Hey, kiddies! Guess what?! Valentines Day is coming up! The Day of Giving CHOCOLATES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's my favorite holiday! Well…along with Halloween, Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving, that is. Not necessarily in that order!
May love come to you on V-Day!
What happened last time: Just as the music ended completely, the wall in front of Jinx and Beast Boy went Kaboom! Four teenagers hopped into the room through the big hole-in-the-wall.
"Great" Jinx muttered, her music-induced-good-mood gone completely. "Now I'm seeing things too!" Beast Boy just cackled. He was just too far gone.
Now, let the madness ensue!
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Ĕs-căp-pĕ…It's Funny, It's Spelled Just Like the Word Escape
The four teenagers dusted themselves off as they looked around.
The one in the mask asked "Is this the right place?" Guess who?
His Tamaranian friend was about to respond when…
"I've completely lost it" Jinx muttered. The four teenagers glanced over at her. "BB, are you seeing what I'm seeing?"
"Tweet-tweet! Tweet-tweet!" came the reply.
"Obviously not."
Jinx watched the blonde with bland curiosity. Why was her mind conjuring these images? If any hallucinations should occur, shouldn't they be of somebody breaking her out of this stupid birdcage? So, since the images weren't breaking her out, they couldn't be images. But maybe that was what her mind wanted her to think. Maybe she was supposed to believe these were real people, when, in fact, they were really just figments of her lunatic imagination.
Jinx suddenly screamed, causing everyone else to jump in surprise. Great, she mentally growled. Now I've confused myself.
The Tamaranian girl approached the cage bars, two pairs of eyes fixated on her. She seemed edgy under the stares, maybe because both green and pink eyes were unblinking and bloodshot.
"I know you" Jinx muttered as she wrapped her fingers around two bars. "Who are you?"
"Name's Blackfire" the girl answered. (You were expecting Starfire, weren't you!? HAHA!)
"Starfire's sister" Jinx nodded.
"Tweet-tweet!" Beast Boy cried out again, pointing to Blackfire as she floated above the floor.
Jinx turned to Beast Boy and slapped him. "Wrong channel" she said before turning back to her guests.
The masked boy was looking over their cage with a well-practiced eye. "What're ya' in for?" he finally inquired.
Beast Boy sent him a very feral grin, while Jinx spoke. "We're here because our sanity has reached critical level, and we now pose a threat to all remaining civilizations." Her serious tone and face plus the changeling's crocodile-like smile caused the other teens to take a second look at them.
Beast Boy picked up where the witch had left off. Without words, the green teen added the flourishing touch the sentence needed. He began cackling insanely. Needless-to-say, the blonde girl and the other boy began backing away, real slow-like.
"Don't mind him" Jinx assured the others. "He's harmless." She glanced over the strange group outside her cage. "Who are you guys?"
Beast Boy answered. "Blackfire, Kitten, Fang and—"
"And Red X" Jinx finished, nodding to herself. "And knew I recognized you guys." She pointed to the blonde girl, then to the weirdo with the spider-head. "You're the Mothman's daughter and he's your boyfriend."
The sorceress cocked her head to the side. "I like that dress. Is it velvet?"
"Satin" Kitten responded, and the two girls launched into a fashion discussion.
Blackfire rolled her eyes before getting Red X's attention. They had to figure out where the hell they were, and try to correct whatever went wrong. After all, they were on a tight schedule if they wanted to destroy the Titans before breakfast tomorrow.
Fang climbed up the cage until he was on the very top, and he peered down at the green changeling, who was watching him. "You're that freaky changer, aren't you" he spoke, his tone gruff.
"The proper term would be changeling" said changeling corrected him with a sloppy grin. Fang stared down at him incredulously.
"Are you calling me stupid?!"
"Ain't that the truth?"
"You called me stupid! To my face!!"
"I did?" The shapeshifter scratched his scalp, trying to remember his exact words.
Meanwhile, the discussion between Jinx and Kitten had turned sour. They were now in the middle of a heated argument featuring which was softer: satin or silk.
"Silk is much softer!" the witch argued, banging her hand against the bars, making them rattle. "And it's more durable!"
"Satin is the softest thing on this planet!" the blonde protested.
Jinx stomped her foot. Right on the tray that held the color duo's food dishes. The dishes went flying. Dun, dun, dun, DUN!
They smacked into the standing changeling's back, sending him sprawling. Jinx looked behind her when she heard the cry. Then this happened.
Beast Boy pried his face off the floor, and raised his hand to push back his green bangs. His hand came away covered in a dark-pink goop.
"Me brain's leaking out!" the shapeshifter shrieked, wide-eyed.
The sudden shriek caused Fang to fall from his high perch. Kitten rushed quickly to his side. "Fangey-Poo!"
Jinx rolled her eyes and turned to the frantic Beast Boy. She sighed heavily.
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Ten minutes later…
It took Jinx a while to calm Beast Boy down, convince him that his brain was, indeed, intact. After she had achieved that, with a few little white lies, both caged teens turned their attentions back to their guests. Blackfire and Red X were whispering to each other, obviously plotting something. Kitten and Fang were all over each other, and that's as far as we'll go in that description. This is rated only T ya' know.
"What'cha doing?" the shapeshifter asked Blackfire and Red X as he leaned against his bars.
The two criminals glanced at each other and then back at Beast Boy. Now Jinx was staring at them as well, obviously expecting an answer.
"None of your business" Blackfire responded. The two scooted further away from the cage before they resumed their discussion.
"Great" Jinx said. "Now how're supposed to entertain ourselves?"
"We could always play a game" Beast Boy offered.
"A game?"
"A game."
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It turned out that Jinx had truly gone as loopy as Beast Boy. Let us proceed, and I shall explain this to you.
As Blackfire and Red X discussed different plots and Kitten and Fang snogged each other senseless, a shadow darted down the far wall. This shadow was followed by another darker shadow.
There was a loud metallic thud! and Blackfire and Red X were suddenly blasted back by a bright beam of electric blue. This beam was closely followed by a green beam that hit the entangled Kitten and Fang dead-on. In four seconds, four of the deadliest teenaged criminals had been taken down.
Not bad, Robin thought as he surveyed the room. He spotted a giant cage in the center of the large room (it's pretty hard to miss!), and quickly ran to it. What he saw inside that cage…what's the word…shocked him.
Robin, Raven, Starfire, and Cyborg gathered at the big, brass birdcage. They stared inside it. This is what they saw.
Beast Boy and Jinx were sitting cross-legged across from one another, only a couple inches apart. They seemed to be staring rather intently at their hands, which appeared to be holding some invisible thing. The Titans watched as Beast Boy reached down to a small spot directly between himself and Jinx. He drug to fingers over the air there and went back to his hands. A small, gleeful smile lit on his green face.
Jinx saw this and smirked. "You don't have a very good poker face" she told the changeling, and proceeded to pluck at the air above her thumb and forefinger. "Gimme your ace."
Okay, now the Titans were thoroughly confused. Beast Boy, on the other hand, understood perfectly. And didn't like it.
He leaped up and shook his hands violently one time. "You're cheating!" he screamed at Jinx.
"How can I cheat?" she protested.
"You're making up imaginary cards" the shapeshifter accused.
Jinx held out her hands in front of her, like she was holding a fan. "They're all imaginary!"
Cyborg chose to speak up, this weirdness had to stop. "You guys've been here way too long" he stated clearly.
Jinx slapped Beast Boy and then looked up. There were four new teens in the cage-room. If her eyes weren't deceiving her, they were Raven, Robin, Starfire, and Cyborg. She watched them as Beast Boy struggled back to his feet. Finally, she decided she didn't care if they were real or not. She needed out of there.
Jinx rushed to the bars of the cage, startling Starfire. "Get me out'ta here" she demanded, her eyes scarily wide.
Beast Boy's green eyes landed on Raven. "Tweet-tweet!" he exclaimed happily.
"Yep" Cyborg confirmed to himself. "Way too long."
Raven tried teleporting into the cage, but found that she couldn't. "Electrical field" Jinx said. "Ziz-ziz" Beast Boy said.
After a few minutes, Cyborg braced himself and then tore through the thin metal. He received a slight shock, but nothing major. Once Cyborg had gotten through the electrical field, Jinx immediately embraced him.
"You're my hero" she sobbed onto his metal chest and then looked up. "Where's your car?" She jumped through the hole the cybernetic boy had made. "C'mon BB! We are out'ta here!"
"Finally!" the changeling replied as he leaped out after her. Both then squeezed Robin.
"Hi, Robin!"
"You know what's funny? I actually missed you!"
Robin, unnerved by the going-ons, said "C'mon, let's get out of here." Jinx and Beast Boy were only too happy to comply.
They turned to go…and that's when they saw all the Slade-bots.
"Oh no" Jinx growled. "I want a nice long soak and nothing is going to stop me from getting that." Instant attitude. Don't even need to add water!
Jinx sent a flurry of pink hexes as she charged through the bots, dragging Beast Boy behind her. Three seconds later the color duo were racing through the building. Beast Boy, smelling fresh air, led the way to the T-car.
As they didn't know what would happen next, everyone simply piled into the car. The result: Robin, Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy were shoved into the car and Jinx and Cyborg were beside the front door.
"I'm driving" Cyborg turned to let Jinx into the car, but Jinx snatched the key right out of his hand, and shoved him over the driver's seat and right onto passenger seat. Then the witch hopped into the driver's seat, stuck the key in the ignition, and slammed down the acceleration. The seating arrangement? Starfire and Raven in the back with Robin squeezed between them. Jinx in the driver's seat, Cyborg in the front passenger's seat with Beast Boy on his lap.
Now, when Robin and Raven had found Slade's newest little hide-away they were surprised at it. Why? Because it was five hours outside Jump City. Needless-to-say, upon hearing this Jinx was not pleased.
Five hours, she thought. Five freakin' hours. I need a bath now
And Beast Boy wasn't helping things with his constant babbling, so Jinx slapped him and told him to shut up. He did.
It was a long drive home. The silence was nearly unbearable, but everyone bared it for fear what Jinx would do. Every now and then Jinx would take a sharp turn, muttering to herself "Shake it off, just shake it off."
But finally, just as the sun was peaking over the horizon, the teenagers made it back home. When they saw the tall Tower rising over the city, both Beast Boy and Jinx gave a huge sigh of relief. But they still had to cross the city to actually get to the Tower.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I bet you thought they were gonna get out at the beginning, didn't ya'! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! I knew that would get you guys! I knew it!
Oh, and the title for this chapter? You can thank the movie Finding Nemo for that one. Haven't seen it? Visit your local movie-rental-place today!!!!
Well, be sure to leave a review or a bag of chocolates. I'll take either this time of year.
JA
