Author time: Wow thanks for all the reviews. sorry i didn't put this in chapter two Calisto, I forgot. Raven didn't actually see who the head master was she was busy fighting Jinx. Brother Blood never introduced himself to the Teen Titans only to Cyborg. Also you should note that, Brother blood is a title for that cult. It is passed down from father to son when the son kills the father. so maybe this is a different Brother Blood than the one she knew. But I would not read too much into it. The animated show does diverge from the original comics a lot. If this was the comics i think Brother Blood would have simply killed Jinx, Gizmo and Mammoth when they failed the first time one a mission. So yeah, that is my thoughts on it. Enjoy the chapter. Next one wont be for a few days. I have weird class schedules and tomorrow is a long 4 class day from morning till evening. grr.
Chapter 3 awakenings
Jinx had been tossing and turning since she had fallen asleep. When she finally awoke she gave a sob of relief. Her mind was reeling from the sudden change of the nightmare she was having to the silence of being alone in a basement. Her head and heart were pounding in unison. "God, what was that?" Her nightmare was already forgotten but for the fact that Cyborg was in danger.
She stood up quickly and headed for the exit she created hours earlier to find Cyborg. When she opened the door, she took only two steps before she ran into something invisible. Cyborg turned off his ring and asked, "Are you ok Jinx?" She stood up and threw her arms around him. "Jinx what's wrong?"
Jinx started in between sobs, "Brother Blood, he knows I am near by. I don't know how but he knows."
Cyborg pulled her to him and held her for a few moments. "Shh Its o.k." He whispered into her ear." Jinx slowly stopped shivering in his arms. Cyborg gave her a smile before saying. "I saw what he was planning to do. We don't have much time."
"What is he going to do?" she calmed down a bit and began to breath regularly.
"He is going to raise an army of HIVE agents. Not one or two graduating classes, the whole school at once. He already has contracts planned months in advanced."
Jinx nodded and pulled away from Cyborg long enough to recollect her self. "So what should we do?" She looked steadily at Cyborg.
"The way things are going now, I don't think we have time to wait till tonight. We should see if we can get as many students out of Brother Bloods control as possible. But how to do that I don't know."
"I know what you mean. I was able to break free because my powers disrupt what he does to us. Maybe if I could give a point blank mind stun, I can jar one or two people loose but not many. Not after already draining so much of my powers and not letting them regenerate."
Cyborg nodded and gave her the ring. "I want you to use this."
"why me?" she asked unsure of her voice.
"Because of the two of us, you are the one who can escape. If things go badly i want to go to titans tower and show this ring and tell them they need to come and help."
"You can't be serious? I am not going to leave you behind!"
Cyborg said sternly, "Yes you are! If we get into a no win situation, you are leaving and getting help. Got it Jinx?" Jinx nodded but still pouted not liking it. "Good girl."
Jinx and Cyborg began to head down the tunnel and out towards the HIVE entrance. Cyborg hid along the walls followed by an invisible Jinx. When the pair arrived at the entrance, Cyborg silently gave several hand signals to Jinx that they both new from their training with the HIVE. In, find friends, and out. Four hand signals and they were on the move. Jinx hex the cameras and they both ran in. Cyborgs' arm cannon was already charged when the alarms went off. Several students came out of their classes and saw Cyborg. Of them only several upper classmen stay to fight the rest ran. Cyborg raised his cannon to fire directly over them and let the collapsing debris handle them. He turned left and heard Jinx's footsteps behind him. After outing down several more students Mammoth appeared and nearly crushed Cyborg on his first try. Cyborg jumped back after his dodge and lowered his charged weapon. "What, you going to give up so soon 'Stone'?" he sneered his eyes suddenly turned dark red.
"Do it now Jinx!" With a sudden violet light, Mammoth staggered forward, his head reeling. He swung blindly out and slammed the invisible Jinx into the nearest wall.
Jinx turned off the ring and appeared in front of Mammoth. She grabbed his shoulders quickly and said, "Fight it! I know you can! Mammoth you have to fight it off." Mammoth saw himself suddenly and what he came here to do. He hit Jinx, and realized he never wanted to hurt Jinx before.
Mammoth shook his head. "What? Jinx? I am supposed to bring you in. Why did you leave?" He said half confused.
"Don't worry about that now you need to come with us! And we have to find Gizmo."
"For what? I am right here." Gizmo slammed Cyborg into the wall, where he laid stunned. "Mammoth take her, Brother Blood is waiting for us."
Mammoths eye flickered red for a moment then he shouted "NO!" His eyes turned back to normal and looked at his friend. "I know you think I am a walking rug gizmo, but trust me when I say we are being brainwashed. We need to get out of here."
"Your right I do think you are a walking rug. But none of us are leaving here. Brother Blood wants us to capture the two traitors and..."
He didn't' get to finish after Jinx nailed him in the back of the head with her hand. Jinx rubbed her hand and looked at Cyborg barely coming out of his daze. "Mammoth pick up Cyborg we are leaving." Mammoth obediently picked up the Teen Titan and placed a hand on her shoulder. More students and agents began to head towards them. Jinx paled when she saw Brother Blood behind them. She placed her foot on Gizmo before she made a few gestures with her hands and all four of them suddenly disappeared.
With a sudden ungraceful thud Mammoth, Cyborg and Gizmo hit the ground of a gravely roof top. Jinx hovered slightly off the ground and looked at the three. "Er- sorry I kinda transported us faster than I expected."
Gizmo was slowly getting up, saying, "Look what you did! now I will be accused a traitor too! I guess that just means I'll have to take you three down." He reached for his control pad when Mammoth tackled him and knocked his back pack away from him.
"Thank you Mammoth, hold him while I do this." He eyes glowed violet as she placed her hands on his forehead. "Come on Gizmo you can fight this too. Look at the difference between what you were and what you are now." Gizmo had several flashes in his mind of himself three months before stealing for fun. Several more flashes showed him stealing because someone told him to. That's when it registered something was wrong. He never does anything for another person with out expecting to be owed. Gizmo inhaled sharply before he saw Jinx. "Something is wrong with me isn't it." Jinx smiled and gave him a hug. "Well now what?" Mammoth got off of Gizmo and checked on Cyborg.
Cyborg nodded to him after he saw that Gizmo was fine. "We regroup. And I think all of us need to rest and recover from the lumps we got today." Cyborg raised his arm to show his power meter. "I am running on empty already." Jinx blinked at that.
"How come? I thought your battery lasts for weeks..." She suddenly looked at her ring. "This is draining your battery isn't it?" She handed the ring back to him.
Cyborg nodded, "Yeah, the hologram doesn't spend much energy, but the cloak drains and it has been running for seven hours already, along with I was powering it by remote made me drain faster." Cyborg placed the ring back on his finger. "Lets get below before someone sees us." Jinx nodded. "Please tell me your not the leader snotborg?"
"I don't know, am I Jinx?" She smiled and said, "Yes he is Gizmo. He is the one person with the least contact with Brother blood, and I am not sure if I completely removed his influence from us." She stared Gizmo down before he began to argue. "O.K. fine, at least I don't have to listen to that Blood guys rambling voice anymore."
Cyborg lead the way back to the room Jinx made. When the four of them sat on the floor to finally rest, Jinx smiled saying. "Just like old times."
"Heh they weren't that old." Said Mammoth. Gizmo still was disgruntled but nodded too.
"Jinx?" Cyborg sat against the wall and Jinx sat down next to him. Mammoth and Gizmo sat across from them. "I think now is a good time to tell us why you are not confident in removing Brother Bloods influence."
Gizmo and Mammoth both moved in closer intent on listening to what she had to say. "Well, It started when Brother Blood took over as headmaster at HIVE. at the first school assembly where he gave his speech. I felt my mind being pushed by something outside of my body. I realized right away it was him. I allowed him to enter my mind since I was an obedient HIVE agent but left part of my mind locked away to keep myself aware of what he was doing. I couldn't go to wither of you two." She looked at both Gizmo and Mammoth. "Because if I told you what I thought it would get back to the head master when he invaded your minds." Both nodded a little sadly though they wished she did tell them. "After a few weeks my locked part of my mind began to crack from the long time I had it locked away from the rest of me. Remember when I was sick for a few days with a constant head ache?" Gizmo nodded. But Mammoth merely shrugged. "Well that was from the drain of my powers from constantly holding up that mental wall. Finally it came down." She looked shamefully at her feet and said, "For a while, I was like everyone else. Then came Stone." Jinx smiled at Cyborg who smiled back. Gizmo got a little jealous but let her speak. "After he destroyed HIVE site two, we left to regroup at site three, but I felt, um, well lonely with you Stone being near bye." she duct her head as she blushed. "Then suddenly I changed my mind, or rather it was changed for me. I didn't care about you Cyborg. Then every thing felt wrong and my mind woke up and I freed myself. Brother Blood ordered me to stay where I was. I felt that I should stay, then I felt the same way when the last time I about not caring about you." She side glanced at Cyborg who just sat there listening. "I broke free again, and was able to leave after fighting several Hive agents and running the hell away from the both of you."
Gizmo and Mammoth grinned. "You both almost broke your grip of Brother blood yourselves when you both let me leave."
Mammoth was surprised. "So why do you think you haven't cured us or whatever."
"Cyborg went to do some scouting while I slept I only really had four hours of sleep last night so I need to catch up. While he was out, I felt my mind being probed. I had one hell of a nightmare from it too. I think he knew that me and Cyborg were here. But what scares me is that he is not concerned with us. If he is able to still get into our minds and know what we are doing how much farther is it until he can control us again?"
Gizmo Mammoth an Cyborg looked uncomfortable for a moment. Gizmo was the first one to speak. "Well at any rate its worth getting dragged out of there just to hear Jinx give a public confession of love." Gimzo smiled. Mammoth laughed loudly and both Jinx and Cyborg didn't look at anyone.
"We can figure out what to do next tomorrow, its already late and I need to charge." He pulled out the power well and plugged himself into it.
"WHOA! Did you make this?" asked Gizmo wide eyed. Cyborg and Gizmo began talking about power levels and stabilizing agents.
Mammoth shook his head, "Great job Jinx, there's two of them. You sure know how to pick them." Jinx turned to say hey, but she caught the smile playing on his lips. After a few minutes Mammoth and Gizmo eyed the bed. "Who gets the bed?" Cyborg looked at the two of them and said, "Not me. I need to be next to this thing." He looked at the battery well with a twinge of sadness. Jinx saw him and took his arm saying, "Its a toss up between you two."
"Dibs!" said Mammoth immediately.
"What you hairy shag carpet! I didn't even get a chance! paper, rock, scissors for it!" Jinx and Cyborg laughed.
