"I still don't see what we're waiting for," Ron admitted.

"My team called, Jinx should be here any moment," Raven said once again. They were standing outside the Possible residence. 'They' consisted of Raven, Shego, Kim, Tim, Jim, Mr. & Mrs. Dr. Possible, Ron, and Felix. Monique had to work overtime at Club Banana.

All of a sudden a large blue whole in the sky opened up and a pink and purple mass fell out of it.

"Jinx?" Raven asked, already by the girl's side.

"Oooooh, I do not recommend that trip to anyone," Jinx said ruefully, she then noticed the surprising number of people around them. "Wow, I didn't know everyone would come to see me fall out of the sky."

Introductions were made quick work of and then Raven pulled the bad luck witch to the side for a moment. "Jinx, did Robin tell you why I originally came out here?"

"He said something about a secret mission, but…"
"That was a cover story, I really came out here to find those relatives you told me about," Raven confessed.

"You're kidding, right? There's no chance that you could actually do it! There are over a billion people in the world and that's IF they're still alive!" Jinx argued.

"I believe they said something along those lines to Thomas Edison, or any famous person you could probably name," Raven countered. "We will go over HOW I did it later, for now, I'd like you to meet your aunt, uncle, and highly irritating male cousins, as well as a female superhero cousin." Raven said as she pushed Jinx towards the Possible clan.

Jinx looked both surprised and a little like a trapped cat as she extended a hand to the matriarch of the household.

"I'm Jinx," Jinx said, smiling, though her body language was sending out signals that were common to bristling wolves. "I'm your long-lost niece, man this is weird."

Mrs. Dr. Possible ignored the hand and wrapped Jinx in a big hug. Raven smiled as Jinx was caught up between logical thought and the instinct that had served her as a thief. Jinx forced her muscles to relax and take the hug, Raven had to go through the same thing with her.

"So, you're my uncle and cousins, huh?" Jinx asked, looking them over.

"I'm Tim," one of the twins said, "and I'm Jim," the other finished.

"And I'm your Uncle," Mr. Dr. Possible said, "and it won't take a rocket scientist to tell you that this is our little Kimmie cub, your last cousin."

Jinx stared at Kim a moment then took a step back, appraising her. "When I was a villain, they had the heroes and other villains we would meet rated. You had a six," the bad-luck witch commented

"Out of ten?" Kim asked.

"Out of five," Jinx corrected.

"What did I get?" Shego asked off-handedly, if Kimmie was in their databanks, then she must be too. Jinx took one look at the black-haired villainess and paled.

"Shego. Class A threat, never face in combat. Only equal is Kim Possible and Robin, the Boy Wonder," Jinx repeated verbatim from the file they had been forced to memorize.

Shego smiled viciously, the girl knew who to give a compliment.

"Raven and Jinx at the south entrance, all clear." Raven said through the walkie-talkie.

"Kim and Ron here. All clear at the north entrance," Kim returned.

"Felix at observation point, All clear," Felix said as he looked through binoculars at the museum.

"Shego bored as hell, watching a fucking book," Shego replied, bored. She had only agreed to this because Kim said she would 'make it worth her while,' if she did. That meant sex, and Shego liked sex…a lot.

"Sorry cousin, but this is work, not anything personal," Joss Possible said as she looked over the building she had to get inside. HAD TO; was the bottom line. Her employer was clear that the two books would be bought as a set, and only as a set.

A thief, who would believe that a Possible could actually become a thief, she owed it all to her mentor, though. It was her mentor that originally stole the suit; it was her that had found Joss and turned her into Red X. Stealing was something she was surprisingly good at.

The last book had been cake. She had set off the burglar alarm on purpose, just to see what she was up against, but the damn machine had broken down. Dream Clown, she was the one; she had managed to overload the setup. It had been trashed, but she wouldn't have been able to use it again, it took time to set up and her cousin was expecting her.

Slipping on the black mask, Joss took a deep breath; this wouldn't be easy.

Once Felix had done his half-four check-in, sleeping gas formed a mist around him. "One down," Red X whispered.

"Damn!" Jinx cried as two sets of the most basic manacles wrapped around her feet and hands. Whoever was in that outfit knew their stuff, no electronic locks or anything, bad luck wouldn't do shit against these things.

Raven heard the cry and was about to move when two of the famous 'X's' wrapped around her hands, and another around her mouth. 'Not good,' Raven thought, 'if I can't talk or sign, then none of my spell are any use.'

"Three down, three to go," X muttered.

"You'll have to be better than that to get me," Shego laughed as she dodged one 'X' after the other. To Shego, who had grown up dodging various villains' darts, rays, and other miscellaneous projectiles, this was child's play.

"Stealth," Shego muttered. She knew what that suit could do, if it had power. It evidently did. Shego closed her eyes.

'Light footprints, feminine,' Shego thought as she listened for her prey.

Shego blocked a kick to the head, a left to the body, landed on her feet from a throw she had allowed herself to take. 'Good flow,' Shego thought. Not many people had the kind of built-in skill and grace it took to really fight. This was the second person, other than herself; she had seen that could do it.

Kim and Monkey Fist were the other two.

The style she was using was in no way familiar. Shego had a pretty in-depth knowledge of martial arts. Kim knew 16. She, herself, knew 18. Half of those styles were too violent to use on anything other than a life-or-death fight, but this was a new one.

It combined some elements of Ninjutsu with Ahat Mastade. Neither are common, but a combination of the two was unheard of. The ninjutsu relied on hit-and-run-attacks; maybe the tengu style…Ahat Mastade was a more in-your-face-style. It relied on a spiral movement of fighting, using the centrifugal force that created to speed up punches and kicks, parrying blows with open hands, using that force to speed up the centrifuge.

'Two can play at that,' Shego smirked. The moves were easy enough to duplicate, her real strength pushed the art further. Since this was her first fight, Shego decided to take it easy, going at half-strength.

"Round and round we go, where we stop…" Shego taunted.

Joss knew what was happening, but she could handle it. Even if the inertia-dampeners on the suit weren't operating, the current speed was nothing. What did worry her was the fact that every time she landed any kind of punch or kick, it felt like she was hitting a brick wall. She could swear it hurt her more than it did herself.

That meant she had to hit her with something else.

A planned miss of a kick and two blocks from Shego's kicks, those would leave marks, later and Red X was using the floor as projectiles.

When Shego let five baseball sized blocks of hit her with no effect what so ever, Joss decided it was time to get the hell out of here, but not with out the book.

Red X managed to land one last punch, at the cost of a few broken ribs. That proved to be the last punch of the fight. Hidden in her fist was a flash-bomb. There was a blinding pain in her eyes before Shego knew what was up.

"Coming your way, Kimmie," Shego said through the walkie-talkie.

That was the only warning that Kim got before Ron fell down, tied in a red mass, "Oh, come on! I didn't even do anything yet!"

"Sorry," Red X apologized, "but I have a schedule to keep." So said Red X tossed another Red X at Kim. It definitely put a damper on X's plan when Kim not only caught the ball before it exploded to net her, but crushed it in one hand.

"No shortcuts. To get through you have to go through me." Kim said threateningly. A short, but fierce fight ensued, ending with Kim pinning X to the ground, sending pain coursing through the unknown figure by means of putting pressure on her broken ribs.

"Let me go!" X ordered.

"No way," Kim said and reached for the mask. It came off with a single tug from a powerful claw.

"Joss?" Kim whispered in a voice that combined elements of surprise, shock, anger, and…pride.

"You want an explanation? Let me go, I'll be at your house in a day or so!" Joss whispered back, urgently. Kim heard someone coming. She couldn't believe she was doing this, "Shoot me with one of those things," she ordered and let her cousin up.

In a moment she was tied on the ground, not feeling too proud of herself.

"So, Kimmie, she got by you too. I think I like you like this," Shego commented on the position Kim was currently in.

"Shego, spare me and untie me, for that matter," Kim said brusquely.

"Don't forget the sidekick," Ron called pleadingly.

"I gotcha'," Rufus squeaked. The mole rat had been biting through the polymer that held his owner in place.

"Way to go Rufus!" Ron called and freely moved his arms and legs, even as Shego cut Kim out.

"Out with it!" Shego ordered as she slowly massaged certain areas of Kim's anatomy.

"Shego! That's not fair, please!" Kim shuddered as Shego blew softly on her center. "All right! I'll tell, just please, Shego, please!"

Shego took pity on Kim and brought her agony to a quick end.

"Damn you," Kim panted. "You remember that time you and Drakken tried to turn all my dad's friends into idiots at the Crooked D?"

Shego grunted in ascension.

"My cousin Joss was, at the time, trying to be me. I pulled the mask off X at the museum. It was Joss," Kim confessed.

"That girl certainly gets around," Shego muttered, "Feel better now?"

"Surprisingly, I do," Kim said and snuggled into Shego's warmth.

"So, Auntie P, what's up?" Jinx asked as she walked in the room. Raven was bummed about the Red X thing and her aunt had asked to talk to her.

"Hi Jinx," Mrs. Possible greeted. "I wanted to talk to you about Raven."

"Straight to the chase, huh? If you're going to ask me to stop seeing her, then you can stop right now, I love her." Jinx said in a tone that conveyed no room for argument.

Mrs. Possible smiled. "Actually, I wanted to talk to you about how long you are going to stay with us, but if you want to, let's talk about Raven." Jinx moved to object, but the matriarch of the household silenced her with a finger.

"Your uncle and I want to know if you've thought about marriage?"

Jinx's eyes widened, "Raven…Raven and I, we haven't exactly talked about anything like that yet, and we're both only 17."

"You may want to bring it up with Raven casually. She made you look like an angel when I asked her to tell me about you. She loves you, a lot. Anyway, I just wanted to know how long you planned on staying here. Raven is welcome as well."

"I'll have to talk this over with her." Jinx said and walked out of the room.

"We lost him," Raven reported.

"Damn," Robin sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "You can make a full report later, Raven. It's late, you and Jinx can have a week off, unless there's an emergency. You can stay at the Possible house, try to turn up anything on X if you can, but officially this is time off."

"What about Slade?"

"We'll take care of him, he's been quiet, though. Listen Raven; he wants you. So you need to be M.I.A. for a little while."

"Okay Robin, you win," Raven sighed as well and closed her com. off.

"Was that Robin?" Jinx asked as she opened the door.

"We have a week off. We need to relax, and lay low, get off Trigon's and Slade's radar."

"Good, I missed you." Jinx whispered as she kissed Raven.

"I missed you too," Raven sighed. Jinx tasted sweet, and she wanted more. A twitch of her fingers and the door was locked. Five seconds later they were both stripped of clothing, together on the bed.

"Raven," Jinx moaned quietly as Raven sucked on her left breast, leaving shallow bite marks. It felt good to have someone scratch the itch that had been building up the last few days. She stiffened as two thin digits ran along her nether lips; then moaned into Raven's mouth loudly as they entered her.

Beast Boy turned to Terra, then to where the others were supposed to be, only they weren't there.

"Where'd everybody go?" He asked, clueless.

"Star and Robin went off to screw," she said off-handedly.

"Oh yeah, what about Cy?"

"Talk to Bumblebee," Terra supplied then cuddled up to Best Boy. The controller in his hands suddenly dropped.

"Beast Boy, can we fuck?" Terra asked him, running a hand across his stomach. BB felt his cock twitch. They had been dating ever since Terra…got back, they hadn't actually talked about sex, but never look a gift horse in the mouth, right?

"Terra?" BB asked as he turned the T.V. off.

"Yes?" Terra asked.

"Let's take the couch." BB said definitively.

Terra would have said something, but decided that actions speak louder than words. She full on kissed the green imp, hard.

"You should know, Beast Boy, that I like some strange stuff," Terra warned.

"Like what?" Beast Boy was curious, he was on the internet a lot, and had heard of some weird fetishes.

"Lets just say that what turns me on is when a guy is more of a horse, than hung like one," Terra confessed blushingly.

"Bestiality?" The green man asked weirdly. "That's cool, what animals do you like?"

"Horses, dogs, cats, and…" Terra said something so softly BB couldn't hear it; she was obviously embarrassed.

"Terra, I can do any animal you want, but you have to say it," BB said cheerfully while they divested themselves of garments.

"Octopus," Terra said quietly.

Beast Boy smiled.

"Mom, Dad, tweebs, I need to tell you something, but I'm not sure how you'll react." Kim began her nervous speech easily enough.

"Honey, you know you can tell us anything," Mr. Possible reassured his daughter.

"Your father's right Kimmie, just spit it out," Mrs. Possible coaxed.

"Shego and I are dating," Kim said in a rush, and waited for her parents reaction.

To her surprise, Mr. Possible handed his wife a twenty. "Thank you for telling us so soon Kim. I knew I could trust you," The eldest female Possible smiled. It took a moment for what had just happened to register.

"Does everyone have to bet on my sex life?" She asked tiredly. Shego appeared to find this all very funny.

"Actually," Tim said hesitantly. "We had a pool on the internet," Jim added. "And we just scored five hundred bucks! Hoosha!" Tim finished. Kim gave them a withering stare.

"Okay, well there goes half the surprise…" Kim said, trailing off.

"Did you have something else to tell us Kim?" Mr. Possible asked.

"I didn't know that you had something else you were hiding from your best friends," Ron pouted. Rufus chattered in agreement.

"Mom, Dad, do you remember the story I told you about the time I was turned into a monkey? And the time Ron got mutated into a beaver?" Kim asked warily.

The Drs. exchanged looks. "Yes," the female head of the family answered warily.

"Then this shouldn't be too much different, just know that Wade is working on a cure," Kim said and turned off the image inducer.

Her mom and dad remained pretty cool for two parents who just saw their daughter transform into a giant lizard looking thing. They only screamed a little. The tweebs loved their sister's new look and continually bombarded her with questions about testing.

Ron had taken it the best of all, at least until he tried to get up, then he fell flat on his face in a dead faint.

"Kim, your genetic structure is amazing," Mrs. Possible said, looking at a little of her daughter's blood through a microscope.

"Mom, Wade already told me some of the stuff I should be able to do, it's no big," Kim said dismissively.

"Yes it is Kim; let me feel your arm," Mrs. Possible ordered. Kim obediently extended her arm, both of them turned to hear Shego growl rather threateningly.

"Shego, it's my mom. She's not going to jump me," Kim said exasperatedly. Then to her mom, "Shego and I have some new…instincts to deal with. Ron hugging me made her see red, I think she almost sunk a few claws into his neck, but she'll behave."

Mrs. Possible warily touched her daughter's arm again, paying close attention to Shego's reaction. Shego's attention was completely focused on her hand, and from the looks of it, she was grinding her teeth. 'Why would she…Oh!"

It was obvious when she thought about it. Shego considered Kim her mate; at least her more instinctual side did.

Mrs. Possible trusted in Shego's ability to control herself and turned back to her daughter. The muscle underneath the scale-like skin was hard as steel. She let go and almost FELT Shego relax.

"Kim, I want you to come to the hospital, you can use that bracelet so no one will get scared, but I want to do some tests on you and Shego. Shego, that means you can stay by Kim's side all you want, but don't hurt anyone." Kim's mother advised.

"You did well Joss, considering your opposition," a hard, but female voice said as the owner of the voice looked Joss over. Joss was clad in some decidedly revealing clothing, but didn't seem uncomfortable.

Joss gave out a whimper as the woman touched a few decidedly broken ribs.

"Drink this," she said and handed Joss a glass of something. Joss unhesitatingly drank it. It was bitter and made her gag, but she got it all down.

"I'm going to have to explain myself to my cousin," Joss said.

"Just make sure that no one guesses who I am," she said as she stepped into the light.

"Yes master…Blackfire," Joss said obediently.

Kim was bored. She had let doctors poke and prod at her for half an hour. School had been for the most part boring. For the most…

Jinx had come with them today. Everything had gone perfectly fine until the witch had gotten bored. When Jinx got bored, Raven later explained, she tended to make things more exciting.

The lights had been first. A twitch of her eyes and all the bulbs in a hallway had exploded. Then the toilets. Evil things that they are, they didn't deserve what Jinx did to them. The school had been declared unfit for student habitation, pending an investigation that would be headed by everything from a paranormal investigator to a priest.

Back to the tests, though.

X-rays, cat scans, almost anything else that the doctors could think of.

"Kim, I want you to take a deep breath," one man requested. Kim did so. "Now swallow it." Again, Kim forced the air down. A sudden hot-spot in her chest forced her mouth open and a burst of flame shot out.

Kim's eyes opened wide. So did Shego's. The doctor smiled. "Your chest has a cavity below the lungs, or where the lungs should be, that ignites a natural form of sulfur, expelling, when air is taken into the cavity, a flame."

"What do you mean where the lungs are supposed to be?" Shego asked.

Mrs. Possible coughed, indicating she would answer the question. "Here are your X-rays," she put up the see-through plastic on light-screens. "Yours and Shego's lungs are, for lack of a better word, missing. We had to get creative in finding the way you are both alive."

She took a deep breath, "Your bones are hollow, Wade told you that. What he didn't know was that inside your bones, especially your arms and legs, are not only pockets of air, but inter-connecting tubes of air that replenish themselves from periodically opening and closing tubes from your trachea and wings. This means that when you stretch your muscles in everyday activities your breathing."

Mrs. Possible waited to let this sink in.

"Next we have the chest cavity, which is occupied by two hearts, each having five lobes and beating at twice the normal speed of a human one. The sulfur cavity is underneath these, at least in Kim's case."

"In my case?" Shego asked.

"Do you know how the nervous system works, Shego?" Kim's mom asked.

"Something like electrical impulses that travel along nerves to the brain, where they are interpreted and responded to?" Shego guessed, not really caring, just wanting an answer to her question.

"Good. Your nervous system is different. The charge that travels along the nerves in created by the diffusion of sodium and chloride across a cell's membrane. Your body needs twice as much NaCl, or salt, to use in this way because the electrical charge needs to go to your brain and your chest cavity. Inside your chest is a ball of dense dead cells, infused with a staggering amount of lead."

"So I have a ball of lead in my chest?" Shego sounded unbelieving.

"Yes and your trachea is coated with the same biological material that makes up nerves, they can detach from and reattach to nerves that attached to that ball. Since nerves only allow electrical impulses to travel one way…" Mrs. Possible let the sentence go.

"What does all that mean?" Shego asked, irritated. She flexed her claws and her tail twitched unceasingly.

"Take a deep breath Shego, swallow, and then just let it out," Mrs. Possible said coaxingly.

Shego did as requested. A charge suddenly built up and she opened her mouth on reflex. A real bolt of lightning shot out of her mouth. Once she was sure of what happened, she closed her mouth tightly.

"That's what 'all of that' means," Mrs. Possible finished

"I really like my new family," Jinx said as she cuddled up to Raven. They were looking at a nice sunset from Middleton park.

"I'm glad," Raven smiled.

"And I have you to thank for it. My angelic demon," Jinx whispered.

"That would make you a demonic angel?" Raven queried.

"I'm anything you want me to be," Jinx answered.

"You're worried about something, aren't you?" Raven asked. If you knew how to read someone, the lack of energy was an obvious red light.

"This can't last Raven. I know it can't. We each have the same demon to face," Jinx said, staying at whisper level.

Raven wrapped her arms around the young girl tightly.

"That doesn't change the fact that I want it to. Does that make me selfish? If I want to be able to tell the world, 'I'm busy, get someone else to save you?'"

"No. It makes you normal. No matter how many superpowers you have, there are certain things that you'll never lose."

"I want to be stronger Raven. If we have to fight, I'm no good. I want to be able to protect you," Jinx confessed.

"You already can Jinx. Remember how you hit Slade? What did you want to do at the time?"

"That's easy; I wanted to protect you and hurt the bastard."

"Have you ever hit someone that hard?"

"No."

"How much of it would you say, then, was…luck? Good luck?"

A light sparked behind Jinx's eyes. She kissed Raven softly.

"I love you." Jinx said and let herself fall into Raven, loosing herself.

"I love you too, Angel," Raven said as she hugged the girl to her.

"Slade!" Robin yelled, staff at the ready. It had been days since they had lost Red X's trail, but Slade's had just gotten red hot.

Titans West, minus Raven and Jinx assembled in seconds. Starfire had already been in the room, BB and Terra's clothes looked slightly ruffled, and Cyborg was last, having taken a moment to top off his power cells.

"Titans; Slade has been spotted near the prison, the city is on high alert, ready to evacuate by subway and boat at a moment's notice. If Slade let's any prisoners loose, it could be a catastrophe! I hate to say it, but Slade's capture is secondary, if anyone escapes it is our first priority to put them back in their cells. Titan's GO!"

"Robin, why are there no 'bad guys' escaping?" Starfire asked, looking at the enormous hole in the prison wall. Cyborg's scanners held that no heat sources had exited the structure, but that there had been plumes of fire spaced around the prison.

"I don't know Star," Robin admitted it and hated himself for it. The titans crept quietly into the structure, Robin eluding an icy aura as he awoke his powers.

Nothing was sometimes the most unnerving thing to find, as was the case here. No guards, no prisoners. Absolute silence.

A scream rang out in the tall-ceilinged hall of cells upon cells.

The teens took off in a swift, but silent run to the source.

What they found at the end of their path was the prison quart-yard, and a scene that would haunt their dreams for the rest of their lives.

Body upon body stacked high and another pile, much smaller, but all the more vomit-inducing.

Human hearts. Piled on a giant symbol of Scath, of Trigon.

"How nice to see you again Robin, although I wish Raven was here to see this," Slade said, looking appraisingly at his handiwork.

Robin was completely speechless. Slade had gone beyond even what he had thought possible. With out any bravado, Robin shot a bolt of ice at the masked man. Slade wordlessly melted the bolt before it reached him.

"Come now Robin, don't you want to hear my plan?" Slade asked.

"No," Robin seethed.

"Then I guess we cut to the chase…" Slade said and shot flame into the pile of hearts.

The symbol beneath them glowed bright, and the pile formed into a demon.

It had the mark of Scath on its forehead, with massive limbs of a grayish color. It looked a little like a golem, with four gleaming red eyes.

"I think I'll watch." Slade said as the monster took a few slow steps forward.

The onslaught that the Teen Titans went on could be called a small-scale war. The demon was up against the very incarnation as it was pummeled by ice, earth, sound, light, and assaulted by a number of animals only describable as uncountable.

It didn't help.

The rock and ice bounced off it harmlessly, the light had a similar effect. Every bite and slash was deflected. Finally even sound couldn't stop it.

"Come now Robin. I would have thought you would be smarter than that. Exploit weaknesses." Slade taunted.

'It's invulnerable!' Robin's mind screamed at him. Then he blinked. The thing itself might be invulnerable, but not the pieces. Did that mean…

Oh, God.

He felt sick to his stomach. The pile of corpses; he had looked at them…and they had looked back. Not with eyes accosted by death, but by an inescapable horror of a half-life. Pain, torment, it was all there.

Robin knew what he had to do. Take aim…fire, fire now, before you realize what you're doing. Two loud screams tore through the air as Robin froze the pile of the living dead. One was his…a scream from a heart-wrenching pain of realization.

The second was a scream of physical pain.

It was Cyborg's.

"And so you're a thief now?" Kim asked her cousin.

"Yep, and my master says I'm pretty good at it," Joss, or Red X, Kin wasn't really sure right now, said.

"Damn right you're good," Shego smirked. "I was a little faster at your age, but you got skills kid."

"Shego, don't encourage her!" Kim groaned.

"Kim, I like being a thief, I only steal what's not needed. Nothing that would hurt anybody."

"Joss, just be careful," Kim sighed. Her lover was her arch-enemies former sidekick. One of her cousins was a thief in training. The other was a former villain, now a reformed superhero. She was a teen hero, daughter of a rocket scientist and a brain surgeon, Oh and currently a fire-breathing lizard woman. When was normality going to pay her life a visit?

"Kim, I would like to know one thing. How the hell did you and Shego get so strong? I couldn't even touch you!"

"That's a secret," Kim said while rubbing her forehead. This was giving her a headache, "So, what does your master want with those books, anyway?"

"Kim, you know I can't tell you that."

"Just promise me it won't hurt anyone that shouldn't be hurt?" Kim pleaded.

"I promise," Joss said unwaveringly.

"What!" Raven practically yelled into the communicator. Several miscellaneous objects in the room shattered. Raven briefly noted the rarity of the occurrence now a days.

"Raven. Friend Cyborg was gravely injured in combat with a demon summoned by Slade," Starfire explained through tears.

"He's not in immediate danger right now, but he's declining. It doesn't look good if we can't find someone to repair him," Robin clarified.

"Then find someone!" Jinx yelled from beside Raven.

"We can't. Cyborg is the only one who can repair himself, besides Gizmo, and he got himself arrested in Russia." Robin said.

"Damn! It'll take weeks to get him out of that hell hole of a justice system!" Jinx cried.

"Raven! What's wrong?" Kim asked, she and Shego having heard the commotion and barged in. A six-second version of the story sufficed.

Kim popped the Kimmunicator open. "Wade. I need to know if you can understand some blueprints?"

"Send 'em my way and I'll see what I can do," Wade responded.

A quick email and Wade had the blueprints for Cyborg's systems.

"Kim, look, I may be a genius, but his is years beyond everything I know about. The guy who did this job must be a borderline nutcase." Wade apologized.

"It's cool Wade. I just thought maybe…" Wade shrugged apologetically and the screen went to a shot of the prints. Kim sighed; maybe she couldn't do anything.

"Hey Kim?" Jim asked from the doorway. "Mom wanted to us to make sure everything was alright, she heard a 'ruckus.'"

"It's fine tweebs," Kim said half-heartedly. Making a waving motion with the Kimmunicator.

"Wow! Is that c Sonic cannon mounted from a ten-thousand cell?" Jim asked. He and Tim were on the Kimmunicator screen like flies on a…well, you get the point.

"Definitely and the parts are modular!" Tim cried.

"And the design on the left cerebral hemisphere. These are cool, but there's a loss of power between the microtech bots and the repair mechanisms."

"They could have done more with the biological components. It would take a lot of will power to really bring out the full potential, even then it would get fragged after one time!"

"Serious need of an upgrade, dude," Tim agreed with finality

That was about how long it took for everyone to get knocked out of their individual stupors.

"Tweebs! You can understand this?" Kim asked in disbelief, holding up the screen.

"For sure this is cake, but there are some design flaws," Jim dismissed.

"How the HELL!" Raven asked herself quietly.

"Can your brothers come to Titan's tower with us?" Jinx asked.

"Tweebs, there's a guy who's like this. He's in trouble, could you rebuild him?" Kim asked.

"Hika-bika-boo?" Jim asked.

"Hoosha," Tim shrugged.

"Sure, but if we help, can we keep a copy of the prints?" Jim asked, pointing to the screen.

Raven nodded.

"Ready to go tweebs?" Kim asked. She and Shego, along with the titans at the Possible house were in a ring Raven had painted on the floor.

"We got our tools!" Jim yelled and jumped into the circle with his brother.

"Be back soon kids!" Mr. Possible said.

"Have a good time boys and girls!" Mrs. Possible chimed in.

Kim would have called Ron, but there wasn't any time to do so.

"Next time we teleport to two miles above our target, I'd like to be warned," Shego complained, carrying Tim and flying slowly down to the 'T' below them.

"Shego, a little surprise won't hurt if you can fly." Kim chastised, holding Jim.

"Jinx, when did your cousin and Shego grow wings?" Raven asked as she landed down on the roof, Jinx in her arms.

Jinx shrugged.

"Why did we miss?" Kim asked.

"A two mile miss over a teleportation of half the country is actually very good; if it had been anyone else, you might be in space or a layer of bedrock," Raven said defensively as the group of six ran to the elevator.

"Robin!" Jinx called as they entered the main room.

Robin was sitting, head in his hands, on the couch, with Starfire's arms wrapped around him like a life line.

"What happened?" Raven asked. The link that she and Robin had forged when she had to enter his mind was dark. Pushing her way slightly into the link she felt herself go cold. There was so much sorrow and darkness. He was in shock. Something big had happened.

"Robin will not speak of it, he will hardly speak at all. Something is wrong with him," Starfire explained with helplessness.

"Jim, Tim; Jinx will show you where Beast Boy and Terra are. There will be enough parts to repair Cyborg there, I need to stay here." Raven said decisively.

Jinx took her cousins hands and led them to the training room. Terra and Beast Boy were there, watching the beeping monitor that showed Cyborg's heart beat. Kim and Shego hung back uselessly.

"Beast Boy, Terra. Long story short, these are my super-genius cousins, they're going to fix Cyborg," Jinx said as she pointed to Jim and Tim.

Beast Boy looked the two pre-teens over, "But they're just kids!"

"Look, if you can recalibrate a sonic cannon's frequency and reinstate order to a damaged body…" Jim started. "…That runs on a super-high-voltage power cell without blowing yourself…" Tim continued. "…Or the patient up. Then be our guest." Jim finished.

Steam started spouting from Beast Boy's ears. His brain had overloaded itself trying to understand what the kids were saying.

Tim and Jim took that as a go-ahead. "Kim, Shego, could you hand us the parts we need as we need them?"

"Sure," Kim replied quickly, to stop Shego from making a snarky remark. She settled for glaring at Kim.

"Azarath, Metrion, Zynthos," Raven chanted. The candles around her flared a her mind took flight into Robin's form.

"Robin!" Raven called out. His mind was a barren wasteland, a fog flowing over the darkened landscape.

"Raven?" a whispered voice responded.

Raven moved quickly in the direction of the voice, she had to reach him fast.

"Oh God," Raven breathed when she saw him. His entire form, up to his neck was encased in slowly advancing ice.

"Raven?" He said again. "I killed them. I killed them all. I had to."

Raven levitated herself to eye level with the boy wonder and touched his forehead. A flood of images ran through her mind. They were disjointed, but she was able to decipher the basic message. Robin had killed probably three hundred guards and prisoners. Now his psyche was crumbling under the pressure of that fact.

"You want to forget, don't you?" Raven asked.

He nodded.

"I'm sorry Robin, but you can't. There will always be blood on your hands now, but there are people who need you. You can't just fall back into yourself."

Tears were streaming down his face. Raven realized who she was looking at in that moment. This wasn't their fearless leader, Robin. This was Dick Greyson, a boy, an orphan; the side that Robin never showed anyone.

"You've killed to, haven't you Raven?"

The question wasn't unexpected. Raven did her best to hold back the flow of memories from her childhood. "Yes. I have."

"Does it get easier?"

"If it did you would have to worry. Robin, you care about people. That is one of the things that Slade never saw when he said you two were similar. You had to, had to, take life. I know my fathers servant demons, you saved your friends' lives today. This is how life works Robin. Innocence to wisdom; inexperience to experience. Never the other way around."

"It still hurts." There was so much pain in his voice. It reminded her of how she had acted, when, in a blind rage, she had killed priests on Azarath who had been trying to help her.

"I know, and it always will. Friends help, though, and Starfire. Though I think she counts a little more than a friend."

Robin smiled a little and the ice began to melt.

"I'm going to put you to sleep, you're tired. When you wake up, everything will be all right." Raven said in a voice that made Robin's eyelids droop and close.

She sighed and opened her real-world eyes. The real Robin was in Starfire's arm, sleeping quietly. "Watch over him, Star," Raven suggested quietly.

Five hours and a few hundred replacement parts later, Jim and Tim fired up the circuit core. This was one of their additions to Cyborg. It was a nano-machine production and destruction plant position in his chest cavity.

They had also done away with the traditional power core, in favor of a new cold fusion reactor that would serve as a self-perpetuating power supply. If they were right, it wouldn't need replenishing for eighty years and produce twice as much power as the old power cell.

The nano-machine production plant started to hum. The circuits around it started to glow. The tiny robots were repairing and rerouting any damaged parts to a new diagram that Jim and Tim had created from Cyborg's original blue-prints.

Cyborg's red eye started to glow and his human one slowly opened.

"What happened," he asked groggily.

The two twins 'high-fived' each other. "Hika-bika-boo!" Jim cried. "Hoosha!" Tim returned.

"Um, do you two speak English?" Cyborg asked. The twins were the only ones in the room currently. BB and Terra were sleeping. Star and Robin had taken to one of their bedrooms to rest. Raven and Jinx were giving Kim and Shego a tour of the tower, as they needed a break from being assistants.

"Of course we do!" Jim exclaimed.

"We're the ones who fixed you…You were totally thrashed."

"You fixed me?"

"Yeah…and we made some improvements."

"Who are you two, anyway?" Cyborg was getting dizzy looking back and forth between the two twins.

"I'm Jim…and I'm Tim…we're Jinx's cousins."

Cyborg looked them over carefully. They didn't look anything like Jinx, except in the eyes. They had that look. The one that made people who knew what it meant want to run and hide. Cyborg looked himself over then. There were obvious new parts, the chest being the most obvious. It looked to be made of some kind of really weird metal.

"That's out invention." One of the twins supplied, noticing where he was looking.

"Yeah. We like to call in I.M.P. shield, or impossibility shield for long."

"It's the hardest steel known to man."

"Lets start at the beginning you two, now what exactly did you replace?"

The twins started to explain. They pulled out a diagram to explain what they had had to do. Cyborg followed everything, even the design that they had used for the fusion reactor. They had just finished when BB and Terra walked in.

"Cy! Dude! You're okay!" BB yelled as he and Terra inspected their friend.

The group of four made up by Shego, Kim, Raven, and Jinx then entered.

"Jinx, your cousins are awesome!" Cy exclaimed upon seeing them.

Quick introductions were made, none of the group had really been properly introduced to Kim, Shego, or Tim and Jim as Jinx's family.

"Cyborg really seems to like Tim and Jim," Kim commented from her position next to Shego on the couch. Shego had been resolutely refusing to let Kim out of her sight, or arms reach for that matter, in a place she didn't perceive as safe.

"It's not often that he actually meets someone who can understand what makes him tick, much less repair it." Raven said, watching Cy and the twins play on the game station. "What was with the wings, by the way?"

"Oh, that." Kim said. She had subtly sidestepped that topic a few times during their tout.

"Kimmie, just show them. They deal with stuff like this all the time from what I've seen," Shego said blandly. Kim turned a knob on the bracelet. Shego did likewise and their former selves flickered out.

Raven barely blinked.

"No screams?" Kim asked.

"Like Shego said, we deal with this kind of stuff all the time. One time we were imprisoned as animals inside an insane magician's magic hat."

Kim blinked.

Jinx had taken a moment to look through some of her old things for her old training tools. She found them buried in one of her old bags.

It was a small chest. Inside was a deck of playing cards and six dice.

The dice were solid ivory with gold trim around the edges and diamonds implanted for the black dots. The cards were actually thin sheets of metal fibers with intricate pictures on each back and front. These were so infused with bad luck that no matter how lucky you were, you couldn't win any game with them.

Jinx took the dice and rolled them. All six landed on ones. The same result a second time. The odds of that happening were one to multiple thousands.

The deck was taken out and shuffled, thoroughly.

The first four cards she drew were the two's from each suit.

If she could get these to operate under good luck then she could master it.

"Ron Stoppable?" Joss asked at the home of the semi-famous sidekick.

"Joss," Ron asked weirdly.

"Ron, I don't really have time to explain, but you need to come with me."

"Uh, okay. I guess." Ron followed Joss out side and to a decidedly large car. There was a woman behind the steering wheel, she had black hair and orange skin. She was wearing a pair of sunglasses and an overcoat.

"What's going on?" Ron asked.

"My name is Blackfire. Joss is currently my student, albeit she gets paid, but she's still my student. We need you to help us save the world. And if you're wondering about the skin, I'm an alien from a planer called Tamaran."

"But Kim…" Ron objected.

"Not Kim, she's busy with other work," Blackfire supplied.

"Where to then?" Ron asked submissively.

"China. We need to go to the Chinq prison of Lost Souls." Black fire said and began to drive.

"Why can't save-the-world-places have a nice name?" Ron asked god as Rufus chattered uneasily on his shoulder.

"I take it that the beeping means that something bad is happening?" Shego asked.

'The beeping,' as Shego put it was the Titans' alarm system, meaning that someone was making trouble.

"A giant snake is terrorizing downtown," Raven said, slightly irked.

"Isn't most of your team, including your leader a little stressed from the last battle?" Kim asked.

Raven nodded in response.

"Then Shego and I will take it," Kim said, resolved to help out.

"We will?" Shego asked, not following the train of thought.

"Shego, I haven't had a good dose of adrenaline in days, I am bored and in withdrawal. That means you'll sleep alone tonight if I don't get my fix. Besides, you'll get a good fight…" Kim taunted.

Shego mulled it over for a minute. "You can convince me to do anything, you know?" Kim gave Shego a peck on the cheek and started to leave.

"Jinx could convince me to have sex on a parade float if she wanted to," Raven said sympathetically.

"You better make sure she never hears that you said that," Shego smirked and Raven skin paled a few shades.

"For a giant snake it sure takes a beating," Kim commented as she tossed a car at the snake.

"Tell me about it. I don't know why you wanted to do this Kimmie," Shego said a she grabbed the thing by the body and tossed it to Kim. "Our fights were always so much more invigorating!"

"Shego, just because we're lovers, doesn't mean we can't have a spar now and then," Kim stated as she landed a knockout punch on the beast.

"You mean other than when we're in the bedroom?" Shego asked, smirking.

"Funny Shego, very funny," Kim replied.

"How about we leave this," Shego gestured to the beast, "For the police, turn the inducers off and see what these new bodies of ours can really do?"

There was something in that voice that implied both pain and pleasure.

"Man, now this is a show!" Cy exclaimed. He, Beast Boy, Terra, Jinx, Raven, Jim and Tim, Robin, and Starfire were watching the greatest fight that any of them had seen in a long time.

Shego and Kim were going at it. Not in the sexual sense, but what they were doing was near it.

Shego flipped over Kim and her legs were taken out from under her by Kim's tail. Shego, in turn flipped to her hands and her taloned feet grabbed Kim's shoulders, giving her a throw into the air.

Kim's wings flew open for a moment and then closed, giving her the proper propulsion to control her flight. She landed on all fours, giving Shego a feral growl and a sharp-toothed grin.

A flurry of punches and blocks followed. Robin, Jinx, Raven, and Cy were the only ones to actually follow it. Raven sighed, "Do we really have nothing better to do than this?"

"We do," Jinx said slyly, "but I don't think you want to do any of that in front of your friends."

"Hey, speaking of things that you wouldn't want to do in front of your friends, where's Beast Boy?" Cyborg asked.

"Speaking of friend Beast Boy, where is friend Terra?" Star asked from her position on Robin's lap.

"Are those questions really ones we want answered?" Robin asked. Everyone else then realized exactly who they were talking about and decided not to further the subject. The fact that some of them thought that they heard a feminine cry just reinforce that fact.

"So…let me get this straight: you want me to follow you into an ancient Chinese prison that probably houses some of the most tormented ghosts in the world to get a warrior to save the world from…?" Ron asked.

"The rebirth of the demon world. Your friend Kim is aiding the titans in dealing with Trigon, but our world evidently loves to attract disaster Joss informed him.

Ron rubbed his head, this was making it hurt. "So why me?"

"Legend has it that only one with a mastery of Tai Shing Peq Wa is able successfully navigate the prison," Blackfire explained.

"Uh-oh," Rufus squeaked. "Monkeys!"

"Can we pick up a friend in Japan? She could help," Ron asked as the treo stopped next to something that looked like a space ship or a really advanced airplane.

"If you can do it fast," Blackfire said, pushing a button on a remote. The bottom of the ship fell away into a ramp to allow them access.