A/N: Alternative universes are my thing rn and the lack of Flinx content I'm seeing these days is appalling so here you go.
Minor mentions of BBRae and Robstar
Like most things, it started out simple.
It was the faintest flicker of the lights that first attracted Jinx's attention away from the display case. The museum had long since closed, visiting hours resuming at a socially acceptable time in the morning.
"Whoa, Déjà vu much?" Mammoth said, tilting his head at the opal being displayed. "Didn't we already steal something like this before?"
Gizmo let out a fat snort as he examined a painting, using his goggles to zoom into it. "Oh yeah, that luck amulet." He dialled back the zoom feature before continuing "—and Jinx's crud munching boyfriend had to show up and we all know how that whole fiasco went."
In a flash, Jinx's eyes glowed and the painting in front of him blew up causing the boy to gawk. "Are you freaking crazy!? Do you know how much this would've been worth if we stole it!?"
Using calculated motions, in another flash of pink, the glass surrounding the gemstone shattered. Jinx's lips twitched upwards as she reached for the opal. "Not nearly as much as this."
See-more hummed, leaning over to peer at the gem. "You better be careful Jinx. I'm pretty sure this gem has a weird legend surrounding it." He grimaced, pulling away "And if it's anything like the last one, we're better off without it."
"Are you kidding?" Jinx scoffed, "This thing is worth millions. Do you have any idea how many people will be willing to buy this off of us from the black market?"
Billy numerous grinned, appearing with a statue from another exhibit in the museum "Ain't she a beaut'?"
"Put it back." The four collectively said, barely sparing him a glance causing the teenager to pout.
Gizmo rolled his eyes before opening up his laptop. "Whatever. We'd better wrap this up fast, security system's going to be back online in just under an hour."
Jinx and See-more grinned at each other "More than enough time."
"Hive five, rob em' blind!"
Kyd Wykkyd teleported in holding various valuables in his arms, appearing rather content with his findings while Mammoth happily pulled the framed paintings off of the walls, making them bare.
"Don't take more than you can carry." See-more said, eyeing the pair. "If the titans show up, we're screwed."
"As if." Gizmo scoffed. "My programme's perfect. Those losers are probably knocked out in their stupid tower that defies gravity."
"You're really salty about that tower, huh?" one of Billy's clones asked, as the original not far behind stubbornly clung onto the statue he had stolen earlier, arguing with another three versions of himself over who would get to keep it.
"There is no way that building is obeying the laws of physics!" Gizmo scoffed
Jinx rolls her eyes at the bickering, opting for moving to stand by the window. She rolled the gem between her fingers, feeling a slight awe as it shimmered.
"Hey See-more?" she asked, "What's exactly is the legend for this thing, exactly?"
The cyclops' perked up, pulling away from admiring the Greek sculptures and turned towards her. "Uhh, It's supposed to—"
There was a sudden blur that had everyone collectively freeze before the blaring sound of the alarm being tripped gave way. Red lights flashing that had Kyd Wykkyd grimacing and covering his ears.
"Are you fucking kidding me!?" Jinx's jaw dropped before she span around to face Gizmo, whose expression mirrored her own.
"I thought you said we had under an hour?!"
"That's because we did!" He sputtered, face indignant as he typed away at his laptop. "Someone else is in here! They must've pulled the alarm!"
"Who the hell—"
"Not so fast, Hive five!" Robin cut in, obnoxious as ever. A boomerang came landing onto Gizmo's laptop and causing it to spark before exploding in his face. The teen yelped, scrambling away only to have Mammoth pull him out of harm's way from the mini blast.
Jinx gawked, genuinely perplexed "How did you even know we were here—"
There was another blur, followed by a strong gust of wind. Only this time, the team could clearly see the yellow and red blur.
"They had a little help." Kid flash grinned, casually swinging an arm around boy wonder and waving towards the villains with his free hand.
All the versions of Billy numerous and Gizmo groaned in unison. "Not him again!"
"Jinx, control your boyfriend." Mammoth said bluntly, frowning and causing the sorceress to turn disgusted.
"Excuse me—" she sputtered, indignant "My what!?"
There was another blur of yellow and red before the speedster appeared before her grinning, "Aw Jinxy, you don't have to be shy!"
Eyes glowing pink, the wood that he was standing on suddenly split before breaking, causing Kid Flash to blink before zooming away to avoid falling through the floor.
That seemed to be some sort of cue because all she heard next was Robin's annoying voice belt out; "Teen titans, Go!"
She grimaced, flipping out of the way of star bolts being shot at her. "Oh you have got to be kidding me." She muttered after cartwheeling away and sending a wave of bad luck towards the tamaranean from behind before abruptly coming face to face with Raven.
"Do you even know, what that gem you stole does?" she asked as Jinx narrowly avoided being grabbed by with her dark magic.
"Other than make me rich, should I?" Jinx rolled her eyes, backflipping and sending a wave of hexes her way.
"What kind of sorceress are you?" Raven raised an eyebrow. Shaking her head and forming a shield to avoid the attack. "It's supposed to—"
Jinx didn't get to hear the rest of her explanation as Kyd Wykkyd opened a portal beneath the her, causing the hero to fall into it before reappearing at a greater distance. See-more immediately took advantage of her distortion to shoot laser beams at her.
Both of them nodded towards her and Jinx span around only to grimace as Kid Flash stood in front of her.
"Can you not just mind your own business?!" She snapped, eyes glowing as she threw hexes at him.
He pouted, easily dodging her attacks before throwing his hands over his heart in mock-hurt. "But Jinxy, you are my business!"
"Absolutely not—" the pair suddenly yelped as Cyborg, who was shooting at Gizmo with his cannon, got hit. The sonic waves that were shooting out narrowly avoided the two as Kid Flash pulled them both to the side before frowning at the other teen.
"My bad ya'll!" Cyborg called out, grimacing as he fought to get the bug attached to him off of his back. Gizmo cackled wildly from behind, using what looked to be a game console to control him.
Starfire gasped, flying over to assist him but ended up getting toppled by a rapidly multiplying Billy Numerous.
God, she really wanted to be anywhere else but here.
Realising that the speedster's hands were still on her, Jinx quickly shoved him away, before tripping on some debris from behind. The pairs eyes widened as Jinx began falling backwards, through the floor in slow-motion. Her grip on the gemstone in her hand tightened—and it vaguely occurred to her that the thing felt like it was burning.
"Jinx!" with wide eyes he reached towards her—and strangely, she found herself reaching back.
That was weird. He'd usually have caught her in a blink of an eye.
There was a bright flash of light that had everyone in the room shielding their eyes.
Stunned, Kid Flash stumbled, hand gripping air as he stared at the empty space that the sorceress was once standing, in confusion.
"Jinx?"
When Jinx first opens her eyes, she's half wondering If she's hallucinating.
She's grumbling and rubbing the side of her head from the hit the titans had managed to land on her before sending her through some nonsense portal. She half wonders if Kyd Wykkyd was the one to transport her here by mistake.
Jesus—she didn't even think he could teleport her this far.
He's only transported her into the middle of the city. There was a small bookshop around the corner here that she strictly avoided, heaven forbid she ever run into Raven in that place. There was also a nice designer outlet around which wasn't that far off from the museum they were robbing— but what's really grabbed her attention is the fact that it's no longer dark out.
Huh. Okay, great. Did she somehow time travel or…?
Pocketing the opal, she briefly ponders on if she actually did somehow time travelled to the day, but walking downtown just seems so blatantly normal. Actually— maybe too normal.
No one's giving her terrified glances, or crossing the road so that they're not on the same path.
Okay, weird.
Actually; it's even worse if you put into account that she's just been thrown through a portal, and no one around her is really batting an eye.
Seriously, what the fuck?
Pulling out her hive communicator, Jinx frowns at the no signal logo that was displayed on the screen. So much for getting picked up.
Frowning, the sorceress pockets the device before spotting a vending machine. It only takes a click of her fingers before pink sparks fly around it and she hums in satisfaction. Eyes briefly scan through the choices before entering the numbers provided for her selected soda.
She'd rather have a nice iced coffee but sacrifices had to be made she supposed.
The machine makes a strangled sort of noise before her canned drink gets dropped and she grins, bending over to retrieve it. Realistically, she probably needed to go down to the their bunker to figure out just what the hell happened.
She takes a sip of her soda. If Kyd Wykkyd flopped in sending her back, she could probably get Gizmo to figure out what happened.
Probably.
There's a loud bang followed by the sound of alarms going off for the second time in a row and Jinx just blinks, turning to the direction of jump city bank.
"Not my problem." She shrugs, continuing to sip on her canned soda and beginning to walk in the opposite direction. She'd seen a nice pair of heels being displayed on the store she'd passed earlier. It wouldn't hurt to pick them up on the way back—
But then sound of a dreadfully familiar voice calls out in the distance, "Hive five! Attack pattern Gamma!"
She spits out her soda and spins around so fast she almost gets whiplash.
"Excuse me?!"
Wiping her mouth with her sleeve, she has no doubt that was her voice who had called out the instructions from the distance.
Throwing her half empty can into the nearby trashcan, Jinx found herself running in the opposite direction of the mass of citizens, towards Jump City's bank.
Despite it all, Jinx takes advantage of the panicked crowd and swipes a few wallets. Once she makes it out to the other side, she'd count her cash but for now…
Shit, maybe she did time travel—
Kyd Wykkyd couldn't have done that and Kid Flash was the last person she'd been in contact with—and he sure as hell looked as shocked as she did when she fell through, which could only mean the fucking rock she'd stolen was the culprit.
Double shit.
Maybe she really did need to start thoroughly researching gem stones she was planning on stealing before actually stealing them—or actually start listening to See-more seeing as he seemed to always be right about these things.
She's following the direction where she's heard her own voice, opting to stay in the shadows. Frowning, Jinx's eyes glance around her surroundings. She knows jump city like the back of her hand, so it doesn't take her long to find the old staircase in the back alley, but it's weirdly on the left instead of the right?
Ignoring this strange phenomenon for now, she easily climbs up the steps as she'd done many times before. Once she's reached the roof, she almost wants to sit back and enjoy the view but flips onto the next.
This one isn't right. The terrace of the apartment building is far too high up, so she skids down further to a lower building. This one gives her perfect front row seats to view the bank—but it's somehow different than what she's remembered.
She's leaning onto the rail on what's supposed to be one of the branches for a successful company for technology. She'd swiped the wallet of the CEO once on a good day once, so the place brought back nice memories. On the opposite end of the street, she's faced with the bank, but even so she's still able to hear the sirens blaring while civilians sort of just run amok.
Jinx amuses herself with watching a teenager screech and sprint face first into a tree.
Yikes.
There's a loud bang that suddenly grabs her attention instead, and she finds herself bending down, lowering her stance, while still gazing down through the metal bars of the rail.
Both her eyebrows were raised when a giant green T-Rex was thrown out of the bank. The sheer size of him causing the front structure of the building to start collapsing in on itself. Jinx squinted through the dust and debris that seemed to go flying.
Strange. Usually the titans did everything in their power to avoid damaging public properly. It was one of the small blessings it had on the villains in these types of situations.
One of Kyd Wykkyd's portals opened up directly above Beast boy's head before a few of gizmos electric disks went flying towards him, efficiently stunning the shapeshifter enough to change him back into his humanoid form.
Jinx unintentionally tilted her head in confusion when Robin appeared. She heard a distant yell as he went to slam his staff down onto See-More who just grinned and fired his entrapment sphere at the leader. Boy Wonder did not seem pleased about the situation, banging his fists against the inside of the bubble.
Was Robin's uniform always that dark or was he going through a phase? Did he go through a wardrobe malfunction?
And his hair—didn't the guy usually look as though he went through three tubs of hair gel in order to get it into his usual hairdo? She couldn't remember a time where the boy wonder's hair didn't look like a porcupine.
Jinx squints, briefly wondering if she needed glasses as she took in the appearances of the Titans. Granted, she was a little high up, but the rest of the team's outfits didn't seem that different—just, weirdly darker? She blinked, as if something finally dawned to her.
They must all collectively be going through their emo phases.
Cyborg was a different case—his cybernetic side didn't have the blue and white colour scheme, instead opting for red and black. Jinx made a face, his old look was a lot better.
It then occurred to her that maybe this wasn't the past—fucking hell, it was probably the future. No wonder her team seemed to have miraculously been working a lot more concisely together.
Starfire appeared, her fist missing Kyd Wykkyd and instead disappearing into a wall, causing the entire thing to explode inwards. She glared, eyes glowing toxic green only to be slammed into from behind by Mammoth.
Jinx watched in visible approval as her team seemed to effortlessly be bringing the titans to their knees. The rest of both sides were probably still taking it out on each other inside the bank.
She hasn't seen herself or Raven yet, so she assumed the two were battling it out from within the bank.
She sort of wished she hadn't been so hasty in throwing away her drink. This was proving to be a pretty good show.
A sudden blur appeared, coming outside the bank and Jinx almost fell off the rail entirely as she watched it circle the area before a passed out Billy Numerous appeared dangling on a rope on the corner of the building.
The sight of the speedster made her jaw drop.
Robin's yell could be heard, and Jinx stared wide eyed as Kid Flash accidentally tripped over one of Gizmo's discs. Immediately, electrical fields whirled to life, trapping him within a blue cube as he screamed and banged on the walls within the containment field.
No way— there was no fucking way that was Kid Flash.
Jinx watched in morbid curiosity at the fury displayed on his features that she could make out even with her distance. Becoming increasingly aggravated, he began throwing blows towards the interior of the prison, swearing at Gizmo.
Dumbfounded, and rather uncomfortable at the display, Jinx decided that she was very glad she had in fact ditched the drink, because she would've undoubtedly choked on her soda and died on top of this terrace in shock, and that was simply not the way a villainess of her standards should go.
Suddenly, Jinx's mind starts whirling on overdrive, eyes locking in on the speedster attempting to vibrate his molecules through the blue transparent walls only to get shocked by the electrical waves. She felt her eyes linger on him for longer than necessary before moving on to assess the rest of the titans.
She stared in complete bafflement as Cyborg's cannon shot out towards See-more who quickly shot ducked out of the way. The attack hit another pillar of the museum instead and Robin wasn't losing his shit about more property damage?
Starfire let out a roar as she slammed poor Mammoth onto the concrete bellow, creating a crater at the weight. Suddenly, Kyd Wykkyd appeared out of a portal behind her, and before the tamaranean could react, he slammed power inhibitors onto her wrists as if she was a criminal. Immediately, Jinx felt her mind short circuit.
Oh fuck, fuck, fuck.
She wasn't in a different timeline. Jesus fucking Christ, the stupid rock had sent her tumbling into a different dimension where everything was mirrored and honestly, that thought was a lot more alarming than it had any right to be.
At once, panic seemed to seep into her veins as she began pulling the rock out of her pocket, as if willing the stupid thing to take her back home.
"Come on, come on-!" she hissed, unknowingly pink sparks danced around her in similar aggravation, growing in size and power at her increased distress.
Suddenly, the hairs on the neck stood and instinct from the Hive forced Jinx to raise her head in alarm—only for her breath to get caught in her throat at the sight of the speeder staring directly at her from within down on the ground, still inside the containment field.
He'd seemingly stopped attempting to get out of his makeshift cell, and narrowed his eyes at her once they'd connected.
Jinx swore and ducked her head, embarrassment flooding through her veins as she scampered off the roof and slid down the stupid staircase.
"Of fucking course." She grumbled to herself, cogs whirling in her head. Maybe he'd just mistake her for her alternate self and—
"Hive five! Commence attack pattern formation Delta six!" a voice called out from within the bank.
Jinx took a moment to stare at the sky in sheer disbelief at her own luck "Are you fucking kidding me?!"
Landing safely onto the ground and keeping to the shadows, because hell to the no did she want to get involved in that hullabaloo, Jinx grimaced.
She had no idea on how to activate the gem on sending her back and she was running out of options.
Raven was clearly more versed in sorcery than she was, and was the better choice to go to—but Jinx wouldn't go to her for help on her own stupid dimension, and god knows what the one in this world was like.
The sound of police sirens instinctively snapped the sorceress out of her turmoil and Jinx swore.
Shit, she was running out of time.
Maybe she could break into titans tower and steal Raven's spell books? Then again, if the titans were villains then she really didn't want to test her luck on Trigon's daughter.
"Who the hell are you?"
The voice came out of literally nowhere and Jinx genuinely flinched in absolute surprise before spinning around, eyes lighting up a dangerous pink and glaring—
—At herself?
Oh boy.