Reviews:
Angelic Toaster: A shooting at a Batman premire? Not. Freakin. Surprised. To say the least... Well, that was some fun story time! I always have wondered how the honoraries would react to that story.
Neither was I to be honest. Still. And glad you liked. I always had too xD
Concolor44: Nice little gather-and-chat piece. And I can see how the other Titans wouldn't know about the origins of the first group.
Yeah, that massacre. 'cause that's what it was. Twelve dead, thirty-eight wounded, many of them critically. And then the shooter just stood around in the parking lot and waited for the cops to come arrest him. Not wrapped too tight, that one. I'll be curious to find out how he got his hands on the guns he used. Also, a lot of talkingheads have been making connections where none exist, linking this lunatic to the movie (he was dressed not too unlike the Bane character) or terrorists or Warner Brothers' rivals or even, believe it or not, the Tea Party. Conspiracy theorists don't take any days off, it would seem. (Cut review due to length)
Glad you liked. I'll be curious too. Yeah, heard he was in a gas mask or something. Someone else tried to tell me he was dressed up as the Joker (whatever) Things like that which really make you wonder what has happened to the world.
TehMaskedWarrior: The mask was goofy, trust me, I know masks.
Goofy mask was VEY goofy xD
I'm a Lover not a Hater: "You never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory." - Spongebob Squarepants
Even spongebob has his moments, huh? :P
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A/N: Sorry this is late. Went to see Batman last minute, so yeah. I'm NOT going to spoil it for you, I just want to say… if you haven't seen it already, WHY NOT? GET GOING PEOPLE! Oh, and if you're an uber fangirl like me, don't wear makeup and take lots of tissues. I started crying like 30 mins into the film (like, full on snotty nose kinda crying). Some lines hit you right in the fandom. (my parents and sister also now think I'm more of a freak than they previously thought). Anyways, hope you enjoy this little piece. If you have seen it, please PM me? I need someone to fan with (like go over the comic links and stuff xD)
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A Challenge
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Raven and Jinx
The empath watched her teammates all split off against the Hive. Nightwing and Starfire moved to tackle Gizmo, while Cyborg and Beast Boy went after Mammoth. Leaving Raven to deal with their leader, Jinx. The two girls looked at each other before the meta human flashed Raven a crooked smile. This was exactly the situation they'd both been dreading.
Jinx moved first, springing forward and aiming several hex bolts towards the empath. She didn't need to move much to avoid the attack, Jinx having purposely aimed wide. Nightwing was bound to notice.
Raven picked up one of the desks sat down the Bank's lobby and threw it towards Jinx, watching as she flipped backwards again and again, only just avoiding the desk. Better, but still not good. The leader of the Titans knew Raven's control had increased over the years – had seen her use this new control to instantly turn fights in her favour. Hence why she'd been left to face the hex caster on her own.
She really didn't want to do this.
The desk hit the floor, flipped several times, drawers falling out of place, before it rose into the air again. Raven's eyes narrowed and the desk tilted, the top of the desk facing the wall and Jinx. She slowed the speed slightly. Just enough so it wouldn't splinter upon impact, before it rammed into the meta human, sandwiching her against the wall.
The hit took the girl by surprise, and as she desk fell to the floor, she dropped forward, winded, using the edge of the desk to prop herself up as she watched Raven with wide eyes as the titan quickly flew towards her. She used her cloak to her advantage, putting her back to her teammates as she gently rested her hand against Jinx's stomach, the blue healing light enveloping her hand as she healed some of the worst bruises before they had fully formed.
"That wasn't nice." Jinx muttered.
"I know. I'm sorry." She reached for the handcuffs she kept on the back of her belt after Nightwing had insisted they all carry them, pulling both of Jinx's hands together before cuffing them.
"You really are serious about keeping your friends in the dark, aren't you?"
"We've already talked about this, and now isn't the best time to go through it again."
The villain looked down at her cuffed hands, before looking back up at the empath. "Fine. I'm game."
"What?" The empath frowned.
Jinx just smiled in response, her eyes flashing pink before the cuffs dropped off her wrists. Another flash of pink, and Raven was frown backwards. She hit the floor on her back, sliding across the marble until a pillar stopped her. Jinx skipped over and bent down next to the empath. "You want to keep your friends in the dark, then let's keep them in the dark. Unless of course you've gone too soft to really keep treating me like just another bad guy." She started to swing her foot round, aiming to kick Raven in the stomach, but something pulled her leg out from underneath her.
Jinx dropped to the floor, too startled to break her fall. Her brain stuck on the fact that she hadn't even seen Raven move. Not even twitch. She watched the titan get back on her feet and quickly followed suit, ducking when Raven moved to punch her.
"Since when did your powers stop coming with a warning?" She gasped, stumbling backwards as one hand moved to hold the tender flesh of her stomach.
"A few months ago, maybe?"
Jinx saw Raven's head twitch slightly to the right, no more than a few millimetres, and she threw herself backwards, watching as an office chair flew by in the space in front of her. "Okay, so maybe not completely sign free." Jinx noted with a smile, scrambling backwards to try and put some space between the two of them. "Of course, you always were easy to read."
"You're one of the select few who think that." She shrugged.
Jinx slammed both hands into the floor in front of her, the pink hex cracking up the marble floor as it made it's way towards the empath. She didn't wait to see Raven take to the air, but rolled several times to her left.
"Keeping to the obvious attacks, I see." Raven muttered as she watched the energy travel underneath her, before looking at Jinx, noticing her Cheshire cat smile with slight unease.
"Not exactly."
The hex continued until it hit one of the supporting pillars. Raven heard the tiles crack and looked around, eyes widening slightly as she watched the pillar come loose from the ceiling, bits of plaster falling off the ceiling, before the support topped towards her. Raven's eyes flashed white as she disappeared into a portal, the pillar hitting the floor but nothing else.
Jinx looked around as she waited for Raven to re-appear.
"Well, if we're going to play it like that."
She didn't have time to find Raven before one of the smaller safe boxes in the wall behind the main desks pulled itself from the wall before flying across the room on a crash course with the meta human.
She let out a tiny scream and threw her hands up, several large hexes hitting the ceiling and bringing part of it down just in time to block the metal box. She scrambled to her feet and spun round, glaring angrily at the empath.
"You did not just do that."
She watched Raven's lips tug up into a small smile, returning one of her own when she clicked on. Raven could bring the entire building down, but the thief still wouldn't be in any real danger, other than perhaps a few bad bruises. Nothing she couldn't handle.
"That much control, huh?"
"I thought you knew. But then, it has been a while since our last fight."
"Our last 'I'm-gonna-punch-you-in-the-face-fight', sure." Jinx laughed quietly after quickly checking none of the titans were in ear shot. "You know, if you win this, don't expect to hear from me for at least a week."
"You're not going to win this." Raven replied, before throwing the meta human backwards with a slight twitch of her wrist.
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A/N: At first I was gonna have this as… less of a game between the two girls. But then I thought… That isn't Jinx's style, and I doubt Raven could ever hurt someone she likes intentionally anyway, not without good reason. So I fixed it up a bit. I still think it fits under the title A Challenge. After all, it IS a challenge to make sure Nightwing doesn't notice you're pulling up short in a fight.