Jinx looked around, her slitted black pupils betraying her boredom. She sat on an empty crate, legs dangling, one of many lying in the dim alleyway between two old, brick, run-down apartments. The sorceress flashed out a pale hand and held it up in front of her face, pink eyes examining it, and, finding no flaws, mentally proclaimed herself truly uninterested in her current situation.

"They're taking much too long. I should've gone with them...they'll mess things up, as always."

Her pink hair bobbed along with her nodding head, supported into two thick, horn-like formations by stormy-blue metal bands, which glinted in the faint light. A similar band curled around her neck, this one more highly polished. A midnight colored gemstone, smoothly oval, was placed right beneath it on the pale skin.

"I could be doing something so much more interesting than this," she griped with a sniff, her arms lifting herself gracefully up into a headstand, the tips of her hair brushing the crate, and then she jumped with a bend and smooth snap of her arms and flipped onto the concrete, dark blue skirt and long sleeves rippling. Her platform shoes stirred up the smallest cloud of dirt as she landed, but made no sound.

Mechanical sounding movements and slight vibrations in the concrete beneath her feet announced the return of those she was expecting.

"Well?" she asked.

"We got 'em," a deep voice rumbled, a thin layer of jubilation painted on top of the disdain and disgust.

"Yeah, and I almost had to take out two snotblowin' fatties to cover for him," a nasally voice grumbled.

Four thick, dull grey metal robotic legs appeared over the alley's dead end wall, a small, bald child, wearing a green suit and gripping what looked like a video game controller, attached to them by means of a grey and green pack on his back. His black eyes shone wickedly through green goggles.

A massive hand suddenly appeared gripping the alley wall, and a giant of a teenager hauled himself over it, dropping with a heavy thud. He wore a sleeveless black shirt, studded with gold lumps on the edge, and black pants, his hair a dark brown and shoulder long. He held a sack in his hand.

"Did the Titans show?" Jinx inquired.

"Yes," Mammoth intoned.

"We beat 'em off fast enough, those pitsniffers. Crudded their tracking device, too."

"They still could've followed you, Gizmo," Jinx pointed out impatiently, slender hands on her hips. "You made sure not to come straight here, right?"

"Well- aw crud!" Gizmo shrieked, the metal legs scuttling madly to avoid the angry, hot barrage of green energy balls that screamed towards him. Both Jinx and Mammoth jerked their heads up, Jinx with an angry snarl.

"Teen Titans, attack!" they heard an all-too familiar voice cry. Starfire was already hovering in the air above the alleyway, and her eyes glowed a bright emerald green as she hurled more starbolts.

Gizmo withdrew his metal legs and sprouted wings from his jetpack. He pressed a button and flew swiftly, avoiding the bolts of energy.

A jadeite colored falcon shrilled and dove down in the alley, wings tight to its body. Gizmo whizzed away from it, the bird moving too fast to turn in pursuit. It angled its wings slightly and went for the stationary Jinx

Jinx back flipped elegantly out of the falcon's way with a laugh as Gizmo fired a well-timed laser beam that clipped the bird's tail. Beast Boy gave a piercing screech, lost control, and pummeled into the concrete. He transformed back into his elf-like form and was silent. Gizmo let out a rough laugh of triumph and swiftly flew up into the cloudy sky to take on Starfire.

> > >

Mammoth had charged out on the deserted street only to be knocked down by the mass of gleaming blue and silver mechanics and dark brown skin that was Cyborg. Mammoth had risen quickly, and threw a punch at the Titan that made the air whistle. The android backed away and his right arm transformed smoothly into a cannon, which glowed sapphire, and fired a sonic blast at the steroid-pumped giant.

Mammoth roared and dodged, going in for another punch. Cyborg gripped it with his two titanium arms, having transformed the cannon again, and the two wrestled, grunting in anger, the Titan unable to change back his arm for another blast and Mammoth unable to gain the upper fist.

"Fatebender, I could use a little help!" the former H.I.V.E. student snarled.

"Oh, elephant needs a little wish of good fortune?" a wicked voice hissed. A flash of jagged pink light impacted the concrete behind the metal Titan's feet, which immediately cracked and shifted. He let out a cry of surprise, slipped, and then was punched down. He groaned, and then saw the pink-haired Jinx smiling sweetly down at him, appearing from nowhere.

"Sorry, Stone," she laughed, and stomped on his face with her black platform shoe.

Mammoth, beside her, was then abruptly encased in a shimmering ice, two halves of a black and yellow disk next to his frozen feet.

Jinx dodged another two disks thrown at her which opened near Mammoth's cold form and created tall pillars of silver ice.

"Uhngh!" The enchantress was then violently impacted in the back by a crate surrounded by a black aura, the edges inversed into white.

The black lifted from it as Jinx slowly got up and turned to face Raven floating in the middle of street, her blue hood shadowing her calm face, her arms enveloped in her black power, ready for attack.

Robin was in the mouth of the alleyway, balancing on the top of his metal staff. He yelled and snatched his staff from under him, leaping into a charge. The dark girl began to chant, the edges of her power glowing with fierce white light.

Jinx rubbed her arm where some of the skin had been scraped, and then flung her hands out, glowing pink, eyes narrowed.

"RAAUGH!"

> > >

"Eep!" In the sky over the abandoned apartment buildings, Starfire found it hard to control her flight as eight Gizmos, only one not holographic, spun quickly around her, launching laser missiles at her. Her red hair swirled as she attempted to evade all of the yellow-glowing shots. Her purple boot was singed. Her eyes glowed in growing anger.

"That was not very nice!" she growled. "HAA!" Twin jets of green energy shot out at one of the Gizmos- it flickered out of existence with a laugh and was replaced with two more.

"Too bad, you ugly Barbie!"

She shrieked as a laser ball hit her shoulder, releasing uncontrolled eyebeams that happened to impact one of the real midget's wings.

Gizmo let out a childish yell and plummeted down, then caught hold of his common sense and fidgeted with a few buttons on his controller, his devilish smile back. The four metal legs sprouted from his pack again, and he landed hard on an apartment's roof.

He cackled and began to fire once more, but was jolted when a jaguar took one of the legs in its teeth and, with a massive heave, ripped it off.

Gizmo wailed, and then merely cracked another crooked smile, adjusted a few joysticks and a leg swiveled about on the back to balance the other remaining two.

"Can't beat me, nyeah nyeahn!"

Four guns appeared out of Gizmo's pack, with ominous clicking sounds as they pointed both to Starfire and Beast Boy, who had changed to normal appearance.

"That's not good- waahhaAAAAHH!" Beast Boy screamed as a swarm of tight, small energy balls charged straight at him. He morphed into an agile hummingbird, his wings whirring, to fly away.

"Ha, that's right, you ugly snots!" Gizmo laughed insanely as his guns kept firing.

"You are a very- EEP- mean, rude, and disorderly child!" Starfire reprimanded, and then shot off a starbolt at Gizmo's jetpack, frying all the circuitry.

The legs and his controller began to crackle, blue electricity sparking all around them.

"Whaaa?" he squealed.

"HA! Yeah, go Starfire!" Beast Boy had reverted to elfin form to pump his arm in exuberance, watching Gizmo fall to the ground (roof, really) with glee plastered all over his face.

"Then we are victorious in this skirmish, indeed," she giggled, watching Beast Boy taunt the miniature foe, who spat back rather rude words. Her eyes swiveled down to the street- she gasped at what she saw.

"Beast Boy! It is apparent that our friends are in a grim situation. They will be requiring our assistance!" She shot down towards the angry battle between her two conscious friends (Cyborg's circuitry glinting from where he lay on the street) and the newly thawed Mammoth and acrobatic Jinx. Starfire's hand shimmered with her green fury.

The shapeshifter swiveled around in his sneakers, peered over the edge of the roof, and gasped as well.

He then gargled as the fingers of two small, slightly chubby hands gripped him tight around his skinny neck and squeezed. He squirmed, twisted, and then became angry. With an olive blur, he turned into a massive gorilla. Gizmo immediately lost his grip and fell back onto the concrete roof. He wailed in absolute terror as Beast Boy gripped his hands into one mighty fist and brought them down, the air around them whistling- and stopped a few centimeter's from the midget's nose.

Gizmo fainted.

Beast Boy reverted to his normal form to allow himself a short few moments of laughter and an "Oh yeah, who's good? Beast Boy, you're good! Whoo!" before he turned into a crow of dark forest green and circled downwards to the battle raging on the street.

> > >

"RAAUGH!" Jinx released two pulsing surges of her bewitchment that sped towards the two bird Titans.

"Azarath, metrion, zinthos," Raven intoned calmly, and a thick black shield materialized in front of her form. The hex was deflected back at Jinx, who brought up her hands in front of her with a swoosh of her long blue sleeves, and absorbed the power easily, her eyes glowing lavender momentarily.

"Augh!" she grunted, tripped forward by an unanticipated swing of Robin's staff. As he swung it at her again she gripped it with one hand, still down on her knees, and it was neatly sliced in half with a small hex.

The two halves of the staff were immediately shot at her, colors inversed into black and white, while Robin dove in with blurred punches. Jinx's sleeve was cut by one of the halves, and with a quick back flip managed to avoid the others. She threw her arms up protectively against Robin's rapid punches, and was pushed backwards continually until she was up against the brick wall of another apartment, across the street from the alleyway she had been sitting. She spied the sack- sitting there limply on a crate in the shadows. It took a split second to hatch a plan when her eyes caught sight of Mammoth, still inside the ice.

Jinx ducked, Robin's latest punch slamming into the apartment wall, and was halfway towards the frozen statue of her giant comrade when a large sharp black projectile rocketed towards her. She ducked, and then dodged another, and managed to just barely avoid a third. The angry sorceress prepared to send a stinging curse at Raven, but was frustrated when a disk exploded in the air in front of her and sent smoke in the air.

"Today will not be your lucky day," she snarled, grimacing terribly. Jinx charged up her hands briefly, and then proceeded to throw her enchantments in all directions. They cut through the smoke, their light casting eerie shadows upon the clouds of darkness. She heard random cracking of cement and brick- but no cries of pain or sharp shattering of ice.

Her body was suddenly in a shadow.

"Huh?" Jinx looked up and immediately fell as Robin's staff (he has two? Jinx thought subconsciously) whacked her down, having jumped over the smoke cloud to attack. She rolled over to avoid another lunge of his staff, then swung up her leg and tripped him.

By now, the smoke had dissipated- she could see Raven chanting, her entire body flickering in the color black and the outline of white. That couldn't be good. She fired a series of hexes at Robin, still down on the concrete, who rolled and squirmed to dodge them. Just a distraction, she reasoned to herself, then turned her attention to Mammoth.

Jinx scrutinized his frozen form for two seconds, calculating, and then fired three small hexes at him- they shaved of huge chunks of ice off his form.

A moment later, shards of ice went flying as the ice broke around him. Jinx obliterated the ones that had flown towards her- through the corners of her fuchsia eyes she saw Robin take cover under his cape and Raven throw a shield over herself. Mammoth looked extremely…wet. Jinx practically flew over to him and hissed, "We're getting out of here. We can't risk loosing what we got."

Mammoth was about to answer with a biting remark when a flurry of starbolts streaked towards them both, mostly hitting the huge chunks of ice around Mammoth, which either melted or splintered into chips that spun into the air. Jinx hop skipped away, taunting the flame-headed Tameranian. "A little bad luck, maybe?"

A black aura cloaked her ankles and then lifted her upside-down in the air.

"Witch!" Jinx managed to spit, before she was knocked into Mammoth, who had been lifting a boulder of ice to throw. They tumbled into the asphalt, and as both started to rise they were blasted down yet again by a shot from Cyborg's sonic cannon. Theye were still.

"Boo-yah!" he hooted, waving his arm in the air.

"Yeah, go Cyborg!" Beast Boy cried upon transforming into normal form, sitting on his friend's shoulder. "That was one nice shot!"

"Where's Gizmo?" Raven inquired, voice blank.

"Yeah, I didn't see him," Robin echoed, sounding somewhat concerned. He was brushing a few shards of ice off his black and yellow cape.

"I believe he is now on the roof of the apartment where he was disabled by one of my starbolts fired at his pack of gadgetry whereupon he attempted to suffocate Beast Boy by the compression of his windpipe but fainted in the result of fear of being pummeled by Beast Boy's giant gorilla form and so…is still there, I think," Starfire piped up brightly.

"Yeah…that kinda really hurt," Beast Boy moaned, rubbing his neck slightly. Cyborg shrugged him off his shoulder jokingly.

"Ow! That was my tailbone! That hurt worse," he mumbled, shooting a vengeful look at his buddy.

Robin had walked over to the mouth of the alley and was holding up the sack. "This must be what they stole from the museum," he mused.

At this, Jinx stood up, eyes glowing a menacing dark pink, nearly red, her pale fists curled as she screamed, "No! It's ours!"

"Cruddy booger-eaters!" a high-pitched voice shrilled, and then ten missiles rocketed down from three stories and exploded into the asphalt of the street, smoke billowing everywhere from the points of impact. The Titans coughed and wheezed at the sudden attack.

Jinx got up and seized Mammoth's thick wrist (half of it, in actuality) with her two thin but strong hands, and pulled him to a standing position. The tall teenager picked up the sack from where Robin had dropped it, and then allowed Jinx to drag him out of the smoke and into the alley.

Gizmo flew down on two metal wings, an ugly expression on his face. "I can't believe it took me that long to wake up," he griped.

"Let's just hurry up and get out of here before the smoke clears," Mammoth grunted. "We wouldn't want them finding what we've got in this, especially when it took Gizmo and I so much effort to steal." He shook the bag slightly to prove his point.

"Yes. We're going right now," said Jinx hurriedly, and after seizing the sack from her ally's grip she broke into a run and vaulted over the tall alley wall, followed by the two others.

> > >

"I can't believe I let them get away!" Robin slammed his fist down on the kitchen table. His green gloves were cut and exposed his knuckles. Starfire hovered near him, her hopeful attitude lending her flight.

"Robin, it is not solely your fault…I do think it because we did not endeavor quite as hard as we perhaps should have, but I cannot be certain. Please do not take the all the blame unto your spirits, I think it would make it feel quite heavy and burdened." Her eyes were bright but the gleam faded as the Titans' leader did not respond. Starfire's boots touched the carpet once more. Her green eyes swiveled over to the couch, where Beast Boy was cringing from a Raven growing steadily more frustrated, quite clearly wanting to get back to reading the book sitting next to her.

"I can't heal your neck properly if you keep on squirming like that," she said calmly, though there was a thin glaze of her impatient tone on it.

"But your healing thingy tingles and my throat doesn't like tingles!" Beast Boy cried in desperation.

Raven rolled her violet eyes, drawing the action out. "I thought you said you wanted your throat healed."

"Well, yes, but- but it tingles!"

The girl sighed. "Fine then, I guess you'll have to forfeit tonight's ice cream, then."

A dreamy look came over Beast Boy as he thought of dessert, and a little trickle of saliva came out of his open mouth. Raven looked away in absolute disgust.

"Heal me! Ice cream!"

A pale blue glow slightly akin to her friend's starbolts surrounded her pale hand, and then she directed it to Beast Boy's neck.

It tingled a bit roughly, as he had predicted, but then a soothing coolness came and overshadowed the prickling sensation.

"Thanks, Raven!" the shapeshifter yipped. "Ice cream, baby!" He rushed off to the refrigerator.

Raven shook her head, then picked up her book and continued her reading in blissful peace, besides Robin's mutterings and Starfire's sweet consolations, as well as Beast Boy's gobbling of…soybean ice cream.

"You know how nasty that stuff is for you, man?" Cyborg's voice broke through the relative quiet.

"Hey, it's better than meat!"

"Don't diss the meat, BB, it's good for you, protein and all that good stuff." He strode over to the fridge himself and took out a giant sandwich with beef sticking out of the sides.

"Dude, that is totally nasty!"

"No, it's meat!"

Starfire looked at the both of them, naturally curious. "But it is not purely meat, yes? For there is also the bread of the whole grains such that it is not entirely..."

The two boys stared at her.

And continued their argument with heated words.

The alien giggled and floated dreamily, and then attended to her self-appointed task of cheering up her friend Robin.

> > >

Gizmo and Mammoth both stared at what dangled from Jinx's grip in the dark warehouse. Light entered through one old, dusty window situated near the high roof, the object glinting sweetly.

"I told you it was worth it," her voice almost a purr, eyes wide in adoration. "We had studied them, back at H.I.V.E., remember?"

"Yes," Mammoth grunted, tensing up on where he sat on a barrel at the mere thought of the place. His memories were not altogether pleasant.

"How could I forget that awful poop-smelling place filled with butt-pickers and nose-sticker-uppers and booger-eaters-" the midget's rant was interrupted by a slam of a giant hand upon his face. Mammoth smiled cheesily to cover for the silence.

Gizmo wrenched his head free and whined, "Gimmie it, Jinx, I wanna see!"

Jinx tossed the object to the boy, who immediately squealed in delight and rubbed it viciously, turning his back to his friends as he "flew" it around in the air like an airplane in his grip, adding sound affects with the aid of his softly smoking jetpack. The pink-haired teen turned to Mammoth,mentally reprimanding Gizmo's childishness.

"And you got all of them, I assume?"

"The mueseum didn't have all thir-"

"I know. Out of the ones they had."

"Count them. They're all there."

"Unless one of those crud-snuffin' Titans junked them up in the fight!" Gizmo screeched.

"Now that would just be unlucky," Jinx giggled, reaching a slender hand in the bag and pulling out a looped string, passing through an iridescent black, oval gemstone with many waxy-gleaming faces. She turned it by the thick string, the stone gleaming in the light. The sorceress' reflection was not apparent in the gem because of its particular luster, but her two companions easily saw her sinister grin.

> > >

Whoo hoo ya'll, my first fanficcy...yeah…Anyway, comments and criticism (reviews XP) greatly appreciated, I'd really like to improve and all that (it might help me in writing class, too XDXD). I kinda forgot what both Gizmo and Mammoth look like, writing this off of memory, so sorry if I missed or changed a few things . I also deprived Robin of his puns. By the way, I hope you likes!

Xulei/Eventider, whichever XP