Ambush


"Great! That's just really, really great!" Jinx said bitter.

"What's wrong?" the hero next to her asked. He sounded cheerful. Like always. She glanced at him.

"What's wrong? You seriously ask me what's wrong?" she took a deep breath "I tell you what's wrong! The Brotherhood of Evil hacked into our network, is right now trying to kill every single one of us and Robin, being the smart leader that he is, destroyed our only way to communicate with the others. Oh and we're surrounded by giant robots. That's wrong!"

"Oh come one! It could be worse" he responded. She looked at him incredulous.

Then she yelled furious "HOW could it be possibly be WORSE?"

"Let us worry about that later, okay? We've got some cleaning up to do" the hero answered.

"You say that so easily" she replied. Then she dodged the attacks of two robots and a second later a pink shockwave caused them to explode. Those robots weren't extraordinary strong or fast. Not more of a threat than a training robot from H.I.V.E Academy, but there were so many of them. A small army.

"Although…Since the Brotherhood thought that he is alone we should be able to deal with them" she thought, while she trashed the next robots "But Robin's last message sounded so desperate!" While turning a wheel she sent another shockwave towards a couple of robots. For a moment they stood still then their software overloaded and they exploded.

Jinx spun around and destroyed the robot behind her. "Don't worry! You can do this! You are not alone after all and when this is over the Brotherhood is so going to pay for this!"



Jinx was breathing a bit faster than usual and her heartbeat had also sped up, but she was still far away from her limit. It needed a bit more than some robots to take her down. The number of robots had dropped dramatically. Even faster than she had expected. Maybe because Kid Flash and she were quite an efficient team, but the quality of the robots had obviously got something to do with that. It was quite clear now that those robots had been supposed to tire him out so that his powers wouldn't work anymore. But with Jinx here this wouldn't work. And she was actually quite proud about this fact.

Still she was worried that till now not a single normal villain had shown up. Sending just robots was something the Brain would have never done and someone had to control these robots after all. So the girl stayed careful, even though only ten of the robots were still standing.

Jinx was about to send a shockwave to the robot standing next to her, when she heard a voice behind her "This is an unexpected development." Her eyes widened when Jinx realised that she knew this voice. But before she turned around she destroyed the robot on her right side. Then Jinx slowly turned around and looked into the face of the elderly woman. She didn't look very happy. Not very happy at all. The woman knew that her plan or rather her mission had failed. She had failed the Brotherhood and she was well aware of that.

Jinx heard how her "partner" took care of the remaining robots. She kept looking at the woman. Her surprised look turned into a faint smile. "How ironic that out of all villains you show up here" she said and shook her head slightly. "I don't understand what you are doing here, Jinx" the woman answered. Before the girl could answer Kid Flash appeared next to her. He didn't look as nearly as worn out how he had been after the fight with Madame Rouge.

"Is that the villainess they send after us?" he asked. "Us?" the woman asked unbelieving. "Yeah, she's the one" Jinx answered. Then she crossed my arms in front of my chest and said "May I introduce you to the former headmistress of the H.I.V.E. Academy?"

Jinx gave her former headmistress a cold glance. The woman looked at her unbelieving.

"So that's the one who trained all of your friends?" Kid Flash asked. He seemed a bit surprised that a woman like that should be responsible for all those villains.

"Hardly" the girl answered smiling "She got kicked out by Brother Blood before she could accomplish anything like that. Can't believe that the Brotherhood recruited her." She sighed and said "But that's enough talk for now. We've got work to do. I'll knock her unconscious and then we…"

The pink haired girl made a step forward, but suddenly the woman said "So another one of our top-students has joined the Titans? Or is there another explanation for your treason, Jinx?" She tilted her head and answered "First of all the other top-students were spies for the Titans, so they were Titans all along and secondly, yes I've joined them."

"You were a top-student?" the hero next to her asked surprised. The girl jerked her shoulders. "Yeah, but it's nothing to be proud of. H.I.V.E. Academy has…had pretty low standards. I mean even Mammoth was a top-student."

"So all those years of training were wasted on you" the headmistress replied angry. Jinx looked at her for a second and then smiled. "I wouldn't say wasted, just…invested in the wrong kind of girl. And if you want to blame somebody blame him" she pointed at Kid Flash "He convinced me."

The headmistress saw how to the teenagers exchanged a look. A look that showed her that those two trusted each other. It was obvious that they had been a team for quite a while. "And now…" Jinx said and raised her right hand. "You will regret this!" the woman hissed. "Hmm…" the pink haired girl acted like she was thinking about this sentence. Then she replied with a smile "No, I won't." And suddenly everything went black for the headmistress.



"So…" Jinx crossed her arms in front of her chest "What are we gonna do now?" They were in the park outside the city. They had left the headmistress where she was. She would probably wake up in one or two hours.

"The only thing we can do now is taking the fight to them" the hero answered. He leaned against a tree and looked unusually serious.

"To them? You mean we should go to the Brotherhood's base?" the girl asked.

"Yes" he ran his fingers through his red hair "We can't be the only ones who escaped and they would do exactly the same thing. It's the only way to take the Brotherhood down."

She looked at him worried. "That's quite a risky plan." Jinx sighed. "But you are right. It's the only way." The former villainess took a deep breath.

"The thing is I don't kno…" he started, but she cut him off.

"It's in Paris."

"How do you know?" the hero asked surprised.

"Let's just say I was invited there for a small…briefing" Jinx answered. She stretched her arms. "We should get going. We haven't got all day."

"Let's go saving the world."