waves of energy coursing through her body, tingling on her fingertips.
"We were partners then, I couldn't tell him do anything if he didn't want to." Amanda said quickly waving her hand with her eyes rolling. She looked ridiculous in that grey suit of hers in the desert air.
The electricity crackled past her hands and up her arms for a moment as Jinx yelled "You could have stopped him if you wanted to! But did you? NO!" She moved forward and thats when the guards proceeded forward swinging their electric staffs.
The first one she held her hand out and as her electricity met the staffs it shortwired and she was able to flip down as if she was doing the limbo as the other staff met the guard frying him with a current of electricity. Jinx flipped back, her hands landing on the dry earth behind her head and she flipped back up, her foot connecting with the second guard. He went flying back as the first came forward before she could realize that he didn't fry himself to death due to her disappointment. She met his hands with hers as he karate chopped at her, she backed up from his force as he swung at her and she ducked just in time. The second Guard came forward and he kicked at her sending her back before she could realize who had done it. She rolled on the ground scraping her bare skin on the hard dry earth, her stomach hurting from the boot mark on it.
Amanda stepped out of the shade and into the sun fanning herself with her hand. "Wow, it is very hot here."
Jinx raised herself on her elbow looking up at the woman with all the hate she could muster since she was already exhausted from big bertha that had evidently kicked herass instead of the other way around. "Maybe you should go back to your palace the taxpayers pay for then."
"I don't understand why you're so resilient, It's not like I have ever done a bad thing to you." Amanda said. "You of all people should see how much I've changed the policy's of Cadmus. I've done good for every person here. Including you."
Margrete quickly came to Jinx's aid as she helped the girl up to her feet even though she would have preferred her new care taker not to get in the way. The less casualties as possible the better. This was her mission and she intended to finish it.
"We can either discuss why i came, out here or in a more…" Amanda looked around distastefully. "preferable place."
"What do you have in mind?" Jinx said eyeing the two guards who stood behind Amanda like a pair of well trained dogs
"Wow, I was small…" Robin said as he threw his old suits he had packed here in this room that was always waiting for him. He looked at the suit when he was twelve and how it was so small. "No wonder the bad guys never thought I was a threat."
"You gave them a run for their money though." A voice sounded behind him and surprised he turned to see a woman with orange hair that fell covering half of her face as she leaned on the door hinge with her arms crossed. "Considering they were usually stealing it of course."
"Barbara!" A smile broke across Robins face and he rushed forward grabbing her in his arms where she laughed hugging him back around the neck.
"Missed you too Bird beak. Now set me down." Barbara laughed as Robin did just that for her.
"How life under old bats? Still making you do grunt work?" Robin asked as he passed his old friend. They had practically grew up together. She was always older though.
She flipped her hair back behind her, he remembered when she use to keep it in a short ponytail, now it was long and to the mid of her back. "Oh you know him…"
Suddenly both of them got into their best batman pose hunching over saying at the exact same time. "Speedy sharpened arrows, Aqualad scrapped barnacles… everyone must earn their way. Now go wax the batmobile."
They both laughed as they realized how predictable Bruce was. Over the way Raven who had been sleeping on Robins bed moaned quietly as she moved her head to the side still unconscious and sleeping. Robin quieted as did Barbara.
"How is she?" Barbara asked as she stood to the side of the bed watching Robin who was checking Ravens vitals. She was in a cold sweat but her mind was healing her body, especially the cuts that ran up and down her arms.
"She's been better… But she's also been worse." He said looking up at Barbara with a sly smile. "You would not believe what we've been thru." Robin said with a shake of his head and a sigh as he stood up.
"Sounds like you've been having some real adventures without me." Barbara said as she kicked him lightly with her foot. "Jerk."
"I'm Sorry, i didn't realize you wanted to come with me." Robin said as he pushed her when they started walking out of the room.
"You know i couldn't leave Gotham. My family was there, and my job." Barbara said pushing him back but less than friendly. "What I want to know is why you never contacted me after you left." She glared at him hotly.
They had been walking down a hall and ended up in the main control room where the windows were open and all you could see was vast systems of galaxies far away. Robin looked all around as he spoke. "I didn't think you would want to hear from me. After all I was kicked off and a disgraced to the batman family name."
She set her hand on his shoulder. Her blue eyes met his mask and she slowly reached up to take it off so she could see the eyes she missed. "You were forced off Robin, you didn't have a choice. Besides Bruce loves you more than anyone else, and that includes Alfred and me." She slipped his mask off and she felt a tiny gasp come from her at seeing those eyes of his.
Normally he would never let anyone take his mask off, but this was Barbara Gordon, She did what she wanted without anyone stopping her ever. "Then why does he only ever want to see me when he needs to yell or keeps replacing me. Were on Robin number what? Four?"
"Three." She said quietly as she looked down. "You'll like him, he has all the morals you have and he practically idolizes you." She laughed tucking a strand of red hair behind her ear as she leaned into him. He could smell her scent of coconut and lime, and he missed it so much that his mouth was watering.
"Well thats just great, There can be two Robins prancing around now. Just like Jason Todd." He said before he realized what he said and regretted saying it. Barbara bit her lip hard as she moved away hugging herself. Her back was to him shutting him out. "I'm sorry i didn't-" he held a hand out to touch her but didn't.
"No, It's okay…" She said waving him off. She started to turn around but he could tell tears were threatening to come from her blue eyes. "Jason was always a little cocky. And you know what Bruce says about arrogance."
"I don't care about what Bruce says." Robin took her hands in his finding that they fit perfectly. This was so odd, even after so many years he still had a crush on Batgirl. He wondered what Starfire would think of her...
She laughed once. "Funny, it use to be the only thing you cared about once upon a time." she sniffled drying her tears.
Off somewhere else in the headquarters Wally was running. He had spend a good five minutes running around the base in laps trying to tire himself out but he just couldn't manage to do it. He hated this place. He hated places that he couldn't get out of. He didn't understand why his uncle could live here sometimes.
It was bad enough that Jinx was gone and he hadn't seen her or even talked to her as she was on a dangerous mission that he knew he should have never let her go on. But now he was stuck in a satellite base unable to get to the world below because the league had called all the superheros here due to the threat Raven had been telling them about.
Wally had actually shown up here before Raven. He was going out of his mind thinking about Jinx, missing the way she smelled, the way she tasted and he couldn't stay in Jump due to the fact that that city was practically her home city. So he went to spend some time with his uncle, that didn't last long as Barry went on a mission and shipped Wally off to the headquarters telling him to relax for a while until he came back. Evidently Raven portaled in setting off half of the alarms and all of the league members there, and she was hysterical. She was trying to tell them about Cadmus and what could possibly be in store but as people tried to pacify her building hysterics she started to lash out more. Eventually Wally had to run around her creating a vortex long enough that she passed out from not enough air in her systems. Thats when Robin showed up.
Why couldn't he tire out? He hadn't slept a wink in at least two days, and the first night Jinx was gone he got no sleep and the other two days in between he tossed and turned so much that it wasn't considered sleeping. He slowed down eventually as his feet lagged and he just fell to his knees. He leaned down his hands over his head as he shook.
He was terrified. He had never been this scared since he had run so fast the first time that he thought he had stopped time and it took his uncle to tell him of their special powers. The night before Jinx left she had told him about Cadmus, what she remembered at least. Everything she told him was horrific. They use to cut her to see how fast she regenerated. They use to give her different serums to see if she could take them or her body would get sick. They use to try to brainwash her with her arms and legs strapped down. She was scared but she wanted to know… She wanted to know if she could make cadmus suffer like she had.
He missed her so much. When had Wally West the young playboy of women become so caught up in a girl that was suppose to be forbidden to him. But wasn't the Forbidden fruit always the most sweetest of them all?
He shook as he regained his composure and he heard the door nearest to him open up with a slight creek. He could see bare feet as he looked up and purple eyes were staring down at him. "Are you alright?" She asked with a hand held out to him.
"I should be asking you the same." Wally said as he took her hand that was very cold. Her purple eyes were dark with the look of defeat as her purple hair fell in her face and she hugged the blanket that belonged to robin around her small form.
"I'm not the one having a breakdown outside my door." Raven counter acted.
"I'm not the one with the cutter marks all down my arms." He said eyeing her forearms that were slashed with a knife brutally but were healing over. "despite what all the others said i never took you for being emo."
She wrapped the blanket more around herself hiding her body like her cloak does. "I couldn't stop myself from doing it. Anger broke part of her chain trying to strangle sadness and it just went downhill from there. After i cleaned up all the blood i realized i was finally losing it."
"You mean you aren't losing it before?" He asked bewildered realizing he was going into the only form of defense he has, humor.
She looked at him scrunching up her nose and shaking her head at him. "Your almost as worse at Beastboy."
"I'll take that as a complement." He smiled before he felt a wave of dizziness and grabbed on to the nearest thing from toppling over, that just happened to be Raven.
She put her hands on his chest keeping him steady. "Woah, are you sure you're okay? You look worse than i do, and that's saying a lot since i'm basically drowning in my own emotions literally."
He shook his head,one hand rubbing the side of his pounding head the other steadying himself with Ravens shoulder. "Yeah, I just haven't got a whole lot of sleep since Jinx has been gone."
Raven sighed and Wally opened his eyes to find her smiling at him which was nice for once. "I get it now. You got so use to her sleeping next to you that now that she's not here you can't sleep. It's physiological, and it happens to many couples." Her voice had somehow changed a bit, not in sound but tone. As if someone else was talking for her, someone who was very smart.
"What do I do then? Because i have no energy but i can't sleep… It's a major problem." He looked into her purple eyes realizing that she had really nice eyes, they were a amethyst color and her eyelashes were very dark making them pop even more.
"Well you could try sleeping with something that smells like her, or some people even sleep with something living like a cat or dog just so that they feel a heart beat like there use to with there partner." she took him to sit down on the bed so he wouldn't topple over on her.
"All of her clothes and things are back at our house…" Wally groaned leaning over with his elbows on his knees.
"Real sentimental aren't you?" Raven said Sarcastically as she let her hands drop and sat next to him, she looked just as exhausted as he did.
"I could try the animal thing, oh yeah there's no animals on this ship." Wally bit back.
"Are you sure? Superdog could be…"
"Right like i'm going to sleep with Superdog. You might as well just marinate me and put steak on my forehead." Wally said as he rolled his eyes.
There was a cute laughter next him as he turned to see Raven blushing as she tried to hide it with the blanket. He was wary of her, had been since she had tricked him long ago but now he couldn't be when she was acting like this.
"You have a cute laugh." He said as he had his pounding head in between his hands.
"I wouldn't mind sleeping next to you…" He turned around with wide eyes and a mouth slightly open at what he had heard. Raven had changed so quickly that now she was truly blushing as she batted her eyes and looked up at him timidly. "If you want."
He didn't know what to say. Raven took the blanket from her shoulders and laid down near the wall making space for him. "I don't bite." She said looking up at him with her hair spread across the pillow. Her voice tone had changed again too and he could only guess this is what she meant when her emotions took over her mind and body. "Usually." She finished as she yanked him next to her where he fell perfectly beside her.
There was something about this that he didn't like but also something that he did that clouded his thoughts. But before anything could happen her seductive look on her face changed and she shook her head looking down at him again with something more calmer than what she was expressing. He watched as she settled down beside him, resting her head on his left arm, her hands against his chest.
"I'm sorry about what i did to you before." She said as he brought the blanket over both of them tense as all could be now that he had basically gotten himself into the the monsters layer. "I regret it all the time." She buried her face into his chest and he could feel how easily she fit into his arms. It was strange how much Raven and Jinx were alike.
"I forgive you." He said hopping that could ease the tension between both of them. "Lets try to get some sleep." He rolled around her and he could feel her heart beat. with every thump he felt his mind clear and eventually slip away where he wasn't a superhero, just a normal boy imagining he was sleeping with a pink haired girl that he loved. "I always have Jinx." He said right before he slipped off.
"I know Garfield…" She barely muttered finally finding a little peace that her emotions weren't tampering with. Her exhausted mind giving into dead sleep as she thought about another person sleeping next to her then the redhead runner.
It just had to rain today, She thought to herself as she walked down the wet sidewalk trying not to splash her feet in any of the puddles of mud. The sun was starting to come out as the rain had ended but it still made the air cold and chilly.
Maia walked on in shorts and a tanktop chilled a bit as she needed to get home and the sun was setting. Home, she thought with a smile. Home for her was a foster home with five other kids she shared a bathroom with. It was nice and everything she has ever wanted, even the annoying parts like her step sister stealing her clothes, or her brothers always hogging all the pizza when they ordered in.
She couldn't help her mind wander off as she saw a boy with green skin and a funky smile battle a dark skinned half man half robot guy for a slice of pizza. A boy with a mask on laughing at the two as the girl with orange skin and green eyes ate her slice of pizza dowsing it in mustard next to him. She even remembered seeing a girl with purple hair staring at the two boys fighting and rolling her eyes as she said something snarky looking directly at Maia.
No, not Maia, Terra.
Maia mentally chastised herself for thinking of those old memories. How was she to have a free happy life if her old memories kept coming back at her? She needed to forget. She needed to forget how she suddenly woke up in a lava cave after being asleep for so long and stumbled to the world above realizing time had gone by but not as much as she had thought. How she found herself a decent home and with it a new life to be a normal girl. Even when the boy with the funky smile found her again, telling her who she was she didn't give in knowing if she did her normal life would be taken from her.
No, she would never risk it again. Not after she had almost lost herself in more ways than none before she was frozen.
She kept walking feeling the warmth of the sun against her skin following the way back to her cramped little house with her huge adopted family. She smiled and began to hum to a tune she hadn't thought she remembered in till then.
There was loud footsteps in a puddle and a loose pebble falling to the ground which stopped her mid-hum and she looked around. She didn't see anything which she knew it had just been her mind playing tricks on her. Training from a man that had almost changed her completely in a old life.
She kept walking this time her ears in tune more to her surroundings. She felt the change in earth under feet and before she knew it she spun around, her hand outstretched as her necklace made of earth was reformed into spikes. No one was there.
"I'm just being over conscious." Maia said shaking her head as her blond hair fell in her face and she reformed the necklace back into jewelry around a chain on her neck.
She turned around but just as she did her heart stopped and her scream was caught in her throat.
A woman was standing a foot away from her and she hadn't even known until now. "Sweetheart, always follow your conscious." The woman with blond hair in pigtails said in a funny accent before a sadistic smile came across her face. "Otherwise you'll turn out like me." And then the woman raised her hand holding some canister and she pressed it sending nasty green gas right into Maias face.
Before she knew what was happening she felt her head lighten as the sky above flipped upside down on her and somebodies laugh could be heard. The fear enveloped her as she realized the laugh was coming from her and she was unable to stop as her limp body was being dragged away from her suburban life she loved so much.
"Pick up!" Beastboy shouted at his communicator pacing back and forth. He got so sick of nothing happening he threw it away hearing something it hit crash and break.
"Please Robin, please pick up the communicator." Starfire said as she sat on the couch, her speaking piece open and staring her down on the coffee table across from her.
Cyborg looked threw the videos from the cameras set around on the roof on the giant TV screen in the living room. "BOO YEAH!" Cyborg yelled making both the irritable BB and the defeated Star looking at him. On the TV screen he had a blurry frozen picture of the strange man and his dark plane on screen from hours and hours ago as Robin disappeared with him. "I know where they went."
"They?" Star said as her heart lifted only slightly.
"Robin and Raven." Cy said as he smiled at her and then at BB who despite his harsh look on his face told Cy that he had given him the best new of all day. "Their with Batman."
"WHAT?" Both the alien girl and the changeling said at the same time bewildered. Beastboy jumped over the couch landing next to Starfire as they sat there waiting for an explanation.
Cyborg started to type into the dashboard and the picture zoomed in to the side of the plane and part of the mans face. "huh…?" Cyborg said proudly with his arms crossed as if expecting them to understand.
"I do not get it." Starfire said looking at the picture with a raised eyebrow and back at Cyborg. "What is it of the picture that makes you so delighted and speaking of the Batman."
Cyborg sighed as he pointed at the picture and zoomed in even more to the mans face. Most of it was blurred out and too dark to see but there was a part the computer was able to clean up and it showed part of a mouth and a dark mask covering the mans face as horns or rather strange ears were placed on the mask. "Okay so if we put this part to-" Cyborg did some more tinkering and he brought up a picture of Batman looking at the camera from a side view as a pedestrian had gotten a surprise picture of the masked man. He did some more tinkering and then the picture of the man and there surveillance picture meshed together perfectly. "To this we get Batman."
Starfire gasped as her hand came to her mouth in surprise. Her heart and hope grew with the blurry picture in front of them. "Oh we must find the Batman and with him Robin!" Starfire joyously rose into the air not able to contain how happy she was.
"Batmans not that easy to find Star." Beastboy said with his head dipped low and his voice flat. His eyes looked up at the flying girl with defeat still in them. "He finds you, not the otherway around."
"Then how must we ever find Robin then." She said slowly settling down into the couch again worry coming over her again.
"Well Robin was Batmans old apprentice, I bet he has some way of contacting him if he really needed to." Cyborg said looking at Star. "All we need to do is look."
"Oh, Then let us hurry and find this object of contacting the Batman!" Starfire said as she jumped from the couch and sped away from the living area and to Robins room.
Cyborg started to follow her before he realized BB hadn't moved from his hunched over figure on the couch. "You coming?" He said looking at his best friend.
Beastboy barely heard him and he looked over to him with this sad defeated look on his face. "He gave me one thing to do and I wasn't able to do it." The boy whispered.
Cyborg walked to the back of the couch putting a hand on the boys shoulder. "Dude, Robin probably left because Batman told him where Raven was. Robin didn't even know that Raven was gone until we did. It's not your fault, besides Raven controls her own destiny and if she said she was leaving then she's leaving, there's no stopping her. Especially now with her emotions taking control like they are."
Beastboy looked up at Cyborg with this strange look. "You don't get it. It's more than the fact that Ravens missing." He stood up and he was beginning to be as tall as Cyborg with the years that they all have grown up in. His cheeks pinkened slightly over his green tone. "Raven had been locking herself in her room to stay away from us so she wouldn't feel the need to lash out at anyone but herself. She only let Robin in for the past five days since Jinx left. Last night she needed Robin and he wasn't able to come so I did and after i got her the tea leaves she needed she told me that if her next spell on her mirror didn't fix it then she might have to take more drastic moves. Don't you see?!" Beastboy tugged at his green hair with his wild eyes staring at Cyborg. "She basically told me she was leaving and i was too stupid to even realize it until now."
Cyborg rolled his eyes. "I think you're being a bit too dramatic. How could you get her leaving from what she had said?"
Beastboy blinked hard and then looked back at Cyborg. "Because she told me that if she even hurt any of us she would kill herself out of grief. You know Raven, when things get bad she tends to run away with her problem so she can deal with it herself. Just look at the way she tried to protect us from her deadly secret of the end of the world. She never told us, not in till Slade, the bad guy, told us!"
Cyborg sighed. "You're right, she does tend to do that. But it still doesn't mean that we should stop looking for her. I have this feeling, the deep part of me that still works from a beating heart that if we find Robin will find her with him." He smiled at Beastboy and got the boy who wasn't a boy to smile back.
Before Beastboy could say anything Starfire came bursting through the doors holding a communicator that looks like a batarang in her hands that she held up. "I found it!" Both of the boys went to her as she held it between all three of them. "I found it stashed under a photo that was hidden in the back of his closet. May we do the call of the batman now?" She said looking at the two with pleading eyes as if they were going to stop her in the first place.
Cyborg nodded looking over at Beastboy who looked up to Star with a hopeful smile and a nod. "Lets do it."
She pressed the button in the middle of the unfamiliar dark communicator and they waited as something flickered on the screen and a deep voice came from the man that appeared in front of them. "I was wondering when you would call."
Jinx kept her face blank, the muscles in her face relaxed and smooth so she wouldn't give out any unwanted information. She was in a game of thrones right now and she was determine to hold the crown at the end of the day.
"And why do you think that is?" Jinx said almost monotoned. She wondered how Raven could possibly ever be this calm almost all the time.
"You think your playing a game kid? Well this is one serious one you're playing in." Amanda shook her head still glaring with ice in her eyes. "We both know you're not here because you were simply captured by Cadmus agents. You might as well confess, I already know."
Amanda stood up and she slammed a huge file on the table making Jinx resist her natural instinct to jump in surprise. Any slight uncalculated movement could ruin this for her and she couldn't allow that. "Look threw it." Amanda ordered waiting for Jinx to open the huge file that was at least a good two inches thick.
Jinx gingerly stood up and with just the top part of the folder being flipped open she saw a mug shot of herself and her status, her supposed age, eye color, hair color, height, weight and all of that jazz. She understood what this file was as she looked up at Amanda trying desperately not to show the anger on her face. Her powers filling inside of her threatening to be let go if she let it.
"You have a very large reputation following you. One that could put you away for two of your life times if you're ever caught, like now." Amanda said coyly pouring herself a glass of water as Jinx tried desperately not to glare the woman down. "It's amazing how much damage you've done within five years."
"Two." Jinx said glaring down the woman unable to hold herself back from doing it. "I graduated two years ago."
"Oh that reminds me." Waller said taking a drink from her glass. "But will get to that later." She said waving down her thought with her swallow of water. "Why are you back? I know it's not for the food. What could possibly make a free super-villainous like you want to come back to her place of origins. Especially one as unpleasant as the one Donivan made for your childhood."
Jinx leaned forward her hands firmly on the desk. She looked Amanda dead on. "I may be young but trust me when i say there's nothing you could do to make me tell you why i'm here."
Amanda nodded down. "I respect your self strength. I can tell you're a leader, strong, smart and unwilling to give." Waller suddenly stood up leaning into Jinx who wouldn't give to the big woman in front of her. "But let me tell you now that if you play this game you might lose more then your life."
"That's okay, I don't have much that matters to me anymore. Besides i've been playing this game since you made me." Jinx put extra venom in her voice as she made her reference of the ungodly way she was created.
"If you won't tell me why you're here, then at least tell me what happens to you the next time you're out with your precious little boyfriend and the cops arrest you despite what your little superhero lover says about you?" Waller slammed several pictures down between both of them and Jinx's heart contracted as did her powers that leached out and Amandas glass full of water toppled over, with the curtains that ripped to shreds and the light that popped off from the lamp that was on in the corner. "We both know that if your caught the next time by the authorities you won't fight and you won't try to escape, or else face prosecution by the one you love."
Jinx shakily took the pictures in her hands as tears started to seep from the corners of her eyes, her cheeks burning with the back of her throat. This woman didn't just have her criminal file but she had pictures of her and Wally together in their City of Jasper. Them taking out a villain as the picture was made for the newspaper of Wally's new mistress of crime to join him as a team. Of her and Wally sitting at a park as she fed the birds that Wally caught for the fun of it. Even one as she whispered something in Wally's ear seductively, her eyelashes tickling the side of his face.
The pictures glowed in pink flame as she crushed them in her hands slowly with her rising anger. Jinx directed her attention to Amanda Waller as the pictures were eaten but the fire turning to ash in her hands.
"Before you do anything to me, let me remind you that you'll still be a criminal to any eyes that really know you, all except little super loverboy here." Amanda said glaring Jinx down with a horrible smile as if she won. "I can offer you something that can't be given by anyone but me. A clean slate."
She paused and Jinx took a look down at the last fragment of Wallys masked face as he burned up in the pink flames of her hands. Her heart ached as she felt that horrible homesickness that she had never felt for anything her entire life except when she was away from him, he was her home.
She knew how felt but she also knew how other Superheros felt about her. How the Titans refused to believe she was good as Wally vouged that she was, despite her taking out her old team mates for them. She could only imagine what the other Titans and really any superhero thought of her. All she knew is that even if she got that communicator she would always be looked at as if she would steal something from the dinner table or candy from a baby. She even knew that despite what Wally says his affiliation with her has given him a bad reputation as hers just for sticking by her.
She looked back up at Amanda Waller hating what she was going to do. "What do you have in mind."
Amanda smiled and you could almost see the devil smiling threw her. "I'm starting up a group made of Super villains that want the same thing as you, to have there slate cleaned."
"And what is said group suppose to do?"
"Missions. Ones that the government cannot issue to normal soldiers. ones that can only be carried out by meta-humans."
Jinx thought about the implications of her words knowing that Amanda wasn't telling her everything. "I want more then my criminal slate cleaned." Amanda had raised eyebrows erging her to go on. "I want you to tell me who i am, who i could have been if you didn't tamper with my fate."
"Done." Amanda said leaning back into her chair as her water still dripped from the desk and on to the floor next to her.
Jinx shook at the idea of how she was now becoming a double spy, that she needed to remember her original reason for being in cadmus right now. "I also want all information on the DNA you have taken from any Titan members." Jinx looked sideways at Amanda.
"You're pushing your luck kid." Amanda said still looking at her as if daring her to keep going.
Jinx laughed within herself at the pun. "I've never had it in the first place, It's more then luck."
"I'm sure with you it is." Amanda stood up and she extended her hand that Jinx warily took afraid that she was selling her soul to the devil. "Welcome to the Suicide Squad Jinx."
Her eyes opened to blinding light and a strange odor of birthday cake and gunpowder. Maia leaned forward and she felt the shakles on her wrists and ankles that rubbed and kept her to a examining table. She saw that she was not in her normal clothes either but a red black and purple skirt that hung low on her hips and was very poofed out with matching tights that went up to her knees. She wore a shirt that showed all of her mid-drift and was checker patterned like the skirt but with more lace on the sides. Her hair hair was up in two blond pigtails nicely curled and as she looked around she found the metal of a tray reflecting part of her from it. She turned to look at it and she got a glimpse of the heavy black lining her blue eyes, the bright flashes of red on her cheeks and the red stain on her lips that went along with the red and black checker pattern of her clothes.
"Is my sweetheart finally up?" A strange accent cut threw the silence around Maia. The woman who had kidnapped her she realized.
"What do you want with me?" Maia said straining against her restrains right before the table she was on was flipped so she was in a standing up position looking right at the blond woman. She was in a body suit that was checkered red and black for each limb, it hugged her figure well as her face was painted white and her eyes made into a black mask of makeup.
"Mista J! Oh Mista J our little girls up." The woman yelled in her strange accent.
"Really?" A jolly voice came as footsteps echoed. "Well it's about time, thought she was a dud for a moment there."
A man came from the dark behind the blond woman who was standing directly in front of Maia. His eyes were sharp with bloodshot, a grin was so overstretched on his face that it made him look as demented as he probably was. His chin so overpointed and his whole face painted white with stretched lips stained a blood red. His black hair was slicked back with a slight green tinge that probably came from his buttoned down undershirt. He wore a purple jacket and purple pants, gloves to go along with the green flower in his side pocket and the bow around his throat.
Something told her that she was in the hands of one of the most feared villains ever.
"Yeah well she pulled threw all right, huh mista J?" The woman with the blond hair said as 'mista J' came from behind her putting a arm around her waist both of them staring at Maia.
"Depends Harley, she better be fit to be a Joker or else she's no use to us." The man said.
"Aw stop joking around." Harley said pushing the man playfully with a laugh.
Maia shook against the cold metal table she was on. "Who are you?" She asked.
The man smiled evilly as he looked at Harley and she gave a knowing look to him before they both returned their sights to Maia. "Looks like she doesn't even know who her own family is Harls." He walked up close to Maia who shut her eyes closed biting her lip pushing herself against the table scared that he was going to hurt her.
Her heart beat so hard and all she could do is feel like the seconds passing like hours to her as she waited, expected for the pain to come. But it never did and she began to open her eyes to find both Harley and the Joker unstrapping her wrists and ankles. When they finished she fell to the ground away from the table.
"Hows my little Rag Doll." Harley said grabbing Maia into a huge hug, her arms wrapped around the sides of Maias face as she was pressed against the woman's chest.
"Please, What is going on?" Maia cried as Harley let her go.
"What isn't going on is more of the question." The joker said before his signature cackling reverberated off the walls around her. She was stuck in a fun house and she wasn't laughing.
