Chapter ten
The museum
The night was clear. A starlit night that, as many people have said, looked like diamonds in the evening sky. It was the first day of the full moon. From what Jinx observed there were three days of having a full moon each month. During the silent travel to the museum Jinx and her pals moved from shadow to shadow. Their goal was close at hand. Jinx was the first to climb up the ladder considering the fact that she was fast while on her feet and pretty light. She crawled to the window. Seeing that there were no guards there she smiled. Those fools were depending on technology to defend their precious artifacts. But she knew that what she wanted was one floor below where the gang was heading.
"All clear," whispered Jinx.
It took forever for the rest of the team to climb up. Several times Jinx had to give them the look that said she'd kill them if they spoke, which was mostly at Billy Numerous. Gizmo moved to the glass. Before he could say that it was impossible to enter with the security going off, Jinx as always jinxed the system. She opened the window with her powers. Jinx felt a light memory of so many months of work to perfect that action. When the others left she closed the window knowing that some nosey person might get suspicious about an open window.
But to the boys' disappointment they weren't at the part of the area they wanted to be in.
"Follow me," said Jinx leading the way.
None of the boys dared to say anything. They reached a point where Jinx thought the front part of the museum was at. She gestured for See-more to come.
"Anything with a mummy tomb or a snake cane?" asked Jinx.
"We're standing right near the opening. But there are lasers."
"That's no problem," replied Jinx.
She did the same thing as she did the glass. She jinxed the wood. Careful not to have any part of it go below them. Before any of the boys could say anything. Jinx placed a finger on her lips. Jinx listened. From what she could tell there were no guards there. She then lifted the wood board carefully.
Jinx checked to see that the coast was clear and moved aside for Gizmo to lower himself. He started working on the desk that would open the museum. Jinx knew she was shaking with excitement. Thankfully she managed to keep cool.
"Well Gizmo?" said Jinx softly.
Gizmo flipped over, "Easy. Security system stinks."
He quickly typed the "secret" code. He smiled at his achievement while the computer said "Access Approved."
"Check it out," said Gizmo gesturing for the others to come in.
Jinx leaped last as the others cleared away for her. Smiling, just as she always did, whenever things were going smoothly.
"Gold, jewels, priceless artifacts. Way better than the mall. Hive Five rob them blind."
All the boys looked eagerly at everything that caught their attention. Jinx couldn't help but compare them to puppies. Each of the boys were claiming their prizes. Jinx looked over at Billy Numerous who was talking to several sets of himself saying to grab some of the Egyptian jars. Jinx couldn't help but feel like using her cold sense of humor.
"You know what they put in those things," said Jinx feeling her wicked smile spreading. "Mummy guts."
The four sets of Billy Numerous looked into one jar and shivered. Just the reaction she wanted. That Billy didn't figure out who had pulled so many tricks on him. Then again he was a nitwit. She looked over to where the necklace was.
"This is what I came for."
Hand flowing over the protective case. Lightly taking the scarlet jewel. Jinx couldn't help but feel pleased.
"Wait isn't that necklace suppose to bring good luck? And if you're all about the bad luck?" Said See-more with a question mark in his green eye.
Jinx started to feel annoyed.
"It's just a dumb legend," said Jinx lightly pushing him aside.
When everyone got their prizes. Jinx started moving towards where the guys entered.
"Don't you think we should use the door," said Mammoth.
Jinx looked behind her lifting her right eyebrow.
"Yeah, the alarm hasn't set off," said Gizmo.
"It would be better to go back the way we came," said Jinx coolly.
"But then these will be damaged," said Billy Numerous, indicating their prizes.
"Kid Wicked can place them above us," said Jinx pointing at the ceiling.
"Aw, come on it's not like someone is gonna catch us or nothing," said Gizmo.
Jinx rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Alright, but I still think someone should at least place the board back where it was," said Jinx.
Seeing that Kid Wicked took care of that problem. Jinx feeling as though they should get out quickly, opened the doors. Jinx breathed deeply. It felt good to get out of the stuffy museum. It seemed as though the team was finally going to keep their prizes.
Jinx heard some buzzing noise. A blur of red and yellow went past them.
"Whoa! Did you see that?" said See-more
Second time the blur person came back. See-more and Billy Numerous lost their prizes. Jinx felt surprised. The blur came a third time. It or whatever it was messed with Gizmo and Mammoth. Jinx tried to look for it to see where it came from. The blur thing came towards her. Before she could move. The blur went right past her. It managed to carry some heavy wind with it. Jinx opened her eyes. 'Crap.'
She wasn't carrying the necklace. But she was still holding something. Lifting it up she saw a rose. 'A rose? Where did it come from?' Before Jinx could figure out where it came from the alarm was going off. Breaking herself from the trance she shouted for the others to run. Most girls weren't able to run faster than guys, but Jinx ran for all she was worth.
The team barely made it to their hide out. Jinx heard police sirens passing by their hideout. She sighed.
"They're gone," said Jinx.
The others sighed. Before any of them spoke Jinx glared at each of them. She looked at Kid Wicked.
"Can you move this whole place somewhere else?" she asked. "The police are going to look at each building one by one."
Kid Wicked nodded. He then vanished. Then within a blink of an eye came back. He pointed outside. Jinx came out first. Seeing that they were on an island. Jinx turned.
"Very impressive Kid Wicked," said Jinx.
Kid Wicked only shrugged. Looking around Jinx knew that everything could work. Four Billy Numerous went and started playing video games. Mammoth went to the fridge to see what was to be eaten. Usually Jinx would've gotten onto him about making a mess after she organized the food. Gizmo and Jinx were trying to figure out who the speedy person was.
Gizmo while typing stated that he thought it was the Teen Titans.
"It can't be. They're still fighting the Brotherhood of Evil. And Titans East were called back to Steel City," said Jinx still trying to picture the speedy hero that the camera caught of him.
As far as Jinx could tell the speedster was a guy. But the face was barely discernible. She looked at the rose. She knew it came from somewhere. It came from him, possibly. But why would anyone give her a rose?
"I wanna know who did this. I wanna find them. And make them pay," said Jinx making the rose wilt.
Her cold fingers were lightly crushing the rose. Sending bad luck into it. Like other flowers it wasn't tough enough. 'Nothing but a fair weathered flower.'
"Somebody has a boyfriend," taunted Gizmo. "Somebody has…wahhh."
It was one thing to tell Jinx she wasn't the boss of them. It was another for someone to say she had a boyfriend. She made the chair that Gizmo was swinging in cripple under his weight.
"So we got busted. So what's the big deal? We get busted all the time," said Mammoth, obviously finished with eating, for the moment.
"We didn't just get busted," replied Jinx. "Whoever did this was messing with us."
She looked at them. Jinx's patience was running thin. They didn't get it. Even a little kid would get it. But did Mammoth or Gizmo? Nada.
"How do you expect the Brotherhood of Evil to take us seriously if this keeps happening!" shouts Jinx.
She made up her mind. No matter what she would, one way or the other, meet with Madame Rouge and fight her. The Hive Five was holding her back. It took all her strength to keep herself from jumping on one of the boys and fighting these weaklings.
"Humph. Brotherhood of Evil," said Billy number one.
"All they those old guys talk about is taking over the world," said Billy number two.
Billy number three laughing, "Brain in a jar."
Billy number four, "Talking gorillas."
The only reason he knew animal names was because Jinx spent a whole week reading about animals. It was a year ago. Jinx was still irked about getting defeated by someone who could shape-shift into animals. After being bailed out of jail, Jinx spent the rest of the year studying animals, martial arts, planets, and read books of horror and sci-fi. Why? To feel as though she would get back at the Titans someday.
"Boooring," said Billy number two.
"I don't even know why they care about us," said Billy number one.
"Maybe the Brain sees some potential."
None of them got it. About being special. That perhaps they could do more than rob banks, and other "small" villainous things like that.
"I don't know why I hang around you nitwits," said Jinx feeling more and more annoyed.
Of course the alarm went off. Jinx feeling enraged about being ignored went to her room while Gizmo listed what was to be stolen. Jinx heard him. A guarded car with gold. Three jewelry stores and a taco stand. Didn't they get it? With a speedy hero out there, there was just no way they could easily rob from anywhere.
She went back upstairs when the others left. She typed the museum name. Went to the cameras. There was something about the fast moving guy that was familiar. At normal speed it looked as though within a blink of an eye everything was returned. She made the camera move slower. Her eagle eyes spotted that the person had ginger hair. Moving her finger to her chin she sat and thought for a while. How many people did she know who had red hair? She turned off the computer. Whoever it was must be in her records somewhere.
She went to her room. Moved the picture that hid her paper of how she would fight Madame Rouge. She used that place to put records Jinx thought would be important later on. Lifting a clear plastic box with folders in it. She opened it looking through the folders from picture to picture. She then found a plastic bag. It had ginger hair. Jinx took out the folder.
"But this was three years ago," said Jinx looking at the article.
There was a picture of a boy with a disfigured mask on. There wasn't a smile on his face when he was next to the famous Flash.
Jinx took out her paper. Thankfully she wrote what happened. She then read the paper she wrote three years ago.
"Gizmo, Mammoth and I were close to getting caught at the Steven's Museum. Some speedy superhero, more like a sidekick, tried to stop us. I had Gizmo and Mammoth get out while I distracted the speedy guy. He has ginger hair as far as I could tell. His uniform looks like it was something he quickly put on in a hurry. No, I should say that he quickly got his mask which was really pathetic."
"It was thanks to that ginger-haired loser that I was able to find out how Jerald Steven got all his loot out without being caught in the act."
That was the end of the paper.
"So that ginger haired one's back?" said Jinx smiling.
"I don't usually hit girls," said the boy in the mask.
"Yep, that's him alright. Hmm. Perhaps I could catch him and tell…nah, just catch him and perhaps he'll be enough to get Madame Rouge to come."
Jinx took a nap knowing that she would need all her wits to be able to make her ideas come to life.
Later on she woke up. Finding that she still had the place to herself she went on the computer again. With the cameras still on she found that there was a record of the ginger haired speed hero standing still talking to the police.
"Yup, same loser," said Jinx, turning the computer off.
She went back downstairs. Jinx wasn't in the mood to listen to how the other Hive Five members were defeated, not yet anyways. Hopefully, things would turn out better. Jinx closed her eyes. Sleep claimed her.