Jinx was glad that as yet she'd not been asked to change her outfit, her first encounter fighting crime would be bad enough without feeling out of her own skin, although having to follow orders from Robin was verging on being worse. She looked up at the tall building that was the museum, she felt the nearly irrepressible urge to climb the decorative stonework on the outside to the roof, the museum may never have been a challenging heist but it was always a fun climb up the outside.
"Star, Raven, you two stay back for Arial surveillance I'm not having more people escape out of here from us. Cyborg, Beast Boy, take the back entrance through the museum and wait for further orders. Kid Flash, try and get the most valuable objects in the museum out of harms way without being noticed. Jinx, you're coming with me to the roof, I'm not letting you out of my sight." Robin ordered, the other titans nodded wordlessly and spread out.
"Try not to kill him, please?" Kid Flash whispered in her ear as he zipped past, Jinx smiled gently at this, Robin would not goad her into doing something dumb.
"Can you climb or do you need a hand up?" Robin asked patronisingly, Jinx nodded curtly and the two began to climb.
Robin was a surprisingly fast climber, but a fairly sloppy one at that. Jinx watched him as she sprung up and latched her hands onto a giant stone flower, Robin reached for his hand hold on the face of a greek goddess and shimmied himself over so he could put his left foot on a stone satyr set into the wall. Jinx felt the pink energy under her skin prick up in warning.
"I wouldn't put your foot on that." Jinx said quickly from below him.
"Why? Going to make it fall off?" Robin hissed at her, his lack of faith in her plainly evident.
"No, but you will. I don't just make bad things happen I KNOW when they're going to happen, precognition if you will, and if you put your foot on that it'll go wrong." Jinx said exasperatedly as she climbed up to his level, Robin eyed her coldly and put his foot on it anyway. The stone satyr cracked and gave way sending Robin off balance, Jinx snatched his flailing hand to stop him falling and glowered.
"I told you!" She hissed irritated.
"You did that!" Robin snarled back.
"I did not!" Jinx snapped at him and the stone shattered loudly on the floor below.
"Hey, what was that?" A voice said from below.
"Oh, nice one bird brain." Jinx growled and threw Robin up the remaining half meter onto the roof and lept catlike up herself cutting short her semi-enjoyable climb. She shoved an indignant Robin out of sight and ducked down herself, flattening her hair to reduce her visibility.
"I don't see nothing." Another voice from below said and the sound of retreating footsteps made it clear that the pair had gone back to whatever it was that they were doing to enable the heist inside.
"Close. Now come on, I know a way in here." Jinx said looking around at the nearly bare roof.
"I know, the ventilation shaft." Robin said walking towards it.
"Or, we could use the loose ceiling panel that leads into the support beams for the chandelier that all the decent crooks use to get in here." Jinx said with a smirk, no matter how good the boy was he'd never have the know how that the other side did about breaking and entering. Robin narrowed his eyes at her but didn't move, taking this as acceptance Jinx counted along and across the tiles until she came to the one.
"It's this one." She said pointing down. Robin looked at her expectantly.
"I don't know what you're looking at me like that for, this tile is too heavy for me to lift by myself, I normally have people to do these things for me." Jinx said narrowing her eyes, for all her strengths as a fighter strength itself wasn't one of them.
"Look, if you don't want these guys to get away we're going to have to do this together, both of us are used to leading not taking orders so if we can both just work as a team then maybe we can get through this without screwing this up." Jinx sighed, dealing with Robin was really starting to grate on her, she bent down and began to lift the tile on her own after a moment Robin helped her and they wordlessly slipped down onto the metal beams of the ceiling below.
Jinx surveyed the scene below her, a fair number of the things that she would have stolen were already gone, a red and yellow blur zipped past one of the items that she'd eyed out and in a blink of an eye it was gone; she smiled, Kid Flash was good at what he did. Jinx eyed the two villains below, they were familiar faces but no one that she particularly knew, she'd seen them around some of the various dodgy bars of the city where things that people wanted but shouldn't have could be acquired at a price. Her eyes zipped across the familiar exhibits, they seemed to be going purely for the value of the items as opposed to collecting a set which could be sold as a group at a higher price, she shook her head; amateurs.
"Got a plan or are we just jumping them?" Jinx whispered eyeing Robin carefully. In response Robin wordlessly jumped down from the rafters.
"Stop thieves!" Robin shouted at the surprised villains, Jinx dropped next to him
"Yeah, because that always struck fear into my heart." Jinx muttered landing next to him, "Give it up and I might not have to hurt you." Jinx added to the slightly perplexed looking bad guys.
"Hey…" One of them said slowly, holding a very valuble looking vase, "Aren't you Jinx? Didn't you break Jimmy Knuckles' knuckles for information over the diamond heist?"
"Ah, yes, good times." Jinx said wistfully.
"So… why are you with the Titans?" The other one asked suspiciously.
"Change of heart." Jinx said flatly.
"Yeah, she's with us now." Kid Flash smirked appearing behind Jinx before zipping forward and taking the vase off of the first crook, "So I'll be taking this!" He grinned and vanished. The two crooks looked at each other before turning on their heels and running for the door.
"I love it when they run, RAVEN!" Robin shouted upwards, his voice echoed upwards through the hole in the ceiling through which they had clambered down up towards Raven. Raven spread her arms wide encasing the two crooks in a field of psychic energy.
"That was remarkably anti-climatic." Jinx said feeling disappointed.
"Allow me to enhance your evening then," A voice said from behind Jinx and Robin, the two spun around to see Red X heading for the door with what Jinx had deemed the most valuable object in the place, the same luck amulet that she'd tried stealing before and one that she was sure that Kid Flash had removed from the building before her and Robin interrupted the pair of crooks.
"Thanks those two for the distraction for me, and I'll be on my way." Red X grinned turning to the door.
"You think you can outrun us? We've got Kid Flash with us!" Robin shouted after him smugly.
"Not anymore we don't… he got that necklace from Kid Flash." Jinx said quietly, the black suited thief turned to them with what from his body language Jinx assumed was somewhere between surprise and approval.
"A sharp one. The boy certainly does breathe in knock out gas faster than your average hero, a downside of super speed I'd venture. I'd never have put you down for going hero Jinx." Red X commented looking her up and down. Out of the corner of her eye Jinx noticed Robin begin a lunge in Red X's direction, with lightning fast precision he was quickly stuck to the wall by a giant glue X.
"The lady and I were talking." Red X said firmly and turned his attention back to Jinx.
"What would you have put me down for then?" Jinx asked trying to sound only vaguely interested.
"Not staying with the HIVE five forever that's for sure, but I'd have guessed a position more of moral ambivalence like myself." Red X proposed, Jinx tilted her head in thought and the other titans watched on with baited breath, with Kid Flash not around would Jinx still choose the path that she had newly proclaimed for herself?
"Tempting but no. I'm an all or nothing girl." Jinx said folding her arms casually.
"Too bad." Red X said pulling a handful of small ball like gadgets out of his pocket.
"Ah-ah." Jinx smirked waving a finger at him, "You REALLY think those will work with me around?" She said snapping her fingers, the small ball like objects flashed pink for a moment but nothing more happened. Red X's eyes slid from the balls to Jinx and back again.
"You're bluffing." He said uncertainly.
"If you're so sure then go ahead, but you know how badly those could misfire on you. I suppose the question is, how lucky do you feel?" The bad luck queen smiled. Red X considered this for a moment before swinging his arm up
