A/N: Welcome to chapter 2! Thanks so much for all the reviews and to the silent readers out there!

Enjoy!

If Jinx were being completely honest with herself, she was actually disappointed by how many times she'd been caught off guard today.

Seriously though, listing all her failures in order there was the titans crashing their robbery, her not doing her research on a magical rock and fucking falling through a portal, this weird version of Kid Flash catching her mid tantrum when she was up on the rooftop, and now she was stuck facing her worst nightmare.

"Dear God, I'm disgusting" Jinx muttered, staring at the hero version of herself in distain.

Her alternate frowned, taking a defensive stance. Her hero outfit was a lot more…brighter than she'd hoped.

"Excuse me?!" her double gawked.

Seriously, why was she wearing white? It made their skin look ashy as hell.

Jinx just sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose, there wasn't really any point fighting bad luck with bad luck. They'd just cancel each other out. "Alright listen, this is going to sound really fucking stupid, but I think I'm from a parallel dime—"

She was immediately cut off by two large hexes being sent her way. Swearing loudly, Jinx flipped backwards, barely managing to dodge in time before sending a scathing glare her way.

"What the hell was that!? I thought you were supposed to be the good version of me!"

Hero Jinx just rolled her eyes, unimpressed. "Fat chance! How do I know you're not a clone?"

Was—was she really this unreasonable? Even the hero version of her?

"Why the hell would I be a clone?!"

Her double shrugged, but her eyes narrowed as she took herself in. Finally, her hero-self put her hand on her hip. "What's with the goth look?"

Jinx would've laughed at how ridiculous the entire thing was if she didn't catch the glowing object in her alternate's hand. Her expression dropped. "Wait, no give that back!"

Horrified, she lunched for the gem but her hero self just snorted, somehow unaware of the growing light in her hand, she cartwheeled away with the same level of grace as she could, and Jinx could feel her panic grow.

"Uh, I don't think so. This is clearly stolen from the museum—"

"How do you even know that?!" Jinx sputtered in disbelief, still reaching for the gem only to have her double throw hexes against the pavement, splitting it under her feet.

"Jinx!" See-more's voice could be heard from somewhere behind but she didn't pay any attention towards it.

Jinx felt like ripping her hair out in frustration. Panic taking over, she threw all training from the hive academy out the window as she lunged for the gem, only for her alternate to lose her footing and slip. Both Jinx's had mirroring expressions of horror as she began to fall backwards, a portal opening behind her.

"No, no, NO, NO, NO!"

In absolute disbelief Jinx watched as her counterpart fell through the portal as she reached out towards her, only for it to disappear out of existence before she could blink.

Staring at where the portal once was, she didn't realise she dropped to her knees until a hand hesitantly reached out to hold her shoulder.

"Jinx?" Gizmo asked hesitantly and Jinx felt her eyes burn in frustration before groaning and rubbing her face.

Jinx allows herself five seconds to count down and come back to her senses before whipping round to face her not-team. "I'm not your Jinx."

She almost does a double take at Gizmo—the kid actually had hair?!

Mammoth snorts at that, "Yeah, no kidding. Our Jinx wouldn't be caught dead in dark clothing. Says It makes her look too witchy." It's meant to lighten the mood but she's been friends with his villain-self long enough to be able to distinguish the concern in his tone.

See-more frowns, and him and Kyd Wykkyd both lend her a hand and help her back to her feet—it's weirdly nice, despite the circumstances.

"That portal—what happened? Where's our Jinx?" See-more asks frowning but his tone is firm and Jinx belatedly wonders if he's second in command here, as he is back on her dimension.

"Your Jinx's an idiot, that's what." Jinx found herself snapping, rubbing her temples in frustration. "She stole my one way ticket home out of this shitty dimension!"

Who the fuck just straight up steals a stolen rock?! What the actual fuck was her life right now?!

Billy numerous frowned, raising his hands up in defence "Whoa there, calm down! We're just trying to help." he muttered towards Kyd Wykkyd "She's a lot more snappy than our Jinx, huh?"

Kyd Wykkyd cracked a smile at that but immediately coughed to cover up for his mistake when See-More flashed him a disappointed frown.

Jinx could feel her sanity slowly slipping away.

Gizmo and Mammoth shared a look before Mammoth opened his mouth "Maybe we should talk about this back at HQ. The cops have taken care of the Teen tyrants."

Jinx managed to pull herself away from her internal distress for a moment and blink perplexed, tyrants?

Unbelievable.

Gone was titans tower, instead replaced by the Hive's headquarters.

Did her team seriously live in a giant 'H' in this universe?!

Yeah sure, back in the early days her team had managed to kick the titans out of their tower and were on the verge of turning it into a 'H' but structurally speaking, it was ridiculous. She remembered trying to talk most of the team out of it—because realistically, in a giant H shaped building everyone would have to all gather to one place to get to the other side of the tower. It was a whole mess that any respectable architect would flat out refuse to design.

Either way, her Gizmo would have a field day seeing this monstrosity.

See-more enters a passcode into the main entrance followed by an impressively long list of other security measures, (god damn, voice recognition, hand scanners—was it analysing his eye?!) and from the corner of her eye she can see the wary looks the team give each other in her presence.

It's weird but they're a lot less hostile than her doppelganger was so who was she to argue?

Jinx takes her time scanning the inside of the building once they're allowed in, and once they make it to the living room she's left feeling oddly nostalgic about the whole thing.

The room itself wasn't that far off to how her own H.I.V.E HQ looked, though they were clearly being funded a lot better than her team was. For one the paint job didn't look old, the large crack in the monitor was missing and in it's place was one much sleeker and wider. The couches didn't have the scorch marks from her hexes and were in pristine condition—

Damn, they really had their lives together.

"Not what you were expecting?" Gizmo asks, tilting his head up towards her with curious eyes that almost had her doing a double take. Jesus, a non-snarky Gizmo was something that would take getting used to.

Instead, her posture relaxes slightly and Jinx snorts. "I mean, it's weirdly similar but a lot nicer than my team's HQ."

"Right." See-More said, eye narrowing slightly as he gestured her into a seat. "And where exactly is your team? You're from a different earth right?"

Jinx hums, mildly surprised at how Robin-like this See-more seemed to behave. She notes at how his words have gathered the rest of the team's attention as they all collectively gathered round.

Damn, if only she could get her team to be as organised.

"Yeah, and if I'm right then this is pretty much an earth parallel to my own." She debated for a moment before sighing, "Your Jinx's probably on my earth right now—" she made a face at that, not really liking the idea of a goodie-two-shoes version of herself mixing with her team.

"How'd you get here in the first place?" Mammoth asks, raising an eyebrow towards the sorceress and Jinx blinks.

She couldn't really give away that she was a villain—heaven forbid they throw her into a meta-containment field, she didn't have the time to break out of it.

"There's this artefact that Jump City's museum has, it's an Opal with some mystical legend no one bothered to inform me about on the third floor. Really pretty, with a gold rim around it. We were fighting the titans back on my earth and I happened to be holding it when things went south." She scowled, "and badda-bing-badda-boom here I am."

Kyd-wykkyd and Gizmo mirror a look and See-more frowns but nods once, spinning around on his chair and typing away at the gigantic computer that occupied the room.

Jinx stares mildly impressed as she watches See-more pull up the image of the ancient gem in little to no time.

"This your magical rock?"

Getting to her feet, Jinx goes to stand next to the teen, eyes skimming over the information being presented. "That's the one."

See-more hums, leaning forward in his chair. "The Opal of creation, the legend around it's pretty extensive. It's said that witches used its power for travel amongst the stars, but the price to pay is that it can only be used once per user."

Jinx gawks "So I'm stuck here?!" See-more just prattles on, unbothered by her outburst. "It can only unlock it's potential if the user's afflicted with magic."

Billy hums, "So that's why both Jinx's were able to use it. You're a sorceress so it makes sense." He shrugs towards her.

"So all we have to do is get the gem from the museum and we can send this Jinx back." Gizmo summarises before turning towards her. "Once you go back all you have to do is give the stone to our Jinx so she can come home. Piece of cake." He smiles, pleased.

"Is our Jinx going to be okay over there?" Billy frowns, "She's not going to run into any trouble over on your earth, right?"

That almost sent her on a whiplash, Jinx's eyes widened slightly at the question before she mulled it over. "Honestly? My team are kind of assholes but they'll keep her safe." Or she'd skin them all alive and throw them into a tub of salt at Titans tower's doorstep.

"Your team? So the other versions of us?" Mammoth asks, held tilted while See-more eyes her critically.

Nodding, Jinx fights back a yawn. Jesus, the time difference between dimensions was exhausting. "Yeah, you're all sort of the same? I mean, the most notable difference is Gizmo but that's only cause mine is a bald gremlin."

Gizmo gawks, "I am!?"

Everyone snorts with laughter at that, "Gizmo?" "No way! He's an angel!" "As if Gizmo could hurt a fly!"

"No, hold on! I'm bald in your universe?!" the poor boy gawked, protectively grabbing at his dark locks in distress.

"I honestly have no idea on whether or not it's a choice."

The rest of the team cackle at that and See-more offers her a smile while ruffling Gizmo's hair. "Well, at least this Gizmo's well behaved."

Jinx feels her lips twitch upwards at that—because yes, this Gizmo was definitely the opposite of hers.

"What about the gem?" Billy suddenly asks once he's recovered from his shock.

"We'll have to ask the museum to lend it to us," See-more hums, "Shouldn't be too hard, we've saved it more than enough times with the Tyrants trying to loot it every other week."

Jinx almost reeled at that—asking? Couldn't they just nab the thing and be done with it?

"How long do you think that'll take?" Kyd Wykkyd signs with his hands and See-more frowns in thought. "I've sent an email to them, but its after hours. They'll probably get back to us in the morning and we'll be able to sort out a timeframe for when they can let us take it."

Gizmo then turns to her beaming with the strength of a thousand suns. "That's great! We could show you around and take you to all the cool tourist spots till then!"

Mammoth snorts and ruffles his hair, "Calm down kid, she's a local remember? She probably knows Jump city like the back of her hand."

She feels her face uncharacteristically soften as Gizmo pouts up at the large meta. "Hey, that doesn't mean she can't still see the tower!"

Kyd Wykkyd smiles, signing that he agrees while Billy laughs, wrapping an arm around his shoulders. "Hey, maybe this Jinx will be able to beat us in Mega monkeys three!"

This team—they were a lot more like family than hers. The differences were so blaringly obvious that she didn't know whether to be uncomfortable by the sight or envious.

Shoving her minor sparks of jealousy into the corner, Jinx resumed eyeing up the opal with her eyes narrowing.

She couldn't wait for the stone to be given, there wasn't enough time. Jinx needed to go home now.

Ugh, she was seriously going to have to rob Jump City's museum again for the second time in the last twenty-four hours.

God, she was going to need to drown herself in coffee.

The team do in fact, end up showing Jinx around the tower, with Gizmo (who gave Jinx a stroke every time she turned to look at him because he actually had hair), tugging her along by the hand.

They pass by this world's Jinx's room but Gizmo just shrugs shyly, "Our Jinx doesn't really like any of us going into her room, so I don't want to make her mad by letting you in to see hers."

And good lord, she almost melts at the child. Who would've thought a polite Gizmo would be her downfall as a supervillain?

Kyd Wykkyd ends up cornering her, signing to ask what her dietary requirements are and what she'd like for dinner before Billy and See-more have her play five rounds of Mega monkeys with them. Mammoth then has her help him figure out what to wear for his date, (Mammoth apparently has a girlfriend here?) before she ends up helping the team cook lasagne for dinner.

All in all, Jinx has more interaction with this team in the span of a few hours than she's had with hers for the past week.

It's weird, but she doesn't think she minds it.

The team ends up showing her one of the spare guest rooms (as she suspected, because of the fact that the building was a giant fucking 'H' they'd had to get to one specific floor to get to the other side of the building, which was just absurd but go off.), and she'd managed to make herself at home in bed staring at the ceiling.

This was just—weird.

Seeing the good versions of her team was—strange. She could still see her team in them, but they weren't as rough around the edges. The lack of training from the H.I.V.E Academy was present, but that didn't mean they weren't trained for anything.

Eight hours to sleep? It was just unproductive and a luxury that she couldn't really afford right now.

Sitting up, Jinx grabbed the laptop the team here had lent hear before plugging in a USB stick her Gizmo had made—something about keeping her off the radar with a whole bunch of coding and back up programmes she really didn't understand.

and did the basic searches to figure out just what the flying fuck was going on, in this Alice in wonderland type of bullshit she'd manage to get herself into.

Steeling herself, she figured she'd start off simple and typed in 'Heroes of Jump city' and was promptly shown an image of the accursed 'H' shaped monstrosity.

The world was still whack for calling the Titans 'Teen tyrants' but it was sort of funny and made her snort. Rolling her eyes and scrolling down, Jinx hummed. A lot of the images were mainly of the Hive fighting off the titans with a few of them fighting one off members of the titans east.

Speedy, Aqualad, Kid flash.

She paused at the last one and clicked on the image to expand. It was slightly blurry, but you could make out the hero—villain (Jesus Christ, he was a villain here) with Robin.

God—now that she had time to process this whole bag of fuckery it was weird. Kid Flash? A villain?

Groaning, she buried her face into her pillow. Why was this the weirdest part of it?

You know why something (probably her conscience) mocked, and she couldn't even deny it. Kid Flash as a villain was both weirdly hot and very unsettling all in one—

Oh fuck. What if this version of him was a prick?

"Well I sure as hell ain't sticking around to find out." She muttered, cheeks flushing appalled at her own train of thought before she exited the image and went to search up the heroes instead.

Her brain immediately latched onto Robin. He used to be Batman's sidekick back on her world so what the fuck did that make him in this world?

Jinx then paused mid searching as a sudden realisation hit her—was Batman evil here?! Was the entire Justice League evil?!

How in the flying fuck was the world still standing?!

Feeling herself getting close to spiralling she smacked her both her cheeks with her hands. "Crap, I've got to pull myself together for this heist."

Grumbling, Jinx found herself hacking into the HIVE's mainframe before searching up the museum. For the rest of the hour nothing but the sound of her typing could be heard throughout the room before Jinx's eyes light up in satisfaction.

This version of Jump City's museum wasn't all that different to her own. It wouldn't take a lot to bypass their security measures and loop their camera feed—

Ugh. Speaking of looping camera feed she'd have to do that for herself in this stupid tower. Despite the team's reactions towards her, See-more still seemed to regard her with some suspicion. It was both relieving and annoying.

Rolling her eyes, Jinx got to work. She really didn't want to stay any longer than she had to playing the 'good guy'. She could practically see Kid Flash beaming towards her. "See Jinxy, I knew you had it in you!"

She cringed and typed harder. Absolutely not.

And so began the always pleasurable experience of breaking Jump City's museum for the second time that day on zero hours of sleep since she wanted to get back home sometime today.

Turns out, Gizmo's software did actually make hacking into a museum's security system pretty easy. Who would've thought?

Snickering once the security footage was successfully on loop for the next two hours, the sorceress licked her lips before her eyes flashed.

Landing in the top floor through the skylight, Jinx hummed happily as she finally felt a sense of familiarity. Sticking close to the shadows, she easily made her way through the museum, down to the third floor.

This was who she was. A criminal.

The lack of guards was somewhat concerning but with the cameras being on loop she wasn't really in a position to see where any of them were.

It doesn't take her long to find the jewel from this dimension. It was like it was in the same place as it had been before she'd touched it back on her earth.

"Well this earth has been fun. Too bad I won't be able to stay for a goodbye." She snorted, eyes flashing pink and the glass case fell apart at her command before she reached out.

"Whatcha' got there, cutie?"

With a started yelp, Jinx span around, arms ready to throw a hex at whoever the FUCK decided to sneak up on her—

Only for her wrists to be grabbed with a very familiar hero (villain—he was a villain) staring down at her with a look of contempt before glancing over towards the shattered glass and the opal left sparkling in the open.

He hummed. "So it's true. You're not the Jinx I know."

The statement left her gobsmacked— how the fuck had she been found out so fast?!

Kid Flash shot her a bright, venomous smile that looked infinitely wrong on his features before he leaned down towards her. "So, how was this possible?"

Jinx suddenly felt as though her IQ had dropped to minus three. "It was a magic rock."

He blinked at that, and it was weird how similar he looked to her Kid Flash in that moment. Eyebrows furrowing cutely as she could practically see the cogs turn in his mind as he stared at the jewel behind her and then back at her.

"Huh."

Feeling some of her lucidity come back to her and remembering that she was literally in the middle of a heist, Jinx found herself glaring and shoving him away. "How'd you figure it out?"

He snorted, stepping closer and apparently having no regard for personal space. "Well for one—" he reached towards her and Jinx instantly backflipped away, stance ready.

Instead, he grabbed a hold of the Opal of creation and grinned back at her, eyes flashing sardonically, somewhat satisfied by her reaction. "My Jinxy isn't really a jewel thief." He finished.

Comprehension flooded Jinx's vision as she stared at her opal in his hand before her jaw dropped "Did you just—what the fuck Kid Flash!?"

Immediately, he doubled over in laughter and Jinx's eyes flashed dangerously. "Sorry, did I make you mad, Lucky?" he cooed, "What're you going to do about it? Make me trip on my shoelaces? Make it so I have a bad haircut next week?"

Jinx hoped that the universe was taking note of her immense self-control, considering her training had her knowing multiple different ways to kill him. With or without any powers.

Her Kid Flash's eyes lit up joyfully when he laughed—this one was just a fucking ass.

Feeling the energy building up, she brought her hands up to send hexes flying his way only to be left staring bewildered as she'd suddenly backed into a wall.

Wait.

Jinx's homicidal urges skidded to an abrupt pause as she blinked deliriously at where the glass case is and then back at Kid Flash. It then occurs to her that her initial deduction was correct.

She was literally standing in the middle of the room half a second ago and now here she was being pinned to the damn wall—what the fuck.

Kid Flash just grinned, gripping onto her chin "Aww, Jinxy don't be mad." Her cheeks flared in embarrassment as he leaned down "Raven wants the gem, and this whole thing is supposed to be under the radar. I can't have you causing a scene and getting the HIVE involved."

With how close he was, Jinx's breath caught in her throat. His eyes were terribly vacant, in complete contradiction with how the corners of his lips twisted higher at her stunned expression.

"You understand right? No one wants to deal with a psycho half demon on their asses." he asked and Jinx glowered at him, finally snapping out of her internal crisis of 'what the ever loving fuck was happening'.

"I'm not staying here! Just give me the stupid gem so I can go home already!"

He snorts, face twisting into something a little less amiable and his grip on her chin tightens. "I wasn't asking princess. Find another way home."

Jinx gasps as she's shoved roughly into the wall behind her before he's zoomed out, leaving her staring stunned and mouth agape in the empty museum.

Immediately, the alarms went off, red lights flashing signalling a break in.

Dear god, he really was a prick.